FOUR-MID-ABLE III

The letter strings below consist of three or four letters which appear consecutively in common, uncapitalized, single words. What are the words? Example: Given SGUS, the answer word would be DISGUST. This is a difficult puzzle, and hints to the answer words are given below the clues.

 

1. WBO

2. WBE

3. RWO

4. BST

5. MPH

6. TOPU

7. UMNU

8. WESO

9. NOSA

 

HINTS:

1. Watercraft

2. Fruit

3. Excessive hours at the job

4. Fish

5. Stress

6. Fish

7. School graduate

8. Very impressive

9. A thesaurus is not one

 

Answers:

 

1. ROWBOAT

2. STRAWBERRY

3. OVERWORK

4. LOBSTER

5. EMPHASIS

6. OCTOPUS

7. ALUMNUS

8. AWESOME

9. DINOSAUR 

Credits:

1-5: GAMES Magazine

        November/December, 1978

        George Bredehorn

6-9: GAMES Magazine

        December, 1986

        Bernie Cosell