Q: Think of a famous singer. Replace the last three letters of the first name with an E. Also replace the last three letters of the last name with an E. The result will be a world-famous location. What singer is this?"Not Again."
Sunday, October 05, 2025
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 5, 2025): This Singer is Going Places
NPR Sunday Puzzle (Oct 5, 2025): This Singer is Going Places
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ReplyDeleteAnother easy one.
ReplyDeleteI’ve eaten lunch looking at the place.
ReplyDeleteNumerical hint: 7
ReplyDelete2, 2, 3, 3, 11.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the first five letters of the singer’s last name to get something that often emanates from the location.
ReplyDeleteCleveland rocks! ... Cleveland rocks!
ReplyDelete(Also, Go Wolverines!)
Why does Will never check to see if he's used a puzzle previously?
ReplyDeleteAlso Mike Reiss, who has authored some clever (and original) puzzles.
DeleteI should add that I don't believe Mike Reiss would ever deliberately steal someone else's idea. Sometimes stuff gets into our memory banks and can emerge later as an original thought.
DeleteHis mind is gone.
Delete1793 x 2
ReplyDeleteWas Stondyl Hengles the original lead singer of Spin̈al Tap?
ReplyDeleteNo one knows who he was or what he was doing.
DeleteLe Andere ?
ReplyDeleteRearrange the letters of the singer’s name, and get a two-word phrase for a group that is a matter of some interest to the location.
ReplyDeleteThe singer performed at the location.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a problem with this puzzle, besides that it’s been used before.
ReplyDeleteYou and I both, Chuck.
DeleteToday I learned that Colonel Lawrence E. Roberts of the Tuskegee Airmen was born in the Vauxhall section of Union Township, NJ.
ReplyDeleteIt's Will's prerogative to use whatever puzzle.
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DeleteI just wish he would check so that he could get the original author right. This is a clever puzzle, and Peter Collins deserves the attribution.
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DeleteAt least it's not like the CATE BLANCHETT/CARTE BLANCHE puzzle. As I recall, that one was used on THREE separate occasions! Only one more time now, I guess...
DeletepjbDoesn'tFeelSoBadNowAboutSomeoneElseAlsoNoticingThe[WALGREENS/ALGREEN]PropertyAndSubmittingItBeforeHim!
thought of the answer while doing some calf raises...
ReplyDeleteI did not know you were a cowgirl.
Deleteha, no, just a soccer player with a bruised ACL!
DeleteWhile thinking of something to say
ReplyDeleteAbout the challenge we had today
It became clear to me
We have nothing new to see
And hope the next one is harder to play
Cheers!
A PuzzleMaster, name of Shortz,
DeleteUsed ideas from his many cohorts.
With some puzzles the same,
Still, 'twas all in the game.
Should be a matter to decide for the courts!
pjbHasNeverEverBeenToNantucket,Though
This puzzle is like somebody associated with the place.
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ReplyDeleteI've been fortunate enough to travel a bit internationally, and I've seen a few famous places. One of my favorites involved dragging my wife around London on the Tube and double-decker buses to visit Abbey Road. That's a fair distance from the location in this puzzle, which I've never visited. And, honestly, I've lost interest in visiting it over the last few years.
ReplyDeleteRegarding repetition of NPR puzzle challenges:
ReplyDeleteAbout four years ago I began typing into Blaine's great search engine the answers to any puzzles I intended to send "Willward." This practice, once in a blue moon, revealed that I had composed a puzzle that some other composer had previously composed and that Will Shortz had already featured on NPR.
For example, I have a nephew who married a New Zealander. They live in New Zealand. I noticed that "New Zealand" is a homophone of "Gnus Eland," and composed a puzzle accordingly. When I typed "New Zealand Gnus Eland" into Blaine's search engine, it tested positive!... "Darn! It was used as an NPR puzzle challenge on March 21, 2010!" After a bit of "Duck Duck Googling," I discovered that Will Shortz himself had composed it! I felt bad of course that "my" GNUS ELAND puzzle would not grace the National Public Radio airwaves. But I also felt good that I had created the same puzzle Will himself had created! So I posted "my puzzle" on Puzzleria!, with an explanation of its genesis, exodus and nexus to the Puzzlemaster.
That said, since it seems that many Blainesvillians have either solved or already knew the answer to this clever NPR puzzle, here is Puzzleria!s current Schpuzzle of the week (that tested negative when I typed its answer into Blaine's "Supercharged" Search Engine!
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Salability and one silly syllable
Name a popular author whose works appeal especially to one particular literary audience.
A single syllable in the name is also popular with this audience.
Who are the author and audience.
What is the syllable?
Note: Please do not post your answer before Wednesday afternoon. Thank you.
LegoWhoUrgesAllNPRPuzzleSendersToOccasionally"Rev"Blaine'sPowerfulEngine
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ReplyDeleteIn all fairness, if I recall correctly, the original puzzle was "what place is this?" not "what singer is this?" 😉
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