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\"silhouettes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This week\u2019s puzzle\u00a0is officially over\u2014in record time, may we add, after only one day. Thanks to all who entered. Our winner is Chris Hurst, who answered every one of the riddles. He gets\u00a0a free subscription to the\u00a0<\/em>Review.\u00a0Congratulations, Chris! Below, the solutions.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Game of the Name\u201d answers:<\/p>\n

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      \n
    1. Radcliffe<\/li>\n
    2. Falstaff<\/li>\n
    3. Bart\u00f3k<\/li>\n
    4. Burnside<\/li>\n
    5. Solti<\/li>\n
    6. Feydeau<\/li>\n
    7. Lopate<\/li>\n
    8. Vandross<\/li>\n
    9. Meir<\/li>\n
    10. Strayhorn<\/li>\n
    11. Gaitskill<\/li>\n
    12. Manz\u00f9<\/li>\n
    13. Carnap<\/li>\n
    14. Redgrave<\/li>\n
    15. Heartfield<\/li>\n
    16. Lipsyte<\/li>\n
    17. Fairbanks<\/li>\n
    18. Descartes<\/li>\n
    19. Pangloss<\/li>\n
    20. Holbein<\/li>\n
    21. Adorno<\/li>\n
    22. Blackwell<\/li>\n
    23. Cunningham<\/li>\n
    24. Poundstone<\/li>\n
    25. Steinbeck<\/li>\n
    26. Greenspan<\/li>\n
    27. Galway<\/li>\n
    28. Naipaul<\/li>\n
    29. Niebuhr<\/li>\n
    30. Fillmore\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      Dylan Hicks is a writer and musician. His second novel,\u00a0<\/em>Amateurs<\/a>, is out now from Coffee House Press. He contributes a monthly puzzle<\/a> to the\u00a0<\/em>Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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