Big Tease
Making great wordplay with lexagrams uses many types of language skills. Success involves more than having a large vocabulary – it helps to recognize letter patterns and to visualize how words interact. To help build these skills, take a look at his great puzzle quiz.
Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase with the initials T.T.
- Contents of a David Letterman list.
- Vehicle that takes cars to a car pound.
- It has to be upright for a passenger before an airplane landing.
- Lively dance.
- Maximum span a U.S. president can be president.
- Ping-pong.
- Informal shirt that bares the shoulders.
- Usually the leading song on an album.
- Kind of wrestling.
- Genteel article of furniture.
- Item that keeps a cravat from flapping.
- Lessons for a very young toddler.
- Rails.
- Kind of baby.
- Difficult phase in early childhood.
Do your best and check the answers below. If you want more puzzles like this, then take a look at the book!
| Quoted from Will Shortz’s Mind Games: 100 Alphabet Riddles by Will Shortz. A long-time puzzlemaster for National Public Radio, Shortz has created many styles of word games. One of his more popular puzzles is the Alphabet Riddle where every answer is a familiar phrase having the same initials. |
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- Top Ten
- Tow Truck
- Tray Table
- Turkey Trot
- Two Terms
- Table Tennis
- Tank Top
- Title Track
- Tag Team
- Tea Table
- Tie Tack
- Toilet Training
- Train Tracks
- Test Tube
- Terrible Twos
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