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Fill in the blanks of each sentence below with words that are anagrams of each other. In each pair of sentences, solve the first sentence, change one letter of an answer-word from that sentence, and shuffle it to form the answer-words for the second sentence. The answer-words in all sentences are the same length. Other than that, there is no correlation between answer-words from one sentence-pair to the next. All resulting sentences must make sense, and must use answer-words that are legal in Scrabble.

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Pair 1:

You can stay an extra night for free at Torres Resort, with the ______ that you ______ by 8am.

"I just spotted another ______!" the bird watcher exclaimed in an unusual ______.

Pair 2:

The ______ was given a three-day pass, but the two ______ had to ______.

At the ______, I found the plot to "Deadlier, Redialed" to be ______, because it was pretty obvious who the ______ was.

Pair 3:

We ______ out the shark-______ tiles, since nobody wants them near their pool or bathtub.

At the end of his three-hour presentation on anagrams, his voice was shot, but Reggie Geiger threw open the ______, ______ his arms, and ______, "I know a guy who monetizes timezones in the ungodliest longitudes!"

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Pair 1:

You can stay an extra night for free at Torres Resort, with the caveat that you vacate by 8am.

Change one A to O.

"I just spotted another avocet!" the bird watcher exclaimed in an unusual octave.

Pair 2:

The marine was given a three-day pass, but the two airmen had to remain.

Change R to C

At the cinema, I found the plot to "Deadlier, Redialed" to be anemic, because it was pretty obvious who the Iceman was.

Pair 3:

I was working on this one at first but @BeastlyGerbil got there before me. I had got the second sentence only:

At the end of his three-hour presentation on anagrams, his voice was shot, but Reggie Geiger threw open the drapes, spread his arms, and rasped, "I know a guy who monetizes timezones in the ungodliest longitudes!"

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  • $\begingroup$ Since this answer is more complete than the other answer, I'm giving this one the check mark. $\endgroup$
    – FlanMan
    Commented May 20, 2020 at 22:18
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks, I didn't want to just copy from the other answer to finalise it. $\endgroup$
    – Weather Vane
    Commented May 20, 2020 at 22:19
  • $\begingroup$ @FlanMan oh this 100% should get the checkmark, I only got 1/3 of the answers, WeatherVane got over 2/3! Well done WeatherVane! :) (p.s. @ flanman this is my favourite one of these yet, just because of all the perfectly hidden anagrams :P) $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Commented May 20, 2020 at 22:26
  • $\begingroup$ I love the "throwaway" anagrams too. $\endgroup$
    – Weather Vane
    Commented May 20, 2020 at 22:27
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Solution to 3:

We PHASED out the shark-SHAPED tiles, since nobody wants them near their pool or bathtub.

Changing H to R

At the end of his three-hour presentation on anagrams, his voice was shot, but Reggie Geiger threw open the DRAPES, SPREAD his arms, and RASPED, "I know a guy who monetizes timezones in the ungodliest longitudes!"

This also means

The answers are of length $6$

I really like all the hidden anagrams so some bonus hidden ones:

Torres Resort
Deadlier, Redialed
Reggie Geiger
Monetizes timezones
Ungodliest longitudes

are all anagram pairs!

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