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ENDWISE

S-->Z

WIZENED, of course!

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and, by the way, who's down there?
..nobody, but us Dweebs...and Chaz Dean, and then there's Paula with 2 e's(WhoGnu?) and the rest of us who just got off DasBoot from Zweden with Anna (the Aunt Zest-or? of Kris?) Christie)...don't say another word..we want to be alone

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D-->B

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This is a family Board, you know.

EBONIES

I-->C

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BEACONS

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DEACONS

If at first you don't succeed, try

dropping the A

SECOND

(What's on}

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CORNEA

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ENCORE

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ENCORE

E ---- > R

I don't know what's around the

CORNER

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Well, almost everyone, anyway.

CORNIER

R-->C

PORCINE

...went "Whee!!" all the way home.

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P ---- > F

who PINES for him/her ...

CONIFER

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Oh, the L with it!

CORNFIELD

(but I think we'd better start cutting down after this)

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..said the one who was

UNIFORMED

Let's do it one at a time ...

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M-->S

FOUNDRIES

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..are people who like to

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FUNDRAISE

- S


FREUDIAN

Hope I didn't send us down another dead-end strasse

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FREUDIAN

E-->A to UNAFRAID might well be a dead end, but

drop A

UNFIRED is what my pots are before they go into the kiln

(at least they still have a job...)

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UNFIRED

N > G

FIGURED


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U ---- > N

...that stuff on top was

FRINGED ... but when I thought FREUDIAN could go to UNFRIEND (what we do for FACEBOOK, apparently), then it was UNFIRED that would have been next

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I thought UNFIRED was going to go to FRIEND,

and here FRINGED could go there too.

But who am I to point a FINGER at anybody?

The concept is (D-->O) FOREIGN to me.

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FOREIGN

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.. for foreign shores, If to shore they were keeping, would their sails be

REEFING

Sidebar? ...Is one who FEIGNS a FEIGNOR?, asked the cagy lady in the PEIGNOIR

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TREEING

One firecracker is an INTEGER. How do we light it? With an

E-->I

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...they made me go on stage when I thought I should have been

RESTING ... but then a bee got in to my dressing room ...ooh!

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...they made me go on stage when I thought I should have been

RESTING ... but then a bee got in to my dressing room ...ooh!

N ---- > A

...which made your performance much

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A ---- > U

..your clever riposte, it'd've been TRAGIC ...alas! I'll have to (in Dowson's phrase) go with the wind ... even when it gets

GUSTIER (tho' that's a coward-ly --and less gutsy -- way out!)

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GUTSIER

I've been sitting in the same place far too long and I'm

E-->N

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..sounds like you were like Practical Pig, thinking your Heavy Metal garb would stave off all the elements ... but you were too


TRUSTING

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G > A


NATURIST


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T ---- > B

Calcutta and New Delhi was a turbanned

URBANIST

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URBANIST

B ---- > C

as opposed to a

RUSTICAN

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