INSIDE INFORMATION I
Credit : GAMES Magazine - May, 2006

If you put a CAULDRON inside a PIGPEN, you get COVERED WITH DOTS. How? It's easy: POT inside STY equals SPOTTY - as in S(POT)TY. Can you solve the rest of these riddles with a one-word answer?

1. Put PROPORTION inside UNWRAP to get SURGERY.
2. Put FITTING inside REMEDY to get SEIZE.
3. Put WRATH inside FINISHED to get AT RISK.
4. Put SNARE inside SORCERY to get ATTRACTIVE.
5. Put EVERYTHING inside EXHIBIT to get SUPERFICIAL.
6. Put WORK FOR inside GUIDED to get ERUDITE.
7. Put SOLITARY inside INLET to get NONSENSE
8. Put DAWDLE inside REPULSIVE to get a SMALL TOWN.
9. Put BOVINE inside HURL to get FROWNING.
10. Put CURVATURE inside WHICHEVER to get LAWLESSNESS.

HINTS:
The outside words are:
1. OPEN
2. CURE
3. ENDED
4. MAGIC
5. SHOW
6. LED
7. BAY
8. VILE
9. SLING
10. ANY

Answers:

1. OPE(RATIO)N
2. C(APT)URE
3. END(ANGER)ED
4. MAG(NET)IC
5. SH(ALL)OW
6. L(EARN)ED
7. BA(LONE)Y
8. VIL(LAG)E
9. S(COW)LING
10. AN(ARCH)Y