By Dave Green
Subject: “ONYMS”
Each answer is a word that ends in “onym.”
Examples are provided. (e.g., A name given to
people by foreigners. (Germans for Deutsche).
Answer: Exonym or xenonym.)
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Difficulty Level
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1 Tap
2 Substance applied
with a chamois
3 Enlist
4 Classic children’s
heroine once
played in film by
Shirley Temple
5 Suffix with Euclid
6 Campers
7 Complaint
8 Many an Arthur
C. Clarke work
9 ___ Conference
10 Co-star of 2019’s
“Marriage Story”
11 Noted painter
of scenes of the
Napoleonic Wars
12 Place for unique
gifts
15 Finished
18 As good as it’s
going to get?
20 Prefix with
tourism
24 Children’s author
who wrote “There
is no one alive
who is you-er
than you!”
25 Stash
27 German
possessive
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30 Less deserving
of coal in one’s
stocking
32 ___ Lingus
33 “Woo-hoo!”
34 Pioneer in
syllogistic logic
35 Like I Samuel
among the
books of the Old
Testament
36 Some offensive
linemen, for short
37 Ruth’s was 2.28
38 Locale in
Wagner’s “Das
Rheingold”
39 Singer James
40 Popular Father’s
Day gifts
44 Kismet
45 Palindromic
response to
“Madam, I’m
Adam”
46 Sources of attar
47 “Go me!”
48 Count
50 “Fooled you!”
52 Dweller on the
Bering Sea
53 Humorist
Bombeck
54 Super Mario
Bros. character
with a mushroom
head
56 Good resolution
provider
59 Video game
annoyance
60 Red state
61 Counterpart of
sin
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FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. A word that means the opposite of another
word (hot, cold).
2. A word pronounced like another but differing
in meaning (too, two).
3. A word that has the same meaning as
another word (scared, afraid).
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. An abbreviation consisting of letters that form
a word (NATO).
5. A name that someone uses that is not his or
her real name (Elton John, Reginald Dwight).
6. A word derived from the proper name of a
real person (cardigan, Earl of Cardigan).
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. Spelled the same as another but with a
different pronunciation and meaning (bow, bow).
8. A word that may have opposite meanings
in different contexts (fast, stuck or moving
quickly).
9. A name for an inhabitant of a specifi c place
(Poland, Pole).
ANSWERS: 1. Antonym. 2. Homonym. 3. Synonym. 4. Acronym. 5. Pseudonym. 6. Eponym. 7. Heteronym. 8. Contronym. 9. Demonym.
Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each
correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on
the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.
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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
62 Buses and taxis
have them
nowadays
63 “I Am ___” (2013
best-selling
autobiography)
64 Pants, in slang
65 Brooklyn-based
sch.
66 Saying
67 Confer, as power
68 People profiled
in hagiographies:
Abbr.
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34 Onetime “Truth
in engineering”
sloganeer
35 “Haven’t the
foggiest!”
36 Reference that
arranges words
by concept
rather than
alphabetically
41 On the house
42 Text-displaying
technology for
Kindles and
Nooks
43 Stows (away)
44 Something found
on a neck
45 For the ages
49 Kind of yoga
51 Cousin of a
sno-cone
53 Traveler’s text
message, maybe
55 Swear words
57 Admitted
58 Take a chance
… or a hint to
the letters in the
shaded squares
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ACROSS
1 Loops in, in a way
4 Marjoram, for one
8 Theater
13 Japanese
affirmative
14 Home’s edge
15 Relative of a
jaguarundi
16 ___ chart
17 Times when
teachers go
to school but
students don’t
19 Had
21 Where the lord’s
work is done?
22 “___, do not think
I flatter”: Hamlet
23 Vessel for dipping
at a dinner table
26 First: Lat.
28 Fair
29 “___ Nacht
in Venedig”
(operetta)
31 “___ that order!”
(“Star Trek”
command)
No. 0213
Difficulty Level
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Edited by Will Shortz