Q: Name a place where many people go for vacation (3,10). Change one of the vowels sounds from a long A to a long E, and the result phonetically will be one reason to visit this place. What place is it?You can drop the first word and the puzzle still works.
A: THE SEYCHELLES --> THE SEASHELLS
Q: Name a creature that has a world capital in its name. Replace the capital with another creature and you'll get another world capital. What is it?I spent too long trying to end up on DODOMA (Tanzania). I just had to think a little more.
A: MOSQUITO --> MOSCOW
Q: Name certain musical instruments (plural). The first, third, fourth, and fifth letters spell something that holds the things named by the last five letters. What instruments are these?I'm pretty sure I saw this on an episode of Star Trek.
A: TROMBONES --> TOMB, BONES
I would not eat them here or there. I would not eat them anywhere.Q: Think of a noun in six letters. It sounds like a two-word phrase (2,6). And the thing named by the noun can have a seriously bad effect on what's named by the phrase. What is it?
A: MIASMA --> MY ASTHMA
Q: Name part of the human body above the neck in 9 letters. Rearrange them to name another part of the human body found below the neck. Only some people have the first body part. Everyone has the second one. What parts of the human body are these?The wording bugs me a little which caused me to have a mental block. I do have the answer finally so I can stop pacing back and forth trying to figure this out.
A: BUCK TEETH --> BUTT CHEEK
It's not the first time someone's made this observation.Q: Name a famous contemporary singer (6,4). The second, fourth, sixth, eighth, and ninth letters, in order, spell a repeated part of a song that everyone knows. What is it?
A: CELINE DION, "Old MacDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O!"
Don't forget to submit your answer by Thursday, Aug 10 at 3pm ET. Hopefully you'll get the call.Q: Name something found on a map of England. Two words. The last two letters of the first word are the same as the first two letters of the last. If you go to England, you can't see this place. You can see it only on a map. What is it?
A: PRIME MERIDIAN
Remove the fourth letter of the city, rearrange and... not again!Q: Name a well-known U.S. city in nine letters. Change the third and fifth letters to get the name of a beverage. What is it?
A: PENSACOLA --> PEPSI-COLA
This is kind of a spinoff of the on-air puzzle.Q: Name a classic TV show in two words, in which the respective words rhyme with the first and last names of a famous writer - four letters in the first name, five letter in the last name. Who is it?
A: Get Smart, Bret Harte
The answer is a little contrived, but at least I don't need to use my "Phone a Friend" lifeline.Q: Name a famous singer (first and last names, 12 letters in all). Add a Y at the end, and the result, with respacing but not rearranging any letters, will spell a possible contribution to a picnic and how it might be served. What singer is it?
A: Frank Sinatra --> Franks in a tray
