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    <title>NPR: Sunday Puzzle Podcast</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[NPR's weekly word game: match wits with "Weekend Edition" puzzle master Will Shortz.]]></description>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[NPR's weekly word game: match wits with "Weekend Edition" puzzle master Will Shortz.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:subtitle>Word Games with Will Shortz. More NPR podcasts at NPR.org/podcasts.</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>A Tale Of Turkey, Full Of 'Blobs'</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This is a game called Blobs that Will Shortz found in an old book of party games. Will talks about his recent trip to Turkey, and the account has a number of intentional errors. Every time there's an error of fact, logic or word usage, the player says "blob."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:38:08 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is a game called Blobs that Will Shortz found in an old book of party games. Will talks about his recent trip to Turkey, and the account has a number of intentional errors. Every time there's an error of fact, logic or word usage, the player says "blob."]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Familiar Phrases Starting With 'T'</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:33:04 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>7:03</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Categories Fit For 'Radio'</title>
      <description><![CDATA[To mark Liane Hansen's 20th anniversary hosting <em>Weekend Edition Sunday</em>, 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."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:34:05 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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."]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>9:01</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Fill In The Blanks</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:35:40 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114359136&amp;ft=2&amp;f=4473090</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>7:52</itunes:duration>
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      <title>'Mix And Match' These Word Ensembles</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:35:27 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114135031&amp;ft=2&amp;f=4473090</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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."]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>8:39</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Get A Clue And A Four-Letter Word</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:33:10 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113903073&amp;ft=2&amp;f=4473090</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>8:00</itunes:duration>
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      <title>P.S., Think U Have It Solved?</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:33:14 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113671402&amp;ft=2&amp;f=4473090</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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."]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>8:00</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>These C's Come In Threes</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:33:10 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113456761&amp;ft=2&amp;f=4473090</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>8:20</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Initially, Michigan's Upper Peninsula</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:34:16 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113240257&amp;ft=2&amp;f=4473090</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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?]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>7:51</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Give A Ring, Get A Grin</title>
      <description><![CDATA[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."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:33:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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."]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>NPR,National Public Radio,Sunday Puzzle,Morning Edition,All Things Considered,Fresh Air</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>6:24</itunes:duration>
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