Capital Gains

Can you name the capital cities that have to be gained by each of these to become whole words or phrases?

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Word/Phrase	Capital City	Clue
FLIM-FL*		Con artist (2 wds.)
TIL*		Common food fish
HE*		Infidels
TIM*E		Edge of a tree habitat (2 wds.)
CA*ET		Type of red wine
*GENT		Characterized by painstaking effort
MET*C ACID		Formic acid's formal name (2 wds.)
C*TE		Weather
KI*TER		About 0.6 miles
TA*		Food served in a cornhusk
KA*Y		Mel Brooks or Danny Kaye's real surname
OXY*C		Like 'jumbo shrimp'
G*WLY		Don't move fast (2 wds.)
COM*ON		Examination to establish similarity
MOS*		Blood-sucking insect
YU*GARIN		First person in space (2 wds.)
BA*TER		It measures pressure
OPPOR*T		Person who takes advantage
IN THE L*LYSIS
COXSAC*IRUS
Now you're just guessing capitals
Now you're just being a wiseacre!
ANWAR'S AWAY: 'Sadat's out of town'
NAB A KUDO: 'Get praise'
Why isn't 'SUV auto' a phrase?
PETS OF IAMS: new dog food slogan
Did you pull that one out of a hat?
Ah, now you're Seoul searching
And a 'Mad riddance' to you, too!
PAY A RENT is so close to a phrase
YET, I RAN AWAY: 'Chicken's excuse'
HEM ON A COAT: 'Sewer's task'
SCAR A CASABA: 'Damage a melon'
TURBAN GUIDE: 'Headdress manual'
DUB LINES: 'Edit a movie'
That was so Amerocentric of you!
EMMA PUT ON CLOTHES: 'Watson Dressed'
ROSE AUDIT: 'Florist inventory'
DANIEL IS BOND: 'Casino Royale casting'
YANK A RADISH: 'Pick a vegetable'
STALL INNING: 'Relief pitcher warm-up'
YALU AND AMAZON: 'Big rivers'
ANIMAL ABODE: 'Dog house'
ETHEL'S IN KITCHEN: 'Lucy says to Fred...'
LOBO GOT ANIMAL: 'Wolf found dinner'
I just like saying Djibouti, too
Nice try, but it has Doug hidden in there
STAR (a) WARS: Sporcle ignores the A :)
If only Bowser called is Sa naa naa
FOOL ON DONKEY: 'Sancho Panza'
CAN BERRA: 'Fire Yogi'
DO HARM: 'Anti-Hippocratic Oath'
Welcome back, Kotte!
Did you not see the example above?
Hava Nagila (should have had that one)

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Example: OPA*GARIA [Town 150 miles NE of Sofia (2 wds.)] If that gained KABUL, it becomes "OpaKA, BULgaria," a small town in Bulgaria. You can type in the city or phrase. Enjoy the bonuses!

Classic: Type in answers that appear in a list

Last Updated: Jun 10, 2019

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