Random Puzzles - BrainBashers

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 interdepartmental relay race.

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Puzzle 2

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
cl--h co--h di-r- -rea- in-e- -ok-r -a-or -ua-l re-e- -to-e s-am- ya--t -eb-a

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Puzzle 3

By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.

Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?

Therefore, what now reads 'awpydnucepa' will be a real word.
bake swap opal dyed idle snow lump aces melt spun rant

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Puzzle 4

Which letter comes next in this sequence:

Y · P · I · D · ?

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