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Workings

Hint
The first word begins with the letter A.

Answers
-s-e-d = ascend -p-a-g = sprang -r-f-r = prefer -y-r-d = hybrid -r-f-e = trifle -a-b-n = carbon -a-e-a = camera -o-d-g = hotdog -s-f-l = useful -i-s-e = tissue

Workings

Hint
# is worth 3.

Answer
14.

Reasoning
The values are: @ = 7, & = 4, $ = 8, # = 3, % = 5.

But …

… you don't have to find the value of every symbol!

The rows add up to 80, which means that the columns must also add up to 80.

24 + ? + 17 + 25 = 80.

? = 14.

Workings

Hint
One of the words is antelope.

Answers
rdvrk  = aardvark rndr   = reindeer prcpn  = porcupine rhncrs = rhinoceros sqrrl  = squirrel clt    = ocelot or colt frrt   = ferret sknk   = skunk or skink dnky   = donkey ntlp   = antelope

Workings

Hint
How old could Glen be?

Answer
Name    Age    Chess  Croquet
Dale    15     3      1
Emery   16     1      4
Frankie 18     2      2
Glen    19     4      3

Reasoning
The possible ages are: 15, 16, 18, 19.

Breaking the clues down, and numbering them:
Frankie beat Glen in chess. Dale came third (chess). The 16-year-old won (chess). Frankie came second in croquet. The 15-year-old won (croquet). Dale beat the 18-year-old (croquet). The 19-year-old came third (croquet). Emery is 3 years younger than Glen. The person who came last in chess came third in croquet. Only one person got the same position in both games.
By (4), Frankie came 2^nd in croquet.
Name    Age    Chess  Croquet
Dale
Emery
Frankie               2
Glen

By (2), Dale came 3^rd in chess.
Name    Age    Chess  Croquet
Dale           3
Emery
Frankie               2
Glen

By (8), Emery is 15 or 16, and Glen is 18 or 19.

By (9), the person who came 4^th in chess, came 3^rd in croquet, and by (7), they are 19. This can't be Dale (3^rd in chess), or Frankie (2^nd in croquet), or Emery (aged 15 or 16), so it must be Glen.
Name    Age    Chess  Croquet
Dale           3
Emery
Frankie               2
Glen    19     4      3

By (6), Dale can't have been 4^th in croquet, so must be 1^st. Leaving Emery in 4^th.
Name    Age    Chess  Croquet
Dale           3      1
Emery                 4
Frankie               2
Glen    19     4      3

By (10), only one person got the same position in both games, this can't be Emery 4^th in both (as Glen is already 4^th in chess), so must be Frank, 2^nd in both. Leaving Emery 1^st in chess.
Name    Age    Chess  Croquet
Dale           3      1
Emery          1      4
Frankie        2      2
Glen    19     4      3

By (3) and (5) we know the ages of the winners in each competition, and Frankie is therefore 18.
Name    Age    Chess  Croquet
Dale    15     3      1
Emery   16     1      4
Frankie 18     2      2
Glen    19     4      3