Some English phrases are normally paired with a hyphen. The guidelines for this are attention-grabbing to browse, and a few phrase pairs may even be accurately written in three other ways – e.g. playgroup, play group, or play-group.

This teaser invitations you discover a generally hyphenated word-pair inside a pair of phrases.

e.g. undisCLOSEd – cUPbearer provides us CLOSE-UP

**CLUES**

1. Drunken – King

2. Proliferate – Synthesizer

3. Pothole – Dehumidifier

4. Superclean – Prosecutor

… and a triple!

5. Acknowledge – Excited – Footballer

Meanings or synonyms are supplied within the Hint under, however watch out – these would possibly make it too straightforward.