NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
January 14. 2018
Will Shortz

Below are clues for two five-letter words. Reverse the last two letters of the first word to get the second one. For example, given the clues ARISTOCRATIC and PRESTIGIOUS ANNUAL AWARD, the answer words would be NOBLE and NOBEL.

1. Squiggle over a Spanish N and like a bathroom floor
2. Move very slowly and a thin pancake
3. Wine-making grape and a spotted horse
4. 90 degrees in a square and a heavenly personage
5. Bread-making need and an Irish poet
6. An English county and less confident
7. Necklace feature and applauds
8. Sign of the Zodiac and get up

Answers:

1. Tilde and tiled
2. Creep and crepe
3. Pinot and pinto
4. Angle and angel
5. Yeast and Yeats
6. Shire ad shier
7. Clasp and claps
8. Aries and arise