MORE THAN ENOUGH VI
Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
October, 2015
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, without re-arranging the remaining letters. (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 LUTE SO FAB, you would drop the F in FAB, switch AB and LUTE, then bring the three parts together to form ABSOLUTE. If the clue words were DIG APE
REED, you would drop the A in APE, switch DIG and PE, then eliminate the spaces to form PEDIGREED. If the clue words were COME NONE DIE, you would drop the O in NONE, switch NNE and DIE, then combine the words to get COMEDIENNE.

1. DINS LED GRUNT
2. TON OR READ
3. MANE PER NIT
4. ADO PER DENS
5. AL GNOMIC ASTRO
6. ON WARM GEAR
7. MARIAN LET PRO
8. ECRU SCAR OW
9. RONDO MET ME
10. TERMED IN DIARY
11. LECTURE HIT ARC
12. NO ERA SOP
13. AGE RAN REAR
14. TRY TINS DEN
15. GRIM PAIL AGE
16. THEMATIC MAN ALLY
17. ROUSE OUT TAB
18. TAR ULNA ANT
19. TACK RAT COUNTED
20. YES EL TRAIN

 Answers:

1. DISGRUNTLED
2. TOREADOR
3. PERMANENT
4. DESPERADO
5. ASTRONOMICAL
6. WARMONGER
7. PROLETARIAN
8. SCARECROW
9. METRONOME
10. INTERMEDIARY
11. ARCHITECTURE
12. SOPRANO
13. REARRANGE
14. DENTISTRY
15. PILGRIMAGE
16. MATHEMATICALLY
17. ROUSTABOUT
18. TARANTULA
19. COUNTERATTACK
20. EYESTRAIN