Word Puzzle from NPR

Challenge yourself with this last weekend word puzzle from NPR, created by Will Shortz! 😊 (This show is just a click away! https://www.npr.org/2020/07/05/887263368/sunday-puzzle-try-t-h-is)

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

Example: Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet --> THETA

(picture source: https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/alphabet-letter-combination-th-t-h-with-grunge-vector-23791856) 

1. Canine or molar

2. Give a share of one's income to the church

3. Lake straddling the California/Nevada border

4. Country sharing a border with the Dominican Republic

5. Island paradise in the South Pacific

6. Giggle sound

7. Tract of land with low-growing shrubs

8. Kind of yoga

9. Really good-looking person, in slang

10. Part of a drum kit with two cymbals and a pedal

11. If you can't stand this, you should get out of the kitchen, in a saying

12. Inhabitant of ancient Syria

13. Four-word palindrome for what an owl might say to describe a scorching summer day

Answer Keys

   

   

   1.  tooth

   2.  tithe

   3.  Tahoe

   4.  Haiti

   5.  Tahiti

   6.  teehee

   7.  heath

   8.  Hatha

   9.  Hahi

   10.              hi-hat

   11.              heat

   12.              Hittite

   13.              Too hot, hoot, hoot