THEME: LET

PUB DATE	WEEK	TITLE	SYNOPSIS	THEMES	LINKS TO THIS CONTEST	WINNER	LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later)
July 11, 1993	19	A RECYCLED IDEA THAT WAS NONE TOO GOOD TO BEGIN WITH	Alter a well-known phrase or name by deleting, adding or changing only one letter, and then supply a definition for what results.	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image
June 4, 1995	116	WRITE PURE POETRY	Write a complete sentence using only the letters contained on the top row of a typewriter. Alternatively, you can use the letters of the first four lines of the standard eye chart.	LET	Text file | Contest image
July 30, 1995	124	SPOON-FEED US.	Come up with spoonerisms, expressions based on the transposition of the initial sounds of two paired words.	LET	Text file | Contest image
August 10, 1997	230	TALES FROM THE CRYPTOGRAM	Take any proper noun--a person, a book, a movie, whatever--and create for it an appropriate cryptogram.	LET	Text file | Contest image
August 24, 1997	232	PRIMAL URGES	Update, for the millennium, the old "A is for Apple" reading primer. An entry must include the four letters in one of these blocks: A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z.	LET	Text file | Contest image
January 4, 1998	251	QUOTH THE MAVEN	Take any famous line, change it by one letter only (add, subtract or change a single letter), and reattribute it.	LET	Text file | Contest image
March 1, 1998	259	SPARE EXCHANGE, BUDDY?	Take any phone number of any business or government office in the Washington area, translate the first two digits into their constituent letters and propose any appropriate one-word exchange.	LET POL BUS	Text file | Contest image
July 12, 1998	278	THE STALE INVITATIONAL	Begin with a word. Add, subtract or change a single letter only, and then provide a new definition.	LET	Text file | Contest image
November 29, 1998	298	THE RIGHT STUFF	Write a sentence, or phrase, or entire passage, using only your right hand on the keyboard. This means you may use no keys to the left of N, H, Y and 7.	LET	Text file | Contest image
December 6, 1998	299	ANOTHER LEFTIST RAG	Write the day's tabloid headlines with your left hand only. (This means you can use no keys to the right of 6, T, G and B.)	LET	Text file | Contest image
July 4, 1999	329	THE STYLE INVITATIONAL: HELL	Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message. You may add spacing and punctuation, but you may not move letters around.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 19, 2000	341 (VIII)	What's In a Name?	Write something about any famous person that uses only the letters in his or her name.	LET	Text file | Contest image
April 15, 2001	397 (LXIV)	Sins of Omission	Omit a letter or letters from a real-life sign to create a name for a new business, comically different from the original. Describe the new business or include a slogan that explains it.	LET	Text file | Contest image
July 1, 2001	408 (LXXV)	What's In a Name?	Take the name of any politician, living or dead, and construct an appropriate message from the letters of the name. You may use any letter as many times as you wish, and you may insert punctuation.	LET POL	Text file | Contest image
September 2, 2001	417 (LXXXIV)	Initially Mistaken	Take any name of a person or thing, and construct an appropriate message using its letters, in order, as the first letters of the words of your message.	LET	Text file | Contest image
March 31, 2002	447 (CXIV)	Acronimble	Take any of the provided witty statements and use the first letters in each of the words to create a brand-new, unrelated funny statement.	LET	Text file | Contest image
October 6, 2002	474 (CXLI)	Alphabettering	Create a sentence that uses each letter of the alphabet at least once but that would never be heard on the politically correct, genteel, rarified air of NPR.	LET	Text file
June 1, 2003	508	Letter Rip	Take a word from the dictionary, add, change, or delete a single letter, and redefine the word.	LET	Text file
June 29, 2003	512	Live On, Sweet, Earnest Reader	Take the name of any person--living, dead, fictional--and use the letters of his name, in succession, to form the first letters of an expression appropriate to that person.	LET	Text file
November 2, 2003	530	Tri Harder	Take any word, alter it in three ways--by adding a letter, by subtracting a letter and by changing a letter--and redefine all three new words.	LET	Text file
February 15, 2004	545	Put It in Reverse	Spell a word backward and define it, with the definition relating in some way to the original word.	LET	Text file
June 13, 2004	562	The LMNs of Style	Write a funny sentence (or more) that you spell with only the sounds of the names of letters and those of numbers 1 through 9.	LET	Text file
October 10, 2004	579	Another Brilliant Contest! Do Enter!	Write us a sentence or phrase consisting of words beginning with consecutive letters, in the A-to-Z direction.	LET	Text file | Contest image
March 20, 2005	602	Take a Letter -- Again	Take a word, term or name that begins with A, B, C or D; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word.	LET	Text file
April 10, 2005	605	Truly Stupendous Ideas	Name two people with the same initials (the people can be living or dead, real or fictional) and explain how they are similar or different.	DIF LET	Text file
July 3, 2005	617	Best the Best	Write something about any famous personage that uses only the letters in his or her name.	LET	Text file
December 25, 2005	642	It's Open Season	Come up with a brand-new word and its definition. The words must begin with O, P, Q, R or S.	LET WOR	Text file
