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[spect8or]

Quote from Sparohok:

2: compulsive
4: kings
6: solipsism
12: friable
38: zero

(I also knew 1 and 17.)

Martin

You really knew "friable", or just looked up "brittle"? Come on, be honest!

9. Potemkin (didn't know the connection with "hollow", which is an interesting story actually, I'd just heard of a "Potemkin village")
13. Cynosure (I looked up "beacon")
20. Olber

 

[Sparohok]

Nice work!!

I knew there was a word something like "friable." I think I got there by searching for "frisable."

Martin

 

[spect8or]

7. Procrustes

 

[steve46]

Answers:

1. Strip: Mobius Bottle:Torus
2. obsessive:compulsive
3. Lacking moneyenurious, Doting on ones wife: solicitous
4. Mice:Men Cabbages:Kings
5. Tire: retread Parchment: Palimpsest
6. All is one: Monism All is self: Dualism
7. unknown
8. unknown
9. unknown
10. Pillar:Obelisk Monster: Baselisk
11: unknown
12. Gold:Malleable Chalk:Brittle
13. unknown
14. Legs: Ambulate Arms: Gesticulate
15. unknown
16. Hear: See Temporal: Spatial
17. unknown
18. Jekyll: Hyde Eloi: Morlock
19. Unknown
20. Stephen Hawking
21 through 24 unknown

Couldn't sleep. Took 10 min

Steve