SYNONYM/ANAGRAM CXVIII

Credit: Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

Each clue below contains two words or phrases. Think of single-word synonyms for each of them, combine them together, then re-arrange the letters to find an anagram that could follow the equal sign. The meaning of the anagram is given below as a hint. The first answer set gives the two words, and the second answer set gives the anagram.

1. Bay + Oxidation

2. Reign + Clothing

3. Evoke + Hair line 

4. Loud + Freeway access

5. Ocean + Post, as a letter

6. Sleep noise + Singing group

7. Church tower + Do for others

8. Short with + DNA helix shape

9. Precipitation + Husband or wife

10. Like beautiful country + Repeated word in a three-word Elvis song title

HINTS:

Meanings of the anagrams:

1. NY subways have them

2. Writing

3. Three

4. Miserliness

5. Blah feeling, funk

6. Animal

7. Tyrannical

8. Bible

9. Coaxing

10. Lose contact

First answer set - Words:

 

1. INLET + RUST =

2. RULE + ATTIRE = 

3. ELICIT + PART =

4. NOISY + RAMP =

5. SEA + MAIL =

6. SNORE + CHOIR =

7. SPIRE + SERVE =

8. CURT + SPIRAL =

9. RAIN + SPOUSE =

10. SCENIC + DON'T = 

 

Second answer set - Anagrams:

 

1. INLET + RUST = TURNSTILE

2. RULE + ATTIRE = LITERATURE

3. ELICIT + PART = TRIPLICATE

4. NOISY + RAMP = PARSIMONY

5. SEA + MAIL = MALAISE

6. SNORE + CHOIR = RHINOCEROS

7. SPIRE + SERVE = REPRESSIVE

8. CURT + SPIRAL = SCRIPTURAL

9. RAIN + SPOUSE = PERSUASION

10. SCENIC + DON'T = DISCONNECT*

 

*"Don't Say Don't"