{"id":269152,"date":"2026-02-01T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/269152\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:31:10","slug":"sunday-puzzle-rhyme-time-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/269152\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle: Rhyme Time : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sunday<\/p>\n

\n Sunday Puzzle<\/p>\n

NPR<\/p>\n

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NPR<\/p>\n

\"Sunday<\/p>\n

On-air challenge <\/p>\n

I’m going to give you some clues. The answer to each one rhymes with the last word in the clue.
Ex. The sky’s hue \u00a0–> \u00a0 Blue<\/p>\n

1. Toy that flies to great height<\/p>\n

2. Pistol, for one<\/p>\n

3. Funeral fire<\/p>\n

4. Things you count when you have trouble getting to sleep<\/p>\n

5. Friars event with a celebrity host<\/p>\n

6. Brand of pen that you can click<\/p>\n

7. Place to acquire knowledge<\/p>\n

8. Have uncertainty about<\/p>\n

9. Not go away<\/p>\n

10. King Felipe VI’s domain<\/p>\n

11. Three plus one more<\/p>\n

12. Locale for someone who needs bail<\/p>\n

13. One-tenth of a bowling game<\/p>\n

14. Like the runner that all the others have passed<\/p>\n

15. Quick blow on a flute<\/p>\n

16. Superior to all the rest<\/p>\n

17. Was rank<\/p>\n

18. New addition to a family, maybe<\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge <\/p>\n

Challenge:
Last week’s challenge came from Evan Kalish, of Bayside, N.Y. Name a famous living singer whose first and last names together have four syllables. The second and fourth syllables phonetically sound like things a dog walker would likely carry. What singer is this?<\/p>\n

Answer: <\/p>\n

Alicia Keys<\/p>\n

Winner:
Laurie Rose of Maldon, MA.<\/p>\n

This week’s challenge <\/p>\n

This week’s challenge comes from Alan Hochbaum, of Duluth, Ga.\u00a0Think of two hooved animals. Take all the letters of one of them and the last three letters of the other, mix them together, and you’ll get the first and last names of a famous actress. Who is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR On-air challenge I’m going to give you some clues. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-269152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}