January 29, 2006	647	Paste Imperfect	Change a headline or sentence that appears in the Post or on washingtonpost.com through Feb. 6 either by deleting up to 40 consecutive characters from it or by adding 40 consecutive characters from the same article or ad.	HEA LET	Text file
April 16, 2006	658	Not in the Cards	Send us ideas for cards that would likely be ruled "FBN" (Funny, But No) by Hallmark but F&YYY by the Empress.	LET CUL	Text file | Contest image
July 9, 2006	670	A Test of Character	Change a word or phrase by only one letter -- substitute one letter for another, add a letter or transpose two letters -- and explain how they are different or similar.	LET	Text file
August 6, 2006	674	Limerixicon 3	Supply a humorous limerick based on any word in the dictionary (except proper nouns) beginning with ca-.	LIM LET POE	Text file
October 15, 2006	684	Backtricking	Spell a word backward and define the result, somehow relating the definition to the original word.	LET	Text file | Contest image
January 28, 2007	699	Our Greatest Hit	Take a word, term or name that begins with E, F, G or H; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter, or transpose two letters; and define the new word.	LET	Text file		Text file (pub 2-25-07) Text file (pub 3-18-07)
September 29, 2007	733	Just Drop It, Okay?	Drop the first letter from an actual word or term to make a new word or term, and define it.	LET WOR	Text file | Post e-version
January 19, 2008	749	Opus 266, No. 3	Take any common word or two-word term beginning with any letter from A through H and give it a new definition.	LET WOR	Text file | Post e-version	Peter Metrinko Pie Snelson	Text file (pub 2-16-08) Text file (pub 2-23-08)
March 22, 2008	757	Gorey Thoughts From A to Z	Send us some rhyming alphabet-primer couplets.	POE LET	Text file
September 6, 2008	781	Our Greatest Hit	Start with a word or multi-word term that begins with I, J, K or L; either add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	LET WOR	Text file
May 2, 2009	815	Wittecisms	Create an original word containing -- in any order -- at least a W, an I, two T's and an E.	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 8, 2009	829	Limerixicon 6	Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters di-.	LIM WOR LET POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 5, 2009	833	Our Greatest Hit	Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with M, N, O, or P; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image
October 17, 2009	839	Overlap Dance	Overlap two words that share two or more consecutive letters -- anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning or end -- into a single longer word, and define it. AND your portmanteau word must begin with a letter from A through D.	LET WOR	Text file | Post e-version
December 19, 2009	848	Up and addin'	Compose a humorous rhopalic sentence (or multiple sentences) in which each word is one letter longer than the previous word.	LET WOR	Text file
January 16, 2010	852	Small, Let's get	Write a rhopalic sentence (or fanciful newspaper headline) in which each successive word is one letter shorter.	LET WOR	Text file
January 23, 2010	853	It's easy as DEF	Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet; the series must go forward in the alphabet, not backward.	LET WOR	Text file
February 20, 2010	857	All FED Up	Create a brand-new word or phrase that contains a block of three successive letters in the alphabet -- but the series must go backward through the alphabet.	LET	Text file
May 29, 2010	871	Remarquees	Change a movie title by one letter (or number, if the title includes a number) and describe the new film.	LET MOV	Text file | Post e-version
July 31, 2010	880	Our greatest hit	Start with a real word or multi-word term or name that begins with Q, R or S; add one letter, subtract one letter, replace one letter with another, or transpose two adjacent letters; and define the new word.	WOR LET	Text file	Lennie Magida	Text file (pub 8-28-10) Text file (pub 9-25-10)
August 7, 2010	881	What's in a name?	Take the name of a person or institution. Find within it a hidden message.	LET BUS POL	Text file
August 14, 2010	882	Limerixicon VII	Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters dr-.	LIM LET POE	Text file | Post e-version	Carole Lyons	Text file (pub 9-11-10) Text file (pub 9-25-10)
January 23, 2011	904	We move on back	Move the first letter in a word or name to the end of that word and define the resulting word.	LET WOR	Text file	Marian Carlsson David Garratt	Text file (pub 2-20-11) Text file (pub 3-18-11)
April 3, 2011	913	Bring up the rear	Move the last letter of an existing word or name to the front of the word, and define the new term.	LET	Text file | Contest image
May 15, 2011	919	Good Luck With 13	Alter a 13-letter word, phrase or name by one letter (add a letter, drop a letter, switch two letters somewhere in the word, or substitute one letter for another) and describe the result.	LET	Text file
June 26, 2011	925	A remeaning task	Redefine a word in the dictionary beginning with I through O.	LET WOR	Text file
October 9, 2011	940	Our type o' headline	Change a headline by one letter, or switch two letters, or change spacing or punctuation, in a headline (or most of a headline) appearing on an article or ad in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com from Oct. 7 through Oct. 17, and elaborate on it in a "bank" headline (subhead).	HEA LET	Text file
