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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

All right, we have new contestants. Jessica Leeser and Corinne Miller. Welcome.

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EISENBERG: Now Jessica, you come from a big puzzle family?

JESSICA LEESER: Yes. Well, yeah. Math, puzzles.

EISENBERG: You played math at home growing up for fun?

To become this week's grand prize winner, the final four contestants have to demonstrate a little word wisdom, as John Chaneski doles out clues to words that contain exactly three "A"s.

Would you watch a feline dating flick that's "Pretty Woman" meets "Cat-Women of the Moon"? In this game, host Ophira Eisenberg puts contestants in an imaginary Hollywood pitch meeting, where they have to figure out the titles for hybrid movie plots.

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

You're listening to ASK ME ANOTHER, putting puzzles to people since 2012. I'm your host, Ophira Eisenberg, and with me is puzzler extraordinaire, John Chaneski.

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JOHN CHANESKI: Oh hi everybody. I don't know about extraordinaire; I'm just ordinaire.

EISENBERG: No.

CHANESKI: I'm just an ordinaire puzzler, that's all.

EISENBERG: No, no. I know this is how the puzzlers talk to each other, but I'm giving you an extraordinaire.

CHANESKI: Oh thank you. You're so sweet.

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OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST:

This is ASK ME ANOTHER. I'm your host, Ophira Eisenberg, and if it wasn't for nerds, geeks and trivia buffs I'd have no friends. Next to me onstage are this week's ASK ME ANOTHER puzzle guys, John Chaneski.

JOHN CHANESKI: Hi Ophira. Hi everybody, hello, hello.

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EISENBERG: And Art Chung.

ART CHUNG: Hi Ophira.

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EISENBERG: We'll hear more from them later on in the show, but right now please put your hands together for our one man ASK ME ANOTHER band, Mr. Jonathan Coulton.

Good morning! We're looking at these stories this morning:

Man Has Implicated Himself In Etan Patz Disappearance, NY Police Say.

Cyber Countershot: U.S. Hacks Web Ads Of Al-Qaida's Yemen Affiliate.

Update at 4:53 p.m. ET. U.S. Is Not 'Hacking':

NPR's Dina Temple-Raston tells us State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland made it clear that the United States is not "hacking" the websites that appeal to al-Qaida. Instead, they are "countering propaganda with a counter-narrative that we believe is closer to the truth of the situation."

In her All Things Considered report, Dina provides an example:

Update at 7:13 p.m. ET: Police Announce Arrest Of Suspect:

At a press conference in New York, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said police had arrested Pedro Hernandez in the killing of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who disappeared as he was walking to school in 1979.

Officials say Hernandez, a former convenience store worker, confessed to police that he suffocated the boy, placing his body in a cardboard box. Etan's body has never been found.

Kelly said Hernandez also took police to the site where he contends the killing occurred.

Ryan Young saw a pregnant woman being kicked by her boyfriend. He leaped out from behind the meat counter and intervened. Safeway suspended him, citing a zero-tolerance policy for workplace violence. But after the union took up his cause and people boycotted the store, Safeway reinstated Young, calling his action "commendable."

Chuck Shriner was about to receive his diploma from Fort Myers Catholic School in Florida when he dropped to one knee, and struck the praying pose made famous by quarterback Tim Tebow. Shriner won a $5 bet but lost the chance to get his diploma onstage.