Transcript: Puzzle Master Will Shortz joins Liane Hansen on the air to conduct this week's...

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NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
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April 4, 1993
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LIANE HANSEN, Host: This is Weekend Edition. I'm Liane Hansen.

Our puzzle master Will Shortz joins us once again from New York. Good morning, Will.

WILL SHORTZ, Puzzle Master: Hi, Liane.

HANSEN: I have one word for you. It's not plastics. It's allamort.

SHORTZ: Uh-huh.

HANSEN: Now, tell us why that word would be familiar to you?

SHORTZ: Well, that was in last weekend's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, which I directed. It was in the play-off round, and it was the last word that the champion filled in.

HANSEN: All right, and it was clued `melancholy', and, I have to admit, it's kind of the way I feel today. I mean, it's the ...

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