PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER e4 + 5! SERVED
Welcome to Joseph
Young’s Puzzleria!, our midpoint-of-October edition. Our “guest clicker” odometer
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(It may be time to change
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To celebrate our roll-over, we
are again rolling out this week a half-dozen puzzles: an unspeakable marceau morsel,
three weekly news-cycle appetizers, a sporty slice (not spice!), and a
drive-thru dessert. (If you are seeking a drive-through-desert, check out this week
Morsel Marceau
Menu
Legal Gender
Bender Tender Morsel:
Is Kim Davis
aware of this?!
For the first
time in American history, women are now more likely than men to be bachelors.
How can this be?
Appetizer
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Democratic
Demosthenic Appetizer:
Participants in
the Democratic presidential candidate debate October 13 in Nevada were Lincoln
Chafee, Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb.
Each of these
five candidates has a one-to-one association with one of the five portraits
pictured here. Two associations are pretty obvious, a third is less so, a
fourth is rather tenuous, and a fifth is downright obscure.
Can you match
the five candidates with their proper portraits, and explain how they are
connected?
And now, for
something not completely different: Consider the following song lyrics:
Jimmy was a
soldier brave and bold,
Katy was a maid
with hair of gold.
Like an act of fate,
Kate was
standing at the gate,
Watching all
the boys while on parade.
Kate smiled
with a twinkle in her eye,
Jim said,
m-m-m-meet ya by and by.
That night at
eight,
Jim was at the
garden gate,
Stuttering this
song to K-K-K-Kate:
K-K-K-Katy,
beautiful Katy,
You’re the only
g-g-g-girl that I adore;
When the m-moon
shines
Over the
c-cowshed,
I’ll be waiting
at the k-k-k-kitchen door…
Remove the
final three letters from one of the words in these lyrics. Explain how the
letters that remain pertain to the five debating candidates.
Critters In
The News Appetizer:
IsosZOOles love
triangle
Using the
clues, fill in the blanks below to reveal words for five of God’s creatures:
__ __ __ __ __
__ (a rodent related to Jimmy and Phil)
__ __ __ (Babe’s
relative)
__ __ __ (Bullwinkle’s
relative)
__ __ __ (a
slippery fish named Boris)
__ __ __ (Boris... Badenov, Godunov, Karloff, Becker, Yeltsin or Spassky, for examples)
(Hint: The
first letters of four of those creatures above can be rearranged to form an award
associated with the voice of Bullwinkle’s buddy Rocky (and Boris’ buddy Natasha). The first letter of the fifth creature word is a duplicate of one of the four letters in that award.)
Now rearrange
the 18 letters in the above blanks to form three other of God’s creatures – creatures that
figured into a news story originating in the United Kingdom this past week.
What are the
three U.K. news story creatures and the five “blankety-blank” creatures?
Nyms In The
News Appetizer:
Frosty, and
bacteria-free!
The second half
of a well-known hyphenated brand name consumable product is also an acronym
that appeared this past week in a news story that has implications for a
specific demographic group. The final letter in the acronym (and brand name) is
a letter which stands for a word connoting variability.
Let us treat
that letter itself as a variable, replacing it first with an “i” and then with
a “d”. The “i” and the “d” are the initial letters in two adjectives that are antonyms of one another.
These “variable” replacements would change the meaning of the original acronym – first for the good and then for the bad, respectively – regarding the
demographic group’s interests.
Ironically,
replacing the final letter in the brand name product with an “i” would probably
be bad for sales of the product, while replacing the final letter with a “d”
might boost sales.
What is this brand
name and what does the acronym stand for? What are the antonyms beginning with an
Hint: The second half of the producer’s brand name is also the second part of the brand name of one of its competitors.
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Sporty
Slice:
Topping the
pizza… and opponents!
Name a food
that is sometimes used as a pizza topping, a nine-letter plural word. Chop it
into two parts (just as might be done in a pizzeria!). The second part names creatures
that are also the nickname of a professional sports team. Replace that second
part with the nickname of a second professional sports team representing the same city.
Rearrange the
letters in the first part to form the initials of an annual serial sporting
event in which the second professional team has competed seven times since 1972, including thrice in the past five years. The team has won the event thrice since 1972.
What is this pizza-topping food? What are the two professional teams and the annual event?
