A QUIZLING
Credit: GAMES Magazine
February, 1983
Dan Crawford

If a duckling is a small duck, does it follow that a short celebrity is a starling? Probably not. But if it did, then each definition below would suggest a common word ending in LING. A tiny hair ribbon, for example, would be a BOWLING.

1. A small pushpin
2. A small planet
3. A minimal charge
4. A short, gullible person
5. A small Halloween prank
6. A drop of writing fluid
7. A small helper on a ranch
8. Gypsy Rose Lee as a child
9. A tiny arachnid
10. A mild word expressing frustration

Answers:

1. Tackling
2. Earthling
3. Feeling
4. Sapling
5. Trickling
6. Inkling
7. Handling
8. Stripling
9. Tickling
10. Dangling