Answers to Puzzle Contest:

1.Talmud (tall-mud)

2. feline (fee-line)

3. lackadaisical (lack-a-daisy-icle - the last part is a play on being frozen, like the words icicle and Popsicle, and which also sounds a little like 'cold')

For problem #1 I also grudgingly accepted mudras (mud-raise - it is not pronounced anything like 'raise' but it is spelled somewhat the same).

Winner: Derrick Chu

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