Word Play
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Pandora
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Use the clues to solve each set below. The answer to the first clue is a single word, and each of the following lines contain two words that share all but two letters with the single word.
Example:
Spy's getup
Shadowy/tour leader
Platter/sagacious
Answer:
disguise
dim/guide
dish/wise
-1. Close examination
Thus/rebellion
Light brown/neat
Scour/publicity
-2. Kind of pause
Mine find/behemoth
Bluenose/granny
Primp/pretense
-3. Lipstick, e.g.
Food fish/army doc
Expense/Mr. Clapton
Kramer's first name/draw
-4. Money-raising event
Moray, e.g./cultural spirit
Inform/diluted
Principle/long, long time
-5. Baking dishes
Bulk/wears away
Make happen/darned things?
Cartoon ghost/auto pioneer
-6. Planted trees, shrubs, etc.
Homo sapiens/got away
Magician's prop/alarmed
Advances/frolic
-7. Work in harmony
Jeer/bootleg
Cut up/muse of poetry
Two-door car/ceremony
More hip/star pitcher
-8. Weather forecast stat
Rope fiber/deletion
Pace/disposition
Mess (with)/ shade of blue
Japanese dish/swivel
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: Word Play
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3. Cosmetic Cod - Medic <`}}}}>< Cost - Eric Cosmo - Tie 
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
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Re: Word Play
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8.  Temperature Hemp/erasure Tempo/nature Tamper/azure Tempura/turn
The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.
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Re: Word Play
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11/29/17 12:09 AM
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5. Casseroles mass/erodes causes/hose Casper/Olds 
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Re: Word Play
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The Outer Limits
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1. Nice! scrutiny so/mutiny ecru/tidy scrub/ink
Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
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Re: Word Play
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11/29/17 01:13 PM
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2. pregnant ore/giant prig/nana preen/act
Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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Re: Word Play
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11/29/17 01:14 PM
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5. Casseroles mass/erodes cause/holes Casper/Olds 
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Re: Word Play
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11/29/17 09:21 PM
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4. Telethon Eel - Ethos Tell - Thin Tenet - Eon
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