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Puzzle 161 


Can you find common anagrams of the following words:
BINARY
ABROAD
RASCAL
ALTARS
BADGER
BARKED
MARBLE
UNABLE
TABLET
CALLER

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Puzzle 162 


Using a tap, a seven gallon container, and an eleven gallon container, can you measure exactly 9 gallons?

You may empty the containers down the drain.

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Puzzle 163 


Below are 8 Academy Award winners.

The letters of their names have been mixed up and put into alphabetical order.

The brackets contain clues to their names, the first letter and the length of each part of their name. For example, EEIKNNOSTV [K5 S5] = KEVIN STONE.
DEEFIJOORST      [J5 F6]
EEELMPRRSTY      [M5 S6]
ABEIJLORRSTU     [J5 R7]
AABEEHHIKNNPRRTU [K9 H7]
CEEEGGLNOOORY    [G6 C7]
ACCHIJKLNNOOS    [J4 N9]
BDEEINOORRRT     [R6 D2 N4]
AACCEEHIILMN     [M7 C5]

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Puzzle 164 


Below you will find 9 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Once you have found the words, their initial letters are an anagram of a 9-letter word.

What is the word?
--xic --ien --nre --ppo --pil --loo --day --uip --elf

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