Cross-offs
#1097259
01/18/17 01:40 PM
01/18/17 01:40 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 52,985 Upstate NY
Pandora
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Sonic Boomer
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Sonic Boomer
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 52,985
Upstate NY
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Cross off the words in the list below according to the instructions given. Rearrange the remaining words to form a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The quote should be posted as the last answer.
**One answer per solver, please, for the first 24 hours.**
Word list:
ALONE, BLOSSOM, BUOYANT, CAMEO, CARAVAN, CAULIFLOWER, CRABCAKE, CRESCENT, ELBOW, EVERY, FAVORITE, FURLOUGH, GRUESOME, GUARDHOUSE, HOMEOWNING, ICEBOX, INTERSECT, IS, MAN, NOMINATES, SINCERE, SPONGE, SPOTLIGHT, UNDERWAY, WIZARD
-1. an anagram of a 5-letter word appearing in the instructions above -2. consists of six letters in reverse alphabetical order -3. is Pig Latin for a word meaning "marvel" -4. spells a synonym of itself if its doubled letter is deleted -5. consists entirely of capital letters that have a horizontal line of symmetry -6. contains all five vowels exactly once -7. spells a new word when all of its C's are removed -8. is an anagram of a U.S. state -9. would spell itself backward if its letters were alphabetically reflected (A to Z, B to Y, etc.) -10. would become a new compound word if you interchanged its second and fourth letters -11. consists of a noise an animal makes inside a word meaning "sharpening" -12. alternates between even and odd letters of the alphabet, starting with an even one -13. could represent the word CRYPTOGRAM in a cryptogram -14. completes this sentence in a punny way: "The cornstalks ___ 10 inches after the heavy rainfall" -15. would become a new verb if J were substituted for one of its letters -16. would leave two types of motor vehicles if you deleted its middle letter -17. contains, consecutively, three consecutive letter of the alphabet in proper alphabetical order -18. changes from three syllables to one if its last letter is deleted -19. sounds like a type of shoe when its two syllables are switched -20. spells an object it describes if you read only the odd letters of the original word
The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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Re: Cross-offs
[Re: Pandora]
#1097270
01/18/17 03:37 PM
01/18/17 03:37 PM
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Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 12,379 Scotland
MsMercury
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Adept Boomer
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Posts: 12,379
Scotland
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15. Interject
"It's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts." I'm not getting old....just 'Marvelously Mature'!
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Re: Cross-offs
[Re: Pandora]
#1097401
01/19/17 12:08 PM
01/19/17 12:08 PM
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Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 12,379 Scotland
MsMercury
Adept Boomer
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Adept Boomer
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 12,379
Scotland
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18. Cameo
"It's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts." I'm not getting old....just 'Marvelously Mature'!
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Re: Cross-offs
[Re: Pandora]
#1097503
01/19/17 09:47 PM
01/19/17 09:47 PM
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Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 8,990 Sydney, Australia
Koala
BAAG Specialist
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BAAG Specialist
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 8,990
Sydney, Australia
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12. Favorite Quote: Every man alone is sincere.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
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