| Initial | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | Big-headedness, narcissism, self-glorification (8) | Egomania | 100%
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| I | Word for a lady from the emerald isle (10) | Irishwoman | 100%
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| K | Irrepressible thief (12) | Kleptomaniac | 100%
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| L | Someone who washes clothes and is not a man (12) | Laundrywoman | 100%
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| M | Control every part, however small; interfere with the tiniest detail of (11) | Micromanage | 100%
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| N | Communication with the dead to gain magical powers (10) | Necromancy | 100%
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| O | Piece of furniture named after a Turkish empire (7) | Ottoman | 100%
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| P | Obsession with setting things on fire; also a Def Leppard album (9) | Pyromania | 100%
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| R | European nation (7) | Romania | 100%
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| S | Female official who makes announcements on behalf of an organisation (11) | Spokeswoman | 100%
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| Y | A man holding and cultivating a small area of land (6) | Yeoman | 100%
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| F | Compound containing iron and the element with symbol Mn (14) | Ferromanganese | 67%
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| U | Failing to treat a wife/husband/partner as special; showing no love or passion (10) | Unromantic | 67%
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| W | A term for all non-male humans on Earth (9) | Womankind | 67%
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| Z | Football team from Abidjan who are, at the time of writing, bottom of the league (5) | Zoman | 67%
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| A | Adjective meaning partially automated; used for railway signals which are operated manually but then return to the danger position automatically (10 letters) | Automanual | 33%
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| C | Joint boss; can also be hyphenated (9) | Comanager | 33%
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| D | Strip of all hyperbole; make mundane and prosaic rather than poetic (13) | Deromanticize | 33%
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| H | Divination by means of water, e.g. ripples from pebbles dropped in a pool (10) | Hydromancy | 33%
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| Q | Title which the wife of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq is sometimes known by (11) | Queen of Oman | 33%
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| T | Term for western Turkic peoples from the 8th century (8) | Turkoman | 33%
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| V | Person such as me, who thinks about words too much (11) | Verbomaniac | 33%
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| X | Use of wood to try to predict the future (9) | Xylomancy | 33%
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| B | Neat performance-enhancing stimulant used in the later period of the USSR (10) | Bromantane | 0%
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| G | Italian village where the first user ID could be found; boats are anchored here in a type of dry dock (17) | Guidomandri Marina | 0%
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| J | Place where there is a mimic; John travels to a Mexican village to see him (10) | Jomanichim | 0%
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