FIVE WORD PUZZLES

The Puzzlemaster Presents

Will Shortz 

1. In the phrase "A_____ and B_____ the C_____ of D_____," the letters A, B, C, and D are the initial letters of the four words that will complete it. The answer is a common expression. What is it?

2. Take the word SURE. If you add two pairs of double letters to it - PP and SS - you can make an eight-letter word: SUPPRESS. Can you add two pairs of double letters to RATE to make a common eight-letter word?

3. Can you think of a 13-letter word that uses all of the letters shown below? The letters may be used as often as necessary, but no extra letters are allowed.

                                   E I L N O Q R S T U V

4. Three words that don't rhyme end in AID? What are they?

5. What six-letter word has its meaning reversed with its first letter is changed form C to H?

HINTS:

1. Hero

2. One if the pairs is MM.

3. First letter is V.

4. _ AID

    _ AID

    _ _ AID

5. Both words have to do with appearance.

 

Answers:

 

1. Above and Beyond the Call of Duty 

2. ROOMMATE

3. VENTRILOQUIST

4. RAID

    SAID   

    PLAID

5. COMELY - HOMELY