The clues below will lead to three words. The first two clues are for words that when anagrammed together will become the third. All of the answers for the third clue are eleven letter words.

Example: position in relation to + titan = an act or instance of combining into an integral whole

OR >>> orient + giant = integration

-1. like a desert in Arizona + a red one symbolizes love = hopelessness
-2. feeble + a hobby with needles = something you might see on a barn
-3. writing read by touch + tone = beyond bearing
-4. hold + idiot = divisor
-5. main courses + egg = daring
-6. pertaining to the colored portion of the eye + test = sedate
-7. Spanish cowboys + file = casket
-8. holey? + tunes = wanton
-9. item used for Dunkin' + Lawrence Taylor and Frank Gifford = excellent
-10. slicker + saloon = bodily form assumed by a god

1. painted + rose = desperation

9. Donuts + Giants = Outstanding

10. raincoat + inn = incarnation

8. promiscuous = porous + music

Sometimes I prefer to work backwards

4. detain + moron = denominator

Outstanding!

I know you're a little backward sometimes, Joan

7. gauchos + rasp + sarcophagus

5 - entrees + ovum = venturesome

2. weak + crochet = weathercock

Hi Cue.

3. braille + note = intolerable

6. retinal + quiz = tranquilize

A home run...as usual!