Word puzzles

==Midword puzzles==
There is an eight-letter word whose third to sixth letters are DUST. What is that word?
The answer is “industry”. Easy? Let’s try another.
There is an eight-letter word whose third to sixth letters are ACHE. What is it?
The answer is . This one is very difficult because the sound of “ache” in the answer word is radically different from the sound of “ache” as an independent word.
 
What if the middle is LINE? The answer is .
Also, there is a nine-letter word: ___ICU___. That word is or .
Occasionally, the question may provide unusual letter combinations at the middle.
*_ _ _ W W _ _ _ : 
*_ _ _ H H _ _ _ : 
*_ _ _ P F _ _ _ : 
*_ _ _ T F _ _ _ : 
*_ _ _ H T _ _ _ : 
*_ _ Q Q _ _ : 
==Tricky puzzles==
Many tricky puzzles make you think in the wrong way from the beginning. For example, consider the following puzzle:
You would think that H is used as an individual consonant. Such words do exist, like "coherent" and "dehydrate", but they are not used very often. If you realize that H is more commonly used in letter combinations like TH, SH and CH, you might come up with "ache". But the correct answer is .
If you got the first one right, you might want to try another.
You know these words: part, park, party, parties, parts, parks, pare, pared, parked, parking, participate, participated, participates, participation, participating, participant, participants, partial, partly and partially. That's 20. The key is to think of the prefix . Then it would become very easy.
The third puzzle is even more difficult.
Here the letters Y and I must be adjacent and in the right order, meaning that words like "cynical" are not accepted. An answer is . Other answers include and . All of them have .
The fourth puzzle is similar to the third.
"TC" is found in the . Example words include and .
The fifth one is similar to the fourth.
The extremely rare double W is only found in . One of the answers is .
For additional challenge, there is a sixth puzzle that is radically different from the five above.
The answer choices are GIF, JPG and PNG. The correct answer is . Because if you fill it in, .
Answer: demic.
==Crossword puzzles==
"Crossword" is a misspelling of "crissword". Crossword puzzles are popular. Back in the good old days, crossword puzzles were very easy, mostly because they were one-dimensional. But modern crosswords are insanely difficult. There is a HUGE crossword puzzle that needs you to fill in more than 1000 words, but it takes forever to load. In the meantime, you may practice your meager crossword-solving skills on this one: 
 Today's Crossword Puzzle*
ACROSS	DOWN
 1 Animal allergic to french fries
 5 Sign language used by blind amputees
10 End result of an infinite loop
14 Albert Schweitzer's favorite flavor
15 Playing chess on a parabolic hyperboloid
16 Zanzibarian beetle, colloquially
17 Antonym for Horatio Wilburforce (1803-1847)
20 Fictional fragrance
21 Unwaxed candle
22 Artificial eggplants
23 Wine that goes best with ytterbium
25 Business end of a hula hoop
26 Standard abbreviation for _____
27 Prequel of Hawking's A Brief History of Time
28 What a stegosaurus says when provoked
32 Anonymous author of "My 437th Book"
34 SI prefix for zero
35 Dessert topping found in pants
36 Irrational fear of cheese doodles
37 Machine used for scaring trees
38 Future geologic era
39 Urine-based cheese made in Scotland
41 Fossilized slices of bologna
42 One who is fluent in Spanglish
43 The answer to this crossword clue, spelled backwards
44 A banana with way too many teeth?
45 Calvin Coolidge's longest speech (verbatim)
47 A hairstyle made famous in Liechtenstein
50 An unanticipated surplus of mayonnaise
53 What to feed to a rabid zebra
54 How the hell now, brown cow?
55 Morse code for dummies
58 Sentient piñata, theoretically
59 A popular typeface for hieroglyphics
60 Least important physical property of peanut butter
61 One who degreases monkeys for a living
62 Moose's colonoscopy
63 Alternative use for a wingnut	
 1 Popular dance style with a 17/5 beat
 2 Don't do this when skydiving
 3 Medical term for itchy fingernails
 4 Why idiots fall in love
 5 Drowning in a river of tapioca
 6 Electrified celery
 7 Forbidden part of speech
 8 Klingon word for "doily"
 9 What not to stick into 39 Across
10 Exquisitely obese
11 Indescribable gardening tools
12 87,013th word of the novel War and Peace
13 A seemingly random string of letters
18 Enigmatic jar full of phlegm
19 22nd digit of the human body
24 Collective noun: "A ___ of solipists"
25 Monochromatic rainbows
27 Holy guacamole (eccl.)
29 Worst misspelling of "Albuquerque" ever
30 Roman numeral for one zillion
31 The Canada of Canada?
32 Acronym for 32, 36, 39, and 42 across
33 Country with the most gerbils per capita
34 Answer to a rhetorical question
35 Susan B. Anthony's third greatest accomplishment
37 The last letter of this word is missing
40 Largest possible serving of toothpaste?
41 In mathematics, the least interesting number
44 Moving sideways through time
46 Humming an entire opera off-key
47 What John Smith is famous for
48 Scientific instruments for measuring pancake residue
49 Plural form of "ssss"
50 One third of a bicycle
51 Immersing oneself in a warm bath of Coke Zero
52a The darkest side of the sun
52b Explosive facial hair?
53 To translate into Urdu, badly
54 Smallest city of South Dakota
56 Making shit up, metaphorically
57 The end, finally
:* 23 x 23 grid purchased separately.
==A miscellaneous puzzle==
# You lost half of your body, but now you are all right. What happened to you? Answer: 
==A see-also puzzle==
*This link is not real
*Nor is this one
*Click me, your computer would explode
*Never trust any of the above
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