The five clue words are derived from an answer word that’s made up of at least eight letters, none of which is repeated. The letters of each clue word appear in the answer word in left-to-right order, though, not necessarily consecutively. For example: the letters in Colt can be found in Complexity, as can the letters in Comply, Exit, Met and Pity. Every letter of the answer appears at least once in the clue words, and one clue word in each set appears in the answer intact (Exit in the example).

As has become traditional, win bonus points and the envy of your friends by using all five clues and the answer in a suitable sentence.

-1. Rom, ping, cat, hoe, cola
-2. tar, car, ion, lay, let
-3. pin, den, cry, Rio, Eton
-4. Sal, rain, ram, scab, sag
-5. lad, had, boa, war, low
-6. nab, evil, nay, via, nil

5. The lad had a low boa and was a blowhard in war

6. enviably

4. Hope the barn doesn't SAG and SAL doesn't get a SCAB on his arm while he is SCRAMBLING to push his pet RAM through the door to protect it from the RAIN.

Great solves and sentences folks!

1.
I thought I'd give CHROMEPLATING a go,
I tried with a COLA glass and then on a HOE,
and next was a CD ROM such a glorious thing,
and last a chrome CAT when thumped made a PING!

Shakespeare, eat your heart out!

2. Covered in TAR under a CAR, Rog LET LAY the ION-charged LECTIONARY.

3.

I started to CRY when I couldn't PIN down a code key while I was learning DECRYPTION at an ETON in RIO, DEN I stopped.

you guys are too funny !

"DEN I stopped"? "DEN I stopped"??!! Good grief!

Nice solves, gentlemen - niteowl says it all