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Sunday Puzzle: Slogan Scramble

Sunday Puzzle
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Sunday Puzzle

On-air challenge: I'm going to read you some famous advertising slogans, past and present. Each contains the advertiser's name, but anagrammed. You name the advertiser.

Example: This DUB's for you --> BUD

1. Please don't squeeze the RICH MAN

2. You're in good hands with A TALL SET

3. The best part of waking up is GOLFERS in your cup

4. I don't want to grow up. I'm a U.S. STORY kid

5. This is not your father's IDLE BLOOMS

6. Nobody better lay a finger on my BETTER FIG URN

7. Pardon me — Do you have any YOUNGER POP?

8. Nobody doesn't like A RESALE

9. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's DREAM CARTS

Last week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Steve Baggish of Arlington, Mass. Take the name of a classic song that became the signature song of the artist who performed it. It has two words; five letters in the first, three letters in the second. The letters can be rearranged to spell two new words. One is a feeling. The other is an expression of that feeling. What song is it?

Challenge answer: Challenge answer: "Piano Man" by Billy Joel --> PAIN, MOAN

Winner: Erin Rodriguez of San Antonio, Texas.

This week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Joe Krozel of Creve Coeur, Mo. Name a vehicle in two words, each with the same number of letters. Subtract a letter from each word, and the remaining letters in order will spell the first and last names of a famous writer. Who is it?

Submit Your Answer

If you know the answer to next week's challenge, submit it here. Listeners who submit correct answers win a chance to play the on-air puzzle. Important: Include a phone number where we can reach you by Thursday, Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. ET.

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NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz has appeared on Weekend Edition Sunday since the program's start in 1987. He's also the crossword editor of The New York Times, the former editor of Games magazine, and the founder and director of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (since 1978).