My daughter has a set of alphabet pictures, laid out in 4 rows of 7. These sentences are based on pictures going down the columns. I had Apple, Hat, Octopus and Volcano; my daughter had Bee, Igloo, Penguin and Wigwam but she misidentified the Igloo as a Cave. (Based on a true story!). Eliminating those words whose 5 th letter is the sum (mod 26 with A=1, B=2, …, Z=26) of the 1 st-4 th letters (GENII, NIECE, PATHS, SEATS, TITHE) leaves: d) UMPTEEN. Words are anagrams of planets with one letter changed. UMPTEEN is an anagram of NEPTU_M_E.

Synonym begins TEN: CANOPY/TENT, INCLINE/TEND, LESSEE/TENANT, OCCUPATION/TENURE, PRINCIPLE/TENET, SENSITIVE/TENDER, SHOOT/TENDRIL, SINEW/TENDON, STRAINED/TENSE, STUBBORN/TENACIOUS Puzzles for Spies is intended to inspire the UK’s next generation of agents, GCHQ said. It has also released a brainteaser to test the nation’s spy capabilities. c) The Fellowship of the Ring: PIPPIN, MERRY, BOROMIR, SAM, LEGOLAS, FRODO, ARAGORN, GIMLI, GANDALF These spell ANSWER IS FRENCH WORD, and they appear in the grid in a pattern that can be interpreted as Morse Code (a single letter is a dot, a pair of letters is a dash). The pattern is: First/last word in the title of a Shakespeare play: ALL’S Well That Ends WELL, ANTHONY and CLEOPATRA, AS You Like IT, LOVE’S Labours LOST, MEASURE for MEASURE, MUCH Ado About NOTHING, KING JOHN, TWELFTH NIGHTK-number of Mozart compositions: COSI FAN TUTTE/588, EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK/525, IDOMENEO/366, JUPITER/551, LINZ (symphony)/504, PARIS (symphony)/297, PRAGUE (symphony)/504, REQUIEM/626 The words can all be associated with Characters, Weapons and Room in Cluedo. The Characters precede words, the weapons are synonyms for words, and the rooms succeed words. The links are:

c) OIL (or any other 3-letter word formed from the letters of KILO): LAP/ALPHA, ROB/BRAVO, AIL/CHARLIE, LAD/DELTA, HOE/ECHO, TOO/FOXTROT, FOG/GOLF, LET/HOTEL, DIN/INDIA, LIE/JULIET, OIL/KILO b) ACCOUNTANT. Words contain the first letters of One, Two; Two, Three; Three, Four; … in the right places. ACCOUNTANT has N and T in places 9 and 10. International Dialling Codes: ALGERIA/213, BRUNEI/673, BULGARIA/359, LIECHTENSTEIN/423, PANAMA / 507, TAIWAN/886, UZBEKHISTAN/998, ZIMBABWE/263d) DAYS OF THE YEAR: 1/12 ( DECEMBER 1 st), 1/8 ( AUGUST 1 st), 7/1 (JANUAR Y 7 th), 1/9 ( SEPTEMBER 1 st), 4/10 (OCT OBER 4 th), 1/2 ( FEBRUARY 1 st), 4/9 (SEP TEMBER 4 th), 5/3 (MARC H 5 th), 7/11 (NOVEMB ER 7 th), 4/7 (JUL Y 4 th), 4/6 (JUN E 4 th), 2/5 (MA Y 2 nd), 3/3 (MA RCH 3 rd) WISCONSIN (9): W-I-S-C-O-N-SI-N, W-I-S-C-O-N-S-IN, W-I-S-C-O-N-S-I-N, W-I-S-CO-N-SI-N, W-I-S-CO-N-S-IN, W-I-S-CO-N-S-I-N, W-I-SC-O-N-SI-N, W-I-SC-O-N-S-IN, W-I-SC-O-N-S-I-N A. The pairs are Premier League clubs and their grounds: Chelsea=Stamford Bridge, Crystal Palace=Selhurst Park, Everton=Goodison Park, Manchester United=Old Trafford, Tottenham Hotspur=White Hart Lane and Liverpool=Anfield.