CENTERPIECES III
Credit: GAMES Magazine
March, 2001
Stephen Sniderman

The words below have all been extracted from longer words. Can you find those words by adding one, two, or three letters before and after each of the clue words? BERATE in #1, for example, comes from LI(BERATE)D. As a solving aid, the sets of letters you will need appear in random order below the clues words. The letter sets appear intact, but the beginning and end of each set is for you to determine. Thus in #1, the letters LID, which complete LIBERATED, could be crossed out.

1. BERATE
2. ERMINE
3. VERSE
4. LABOR
5. STAMEN
6. OATHS
7. OLDEN
8. ANGER
9. ANGST
10. OPENS
11. OODLES
12. SCENT
13. ORATOR

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PRITYCRESTETLOMETINECOLATE

Answers:

1. LIBERATED
2. DETERMINES
3. OVERSEAS
4. COLLABORATE
5. TESTAMENT
6. LOATHSOME
7. GOLDENROD
8. TANGERINE
9. GANGSTER
10. PROPENSITY
11. BLOODLESS
12. CRESCENTS
13. MORATORIUM