P! SLICES: OVER (pe)3 – (e4 + p3) SERVED
Welcome to our
July 29th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Mark Scott of
Seattle (also known as skydiveboy) has been generously and regularly
sharing his wonderful puzzles with us since his debut poser in the summer of
2014 (see his “Guest French Chef Slice”). This week, Mark contributes his latest “beaut of a baffler” which appears immediately beneath
our main MENU. It is titled “Prescription Description Slice: Hickory dickory
doc, and please iron my lab frock.”
Our pretty darn
deep gratitude, Mark.
Also on our
menus this week, along with a quintet of messy culinary Riffing/Ripping Off
Shortz Slices, are:
1 Hors d’Oeuvre
exploring what the Jamaican bobsled team is up to these days;
1 hearty, heady
Mongrel Morsel requiring the use of an “I-dropper”;
1 relatively
tough Appetizer requiring Einsteinian genius and speed-of-light wits (be sure to keep them
about you!); and
2 Desserts: one, Rozellean; and another, just
one heartbeat away from being the main course.
So, go see your
doc, have your head examined, get your “eye” dropped. Keep your heart beating,
your wits whetted, and your bobsled runners waxed.
And, as always, enjoy!
Hors d’Oeuvre
Menu
Bobslacking
Easy As Pie Hors d’Oeuvre:
Olympialackadaisical
The Jamaican
bobsled team is in Brazil, training hard for the Rio Olympics. (Hey, if it is now winter in Brazil, these must be the Winter Olympics! Am I right?)
The coach notices, however, that one of the pushers on his four-man crew appears to be lollygagging – goldbricking, as it were, rather than “going for the gold.” Indeed the pusher seems to be merely going through the motions… and in slow motion at that.
The coach notices, however, that one of the pushers on his four-man crew appears to be lollygagging – goldbricking, as it were, rather than “going for the gold.” Indeed the pusher seems to be merely going through the motions… and in slow motion at that.
So the coach
pulls this bobsledding slacker aside and says just three words to him. The
sluggish sledder, crestfallen, retreats to the Olympic Village, packs his bags
and books a flight back to Jamaica.
The words the
coach spoke sound like the name of something, in two words, that has been
lately much in the news.
What did the
coach say?
Morsel
Menu
Mongrel
Morsel:
Talking
heads on four legs
Take a somewhat
obscure 4-syllable term for many of the “talking heads” seen on TV and the
internet lately. Interchange the two letters flanking the fourth letter. Apply
an “I-dropper” to the fourth letter. The result is a 3-syllable American
regional term for mongrel dog which is sometimes used as a pejorative term for “two-legged
animals”… such as many of those “talking TV heads,” for example.
What are these
two terms?
Hint: The last
part of the term for many of the talking heads is a slang synonym for “heart.”
Appetizer
Menu
E Equals
Emcee Ell-Sevened Appetizer:
Lead foot
meets metal floorboard
Treat the first
two letters of a word as if they were the numbers they somewhat resemble. Treat the remainder of the letters in the word, in order, as a common abbreviation.
Such a numerical/abbreviated “translation” of the word yields an expression
that seems to contradict the word’s connotations of “life in the fast lane” and
“pedal-to-the-metal” energy and vigor.
What is this
word? What is the numerical/abbreviated expression it yields?
MENU
Prescription
Description Slice:
Hickory
dickory doc, and please iron my lab frock
Think of an
order, in 14 letters, that is not uncommon for a doctor to prescribe to a
woman. Now, by simply changing the position of the space(s), and without
changing the order of any of the letters, name a profession a man might seek.
Both the prescription and the profession are more common to the last century,
but also apply today. Said aloud, both of these sound the same, but are very
different in meaning. Can you name them?
Quintet
Unapologetic Of Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
Try licking these kitchen spoonerisms
Will Shortz’s
July 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
A spoonerism is
an interchange of initial consonant sounds in a phrase to get another phrase,
as in “light rain” and “right lane.”
Name something
seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is an article that is worn
mostly by men. What is it?
