FALSE RHYMES II
Credit: NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
January 8, 2011
Will Shortz
Certain words look like they should rhyme, but they don't. Each clue below can be answered with a two-word phrase ending in the same three, four, or five letters -but the two words still don't rhyme. For example, given the clue DESIRES TROUSERS, the answer phrase would be WANTS PANTS.
1. Listens to grizzlies
2. Exhibits cattle
3. Tightly holds stinging insects
4. Provides mates for men
5. Outlaws graceful birds
6. Wheels out Barbies
7. Injures hunting dogs
8. Cuts plumbing items in two
9. Is a pedicurist
10. Interrupts a series of wins
11. Takes the rough edges of magicians' sticks
Answers:
1. Hears bears
2. Shows cows
3. Clasps wasps
4. Gives wives
5. Bans swans
6. Rolls dolls
7. Wounds hounds
8. Halves valves
9. Does toes
10. Breaks streaks
11. Sands wands
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FALSE RHYMES I
Certain words look like they should rhyme, but they don't. For example, the words HORSE and WORSE differ only by their initial letter, but do not rhyme. Can you supply the ending letters - indicated by the number of blanks - to the initial letters of the words below to complete words which look like they should rhyme, but do not. In every case, the ending letters are exactly the same. #7 involves a heteronym.
1)
F_ _ _
B _ _ _
2)
CR _ _ _
SH _ _ _
3)
C _ _ _
GR _ _ _
4)
B _ _ _
SP _ _ _
5)
H _ _ _
T _ _ _
6)
_ _ _ _ _
O _ _ _ _ _
7)
D _ _ _
T _ _ _
SH _ _ _
8)
PA _ _ _
RA _ _ _
9)
M _ _ _
GR _ _ _
SH _ _ _
10)
F _ _ _
S _ _ _
G _ _ _ _ _
11)
M _ _ _
GR _ _ _
TH _ _ _
12)
M _ _ _
S _ _ _
PL _ _ _
13)
BR _ _ _
ST _ _ _
FL _ _ _
(Possible) Answers:
1)
FOOT
BOOT
2)
CROWN
SHOWN
3)
COUP
GROUP
4)
BOOK
SPOOK
5)
HOUR
TOUR
6)
RANGE
ORANGE
7)
DOES (as in He does his work.)
TOES
SHOES
8)
PATIO
RATIO
9)
MOVE
GROVE
SHOVE
10)
FOUL
SOUL
GHOUL
11)
MEAT
GREAT
THREAT
12)
MAID
SAID
PLAID
13)
BROOD
STOOD
FLOOD
Credits:
#10: NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
October 2, 2016
Presented by Will Shortz
#10 - 13: NY Times Crossword
October 30, 1997
Cathy Millhauser (Allis)
Certain words look like they should rhyme, but they don't. For example, the words HORSE and WORSE differ only by their initial letter, but do not rhyme. Can you supply the ending letters - indicated by the number of blanks - to the initial letters of the words below to complete words which look like they should rhyme, but do not. In every case, the ending letters are exactly the same. #7 involves a heteronym.
1)
F_ _ _
B _ _ _
2)
CR _ _ _
SH _ _ _
3)
C _ _ _
GR _ _ _
4)
B _ _ _
SP _ _ _
5)
H _ _ _
T _ _ _
6)
_ _ _ _ _
O _ _ _ _ _
7)
D _ _ _
T _ _ _
SH _ _ _
8)
PA _ _ _
RA _ _ _
9)
M _ _ _
GR _ _ _
SH _ _ _
10)
F _ _ _
S _ _ _
G _ _ _ _ _
11)
M _ _ _
GR _ _ _
TH _ _ _
12)
M _ _ _
S _ _ _
PL _ _ _
13)
BR _ _ _
ST _ _ _
FL _ _ _
(Possible) Answers:
1)
FOOT
BOOT
2)
CROWN
SHOWN
3)
COUP
GROUP
4)
BOOK
SPOOK
5)
HOUR
TOUR
6)
RANGE
ORANGE
7)
DOES (as in He does his work.)
TOES
SHOES
8)
PATIO
RATIO
9)
MOVE
GROVE
SHOVE
10)
FOUL
SOUL
GHOUL
11)
MEAT
GREAT
THREAT
12)
MAID
SAID
PLAID
13)
BROOD
STOOD
FLOOD
Credits:
#10: NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
October 2, 2016
Presented by Will Shortz
#10 - 13: NY Times Crossword
October 30, 1997
Cathy Millhauser (Allis)
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