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\"Sunday<\/p>\n

\n Sunday Puzzle<\/p>\n

NPR<\/p>\n

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NPR<\/p>\n

\"Sunday<\/p>\n

On-air challenge <\/p>\n

This is a “quiet” puzzle. Every answer is a word that starts with SH-. I’m going to give you two words that the answer can proceed in order to complete compound words or familiar two-word phrases. You tell me the SH- word.
Ex. Holder \u00a0 \u00a0 Cropper \u00a0 –> \u00a0 SHARE (shareholder, sharecropper)<\/p>\n

1. Shooter \u00a0 \u00a0 Eyed<\/p>\n

2. Music \u00a0 \u00a0 Metal<\/p>\n

3. Skin \u00a0 \u00a0 Dog<\/p>\n

4. Shocked \u00a0 \u00a0 Game<\/p>\n

5. Key \u00a0 \u00a0 Gears<\/p>\n

6. Wreck \u00a0 \u00a0 Mate<\/p>\n

7. Horn \u00a0 \u00a0 Lace<\/p>\n

8. Center \u00a0 \u00a0 List<\/p>\n

9. Change \u00a0 \u00a0 Range<\/p>\n

10. Clock \u00a0 \u00a0 Glass<\/p>\n

11. Blade \u00a0 \u00a0 Strap<\/p>\n

12. Stall \u00a0 \u00a0 Curtain<\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge <\/p>\n

Last week’s challenge came from Andrea Carla Michaels, of San Francisco.\u00a0Name a famous 20th-century writer. Remove the last two letters of the first name and the last letter of the last name. The result will name a clothing material. What is it?<\/p>\n

Challenge Answer <\/p>\n

Virginia Woolf -> Virgin Wool<\/p>\n

Winner <\/p>\n

Wesley Davis of Black Mountain, N.C.<\/p>\n

This week’s challenge <\/p>\n

This week’s challenge comes from Donn Dimichele, of Redlands, CA.\u00a0Name a famous musical duo. Remove four consecutive letters of the duo’s name and phonetically you’ll name a famous nonmusical duo. Who are they?<\/p>\n

If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it below by Thursday, March 12 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR On-air challenge This is a “quiet” puzzle. Every answer is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-335623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}