Please post only one or two answers each day.

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 AN BLE CATCH CE CO DEM E EST GA I I IC JO LI MA MAN MEX MO NAV NIG O O O OARS POS RA RUN SALES SCRIP SUB SUM TION VI WE

Sage Advice:

= 1. US? [1-2]
= 2. STREAK [1-3]
= 3. BLADED POLES [1-4]
= 4. ACTOR [2-5]
5. INEXPLICABLE [3-6]
= 6. PASTA [4-7]
= 7. ROADMAN [2-8]
= 8. APPEALING [3-9]
= 9. SEA [4-7]
= 10. TROPIC OF CANCER COUNTRY [3-6]
= 11. DATA DEVICE [2-5]
= 12. MARSUPIAL [3-7]
= 13. TRIBE [3-6]
= 14. AGREEMENT [3-12]

2. run. Hi Dan.

10. Mex i co

1. A hi soot

Hi Remi ... most excellent start by you and Michele

11 - mo dem

9. o ce an ic

Yes to both OrleansBelle and OldBroad

Hi soot. # 1 has been done previously.

12. o pos sum

14. AGREEMENT [3-12] SUB SCRIP TION

13. Nav a jo

3 - oars

6. ra vi o li good morning soot

Hi manXman, I had to correct #1's clue as it had two letters and not one...the "A" was used correctly by Michele in #13.

All other solutions are spot on

4. Ga ble?

7. sales man

8. catch i est

1. We

Well done Michele, manXman OldBroad and Marian

5. e nig ma

W. Rogers--Common sense ain't common.

manXman