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LukeJavan8 #205241 03/23/2012 4:48 PM
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LARDIER

A-->L

DRILLER

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R > A

RALLIED


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RALLIED

A-->B

ILL-BRED

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ILL-BRED

B ---> G

GRILLED


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D > R

DRILLER



There must be something more esoteric, but tonight
I cannot find it


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DRILLER

R-->D

RIDDLER

(or was is a Superman arch-villain?)

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R > B


BRIDLED


Batman: the villain left riddles for the Bats and Robin as
clues to what he was/is (he's still in the comics) doing.


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BRIDLED

+ N

BRINDLED


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D > S


BLINDERS


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BLINDERS

B-->W

SWINDLER

(like this ! Play the two clips in order, just for fun.)

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SWINDLER

R ---> S

WINDLESS


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WINDLESS

If you are going slowly downhill, or if you simply enjoy ill health, you may have the Creeping DWINDLES.

Or if you encoiunter Harry Potter's famous Expelliarmus spell you may end up WANDLESS.

But I think I prefer sailing, sailng, over the bounding main, so I need a

WINDLASS

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Where are you sailing?
Caribbean?

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ISLANDS


It is amazing how three of us on here in the same 20 minute
period can throw a monkey wrench into creations. I was still
working on Wrinkled for a post 4 up.

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ISLANDS

D ---> G

Keeping the nautical theme, may you have many happy

SAILINGS


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SAILINGS

I-->E (except before sea?)

GLASSINE

(so you can see out the pilot's cabin. Actually it could have been "ISINGLASS" but the E here gives more potential moving forward...)

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-E

SIGNALS


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SIGNALS

+ O

LASSOING


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L > E


AGONISES

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AGONISES

"Render unto Caesar..." to be sure, but even before that, give back that which was

ANTIGONE'S

(followed, after a pregnant pause, by N-->A GESTATION)

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ANTAGONISE


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STAGNATION

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STAGNATION ( = ANTAGONIST )

A-->N

STATIONING

(I'm not sure I like the way this is (or isn't) leading...)
(I don't see much after INSTIGATION)

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G > A

SANITATION


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T...>M

ANIMATIONS

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ANIMATIONS

- O

MAINTAINS


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Amazing how close that is to MARTINIs. And MANHATTANs, too.

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All I am getting is deja vu.


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A tin man is...

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc


A tin man is...


and/or

Originally Posted By: Rhubarb Commando


MAINTAINS


-S

AMANITIN

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I > R

TRAINMAN


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drop one N

MARTIAN


(To follow MAINTAINS I had concocted A-->O NATIONISM. Yours is better.)

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I see your Martini now, Wofa but will go different word

M---->Z

TZARINA

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RADIANT


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RADIANT

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ARTISAN

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A--->H

TARNISH


(I was tempted to make it TARZAN'S)

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T > V

VARNISH


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VARNISH

-R

VANISH

(lazy option! Could have been +e = ravenish, but that's a 'made up' word)
edit: or a - e = shriven!

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No more lazy than

V > B

BANISH


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BANISH

+ E

BANSHIE


(BTW, 'gulag' is a greatly misused word. It is a Russian acronym for "Government Department of Prisons")
[which, of course, doesn't invalidate your use of it, above!!]

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What is BTW?

Me sainted grandmother spelled it this way:

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BANSHEE


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