Putting two small beasts that you take
To the beginning of an end,
A pointed weapon you will make
To wound a foe or praise a friend.

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278. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

If a “newspaper” could speak, what might it say of the general work of its staff?

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279. BY RULE OF THUMB

How can you turn the positive quantity 1011 into a negative?

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280. ANSWER BY ANAGRAM

What one word can you form from the sentence—