Broken words

[bonanova]

It's Saturday night and being a puzzle writer I have no social life.
So I make a list of a dozen things:

a conference
a multiplier
a musical instrument
a person who celebrates a holiday twice
a superlative
means of communicating
some clothes
some fibers
some names
someone who hides people who hide
two maladies

I lazily let my pencil wander down through the list, twice, thus dividing each word into three pieces of lengths 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6:

E E T [3]

AD ES ES ES FI MA MO OW PO RS SA WW [11]

AYS CRI CZE GRA LAN NDD OLD ROU STO VEF WAR WAW XOP [14]

DROB GHAG GUAG HONE NIKE STOM SPES [7]

ACHACH [1]

Finally, I notice that if I take the 2nd letter of each word, I get some music that tabby might sing.

Name the tune.

[Guest]

i have no clue

but it seems familiar

[akaslickster]

Maybe, "Cat scratch fever" or Theme from "Cats" musical.Never heard them sing but they can whine when mating. The letters are not helping me.

[Guest]

Ok, so wait... how were the words divided? I still don't readlly see what happened there...

[unreality]

Bring me chicken, bring me liver, Meowmix Meowmix please deliver!

lol, just a guess

[bonanova]

Ok, so wait... how were the words divided? I still don't readlly see what happened there...

Each of the dozen words was divided into three segments.

They are listed for you, sorted alphabetically and by length.

The letters in each piece are contiguous and in order.

For example, if one clue was "high places" and three of the pieces were

PS RO

OFTO

you could make RO.OFTO.PS.

And you'd use the 2nd letter O along with the 2nd letters of the other 11 words

to find tabby's song. OK?

Take three of the pieces and make a word.

Take three more and make another word.

When you've used up the last three, you'll have a dozen words.

The words you have to find are described in the first part of the OP.

One is an adjective, two are maladies, one is a musical instrement, and so on.

If they don't fit that list, you've not found the words that I divided.

But when you've done all that, take the 2nd letters of the dozen words and find a song tabby would sing.

[Guest]

Each of the dozen words was divided into three segments.

They are listed for you, sorted alphabetically and by length.

The letters in each piece are contiguous and in order.

For example, if one clue was "high places" and three of the pieces were

PS RO

OFTO

you could make ROOFTOPS.

And you'd use the 2nd letter O along with the 2nd letters of the other 11 words

to find tabby's song. OK?

Take three of the pieces and make a word.

Take three more and make another word.

When you've used up the last three, you'll have a dozen words.

The words you have to find are described in the first part of the OP.

One is an adjective, two are maladies, one is a musical instrement, and so on.

If they don't fit that list, you've not found the words that I divided.

But when you've done all that, take the 2nd letters of the dozen words and find a song tabby would sing.

OK, so the letters haven't been scrambled though, and the numbers at the end of each group don't mean anything, right?

[bonanova]

OK, so the letters haven't been scrambled though, and the numbers at the end of each group don't mean anything, right?

Not scrambled.

Numbers are the count of pieces of each length - 3 pieces of length 1 for example.

They add up to 36 = 12 words x 3 pieces / word.

Use each of them once and only once.

If something is repeated [ there are two E's ] you use them both once.

[kingofpain]

The instrument is saxophone.

The maladies are stomachaches and eczema.

Some fibers = roughage

means of communicating = languages

some names - monikers

someone(s) who hides - stowaways

someone who celebrates twice - granddad

some clothes - wardrobes

superlative - crispest

conference - fivefold

multiplier - powwow

A C a t O r a t o r i o

Edited June 8, 2008 by kingofpain

[Nikyma]

a conference -powwow

a multiplier -fivefold

a musical instrument -saxophone

a person who celebrates a holiday twice - granddad

a superlative - crispest

means of communicating -languages

some clothes - wardrobes

some fibers - roughages

some names -monikers

people who hide - stowaways

two maladies -eczema, stomachache

a cat oratorio

Thanks for the headache Bona