Dessert
Menu
Dune Buggy
Dessert:
Accessorizing,
from hood to tow hitch
Name an
accessory found on the very upper part of some car bodies. Replace the first three
letters with a three-letter accessory sometimes worn by people on the very upper
part of their human bodies. Insert the letter “l” between the sixth and seventh letters
of this result and spell it backward, forming an accessory found on the lower
part of most car bodies.
Remove from
this accessory two consecutive letters to form a word describing something
sometimes done to an object inserted into an accessory found on the dashboard
of some cars.
Hint: The two
consecutive letters you must remove from the lower accessory form a word.
Hint: The object inserted into the dashboard accessory is not carcinogenic... as far as we know.
What are these
three car accessories?
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It would have been difficult for me not to get the CITNA, but I think somewhere in the appetizer, an "A" is missing.
ReplyDeleteThank you, David, for bringing this news story to my attention. I count three A's in the three news story creatures, and three A's in my five "blankety-blank" creatures.
Delete(There are also three E's in each set of creatures. The clue for my fifth creature reads: " (Boris... Badenov, Godunov, Karloff, Becker, Yeltsin or Spassky, for examples")
But, as you are painfully aware, I may be missing something... even besides a stray A. Or perhaps you post is just another one of those clues that fly o'er my noggen.
LegoMayNeedFurtherEnlightenmentToCorrectOurCITNA
All three paragraphs are correct.
DeleteDavid,
DeleteSteve?
LegoBorisDiawIsTheSpurThatWasMissing(IHaveSomeBoneSpursRemoved...IDon'tMissThem)
If I were to go for that kind of "A", it would be
DeleteReggie, since he went to my high school. He graduated the year before I got there.
David,
DeleteCame one mid-1960s spring, a sports legend (baseball) graduates from Cheltenham High School in the Keystone State… The following fall, another sports legend (distance running) enrolls… The rest is history!
One of my fondest baseball memories (as a spectator watching TV) was the evening Reggie Jackson became Mr. October. Here is a link for those of you with more time on your hands.
LegoToastingCheltenhamHigh’sMid'60sSeamlessSportsLegendTradition!
Lego:
ReplyDeleteThis is not a criticism; just an observation. I am wondering if the chess game photo is from a Hollywood movie. I don't recognize the player, but I was looking closely at the placement of the chess pieces on the board. To me it looks made up for the photo. I don't think it looks realistic and I suspect it may be impossible, or almost impossible, for the pieces to arrive in their present positions legitimately. Do you have any information on the photo? Do you play chess?
About a year ago The Seattle Times had a flashy photograph of two guys playing what appeared to be a game of chess with giant pieces that were about 4 feet high. They were playing in Westlake Square in the center of downtown Seattle. The photo was in full color on the cover of the Sunday magazine section. It was a good photo taken by a professional photographer with the paper and there was an accompanying article inside. I noticed right away that in fact they were not playing chess, but their misguided idea of chess. They had the pieces placed 90 degrees off. In other words, the board was turned 90 degrees off. I wrote a letter, but received no reply. I wonder how many others noticed the error.
Skydiveboy-
DeleteI saw that cover and did not notice the error.
Thank you, Boris Spasskydiveboy, for your excellent comment. You are indeed likely correct about the photo. It may well be from a movie. I just culled it from a “Boris Spassky pictures” Internet search. I chose it because it is in color (most Spassky chess pics were in B&W, just like most chess pieces) and because I like the composition. But I did notice that the Boris in my photo did not really resemble all the other photos of Boris in my search. Perhaps he was having a bad hair day, I rationalized.
DeleteBut you are probably correct. This is likely an actor portraying Spassky. Also, I defer to your superior chess judgment about whether the pieces on the board are in impossible positions.
I love playing chess! I played lots as a lad, preteen, and teen. After a pick-up game of baseball (“Hitting it to right field is an out!”), or just shagging flies and grounders, my buddies and I would retreat to our home’s living room an play chess games while munching on chocolate chip cookies and Kool-Ade or 16-ounce bottles of fizzy pop served up by my mom. It does not get any better than that!
I recall composing a chess puzzle as a teen. I am sure it must not not unique to me. But I thought it was great, and I will try to remember and reconstruct it for serving up on a future edition of Puzzleria!
In the meantime, I shall replace the probably-ersatz photo of Boris Spassky with a probably-black-and-white photo of the real Boris.
Lego”WillTheRealBorisSpasskyPleaseStandUpAndOverturnTheChessboardInAStateOfUnfetteredCheckmatedRage?”
