Complete the Compound Words! (Sunday Word Puzzle from NPR, aired on October 18, 2020)

Time to play the puzzle (created by Will Shortz) from this last week's NPR Sunday On-air challenge! Let us complete the following compound words!

 

(picture source: https://inspiration.design/posts/573221-why-skip-website-spot-illustration-pbj-insights) 

The theme of this puzzle is P, B & J. I'm going to give you three words starting with the letters P, B and J. You give me a fourth word that can follow each of mine to complete a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase.

 

Example: Parking, Back, Job --> LOT (parking lot, back lot, job lot)

 

Starting with three-letter answers:

 

1. Penalty, Boom, Juke

 

2. Power, Buzz, Jig

 

3. Present, Birth, Judgment

 

4. Pill, Bed, Jitter

 

 

Now four-letter answers:

 

5. Perp, Board, Jay

 

6. Paddle, Basket, Jump

 

7. Parting, Big, Jell-O

 

8. Plymouth, Bed, Jailhouse

 

Some five-letter answers:

 

9. Pogo, Broom, Joy

 

10. Pocket, Butter, Jack

 

11. Passion, Bearing, Juicy

 

Finally a six-letter answer:

 

12. Pickled, Bell, Jalapeno

 

Answer Keys

    1.  box

 

    2.  saw

 

    3.  day

 

    4.  bug

 

    5.  walk

 

    6.  ball

 

    7.  shot

 

    8.  rock

 

    9.  stick

 

    10.  knife

 

    11.  fruit

 

    12.  pepper