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Solitary Word

I am a solitary word, 5 letters long.
Behead me, and I am still the same.
Behead me again, and I am still the same.

What word am I?

Mischievous KC

Mischievous Casey is delighted when people write her name incorrectly.  She sounds so sincere as she very carefully spells it out: “C for chaos, A for arpeggio, S for scenery, E for empty, Y for ____.”

Which of the following words is she most likely to select to help with ‘Y’?

Young
Youth
Yacht
Yikes!
Yahoo!

Board Silly

See if you can figure out these words using the clues listed below. Each word ends with “BOARD.” Please note that numbers 4 and 5 are two separate words. Have fun!

1) Used with telephones
2) A place to advertise
3) Right-side of ship
4) Found around water
5) Old-time cars had two
6) Computers need them
7) College professor’s headgear
[...]

Chem Lab

I am a chemical symbol for an element.
This element was discovered in 1824.
I am a Spanish word without the accent.
Reverse me so I become a form of a common verb.

What symbol am I?

Double Blanks

Find two words, which are anagrams of each other, which complete this sentence:

Due to a recent outbreak of a _____ infection in the zebra house, the local zoo had to _____ their electron microscope correctly, to ensure rapid detection.

Name that Word

What comes next in this sequence:

fish, archer, scorpion, bull, virgin, ==?==

Cap Flap

Three men, Mr. White, Mr. Brown and Mr. Green, were in the habit of meeting in a local doughnut shop every morning for coffee and doughnuts.

One morning as they were sitting at their usual table, Mr. White remarked, “Hey, will you look at that.  We’re each wearing a colored baseball cap today.”  One white cap, [...]

Train Drain

On my local railway track there is a tunnel which is 5 miles long. A train, which was 440 yards long, entered the tunnel at a speed of 50 miles per hour. How long did it take for the whole of the train to pass completely through the tunnel?

Off with his head

Your task is to find the word that after taking its first letter away, means the same thing.

Example: Behead an animal and leave an animal (FOX, OX).

1. Behead a musical instrument and leave a musical instrument.

2. Behead a margin and leave a margin.

3. Behead to liquify and leave to liquify.

4. Behead to ascend and leave [...]

Reverse Rebus

We’ve all seen a rebus like “midstuckdle” (stuck in the middle). The following clues are “revrebuseserse” (rebuses in reverse). That is, the clues below are answers to rebuses which all use the “in” construction.

However, the original rebus from the clues below will actually form a word. For example, “Not old in actually existing” would be [...]