NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

June 27, 2021 

Will Shortz

The answer to each clue below is a made-up two word phrase. The first word has five letters. Add one letter at the beginning of that word and one letter at the end, to make a seven-letter word that completes the phrase. For example, given the clue,

A piece of needle work that is big enough,

the answer would be AMPLE SAMPLER -

AMPLE(big enough) and SAMPLER (piece of needlework).

1. Difficult extended period without rain

2. Starbuck's offerings on a tray

3. Not these or those female parents

4. A criss-cross framework in the top story of a house

5. Angry baseball players from Pittsburgh

6. Costs relating to buying a poison made from the castor bean

7. Sweepstakes with a prize of a playful water mammal

8. Destitution that's not hidden

9. Sikh head coverings worn in cities

Answers:

 

1. ROUGH DROUGHT

2. LATTE PLATTER

3. OTHER MOTHERS

4. ATTIC LATTICE

5. IRATE PIRATES

6. RICIN PRICING

7. OTTER LOTTERY

8. OVERT POVERTY

9. URBAN TURBANS