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Good Weekend Superquiz and Saturday Target Time, August 5

By Brian Yatman.

TARGET TIME

Find words of four letters or more. Every word must include the centre letter and each letter is used once only. Find at least one nine-letter word. No colloquial or foreign words, capitalised nouns, apostrophes or hyphens. No verbs or plural words ending in “s”. Solution list is not exhaustive.

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Reference source: Macquarie Dictionary.

Today’s Target: 11 words, average; 14 words, good; 17+ words, excellent.

Yesterday’s Target: dene, dent, detent, détente, DETERGENT, enter, entered, entree, erne, gender, gene, genet, genre, gent, gerent, green, greened, need, nett, netted, regent, rend, renege, reneged, rent, rented, retene, tend, tender, tenet, tenge, tent, tenter, tern, treen, trend.

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