“Name a well-known university. Move the last letter three places earlier in the name. The result will be a phrase meaning ‘represent.’ What’s the university and what’s the phrase?”
“Stanford” and “Stand for.”
Joe Gregory of Windsor, Colo., said it didn’t take him long to come up with the answers to the Sept. 20 Sunday Puzzle challenge on National Public Radio. After all, he told puzzlemaster Will Shortz and host Liane Hansen on this Sunday’s program, he was a Pac-10 graduate himself – not Stanford, but UCLA Medical School.
- Elaine Ray