Note #1:
Puzzleria!’s definition of “spoonerism” for the puzzles below is a bit broader
than Will Shortz’s definition (although not as broad as in many dictionary definitions). In particular, our definition includes what we call “Mobius
Spoonerisms” or “One-Sided Spoonerisms,” in which one of the two words (or
syllables) to be spoonerized does not have an initial consonant sound, as in “art
deco” and “dart echo” or “overrate” and “Rover ate.”
Note #2:
Puzzles ONE and FOUR involve instances of “G-dropping” – that is, pronouncing “hoping”
as “hopin,’” for instance.
Puzzleria!’s “Quintet Unapologetic Of Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices” reads:
Puzzleria!’s “Quintet Unapologetic Of Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices” reads:
ONE. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is a two word phrase
for the probable result of hiring an incompetent electrician. What is it, and
what is the probable result?
TWO. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is a 2-word phrase for
a driver of a vehicle who leans heavily on his horn while weaving his way
through a crowd of protestors. What is it, and what is the driver called?
Hint: The first
word of “something seen in the kitchen” is a brand name.
THREE.
A. Name the
title of an author’s debut novel, in two 1-syllable words. Insert a 1-syllable
word between the two parts of its spoonerism and say the result aloud, naming a
North American native mammal weighing about 3 pounds.
The word you
inserted is a homophone of a synonym of “novel.”
What is the title,
and what is the mammal?
B. Name the
title of the same author’s second novel, in one 2-syllable word. The spoonerism
of its syllables, forming two 1-syllable words, if spoken aloud sounds like a
possible caption for the image pictured at the right.
What is the
title, and what is the caption?
C. Name the
title of the same author’s third novel, in one 2-syllable word. The spoonerism
of its syllables forms a word, if spoken aloud, sounds like the name of a land
mentioned in half of the first half-dozen books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
What is the
title, and what is the name of the biblical land?
FOUR. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its 2-word spoonerism might go, in
part, something like this…
Little Lego, Scripps Finalist: “…Can
you give me the part of speech, Dr. Bailly?”
Dr. Bailly: “It
is a noun, but can also be a verb.”
Little Lego: “Are
there alternative pronunciations?”
Dr. Bailly: “I
just have the one.”
Little Lego: “May
I have the definition?”
Dr. Bailly: “It
is something impossible or inaccessible. Also, as a verb it means
Little Lego: “May
I have the language of origin?”
Dr. Bailly: “Middle
English, by way of Latin from a Greek root.”
Little Lego: “Can
you use it in a sentence, please?”
Dr. Bailly: “So
enamored of Todd was Lisa that she tended to ____ away every third-hour study
hall dreaming of his darling dimples.” (Finalists and audience chuckle.)
Little Lego: “Are
there any other definitions?
Dr. Bailly: “I
have: a translucent spot on old porcelain. Also, it’s a part of the fingernail.”
Little Lego: “____,
_ _ _ _. ____.”
Dr. Bailly:
That is correct, Lego.”
What is the
something seen in the kitchen. What is its spoonerism?
FIVE. Name
something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its 2-word spoonerism is what those
who use this kitchen item may do – especially if they use it to eat an omelet,
for example (or egg foo young!).
What is this
kitchen item, and what may those who use it do?
Dessert
Menu
Rozellean Dessert:
Goeth, Pride…
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: “_ _ _ _ _.”
This 16-letter phrase concerns person very lately in the news. The person is indicated by the 4-and-7-letter words at the left of the colon. The words in quotation marks are those he might have yelled out (in English) as the news-making incident occurred.
Rearrange those
16 letters to form a statement:
“_ _ _ _ _ _ _ is a _ _ _ _ _ _.”
(Three of the 16 letters are the I, S and A in “is a”)
In the NFL,
this has always been a false statement. The unusual 7-letter first name of the stellar wide
receiver (the 7 blanks that begin the statement) never played for the NFL team (whose 6-letter nickname concludes the
statement). The wide receiver was, however, a Ram, Colt, Redskin and Bronco.
The statement is
true, however, if you consider the unusual 7-letter first name as the title name
of an aquatic star of a 1960’s TV series, and if you change the 6-letter nickname
that concludes the statement to the 7-letter nickname of an NFL team in a
bordering state (although, in the context of the NFL and not the TV series, the
statement would still be false because the stellar wide receiver never played
for the team in the bordering state either).
