Saturday, November 22, 2014

RHYMING HALVES II
Credit: GAMES Magazine - July, 2001
Stephen Sniderman
(Original title - RHYMIE STYMIE)

Each clue below leads to a two-syllable word whose two halves rhyme.  For example, given the clue RECIPE SOURCE, the answer word would be COOKBOOK. The clue RUB ELBOWS would lead to HOBNOB.

1. When workers get checks
2. Outdoor outing with food
3. Freight train hopper
4. Lincoln's eighty
5. Comforter (inanimate)
6. Act subserviently
7. Overly didactic (as a sermon)
8. Batty
9. Corporate union
10. Noisy, festive party
11. Amateur gymnast's feat
12. Keep up, as a house or car
13. Hastily assembled, disheveled
14. City center, usually
15. Tubular pasta
16. People and language of South Africa
17. High ranking executive (two answers)
18. In headlong haste

Answers:

1. PAYDAY
2. PICNIC
3. HOBO
4. FOURSCORE
5. BEDSPREAD
6. COWTOW
7. PREACHY
8. LOCO
9. MERGER
10. WINGDING
11. HANDSTAND
12. MAINTAIN
13. RAGTAG
14. DOWNTOWN
15. ZITI
16. ZULU
17. BIGWIG or FAT CAT
18. PELL-MELL 

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