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Sunday Puzzle: End Rhymes

Sunday Puzzle
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Sunday Puzzle

On-air challenge: I'm going to give you some crossword clues for six-letter words. The last word in each clue will rhyme with its answer.

Ex. Traveling theater group --> TROUPE
1. Opposite of smaller
2. Heavenly body with a ring pattern
3. Attire for many sports
4. Aimlessly go yonder
5. Proceed in a hurry
6. Food like cheddars or bries
7. One engaged in a medieval fight
8. Chatter
9. Teammate of Dasher and Prancer
10. Sport in which a player might act as a blocker
11. Quality of food to savor
12. Scream "Eek!"
13. One who denies people entry
14. Wilbur or Orville of early flight
15. Move like a worm
16. State capital about 1,700 miles NE of Austin

Last week's challenge: Name part of the human body in six letters. Add an R and rearrange the result to name a part of the body in seven letters. What is it?

Answer: Tonsil --> nostril

Winner: David Chapus of Rush, N.Y.

Next week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Joseph Young, who conducts the weekly blog Puzzleria. Take the start of the name of a country and the end of that country's capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you'll get the last name of a character in a very popular movie. It's a character everyone knows. 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 Thursday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. ET.

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Corrected: February 18, 2018 at 12:00 AM EST
A previous version of this puzzle featured the wrong challenge for next week.
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).