Time to play the on-air challenge puzzle from NPR! Every answer today is a word or phrase in which the only consonants are P and S, repeated as often as necessary. All the other letters are vowels.
Ex. Spots on a playing card --> PIPS
1. Rival of Coke
2. Mexican coins
3. Wife or husband
4. To go against
5. To assume without proof
6. Flowers that produce opium
7. Young dogs
8. A group that accompanies a sheriff in a western
9. To have
10. To placate by acceding to someone's demands
11. Small bouquets
12. To forgo, as an opportunity (2 wds.)
13. Appears suddenly (2 wds.)
14. Thick fog is said to resemble it (2 wds.)
Answer Keys
1. Pepsi
2. Peso
3. Spouse
4. Oppose
5. Suppose
6. Poppies
7. Puppies
8. Posse
9. Possess
10. appease
11. posies
12. pass up
13. pops up
14. pea soup
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