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View the full archive of NPR Sunday Puzzle Familiar Phrases Starting With 'T' Every answer in today's puzzle is a familiar phrase in the form BLANK of BLANK, where the first word starts with the letter "T." Given the last word of the phrase, the player must give the first word. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Categories Fit For 'Radio' To mark Liane Hansen's 20th anniversary hosting Weekend Edition Sunday, this puzzle is a game of categories using the word "radio." Will Shortz names the categories, and the guest names something in the categories beginning with each of the letters in "radio." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fill In The Blanks Each clue is a sentence with two blanks. Fill in the blanks with two words that complete the phrase. But here's the twist: The words that complete the sentence are homophones of the words in the answer phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Mix And Match' These Word Ensembles This puzzle is called "Mix and Match." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with M-I and the second word starts with M-A, as in "Mix and Match." For example, for the clue "a day before St. Patrick's Day," you would say "mid-March." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get A Clue And A Four-Letter Word I'm going to give you some clues. The answer to each clue is a four-letter word which can be found in consecutive letters inside the clue. For example, if I said "a sail boat's part", you would say "spar", because a sail boat's part is a spar, and it's concealed in consecutive letters inside "sail boat's" parts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website P.S., Think U Have It Solved? This week's puzzle involves the letters P-S-U as in Portland State University, where Will spoke on Saturday. Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with "P" and the second word starts with "SU." So if the clue is "What a lawyer conducts to see if an invention has been made before," the answer would be "patent survey." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website These C's Come In Threes Each clue consists of two words starting with the letter "C." The answer is a third word starting with "C" that can follow the first word and precede the second one to complete a compound word or familiar two-word phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Initially, Michigan's Upper Peninsula This week's puzzle is in honor of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Because U.P. is short for Upper Peninsula, each answer has "U" and "P" in it. The first clue is: "U" and "P" are the initials of a common two-word phrase naming something holding a street lamp. What is it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Give A Ring, Get A Grin For each clue, the answer is a four-letter word. The word is an anagram of one of the words in the clue. For example, if the clue is "main line through Egypt," the answer would be "Nile," because Nile is a rearrangement of the letters in "line." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maybe Not So Easy As Pie This puzzle is called "Dividing the Pie." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts "pi" and the second word ends with "e." So, the "pi-e" is divided. For example, if the clue is "power source for most automobiles," the answer would be "piston engine." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'A' Test Of Islands For each word given, add the letter "a" and rearrange all the letters to name a well-known island. For example, if the clue is "trees," add an "a" to get the answer: Easter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading Backward Is The Trick Each answer starts with a clue for a six-letter word. If you drop the first letter and read the remaining letters backward, you'll get a five-letter word that answers a second clue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scramble The Word To Get One Like The Other From two given four-letter words, rearrange the letters of one of them to get a synonym of the other. For example, given "each" and "pain," the answer is "ache," because "ache" is an anagram of "each," and it means "pain." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oh My, A Relaxing Game This puzzle involves meditation. Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase that starts with the initials "O-M." For example: protection for the hand while cooking? Answer: oven mitt. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's All About The Wordplay It's a game of completing analogies. Each involves wordplay. For example, "pink" is to "pen" as "plead" is to "pencil," because by removing the "p" from "pink," you get "ink," which goes inside a pen. And by removing the "p" from "plead" you get "lead," which goes inside a pencil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Does That Old Saying Go? Every answer is a familiar proverb or saying. Given a two-word phrase, one of the words is in that proverb or saying, and the other is an anagram of a word in it. The anagram can be either word in the phrase. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Take A Risk To Be Risque Start with two sentences. Each sentence has two blanks. Put a word in the first blank. Add a long 'A' sound to the end of it to get a new word, phonetically, that will go in the second blank to complete the sentence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Edition: This Game's A Beach The challenge is a game of categories. The word is "beach." Each clue is a category, and for each category, the goal is to name something in it starting with each of the letters in "beach." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Most Common Consonants, In Any Order Three of the most common consonants of the English language are R, S and T. Every answer today is a word, name or phrase that contains each of the letters R, S and T exactly once, along with any number of vowels. For example, if the clue is "short-winded," the answer would be, "terse." Note: The R, S and T can appear in any order. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Have A Cow The theme today is "cow." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with "co" and the second word starts with "w." For example, if the clue is "person who can fix a hard drive in 10 minutes," the answer would be, "computer whiz." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website