ISOGRAMS III
Brenda Cox

Isograms are words or phrases with no repeating letters. The term is also used to describe words or phrases in which each letter appears the same number of times, not necessarily just once. Isograms are only interesting when there are enough letters in the word or phrase to make avoiding repetition challenging. For example, the word CAT has no repeating letters, but it is not as interesting as AMBIDEXTROUSLY, which also has no repeating letters.

Isograms in which each letter appears the same number of times are quite rare, so even fairly short ones are intriguing. DEED and DEEDED are isograms in which each of two letters appears twice or three times, respectively. But these are not as interesting as ARRAIGNING, in which five different letters appear two times each.

The clues below can be answered with isograms having no repeated letters. Each answer word has ten letters.

1. All of us - in terms of our planet
2. Tearful
3. Beach rescuers
4. Cookie used in tiramisu
5. Horseshoer (also an isogram), perhaps
6. Deter
7. Certain dogs and  buses
8. Obstinate
9. Plural marriage proponent
10. Urge to roam
11. Tiny drum with jingles
12. Tumbler's springboard

Answers:

1. EARTHLINGS
2. LACHRYMOSE
3. LIFEGUARDS
4. LADYFINGER
5. BLACKSMITH
6. DISCOURAGE
7. GREYHOUNDS
8. HEADSTRONG
9. POLYGAMIST
10. WANDERLUST
11. TAMBOURINE
12. TRAMPOLINE