PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 122 SERVED
Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!, the fourth and final edition of March. Three weeks ago we roared in like a lion... We now exit March sheepishly, like a lambda.
And so, we must bid adieu to the third month, named after the fourth stone from the sun. Without further ado, here is this week’s menu of puzzle slices:
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Fishy Slice:
Paging Rev. Spooner…
Name something
someone with a fishing rod might catch, in seven letters. Move the middle
letter to the front, leaving a space, to describe something someone with a hot
rod might do prior to fishtailing.
What may be
caught and what might someone do prior to fishtailing?
Box Office Slice:
A
Tale of Two Cinemas
A critically
acclaimed mid-1990s movie did just slightly better than breaking even at the
box office, with receipts amounting to about 113 percent of its production
budget. About two decades earlier, another critically acclaimed movie’s box
office returns amounted to more than 5,200 percent of its budget.
That last name of
one of the stars of the earlier movie appears in the title of the latter movie.
If you change one letter of the “real star” of the earlier movie, that word
also appears in the latter movie’s title.
What are these
movies?
Hint: In a bit of
R-rated dialogue, a star of the latter movie utters the title of the earlier
movie. (The use of the title was incidental. It did not refer or allude to the
earlier movie.) The word “crowbar” is also involved in this dialogue.
The odds, however,
that someone on the earlier movie would have uttered the title of the latter
movie are beyond astronomical… indeed they border on the infinite!
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These puzzles could be dear to WW's heart.
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps deer to Ethylene's hart...
DeleteLegoLimitBagger
FS:
DeleteScientific name: Zoarcidae
BOS:
Red: [narrating] All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time. That, and a big goddamn poster. Like I said, in prison a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied. Turns out Andy's favorite hobby was totin' his wall out into the exercise yard, a handful at a time.
I enjoyed discovering EELPOUT to PEEL OUT. Thanks for pointing me toward Zoarcidae, Paul.
DeletePaul,
DeleteGreat solving. Now I get your opening-comment clue!
Again, thanks to you Puzzlerians!, all our puzzle slices are solved. Still, I shall post the "official answers, for the record," below.
LegoPoutingBecauseYouWiseGuysAreUnstumpable!
I have an answer to each slice, but I am uncertain as to whether they are the "intended answers."
ReplyDeleteI believe I have the first slice.
ReplyDeleteSome additional info that may help you determine whether you have my intended answers:
DeleteThe Fishy Slice (FS) echoes a puzzle I created last summer.
In the Box Office Slice (BOS) I wrote:
"If you change one letter of the “real star” of the earlier movie, that word also appears in the latter movie’s title."
The letter changed and the letter to which it is changed are both consonants. If printed in most lowercase fonts, this change can be accomplished by adding to, or extending, the one letter of the "real star."
LegoIntendedSchmintended
Hint to the FS: zest.
DeleteHint to the BOS:
A QB named Ron (but not Vander Kelen).
LegoZestfullyYours
I doubt that either of these 2 solutions is the “intended answer.”
ReplyDeleteFS:
You might catch an EELPOUT with a fishing rod. Someone with a hot rod might PEEL OUT before fishtailing.
BOS:
Earlier movie: STAR WARS (1977) with Harrison FORD. Change one letter in his name to yield LORD, a word in the title of the movie: LORD OF ILLUSIONS (1995). [Not, LORD OF THE FLIES (1990)]
These do not fit your later hints!
ron,
DeleteI would argue that a .500 average is exceptional, whether you're Ron Santo or ron solver. I appreciate your effort (and, as always, your creative solving skills) for both slices.
LeGooseGoslin
This week’s puzzle answers, for the record:
ReplyDeleteFishy Slice:
Paging Rev. Spooner…
Name something someone with a fishing rod might catch, in seven letters. Move the middle letter to the front, leaving a space, to describe something someone with a hot rod might do prior to fishtailing.
What may be caught and what might someone do prior to fishtailing?
Answer:
Eelpout; Peel out (Eelpout and Peel out are mutual spoonerisms; thus, “Paging Rev. Spooner.”)
Hints from my March 27 comments:
Zest = lemon or orange PEEL, used as a flavoring.
Puzzleria! used EEL and REEL in this Sporty Slice.
Box Office Slice:
A Tale of Two Cinemas
A critically acclaimed mid-1990s movie did just slightly better than breaking even at the box office, with receipts amounting to about 113 percent of its production budget. About two decades earlier, another critically acclaimed movie’s box office returns amounted to more than 5,200 percent of its budget.
That last name of one of the stars of the earlier movie appears in the title of the latter movie. If you change one letter of the “real star” of the earlier movie, that word also appears in the latter movie’s title.
What are these movies?
Hint: In a bit of R-rated dialogue, a star of the latter movie utters the title of the earlier movie. (The use of the title was incidental. It did not refer or allude to the earlier movie.) The word “crowbar” is also involved in this dialogue.
The odds, however, that someone on the earlier movie would have uttered the title of the latter movie are beyond astronomical… indeed they border on the infinite!
Answer:
Jaws; The Shawshank Redemption
Robert Shaw was a star in “Jaws,” but the real star was the Shark. Shank – n + r = Shark.
Hint: Reader beware: Many people would be offended by this dialogue. Link-click at your discretion.
Hints from my March 27 comments:
Extend the r in shark to produce the n in Shawshank.
The QB named Ron is nicknamed Jaws.
Lego…