CHOP CHOP by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Add a letter fore and aft to create a new word. Aft S's not permitted! 1. ague _AGUE_ 2. alder _ALDER_ 3. allow _ALLOW_ 4. epic _EPIC_ 5. haste _HASTE_ 6. irk _IRK_ 7. leans _LEANS_ 8. midge _MIDGE_ 9. name _NAME_ 10. oral _ORAL_ 11. panda _PANDA_ J U X T A P O S I T I O N --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions and examples - www.hoadworks.com/juxtaposition.htm 1. one does so often when writing a dictionary [7] 2. it's used to plug up your driveway's pores [6] 3. skillful handling of a situation [7] 4. sometimes s/he stands on 18 [6] Answers from Last Day ------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYWORD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What KeyWord is found in the definitions of each of the following? dwell ______________\ fixate ______________\ distract _____________\ limelight _____________\ presbyopia _____________\ FOCUS Play more of the 600+ archived Keyword Puzzles! http://www.bookhooks.com/keyserver.cfm J U X T A P O S I T I O N --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions and examples - www.hoadworks.com/juxtaposition.htm 1. soggy matches are likely to remain this [5] UNLIT 2. Kasparov's game [5] CHESS 3. it produces an urge to scratch [4] ITCH 4. if not [6] UNLESS .......................................... Adrian Hoad-Reddick President, Hoadworks, Inc. 347 Erb Street, Elora Ontario, Canada N0B 1S0 ph: (519) 846-2678 fx: (519) 846-5259 website: http://www.hoadworks.com email: hoad@hoadworks.com Publish book reports online! www.bookhooks.com Guest wordsmith Shawn Kennedy is proud to announce the launch of Puzzlement Online,www.puzzlementonline.com, the web site where crosswords, word games and logic puzzles abound. Whether you're partial to cryptograms or mysteries, the daily puzzles will delight even the most seasoned solver. The puzzles are by the best names in the business, including New York Times crossword constructor Tyler Hinman. Stop by the site each day for a new crossword variety or word puzzle. The site features free puzzles this week, so please drop in and preview the service. Try Hinman's March 31 puzzle! You'll feel a great sense of achievement when you complete it! I did!! The site was designed by Hoadworks and will include my features and contests. regards, --Adrian RHYME AND REASON by Shawn Kennedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To solve each puzzle, remove one letter from each word and then anagram each set of letters to form three rhyming words. Puzzle One ...................... TAILOR CASTLE OLIVE Puzzle Two ...................... CURSIVE SWINE SHOWER Puzzle Three ...................... NOBEL SALON PHENOL Answers from Last Day ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHOP CHOP by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Add a letter fore and aft to create a new word. Aft S's not permitted! 1. ague VAGUER 2. alder CALDERA 3. allow SALLOWY 4. epic DEPICT 5. haste CHASTEN 6. irk MIRKY 7. leans CLEANSE 8. midge SMIDGEN 9. name ENAMEL 10. oral MORALE 11. panda SPANDAU J U X T A P O S I T I O N --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DE[FINES|SE]ALER 1. one does so often when writing a dictionary [7] DEFINES 2. it's used to plug up your driveway's pores [6] SEALER 3. skillful handling of a situation [7] FINESS 4. sometimes s/he stands on 18 [6] DEALER .......................................... Adrian Hoad-Reddick President, Hoadworks, Inc. 347 Erb Street, Elora Ontario, Canada N0B 1S0 ph: (519) 846-2678 fx: (519) 846-5259 website: http://www.hoadworks.com email: hoad@hoadworks.com Publish book reports online! www.bookhooks.com Words from William Faulkner's story "Mule in the Yard." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AWAD (Monday March 9, 1998) Guest Wordsmith, William Clarkson, writes: "Words from William Faulkner's story "Mule in the Yard." Mrs. Hait lost her not particularly valuable husband and gained $8500 in consequence of I. O. Snopes' scheme to defraud the railroad by putting mules on the tracks. But she has suffered for years from the invasions of Snopes' wild mules, one of which runs amok in this story. Her house burns in the ensuing chaos but she outwits Snopes at the end. Half the fun of the story is in the disjunction between the highfalutin vocabulary of the narrator and the farcical shenanigans of the story's characters and animals. Usage examples from the story sometimes bring high and low diction together for condensed comic effect, as here: "`Them sons of bitches,' Mrs. Hait said in a grim prescient voice without rancor or heat." 1. apotheosis 2. bucolic 3. burlesque 4. celerity 5. hap 6. indomitable 7. suspiration A: Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness B: Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire C: The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh D: That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot. E. Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible F: Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic G: The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing among, ``the gods;'' deification Answers from Last Day ------------------------------------------------------------------------- RHYME AND REASON by Shawn Kennedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To solve each puzzle, remove one letter from each word and then anagram each set of letters to form three rhyming words. Puzzle One ...................... TAILOR - TRAIL CASTLE - STALE OLIVE - VEIL Puzzle Two ...................... CURSIVE - CRUISE SWINE - NEWS SHOWER - WHOSE Puzzle Three ...................... NOBEL - BONE SALON - LOAN PHENOL - PHONE .......................................... Adrian Hoad-Reddick President, Hoadworks, Inc. 347 Erb Street, Elora Ontario, Canada N0B 1S0 ph: (519) 846-2678 fx: (519) 846-5259 website: http://www.hoadworks.com email: hoad@hoadworks.com Publish book reports online! www.bookhooks.com This was another tough one to evaluate, as the "countries of the Commonwealth" were all over the map (so to speak). My arbiter is http://www.thecommonwealth.org/dynamic/Country.asp, but feel free to provide references if I am amiss and I have penalized you. Puerto Rico was a clever response, taking advantage of the fact that I did not specify which "Commonwealth." In an attempt to keep the game Uncommonly English, I've challenged the non-English street alternatives... 'Way' was WAY out there (too clever to be kind). Some entrants anagrammed letters in Academy Award nominated films, while others found words embedded in the titles. Please treat these results as probably-flawed and therefore preliminary. Send in your comments and errata to hoad@hoadworks.com and I will post the Final Results later this week. Congratulations to our ACES this week -- Chris, Anthony, Birtha, Don, Michael, Ron Davis - 72 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blighty (UK) [2] gataan (for an address in Sweden), [4#] pre-owned, [1] Maxwellian, [3&] cola (from Chocolat) [3@] (see notes below) John Van Pelt - 12 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malta, [2] Way, [3] Long in the tooth, [1] P-51 Mustang, [1] Percent (Fifty Percent Grey), [2] Zero - 8 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vanuatu, [1] Avenida, [4#] Mature, [2] Echidna, [1] Down (Black Hawk Down), [1] Martha Wood - 6 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ross Dependency, [3*] mews, [2] mutton dressed as lamb, [1] suspect, [1] loonier (from Moulin Rouge), [1] WDWDOTCom - 6 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Island Territory of Tokelau and Ross Dependency, [3*] Loop, [1] seasoned, [1] comma, [1] Percent, [2] Peter E. Kelley - 6 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada, [1] Way, [3] timeworn, [1] opossum, [2] rouge, [1] Joni Colver - 4 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solomon Islands, [1] Terrace, [1] Venerable, [2] Possum, [2] Iris, [1] G. L. Morrison - 4 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pakistan, [1] Calle, [4#] antebellum, [1] comet, [1] who (The Man Who Wasn't There), [1] Ed Sommerville - 4 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malta, [2] Rise, [1] Venerable, [2] Property Deed, [1] Ring (The Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of The Ring), [1] RapierDuck - 3 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jersey, [3* ] Alley, [1] hallowed, [1] end, [1] bride (Son of the Bride), [1] Rosemarie Grayley - 3 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ghana, [1] Way, [3] sharp (as in cheese), [1] alligator lizard, [1] day (Training Day), [1] Rex Stocklin - 3 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isle of Man, [3*] Motorway, [1] Blue-Haired, [1] a person being chased, [1] asp (in A Man Thing - Meska Sprawa - Best live action short film), [1] Katy Appleton - 2 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sri Lanka, [1] Mews, [2] Past it, [1] Beaver, [1] Park (Gosford Park), [1] BSchoenman - 2 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UK, [2] Road, [1] senior, [1] dog, [1] mind, [1] John Van Pelt - 2 POINTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia, [1] Mall, [1] Mature, [2] Tadpole, [1] Jimmy (Jimmy Neutron), [1] Don Monson - ACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenya, [1] Bypass, [1] "I am past thirty, and three parts iced over", [1] EARTH (an invisible magnetic one -http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast25jan_1.htm, [1] Trouble, [1] Chris Rivers - ACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samoa, [1] Hill, [1] marked with the crow's foot, [1] Me (as a kid sporting a rat-tail style of hair), [1] Ghost (Ghost World), [1] Michael Turniansky - ACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Namibia, [1] Trail, [1] Silver-haired, [1] biplane, [1] Greatest (Gregor's Greatest Invention), [1] Anthony DeRobertis - ACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seychelles, [1] Arcade, [1] Antique, [1] Sperm, [1] Thespians, [1] Birtha - ACE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Puerto Rico (Officially known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, so acceptable), [1] Run, [1] Tried and true, [1] Fur stole, [1] training (Training Day), [1] * Commonwealth Countries - I used http://www.thecommonwealth.org/dynamic/Country.asp as my guide (permitting Puerto Rico as it is listed as a Commonwealth, and I didn't specify) # non-English streets were treated as specious &Maxwellian? (please send reference) @ Chocolat not in 2002 Awards Answers from Last Day ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Words from William Faulkner's story "Mule in the Yard." