Piecemeal shapes
Words, all of the same length, overlapping at their ends, form the border of a geometric shape. The words are divided into bigrams or (occasionally) trigrams, which are presented in alphabetical order. The solver reconstructs the words to make the given shape. In a circle, words read clockwise around the circle; in a polygon, words read across or down.
Piecemeals of any type (squares, other polygons, circles) may be no longer than 60 letters. Words in piecemeals must share one overlapping bigram.
The fun of piecemeals depends on the unusualness of the words or the cleverness of their placement.
The solution: mesomere, mesosome, mensural, remedial.
The solution: alongshore, republican, Anglophobe, Beaujolais, isothermal.
Piecemeal shapes are limited to 25 bigrams (or trigrams).