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Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Welcome
to June. Not officially summer yet, but we are in a summertime state of mind.
We heat things up this week with a
scrumptious bonus puzzle slice cooked up by our friend Mark Scott of Seattle.
Mr. Scott – also known as “skydiveboy”
on the blogosphere, and as Master Gourmet French Puzzle Chef “Monsieur Garcon
du Parachutisme” here at Puzzleria! – is a true master of the mysterious.
And The Horse You Rode In On Slice:
Equestrian
Thespian
If you say this famous actor’s name
aloud, phonetically you will describe what a famous general’s horse did.
Who are the actor and the general?
Thank you, Mark. And we also thank last
week’s Puzzlerian! posters who jumped aboard our “puzzle sequence bandwagon”
and contributed their own sequential (and quite consequential) piggyback
puzzles.
This week’s puzzles will skew less
numberward, more wordward. Enjoy the wordfest.
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Double Double Toy And Trouble Slice:
Hot Wheels
in the Summertime
Two pronouns are all but synonymous. One
is singular and the other is plural. Put them in that order. Now put in front
of each the same letter. The result is a summertime toy enjoyed by “kids of all
ages.”What is this toy?
Lettuce Entertain You Slice:
Biopicable
Delete three
letters from a word appearing in the title of a somewhat recent award-winning
made-for-television biographical movie about a legendary entertainer. The
deleted letters can be rearranged to form the three-letter first name of the president of
the cable television network film division that produced the movie.
Duplicate the
final four letters of what remains and place them at the beginning of what remains, forming a
word that might well be heard during a headlining act at an entertainment mecca
at which the subject of the movie was also a legendary headlining act.
What is the
movie, who is its subject, who is the president, and what is the new word that
is formed?
Hint: A word in
the title of a compilation album released a year after the entertainer’s death,
describes the type of act where the word you formed might be heard.
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Follow a curved trajectory about a hairless parasite?
ReplyDeleteIs the Eiffel Tower a parasite?
DeleteI think so. I know it's a real eyeful.
DeleteLeGoutL'ambre
I have no idea how many taxpayer francs (or euros, or whatever) go to the maintenance of that structure, nor the tourism revenue it generates.
DeleteActually, the Euro Nations, realizing the importance of tourism to their economies, employee specialists to make sure that the various tourist attractions are maintained. These specialists are called Eurologists.
DeletePaul,
DeleteI don't know either, but I do know it's high maintenance. They have to take good care of it too, because should it collapse it would be in Seine.
Now I know you're pulling my leg.
DeletePaul,
DeleteRegarding your opening comment, "Follow a curved trajectory about a hairless parasite?" I am as usual in the dark... because your mind seems to function so quirkily... not that there's anything wrong with that.
The sole guess I can venture is that is is some kind of allusion to skydiveboy's Flaubert puzzle of a few weeks back.
LegoEllipslugbug
lego,
DeleteI have a hunch David has seen the light.
David, David, David!. Why don't I ever get to see the light?!
DeleteLegoJanda
I got the DDTATS and the LEYS, still working on the ATHYRIOS.
ReplyDeleteJust the opposite here, and I think you're pulling my leg.
DeleteNot proof, but there is one letter that appears in each of these four words:
Delete1 & 2: both words in the summertime toy
3 & 4: both words in the compilation album's title
Also, the deleted letters, in the order in which they appear in the word, spell a different first name, for a person of the opposite sex of the president of the movie company (although for most people whose name is pronounced that way, the last letter is doubled).
David,
DeleteI never doubted you had solved DDTATS and LEYS, but thanks for the hints.
Great solving, David, Paul and ron (below). Inseinely awful pun, skydiveboy!
DeleteDavid, the still-puzzled should do right by your hints.
While doing some duck duck googling this evening, I discovered another compilation album, issued 13 years after the entertainer's death, that satisfies the wording of both your "3 & 4" hint and my hint at the end of the LEYS.
LegoInYearsPastSanFranciscoRedSoxPlayedAtFenwickPark
Awfully good of you to say that, Lego. Awfully.
DeleteNow I really must be off, fully prepared for the answer to Car Talk's Puzzler tomorrow, which I actually got almost instantly last Saturday. An awfully good puzzler too, it was.
That is the one. All they had to do was to both stop every hour and switch batteries. The almost run down battery would recharge during the next hour. They could keep doing this until the chickens came home to roost. Oh, sorry about the chicken thing.
