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I thought of that, but that would only apply in the case of a homophone, right? What is savory a homophone of?


I feel like I must be missing something really obvious here, so I will apologize in advance for being dim.

Savory sounds like Savoury, not sweet.

I'm pretty sure savory and savoury are synonyms. In fact I'd say they are the exact same word in slightly different spellings - like flavor and flavour. Both MW and the OED list them as variants of each other.

According to Chambers, savour and savor are variants of the same word, with the same meaning, but "savor" is the N. American spelling.

I guess I can kind of see how the clue works with "savory" as the answer. But I've never seen a "sounds like" clue used in this way. The answer sounds like a word that is a spelling variant of the answer... To me this is weird.

Take this made up clue:
Hue, on the phone. (5)

The answer is "color" because hue can mean color and color sounds like colour. Weird.