MAKE-A-WORD

The word CARPENTRY is composed of the three smaller words, CAR, PEN, and TRY. The other words in the three columns below can also be put together to form longer words, but not as neatly as CARPENTRY, in which the separated words correspond to the natural syllabication.

For example, the word CONSIDERATE has four syllables - CON SID ER ATE, but in this puzzle it will be made up of CON SIDE RATE. Each longer word is made up of one word from Column A, one from Column B, and one from Column C - reading from left to right. In forming the longer words, each short word in the three columns will be use once and only once.

Column A               Column B            Column C
CAR                        AT                         ABLE
COMB                    CUT                      AGING
CON                        ROB                     ANTS
DISC                       FOR                      ASTERN
END                        HE                        CEMENT
FEAT                       HERB                   CENT
FLU                         OR                        GALE
IMP                         ORES                    ION
NEW                       OUR                      PER
NOR                        PEN                      RAIN
NIGH                       RAN                     RATE
PARENT                 SIDE                     SING
PROSE                    SPA                      TIC
REIN                       THE                     TIES
WAR                       TIN                       TRY

Answers:

CARPENTRY - - CAR  + PEN + TRY
COMBATANTS - - COMB + AT + ANTS
CONSIDERATE - - CON + SIDE + RATE
DISCOURAGING - - DISC + OUR + AGING
ENDORSING - - END + OR + SING
FEATHERBRAIN - - FEAT + HERB + RAIN
FLUORESCENT - - FLU + ORES + CENT
IMPROBABLE - - IMP + OR + ABLE
NEWSPAPER - - NEW + SPA + PER
NORTHEASTERN - - NOR + THE + ASTERN
NIGHTINGALE - - NIGH + TIN + GALE
PARENTHETIC - - PARENT + HE + TIC
PROSECUTION - - PROSE + CUT + ION
REINFORCEMENT - - REIN + FOR + CEMENT
WARRANTIES - - WAR + RAN + TIES

Credit: GAMES Magazine - Sept./Oct. 1981
Wayne Williams
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