CALLING ALL HOMOPHONES
Credit: Will Shortz
NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
Dec. 2, 2007

Each definition or clue below contains a missing word. That word is a homophone of the word that answers the clue. For example, given the clue HAVE _____ DOUBT, the missing word would be NO, completing the phrase HAVE NO DOUBT. To have no doubt is to KNOW, and no and know are homophones.

1. Warning _____ a golfer
2. A place to turn _____ for the night
3. Material that may contain gold _____ silver
4. What a Hawaiian my _____ around your neck
5. Put a _____ number of workers on the payroll
6. Something _____ in a play
7. An animal with long ears and soft _____
8. Groups working on _____ ships
9. Showed fear, as a _____
10. What a phone company might try to _____ you

Answers:

1. FOR - FORE
2. IN - INN
3. OR - ORE
4. LAY - LEI
5. HIGHER - HIRE
6. SEEN - SCENE
7. HAIR - HARE
8. CRUISE - CREWS
9. COWARD - COWERED
10. SELL - CELL