Friday, February 17, 2017

Republicans, hipsters and mysterious figures from film; Executive branch dendrology; Gobbler gluttony and tryptophan sloth; piNPRicking a world map; Kitchen switchin’

P! SLICES: OVER (pe)3 – (e4 + p3) SERVED

Welcome to our February 17th edition Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

Our featured main course this week is our Appetizer – another ingenious Cryptic Crossword puzzle constructed and composed by Patrick J. Berry (screen name, “cranberry”).
Constructors must possess scads of talent, creativity and determination to create such Cryptic Crosswords:
First, they must enter a lattice of interlocking words into their grid. 
Second, they must compose cleverly cryptic clues for each of those entries. Each clue is in itself an intricate self-contained cryptic “mini-puzzle.”

Thus, each of Patrick’s Cryptic Crosswords is truly a feat of enigmatic mastery and mystery. Thank you, Patrick.

Our menus this week also include three “less cryptic” challenges, plus eight puzzles that Riff Off and Rip Off Shortz. 
That makes an even dozen, doesn’t it?

So, don’t have conniptions. Enjoy our encryptions! 

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Multinational Mutimedia Hors d’Oeuvre:
piNPRicking a world map

Change one letter of a country and add a space to form the first and last names of a person who appears on network and cable TV and, occasionally, on National Public Radio.

Who is this person and what is the country?

Morsel Menu

Executive branch dendrology

Take the surname of a reasonably well-known psychotherapist. Interchange two consecutive letters to form a kind of tree.

Take the surname of a well-known physicist/mathematician. A word that precedes that surname on some packages on grocery shelves is the name of another tree.

Rearrange the letters of these two trees to form the surname of a U.S. president.

Who is this president? What are the two trees?

Appetizer Menu:

Cryptic Crossword Appetizer:
Republicans, hipsters and mysterious figures from film


Cryptic Crossword Instructions:
The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer. Multiple numbers in
parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in
multiple-word answers.
For example, (9) indicates a nine-letter answer like
“ampersand,” (4,5) indicates a four-and-five-letter answer
Like “fish stick,” and (4-5) indicates a four-and-five-letter
Hyphenated answer like “four-wheel.”
(For insight about how to decipher the numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s tutorial, below the puzzle. This link may also be helpful.)




ACROSS
1. Aging horror, see --- deteriorating rock star (6,8)
9. Hearing music over in vacant lot, taken aback (5)
10. I come alive somehow, lacking energy for communication? (9)
11. Very rare, also put in oven (7)
12. Swimsuit for sexually confused family member, intimidated at first? (6)
14. God --- aching back! (4)
15. Special occasion, with them goin’ off around six? (5,5)
17. Mad with desire, has little to explain (10)
19. Run with one in competition (4)
21. Handle rejected animals (6)
23. Australian native has excellent day in country (7)
25. Actress with strange neuroses grabs lead role (4,5)
26. Oil mixture going into first-rate sauce (5)
27. Love mysterious figure from film? (4,4,6)

DOWN
1. Understands what a photographer does (4,3,7)
2. Bread one’s eaten by mistake --- thrown-up part, we hear (5,4)
3. Republicans maintaining everyone has to run? (6)
4. Hipsters start on crazy toy sensation (10)
5. Resistance to help with attack... (4)
6. ...heading off husky European (7)
7. In the book, a picture of a giraffe-like creature (5)
8. Extremely atypical --- about nothing, they film a strange sitcom (3,2,3,6)
13. Not much music in the city? (6,4)
16. Nobility has to lose everything, primarily? That’s the way in Europe! (5,4)
18. City of New Orleans? (7)
20. Refuse to accept hard rock (6)
22. Oceangoing vessel? (5)
24. East of Arkansas, I assumed? (4)