Okay,the photo is still from this James Bond movie. It is SPECTRE agent Kronsteen, played by actor Vladek Sheybal.
DeleteI think I shall leave the image in my puzzle, but shall also add one of the real Boris.
Mystery solved.
LegoHisName'sSpassky,BorisSpassky
I thought it looked like it could be a Bond film. I liked a few of the earlier ones with Sean Connery, but don't do them now. It is odd that the person who set up the chess set for the movie knew enough about the game to show that both White and Black had castled, which makes perfect sense, but for Black to not have advanced his pawns is not believable. Worse is that Black has a Knight on a square that no one would ever place either knight at this stage of the game. It would take at least five moves for the Knight that began on that side of the King to get there, and why would it? The other Black Knight could get there in fewer moves, but no one would ever move his knight there.
DeleteI used to do lots of chess puzzles, but not for awhile now. I too have made up a few myself. In a chess puzzle it is not necessary for the pieces to be in a position they could get to in a real game.
Is the accessory found on the upper part of some car bodies one word, or two?
ReplyDeleteExcellent question, clotheslover. Merriam Webster has it as oneword. But it is also sometimes written as two words. It is definitely a compound word.
DeleteLegoWhoLovesMakingOneWordOutOf"NewDoor"
Never mind, I just got it!
DeletePuzzleria is coming in handy this week, since I really can't DO anything, so the puzzles afford wonderful stuff-with-which-to-occupy-one's-brain while having no choice except to be lazy!
ReplyDeleteI have the Critters in the News (and HAD run across this story, but had forgotten about it, until I had assembled enough of the 18 letters to start pulling animals out of the mush, thus finally discovering what the 17th and 18th letters had to be.)
However, those two letters have no choice but to fit into the fifth (Boris) spot, which means NO real vowels available for that three-letter word. So I am (as usual) frustrated, being so close to the solution, and yet so far!
And I'm pretty sure I know the company(ies) for 'NYMS in the News,' along with the four-letter acronym, but not the two antonyms....do the words beginning with 'i' and 'd' somehow RELATE to the product and/or company? That wasn't at all clear, given you you presented it. Or are they two words out of the blue?
ReplyDeleteHope you are feeling better, ViolinTeddy. . .
DeleteThanks for the PEOTS shout-out, Lego. And congrats on 50,000 visits here!
Word Woman,
DeleteThanks for the congrats Hope you and Maizie are "dune" fine.
Violin Teddy,
We second Word Woman's sentiments as to your health.
Also, the antonyms which begin with "i" and "d" (antonyms which are diametrically opposite) make sense mainly in the context of the acronym in this puzzle.
When the "i"-word, for example, is substituted for the default final word in the acronym's phrase, the phrase formed -- when the words of the acronym are spelled out or spoken aloud.-- still makes perfect sense. This is also the case when the "d"-word is substituted for the final word, although the "i"-word is a much more common substitution.
Replacing the brand name's final letter with the "i" or the "d" is merely a frivolous exercise in "what if?" The "i" substitution would sound unappetizing; The "d" would sound tempting, but there is no real relationship between the newly formed words and the product. The words formed are more "out of the blue," as you aptly put it.
In the Critters puzzle, the Boris answer has an "a" flanked by two consonants.
Hope this helps.
LegoIntendingDiscovery,MoreOrLess
Thanks once again, to both you, Lego and Word Woman.
DeleteGetting nowhere on those two adjectives, however, even though I know the three prior words for the acronym.
Btw, VT, my violinist friend will play "Ashokan Farewell" at our church's Day of the Dead service November 1st. It's a very moving time where people bring photos or mementos of those who have passed to place on the altar.
DeleteOh, WW, I didn't know you had a violinist friend, but how lovely that he/she will be doing our beloved Ashokan at your special service. I hope that your already being familiar with it will make it all the more meaningful for you, as you remember your sister. Thank you for telling me about this.
DeleteHi Violin Teddy, thanks for your kind words. There are many losses this October to remember on the first, also. One man was 42, another 57--both lost to cancer. And my uncle at 85. So there will be much to remember with Gwen (violin) and Charlie's (mandolin) Ashokan Farewell.
DeleteHope you are feeling fit as a fiddle. . .or at least calm as a cello :-).
This has been a wild month for me. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner.
