which can be compared to (X as a Y): CHURCHMOUSE, COOT, CUCUMBER, DIE, DODO, FEATHER, FIDDLE, HATTER, KITE, PICTURE, RAKE Can be preceded/followed by TEN/10: tenABLE, tenANT, CHRISten, tenDON, tenDRILLED, FLATten, FORGOTten, HASten, tenOR, ROTten

a) The numbers are the minimum number of moves a knight (starting in the normal starting square in the bottom left) would take to reach that square: Anagram of a colour: RECTAL/ CLARET, MELON/ LEMON, CHORE/ OCHRE, CHEAP/ PEACH, SORE/ ROSE, SUREST/ RUSSET, LIVERS/ SILVER, ANT/ TAN a) UNDERRUN, KANGAROO, COLLOQUY, MATADOR, OVERDRIVE, ATHLETICS, ELEVEN, LACERATE, PALATINE, POLICEMEN rhyme with ONE, TWO, …, TEN

a) APED, AT (or any other word beginning with A that can be preceded by NE to form a word): H-AIR, HE-ART, LI-ABILITY, BE-AVER, B-ANGLE, C-AMBER, N-ACRE, O-AT, F-ACTOR, NE-APED Chronicles of Narnia, first/last word ignoring ‘the’: The LAST BATTLE, The HORSE and the BOY, PRINCE CASPIAN, The SILVER CHAIR, The MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW, The VOYAGE of the ‘Dawn TREADER’, The LION, the Witch and the WARDROBE

g) The numbers ONE to TEN (each beginning with the end letter of the preceding word and ending with the first letter of the following word): ONTO, ONE, EAT, TWO, OUT, THREE, ENUFF, FOUR, ROOF, FIVE, EYES, SIX, XIS, SEVEN, NURSE, EIGHT, TRAIN, NINE, EAST, TEN Ordinals: Fifth COLUMN, First CLASS, Fourth DIMENSION, Nineteenth HOLE, Second HAND, Seventh HEAVEN, Sixth SENSE, Third WORLD, Twelfth NIGHT, Twentieth CENTURY m) Madness = Chris Foreman, Carl Smyth, Daniel Woodgate, Graham McPherson, Lee Thompson, Mike Barson, Mark Bedford EIGHTY ONE has 9 letters, 9 2=81, ONE HUNDRED has 10 letters 10 2=100, FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX has 24 letters, 24 2=576.The answers to a-h are eight trigraphs, using 24 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, with N and Y left over. Terry. These are the first names of the Monty Python Team. Terry is missing, but as there is another Terry, it is also not missing.

Green Bottles: LINCOLN green, PUTTING green, REVEREND green, SEA-green, VILLAGE green, BLUEbottle, KLEIN bottle, MILK bottle, WATER bottle, WINE bottleb) OR. The lengths of the words are decreasing uniformly, and the first/last letters (alternately) form sequences SHREW. All references are to the title of a Shakespeare play: The Merry Wives of WINDSOR (a town in southern England); The Merchant of VENICE and Two Gentlemen of VERONA (2 cities in Italy); Timon of ATHENS (a city in Greece); Pericles, Prince of TYRE (a city in Lebanon) and The Taming of the SHREW. German/English: RAT/ ADVICE, WILD/ GAME, PATE/ GODFATHER, SEE/ LAKE, BRIEF/ LETTER, HELL/ LIGHT, GIFT/ POISON, ROT/ RED with FELT and GROWN remaining. With GIRTH added the pairings, FELT/GIRTH = LEFT/RIGHT, GROWN/GIRTH = WRONG/RIGHT can be made. Champagne bottle sizes: SIXTEEN/ BALTHASAR, FOUR/ JEROBOAM, TWO/ MAGNUM, EIGHT/ METHUSELAH, TWENTY/ NEBUCHADNEZZAR, SIX/ REHOBOAM, TWELVE/ SALMANAZAR

The sequence represents shapes and their numbers of sides. 3=Triangle, 4=Square, 5=Pentagon, 6=Hexagon, 7=Heptagon, 8=Octagon. b) Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of FearThe name GEORGE ORWELL can be read by moving vertically and horizontally through the letters. He wrote 1984. e) IDEA: all have rhyming synonyms, but IDEA’s ends in -OUGHT, not -ORT: CASTLE/FORT, DEATH/MORT, HARBOUR/PORT, IDEA/THOUGHT, LITTLE/SHORT, RECREATION/SPORT, TYPE/SORT, WRONG/TORT. Can be preceded by a word to give a Terry Pratchett book: GOING POSTAL, INTERESTING TIMES, MAKING MONEY, MONSTROUS REGIMENT, NIGHT WATCH, SOUL MUSIC, WITCHES ABROAD, WYRD SISTERS So Dewbius got their bonus point against Apocrifal, so must have scored 4 tries (2 converted). Hence they scored no penalties in that game. They scored 11 points against Beaugas, which can only come from a try and 2 penalties. They all had prime number ages, in a year which was also a prime number. This happens again in 2017, when they will be aged 17, 19, 47 and 53.