TURN OF EVENTS
Credit: Will Shortz
NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
Nov. 14, 2009 (#1-14 - adapted)
The answer to each clue below will be in the form of _______ of ________, with the first word starting with T. For example, given the clue AN UNFORESEEN DEVELOPMENT, the answer would be TURN OF EVENTS.
1. Game you win going backwards
2. Period of military service
3. Biblical center of confusion
4. Common textbook feature
5. Struggle between personalities
6. The way things are said
7. Biblical do-not-touch
8. Sequence of ideas
9. Surprising or ironic development
10. Line on a globe
11. Sugarpie and Honeybun, for two
12. Antiseptic solution of the past
13. Document ending World War I
14. Play by Shakespeare
15. Some people won't give it to you
16. New Yorker feature
17. Omen of worse to come
18. Intense fighting or activity
19. Gift showing gratitude
20. Albert Einstein's legacy
21. Keats' joy forever
22. Long, sad story
Answers:
1. Tug-of-war
2. Tour of duty
3. Tower of Babel
4. Table of contents
5. Test of wills
6. Tone of voice
7. Tree of Knowledge
8. Train of thought
9. Twist of fate
10. Tropic of Cancer or Capricorn
11. Terms of endearment
12. Tincture of iodine
13. Treaty of Versailles
14. Timon of Athens
15. Time of day
16. Talk of the Town
17. Tip of the iceberg
18. Thick of battle
19. Token of appreciation
20. Theory of relativity
21. Thing of beauty
22. Tale of woe
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