WORDS IN HIDING II
Credit: GAMES Magazine
December, 2009
Nancy Eisenmann

Each group of words below conceals a set of related words. Letters of the hidden words are in the proper order, reading from left to right, but will often have other letters between them. Find each shorter word within the longer word or phrase. The result will be a related set.

For example, given the clue words:

STORM
DIRTY TRICK
WHEAT BERRY,

the answer would be TOM, DICK, HARRY, as in

sTOrM
DIrty triCK
wHeAt beRRY

1)
SOME TALL
SOME DINKY BUMS
ALL ARE GENTLEMEN

2)
CHERRIES
WITH BERRIES
CLEVERLY WITH HERB TEA

3)
THE SMARTER THE WISER
TAMARACK
PLUCK A KEY
JOIN HANDS

4)
THEY COPY
ESKIMO PIE
ADJUST MY SPINE

Answers:

1.  SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE
2.  HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE
3.  MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, JOHN
4.  HOP, SKIP, JUMP