Bait and Switch
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06/03/23 08:44 AM
06/03/23 08:44 AM
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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 tough, some may be alterative spellings, hyphenated or Britspeak, and there may be the occasional two word answer...
Plenty to go round, so feel free to grab two or three.
CASTLE
-1. Red wine from Bordeaux -2. Surgical instrument -3. Not undergoing radioactive decay -4. Chaste, virtuous -5. Small sealed plastic envelope -6. Plant of the genus Dipsacus with prickly leaves and flower heads -7. Position adopted in response to something -8. Small cupboard -9. Climbed -10. Comfort in sorrow -11. Organic radical, formula CH3CO- -12. Bovid mammals of the genus Bos -13. Soft-hued -14. Movement upward from a lower to a higher state -15. Syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence -16. Wooden building, low and with wide eaves, place of human habitation -17. Ornament - bunch of threads hanging from a knob or knot -18. Most up-to-date -19. To pay respect to or honour by some formal act -20. Distinct feature or element of a problem, situation etc -21. Small swivelled wheel -22. Cactus, hallucunogenic when chewed -23. Rimington, ex-head of UK security service MI5 -24. Choose from a number of options -25. Changes -26. Small chest or box -27. Business conglomerate -28. Discover the position of -29. Metal fastening device -30. Decent, modest -31. Was critical of -32. Reciprocal of cosine -33. Equipment, apparatus, or gear
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
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#1299436
06/03/23 09:24 AM
06/03/23 09:24 AM
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Fogfighter
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2. Surgical instrument. Lancet 3. Not undergoing radioactive decay. Stable
Last edited by Fogfighter; 06/03/23 09:25 AM.
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Re: Bait and Switch
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#1299446
06/03/23 11:48 AM
06/03/23 11:48 AM
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Lex
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7. Stance 12. Cattle 14. Ascent
Life is what happens while you're making other plans.
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Re: Bait and Switch
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#1299458
06/03/23 02:12 PM
06/03/23 02:12 PM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 21,898 Bucks, England
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Another great selection: olbroad - my apologies - I should have said 16 was a place of human habitation. Try again?
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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