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GAMES/World of Puzzles

September, 2025

Jon King

 

Each set of clues below leads to a pair of words which, when placed next to each other, contain an answer to a given hint - starting somewhere in the first word and ending somewhere in the second word. 

For example,

Hint: "Symbol of Holland" 

Clues: VCR button - A thousand thousand  

           REWIND MILLION

 

1. Hint: Train tracks

    Clues: Feeble - Band helper

 

2. Hint: Beachside shelter

    Clues: Pilgrimage destination - Source of potassium

 

3. Hint: At least consider

    Clues: Biblical Joseph's occupation - Contaminated

 

4.  Hint: Six-piece group

     Clues: Suitable for any gender - Secure, as to a pole

 

5. Hint: Frozen Italian treat

    Clues: Lox holder - Ring-shaped reef

 

6. Hint: Diamondback, e.g.

    Clues: Blathers on and on - In one's birthday suit

 

7. Hint: Like a Kandinsky painting

    Clues: Double-crosses - John Deere product

 

8. Hint: Victorious

    Clues: Skylit space - Apparition 

 

Answers:

 

1. FRAIL ROADIE

2. MECCA BANANA

3. CARPENTER TAINT

4. UNISEX TETHER

5. BAGEL ATOLL

6. PRATTLES NAKED

7. BACKSTABS TRACTOR

8. ATRIUM PHANTOM 

 

Note: In the original puzzle, the hints were mixed up and you had to figure out which hint went with which word. This made the puzzle more difficult - because there are 32 hints to match the 32 clues. For future posts of the rest of this puzzle, the hints will be provided - as in this one. For a more challenging puzzle, the hints can be mixed up - or even eliminated.