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This week’s challenge <\/p>\n
Today’s puzzle is a tribute to Mimi. Every answer is a familiar two word phrase or name in which each word starts with the letters MI-.<\/p>\n
Ex. Assignment for soldiers –> MILITARY MISSION<\/p>\n
1. Pageant title for a contestant from Detroit<\/p>\n
2. One of the Twin Cities<\/p>\n
3. Nickname for the river through New Orleans<\/p>\n
4. Super short skirt<\/p>\n
5. Neighborhood in Los Angeles that contains Museum Row<\/p>\n
6. Just over four times the distance from the earth to the moon<\/p>\n
7. Goateed sing-along conductor of old TV<\/p>\n
8. American financier who pioneered so-called “junk bonds”<\/p>\n
9. Little accident<\/p>\n
10. Land-based weapon in America’s nuclear arsenal<\/p>\n
11. In “Snow White,” the evil queen’s words before “on the wall”<\/p>\n
Last week’s challenge <\/p>\n
Last week’s challenge comes from Benita Rice, of Salem, Ore.\u00a0Name a famous foreign landmark (5,4). Change the eighth letter to a V and rearrange the result to make an adjective that describes this landmark.\u00a0What landmark is it?<\/p>\n
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Notre Dame \u00a0–> \u00a0Renovated<\/p>\n
Winner <\/p>\n
Chee Sing Lee of Bangor, Maine<\/p>\n
This week’s challenge <\/p>\n
This week’s challenge comes from James Ellison, of Jefferson City, Mo. Think of a popular movie of the past decade. Change the last letter in its title. The result will suggest a lawsuit between two politicians of the late 20th century \u2014 one Republican and one Democrat. What’s the movie and who are the people?<\/p>\n
If you know the answer to the challenge, submit it below by Thursday, April 23 at 3 p.m. ET. Listeners whose answers are selected win a chance to play the on-air puzzle.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Puzzle NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR This week’s challenge Today’s puzzle is a tribute to Mimi.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-593853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}