| Initial | Clue | Word | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | Huge land animal | Elephant | 96%
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| A | Old item of value | Antique | 92%
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| D | Perfumed product; a word used for anti-perspirant | Deodorant | 92%
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| G | Agree to give or allow (something requested) to | Grant | 83%
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| W | To desire, wish | Want | 83%
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| C | Sing in unison, as monks or sports fans would do | Chant | 79%
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| L | Lamp containing a candle, usually portable, which was used in days gone by | Lantern | 79%
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| T | Dictator; leader who rules with a rod of iron | Tyrant | 79%
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| R | Long tirade against something the speaker is not happy about | Rant | 75%
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| V | A slightly different version of something | Variant | 75%
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| M | Stick insect; one well-known species holds its feet in a way which makes it appear that it is in prayer | Mantis | 71%
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| Q | Discrete unit in physics, usually of light, or referring to subatomic particles | Quantum | 71%
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| F | A situation that one dreams of | Fantasy | 67%
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| I | Chemical which is caustic or itchy to the body; often seen as a warning word | Irritant | 67%
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| B | Very obvious, applied especially to a foul or mistake | Blatant | 63%
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| H | Green organism in a pot which serves to decorate your home | Houseplant | 42%
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| N | Blasé, unruffled | Nonchalant | 42%
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| P | Similar to I, but harmful to the environment rather than the skin | Pollutant | 42%
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| J | Variant of jaunt, now obsolete, although the spelling occasionally resurfaces now in slang, sometimes as a variation on "joint" | Jant | 38%
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| X | Type of gum often seen in the list of ingredients on food packets | Xanthan | 38%
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| S | The ratio of the hypotenuse over the adjacent of a triangle | Secant | 33%
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| U | Unapologetic; refusing to make amends | Unrepentant | 25%
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| K | Philippine cedar; contains the first name of politician Gore near the start, and an endless donkey at the end | Kalantas | 17%
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| O | Too enthusiastic | Overexuberant | 4%
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| Y | A geometrical diagram used like an icon, usually in meditation; rhymes with the word for a phrase repeated in meditations | Yantra | 4%
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| Z | Long word for a shrub/tree genus containing a festive greeting and a term for wood | Zanthoxylum | 4%
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