The Weekly Quiz from NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-s1-5341314/sunday-puzzle-for-french-fanatics
On-air challenge: Every answer today is a word or phrase that comes from French but is also commonly used in English. See if you can get them from their anagrams. Ex. TOPED / Train station –> DEPOT
- BRIDES / Scattered pieces of waste
- ROSE UP / One who pretends to be something he’s not
- BEARCAT / Nightclub
- EURONET / On the way (2 words)
- CONTOUR / Bit of toasted bread in soup or a salad
- IT’S CHEAP / Artistic work that imitates another
- BEARS OUT / One who deliberately wrecks something for military gain
- QUITE SOUR / Bluish green
- RUNESTONE / Confidentially (2 words)
- HOTEL SUITE / Dark outline of something against a light background
- CENTRAL BEACH / Complete freedom to act (2 words)
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