In Other Words

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 admiration of your peers for using all five clues and the answer in a suitable sentence.

-1. rut, gal, fit, ray, fry
-2. the, oral, item, sea, era
-3. bot, sin, bow, rig, own
-4. cut, auto, pin, eat, rec
-5. cent, ache, met, arc, pen
-6. tea, say, until, tad, nail
-7. day, icy, dip, lay, dom
-8. moat, nit, mar, his, chit
-9. lid, mug, tie, mire, rad
-10. son, met, shin, omen, sing

10. something

I have to ask, is anyone else seeing 2 underlined words, answer and bonus? When you put your cursor on them, ads pop up. Is anyone else getting this or is just me?

manxman, that's the way to start us off!

Flo, I'm not seeing anything like what you describe. Do you mean in this thread?

7. diplomacy (day, icy, dip, lay, dom)

When the DOM went for an ICY DIP in the Potomac River and then LAY naked
on the shore, that's the DAY his DIPLOMACY flew the coop.


Flo, I'm not seeing anything like that either.

1. Frugality

OK, thanks. Yes it is in every thread actually. It's has to be something that has been added to Internet Explorer because I don't have it on Google Chrome. I'll see if I can find it because it pops up on every page I go to, not only here.

I found it and deleted it. They also had it installed twice, second time the name was scrambled to look like something you wouldn't want to delete, just in case. However, being a gameboomer, I figured it out and deleted it.

Problem solved.

Jema, a colorful story.

Lex, good solve!

Flo, you rock! Good work!

6. I thought I was just sipping TEA UNTIL I began to walk a TAD UNSTEADILY when I reached for the wall and broke a NAIL.

Ack! A horror story!

5. parchment

Good solve, curly.

Belated embellishment for #1;

SUN RAY FRY GAL: she have FIT and fall in RUT.

(Various less suitable ones occurred to me about being in rut).

8. Crossing the MOAT, the MONARCHIST, called in HIS CHIT for an invitation to the county fair from his anarchist friend, determined that this time he would not allow his friend to MAR the festivities.

Thanks for keeping it clean, Lex.

Well done, Bob!

2. isothermal

Yes!

4. Try not to EAT while working on your AUTO in the REC room however a good tip would be to use a cotter PIN to open sardine cans that have broken keys and thereby taking a PRECAUTION to avoid a nasty CUT.

3. Humming "It's a SIN" the BOT gave a deep BOW, then went to RIG his OWN BOWSTRING.

Masterful entries!

9. Standing knee-deep in the MIRE (which looked like MULTIGRADE oil) trying to unTIE the LID on his MUG of beer, he thought to himself ..."This is totally RAD, dude."

Extra points for working beer into it.