February 5, 2012	957	Fearful Symmetry	Write a clever passage whose successive words are one letter longer until the middle of the passage, and then become one letter shorter.	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image
March 4, 2012	961	The end of our rhops	Write a funny passage or headline whose words all have the same number of letters.	LET HEA WOR	Text file | Contest image
April 8, 2012	966	Inkremental change	Start with any word or name, and create a series of words that change by one letter at a time, until you come up with a related word or name.	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image
August 12, 2012	983	Limerixicon IX	Supply a humorous limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters "eq-" through "ez-".	LIM LET POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 19, 2012	984	Another brilliant contest	Write something whose words begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet.	LET	Text file
December 9, 2012	1000	We now have 4 digits; you now have 7 letters	Choose any word, name or two-word term beginning anywhere from T through Z; then add one letter, drop one letter, substitute one letter for another, or transpose two adjacent letters, and define the result.	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image
December 16, 2012	1001	Make us ROFL	Give us a funny, original acronym.	LET WOR	Text file
February 17, 2013	1009	What's in a name?	Write something about some person, real or fictional, using only the letters in the person's name.	LET	Text file | Post e-version
April 14, 2013	1017	Vowel play	Write a "univocalic" newspaper headline -- one that uses only one vowel throughout.	LET HEA	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 12, 2013	1021	'Gram theft	Come up with a term by scrambling any of the letters sets in the provided list, and define it.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jay Cummings Chuck Smith	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version (pub 6-9-13) Text file | Contest image | Post e-version (pub 6-23-13)
June 2, 2013	1024	Gorey thoughts	Send us some edgy rhyming alphabet-primer couplets. The pairs are AB, CD, EF, GH, IJ, KL, MN, OP, QR, ST, UV, WX, and YZ.	LET POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 12, 2014	1055	Oh, K!	This week, to commemorate both Kevin Dopart and his 1K ink blots: Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more K's, and define your new term.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 11, 2014	1071	A pair of threes	Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination at bit.ly/3letterabs and say how they are alike or different.	LET DIF	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 18, 2014	1072	The Tile Invitational	Come up with a 5-, 6-, or 7-letter term by scrambling any of the provided seven-letter ScrabbleGram sets, and define it.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 24, 2014	1086	Playing the dozens	1. Start with any 12-letter word, name or multi-word phrase. 2. Add one letter OR drop one letter OR substitute another letter OR switch the position of two letters to create a new term, as in the examples given. 3. Define or describe the result humorously. (Conversational text)	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 14, 2014	1089	It's E-Z Find-a-Word -- your own!	Create a word or multi-word term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. (Conversational text)	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 28, 2014	1104	A pair of threes	Choose two or three entities represented by a single three-letter combination beginning with E- through H- — see the links at bit.ly/abbrevs-e-h — and say how they are alike or different. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 22, 2015	1112	Some SHARP words	Coin a word or short term that includes all the letters S, H, A, R, and P. (Conversational text)	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 22, 2015	1116	Punning in place	Create a new term using only the letters in a place name. You don't have to use all the letters, but you can't use a letter more often than it appears in the word. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 10, 2015	1123	The Tile Invitational III	Give us a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided seven-letter sets. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 22, 2015	1150	A deviant character	Change the name of person or animal -- real or fictional -- by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting one letter for another; or switching the positions of two nearby letters, and describing the results. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 13, 2015	1153	Be three-paired	Choose two or more entities represented by a single three-letter combination from IAA through LZZ, found at the provided link, and say how they are alike or different or have some connection.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
