WILD CARDS
TEASERS IN ESSENCE
The following passage is pretty nonsensical for sure, but aside from that and the fact that it is composed entirely of four-letter words, can you ascertain the other quality that links each and every individual word?
Able camp crew (“Tent Team”) take mile trip late, lick warm lips, wipe hips, urge idle talk—“Ever have cold corn ears wine? Hell, even ours will kill mall kids’ lice!”—poke tall pine, mash hard lime tick, nail nits, wish ired hare well, park cars, hire cabs. Andy pays.
—SCOTT ERDMAN
WORDPLAY REPEAT AFTER ME…
Each of the clues below leads to an answer that has something in common with each of the other answers. Can you determine the words and what they have in common?
1. Chocolate-covered treat
2. Dance with a kick to it
3. Middle Eastern grain
4. Bygone bird
5. Success Kid or Grumpy Cat, e.g.
6. Hushed sound
7. Hawaii’s state bird
8. Tropical banana-like fruit
9. Seafood sauce
10. Dangerous fly
—STU AGLER
WORDPLAY ANIMAL SWAPS
We’ve taken a list of 16 movie titles containing and would have changed to and . Can you figure out which pairs of titles have had their animals swapped and restore the original titles?
