LETTER SWAPPING XVI
Credit: GAMES Magazine - Feb. 2001
Stephen Sniderman

Each word in the left-hand column can swap a single letter with one of the words in the right-hand column to create two new words. For example, the title words LETTER and SWAPPING could exchange the L in LETTER and the W in SWAPPING to form WETTER and SLAPPING. In the words LIVELY and DECODE, the I in LIVELY and the O in DECODE could be swapped to form LOVELY and DECIDE.

1. FERVENT                HIDEOUT
2. RUSTING                 FIREARMS
3. CLOTTED                PROWESS
4. PARSLEY                WHISPER
5. CARFARE                POISONS
6. MINUSES                CONCEIT
7. MOLDIER                REACHED
8. YEARLONG            PRIMATE

HINTS:
The swapped letters from the words in the left-hand column are:
1. V
2. R
3. T
4. R
5. C
6. S
7. M
8. O

Answers:

1. FERMENT...............PRIVATE
2. OUSTING................PRISONS
3. CLOTHED...............REACTED
4. PAISLEY..................CONCERT
5. WARFARE...............PROCESS
6. MINUTES................HIDEOUS
7. SOLDIER.................WHIMPER
8. YEARLING.............FOREARMS