FALSE RHYMES II

Credit: NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
January 8, 2011
Will Shortz

Certain words look like they should rhyme, but they don't. Each clue below can be answered with a two-word phrase ending in the same three, four, or five letters -but the two words still don't rhyme. For example, given the clue DESIRES TROUSERS, the answer phrase would be WANTS PANTS.

1. Listens to grizzlies
2. Exhibits cattle
3. Tightly holds stinging insects
4. Provides mates for men
5. Outlaws graceful birds
6. Wheels out Barbies
7. Injures hunting dogs
8. Cuts plumbing items in two
9. Is a pedicurist
10. Interrupts a series of wins
11. Takes the rough edges of magicians' sticks

Answers:

1. Hears bears
2. Shows cows
3. Clasps wasps
4. Gives wives
5. Bans swans
6. Rolls dolls
7. Wounds hounds
8. Halves valves
9. Does toes
10. Breaks streaks
11. Sands wands