NPR Puzzle: Add the A-T!

THE WEEKLY QUIZ FROM NPR PUZZLEMASTER WILL SHORTZ https://www.npr.org/2023/02/12/1155999986/sunday-puzzle-add-the-a-t

On-air challenge: 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