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Credit: GAMES Magazine
July/Aug, 1982
Ralph Maus

Each of the five-letter palindromic sets of letters below can be found intact somewhere in a familiar English word - as the beginning, middle, or end. For example, given the palindromic set

TOMOT, the answer would be AUTOMOTIVE.

1. AWKWA
2. YNONY
3. SSASS
4. OLKLO
5. YBABY
6. WEREW
7. NOTON
8. OOTSTOO
9. ATHTA
10. ROPOR
11. OLILO
12. LETEL
13. SICIS

HINTS:
The first letters are:
7.  M
8.  F
9.  B
11.  S
12.  C
14.  P

Answers:

1. AWKWARD
2. SYNONYM
3. ASSASSIN
4. FOLKLORE
5. CRYBABY
6. WEREWOLF
7. MONOTONY
8. FOOTSTOOL
9. BREATHTAKING
10. PROPORTION
11. SOLILOQUY
12. COMPLETELY
13. PHYSICIST