Open-ended - With worked solutions · SET 6

Which two are most opposite: politician, principal, miscreant, subsidiary, practice, prosecutor?

Fill the two missing numbers in the final column.

Find numbers for the three question marks, using the same rule as the two examples.

Find the same three-letter word XYZ in four six-letter words: XYZ___ most venerable; _XYZ__ turned over; __XYZ_ castigates; ___XYZ defend.

Which two are most alike: waspish, jovial, peppery, prudent, perilous, lewd?

Trace chords to find a ten-letter word. If the next letter is at most four letters away, follow the circumference. Clue: makes things larger but is small.

Join two three-letter pieces for an animal: GER, BOL, EPR, GER, TLY, BAL, SHE, BAD, CAT, TIG.

Use C, G, H, H, K, O, U, U to form two six-letter birds in the rings, retaining the fixed C and O.

What familiar phrase does this diagram suggest?

Each grid cell must combine the features of its row header and column header. Which one of cells 1 A through 3 C is wrong?

Find a four-letter prefix for BAKED, BOILED, BOARD, BACK, HEADED.

Restore vowels to the saying: THDMM RTHLG HTTHG RTRTH SCNDL.

Fill the blanks to make a word around the ring.

What do alone, hold, anger, mask, force have in common?

Find a one-word anagram of PAUL RICE.

Join two four-letter pieces into an eight-letter word: COCH, MAND, GERM, TONS, HLEA, LOCY, FRAC, TROC, ITES, IDIO.

What is common to cashed, helmet, soaking, sublime, plummet?

Fill the blanks to make two antonyms around the rings.

Change SEEK to FIND using three intermediate English words, changing exactly one letter per step.

Take one letter from each word in order to form another synonym of SKILFUL: able, adept, dextrous, proficient, accomplished, competent.