NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

April 18, 2021

Will Shortz

 

The answer to each of the clues below is related to one of the words in the clue itself. What are the answers and how do they relate back to their clues?

 

1. River seen in Paris

2. What a hat adds to your body

3. Waters that run through Cologne

4. What the government takes from our paychecks

5. Something that will go round and round

6. Something a cryptographer could read

7. Something that goes boom

8. Word that means strange

9. When night is done

 

Answers:

 

1. Seine

2. Height

2. Rhine

3. Tax 

4. Wheel

5. Code

6. Bomb

7. Weird

8. Dawn 

 

Each answer is the same as one of the words in its clue - with its vowel sound changed:

 

1. seen - Seine

2. hat - height

3. run - Rhine

4. takes - tax

5. will - wheel

6. could - code

7. boom - bomb

8. word - weird

9. done - dawn