Nexus puzzles

Going through my boxes, I found a load of puzzles I wrote back in the 80’s for various places. Seems a waste so I’ll start adding them here.

Can you find the connection between the following four words ?

(nxa001)
Words : Beam fish rise less

(nxa002b)
Words: Sane lark tans rice

(nxa003)
Words: Lime star jack foot

(nxa004)
Words: Spot less lamp star

(nxa005)
Words Pope jack scar fish

(nxa006)
Words: Eton bury bath deal

If you get stuck, the answers are here: Nexus answers