Polywords

Beam

Make as many words as you can from the letters of a nine-letter word, making sure you use the highlighted letter. Can you beat our score?
© Gibraltar Caving Unit, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source

About this picture …

Looking out towards the sunrise from inside Goats Hair Twin Caves on the eastern side of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory in the Mediterranean. Gibraltar was captured in 1704 during Home Page (1702-1713), and officially ceded to Britain at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.

Beam

Make words using the letters shown in the grid. Your words should be four or more letters in length. All your words must include the highlighted letter in the centre. Tap on any letter to use it for your word.

able amble bale ball balm beam bell belle blame label lama lamb lame llama male mall malleable meal
label llama belle blame amble lamb mall male lame able bell balm ball bale meal
able amble bale ball balm beam bell belle blame label lama lamb lame llama male mall malleable meal

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Passepied

Ernest Tomlinson (1924-2015)

Performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Murray Khouri.

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‘Where the Bee Sucks’ (from Shakespeare’s ‘Tempest’)

Thomas Arne (1710-1778)

Performed by Emma Kirkby.

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Transcript / Notes

Where the bee sucks there lurk I:
In a cow-slip’s bed I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On a bat’s back do I fly
After sunset merrily,
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Air and Variations (‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’) from Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Played by Ragna Schirmer.

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Transcript / Notes

In some British schools, the following song was sung to this air several years ago:

LATE and early, brawny and burly,
There at his anvil the blacksmith stands,
Never tiring by strength inspiring,
Manfully toiling with eager hands.
List to the clamour of his busy hammer,
Mark the sparks that upward fly like showers of falling rain:
Hear him singing as his sledge goes swinging
’Til the glowing iron rings again.