Can anyone tell me if the pizza/sports team is a U.S. team, or international?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm completely STUCK re this puzzle, CL. The two obvious choices for the pizza topping don't seem to lend themselves in any way to a sports team nickname (and I've gone through lists.) So until a forthcoming hint makes things more obvious, I've utterly given up on Sporty Slice.
Deleteclotheslover and ViolinTeddy
DeleteThe sports team is a U.S. team. The chopped-in-two topping is not an obvious choice as a pizza topping, but it is sometimes used as such. Chopping it up might bring a tear or two to your eye.
The food word is rooted, etymologially, in Middle Eastern soil.
Obscure musical clue: "Boo, Kert, Them Goblins are nigh.."
LegoInitialsOfTheMusicalClueSongAppearConsecutivelyIn"Lego"
Finally (for now), I think the Dessert Slice just fell out, although I was a bit murky on the "something done to an object inserted into some car dashboards" since I don't have a vehicle even remotely that modern! Otherwise, this one was pleasantly easy! : o )
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling I'd be doing better just sticking to the creative puzzle NPR's doing for two weeks. Mind if I ask for a few hints?
ReplyDeletepatjberry,
DeleteAs readers of the Blaine's blog Comments Section this past week are well aware, when it comes to the NPR creative challenge, you are a Force of Nature!
A few hints:
LGBTM:
Wall Street analysis: The Dow has begun to dip low, man!
Dinner party schedule: After many courses come mints meant for after-dinner.
Thanksgiving dinner schedule: After much cramming come mincemeat and pumpkin pie!
DDA:
For the obscure debaters, Webb and Sanders, think “classic country crooner” (Webb) and either “Family Feud host” or”Puerto Rican Yankee (Bernie).”
And, the word in the lyrics is one of the s-stuttered words.
CITNA:
The news story creatures:
Ogden says one of them is a beast. One has an uncle. One is “juts” a bit Krazy.
NITNA:
Many in the demographic group walk on three legs.
Brand name product: Imogene-Acronym
SS
This was a quite timely puzzle.
Would Bing cherries make a good pizza topping? Strawberries are okay but you gotta use berry sanders to sand the straw away. They are not acidic but they are not alkaline either.
DBS
The three-letter accessory is Scottish and has roots in a poem.
When it comes to bluegrass, I could use less Scruggs, fewer sharps and more Flatts!
LegoOrMoreEarlScruggs&LessLesterFlatts
The two photos on the left (for the DDA slice) are William McKinley and Franklin Pierce, right? (I had to go through a whole list of presidents to try to figure that out; still not sure about McKinley, though.) How to line those guys up with Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb still eludes. How TENUOUS are these two connections anyway?
DeleteYes, ViolinTeddy, those are portraits of William McKinley and Franklin Pierce. And the connections are perhaps beyond tenuous.
DeleteAs for my above clue for DDA:
For the obscure debaters, Webb and Sanders, think “classic country crooner” (Webb) and either “Family Feud host” or”Puerto Rican Yankee (Bernie)”...
perhaps could be more accurately stated as: old-school country crooner (Jim Webb), and either "late stand-up comedian and voice artist” or”Puerto Rican New York Yankee (Bernie Sanders).”
(I mistakenly conflated the Family Feud host (Steve Harvey) with the late stand-up comedian and voice artist. My bad! Sorry.)
LegoToErrIsLambda,ToForgive,ViolinTeddyLike
Is Eddy Arnold involved? Yes or no; please, just yes or no.
DeleteNo.
DeleteLegoPeopleSayAboutMe,"What'sHeDoingInOurWorldGoAway!"
Wow, Lego! Some of that actually helped! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteFinally got everything figured out except the Bernie Sanders connection and that of Martin O'Malley. Otherwise I think I just about got it all! Thanks again for the hints! Wish me luck on the NPR puzzle this week! Could be my second win on a creative puzzle!
ReplyDeleteWe indeed do wish you luck with Will Shortz's NPR creative challenge this week... although, even more so than with his normal NPR weekly puzzles, luck does not come into play as much as does skill. And your skills at composing sense-making 10-word sentences whose words all end in the same letter are formidable!
DeleteIn fact, your real challenge will be deciding which of your myriad of clever compositions you should send in to Mr. Shortz.
Also, David, clotheslover and others who posted their efforts on Blaine's blog this past week came up with some excellent entries, as you have acknowledged.
It would be wonderful to see someone within our broad blog cybercircle recognized nationally for their creative wordplay. In any event, IMO you have to toast Will "Puzz Whiz" Shortz with quartz of slivovitz for creating this national puzz buzz!
