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Hint
The word begins with the letter S.

Answer
SWIMS.

Workings

Hint
How many large pipes are required to drain the reservoir in 24 hours?

Answer
21 hours and 36 minutes.

Reasoning
Looking at the first clue:
   in 12 hours, 6 large pipes can drain 1 reservoir
   in 24 hours, 6 large pipes can drain 2 reservoirs
   (*) in 24 hours, 3 large pipes can drain 1 reservoir

Looking at the second clue:
   in 8 hours, 3 large + 9 small pipes can drain 1 reservoir
   in 24 hours, 3 large + 9 small pipes can drain 3 reservoirs

But, by (*), we know that in those 24 hours, 3 large pipes can drain 1 of those reservoirs.

Therefore, the other 2 reservoirs can be drained by the small pipes on their own:
   in 24 hours, 9 small pipes can drain 2 reservoirs
   in 24 hours, 1 small pipe can drain ²/₉ reservoirs
multiply the hours by 9:
   in 216 hours, 1 small pipe can drain 2 reservoirs
   in 216 hours, 5 small pipes can drain 10 reservoirs
divide the hours by 10:
   in 21.6 hours, 5 small pipes can drain 1 reservoir

21.6 hours = 21 hours and 36 minutes.

Workings

Hint
The first word is base.

Answer
Strawberry.
bake = base cure = cute maze = mare pest = peat neat = newt rope = robe port = poet food = ford poke = pore soda = soya

Workings

Hint
There is more than one way of completing this in 4 moves.

Answer
Ball bell hell heal head.
Ball bell hell held head.
Ball hall hell heal head.
Ball hall hell held head.