RD CHALLENGE II

Three of a Kind

Reader's Digest

July, 2006

Will Shortz 

 

What do the trio of clues in each set below have in common? Each answer is a six-letter plural word, ending in S.

 

1. Money

    Weight

    Keyboard key 

2. Fish

    Dieters

    Piano practice

3. Electric utility

    Rhythm in verse

    Municipal parking lot

4. Doctor

    Boxing match

    Children's songs

5. Egg

    Pasta

    Beach

 

6. Cast

    Pool

    Good fortune

Answers:

 

1. Pounds

2. Scales

3. Meters

4. Rounds

5. Shells 

6. Breaks