Solution to 5: Opposites Attract

This is a word search puzzle where the letters of a word are adjacent but do not lie in a straight line. The first letter of each word is bold and the last letter has a period after it.




Each word starts on a different row and there is one word for each row. The remaining letters in each row can be rearranged to create the antonym of the corresponding word, except one letter is missing.

    OBTUSE - A(C)UTE
    CLEAN - SL(O)PPY
    CLOSE - OPE(N)
    SLACK - TAU(T)
    POLITE - C(R)ASS
    BIG - SM(A)LL
    THICK - TH(I)N
    BEFORE - AFTE(R)
    OFTEN - S(E)LDOM

Preserving the order and taking each missing letter spells "CONTRAIRE".


CONTRAIRE