What are the words
that might have been said by a person very lately in the news, and who might
have said them?
One
Heartbeat Away Dessert:
Branding a
second fiddle
Name a 7-letter
brand of a product you might purchase if you are feeling under the weather.
Replace the sixth letter with duplicates of the second and third letters.
Replace the third letter with a consonant, place a space after it, and add a
vowel at the very end of this 8-letter result to form the 9-letter name of a
U.S. vice-president.
Who is this
vice-president and what is the brand name?
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ReplyDeleteI have the first two kitchen spoonerisms. How appropriate to have spoon(erism)s in the kitchen!
The easiest one once again is the last one! How about a few hints for the others, Lego?
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit early for hinting, pjb. Let it marinate for a spell.
DeleteLegoTakeTwoAspirinsAndCallMeInTheMorning
Just got the part about the author in the spoonerism puzzle. This same author was referenced as a clue for last week's Sunday Puzzle!
ReplyDeleteLest you fear I might have rolled off the face of the earth....hark, here I be....after hikes to two waterfalls Friday morning/afternoon, having had only four hours of sleep last night, I came home and STARED at all the puzzles, unable to get anything, but just now, like pjb, did come up with Dessert. In the meantime, though, I had fallen sound asleep in my recliner, hence my utter lateness.
ReplyDeleteWhether the additional sleep will help, who knows (I suspect not!!) But marinate, we shall! : o )
Oh, I only just noticed that there are TWO desserts this week....
DeleteThe only 14-letter profession I know of is a CRUCIVERBALIST...
ReplyDeleteron: Don't get bogged down on the word, profession; try thinking of it more along the lines of an occupation. I would also suggest working this one along the order in which it is stated.
DeleteOOOH, I just now stumbled upon the answer for the Appetizer. Yippee....also have the 'phrase' for the first dessert, but can NOT come up with the newsy person/word out of those letters.
ReplyDeleteAnd I believe I finally figured out the MORSEL, too, although the last part being another name for the heart doesn't QUITE work out...however, the rest all seems to match the requirements.
Excellent, VT!
DeleteIt sounds to me as if you may have an alternative solution to the MM, VT.
DeleteBefore 2013, not so many people were aware newsy person/word in the RD.
LegoSaysSomeSayTheHeartIsJustLikeAWheel(WithCogs)
Thanks, Paul!
DeleteActually, Lego, I think I have your answer, because I just now realized that the 'hint' about the alternate heart word applies to the FIRST word we come up with, not the rearranged word for mongrel, etc....
I now have all but Spoonerism #5. Hints can't come soon enough for me.
ReplyDeleteQUORROSS #5
DeleteThe two-word spoonerism of the "something seen in a kitchen" -- the "what those who use this kitchen item may do" is actually something that an omelet (or egg foo young!) eater prevents from occurring... nipping it at the bud, so to speak.
LegoCautionsThatQUORROSS#5OughtNotBeConfusedWithCHANEL#5OrWithCHANNEL#5(HisLocalABCAffiliate)
ABC:
ReplyDeleteJust shoot me if I'm revealing too much (and you may be able to if you take advantage of a certain loophole).
I hate to be utterly dense, but WHICH puzzle is 'ABC"....I can't seem to apply those initials to any of the puzzles at all.
DeleteBut you may be able to apply them to three puzzles with a common thread.
DeleteAnd you may have already solved those puzzles ...
... or not ...
I tend to lose track.
Koi-er (sic) than most. . .
DeleteWater (sic) you fishing for, WW?
DeleteKoi polloi.
DeleteA pinball wizard's got such a supple wrist.
ReplyDeleteIt needed to be said.
I think I have the last Spoonerism.
ReplyDeleteI think I still need hints for the other puzzles, Lego.
ReplyDeleteHints:
DeleteBEAPHO:
Rearrange the letters in:
A 3-letter milk-caps game
+ a “neato” 4-letter casino game rooted in 5
+ a 2-letter mantra.
The first four letters of the first word of “something in the news” are the last four letters of a word in the text of the puzzle. The letters of the second word of “something in the news” are the first two letters of two different words in the text of the puzzle.
