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Hint
How many 2 x 2 squares are there?

Answer
There are 128 squares without a rook.

Reasoning
There are 62 squares of size 1 x 1.
There are 41 squares of size 2 x 2.
There are 18 squares of size 3 x 3.
There are  6 squares of size 4 x 4.
There is   1 square  of size 5 x 5.

Giving a total of 62 + 41 + 18 + 6 + 1 = 128 squares.

Workings

Hint
The country spans more than one word.

Answer
England.

Alex's aches and pains felt worse because of swollEN GLANDs that had flared up during the night, perhaps a tonic would help?

Workings

Hint
Start by looking at the consonants and vowels (AEIOU).

Answer
65 tonnes.

Vowels (AEIOU) are worth 3 and consonants are worth 5, added together and then multiplied by the number of ingots.

So TIN has 1 vowel (worth 3) and 2 consonants (worth 10).

Added gives 13, then multiplied by 5 ingots = 65.

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Hint
One of the words begins with the letter S.

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