| Initial letter | Clue | Word | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | A castle, in France | Chateau | 89%
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| H | Detest | Hate | 78%
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| W | Common question word, meaning which | What | 78%
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| E | Adjective which means: expressing something forcibly and clearly, as when we put text in bold or underline it | Emphatic | 67%
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| M | An Indian honorific, meaning wise or great individual, usually given to Gandhi as a title | Mahatma | 67%
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| B | Cheeky remarks made in reply to someone in authority | Backchat | 56%
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| K | Variant of qat, a drug which comes from an East African plant | Khat | 56%
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| L | Adjective; pertaining to lymphs | Lymphatic | 56%
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| S | To smash into smithereens | Shatter | 56%
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| U | Not having a roof made of straw | Unthatched | 56%
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| N | Songbird which descends the trunks of trees | Nuthatch | 44%
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| Q | Wolverine; a combination of a word meaning fast and another meaning to emerge from an egg | Quickhatch | 44%
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| T | Chemical containing three groups of phosphorous combined with oxygen | Triphosphate | 44%
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| P | Thai musical ensemble, a short word whose start means a small fruit seed | Piphat | 33%
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| D | Short word for the Java plum, beginning with the French term for "of the" | Duhat | 22%
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| F | Old word for the wheatear or stonechat, starting with a word pertaining to unused, ploughed land | Fallowchat | 22%
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| G | Very short word of Indian origin, meaning steps leading to water; also used for some mountain areas in India | Ghat | 22%
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| I | Situated within a lymph vessel | Intralymphatic | 22%
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| O | Biological type of chemical compound containing phosphorous | Organophosphate | 22%
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| R | Andean plant - the clue is: rodent, no matter which one | Rhatany | 22%
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| X | Chemical, usually yellow, used in the production of cellophane | Xanthate | 22%
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| Z | Town on the Lena on the outskirts of Yakutsk, one of the coldest places in the world; a short name ending in something affirmative | Zhatay | 11%
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| A | Insecticide; starts with an anagram of "Cape" | Acephate | 0%
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| J | Agate jasper - the answer is a rough portmanteau of those two words | Jaspachate | 0%
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| V | The wood of a South American tree; starts with a word for wine and ends in a term meaning company | Vinhatico | 0%
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| Y | Armenian capital in 200 BC; an anagram of "Shaved any rat", with the headgear at the end of the word and a conjunction in the middle | Yervandashat | 0%
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