PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER e4 + 5! SERVED
Welcome to
Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! – our second September edition.
Before we enjoy
our puzzles this week, I have some good news to share. A month ago my brother,
Michael Peter, gave me a belated birthday gift – a month-old female stray barn
cat destined for the Humane Society. Mike, a friend of the farmer, said he knew
a home for the kitten.
About 17 years
ago Mike gave a birthday gift to my mother, an abandoned newborn kitten he
rescued while deer hunting. As my mother’s heath declined I adopted that tabby
cat, Noosie (Nuisance), who died exactly one year ago.
I have not
decided on a name for my new barn kitten yet – which is unusual because “naming
stuff” has always kind of been in my wheelhouse. My “working title” has been “Smitten”
(white “mittens” on her feet; I am “smitten” with this kitten), but I have also
considered Schwa, Comma, Tweet, Spats, Oopsilon, Bailiwick, Bunctious, (Miss)
Cheevous, Rebus, Baffle…
Obviously I am
open to suggestions.
As has been our
recent wont, we shall now offer a few fresh appetizers we’ve cooked up from
trending-news:
Appetizer
Menu
Tricycle
Appetizer:
Gnusileaks
and the Three Big Mammas!
Beginning
around midsummer, news media became captivated by a big cat named Cecil, a
lion that did not survive. This past week, some of the news media pounced upon another big cat – or
at least a certain part of another big cat.
What is this
other big cat and its certain part? If a certain writer/journalist with the
names Lyman and Frank before his surname were scripting this summer’s news
cycle, what would be the next big mammal in the news?
Initial
Letter Appetizer:
SERBian
Crisis?
Among the handful of essential words
appearing in a prominent news story this past week were four that begin with an
S, an E an R and a B.
Three of these words appeared in titles of “classic rock”
songs recorded by bands with names beginning with the letters H, E and R.
The “R” news
word appears in a song title by the band that begins with “H”; the “B” word appears in a song
(and album) title by the band that begins with “E”: and the “E” news word appears in a song
title by the band that begins with “R”.
The first two syllables of the three-syllable “S” news word sound like a smart phone feature that, when spelled backward, is a part of the eye.
What are the
seven words that correspond with these seven initials?
Hint: The
second letters in the four news-story words and the three band names are all
vowels.
Thanks for
sampling our appetizers. Now that your appetite is properly honed, use it to
slice through our puzzle slice entrée and Light Dessert Menu trifle like a hot
knife through pounds of cheesy pizza:
MENU
There’s Room
At The Inn Slice:
“We’ll leave
the light on for you… for four years or so”
Name some things hosts often provide to their guests, in three syllables. Remove all but the
first two and last two letters. Reverse the order of the last two letters to
form a four-letter word naming something motels and hotels traditionally provide
their guests.
The letters
that were removed form a two-syllable word for “guests” who settle in for a
stay at an institutional “host” that is in some ways similar to a hotel, except
that the “extended stay” the institution offers lasts usually not just a night
or two but four or five years, and sometimes even more.
What are the things that
hosts provide their guests? What is it that hotels and motels provide their guests?
Who are the “guests” who take extended stays with institutional hosts?
Light Dessert Menu
All The
Words Fit To Print Dessert:
Bridging the
Aviation-Equinox gap
Consider the
following list of words:
Priory,
Jingoist, Initiate, Grievous, Shortwave, Evening, Aviation, __________, Equinox,
Exaggerate, Praxis, Juxtaposition…
Fill in the
blank with a word that fits there in that position. We have a four-syllable word in mind, but there
surely are others that would also fit.
Every Friday at
Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number
puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to
cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes
up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as
alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym”
grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post
your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not
give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on
Tuesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We
serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly
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you.
Congratulations on your new kitty. She looks a lot like Oreo, the cat my younger daughter adopted shortly after we moved to Seattle in 1986.
ReplyDeleteI have parts of the ILA and TRATIS, but nothing complete yet.
David,
DeletePerhaps I ought to consider "Hydrox." Sounds kinda scientific.
LegoOrPerhapsI'llCallTheKitten"NewCoke"
Sweet kitty. So glad she found you via your brother. I like Smitten except as she gets older it might change to Smat for cat and well, um, no. But, then again, she might keep her kittenness always.
