Opposites Attract Attention

"Look before you leap."

"He who hesitates is lost."

Quaint aphorisms aside, my fascination with opposites has provided many inspirational puzzle ideas.

Sometimes, the ideas become a bit too esoteric. Here is one that never made it out of the oven:

Wet and Wild

Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings. For example, hot and cold, or good and bad. Each puzzle has pairs of antonyms listed in a vertical column. Below the puzzles is a pool of words that can be added to one row in one puzzle, and each word from the pool has the same starting letter. Before placing a word, you need to think of an antonym that starts with one of the unused letters in the same column.
To help you get started, the first row of Puzzle #1 has been filled in. Therefore, the antonym for WILD must begin with E, T, D, R, or Y. Each pool word must be used once, and no word from the pool should be used as an antonym for another word from the pool. Finally, do not use any of the vertical words as antonyms.

The instructions needed to be clearer. I even left a note to myself to redo them and to make sure that I pointed out that half of the antonyms are given.

This was more fun to dream up than it was to implement. Feel free to try it! To be clear, think of antonyms for "wild" that also begin with any of the letters in puzzle one (E, T, D, R or Y.) The given list has Day, Difficult, Reveal, Revolting and Rude, but none of those will do. So you have to think of other words.

I left it as an open-ended puzzle. If you really want to try, my answers are in this issue's collection.

Cheers,

Mitch