Letter Removal Puzzlers Answers

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1. Linger about; Above = HOVER, OVER

2. Having relatively great extent between opposite sides; Hayseed = THICK, HICK

3. 4-footed animal; A direction = BEAST, EAST

4. Land adjacent to water; Painful = SHORE, SORE

5. A religious group that had an anti-slavery stance; The name of a violent first person computer game = QUAKER, QUAKE

6. A principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality; Musty = STAPLE, STALE

7. To act in a sulky or aimless way; An item used for cleaning floors = MOPE, MOP

8. Open to bribery; The flesh of the calf used for food = VENAL, VEAL

9. A contest or game; Arithmetic is the most elementary branch of this = MATCH, MATH

10. Junk; A pack of playing cards = DRECK, DECK

11. Often occurs when a picture is taken; whip = FLASH, LASH

12. An enchantment; To give something in exchange for money = SPELL, SELL

13. A stringed musical instrument found in ancient Greece; A caustic solution used in making soap = LYRE, LYE

14. Stylish; The 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet = CHIC, CHI

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 = PLACID, PLAID

16. Waters in this state are said to run deep; Plow = STILL, TILL

17. First name of Arthur's sister; Part of a plant or animal that performs some vital function = MORGAN, ORGAN

18. To promote something as or in the manner of a huckster; A horizontal foundation = SHILL, SILL

19. Science of prison management; Science of viniculture = PENOLOGY, ENOLOGY or POENOLOGY, OENOLOGY

20. An old man; A social blunder = GAFFER, GAFFE

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