Q: Take the name of a fish. Add the name of a mammal. Rearrange all the letters to get the name of a reptile. What is it?The first letter of the fish and the first letter of the mammal end up together in the name of the reptile.
A: SALMON + TIGER --> GILA MONSTER
I've looked nearly all around my globe for bodies of waters that could be the last name of a singer.Q: Name a famous singer (6,6) whose last name is a body of water. And if you remove a letter from the first name you'll get a landform. What singer is this?
A: GEORGE STRAIT --> GORGE, STRAIT
You can also rearrange the 10 letters of the famous singer to get a color and an action.Q: Name a famous singer (6,4). Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right, is a word for some singing. What is it?
A: CAROLE KING --> CAROLING
The new 6-letter part can also be rearranged to get the last name of an actor whose first name starts with the same 5 letters as the author or athlete.Q: Think of a well-known author whose first name is nine letters long, and last name six letters. Change the first letter of the last name and anagram those six letters to spell a word. Now read everything together — the author's first name plus the anagram with a letter changed of the last name — and you'll get a certain professional athlete. Who is it?
A: CHARLOTTE BRONTE, CHARLOTTE HORNET
Q: Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. The result is two words describing what this place famously does.
A: STROMBOLI (an active volcanic island off Italy), STORM and BOIL
Take the name of a different animal, drop the fourth letter and you get another synonym.Q: Think of an animal in which the singular form of the female and the plural form of the male sound like synonyms. What animal is it?
A: DOE (dough) and BUCKS.
From the final body part remove any repeated letters (leaving only one instance of the letter). Add "IC" and rearrange to describe the state of some other body parts.Q: Think of part of the human body whose name is a compound word (like fingertip or toenail). Add an N and rearrange the result to get another part of the body whose name is also a compound word. What body parts are these?
A: EARDRUM + N --> UNDERARM
Change the penultimate letter to an S and rearrange to name things that some people might treasure.Q: The "zh" sound can be spelled in many different ways in English — like the "s" in MEASURE; like the "g" in BEIGE; like the "z" in AZURE; like the "j" in MAHARAJAH; and like the "x" in LUXURY as some people pronounce it. The "zh" sound can also be spelled as a "t" in one instance. We know of only one common word this is true of, not counting its derivatives. What word is it?
A: EQUATION
Add one more letter and rearrange to name something used for thousands of years.Q: Think of a five-letter word for things a lot of people complain about. Add a letter and rearrange the result to get an example of these things. Then add one more letter and rearrange to get a remedy for these things. Five, six, and seven letters, respectively. What words are these?
A: PAINS, SPRAIN, ASPIRIN
Drop the second and eighth letters and rearrange to get a word. That word could describe an item that was taken to a place also described by the word by someone whose name sounds like the original word.Q: Think of a common 8-letter word, in which the first three letters spell a word, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh letters also spell a word. These two little words mean the same thing. The fourth letter, when rotated 180°, becomes the eighth letter. What word is this?
A: shepherd --> she, her, p/d