MM:
A “poi trickle” morphs into “pickle rot.”
The first two letters of both terms are the first two letters of the first word spoken by the Jamaican Bobsled Team coach in the BEAPHO.
PDS:
(I shall leave it up to skydiveboy to dole out hints for his fine puzzle.)
RD: The two NFL teams are in different conferences, south of the Mason-Dixon Line and East of the Mississippi.
OHAD:
A TOE TOP is a “pedicured nail-painting” To A POET.
The Veep and a current Veep candidate share a state of the union in common.
EEEESA:
The first two letters of the word are not the two in “aardvark,” or in “llama” or Lloyd,” or “eerie eelpout,” or “f-far” or “f-fade”…
…NorInLlegoOrLlambda
I already said I got the vice president puzzle.
ReplyDeleteSorry, pjb. But, Who knows, perhaps some other solver out there in cyberland can use the hint.
DeleteLegoAdds:AndBesides,TheHintWasKindOfFunToWrite
I just got the bobsled puzzle!
ReplyDeleteJust got the talking head puzzle!
ReplyDeleteJust got the numerical/abbreviated puzzle!
ReplyDeleteI sure hope SDB has some good hints for his puzzle!
ReplyDeleteI have the wide reviewer's name, but I can't seem to figure out the other half of the statement. Even so, it seems I need more information about the first statement that happened in the news. Might I have another hint on that, Lego, seeing as you at least will still give hints unlike some people I know(at this point if there were a way to, on a blog, mime fake-coughing SDB's screen initials, I would be doing that right now).
ReplyDeleteOkay, pjb, it goes something like this. Let's say it's 1969 all over again, July 20. Neil Armstrong is in the news. The phrase would be:
DeleteNeil Armstrong: "I walk!"
Around that time, Gram Parsons had left the Byrds and with fellow ex-Byrdmate Chris Hillman had formed the Flying Burrito Brothers. Parsons who died in 1973 at age 26 from drug and alcohol abuse, had bought a small farm during his Burrito days and had been cultivating marijuana.
Thus, rearranging the letters in "Neil Armstrong: I walk!" we can say "Gram is a known tiller!"
Our newsworthy guy in our present puzzle was not a flying burrito brother, but he is a father who travels by air a lot and often noshes on unleavened bread. He is not a Byrd but he was a cardinal.
LegoWhoIsAKnownBeanSpiller
I NEVER would have gotten that person and his comment without your hint above, Lego (I had given up completely), because I pay no attention to that particular person's news, and hadn't heard it at all. So thank you.
DeleteAlso, I have never been able to get the spoonerisms, except possibly #4. Having used a hint pjb gave above for the author, I found that for #2, I have an answer BUT the novel was his first one, not his second, so it must be wrong. I'm completely stuck, as well, on #1, #3 and #5.
Glad you got the kind of strange “name-in-the-news” puzzle, ViolinTeddy. Here is some “hintsight” into some of the other spoony puzzles:
DeleteONE:
The kitchen item is responsible for breakfast treats that are sometimes Belgian, are always delicious with syrup or sprinkles of cinnamon… and which are sometimes a synonym of flip-flops.
THREE:
A. The first two syllables can also precede the word “monkey.”
B. Name the symbol, then the color of everything else that isn’t the symbol.
C. Google a “Barney” comic strip.
FIVE:
I used to play this kitchen item on the piano.
LegoAddsThatHeDidOnceTuneAPianoButHeWasn’tAbleToTuna…Well,YouKnow
Yippee, LegoTuna, that gave me #5 right away, and also #1, although I had to really think hard to spoonerize the latter into something that made sense (a bit too unliteral for me, I guess?)
DeleteI'm still working on 3A, B and C, and of course, I got all balled up above, because I don't have #2 either.
Jeepers, that 3 A, B and C puzzle was for me one of the roughest ever. ONLY because I finally paid attention to your hint for B, did I FINALLY find the correct author and thus be able to put together all three of them. I had the completely WRONG person up to now, and was never anywhere even close (even on the 'promised land' name, OR on the three-pound animal.) I'm exhausted!
DeleteI no longer have any confidence that one of my words for #4 is correct either, though it's the ONLY word I can come up with to go with the spelling bee word.
