the duplicate letters are filled in thus:—

SOME MEAGRE RELATIVE VEXED EDITH

The two last letters of each word are repeated as the two first of the word that follows.

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4.

The word square is completed thus:—

WASTE
ACTOR
STONE
TONIC
ERECT

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5.

By twice building up two Ds into a B we make BULBOUS.