Creative word game (new)

Prone
Pine
Cure

If to PINE you’re PRONE, an excess of drink is not the CURE

ALCOHOLISM

Scram
Main
Dirty

I told the DIRTY boy to SCRAM, and he ran off down the MAIN road.

PORCUPINE

Lie
Teaching
Cheating

He’s told a LIE and has been CHEATING to get his TEACHING post

DISCRIMINATORY

POLOS
LOG
CAL

I ate too many POLOs yesterday. I have to enter that into my CALorie LOG

TECHNOLOGICAL

Host
Table
Spite

In SPITE of the pandemic the HOST laid the TABLE for twelve

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Under
Cheer
Vice

The VICE squad searched UNDER her bed and gave a CHEER when they found the drugs.

INHOSPITABLE

Brass
Mamba
Seam

A green MAMBA crawled out of the BRASS pot beside the bed, and up the SEAM of the bed-curtains.

UNDERACHIEVERS

Spare
Remark
Repeat

SPARE my blushes, don’t REPEAT that rude REMARK

EMBARRASSMENT

Bar
Route
Mine

The ROUTE to the BARwas past an old MINE field

SUPERMARKET

ACQUAINTANCE

Auntie
Tune
Nice

My AUNTIE can play a NICE TUNE on a tambourine

TAMBOURINE

EMPHATICALLY

Lame
Pate
Empathy

My friend with the bald pate did not enjoy the lame joke that an acquaintance made about it and I had empathy with him because I am fast losing my hair.

ACQUAINTANCE

Disappointed

Appoint
Spin
Top

I tried to appoint an entertainer to spin the top, but he was not able to.

EMPHATICALLY

DISAPPOINTED

Rat
Part
Red

I saw red when I saw part of a rat disappear behind dustbin

DISAGREEABLE
Agree
Able
Sage
A wise SAGE once said, you must AGREE to forget yesterday, if you want to be ABLE to have a better tomorrow

DESPERATELY

INCONSIDERATE

Tread
Noise
Resident

TREAD carefully as you pass the flat, the RESIDENT hates NOISE

DISAGREEABLE

Stop
Noise
Spat

The police told the rowdy neighbour to STOP the NOISE, but he just SPAT at them.

INCONSIDERATE

RECOVERY

Eve
Over
Core

EVE tempted Adam with an apple.
She then threw the apple CORE OVER the wall

TEMPTATIONS

HISTRIONCS

He was prescribed an IRON TONIC for HIS anaemia .

RECOVERY

SPENDTHRIFT

Spend
Thrift
End

Husband wanted THRIFT but wife liked to SPEND.
Result, - marriage came to an END

HISTRIONICS

GIRL
HELD
HAND

The poor GIRL was really scared and HELD my HAND tightly throughout the procedure.

SPENDTHRIFT

EMPHATICALLY

Ally
Came
Chat

A thread on Gransnet became tense, the time for chat was clearly over, but thankfully my ally came along and stuck up for me.

HIGHLANDER ( a nod to Witzend's bagpiper!)

GLADIATORS

GLAD
LADS
RATS

She was very GLAD when all the LADS behaved like RATS

EMPHATICALLY

PRACTICALITY

TRIP
CITY
ITALY

I've been to ITALY and I went on a day TRIP to the CITY of Rome to see the Coliseum

GLADIATORS

UNEMPLOYMENT
Employ
Men
Umpteen

It's better to EMPLOY UMPTEEN MEN for the job, than one woman.

PRACTICALITY