NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
May 31, 2020
Will Shortz

Anagram each word below into a new one. You will see a pattern emerge.

1. Sublet
2. Platen
3. Threat
4. Declaim
5. Parleys
6. Magnate
7. Trained
8. Martial
9. Chorale
10. Senescent
11. Pedantries

Answers:

1. Sublet - subtle
2. Platen - planet
3. Threat - theater
4. Declaim - decimal 
5. Parleys - parsley
6. Magnate - magenta
7. Trained - trade-in
8. Marital - martial
9. Chorale - cholera
10. Senescent - sentences
11. Pedantries - pedestrian 

Each clue word has an anagram beginning with its own first three letters.