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Stephen Sniderman created this feature. He is professor of English at Youngstown State University, contributing editor to Games magazine and Games World of Puzzles, and author of Language LoversWord Puzzles (Sterling Publishing, 2002) and Stanley Newman Presents Grid Play (Random House, 2003).  
SOMETHING MISSING  

Each item below represents a familiar two-word phrase from which one letter has been removed. The remaining letters have been re-spaced to make a new “phrase” (that won’t necessarily make sense). Thus, PARDON ME might show up as PAR DOME; POCKET CHANGE could be POCK ETCH AGE. (In both cases, an N has been left out.) Your job, of course, is to find all the original phrases. As a solving aid, the letters have been omitted in pairs, so if you find a D omitted from one word in a puzzle, a D will be omitted from exactly one other word in that puzzle.

For a printer-friendly file with more SOMETHING MISSING puzzles, click on the link below. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file.

 
   

1. GOT RIP =
2. BUSTER IN AL =
3. OR CHEST RAPT =
4. RABBI TEAS =
5. GO ALL IN =
6. BUT HERB LOCK =
7. HIRE PLACEMENT =
8. MAD ENVOY AGE =
9. ORE STRANGER =
10. TOM ATOP ATE =
11. GO DO MEN =
12. OWL IN GALLEY =
13. AL ARC LOCK =
14. SEAR CHAR TY =
15. EVE RATER =
16. TEAL EVES =
17. BUM PINT =
18. BOO TERSE AT =
19. LEA FLOWER =
20. GET LET OUCH =
21. LOSES HAVE =
22. FAR MAIM AL =
23. TEASE VICE =
24. TUN AS LAD =

 
   
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