TRIM AND FIT VII

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 make a  new, longer word.

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

 

1. OILY                 AND

2. PAUPER           ARMING

3. SALSA              DEAL

4. PRONTO           LATE

5. RALLY             TEA

Answers:

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

 

1. oI (DEAL) LY

2. P(LATE)AUper

3. S(AND)ALsa

4. PRO(TEA)Nto 

5. rAL(ARMING)LY