2020-08-23 NPR puzzle synopsis

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Synopsis of
NPR Weekend Edition puzzle
with Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Will Shortz
2020-08-23

The listener challenge for this week is to think of a major city in France whose name is an anagram of a major city in Italy. Each city has more than 100,000 people. The answers are Orléans and Salerno.

Lulu reported over 1,300 entries.

The on-air player is Ben Bernard of Cliff Island, Maine. His solution came from a family effort, including his wife, Victoria, his daughter Ellen and his son Julian (phonetic). Someone thought of Salerno first.

Today’s on-air puzzle is called, “Low And Inside.” Every answer is a word or name that has the syllable "low" (phonetic) somewhere inside it (not at the start or the end). The "low" syllable is always accented. For example, if the clue is, “Like the U.S. before 1776,” the answer could be COLONIAL.

CLUES:
1. Greeting in Hawaii
2. House speaker Nancy
3. Tennis star Martina
4. Spanish city that hosted the 1992 Olympics
5. Powerful land in ancient Mesopotamia
6. Everyday sandwich meat
7. Sounding pleasant to the ear, as music
8. Informal, as speech
9. Religious scholar
10. Kind of tube that a fertilized egg passes through
11. Relating to or involved in crime
12. Running away to get married

Answers are near the end of this synopsis.

This week's challenge comes from listener Sandy Weisz, of Chicago. Think of a place on earth with a four-word name. Take the third word. Advance three of its letters to the next letter of the alphabet (so A would become B, B would be come C, etc.). You'll get the fourth word in the name. What place is this?

Answers must be received by 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on THURSDAY.  NPR will no longer receive entries by email.  Be sure to include a telephone number where you can be reached if you are selected as the winner. 

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Editor's notes:
 
Puzzles, and contents of Weekend Edition/Sunday puzzle segment are copyrighted 2020, by Will Shortz and NPR. Reprinted here with permission.

Here's our regular monthly puzzle transcription schedule:
1st Sunday Joe
2nd Sunday Richard
3rd Sunday Joe
4th Sunday Richard
5th Sunday Kristy
Our e-mail addresses are:
Richard Renner <rrennerATigc.org>
Joe Wander <jdwandersrATgmail.com>
Kristy Compton <bisonbooksATgmail.com>

No mail this week, in part because Joe did not make the errors last week that I made two weeks ago. Thank you, Ben, for your keen eye. At least this week I ran a spell checker.

Hints:
4. Spanish city that hosted the 1992 Olympics: second largest city in Spain
5. Powerful land in ancient Mesopotamia: starts with a B; where modern Iraq is


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Will noted that Matt Jones writes the Jonesin’ Crosswords which appears in over 50 alternative newspapers.

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Richard Renner
in Silver Spring, Maryland, for the foreseeable future
rrennerATigc.org
Twitter: @rennerr3

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Clues
Answers
1. Greeting in Hawaii
aloha
2. House speaker Nancy
Pelosi
3. Tennis star Martina
Navratilova
4. Spanish city that hosted the 1992 Olympics
Barcelona
5. Powerful land in ancient Mesopotamia
Babylonia
6. Everyday sandwich meat
bologna
7. Sounding pleasant to the ear, as music
melodious
8. Informal, as speech
colloquial
9. Religious scholar
theologian
10. Kind of tube that a fertilized egg passes through
fallopian
11. Relating to or involved in crime
felonious
12. Running away to get married
eloping


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