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COMPONENTS
Lyn Andrews researches, compiles, prints and mails a quiz magazine to a loyal membership throughout Australia. The magazine is called "Frustration" and it is a bi-monthly publication which contains word association and general knowledge quizzes (the profits of which go to Cancer research). Lyn regularly submits word association puzzles to Wordly-Wise. We enjoy her games. We have dubbed the games COMPONENTS. Each category contains twenty questions.

Components 1: ARACHNIDS
Piece together the clued components to produce ARACHNIDS

1.     Mirthful sport or diversion / sound made by a bell rung slowly for a death or funeral /  thin silken fabric spun by spiders.
2.     Communist colour / rear part of anything.
3.     Chase wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing / letter of alphabet / an adult male person.
4.     Snare / a means of access or exit from a room.
5.     Father / having length / limbs which support the human body.
6.     Natural covering of the human head / syllable used for the second degree of the scale of solfege / the blossom of a plant.
7.     Old instrument of torture in the form of a circular frame on which the victim was stretched / that which connects the toes of aquatic birds and aquatic mammals.
8.     Hand held device for positioning the cursor on a computer.
9.     A man who is boldly flirtatious or amorous towards women.
10.   Social insect.
11.   Person whose religion is Judaism / famous model.
12.   A large densely furred, long limbed and short tailed wildcat of Canada and northern US.
13.   Swift or rapid / 25th wedding anniversary.
14.   Canonised person / also / regrets bitterly / angry.
15.   Prohibited or banned by a trade union / a woman who has lost her husband by death.
16.   Place where plants are raised for transplanting or sale / a membrane which connects the digits of an animal.
17.   Expectorating.
18.   Slang for girl / manure, excrement of animals.
19.   Without brightness or colour / building for human habitation.
20.   Not gold /  sphere or globe / an account of money owed for goods or services supplied / stupid person.

ANSWERS BELOW

Components 2: DANCES
Piece together the clued components to produce DANCES

1. Employer / letter of alphabet / a star which suddenly emits an outburst of light, sometimes seen by the naked eye as a new star.
2. Bread roll / leg joint / clasp tightly in the arms with affection.
3. Cunning person / go at a quick steady gait.
4. Lofty / the solid substance of the earth's surface / throw with impatience.
5. Have the shakes (behave nervously) / an illness caused by bacteria or  viruses.
6. Lonely number / pace
7. Moving with speed / a flat topped edge on the face of a quarry.
8. Large stone / first three letters of android / the part which an actor presents in a play.
9. Convert hide into leather / leave.
10. Term of address for a female royal person / a ribbon composed of one or two loops and two ends.
11. Prince of Wales / heavy weight.
12. Surname of Australian writer, academic and author of "The Lucky Country" (1964) / one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the sounds of an organ are produced.
13. What person / syllable used for the sixth note on the scale of solfege / what person / syllable used for the sixth note on the scale of solfege.
14. One of four children born at one birth / small rivulet.
15. Any of the dialects of Chinese spoken in Fujian province / not me / hillbilly for eat.
16. A thin strip of metal or wood used for filling in and bringing one part in line with another / not you.
17. Fifth month / lane of a race track nearest the inner boundary.
18. Nobleman / expression of surprise / chemical symbol for ethyl.
19. In good spirits / one who grinds grain.
20. A four sided plane having all its sides equal and all its angles right angles

ANSWERS BELOW

Components 3: SONG TITLES
Piece together the clued components to solve SONG TITLES

1. To be agreeable; give pleasure or satisfaction / the official title used in addressing a junior officer / a pole on a racecourse marking a specific distance, or the starting or finishing points for races / a male human being.

2. Not me / to overcome in a contest; defeat / not you / number / first three letters of theatre / a beverage of two or more fruit juices, sugar and water, often carbonated.

3. All possible; the greatest possible degree of: every prospect of success / small in size; not big or large / the part of a key which enters the lock and acts on the bolt and tumblers / causes bodily injuries to.

4. The youngest member of a family / the organ of sight or vision / urgent want, as of something requisite / time long past / feeling or showing affection.

5. To move with the feet or body rhythmically, especially to music / not out / first three letters of theatre / public roads.

6. A slender, rod like implement for use in knitting / not out / letter of alphabet / grass cut and dried for use as fodder / a number of chimneys or flues grouped together.

7. To put a question to / first three letters of theatre / standing apart, or isolated / the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind.

