TRIM AND FIT III

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 the letters, fit a word from the right-hand column between two of the remaining letters to form a new, longer word. 

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

 

1. PANIC                 MORE

2. SISTER               ATOM

3. BEGOT               CAT

4. LEGWORK        GAIN

5. CAST                  CAR

6. HEARD              ROUND

Answers: 

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

 

1. pAN(ATOM)IC

2. siS(CAT)TER 

3. bE(SCAR)GOT

4. leG(ROUND)WORK

5. cA(GAIN)ST

6. heAR(MORE)D