Hi list,
I’m doing a puzzle consist of 40 questions. Able to find answers for 35 questions, but , couldn’t get for 7 Q’s..
please help.
1) A cook may use flour and eggs in making _____
   ( _ A _ T _ _ )
2)People may be deprived of the savings by a ______
   (T _ I _ _ )
3)Descibing something as _________ implies it has earned approval.
   (_ _ E _ L )
4)Famine can reduce people to _____ levels of subsistence.
   (_ I _ I _ _ L )
5)The rise of Hitler in the 1930’s was such an event for the world.
   (_ I _ _ S T E R)
6)_____ may disfigure the masonry of buildings in area of heavy industry
   (S _ O _ )
7) Most people ______ the makers instructions when they buy their first car
   (_ E _ D )

Thanks
Best Regards,
Parames.S

Hope these are of use:

1) A cook may use flour and eggs in making _____
   ( _ A _ T _ _ )

Batter

2)People may be deprived of the savings by a ______
   (T _ I _ _ )

Thief

3)Descibing something as _________ implies it has earned approval.
   (_ _ E _ L )

don’t know…

4)Famine can reduce people to _____ levels of subsistence.
   (_ I _ I _ _ L )

pitiful

5)The rise of Hitler in the 1930’s was such an event for the world.
   (_ I _ _ S T E R)

Disaster

6)_____ may disfigure the masonry of buildings in area of heavy industry
   (S _ O _ )

soot

7) Most people ______ the makers instructions when they buy their first car
   (_ E _ D )

read

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3)Descibing something as _________ implies it has earned approval.

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4)Famine can reduce people to _____ levels of subsistence.

Although Linnet’s pitiful fits here, from context I wonder if it’s not minimal they’re looking for.

Grant

"Ideal" seems a little too strong for "earned approval" - how about "swell"?

"I’ll buy a vowel, Pat."

It may also be SMOG, not SOOT, that disfigures masonry.  There’s not as much soot in the industrialized West anymore.  Smog can contribute to acid rain which really wreaks havoc on masonry and statues.

It would help to know the cross words to try to fit in their definition, unless the missing letters here are not in another word.

Daffynition:  CROSSWORDS— words one utters when one can’t finish a crossword puzzle.

I am an avid cruciverbalist.  Can’t live without the NYTimes puzzle ($10 a year to get every day’s puzzle online).

I think the best answers seem to be:
1. Batter
2. Thief
4. Minimal
5. Disaster (though my first inclination was "sinister")
6. Smog
7. I would say "read" or maybe "heed"

3 isn’t coming to me immediately, though I like "swell"

7 is a bit of a poser - "Need" fits the sense as well.

Other options:

Bend - the d*mn books are so big that they won’t always fit in the glove-box.  :)

Weed - there are always some errors to be removed.  :)

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3 isn’t coming to me immediately, though I like "swell"

Another of the joys of the OED on CD-ROM is the option of a wildcard search. It comes up with 176 headwords matching ??E?L (considerable repetition of the same word in different senses, however). Of these, only ideal and swell strike me as suitable.
Perhaps the test is whether the puzzle setter is more likely to have been using informal US or formal US/UK English?

Grant

Hi all,
THANKS a lot for ur help.
I just sent the puzzle.. I’m doing this type of puzzle every week (every day receive new puzzle)..

I would like to share this puzzle among the brilliants.. Please do guide me…

Once again, Thank you very much..

Best Regards,
Parames.S

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Another of the joys of the OED on CD-ROM is the option of a wildcard search. It comes up with 176 headwords matching ??E?L

:’(  My long-lamented and never-to-be-forgotten WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS did that too.

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:’(  My long-lamented and never-to-be-forgotten WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS did that too.

I think I just ran across a copy of that recently, either during a cleanup at the office or at home.  I think I kept the disks to recycle and chucked the docs and binder.  

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:’(  My long-lamented and never-to-be-forgotten WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS did that too.

We’ve discussed this before, looking for words without vowels.

Bryn

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:’(  My long-lamented and never-to-be-forgotten WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS did that too.

The lookup function on our main page will do this, as will the HM eReference software.

Brad