From The Enigma
NPL Magazine
February, 2018
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Like the two keywords in this flat, the answer words differ by only their second letter.

Is a puzzle a BULLET, a balm for your
   brain,
That soothes, by distraction, emotional
   pain?
Or is it a pain in itself, of a kind,
That, until you BALLET it, bedevils
   your mind?

Answers:

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