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 A A AN AR AS ATE BRIEF BRY BUK CON DE DE DER DER DER DOLPH EC EM DENCE ER ER FOOT GUS HA IN IT JAI LE LER MAN MO NENT NOI O O O O OP OR OUT PA PAR PE PECT PEN PER PERB RI ROW RU RU SAL SIN SIS SU SU SUS TI TIM TION TU UN WIS WIT

Remaining Syllables:
A A A AN ATE DE DER DER DENCE ER ER IN IT LE MAN NENT O O OP PEN PER SAL SIS TI TION

Sage Advice:

= 1. Tender young shoots 9-4
= 2. Beige 4-2
= 3. Majestic 6-2
4. Desert region 5-3
5. Relevant 9-3
= 6. Town in California 4-2
= 7. In the way 9-3
= 8. Faraway place 8-3
= 9. Imagine 7-2
10. Freedom 12-4
= 11. Interrogate 7-2
= 12. Beginning stage 6-3
= 13. Mother or Lake 8-4
= 14. Vietnam's capital 5-2
15. Overlord was one 9-4
= 16. Largest U.S. cheese producer 9-3
17. Say again 7-3
18. Amphibian 10-4
= 19. Bow's partner 5-2
= 20. Sicily's capital 7-3
21. Evergreen shrub 8-4
= 22. Get the better of 6-2
= 23. Santa guide? 7-2

12 - em bry o

19 - ar row

13. Su pe ri or

8. Tim buk tu

14. Ha noi

14. Ha noi

16. Wis con sin

Hi Dan.

2. ec ru good morning soot

22. Out wit - Hi Soot

Bernie

9. sus pect

3. su perb good night soot

23. Ru dolph good morning soot

Good morning Remi, Bernie and manXman

Yes to all

1. as par a gus

Right on OldBroad

Have a wonderful day

11. De brief

Bernie

Yes Bernie

7. un der foot

Yes indeed Marian

20. Pa ler mo

6. O jai good evening soot

Good morning manXman

Yes to you and Michele

5. per ti nent

10. in de pen dence

Hi Dan.

17. it er ate good morning soot

18. sal a man der

15. op er a tion