ANIMAL IN THE MIDDLE

Provide one common five-letter word with the given animal’s name in the middle. Alternate answers may be possible. (e.g., Ewe. Answer: Sewer, fewer, newer, jewel.)

Freshman level

1. Rat

2. Owl

3. Ram

Graduate level

4. Eel

5. Ape

6. Ant

Ph.D. level

7. Bat

8. Cow

9. Emu

Answers: 1. Wrath, crate, irate, grate, brats. 2. Lowly, bowls, howls, jowls. 3. Frame, drama, tramp, cramp, grams. 4. Feels, heels, reels, peels, keels. 5. Paper, tapes, taper, taped. 6. Wants, Santa, pants, canto, Bantu. 7. Abate. 8. Scowl, scows. 9. Femur, lemur.

— North America Syndicate