CHANGE A LETTER VI

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel

Answer the clues below by changing the final letter of the first answer to get the second answer. For example, given the clue Change an item of clothing to Avoid work, the answer words would be SHIRT - SHIRK.

1. Change a strained and exhausted look to a way of speaking

2. Change what a movie is shown on to a long, tedious speech

3. Change what you do on a ukelele to a swaggering walk

4. Change a sewing need to intimidating words

5. Change a minor point to keep someone from proceeding

6. Change very, very small to a shade of color

7. Change a meeting to (of) a source strongly influencing later developments

8. Change rocket propulsion to a songbird

9. Change the solid surface of the earth to grave

10. Change a small chore to straying

Answers:

 

1. DRAWN - DRAWL

2. SCREEN - SCREED

3. STRUM - STRUT

4. THREAD - THREAT

5. DETAIL - DETAIN

6. TINY - TINT

7. SEMINAR - SEMINAL

8. THRUST - THRUSH

9. DIRT - DIRE

10. ERRAND -ERRANT