Monday, February 20, 2023

Let's find rhyming words! (NPR Sunday Puzzle On-air Challenge)

There's a syndicated newspaper puzzle called "Wordy Gurdy" that's been around for almost 50 years. It involves rhyming phrases like "history mystery" and "charity rarity." It's made now by Mark Danna, who celebrated his 30th anniversary with the puzzle last week. So today I thought I'd do some "wordy gurdys." Every answer is a rhyming two-word phrase, like "history mystery," in which each word has three syllables.

 

1. How-to guide that comes out once a year

 

2. One who totes around an object that blocks passage

 

3. Eyeglass that's shaped like a dunce cap

 

4. Better-looking guy who pays a kidnapper

 

5. Sweepstakes for some earthenware

 

6. Some garden flowers from the capital of Austria

 

 

 


 

<Answer Keys>

a   1.  annual manual

     2.  barrier carrier

     3.  conical monocle

     4.  handsomer ransomer

     5.  pottery lottery

     6.  Viennese peonies

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