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Bait and Switch - hints for the lasr two...
#901298
07/15/13 11:14 AM
07/15/13 11:14 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 22,750
Bucks, England
Urban Worrier
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True Blue Boomer
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OP
True Blue Boomer
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 22,750
Bucks, England
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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 alterative spellings, some Brit-words, and a few that may need the Stitchionary. Plenty to go round, so feel free to grab a couple.
PRANCE
-1. Part of the eye
-2. Scottish mathematician
-3. Person of noble birth
-4. Retract (usually a statement)
-5. Mysterious, esoteric
-6. Tip, sway, lean to one side whilst in motion
-7. Horticultural saccharine secretion
-8. Armed cavalryman
-9. Unit of distance required to cause a heliocentric parallax of one second of an arc
-10. Military policeman
-11. Exhort, usually in a religious manner
-12. Savoury titbit Lose the "R" and give the "E" an acute accent...
-13. Three-beat collected gait of a horse
-14. Member state of the E.U.
-15. Disease of horses in which the horn of the hoofs becomes soft and spongy
-16. Hypnotic state
-17. Armoured tank
-18. Carried away, ecstatic Lose the "C" and gain a letter towards the end of the alphanet...
-19. Tax evader
-20. Soft furnishing
-21. Lined with mother-of-pearl
-22. Cowardly
-23. Hand tool consisting of a compound lever for grasping
-24. Tricky situation or predicament
-25. Friendly cartoon character
-26. Small package
-27. Large underground chamber
-28. Bizet opera
-29. Small RV
-30. Reindeer
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self.
I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Bait and Switch
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#901305
07/15/13 11:37 AM
07/15/13 11:37 AM
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Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 3,440
47.79N, 122.24W
BobH
Addicted Boomer
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Addicted Boomer
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Posts: 3,440
47.79N, 122.24W
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11. parsec 30. dancer 
Bob
As I've grown older, I've found that my memory is not as good as I used to think it was.
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Re: Bait and Switch
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#901480
07/16/13 03:42 AM
07/16/13 03:42 AM
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Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 13,701
Virginia
Jema
Adept Boomer
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Adept Boomer
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 13,701
Virginia
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6. careen 11. preach
Wouldn't that jar your mustard!
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Re: Bait and Switch
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#901497
07/16/13 06:28 AM
07/16/13 06:28 AM
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Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 12,380
Scotland
MsMercury
Adept Boomer
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Adept Boomer
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 12,380
Scotland
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7. Nectar
"It's not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts."  I'm not getting old....just 'Marvelously Mature'! 
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