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AWAD (Monday March 9, 1998) Guest Wordsmith, William Clarkson, writes: "Words from William Faulkner's story "Mule in the Yard." Mrs. Hait lost her not particularly valuable husband and gained $8500 in consequence of I. O. Snopes' scheme to defraud the railroad by putting mules on the tracks. But she has suffered for years from the invasions of Snopes' wild mules, one of which runs amok in this story. Her house burns in the ensuing chaos but she outwits Snopes at the end. Half the fun of the story is in the disjunction between the highfalutin vocabulary of the narrator and the farcical shenanigans of the story's characters and animals. Usage examples from the story sometimes bring high and low diction together for condensed comic effect, as here: "`Them sons of bitches,' Mrs. Hait said in a grim prescient voice without rancor or heat." 1. apotheosis 2. bucolic 3. burlesque 4. celerity 5. hap 6. indomitable 7. suspiration A: Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness B: Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire C: The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh D: That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot. E. Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible F: Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic G: The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing among, ``the gods;'' deification Answers: 1G, 2F, 3B, 4A, 5D, 6E, 7C .......................................... Adrian Hoad-Reddick President, Hoadworks, Inc. 347 Erb Street, Elora Ontario, Canada N0B 1S0 ph: (519) 846-2678 fx: (519) 846-5259 website: http://www.hoadworks.com email: hoad@hoadworks.com Publish book reports online! www.bookhooks.com WORDLY-WISE Tuesday 9 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Since 1995, Wordly-Wise has been delivered to emails (almost) daily to subscribers around the world and by invitation to the OSPD list. Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, Canada http://www.hoadworks.com E-mail:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- TRICYCLE by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Solve the clues to five seven-letter words. A common trigram (XYZ) cycles through the five words in the pattern displayed. X Y Z _ _ _ _ 1. Number one in the order bats this _ X Y Z _ _ _ 2. Like some pants or skirts _ _ X Y Z _ _ 3. Euphemism for death _ _ _ X Y Z _ 4. Data type _ _ _ _ X Y Z 5. Tube in the inner ear FWIW (FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH) by Shawn Kennedy ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet has revolutionized our vocabulary, popularizing several acronyms that had never been used before. Just as LOL represents "laughing out loud", and TIA stands for "thanks in advance", the acronyms below are substitutes for common, everyday cliches and idioms. Granted, none of them have been introduced yet. But who knows? They might just become the best new thing since sliced bread! 1. BUTWT 2. KTBWOS 3. TSTBTCB 4. ASOTT 5. DCYCBTH 6. TTBBTH 7. TCFC 8. RWTP 9. LATWTTB ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Worldly-Wise is copyright (c) Adrian Hoad-Reddick 2002. All rights reserved. More fun and games are online: http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Wednesday 10 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- ESTRANGED RELATIVES by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- The following five words or phrases are related. They have been shaken (not stirred). Straighten them out and determine their bond. #1. EDGER, PRIED, RANGE, NUTTY LOG, SLUT #2. HOT BOASTER, THE ACHE, PAROLED, PART HEN, HIS CHEER HOAD-IN-THE-TOLL by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- I see words hidden in sentences! I see clues in the sentences... Find the embedded word(s) clued within the sentence below. There comes a point every summer, usually when I am up late August evenings trying to see the stars from my downtown apartment balcony, when I pine for the flat tablelands of home. ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- TRICYCLE by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Solve the clues to five seven-letter words. A common trigram (XYZ) cycles through the five words in the pattern displayed. L E A D O F F 1. Number one in the order bats this P L E A T E D 2. Like some pants or skirts R E L E A S E 3. Euphemism for death B O O L E A N 4. Data type C O C H L E A 5. Tube in the inner ear FWIW (FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH) by Shawn Kennedy ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet has revolutionized our vocabulary, popularizing several acronyms that had never been used before. Just as LOL represents "laughing out loud", and TIA stands for "thanks in advance", the acronyms below are substitutes for common, everyday cliches and idioms. Granted, none of them have been introduced yet. But who knows? They might just become the best new thing since sliced bread! 