DeleteI believe this must be the CarTalk Puzzler of which skydiveboy writes.
DeleteI haven't a clue... other than to ditch the limping car and all pile into the uncle's car.
I wonder, do Tom and Ray accept alternate alternator answers?
Legolamagliozzi
skydiveboy,
DeleteNow you got me thinking that the solution to the CarTalk Puzzler somehow involves a treadmill and a chicken.
(Incidentally, my June 6 at 2:27AM post somehow leapfrogged over skydiveboy's 12:14 AM post. Imagine it's between his 10:15 PM and 12:14 AM posts. Sometimes when you squeeze cybertoothpaste outta the tube it's next to impossible to unsqueeze back in.)
LegoWhoNeedsHorsepower...WeGotHenpower!
Yeah, and while you're at it, shame on Tom & Ray for giving us a Battery of Tests!
DeleteI do hope, however, that the Brothers Tappet, accept alternate alternator answers. It is my only hope of getting a silver tie rod pin or cotter pin, or whatever they hand out as a prize.
DeleteLegoTheyPromisedMe"FabulousPartingGifts"AndAllIGotWereTheseDamnCombs!
Well, since these are now all repeats, perhaps you would win a Welcome Back Cotter Pin.
DeleteI slept through the answer to last week's puzzle, and will have to get it next hour (this hour) on a different station unless it is posted online already. The new puzzle is stupid and not a math puzzle, but a logic, or illogical, puzzle. It is an impossible outcome. Unless Ted Cruz's hat was the last one remaining.
Wouldn't the answer to Click and Clack have to be 0%, since if they got 19 out of 20, they'd actually have to get 20 out of 20 correct hats-to-heads? --Margaret G who has been too busy this week to puzzle, but I know I'll come back to it eventually!
DeleteOf course.
DeleteWelcome to my Hell!
ReplyDeleteOut of Hell now. How? Who can tell‽
DeletePaul,
DeleteBeing out of hell doesn't necessarily mean you're in heaven. Maybe in purgatory or limbo, but not heaven.
LegoNotskydiveboy...LowFlyin'Divin'BatBoy!
I have ATHYRIOS & DDTATS, but not LEYS. I don't follow movies. A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! I don't think Richard (III) was a General though.
ReplyDeleteJust got the Biopic puzzle, too. I have nothing spectacular to add!
ReplyDeleteAnd the summer toy puzzle. Ah, alliteration.
ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteAhliteration indeed! But not quite the kind we saw a few weeks back with our Mnemonic Pneumatic Kneelers.
LegoSoYouTellMe"Pokemon"HasFour"N"Sounds!?
Ha, Legs, aNyone doing pNeumatic kNeeling would sooN Need a joiNt traNsplant!
DeleteWhat did General Ahmed Zayat's horse, American Pharoah, do? Randy Belmont and won the Triple Crown!
ReplyDeleteHey, ron, I thought you were not so much into sports.
DeleteIs Randy Belmont buddies with Randy Gamut, Randy Gauntlet and Randy Table?
LegoTheReins...TheBitIsChokingMe(AndI'mAHorse!)
Finally got around to solving the summer toy puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI bet you had a good time.
DeleteIt was fun, but I'm still partial to balalaikas.
DeleteI like BB guns.
DeleteI've still got the BB gun from my (1st) childhood. Don't know whatever happened to the moving duck target.
DeleteDamn ducking ducklings!
DeleteLegoLambdonald&Daisy...BBRifle!
Well I solved all three this week. Yes, even my own creation! LEYS is clever.
ReplyDeleteThank you, skydiveboy. Your ATHYRIOS Equestrian Thespian puzzle is also clever... but not cloven-hoofer.
DeleteLegoCrimsor&Cloven
I finally got the ATHYRIOS, finally realizing that the general rode a Quarter Horse.
DeleteBut dontcha always hate it, David, when they turn Quarter Horses into QuarterPounders?
DeleteLegoI'mLoathin'It
OK Lego,
DeleteWe're not going to allow you to continue this low form of humor furlong.
Thou shalt not muzzle me, sir! You can saddle me with all the equine epithets you can muster, but I my lowbrow, jockeylar comments I vow shall not halt ere I am fitted with a straitjacket festooned with paddocks (with all the keys thrown away) and led out to pasture, or to the funny stud farm.
DeleteLegoPullingUpLameda
Is that a saddle aside, or sidesaddle humor? In any case it seems a little quirty to me.