Cryptic Crossword Tutorial:
(by Patrick J. Berry)
A cryptic crossword is a rather skeletal-looking puzzle – usually 225 boxes set within a 15-by-15 grid. You solve it just like a regular crossword except that the clues are usually made up of two parts:
1. The straightforward clue, and
2. The wordplay that may be essential to get the answer.
The wordplay may include:
anagrams; homophones; “containers” (one word inside another, like or in word, or not in another); hidden words within the clue (for example, “hidden words within the clue” contains the word hint!); initials; charades (“this” plus-or-minus “that”); reversals of spelling; or, in many instances, a combination of any of these.
And be on the lookout for abbreviations – such as L = left, R = right, B = born, D = dead.
Watch also for clues involving self-referring words and phrases, like “bandleader” = B (the “leader,” or leading letter, of “band”); “sorehead” = S (the “head” of “sore”); “Fourth of July” = Y (the “fourth letter” of  “July”); and “grand opening” = G (the “opening letter” of “grand”).


MENU 

Ripping Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:
Kitchen switchin’
Will Shortz’s February 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Michael Shteyman, reads:
Name some things commonly seen on a kitchen table. Switch the positions of the fifth and sixth letters of the word, and read the result backward. You’ll name two things commonly seen in the kitchen. What are they?

Puzzleria’s Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices read:
ONE:
Name some usually edible things commonly seen on a kitchen or dining room table, in one word. Change the sixth letter of the word, and read the result backward. You’ll name a mythological creature commonly pictured with twins.
What are these things and what is the creature?

TWO:
Name something crane-shaped sometimes seen on a big fat Greek wedding reception table. Change one letter of this word to a “y,” add a few spaces and an apostrophe, and read what you come up with backward. The result is what something else on the table might say if it could talk.
What are these two things on the table?

THREE:
Name something commonly seen on a pub table. Switch the positions of the fifth and sixth letters of the word, and read the result backward. You’ll name something you might see scribbled on a scrap of paper on a pub table.
What is seen on the pub table? What might be scribbled on the scrap of paper?

FOUR:
Name something often woven or made of wicker commonly seen on a Thanksgiving Day table, in two words. Rearrange the letters of the word. You’ll name a two-word part of the main course.
The thing commonly seen on a Thanksgiving Day table can also be seen on the table of a romantic restaurant. Rearrange the letters of the word in a different way to form two words: one indicating a couple dining at the restaurant and another indicating an entrée of skewered meat and veggies they may be sharing at their table. 
What is this thing seen on Thanksgiving Day and romantic restaurant tables? What is the part of the Thanksgiving main course? What two words indicate the couple and their shared entrée

FIVE:
Name the citrus jelly used as a glaze on braised lamb shanks served at a dinner theater, in one word. Rearrange the nine letters of this word to form two things to which patrons of the theater are also treated.
What are these two things? What is the jelly called?

SIX:
Name some things commonly seen on pupils’ tables, in one word. Rearrange its letters. You’ll name two things seen in a kitchen sink.
What are the things on the pupils’ tables and in a kitchen sink?

SEVEN:
Name some things commonly seen on a modern luau table (but not at a traditional luau table), in one word. Rearrange its letters. You’ll name two other things also commonly seen at the luau. What are these things?

EIGHT:
Name a word for some things often seen on restaurant tables that are protective and make life easier for table bussers. Rearrange its letters to form seafood spreads (a phrase of 4 and 5 letters) served with toast or crackers.
Rearrange the same letters in a different way to describe, in a 3-letter verb and 6-letter noun, what a Mexican restaurant bartender might do before pouring a drink for patrons so they can wash down the crackers and spreads.
What are these things seen on restaurant tables? What are the spreads and what might the bartender do to pour the drink?

Dessert Menu

Puppies At The “Kitties’ Table” Dessert:
Gobbler gluttony and tryptophan sloth

Name something a fellah might don if he plans to emulate a sloth, in two words. Remove a pronoun embedded in the first word, and replace a vowel in the second word with a different vowel, forming vessels you might see on your Thanksgiving Day table, in two words.
Change the second word of the vessels to a different word, a singular noun, forming a two-word brand name product your puppy might make tracks to chow down on down on the floor as you are chowing down on your Thanksgiving Day dinner up on the table.

