BrainBashers - Medium Puzzles

Puzzle 41

In each of these sentences, can you replace the missing number.

The number is written as a word (e.g. five, twenty-four, thirty-three), and each sentence is correct after the replacement.

This sentence contains ? X.
Slightly trickier, this sentence contains ? R's.
Even trickier, this sentence contains precisely ? E's.
This sentence has exactly ? letters.
This sentence, hopefully, contains ? letters, one hyphen, five commas, and four Y's.
To finish, if this sentence had a T removed, it would contain ? letters!

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Puzzle 42

Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.

You will now have 6 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of something that lives in water.
dish         leek
tray         shoe
raft         sign
cram         golf
ears         fern
loud         hiss

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Puzzle 43

During the recent BrainBashers cipher convention, a Morse code contest took place.

The contest consisted of a Morse code transmission where the spaces between the letters and words were missing.

Can you find the ten names for pet cats?

Luckily, BrainBashers has provided you with a list of the Morse code characters:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Puzzle 44

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
ba-g- d--ed dia-- -uo-a i-de- -o-el -um-s py--y g-ou- --nal tra-- -umb- d--ty

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