Deleteskydiveboy,
DeleteI cantle-t you get away with this horslander! I swear on my mudder's grave that I will defend to the end my right to post my horseship comments and pseudojokes. You are only trying to blow your own horn and stirrup trouble!
LegoChickenship
Swell! I can Latigo if you can, but it's a Cinch I won this one even if you Cantle your Ass from a Cheek Piece.
DeleteI simply can't come up with the proper horse. Since it is mentioned above (prior to all the horse puns) that the puzzle involves a quarter horse, I guess I can safely say that I kept circling around Custer's "mixed breed" horse, Comanche, and the fact that he '"SURVIVED"....hence kept trying to find some British actor sounding like "Sir Vived" . Of course, there is no such fellow! " Sir Olivier" just didn't come close enough, and he ended life as a Lord anyway. Sigh...
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteYou are approaching the horse puzzle in a way in which you will not solve it. I suggest you think of the actor.
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteReviewing the opening interchange between Siz and skydiveboy over on Blaine's blog this week might be helpful for uncovering the actor.
LegoDidNotInhale!
I'm giving VT even odds on this one.
DeleteThanks, Paul, for the 50-50 prediction, but I didn't even make it back to this blog in time to SEE the additional clues and suggestions before the answers were already revealed today. Grant passed right through my radar, without my having 'clicked' on the same last name as Cary. Phooey!
DeleteATHYRIOS:
ReplyDeleteWhat did General Ulysses S. Grant's horse, CINCINNATI, do? Cary Grant!
DDTATS:
Two pronouns almost synonymous: EACH & ALL. Add a B to “each” and “all” to obtain a BEACH BALL.
LEYS: I leave this one to David...
DDTATS: Each & All / Beach Ball
ReplyDeleteLEYS: Behind the Candelabra / Liberace / Len Amato / Abracadabra / Piano Magic
I commented that 4 key words had a common letter, that being an A in Beach, Ball, Piano, and Magic. The same letter is also in each word of the ATHYRIOS answer: Cary Grant / Carry Grant. My comment about the Quarter Horse was made because Ulysses Grant appears on one of the U.S. quarters.
I'm just gonna say Archibald Leach and disappear.
ReplyDeletePaul,
DeleteThank you for linking to this logic puzzle. It is right in my wheelhouse, of course, because I am the epitome of the LCD.
LegoCanDivide!
Paul,
DeleteI don’t think you knew my Uncle Kojak, but he was a chronic freeloader who was sensitive about his chromatic dome…
Think of an actor (not Telly Savalas). If you say this actor’s real name aloud, phonetically you will describe what a stonemason did when my uncle in a drunken stupor stumbled onto a construction site, mistaking it for a toupee shop, and demanded to be fitted for a piece.
LegoKeystoneCoppertop
Yes, Cincinnati did indeed carry General Ulysses S. Grant throughout the Civil War. Grant also had numerous other horses, although Cincinnati was his favorite. Grant was an outstanding horseman who throughout his life collected many equally outstanding horses, all of which carried him. Thanks to Cary Grant for lending his fake name. Thanks, Archie.
ReplyDeleteBeach Ball & Liberace/Behind the Candelabra/Len Amato/abracadabra
THANKS LEGO!!!
I forgot to mention (again?) that I submitted this puzzle several times to Will Shortz, with no results. I am of course biased, but I think it is much better than much of what he offers us. It makes me wonder why he rejects quality over junk.
DeleteThe magician who is able to bring the dead back to life uses "Abracadaver".
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteThe magician who is unable to bring the dead back to life, and indeed, kills a few jerks in his audience in the process of trying, consoles himself after his act by munching on "AbraCadbury" candy bars.
LegoAbbaCadAbba
That's abadadendum.
DeleteThe Great Blackstone likely uttered "Abracadabra" at some point in his career.
DeleteThe Great Rockstone uttered "Ala-kazam ala-kazoo!" but likely also uttered "Yabba Cadabra Dabba doo!"
LegoCadabraDab'lDoYa
I never got to see Blackstone; either one. But in 1962 Dunninger performed at the Seattle World's Fair and I still remember attending an amazing performance which included a rope trick I still cannot figure out.
DeleteThis week's answers, for the record:
ReplyDeleteAnd The Horse You Rode In On Slice:
Equestrian Thespian
If you say this famous actor’s name aloud, phonetically you will describe what a famous general’s horse did. Who are the actor and the general?
