| Initial | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Something old and valuable (7 letters) | Antique | 100%
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| P | Underwear (7) | Panties | 55%
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| Q | Amount (8) | Quantity | 55%
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| W | Desiring (7) | Wanting | 55%
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| F | Conducted in a hurried, excited, and disorganized way; distraught, desperate (7) | Frantic | 45%
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| G | Travelling or roaming about for pleasure (11) | Galavanting | 36%
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| M | Adjective pertaining to merchants or trading (10) | Mercantile | 36%
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| R | To describe in an idealized, poetic or unrealistic way (11) | Romanticise | 36%
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| T | Spanning a certain ocean (13) | Transatlantic | 36%
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| B | Large town in Malaysia; also the surname of the co-discoverer of insulin (7) | Banting | 18%
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| U | Not supported by evidence (15) | Unsubstantiated | 18%
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| C | Pointing towards someone's guilt indirectly, without proving it; for instance, the person may have been in the area of the crime at the time (14) | Circumstantial | 9%
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| E | Disease that causes skin thickening and sometimes disfigurement (13) | Elephantiasis | 9%
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| K | Like a certain German philosopher (7) | Kantian | 9%
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| Y | College town in Michigan whose name is similar to a Greek letter (9) | Ypsilanti | 9%
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| D | Causing disappointment or loss of enthusiasm (13) | Disenchanting | 0%
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| N | In a way which summons the spirits of the dead to magically reveal the future or influence the course of events (15) | Necromantically | 0%
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| V | Mexican town, meaning: valley of the capital of Chile (15) | Valle de Santiago | 0%
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| H | Excessively romantic (13) | Hyperromantic | 0%
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| I | Flimsy; of little value or importance (13) | Insubstantial | 0%
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| J | Thai female name (7) | Jantiva | 0%
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| L | Quebec town named after a lake, partially burnt down by a railway disaster involving galactic men (11) | Lac-Megantic | 0%
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| O | Compounds containing the elements with symbols O and Sb (16) | Oxides of antimony | 0%
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| S | Fawning, obsequious (11) | Sycophantic | 0%
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| X | COVID mask and outfit worn by the wife of Socrates (8) | Xantippe | 0%
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| Z | An inhabitant of the Greek island of Zante (Zakynthos) (7) | Zantiot | 0%
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