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1. Marjorie decides to spend the day gambling at a dog track, and pays £6 to enter. After doubling her money, she leaves, paying £5 for parking. She enters a second casino, paying £8 admission, and again doubles her money, but when she pays a final £6 for parking, she has no cash left. How much money did she begin the evening with?

2. What connects fair, passion and stroke?

3. Which Leader of the House of Commons may make SNARLY NEW DEAL?

4. Which is the odd one out: beer, bells, bulbs, biscuits?

5. Re-arrange the letter groups to make three Arsenal players: NAC AZE LNY KOL LAC ASI CIE TTE KOS.

1 Fourteen pounds. 2 They may all precede play. 3 Andrew Lansley. 4 Bells; the others are the ‘Three Bs of Reading’. 5 Koscielny, Kolasinac, Lacazette.