Change the 3rd and 5th letters of the last animal and rearrange to get another animal.Q: Name an animal in five letters. Add two letters and rearrange the result to name a bird in seven letters. Then add two letters to that and rearrange the result to name another animal in nine letters. What creatures are these?
A: LLAMA, MALLARD, ARMADILLO
I believe in behavior which is positive and helpful.Q: Name a famous European tourist site in nine letters. Rearrange its last four letters to name something that its first five letters can be planted in.
A: ACROPOLIS, A CROP can be planted in SOIL
Pour out a sunrise smile!Q: Think of an 11-letter word that might describe milk. Change one letter in it to an A, and say the result out loud. You'll get a hyphenated word that might describe beef. What is it?
A: PASTEURIZED --> PASTURE-RAISED
Q: Think of a word meaning "delay." Remove one W from it and you'll be left with another word meaning "delay." What words are these?Read carefully, if you don't want to be delayed.
A: STONEWALL --> STALL
I can't be the only one that is having trouble in clueing the answer to this puzzle. That's assuming you aren't already having trouble in hearing the distinction between an unvoiced and voiced dental fricative.Q: In English the two-letter combination TH can be pronounced in two different ways: once as in the word "booth," the other as in "smooth." What is the only common English word, other than "smooth," that ends in the letters TH as pronounced in smooth?
A: MOUTH (verb)
Q:Who has been scouring lists of islands or bodies of waters?Name a famous island in eight letters. Remove three consecutive letters. The letters that remain, in left-to-right order, will name where many islands can be found -- but not this one. What is this island, and where can't it be found?
A: ATLANTIS, ATLAS
ChatGPT isn't much help, or is it?Q: Take the name JON STEWART, as in the comedian and TV host. Rearrange the letters to spell the titles of three classic movies. One of the titles is its familiar shortened form.
A: JAWS, ET and TRON
After we've gotten the answer, we'll be the judges of whether this was a good puzzle or not.Q: Think of a famous singer and actress, first and last names, two syllables each. The second syllable of the last name followed by the first syllable of the first name spell something that can be dangerous to run into. What is it?
A: BARBRA STREISAND --> SANDBAR
Their last names being similar is not a coincidence.Q: Think of two classic music artists with multiple top 40 hits. Their first names are near-synonyms. And their last names are both game pieces. Who are they?
A: FATS DOMINO, CHUBBY CHECKER
Been there, done that.Q: Name a famous sports figure of the past (5,4). Change the third and fourth letters of the first name to a single D, and you'll have the nickname of another famous American of the past. Who are these two people?
A: LARRY BIRD, LADY BIRD (Johnson)
