Tom just keeps talking...

Hate those -'s; so yer getting word length and 1st letter!

-1: "I need to stay in shape" Tom said (10i)

-2: "Wonder when Maurice got up" Tom said (8m)

-3: "We need to count the number of guys" Tom said (8m)

-4: "I can't find my wooden rod" Tom said (10m)

-5: "Hey, we guys are getting 100%" Tom said (10m)

-6: "Well, Babe is no longer with us" Tom said (10r)

-7: "We need more than 2 referees" Tom said (12t)

8: "I should make my bets more secure" Tom said (8e)
Think "hedging your bets"; ed------

9: "Gotta enter my answer" Tom said (12s)
Think "posting a reply"; su----------

-10: "Just met a French Borris" Tom said (10u)

-Bonus: " " Tom said (10w)

6. Ruthlessly - another future one of mine down the drain

Correct Rog!
1000 apologies of which you may have none
Googled "famous ruths" thinking I'd get only women...

3. mentally

Mentally correct, Cheryl!

4. mistakenly

Not mine, Lady Marian,...but close...

Bonus: wordlessly

Correct...but not possible for women

9. Submissevely ?

Bernie

Not mine Bernie...but very close

1. informally

Oui Michele.

7. triumphantly

Yepper, MxM!

5. Menacingly

4. mystically

2 more down!

Any chance of an extra 3 letters for number 10 Denis, or is ten letters the limit?

unGENTLEMANly ?

Or have you got a warrant for my arrest: unwarrantably!

Mine has 10, but I'd like to see your 13.

10. unDENIably??

10. UnREMIttingly

Rog, used him before...once is plenty!!


Yes Lex, you do recognize a gentleman!!
(and a = un in French)

Mille pardons, mon petit chou. My eyes aren't what they used to be...

Was a kinda joke, Rog; "once is plenty" refers to Remi!!

Hints (last 3):
2: short for "Maurice"
8: hedging
9: think computer

2. morosely

Yepper!

Hints added...

Well, I'll post-hide solutions for them elusive 2:

Those last two are a bit of a stretch, as I believe that neither properly exists as an adverb (although some internet definitions suggest otherwise): the closest you could get would probably be edgily and submissively.

I found them both in OUR dictionary.com:
http://dictionary.reference.com/

edging
Related forms
edgingly, adverb

submit
Related forms Expand
submittingly, adverb

I also found them, but I do not believe that submitting or edging are bona fide adjectives, so that I do not see how they can be converted into adverbs.

The internet is not always great on grammatical precision.

Of course 9 could have been "Tom submitted."

Sounds an awful lot like my grammar skills back in middle and high school Lex

or: Tom said, hitting the s----- b-----

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