WORDS IN COMMON 

Credit: GAMES Magazine - April, 2005

N.M. Meyer

The words in each set below are incomplete. The same three-letter, intact word can be inserted into each clue to complete the words within each set. Each set requires a different three-letter word. For example, given the clue ATD, the word ONE could be inserted to yield ATONED.

1)

TAN

CON

CHER

STLE

2)

SHERN

CURE

BIQUE

UNCH

3)

ATD

INSE

USIL

LAT

4)

COLL

MY

HST

CORT

HINTS:

1. The missing word starts with A and could be a man's name.

2. The word starts with O, and, in the first three words, comes after the first letter.

3. The word is a number.

4. The word is a number.

Answers:

1. ART

tartan

carton

charter

startle

2. OUT

southern

couture

boutique

uncouth

3. TEN

attend

intense

utensil

latent

4. ONE

colonel

money

honest

coronet