2020-12-06 MPR puzzle synopsis
Joe Wander
NPR Weekend Edition Puzzle
Debbie Elliott and Will Shortz
2020-12-06
Last week's challenge from listener Wesley Davis of Black Mountain, North Carolina, and when you get the answer it will make you smile. Name an animal and spell it backward. Now name a variety of meat and insert it inside the animal's name that you've spelled backward. A common word will be revealed. What is it?
Will's answer is REVEALED.
Lulu reported over 850 correct responses. This week's on-air player was fairly long-time listener and first-time player Sherie Trakhtenbroit of San Antonio, Texas, who listens to KSTX and was working with her sister on the puzzle going down a list of animal names when she noticed that "deer" spelled backward is "re ed" and remembered "veal" from the list of meats.
The theme of today's puzzle posted to the NPR site is "Three Words, One Proverb." Each prompt is a sentence that contains three consecutive words that appear in the same order as the first three words of a familiar proverb or saying.
For the example given, "Put out a saucer of milk when the cat's hungry," the answer would be "When the cat's away the mice will play."
Prompts (*A hint was given)
1. As meteorologists know, every cloud has water droplets.
2. Variety is the daily publication of show business.
3. The surgeon put a stitch in the gaping wound.
4.* Through the mountains the road to the next town is very twisty.
5. The proof of most whiskey is 80.
6. In this motel a picture is hanging over every bed.
7. The joke starts: a priest, a fool, and a lawyer walk into a bar.
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Editor's notes:
No news items or upcoming events announced. Health emergency Friday morning put me in the
ER for the entire day waiting for an MD. Gut bleed got me admitted and a colonoscopy and threw me off my schedule. By the time I got a note out to the team that I couldn't hear the sequence they had found other activities. Forunately I escaped this afternoon and this is the est I can manage this week, Sorry. joe
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This week's challenge from listener from listener Jared Harvey, of Santa Cruz, California: Think of a common word in six letters. Write it in lowercase. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the same word. What is it?
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Hints:
4. a town you wouldn't want to visit; a hot place
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1. Every cloud has a silver lining
2. Variety is the spice of life
3. A stitch in time saves nine
4.* The road to hell is paved with good intentions
5. The proof of the pudding is in the eating
6. A picture is worth a thousand words
7. A fool and his money are soon parted
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