Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words:

ban*
*a*i*et
*aiz*
s**th
na*e*
*eco*
*ocu*
*la*e
**nk
f*x
be**re
e*ui*
ot*er
wis*
*oast

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 decipher the sequence and find the well known proverb?

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

What comes next in this sequence:

Bucket, raisins, aardvark, igloo, north, bradawl, ==?==

Choose from: drink, zebra, road, alphabet, lion, keyboard.

Without using any reference material can you find the hidden countries. In each case, the letter indicates the first letter of the country in question, the number represents the number of letters in the country. For example, E7 would be England.

Z6, L10, I9, E7, B6, J7, P8, M10, P4, F4