MY WORD!

                                   

                            Prizes: £20 for the outright winner (a draw
                                         will take place in the event of a tie)

                                                       plus £5 for one entry drawn at 
                                                    random from the rest

The winners will be announced on Feast day afternoon 
July 23rd 2005

Please return your entry by July 20th to:

Janet Howard
68 Brookfield Crescent
Hampsthwaite 
HG3 2EE

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If you want your entry form returned, please enclose a stamped addressed 
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SECTION A - Name that word

The answer to each of these clues contains a girl’s or boy’s name:

1.	Bird (7)          …………………………………………………….
2.	Vinegar (8)     …………………………………………………….
3.	50% (4)           ………….................................................................
4.	Exercise (8)    ……………………………………………………
5.	Cheerful (5)    ……………………………………………………
6.	Pants (8)         ………………………………………………………
7.	Number (5)     ……………………………………………………
8.	Offspring (5)   ………………………………………………….
9.	Spice (6)         ………………………………………………………
10.	 Kaput (6)        ……………………………………………………..

SECTION B - Body matters

Can you name 10 common body parts that contain just 3 letters?

11 …………....……………		 16 …………………………………….
12 …………………………          	 17 ……………......................................
13 …………………………   	 18 …………….....................................
14 …………………………    	 19 …………………………………….
15 …………………………    	 20 …………………………………….

SECTION C - Letter Patterns

Can you find a word that contains:

21. Double ’P’ twice …………………………………………………
22. Double ‘F’ twice …………………………………………………
23. Double ‘O’ twice …………………………………………………
24. Double ‘S’ twice …………………………………………………
25. Double ‘E’ twice ………………....................................................
26. The consecutive letters ‘GHI’ …………………………………...
27. The consecutive letters ‘HIJ’…………………………………….
28. The consecutive letters ‘LMN’ …………………………………..
29. The consecutive letters ‘NOP’ ……………………………………    
30. The consecutive letters ‘STU’ ………………………………………

SECTION D - Russian Dolls

E.g. If you put ‘her’ inside the word ‘cub’ you make the word ‘cherub’.

31. Put an insect into tarts to make underwear …………………........................
32. A heavenly being in a game becomes eternal ………………………………
33. Always inside angle to get exited ………………………………………….
34. Lives in a guiding spirit to ill-treat …………………………………………
35. Vomit into an evangelist to get a sign of pregnancy ……………………….          

SECTION E – Anagrams

E.g. rearrange rail to make a dishonest person (liar)

36.	Rearrange brush to make a bush …………………………………..
37. Rearrange skate to make a poet ………………...............................
38.	Rearrange hormone to get a bird ………………………………….
39.	Which food is made out of stale lamb? ……………………………
40.	Which word describes lithe acts? ………………………………….
41.	What might be worn by a stripteaser? …………………………….
42.	Where might you find a schoolmaster? ………...............................
43.	Which adjective might describe a problem in Chinese? ………….
44.	Which German opera asserts the fact that a kinder lover’s rare? 
…………………………………………………………
45.	Which part of the body is a 10-letter word where the last 5 letters 
       are an anagram of the first 5?  ………………………………………….

SECTION F - Letter games

If IOU = I owe you and B9 = benign, can you find:

46.	2 letters that sound like ‘jealousy’ ……………………………….
47.	A letter and a number that sound like ‘earlier’ …………………..
48.	3 letters that sound like a flower …………………………………
49.	Which part of the world is ‘&EEE’……………………………….
50.	2 letters that sound like a literary composition …………………..
51.	3 letters that sound like ‘vigour’ …………………………………
52.	Which popular song from 1941 could be represented by the single letter ‘X’? ……………………………………………
53.	Which letter is represented by the word ‘senselessness’? ……….
54.	Which letter is the centre of gravity? ……………………………
55.	What game is represented by the letter GBO? ………………….

SECTION G  - Where in the world?

Rearrange the letters of these words to give the names of countries, towns or cities:

56.	Diagnose …………………………………………………………………..
57.	Ancestral ………………………………………………………………….
58.	Dominates …………………………………………………………………
59.	Pairs ………………………………………………………………………
60.	Salvages …………………………………………………………………..
61.	Penalties …………………………………………………………………..
62.	Loiters ……………………………………………………………………
63.	Gartered ………………………………………………………………….
64.	Launder …………………………………………………………………..
65.	Retches …………………………………………………………………..

SECTION H – Common threesomes

If the initials ‘D, M and Y’ represent ‘Days, Months and Years’ can you solve:

66. K, F and S ……………………………………………………………………..
67. F, H and C …………………………………………………………………….
68. R, W and B ……………………………………………………………………
69. H, L and S ……………………………………………………………………..
70. L, S and B ………………………………………………………………………
71. T, D and H ……………………………………………………………………..
72. R, W and A …………………………………………………………………….
73. L, H and O ……………………………………………………………………..
74. A, V and M …………………………………………………………………….
75. H, D and Q ……………………………………………………………………..

SECTION  I - More anagrams

Find two words that are anagrams of each other e.g. feline performance: cat and act

76. Unruffled mollusc ……………………………………………
77. Actors in a West End musical ………………………………..
78. Crockery on the edge …………………………………………
79. Slice of metal …………………………………………………
80. Amiable grouse ……………………………………………….

SECTION J – Miscellany
81. What seven letter word becomes longer if you remove one letter? ……………….
82. What eight letter word has only one vowel? ………………………………………
83. Remove six letters from this list to leave a fruit: BSIAXNLAETNTEARS
a)	What letters did you remove? …………………………………………………
b)	What is the fruit? ………………………………………………………………
85. Their are three errers in this sentence. What are they?
      a) …………………………………………………………………………………..
      b) …………………………………………………………………………………..
      c) …………………………………………………………………………………..
88. If ‘ARGE’ represents the phrase ‘change GEAR’, find the words or phrases for:
      a)    .         range  ………………………………………………………………….
      b) history history history …………………………………………………………
      c) the ri   the poorch ……………………………………………………………….
      d) merepeat ………………………………………………………………………..
      e) ban   ana ………………………………………………………………………..
      f) abcdefghjmopqrstuvwxyz ………………………………………………………
      g) lang4uage ………………………………………………………………………
95. A B G D _ Z E T I       What is the missing letter? (clue: easy as abc)  ………….
96. A A A A _ A A A A     What is the missing letter? (clue: 95 and 96 are linked)…..
97. What are the correct words for:
       a) hook-shaped …………………………………………………………………..
       b) wedge-shaped …………………………………………………………………
       c) socket-shaped ………………………………………………………………….
       d) needle-shaped ………………………………………………………………….