Homonyms Letter Square

By O. J. Robertson

Homonyms are words that sound alike but are spelled differently. (Examples: feet and feat,sleigh and slay.) Think of a homonym for each word below, then find your word in the letter square by reading forward, backward, down, up, and diagonally.

Note: Start with the longer words—though the same letter may be used in more than one word, no shorter word is entirely within a longer one. For example, if two was the given word, both to and too would be homonyms, but to would not be within too or root (reading root backward) if it were the homonym for route.

F	U	R	D	E	E	R
L	L	A	E	N	A	M
N	O	M	A	I	D	U
A	A	P	S	E	G	S
O	N	E	Z	A	D	N
R	W	A	S	T	E	O
G	D	L	U	O	W	S

Awl	____________	Peel	____________
Days	____________	Rain	____________
Dear	____________	See	____________
Due	____________	Some	____________
Fir	____________	Sow	_____, ______
Grown	____________	Sun	____________
Lone	____________	Waist	____________
Made	____________	Won	____________
Main	____________	Wood	____________
Pain	____________

Answers:

• all, daze, deer, dew and do, fur, groan, loan, maid, mane, pane, peal, reign, sea, sum, sew and so, son, waste, one, would.