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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WBEZ listener Larry Birkenmeyer of Glenview, Ill., and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with OPB listener Jocelyn Tutak of Portland, OR., along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KQED listener Michael Kahan of Mountain View, Calif., and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WYSO listener John Blakelock of Yellow Springs, Ohio along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WAMU listener Jen Swedish and Weekend Edition puzzle master Will Shortz.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KQED listener Mike Rombach of Pleasanton, California and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Robert talks with Jacob Weisberg, Chief Political Correspondent for the online magazine, Slate, about two political ads that are dry, side-by-side comparisons of the candidates' tax and spending plans. Weisberg says that this is a carry over from the Democratic convention, when Al Gore was seen to have succeeded by sticking with policy. Two other ads -- more elaborately produced with musical scores -- aim to leave the impression that their candidate is warm and inclusive while the other candidate's policies are exclusionary. (6:30) Slate magazine can be found on-line at http://slate.msn.com

Daisann (day-ZANN) McLane reports on last week's annual Carnival in Port Au Prince, Haiti. In 1990, the group Boukman Eksperyans (BOOK-mahn ex-pair-YANS) first brought overt politics into the music of the annual street party known as Carnival. Now politics are an expected part of music at Carnival. The most notable political song this year was the group Koudjae's (KOO-jai) dig at the democratically elected government. But the most appealing song was by a group of Haitian American teenagers calling themselves King Posse. (6:00) ((ST

Linda visited with people at the Inaugural Celebration today who had come to witness President Clinton's second swearing-in and Inaugural address. Many of the visitors to the nation's capital waited up to three hours in the cold, just for a glimpse of the President. She talked with a family from South Carolina, which was having an ongoing argument about which celebration would be better...the Inaugural, or the one in New Orleans preparing for this weekend's Super Bowl...and also found some surprise foreign visitors, including General Aleksandr Lebed of Russia. (6:00) ((ST

In light of newly-leaked documents on its membership, we look at Oath Keepers, a group charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.