FACEBOOK WORD PUZZLES #1401-1500
To help
celebrate having reached the 1400 plateau I am introducing a new word puzzle
called “Split Definitives” that features words that can be defined by their
constituent parts. For example, if the clue read “marijuana residue” (6) (a), you’d be looking for a 6 letter word
where one of the 2 parts starts with an a. The answer here is “potash: which
can be divided into “pot” + “ash.” I
first developed this concept in a series of articles I published more than 20
years ago in National Lampoon. These
“split definitive” are now featured in my recently released book Wordplay:Arranged and Deranged Wit in
the chapter “Word Definitions.” The book is now available in bookstores like
Barnes & Noble and online at Amazon.
Here is the
first “split definitive.” 1401-
Conclave of Mafia bosses (7) (t)
1402- Name a country
that has an acronymic origin
1403-Discern
the convergent words: end-stern-room end-work-bow end-nest-ring
Here is the second “split definitive.” 1404-Fog over Warsaw (8)
(m)
1405-Name a 2 word anagrammatic word that means change what
you eat
1406- Discern the convergent words:
dance -jerk-rubber bear-fully-idleness rock-skin-tears
1407-Split Definitive Puzzle icicle (12) (e).
1408--Name a 2 word anagrammatic word that could be a slang expression for the tire industry tread trade
1409- Discern the convergent
words: ring-shield-cream light- diamond-bare family-line-money
1410-Split Definitive Puzzle fashionable religious denomination (6)
(s)
1411-What do these words have in common?
blurb-boondoggle-lilliputian-gas
1412-Discern the convergent words: train-bonus-boat up-cinnamon-tax snap-watewr-coat
1413 -Split
Definitive Puzzle battle cry (7) (w).
1414- What do these words have in common?
endears-costumier-hominal
1415- Discern the convergent words: bug-cinnamon-cat peas-ten-hem crossing-referee-mussel
1416 -Split Definitive
Puzzle- great hooter (9)
(s)
1417- What do these words have in common?
budgie-piano-cab
1418-Discern the convergent words: cake-claw-complain as-sage-house stick-borne-bite
1419 Split Definitive
Puzzle- priestly promises (9)
(v)
1420-Name a 2 word anagrammatic word that means a possible result of a shortage of
analgesics
1421- Discern the convergent words: hole-wounded-brace plant-time-about check-less-cat
1422 Split Definitive
Puzzle- bankroll a psychic (14) (f)
1423- What do these words have in
common? date-celery-cereal-butter-fish-pecan
1424- Discern the convergent words: wedding-master-burnt garlic-up-fly loops-less-fully
1425 Split Definitive
Puzzle- What Pizarro caused (12)
(d)
1426-Name a 2 word
anagrammatic phrase that represents a verbose way of saying forever
1427- Discern the convergent
words: bad-relations-lust pencil-hammer-arrow pie-bean-stone
1428 Split Definitive
Puzzle- cease wrath (8)
(a)
1429 -Name a 2 word anagrammatic word that means a strapping many-headed
snake
1430- Discern the convergent words: woman-arctic-coal wife-white-rose woman-walk-arctic
143- Split Definitive
Puzzle- constriction (8)
(s)
1432- What do these words have in common? anger-berserk-ugly
1433- Discern
the convergent words: bare-under-down purple-broken-less pilot-ate-oil
1434-Split Definitive
Puzzle- in favour of conception
(11) (c)
1435- What do these words have in common?
morose-sepal-peony-defer-claim-heroin
1436-Discern the convergent
words: arm-land-girl pole-black-vanilla water-pickled-salad
1437-Split Definitive Puzzle-
barbecue chicken (7)
(h).