ReplyDeleteI like the black spots on the bottom of her paws. Morse for Morse Code? Dot? SOS? I shall ponder further during my swim.
But, mostly, I am so glad you have each other!
Thanks, Word Woman,
DeleteI like Morse. It echoes uber 9-lives commercial-cat Morris.
LegoButIWantMyKittenToCatchAMouse,NotACode
I think I've got everything but the last puzzle. Would it possibly have something to do with playing a certain game in which these answers all result in high scores?
ReplyDeletepatjberry,
DeleteNo, not a Scrabbly puzzle.
LegoTripleWordScorned
BTW good luck with the cat, Lego. I'm allergic to cat dander myself.
ReplyDeleteThank you, patjberry. My brother assures me this kitten has zero cat dander.
DeleteLegoHasAlwaysBeenAFanOfDandridge
OK, I have all the words in the classic rock puzzle, but after finding the story using the words, I realize that 1. One of the words is pluralized, and 2. One of the group names is usually preceded by its lead singer's name. "No big secret, all the same somehow we get around it..."
ReplyDeleteFor that matter, Lego, a Y appears to be used somewhere in this puzzle as a vowel. Coincidence?
ReplyDeleteI can only seem to come up with the "S" and "B" words (and thus the "E" band) for yon Initial Letter Appetizer. For the "R" and "H" bands I have tried, I can't seem to find any properly relevant "E" and "R" words, respectively. Every "R" word I can think of that could go with this news story is not in any title I can find. And practically the ONLY "E" word in a title (with second letter a vowel) is so generic that I can't think how it would be the word to fit with the news story.
ReplyDeletePHB's comment about one of the bands going by its lead singer's name leads me to think that either of the two "H" bands I tried could be correct, so I'm pretty much stuck.
As as for your new kitty's name, I much prefer "SMITTENS" (in the plural, perhaps?) to "Morse." Years ago, my mom named one of our cats Morris, after the commercial, and I always thought it was rather a cop-out. And like pjb, I'm technically allergic, as well, so no kitties for me!
ViolinTeddy,
Deletepatjberry makes an astute and excellent point about "one of the group names (being) usually preceded by its lead singer's name." Indeed the band is pretty much exclusively known as T.P. & the H. The song with the R-word in its title was one of the band's earlier hits. The R-band's name is an acronym, or at least looks like an acronym. The E-word is a proper noun.
Smittens is a possibility. Thanks.
ALegogic
Well, LegoSmitten, your hint turns out to have been all-important (to me, anyway) because as I have stated (by now, ad nauseum?), I never HEARD of T.P & the H....which I've now found and located the sensible "R" word I'd thought it should be, but could NOT find in any song anywhere prior to this. So thanks!
DeleteClearly, I was way off with either Hall & Oates (a group you had in a prior puzzle slice, so I thought you might use them again) OR Herman's Hermits!!
And I believe that, again thanks to your hint above, I just located the "R" band (I had previously guessed too simplistically with the Rolling Stones!) as well as the "E" proper noun, which again, I HAD already decided would be a good "E" word, but then had not been able to find any songs with that word in their titles. Whew.
DeletePondered your kitty name over at PEOTS. How about "Whom?" Then when people ask "Who adopted Whom?" you could emphatically say "Yes!"
ReplyDeleteIt would help if you changed your name to "Hu", Lego ;-).
DeleteVery clever, Word Whoman. I Like it. And, people will indeed ask "Who adopted Whom?" Except, of course, the kitten is the Who in that question and Lego is the Whom.
DeleteLegoAlso,"Whom"SoundsALotLike"Womb"...And OneKittenIsSufficient!
NOW, as for the Room at the Inn slice, I believe I have the proper "lengthy guests" word, and THOUGHT (possibly erroneously) that I'd come up with the four-letter thing provided by hotels, but I've been unable to scramble things around so as to come up with the plural somethings that hosts often provide for those who stay with them (presumably in their own homes?) So any hints here? Thank you!
ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteThe "lengthy guests" word has fallen out of politically correct favor in the past few decades or so. It has been largely replaced by a three-word term with the initials FYS.
The plural somethings that hosts often provide for those who stay with them (you presume corrdctly, it is usually in their own homes, or perhaps patios, not to be confused with patois or pate foie gras) hit the spot especially on a hot day.
