BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 1

Can you find the country hidden in the following paragraph:

We told Cliff to run, 'Run Cliff, run'. So Cliff ran, celebrating his recent victory in the inter-departmental relay race.

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Puzzle 2

Below, 10 nine-letter words have been broken into chunks of three letters.

The chunks have been moved around, no chunk is used twice, and all of the chunks are used.

Can you determine what the 10 words are?
rbr ent ard man tor rbo
and ban con erf dst dli
fly spa dra dif hai ght
per all fis ove ush hea
new gon fer wat her duc

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Puzzle 3

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
a-a-e --ave -uie- --gon p--ot vi-e- -ac-t --met b--ep -u-ge -lan- -ra-e bon--

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Puzzle 4

Can you complete this grid of letters. Each line is a valid 5-letter word with its first and last letter missing.

The missing letters form a word when read downwards, and the same word appears both at the start and at the end.

What is the missing word?

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.

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