Opposites Attract

Q:

Take the opposite meanings of these words:

Yeah             Asset                 Abundance             Key     

One result is two letters long and the other three are four letters long.  Rearrange the fourteen letters to get a common phrase relating to hard hitting or heavy lifting.

A:

The picture is a 'black locket'.  The opposites are Na, Debt, Lack and Lock.  Anagramming these gives you the solution.

Block and Tackle

1040 Short Form

Q:

The phrase "editors' guards" contains each vowel only once.  Change two of the vowels to e's for three e's total.  Rearrange the result to name something you might find in a bathroom or on  a bedroom nightstand.

A:


Drop the O and U, replace with E's and rearrange to "Reader's Digest".

Spring Fever

Q:

Arrange the vowels of the alphabet in a circular pattern like this:

A

U        E

O   I

Think of a spring flower in four letters with two vowels.  Shift one vowel clockwise one space and the other counter-clockwise one space.  Rearrange the result to name a different flower.  

Think of a spring flower in five letters with two vowels.  Shift the vowels in the same way.  Rearrange the result to name a part of that flower.

Think of a spring flower in six letters with two vowels.  Shift the vowels in the same way.  Rearrange the result to name the same flower.  There are several possibilities, but.....

This next flower is a species of the previous six letter answer.  Think of a flower in seven letters with two vowels, prized for its aromatic qualities.  Shift the vowels in the same way.  Rearrange the result to name the part of your body most attracted to this flower.

A:


The first answer is IRIS to ROSE.  The second is TULIP to PETAL.  For the third, any flower with adjacent vowels will work since you are merely switching the order.  ORCHID works but CROCUS was the intended answer and SAFFRON is attractive to your SNIFFER.