UNSCRAMBLE THAT WORD!
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Another double-liner, but to make up for it there shouldn't be anything particularly obscure.
YEASMORS / SOUD / RUESAE / ISET / EPHIDOZSHN
TUSERVE / PACEUNT / LCAMNUJ / EUMR / NAUCRI
1. Five Greek gods and (in corresponding positions below) their Roman counterparts. (Letters remain within their rows.)
YEASMORS / SOUD / RUESAE / ISET / EPHIDOZSHN
TUSERVE / PACEUNT / LCAMNUJ / EUMR / NAUCRI
1. Five Greek gods and (in corresponding positions below) their Roman counterparts. (Letters remain within their rows.)
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I thought I probably knew all these, but am terribly stuck, here. You know that feeling you get, when you've apparently got off to a good and easy start, but the remaining letters just aren't conducive to any further progress? 
8 / ZEUS / 6 / ARES / HEPHAESTOS (remaining letters YMOSSOUDRIEIDN)
7 / JUPITER / 7 / MARS / VULCAN (remaining letters TERECEUNUMNAUC)
So, "Dionysus"/"Dionysos" comes easily out of the remaining Greek letters, but Bacchus is nowhere to be found (and there was never a B in the first place), and so on.
I see that Ares/Mars might be Hera/Juno, but don't see that this will help ...
8 / ZEUS / 6 / ARES / HEPHAESTOS (remaining letters YMOSSOUDRIEIDN)
7 / JUPITER / 7 / MARS / VULCAN (remaining letters TERECEUNUMNAUC)
So, "Dionysus"/"Dionysos" comes easily out of the remaining Greek letters, but Bacchus is nowhere to be found (and there was never a B in the first place), and so on.
I see that Ares/Mars might be Hera/Juno, but don't see that this will help ...
I'm so sorry - I fed it into an online scrambling tool and didn't check it properly afterwards - some letters seem to have been replaced. The final two are
HESSNERO / DMOEIP
EYCNPUE / MNTREUR
Many apologies if you've been tearing your hair out. I've used that scrambler before so I don't know what went wrong
ETA: I did have Dionysus in there at one point so maybe I managed to remove the wrong letters at some point
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Ah, those are better "remaining letters", for sure - thank you: that gives us some who looked (from their lengths) as if they belonged there.
POSEIDON / ZEUS / HERMES / ARES / HEPHAESTOS
NEPTUNE / JUPITER / MERCURY / MARS / VULCAN
POSEIDON / ZEUS / HERMES / ARES / HEPHAESTOS
NEPTUNE / JUPITER / MERCURY / MARS / VULCAN
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No problem ... thanks for the replacement letters.
VOLCANO INK / KHAKI TORTS / THERAPY HARLOT / VIOLIN KILOGRAM
1. Two former world champions and two who narrowly missed
2. All four were trying to win the same world championship (not all at the same time)
3. Only three are still alive (one is over 80, now)
VOLCANO INK / KHAKI TORTS / THERAPY HARLOT / VIOLIN KILOGRAM
1. Two former world champions and two who narrowly missed
2. All four were trying to win the same world championship (not all at the same time)
3. Only three are still alive (one is over 80, now)
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VOLCANO INK / KHAKI TORTS / THERAPY HARLOT / VIOLIN KILOGRAM
1. Two former world champions and two who narrowly missed
2. All four were trying to win the same world championship (not all at the same time)
3. Only three are still alive (one is over 80, now)
4. The first died in his 50's, and his country was part of another country when he lived there
5. The second is the youngest, and British, but lives in his wife's country
6. The third is a politician
7. The fourth was born in 1931 and lives in Switzerland
8. The first and third are the two former world champions
1. Two former world champions and two who narrowly missed
2. All four were trying to win the same world championship (not all at the same time)
3. Only three are still alive (one is over 80, now)
4. The first died in his 50's, and his country was part of another country when he lived there
5. The second is the youngest, and British, but lives in his wife's country
6. The third is a politician
7. The fourth was born in 1931 and lives in Switzerland
8. The first and third are the two former world champions
UNTO / WIRYUB / KILOLITER
GAGAD / YEEKD / TAROT
1. Three animals
2. The top row shows the names by which they were known to the public.
3. The bottom row shows the animals' real names. (Since the real names all happen to contain five letters, their position doesn't matter. The solution is to be found by using all the letters in the puzzle.)
