6 letter words, and use 3 letters to start a new word...

I never said anybody had to do it.

fruity. (think apples)

russet

seduce. It can cause reddening of the skin.

snakes (are we now playing the game to your revised rules?)

No. I am. Unless the connection is too obvious to need explaining.

hacker

rheumy

creaky...( as in creaky joints, not moisture)

I will play along...

reason (rl's reasoning is a bit creaky)

Was that a Yes Minister jest izzy?

This is what you do Spade. You get a 6 from 3 from another 6 and then you try to connect them. You can be as fanciful as you like but never resort to the miraculous. You explain your connection because if it is particularly far-fetched most of us might not get it without you doing so and we wish to get it to be assured we are not playing the game in a 2nd grade girl's school mode. The more ridiculous the explanation the better because we won't know whether you're having us on or not.

If you can't connect the first one you look for another and another until you can justify your choice.

Creaky to reaper, say, on the basis that the reapers in van Gogh must have been a bit creaky by the end of the field of corn. A joke of course. His rivals were reapers of corn. He was the artist.

If you ask me for a straight answer, then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the type of posts, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn't very much in it one way or the other. As far as one can see, at this stage.

Strife, as in Trouble &. Not someone you're likely to concern yourself with.

Very good izzy, But I don't understand the rider.

reason was the word.

batton (comes in handy in a fight)

attics...

(this is a stretch, but I think of finding a batton, in a box, in an attic)

oops.

tickle (the maid in the attic )

slates. (attics are covered in slates)

skirts (what you lift up when you get the maid in the attic).

tirade (what you get when lifting up the maid's skirt in the attic)