Time to play the puzzle!!! (created by NPR's puzzle master Will Shortz)

Time to play the puzzle from yesterday’s NPR on-air challenge! Below are some clues. The answer to each one is one of the words in the clue with its vowel sound changed.

 

Example: What fish bite --> BAIT (the word "bite" with the long-I sound changed to a long-A)

 

1. Not day

 

2. It's made by moistening dirt

 

3. Jacket part that covers the head

 

4. Item that's sowed in a garden

 

5. The opposite of feast

 

6. Fail to hit a ball in fair territory

 

7. Painful illness you get in your joints

 

8. What kickboxers fight with

 

9. What might surround a castle

 

10. What a used towel is

 

11. [Fill in the blank:] Man in the ___

 

 

12. [Fill in the blank:] Last but not ___

Answer Keys

    1.  night

    2.  mud

    3.  hood

    4.  seed

    5.  fast

    6.  foul

    7.  gout

    8.  feet

    9.  moat

    10. wet

    11. moon

    12. least