Last week's puzzle as presented, with the answers in-line:
The word "facetious" is one of my favorite words. It contains all of the vowels, in alphabetic order. If you make it an adverb ("facetiously") then you get the sometimes-vowel "y" to boot. I believe that only "abstemiously" and "adventitiously" meet these same criteria, and a puzzle strictly about these words would be easily solved with a quick Google search. Are there many words that have 4 of the vowels (including "y") in alphabetic order, and can they be put together as clues? The answer is a resounding "yes."
Below, please find clues that will lead you the answers to this week’s puzzle. Note that "adventitiously," above, has duplicate "i"s, and for the purposes of this puzzle, a second or third instance of a vowel can be out of order, and other non-ordered vowels are acceptable. That is, words like "impiously"(iouy) and "gelatinously"(iouy) are valid.
Sample:
Mutinous royalty (eiou, iouy) – R__e__bell__iou__s v__i__sc__ou__ntc__y__
- A go-getter of a redundant shortening of a word into letters. (iouy, eiou, aeio) - amb__i__ti__ou__sl__y__ t__e__d__iou__s __a__bbr__e__v__i__ati__o__n
- An evil, beginning set of chord notes played in sequence. (eiou, iouy, aeio) - d__e__v__iou__s i__ntr__o__d__u__ctor__y a__rp__e__gg__io
- A loving, tasty literary endnote. (aeio, eiou, eiou) - __a__ff__e__ct__io__nate, d__e__l__i__ci__ou__s __e__p__i__l__o__g__u__e
- A somber, spiritual man with a puppet on his knee. (eiou, eiou, eiou) - s__e__r__iou__s r__e__l__i__gi__ou__s v__e__ntr__i__l__o__q__u__ist
- No more paracetamol. (aeio, aeio) - __a__c__e__tam__i__n__o__phen c__a__nc__e__llat__io__n
- To bring back tasty hostility. (eiou, eiou, aeio) - r__ei__ntr__o__d__u__ce d__e__l__i__ci__ou__s __a__ggr__e__ss__io__n
- Flogging some taraxacum (aeio, aeio) - d__a__nd__e__l__io__n fl__a__g__e__llat__io__n
- A mirrored cylinder displaying diodes and transistors (eiou, aeio) - S__e__m__i__c__o__nd__u__ctor k__a__l__ei__d__o__scope
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