1. BUTWT 2. KTBWOS 3. TSTBTCB 4. ASOTT 5. DCYCBTH 6. TTBBTH 7. TCFC 8. RWTP 9. LATWTTB ANSWERS: 1. Barking up the wrong tree 2. Kill two birds with one stone 3. The straw that broke the camel's back 4. A sign of the times 5. Don't count your chickens before they hatch 6. Take the bull by the horns 7. Too close for comfort 8. Roll with the punches 9. Laugh all the way to the bank. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games are online: http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Thursday 11 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- TO-BY-TO by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete the following clued "____ to _____" phrases. 1. _______ to ________ Commence hostilities 2. _______ to ________ Dire consequences 3. _______ to ________ Defeat totally 4. _______ to ________ Place in a grave or tomb 5. _______ to ________ Prior 6. _______ to ________ Lose one's composure 7. _______ to ________ Engage in a occupational slowdown 8. _______ to ________ At close quarters 9. _______ to ________ Is disclosed 10. ______ to ________ Guaranteed by the 15th/19th Amendments ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- ESTRANGED RELATIVES by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- The following five words or phrases are related. They have been shaken (not stirred). Straighten them out and determine their bond. #1. EDGER, PRIED, RANGE, NUTTY LOG, SLUT GREED, PRIDE, ANGER, GLUTTONY and LUST are 5/7 DEADLY SINS #2. HOT BOASTER, THE ACHE, PAROLED, PART HEN, HIS CHEER SABRE TOOTH, CHEETAH, LEOPARD, PANTHER and CHESHIRE CATS HOAD-IN-THE-TOLL by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- I see words hidden in sentences! I see clues in the sentences... Find the embedded word(s) clued within the sentence below. There coMES A point every summer, usually when I am uP LATE AUgust evenings trying to see the stars from my downtown apartment balcony, when I pine for the flat tablelands of home. PLATEAU and MESA are flat tablelands... ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games are online: http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Saturday 14 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- O F F - B Y - O N E by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Each of the clues below produces a word that is "off by one letter" from a common root word. Solve the clues and then determine which word was used as the root (or vice versa!) R O O T W O R D __________ = castle's main tower ------------------------------------------------------------------- ______ 1. Cry ______ 2. Leak slowly ______ 3. Look furtively ______ 4. Seaweed ______ 5. Irish funeral lament ______ 6. Boat base ______ 7. Cherokee or YJ ______ 8. Roadrunner utterance ______ 9. Profound ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- TO-BY-TO by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete the following clued "____ to _____" phrases. 1. GO to WAR Commence hostilities 2. HELL to PAY Dire consequences 3. CUT to RIBBONS Defeat totally 4. LAY to REST Place in a grave or tomb 5. UP to NOW Prior 6. GO to PIECES Lose one's composure 7. WORK to RULE Engage in a occupational slowdown 8. HAND to HAND At close quarters 9. COME to LIGHT Is disclosed 10. RIGHT to VOTE Guaranteed by the 15th/19th Amendments ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Monday 15 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- TO-BY-TO: PART TWO by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete the following clued "____ to _____" phrases. 1. ______ to _______ Make certain to do something 2. ______ to _______ Be remembered 3. ______ to _______ Execute 4. ______ to _______ Leader's ascendancy 5. ______ to _______ Living on the bare essentials 6. ______ to _______ 1914-1918 conflict 7. ______ to _______ Regard seriously 8. ______ to _______ Formally attired 9. ______ to _______ Sudden turning point in one's life 10. ______ to ______ Shun the company of others ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- O F F - B Y - O N E by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Each of the clues below produces a word that is "off by one letter" from a common root word. Solve the clues and then determine which word was used as the root (or vice versa!) R O O T W O R D KEEP = castle's main tower ------------------------------------------------------------------- WEEP 1. Cry SEEP 2. Leak slowly PEEP 3. Look furtively KELP 4. Seaweed KEEN 5. Irish funeral lament KEEL 6. Boat base JEEP 7. Cherokee or YJ MEEP/BEEP 8. Roadrunner utterance DEEP 9. Profound ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Tuesday 16 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- I had the pleasure of meeting Craig Kasper at this year's U.S. Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Craig walked away with 55th place overall and took home the Foreign Trophy. Yeah! Team Canada. Today I introduce the first issue of a Micropuzzle, courtesy of Craig. MICROPUZZLE *NEW* by Craig Kasper ------------------------------------------------------------------- Take an everyday English word meaning "everyday." Drop its first and last letters, and respace, and you'll get a pair of words that are opposites. What is the word? WORD FANS by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Solve the clues to produce words which 'fan out' from a common root word. (eg. atop, esteem, trustworthy = ON, hONor, hONest). _______ Word Fan Root - What's in the oven if pregnant [3] _______ 1. A bed on board [4] _______ 2. A swindle [5] _______ 3. Taking a dive? Hook onto this rope [6] _______ 4. B.S. [6] _______ 5. Big toe lumps [7] _______ 6. Playboy sights [7] _______ 7. Plentiful [8] _______ 8. One-storey house [8] _______ 9. On death's doorstep [8] _______ 10. Sash-ay your way to sartorial splendor with this [10] _______ 11. Boisterous [12] _______ 12. Surfeit [13] ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- TO-BY-TO: PART TWO by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Complete the following clued "____ to _____" phrases. 1. ______ to _______ Make certain to do something 2. ______ to _______ Be remembered 3. ______ to _______ Execute 4. ______ to _______ Leader's ascendancy 5. ______ to _______ Living on the bare essentials 6. ______ to _______ 1914-1918 conflict 7. ______ to _______ Regard seriously 8. ______ to _______ Formally attired 9. ______ to _______ Sudden turning point in one's life 10. ______ to ______ Shun the company of others 1. see to it, 2. spring to mind, 3. put to death, 4. rise to power, 5. hand to mouth, 6. war to end wars, 7. take to heart, 8. dressed to kill, 9. road to Damascus, 10. keep to oneself. A printable version of To-By-To combining both parts is online: http://www.hoadworks.com/tobyto.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Wed 17 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- SHORTLISTS by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Write words containing the letters A-Z, in sequence but not necessarily consecutively. Try to get from A-Z in the fewest words For example, ABCoulomb + DEFyinG get you from A-G in two words.... Send your A-Z shortlists to hoad@hoadworks.com KEYWORD by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- What key word is found in the definitions of each of the following? abrade ___________\ frottage __________\ triturate __________\ grate _______________\ fray _________________\ _________________ Try the Keyword server -- http://www.bookhooks.com/keyserver.cfm to play more of the 600+ archived Keyword Puzzles! ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- MICROPUZZLE *NEW* by Craig Kasper ------------------------------------------------------------------- Take an everyday English word meaning "everyday." Drop its first and last letters, and respace, and you'll get a pair of words that are opposites. What is the word? Answer: ROUTINE [R OUT|IN E] WORD FANS by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Solve the clues to produce words which 'fan out' from a common root word. (eg. atop, esteem, trustworthy = ON, hONor, hONest). _______ Word Fan Root - What's in the oven if pregnant [3] _______ 1. A bed on board [4] _______ 2. A swindle [5] _______ 3. Taking a dive? Hook onto this rope [6] _______ 4. B.S. [6] _______ 5. Big toe lumps [7] _______ 6. Playboy sights [7] _______ 7. Plentiful [8] _______ 8. One-storey house [8] _______ 9. On death's doorstep [8] _______ 10. Sash-ay your way to sartorial splendor with this [10] _______ 11. Boisterous [12] _______ 12. Surfeit [13] ANSWERS: bun, bunk, bunco, bungee, bunkum, bunions, Bunnies, abundant, bungalow, moribund, cumberbund, rambunctious, overabundance ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Friday 19 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Next week I will be on a school trip to New York City. The games will resume Saturday, April 27. Until then, take care. --Adrian CARNIVERBS by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Atwood wrote in to add three carniverbs to our list: 1. paint that has cracked into a pattern is said to this... [9] 2. be overly critical [3 + pick] 3. move furtively; act cautiously [5 + foot] There are instructions (and 100 MORE CLUES to Carniverbs on the web right about here - http://www.hoadworks.com/stampede.htm) AWAD QUIZ: POISON WORDS Derived from the AWAD ARCHIVES ------------------------------------------------------------------- AWAD (Monday Feb 23, 1998) Guest Wordsmith, Linda Bandy, writes: "Many people find the subject of poisoning fascinating. There is a certain mystery about it. Perhaps the mysteriousness derives from the gulf between the knowledge held by the victim vs. poisoner. Actually, the poison is in the dose. A lot of it may be deadly, but a little bit can be a cure. Many of the words used to talk about the rather specialized topic of poisons are also rich figuratively. A caustic wit is, it may be