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 in which both words start with the letter pattern CA. Example: Holder for a laptop computer or other portable equipment: Carrying case.
- Mode of transportation in San Francisco.
- Sweet found in a Christmas stocking.
- Feline with black, yellow, and white coloring.
- Slang for a theatrical audition that’s open to everyone.
- Where NASA blasts off.
- Bandleader who wrote “Minnie the Moocher.”
- TV show hosted by Alan Funt.
- Old-fashioned place to look up things in a library.
- National park in New Mexico.
- Chalk or limestone, chemically.
- Dessert item that contains orange specks.
- Latin for “beware of the dogs.”
- In bygone times, something a visitor left when a person wasn’t home.
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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- Cable car
- Candy cane
- Calico cat
- Cattle call
- Cape Canaveral
- Cab Calloway
- Candid Camera
- Card catalog
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Calcium carbonate
- Carrot cake
- Cave canem
- Calling card.
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