Eye rhymes
1. drove, move, dove.
2. put, out, nut.
3. awe, ewe, owe.
4. None, lone, gone.
5. dough, through, cough, rough.
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The hardcore one
(c) Debonair confidence
The cores of these words form a foreign language phrase frequently used in English.
(1) Squids overproduce liquors
(2) Blameable. Exculpate!
(3) Aminic phytotoxin
(4) Ancestor allays Soviets
(5) Juvenile lividity: larvicide
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Commoners
(1) Truncations of pianoforte, taximeter, perquisite, pantaloons, pistachio, public house.
(2) T9 pairs.
(3) The letters in each word are in alphabetical order.
(4) Auto-anagrams: laudated* = adulated, sterilized* = listerized, angered* = enraged, amoration* = inamorata (this last one is erroneous, as I find more than a decade later).
(5) Eponyms: Harold Bluetooth, Nicolas Chauvin, Guy Fawkes, Ambrose Burnside, Leonhart Fuchs, Thomas Crapper, Satyendra Nath Bose.
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Jumble
(I) TECHNO, ARTFUL, GOLFER, FOETUS, ABSORB, LAMBDA
Phrase: rule of thumb.
(II) LITHIC, WRETCH, SENTRY, MYSTIC, NATURE, ACETYL
Phrase: It is written. (Tanay and Tanvi are the lead characters in Slumdog Millionaire.)
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Writer's block
- long†
- @worth
- ~ridge
- words@
- †fellow
- $well
- cole~
- wall%
- #ling
- §roll
- rush+
- &dike
- car§
- row#
- arc^
- +die
- ^her
- %ace
- up&
- or$
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Haunted typewriter
(1) Blood is thicker than water.
(2) The early bird catches the worm.
(3) All that glisters is not gold.
(4) A stitch in time saves nine.
(5) Let sleeping dogs lie.
(6) Haste makes waste.
(7) Every dog has his day.
(8) Better safe than sorry.
(9) To err is human, to forgive is divine.
(10) Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
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Stinky Pinky
(1) utter clutter
(2) shaven craven
(3) prudent student
(4) laden maiden
(5) broken token
(6) vain pain
(7) bristling quisling
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Stinky Pinky Ponky
(1) meek shriek/ meek squeak
(2) bright fight
(3) quick stick
(4) feign pain
(5) stiff tiff
(6) queer rear
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