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Ready for a word puzzle with a sweet twist? Today’s challenge asks you to identify nine frozen-dessert flavors from clever clues. Each hint points to an ice cream or sorbet name, so sharpen your wordplay skills and get ready to think like a flavor detective.
Clues: Identify the ice cream or sorbet flavors
All nine answers are flavors of ice cream or sorbet.
- Two words, and both begin with the letters CH-.
- Two words, and both begin with the letters RO-.
- A flavor is hidden when you join the word caravan with the contraction I’ll.
- The name contains the letter string UTTI twice.
- The fourth letter in the flavor’s name is a silent P.
- Change the first two letters from PI to MU and the result spells a type of men’s facial hair.
- The flavor is formed by the names of two trees, one starting with M and the other with W.
- A fruit flavor that becomes the name of another fruit flavor if you swap its first and third letters.
- Two words that together form an anagram of TEENAGER.
Last week’s puzzle explained and winner
Reader Michael Schwartz of Florence, Ore., offered a riddle about a musical instrument. Add two letters to its end and you can read two car model names left and right. The correct instrument was revealed as:
Answer
Accordion — which yields (Honda) Accord + (Hyundai) Ioniq when altered.
Winner
The selected solver was Nell Newton of Austin, Texas.
This week’s submitted challenge and how to enter
This new brainteaser comes from Benita Rice of Salem, Ore. Think of a famous foreign landmark whose name follows the pattern (5,4). If you change the eighth letter to a V and then scramble the letters, you will get an adjective that accurately describes that landmark. What landmark fits?
How to submit
- Send your answer using the submission form linked on our page.
- Entries must arrive by Thursday, April 16 at 3 p.m. ET.
- Winners gain a chance to play the puzzle on air.
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