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Puzzle 209 



Place the words below into pairs. You will then have 5 lots of eight letters, each of which is an anagram of another word. What are the original 5 words?

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Puzzle 210 



Using the clues below can you find 8 four-letter words?

Once you have placed the words into the correct order you will find that each word is different from the previous word by only one letter.

For example, FARE may be followed by FIRE, etc.

Additional items
Insufficiently heated
A female equine
Insufficiently cooled
Pottery
A bump on a toad?
The middle of an apple
Insulated electrical wire

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Puzzle 211 



My 7658 is a large stick.

My 5634 is a strong desire.

My 712 holds animals.

My 845 is a fish.

What am I?

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Puzzle 212 



The other day I was sitting in my local tavern, The Spyglass, which overlooks the sea, when in sailed my old friend the pirate Captain Conan Drum. "Well, shiver me barnacles!" he roared on seeing me. He too is a bit of a puzzle addict and so, after joining me for a glass of milk and telling me about his latest exploits on the high seas, he couldn't resist showing me his latest conundrum.

He reached into one of his jacket pockets and produced seven gleaming £5 coins, which he then proceeded to arrange on the table in front of me exactly as shown below. "Now, me lad." he said, with a mischievous look in his eyes. "I'll wager you'll not be able to solve this one. Take away two coins from this here arrangement to leave five coins across and three coins going down."

It was clear the wily old sea dog still had one or two tricks up his sleeve, as I couldn't for the life of me see how it could be done. Can you see through his skulduggery and solve it?

Coins Cross

Puzzle Copyright © Lloyd King

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