Synopsis of
NPR Weekend Edition puzzle
with Sarah McCammon and Will Shortz
2020-07-26
The listener challenge for this week comes from listener James
Matthews, of Little Rock, Arkansas. Think of a six-letter word for
something you might wear. Insert an "O" in the exact middle, and
you'll get a phrase meaning "Not aware." What is it? The answers
are OUTFIT and OUT OF IT.
Sarah reported just over 2,100 entries.
The on-air player is Flora Kupferman of San Francisco, California.
She reported that the answer just popped into her head. Sarah
noted that this is Flora’s second time winning the NPR puzzle.
Her first on-air appearance was on 1995-09-17 when I misspelled
her last name as Cooperman. In 1995, she said she was a part
time special education consultant. Flora reported that her NPR
lapel pin fell off and her friend Ellen Brosbee (phonetic) wrote
repeatedly to NPR to ask for a replacement, and finally received it
last year. Now that Flora has two, she plans to wear one again.
Sarah said the pin is “highly coveted,” but she could not say it is
univerally coveted. I refused mine because it does not come with
a union label:
Today’s on-air puzzle is called, “Around The World Jumble.” For
each clue word, replace one letter with two different letters to
name a country. For example, if the clue is “BELLE,” then the
answer could be “BELIZE” (replacing the second L with IZ).
CLUES:
1. Fence
2. Grace
3. Brawl
4. No Say
5. Polar
6. Debark
7. Brunt
8. Mondo
9. Malaria
10. Panda (three different answers)
Answers are near the end of this synopsis.
This week's challenge comes from listener Dominick Talvacchio
of Chicago, Illinois. Think of a common two-word phrase for
something you experience in a desert. Rearrange the letters to
get a single word for something you should do in the desert as a
result.
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Hints:
4. No Say: change the S, think of it as one word
6. Debark: change the B
9. Malaria: change the R
10. Panda (three different answers): One answer almost rhymes
with another; change the first letter, starts with a vowel,
specifically to a U.
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Clues
|
Answers
|
1. Fence
|
France
|
2. Grace
|
Greece
|
3. Brawl
|
Brazil
|
4. No Say
|
Norway
|
5. Polar
|
Poland
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6. Debark
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Denmark
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7. Brunt
|
Brunei
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8. Mondo
|
Monaco
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9. Malaria
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Malasia
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10. Panda (three different answers)
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Panama, Rwanda and Uganda
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Brunt and Mondo did not air.
Mondo is used in reference to something very striking or
remarkable of its kind (often in conjunction with a pseudo-Italian
noun or adjective).
"I think it's going to be mondo weirdo this year.”
End of NPR Puzzle Synopsis.