Wednesday, July 21, 2010

PUZZLE, July 21st, 2010

Previous puzzle: The previous puzzle was a difficult one; congratulations to Wook Jin for solving it.  The suggested answers are

FEMUR, REMIND, ANEMIA, PHLOEM, CHEMIST

New Puzzle: Behead a word by removing the first letter of the first (longer) and still have a valid word. There are clues for the two words, the longer word is first.

Example: Begin/Sour, acidic = start and tart (behead start--remove the “s” and that leaves tart).
1. Pass by / Temporary failure
2. Picture / Wizard
3. Brave / Fortunate
4. Enthusiastic meetings / Partners
5. Attacked / Helped
6. Choose / Choose
7. Fragments / Dice game
8. Customary practice / Spiritual mentor

3 comments:

Meghan said...

1. reject / eject
2. image / mage
3. plucky / lucky
4. rallies / allies
5. raided / aided
6. select / elect
7. scraps / craps
8. usage / sage

Veronica Baig said...

MEGHAN: Congratulations:-))

Meghan said...

:D