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Bait and Switch

Posted By: Urban Worrier

Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 02:39 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.


AILMENT

-1. Glutinous substance, basis for glues etc
-2. Fill with air
-3. People who deliver your post
-4. Safka, singer most active early 1970s
-5. Afternoon performance of a play or film
-6. French-language Swiss daily newspaper
-7. Pigment that accounts for dark colour of hair, skin etc.
-8. People confined in prison, hospital etc
-9. Never surpassed
-10. Long-term prevalent weather conditions
-11. Dirges, sad songs
-12. Country at the eastern edge of the Indochinese Peninsula
-13. Covered with, spread over
-14. Great joy or happiness
-15. Compound material that bends when heated, previously used in switches etc
-16. Type of solid inorganic substance with a characteristic crystalline form
-17. To kindle, incite, rouse
-18. Keratinal growth
-19. Involves
-20. The slender tower of a mosque
-21. Wood, actress
-22. Anthropoid
-23. Flickering or glowing softly
-24. Of or relating to the immediate surroundings
-25. Feature providing comfort, convenience etc
-26. Period of time between two closely-related events
-27. Bring to life
-28. Regardless of hour, date, etc., whenever
-29. To embed, infix, entrench
-30. Fibrous scleroprotein constituting the major part of tissues such as the walls of arteries
-31. Prominent, conspicuous, or striking
-32. Highly original, influential, and important
-33. Glen Campbell sang about being one of these
Posted By: soot

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 04:38 PM

3. Mailmen think
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 04:44 PM

Contrived but correct! lol
Posted By: curly

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 05:15 PM

2. inflate

17. animate

33. lineman

Hi Rog.
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 05:27 PM

Hi Remi!

All good smile (Not sure if you meant 27 and not 17, but I'll take it as 27 anyway)
Posted By: LadyKestrel

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 05:40 PM

11. laments
Posted By: bermag45

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 05:51 PM

5. Matinee

8. Inmate wave

Bernie monky
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 06:26 PM

Bernie, Lady K - good calls! smile
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 06:44 PM

26. time-lag

30. elastin

wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 06:48 PM

Indeed, michele ! smile
Posted By: oldbroad

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 06:52 PM

19. entails

21. Natalie wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 07:04 PM

Looks good to me, oldbroad! wave
Posted By: OrleansBelle

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 09:04 PM

4 - Melanie

20 - minaret
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/25/21 09:26 PM

Excellent, OB! smile
Posted By: Redz

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/26/21 01:53 PM

31. salient wavegirl
Posted By: curly

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/26/21 02:55 PM

12. Vietnam
Posted By: Cue

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/26/21 03:29 PM

25. amenity wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/26/21 05:16 PM

Joan, Remi, Cue - all good! wave
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/26/21 07:15 PM

22. manlike

23. lambent smile

Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/26/21 09:00 PM

Indeedy! grin
Posted By: Koala

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/27/21 02:18 AM

14. Elation
28. Anytime

smile
Posted By: curly

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/27/21 06:53 AM

1. gelatin

6. Le Matin

29. implant

Morning Rog.
Posted By: OrleansBelle

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/27/21 11:47 AM

7 - melanin

17 - animate
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/27/21 12:45 PM

18. toenail

24. ambient

32. seminal

wave
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/27/21 06:08 PM

What a great selection, folks! praise

Marie, I took Remi's "animate" for #27 - there's another word that's similar to "animate" but means sort of "stoke up passions" think
Posted By: soot

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/27/21 10:37 PM

Are we bending the "G-Rating Rules" for #27 Rog? wink
Posted By: manxman

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/27/21 11:14 PM

17. inflame wave
Posted By: curly

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/28/21 07:44 AM

9. alltime??

10. climate
Posted By: michele rose

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/28/21 11:29 AM

13. mantled

16. mineral

wave2
Posted By: Urban Worrier

Re: Bait and Switch - 04/28/21 05:33 PM

Me soot? rotfl

Great tidy-up everybody! bravo
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