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Word Puzzle from NPR


Let’s have fun with NPR Sunday Word Puzzle from this last week! (This show was on the air on September 29th, 2019)



Question:  

Every answer today is a word, name, or familiar phrase in which the only consonants are D and N — repeated as often as necessary. All the other letters are vowels.
Example: Had a fancy meal --> DINED




1. Poet John who wrote "No man is an island"

2. The Hoosier State

3. Cul-de-sac (2 words)

4. Signaled at an auction

5. Any of the celebrated 1930s quintuplets

6. Movie "Crocodile ___"

7. Epic poem by Virgil

8. Brand of yogurt

9. Supplementary parts of books

10. Oblique remark about someone that casts aspersion on them

11. Verily or without a doubt

12. Relating to the lymph glands

13. Girl in the musical "Oklahoma!" (2 words)

14. "Beats me!" (2 words)

15. Interminably (3 words)

16. Like zombies









Answer Keys
    
    1.  Dun
    2.  Indiana
    3.  Dead End
    4.  Nodded
    5.  Dionne
    6.  Dundee
    7.  Aeneid
    8.  Dannon
    9.  Addenda
   10.              Innuendo
   11.              Indeed
   12.              Adenoid
   13.              Ado Annie 
   14.              No Idea
   15.              On and on 
   16.              undead


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