Fiendishly Difficult Word Game

These puzzles involve putting one word inside another word to make a third word.

Example: Put the woman into a young fox or lion to make an angel.
Answer: Put the word her inside the word cub and you get c-her-ub, that is cherub.

1. Put an insect into tarts to make underwear.

2. Put a word for ‘always’ inside an animal to get excited.

3. Put a word for ‘representing’ inside an insect to make a word meaning ‘earlier’.

4. Put a word for ‘exists’ into your artistic inspiration to make a word meaning ‘ill-treat’.

5. Put the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet inside the residue of burning to make a word meaning ‘like a monkey’.

6. Put a condiment inside a word for ‘each’ to make a collection of psalms.

7. Put a heavenly being into a game to make a word for eternal.

8. Put a word meaning ‘moved quickly’ inside a French house to make a tough stone.

9. Put a word for ‘on’ inside a dog to make a line on a map.

10. Put human males into a doctrine to make a block of flats.

11. Put a silicate mineral inside a word for ‘talented’ to make a word meaning ‘friendly’.

12. Put ‘to rise’ into a peel to make gliding on a wide parachute.

13. Put a large vase into a gratuity to make a vegetable.

14. Put a conjunction inside a male admirer to make a headband.

15. Put a negative inside a number to make a projecting piece of wood.

16. Put a word meaning ‘insert’ into access to make artistry.

17. Put a word meaning ‘perform’ into miraculous food to get the Virgin Mary.

18. Put a song inside a fishy man to make a ship conveying merchandise.

19. Put a coarse word into chronic alcoholism to make dry periods.

20. Put a word for vomit into an evangelist to make one sign of pregnancy.

From www.askoxford.com