Raddle #527Portmanteaus

From SPOON to FORK

Wed, August 5, 2026
SPOON
  (6)

Clues, out of order

________ in the SPOON, a decision spot
SPOON-________, very observant
Add a Y to SPOON and anagram to get a cartoon dog
Anagram SPOON to get a way to go
Append an /uh/ sound to SPOON to get a cartoon girl
BLACK-SPOON ________, a flower
Change one letter in SPOON to get a country
Change one letter in SPOON to get a kind of car
Drop a letter from SPOON to get a bird
One of four on a SPOON
SPOON's breed

About this Raddle

Though Dr. Samuel W Francis filed a U.S. patent for a combined knife, fork, and spoon back in 1874, nearly a century passed before the spoon-fork combination utensil we call a “spork” today came to be mass-produced by The Van Brode Milling Co. in 1970.

Theme: Portmanteaus

A portmanteau is what you get when two words are squished together into one. This week's Raddles each start at one half of a famous portmanteau and end at the other.