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Hint
The answer to 'long root vegetable' is the longest word.

Answers
parsnip = long root vegetable
sprain  = twisted ankle
Paris   = capital of France
rasp    = coarse file
asp     = snake
as      = equally
a       = single article

Workings

Hints
The first letters of the words are: P, O, B, C, U, R, D, V, D, D, N, S, B, T, D.

Answers
---cil = pencil ---hid = orchid ---nze = bronze ---ese = cheese ---lug = unplug ---som = ransom ---uxe = deluxe ---uum = vacuum ---arm = disarm ---amo = dynamo ---rby = nearby ---ink = shrink ---sai = bonsai ---too = tattoo ---fen = deafen

Workings

Hint
Try removing the spaces between the numbers.

Answer
48 and 11.

Reasoning
These are the squares of numbers without the correct spacing.

   1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100

with no spaces becomes:

   149162536496481100

broken into blocks of two:

   14 91 62 53 64 96 48 11 00

So the next two in the sequence are 48 and 11.

Workings

Hint
There are three feet in a yard, and 1,760 yards in a mile.

Answer
Seconds in a week.

Reasoning
There are 60 x 60 x 24 x 7 = 604,800 seconds in a week.

There are 3 x 1760 x 100 = 528,000 feet in 100 miles.