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 compound word or a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first part ends with W and the second part starts with W. Example: Shrub whose shoots were once used for making barbed missiles: Arrowwood.
- Disney heroine with seven dwarfs.
- Wingless beetle that emits a greenish light.
- North and South America.
- One who works on the side of skyscrapers.
- A little dense.
- Maximum payload of a ballistic missile.
- Artist of the Helga Pictures.
- Ship owned by Greenpeace.
- Dog’s bark.
- Snore loudly while sleeping.
- Spouse who was never officially married (first half of this answer is hyphenated).
- One who makes or repairs certain farm implements.
- A literary or musical genre that makes a sharp break with the past.
- President before Warren Harding.
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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- Snow White
- Glowworm
- New World
- Window washer
- Slow-witted
- Throw weight
- Andrew Wyeth
- Rainbow Warrior
- Bowwow
- Saw wood
- Common-law Wife
- Plowwright
- New wave
- Woodrow Wilson
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