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Hint
Try: dish + golf, tray + sign, raft + hiss.

Answers
dish + golf = goldfish
tray + sign = stingray
raft + hiss = starfish
cram + leek = mackerel
ears + shoe = seahorse
loud + fern = flounder

Workings

Hint
How many clock minutes pass in a real hour?

Answer
1:20pm.

Reasoning
The clock now shows 10:12am, so we know that 10 x 60 + 12 = 612 clock minutes have passed.

Since the clock is losing 6 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will show 54 minutes.

So, 612 ÷ 54 ≈ 11.33 real hours have passed.

This equals 680 minutes, which is 11 hours and 20 minutes = 11:20am.

The clock stopped 2 hours ago, therefore the time must now be 1:20pm.

Workings

Hint
There are quite a few anagrams, one of which is LEAST.

Answer
Least, slate, stale, steal, tales, teals.

Remember that the question asked for common words.

Workings

Hint
How large would the smaller cube be?

Answer
1,352 small cubes.

Reasoning
The original large cube with 16 small cubes along each edge would require 16 x 16 x 16 = 4,096 small cubes.

Removing the outside layer would leave a large cube now with 14 small cubes along each edge (which requires 14 x 14 x 14 = 2,744 small cubes).

It isn't 15 small cubes because you're removing both ends of an edge.

Therefore, you have removed 4,096 – 2,744 = 1,352 small cubes.