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Sunday Puzzle: Game of Words

Bruce McEldowney plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Sunday Puzzle

I'm going to read you pairs of incomplete phrases. Put the same word in each blank to complete them. Every answer is a four-letter word. Ex. ___ of wolves1. ___ of sale / ___ of rights2. ___ of arms / ___ of paint3. ___ of thought / ___ of scrimmage4. ___ of fire / ___ of wax5. ___ of thumb / ___ of law6. ___ of mouth / ___ of God7. ___ of hands / ___ of force8. ___ of Africa / ___ of plenty9. ___ of paper / ___ of the tongue10. ___ of luck / ___ of both worlds

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