I take back my lack of confidence re #4 spoonerism...I just changed my word and now I 'get it' re all the directions.
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteQUORROSS #2:
The person whose name is the first word in the kitchen "something" was a bandleader and musician. The name has a lowercase homophone that has to do with clothes.
As for the vehicle driver “who leans heavily on his horn while weaving his way through a crowd of protestors,” the first word is an adjective having to do with his “horn-leaning.” The second word is a noun ending with “-er” having to do with his winding and weaving his way through the crowd.”
PoorPoorPitifulLego
Thanks so much, ye Pitiful (???) Lego....I will try to tackle it now. I had thought perhaps "beeper" as an end result (i.e. I had the 'er' ending thing), but could find no brand name starting with B to make beeper out of. Etc etc....
DeleteAT LAST, AT LAST!!! I was totally despairing, then whilst fiddling around with "honking" synonyms, FINALLY it all just came to me! (I'd been looking at the wrong sort of bandleaders, too.) What a huge relief!
DeleteFunny you should provide a hint now, Lego. The answer just came to me a few minutes ago without it.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, pjb. Just goes to show that hints, while they can be helpful, are not always necessary.
DeleteLegoNotesThatSometimesOneCanGetWarmerNotByTurningUpTheThermostatButSimplyByExercising...One'sGrayMatter
Should I even ask about SDB's puzzle anymore?
ReplyDeleteNo, pjb, not this week, anyway. But it really is, IMO, an excellent puzzle, as you will see tomorrow when the answer is revealed... (or if you solve it before then).
DeleteIn the future, however, if and when skydiveboy -- or anyone else -- does submit another of their puzzles to this blog, please respect their prerogative to give out hints as they see fit. My policy with all Puzzleria! puzzle contributors has been to let them decide how their puzzles play out -- their presentation, packaging, images, etc., and how the hints are managed. You know this, of course, because you have also contributed many fine puzzles to P!
Let's try to be always positive in our comments, however. We can have fun, sure, and kid each other, and be clever and cryptic. But let's not be critical, unless it is constructive criticism. Constructive criticism, for example, like when you or ViolinTedditor point out my seemingly endless puzzle goofs! That's the kind of criticism this blog needs. The destructive kind we can do without.
LegoTryingToConstructAHouseOfCards
I only have a few this week.
ReplyDeleteABC:
A: Clavell's Rat King>>>Ringtail(tale) Cat
B: Tai-Pan>>>Pi (Π) tan
C; Shogun>>>Goshen
Dessert: Dan Quayle>>>DayQuil
PDS:
Capital wayster (A capital Ways & Meanster)>>>Cap it always, Ter! (Always put a cap on it, Teri!)
Capital One Alex (Alexander)>>>Cap it alone, Alex (Alexandra)
Wow, Ron, congrats on getting an answer for sdb's puzzle...I sure as heck couldn't. All I could ever think of was "take these pills", or "anthropologist" or something....none of which cooperated!
DeleteVT:
DeleteYou are closest with "take these pills" but it is even simpler than that. I will post the answer later.
Cap it alone, boss>>>Capital one boss
DeleteWell, I'm pleased to be closest, at least. "Take a nice bath?" Not that I can turn that, either, into a profession.
DeleteOOps, that's only 13 letters.
DeleteSomething that ends in 'mist', perhaps? (As in somehow breathing it?)
Delete"SURGE ON, GENERAL!"
DeleteHORS D'OEUVRE: "POKEY MAN GO" or "POKEMON GO"
ReplyDeleteMORSEL: " POLITICKER" and "POTLICKER"
APPETIZER: "OOMPH" - > "ZERO MPH"
HICKORY DICKORY DOC MENU SLICE: ???
