Sunday, February 12, 2023

The Sunday Puzzle from NPR Today!

I'm going to give you clues for two words or phrases. Add the letters A-T consecutively somewhere inside the first word to get the second one.

 

Ex. Experience again / Aunt or uncle --> RELIVE, RELATIVE

 

 


1. Play, as a guitar / Layer of rock

 

2. Hunter constellation / Grand speech

 

3. Pierce slightly, as with a needle / Saint celebrated on March 17

 

4. Spanish mister / Certain legislator

 

5. Piece of furniture to sit in / Certain allergen (2 wds.)

 

6. Comedian Ellen / Sinks in quality

 

7. Organs that smell / What "Standing room only" means (2 wds.)

 

8. [add AT twice consecutively inside the first word to get the second one:] Shaped like a dunce cap, geometrically / In an immobile or unresponsive stupor

 

Answer Keys

    1.  strum, stratum

    2.  Orion, oration

    3.  prick, Patrick

    4.  senor, senator

    5.  chair, cat hair

    6.  DeGeneres, degenerates

    7.  noses, no seats

    8.  conic, catatonic

No comments:

Post a Comment

Fill in the Blanks with the Right Words!

When you learn English as a second or a foreign language, you might have trouble putting the right words in the right places in a sentence. ...