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Here's another puzzle of cryptic puns for the language-obsessed. (Okay, for myself.) Each question/statement has two solutions which sound or look alike. Example: Q. One who attacks during a moment of silence? A. preyer/prayer.
1. Supervision of a mistake?
2. One's totally of no value, the other's not as valuable as it was.
3. A poem about a battery terminal?
4. A consumer crusader hits rock bottom?
5. Being pursued but remaining pure?
6. Angrily opposed to a cheap place for travelers to stay in?
7. Make a pleased sound as a military junta takes over a government?
8. An inflamed gingiva aching after you eat a certain cereal grass?
9. A burden on you and me?
10. One drug becoming another?
11. A portal that can mesmerize you?
12. Pull a weapon on an ancient Japanese leader?
13. Attacks on stringed instruments?
14. Take up again a summary of your work experience?
15. Maternal figures sending electronic mail to Muslim religious leaders?
16. Your other self joins you in marriage?
17. A scoundrel found in the main aisle of a church?
18. Burping after eating a certain kind of waffle?
19. Out in the country in a type of valley in Germany?
20. A variety of people going underwater?
21. A cry you emit when you suddenly discover that you smell?
22. Items to be discussed at a New England meeting dealing with a particular sex?
23. Not permitting one opponent to speak and getting physical with another?
Answers: 1. oversight/oversight 2. worthless/worth less 3. an ode/anode 4. Nader/nadir 5. chased/chaste 6. hostile/hostel 7.coo/coup 8. sore gum/sorghum 9. onus/on us 10. morphine/morphing 11. entrance/entrance 12. show gun/shogun 13. violence/violins 14. resume/resume 15. e-moms/imams 16. alter ego/altar ego 17. knave/nave 18. belchin'/Belgian 19. rural/Ruhral 20. divers/divers 21.agender/a gender 22. muzzling/muscling
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