Weekend Word Puzzle from NPR (aired on August 30th, 2020)

 Here’s another fun word puzzle by Will Shortz aired this last Sunday on NPR!

Every answer today is a made up two-word phrase in which you switch the first and third letters of the first word to get the second word.

Example: Trick that is certain to work --> Sure Ruse

 

1. Final bit of table seasoning

 

2. Dangerous dog along Rome's river

 

3. Dish of mashed-up food that costs one unit of Indian currency

 

4. Combination of fruits — one that's yellow and sour, the other that's large and has seeds

 

5. Metalworker with a torch who is more lascivious

 

6. One who raises a device for removing impurities

 

7. Highway marker made of a hard sedimentary rock

 

Answer Keys

1.  last salt

2.  tiber biter

3.  rupee puree

4.  lemon melon

5.  lewder welder

6.  filter lifter

7.  limestone milestone