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: One bad slump and I’ve become rash!

MINDBENDER

1. What is the next number in the series: 280878 23406 1950 162 ? 2. What connects flying, spin and witch? 3. Which person born on the isle of Wight may wear MINOR JERSEY? 4. Which is the odd one out: Horseshoe Falls, Angel Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, American Falls? 5. Using the chemical symbols, which dessert may contain molybdenum, uranium, sulphur and selenium? How you rate: 15 words, average; 20, good; 25, very good; 30 or more, excellent. Solution tomorrow. Yesterday’s words: cenote, cent, cento, contend, cete, ctene, contended, cote, decent, denote, denoted, dent, dented, docent, dote, doted, endnote, nonet, note, noted, teed, teen, tend, tended, tendon, tenon, tenoned, toed, tone, toned, tonne.

SCOTS QUIZ

1. Which of the Small Isles was the subject of a community buyout on this day, June 12, in 1997; Eigg, Rum or Muck? 2. Which Scottish tree is thought by many experts to be oldest living thing in Europe? 3. The piano in the drawing room of Gargunnock House, near Stirling, was played by which Polish virtuoso in 1848? 4. What does peenge mean in Scots? 5. Which clan’s crest is a salamander encircled by flames; Davidson, Douglas or Drummond?