December 27, 2015	1155	Vowel movement	Choose a title of a book, movie, play or TV show; drop all the vowels (including Y when it's used as a vowel); then add your choice of vowels -- as many as you like -- to create a new work; and describe it.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 6, 2016	1165	B all you can B	Change a word, phrase or name by adding one or more B's, and/or by replacing one or more letters with B's, and define your new term.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 3, 2016	1169	Be caustic by acrostic	Review or otherwise describe a movie, book, play or TV show (or Internet equivalent) with words whose first letters spell out the name of the work. (Conversational text)	MOV LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 15, 2016	1175	Good luck with 13	Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 13, and define it. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 7, 2016	1187	Just drop it, okay?	Drop the last letter from an existing word, phrase or name and define the result. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 29, 2017	1212	The Tile Invitational IV	Give us a five-, six- or seven-letter word (or two words) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 14, 2017	1227	Celebrate ortho-diversity!	Name and describe a new life form -- and no letter in the term may be used twice. (Conversational text)	LET SCI	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 19, 2017	1254	Inkorporation--a change-one-letter contest	Change the name of a present or past business, store or agency (not just a product) by adding one letter, deleting one letter, transposing two letters or substituting one letter for another. (Conversational text)	LET BUS	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 21, 2018	1263	Playing the short game	Using the three-letter Olympic national abbreviations and/or the abbreviation for any college, tell what would happen if one abbreviated team played another. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 11, 2018	1266	The Tile Invitational V	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Jesse Frankovich	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 29, 2018	1277	Come into Beeing with neologisms	From any of the 15 provided Spelling Bee letter sets, coin a new term of one or two words and define it humorously. You may also supply an especially clever or funny definition of a real term. (Conversational text)	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 1, 2018	1286	Mind your P's and B's (and more)	Replace one or more P's in a word, name, or multi-word term with a B or with another letter and define or describe the results. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 5, 2018	1291	Film flam -- movie anagrams	Rearrange the letters of a title of a movie or play to make a new title, then describe the new work. (Conversational text)	MOV LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 16, 2018	1297	A different type o' headline contest	Change a letter in an article or ad in the Post or another publication dated Sept. 13-24 by adding or subtracting one letter; substituting a letter; transposing two letters; or changing spacing or punctuation; and then add a "bank head." (Conversational text)	HEA LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 23, 2018	1298	It's IGH time for 3-word phrases	Make up some entity that might take a three-letter abbreviation of GHI, HGI, GGG, GHH, etc., and then humorously describe it. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
October 28, 2018	1303	Neologisms to di- for	Replace a digraph in an existing word or phrase with another digraph to make a new term. (Conversational text)	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 25, 2018	1307	One-for-one for all	Replace one letter in an existing word, name or multi-word phrase with one different letter (in the same place in the word) and define or describe the result.	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 17, 2019	1319	The Tile Invitational VI	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Danielle Nowlin	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 17, 2019	1323	Selected shortened subjects	Delete one or more letters from the beginning or end (or both) of a movie title and describe the resulting movie.	LET MOV	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	David Peckarsky	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 19, 2019	1332	We'll call them Spellimericks	Write a humorous limerick that's an acrostic: a pertinent five-letter word or name spelled out by the first letter of each line.	LIM LET POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 14, 2019	1340	Not-ables -- slightly alter a famous name	Slightly alter the name (make sure the original is obvious) of a famous personage -- past or present, real or fictional -- and describe the resulting nonpersonage, or offer a quote from that person, or both.	LET CUL HIS	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 21, 2019	1341	Portmanteautapping from E to R	Coin a portmanteau word beginning with E through R, in which the words overlap by at least two letters, and describe it.	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 28, 2019	1342	MRGRS: Mash 2 abbrevs.	Combine two acronyms or other abbreviations, whether of entities or expressions, into one big one, and describe it, offer a slogan for the new organization, etc.	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 11, 2019	1344	Well, that's just great -- It’s Limerixicon XVI	Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with "gr-".	LIM LET WOR POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
August 25, 2019	1346	AZ if -- balancing acts	Think of a new word or two-word phrase that begins and ends -- either way -- with one of the provided "alphabetically balanced" pairs.	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
