Friday, March 31, 2017

“…Everything but the ethnic kinks” Nonhuman Homophonia; Monomials in motion; “Ta" plus "bus” e(quals) plural “bus” unum; Olive branches soreheads?

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Welcome to our March 31st edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

Our spotlight puzzle this week is our Hors d’Oeurve – a tasty tricky stickler of a treat created by Patrick J. Berry, also known in comments sections by his screen name “cranberry.”
Patrick’s very clever challenge is titled “Entertaining Concerts Hors d’Oeuvre: Monomials in motion.” It asks you to find the names of a pair of one-named entertainers who may well “move” you with their performances.

Also:
* Under our MENU, we offer seven puzzles that shamelessly Rip-Off a clever puzzle that longtime Puzzlerian! ron recently posted over on Blaine’s Blog.
* Also under our MENU, we serve up three Ripping-Off Shortz puzzles.
* Our Appetizer this week is a rebussy critter-caption challenge.
* And, our Dessert is an after-dinner mint.

March may have roared in like an alpha-male lion on March 1st, but it is now “baa-wing out” like a wobble-legged lambda. (Omega, March 31st, had a little lambda, its fleece as white as thawing snow…).

Please enjoy our puzzles… and, tomorrow when you rise and shine, don’t get fooled again.

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Entertaining Concerts Hors d’Oeuvre:
Monomials in motion

Think of two entertainers, each who goes by just one name. Write those names down one after the other. 
Remove the last three letters of the first name and the first two letters of the second name. Put the remaining letters together.

If you have the correct names, they will spell a seven-letter word that means “in motion.”

Now take the five letters you removed, and place the last three before the first two. You will spell a five-letter word that means “in motion.”

Who are these entertainers, and what two words are formed that mean “in motion”?

Hint: One of the entertainers is definitely known for being “in motion” when performing in concert.


Appetizer Menu
 
Captious Appetizer:
Nonhuman Homophonia

Write a two-word caption for each of the twelve images pictured here.

The second word in each caption will name a kind of critter. The first word in each caption is a homophone.
 
What are these twelve captions?























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Ripping Off ron On Blaine’s Blog Slices:
“Ta plus bus” e(quals) plural “bus” unum

Longtime Puzzlerian! ron’s recent post on Blaine’s Blog (Wednesday, March 29, 09:55:00 PM PDT) included the following puzzle that he created:


The meaning of a common English word becomes plural when an A is added at its start.
What is the word?

Puzzleria’s Ripping Off ron On Blaine’s Blog Slices read:
1. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “g” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
2. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “ti” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
3. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “si” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
4. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “t” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
5. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “o” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?
6. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “n” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?
7. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “s” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?
9. A somewhat common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “pu” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?

Ripping Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:
“…Everything but the ethnic kinks

Will Shortz’s March 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Mike Shteyman reads:

Name two things found in a kitchen — one starting with G, the other starting with K. If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things, one of them found in the kitchen starting with F, the other one probably found elsewhere in the house starting with K. What things are these?

Puzzleria’s Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
Name two things found in a kitchen — one starting with T, the other starting with K
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things, one of them found in the kitchen starting with T, the other one probably found in the closet (in a proverbial sense), starting with S. What things are these?
TWO:
Name two things that might be found in a kitchen — a type of sweet treat starting with S that might be served on something starting with P
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things found in the kitchen – complementary implements used in food preparation starting with P and M.
What things are these?

THREE:
Name five things found in a kitchen:
two words starting with an M and a C that you might see on a spice rack;
a small pastry, starting with T;
a “redible” root, starting with B; and
a wine that might be the choice of liberals, starting with P.
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange these 22 letters to name three other things found in the kitchen:
a two-word term for items one wears, starting with O and M;
a container starting with P; and
a viscous mixture that food is dipped into, starting with B
What things are these?
Hint #1: Three of the four words comprising the three other things found in the kitchen can also be found in a battery.
Hint #2: The M-word on the spice rack has a connection with this week's Dessert.
The C-word on the spice rack is a plural word.


Dessert Menu

Numismatic Dessert
Olive branches soreheads?
 
Displayed here are the obverse and reverse sides of a purseful of coins, mostly quarters from the United States.
 
