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or just rely on blind chance:

PLOTTER

P --> Y

LOTTERY

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..absolutely!

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POTTER

R --> A

TEAPOT
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Oops. Back up, there - we should be continuing from UTTERLY ((probably below your screen when you went PLOTTER to POTTER,Luke)

UTTERLY

Hear through the land: Y not

TURTLE


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T > C


TOECAP


Okey dokey. Teapot became toecap, probably for same reason.
So TURTLE it is

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B ---> S

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BELARUS

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S > C


CURABLE



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CURABLE

C ---> L

...for example

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..but hopefully not long-lasting

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DURABLE

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BLURRED

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BLURRED

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..the die was cast, but then had to be cast again, so to speak..it wouldn't play by its initial rules? Some things don't fit the mold

RERULED ..and the emperor rethought his earlier pronouncement ..and ordered everyone to drive a FIAT 550

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..Charybdis & Scylla had a certain attraction, but Ligeia & Leucopia were more compelling

LURED

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..caused me to shout in surprise and a bit of fright

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BLURTED

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TROUBLE

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...A.K.A. I'm not sure I believe you, and again I'm not sure I believe you

BOULDER

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REDOUBT

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..and insistent on remaining so

OBDURATE

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OBDURATE

U ---- > P

..and went to court

PROBATED ..for a while I feared I'd put us in a verbal cul-de-sac, then saw this way out

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PROBATED

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PREDATOR

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...can't hear OBDURATE without thinking of Koko and Tit-Willow :-)
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PREDATOR

D --> O

OPERATOR
Just forget about this call
You can keep the dime.
(Same song in its own way, come to think of it...)

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OPERATOR

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..to public speaking, let me conclude

PERORATE

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OVERRATE


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..lies across; I'd call it a bridge, but that might be OVERSTATING it

TRAVERSE

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REVERTS

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EVEREST

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- E

..then turn it upside down; at this time of year, an apple cart is something one readily

EVERTS

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..the words, Mr Browning

VERBOSE

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..then OBSERVED that OBVERSE and VERBOSE have same letters; be it

RESOLVED .. that I can be called an OBSERVER ..whereas in tennis I'm at best a LOB SERVER (to say nothing about being EVER a SLOB)

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DESOLVED


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V ---- > R

..and fastened together again

SOLDERED

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ORDERED


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O ---- > I

..I'd point out that you dealt not with the L, Luke..but I don't want to be a

DERIDER ..I thought you'd have gone for SOLDIERED but you fooled me ..Let's roll on

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