October 20, 2019	1354	As the Word turns 5: Taking our vowels	"Discover" a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. (Conversational text)	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version		Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 9, 2020	1370	What's in a name?	Write something about a well-known person, real or fictional, using only the letters in that person's name. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Melissa Balmain	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 16, 2020	1371	The Tile Invitational VII	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version	Duncan Stevens	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
April 19, 2020	1380	Both sides now	Delete one or more letters (in a row) from a word or brief phrase to find another word, and define it. (Conversational text)	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 7, 2020	1387	Movie clips -- drop letters from the middle of a title	Delete one or more letters (they must be consecutive) from the middle of a movie title, and describe the resulting new movie. (Conversational text)	LET MOV	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 20, 2020	1402	2020: Metaphors for a bleep year	Make up a word whose Scrabble letter values add up to exactly 14 (no blanks!), and define it. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
October 18, 2020	1406	The news could be verse	Write a poem based on a recent news article, in which the lines' first letters spell out the title or subject of the poem. (Conversational text)	POE LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 1, 2020	1408	Re-Organization	Slightly change the name of a nonprofit organization and describe it. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 8, 2020	1409	Skip a groove: Drop a letter or more from a song title	Drop one or more letters from somewhere in the middle of a song title and describe the new song, and/or quote some lyrics from it.	LET POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
November 29, 2020	1412	Jumble bells -- anagram a song line	Rearrange all the letters in a song title, or a line (or more if you dare!) from a song. Optional: Offer a parody of the original tune (or a few lines of it) that refers to the new title. (Conversational text)	LET MUS POE	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 14, 2021	1423	Muddled heads: Headline anagrams	Choose a headline (or part of a headline) in any print or online publication dated Feb. 11-22 and rearrange all its letters into an anagram. (Conversational text)	ANA HEA LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
February 21, 2021	1424	We Bee back -- a neologism contest	From any of the 30 provided Spelling Bee letter sets, coin a new term or phrase and describe it humorously. You must use the first letter in the set (anywhere in the word) plus any or all of the others, as often as you like. (Conversational text)	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 21, 2021	1428	The Tile Invitational VIII	Create a five-, six-, or seven-letter word (or phrase) by scrambling the letters of any of the provided sets and define it. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
May 23, 2021	1437	One-offs: A 'typo' neologism contest	You're a fat-fingered typist: Change a word, name or phrase by either adding or substituting one letter that's adjacent (in any direction) to the original one on a regular QWERTY keyboard, or by doubling the correct letter. (Conversational text)	LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
June 6, 2021	1439	Vowel Movement: The Musical	Choose a song title; remove all the vowels; then add back as many vowels as you like to create a new title, and describe the song. You might also provide a line or two of lyrics. (Conversational text)	LET MUS	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 4, 2021	1443	The letters of the laws	Propose some law -- it doesn't have to be a serious issue -- and give it a name and an acronym, (Conversational text)	LET LEG	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
July 25, 2021	1446	Clue us in -- and we spill the beans	Write novel clues for as many as 25 answers in the provided grid, across or down, first substituting your own letters for any covered ones. (Conversational text)	CRO LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
September 5, 2021	1452	As the Word Turns	"Discover" a word or multiword term that consists of adjacent letters -- in any direction or several directions, up, down, back, forth, diagonally -- in the provided grid, and provide a humorous definition. (Conversational text)	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
October 17, 2021	1458	Do adjust your set: TV anagrams+	Use all the letters of any TV show (including streamed ones), past or present, to create new show; or it can be an episode of the original.	LET TEL	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
January 16, 2022	1471	Tour de Fours XVIII: B-I-D-E with us	Coin a word or phrase containing the letters B-I-D-E -- consecutively but in any order, and describe it. (Conversational text)	LET WOR	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
March 13, 2022	1479	It's a WordleVite! Write a prhase of 5-letter words	Write a phrase or sentence consisting of two to six five-letter words or names, then define it or say something funny about it. AND the Wordle part: once a letter is in the right, "green" place -- the same place as it is in the final word (like the P in "pouty" in the example provided) -- your subsequent words must keep those letters in their right places. (Conversational text)	WOR LET	Text file | Contest image | Post e-version
YEAR 31 BEGINS