Happy March! It is #EnigMarch, and each day the excellent EnigMarch people post a prompt word; then puzzle nerds try to design puzzles around that word. (Today's word is bridge.)
To abridge is to shorten some text, ideally preserving the sense.
You could also shorten some text by chopping the first letter off of each
word. For example, abridge would become bridge.
National Puzzlers League people would call this "lop off the first letter"
idea beheadment.
Can you figure out these beheadments? When you're done, gather the heads for the name of a beheaded saint (not necessarily a cephalophore (cephalophore-ness isn't part of the puzzle. I just found out about the word while researching the puzzle and thought it was wild that there was a word for that)).
| summarize | A/B R I D G E | connecting structure |
| not at all! | _/_ _ _ _ | OK, well sometimes |
| peril | _/_ _ _ _ _ | ire |
| road race | _/_ _ _ _ | partner |
| all | _/_ _ _ _ | certainly |
| ~½ of adults | _/_ _ _ _ | harbinger |
| wiggliest piece | _/_ _ _ _ _ | ~½ a synodic day around now |
| Aruban, e.g. | _/_ _ _ _ _ _ _ | lies and libel |
| now! | _/_ _ _ _ | a bridge might be shaped like this |
Hints and solution, rot13'd:
abj! : jung zbagu vf vg?
jvttyvrfg cvrpr: fcrpvsvpnyyl, purff cvrpr
pregnvayl: vs "zhpuyl" jrer n jbeq, vg jbhyq unir orra n orggre pyhr
Yvfg bs orurnqrq jbeqf:
oevqtr
rire
natre
nyyl
irel
bzra
avtug
fynaqre
nepu
Yvfg bs haorurnqrq jbeqf:
noevqtr
arire
qnatre
enyyl
rirel
jbzra
xavtug
vfynaqre
znepu
Gung fnvag vf Naqerj Xvz, n.x.n. Naqerj Xvz Gnrtba
