The latest NPR Sunday Puzzle! Using clues and adding the alphabet D to find words!

I'm going to give you clues for two words. Add the letter D at the end of the answer to the first clue to get the answer to the second one.

Example: Wild hog / Get on, as a train --> BOAR/D

 

1. Person who saves the day / Biblical king

 

2. German wife / Criminal activity

 

3. Smile / Use a whetstone

 

4. Prayer ending / Alter

 

5. Peruse / Total up again

 

6. Lumbering forest animal (2 words) / Famous pirate

 

Answer Keys

    1.  hero/ Herod

    2.  frau/ fraud

    3.  grin/grind

    4.  Amen/amend

    5.  read/re-add

    6.  black bear/ Black Beard

Let's make a new bunch of 8-letter-words by adding two letters!

Here is the latest Sunday Word Puzzle aired on NPR today. I'm going to give you some six-letter words. Insert two new letters between the first and second letters of my word to make a familiar eight-letter word.

Example: BEHEAD --> BONEHEAD

1. ATOMIC

2. SUNKEN

3. LAMENT

4. MAROON

5. ORATOR

6. DONATE

7. CINDER

8. INSIDE

9. HACKER

 

Answer Keys

    1.  anatomic

    2.  shrunken

    3.  ligament

    4.  macaroon

    5.  operator

    6.  detonate

    7.  cylinder

    8.  ironside

    9.  hijacker

The latest NPR Sunday Puzzle aired on May 1st

I'm going to give you some four-letter words. Name a capital city that conceals each word in consecutive letters.

 

(*picture source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7399879/European-capital-cities-dominate-list-worlds-FASTEST-public-transport-systems.html) 

Example: THEN --> ATHENS

1. OPEN

2. QUIT

3. SINK

4. PEST

5. LUMP

6. DISH

7. TO-DO

 

ANSWER KEYS

1.  Copenhagen

2.  Quito

3.  Helsinki

4.  Budapest

5.  Kuala Lumpur

6.  Mogadishu

7.  Santo Domingo