Find a word that starts and ends with the same two letters!

 Time to play the NPR Sunday Puzzle! (aired on May 31, 2021)

Every answer today is a five-letter word or name in which the first two letters are the same as the last two.

 

Ex. Energy or enthusiasm --> VERVE

1. Home of the N.F.L.'s Dolphins

 

2. Car made in Sweden

 

3. Latin dance that's also a spicy tomato sauce

 

4. Vegetable you peel and that can make you cry

 

5. Companion of the Lone Ranger

 

6. Eric Clapton's first top 10 hit

 

7. Give an order to be quiet

 

8. Sight or hearing, for example

 

9. Bohemian novelist who wrote "The Metamorphosis"

 

10. Kind of yoga

 

11. Just barely defeated

 

12. Egyptian god pictured with the head of an ibis

 

13. Very loud, as a crowd

 

Answer Keys

1.  miami

2.  volvo

3.  salsa

4.  onion

5.  Tonto

6.  Layla

7.  shush

8.  sense

9.  kafka

10.              Hatha

11.              edged

12.              Thoth

13.              aroar

Time to play the latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR! Can you name these US cities with given clues?

Every answer today is the name of a U.S. city from which I have removed one or more interior letters. The remaining letters in order spell a word. I'll give you that word. You name the city.

 

Ex. CANON (1 letter removed) --> CANTON, Ohio

 

1. SETTLE (1)

 

2. LASING (1)

 

3. CAPER (1)

 

4. MASON (2)

 

5. POLAND (2)

 

6. SPOKE (2)

 

7. PROVINCE (2)

 

8. LAYETTE (2)

 

9. ROSTER (3)

 

10. DO IT (3)

 

11. CHARON (4)

 

12. MASTER (4)

 

13. SPORT (5)

 

14. COLORINGS (6) (two words)

 

 

Answer Keys

   1.  Seattle, Washington

   2.  Lansing, Michigan

   3.  Casper, Wyoming

   4.  Madison, Wisconsin

   5.  Portland, Oregan

   6.  Spokane, Washington

   7.  Providence, Rhode Island

   8.  Lafayette, Louisiana

   9.  Rochester, New York  

   10.    Detroit, Michigan  

   11.  Charleston, West Virginia or South Carolina  

   12.   Manchester, New Hampshire  

   13. Shreveport, Louisiana

   14.   Colorado Springs, Colorado

Time to play the PUZZLE from the latest NPR puzzle!!!

You are given two things. You name something they have in common.

Ex. The eye/ A school --> PUPIL

 

1. A compass/ A sewing kit

 

2. A typewriter/ A lock

 

3. An ear/ Panama

 

4. A dentist/ A sergeant

 

5. A baseball diamond/ A still-life scene

 

6. A place setting/ A road

 

7. A postal worker/ A knight

 

8. A ship/ A card game

 

9. Whiskey/ A mathematical theorem

 

10. A ballot/ A highway patrol officer

 

11. A tree/ A dog

 

12. [triple]: A fish/A fish market/A voice lesson

Answer Keys

    1.  needle

    2.  key

    3.  canal

    4.  drill

    5.  pitcher

    6.  fork

    7.  mail

    8.  deck

    9.  proof

    10.  ticket

    11.  bark

    12.  scale

Tax Report is Nobody's Cup of Tea! Here's funny quotes about Tax in America!

 ‘T.S. Eliot said “April is the cruelest month” in his famous poem The Wasteland. Well, things are not quite different from Americans today because April is normally the busy month of tax report. (Due to pandemic situation, the due date for tax filing deadline for 2021 has extended to May 17.) Here are some funny quotes about tax. Enjoy!

 

“What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.” ….. Mark Twain

*taxidermist: a person whose job is to prepare the skins of dead animals and birds and fill them with a special material to make them look as if they were alive

 

“Intaxication is the feeling you get when you receive a tax refund until you realize it was your own money in the first place!”…..anonymous

 

 

“I never appreciate my kids more than when I’m doing my taxes.” …..anonymous

 

 

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” ……..Calvin Coolidge

 

 

Psychiatrist to his patient: “Of course, you have a purpose in life. You pay taxes, don’t you?”

 

 

“When it comes t”o taxes, there are two types of people. There are those that get it done early, also known as ‘psychopaths’, and then the rest of us.” …. Jimmy Kimmel

 

 

“A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.”….. Ann Landers

 

 

“The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.”…. George Bernard Shaw

Jean's Poem dedicated to All Our Loved Ones in Heaven

 To All Our Loved Ones in Heaven 

         by Jean J. Lee

The days you left behind 

  have felt like the most unfamiliar grind.

When I hit quiet trails, 

  I hear my breathing becoming sad exhales.

The empty hollow filled with sorrow

  makes it harder to hope for tomorrow.

Here I go again with another stride

  Slowly but tenaciously with you inside.

A hundred-mile-long run is not lonely

  as you are watching over me closely.

Miles and miles apart between Heaven and earth in existence,

  but running these miles would truly shorten the distance.

I know that I'd cry now and then

  But I promise I'd head out to run again.

When it rains, I'll think of it as your gift

  to hide my tears as I sniffed

When it snows, I'll listen to my footsteps

  in my joyful training of hundred reps.

A birdie on that cedar tree

  must be you that are finally free.

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Let's find something we see in the Supermarket! (Sunday Puzzle from NPR on Mother's Day)

Every answer today is something — or someone — you might see at a supermarket. Rearrange the given letters to get the answer.

Ex. I SEAL --> AISLE

1. LIED

2. BAR KEY

3. SOUPCON

4. A GERMAN

5. THE CURB

6. CHAMP RAY

7. PRO NIGHTCAPS

Answer Keys

   1.  DELI

   2.  BAKERY

   3.  COUPONS

   4.  MANAGER

   5.  BUTCHER

   6.  PHARMACY

   7.  SHOPPING CART

The latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR!

Time to play the latest Sunday Puzzle from NPR!! With the following seven-letter words, each of which has the consecutive letters A-T somewhere inside it. Change the A-T to two new letters to make a new word.

(*picture source: https://www.123rf.com/photo_105918199_hand-replace-a-letters-in-chance-word-to-be-the-change-word.html) 

Ex. FLATTER --> FLUSTER

1. LATERAL

2. CANTATA

3. HATBAND

4. DOORMAT

5. HATEFUL

6. GESTATE

7. FLATBED

8. RATTLER

9. PEACOAT

 

Answer Keys

    1.  lateral => liberal

    2.  cantata => cantina

    3.  hatband => husband

    4.  doormat => doormen

    5.  hateful =>hopeful

    6.  gestate => gesture

    7.  flatbed => flobbed

    8.  rattler => rustler

    9.  peacoat => peacock