| Initial | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | A vote in which one's choice is kept confidential | Ballot | 100%
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| C | Girl's name, and an American city | Charlotte | 88%
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| I | Dark stain made by the liquid contained in pens | Inkblot | 88%
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| S | Slow-moving mammal of South and Central America | Sloth | 82%
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| G | Cutting device famously used in France for executions | Guillotine | 76%
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| O | Medium-sized wild cat of the Americas | Ocelot | 71%
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| F | Group of boats; armada | Flotilla | 65%
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| H | Old-fashioned word for a prostitute | Harlot | 65%
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| M | Grape variety used in red wine | Merlot | 65%
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| A | Computer system which controls the flight of a plane without a person having to do any manual input | Autopilot | 59%
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| U | Naked | Unclothed | 59%
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| Z | Polish currency | Zloty | 59%
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| L | Aquatic plant revered in Asian cultures; also a maker of sports cars | Lotus | 53%
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| K | Unit of explosive power, referring to a weight, with a prefix meaning one thousand | Kiloton | 47%
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| P | The main pack of cyclists in a race | Peloton | 47%
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| W | Small piece of towelling-type fabric used to clean one's body | Washcloth | 47%
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| E | Flexible flap of cartilage in the throat that acts as a lid for the windpipe | Epiglottis | 41%
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| R | To give or apportion (something) to someone again | Reallot | 24%
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| N | Language family of east and north-east Africa | Nilotic | 18%
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| X | Someone who prepares wood for microscopic examination | Xylotomist | 12%
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| D | Genus of herbs which sounds like a cab service for herbivorous dinosaurs | Diplotaxis | 6%
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| J | One town of Mexico which has some zing to it | Jilotzingo | 6%
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| Q | German word for a flute that plays a note in reverse | Querflöte | 6%
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| T | Poison which comes from the bacterium that causes a certain lung disease, one which children get protected against using the BCG vaccine | Tuberculotoxin | 6%
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| V | A flower also known as the Scarborough lily, of which there are a lot in South Africa | Vallota | 6%
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| Y | Muscly-sounding village of eastern Mexico | Yolotepec | 6%
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