1438-Name
a 2 word anagrammatic word that means a small hunting bird
1439- Discern
the convergent words: sea-fat-boy sea-whistle-sit dog sea-boo-brain bird
1440-Split
Definitive Puzzle- what you might ask an arsonist (6)
(a)
1441-Name
a 2 word anagrammatic word that means an
ideal older student authorized to enforce
discipline
1442- Discern
the convergent words:
waiter-war-wear
fog-freeze-fart
calf-car-coerce
1443- Split
Definitive Puzzle- anti-dog (6)
(c)
1444-Name a
2 word anagrammatic word that means part of a metallic element
1445- Discern the
convergent words: night-speckled-white up-loft-horse
medal-sea-gang
1446-Split
Definitive Puzzle- Reagan campaign slogan (8) (e)
1447- What do these names have in common? Cedric-Fiona-Jessica-Pamela -Stella-Vanessa
1448- Discern the convergent words: flags-flask-friends thumping-war-cold chestnut-angel-horse
1449-Split
Definitive Puzzle average bullfight cheer (6)
(o)
1450- What do these words have in common? robot-superman-witticicm-intensify
1451-Discern the
convergent words: alight-ocean-bird riot-foot-cat fink-her-desert
1452-Split
Definitive Puzzle- obvious number
(8) (o)
1453- Name a 2 word anagrammatic word that
means a dry foray
1454- Discern
the convergent words: jack-say-American jack-pot-lemon jack-soda-animal
1455- Split
Definitive Puzzle thrash
thoroughly (9) (b)
1456--Name
a 2 word anagrammatic word that means solicitous
defilement
1457- Discern
the convergent words: rope-snow-drive top-atoll-string ate-
gym-shirt
1458- Split
Definitive Puzzle-love boat (10)
(f)
1459- What do these words have in common? interregnum, transmigration, chrysanthemum
1460- Discern
the convergent words: magic-soup-cap bad-crate-beater pot-festival-trap
1461- Split
Definitive Puzzle - command falsehoods (9)
(o)
1462- What do these
words have in common? mojo-celery-gravy
1463- Discern the
convergent words: mother-party-pea islands-wharf-yellow dung-cigarette-racing
1464- Split
Definitive Puzzle- battle room (6) (d)
1465- What do these words have in common? racquet-chiropractor-mandate
1466- Discern
the convergent words: art-fly-up sandwich-Canadian-crisp Indian-field-snake
1467- Split
Definitive Puzzle centurion’s
twitch (8) (r)
1468- What do these
words have in common? capital-kowtow-cabbage
1469- Discern
the convergent words:
duck-off-poker do-pin-oil bend-cap-fore
1470-Split
Definitive Puzzle undiscovered atomic
particle (9) (s)
1471- What do these words have in common? chagrin-cavort-hippopotamus
1472- Discern the
convergent words: wood-whip-hook worker-line-keeper cavil-entry-us
1473-Split
Definitive Puzzle-What you do when you have a flat (6)
(r)
1474- What do these
words have in common? gruff-bumpkin-frolic
1475- Discern
the convergent words: my-east-got pound-ash-hot
salad-spring-sweet
1476-Split
Definitive Puzzle-Insect hallucinogen
(7) (a)
1477- What do these
words have in common? adder-nickname-umpire
1478- Discern
the convergent words: page-jet-bled page-ten-hole nation-reich-horn
1479-Split Definitive Puzzle- Imply negative response (7)
(n)
1480- What do these words have in common?
homophone-monster-anode
1481- Discern the convergent
words birds-wooden-roll fore-work-boot
beach-bound-stiff
1482-Split Definitive Puzzle Entomological quorum (7)
(t)
1483-What do these book titles have in
common? House of Mirth, The Sun Also
Rises Go Set a Watchman
1484- Discern the convergent
words in-dial-on cap-fracture-numb stem-cramp-less
1485-Split Definitive Puzzle-Fashionable
religious denomination (6) (i)
1486- What do these words have in common? Clerihew-bowler-Pilates
1487- Discern the convergent
words up-need-my flour-a-flower almond-tea-dog
1488- Split Definitive Puzzle Run of the mill petty quarrel (9) (p)
1489-Name a 2 word palindromic phrase that
could describe what Canute tried to do
1490- Discern the convergent
words at-on-fruit cinnamon-baiting-tolerate crossing-fly-hunter
1491- Split Definitive-Start of
the pot (9) (d)
1492- Name a 2 word anagrammatic phrase that explains who
gets what
1493- Discern
the convergent words a)man-corn-bad b)per-blue-wood c)black-oil-horse
1494- Split Definitive Puzzle - harberdashery holdup (9)
(h)
1495-Name 3 words of at least 8 letters only comprised of letters that occur twice
1496- Discern the convergent
words university-inner-shrine tennis-grease-macaroni tissue-pizza-pale
1497- Split Definitive Puzzle –Owns sled (7) (h)
1498-What do these words have in common?preternatural-antemundane-idiosyncratic
1499- Discern the convergent words ballet-glass-house pin-clip-rod eye-sweat-hop
1500- Split Definitive Puzzle-barer (6)
(o) These “split definitive”
are now featured in my recently released book Wordplay:Arrangedand Deranged Wit in the chapter “Word
Definitions.”The book is now available in bookstores like Barnes & Noble
and online at Amazon
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