QUINTET MENU SLICE:
1. "WAFFLE IRON" and "AWFUL WIRIN'"
2. "WARING BLENDER" and "BLARING WENDER"
3A. "KING RAT" and "RING TAIL CAT"; 3B. "TAI-PAN" and "PI TAN" ; 3C. "SHOGUN" and "GOSHEN "
4. "MELON SPOON" and "SPELLIN' MOON"
5. "CHOP STICKS" and "STOP CHICKS"
DESSERT 1: "POPE FRANCIS: I FALL" and "FLIPPER IS A FALCON"
DESSERT 2: "DAYQUIL" and "DAN QUAYLE"
Poky mon, go! / Pokémon Go
ReplyDeletepoliticker / potlicker [I had the 'ticker' part, but needed the full anagram to figure out the rest. Now WW's 'koi' comments make sense.]
oomph / 00 miles per hour [I was trying to think of some sort of 'oompah' hint, but I like VT's better -- echos the previous week's organic chemistry discussion]
I have no idea about sdb's puzzle.
waffle iron / awful wirin'
Waring Blendor / blaring wender
King Rat / ringtail cat
Tai-Pan / pi tan
Shogun / Goshen [George Segal starred in the film version of 'King Rat' and later in the TV sitcom 'Just Shoot Me'. "Gun show" is NOT a spoonerism of "Shogun", but there's a 'gun show loophole' in the Brady law.]
melon spoon / spellin' moon
chopsticks / stop chicks
Pope Francis: "I fall." [...his disciples lead him in and he just does the rest; got crazy FLIPPER fingers, never seen him FALL ...]
Dan Quayle / Dayquil
Paul,
DeleteDisciples! Flipper! Fall!
You, sir are a Pinball Wizard who has encapsulated my puzzle within one Pete Townshend-penned quartet!
So that’s how the pope is connected to the NFL!
And the protestors in the Blaring wender/Waring Blendor (good spelling, Paul) sure must have been “feeling all the bumpers.”
LegoThinksPaulIsADeftDumbfoundingAndBlindinglyBrilliantKid
The first two kitchen SPOONerisms:
ReplyDelete1. Waffle iron and awful wirin'
2. Waring Blender and blaring wender
Wending our way back home,
Word Woman and Maizie May (Woof!)
I am going to end this suffering. The hint in the presentation of my puzzle is that it is something a doctor would more likely prescribe to a woman in the last century when it was far more common for women to not be employed.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is LIGHT HOUSEWORK & moving the space it becomes LIGHTHOUSE WORK which some men might seek.
Ah, the end to our suffering indeed!....did you see my surge-on general, though? I know, the doctor would have to be kidding the housewife that SHE runs the ship, but at least, it then becomes a profession!
DeleteI did see it. Did you see my post over at Blaine's not to overthink it?
DeleteNo....the surgeon general just came to me right before I put it on here....I thought it was funny.
DeleteIt was funny, and clever, as were ron's offerings, but I am surprised no one got it; I thought it would be fairly easy to solve.
DeleteI guess we girls don't like to even THINK about all the housework! And lighthouse keepers never crossed anyone's minds.
DeleteYes, that is why I suggested to ron, above, that the puzzle should be solved in the order stated.
DeleteHOnestly, I believe we were all thinking in terms of medication-taking type instructions, or 'resting and drink fluids" type instructions.
DeleteIn 1776, Hannah Thomas became the first female lighthouse keeper in the United States when she became keeper of Plymouth (Gurnet) Lighthouse in Massachusetts following the death of her husband, John Thomas. Both Hannah and her husband received $200 per year for their service.
DeleteThe poor woman must have found it confusing when she went to the doctor.
DeleteI've never heard of a doctor, in any century, prescribing "light housework."
DeleteI've got to agree, WW! though perhaps one might have said "don't do any *heavy* housework". --Margaret G.
DeletePS - sorry I didn't weigh in on this earlier... it was difficult for me to log in - 'puter problems.
Keep a cap on it all by yourself, boss, You might end up a Capital One boss.
Deleteron, I took a look at your link, but it is an advertisement and I don't understand why you posted it.
DeleteTo demonstrate that CAPITAL ONE is a company.
DeleteI am surprised a couple of you are not familiar with the term, light housework, that all my life I have heard of doctors prescribing for numerous reasons. I did some Google searches worded in different ways and had no trouble finding it. During my recent cataract surgeries I found it mentioned on the web on cataract surgery sites and it was even mentioned to me just after surgery.
DeleteI knew that already, ron.
DeletePOKEMON GO, POKEY MON GO!
