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Puzzle 233

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

You will now have 5 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of an animal.

What are the 5 animals?
soot         tent
most         then
much         tire
area         mare
leap         pink

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Puzzle 234

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 235

Can you find three 11-letter words which …

… use the letters from ANTHROPOLOGIST?

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Puzzle 236

For each of these words, using only the letters of that word, what is the longest word that can be found?

Every letter must be used at least once, and no other letters can be used.

For example:
taper = repeat · tapper · parapet · pretreat, and many more. But what is the longest word?

taper heals brows often farce yowls satin awful iotas quiet foils score

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