I believe in behavior which is positive and helpful.Q: Name a famous European tourist site in nine letters. Rearrange its last four letters to name something that its first five letters can be planted in.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Apr 13, 2025): European Vacation
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Apr 13, 2025): European Vacation
62 comments:
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Note: The submission form appears to be on the puzzle page itself but the main puzzle page still has a link to the old "submission" page.
ReplyDeleteThe link to this week's puzzle is just above the question.
DeleteI've met many a friend here.
ReplyDeleteSolved the puzzle, Wordle in 3, perfect Connections. It's gonna be a good day!
ReplyDeleteI was gonna guess Wordle in two but then...
DeleteI was gonna solve the Sunday Puzzle but then...
And when Blaine takes down this clue, I'll know why.
It's TMI, it's TMI, it's TMI.....
Liz - Yes. A relatively easy Sunday morning. The NPR puzzle and Connections came quickly, while Wordle required more thought.
DeleteMy niece Wordled in 1 today. For the third time! (Her previous starting words were PLANT and SMILE). I'm trying to get her to change her starting word to SLATE, so I can share her mojo.
DeleteCoincidentally, the last four letters can also be rearranged to name something related.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the tourist site to get two professions.
I like the uniformity of your comment.
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ReplyDeleteEasy enough even with being half asleep at this early hour. I'm going back to bed
ReplyDeleteThe first four letters anagram to a large mammal.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to say more but I was afraid it would not end well.
DeleteIt might spoil it.
DeleteRearrange five consecutive letters of the site to get a medical term.
ReplyDeleteAlso a generic term.
ReplyDeleteNeat hints, Blaine!
ReplyDeleteOver 1800 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteThe first five letters of the tourist site, rearranged, have a connection to the On-air Challenge.
ReplyDeleteIf you take the first five letters and swap two of them with each other and say the result aloud you phonetically get what some of us may think of this puzzle.
DeleteIt's taking me longer to come up with a clue, than it took to solve the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the tourist site to describe a different tourist destination in the fall.
ReplyDeletePretty easy thanks to the letter counts, but it's a clever bit of wordplay.
ReplyDeleteRemove the last letter of the tourist site. If you rearrange the result you'll get a complete sentence that someone who is environmentally conscious might say.
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteScarlett, what a great line!
DeleteThanks Lancek and Word Woman.
DeleteThe new submission form was mentioned on the air, so I guess that is what they want people to use, rather than the old form.
ReplyDeleteActually, only four of the first five letters can be planted.
ReplyDeleteSpoiler alert.
DeleteI'd like to rewrite this puzzle so it doesn't give everything away.
ReplyDeleteMusic Clue: Pete Townshend.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone received the reply Gmail yet?
ReplyDeleteI haven't - I submitted my answer roughly an hour ago
DeleteDavos?
ReplyDeleteI was going to bury my hotdog in the turf with Frankfurt but I decided to keep looking.
ReplyDeleteDu meinst den Wienerplatz?
Delete(אדער, בעסער נאָך, איר מיינען די ווינער פּלאַץ)�
This puzzle makes me yawn.
ReplyDeleteNeither the best of puzzles, nor the worst of puzzles
ReplyDeleteIt's gone crazy -- and I've seen the evidence at another famous European tourist site.
ReplyDeleteIf MLB expands or a team moves (Rays?), Nashville is the best destination. It's a fun, growing city and the Music City Baseball Group already has a great plan in place. So long as they keep funding private, I'd be on board. My disdain for country music aside, I'd consider flying the family down when the Red Sox visit.
ReplyDeleteThe second site that came to mind was the answer; I have never been to this site, but I can take its last 5 letters to describe many places I have visited.
ReplyDeleteI still haven't received the confirmation gmail.
ReplyDeleteThat's all folks!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to submit a musical clue but I was worried it might not go well with the prevailing fashion and I'd be expelled from the premises...
ReplyDeleteI was worried this might be TMI, but I guess you'd have to share my taste in music. I'd have known the solution from this clue.
DeleteWas anyone else confused by the fact that the 'new' submission page has NO SUBMIT button? At least, it didn't on my imac. Luckily, hitting 'enter' made it go off. But still, disconcerting.
ReplyDeleteOn mine there is a submit bar at the bottom of the page. I had to angle my telephone horizontally to landscape to fill everything in correctly. There are no stations listed to tell which is your local affiliate. I trust it will be permanent. As I said before, no return confirmation email.
DeleteWell, I scrolled all the way to the bottom (on a desktop, not a phone) and there was NO submit button. I noticed the no station thing, too. Maybe everybody was neglecting to choose one, so they did away with it?
DeleteI lkewise have not gotten any acknowledgement of receipt, which used to be automatic and instantaneous. I went back to the Sunday puzzle page, where I found a different submission form that, when you click on it, looks just like the old one. I used that submission form to notify Sunday Edition that I had not gotten any acknowledgement of receipt and to complain that I was not able to download the audio for the segment, but when I pressed submit, nothing happened. Something is rotten, but I don't know exactly what.
DeleteFunding cuts? Now submissions will be un-documented? Egadz!
DeleteI am so happy our president's health report came back with flying colors. However, some reporters are asking why the White House physician's nose appears not only to be longer, but has a brown spot on the end.
ReplyDeleteForget a European Vacation. Let's go skiing!
ReplyDeleteGot it in just under 100 seconds.
ReplyDeleteThat's what she said.
DeleteBeen there, done that.
ReplyDeleteRe-rearrange the final four letters to get a place where the first five might end up.
ReplyDeleteCheating at billiards?
ReplyDeleteSZ, I hope you saw my last post to you in our string last week? I would hate for one of my children to go totally unrecognized. :-)
ReplyDeleteSBD. I saw it; I just didn’t see the point in continuing.
DeleteI hoped that was it. It was time for it to end, and I was going to, but that idea came to me and so I posted it. I wondered if you might not see it due to it being deadline time shortly. I love this blog, but they all have their shortcomings, such as not being always able to know the reactions of others.
DeleteI like this puzzle as stated.
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