Some word puzzles for you to get cracking. Leave your answers as comments.
Three clues refer to: 1. A synonym
2. An antonym 3.An anagram of the answer word (in no particular order).
Unscramble the clues to determine
the answer word.
E.g. disagree, eager, correspond –
AGREE
- secure, agitate, stayed: _____
- obscene, weld, chaste: _____
- grandiose, coordinated, nonunionized: _____
- delays, sainted, liberates: _____
- scalp, brooch, release: _____
- fix, rapier, break: _____
- thoughtless, rescales, heedful: _____
- replies, questions, rawness: _____
- heed, silent, ignore: _____
- single, hitched, admirer: _____
- alumna, handbook, automatic: _____
- sound, license, quieten: _____
- increased, subsided, needless: _____
- curt, conical, verbose: _____
- nourish, abbreviate, issuant: _____
Anagramania
Each of the following
clues has multiple answers that are anagrams to each other.
For Eg. Regrets giving
a gift to the snake. (3X7)
Repents, Present,
Serpent
- The competitions frighten Tom so much that he no longer bothers about the units of area. (4X5)
- Respond to me or there will be no remnant of the wooden box that I will provide. (4X5)
- Universal cartoons. (2X6)
- I will sell the company equity while Raj listens to Sheela cut the rabbits of their fur. (4X5)
- No one is left in the oceanic depths except the pilots. (3X6)
- You will hear an alarm when you wash off the sap. (3X5)
- The editor found it more expensive when he raised a pet dog than a pet cat. (3X6)
- Cuddle and eat chocolate. (2X6)
- The illness is prevalent in the coastal area. (2X7)
- Make a written comment about the nature of voice that was heard in the university town in Britain. (3X4)
- Grieve about something related to the mind, not about your royal cape getting burned when it was kept near the chimneypiece. (4X6)
- It is great to see the moneybag being manufactured using the dye for plastic. (3X5)
- Cover in dirt, the female horses that are running along the peripheries of the forest. (2X5)
- The pioneer in the field will put up a comic gig to recount his experiences to us. (3X5)
- Play the cue game in an unending cycle instead of the game on horseback. (3X4)
Tom
Swifties
Tom
Swifties are those sentences which become a pun by adding an appropriate
adverb.
Eg: "I'm wearing my wedding
ring," said Tom with abandon
(a band on)
- "The number of people not attending class today really bothers me", said the professor _______
- "I wonder why uranium is fluorescent", said Mary _______
- "I have writer's block", said Tom _______
- "Well, I got here with five minutes to spare", said Tom _______
- "I don't need the mantissa of the logarithm", said Tom _______
- "I do NOT have a multiple personality disorder", said Tom, trying to be _______
- "Use phenolphthalein", Tom _______
- "Idiot, add up this list of n numbers and then divide the sum by n", said Tom _______
- "When in Rome, do all the naughty things the Romans do", said Mary _______
- "The seesaw is upside down", said Tom _______
- "I ordered chocolate, not vanilla", I _______
- "I think I'll end it all", Sue _______
- "South Korea has a lovely capital city", said Tom _______
- "Dorian Gray's by Oscar", said Tom _______
- "This is all from memory", Tom _______
Good, Bad and the Ugly:
ReplyDelete1. Steady
2. Lewd
3. Organised
4. Slayed
5. Clasp
6. Repair
7. Careless
8. Answers
9. Listen
10. Married
11. Manual
12. Silence
13. Lessened
14. Laconic
Anagramania:
1. Races, Scare, Cares, Acres
3. Cosmic, Comics
4. Share, Hears, Hares, Shear
6. Rinse, Siren, Resin
9. Disease, Seaside
10. Note, Tone, Eton
11. Lament, Mental, Mantle, Mantel
13. Smear, Mares
14. Pacer, Caper, Recap
15. Pool, Loop, Polo
The answers.
ReplyDeleteThe Good, The Bad and The Ugly
1. Timbre timber
2. Made Maid
3. Dear Deer
4. Cereal Serial
5. Bolder Boulder
6. Dual Duel
7. Birth Berth
8. Heroin Heroine
9. Waist Waste
10. Bridal Bridle
Anagramania
1. Races, Scare, Cares, Acres
2. React, Trace, Crate, Cater
3. Cosmic, Comics
4. Share, Hears, Shear, Hares
5. Remain, Marine, Airmen
6. Siren, Rinse, Resin
7. Reader, Dearer, Reared
8. Nestle, Nestle
9. Disease, Seaside
10.Note, Tone, Eton
11.Lament, Mental, Mantle, Mantel
12.Purse, Super, Sprue
13.Smear, Mares
14.Pacer, Caper, Recap
15.Pool, Loop, Polo
Tom Swifties
1. Absent mindedly
2. Curiously
3. Contritely
4. Bitterly
5. Characteristically
6. Frank
7. Indicated
8. Meanly
9. Romantically
10. Saucily
11. Screamed
12. Sighed
13. Soulfully
14. Wildly
15. Wrote