WORD WHEEL

YOU have ten minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each word must use the hub letter and at least three 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 nine-letter word in the wheel, for which today’s clue is: When Colin Holt is confused he becomes, sort of, pants!

MINDBENDER

1. Boris’s bakery is checking up on its icing stocks. Boris notices that there are as many 30ml tubes of icing as 50ml tubes, which is one-third of the number of 100ml tubes in the cupboard. If all the tubes together would hold 7.98 litres of icing, how many 30ml tubes are there? 2. What connects a horse, a city and a netball game? 3. Which famous French person might TAIL PARSON? 4. Which is the odd one out: Fraser, Atlas, Douglas, Nordmann? 5. Starting with E, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach GRENADIER. How you rate: eight words, average; 12, good; 16, very good; 18 or more, excellent. Solution tomorrow. Yesterday’s words: egret, engulf, flung, frug, fulgent, gelt, gene, genet, genre, gent, gentle, gentler, glee, glen, glue, glut, gluten, green, greet, gruel, grunt, gulf, gurn, leger, luge, lung, lunge, lunger, refuge, refulgent, regent, rung, trug, tung, urge, urgent.

SCOTS QUIZ

1. Andy Murray has withdrawn from which tournament due to a hip injury? 2. Charitable donations of £425,000 were made by which author last year? 3. The Robertson clan motto is Virtutis Gloria Merces. What does it mean? 4. Which actor – known for Sutherland’s Law, Super Gran and Doctor Who – was born on this date in 1930? 5. And who starred alongside him as Granny Smith in Super Gran? 6. Angel Eyes was a top five hit on this date 30 years ago for which band?