Wordsquare

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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:

aces, acre, across, arcs, care, cares, caress, carouse, carouses, case, cases, cause, causer, causes, coarse, coos, core, cores, course, courses, crass, cress, cross, cues, cure, cures, curse, curses, race, races, rosaceous, sauce, saucer, sauces, scar, scare, scares, scars, score, scores, scour, scours, source, sources.