Let's solve word puzzle only with the letter C, T, and Vowles

Let us challenge ourselves with the NPR Sunday Puzzle aired this last Sunday. (source: NPR on-air challenge Word Puzzle, March 20, 2020)

Every answer today is a word, name or phrase in which the only consonants are C and T — repeated as often as necessary. All the other letters are vowels.

Example: Understood without being staged =>   answer: tacit

1.   A room at the top of a house

2.   Like an angle that is less than 90 degrees

3.   group of 8 musicians

4.   desert plants with needles

5.   an adorable person

6.   city on the Erie Canal (in upstate New York between Buffalo and Albany)

7.   strategy

8.   something invisible a grade schooler doesn’t want to get

9.   brand of breath mint (two words)

10.       kind of acid or derived from/ producing vinegar

11.       ancient Greek state with Athens

12.       (verbal phrase) to misbehave (two words)

13.       Virtuoso musical piece played on a piano

14.       The highest large lake (in the world) between Bolivia and Peru

15.       Cry meaning "Stop! That's enough!” (3 word-verbal-phrase)

16.       Game with X’s and O’s (hyphenated name of a game)

ANSWER KEYS 

   1.  attic

   2.  acute

   3.  octet

   4.  cacti

   5.  cutie

   6.  Utica

   7.  tactic

   8.  cootie

   9.  Tic Tac

  10.  acetic

  11.   Attica

  12.  act out

  13.   Toccata

  14.   Titicaca

  15.   Cut it out

  16.  Tic-Tac-Toe