NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

January 3, 2021

By David Curin

Presented by Will Shortz 

Think of a two-word phrase, five letters in the first word, two in the second. Replace the last letter of the second word by the next letter in the alphabet and you will have a palindrome. What is the phrase?

Answer:

 

QUEUE UP - QUEUE UQ

 

Note from JA: 

A variation of this puzzle would be to interchange the Q and P in QUEUE UP to get a phrase that, when read backward and spaced appropriately, also spells QUEUE UP - PU EUEUQ.