The answer to each question is a single letter - it is derived from the clue. The answer to the tenth question is a combination of the previous nine answers. IMPORTANT: The answers for questions 1 to 9 are single letters only.

-1.Remove one letter from "Gasped" to find a word that means to have stared with an open mouth.

-2.Take one letter from "Placid" to find something that "Dead men don't wear...".

-3.Drop one letter from "Sprats" to find more than one minor disagreement.

-4.Remove one letter from "Bounds" to end up with one that means "joins together".

-5.Take one letter from "Farmed" to find one that means how you did, or got along.

-6.Drop one letter from "Rumble" to find an item that you might place in the slot of a Russian jukebox!

-7.Remove one letter from "Tinea" to be left with one of the prongs on a fork.

-8.Take one letter from "Bridge" to find the female focus of a wedding.

-9.Drop one letter from "Eclair" to arrive at a Gilbert O'Sullivan song title.

10.Now, add all of the letters from answer #1 to answer #9 to get the answer for this question. It's something that occurs in a game of Rugby.

1. S - Good morning Curly

Bernie

3. R

Morning, merci.

6. M - ruble

2. C

4 - U

Thanks.

8. G

Morning curly,

5 - m

7. A

9. E

Good ones, Hi Gail.

To finish off, 10. Scrummage

Merci Kevin.