What do the following words have in common?

1. Often

2. Injury 

3. Justice

4. Mattress

5. Brandish

6. Partridge 

7. Determine

8. Discovery 

9. Warrant  

10. Notice

 

Answer:

 

Each word is made up of two smaller words, but they are not compounds. That is, the two smaller words are not related - as they are in compound words (i.e. Bedroom).  

 

TWO OUT OF THREE II

Anagram two of the three words in each clue to get a synonym of the remaining word.

Ex: ART, EBB, TREE

Ans: TREE + ART = RETREAT - which is a synonym for EBB

 

1. ALE, ALLOW, OTTER

2. CAT, TOGETHER, TIN

3. HAPPY, DEED, LIGHT 

4. RUG, NOBLE, PITH

5. PAL, WINDOW, ORT 

6. FRIENDLY, BASE, COIL 

7. LATE, MEND, GRIEVED 

8. YAP, LENT, PUNISHMENT 

 

HINTS:

One of the words to be anagrammed:
1. OTTER

2. CAT

3. DEED

4. RUG

5. ORT

6. COIL

7. MEND

8. YAP 

 

MORE HINTS:

The other word to be anagrammed:

1. ALE

2. TIN

3. LIGHT

4. PITH

5. PAL

6. BASE

7. LATE

8. LENT 

 

Answers:

 

1. ALE + OTTER = TOLERATE (ALLOW)

2. CAT + TIN = INTACT (TOGETHER)

3. DEED + LIGHT = DELIGHTED (HAPPY)

4. RUG + PITH = UPRIGHT (NOBLE)

5. PAL + ORT = PORTAL (WINDOW)

6. BASE + COIL = SOCIABLE (FRIENDLY)

7. LATE + MEND = LAMENTED (GRIEVED)

8. YAP + LENT = PENALTY (PUNISHMENT) 

QUOTES CCLXX

Into each life some rain must fall. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Share with others and you will never want.

Author Unknown

 

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

 

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Clara Bow (The It Girl) 

 

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake.

Jeanette Rankin 

 

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard word are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. 

Dallin H. Oaks

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is tenacity.

Amelia Earhart

 

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. It it is, stop worrying.

Amelia Earhart

 

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Russel M. Nelson 

  

PAIRS AND SNARES XLIII

The words in each group can be confused. Can you give a simple definition of each one that shows the difference between them?

1. ASCETIC - AESTHETIC

2. PREVIEW - PURVIEW

3. EQUATE  - CONFLATE

4. PRURIENT - PURULENT 

5. ROOT - ROUT - ROUTE

Answers:

1. ASCETIC - One who practices severe self-discipline, usually for religious or spiritual reasons

    AESTHETIC - Relating to beauty and the arts, appreciation for what we see and hear

 

2. PREVIEW - An advanced showing, presentation, inspection of something - before it is officially released  

   PURVIEW - The scope, range, limits of someone's or something's authority, responsibility, or concern

 

3. EQUATE - To treat two things as equal in value or meaning

    CONFLATE - The merging of two or more sets of information, ideas, etc. into one - sometimes confusing them  

 

4. PRURIENT - Lewd, lascivious, excessive and unwholesome obsession with sexual thoughts and desires

   PURULENT - Containing, consisting of, and producing pus - as in an infection

 

5. ROOT - Anchoring part of a plant, fundamental base of a word, underlying cause, to cheer for and support

   ROUT - Decisively defeat an opponent, as in sports or war 

   ROUTE - A path, course, highway, etc. traveled from one place to another 

 

 

     

  

CRYPTO CLUES CCXXVI

GAMES/World of Puzzles 

August, 2021

Harvey Estes (1-7)

Matthew Sewell (8)

Bob Stigger (9-10)

 

1. Whitish vine covers Oregon 

 

2. Popular club lost top host

 

3. It goes between sides that are even squealing wildly

 

4. Sheraton is home to one of Clio's sisters

 

5. Rabbi strolled around restaurant

 

6. Moses' escape route ruined a Seder

 

7. Bad ear hurt in scrape

 

8. Woman of Canadian extraction

 

9. Mention cellular offers a single time

 

10. Shock devotees, doing a 180

 

HINTS:

1. Container

2. Anagram

3. Anagram

4. Hidden word

5. Hidden word

6. Anagram

7. Anagram

8. Hidden word

9. Hidden word

10. Reversal

 

Answers:

 

1. IVORY (IV OR Y)

2. HOT SPOT (top host)

3. EQUAL SIGH (squealing)

4. ERATO (shERATOn)

5. BISTRO (rabBI STROlled)

6. RED SEA (a seder)

7. ABRADE (bad ear)

8. NADIA (caNADIAn)

9. ONCE (mentiON CEllular)

10. STUN (nuts [devotees] reversed)  

INSERT-A-WORD LXIII 

Insert a word form the right-hand column into one of the words in the left-hand column to make a longer word.

1. PATE            ELL 

2. CONE          RAT

3. GAL             ME

4. ACE             PIE   

5. CAR             SUM

6. ON                LOB

7. PIE               AFT

8. CRY             LET 

 

Answers:

 

1. PA LET TE - PALETTE

2. CON SUM E - CONSUME

3. G LOB AL -GLOBAL

4. A PIE CE - APIECE

5. C ELL AR - CELLAR

6. O ME N - OMEN

7. PI RAT E - PIRATE

8. CR AFT Y - CRAFTY  

NY Times Crossword

May 18, 2026

Rena Cohen 

 

The answers to the first four clues will have something in common that is hinted at by the fifth clue.

 

1. Pioneering hybrid car

2. Like the code of Hammurabi 

3. Gardener's alliterative trimming tool 

4. Legendary Monty Python sketch featuring John Cleese 

5. Advice for the over-ambitious

 

Answer to Clue 5:

Start small

 

Answers to Clues 1-4:

 

1. Toyota Prius

2. Babylonian

3. Weed whacker

4. Ministry of Silly Walks 

 

Each clue answer stars with a word meaning "small":

1. TOYota

2. BABYlonian

3. WEEd 

4. MINIstry