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LENDERS
L -> D and we're off to
DRESDEN
(Maybe I should have said "we're off to China!")
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DRESDEN
N ---- I
Such a voyage is immer to be
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DESIRED
D -> R
SERRIED
(As in
"...Her warriors in serried ranks assembled
Never quail (or they conceal it if they do)
And I shouldn't be surprised is nations trembled
Before the mighty troops, the troops of Titipu!"
-- The Mikado, Act I)
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REFRiED/FERRIED
R -> L
FIELDER
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FIELDER
- E
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FURLED
F ---- > C
..we put away those sails, but kept alert, tho' on ice, pushing a stone 'til we
CURLED ...or did we CURDLE?
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CURLED
L -> T
Not with voice so sweet, with tone so
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DULCET
L ---- > D
..1040?
DEDUCT
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CAYUSE
C -> N
UNEASY
(Funny how you can go from here to both NAUSEA and QUEASY...)
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I think that you are more than
UNEASY
I think you are getting
N > Q
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QUEASY
Y ---- > R
..kids used to be considered
SQUARE ...but there was more at the root of it
Hey, Luke..glad you're better..hope this choice of words doesn't bring a relapse
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A SQUARE
a>i
was always there to be my
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SQUIRE
+ E
..an honorific is added to each name ...no guarantees about magazine covers, tho'
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ESQUIRE
Q -> S
Publish it again, please:
REISSUE
(jj: It doesn't just go to QUEASY. Highlight the bottom half of my UNEASY post...)
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the pompous law graduates who required the pomp term ESQUIRE were, after intensive -> <- QUERIES years later, were found to be in jail. Dang, Wofa...now I guess you'll find wrong is my use of "QUERIES" 
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QUEERS
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QUEENS
E -> I
SEQUIN
(What, me? See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, is my motto. Unless, of course, it suits the purpose...I'll just squiggle around and see if I can steer us to REISSUE again from the back door!)
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SEQUIN and/or REISSUE
At ease ...smoke 'em if you got 'em ...
I'd add a T or deduct the U ...
Unless we need an
INQUEST ... to see which word is the last in the SERIES ...then it's Left Face ... and you, Private ...it's your other left ...
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INQUEST + O makes...
Just what was the QUESTION again?
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QUESTION
Just an honest answer is all that we are
o>g
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QUESTING
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GUESTING
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SAUTEING
U -> R
TANGIERS
I think we've been here before...
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TANAGERS
...that I'm to swap the T for an M ...giving
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MANAGERS
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GRANDMAS
Take a bow, ladies!
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...we'll have the whole troupe
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PARADIGM
P ---- > L
..love song, coming down in 3-part harmony
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DIAGRAM
G ---- > L
Aye, aye, Sir ...
ADMIRAL (I used to love diagramming, but compound/complex could get really com-plicated!)
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I was good at it but did not much like it.
L > D
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BARMAID
D ---- > M
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