We have, however, also included a Canadian one-cent piece, a French 20-franc piece, a Bahamian a 10-dollar piece, an Albanian 5-frangia piece, an Italian 100-lire piece, an Isle of Man silver proof bullion coin, and a South African krugerrand,

Notice that some of the obverse/inverse images bear a green circle, while others bear a red circle. 

All green-circled coins share something in common that the red-circled coins do not share. In other words, there is something all of the green-circled coins have that the red-circled coins lack.
 
What do the red-circled coins lack that the green-circled coins do not lack?
























































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62 comments:

  1. One of the coins is in a class by itself, eh?

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    1. Yea, Paul. I just added a Canadian coin with "Bullwinkle" on the reverse side. It is RED. Sometimes 'tis a challenge to differentiate heads from tails.

      LegoProposesCoinsWithBullwinkleOnTheObverseAndRockyOnTheReverse:MooseheadsOrSquirrels

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    2. I thought the green dots marked coins with more than one head and the Canadian cent was peculiar because the head was on the reverse, rather than obverse, side. But, the addition of Bullwinkle makes me think again. Fish, dragons, and airplanes all have tails. Mooses have tails, too, but the moose on the Canadian quarter is not visible, so maybe the green dot indicates a coin with at least one head and at least one tail, while red is for one head and no tail. Or something.

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    3. Paul,
      I believe you are on the correct track. It is a matter of heads and tails, but especially tails. I grant you full credit.

      When you flip the red-dot coins, "Call it in the air, heads or tails!" does not pass sensical muster. For U.S.dimes, "call heads or torches"' for a Canadian cent, "call heads or leaves,"
      etc.

      LegoWhoCalls"KittyHawkFlyingMachineTails"WhenWashingtonStateOrOhioQuartersAreFlipped

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    4. Thanks, ron, for confirming that meece have tails, I'd have been really embarrassed if I'd jumped to an erroneous conclusion.

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  2. I have all the "ron ripoffs," but I suspect I may have different answers than your intended ones. For a few of them I have alternate (more than one) answers.

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    1. I look forward to seeing the alternative answers, ron. And thanks for letting me rip/riff-off your puzzle.
      Adding "A" to "yes" to make "Ayes"is far and away the most elegant articulation of this plural/singular puzzle template.

      LegoWhoIsHappyToReportThatHeHasCrackedTheHatPuzzleAndIfEitherOfTheFirstTwoHatWearersAnswers"Yes"ThenTheThirdHatWearerHasAHatOfADifferentColorThanTheAnswer

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    3. I can answer THIS rip off puzzle, Ron, right away...but NONE of the ones posted by Lego above. I am paying for last week's "luck" with absolutely terrible results this week. Sigh.

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    4. VT,
      If you have solved ron's bonus rip-off then you can certainly solve my #5 rip-off.

      LegoWhoIsKickingHimselfForNotIncorporatingron's8thBonusRipOffIntoHisOwn5thRipOff

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    5. You are so right, LEgo.....and I have just done so.

      But there are an awful lot of unknowns left to go. I THOUGHT I had the Dessert nailed, but end up with four unused letters. (SIlent scream)

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    6. Oh, I forgot to say that I DID manage captions #2, 4, 11 and POSSIBLY 7 of the Appetizer.

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    7. VT,
      You maybe overthinking the Dessert. Your reference to "four unused letters" does not ring a libery bell with me... or at least not with my intended answer.

      Perhaps my newly posted hint below might be of some help?
      Or perhaps, as you have done often in the past, you have come up with an answer that is superior to my intended one!

      LegoSaysFlippin'CoinsIsEasierThanFlippin'Flapjacks(AndLessMessy!)

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    8. Oh dear, I misspoke, or rather, mis-typed. It was NOT the DESSERT I was talking about, rather it was the last RIP OFF (the one with the spice rack) that I had intended to reference. SO sorry to have confused you.

