Sunday Puzzle: Hidden Cities
Efrem Mallach plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
by Will Shortz
Jun 20, 2021
1 minute
I'm going to read you some sentences. Each sentence hides the name of a U.S. city of seven more more letters. You name the cities. Ex. The weightlifters are flexing tonight.1. Is the psychic a good prognosticator? [Ill.]2. I don't like spoilsports mouthing off. [N.H.]3. Make me a sandwich Italian-style. [Kan.]4. Beauty queens rebuff a lot of suitors. [N.Y.]5. We saved a swami's soul and spirit. [Mont.]6. Grandma voted for Landon. [Fla.]7. The geologist watches a peak erode. [Va.] 8. You need a low heel in good boots. [W.Va.]9. It was a banana he imagined. [Calif.]10. The instrument produces amorphous tones. [Tex.]11. I'd like a ranch or a generic house. [Alas.]
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