A CrossingWord Puzzle, Sort Of

[ZutAlors!]

I was pondering word-game alternatives to the 3X3 puzzle, and I came up with this. I doubt the idea is totally novel, but it might be fun. This puzzle us all about assembling longer words out of shorter ones. Below you'll see 36 words. The challenge is to assemble "crossingwords" by grouping sets of four words around a single letter to make two new words. Confusing? Here's an example:

EXAMPLE
Start with these eight words: Bun, Can, Led, Line, Pies, Ran, Stereo, Tramp .
These eight words can be seperated into two crossing groups to create four new words, just with the addition of G and O:

code:

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   s


   t        t


   e        r


   r        a


   e        m


   o        p


bunGled  canOpies


   r        l


   a        i


   m        n


            e

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So there are now four new words: stereogram, bungled, trampoline, and canopies. As well as a fifth: GO
END EXAMPLE

See what you can come up with using the words below. Like the example, the additional "internal" letters will spell a word (a nine-letter word, natch). By the way, there is at least one repeat "internal" letter. I'll keep tabs and post and de-bold correctly used words. Ready, set, GO:

Apes
Belly
Bled
Breech
Day
Eels
Fest
Gram
Have
Hill
Ice
Lands
Late
Latte
Lint
Lop
Loth
Man
Mate
News
Phone
Ping
Ration
Ream
Redo
Repo
Rest
Sack
Ski
Skin
Sting
Subs
Tab
Table
Tea
Wind

CORRECT WORDS:

code:

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    l                                    l


    a        s          s                a


    t        u          k       s        n


    t        b          i       k        d


    e        s          n       i        s


newsReels manIfest bellyFlop teaMmate iceCream


    d        s          l       p        a


    a        t          i       i        p


    y        i          n       n        e


             n          t       g        s


             g


    r         r           w         h


    e         e           i         a


    s         d           n         v


    t         o           d         e


gramOphone tabUlate breechCloth repoRtable


    r         b           h         s


    a         l           i         a


    t         e           l         c


    i         d           l         k


    o


    n

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Final word (anagram of RIFMCOUCR) is (invisible)CRUCIFORM(/invisible)



[This message has been edited by ZutAlors! (edited 03-02-2002 07:52 PM).]

[Lucky Wizard]

dayDream
newsReels

and "apes" and "bled" are likely endings, and "redo" and "repo" likely beginnings.

[Suspence]

sackCloth
manIfest
tableCloth
bellyFlop
teaMmate
iceCream
haveRhill (its the name of a city in MA, probably not well known enough to count.)
landsCapes

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[This message has been edited by Suspence13 (edited 03-01-2002 11:34 PM).]

[Milt]

Rest-O-ration
Gram-O-phone

[ZutAlors!]

Updated: Nearly halfway done already.

[Sofis]

skiMping

[Icarus]

If you accept hyphenated words
LatteR-day

Also
TableCloth
SkiPping

Takes out skipping after finding out skimping was the correct choice



[This message has been edited by Icarus (edited 03-02-2002 02:18 PM).]

[ZutAlors!]

Skimping and latterday it is.

I was intending to shy away from hyphenated words, and, indeed, dictionary.com gives both "latterday" and "latter-day" as entries.

[Icarus]

Reposting

TableCloth

Since I edited after you posted.

And how about
SubsIsting
TabUlate
SkinFlint

And just in case Tablecloth is wrong, how about
BreechCloth
RepoRtable



[This message has been edited by Icarus (edited 03-02-2002 03:00 PM).]

[Icarus]

And just in case you are using cities

HaveRhill, MA

And I found
Redoubled


[This message has been edited by Icarus (edited 03-02-2002 03:21 PM).]

[Icarus]

And the last I found is
RedoUbled

But now that only leaves Sack & Wind with a C

So maybe Haverhill is wrong ?

So let's clean up those last three

RedoUbled
WindChill
HaveRsack

[This message has been edited by Icarus (edited 03-02-2002 03:37 PM).]

[Ghost Post]

Which would make the final word cruciform

[ZutAlors!]

And that finishes it up. Goodness, that went faster than I expected; I guess this was a little easier than I thought it would be.