LegoPurveyorOfAdNauseamSophomoricHumor
Wow, I guess I can safely say, then, that I was WAY off the mark with "students!!" Clearly, that term is still perfectly politically viable. Back to square one.
DeleteEye of the Tiger
ReplyDeleteSitting Bull
Eagles: On the Border
Heartbreakers: Refugee
That's all I got.
This Week's Official Answers, for the record:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Tricycle Appetizer:
Gnusileaks and the Three Big Mammas!
Beginning around midsummer, news media became captivated by a big cat named Cecil, a lion that did not survive. This past week, some of the news media pounced upon another big cat – or at least a certain part of another big cat.
What is this other big cat and its certain part? If a certain writer/journalist with the names Lyman and Frank before his surname were scripting this summer’s news cycle, what would be the next big mammal in the news?
Answer: Tiger; Eye. "Eye of the Tiger", the 1982 power anthem by the rock group Survivor, which was played at the rally when Kim Davis was sprung from the hoosegow. Also in attendance were presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and (not so much) Ted Cruz.
If Lyman Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz," were scriping the summer's news cycle the next big mammal in the gnus would be a bear.
Initial Letter Appetizer:
SERBian Crisis?
Among the handful of essential words appearing in a prominent news story this past week were four that begin with an S, an E an R and a B.
Three of these words appeared in titles of “classic rock” songs recorded by bands with names beginning with the letters H, E and R.
The “R” news word appears in a song title by the band that begins with “H”; the “B” word appears in a song (and album) title by the band that begins with “E”: and the “E” news word appears in a song title by the band that begins with “R”.
The first two syllables of the three-syllable “S” news word sound like a smart phone feature that, when spelled backward, is a part of the eye.
What are the seven words that correspond with these seven initials?
Hint: The second letters in the four news-story words and the three band names are all vowels.
Answer:
S = Syria (Syri >> Siri (an Apple app) >> iris, the hueful part of the eye
E = Europe
R = Refugee
B = Border
H = (Tom Petty and the) Heartbreakers
E = Eagles
R = R.E.M.
MENU
There’s Room At The Inn Slice:
“We’ll leave the light on for you… for four years or so”
Name some things hosts often provide to their guests, in three syllables. Remove all but the first two and last two letters. Reverse the order of the last two letters to form a four-letter word naming something motels and hotels traditionally provide their guests.
The letters that were removed form a two-syllable word for “guests” who settle in for a stay at an institutional “host” that is in some ways similar to a hotel, except that the “extended stay” the institution offers lasts usually not just a night or two but four or five years, and sometimes even more.
What are the things that hosts provide their guests? What is it that hotels and motels provide their guests? Who are the “guests” who take extended stays with institutional hosts?
Answer:
Refreshments; Rest; Freshmen
Light Dessert Menu
All The Words Fit To Print Dessert:
Bridging the Aviation-Equinox gap
Consider the following list of words:
Priory, Jingoist, Initiate, Grievous, Shortwave, Evening, Aviation, __________, Equinox, Exaggerate, Praxis, Juxtaposition…
Fill in the blank with a word that fits there in that position. We have a four-syllable word in mind, but there surely are others that would also fit.
An Answer:
Visitation, which includes, in order, the Roman numerals "v," "i," "i" and "i," and no other Roman numerals. The other words contain an i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, ?, ix, x, xi and xii.
Lego...
How about a word containing viiii? Victimizing or vincibility
DeleteVindication OK.
No other Roman numerals: vitrifying, visionaries, etc.
DeleteLet's see: I thought that the L. Frank Baum animal was going to be the Cowardly Lion (even though Cecil is already a lion). Never thought of the BEAR. And as always, had no idea about the ROCK music that accompanied Kim Davis. There was, thus, no hope of my ever solving that one.
ReplyDeleteHad the entire Initials puzzle, as I'd already indicated, thanks to your hints, Lego.
Ah, FRESHMAN. Actually, I did think of that word last night while out walking, as qualifying for your hint, FYS. AND I had come up with 'REST", but I then never tried to put the two together, i..e. ran out of time, too tired.
And never was even close re the Dessert Slice. Kinda gave up on it....