Saturday, June 29, 2019

wordplay - Bridge words 2 - word pairs linked by their front and back


I made a puzzle earlier (Bridge words), and thought I'd make another (encouraged by a request from @VictorHenry).



Find a pair of "bridge words" to fill in the gaps of the sentences below. Bridge words are words where the last $n\geq3$ letters of the first word are the same as the first $n$ letters of the second word. The words must then both be more than $n$ letters long ("hotshots-hotshots" would be a valid bridge pair ($n=4$), but "here-here" would not be).




For example:
Q: Sometimes we torture people. Sometimes we don't. We ______ our ______.
A: We intersperse our persecution.


Okay, here goes:



  1. Good climbers leave the _______ ________.

  2. I caught _____ of the person _______ in the pool.

  3. She lives far out on the ______, ______ from society.

  4. I could see that the glamorous lady was ______ _______ that caught the light.


  5. We've ______ all the evidence and concluded that alcoholism is _______.

  6. The dentist used an odd ______ to save information about her patient's ______.

  7. I was sick in the West Indies, but in the ______ I was the ______.

  8. I take a coat and dress out of the wardrobe, ______ the _______, and return them.

  9. Grimm's _________ was left ______ after the queen guessed his name.

  10. The king said to the regent: "I'll be back tomorrow, so you must _____ _______."


Hint:



$n$ is equal to 5 or 6.





Answer



Hooray! These seem harder but I'm making progress. Going to go ahead and post this to keep track of which ones I've solved so far.



  1. Good climbers leave the _______ ________.



mountain untainted





  1. I caught _____ of the person _______ in the pool.

  2. She lives far out on the ______, ______ from society.

  3. I could see that the glamorous lady was ______ _______.

  4. We've ______ all the evidence and concluded that alcoholism is _______.



gathered/hereditary




  1. The dentist used an odd ______ to save information about her patient's ______.




filename/enamel




  1. I was sick in the West Indies, but in the ______ I was the ______.



Antilles/illest





  1. I took two coats out of the wardrobe to ______ the two _______.



launder / undercoats




  1. Grimm's _________ was left ______ when the queen guessed his name.




Rumpelstiltskin/tsking




  1. The king said to the regent: "I'll be back tomorrow, so you must _____ _______."



govern overnight



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