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..but not quickly enough, I guess...
I'd seen this earlier, but couldn't CHIME IN ..
wanted to re-echo DEAD RINGER with a reference, nay a paean, to Jerry Garcia, no doubt a DEAD SINGER ...who's now being ..with an eXtra S ..
RESTRAINED .. & for whom at least one bell tolls ..When my daughter & friends followed them, I'd joke that I'd be grateful when they were dead, but I was truly sorry when he was
PS: I enjoyed the jokes ..truly SCROANers but good'un's!
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... but does it take us anywhere?
RESTRAINED
R --> P
PEDESTRIAN
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PEDESTRIAN
N ---- > L
..and it may put us up on the roof, as some chimneys easier for Santa to see are
PILASTERED
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PILASTERED
E --> O
DEPILATORS
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DEPILATORS
- S
..Their quartet,called The Depilators, just became a solo act
DEPILATOR
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DEPILATOR
L ---- > H
..for the quartet's demise was that local interest simply
ATROPHIED
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We could take APHRODITE and change H to Z and make
TRAPEZOID
but I don't think I want to, 'cuz it takes away too many options for nextwording.
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Next, I wanted to make THERAPOD. There ought to be a dinosaur of that description. Only it turns out that's spelled "therOpod.
How about
ATROPHIED/APHRODITE
drop P
ATHEROID
Obscure, but real.
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ATHEROID
H ---- > S
..than an
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