The Weekly Quiz from NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz https://www.npr.org/2024/10/05/nx-s1-5137981/sunday-puzzle-phonetic-fun
On-air challenge: This is a phonetic puzzle. If I asked you to say a letter of the alphabet before one of the gifts of the Three Wise Men to get a boy’s name, you’d put L before MYRRH to get ELMER. Now try these.
Say a letter of the alphabet before … to get …
- … a decoration on a gift … a thin musical instrument
- … a carpenter’s tool … a biblical patriarch
- … a boundary of a field … a word meaning “prevention of a team from scoring”
- … the sound a cat makes … part of a car that clears a windshield
- … the opposite of war … a monocle, for example
- … where a judge presides … a person who accompanies someone on a date
- … a son of Adam and Eve … a word meaning “difficult to understand”
- … a mean, mixed-breed dog … a card game
- … a word meaning “having a raspy voice” … a fish that swims upright
- … a seabird with a harsh call … a dog with floppy ears
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