Below you will find 15 well-known seven letter words, with only their endings remaining.

Can you determine the words?

....nst
....nip
....fth
....rno
....dox
....sil
....nac
....iem
....arb
....ior
....bey
....van
....ipt
....dth
....nox

Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below:

The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil.

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 animals?

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3.

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10.

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

At dawn on Monday a snail fell into a bucket that was 12 inches deep.

During the day it climbed up 3 inches, however, during the night it fell back 2 inches.

On what day did the snail finally manage to climb out of the bucket?