Q: There is a set of five five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter. If the middle is any letter from K through O, it makes a common word. However, no other letter can go in the middle to complete a word. What words are these?The first and last words are somewhat similar.
A: HOKEY, HOLEY, HOMEY, HONEY, HOOEY
Change the penultimate letter in the film title to an R and rearrange. The result is a plural for something else that can move and consume food.Q: Take the name of a popular 21st-century film with animals, in eight letters. Remove the first and last letters, then change one of the remaining six letters to a C, to spell a plural word for certain animals. What words are these?
A: ZOOTOPIA, OCTOPI
Take the 4th letter of the country and change it to a G. Rearrange to get the name of a popular liquid.Q: Take the 10-letter (2-word) title of a popular TV series for which most of its seasons have been filmed in a foreign country. Remove the first and last letters, and the remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the name of a country. What are the two names?
A: LOVE ISLAND --> SLOVENIA
Take the hyphenated term and add the letters M and R. Rearrange to get something you don't want to see in your food.Q: Name two words that are opposites. They share a single letter. Remove that shared letter from each word, put a hyphen between the two resulting words and you'll get a term you sometimes see in food ads. What words are these?
A: SLOW, FAST --> LOW-FAT
Add the letter D to the city and rearrange to get a former sports team in the same state.Q: Think of a U.S. city with a two-word name. Add a letter to the first word, without rearranging letters, to name a country. Then, without adding a letter, rearrange the letters of the second word to name another country. What places are these?
A: LOS ANGELES --> LAOS, SENEGAL
Change the last two letters in the first word to a vowel and rearrange everything. The result is a word that describes most of this post.Q: Take the name of a nocturnal creature, in two words. The first word is a spooky sound. Move the last letter of the first word to the start of the second word and you'll get another spooky, nocturnal sound. What is the creature and what are the sounds?
A: SCREECH OWL —> SCREECH, HOWL
Normally I'd have something to add here, but today it's the opposite.Q: Name something in 10 letters that's found in a kitchen. Drop its sixth letter to name something on a keyboard. Then drop the new word's fifth letter to name something no one wants to get. What words are these?
A: BACKSPLASH, BACKSLASH, BACKLASH
There are many words that can be created from those letters, e.g. reminiscent, trespassers, creaminess, seamstress, etc.Q: Rearrange the letters of "NECESSARY MISPRINT" to spell a familiar phrase.
A: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS ("Thus Always to Tyrants")
Clue: DolourQ: Name a classic song with a two-word title. Drop the first letter. Add an R after the new first letter. The result will be the names of two countries one after the other. What song is this?
A: PIANO MAN --> IRAN, OMAN
Q: Think of a famous female singer (eight and four letters, respectively). The first syllable of her first name, the second syllable of her first name backward and the last name forward again are all verbs associated with human desire. Who is this singer?Rearrange all the letters in her name to get an instrument and a type of belt.
A: COURTNEY LOVE --> COURT, YEN, LOVE
