Puzzle 57
What proverb is hidden below?
Llamas often overlook khaki bagels. Every furry orangutan relishes eating yummy orange umbrellas. Leopards enjoy aquamarine parsnips.
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Puzzle 58
By changing the second letter of each word below, you can make another valid word.
Can you change each word such that the second letters will reveal an eleven-letter word when read downwards?
Therefore, what now reads 'awpydnucepa' will be a real word.
bake
swap
opal
dyed
idle
snow
lump
aces
melt
spun
rant
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Puzzle 59
Combine the word fragments below to produce pairs of words that have opposite meanings. There are 9 pairs of words, one pair on each line.
For example, USE REF EPT ACC becomes ACCEPT + REFUSE.
AB ANT RCE SCA UND
WA RY RD BR ICE CO AVE
ETY NG SAF ER DA
ACT AND CO EXP NTR
WN US UNK NO MO FA
TR TE IBU HER GAT DIS
CAL HO RI RTI TAL VE ZON
TIO AL CID EN ENT INT NAL AC
OWL OR KN IGN GE ED CE AN
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Puzzle 60
Below you will find 9 well-known five-letter words, with only their endings remaining.
Once you have found the words, their initial letters are an anagram of a 9-letter word.
What is the word?
--xic
--ien
--nre
--ppo
--pil
--loo
--day
--uip
--elf
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