Word Cracker December 2022

(1) BELLBOY: an attendant in a hotel who performs services such as carrying guests’ luggage.

(2) ROBE: a long, loose outer garment reaching to the ankles.

(3) ELDER: (4) DELIVERER: (5) VILLAGE: (6) VOYAGE:

(7) LAVA: (8) LEI: a Polynesian garland of flowers.

(9) EARWIG: (Noun) Any of the numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen.

(10) EMBALMED: preserved a corpse from decay.

(11) DAMASK: (Adjective) Having a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it.

Why don’t we fill up those blanks above with the following words:

(12) TIGHTS: (13) NETWORK: (14) REMINDER:

(15) PREHEAT: (16) PATRON: (17) TARPAULIN:

(18) LUNAR: (19) PRUDE: A person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to nudity or sex.

(20) AVAILED: (21) JAIL: (21) PUFFS:

(22) FEW: (23) GAUZE: (24) TAXI:

(25) PIQUE: (26) COERCE:

Find out the meaning of GAUZE and PIQUE.

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Now let us try to do this challenge:

What can the first word be? P; 12; 7; C; 15; P; 15; C; 7.

Answer: PRECIPICE: A very steep rock face or cliff.

With that done, we discovered EELS and a SERPENT, very still, that seemed to be at that spot for an ETERNAL time.

Then an ANT appeared. “SIR,” I asked, “What have you discovered?” “A FEATHER,” the ANT replied, “It floated on to the shore from the SEA, and looks like a FEATHER from the cap of an EARL.” “An EARL!” I replied, shocked that an ANT could know so much about dukedom and the royals.

I looked closer at the ANT and noticed a tiny BANDAGE of leaves on one of its feelers. “What happened there?” I pointed at its BANDAGE.

“A THUG from an enemy - the fiery red fire ant,” the ANT replied, “that ant DELIVERED a sting that really hurts.”

Carry on with this story with the following words: ABOUT; MADDEN; TOOLBOX; AFAR; WHISK; AXIS; WEASEL; STEER; ELMS; REVIEWS; TOWNS; JILTS; AND QUEASY.

第一个字是什么？ ; 12; 7; C; 15; ; 15; C; 7.
答案：PRECIPICE：非常陡峭的岩壁或悬崖。
完成后，我们发现了 EELS 和一条蛇，它们非常静止，似乎在那个地方停留了永恒的时间。
然后一只蚂蚁出现了。 
“先生，”我问，“您发现了什么？” “一根羽毛，”蚂蚁回答说，“它从海里漂到岸上，看起来像伯爵帽子上的一根羽毛。” “一位伯爵！”我回答说，一只蚂蚁 竟然对公爵领地和皇室成员了解如此之多，这让我感到震惊。
我仔细观察了那只蚂蚁，发现它的一个触角上有一根细小的树叶绷带。 “那里发生什么了？”我指着它的绷带。
“一个来自敌人的暴徒——火红的火蚁，”蚂蚁回答说，“那只蚂蚁被刺痛了。”
用下面的字继续这个故事：ABOUT; MADDEN; TOOLBOX; AFAR; WHISK; AXIS; WEASEL; STEER; ELMS; REVIEWS; TOWNS; JILTS; AND QUEASY. 

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We are on our own now.

Fill up the cells above with letters forming meaningful words, the only clue being a ” T ” for the number 24.

我们现在靠自己了。
用构成有意义单词的字母填满上面的单元格，唯一的线索是数字 24 的“T”。

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The answers to the following challenges are given to us. Can we now trace the sequence of the words forming the answers?

Like ICICLE as the first word for the first challenge where only ” C ” for number 21 is the clue.

为我们提供了以下挑战的答案。我们现在可以追踪构成答案的单词顺序吗？
像 ICICLE 作为第一个挑战的第一个单词，只有“C”代表数字 21 是线索。

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The clues here are 2 for ” O ” and 4 for ” L “. The first word is therefore SOULLESS.

这里的线索是 2 个代表“O”，4 个代表“L”。因此，第一个词是 SOULLESS。

(1) SOULLESS;

(2) LUST;

(3) ASTUTE;

(4) ???

(5) ??? and so on.

(27) ???

(28) SYRUP.

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” U ” (20) and ” S ” (26) are given clues. ‘NURSED’ is the first word. Next?

“U”（20）和“S”（26）给出了线索​​。 “NURSED”是第一个词。下一个词是怎么呢？

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Given: ” B ” and ” T “.

First word: BETTER

Last word: CRUX

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Clues: ” M ” and ” G “.

MERGER; Is the next word GREEN? No. Think again.

The next word is AGREE.

Then ARENA.

ANKLES.

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Given: ” P ” and ” R “. “OPPRESS” must be the correct first word.

Next?