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    Sunday Puzzle: It Doesn't Take A Know-It-All To Play This Game

    NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and New York Times crosswords editor Will Shortz play this week's puzzle with Michael Holmes of North Potomac, Md.
    by Will Shortz Oct 29, 2017 1 minute
    Sunday Puzzle

    On-air challenge: Every answer is a compound word with two hyphens in which the part in the middle has two letters.

    Ex. Perfect stroke for a golfer —> hole-in-one1. Carousel2. Officer during a meeting who stands near the door3. Basic piece of lumber4. Street that's a dead end5. Relative of one's spouse who is stereotypically hard to get along with6. Smarty-pants; a person who pretends to have all the answers7. State flower of Alaska, whose name suggests you'll always remember it8. Capital of Haiti9. Person who can represent you in a legal case10. French name for blackjack, which translates as "twenty-one"11. Decorative symbol with a French name12. Basic kind of knot used to tie a necktie13. Person who is lazy and irresponsible14. Relatively affluent 65-4=1

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