Ed. Note: This week’s puzzle contest is officially over—thanks to all who entered. Our winner is Mike Emmons, who solved nineteen out of twenty riddles. He gets a free subscription to the Review. Congratulations, Mike! Below, the solutions. 

“What’s the Takeaway” answers:

1. Laundry, Landry, Landy
2. Beach, Bach, Bah!
3. Decal, deal, DEA
4. Freight, fight, fig
5. Apart, Pärt, art
6. Moiety, Moët, et
7. Touring, Turing, Turin
8. Luftmensch, lumens, me
9. Nieve, névé, Nev.
10. Climbers, limber, lime
11. Lenient, Lenin, lei
12. Cargo, Caro, car
13. Sluice, Slice, lice
14. Leakey, lake, la
15. Ovoid, void, vid
16. Leather, lather, later
17. Punkt, punk, pun
18. Stratus, Strats, stats
19. Pinochle, pinch, pi
20. Haute, hate, hat

Dylan Hicks is a writer and musician. His second novel, Amateurs, is out now from Coffee House Press. He contributes a monthly puzzle to the Daily.