Below you will find 15 well-known six letter words, with only their endings remaining. Can you determine the words?

...cil
...hid
...nze
...ese
...lug
...som
...uxe
...uum
...arm
...amo
...rby
...dst
...sai
...too
...fen

My friend, Alex, struggles a little. I recently asked him to buy me some ribbon for my daughter's pretty pink bonnet.

He went to the haberdashery shop for the required length but accidentally interchanged the feet and inches.

When I measured the resulting ribbon I only had 5÷8 of the length I required.

How much ribbon did I originally ask for?

What four related words are merged here:

SWAS PURI UINM NTTU MGER MNER

Place the words below into pairs. You will then have 5 lots of eight letters, each of which is an anagram of an animal. What are the original 5 animals?

PINK
TENT
MOST
MUCH
THEN
LEAP
SOOT
AREA
TIRE
MARE

Using the BrainTracker grid below, how many words can you find? Each word must contain the central O and no letter can be used twice, however, the letters do not have to be connected. Proper nouns are not allowed, however, plurals are. There is at least one nine letter word. Excellent: 29 words. Good: 24 words. Average: 19 words.

Y	T	H
L	O	O
G	Y	M