Showing posts with label Reverse Rebuses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reverse Rebuses. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

REVERSE REBUS PUZZLES IV

Many rebus puzzles are of the "in" type - as TIJUSTME would be Just in Time. JANOB would be An Inside Job. The answers to the clues below are also rebus puzzles of this type, but a description of the solution to the rebus is given first, and you have to construct the rebus. Unlike the traditional rebus - which cannot be read as a real word - the rebuses you construct in this puzzle will be actual words.  

Example: Female relative in quickly departed the scene
Answer: FLAUNTED 
              FL  AUNT  ED 
              An AUNT is a female relative, and the word AUNT is "in" the word FLED, which means quickly departed the scene.
 
1. To separate in a legal document
 
2. Not old in actually existing
 
3. Writing fluid in a part of a plane 
 
4. Heavenly light in wet dirt 
 
5. Not off in a length of time (British spelling)
 
6. To talk in a soft, loving voice in a confidence trick 
 
Answers:
 
1. DE PART ED - DEPARTED
2. RE NEW AL - RENEWAL
3. W INK ING - WINKING
4. MU STAR D - MUSTARD 
5. H ON OUR - HONOUR
6. C COO ON - COCOON  

  

Thursday, December 6, 2012

REVREBUSESERSE - REBUSES IN REVERSE III

In this twist on the traditional rebus puzzle, you have to develop the rebus from the solution. The fist clue gives a definition of the solution. The second clue gives the breakdown of the rebus. You must create the rebus. Each rebus is of the "in" type - as in TIJUSTME - which would be "just in time." It is much more difficult to create the rebus with just the first clue.

For example:

Clue 1: A short verse in scarlet
Clue 2: Verse in red
Rebus: REVERSED (reVERSEd)

1)
Clue 1: Shelter in decay
Clue 2. Den in rot
Rebus:

2)
Clue 1: Drawing in a vote against
Clue 2: Art in con
Rebus:

3)
Clue 1: Conjunction in a bee bite
Clue 2: And in sting
Rebus:

Answers:

1. RODENT
2. CARTON
3. STANDING 

Sunday, November 11, 2012

REVREBUSESERSE - REBUSES IN REVERSE II

In this twist on the traditional rebus puzzle, you have to develop the rebus from the solution. The first clue gives a definition of the solution. The second clue gives the breakdown of the rebus. You must create the rebus. Each rebus is of the "in" type - as in TIJUSTME - which would be "just in time." It is much more difficult to create the rebus with just the first clue.

For example:

Clue 1: A short poem in scarlet
Clue 2. Verse in red
Rebus: REVERSED (reVERSEd)

1)
Clue 1: Roofing material in disregard
Clue 2. Tar in slight
Rebus:

2)
Clue 1: A number in a female chicken
Clue 2: Eight in hen
Rebus:

3)
Clue 1: A number in the opposite of curse
Clue 2: One in bless
Rebus:

4)
Clue 1: Skin irritation in a bee wound
Clue 2: Itch in sting
Rebus:

5)
Clue 1: Math term in a pawn shop
Clue 2: Add in hock
Rebus:

6)
Clue 1: The present in a royal
Clue 2: Now in king
Rebus:

7)
Clue 1: Common pet in a lean-to
Clue 2: Cat in shed
Rebus:

8)
Clue 1: Seasoning in ice cream
Clue 2. Herb in set
Rebus:

9)
Clue 1: Not old in actually existing
Clue 2: New in real
Rebus:

10)
Clue 1: Corn in grasping tightly
Clue 2: Ear in cling
Rebus:

Answers:

1. STARLIGHT
2. HEIGHTEN
3. BONELESS
4. STITCHING 
5. HADDOCK
6. KNOWING
7. SCATHED
8. SHERBET 
9. RENEWAL 
10.CLEARING



Wednesday, August 29, 2012

REVREBUSESERSE - REBUSES IN REVERSE I

In this twist on the traditional rebus puzzle, you have to develop the rebus from the solution. The first clue gives a definition of the solution. The second clue gives the breakdown of the rebus. You must create the rebus. Each rebus is of the "in" type - as in TIJUSTME - which would be "just in time." It is much more difficult to create the rebus with just the first clue.

For example:

Clue 1: A short poem in scarlet
Clue 2: Verse in red
Rebus: REVERSED (REverseD)

1)
Clue 1: A room-dividing structure in a female pig
Clue 2: Wall in sow
Rebus:

2)
Clue 1: A common conjunction in a good buddy
Clue 2: And in mate
Rebus:

3)
Clue 1: A unit of corn in a small building, as for tools
Clue 2: Ear in shed
Rebus:

4)
Clue 1: "Monopoly," for one, in laundry fluff
Clue 2: Game in lint
Rebus:

5)
Clue 1: A large vessel, as for tea, in a body part
Clue 2: Urn in face
Rebus:

6)
Clue 1: Feline in a pronoun\
Clue 2: Cat in she
Rebus:

7)
Clue 1: Biblical vesses in a fowl
Clue 2: Ear in hen
Rebus:

8)
Clue 1: Tiny particle in a random volume about the human body
Clue 2: Atom in any book
Rebus:

9)
Clue 1: Body part in a song
Clue 2: Rib in tune
Rebus:

10)
Clue 1: Level in regret
Clue 2: Even in rue

Answers:

1. SWALLOW
2. MANDATE
3. SHEARED
4. LIGAMENT
5. FURNACE
6. SCATHE
7. HARKEN
8. ANATOMY BOOK 
9. TRIBUNE 
10. REVENUE