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Bait and Switch

Posted By: Urban Worrier

Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 05:19 PM

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 two or three.

MONSTER

-1. Final
-2. Those who complain
-3. Rowers
-4. Arthur, author of Swallows and Amazons
-5. Suffocate
-6. Part of a woodworking joint
-7. Rats, mice etc.
-8. Breastbone
-9. U.S. state
-10. Comedy horror film about giant worms
-11. Legislator, statesman
-12. 110 of these were "close at hand"
-13. Deliverers of mail
-14. Part of a hi-fi turntable
-15. Homilies, often religious
-16. Man regarded as the master of an art
-17. "Have you seen my wife, __ _____?" ( New York Mining Disaster 1941)
-18. Hoodlum
-19. Quack medicine
-20. Georges, author of the Maigret detective novels (made bit of a rat's armpit on this one - sorreee)
-21. Reduce in length
-22. Window divider
-23. American punk rock band
-24. Shaving of the head
-25. Insulated vacuum bottle
-26. Sedition, subversion
-27. To inflict suffering
-28. Inters
-29. Large or important church or cathedral
-30. Carried out an attack or assault on
Posted By: curly

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 05:48 PM

5. smother

18. mobster

26. treason

Hi Rog.
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 06:01 PM

Hi Remi - good start! smile
Posted By: bermag45

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 06:43 PM

1. Ransome

2. Moaners

3. Oarsmen

Hi Rog, nice puzzle, thanks wave

Bernie monky
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 07:34 PM

I think you meant #4 for Ransome, Bernie. (At least I'll assume you did! lol )
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 07:49 PM

16. maestro

17. Mr. Jones

wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 07:57 PM

Looks good, michele! wave
Posted By: oldbroad

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 08:15 PM

7. rodents

25. thermos wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 10:11 PM

Nice ones, ob! bravo
Posted By: LadyKestrel

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 10:11 PM

Rog,
To make #20 work, you have to change two letters.
Simenon
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 10:15 PM

How embaressing (yet again!) - I had it down as Simonet for some reason think

Many thanks LadyK !
Posted By: manxman

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 11:15 PM

8. sternum wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/08/21 11:20 PM

Indeed! thumbsup
Posted By: Koala

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 04:20 AM

6. Mortise
13. Postmen
19. Nostrum

wave
Posted By: OrleansBelle

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 12:43 PM

8 - sternum

15 - sermons
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 01:03 PM

12. cornets (you got me singing that tune now whistle)

14. tone arm
Posted By: Redz

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 01:04 PM

9. Vermont
11. senator wave
Posted By: manxman

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 01:43 PM

28. entombs wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 06:07 PM

A terrific selection and everyone a winner! praise
Posted By: manxman

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 07:00 PM

21. shorten wave
Posted By: Lex

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 07:04 PM

10. Tremors
23. Ramones
24. tonsure
catrub
Posted By: curly

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 07:16 PM

1. endmost

23. Ramones

27. torment

Hi Dan.
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 10:33 PM

Still the hits keep coming! Not many left now... grin
Posted By: manxman

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/09/21 11:33 PM

22. transom wave
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/10/21 01:37 AM

29. minster

30. stormer

wave2
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 01/10/21 11:09 AM

Nice finish, the pair of you! grin

I had "stormed" michele, but near enuff
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