Word Play

Use the clues to solve each set below. The answer to the first clue is a single word, and each of the following lines contain two words that share all but two letters with the single word.

Example:
Spy's getup
Shadowy/tour leader
Platter/sagacious

Answer:
disguise
dim/guide
dish/wise


-1. Close examination
Thus/rebellion
Light brown/neat
Scour/publicity

-2. Kind of pause
Mine find/behemoth
Bluenose/granny
Primp/pretense

-3. Lipstick, e.g.
Food fish/army doc
Expense/Mr. Clapton
Kramer's first name/draw

-4. Money-raising event
Moray, e.g./cultural spirit
Inform/diluted
Principle/long, long time

-5. Baking dishes
Bulk/wears away
Make happen/darned things?
Cartoon ghost/auto pioneer

-6. Planted trees, shrubs, etc.
Homo sapiens/got away
Magician's prop/alarmed
Advances/frolic

-7. Work in harmony
Jeer/bootleg
Cut up/muse of poetry
Two-door car/ceremony
More hip/star pitcher

-8. Weather forecast stat
Rope fiber/deletion
Pace/disposition
Mess (with)/ shade of blue
Japanese dish/swivel

2. pregnant
ore-giant
prig-nana
preen-act

That's the way, Joan!

3. cosmetic

cod - medic
cost - eric
cosmo - tie

Yes!

8. temperature
hemp/erasure
tempo/nature
pester/azure
ramen/teeter

1. scrutiny
so / mutiny
ecru / tidy
scrub / ink

michele, good starts! Your first two lines are correct.

manxman, good job!

8. temperature
hemp/erasure
tempo/nature
tamper/azure
tempura/turn

Perfect!

5. casseroles

mass - erodes
cause - holes
casper - olds

Yes!

6. landscaped

man - escaped
wand - scared
lends - caper

7. .

4. telethon
eel/ethos
tell/thin
tenet/eon

Great solves! I had "erato" for #7.