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 _______