THINK FAST

GAMES Magazine

September, 1999

Raymond Young

 

What five-letter word meaning "slow time" can drop its final letter  and become a word meaning "fast time?"

 

(BIG) Hint: 

"Fast" is a homograph.

Answer:

 

LENTO - meaning "slow" in music

LENT - period of fasting (not eating) for certain Christian faiths