Letter Removal Puzzlers
by William F. Bultas
For each of the following problems, you are given 2 definitions. The
answer to the second part is the same as the answer to the first part,
but with one letter removed. Example:
Place where horses stay; Black.
Answer: Stable, Sable
Now see how many of these you can answer correctly, and click here when you are ready to see the answers. Average is about 6 correct, and you've done quite well if you can get 10 or more. If you can get 15 or more right, it might be time to see about being a contestant on some of these tv quiz shows!
1. Linger about; Above
2. Having relatively great extent between opposite sides; Hayseed
3. 4-footed animal; A direction
4. Land adjacent to water; Painful
5. A religious group that had an anti-slavery stance; The name of a
violent first person computer game
6. A principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a
locality; Musty
7. To act in a sulky or aimless way; An item used for cleaning floors
8. Open to bribery; The flesh of the calf used for food
9. A contest or game; Arithmetic is the most elementary branch of this
10. Junk; A pack of playing cards
11. Often occurs when a picture is taken; whip
12. An enchantment; To give something in exchange for money
13. A stringed musical instrument found in ancient Greece; A caustic
solution used in making soap
14. Stylish; The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
15. There is a movie in which a lake with this name is anything but;
There is a Steve Martin movie that indicates that deceased males do not
wear this.
16. Waters in this state are said to run deep; Plow
17. First name of Arthur's sister; Part of a plant or animal that
performs some vital function
18. To promote something as or in the manner of a huckster; A horizontal foundation
19. Science of prison management; Science of viniculture
20. An old man; A social blunder
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