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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 Puzzle

Sunday Puzzle

The Weekly Quiz From NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz

Firing Blanks

In this puzzle, you'll get a series of sentences that end in two blanks. Insert two words in the blanks that are reversals of each other. The words will be four letters long. For example: The spring, and the place to set your bait, is each a BLANK-BLANK. You'd say: Each is a Trap Part.

Firing Blanks

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Thanksgiving to a T

With Thanksgiving coming up shortly, Will Shortz has brought a T puzzle. Every answer is a familiar two word phrase in which each word has two T's. for example, if I said, A bit of sewing around a hole in a shirt, you would say, button hole stitch.

Thanksgiving to a T

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Give Me an 'L,' Give Me a 'G'

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is BobCat Ryffel from Fairfield, Conn. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station WNYC in New York.

Give Me an 'L,' Give Me a 'G'

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