TRIM AND FIT II

GAMES Magazine

June, 2000

Stephen Sniderman

 

Choose a word from the left-hand column and trim one, two, or three consecutive letters from the front or back (but not both). Then, without changing the order of any letters, fit a word from the right-hand column between two of the remaining letters to from a new, longer word.  

For examples, see TRIM AND FIT I - posted Dec. 15, 2023.

 

1. PREMIUM       SPIT

2. SIMPLY           LEG

3. ESTER             ANKLES

4. SHOAL            ROPER

5. TENTHS          LAUGH

6. MEANT           ORATOR

           

Answers: 

New word in capital letters, inserted word in ( ), dropped letters in lower case:

 

1. preM(ORATOR)IUM

2. sIMP(ROPER)LY 

3. eS(LAUGH)TER

4. sHO(SPIT)AL

5. tenTH(ANKLES)S 

6. mE(LEG)ANT