Raddle #528Portmanteaus

From PICTURE to ELEMENT

Thu, August 6, 2026
PICTURE
  (6)

Clues, out of order

Add an N to PICTURE and anagram to get a kind of sign
Add a T to PICTURE and reverse to get a part of the body
Anagram PICTURE to get some birds
Drop the final sound in "PICTURE" to get a number
Half of PICTURE
PICTURE is the 10th ________
Light-emitting part of a PICTURE
Opposite of PICTURE
Sound that PICTURE make
The PICTURE moves really, really ________
What you use to take a PICTURE

About this Raddle

In its original usage by Fred C. Billingsley, the term “pixel,” short for “picture element,” was used throughout the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to describe a minuscule picture element in space probe images.

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.