UNAWKWARD WORDS
Credit: GAMES Magazine
April, 2014
Gary Disch

The blanks in the incomplete words below can be filled in with letters which form palindromes. That is, they read the same forward and backward. For example, given the clue AG _ _ _ _ _ ON, the missing letters would be ITATI, forming the word AGITATION.

1. DE _ _ _ _ _LE
2. OV _ _ _ _ _ SS
3. F _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L
4. ST _ _ _ _ _ OM
5. GU _ _ _ _ _ IL
6. TE _ _ _ _ _ TS
7  EV _ _ _ _ _ EN
8. KI _ _ _ _ _ TS
9. CH _ _ _ _ _ KE

HINTS:
The first (and therefore last) letters of the missing palindromic strings are:
1. B
2. E
3. O
4. O
5. A
6. N
7. E
8. L
9. I

Answers:

1. deBATABle
2. ovERDREss
3. fOOTSTOOl
4. stOREROom
5. guARDRAil
6. teNEMENts
7. evERGREen
8. kiLOVOLts
9. chILDLIke