Word games

7th July 2006, 1:00am

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Word games

https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/word-games-17
SHOPAHOLICS

1 All the following are anagrams of high street stores - take the initial letters of the answers and mix them up to find another store:

CLUBRIPE

FLASHROD

ANGERO

SOGRA

TELLISM

MATE

MECTO

COSTE

BLUEWORMS

LEC!

2 Find the correct synonym for the first word - then add or subtract the letters given to find anagrams of some more high street stores:Lax + R (6); Repudiate - W + X (6); Surly - T + R (6); Sturdy - S + N (6); Own - S + J (7); Refusal + C (7); Tiredest - E + O (8)

Mark Nyman

(Answers next week)

pound;20 book token for the first correct answers to be opened on Tuesday.

Send to wordgames@tes.co.uk or Wordgames, TES, Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield, London E1W 1BX.

Answers to last week’s puzzle

1 Hereford, Ascot, Huntingdon, Thirsk, Epsom, Carlisle, Musselburgh, Exeter, Lingfield, Newmarket.

Initials H, A, H, T, E, C, M, E, L, N give Cheltenham.

2 (S)acred + R = Redcar

S(t)retch + E = Chester

(P)ainter + E = Aintree

Tram(p)le + C = Cartmel

Thro(w)ing + B = Brighton

Ancestor + D = Doncaster

Sweetcor(n) + T = Towcester!

Last week’s winner: Val Fish, Ainsdale Drive, Werrington, Peterborough

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