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  3. Happy April Fool's Day Eve! My mom was too sick to want to eat out tonight, so she told Bryan and Renae we'd skip it for now. The power went out for a few minutes tonight, and when it came back on Mom and I had to watch both of our TVs reboot. In honor of April Fool's Day, the New York Times ran just about the toughest crossword it has ever been my misfortune to try and solve since getting the NYT online. Spoiler alert: Not all four-letter answers in this puzzle are what they seem. I do hope everyone enjoys my puzzle. I'd actually been holding on to that one, wondering if I should submit it or not. Otherwise, tough ones this week. So far I only have the first two Ripoffs of Shortz, none of ron. As always, I will need hints for all others, Lego, and thanks again for using my puzzle.

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  4. Hints:

    ECHO:
    Guess Who? It's the Killer!
    And Fred and Adele are just dancing to their muse, ick!...

    CA:
    "The first word in each caption is a homophone..."
    If you use the alternative homophones, the captions are irrelevent.

    ROrOBBS:
    1. F. Stop Fitzgerald meets the Rhinestone Cowboy
    2. Terrapin "Frosty's" surname = what S.S. thinks the media have
    3. What the media disseminate; 1954: "The Sportsman of the Year is Roger Bannister."
    4. x, y, or z, Checkers... and, no, not Nixon's pooch!
    5. "Damien"... minis "Ida"
    6. Chevy,;"cheeper by the dozen"
    7. driver's woe... "That was one lousy shot!"

    ROSASS:
    ONE:
    The two Ts and the K can all hold/contain liquids. The S is a kind of key.
    TWO:
    One of the four words contains some punctuation.
    One of the words is a synonym for a 78, 45, or 33 and 1/3
    One of the words might be present on a battlefield
    THREE:
    The T-word might describe an apple.
    “redible” means "red" and "edible"
    the wine word beginning with P is a 4-letter word (not "P_SS")
    The viscous mixture that food is dipped into, starting with B, can also be used to make flapjacks.

    ND:
    Flippin' a Franklin four-bits...."Heads or bells?"

    LegoJustFlippin'FlapjacksInHisFrypan

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  5. Well, thanks to your lovely (and early, compared to usual) hints, all the BLaine RIp Offs now have answers at my house...except for #2. I'd already figured out #3, and as previously reported #5, though, pre-hints.

    But no such luck on PJB's Hors D'O, and I haven't digested the other hints yet.

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  6. Now, I'm happy to say Rip Off of Shortz #1 and #2 finally worked out. [They're both awfully clever, I do think.] Without the hints, there'd have been no hope.

    I couldn't fix my problem with Shortz Rip Off #3.....i.e. the extra four letters.

    I got a sort of answer for the Dessert, but two coins with green dots wreck it.

    AND I have AN answer for pjb's puzzle, except that it has to be wrong, since the removed letters don't work out to make another five-letter term for 'in motion.'

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    1. ALTHOUGH I just realized that if I place the Hors D'O removed five letters in slightly different order, then they DO make a synonym for 'in motion.' Perhaps I have the correct answer after all?

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    3. ViolinTeddy,
      I'll bet you do have the correct answer. Test your answer within the context of the following restatement of Patrick's puzzle:

      Think of two entertainers, each who goes by just one name. Write those names down one after the other without a space, creating a twelve-letter string of consecutive letters.
      Remove a string of five consecutive letters from the interior of the longer string. Put the remaining letters together without a space.
      If you have the correct names, they will spell a seven-letter word that means “in motion.”
      Now take the string offive letters that you removed, and place the last three letters before the first two. You will spell a five-letter word that means “in motion.”
      Who are these entertainers, and what two words are formed that mean “in motion”?


      Hope that helps.

      LegoWhoIsJustAMachiavellianPuppeteerPullingAllTheStrings

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    4. Bingo, that's it, Lego. The clearer 'restatement' of what to do with those five letters is the method I had rather hoped was the truth! Thanks much.

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  7. Thanks for the B word in Ripoff#3, but I'm still having trouble with the container beginning with P. I have seven letters remaining. Do I have the wrong word somewhere?

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    1. Seven letters is correct, cranberry. Keep poring over this puzzle and you should be able to fill up your answer sheet nicely.

      LegoAlsoRemindsSolversThatTheContainerIsPartOfABattery

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    2. That's the exact same dilemma I'm in, re the last RIP Off....seven letters, when I really wanted a container with only three letters...how any answer is inside a battery (well, except one, in a way) is also beyond me. I have anagrammed the seven letters, looked up containers, and still can't come up with anything that makes sense.