ReplyDeletePOLITICKER, POT LICKER
OOMPH, 0 0 m.p.h.
WAFFLE IRON/AWFUL WIRIN'
WARING BLENDER/BLARING WENDER
KING RAT(by James Clavell)/RINGTAIL CAT(TALE meaning NOVEL)
TAI-PAN/PI TAN
SHOGUN/GOSHEN
MELON SPOON/SPELLIN' MOON
CHOPSTICKS/STOP CHICKS
POPE FRANCIS: I FALL!; FLIPPER(Anderson)IS A FALCON
DAYQUIL, DAN QUAYLE
No offense, SDB, but you've done better wordplay. Not really worth the wait, IMHO.
I too was not able to solve skydiveboy's Light + House + Keeping puzzle, but I was fond of the answer when I heard it, and I thought his wording was fair and carefully written.
DeleteI was hung up on trying to make doctor's orders/prescription like "bed rest" work with some haberdashery profession... ("helping men be dressed...")
But that was just a case of bad-puzzle-solving balderdashery!
LegoWhoAspiresToBeMoreOfABeaconAndLessOfAshipwreck
This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteHors d’Oeuvre Menu
Bobslacking Easy As Pie Hors d’Oeuvre:
Olympialackadaisical
The Jamaican bobsled team is in Brazil, training hard for the Rio Olympics. The coach notices, however, that one of the pushers on his four-man crew appears to be lollygagging – goldbricking, as it were, rather than “going for the gold.” Indeed the pusher seems to be merely going through the motions… and in slow motion at that.
So the coach pulls this bobsledding slacker aside and says just three words to him. The sluggish sledder, crestfallen, retreats to the Olympic Village, packs his bags and books a flight back to Jamaica.
The words the coach spoke sound like the name of something, in two words, that has been lately much in the news.
What did the coach say?
Answer: “Poky mon, go!” (or “Pokey mon, go!”),
Which sounds like Pokemon Go
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Mongrel Morsel:
Talking heads on four legs
Take a somewhat obscure 4-syllable term for many of the “talking heads” seen on TV and the internet lately. Interchange the two letters flanking the fourth letter. Apply an “I-dropper” to the fourth letter. The result is a 3-syllable American regional term for mongrel dog which is sometimes used as a pejorative term for “two-legged animals”… such as many of those “talking TV heads,” for example.
What are these two terms?
Hint: The last part of the term for many of the talking heads is a slang synonym for “heart.”
Answer: politickers; potlickers
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E Equals Emcee Ell-Sevened Appetizer:
Lead foot meets metal floorboard
Treat the first two letters of a word as if they were the numbers they somewhat resemble. Treat the remainder of the letters in the word, in order, as a common abbreviation.
Such a numerical/abbreviated “translation” of the word yields an expression that seems to contradict the word’s connotations of “life in the fast lane” and “pedal-to-the-metal” energy and vigor.
What is this word? What is the numerical/abbreviated expression it yields?
Answer:
Oomph; 00 mph (zero miles-per-hour)
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Prescription Description Slice:
Hickory dickory doc, and please iron my lab frock
Think of an order, in 14 letters, that is not uncommon for a doctor to prescribe to a woman. Now, by simply changing the position of the space(s), and without changing the order of any of the letters, name a profession a man might seek. Both the prescription and the profession are more common to the last century, but also apply today. Said aloud, both of these sound the same, but are very different in meaning. Can you name them?
Answer: Light housekeeping; lighthouse keeping
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This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 2:
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Try licking these kitchen spoonerisms
Puzzleria!’s “Quintet Unapologetic Of Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices” reads:
ONE. Name something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is a two word phrase for the probable result of hiring an incompetent electrician. What is it, and what is the probable result?
Answer: Waffle iron; Awful wirin’
TWO. Name something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its spoonerism is a 2-word phrase for a driver of a vehicle who leans heavily on his horn while weaving his way through a crowd of protestors. What is it, and what is the driver called?
Hint: The first word of “something seen in the kitchen” is a brand name.
Answer: Waring Blendor; blaring wender
THREE.
A. Name the title of an author’s debut novel, in two 1-syllable words. Insert a 1-syllable word between the two parts of its spoonerism and say the result aloud, naming a North American native mammal weighing about 3 pounds.
