NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

July 4, 2021

Will Shortz

 

Each clue below can be answered with a word that phonetically starts with the sounds of two letters. For example, the element CESIUM phonetically starts with the letters CZ. #8 starts with the sounds of three letters.

1. Product applied under the arms

2. Large city in southern California - San ______

3. Sudden thought

4. No one in particular

5. Insect related to the grasshopper

6. Old and out of use, as words

7. Remove or get rid of something - slangily

8. Amelia Earhart, for one

 

 Answers:

 

1. DOdorant (deodorant)

3. DAgo (Diego)

3. IDa (idea)

4. NEone/body Anyone/body

5. KTdid (katydid)

6. RKic (archaic)

7. AT six (eighty-six)

8. AVAtrix (aviatrix)