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QUIZWORD by Alan Shuker
Puzzle No 1594
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6. What is the most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen? (6)
7. What blanket-like cloak has a head hole in the centre? (6)
10. What expression means to do something completely by one’s self? (3,4)
11. Which country was ruled by 70 different dictators between 1804 and 1915? (5)
12. Brenda Blethyn plays a DCI in which British TV crime drama series? (4)
13. In woodwork, what peg is inserted into holes in adjacent pieces to hold them together? (5)
16/17. Meaning “short undergarment”, the name of which famous ship came from a character in Robert Burns’ poem “Tam o’ Shanter”? (5,4)
20. Because of the high death toll in a destructive 2011 storm, which hurricane name was retired by the World Meteorological Organisation, and will never again be
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