Wordsquare

How you rate:

6 words – average; 9 words – good; 12 words – very good; 15 or more – excellent. Give yourself ten minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the grid. Each word must use the central letter and at least 3 others, and letters may be used only once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns, but verb forms ending in ‘s’ are permitted. There is one 9-letter word to be found.

Last week’s solutions:

esquire, queer, quest, quester, quiet, quieter, quire, quirt, quit, quite, quits, request, requisite, requite, requites, squire, squirt.