TWO BY FOUR
Credit: GAMES/World of Puzzles
January, 2017
Marc Jacobs

Each set of four letters below can be re-arranged to form two common four-letter words. For example, the letter set AORS can be arranged to form OARS and SOAR. You must decide which of the words to use in making a list of 33 words. When you are finished, the first letter in each word, reading down, will spell out a quote by Tom Stoppard. One or both words of each set may be used, but no word is repeated. The quote starts with the letter G in GAPS in #1 below.

1. _____ AGPS
2. _____ AORS
3. _____ NOTO
4. _____ EDER
5. _____ ENOT
6. _____ AEHT
7. _____ CDEI
8. _____ ENOT
9. _____ GLPU
10. _____AKOS
11. _____ EOSW
12. _____ IHTN
13. _____ ACEH
14. _____ AENR
15. _____ IKLS
16. _____ AEHT
17. _____ AFOS
18. _____ EORV
19. _____ AHTW
20. _____ ABTU
21. _____ EDER
22. _____ AENR
23. _____ ABTU
24. _____ AHTW
25. _____ IKLS
26. _____ CENO
27. _____ EMSU
28. _____ ADEZ
29. _____ AORS
30. _____ AGPS
31. _____ EOSW
32. _____ AKOS
33. _____ ADEZ

Answers:

 1.  GAPS
 2.  OARS
 3.  ONTO
 4.  DEER
 5.  TONE
 6.  HEAT
 7.  ICED
 8.  NOTE
 9.  GULP
10. SOAK
11. WOES
12. HINT
13. EACH
14. NEAR
15. SILK
16. HATE
17. OAFS
18. ROVE
19. THAW
20. ABUT
21. REED
22. EARN
23. TUBA
24. WHAT
25. ILKS
26. CONE
27. EMUS
28. ADZE
29. SOAR
30. GAPS
31. OWES
32. OAKS
33. DAZE

GOOD THINGS, WHEN SHORT, ARE TWICE AS GOOD.