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Sunday Puzzle Each week, New York Times crossword puzzle editor and NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz presents an on-air quiz to one contestant and gives a challenge for listeners at home.

Sunday April 29, 2007

Re-Figuring Familiar Phrases

Sunday April 22, 2007

Shifting from One Phrase to Another

Sunday April 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 • In the on-air puzzle this week, given a word, take the last two letters, reverse them, then think of a word starting with these two letters that can follow the original word to complete a familiar two-word phrase. For example, given "flat," you would take the last two letters, "at", and reverse them to make "tax," as in "flat tax."

Two-Letter, Two-Word Tango

Sunday April 8, 2007

A Rhyming World Tour

Sunday April 1, 2007

'Perplexing Puzzlers' for April Fool's Day

Sunday March 25, 2007

Two Clues with Double the Fun

Sunday March 18, 2007

What Is that Old Saying?

Sunday March 11, 2007

March 11, 2007 • The on-air puzzle for this week has hidden "arms." Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase that uses the consecutive letters A,R,M. Specifically, the first word in the phrase will end in A,R, and the second word will start with M. For example, given the clue, Garage Worker, the answer would be, Car Mechanic.

The Hidden 'Arms' Hold the Answer

Sunday March 4, 2007

State the Answer

Sunday February 25, 2007

Rhymes with Good Reason

Sunday February 18, 2007

Five from Seven, Backwards

Sunday February 11, 2007

Initials that Really Matter: WB

Sunday February 4, 2007

The Answer Starts in the Middle

Sunday January 28, 2007

Two Words from One

Sunday January 21, 2007

J-Walking with a Crooked Letter

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