BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 197

Can you place a different 4-letter word into each of the brackets to create two longer words.
drift[----]wind home[----]bench foot[----]mother court[----]stick moth[----]room quarter[----]ground space[----]yard wild[----]span your[----]less back[----]fighter
In the following example, the word 'book' creates the words 'cookbook' and 'bookcase'.
cook[book]case

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Puzzle 198

Using all of the letters A to Z, each once only, complete these common words.
ba-g- d--ed dia-- -uo-a i-de- -o-el -um-s py--y g-ou- --nal tra-- -umb- d--ty

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Puzzle 199

Bungled Heist – Logic Puzzles

After a local bungled heist, five suspects were being interviewed by the police.

Eventually, the police managed to get a confession.

Below is a summary of their statements, and it turns out that exactly 5 of these statements were true.

Would you make a good detective? Try and work out who committed the crime.

   Alex said:
      It wasn't Brook
      It was Charlie

   Brook said:
      It wasn't Alex
      It was Dale

   Charlie said:
      It wasn't Dale
      It wasn't Brook

   Dale said:
      It wasn't Emery
      It was Alex

   Emery said:
      It wasn't Charlie
      It was Dale

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Puzzle 200

Using the letters EEEEGGLLOOSS complete this grid. The grid reads the same across as down.

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.

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