| Initial | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Tub in which to get washed | Bath | 100%
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| D | Reasoned argument, discussion of an issue | Debate | 100%
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| S | Sunday | Sabbath | 92%
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| A | Slaughterhouse | Abattoir | 75%
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| I | Sit on eggs in order to keep them warm and bring them to hatching | Incubate | 75%
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| P | Trial period for a released prisoner, or for a new person in a job | Probation | 75%
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| R | Refund of money for overpayment | Rebate | 75%
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| V | Word-for-word, an exact quote of original text | Verbatim | 75%
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| G | Relative of the above, with a phantom name | Ghost bat | 58%
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| F | Type of flying mammal which includes the largest species | Fruit bat | 50%
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| W | Kind of "bat" which is unable to fly (as far as we know) | Wombat | 50%
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| L | The act of pouring a liquid as a sacrifice, or for a celebratory drink | Libation | 42%
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| E | Under pressure; struggling to maintain a position of power | Embattled | 33%
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| N | Marsupial so cold that it has lost sensation? | Numbat | 25%
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| T | A Turkmen city | Turkmenabat | 17%
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| U | Relentless, not lessening | Unabated | 17%
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| C | City of India where first mine eventually reveals what they were digging for | Coimbatore | 8%
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| Z | Flying-type Pokemon | Zubat | 8%
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| H | A Saudi city not far from the Iraqi border, in the Eastern Province | Hafar al-Batin | 0%
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| J | Flying animal from the island where Kingston is located, associated with colourful plants | Jamaican flower bat | 0%
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| K | Relating to wind produced by the flow of cold, dense air at a mountain location | Katabatic | 0%
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| M | Tree also known as wild cinnamon, with a name suggesting a bad toilet | Malabathrum | 0%
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| O | Any of a superfamily of eyeless mites discovered by a bar idiot | Oribatid | 0%
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| Q | A town in the West Bank, about which one positive article is written | Qabatiya | 0%
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| X | Town in eastern Iraq | Xebat | 0%
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| Y | A village in Australia to which one might return for a marriage cut short | Yarrambat | 0%
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