Polygon 4 August

Polygon puzzle

Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of four or more letters, always including the central letter. Capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives and superlatives are disallowed.

How you rate: 13 words, average; 17, good; 21, very good; 26, excellent.

Source: the Times

Answers on the continuation page.

actor, aortic, arco, artic, cart, cavity, cavort, cavy, ciao, city, coat, coati, coir, oracy, orca, otic, racy, taco, torc, toric, triac, vatic, vicar, victor, victory

voracity is the word using all the letters.

(Did not get many of these, Susan, as I got called away after 3 minutes and forgot to go back to it later! Lack of short-term memory is getting more pronounced with age.)

Comments

[Susan]

I didn't even manage 'average' today, Maxine! I got 12, missing voracity. (I also missed aortic, arco, artic, ciao, oracy, otic, racy, taco, torc, triac, vatic, and vicar!)