NPR Sunday Puzzles: Vowel Replacement

THE WEEKLY QUIZ FROM NPR PUZZLEMASTER WILL SHORTZ

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/18/988385478/sunday-puzzle-vowel-replacement

On-air Challenge: I’m going to read you some clues. The answer to each one is one of the words in the clue with its vowel sound changed.

Example: What fish bite –> BAIT (the word “bite” with the long-I sound changed to a long-A)

1. What a babe might wear in a high chair
2. Family dude
3. River seen in Paris
4. Waters that run through Cologne
5. Something that goes “boom!”
6. What you bowl with
7. What the government takes from your income
8. What a hat adds to your body
9. Where to order a beer
10. Something that will go round and round
11. What a cryptographer could read
12. Word that means “strange”
13. When night is done

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