Hink pink is a word game in which synonyms, circumlocution, and micronarratives provide clues for rhyming phrases. Check out Dylan Hicks’s forty hink-pink riddles here.

Ed. Note: This week’s puzzle contest is officially over—thanks 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 a free subscription to the Review and a copy of Dylan’s new novel, Amateurs. Congratulations, Russell! Below, the solutions. 

Answers:

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

Dylan Hicks is a writer and musician. His second novel, Amateurs, is out now from Coffee House Press. He contributes a monthly puzzle to the Daily.