Answer:
Cary Grant; Carry (General Ulysses S.) Grant
Double Double Toy And Trouble Slice:
Hot Wheels in the Summertime
Two pronouns are all but synonymous. One is singular and the other is plural. Put them in that order. Now put in front of each the same letter. The result is a summertime toy enjoyed by “kids of all ages.”
What is this toy?
Answer: Beach Ball
Lettuce Entertain You Slice:
Biopicable
Delete three letters from a word appearing in the title of a somewhat recent award-winning made-for-television biographical movie about a legendary entertainer. The deleted letters can be rearranged to form the three-letter first name of the president of the cable television network film division that produced the movie.
Duplicate the final four letters of what remains and place them at the beginning of what remains, forming a word that might well be heard during a headlining act at an entertainment mecca at which the subject of the movie was also a legendary headlining act.
What is the movie, who is its subject, who is the president, and what is the new word that is formed?
Hint: A word in the title of a compilation album released a year after the entertainer’s death, describes the type of act where the word you formed might be heard.
Answer:
"Candelabra" - nel = Cadabra
Lee Liberace is the movie's subject.
nel >> Len = Len Amato
Cadabra >> Abracadabra
The word "abracadabra" can be heard in magic acts/shows, a staple of the Las Vegas casino entertainment industry.
"The Magic of Liberace" album was released in 1988, a year after Liberace died. "Piano Magic" was released in 2001.
Lego...
Puzzlerians!
ReplyDeleteI just uploaded two photos of Gen. Grant and his horse Cincinnati that skydiveboy sent me last week. The pictures are at the bottom of the menu.
Thanks, skydiveboy, for another fine puzzle.
LegoDog&PonyShow=RinTinTinCinCinnati
I may have already mentioned this anagram I came up with for American Pharoah: AH, A RARE CHAMPION; I just noticed a mention of the Triple Crown winner on this blog and thought it might bear repeating.
ReplyDeleteOn Blaine's blog I might have mentioned it. This is actually maybe my second time checking this blog.
ReplyDeleteThank you for dropping in, patjberry. Ah, A RARE CHAMPION is indeed an excellent anagram of AMERICAN PHAROAH.
DeleteDon't be a stranger.
LegoAhARareChump
Okay, Puzzlerians! Here is a midweek challenge for you to work on. (Oops, I mean, “Here is a midweek challenge on which for you to work.”):
ReplyDeleteYour mission, should you choose to accept it, it to write a pithy obituary headline for Vincent Musetto. He is the recently deceased New York Post tabloid editor and movie critic who wrote the headline "HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR."
Here is my best effort to write a headline for his obit. It is so-so. I wish it were more pithy. Mine reads:
“MASTER OF HEADLINES MEETS HIS LAST DEADLINE”
LegoLeeLiberaceWasAHeadliner…WhyNotYou?
VERBAL CONTENTS: MUTE IT
DeleteA bit obscure (as in, what the heck does that mean), but an anagram of "Vincent Albert Musetto", without the Jr.
In Vincent Musetto's honor ambi-amphi dextrous-bious. ;-)
DeleteDavid,
DeleteSweet anagram! Very serendipitous. It is remarkable how often such letter-scramblings make sense.
Word Woman,
Yogi Berra lives! (Well, actually, he still does live.)
And actually, I love this story. “Amphibious” batters are diamond a dozen, but “amphibious” pitchers with MLB ability are once-in-a-lifetime-or-two gold.
LegoAllFrogsAreSwitchHitters
!
DeleteMUSETTO TO AMUSE US NO MORE
ReplyDeleteskydiveboy,
DeleteI can envision some newspapers' obit sections using your headline. It is poignant, and yet in the spirit of the deceased. Muse-worthily amusing.
LegoSuspectsskydiveboyIs(somehow!)TheOffspringOfThalia&Melpomene
Thanks Lego, I actually plagiarized it from Pravda.
DeleteA loose end tied:
ReplyDeleteRegarding my June 5, 2015 at 9:47 PM comment:
"David, the still-puzzled should do right by your hints..."
LegoInYearsPastSanFranciscoRedSoxPlayedAt FenwickPark
Fenway + Candlestick = “Fenwick”
DeleteLegPortmanto
It would probably not surprise you to know that I have small stuffed toys of Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale and Dudley Do-Right in my office. Or that we had cats named Gidney and Cloyd.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteWe are not surprised. We are amused.
LegoWeAreNotAmused