Create solutions for the clues by using the available syllables. A question mark after a clue denotes word play or trickery is afoot. The number of syllables in an answer is followed by the number of letters for each clue. Syllables are used only once.

After all of the numbered clues are correctly answered, their first and last letters, reading down, will reveal the puzzle's Sage Advice:.

Example: Syllable puzzle [4-12] (solution: syl + la + cros + tic)



Starting Syllables: A AR BAB BER BLE BOW CE COL DEEP DO ECH EL FA FAU FLINT HIGH I I IC IV LI LOCK LON LY MEM NA NA NIS O O O OB OC OC PUS RA RE SA SAL SCURE SHIP TANE TEN TO UN VEIL Y




You all have knocked out the clues ... now we just need a brave soul to dig through all the pieces and put them together for our advice

Sage Advice:




= 1. FEEDING [1-2]
= 2. TALE [2-5]
= 3. RELATIONSHIP [3-10]
= 4. REVEAL [2-6]
= 5. DANCE [2-5]
= 6. COLDLY [3-5]
= 7. STATE [4-8]
= 8. CAPITAL [3-7]
= 9. JOINT [2-5]
= 10. GAME [2-6]
= 11. LOFTY [1-4]
= 12. CONEFLOWER [5-9]
= 13. RIFLE [2-9]
= 14. COOKIE [3-4]
= 15. MOLLUSK [3-7]
= 16. PROFOUND [1-4]
= 17. MIST [2-7]
= 18. ANIMALS [2-5]
= 19. FIBBER [2-4]
= 20. HYDROCARBON [2-6]

16. deep

19 li ar

13. flint lock

4. un/veil

15. oc/to/pus

2. fa ble

9. elbow

Hi Dan.

14. o re o

1. Iv

20. oc tane

Hi Remi Michele and manXman

For starters, OldBroad & manXman found the low hanging fruit

And everyone's solutions were spot on

7. Colorado (Col o ra do)
Got your tall Dark Roast ready for your long work day soot. Enjoy!

5. sal/sa

3. Mem ber ship - Hi Soot

Bernie

6. ic/i/ly

17. ob/scure

11. high

8. Bab y lon

10. ten nis

12. ech/i/na/ce/a

18. fau na

Thank you for the Tall Dark Roast Gerry

Hi ya Bernie

You all have knocked out the clues ... now we just need a brave soul to dig through all the pieces and put them together for our advice

If music be the food of love play on. W Shakospeare

Not sure about the second o on 14 , E

I saw that too manxman and wondered if I had the wrong answer.

manXman and OldBroad ... you are both spot on for the solution and Questioning of #14

I experienced a temporary mental lapse ... a failure to reason correctly thinking Oreo ended with the second syllables "e" and not the final syllables "o"

Shakospeare is the poetic pronunciation!

Sounds a bit Irish.... Will Shak O'Speare