TAKE IT ALL IN
Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
May, 2015
David Baskind

Some words are so economical that you get two words in one. Well, more accurately, you get one word inside another. For example, look at the word SMASHING - it's the word MASH inside the word SING. Below you'll find clues to nine words like this. Each contains six, seven, or eight letters. The eighteen words they are made up of are listed under the clues. If you do everything right, the first letters of the nine words you inserted, read in order, will spell an appropriate word.

1. Shoving
2. More posh
3. Grand or Bryce
4. Claim
5. Adman's creations
6. Lightly toasted
7. Acknowledging applause, perhaps
8. Break from the 9-5 routine
9. Resident of 10 Downing Street

ALE     ANY     BOG      BRED       CON     DON
EKE     LEG     LOG       LONER    OWN    PUG
SANS   SHIN   SKIER    WAN        WEND  WIN

Answers:

1. PUSHING - PU(SHIN)G 
2. SWANKIER - S(WAN)KIER
3. CANYON - C(ANY)ON
4. ALLEGE - AL(LEG)E
5. SLOGANS - S(LOG)ANS
6. BROWNED - BR(OWN)ED
7. BOWING - BO(WIN)G
8. WEEKEND - WE(EKE)ND
9. LONDONER - LON(DON)ER

Appropriate word: SWALLOWED