The following puzzle first appeared in June 1998.
We are looking for six-letter words that begin consonant-vowel-consonant, and where the omission of the first vowel leaves an unrelated five-letter word. Your task is to find the word pair from the sketchy definitions given. For example, "stately home/location" would refer to "palace/place."
- deduce/steer
- pressure/attire
- cabling/twist
- dull/deliver
- spin/annoy
- captains/schemes
- freebooter/ramble
- locating/sharp pain
- harangue/commerce
- roof of mouth/dish
- embrace/vegetable
- stitchery/live it up
- metal shaving/binge
- figure of speech/grin
- horizontal/backbone
- full DNA pattern/elf
- assistant priest/wooden box
- Middle Easterner/strike
- secondary street/wide
- early release/member of the masses
- ancient theorem/light refractor
- trig function/infrequent
- Indian instruments/luminaries
- regional governor/leather band
Golomb's Answers:
- derive/drive
- duress/dress
- wiring/wring
- boring/bring
- gyrate/grate
- pilots/plots
- pirate/prate
- siting/sting
- tirade/trade
- palate/plate
- caress/cress
- sewing/swing
- filing/fling
- simile/smile
- supine/spine
- genome/gnome
- curate/crate
- Semite/smite
- byroad/broad
- parole/prole
- porism/prism
- secant/scant
- sitars/stars
- satrap/strap
