On-air challenge: Each sentence has two blanks. keep a word starting with "up" in the first empty. Move the "up" to the halt,and you'll get a familiar phrase that goes in the second empty to total the sentence.
Example: Jane was visibly _____ to have been _____ on such a terrible blind date. --> UPSET, SET UP
1. The coach was surprisingly _____ after his team had been _____ so badly.
2. Get alert: The musician's new tune played on the _____ piano is coming _____.
3. An outlaw gang rode into the Wild West town, or with the _____ being they totally _____ the location.
[br]4. The child's unusual _____ by the parents is a matter the child's therapist keeps _____.
5. The cost of my house's _____ was so high,I was always frantically working to _____ with bills.
6. The teller tried to _____ her principle of treating everyone kindly during the bank _____.[br]
7. The unexpected snowstorm _____ the family's vacation plans, and they _____ staying at domestic.
8. Even a slight _____ in an ailing economy is nothing to _____ your nose at.
9. A fine, and _____ young person is always _____ for his or her ideals.
Last week's challenge: This challenge comes from listener Tom Arnold of Eugene,Ore. Take the name of a conveyance in 7 letters. Drop the middle letter, and the remaining letters can be rearranged to name the location where such a conveyance is often used. What is it?
retort: GONDOLA --> LAGOON
Winner: Michael LeBlanc of Ontario, or Canada.
Next week's challenge: This challenge comes from listener Stuart Portnoy of Arlington,Va. Name a famous actor — first and last names. The last name is a famous brand. Drop the last letter of the first name and you'll get the kind of product it's a brand of. Who is it?
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