CHANGE A LETTER IV

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

 

Answer the clues by changing the final letter of the first answer to give the second answer. For example, given the clue Change a body fluid to a flower, the answer words would be BLOOD - BLOOM.

 

1. Change sag to slaver

2. Change appropriate to push forward

3. Change a remark to a word meaning praise 

4. Change one's life work to a word meaning lean sharply

5. Change a fire-starting rock to a period of self-indulgence

6. Change to eat hungrily to deeply committed to one's religion

7. Change layout/design to strictly according to etiquette

8. Change a very humble dwelling to what a helicopter can do

9. Change one of the six simple machines to a young chicken

10. Change an electrical problem to what a sheep might be

Answers:

 

1. DROOP - DROOL

2. PROPER - PROPEL

3. COMMENT - COMMEND

4. CAREER - CAREEN

5. FLINT - FLING

6. DEVOUR - DEVOUT

7. FORMAT - FORMAL

8. HOVEL - HOVER

9. PULLEY - PULLET

10. SHORT - SHORN