CONSONANTCY IV

The Enigma

September, 2021

SCARAB

 

Consonantcy is a wordplay category in which two or more words or phrases share the same consonants in the same order, with any number of vowels before, in between, or after the consonants. Y is treated as a vowel. For example, the words IMBALANCE and AMBULANCE share consonantcy because the consonants M, B, L, N, and C are in the same order in both words. The cuewords in the flat - LAVA and ALEVE also share consonantcy - with the consonants L and V. What two words with consonantcy do LAVA and ALEVE represent in the flat below?

"This Match.com profile looks like a 

   winner:

He's got royal blood and he loves to 

   cook dinner."

"Be careful. The cooking part I might 

   believe.

But I'd bet he's LAVA about his

   ALEVE.

Answer:

 

LYING

LINEAGE   (L, N, and G)