Quiz HELP needed please

[canasta]

Quiz, assorted questions
Stuck on last few of the 150 Questions in this quiz which I will have to submit in a few days.

Conundrums;

4. I am a 5 letter word but if you remove my first letter I will still sound the same...... if you remove my last letter I do not change........even if you finally remove my middle letter from the remaining three I am still the same word you first said - gone completely. What am I ?

Where in the world?
6. Holiday island of valour and lace 5
8. They cook a stew that's very hot? (7)


Food

5. James' or Patrick's art is in a troubled state. 4


Around the house


9. One hundred parts of the head 5
14. Side by side store the classic word 9


Sorry it seems rather a lot but I only picked this up a week ago. Any help gratefully received
11:33 Sat 06th Nov 2010

[boxtops]

Where in the world 6 - MALTA

[gen2]

6. Malta

[gen2]

9. C + Lips?

[craft1948]

8. Hungary?

[canasta]

Thanks, my thoughts were Malta for that one.

Wouldn't Hungary be just one country with a hot stew?

[canasta]

Still need some help, please

[Valanne]

Conundrum EMPTY, MPTY, MPT, MT

[tara20]

5.Stew (art)

[Valanne]

Could Around the house 9 be CHAIR?
(Sorry for over simplifying my conundrum answer. I sort of needed to make sure it worked.)

[canasta]

Valanne,

that's a brilliant answer for the conundrum and I think chair is the right answer, too.

Tara 20.... can't understand where Stew connects with James and Patrick, can you explain, please?

[boxtops]

5 I get it - James Stewart and Patrick Stewart (without the art) and to be in a stew is to be in a mess (troubled)

[canasta]

Thank you boxtops. That's cleared that one up!!

Just need an answer to

Around the house

Q14 Side by side store the classic word (9)

[canasta]

Just need one more ....

Around the house;

Q14 Side by side store the classic word (9)

[canasta]

still need answer for this last one.....anyone out there??

[Valanne]

Hi Canasta, I'm out here again. Still trying - I've been walking round the house looking for things that have nine letters! No luck so far, I'll keep trying.
Please post the answer if you find it - it's driving me nuts now.

[canasta]

Same here, Valanne. A friend has come up with a suggestion of 'Bookshelf' I'm not sure it fits as neatly as I would like but what do you think?

[Valanne]

My son suggested that but we didn't feel it fitted apart from being the right number of letters. A side by side store could be a shelf but what is the classic word?

[canasta]

Books?

[Valanne]

It's a bit woolly isn't it?

[canasta]

I agree. I will just have to keep thinking and hope someone comes up with a better answer if I don't. Strange that I haven't had any responses for this question on here.....I wondered whether it was so easy and I was being thick so no-one was answering me!!