ESPYGRAMS II
Credit: GAMES Magazine
March/April 1982
Willard R. Espy

Each Espygram below is a poem that contains at least two missing words, the letters of which are represented by asterisks. All the missing words in a given poem are composed of the same letters; their order has simply been re-arranged. Use the context of the lines, the meter, rhyme scheme, and titles provided to deduce one of the missing words in a poem, and you'll have a big clue to the others - they're simply anagrams of the first.

1)
Which Sunday Section Do You Read?
She turns to ******subjects like atomics;
Her husband's happy with the sports and ******.


2)
Arctic Antics
The ******** of a barren strand
In icy, arctic Baffin Land
Sold rights to ********making clear
All seals must be seized by the ear.
Since seals are ********, you may guess
The ******* of those rights ***  ****
Than lively on that barren strand
In icy, arctic Baffin Land.

3)
Life Plays Tricks Like That
When young, 'twould ****** me to realize
Gals I preferred, preferred maturer guys.
As ***  ***  years, the other sex grows bolder,
I ****** my youth, impatient to be older.
Well, time did pass - yet I fail to understand, 
Why callow youths are now in such ****** .

4)
Watch Out for Saddle Sores, Ellen
Young Lochinvar's off at a ****** with Ellen,
And when they'll return there is simply no tellin'.
They drift in a ****** of romantic desire;
He tells her, "Your lips are like ****** and fire.
I'll gallop, as long as I live, at your side."
If he doesn't ******, they'll have a long ride.

Answers:

1. Cosmic, comics
2. Leasers, sealers, earless, resales, are less
3. Madden, men add, damned, demand
4. Canter, trance, nectar, recant