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

Each trio of short words below represents a familiar, longer word. To reconstruct each longer word, first drop the extraneous letter from one short word (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 GAP ME HONEST, you would cross out the T in HONEST, switch GAP and ME, then bring the three parts together to reveal MEGAPHONE. If the clue words were HIVE AT TENT, you would cross out the H in HIVE, switch AT and TENT, then eliminate the spaces to form TENTATIVE.

1. SO REIGN EVE
2. EASES NTH PARE
3. NEXT TED ROVER
4. RID PAT ARCH
5. ARM BE ARK
6. LIFE MAN STATION
7. TIES ROPER UP
8. MITTEN INTER IT
9. SO NAB LUTE
10. ROT IMP VASE
11. CHAR HER ACT
12. ANT BOY FLAME
13. FAR PILL CATER
14. AS METRIC YAM
15. NEAT DELI ICON
16. OWN HER OVERT

Answers:

1. SOVEREIGN
2. PARENTHESES
3. EXTROVERTED
4. PATRIARCH
5. EARMARK
6. MANIFESTATION
7. PROPERTIES
8. INTERMITTENT
9. ABSOLUTE
10. IMPROVISE
11. CHARACTER
12. FLAMBOYANT
13. CATERPILLAR
14. ASYMMETRIC
15. DELINEATION
16. OVERTHROWN