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Sunday Puzzle: Made-Up Phrases

Listener Brendan Shera of Queens, N.Y., plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Sunday Puzzle

Every answer is a made-up two-word phrase in which the first word starts with the letter C, and the second word is the same as the first but without the

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