argued, harmless, but a caustic splash usually isn't." 1. bane 2. cyanosis 3. envenom 4. lavage 5. mephitic 6. noxious 7. toxicant A: condition in which, from insufficient oxygenation of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue B: That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. C: Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious D: To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon E. A washing, especially of a hollow organ, such as the stomach or lower bowel, with repeated injections of water F: Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious G: A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- SHORTLISTS by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Write words containing the letters A-Z, in sequence but not necessarily consecutively. Try to get from A-Z in the fewest words For example, ABCoulomb + DEFyinG get you from A-G in two words.... Send your A-Z shortlists to hoad@hoadworks.com Michael Turniansky managed a 7 word alpha-amble: AmBusCaDE, FiGHtIng, JacKaL, MaNrOPe, QueRiST, pUrVieW, hydroXYZine And Don Monson made the trip in the fewest letters (46): ABaCi DEFoG HIJacK LeMoN OPaQueR STUpefactiVe WaXY Za KEYWORD by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- What key word is found in the definitions of each of the following? abrade ___________\ frottage __________\ triturate __________\ grate _______________\ fray _________________\ RUB Try the Keyword server -- http://www.bookhooks.com/keyserver.cfm to play more of the 600+ archived Keyword Puzzles! ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Saturday 27 April 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- UNCOMMON #33 ------------------------------------------------------------------- BE ORIGINAL. Be uncommonly clever! For each clue, provide a response that is correct and that will be duplicated by the fewest entrants. Good luck! _________ 1. A mood _________ 2. A god _________ 3. A word differing by one letter from the word "May" _________ 4. A dance _________ 5. A 3+ letter word embedded in the opening sentences of Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize winning "Empire Falls" (see text below) "Compared to the Whiting mansion in town, the house Charles Beaumont Whiting built a decade after his return to Maine was modest. By every other standard of Empire Falls, where most single-family homes cost well under seventy-five thousand dollars, his was palatial, with five bedrooms, five full baths, and a detached artist's studio. C. B. Whiting had spent several formative years in old Mexico, and the house he built, appearances be damned, was a mission-style hacienda. He even had the bricks specially textured and painted tan to resemble adobe. A damn-fool house to build in central Maine, peoplesaid, though they didn't say it to him." Correct answers score the number of people who provided that answer. If wrong, or unanswered, a high score results (high score + 1). Total scoresare calculated by *multiplying* each result. Submissions are due via email to hoad@hoadworks.com; deadline Sun, May 5, 2002 midnight your time. Please add comments, sources and explanations. ANSWERS FROM LAST DAY ------------------------------------------------------------------- CARNIVERBS by Adrian Hoad-Reddick ------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Atwood wrote in to add three carniverbs to our list: 1. paint that has cracked into a pattern is said to this... [9] 2. be overly critical [3 + pick] 3. move furtively; act cautiously [5 + foot] There are instructions (and 100 MORE CLUES to Carniverbs on the web right about here - http://www.hoadworks.com/stampede.htm) Answers: 1. alligator, 2. nitpick, 3. pussyfoot AWAD QUIZ: POISON WORDS Derived from the AWAD ARCHIVES ------------------------------------------------------------------- AWAD (Monday Feb 23, 1998) Guest Wordsmith, Linda Bandy, writes: "Many people find the subject of poisoning fascinating. There is a certain mystery about it. Perhaps the mysteriousness derives from the gulf between the knowledge held by the victim vs. poisoner. Actually, the poison is in the dose. A lot of it may be deadly, but a little bit can be a cure. Many of the words used to talk about the rather specialized topic of poisons are also rich figuratively. A caustic wit is, it may be argued, harmless, but a caustic splash usually isn't." 1. bane 2. cyanosis 3. envenom 4. lavage 5. mephitic 6. noxious 7. toxicant A: condition in which, from insufficient oxygenation of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue B: That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. C: Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious D: To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon E. A washing, especially of a hollow organ, such as the stomach or lower bowel, with repeated injections of water F: Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious G: A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant Answers: 1B, 2A, 3D, 4E, 5C, 6F, 7G ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. -------------------------------------------------------------------