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Many of our everyday words have more than one meaning. Below are eleven pairs of definitions. Both definitions in each pair fit the same word. When read down, the first letters of the eleven answers will spell out the name of a beloved TV celebrity.
1. Spend time idly or bread unit
2. Worker's organization or marriage
3. Pine tree fruit or ice cream holder
4. Feeling of curiosity or savings account accrual
5. Land parcel or considerable quantity
6. Illumination or not weighty at all
7. Typewriter type style or the VIP crowd
8. Baby's toy or city square
9. Weapon or upper body appendage
10. Bowling group or three nautical miles
11. Stand at a slant or thin
1. Spend time idly or bread unit
2. Worker's organization or marriage
3. Pine tree fruit or ice cream holder
4. Feeling of curiosity or savings account accrual
5. Land parcel or considerable quantity
6. Illumination or not weighty at all
7. Typewriter type style or the VIP crowd
8. Baby's toy or city square
9. Weapon or upper body appendage
10. Bowling group or three nautical miles
11. Stand at a slant or thin
Answer
1. Loaf2. Union
3. Cone
4. Interest
5. Lot
6. Light
7. Elite
8. Block
9. Arm
10. League
11. Lean
Celebrity: Lucille Ball
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HEY PEPP I LOVED IT
That was so Cool!! Keep up the good work!!
Thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!
Great teaser - super job!
Peppa, you are on a roll...keep up the good work! Loved it!
Loved it.
Didn't get all of them right tho
Didn't get all of them right tho
Fun and Easy.
Fun - though I did miss #8 - haha. Keep them coming.
Well thought out. I enjoyed it.
So much fun -- I only missed two
Very fun, two-thumbs up!!
I won't give away any secrets, but the beloved "person" that read downward from the first letters of all the answers has always been one of my favourites!! Lovely lovely work Pepp!!
I won't give away any secrets, but the beloved "person" that read downward from the first letters of all the answers has always been one of my favourites!! Lovely lovely work Pepp!!
wow that was a great and fun teaser! i missed a couple of them, but figured out who the celebrity was !!! great job pep!
I really liked this teaser... not too hard, not too easy... this one was fun!
not bad, easybut fun where is the coffee
Lotsa fun with my Sunday morning coffee. Thank you.
thi was great ! i loved it ! it has everything i like .
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It didn't challenge enough, too easy.
Hey Bradon ,Not everybody is a college graduate ,some players are dropouts so you have to entertain both levels of mentality NO OFFENCE
This one was fun. Send some more.
HARD----only got 1!!!!!!
I loved it. Why? Because I finally found one I could work. After the first 3 letters, the answer was apparent. The rest was fun.
easy but fun to solve.
im like kayt010 i only got one o well great teaser
You write some of the coolest teasers even if I don't get them all. Keep up the good work!
Very fun! Thanks!
Got all except #7. Fun!
Hey Peppa you are so awesome. I love your work. Most are just hard enough to make them challenging but easy enough to keep us coming back. Great job. LOVED IT!!! And by not using Lucy made one wonder if you were on the right track. Double whamy.
pretty fun...helped that i figured out the celebrity first.. made the last answers easier.
hi vlerma ! i saw your suggestion on how i should deal with BESA . thanks
That was fun and easy, although a few were tricky. I got it in under a minute!!!
Great, fun, fun, fun. Thanks so much for a real delight in my long day.
I got the name of the star before I got all the answers.
Got to waste a whole minute on it.
Fun and quick to solve! This is a great combination with a 2 year old on the loose!
send more~~!!!
great job!!!
great job!!!
GREAT TEASER! exceptionally fun and unique...after i got the first two letters, i figured out who it was...and i love lucy!
that was pretty dang good! i hope to see more like these, 'cause a lot of times these 'teasers' suck!!!
good job peppermint or whatever your name is!
good job peppermint or whatever your name is!
i only got a few of them but oh well it was still a very well thought out and well done i liked it alot!!
I ENJOYED THIS ONE PEPPERMINTP. YOU MAKE THEM ENTERTAINING AND FUN TO USE THE BRAIN. "I LOVE LUCY" TOO.......
THANKS FOR THE FUN.
THANKS FOR THE FUN.
Yay fun!
amazingly cute!!!!!!!!
i didnt get very many of them though
keep these coming!
i didnt get very many of them though
keep these coming!
