{"id":99989,"date":"2016-07-01T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=99989"},"modified":"2016-07-01T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:10:43","slug":"forty-more-hink-pinks-the-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/forty-more-hink-pinks-the-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty (More) Hink Pinks: The Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"puzzle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hink pink is a word game in which synonyms, circumlocution, and micronarratives provide clues for rhyming phrases. Check out Dylan Hicks\u2019s forty\u00a0hink-pink riddles here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ed. Note: This week\u2019s puzzle contest\u00a0is officially over\u2014thanks to all who entered. Our winner this time is Russell Jane Willoughby, who got out thirty-seven of forty really difficult hink pinks. She gets\u00a0a free subscription to the\u00a0<\/em>Review and a copy of Dylan\u2019s new novel,\u00a0<\/em>Amateurs<\/a>.\u00a0Congratulations, Russell! Below, the solutions.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Answers:<\/p>\n

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  1. Apter raptor<\/li>\n
  2. Paid shade<\/li>\n
  3. Fetty Wap\u2019s yeti trap<\/li>\n
  4. Daily Paley<\/li>\n
  5. Jura sura<\/li>\n
  6. JoJo Fletcher\u2019s yo-yo fetcher<\/li>\n
  7. Neon Dion<\/li>\n
  8. Sharman\u2019s barman.<\/li>\n
  9. Bieb\u2019s grebe<\/li>\n
  10. Poco Coco<\/li>\n
  11. Leonhard Euler, crayon-art toiler<\/li>\n
  12. Lactation jactation<\/li>\n
  13. Foxy proxy<\/li>\n
  14. Steph Curry\u2019s def surrey<\/li>\n
  15. Steady Hedy<\/li>\n
  16. Tsch\u00fcss, Bruce<\/li>\n
  17. Billet leeway<\/li>\n
  18. Boss Hogg\u2019s floss log<\/li>\n
  19. Baaba Maal\u2019s ha-ha wall<\/li>\n
  20. Tattoo snafu<\/li>\n
  21. Salbi\u2019s Galbi (or Kalbi)<\/li>\n
  22. Cory Booker\u2019s Dory cooker<\/li>\n
  23. Bork\u2019s spork<\/li>\n
  24. Quondam condom<\/li>\n
  25. Auerbach\u2019s flower smock<\/li>\n
  26. Weegee\u2019s squeegee<\/li>\n
  27. Fuddy-duddy\u2019s Muddy study<\/li>\n
  28. Gretzky\u2019s Jet Ski<\/li>\n
  29. Norman Lear\u2019s Mormon schmear<\/li>\n
  30. Sharpe\u2019s harp<\/li>\n
  31. Otto Dix\u2019s blotto pix<\/li>\n
  32. Fossa casa<\/li>\n
  33. Dolly\u2019s lolly<\/li>\n
  34. Cirque kirk<\/li>\n
  35. Yul Brynner, mule skinner<\/li>\n
  36. Logy Hoagy<\/li>\n
  37. Willoughby\u2019s villa fee<\/li>\n
  38. Tidy Heidi<\/li>\n
  39. Zealot nun\u2019s pellet gun<\/li>\n
  40. Martin Buber cartin\u2019 tubers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dylan Hicks is a writer and musician. His second novel,\u00a0<\/em>Amateurs<\/a>, is out now from Coffee House Press. He contributes\u00a0a monthly puzzle<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0<\/em>Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hink pink is a word game in which synonyms, circumlocution, and micronarratives provide clues for rhyming phrases. Check out Dylan Hicks\u2019s forty\u00a0hink-pink riddles here. Ed. Note: This week\u2019s puzzle contest\u00a0is officially over\u2014thanks to all who entered. Our winner this time is Russell Jane Willoughby, who got out thirty-seven of forty really difficult hink pinks. 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