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    3. Woo Hoo...like you said, Lego, I PORED over it, and bingo, suddenly I realized how close I had been to the correct container.....but had two WRONG letters...this turned out to be (thunderbolt) because i had the WRONG plural spice! I bet pjb has made the same mistake I did!

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    4. At the risk of posting too much, I wanted to say that I DO think your battery clues are misleading....unless you mean something to do with NY?

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    5. VT,
      The battery has to do with America's National Pastime.

      LegoLikesHotDogsApplePieChevroletAnd...

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    6. I did get that the national pastime was involved, but I fail to see (other than NYC) what that has to do with 'battery.' What am I missing?

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    7. VT,
      "Three of the four words comprising the three other things found in the kitchen can also be found in a battery."
      Those three words begin with the M, P and B. (O is the Odd man out.)
      M: ...is leathery, and was a would-be prez
      P: ...aims for the M
      B: ...may be beaned by the P

      LegoAdds:AndIfThereWereA"C"InTheMixItWouldStandNotFor"Cathode"ButRatherForSomethingInTheRye

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    8. I know what all four words are, Lego (see above comment, re realizing I had had the wrong plural spice), but you'll have to explain fully next Wed. how your battery and the national pastime are related...that is what I don't understand....I thoroughly understand the three words being related to the national pastime.

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  8. It is a different kind of battery, for sure. Also, I now have the first and third "Ripoffs of ron." Still need help with those.

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  9. I did finally get the third "Ripoff of Shortz", BTW.

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  12. I will basically be presenting the Ripoffs as my answers(unless anyone would like me to reveal my own puzzle's answer in case they're still having trouble? Anyone? Bueller?)

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    1. Ferris has left the school building. Would anyone, anyone like a hint for Patrick's (cranberry's) excellent Entertaining Concerts Hors d’Oeuvre? Patrick, I trust, would be happy to oblige.

      LegoWhoVotedYeaOnHawleySmoot

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    2. Both entertainers' names begin with the same letter. Another one-name entertainer known for being "in motion" made news this week on a certain reality show. Both entertainers' names in the puzzle share a certain vowel which, if this puzzler were to use it here, it might give it away, but it is featured many times in this sentence.

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  13. Ripping Off ron Slice:
    1. A single LENS, add a G to yield GLENS or a ROUSE(v. noun), add a G to yield many GROUSE.
    2. A single BIAS, add TI to yield TIBIAS.
    3. The NEWS is bad, add SI to yield SINEWS.
    4. HOSE, add T to yield THOSE or HEM add T to yield THEM, or HEIR, add T to yield THEIR.
    5. ONUS, remove the O to yield NUS (Greek letter NU in the plural; old high school joke: “What's new? Wavelength!”).
    6. NOVA, remove the N to yield OVA (plural of OVUM)
    7. A single SLICE, remove the S to yield LICE.
    9. PUMICE, remove the PU to yield MICE.

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    1. Ron, please explain (because it was driving me crazy) how BIAS relates to the hint Lego gave about Terrapin "Frosty" surname and what S.S. (I assumed Sean Spicer) thinks the media have.

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    2. Actually, I just looked up the plural of "tibia" and it's supposed to be "tibiaE", not "tibiaS." Now I don't feel so bad that I never considered it.

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    3. Click on my TIBIAS above to see that there are TWO alternate plurals to TIBIA.

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    4. OKay, Ron...when I looked up the plural, I could not find ANY page that said an 's' at the end was a correct plural.

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    5. ViolinTeddy,
      I am sorry about using that alternative plural spelling of tibiae/tibias in my puzzle.
      But, let's face it, the plurial of "tibia" does not come up that often in the course of polite everyday conversation! Maybe medical types run into the "tibiae" spelling in their line of work, but if you ask most "normal everyday people" how many larger-fibula-bones-between-their-knees-and-ankles that they have, the overwhelming majority of them would respond: "I have two tibias," not "I have two tibiae."
      For another thing, maybe 3 percent of our population even knows how to pronounce (or spell) "tibiae!" Present company excepted, of course.

