INSERT-A-WORD XLVII

Insert a word from the right-hand column somewhere into each word in the left-hand column to form a longer word. Each word in the right-hand column is used only once. Do not change the order of the letters.

1. CON                  HAD

2. BAD                  CALL

3. SLING               RIG

4. FATE                 ALL

5. SOW                 ETCH

6. SOP                   RAY

7. CRY                  RAG

8. SKY                  HAD

9. FILE                 TAR

10. ELSE               LIP 

Answers:

1. C RAY ON - CRAYON

2. B ALL AD - BALLAD

3. S TAR LING - STARLING

4. F RIG ATE - FRIGATE

5. S HAD OW - SHADOW

6. S CALL OP - SCALLOP

7. C HER  RY - CHERRY

8. SK ETCH -Y - SKETCHY

9. F RAG ILE - FRAGILE

10. EL LIP SE - ELLIPSE

PAIRS XXIII

Place the same pair of letters onto both sets of dashes to complete a common word. The pair of letter will be different for each answer.

1. W _ _ T _ _ R

2. RETI _ _ N _ _

3. L _ _ OR _ _ E

4. _ _ OS _ _ ORUS

5. _ _ EPSI _ _ ER

6. D _ _ _ _ G

Answers:

1. WHETHER

2. RETICENCE

3. LICORICE

4. PHOSPHORUS

5. STEPSISTER

6. DINING

PERFECT PAIRINGS I

Each clue can be re-phrased using wordplay - especially homographs (words with two or more meanings) to make a familiar phrase. For example, DANCES and PROTESTS could be re-phrased as BALLS and STRIKES. 

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

August, 2022 (Ex. and 1-3)

Joseph Appel (4-10)

 

1. Put in order and manicure

2. Probability and conclusions

3. Play shortstop and watch You Tube

4. Cashews and fabric store purchases

5. News magazine and a detergent brand

6. Kind of party and a convulsion

7. Part of the foot and a kind of letter

8. 5'2" for a man and 16 for a girl

9. A vault and a noise

10. Money and a goat 

 

Answers:

 

1. Rank and file

2. Odds and ends

3. Field and stream

4. Nuts and bolts

5. Time and tide

6. Search and seizure

7. Ball and chain

8. Short and sweet

9. Safe and sound

10. Bread and butter 

The answers to the clues below will have something in common. Can you determine what it is?

1. Another name for Dixie 

2. The name of our Galaxy

3. Messenger from Noah's Ark

4. Metaphorical academic retreat

5. Metaphor for the entrance to Heaven

6. What you might have to walk on at times

7. What the mother of the groom should wear

8. Largest Indian reservation in the United States

9. Alcoholic beverage associated with celebrations

10. Artificial sound of rain or ocean waves to help you sleep and a hint to what the answers have in common

 

Answers:

 

1. Land of Cotton

2. Milky Way 

3. Dove

4. Ivory tower

5. Pearly Gates

6. Eggshells

7. Beige dress

8. Navajo Nation

9. Champagne 

10. White noise - - - Each answer contains the name of a shade of white paint 

HUNGRY HIPPO

Answer each clue with a compound word or two-word phrase that contains the name of an animal.

1. Steam locomotive

2. Exaggerated tale

3. Highway menace

4. Playground staple

5. Kind of pastry

6. Unexpected winner  

7. They're usually in August

8. A very dirty room or place

9. Something hard to get rid of

10.. Something hard to talk about

11. Metaphor for being industrious

12. Metaphor for being enthusiastic

13. A dangerous, threatening place or situation 

14. Highly admired and exceptional person or thing, once

Answers:

1. Iron horse

2. Fish story

3. Roadhog

4. Monkey bars

5. Bear claw

6. Dark horse

7. Dog days of summer

8. Pig pen/sty

9. White elephant

10. Elephant in the room

11. Busy bee

12. Eager beaver

13. Lion's den

14. Cat's pajamas

 

 

STUMPERS DLIII

1. Can you think of two four-letter words that have opposite meanings and end in the same three letters, in the same order. The first letters are given:

F _ _ _

H _ _ _ 

2. Can you think of a respectful title that is an anagram of another respectful title?

 

Answers:

 

1. FIRE

    HIRE

 

2. SIR

    SRI (used in India) 

PRESTO - CHANGE-O XXXIII

Each of the sets below contains three or four unrelated words. Change one letter in each of the words in each set to get three or four related words. Do not change the order of the letters. In one of the sets, one of the words must have two letters changed.

Ex: TINT, ALIGHT, STALL, PONY

       TINY, SLIGHT, SMALL, PUNY

 

1. WATCH, ELL, OGEE, LIZARD

2.  SOFT, BUNCH, COACH, CURL

3. MEEK, ORION, RAISH

4. COVE, ADOBE, CHEMIST

5. BUT, SHONE, TORT, TOLL

6. TUNA, HARE, HELLO, DRAM

7. CANE, MINER, BUFFER, CAR

 

Answers: 

 

1. WITCH, ELF, OGRE, WIZARD

2. SOFA, BENCH, COUCH, CURB

3. LEEK, ONION, RADISH

4. LOVE, ADORE, CHERISH

5. BUN, SCONE, TART, ROLL

6. TUBA, HARP, CELLO, DRUM

7. CAFE, DINER, BUFFET, BAR