What might a fellah don? What vessels might you see on your Thanksgiving Day table? What might your pooch be chowing down on during your Thanksgiving Day dinner?
Hint: Take the vessels you might see on your Thanksgiving Day table and replace the first two letters of the first word with a different, capital letter. The result is vessels you can see in the harbors of Norfolk, Jacksonville and San Diego, to name just three.

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 Wednesdays 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 puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

48 comments:

  1. I'm up at this time of the morning and hungry. I'm thinking Italian.

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    1. GARFIELD [FIG (Newton)+(Alfred)ADLER] is always hungry for lasagna.

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    1. Aha! Another one just popped into my head.

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    2. And now I'm thinking Italian again.

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    3. This isn't difficult at all!

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    4. The shepherds were SORE afraid: EROS (14A)
      Popcorn goes well with MOVIENIGHT (15A)
      Orleans is a French city; New Orleans is an American city; SALERNO (18D) is an Italian city
      GETSTHEPICTURE (1D) and GEORGEHARRISON (1A) both start with G; Nash doesn't, but it's alright; it's gonna be a bright, bright, sunshiny day anyway
      BIKINI (12A) wasn't difficult "atoll"
      OK, I got OKAPI (5D), already!
      Black Flag is a competitor of RAID (3D); You might also see it at an automobile RACE (19A)

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  3. Sometimes going with 'the flow' gets you nowhere.

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    1. I accidentally revealed more than I should have. I'm sorry. Please don't throw me into the briar patch; anything but the briar patch.

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  4. Who knows about those Arabian peasants, anyway? Do they even celebrate Thanksgiving?

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    1. Actually,the parade has always been the high point of Thanksgiving for me.

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    2. MACY is an anagram of YMCA; "In the Navy" was another big hit for the Village People.

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    1. Aspirin' to grab an as... as a 59-year-old future president once admitted during a bus ride...

      LegoLamentsThatItWasNotJustABussOnTheCheekBut"Grab"Em...YouCanDoAnything!"

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    2. grab aspirin > clasp Bayer > clasp yerba > clasp mate

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  6. Happy Friday everyone! Hope you're all enjoying the cryptic crossword! Shouldn't be too hard, especially compared to Lego's Ripoff Puzzles. I only have #5 so far, as well as the Morsel and the Dessert. Will definitely need hints for all others. You know, Lego, just because you rip off Will Shortz's ideas doesn't mean you have to make your examples much tougher. Either it's your puzzles, or I just can't think of anything on certain tables this late at night!

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  7. Like pjb, I have the Morsel and all but the very first step of the Dessert (I know that sounds odd, but I did it backwards as per usual), but have #2 of the Rip Offs (the one Lego had already posted on Blaines blog) instead of #5.

    I'm not supposed to be sitting here at the computer anyway, and I don't feel all that great, so I'm not really up to attempting any further solving.....

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    1. We hope you recover quickly, ViolinTeddy. Your sight may be subpar at present but your insights are always 20/20.

      LegoWhoFromPersonalExperienceKnowsThatIcehouseMayBeDetrimentalToOne'sEyesight

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    2. Just got out of bed to let you know Ripoff #2 just came to me! I wouldn't normally have associated the answer with a Greek wedding reception, but backwards it makes perfect sense! Look forward to hints for the others later today!

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    3. Thank you as always, Lego, for your kindness. : O )

      I couldn't STAND lying in bed one more second early this morning, so tried to tackle a few puzzles here, and managed to also solve RipOffs #4, 5 and 8. Am still plenty stuck on #s 1, 3, 6 and 7, though. As well as the H D'O.

      Worked out the first Dessert word that had still had me confused last night.

      And apologies to pjb, but as usual, I will not be tackling the Cryptic. That sort of thing is just way too hard for me, I find.

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  8. I'm sorry you feel that way, VT, but under the circumstances I guess it may be too much for someone feeling the way you do right now. Still hope there are others on the blog willing to try it. I now have Ripoff #4, BTW.

