Open-ended - With worked solutions · SET 5

Change exactly one letter in each word to make a familiar phrase: may do fan.

Which is heavier: an object weighing 60 kg plus one-sixth of its own weight, or one weighing 46 kg plus one-third of its own weight?

Find a four-letter word meaning both protracted and desire: protracted (____) desire.

Find a four-letter bridge: march (____) master.

UNMARKED SEATS is an anagram of a familiar phrase of lengths 4,2,7. Clue: sharp.

Which two are most opposite in meaning: quaint, allegorical, excellent, factual, bellicose, overt?

Which labelled figure is the odd one out? Consider the arrows and polygons in the diagram (A–J).

Insert a three-letter body part into each gap to form English words: W___Y, E___Y, T___E.

Find an English five-letter word by rearranging one group: MURDC, BEWAP, UNREL, YIGEN, THABL. The source states that only one group works.

Find a word with both meanings: lightly-built (____) give offence to.

A train travels at 90 mph into a tunnel 3.5 miles long. The train is 0.25 miles long. How long from the front entering until the rear emerges?

Which phrase is suggested by this letter arrangement?

Insert a three-letter word to complete the first word and start the second: IMP (___) EAR.

Join two three-letter pieces to make a six-letter bird name: ING, ETS, LOW, LIN, DAF, SWA, MER, NER, ROB, ODI.

Restore the missing vowels in “Hood’s Warning”: BSRTH BRNSN GGDBF RPTTN GTHMT HNGR.

Find the missing four-letter word: palm, mast, tory, ____, ante, earn, nose.

Rearrange all these words into a saying: LIBRARY A LIKE BY / TO READ A COLLECT / WOMAN HE TIME CAN / IS THE TOO A / MAN A BOOK OLD.

Fill the two blanks to make an English word around the circle.

What do these words have in common: pond, toga, seal, find, joan, spin?

Join two four-letter pieces to make an eight-letter word: PEDI, BURT, GIGA, FRAI, ETIK, NTIC, PHON, LING, CUBB, LICY.