SYNONYM/ANAGRAM CXXXII

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles

November, 2019

 

Answer each "addition" problem below by finding synonyms of the two "addends", and then re-arranging their combined letters to find a word that's a synonym of the "sum." The numbers in ( ) indicate the number of letters in the missing synonyms.

1.    Frozen water (3)

   +  Church song (4)

       Smokestack  (7) 

2.    Be defeated      (4)

   +  Big brass horn (4)

       Definite            (8)

3.     Chop off         (3)

    +  Pie shell         (5)

        Statue carver  (8) 

4.     Chinese skillet     (3)

    +  Story from myth  (6)

        Learning               (9)

Answers:

 

1.    ICE

    + HYMN 

       CHIMNEY 

 

2.   LOSE

   + TUBA

     ABSOLUTE 

 

3.   LOP

   + CRUST 

     SCULPTOR 

 

4.   WOK

   + LEGEND

      KNOWLEDGE