NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

April 7, 2024

Greg Pliska for Will Shortz (1-6)

 

In honor of the solar eclipse tomorrow, each clue can be answered with a phrase containing SUN or MOON.

1. Set your goals high

2. Very rarely

3. Same old thing every day

4. Very happy

5. Push you luck

6. Make the best of things while you can 

7. Something illusory, ephemeral

8. It's our choice to do good or evil

9. How the Owl and the Pussycat danced 

10. Metaphor for the passing of time from Fiddler on the Roof

Answers:

 

1. Shoot for the moon

2. Once in a blue moon

3. Nothing new under the sun

4. Over the moon

5. Fly too close to the sun

6. Make hay while the sun shines

7. Paper moon

8. The sun shines on the just and the unjust 

9. By the light of the moon 

10. Sunrise/Sunset