LegoWhoDoBallyhoo,Booboo,Boohoo,OverdoCryptoToo...Cheerio
Lego
LGBTM: I wanna see documentation.
ReplyDeleteDDA: Too many misfolds
CINTA: It pays to pay attention.
NITNA: Eek!
SS: Bananas? Yuk!
DBD: What is the 'interesting' relationship between the last letter of the word describing something sometimes done to an object inserted into an accessory found on the dashboard of some cars and said object?
Thanks, Paul.
DeleteLGBTM: Take the NCROTCH (National Collegiate Registrar’s
Offices Tour--Circuit Hopping)!
DDA: Is one of those misfolds folded away in billfolds?
CINTA (sic!): Yes, Paul, it pays to pay attention… when you suffer from NT/TN dyslexia, or from TTD (Typo Typing Disorder)!
NITNA: Eek! A Micrococcus luteus maximus! (big-ass mouse!)
SS: Banana? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! Surely you mean Tanana, who participated in the 1987 “serial sporting event.”
DBD: What is the 'interesting' relationship between the last letter of the word describing something sometimes done to an object inserted into an accessory found on the dashboard of some cars and said object?...
Paul, I am 100% certain I have your intended answer! Golf uses tees; Disc golf uses discs; ergo, there must be some 'interesting' relationship between tees and discs.
LegoOrIMightBe100%CertainIAmStumped!
I have everything except the "I" and "d" words, and the President match-up needs work. It's a challenge to compose hints and clues for these multiple answered puzzles!
ReplyDeleteWord Woman, I just want to be sure that you SAW my reply to your Oct. 16 comment above. I didn't actually FIND yours until I was sitting in the Emergency Room, and then couldn't reply to it until I was home again.
ReplyDeleteApril 26, 2011 ?
ReplyDeleteHank and Bernie Williams?
I would have forgotten about David's 'special request' if he hadn't commented about it.
I found a list of pizza toppings which ranked 'red onions' #1, but that's two words, and although there is a team called the 'Sparks', I doubt if there's one called the 'Ions'. But while I was pondering this, I suddenly found myself singing 'Yes, We Have No Bananas!' --Bingo!
'T' is the 20th letter of the alphabet. Twenty squared is 400, which is CD in roman numerals.
Oh, I forgot: Eek! Coli!
DeleteLego, your hint led to my missing an "A" comment. The voice of Rocket J. Squirrel (and Natasha Fatale) was June Foray (I think that is the spelling, certainly it is the pronunciation), and since there were only three As in the animal names, one A was missing.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
DeleteI had forgotten that Natasha’s surname was Fatale. I am glad of that memory lapse, however, because now I will never forget that you and Mr. October nearly rubbed shoulders at your Philly high school!
Paul,
Bernie yes, Hank no, but tHanks.
To paraphrase Blaine’s standard reminder: “Don't post the any hints that could lead to the answer (e.g. via a chain of thought)…” Your Tee hint’s “T >> 20 >> 400 >> CD” is a “chain of thought” in which the chain is smushed into a tuque (or “tossle cap” as we call it in Minnesota and Wisconsin) and then pounded with a sledge hammer. I am NOT at all kicking myself for not getting it!
Bananas Incite Nmemonics (sic), Good One! I wonder what percentage of Americans know lyrics of that song beyond the two lines, “Yes we have no bananas, we have no bananas today.”
LegoWhoHereafterShallCallDavid”Mr.March-athon”
This week’s official answers, for the record (Part 1):
ReplyDeleteMorsel Marceau Menu
Legal Gender Bender Tender Morsel:
Is Kim Davis aware of this?!
For the first time in American history, women are now more likely than men to be bachelors.
How can this be?
Answer: Not that kind of bachelor. This kind of bachelor. It’s just a matter of degree.
Appetizer Menu
Democratic Demosthenic Appetizer:
Portraits of d-d-d-debaters
Participants in the Democratic presidential candidate debate October 13 in Nevada were Lincoln Chafee, Hillary Clinton, Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and Jim Webb.
Each of these five candidates has a one-to-one association with one of the five portraits pictured here. Two associations are pretty obvious, a third is less so, a fourth is rather tenuous, and a fifth is downright obscure.
Can you match the five candidates with their proper portraits, and explain how they are connected?
