Get In Your Last Shot: Photo Contest's Final Days

And the Winner of the Inker

(Bob Staake for The Washington Post)

Hippocampus: A weight loss spa. (Pie Snelson, Silver Spring)

More Misconstruisms: Honorable Mentions

Acquit: What your central air does in late July. (Peter Metrinko, Chantilly)

Addiction: The incomprehensible speed-talking at the end of TV commercials explaining that that amazing discount doesn't actually apply to you. (Christopher Lamora, Arlington)

Adjunct: To purchase useless items at a garage sale. (Jon Reiser, Hilton, N.Y.)

Airstrip: Pretend to take off your clothes. (Tom Witte, Montgomery Village)

Ampere: A French father's birth announcement. (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)

Analogy: What is to proctology as penology is to criminology. (Jack Held, Fairfax)

Aspic: Just don't confuse it with a tootpic. (Steve Offutt, Arlington)

Atomizer: In the Reader's Digest Condensed Old Testament, the account of the First Man's first glimpse of his mate. (Dave Komornik, Danville, Va.)

Attenuate: The explanation for your all-night heartburn. (Brad Alexander, Wanneroo, Australia)

Auburn: The downside to having the Midas touch. (Christopher Lamora)

Austere: What you say when the helmsman won't shut up. (Elden Carnahan, Laurel)