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 A ALE BA BIV CAR CATE CI DI ED ED ET FET G GER GOR HAND I KE KNOT KY LA LET LEU MAN MAS MI NAR NI NI O OB QUETTE RAN READ RI ROY SON STRUCT TA TED TER TER TI TO TU TUC U UN Y YUM

Sage Advice:

= 1. PREPARED [2-5]
= 2. APPENDAGE [1-4]
= 3. SCHOOL [3-7]
= 4. SPIDER [4-9]
= 5. TONY WAS ONE [2-5]
= 6. RUM [3-7]
= 7. CLEAR [4-12]
= 8. CAPITAL [3-5]
= 9. ATHLETE [3-9]
= 10. DECORUM [3-9]
= 11. ASPERITY [2-5]
= 12. PASTA [4-10]
13. MNEMONIC [3-7]
= 14. BITTER [1-3]?
= 15. REALM [3-6]
= 16. GNARLY [2-7]
= 17. CANCER [4-8]
= 18. DELICIOUS [1-3]
19. MARSHAL [3-9]

2. hand

and now one to bite the "low hanging fruit" (Soot, I had to actually Google that phrase to be sure it meant what it seemed to mean

4. ta ran tu la

10. et/i/quette

10. et ti quette

18. yum

Hi Dan.

7. un ob struct ed

11. ri/gor

Hi ya Remi, manXman and Michele

You three and OldBroad are spot on

Are you ready for some football!!!!!

1. Read y

4. Ta ran tu la - Hi Soot

Bernie

3. ed u cate

12. fet tuc ci ni

17. leu ke mi a

5. ti/ger

Hi Bernie

You, Cue, OldBroad, Michele and manXman are spot on

16. knot ted

8. Ky o to

too slow

6. Ba/car/di

9. let ter man

15. Nar ni a

14. ale

Right on everyone

13. Roy g biv
19. Mas ter son

soot, a little messy on the 2nd letters for #10 and #11, but....in the words of Rhett Butler: Frankly my dear I done(t) r(g)ive a [blip]!

Yeppers Michele ... there I go again ... wandering who knows where in the ole dictionary and obviously getting side-tracked when creating the solutions for 10 and 11

I should have gone with 10. Famous Alien (2-2) and 11. Old Cloth (1-3)