Answer:
Lincoln Chafee = Abraham Lincoln
Hillary Clinton = Bill Clinton
Martin O’Malley = Martin Van Buren
Jim Webb >> Webb Pierce >> Franklin Pierce
Bernie Sanders >> Bernie Williams >> William McKinley
Or…
Bernie Sanders >> Bernie Mac >> William McKinley
And now, for something not completely different: Consider the following song lyrics:
Jimmy was a soldier brave and bold,
Katy was a maid with hair of gold.
Like an act of fate,
Kate was standing at the gate,
Watching all the boys while on parade.
Kate smiled with a twinkle in her eye,
Jim said, m-m-m-meet ya by and by.
That night at eight,
Jim was at the garden gate,
Stuttering this song to K-K-K-Kate:
K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy,
You’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore;
When the m-moon shines
Over the c-cowshed, I’ll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door…
Remove the final three letters from one of the words in these lyrics. Explain how the letters that remain pertain to the five debating candidates.
Answer: c-cowshed – hed = c-cows…
C, C, O, W and S are the initial letters in the five debating candidates’ surnames: Chafee, Clinton, O’Malley, Webb and Sanders.
Critters In The News Appetizer:
IsosZOOles love triangle
Using the clues, fill in the blanks below to reveal words for five of God’s creatures:
__ __ __ __ __ __ (a rodent related to Jimmy and Phil)
__ __ __ (Babe’s relative)
__ __ __ (Bullwinkle’s relative)
__ __ __ (a slippery fish named Boris)
__ __ __ (Boris... Badenov, Godunov, Karloff, Becker, Yeltsin or Spassky, for examples)
(Hint: The first letters of four of those creatures above can be rearranged to form an award associated with the voice of Bullwinkle’s buddy Rocky (and Boris’ buddy Natasha). The first letter of the fifth creature word is a duplicate of one of the four letters in that award.)
Now rearrange the 18 letters in the above blanks to form three other of God’s creatures – creatures that figured into a news story originating in the United Kingdom this past week.
What are the three U.K. news story creatures and the five “blankety-blank” creatures?
Answer: meerkat, monkey, llama
1. Marmot
2. Yak
3. Elk
4. Eel
5. Man
Hint: the initial letters in those words are EMMY + E.
Lego…
Aha, I had thought that BABE's relative (thinking you meant the PIG, not the Blue Ox) was "MAA", which meant that left only YNK, in some order or other, for #5's Boris clue, which made no sense.
DeleteAnd relative to the Jim Webb/Bernie Sanders match up with Franklin Pierce and Wm McKinley, I really liked Clotheslovers answers about wives named Jane and both Webb and McKinley being "jrs." [See her answers below.]
DeleteThis week’s official answers, for the record (Part 2):
ReplyDeleteNyms In The News Appetizer:
Frosty, and bacteria-free!
The second half of a well-known hyphenated brand name consumable product is also an acronym that appeared this past week in a news story that has implications for a specific demographic group. The final letter in the acronym (and brand name) is a letter which stands for a word connoting variability.
Let us treat that letter itself as a variable, replacing it first with an “i” and then with a “d”. The “i” and the “d” are the initial letters in two adjectives that are antonyms of one another. These “variable” replacements would change the meaning of the original acronym – first for the good and then for the bad, respectively – regarding the demographic group’s interests.
Ironically, replacing the final letter in the brand name product with an “i” would probably be bad for sales of the product, while replacing the final letter with a “d” might boost sales.
What is this brand name and what does the acronym stand for? What are the antonyms beginning with an “i” and a “d”?
Hint: The second half of the producer’s brand name is also the second part of the brand name of one of its competitors.
Answer: Coca-Cola
COLA = Cost Of Living Adjustment
I = Increase; D = Decrease
Hint: Pepsi-Cola competes with Coca-Cola
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Sporty Slice:
Topping the pizza… and opponents!
Name a food that is sometimes used as a pizza topping, a nine-letter plural word. Chop it into two parts (just as might be done in a pizzeria!). The second part names creatures that are also the nickname of a professional sports team. Replace that second part with the nickname of a second professional sports team representing the same city.
Rearrange the letters in the first part to form the initials of an annual serial sporting event in which the second professional team has competed seven times since 1972, including thrice in the past five years. The team has won the event thrice since 1972.
What is this pizza-topping food? What are the two professional teams and the annual event?
