NESTED WORDS
Credit: GAMES Magazine
December, 1986
Fraser Simpson

Each set of clues below leads to a pair of words: a seven-letter word and a four-letter word "nested" in it. The nested word is found by taking every other letter of the seven-letter word, always beginning with the first letter. For example, given the clues

Encouragement; X may mark it,

the answer words would be SUPPORT and SPOT (SuPpOrT). In each of the sets below, the seven-letter word is clued first.

1. Berlin's country; dismal color
2. Spotted cat; burden
3. Fishermen; generations
4. Harder to lift; salon concern
5. Brilliant red; shaker contents
6. Eccentricity; some poems
7. Multiplication answer; sulk
8. Turn to alcohol; worry
9. Water globule; narcotics
10. Capable of floating; water vessel
11. Keeps engrossed; breakfast food
12. Disintegrate; geometric solid
13. Pioneering hippie; financial institution
14. One of three children; pinball no-no
15. Class get-together; undo completely
16. Illuminated lunarly; lose feathers

Answers:

1. GERMANY - GRAY
2. LEOPARD - LOAD
3. ANGLERS - AGES
4. HEAVIER - HAIR
5. SCARLET - SALT
6. ODDNESS - ODES
7. PRODUCT - POUT
8. FERMENT - FRET
9. DROPLET - DOPE
10.  BUOYANT - BOAT
11. ENGAGES - EGGS
12. CRUMBLE - CUBE
13. BEATNIK - BANK
14. TRIPLET - TILT
15. REUNION - RUIN
16. MOONLIT - MOLT