4. Two of these animals were known through movies. The third (though it may have appeared in an occasional film) was mainly a circus or sideshow attraction.
5. One of the movie animals appeared in 15 movies under different character names, but I have given the most famous character name. It was through playing that character (known by every man, woman and child on the planet) that the animal received its only onscreen credit.
GAGAD / YEEKD / TAROT
1. Three animals
2. The top row shows the names by which they were known to the public.
3. The bottom row shows the animals' real names. (Since the real names all happen to contain five letters, their position doesn't matter. The solution is to be found by using all the letters in the puzzle.)
4. Two of these animals were known through movies. The third (though it may have appeared in an occasional film) was mainly a circus or sideshow attraction.
5. One of the movie animals appeared in 15 movies under different character names, but I have given the most famous character name. It was through playing that character (known by every man, woman and child on the planet) that the animal received its only onscreen credit.
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Floundering, here ... there are hundreds of these. Every time I think of a possible one, there's something wrong with it. Uggie (played "Jack" - no "J"). Keiko (played Willy - no 5-letter character-name) ... I've even found a terrier who appeared in 15 movies and he doesn't fit, either ...
But well done with the chess players.
But well done with the chess players.
Does that mean that you can take letters from either row? If so I get...
TOTO / ****** / *********
TERRY / ***** / *****
...which ain't much, but it's all I've got!
I AM DECLARING THIS SCRAMBLE OVER!
I fouled up the spellings. For one thing, I was thinking the whale's name was "Willie," whereas it was "Willy." There is no point in putting you people through more agony. The answers were (should have been):
TOTO / TERRY
WILLY / KEIKO
GARGANTUA / BUDDY
Will someone else please provide another scramble? I think I should retire from this game.
I fouled up the spellings. For one thing, I was thinking the whale's name was "Willie," whereas it was "Willy." There is no point in putting you people through more agony. The answers were (should have been):
TOTO / TERRY
WILLY / KEIKO
GARGANTUA / BUDDY
Will someone else please provide another scramble? I think I should retire from this game.
I think I should retire from this game.
Don't say that... I managed to mess up my last one royally too! I'm surprised Alexa is still speaking to us
Here's one that shouldn't be too difficult
VEBSICBEAR / ATEGORJO / OULNUERAMIS / JRENTYAZG HLIMP
1. Four characters from a musical
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Oooh, don't worry - we got one each (sort of) anyway, and I'm not altogether sorry to see the back of that one, to be honest.
I know no more about musicals than I do about animals in movies ...
I know no more about musicals than I do about animals in movies ...
VEBSICBEAR / ATEGORJO / OULNUERAMIS / JRENTYAZG HLIMP
1. Four characters from a musical
2. This well-known stage musical premiered in London in the 1980s
Google allowed. How the hell else would one track down Bulgarian wine regions?
1. Four characters from a musical
2. This well-known stage musical premiered in London in the 1980s
I know no more about musicals than I do about animals in movies ...
Google allowed. How the hell else would one track down Bulgarian wine regions?
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Ok, I've read some T.S. Eliot, so I can manage, as it turns out ...
GRIZABELLA / MACAVITY / MUNGOJERRIE / BUSTOPHER JONES
GRIZABELLA / MACAVITY / MUNGOJERRIE / BUSTOPHER JONES
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Another easier one (I think) ...
UTILISE / ATTAIN / VAINALOHA
The three are in a row and have a few things in common
UTILISE / ATTAIN / VAINALOHA
The three are in a row and have a few things in common
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UTILISE / ATTAIN / VAINALOHA
1. The three are in a row and have a few things in common
2. I've listed them from North to South
1. The three are in a row and have a few things in common
2. I've listed them from North to South
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UTILISE / ATTAIN / VAINALOHA
1. The three are in a row and have a few things in common
2. I've listed them from North to South
3. They're countries
1. The three are in a row and have a few things in common
2. I've listed them from North to South
3. They're countries
3. They're countries
Cool, that's the jumping-off point I needed!
ESTONIA / LATVIA / LITHUANIA
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Can manage this one, having eaten it myself at the Hotel Sacher
EUROPE / AUSTRIA / VIENNA / SACHERTORTE
EUROPE / AUSTRIA / VIENNA / SACHERTORTE