      LegoWhoAdmitsToHavingTwoTibiaeAndOneIrrationalTiBias!(LegoTakesNoIssueAtAllHoweverWithDoReMiFaSolAndLa)

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  14. Hors d'Oeuvre
    SHAKIRA and STING, SHAKING and ASTIR
    Ripoff Menu: ron
    1. LENS, GLENS
    2. BIAS, TIBIAS
    3. NEWS, SINEWS
    4. AXIS, TAXIS
    5. OMEN, MEN
    6. NOVA, OVA
    7. SLICE, LICE
    8. PUMICE, MICE(How come it went 7. then 9.?)
    Ripoff Menu: Shortz
    1. TEASPOON, KETTLE; TEAPOT, SKELETON
    2. S'MORE, PLATTER; PESTLE, MORTAR
    3. MINT, CHIVES, TART, BEET, PORT; OVEN MITTS, BATTER, PITCHER(great baseball connection, Lego!)
    Currently watching weather coverage on TV. Lots of hail and tornadoes reported. Thank God Jasper isn't in the thick of it!-pjb

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    1. Thanks, cranberry. Next to your excellent puzzle, that was probably the best thing on this week's Puzzleria!

      LegoBelievesMitt'sInTheKitchenWithDinahAndTheDonaldWhoDeservesToBeBatteredForOptingNotToAttendTheWashingtonNationals'HomeOpenerClaimingToHaveA"SchedulingConflict"...AlthoughWeSuspectThatHe'sJustNotMuchOfAPitcher!

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  15. If any new hints were posted, since last night, I haven't seen them, nor have I looked above at anyone else's answers....since I coudln't get about five of the captions and one of the Rip Offs (much to my usual frustration.)


    HORS D'OEUVRE: SHAK/[IRA] + [ST]/ING = SHAKING and ASTIR

    APPETIZER:

    1. (DeVOTEd??) DOG
    2. "SHOE/SHOO FLY"
    3. "BALLED/BALD EAGLE"
    4. "KNIGHT/NIGHT OWL"
    5.. HOLY GOAT? [I know this doesn't fit the recipe, but it kept making me chuckle.]
    6. ? TURTLE
    7. "MOURNING/MORNING DOVE"
    8. "BOWL/BOLL WEEVIL"
    9. "GRISLY/GRIZZLY BEAR"
    10. ? MUSKOXEN
    11. "SPADE/SPAYED KITTEN "
    12. "DRAUGHT/DRAFT HORSE"

    MENU BLAINE RIP OFFS:

    1. LENS + G = GLENS
    2. + TI
    3. NEWS => SINEWS
    4. AXIS => TAXIS
    5. OMEN => MEN / Ron's corresponding #8: OMEN and WOMEN
    6. NOVA => OVA
    7. SLICE => LICE

    MENU SHORTZ RIP OFFS:

    1. TEASPOON and KETTLE => TEAPOT and SKELETON

    2. S'MORE on PLATTER => MORTAR and PESTLE

    3. MINT; CHIVES ; TART; BEET; PORT => OVEN MITTS; PITCHER; BATTER


    DESSERT: ALL THE TAIL SIDES have SOMETHING THAT FLIES....birds, airplanes, angel...except the gold Krugerrand doesn't fit. Nor the NEVADA coin has horses and two have cattle.

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  16. EKes, where did the EIGHTH rip off (numbered 9 up above) come from? I swear that wasn't there last Friday, when I last looked at them? Duh.

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  17. Nice solving, cranberry and ViolinTeddy. The Dessert proved to be this week's stickler, although VT and Paul were on the right trail and essentially solved it.
    I was not aware that I could play music with my tibias, ron. Thanks!

    How #9 popped up on the ROrOBBS is a long story, VT. The short version is that ron and I collaborated on composing a puzzle that wedded a pair of Ripping-Off-ron puzzles. We thought it turned out okay, but we also suspect it may be too-easy-a-solve to appear on NPR.
    I added #9 to P! on Sunday, I think, when I briefly deleted, then restored, my half of ron's and my collaborative puzzle.

    LegoMuses:DoesThisMeanMyTibiasAre,InReality,TromBones?

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    1. Oh, so ROn's half was the missing #8? Was that the one I commented on in my answer to his RIp Offs "omen and men" was OMEN and WOMEN?

