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Bait and Switch
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08/23/22 06:21 AM
08/23/22 06:21 AM
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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 tough, some may be alterative spellings, hyphenated or Britspeak, and there may be the occasional two word answer...
Plenty to go round, so feel free to grab two or three.
ORIENT
-1. Lemon-like fruit, but bigger
-2. Elaborately decorated
-3. Insect of the family Vespidae
-4. Season
-5. Swelling of the thyroid gland
-6. Turn upside down
-7. Pressed
-8. Type of thermionic valve
-9. Itinerant mender of pots and pans
-10. Not late
-11. Diacetylmorphine
-12. To utter, recite, or sing in a monotonous or incantatory voice
-13. Part of the eye
-14. Valved wind instrument
-15. One who selects and revises material for publishing
-16. Part of the linkage in an automotive steering system.
-17. Australian English, especially when spoken in an informal way and with a strong accent
-18. A muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
-19. Keep possession of
-20. Breed of Spanish sheep, valued for their long fine-quality fleeces
-21. Take no notice of
-22. Trainee, usually medical
-23. An extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body:
-24. Carpenter
-25. Decomposed, decayed
-26. Fixed allowance of food, provisions, etc
-27. To linger aimlessly
-28. The flying of an airplane on a combat mission
-29. Any dry substance that readily takes fire from a spark.
-30. Counsellor, teacher
-31. One involved in violent public disorder
-32. Of higher or the highest rank or standing.
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
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#1280125
08/23/22 09:07 AM
08/23/22 09:07 AM
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Ohio
michele rose
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1. citron 9. tinker 18. tensor 
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Re: Bait and Switch
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#1280131
08/23/22 09:41 AM
08/23/22 09:41 AM
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Long Island, N.Y.
fildil
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15. editor
29. tinder
Last edited by fildil; 08/23/22 09:42 AM.
Fil
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant
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Re: Bait and Switch
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#1280133
08/23/22 09:55 AM
08/23/22 09:55 AM
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Remi - I'll take the first two, but I have something different for #30  Fil - both good!
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
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#1280147
08/23/22 12:29 PM
08/23/22 12:29 PM
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Unionville
manxman
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2. ornate 4. winter
Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one.
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Re: Bait and Switch
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#1280320
08/26/22 08:12 AM
08/26/22 08:12 AM
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Sorry for the delay, guys - was away all yesterday Eight answers, eight winners!  Just the three left...
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
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#1280331
08/26/22 11:19 AM
08/26/22 11:19 AM
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Good ones, Remi! I tend to chicken out and use a hyphen :lol;
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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