And when it happens repeatedly, then you know it's plagiarism. He has also appeared on Millionaire as an expert for the "Ask the Expert" lifeline. He appeared in Dinner: Impossible as himself, challenging the chef to create dishes that mimic common English idioms at the annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
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The episode aired on May 6, He appeared as himself at an upscale dinner party that included Arianna Huffington and Peter Bogdanovich , also playing themselves. Shortz is a weekly guest on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday where he hosts the Sunday Puzzle, a cooperative game between the show's host and one of the show's listeners.
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Archived from the original on October 26, Retrieved July 25, And here are the headlines from some of the other stories we're following here today at NPR News. Auto company General Motors said today it would cut some 30, manufacturing jobs in North America and close a dozen of its plants in an effort to reduce costs and remain competitive.
The stakes are high overseas and here at home. We'll talk about how the question of what to do in Iraq is challenging both parties. Regular listeners may be curious as to why Liane is co-hosting. Well, she and I have been colleagues at NPR for 25 years and we've been married for 23 of them. We hardly ever work together, though; in fact, we hardly ever see each other. So this is basically a shameless ploy to get some time together, and we decided to try it on this week that focuses on family gatherings. He invites Neal to do play-by-play of the finals of his annual crossword puzzle tournament and, of course, he joins me as NPR's puzzlemaster on Sunday mornings.
Yesterday we actually had Neal on as our contestant, and today Will joins us from the studios of Kressler Media Productions ph in New York.
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A partnership made in heaven. I have a puzzle for you. I have a question for you. Except do you remember the puzzle we did yesterday and we were doing state capitals? I'm afraid so, and we thought we'd bring it up since earlier in the program we were talking a lot about Dayton, but oh yeah, people picked up on it right away.
We also discovered that the basketball team the Bulls could actually come between the--what was it? Actually, we've got some serious e-mails, before we get to the ones that are trying to nail you to the wall.
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There's a woman who wrote, Jane Fandray ph --I hope I'm pronouncing her name correctly--she's in Salisbury, Maryland, and maybe briefly you could describe this. She wants to know about the process of creating crossword puzzles. How do you do it? Well, you--most crosswords, you know, nowadays have themes to them or the long answers tie together in some interesting or funny way, so you start with those. You put those in your grid. They have to--and then you plot your pattern of black squares around them. And you know if you rotate a crossword grid degrees, the pattern of black squares will look the same as it did right-side up.
So you have to put your black squares in positions where you think you can create a grid around your them, and then you actually do the construction. You polish it as best you can. You know, get rid of those--that mile-long river in Romania and the Celebese ox, you know, words like that, and you polish it and you write your clues at the end. For some reasons, crosswords are--almost always have odd dimensions, so a daily crossword is usually by squares, a Sunday puzzle is usually by On behalf of all of those who've ever suffered at the hands of the puzzlemaster, we have an e-mail challenge today.
If you have a puzzle you'd like him to try, send it along to us: Or if you have questions about crosswords, cryptics or about the history and future of puzzles, our phone number is And again, the e-mail address is totn npr. And we have an e-mail that was sent in earlier, this from Andy Dubak ph: You don't know the correct way. There's an office in between this fork where identical twin brothers work. Surely one of them will know how to get to the studio.
You knock on the door. One of them comes to the door. Since they both look the same, you don't know which one it is, if one of the twins always tells the truth and the other always tells lies, which is the one question you can ask so that you receive the correct directions to the studio?
I would say--let me think this through--but I think you ask if--let me think about this. If you were to ask--if I ask the other person which way to go, what would he say? Let me think if that works. And if I talk to the liar and--I think, yeah, you take the answer that the person gives you and then go in the opposite direction.
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I may--should remind some of our e-mailers, if you're going to send us the puzzle for Will, it would help if you did have the answer, because at least we could figure it out. Here's one that does have an answer, Will. It's from Alan Meyer in Newberg, Oregon. I'm looking for the name of the capital and largest city of a country in the Western Hemisphere, and its anagram--Neal's favorite--its anagram, a tree or shrub found in the United States.
The name of the capital and largest city of a country in the Western Hemisphere--OK, capital city--and if you anagram it, you get a tree or shrub that is found in the United States.
Well, this is just off the top of my head. I was thinking Caracas--I can't believe it's that big--and does that anagram into cascara? Is that a shrub? Well, you know, Will, this is very interesting, because it puts you in the position that all of our listeners have been put in for the last 18 years. I guested--came into the studio yesterday for "Weekend Edition Sunday" on the puzzle, I had an abacus, you know, a little, you know, word processor, pen and paper.
I was ready for anything.
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Thank heavens it wasn't anagrams. Take a nine-letter word that might describe someone in, for example, the police or the Army, add one consonant somewhere in the middle of the word to make a letter word that would describe someone who does not know about a particular topic. Do you go into like a zen mode and it's kind of like the Magic 8-Ball, the answer floats up to the surface, you've been doing it for so long?
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Name the longest word in the English language that has only one syllable. There's a tie for that. It could be strengths and it could be screetched, and there are a few others. Strengths is interesting because it has only one vowel, in addition to one syllable. There might actually be something longer.
Well, strengths works--let's see, straight is S-T--that is eight and strengths is--sorry. Well, there you go. Got it in one. You have any more? Let's get some listeners on the line, and if you'd like to join us, by the way, the number is , and that e-mail address is still totn npr. And let's talk with Lisa. Lisa's calling from Charlotte, North Carolina. How do you like them? I've noticed that when I get the puzzle, my morning paper, that squares are filled in symmetrically.
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