NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle

January 19, 2025

Will Shortz

The answers to the clues below have something in common that is easy to overlook. Can you determine what it is?

1. Western lawman at the OK Coral

2. Trust-busting President

3. Master boxer

4. NASA's first man on the moon

5. Celebrated "tough guy" actor in westerns

6. Star child actress

7. Chariot driver in Ben Hur

 

Answers:

 

1. Wyatt Earp

2. Theodore Roosevelt

3. Muhammad Ali

4. Neil Armstrong

5. Clint Eastwood

6. Shirley Temple

7. Charlton Heston 

 

What the answers have in common:

 

The initials of their first and last names are the same as the first two letters of their clues.