The two lists of clues lead to answers which are very similar. In fact, every answer in the left column is the same as the corresponding answer on the left, except with a double letter. The answer pairs are:
- HOPPED/HOPED
- TREES/TRES
- CORRAL/CORAL
- HUMMUS/HUMUS
- NAAN/NAN
- DINNER/DINER
- TEENS/TENS
- CANNON/CANON
- HATTER/HATER
- BALLED/BALED
- BY YEAR/ BY EAR
- SLIMMING/SLIMING
- HAARLEM/HARLEM
- STARRED/STARED
- NEW YORK KNICKS/NEW YORK NICKS
- TAXIING/TAXING
- INN/IN
- RAGGED/RAGED
These doubled letters, in order, spell out PERMANENTLY MARKING. This is a clue for SCARRING, which can have it’s double R removed to form the answer SCARING.
Hi – This isn’t about this puzzle, but I didn’t know how else to contact you.
First – LOVE the Sierpinski TriBond puzzle! (We love fractals and I love the TriBond game!)
We (KeoFam) were out of town and missed the Meta for June and first puzzle for Aug, so today (8/7) we were racing to try to be first on Sierpinski TriBond, and entered fast without capitalizing the K and F on our name. It seemed to recognize us anyway since it pulled in our scores, but it made 2 lines for us. Sorry about that!
And Thanks so much for all these puzzles!!! The boys and I love them, and they make Mondays more fun 🙂