HAVE NO DOUBT
Credit: NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
December 2, 2007
Will Shortz

Each blank can be filled in with a word to complete a phrase. The completed phrase is a definition of a homophone of the missing word. For example, given the phrase HAVE ____ DOUBT, the word NO will complete the phrase. HAVE NO DOUBT in turn is a definition of KNOW - which is a homophone of NO.

1. A large animal that may _____ its teeth
2. 2+3=5 _____ simple addition
3. Warning _____ a golfer
4. What an Hawaiian might _____ on your neck
5. Raw material containing silver _____ gold
6. Something _____ in a play
7. A place to turn _____ at night
8. An animal with long ears and soft _____
9. Groups working on _____ ships
10. Put a _____ number of workers on the payroll
11. Showed fear, as a _____

Answers:

1. bare - bear
2. some - sum
3. for - fore
4. lay - lei
5. or - ore
6. seen - scene
7. in - inn
8. hair - hare
9. cruise - crews
10. higher - hire
11. coward - cowered