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Bait and Switch with hint
#1216189
04/30/20 05:09 AM
04/30/20 05:09 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 21,889
Bucks, England
Urban Worrier
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True Blue Boomer
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OP
True Blue Boomer
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 21,889
Bucks, England
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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 may be alterative spellings, hyphenated or Britspeak, and a few that may need the Stitchionary. There may even be the odd two-word answer...
Plenty to go round, so feel free to grab three or four
OCTANE
-1. One of the states of the Swiss confederation.
-2. Sugary plant secretion
-3. Established first printing press in England
-4. Separate liquid from any sediment
-5. Third gear on a horse
-6. "The Great Stone-Face"
-7. King of England, 1016-35
-8. Makes amends for
-9. Instrument in the brass section
-10. Large areas of sea water
-11. Be unable to
-12. Characteristic mode of pronunciation
-13. Positively-charged atom or group of atoms
-14. Tracked vehicle for arctic conditions
-15. Tilted
-16. For a given angle, the reciprocal of the cosine
-17. Author of Breakfast at Tiffany's
-18. Brightly-coloured, large-billed bird
-19. Packing container, usually plastic or card
-20. Oil subsidiary of the Chevron Corporation
-21. Sadi, French thermodynamicist
-22. To give
-23. Part of the eye
-24. Part of a shoe
-25. Nicaraguan guerrilla
-26. Withdraw previous assertion
-27. Document allowing motor vehicles to cross frontiers - in general, a customs' document (Lose the "o")
-28. Structure abutting the wall of a larger building
-29. Convincing, to the point
-30. Member of clerical order next below that of a priest.
-31. Leader of synagogue service
-32. Small sharp surgical instrument
-33. Fire or light used as a warning signal
-34. Long-legged shorebird with upturned bill
-35. Mental or emotional position adopted with respect to something
-36. Hypnotic state resembling sleep
-37. Covered with a layer, glaze, skin etc
-38. Discover the position of
-39. Elaborately adorned
-40. Be aware of
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]
#1216200
04/30/20 07:35 AM
04/30/20 07:35 AM
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Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 15,085
Ohio
michele rose
Graduate Boomer
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Graduate Boomer
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 15,085
Ohio
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5. canter 6. Keaton 32. lancet 
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Re: Bait and Switch
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#1216219
04/30/20 10:26 AM
04/30/20 10:26 AM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 7,188
Long Island, N.Y.
fildil
BAAG Specialist
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BAAG Specialist
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 7,188
Long Island, N.Y.
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1. canton
18. toucan
30. deacon
Fil
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
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Wow ... thanks UW ... I learned a new word today 
