Solution for 12.16.07

NPR Sunday Puzzle Challenge for December 16, 2007:

Think of a common six-letter word with the following unusual properties: The third and fourth letters are consonants, which are silent, and the fifth letter is a “T” which is pronounced twice.

Solution for 12.09.07

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for December 9, 2007:

Think of a well-known actor. Take the first five letters of his first name, and the last five letters of his last name, together, in order. These letters spell the name of a major American city.

Solution for 10.28.07

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for October 28, 2007:

Name something you might wear in the summer. The answer will have two words, with five letters in the first word and three letters in the second. Remove the next-to-last letter and read the result backward and you’ll get a word that means “blocks.”

Solution for 10.15.07

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for October 15, 2007:

Name a country in 11 letters that has an R in its name. Change the R to a K. Rearrange all the letters to name three makes of automobiles.

Solution for 10.7.07

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for October 7, 2007:

Name a well-known city in the United States, two words, 10 letters altogether. Add the letter A at the front, add the city’s two-letter state postal abbreviation at the end, the resulting 13-letter chain will be palindromic.

Solution for 9.30.07

NPR Sunday Puzzle Challenge for September 30, 2007:
Take the word “underachievement,” change one letter in it, and rearrange the result to get a famous actress, first and last name.

What actress is it?

Solution for 9.23.07

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for September 23, 2007:

Name something a football player wears, in eight letters. Rearrange the eight letters into two four-letter words associated with a fraud.

What words are these?

Solution for 9.2.07

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for September 2, 2007:

Rearrange the letters in CHARADES, to make two words that are synonyms.

What are they?

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Race, Dash
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Simple, yet completely annoying!

Solution for 8.26.07

NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for August 26, 2007:

Name an event at which food is served (eight letters). Inside this word is the name of a food in four letters. Remove these four letters, and the remaining four letters, in order, will name another food.

What words are these?

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clambake, lamb, cake
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At least, that’s the answer I came up with!

for all you big cheaters…

Solution for the Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle for August 12, 2007: Rearrange the letters of NITROGEN to get a familiar word everyone knows, that did not exist 10 years ago.

What is it?

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RINGTONE

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Are you happy now? (semi-colon close parenthesis)