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  18. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:

    Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

    Entertaining Concerts Hors d’Oeuvre:
    Monomials in motion
    Think of two entertainers, each who goes by just one name. Write those names down one after the other.
    Remove the last three letters of the first name and the first two letters of the second name. Put the remaining letters together.
    If you have the correct names, they will spell a seven-letter word that means “in motion.”
    Now take the five letters you removed, and place the last three before the first two. You will spell a five-letter word that means “in motion.”
    Who are these entertainers, and what two words are formed that mean “in motion”?
    Hint: One of the entertainers is definitely known for being “in motion” when performing in concert.
    Answer:
    Shakira, Sting;
    SHAKIRASTING - (IRA + ST) = SHAKING
    IRAST >> AST + IR = ASTIR

    Appetizer Menu

    Captious Appetizer:
    Nonhuman Homophonia
    Write a two-word caption for each of the twelve images pictured here.
    The second word in each caption will name a kind of critter. The first word in each caption is a homophone.
    What are these twelve captions?
    1. poll cat
    2. shoe fly
    3. balled Eagle
    4. knight owl
    5. Pascal lamb
    6. see turtle
    7. morning dove
    8. bowl weevil
    9. grisly bear
    10. yolked oxen
    11. spayed kitten
    12. draught horse

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    Ripping Off ron On Blaine’s Blog Slices:
    “Ta” plus “bus” e(quals) plural “bus” unum
    Longtime Puzzlerian! ron’s recent post on Blaine’s Blog (Wednesday, March 29, 09:55:00 PM PDT) included the following puzzle that he created:
    The meaning of a common English word becomes plural when an A is added at its start.
    What is the word?
    Puzzleria’s Ripping Off ron On Blaine’s Blog Slices read:
    1. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “g” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
    2. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “ti” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
    3. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “si” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
    4. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “t” is added to its beginning. What are these words?
    5. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “o” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?
    6. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “n” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?
    7. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “s” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?
    Answer:
    (to ron's puzzle) a + yes >> ayes
    1. lens, glens
    2. bias, tibias
    3. news, sinews
    4. axis, taxis
    5. omen, men
    6. nova, ova
    7. slice, lice

    Lego...

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  19. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:

    Ripping Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:
    “…Everything but the ethnic kinks”
    ONE:
    Name two things found in a kitchen — one starting with T, the other starting with K.
    If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things, one of them found in the kitchen starting with T, the other one probably found in the closet (in a proverbial sense), starting with S. What things are these?
    Answer:
    Teaspoon, kettle >> teapot, skeleton

    TWO:
    Name two things that might be found in a kitchen — a type of sweet treat starting with S that might be served on something starting with P.
    If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things found in the kitchen – complementary implements used in food preparation starting with P and M.
    What things are these?
    Answer:
    S'more, platter >> mortar, pestle

    THREE:
    Name five things found in a kitchen:
    two words starting with an M and a C that you might see on a spice rack;
    a small pastry, starting with T;
    a “redible” root, starting with B; and
    a wine that might be the choice of liberals, starting with P.
    If you have the right ones, you can rearrange these 22 letters to name three other things found in the kitchen:
    a two-word term for items one wears, starting with O and M;
    a container starting with P; and
    a viscous mixture that food is dipped into, starting with B.
    What things are these?
    Hint #1: Three of the four words comprising the three other things found in the kitchen can also be found in a battery.
    Hint #2: The M-word on the spice rack has a connection with this week's Dessert.
    The C-word on the spice rack is a plural word.
    Answer:
    Mint + Chives +
    Tart +
    Beet +
    Port =
    Oven Mitt +
    Pitcher +
    Batter
    Hint #1: Three of the four words comprising the three other things found in the kitchen can also be found in a battery:
    A battery in baseball consists of the catcher, who wears a MITT, and the PITCHER. The BATTER is not technically a part ofthe battery, but the letters in theword "batter" are contained in the word "battery."
    Hint #2: The M-word on the spice rack has a connection with this week's Dessert: The coins in the Dessert are manufacured ina Mint.
    The C-word on the spice rack is a plural word: Chives