Answer: Scallions; Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers; ALCS (American League Championship Series)
SCALLIONS >> SCAL + LIONS >> ALCS + TIGERS
Dessert Menu
Dune Buggy Dessert:
Accessorizing, from hood to tow hitch
Name an accessory found on the very upper part of some car bodies. Replace the first three letters with a three-letter accessory sometimes worn by people on the very upper part of their human bodies. Insert the letter “l” between the sixth and seventh letters of this result and spell it backward, forming an accessory found on the lower part of most car bodies.
Remove from this accessory two consecutive letters to form a word describing something sometimes done to an object inserted into an accessory found on the dashboard of some cars.
Hint: The two consecutive letters you must remove from the lower accessory form a word.
Hint: The object inserted into the dashboard accessory is not carcinogenic... as far as we know.
What are these three car accessories?
Answer:
Sunroof; Floor mat; Disc player
Sunroof >> tam + roof >> tam + roolf >> floor mat
Floor mat – lo = format. Discs containing music, video or other data are often formatted.
Lego…
Nutso, NEVER THOUGHT of scallions....*chagrinned here*
DeleteI still don't understand what the antonyms increase/decrease have to do with Coca or Pepsi Cola (Actually, nothing really pinned down WHICH of those companies was the sought-after answer, right? I'd personally picked Pepsi-Cola, though I can't stand the stuff.}
I had my answers all ready to post and accidentally deleted the note from my phone. Argh! So here's my second attempt: Whether right or wrong here's what I came up with:
ReplyDeleteLGBT: For the first time in history Women are more likely to get college degrees including BACHELOR'S DEGREES than Men.
DDA:(many errors I'm sure)
William McKinley, Jr/James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. are both named after their Father's, and are both "Junior."
Bernie Sanders/Franklin Pierce both married women named Jane.
Martin O'Malley/Martin Van Buren both share a first name.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are married and share a surname.
Lincoln Chafee/Abraham Lincoln share a first and surname.
CITNA:
MONKEY/MEERKAT/LLAMA
MARMOT/YAK/ELK/EEL/MAN
NYMS:
COCA-COLA
COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT
INCREASE/DECREASE
SS:
SCALLIONS
DETROIT LIONS/TIGERS
ALCS
DBP:
SUNROOF/FLOOR MAT/COMPACT DISC
Awesome puzzles and fun to solve!
Oh man..I really bombed the President association. I guess I wasn't clear on what you were looking for. I forgot to post that as far as the song lyrics go I have n-n-n-o idea!
DeleteThe Sporty Slice had me totally stumped I wanted to fist bump a brother when I finally figured it out! Oddly, I solved it backwards. After chucking out my list of pizza topping possibilities I came across information about the ALCS, right away I saw the SCAL anagram, then, Detroit Lions, and the rest fell into place. Good challenge!
DeleteAdmittedly, most of the clue/hint banter between Paul, Legolambda, and David sailed right over my head, even though I had solid answers on everything besides DDA.
DeleteSolid solving, clotheslover, and thanks for your compliment.
DeleteRegarding your DDA Webb and Bernie answers:
“William McKinley, Jr/James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. are both named after their Father's, and are both "Junior."
Bernie Sanders/Franklin Pierce both married women named Jane”…
Your interpretations/answers are at least as legit as mine, and arguably more so!
As I said, tenuous and obscure.
Also, a “tying-up of loose ends” regarding:
Nyms In The News Appetizer:
Frosty, and bacteria-free!...
Cost Of Living Adjustment = COLA
Cost Of Living Increase = COLI >> (E.) coli
“Coca-Coli” sounds unappetizing, and would not sell well.
Cost Of Living Decrease = COLD >> a refreshing drink on a hot day!
“Coca-Cold” sounds appetizing, and would sell well.
LegoACostOfDyingAllowance(CODA)Yields”Coca-Coda”AndPutsAnEndToThisDiscussion!
Oh, here I was composing replied up above (to your answer postings, Lego), not realizing that as I was doing so, you were posting to ClothesLover about her answers (that I was commenting upon myself.)
DeleteI loved how she explained about having solved the Sporty Slice BACKWARDS, which you may recall, I talked about doing A LOT when I first joined this blog! Too bad it didn't work for me this time.
I was stumped on the I and d words at first, because I had misread the puzzle and thought I was finding a word that was "unappetizing" that started with an I. It wasn't until I read over the puzzle again thoroughly that I realized I had confused the wording.
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