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studying to do before tomorrow's exam,

an

in

school.

loses this poker hand, he

this

a tree

press"]

After scoring the winning soccer goal, Sally girl in

of

started to

fell off.

age Bobby Fischer could be described as a

for patients

who

are really

useful medicine. 7.

If

Jerry takes the car into the city with you,

make

the doors. 8.

poor slob 9.

we knew the boss would

After the big office screwup,

In

out.

preparation for possible suicide, Cleopatra kept an

a small box. 1

0.

The President had dinner sat

1 1

Between the

our house once, and that's the very

at

in.

air pollution that

stings your eyes

12.

and the

air pollution that

bother you more?

affects your breathing,

Thanks, mom. Whenever our photos appeared

in

[2

wds.]

the newspaper,

out.

Rating

Good: 5

Excellent: 8

Ace:

106.

DOWNSIZING

From what word can you drop the ciation?

1

last four letters

without affecting the pronun-

.

FOR FATHER'S DAY

107. Every answer in this puzzle any spelling).

is

a word, name, or phrase that starts with the syllable

"tie" (in

Ex.

Angry speech

"hi

r ^

o( e-

1

Neighbor

2.

River through

Rome

3.

River through

Baghdad

4.

Final stage of a contest

5.

President before Polk

6.

Business magnate

7.

Bufferin or Anacin competitor

8.

Means

9.

New Testament book after

10.

Laos

of

of self-defense

Herman

II

Timothy

Melville novel

11. Detroit baseballer 12.

Storm

13.

Popular

14.

Historic fort in the

in

the western Pacific toilet

cleaner

American Revolution

15. Secretary, often

16.

Heavyweight champ who KO'd Spinks

17.

Boxing championship

18.

Oppressive dictator

19.

A

20.

Rating

country

...

and

.

its

Good: 12

.

.

capital

Excellent: 16

108.

Ace: 19

MIDDLEWEIGHT

we asked "The name of what famous person phonetically contains the word TURKEY?"— you would say Buster Keaton ("bus-TURKEY-ton"). Now tell us: The name of what famous person phonetically contains the word kilo? If

109. Change one Ex.

letter in

1.

BLUR

GOOD

3.

PINE

4.

TRAY

5.

RUBS

10. 11.

ALIVE

12.

ROUGH

13.

BRONTE

14. 15.

SHERRY GRANGE

16.

VIENNA

17.

BELLOW

18.

STARLET

Rating

Good: 14

7.

8. 9.

to

Excellent: 16

110.

Name an

informal kind of

syllables to get

name a

color.

T^FD

EMBER BLOWN MORAL GREED OTHER

6.

each word

WED

2.

CHANGE OF COLOR

shoe

Ace: 18

CHANGE OF SHOE in

two syllables. Then phonetically reverse the two

a word meaning "leave

of

absence." What are the two words?

. .

111.B Every answer

ANDB

a word, name, or phrase that starts and ends with the

is

Ex. Spill the

letter B.

blab

beans

Lobster eater's protection

1

2.

Police officer's stick

3.

Writing on a book jacket

4.

Stinging remark

5.

Criticize in

6.

Start for a tulip

7.

Another

an underhanded way

name

8. Tiniest bit left 9.

for the Devil

over from a sandwich

Item with a ring

10.

Simpleton

1 1

Thick-trunked African tree

12.

Smear

13.

Search

for seashells, for

14. Grizzly's 15.

Rating

over

all

example

baby

What you might Good: 10

run up before dinner at a restaurant

Excellent: 12

1 1 2.

Ace: 14

GOING BACK ON ONE'S

What word meaning "imposed on

another's generosity" contains seven letters

—with no

reverse alphabetical order

WORD

letters

repeated?

ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

in

.

113. Put the

same word

word ending

in

in

PAST-TIME

both blanks to complete each sentence. Every answer

a

Is

"-ed" that has two meanings.

Ex. Georgette

hn

i

d

Y\-t ^^

at the

boy who had made the

pp

i

r> -t:

g.

d

remark about her shoes. 1

We was

2.

the kegs of beer onto the truck, because the owner too

do

to

it

himself.

The TV producers

the employee

who added

laughter to the sitcom. 3.

The

now

argyle socks the seamstress

look

impressive. 4.

Before the inspector distributed her "Inspected by #23" stickers, she shirt inside and out. every black-and-white

5.

Everyone knew

that the in

6.

Rating

the

suit

the salesman

The enemy commander looked

The game Good: 3

would be

who had

sold him

tires.

troops 8.

in

Dad was so mad he used

7.

man

the arm-wrestling contest.

his

that

men

Greg Maddux battle between

Excellent: 5

in

the face after our

out of the woods.

turned out to be a rival

teams.

Ace: 7

114.

CAPITAL TIME

A two-part challenge: a) The first four letters of which U.S. state capital spell the name of a month? b) The first six letters of which U.S. state capital also spell a month?

..

115. N.G. Each answer here is a familiar two-syllable word, name, ends In the letters "-ng."

or phrase in which

each

syllable

j ^ v\^l

Ex. Upset, as nerves

\

Y\^

1

Game

2.

