Can you name the pairs of words where the 1st word (eg: STAR) is spelled backwards to get the 2nd word (eg: RATS)?

Left-to-right clue (Length)	Word pair	Right-to-left clue (Length)
Catch red-handed (3)		UN Secretary-General (3)
Boast or blow one's horn (4)		Clothing; uniforms; duds (4)
Eager or enthusiastic (4)		Calling Miley Cyrus one is a bit much (4)
Part of Chicago or of thrill rides (4)		Office wagering (4)
Many are named Buddy, Max or Princess (4)		Dance move or ladder rung (4)
Shrek, for one (4)		Therefore (4)
Added booze to the punch (5)		Windshield sticker (5)
Easily taken advantage of, like someone who'd pay $3 for a bottle of water (5)		A $3 bottle of water (5)
New Jersey hockey player (5)		Existed or resided (5)
Stood up to (5)		Joltless java (5)
This may get bent when you drink (5)		Side-effects of kissing frogs? (5)
A kind of magnetism (6)		Thin sheet or veneer (6)
Role for Hoffman or Streep (6)		Make an observation or rescore a test (6)
Often offered for information about a bank robber (6)		Artist or part of a chest (6)
Post-game wrap-ups (6)		Dental device to separate teeth (6)
'HELLO I'm…' sticker (7)		He checks your ID before entry (7)
To revise (4)		Motion in the ocean (4)
Highest peak in the Rockies (6)		Stereo high-end setting (6)
Email woe or a popular Monty Python sketch (4)		Used to find one's way, I prefer Google's version (4)

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Palindromic Word Pairs II Quiz

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Created by: rockgolf -
Contributed: November 24th, 2009
Published: November 25th, 2009
Category: Miscellaneous
Plays: 59,470

Tags: star, where, palindromic, pair, length, spelled, backward, 2nd, rat, left-to-right, right-to-left, 1st, clue

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	gnatural:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:20 GMT	9 points
	"Added booze to the punch" should be enumerated (5), not (4).

	Detektor:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:31 GMT	3 points
	"Repeel" is not a word.

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	mungar:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:33 GMT	10 points
	I watch too much hockey... instead of the obvious answer, I kept thinking of players on the team with 5-letter last names. Oops.

	rockgolf:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	6 points
	@Fawkes: Actually this was one of my first submissions. Half was used for the original quiz, and half put away in the Sporcle deep-freeze to be thawed out and served at a later date. It's so old I forgot half the answers!

	Gumpster:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT	3 points
	solid quiz dude! these are pretty fun

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	SporcleAdmin:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:47 GMT	44 points
	@All, we are trying, you may have noticed some slight wonkiness on the site just now, we have some technical difficulties we are working to resolved, hang in there. My guess, someone added booze to the punch.

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	playwright:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	4 points
	I would say "Dance move" rather than "Dance lesson," since a lesson is often comprised of many of them.

	tball:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	35 points
	"Added booze to the punch." Everyone clearly tried 'Spike' first.

	aipiest:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	12 points
	last 3 are messed up somewhat. "to revise" the answer should be "edit" not "sleeper". "Email woe" should be "spam" not "Elbert". And highest peak should be "Elbert" not "edit". I think a few answers got moved down a row.

	jdhartnagle:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 05:32 GMT	5 points
	would a gateman check ID? Maybe a dialect discrepency between countries?

	TJL:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 06:47 GMT	2 points
	Wow. Blew my mind

	zalkon2004:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 09:06 GMT	6 points
	Thats such a great coincidence...the fact that Evian backwards is naive(then again maybe it's not a coincidence and the makers of Evian are just jerks, lol)

	dbcint:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 09:13 GMT	37 points
	"Calling Miley Cyrus one is a bit much" - I came up with singer, actress, virgin, before finally thinking of one that was 4 letters - star. Alas, it still didn't work.

	wts449:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 10:05 GMT	4 points
	@dbcint you weren't the only one who tried star ---> rats...

	sammyb:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 11:21 GMT	1 point
	Mmm challenging but good quiz!

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	Jawn:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 15:29 GMT	-3 points
	I think some of the clues could be improved upon. The UN Secretary General one, surely a better clue would be "Forbid"; and there must be something better for the New Jersey Hockey player, like "Fallen Angel", which would cater for us all and not just Hockey fans? Other than that, I enjoyed it!

	rockgolf:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 15:45 GMT	5 points
	@Jawn: I agree there could be simpler clues, but given that you're getting two clues to a 3-letter word, I want to make solving the puzzle a non-trivial exercise. So in most cases, I've tried to give one straightforward clue, and one that takes a less obvious path. I want players to get a little grin when they work it out, not just go on to the next clue.

	HudsonHawk:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 15:46 GMT	3 points
	How about taking "Name" out of the clue for nametag? "Hello, I'm..." would do the trick.

	alpha:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 15:52 GMT	10 points
	"Palindrome" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

	Josh:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 16:00 GMT	9 points
	I'm not the only one who typed "eleven" for high-end stereo setting, am I?

	dsee:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 16:10 GMT	8 points
	this might get bent when you drink, I first thought wives?

	AtoneMENT:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 16:13 GMT	2 points
	Being unbearably thirsty at intermission in a Broadway theatre does not make someone "naive" -- and it's four dollars. And it's not Evian. :)

	ShepherdBook:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 16:58 GMT	3 points
	These are NOT palindromes, which are words that are spelled the same forward and backward. Technically these are Semordnilaps. See: and scroll down to section 6.

	dougsmith:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 17:13 GMT	3 points
	Compliments on a terrific piece... I'm not used to dealing with proper names in "palindromes"... my favorite palindrom, hope this doesn't get "flagged"... is... "a **** did tulsa"... outtahere

	pearlmaj:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 17:45 GMT	2 points
	I don't think you can lace liquid.

	springmom:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 19:38 GMT	7 points
	I've never heard laced for adding something to punch...I've always heard spiked...

	orangehawk42:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 20:35 GMT	3 points
	thats usually called a bouncer rather than a gateman but I guess it fits the purposes of this quiz.

	rockgolf:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 21:30 GMT	2 points
	@Alpha & Shep: Palindrome is defined as "a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward". That's exactly what these pairs of words do - spell the same forward & backward.

	rockgolf:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 21:37 GMT	-1 points
	@dsee: I thought people might think "elbow". @AtoneMENT: Are you sure it was even water? @pearlmaj: You can. One of several definitions of "lace" is "to add a small amount of alcoholic liquor or other substance to (food or drink): He took his coffee laced with brandy."

	ShepherdBook:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 22:02 GMT	4 points
	@Rockgolf, I guess I was thinking of the words themselves - in which case a palindrome is, for example, Kayak, or Civic. But, yes, assuming each answer is to be taken as a single entity, I will concede that you are correct.

	Ned:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 22:15 GMT	1 point
	I was surprised 'singer' wasn't accepted for the Miley Cyrus one.

	Djibouti:	Nov 25th, 2009 at 23:07 GMT	3 points
	I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm excited, I say I'm 'tuls' about it. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

	Ned:	Nov 26th, 2009 at 01:05 GMT	1 point
	Ha, Djibouti. I was thinking that might be the answer. :)