8. A strong or passionate affection for another person / departed; left / of poor quality; unsatisfactory.

9. All the structures situated within or near the orbit which assist the organ of vision / a number of animals, especially cattle, kept, feeding, or travelling together / (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as in tag the one who must catch the other players / in at one end, side, or surface, and out at the other / first three letters of theatre / the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit which grows in clusters on vines / a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs

10. A visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface / a team of baseball players.

11. To have written one's signature as a token of agreement / piece of wax or similar substance, affixed to a document, or envelope, which cannot be opened without breaking / given into another's possession or keeping.

12. To accomplish; finish / not me / a strong or passionate affection for another person / the syllable used for the third note of the scale in solfa.

13. A company of lions / along with / a state of happiness or felicity.

14. Any of the terminal members of the hand / takes off or raises a hat in salutation.

15. A single course in or division of a race or other contest / a line of soldiers advancing or attacking.

16. Going away from, departing from, or quitting a place / in this place.

17. An atrociously wicked, cruel, or ill-tempered person / accompanied by / first three letters of theatre / discoloured by cold, contusion, fear or rage / clothing; apparel; garb.

18. A building where goods are sold retail / about; on all sides; encircling; encompassing.

19. A denial or refusal / from what source / number / move quickly on foot.

20. To get into one's hands or possession by force / not you / a small hotel that provides lodging, food, etc., for travellers and others / time long past / the upper limbs of the human body.

Components 4: MOVIES by Lyn Andrews
Piece together the clued components to solve for MOVIES

1. Gradual decline in strength / letter of alphabet / the earth.
2. Dormant / a smaller amount / not out / seaport in western Washington, USA.
3. At liberty / the power of choosing one's own actions / tract of open ground.
4. Container for a portion of ice cream / position of leadership / letter of alphabet.
5. Precipice / shaped support for clothes.
6. Number / members of a feudal Japanese society of mercenary fighters.
7. Homo sapien / accompanied by / not in / letter of alphabet / striking or working surface of an implement.
8. The earth's solid surface / gluttonous / time between sunrise and sunset.
9. A narrow street formed by two continuous lines of buildings / the foremost oar used in rowing a boat / accept resignedly.
10. An inlet, arm or recessed portion of the sea / abbreviation for Foreign Office / pleasing or harmonious sounds.
11. Unclean / moving to music.
12. Cranky or silly old woman / adult male person.
13. Fundamental / a small hotel / strong offensive smell / letter of alphabet.
14. Day of the week / a mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior / high temperature of the body.
15. Conventional title of an unmarried woman / plunder / not out / car bonnet.
16. Tablet / depressed or dejected / converse.
17. Let out one's breath audibly / utter a load, sharp, piercing cry.
18. Express gratitude / time long past / having good fortune / heavenly bodies.
19. Prostitute's client / joint of the leg / have knowledge / corpse.
20. Letter of alphabet / sleeveless garment fastened around the neck falling loosely over the shoulders / not you / at no time.

ARACHNIDS
1.    Funnel Web
2.    Redback
3.    Huntsman
4.    Trapdoor
5.    Daddy Long Legs
6.    Hairy Flower
7.    Wheel Web
8.    Mouse
9.    Wolf
10.   Ant
11.   Jewel
12.   Lynx
13.   Quick Silver
14.   St. Andrews Cross
15.   Black Widow
16.   Nursery Web
17.   Spitting
18.   Bird Dung
19.   Black House
20.   Silver Orb Builder

SONG TITLES:
1. Please Mr Postman
2. You beat me to the punch
3. Every little bit hurts
4. Baby, I need your loving
5. Dancing in the streets
6. Needle in a haystack
7. Ask the lonely
8. Love gone bad
9. I heard it through the grapevine
10. Cloud nine
11. Signed, sealed, delivered
12. Do you love me
13. Pride and joy
14. Fingertips
15. Heat wave
16. Leaving here
17. Devil with the blue dress
18. Shop around
19. Nowhere to run
20. Take me in your arms

MOVIES

1. Wayne's World
2. Sleepless in Seattle
3. Free Willy
4. Cone Heads
5. Cliff Hanger
6. Three Ninjas
7. Man Without a Face
8. Groundhog Day
9. Robo Cop
10. Sound of Music
11. Dirty Dancing
12. Batman
13. Basic Instincts
14. Saturday Night Fever
15. Miss Robin Hood
16. Pillow Talk
17. Silent Scream
18. Thank Your Lucky Stars
19. Johnny Nobody
20. Escape Me Never

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