NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 28, 2025): Places to See Actresses

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 28, 2025): Places to See Actresses

Q: Name a famous actress (five letters in the first name, six letters in the last name). Change the first and third letters of her first name and the first letter of her last name. The resulting letters in order from left to right will name a place where you might see this actress.

There's a connection to Ben Kingsley and this place.

Edit: Ben Kingsley played Salvador Dali in Daliland. Dali created In Voluptas Mors which is used in place of the skull markings on the death head moth on the iconic Silence of the Lambs movie poster.

A: JODIE FOSTER --> MOVIE POSTER

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 21, 2025): ET Phone Home

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 21, 2025): ET Phone Home

Q: Take the phrase EASTERN TIME. Change one letter and rearrange the result to name a place that observes Eastern Time.

Could it be in the 410 area code?

Edit: It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building

A: EMPIRE STATE (New York)

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 14, 2025): Loose Cannons

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 14, 2025): Loose Cannons

Q: In a certain classic film, the protagonist uses two weapons. The name of one of these has 10 letters. If you take its first letter and last six letters, you can rearrange them all to name the other weapon this protagonist uses, in seven letters. What weapons are these?

The protagonist uses a different pair of weapons towards the end of the movie.

Edit: [spoiler]Toward the end of the "classic" film, Star Wars, Luke Skywalker fires a pair of proton torpedos into the exhaust port to destroy the Death Star[/spoiler]

A: LIGHTSABER, BLASTER

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 7, 2025): Male Animals and NFL Included

NPR Sunday Puzzle (Sep 7, 2025): Male Animals and NFL Included

Q: Think of a popular commercial name that ends with the names of two male animals one after the other. If you have the right commercial name, its first six letters can be rearranged to spell the name of an N.F.L. team. What is this commercial name?

If you change the fifth letter in the commercial name to an H and rearrange the letters, you get a part of the lower body.

Edit: Hamstring

A: INSTAGRAM --> STAG, RAM --> GIANTS