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Brilliant, tyke51. Chapeau!

Well played Tyke!

Someone told me recently that Ox is the only word in English to retain the -en ending for the plural, Oxen. Children and brethren have similar etymology which goes back to Old English

Quisling, private eye has grown on me! Chambers has EYE = “a central spot”

Exactly, as in the eye of the storm

Inferior to tyke's, but X = bauxite core. Or Fux (composer) coda.

d - back of beyond?

Like it 👍🏻

better with the article:
the back of beyond

H or A ... hubcap
Q or Y ... quayside
U fourscore?
K kickback

Quisling has Legend = L ... it might also = G