MORE THAN ENOUGH II
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Nov. 2001
Stephen Sniderman

Each trio of short words below represents a familiar, longer word. To reconstruct each long word, first drop the extraneous letter from one short word, without re-arranging the remaining letters. (The result may or may not be a word, and may be a single letter).  Then switch the positions of two of the resulting trio members, and, finally, eliminate the spaces.

For example, given the clue words  PAL ROME RIND, you would cross out the R in RIND, switch IND and  ROME, then bring the three parts together to reveal PALINDROME. If the clue words were HERE MEOW SO, you would cross out the O in MEOW, switch SO and HERE, then eliminate the spaces to form SOMEWHERE.

1. ALE IN RATIO
2. FOR ITS FEN
3. TUG ROMP IMP
4. GAP ME HONEST
5. SHULA IN PEN
6. RE DISC EDITED
7. ME OR DUCAT
8. ITS HER AGE
9. IS ORGAN ME
10. MAR ON LATH
11. PAR GAL VALE
12. PAGAN PRO DEIST
13. TENANT US LIE
14. TRIO FACE US
15. HOME SOP ORE
16. DO AS VERSE
17. BUT DEW ANTE
18. HIVE AT TENT
19. THOUGH SLY TILES
20. DIPLOMA TALLY TIC

Answers:

1. RATIONALE
2. FORFEITS
3. IMPROMPTU
4. MEGAPHONE
5. PENINSULA
6. DISCREDITED
7. EDUCATOR
8. HERITAGE
9. ORGANISM
10. MARATHON
11. PARALEGAL
12. PROPAGANDIST
13. LIEUTENANT
14. FACETIOUS
15. SOPHOMORE
16. OVERSEAS
17. DEBUTANTE
18. TENTATIVE
19. THOUGHTLESSLY
20. DIPLOMATICALLY