NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle
Will Shortz

June 20, 2021

Hidden in each clue below is the name of a U.S. city of seven or more letters. Can you find them?

1. The weight-lifters are flexing tonight.

2. Is the psychic a good prognosticator?

3. I don't like spoilsports mouthing off.

4. Please make me a sandwich Italian-style.

5. Beauty queens rebuff a lot of suitors.

6. We saved a swami's soul and spirit.

7. Grandma voted for Landon.

8. The geologist watches a peak erode.

9. You need a low heel in good boots.

10. It was a banana he imagined.

11. The instrument produces amorphous tones. 

12. I'd like a ranch or a generic house. 

Answers:

 

1. Lexington (KY)

2. Chicago (IL)

3. Portsmouth (NH)

4. Wichita ( KS)

5. Buffalo (NY)

6. Missoula (MT)

7. Orlando (FL)

8. Chesapeake (VA)

9. Wheeling (WV)

10. Anaheim (CA)

11. Houston (TX)

12. Anchorage (AK)