Interspersed in the set of letters below are the 6-letter names of an animal, a vegetable and a mineral. Each name's letters are in the correct order, but intermingled. Can you identify each?

SCRALBEHINSBTTIILT

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From Page-a-Day Calendar 2016: Amazing Mind Benders, by Puzzability (Mike Shenk, Amy Goldstein and Robert Leighton), Workman Publishing, NY; puzzle for November 17.

mineral  : SCHIST
animal   : RABBIT
vegetable: LENTIL

S C R A L B E H I N S B TT II L T
S C - - - - - H I - S -  T  - - -
- - R A - B - - - - - B --  I - T
- - - - L - E - - N - -  T  I L -

One each of doubled T of the letter-set is part of the words SCHIST and LENTIL; and, one each of the doubled I is part of the words RABBIT and LENTIL. 

Posted by Dej Mar on 2016-12-07 05:18:31