| Initial | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| G | Selecting an option which one thinks may be correct, but doesn't know | Guessing | 89%
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| A | Mistreating | Abusing | 83%
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| C | Hard protective layer put round bullets, shells and pipes | Casing | 78%
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| R | On the way up | Rising | 78%
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| S | Unmarried | Single | 78%
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| B | Surname of actress Kim from Never Say Never Again, 9½ Weeks and Batman | Basinger | 72%
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| E | Keeping fit | Exercising | 72%
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| O | Against | Opposing | 72%
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| K | District of London with a palace and a market | Kensington | 67%
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| L | The state capital of Michigan | Lansing | 61%
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| V | Dutch monster hunter from Dracula; also a film title | Van Helsing | 56%
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| P | Owning | Possessing | 50%
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| Z | Striped section of road at which pedestrians can walk from one side to the other | Zebra crossing | 50%
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| D | Adjective referring to something that causes feelings of misery | Depressing | 44%
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| J | Contrasting one item with a different one | Juxtaposing | 44%
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| T | Sherpa who was in the first team to climb Everest | Tensing | 33%
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| H | Swedish city | Helsingborg | 28%
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| F | Unnecessary gunge added onto salad, containing oil, vinegar, tomato and sugar | French dressing | 22%
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| I | More and more | Increasingly | 22%
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| M | Former prime minister of India | Manmohan Singh | 22%
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| U | Predictably | Unsurprisingly | 17%
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| Q | Subdividing into measurable increments, a term associated with physics and also used for moving drum sounds onto the exact beat using music software | Quantising | 6%
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| W | Austrian village where a wild canine might walk by? | Wolfpassing | 6%
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| Y | Southern town in Haute-Loire, France, where waters can also be found | Yssingeaux | 6%
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| N | City on the outskirts of Dhaka | Narsingdi | 0%
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| X | Chinese town with a river flowing through it and a million on their way back | Xarsingma | 0%
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