Q: Take the name of a famous person in American politics (6,6). Hidden in this name reading from left to right, but not in consecutive letters, is the name of a well-known place that's very dry, in 4 letters. Remove these letters. The remaining 8 letters in order from left to right will name another well-known, very dry place. What politician is this?I referred to a list and one place showed up just after a very familiar place.
Musical clue – The Ink Spots, sorta.
ReplyDeleteAlways impressed with the speed and reliability of Blaine -- working from the Left Coast, where it's not even 6am yet! Thank you, Dear Leader!
ReplyDeleteThe puzzle sometimes posts at 3 a.m. I've given up trying to be that early. 🤪
ReplyDeleteWhere is it posted?
DeleteBlaine must mean on the NPR site itself...although as a fellow west-coaster, I've never seen any Puzzle posted there in the middle of the night!
DeleteBlaine, a name, not a place, just jumped out at me, too.
ReplyDeleteI think Will gave us a clue.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to find a watering hole.
ReplyDeletePretty sure I have it, but the eight-letter word feels like it's missing some additional descriptor.
ReplyDeleteTake the first two syllables.............
ReplyDeleteExcellent!
DeleteRearrange the 4-letter dry place, and get a related word.
ReplyDeleteOh that's very nice, well done Dave Shukan.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmm.
Oh ok: rearrange to get two deadly things.
Agreed. What an amazing and well conceived puzzle. I don't see how people come up with these observations!
DeleteIf only.
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DeleteFor a real trivial treat with a secco theme:
ReplyDeleteTake the name of the politician, from left to right: take out letters 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12. Leaving letters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 11. Double letter 5. Re-arrange to spell a noun that qualifies as dry.
Cute, except you have too many letters there. (Too many occurrences of one of the letters, let's say.)
DeleteTake letters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, and anagram for something that can be dry.
DeleteOh, okay. Thanks. I'll post a second edition. Whadd'ya think?
DeleteI followed my own directions, and it works. Just double letter 5.
DeleteHuh.
DeleteI get too many of one letter.
I thought the answer was a six-letter word (your instructions make 7), but I guess you're going for a different word (but I don't see what it is).
I'm with Crito on this one.
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DeleteReplace the 5th letter of the longer answer with the intial letter of the shorter answer to pheoneticaly get an appetizer.
ReplyDeleteQuite a cute puzzle.
ReplyDeleteGot it. Working on a clue...
ReplyDeleteTake the municipality where the politician was born, and the first name of the politician. Remove letters that are common in both words, one for one (For example, if the words were WASHINGTON and TOWN, you would be left with ASHIGN or ASHING, because you remove only one N). Rearrange the remaining letters to get one who wanders.
DeleteI cannot find that this politician has been to either place, but did take a trip close to one.
ReplyDeleteSeveral politicians have talked of going to the first one. Many should be sent there.
DeleteThe first two syllables of the person in politics sounds a bit like something you'd see in the place with eight letters.
ReplyDeleteUnknown's version earlier in the day was more subtle.
DeleteGreat Puzzle! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteYou might want to put on your glasses to solve this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteIt is not Herbert Hoover, but it is close.
ReplyDeleteRoving through the savanna of history.
ReplyDeleteThis made me think of the second dry place and the rest was easy.
DeleteThe politician's name also anagrams to two things only found in very wet places.
ReplyDeleteOne thing they share is a treaty, a tax and a trading center.
ReplyDeleteTerrific puzzle, Dave Shukan! I wouldn't change a thing.
ReplyDeleteThis took me far longer than it should have. I’ll just blame it on my body sending all available oxygen higher priority needs today.
ReplyDeleteThe politicians name can be rearranged to something you might see in a remake of Jaws.
Take letters 2,4,and 6 from the first name and letters 7,9, and 12 from the last name and it anagrams to another famously dry place (actually the first place I thought of when I heard the puzzle but with 6 rather than 8 letters it didn’t fit; it happens to be there anyway)
ReplyDeleteO62871 - John Prine
ReplyDeleteWhat a great day! A very nice puzzle plus a Blaine clue that I understand.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes Dave Shukan's NPR puzzle so elegant is its "no-rearrangement-of-letters-required" aspect. Very nice, Mr, Shukan!
ReplyDeleteOgleGenreWhitEvyn!
Yes, Lego, it really is rather amazing, the more I think about it!
DeleteTruly out of this world!
ReplyDeleteI have been holding off posting all day. I don't want to have my posts removed, so to be more specific, I pretty much solved it while still in bed, but not entirely. I began going down a rabbit hole at first, although I also quickly discovered the political person, but was not recognizing it as such. I also quickly discovered the shorter word, but could not connect it either. The Badlands did not seem to work, although I hoped it would. Maralago might not fit, although it is a hotbed, but perhaps not totally dry. Good puzzle, and correctly stated and presented this week. I now see that Will has not been informed as to his error last week. I thought he would have been.
ReplyDeleteDepends what dry means.
ReplyDeleteOr did I leave out a comma? Now, there's a puzzle for you.
DeleteThat slight bit of ambiguity, does dry refer to an aridity, banned alcoholic beverages, or something else, is what made this weeks challenge, in my opinion, elegant.
ReplyDeleteDave Shukan, I tip my hat to you.
Or perhaps you hit your tap? Anyway, with one you want it to flow, but not so much with the other. But please allow the Dry Gin to flow freely.
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