MORE THAN ENOUGH V
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. CARY THE ALPO
2. LET SAKE ON
3. BUST ILK TERM
4. SKI RAMS LOG
5. AIR GAB DINE
6. HEATER HIT CAMP
7. BERATE  DELI  FLY
8. AXES LIMO ANTIC
9. SIGN IN IRA
10. MAN BUDS MOM
11. EVITA IN BLUE
12. TEN MAIN LANCE
13. INCA ATE RAN
14. RAW SOP LED
15. ROUND ERG FUND
16. MANIA SO IN
17. HABIT IN BED
18. RED DISCO ANT
19. VERGED TILE CAN
20. NICE VOLE MALE

Answers:

1. APOTHECARY
2. SKELETON
3. BUTTERMILK
4. KILOGRAMS
5. GABARDINE
6. AMPHITHEATER
7. DELIBERATELY
8. ANTICLIMAXES
9. INSIGNIA
10. OMBUDSMAN
11. INEVITABLE
12. MAINTENANCE
13. INCARNATE
14. SPRAWLED
15. UNDERGROUND
16. INSOMNIA
17. INHABITED
18. DISCORDANT
19. CANTILEVERED
20. MALEVOLENCE