NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 27, 2015): Greek and Italian Heritage

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 27, 2015): Greek and Italian Heritage:

Q: Name a famous Greek person from history. Rearrange the letters of the name to get the title of a famous Italian person from history. Who are these two people?"

I don't think the name or title will include an N.

Edit: Remove an N from INCLUDE and you get the letters used in the name and title.

A: EUCLID and IL DUCE

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 20, 2015): Foretold Fourfold Puzzle

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 20, 2015): Foretold Fourfold Puzzle:

Q: Take the words FORETOLD and FOURFOLD. They start with homophones, FORE and FOUR, and they end with rhymes, TOLD and FOLD. The challenge is to find two common nine-letter compound words that have the same property. Specifically, the two homophones are each five letters long, and the rhymes have four letters each. What words are these?

Edit: In one of my comments, before I knew the answer, I said it wasn't BIRTHDATE-BIRTHMATE or WAISTCOAT-WASTEBOAT. I had to delete that for obvious reasons.

A: WAISTEBAND and WASTELAND

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 13, 2015): The Quick Brown Fox...

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 13, 2015): The Quick Brown Fox...:

Q: It's a well-known curiosity that the longest common unhyphenated word that can be typed on the top row of a typewriter or computer keyboard is TYPEWRITER.

Find a common hyphenated word in 12 letters that can be typed using only the keys on the top row of a typewriter or computer keyboard.

And a synonym of the word can be typed with one hand.

Edit: You can type SEESAW with the left hand.

A: TEETER-TOTTER

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 6, 2015): Where Am I?

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 6, 2015): Where Am I?:

Q: Name a well-known U.S. geographical place — two words; five letters in the first word, six letters in the last — that contains all five vowels (A, E, I, O and U) exactly once. It's a place that's been in the news. What is it?

I see a problem with the puzzle; isn't the name of this place a single word?

A: (MOUNT) DENALI