Did you solve it? Wordplay wizardry by the UK’s king of quiz

The answers to today’s puzzles

Earlier today I set these puzzles by quizmaster extraordinaire Frank Paul. Here they are again with solutions.

It strikes me that it would be a good coding challenge to find all possible examples of these puzzles using words in a standard English dictionary. Particularly number 2 – are there any strings of more than three words? I’d love to know.