I liked that one a lot! Good job
Feb 13, 2006
Excellent one! I got them all - had to work on it a bit though. Not too hard, not too easy - just right!
Great job PP!!! I got hung up on the type style though.... it's been a VERY long time since I used a typewriter!!!
I am glad all of you enjoy my work Thanks for the comments
good 1, that must have taken you forever to write out
CUTE, BUT CERTAINLY NO CHALLENGE.
WAY TOO EASY!!!!
WAY TOO EASY!!!!
Lots of fun -- thank you, Peppa!
Figuring out the celebrity first probably made it really easy , anyway it was a cute teaser and i enjoyed figuring then out.THX.
Joined this site several days ago. First one I was able to do. Thanks!!
Very cute!!
Very very good. I really liked this double teaser.
ptretty good i got most of them...good work
Still eacy, but enjoyable. After several days of not solving any teaser, it's good to be able to get the right answer.
Easy teaser for me but so much fun!! Keep them coming!!
Ho-Hum
A+ to Peppa, I got Lucy first, got stuck on "block", B for me, I loved it
Feb 13, 2007
It was a very good puzzle. The typewritter font threw me since i am so used to computers now.
I missed #7, but got the "Bonus".
I loved it!
I loved it!
I guess the fact that I missed the typewriter reference firmly cements me as a member of Generation Y. I haven't used one of those since I was like 8 years old.
That's funny, Hero, because that was the word I missed too! Didn't need it to know the final answer though.
Great teaser!
Great teaser!
A definitely terrific teaser! The teaser did get you to think about the answers. Even though it was easy for me, it was still enjoyable to conquer. Keep up the superb work!
see, being a tad older helps sometimes. Learning on a typewriter helped me to get #7. This was easy but lotsa fun. Keep em' comin'.
For once I am afraid I must agree with LMURRAY... way too easy.
Easy, easy, easy. I didn't need to get all of the definitions to get the celebrity name. I only got about four before I got the answer.
The point was the get all of the definitions, not to get the name of the celebrity. The celebrity helped with the words.
Fun, and not too difficult.
Fun, and not too difficult.
kinda long
Thanks peppa...the perfect teaser. Fun, semi-easy, but with an added twist. Great job
I liked that this was on the easy side. Some of us need easier ones to restore our faith in our brains after we stumble through the harder ones.
Who is lucille ball????
way easy!!!
Hrm, I didn't know #7, wouldn't have known. I'd call typewriter font "Courier" But I figured courier didn't fit the VIP thing. The others were all easy, though.
I missed the instruction about finding the celebrity! When I saw it in the answer, I was like.. huh? why is there a celebrity name there? And I reread the question and smacked myself in the forehead....
I missed the instruction about finding the celebrity! When I saw it in the answer, I was like.. huh? why is there a celebrity name there? And I reread the question and smacked myself in the forehead....
Pretty Easy, but I would really like more brain teasers like this.
Easy but also fun! Nice job!
Thank you.
Jim
Thank you.
Jim
Ditto my remark of three years ago.
As you can tell by my 'handle', I got the definitions right off the bat! Getting the celebrity after the first two pairs of defs. definitely made the rest of the answers even easier to get! Very easy but just as enjoyable!
BTW: Please tell me those who got only 1 ans. right are 10 or under, and those who got 'only a few' are 14 or under!!?
----Worried teacher
----Worried teacher
Fun!
Way easy, but lots of fun.
Got'em all! Easy and Fun
Not too hard, but fun!
Nice teaser.
All you had to get were the first four and the rest came easy. You look down and see LUCI and you knew it was going to be Lucille Ball so all you had to do was write her name down and you had the first letter to every clue.
Fun and easy!
Fun and easy!
Babe said it all and I agree! Easy but fun!
Agree w Babe & Gayle
Really enjoyed it, also agree with Babe.
Aw what the heck, I'll agree with babe too.
I enjoyed this quiz - it was fun. But I still missed 37 and I KNEW it started with an "E" oh well, maybe next time
Got two (2) and three (3) right off the bat and I had it. Good choice of celebrity.
Another teaser for the kiddies me thinks, although they probably wouldn't recognize the celeb?
Excellent!
I enjoyed getting each line, sequentially, before moving on to the next...That, alone, sets the brain in motion! What fun to see the little connections between the two concepts! And what a neat idea having the bonus of the beloved celebrity
Fun and entertaining teaser. I got all 11 words and the celebrity answer very quickly.
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