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Another puzzle of cryptic puns for the language-obsessed. Each question has two answers which sound or look alike.
Example: Q. One who attacks during a moment of silence? A. preyer/prayer
1. Convinced a customer to buy a leather coat? 2. Sick to your stomach but still desiring food? 3. Computer-sent photo illustrating a long, heroic poem or story? 4. Lifting by tearing down? 5. One who foretells that he will make money on a business transaction? 6. Pet name for a sweetheart of Attila? 7. A set of rules for analyzing an ex-VP's dance movements? 8. Buy a sledgehammer at a shopping center? 9. Ogle one of Shakespeare's tragic heroes? 10. Put roadkill in the bag you take aboard the airplane? 11. The people at large react positively to politicians who play to them? 12. Sleeping loudly in an Arizona desert? 13. Cattle drivers lacking courage? 14. An unusual practice not desired? 15. A gallant knight meets a nit-picker? 16. What happened to Custer in 1876 and in a Catholic church last Sunday? 17. A purple gem fancied by a storyteller? 18. A public meeting place for a male speaker? 19. Sad call for additional blush wine? 20. Rotted viscera of a butchered animal?
Answers:
1. swayed/suede 2. nauseous/nosheous 3. e-pic/epic 4. raising/razing 5. prophet/profit 6. hon/Hun 7. algorithm/Al Gore rhythm 8. maul/mall 9. leer/Lear 10. carrion/carry on 11. populace/populists 12. snorin'/Sonoran 13. cowherds/cowards 14. unwonted/unwanted 15. cavalier/caviler 16. massacred/mass occurred 17. amethyst/a mythicist 18. forum/for 'im 19. morose/more rose 20. awful/offal
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