2020-11-01 NPR Puzzle Synopsis
Joe Wander
NPR Weekend Edition Puzzle
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and Will Shortz
2020-11-01
Last week's challenge, from Neville Fogarty, of Newport News, Virginia. What common seven-letter verb is made up of three consecutive musical notes in order?
Will's answer is DEFLATE (D, E-flat, E).
Lulu reported 1039 correct responses. This week's on-air player was Brett Campbell of Portland Oregon, the editor of Oregon Arts Watch. Brett listens to opb and is celebrating his Mother's 97th birthday today..
The theme of today's puzzle posted to the NPR site is "Rhyme City." Every answer today is a well-known U.S. city or town that has a two-word name. I'm going to give you rhymes for the respective parts. You name the places.
For the example given: Lodge Kitty, Kansas, the answer would be DODGE CITY
Prompts (*A hint was given)
1. Short Girth, Texas
2. Wrong Peach, California
3. Brittle Lock, Arkansas
4. Rolling Scene, Kentucky
5. Paint Ball, Minnesota
6. Gun Rally, Idaho
7. Banned Storks, North Dakota
8. Heavy Trace, Maryland
9. Quaker Sites, Ohio
10. Mouth Trend, Indiana
11. Milks Dairy, Pennsylvania
12. Tan Barber, Michigan
13. Moral Fables, Florida
14. New Walls, South Dakota
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Editor's notes:
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Puzzles, and contents of Weekend Edition/Sunday puzzle segment are copyrighted 2020, by Will Shortz and NPR. Reprinted here with permission.
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Correspondence this week: One call for help:
Sent: Oct 27, 2020 10:12 AM
To: rrennerATigc.org
Subject: Hi, Richard from Phil Goodman
Hi, Richard.
I was wondering if you could help me understand the answers to two clues in the Saturday 10/24/2020 "Newsday" crossword puzzle.
The first clue is "Guy making author's alterations," and the answer is SAL.
The other clue is "Parallel line part," and the answer is ASA.
I tried Google but couldn't find anything to explain why those answers are correct.
Thanks for your help.
Yours, Phil Goodman
Binghamton, NY
Richard Renner
Tue, Oct 27, 11:02 AM (5 days ago)
Phil, I am as clueless as you are. Perhaps Joe can include it in next week's synopsis to see if a woke subscriber might know. Richard -----Original Message-----
Joe Wander <jdwan...@gmail.com>
Tue, Oct 27, 5:07 PM (5 days ago)
to Richard, philgo525
"As a," as in "straight as a die," might be the second. No idea at all about SAL. joe
Anyone?
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This week's challenge This is a spinoff of today's on-air puzzle. Name a well-known U.S. city in two words (5,3). Change the first letter of the second word to name a popular rock group. Who is it?
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1. Short Girth, Texas -- Fort Worth
2. Wrong Peach, Calif. -- Long Beach
3. Brittle Lock, Ark. -- Little Rock
4. Rolling Scene, Ky. -- Bowling Green
5. Paint Ball, Minn. -- St. Paul
6. Gun Rally, Idaho -- Sun Valley
7. Banned Storks, N.D. -- Grand Forks
8. Heavy Trace, Md. -- Chevy Chase
9. Quaker Sites, Ohio -- Shaker Heights
10. Mouth Trend, Ind. -- South Bend
11. Milks Dairy, Penn. -- Wilkes–Barre
12. Tan Barber, Mich. -- Ann Arbor
13. Moral Fables, Fla. -- Coral Gables
14. New Walls, S.D. -- Sioux Falls
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