High-Level Puzzlers Will Have Figured Out This Headline By Now
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Will Shortz |
NPR
Sunday, November 22, 2015
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On-air challenge: Each sentence contains two words that have homophones that are opposites. For each sentence given, find the homophone opposites.
For example: Actress Susan Dey dressed up as a knight on Halloween. --> "Dey" and "knight" are homophones of "day" and "night," which are opposites.
Next week's challenge: Think of a word that contains three consecutive letters of the alphabet together — like CANOPY, which contains NOP. Change these three letters to one new letter to make a synonym of the first word. What words are these?
Answer: Challenge answer: DEFEAT --> BEAT.
Next week's challenge: This week's Thanksgiving challenge comes from listener Dan Pitt of Palo Alto, Calif. It's not very hard. The following three Thanksgiving dishes have something very unusual in common:
- Spit-roast turkey
- Cornbread stuffing
- Boiled squash
What is it they have in common, and can you name one other thing that might be served at Thanksgiving dinner that has the same property?
Submit Your Answer
If you know the answer to next week's challenge, submit it here. Listeners who submit correct answers win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you Wednesday, November 25th at 3 p.m. ET.
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