Directions: This being a Leap Year, each answer word will rhyme with either ‘leap’ or ‘year.’ (An answer may appear more than once.)
Examples: “________, ________” said the Roadrunner. Answer: Beep. Beep,
She may be ‘healthy, wealthy, and wise’ but is still ‘a _______ mortal.’ Answer: Mere.
1. From Robert Frost: “. . . .and miles to go before I ________.”
2. There you are again, late, bringing up the _________.
3. Have you seen my new ________? It’s great on the off-road trails!
4. Put it in high ________ and it goes!
5. “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also _______.” (Biblical quote from Galatians 6:7)
6. Las Vegans ________ for Knights, Raiders, Aces and more.
7. A United States Vice President is often called the ________.
8. ________ Abby, a columnist who offers advice on various topics.
9. Lots of dirt on the front porch. Bring me a broom. I’ll ________ it off.
10. I don’t get it! It’s ‘as _________as mud!’
11. Sometimes it seems like we’re ‘between the devil and the ________ blue sea’.
12. That sentimental musical is bound to make you shed a ________ or two.
13. “Tomorrow and tomorrow . . . ________s in this petty pace from day to day . . .”
14. “There’s no need to _______, Underdog is _______.”
15. It was such an emotional, happy experience, I felt that I was going to ________ for joy.
16. From “The Sound of Music”: “Doe, a _______, a female . . .”
17. You’ll be in a _______ of trouble if mom finds out what you did last night!
18. An iconic _______, in Santa Cruz County severely damaged by storms.
19. We better _______ close tabs on that new accountant. He seems a little shady.
20. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Listen my children and you shall ______. Of the midnight ride of Paul __________.”
Answers:
- Sleep
- Rear
- Jeep
- Gear
- Reap
- Cheer
- Veep
- Dear
- Sweep
- Clear
- Deep
- Tear
- Creep
- Fear, Here
- Weep
- Deer
- Heap
- Pier
- Keep
- Hear, Revere

