Around the World



Let me take you on a trip around the world.
Each of the following sentences defines the clues to a city
somewhere on our world. See if you can find them.

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1. My last three letters are 'hard & cold'. Remove my first two letters,
and you have a word meaning 'minutely accurate'. What city am I?

2.  My last three letters 'obstruct'. Add the first to the last three and you
get one of the Cartwright brothers. What city am I?


3.  My last three letters 'make older'. Remove my first six and you get a
word meaning 'fix firmly and stably'.  What city am I?


4.  My last four letters are 'a greater amount'. My first two added to my last two gives 'denuded of leaves'.  What city am I?

5.  My last four letters are 'a term for a town'. Remove my first three and
you get a word meaning 'overplay'.  What city am I?


6.  My last three letters are 'the sound of a hound on the scent'. Remove
my first four and you get  'an explosive device'.  What city am I?


7.  My last four letters are 'people in general'. Remove my first three
and you get a word meaning 'neither'.  What city am I?


8.  My last four letters mean 'luminous cloud'. Remove my first four
and you get a  'Mexican food'.  What city am I?


9.  My last four letters mean 'combine into a common fund'. Remove
my first four and you get a word meaning 'highly reverberant'. 
What city am I?


10. My last five letters are 'submitted in a competition'. Remove my first
five and you get a word meaning 'assembly of 13 witches'.  What city am I?


11. My last three letters are 'division of an ocean'. Remove my
last three letters, and you have an 'aquatic bird'.  What city am I?

12. My first five letters are a 'rotating frame'. Remove only my first
letter, and you have a word meaning 'a strike with a golf club'. 
What city am I?

13. My last four letters are 'droppings'. Remove my last three letters,
and you have a word meaning 'a group'.  What city am I?

14. My last four letters are 'a quantity of no importance'. Remove my last
three letters, you find a word that's short for a 'family member'. 
What city am I?

15. My first three letters are a 'communication network'. Remove my
first four letters, and you have a 'daisylike flower'. 
What city am I?

16. My first three letters are a 'unit of time'. Remove my first
eight letters, and you have some 'Chinese distance measures'. 
What city am I?

17. My last five letters are 'formed by a reaction'. Remove my
last seven letters, and you have an 'Island in the Irish Sea'.
What city am I?

18. My first four letters are 'elegant and stylish'. Remove my
first four letters, and you have a word meaning 'in the past'. 
What city am I?

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