Like a good neighbor, a letter can sometimes “spell” a tired buddy by taking its place in a word. That’s what’s happened in this puzzle, and your job is to send the good neighbors home, thanking them for the house-sitting. Each set of four words below represents a familiar two-word phrase, such as GOOD NEIGHBOR. If you correctly combine two of the words in the set, and correctly change one of the letters in that combination, one of the words in the phrase will appear. Then, if you repeat that process with the other two words, the other word in the phrase will appear.

For example, in #1, combine the OF and GO, reverse the order, change the F to D, and GOOD appears. Then combine NEIGH and BOO in their present order, change the second O in BOO to R, and NEIGHBOR appears.

As a solving aid, letters can only replace their neighbors—those that are one, two, or three “houses” from them in the alphabet. For your convenience, the alphabet (without the Q) has been listed in a circle below. Notice that A is a neighbor with Z, Y, and X, as well as B, C, and D.

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