ODD COUPLES

GAMES Magazine

March/April 1982

Bill Leonard 

 

[Note from JA: I usually avoid celebrity names, but I feel these (from 1982) have held up well enough to justify this clever puzzle.] 

 

The phrases and names below share a common-sounding second word or last name, although there is a difference in spelling (making them homophones).

 

Ex: Big Bad and Virginia

Ans. Woolf (wolf) 

 

1. Ballpoint and William

2. Short order and Alistaire

3. French and Lena 

4. Front and Satchel

5. Red River and Rudy

6. Bottle and Al

7. Spider and Jack

8. Volcanic and Arthur

9. Lovers' and Frankie

10. First-aid and Eartha

11. Below and Jack

12. Bat and Thomas

13. Chile Con and Art 

14. Anthracite and Nat "King"

15. Sea and Maximillian 

16. Barbecue and Mark 

 

Answers:

 

1. Penn (pen)

2. Cooke (cook)

3. Horne (horn)

4. Paige (page)

5. Vallee (valley)

6. Capp (cap)

7. Webb (web)

8. Ashe (ash)

9. Laine (lane)

10. Kitt (kit)

11. Paar (par)

12. Mann (man)

13. Carney (carne)

14. Cole (coal)

15. Schell (shell)

16. Spitz (spits)