LESS IS MORE II
Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
January, 2017
Stephen Sniderman

In each pair of words below, remove one letter from the first word and one letter from the second, so that the remaining letters, in order, spell a new word. The removed letters may come from anywhere in the words. For example, given the word pair PALACE - BOY, you could remove the first A from PALACE and the Y from BOY, leaving the word PLACEBO.

1. ACHE - MOIST
2. SEQUEL - NICE
3. TORCHES - TRAP
4. STIR - HANGER
5. BEGUN - TILE
6. UNIT - FINED
7. DEBT - RISK
8. SOIL - HOIST
9. FROWN - TIGER
10. CLAMP - ALIGN
11. HIDE - NOTIFY
12. COMPEL - VAIN
13. PER - INMATE
14. VAN - THEATER
15. SNUB - TALE
16. SLY - STEAM
17. COLA - NAKED
18. MEN - DEMONIC

 Answers:

1. CHEMIST
2. SEQUENCE
3. ORCHESTRA
4. STRANGER
5. BEGUILE
6. UNIFIED
7. DEBRIS
8. SOLOIST
9. FRONTIER
10. CAMPAIGN
11. IDENTIFY
12. COMPLAIN
13. PRIMATE
14. ANTEATER
15. SUBTLE
16. SYSTEM
17. CLANKED
18. MNEMONIC