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Challenge on the air: Each answer today is a word or a sentence that comes from French but which is also commonly used in English. See if you can get them from their anagrams.
Ex. Adapted station / Gorge -> Deposit
- Married / Pieces of dispersed waste
- Pink up / the one who claims to be something that he is not
- Bearcat / nightclub
- Euronet / On the way (2 words)
- Contour / little toast in the soup or a salad
- It is a cheap / artistic work that imitates another
- Supports / the one who deliberately tears something for a military gain
- Fairly sour / bluish green
- Ruestone / Confidential (2 words)
- Hotel suite / dark outline of something on a light background
- Central beach / complete freedom to act (2 words)
Last week’s challenge: Last week’s challenge comes from the listener Dan Asimov, a Berkeley, California. In English, the combination with two letters can be pronounced in two different ways: once as in the word “stand”, the other as “Smooth”. What is the only common English word, other than “smooth”, which ends with the letters that pronounced gently?
Challenge response: Mouth (like a verb)
Winner: Amy Anderson d’Aurora, Ohio
This week’s challenge: This week’s challenge comes from Henri Picciotto and Joshua Kosman, creators of cryptic crosswords “out of the left field”. Think of a word meaning “delay”. Delete a W. and you will end up with another word meaning “delay”. What are these words?
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If you know the response to the challenge, submit it here before Thursday April 3 at 3 p.m. he. Auditors whose answers are selected earn a chance to play the puzzle in the air. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you.
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