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    1. Thanks, pjb. My eye is even worse tonight, not better, and I continue to feel rather awful. Ugh.

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  9. Hints:

    MMHO:
    TV Network... CBS
    PBS radio network appearances... "Wait, wait, you don't want to be told?"

    PDM:
    The president's 3-letter monogram is a sports car, for short.

    ROSASS:
    1. The edible things are primarily decorative, kinda like wax apples or plastic pears
    2. "Here's to the bride and groom... hope their wedding doesn't fold like these..."
    3. The solution incolves a condiment and a popular pub game.
    4. Think carbo container for the woven/wicker thing, protein for the main course part.
    5. Citrus, that is, Anita Bryant-style
    6. Broaden your definition of "tables" for this one.
    7. Participants at a traditional luau eat with their fingers.
    8. The protective thing sometimes have printed on them ads, puzzles, riddles, rebuses or trivia. They are often disposable, but not always.

    PATKTD:
    Sloths might be good at solving Will's infamous upside-down digital clock puzzle. Bats might too. Humans might need getting shod first.

    LegoWaitingWaitingJustGivingHints

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  10. Well, the hints helped me solve the H D'O (although I just got 'lucky' in spotting the name on a web page, since I did NOT associate this person with CBS or NPR), as well as Rip Off #3. I simply can't get anywhere with #1 [no word I try works out], #6 [likewise[ or #7.

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    1. ROSASS:
      1. The edible, primarily decorative things: Valentine's Day, Mother's Day.
      If they guzzle Icehouse in Iceland, what do they guzzle in Greenland?
      6. The pupils might take the "tables" home and study them. Might make some difference in their grades...
      Atchooo!
      Goesintite!
      7. Participants at a modernl luau might est their kalua pork with a spork! And might even spoon macadamia nuts into their pineapplepieholes with a spoon!

      Lego'sToast:Here'sHintingAtchoo

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    2. Happy day, Mr. Toast, I THINK I got #1 (although I would certainly take issue with you on the edibility--is that a word?-- of the decorative thing. AND an answer for #6 (which without the second hint I never would have come up with); however the second sink item is very 'suspect' in my opinion.

      I believe #7 is simply a lost cause, for me anyway.

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  11. I just got the Hors D'Oeuvre, and Ripoff #8.

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    1. Go for condiments, as stated, pjb...there aren't that many of them!

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    2. Also, there is an arithmetic-term connection between ROSASS #3 and #6.
      And, for #3, the "something you might see scribbled on a scrap of paper on a pub table" is not the actually scribbling, but rather a description of what the scribbling is.
      But, VT is right... one word: condiments. And it is a pretty common condiment at that.

      LegoTwoAllBeefPattiesSpecialSauceLettuceCheesePicklesOnionsOnASaysMeSeedBun

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  13. Now as for whatever the heck Lego is trying to say in these new hints...try again, Greenhouse.

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    1. What grows in a greenhouse, pjb? Combine with the hint he gave further above....

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  14. Any more hints I may or may not be able to figure out, Lego?

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    1. Hints:

      ROSASS:
      ONE:
      ViolinTeddy gave a great hint" "What grows in a green house?" One might ask people who have green thumbs. People, for example, who were very busy last Tuesday.
      SIX:
      In # THREE, something was, as we learned, "written" on a scrap of paper; # SIX, things are "learned by rote" on a scrap of paper...
      You can solve this puzzle! You are equal to to the task. You've solved puzzles like this numbers of times. Do not be nonplussed. Do not let your attention become divided. This puzzle of mine is quite solvable.
      SEVEN:
      Some things commonly seen on a modern luau table have stems and bowls, bolsters and tangs, or shafts and tines. Uri Geller would be lost at a traditional luau table.
      Planes, locomotives, automobiles and watercraft..., but mainly locomotives and watercraft.
      Just add water, your pooch will love it!


      PleasePleaseDon'tEatTheDaisys..."OrPoinsettias!

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    2. I think I finally got the Luau one. But it certainly didn't bite me in the face! It was rather a tortured realization! Good thing I guessed one of the 'other items' first....

