Monday, May 31, 2021

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

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