This flat was composed by myself (SHMENDRICK) and my daughter-in-law Melissa (SHMENDRICK JR.) and published in the November, 2021 issue of The Enigma. It is under the category of Successive Consonantcy. The three cuewords, BOO, HOO, and RUE represent three words which share alphabetically successive consonants in the same order, with any number of vowels - Y being treated as a vowel

An example of Consonantcy - but not successive consonantcy - would be ACORN, CRAYON, OCARINA - the same consonants - C, R, N - occurring in the same order in all three words.

I was feeling kind of blue,

I wasn't feeling close to you.

We love each other. What could this

   mean?

I think that things have just grown

   routine.

 

The key to more romance?

The BOO for my dejection?

Could it simply be a HOO of true

   affection?

 

Please, my love, return to me;

It may determine what our RUE's to be. 

 

HINT:

Each answer word has four letters.

 

Answers:

 

CURE, DOSE, FATE