Create solutions for the clues by using the available syllables. A question mark after a clue denotes word play or trickery is afoot. The number of syllables in an answer is followed by the number of letters for each clue. Syllables are used only once.

After all of the numbered clues are correctly answered, their first and last letters, reading down, will reveal the puzzle's Sage Advice:.

Example: Syllable puzzle [4-12] (solution: syl + la + cros + tic)



Starting Syllables:
AL AT ATE CHIEF CI DI DI E E E ED EF ER FEN GROUP HEAT HEC I LEM MA NA NA NECK NO NUN O OUS RAP RE ROY RUPTS SAU STRA TEMPTS TI TIC TIVES TUM TUR WAP WI ZARK

Remaining Syllables:
ATE CI DI E E ED EF FEN GROUP HEAT HEC NA NUN RE RUPTS TIC TIVES

Sage Advice:

1. Emotional intensity [2-6]
= 2. Tries [2-8]
= 3. Small scarf [3-10]
= 4. Quandary [3-7]
5. Important man [3-7]
= 6. Imperial [2-5]
= 7. Layer [2-7]
= 8. Isaac's son [2-4]
9. Locals [2-7]
= 10. Elk [3-6]
11. Frantic [2-6]
12. Bursts out [2-6]
13. Reorganize [2-7]
14. Pronounce [4-9]
= 15. Actress Ryder [3-6]
= 16. ___ Mountains [2-5]
= 17. Ecstatic [3-9]

8. E sau

Hi Dan.

10. wap i ti good morning soot

2. At tempts - Hi Soot

Bernie

3. neck er chief

15. Wi no na good evening soot

4. di lem ma

16. O zark

6. roy al good morning soot

17. rap tur ous

7. stra tum good evening soot

Good moring manXman, michele, Remi, Marian, flotsam and Bernie

You are all correct!

Happy holidays

12. e rupts good morning soot

9. na tives

12. e rupts

Hi Dan.

13. re group

14. e nun ci ate

11. hec tic good evening soot

1. heat ed
5. Ef fen di good morning soot

H. Andersen--Where words fail, music speaks.