Synoposal

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Synoposal
Antoposal
Synobank
Synobank,
Antobank

Two (or more) synonyms are clued (overloaded) by a single cueword. Then, these words are transposed as a group to form a longer word or phrase. Example:

SYNOPOSAL (4, 4; 8)

An OCTAD glance to check the crowd,

Then came the BOTH. He crooned it loud.

=Newrow

The synonyms are “lied” and “song”, either of which can replace the cueword “BOTH”. The two words together can be transposed to form “sidelong”. Other examples include can, fire; fancier; or grand, thou; on draught.

In an antoposal, the overloaded words are antonyms; there must be exactly two of them. The verse must be written so that either fits.

ANTOPOSAL (6, 4; ^4 ^6) (PSYCHO = ^4 ^6 = not MW)

Jimmy Steward watched his neighbors

With binocs and for his labors,

He had a fine adventure back in ’54.

See it all in PSYCHO. How

BOTH a space did he allow

For dialogs and breezes rising to his floor?

=Newrow

Solution: narrow, wide; Rear Window.

In a synobank, the synonyms, as a group, form the base of a letter bank. Note that the synonyms cannot have any letters in common. Example: den, lair; adrenaline. As in a synoposal, the synonyms are overloaded.

An antobank is like a synobank except that the shorter words are antonyms. Example: in, out; intuition; or win, lose, Willie Nelson.

These types were introduced by Newrow in 2023, although the “Willie Nelson” antobank was published by Wrybosh in 2003 as a letter bank variant.

Synoposal

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