It's Friday the 13th! Each of the words in 1-13 have had a word removed from them. The definitions of the removed words are in a-m. Find the removed words and then place them in the blank spaces to recreate the original 13-letter words. The words will fill in the ‘-‘ without changing the order of the letters. Example : Fa-h-o-mo-g-- with a. transgressor = sinner, answer = Fashionmonger.

-1. --a-v-rte--ly
-2. --con--m--ate
-3. -e-f--tion--t
-4. -h--ecr-ppi--
-5. bio--cha--c--
-6. m-lf--c--on-d
-7. --ns--l-c-omy
-8. -lt--n--iv-ly
-9. --gis-r-t-o-s
-10. mis--r-ep--o-
-11. --nt--loqui--
-12. -i-cumv-n--o-
-13. --a-tbr-ak--g

-a. delay
-b. lowly
-c. in this writing
-d. realism in the arts
-e. lavatory
-f. set in from a margin
-g. concise summary
-h. remember
-i. lout
-j. carbonate
-k. jelly ingredient
-l. relative, affectionately
-m. wraparound garment

6l malfunctioned (auntie)

13/c heartbreaking (herein)

7/e. tonsillectomy (toilet)

3G. perfectionist (precis)

1F. Inadvertently (indent)

9 h - registrations - (retain)

12/ i - Circumvention (cretin)

Bernie

All correct so far!

4 m. sharecropping (sarong)

Good answer, michele!

8j. alternatively (aerate) hi Pandie

Hi manxie! Good answer!

2 a. Decontaminate (detain)

5 b. Biomechanical (menial)

10 k. misPErCepTIoN (pectin)

Excellent solves! That leaves only 11d.

11d. ventriloquist (verist)

Yes, Marian!