Below are thirteen 5 lettered, everyday words, each of which has had two of its letters removed.

In total these 26 letters are A-Z.

The remaining letters in each word are in the correct order. There are no words which are spelled differently based upon location (favour/favor, etc) and there are no plurals.

Can you determine the original words?

AAE
AVE
UIE
GON
POT
VIE
ACT
MET
BEP
UGE
LAN
RAE
BON

At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats.

There were a total of eight boats, two in each colour, red, green, blue and yellow. Each friend owned two boats and no friend had two boats of the same colour.

• Alan didn't have a yellow boat.
  
• Brian didn't have a red boat, but did have a green one.
  
• One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat.
  
• Another friend had a green boat and a blue boat.
  
• Charles had a yellow boat.
  
• Darren had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.
  

Can you find a number such that...

...its double is fourteen more than its quarter?

These five words are connected somehow, which word is missing?

ORIGAMI
REPTILIAN
==?==
NUCLEI
GLIDING
EMBRYO

Choose from:

albatross, approved, bingo, furtive, pedalled, zebra