TRIM AND FIT IV

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. SPACY                  ARKS

2. CRUEL                 CRY

3. ITALIC                  HERO

4. SPIDER                 VERY

5. AMMAN               SAD

6. TEETHING           HARM

Answers:

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

 

1. sP(HARM)ACY

2. CRU(SAD)El

3. itA(CRY)LIC

4. SP(HERO)IDer

5. aM(ARKS)MAN

6. teE(VERY)THING