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The Enigma

NPL Magazine

November, 2025

COUSIN JOE

 

Two interior letters are dropped from the first answer word to get the second answer word.  

 

His grand speech was meant as

   a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to the crowd,

Whom he praised to the skies. Anyone

   might feel proud.

The people, though, yawned and

   complained, "What a bore!"

For they thought his words _ _ _ _ _,

   hackneyed, all heard before.

 

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