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  15. HORS D'OEUVRE: "MOROCCO" => "MO ROCCA"

    MORSEL: 1. "ADLER" => "ALDER" and 2. "FIG NEWTON" => President: "GARFIELD "

    MENU RIP OFFS:

    1. "FLOWERS" => "SHEWOLF"

    2. "ORIGAMI" => "I'M A GYRO"

    3. "MUSTARD" => "DART SUM"

    4. "BREAD BASKET" => "BAKED BREAST" ; "DATERS" and "KEBAB"

    5. "MARMALADE" => "DRAMA" and "MEAL"

    6. (Multiplication) "PRODUCTS " => "POTS" and "CRUD" (or CURD if one thinks Little Miss Muffet!)

    7. "UTENSILS" = > "LEIS" and "NUTS"

    8. "PLACEMATS" => " CLAM PASTE" and "TAP MESCAL? "

    DESSERT: GRAVITY BOOTS; GRAVY BOATS; GRAVY TRAIN; NAVY BOATS

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  18. Hors d'Oeuvre
    MO ROCCA, MOROCCO
    Morsel
    (Alfred)ADLER, ALDER, FIG(Newton, Sir Isaac); ALDER+FIG=GARFIELD(James Abram)
    Ripoffs
    2. ORIGAMI, "I'M A GYRO"
    3. MUSTARD, DART SUM
    4. BREAD BASKET, BAKED BREAST, DATERS, KEBAB
    5. MARMALADE, MEAL, DRAMA
    8. PLACEMATS, CLAM PASTE, TAP MESCAL
    Dessert
    GRAVITY BOOTS, GRAVY BOATS, GRAVY TRAIN
    The cryptic crossword answers will be explained in detail by Legolambda.-pjb

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  19. This week's official answers for the record, part 1:

    Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

    Multinational Mutimedia Hors d’Oeuvre:
    piNPRicking a world map
    Change one letter of a country and add a space to form the first and last names of a person who appears on network and cable TV and, occasionally, on National Public Radio.
    Who is this person and what is the country?

    Answer:
    Mo Rocca; Morocco

    Morsel Menu

    President’s Day Morsel:
    Executive branch dendrology
    Take the surname of a reasonably well-known psychotherapist. Interchange two consecutive letters to form a kind of tree.
    Take the surname of a well-known physicist/mathematician. A word that precedes that surname on some packages on grocery shelves is the name of another tree.
    Rearrange the letters of these two trees to form the surname of a U.S. president.
    Who is this president? What are the two trees?

    Answer:
    James Garfield;
    Alder; Fig
    Alfred ADLER + FIG (Isaac) Newton >> ADLER + FIG >> GARFIELD

    Lego...

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  20. This week's official answers for the record, part 2:

    Appetizer Menu:

    Cryptic Crossword Appetizer:
    Republicans, hipsters and mysterious figures from film

    ACROSS
    1. Aging horror, see --- deteriorating rock star (6,8)
    GEORGE HARRISON
    "Aging horror see" anagrams ("deteriorates to") to rock star "George Harrison"

    9. Hearing music over in vacant lot, taken aback (5)
    TRIAL
    Hearing = trial;
    music = air; vacant lot = l___t; air in l___t = lairt;
    lairt taken a"back" (spelled backward) = trial

    10. I come alive somehow, lacking energy for communication? (9)
    VOICEMAIL
    I come alive - e (lacking e{nergy}) anagrams to voicemail

    11. Very rare, also put in oven (7)
    TANDOOR
    Very (too) + rare (r) with "also" (and) put inside = T+and+oor = tandoor = oven

    12. Swimsuit for sexually confused family member, intimidated at first? (6)
    BIKINI
    swimsuit = bikini, sexually confused = bi + family member = kin + i (which equals "i"ntimidated at "first")

    14. God --- aching back! (4)
    EROS
    Eros = Greek god; sore (aching) spelled "back"ward is eros

    15. Special occasion, with them goin’ off around six? (5,5)
    MOVIE NIGHT
    them goin + VI (Roman numeral for six) anagrams to "movienight," which is a special occasion

