A new batch of NPR Sunday Word Puzzle! Find the words that begin with /tie/ sound (in any spellings)!

Every answer today is a word, name, or phrase whose first syllable sound is "tie" — in any spelling.

 

Ex. Very small --> Tiny

1. Neat

2. Violent storm in the western Pacific

3. Disease that causes a high fever

4. Method of giving in the Mormon Church

5. Pre-Olympian god, in Greek myth

6. Hobbes, in "Calvin & Hobbes"

7. President between Harrison and Polk

8. Heavyweight champ Mike

9. New Testament book before Philemon

10. Passenger ship that sank in 1912

11. Popular pain reliever

12. Capital of Taiwan

13. Its capital is Bangkok

14. Fort in the American Revolution

15. River of Rome

16. Hippie t-shirt technique

17. Korean martial art

 

Answer Keys 

1. tidy

    2.  Typhoon

    3.  Typhoid

    4.  tihes

    5.  Titans

    6.  tiger

    7.  Tyler

    8.  Tyson

    9.  Titus

    10.  Titanic

    11. Tylenol

    12.  Taipei

    13.   Thailand

    14.   Ticonderoga

    15.   Tiber

    16.   tie dye

    17.  Taekwondo