The word you inserted is a homophone of a synonym of “novel.”
What is the title, and what is the mammal?
B. Name the title of the same author’s second novel, in one 2-syllable word. The spoonerism of its syllables, forming two 1-syllable words, if spoken aloud sounds like a possible caption for the image pictured at the right.
What is the title, and what is the caption?
C. Name the title of the same author’s third novel, in one 2-syllable word. The spoonerism of its syllables forms a word, if spoken aloud, sounds like the name of a land mentioned in half of the first half-dozen books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
What is the title, and what is the name of the biblical land?
Answer:
A “King Rat,” ringtail cat (“tail” and “tale” are homophones)
B “Tai-Pan,” pi tan
C “Shogun,” Land of Goshen
FOUR. Name something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its 2-word spoonerism might go, in part, something like this…
Little Lego, Scripps Finalist: “…Can you give me the part of speech, Dr. Bailly?”
Dr. Bailly: “It is a noun, but can also be a verb.”
Little Lego: “Are there alternative pronunciations?”
Dr. Bailly: “I just have the one.”
Little Lego: “May I have the definition?”
Dr. Bailly: “It is something impossible or inaccessible. Also, as a verb it means ‘to spend time in idle reverie.’ ”
Little Lego: “May I have the language of origin?”
Dr. Bailly: “Middle English, by way of Latin from a Greek root.”
Little Lego: “Can you use it in a sentence, please?”
Dr. Bailly: “So enamored of Todd was Lisa that she tended to ____ away every third-hour study hall dreaming of his darling dimples.” (Finalists and audience chuckle.)
Little Lego: “Are there any other definitions?
Dr. Bailly: “I have: a translucent spot on old porcelain. Also, it’s a part of the fingernail.”
Little Lego: “____, _ _ _ _. ____.”
Dr. Bailly: That is correct, Lego.”
What is the something seen in the kitchen. What is its spoonerism?
Answer: Melon spoon; Spellin’ moon
FIVE. Name something seen in a kitchen in two words. Its 2-word spoonerism is what those who use this kitchen item may do – especially if they use it to eat an omelet, for example (or egg foo young!).
What is this kitchen item, and what may those who use it do?
Answer: Chopsticks; Stop chicks (from being hatched)
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This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 3:
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Rozellean Dessert:
Goeth, Pride…
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: “_ _ _ _ _.”
This 16-letter phrase concerns person very lately in the news. The person is indicated by the 4-and-7-letter words at the left of the colon. The words in quotation marks are those he might have yelled out (in English) as the news-making incident occurred.
Rearrange those 16 letters to form a statement:
“_ _ _ _ _ _ _ is a _ _ _ _ _ _.”
(Three of the 16 letters are the I, S and A in “is a”)
In the NFL, this has always been a false statement. The unusual 7-letter first name of the stellar wide receiver (the 7 blanks that begin the statement) never played for the NFL team (whose 6-letter nickname concludes the statement). The wide receiver was, however, a Ram, Colt, Redskin and Bronco.
The statement is true, however, if you consider the unusual 7-letter first name as the title name of an aquatic star of a 1960’s TV series, and if you change the 6-letter nickname that concludes the statement to the 7-letter nickname of an NFL team in a bordering state (although, in the context of the NFL and not the TV series, the statement would still be false because the stellar wide receiver never played for the team in the bordering state either).
What are the words that might have been said by a person very lately in the news, and who might have said them?
Answer: Pope Francis: “I fall!” which anagrams into
“Flipper is a Falcon,” which never has been true in the NFL.
“Flipper is a Dolphin” has never has been true in the NFL either, but it has been true on television.
One Heartbeat Away Dessert:
Branding a second fiddle
Name a 7-letter brand of a product you might purchase if you are feeling under the weather.
Replace the sixth letter with duplicates of the second and third letters. Replace the third letter with a consonant, place a space after it, and add a vowel at the very end of this 8-letter result to form the 9-letter name of a U.S. vice-president.
Who is this vice-president and what is the brand name?
Answer: Dan Quayle; DayQuil
DayQuil >> DayQuayl >> DanQualy >> Dan Quayle
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