Russian Dolls: Answers

The Oxford Word Challenge

Answers

1. Put an insect into tarts to make underwear.
ant + pies = panties.

2. Put a word for ‘always’ inside an animal to get excited.
ever + fish = feverish.

3. Put a word for ‘representing’ inside an insect to make a word meaning ‘earlier’.
for + bee = before.

4. Put a word for ‘exists’ into your artistic inspiration to make a word meaning ‘ill-treat’.
is + muse = misuse.

5. Put the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet inside the residue of burning to make a word meaning ‘like a monkey’.
pi + ash = apish.

6. Put a condiment inside a word for ‘each’ to make a collection of psalms.
salt + per = psalter.

7. Put a heavenly being into a game to make a word for eternal.
angel + chess = changeless.

8. Put a word meaning ‘moved quickly’ inside a French house to make a tough stone.
ran + gite = granite.

9. Put a word for ‘on’ inside a dog to make a line on a map.
onto + cur = contour.

10. Put human males into a doctrine to make a block of flats.
men + tenet = tenement.

11. Put a silicate mineral inside a word for ‘talented’ to make a word meaning ‘friendly’.
mica + able = amicable.

12. Put ‘to rise’ into a peel to make gliding on a wide parachute.
ascend + paring = parascending.

13. Put a large vase into a gratuity to make a vegetable.
urn + tip = turnip.

14. Put a conjunction inside a male admirer to make a headband.
and + beau = bandeau.

15. Put a negative inside a number to make a projecting piece of wood.
no + ten = tenon.

16. Put a word meaning ‘insert’ into access to make artistry.
interline + pass = painterliness.

17. Put a word meaning ‘perform’ into miraculous food to get the Virgin Mary.
do + manna = Madonna.

18. Put a song inside a fishy man to make a ship conveying merchandise.
chant + merman = merchantman.

19. Put a coarse word into chronic alcoholism to make dry periods.
rough +DTs = droughts.

20. Put a word for vomit into an evangelist to make one sign of pregnancy.
retch + St Mark = stretch mark.

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