TRIM AND FIT V

GAMES Magazine

June, 2000

Stephen Sniderman

 

Choose a word from the left-hand column and trim one, two, or three consecutive letters from the front or back (but not both). Then, without changing the order of the letters, fit a word from the right-hand column between two of the remaining letters to form a new, longer word. 

For examples, see TRIM AND FIT I - posted December 15, 2023.

1. UGLY                 YES

2. DEITY                TEN 

3. TREACLY          HOST

4. RETRAIN           SOUR

5. ESSENCE           CURATE

6. RECESS              TERN

Answers:

New word in capital letters, inserted word in ( ), dropped letters in lower case

 

1. uG(HOST)LY

2. dE(TERN)ITY

3. tre AC(CURATE)LY

4. rE(YES)TRAIN

5. esSEN(TEN)ce

6. RE(SOUR)CEss