Visual Description: A scary entrance at the Halloween party.
EGGAU = GAUGE, CILRY = LYRIC, TUIFLE = FUTILE, HARTHS = THRASH — Giving us: GIFTHR
Clue/Question: When the beauty queen became a witch for Halloween she was a . . .
Answer: “FRIGHT”
(I always have a problem with the word “gauge”. I’m always trying to spell it “guage”! How many “au” words are pronounced with the hard A sound? Also, in the Clue/Question I would have used “looked” instead of “was”, but that’s probably just me. Happy Halloween!) — YUR
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Hey– the quotes are back. They must have had the extra space and ink. OK.
They definitely had the space today! Single word, 6 letters! Funny thing is, did this answer really require quotation marks?
YUR