Synopsis of
NPR Weekend Edition puzzle
with Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Will Shortz
2020-10-25
The listener challenge for this week comes from listener Michael
Schwartz of Florence, Oregon: Name a world capital. Change one
letter in it to D-Y. The result will be two words, one after the
other. The first word names somebody you like to be around. The
second word names somebody you don't like to be around. What
city is it? The answer is Budapest (Hungary) making buddy and
pest.
Budapest was the answer to an on-air puzzle on 2008-03-09:
Will gives clues for three words at a time. Insert the letter A
between the answers to the first two clues to get the answer to
the third. Another word for friend; a bothersome person; capital of
Hungary: bud, pest, Budapest.
Budapest was also the site of the World Puzzle Championship
fromOctober 5-10, 1999.
Lulu reported over 2,000 correct entries.
The on-air player is Matthew Trill of Clearwater, Florida. Playing
the NPR puzzle began as a family tradition decades ago as they
would listen on the short drive to chuch. His question for Will is
whether he ever tried pickleball. Will has not. December 20 will be
Will’s 3,000th consecutive day of playing table tennis.
Today’s on-air puzzle is called, “Spanish To English.” Each clue is
a 5-letter Spanish word, pronounced by Lulu. Anagram the clue to
get an English word. For example, if the clue is, “cesta,” the
Spanish word for basket, then the answer could be CASTE.
CLUES:
1. TODOS (all or every)
2. TRUCO (trick)
3. BANCO (bank)
4. ARROZ (rice)
5. CINCO (five)
6. JABON (soap)
7. TORRE (tower)
8. PECHO (chest)
9. HUESO (bone)
10. ODIAR (to hate)
Answers are near the end of this synopsis.
This week's challenge comes from Neville Fogarty, of Newport
News, Virginia. What common seven-letter verb is made up of
three consecutive musical notes in order?
Answers must be received by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on
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Here's our regular monthly puzzle transcription schedule:
1st Sunday Joe
2nd Sunday Richard
3rd Sunday Joe
4th Sunday Richard
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Mail this week:
NEVER HEARD OF "PILL BUG" ---Typo, should have read
"pillbug," also known as a sowbug; garden pest that rolls up in a
ball under stress
NEVER HEARD OF "PERP WALK"---gotta watch TV crime shows
for that one
NEVER HEARD OF "JUMP BALL"---regular feature of basketball
games, aerial equivalent of hockey's faceoff
NEVER HEARD OF "JELLO SHOT"---mostly for young adults, a
potion of Jell-O and an alcohol to get smashed on
Joe answered:
I can't keep up either, just learned about geocaching this
morning. joe
Hints:
1. TODOS (all or every): starts with s
3. BANCO (bank): something to eat at breakfast; also means
something to bring home, if you are making money
5. CINCO (five): starts with c, second letter is o
6. JABON (soap): a musical instrument
7. TORRE (tower): starts with r, a kind of style, 1950’s or 1960’s
8. PECHO (chest): starts with an e
9. HUESO (bone): what do you live in?
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Links of interest:
Audios of past NPR puzzle segments
World Scrabble Championship
American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
Merl Reagle’s article on constructing crossword puzzles, available
at
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Will noted that Matt Jones writes the Jonesin’ Crosswords which
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Joseph Young’s Puzzleria is at:
Richard Renner
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rrennerATigc.org
Twitter: @rennerr3
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Clues
|
Answers
|
1. TODOS (all or every)
|
stood
|
2. TRUCO (trick)
|
court
|
3. BANCO (bank)
|
bacon
|
4. ARROZ (rice)
|
razor
|
5. CINCO (five)
|
conic
|
6. JABON (soap)
|
banjo
|
7. TORRE (tower)
|
retro
|
8. PECHO (chest)
|
epoch
|
9. HUESO (bone)
|
house
|
10. ODIAR (to hate)
|
radio
|
Lulu hopes we have all learned some Spanish now.
End of NPR Puzzle Synopsis.