Thursday, August 27, 2020

NPR Sunday Word Puzzle with /low/ sound in each word

 Time to solve another fun batch of puzzle created by Will Shortz and aired on NPR last Sunday (August 23, 2020). It is titled "Low and Inside." Every answer is a word or name that has the syllable sound of "low" somewhere inside it (not at the start or the end). The "low" syllable is always accented. 

Example: Like the U.S. before 1776 >> COLONIAL

 


1. Greeting in Hawaii

 

2. House speaker Nancy

 

3. Tennis star Martina

 

4. Spanish city that hosted the 1992 Olympics

 

5. Powerful land in ancient Mesopotamia

 

6. Everyday sandwich meat

 

7. Sounding pleasant to the ear, as music

 

8. Informal, as speech

 

9. Religious scholar

 

10. Kind of tube that a fertilized egg passes through

 

11. Relating to or involved in crime

 

12. Running away to get married

 

Answer Keys

    1.  Aloha

    2.  Pelosi

    3.  Navratilova

    4.  Barcelona

    5.  Babylonia

    6.  bologna

    7.  melodious

    8.  colloquial

    9.  theologian 

    10.              fallopian

    11.              felonious

    12.              eloping

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