    17. Mad with desire, has little to explain (10)
    ILLUSTRATE
    "irate" (mad), with "lust" (desire) and the "l" in "little" which is contained within = i+l+lust+rate

    19. Run with one in competition (4)
    RACE
    R (Run) with ace (one) = race (a competition)

    21. Handle rejected animals (6)
    TACKLE
    Handle = tackle; "rejected" (turned back) animals = "elk" and "cat" spelled backward = tackle

    23. Australian native has excellent day in country (7)
    ECHIDNA
    E (Excellent) + China (country) with d (from day) inside China = E+chidna

    25. Actress with strange neuroses grabs lead role (4,5)
    RENE RUSSO
    neuroses + r (lead letter in "role") anagrams to (actress) Rene Russo

    26. Oil mixture going into first-rate sauce (5)
    AIOLI
    Oil mixture (mixed-up) = iol, going into (inside) A1 (first-rate) sauce, forms "aioli"

    27. Love mysterious figure from film? (4,4,6)
    ZERO DARK THIRTY
    Zero (love, in tennis) + Dark (mysterious) + Thirty (figure) = this film

    Lego...

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  21. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:

    DOWN
    1. Understands what a photographer does (4,3,7)
    GETS THE PICTURE
    Double meaning: understands = gets the picture; what a photographer does, which literally is: "gets the picture"

    2. Bread one’s eaten by mistake --- thrown-up part, we hear (5,4)
    ONION ROLL
    Bread = onion roll; One (1) "eaten by" no-no (mistake), thrown-up (sent "back" out of mouth) = on-1-on + part = role, (which soundslike roll) = onion roll

    3. Republicans maintaining everyone has to run? (6)
    GALLOP
    GOP (Republicans) containing ALL (everyone) = gallop; (gallop = run)

    4. Hipsters start on crazy toy sensation (10)
    HOVERBOARD
    Hipsters' start (= H) + crazy (= overboard) = H+overboard = hoverboard = a toy sensation

    5. Resistance to help with attack... (4)
    RAID
    R (Resistance) + aid (to help with) = raid (attack)

    6. ...heading off husky European (7)
    IBERIAN
    Siberian (Husky) - S ("heading off," because S is the "head" of Siberian) = Iberian = European

    7. In the book, a picture of a giraffe-like creature (5)
    OKAPI
    ...boOK A PIcture... = okapi = giraffe-like creature

    8. Extremely atypical --- about nothing, they film a strange sitcom (3,2,3,6)
    ALL IN THE FAMILY
    Extremely Atypical = A and L (the left and right extremities of "atypical") about "nil" (nothing), resulting in "All in..." + they film a ("strangely" mixed up) = "the family" = All In the Family = sitcom

    13. Not much music in the city? (6,4)
    LITTLE ROCK
    Little (not much) Rock (music) = Little Rock, a city in Arkansas

    16. Nobility has to lose everything, primarily? That’s the way in Europe! (5,4)
    GRAND TOUR
    Grandeur (nobility) has to (contains "to") lose everything, primarily (but loses "e", the primary letter in "everything") resulting in: Grandeur >> Grandtoeur >> Grandtour + Grand Tour, which is the way in Europe

    18. City of New Orleans? (7)
    SALERNO
    "New" Orleans means that the letters in "Orleans" are rearranged in a "new" way, to form Salerno, a city in Italy

    20. Refuse to accept hard rock (6)
    THRASH
    Trash (refuse) contains ("accepts") H, from Hard = thrash (a genre of hard rock music)

    22. Oceangoing vessel? (5)
    CANOE
    Ocean "going" the way of an anagram = canoe = a vessel.

    24. East of Arkansas, I assumed? (4)
    ASIA
    ...of ArkansAS, I Assumed = Asia, which is east of Arkansas

    Lego...

