BETWIXT AND BETWEEN X

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Volume 70

 

For each pair of words below, find a common word that falls between them alphabetically in the dictionary. No word is merely a different form of one of the given words. The length of the in-between word is indicated by the number of dashes. 

 

For example: PITY

                       _ _ _ _ _

                       PIXIE

 

The in-between word would be PIVOT. 

 

1. SECURE

    _ _ _ _ _

    SEDENTARY

 

2. TAINT

    _ _ _ _

    TALC

 

3. FORKED

    _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

    FORM

 

4. LEASE

    _ _ _ _ _

    LEAST

 

5. MINK

    _ _ _ _ _ _

    MINOR

 

6. CANDY

    _ _ _ _

   CANINE 

 

7. YEARLY

     _ _ _ _ _

    YEAST

 

Answers:

 

1. SEDAN

2. TAKE

3. FORLORN

4. LEASH

5. MINNOW

6. CANE

7. YEARN  

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Volume 70 

 

Insert one of the real words below into one of the numbered nonsense words to form two longer words, one ending with the real word and one beginning with the real word. For example, given the real word HALT and the nonsense word ASPER, you could get ASPHALT and HALTER. 

 

BRA     DAM     MACH     SON     WICK 

 

1. BINET

2. BAILIED

3. ZEVURA

4. MACAASK

5. STOETE

 

Answers:

 

1. BISON - SONNET

2. BAILIWICK - WICKED

3. ZEBRA - BRAVURA

4. MACADAM - DAMASK

5. STOMACH - MACHETE  

 Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Volume 70

 

The answer to each definition on the left is an anagram of the answer to one of the definitions on the right. For example, Word with "Fair" could be matched with "Step" because trade goes with fair (fair trade) and a step is a tread - an anagram of trade.

 

1. The "diem" of carpe diem     a.Tough experience

2. Shore thing                            b. Lass

3. Closely follow                       c. Magi number

4. Baseball nine                         d. Private teacher

5. 13 - 19 year olds                    e. Yes man

6. Blue-green                             f. Ready to snap

7. Swimmer in a lake                 g. Very weak

8. Rocket's driving force            h. Far from exciting

9. Are you _____?                      i. Restrained

10. Film                                      j. They're factual

11. Road divider                         k. Account 

 

Answers:

 

1. Today - e. Yes man (toady)

2. Tide - i. Restrined (tied)

3. Trail- a. Tough experience (trial) 

4. Team - h. Far from exciting (tame)

5. Teens - f. Ready to snap (tense)

6. Teal - k. Account (tale)

7. Trout - d. Private teacher (tutor)

8. Thrust - j. They're factual (truths)

9. There - c. Magi number (three)

10. Cinema - g. Very week (anemic)

11. Median - b. Lass (maiden)  

 

 

POINTS TO PONDER CXXII

For most of humanity, youngest and only children excepted, it's the first great bewilderment, the first shocking lesson in the difference between wishes and reality. It gives proof to the axiom, "Be careful what you wish for." It is the arrival of the younger sibling.

Beth Gutcheon

The Dispossessed 

SPELLING BEE III

NY Times Puzzle Mania

Sam Ezersky

 

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L R C O I E  

 

Can you use all seven letters to make a nine letter word?

 

HINTS:

1. The word starts with C.

2. It's the name of an animal.

 

Answer:

 

CROCODILE   

1. What do the following words have in common?

SANTA

SAUCE

SERVICE

SOCIETY

 

2. What do the following words have in common?

 

PLUMBER 

DATELINE

LIMELIGHT

FIGURATIVE

 

Answers:

 

1. Each word can be precede by SECRET to make a common phrase

 

2. Each word starts with the name of a fruit:

    PLUMber

    DATEline

    LIMElight

    FIGurative

 

Credit: 

1-2: Wyna Liu  

 

  

ODDS AND ENDS

1. Can you use the three words below as homophones to begin common phrases?

PAPER

BACON 

LETTUCE

 

2. What do the following words have in common?

  

JOB

POLISH 

AUGUST

TANGIER 

READING

 

3. What do the following words and phrases have in common?

 

PHENOMENON

SESAME SEEDS 

JUMPED OVERBOARD 

WORLD SERIES GAME 

THERE ARE NO WORDS

 

Answers:

 

1. PAPER VIEW (Pay per)

    BACON IN THE SUN (Bakin')

    LETTUCE PRAY (Let us)  

 

2. Words that are pronounced differently when they are not capitalized.

 

3. Each word of phrase conceals the name of an American city"

    pheNOMEnon (Alaska)

    sesAME Seeds  (Iowa)

    jumpeD OVERboard (Delaware)

    world sERIEs game (Pennsylvania)

    there aRE NO words (Nevada)

 

Credits:

1: Hanh Huynh

2. Ken Jennings

    Kennections

3: Kathy Lowden