    Dessert Menu

    Numismatic Dessert
    Olive branches soreheads?
    Displayed here are the obverse and reverse sides of a purseful of coins, mostly quarters from the United States.
    We have, however, also included a Canadian one-cent piece, a French 20-franc piece, a Bahamian a 10-dollar piece, an Albanian 5-frangia piece, an Italian 100-lire piece, an Isle of Man silver proof bullion coin, and a South African krugerrand,
    Notice that some of the obverse/inverse images bear a green circle, while others bear a red circle.
    All green-circled coins share something in common that the red-circled coins do not share. In other words, there is something all of the green-circled coins have that the red-circled coins lack.
    What do the red-circled coins lack that the green-circled coins do not lack?
    Answer:
    Each green-circled coin has an actual "tail" pictured on its reverse ("tails") side. The red-circled coins lack actual "tail" images on their "tails" sides. (I assume that The Elizabeth II bust image is the "head" and the maple leaf motif is the "tails" on the Canadian penny pictured, but I am not sure.) In any event, neither side bears a tail.

    Lego...

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    1. Ohhh, no wonder the baseball/battery thing made no sense to me. I have never in my whole life HEARD of a pitcher/catcher combo being called a battery!!! [We non-sporty types here are at a distinct disadvantage!] All I'd ever heard was the Battery in NYC, not that I remember/or ever even KNEW where it is located.

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  20. Yet more comments on the answers: What is a Pascal lamb? ( I looked up and saw the word with the 'h' in it, but how is the stained glass...which I thought was either a goat or a llama....PASCAL?)

    ANd I mis-guessed on the first animal, going back and forth between cat and dog. The yolked/yoked oxen I never would have gotten, because I was focusing on the flowers, which did NOT look like a yoke of any kind to me.

    AM really annoyed at self, though, to have missed the SEE/SEA turtle.

    I thought the balled/bald eagle was the most clever...didnt' get it right away, but was pleased when it finally did come to me.

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  21. Geez, I wish I would think of everything at once, instead of post after post.....PLEASE, LEGO, explain the TERRAPIN FROSTY thing to me, as well as the S.S. media hint.

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  22. If I may, VT, a late athlete by the name of Len Bias who was nicknamed "Frosty" played for the Maryland Terrapins, a basketball team. S. S. refers to Sean Spicer, who was twice portrayed on SNL by one M. M.

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    1. Thanks, pjb/cb, for the Bias explanation. A whole lot of googling had gotten me exactly nowhere on that one...I thought Terrapin 'Frosty' was about beer!

      And I thought I had written somewhere in a comment this evening that I figured S. S. was Sean Spicer, but now I can't find where I put it.....still, I couldn't locate anything before or after today where Spicer said the media had tibias.

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    2. ViolinTeddy,
      Yes, VT, my "photoshopped" yolky yoke on the oxen did look, alas, more like sunflowers than sunny-side-uppers!
      That "Terrapin/Frosty" hint was ultra-obscure. I give Patrick major props for sussing it out.
      If you look very closely, the panes of the stained glass in the Pascal Lamb image bear numbers that appear in a Pascal's Triangle.
      And, Patrick (and you also, VT) is/(are) correct: "S.S." does indeed refer to "Mr. Sugar-and-Spicer-And-Everything's-Nicer-Now-That-We're-All-Living-In-Trumpworld!"
      Now if we could only perform amputation surgeries on the legs of those pesky news reporters and remove all their anti-Trump Tibiases!

      LegoWhoIsNowSecondGuessingHimselfOnThatSpellingOf"Tibiases"AndThinksItShouldMoreCorrectlyBeSpelled"Tibiaeses"(HeJustFeelsItInHisBonesOthograepicallyAndOrthopaedically)

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    3. Thanks for the above, Lego, but I still can't find any news report where Sean Spicer says the media have tibia(e) or (s)....do you have such a link?

      P.S. I still love my erroneous "holy goat."

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    4. VT,
      Mr. Spicer undoubtedly believes (or is echoing what his boss believes) that many in the media have a bias.

      LegoPraysInTheNameOfTheBullFeatherAndOfTheBiSonAndOfTheHolyGoatsAmen

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    5. Ohhh, I had interpreted your clue with the '=' sign to mean that the Terrapin hint corresponded to the singular word, and the S.S. hint word corresponded to the plural one (hence, to the tibias.)

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