Three short word puzzles

[dougo]

Find the following English words:

1. A one-word anagram for DELICATESSEN. (No fair cheating.)
2. A verb whose present tense can be pronounced differently to become the past tense of another verb.
3. A word you might find on a tube of toothpaste that can be anagrammed into the name of a small country by adding one letter.

I sent in the last one to the NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle a couple years ago but I don't think it ever made it on the air (I don't actually listen to the show, I just read the website occasionally).

Comments will be screened for a few days, so feel free to post answers.

Comments

[novalis.livejournal.com]

3. Gum -> Guam

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I don't think Guam is a country.

[novalis.livejournal.com]

ISO 3166 thinks it is. Of course, they also think Puerto Rico is -- and everyone knows that Puerto Rico is a board game, not a country.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Umm...

Re: here's an actual yet extremely lame answer to #1

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Extremely lame... or extremely AWESOME?!

Yes, that's the answer I was looking for (but twistjusty beat you to it). It just popped out at me when I saw a DELICATESSEN sign. I think it's either obvious or impossible.

answers to one and three

[twistjusty.livejournal.com]

And no, I didn't use an online anagrammer for either one.

1. DELICATENESS
3. ANTICAVITY + C = VATICAN CITY

Re: answers to one and three

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[twistjusty.livejournal.com]

#2 -- I'm guessing: BROOD and BREWED?

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I like that pair, but I'm asking for heterophonic homographs, not homophonic heterographs.