TRIBUTE POST TO "BEAR SESSION"
by Will Shortz - posted 5/2819
Joseph Appel
Will's ingenious PANDA BEAR - Q AND A SESSION made me think about whether this was a rare example or if there were other - perhaps many - words that could be changed into new ones by advancing the initial letter one step forward in the alphabet - without re-arranging any of the other letters. I was surprised how many came to me without too much effort - some even advancing two steps forward. How many can you think of? (No tricky abbreviations!)
(Possible) Answers:
Ball - Call
Bare - Care - Dare
Bower - Cower
Brave - Crave
Break - Creak
Brew - Crew - Drew
Brown - Crown
Come - Dome
Darn - Earn
East - Fast
Flow - Glow
Flower - Glower
Freed - Greed
Frill - Grill
Frown - Grown
Garden - Harden
Gear - Hear
Jilt - Kilt - Lilt
Lower - Mower
Moon - Noon
Moose - Noose
Right - Sight
Rite - Site
Shrift - Thrift
Sow - Tow
Vary - Wary
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