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  22. This week's official answers for the record, part 4:

    Ripping Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:
    Kitchen switchin’

    ONE:
    Name some usually edible things commonly seen on a kitchen or dining room table, in one word. Change the sixth letter of the word, and read the result backward. You’ll name a mythological creature commonly pictured with twins.
    What are these things and what is the creature?
    Answer:
    Flowers; She-wolf

    TWO:
    Name something crane-shaped sometimes seen on a big fat Greek wedding reception table. Change one letter of this word to a “y,” add a few spaces and an apostrophe, and read what you come up with backward. The result is what something else on the table might say if it could talk.
    What are these two things on the table?
    Answer:
    Origami; gyro ("I'm a gyro.")

    THREE:
    Name something commonly seen on a pub table. Switch the positions of the fifth and sixth letters of the word, and read the result backward. You’ll name something you might see scribbled on a scrap of paper on a pub table.
    What is seen on the pub table? What might be scribbled on the scrap of paper?
    Answer:
    Mustard; Dart sum

    FOUR:
    Name something often woven or made of wicker commonly seen on a Thanksgiving Day table, in two words. Rearrange the letters of the word. You’ll name a two-word part of the main course.
    The thing commonly seen on a Thanksgiving Day table can also be seen on the table of a romantic restaurant. Rearrange the letters of the word in a different way to form two words: one indicating a couple dining at the restaurant and another indicating an entrée of skewered meat and veggies they may be sharing at their table.
    What is this thing seen on Thanksgiving Day and romantic restaurant tables? What is the part of the Thanksgiving main course? What two words indicate the couple and their shared entrée
    Answer:
    Bread basket;
    Baked breast;
    Daters, kebab

    FIVE:
    Name the citrus jelly used as a glaze on braised lamb shanks served at a dinner theater, in one word. Rearrange the nine letters of this word to form two things to which patrons of the theater are also treated.
    What are these two things? What is the jelly called?
    Answer:
    Drama, meal;
    marmalade

    SIX:
    Name some things commonly seen on pupils’ tables, in one word. Rearrange its letters. You’ll name two things seen in a kitchen sink.
    What are the things on the pupils’ tables and in a kitchen sink?
    Answer:
    Products (on pupils' multiplication tables);
    Pots; crud

    SEVEN:
    Name some things commonly seen on a modern luau table (but not at a traditional luau table), in one word. Rearrange its letters. You’ll name two other things also commonly seen at the luau. What are these things?
    Answer:
    Utensils;
    leis, nuts

    EIGHT:
    Name a word for some things often seen on restaurant tables that are protective and make life easier for table bussers. Rearrange its letters to form seafood spreads (a phrase of 4 and 5 letters) served with toast or crackers.
    Rearrange the same letters in a different way to describe, in a 3-letter verb and 6-letter noun, what a Mexican restaurant bartender might do before pouring a drink for patrons so they can wash down the crackers and spreads.
    What are these things seen on restaurant tables? What are the spreads and what might the bartender do to pour the drink?
    Answer:
    Placemats;
    clam pates;
    tap mescal

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  23. This week's official answers for the record, part 5:

    Dessert Menu

    Puppies At The “Kitties’ Table” Dessert:
    Gobbler gluttony and tryptophan sloth
    Name something a fellah might don if he plans to emulate a sloth, in two words. Remove a pronoun embedded in the first word, and replace a vowel in the second word with a different vowel, forming vessels you might see on your Thanksgiving Day table, in two words.
    Change the second word of the vessels to a different word, a singular noun, forming a two-word brand name product your puppy might make tracks to chow down on down on the floor as you are chowing down on your Thanksgiving Day dinner up on the table.
    What might a fellah don? What vessels might you see on your Thanksgiving Day table? What might your pooch be chowing down on during your Thanksgiving Day dinner?
    Hint: Take the vessels you might see on your Thanksgiving Day table and replace the first two letters of the first word with a different, capital letter. The result is vessels you can see in the harbors of Norfolk, Jacksonville and San Diego, to name just three.

    Answer:
    Gravity boots;
    Gravy boats;
    Gravy Train
    Hint: Navy boats

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