Diabolical Pairs

I have always been fascinated and amused by the way words sound and came to realise that puzzles could be created using pairs of words to make another word or phrase.
For example “Goat” and “Appeases” is like “Go to pieces”;
“Hissed” and “Oracle” is like “Historical”;
“Totally” and “Clips” is like “Total eclipse”
Each puzzle in this book has twenty clues. To answer them you have to pair up words from the 41 given words marked “All the answers”. One of these words is a rogue word and doesn’t figure in any of the answers to the clues. Each puzzle also has an example at the start whose “answer” words are from the word list but are not used together in answering the clues below it.
As you will discover some of the answers are diabolical pairings and may well cause you to groan on realising the pun. That is all part of the enjoyment which I hope you will experience from solving the clues. Tick or cross off the words in the list as you use them but remember you might have used them incorrectly. Each word is only used once.
Answer lists are given as a last resort and the rogue word in each puzzle is identified. These are on the reverse of each quiz.
Have fun!

Author Biography

David was born in Atherton, Greater Manchester in 1939, and educated at Leigh Grammar School. He studied theology at Hartley Victoria College, Education at Matlock College, Computers in Education at Leeds University and gained his MA at York University. After spending four years as a Methodist minister in East Anglia and Derbyshire he was invited to specialise in education which occupied him for the next twenty five years.
He was awarded the MBE in 2001 for twenty years work teaching sighted people to become Braille transcribers in Evening Classes in Pontefract where he founded Braille Guild, a registered charity which provides Braille copies of printed books.
He taught World Religions in Stamore and then in Knottingley before gaining a degree in Computer Studies which brought a change of subject in his career. He retired from teaching computer literacy in 1997.
His hobbies included reading, puzzles, magic and illusions, acting in AmDram groups and 63 years playing church organs until his sight failed. He is now Vice-Chairman of Moulton Players in Northampton where he is frequently on stage acting in various roles.