Bait and Switch with hints
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07/27/15 02:12 PM
07/27/15 02:12 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 21,885 Bucks, England
Urban Worrier
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True Blue Boomer
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True Blue Boomer
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 21,885
Bucks, England
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Bait and switch: Each clue below can be answered by changing one letter in the given, capitalized word, and then anagramming the letters. Some easy, some may be alterative spellings hyphenated or Britspeak, and a few that may need the Stitchionary. There may even be the odd two-word answer...
Plenty to go round, so feel free to grab two or three.
REPENT
-1. First batsman in cricket -2. Alloy -3. Seabird -4. Serving dish -5. Of late occurrence -6. Toughen by sudden cooling -7. To fret, complain -8. Harold, playwright -9. Primps -10. Render ineffectual -11. Starter -12. Illegally-brewed liquor -13. Stand-in for a sovereign during absence -14. Gambler -15. Polycyclic aromatic crystalline hydrocarbon, C 1 6 H 1 0 -16. 40% of a pony - think money -17. Curdling agent 18. "Die _____", German newspaper - replace the "p" -19. The point within a sphere equidistant from all points on the surface -20. Believed to lie beneath the earth's surface -21. One with extensive skill or knowledge -22. Actress, portrayed Baroness Thatcher -23. Offer for payment etc -24. Coring tool -25. Character; estimation in the view of others -26. Annoy -27. Feel aggrieved at -28. To slacken -29. Period or term of holding something -30. Having all parts or elements
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Bait and Switch
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#1025304
07/27/15 05:01 PM
07/27/15 05:01 PM
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Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 3,440 47.79N, 122.24W
BobH
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6. temper 23. tender
Bob As I've grown older, I've found that my memory is not as good as I used to think it was.
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