Having a monotonous rhythm, as a nursery rhyme

3.

New

4.

Big party

5.

Capital of North

6.

Awkwardly

7.

Sound

8.

Rock group

9.

1

played

in

a rec room

York state prison

tall

Korea

and spindly

a doorbell

of

966 Cher

with the

hit,

1986

or the

sound

Buck's The

10.

Hero

1 1

Asian stock exchange

of Pearl

12. Beautiful 13. Big 14.

girl,

name

in

hit

"Everybody Have Fun Tonight"

of

a gun

Good Earth

site

word "sweet"

after the

circuses

Famous movie

with a

scene

at the

Empire State Building

Washington Zoo pandas, given 1973

15. [2 answers:]

China

in

Good: 8

Rating

(out of 16)

Excellent:

116.

A

"hard G"

as

it

is

is

the letter

pronounced

unhyphenated

in

G as

giant.

it

is

1 1

to the United States

by

Ace: 13

EXTRA SOFT

pronounced

in

the word

game. A

"soft

G"

is

a G

Name a common six-letter word— uncapitalized and

—that contains two

soft G's.

117.

TWO FOR TWO

The following are some seven-letter words and the clues that might appear for them in a crossword. For each one, change two consecutive letters in the word get a new word that would also answer the clue.

1.

FOUNDRY LUGGAGE

Suitcases

2.

CALCIUM

Chemical element

Compete

4.

CONTEND CURRENT

5.

LUNATIC

Crazy person

6.

MAXIMUM

Extreme amount

7.

SPARKLE

Glitter

8.

EVASIVE

Difficult to pin

9.

GRIPPED

Seized

10.

SHIVERY

Tremorous

Ex.

3.

Rating

Good: 5

Excellent: 7

What

other words, what

word?

Hint:

is

is

Ace: 9

letter

the next

N twice. Change both N's

number above nine

that

to P's

and you get

you can do

the next spelled-out number that has a repeated

to the

The new

down

REPEATING NUMBER

The number NINE contains the

can be changed

DRY

Si

Flow

118.

the word PIPE.

L AU

Place of manual labor

to

same new

letter will

letter in

both places to

not repeat any other letter

in

make a

this to? In letter that

familiar

the word.

new

.

"A" PUZZLE

119.

In each three-word answer to this puzzle, one of the words is the article "a" followed by another word. Join the "a" and the following word phonetically and you'll get the third word which may either begin or end the phrase.

—

Ex.

Have the money

an American car A-P-ford

for

1

Bide one's time for a scale reading

2.

A

3.

Concerning a boxing match

4.

Approximately three minutes

5.

A

6.

Fights a government levy

7.

Slightly leading,

8.

A

9.

A sound

woman

brassy

^ o rd

overseas

in

a boxing match

flower sprang up

as

superior partner is

a horserace

in

in

chme

bothersome

10.

Gain workers

11.

A

12.

Get a large amount

13.

A

14.

Mom

Rating

s

for

a ship

nun's helpers of

paper

competitor's appearances or

dad

Good: 7

in

plain

view

Excellent: 10

120.

Ace: 13

MYSTERY BOOK

A man was in a library and spotted an interesting-looking book on a shelf. Its spine read "how to JOG." Upon opening the book he found that was not a manual it

on running. term.

What

In fact,

kind of

the book had nothing to do with jogging

book was

it?

in

any sense

of the

.

121. Every answer

a familiar four-word phrase or

is

titles

which the middle two words

first

Ex. Person often

asked

a home sales

for in

1

Plant with bell-shaped flowers

2.

James Fenimore Cooper

3.

A

4.

Person who's

5.

Tolkien trilogy

strict

title in

word starts with the letter L. Note: have an additional "The" at the start.

are "of the" and the consisting of

BLANK OF THE BLANK

judge follows

Some

\^d(A

call

"f l^g.

house,

it

on

lots of fun

social occasions

poem

Sir Walter Scott

7.

Terrain

8.

Part of the last line of "The Star-Spangled Banner"

9.

"Only the strongest survive"

A

of

answers

novel

6.

10.

of the

matter of chance,

in

cards

11. William Golding novel 12.

1

3.

14.

Rating

Body

of

water between Minnesota, Manitoba, and Ontario

There are 26

of

them

1964#1 hitfortheShangri-Las Good: 6

Ace: 12

Excellent: 9

122. There are seven consonants

have ascenders— b,

d,

f,

ON THE UP AND UP in

h, k,

our alphabet I,

and

t.

that,

Can you

when

written

think of

a

in

small letters,

common word

that

contains six of these seven consonants, once each, and no other consonants?

(You that

may add vowels as

necessary.) Hint:

does not describe anyone who solves

The answer this puzzle.

is

a hyphenated adjective

.

123.

SOUNDING PRESIDENTIAL

another puzzle from the Bad Pun Department. In each sentence, put the a U.S. President in the blank to complete the sentence in a punny way.

Still

of

Ex.

The doctor made me

drink

1

Buck Rogers whipped out

2.

The man thought

his wife

to

4.

I'm havin' trouble

5.

A good

7. 8.

was cheating on

in

i

S

o