NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

October 3, 2021

Will Shortz (#1-7)

 

Two items are listed in each category below. Fill in the only other item in that category that comes between the given two - alphabetically. For example, if the category were FAMILY MEMBERS, and the two given items were BROTHER - DAUGHTER, the answer word would be COUSIN.

1. Baseball positions: Catcher - First base

2. Precious gems: Diamond - Garnet

3. Rooms in the game of CLUE: Conservatory - Hall

4. 31 Flavors original ice cream flavors: Rocky Road - Vanilla

5. Vegetables in V-8 Juice : Parsley - Tomatoes

6. Triple Crown winners: Affirmed - Assault

7. Weather: Rain - Snow

8. U.S. states: Missouri - Nebraska 

9. Shakespeare's plays: King Lear - Macbeth

10. Shakespeare's plays: Romeo and Juliet - The Tempest

11. Colors of the rainbow: Green - Orange

12. Great Lakes: Erie - Michigan

13. U.S. Presidents: Lincoln - McKinley

14. Seven Dwarfs: Doc - Grumpy

15. Seven Deadly Sins: Pride - Wrath

Answers:

 

1. Center field

2. Emerald

3. Dining room

4. Strawberry

5. Spinach

6. American Pharaoh

7. Sleet 

8. Montana

9. Love's Labor Lost

10. The Taming of the Shrew 

11. Indigo 

12. Huron 

13. Madison

14. Dopey 

15. Sloth