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Welcome to our April 21st edition
of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
We are serving up ten puzzles this week,
six of which are Rip/Riff-offs of Will Shortz’s spooneristic NPR puzzle.
Also on our menus are:
* A cool Hors d’Oeuvre, Daddio,
* An operatic Appetizer,
*An inkstained wretched Slice, and
* An apocalyptic Dessert.
So, grab a spoon and shovel these
morsels into your mental maw. Think of it as brain food.
Enjoy it, please..
Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
Cool Hepcats On Cable Hors d’Oeuvre:
Hey, Daddio, hold the mayo on my dogg!
Each answer to the seven clues below
contains the same number of letters:
1. Beatles bassist
2. Cool is to “hepcat and daddio” as
___ is to “homie and dogg”
3. A nearly seven-decades-old TV network
4. An international airport in the United States ... hold
the Mayo
5. An international airline
6. A nearly two-decades-old cable TV
network
7. Axes
Solve for the seven clues.
Appetizer Menu
Double-Diva Appetizer:
Amazin’ Mets… a duo of divas!
The audience at the Metropolitan Opera
clamored for the contralto diva Marian Anderson – the first African American performer
to perform at the Met (in 1955) – to sing a bonus aria. She indulged them.
About a half-decade later, a similar Met
audience clamored for Anderson’s protégé, Leontine Price, to do the same. So,
Leontine did the same as her precursor, Marian.
The entertainment section of the New
York Times the following day bore a headline (consisting of two 7-letter words)
chronicling Leontine’s bonus aria performance. (Note: This is all speculation or, to be honest, fake news. I have no clue, for example, what the Times headlines were on that following day.)
The 14 letters in those two words can be
rearranged to form the first and last names of a journalist who is also a television
personality.
Who is this TV journalist? What is the
two-word headline?
MENU
New Sprinter Slice:
Recreation promotes circulation
Name a major U.S. newspaper (with a
circulation in six figures) in two words. After changing one letter to an “i”,
Remove the space and a ubiquitous two-letter word. The result is a piece of
recreational equipment.
What is it, and what is the newspaper?
Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
May I use my
soup spoon for the caviar?
Will Shortz’s
April 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
A spoonerism is
when you change the initial consonant sounds of two words in a phrase to get a
new phrase. For example, “Tames Jailer” is a spoonerism of the singer James
Taylor. “Spark Mitts” is a spoonerism of the swimmer Mark Spitz. The name of
what famous entertainer – first and last names – has a two-word spoonerism
meaning “A runny variety of cheese”?
Puzzleria’s
Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
A.) Spoonerize a basic American dessert (whose
ingredients include eggs, sugar and flour) to form a two-syllable synonym of
the one-syllable tool used to slice it, and what you must do to the dessert
after mixing its ingredients.
What are the synonym of the tool and the word for what you must do to the dessert ingredients?
What are the synonym of the tool and the word for what you must do to the dessert ingredients?
B.) Spoonerize a meatless British dish (that
appears in lyrics penned by a former Beatle) to form two words: one associated with
golf and another that sounds like a word associated with tournaments.
What are the word associated with golf
and the word associated with tournaments?
TWO:
Spoonerize just the first and third
words of a possible three-word first course during a three-course meal to form
a three-word description of what a Scottish musical group (that is named after
a sweet fruity jelly) might do at a concert.
What is the possible first course? What might
the group do at a concert.
Hint: What the “musical group might do
at a concert” involves the B-side of a single. The A-side was a hit.
The group had a UK Singles Chart topper with
a Beatles cover from the White Album.
THREE:
Spoonerize the name of a meatless,
eggless and cheese-less two-word appetizer to form a word meaning “a really
nice person” (at least according to the Urban Dictionary) and a homophone of a word
meaning “well-grounded” (at least according to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary).
FOUR:
Spoonerize a two-word appetizer to form
what sounds like a two-word caption for the image of the two girls with a magnifying glass pictured at the right
FIVE:
Spoonerize the name of a two-word entree
(prepared in an oven) to form two words that sound like what each of the following proper nouns will be on one day during the last third of 2017:
Forty-Niner, Cowboy, Jaguar, Giant,
Viking, Cardinal, Seahawk, Titan.
What is the entrée? What will each
proper noun be one day in 2017?
SIX:
Find rhymes for the first and last names
of a well-known quarterback to form a two-word “variety of crumbly cheese”?
Replacing the quarterback’s last name
with a homophone and keeping his first name intact will describe what Antoine
Vollon often did, as evidenced by the image of the still life artwork pictured at the right.
Who is the quarterback?
What is the crumbly cheese, and what did Antoine Vollon do?
Dessert Menu
Prepositioning Adverbs Dessert
Apocalypse presently… M’aider! M’aider!
Don’t obsess on the end times
incessantly…
There shall be an Apocalypse presently.
Name an adverb that conveys the sense
that a given event will occur sooner or later, but will surely occur. For
example, a holy person might proclaim, “We don't know the exact day, but the
Apocalypse will take place, _______.”
Replace the second letter of this adverb
with the letter two places past it (that is, two places further on) in the alphabet, and also remove from
the adverb two consecutive letters that spell out a common preposition. The
result is an adjective that might describe an event that happens sooner rather
than later. For example, a holy person, now a dweller in the post-apocalyptic
messianic kingdom, might proclaim, “We all knew the Apocalypse would take place
_______, but its occurrence on May 1, 2017 seemed just so ______!”
What are this adverb and adjective?
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I thought I knew who played bass for the Beatles, but now I' m not so sure. I think I know the old TV network and the axes and how they're related.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I know the adverb and adjective. A lot of good it does me if we've only got a couple of weeks left on this planet.
Paul,
DeleteThe moptop played "first bass" for Ye Olde England Beatles... and we are seeking only his first name.
And, as you are very well aware, these guys think we've still got a half-millennium or so to go.
LegoNotesHoweverThatTheir"EvansToBetsy"ZigZaggingLyricsAlsoSuggestThatGodMightGiveUsUntilAbout7510
Having finally gotten to the Dessert, I now see to what Paul was referring. However, I got an answer that required replacing the second letter in the adverb with one that is two spots LATER in the alphabet (rather than earlier). Is this the weird occurrence of a second answer, or could there be a goof in how puzzle itself was presented?
DeleteAre you implying nuclear war with North Korea?
ReplyDeleteDivinelyDot,
ReplyDeleteEar: I'm piling my unclear raw whit... Thorn A-OK, er...
LegoWhoIsPrettySureMendoJimWouldNotApprove(EvenLegoDoesNotApprove!)
I'm confused as to why you essentially anagrammed my name and N. Korea question. Am I missing a joke?
DeleteNo, VT, sorry for my mindless confusion. I'm just in a kind of weird mood, and perhaps am a bit balmier that usual.
DeleteTo be clear: Nuclear warfare with North Korea, or with any nation for that matter, indeed IS the kind of idiocy that may usher in our apocalypse -- now or presently.
LegoImploresLetUs"MakeLoveNotStrangelove"
OKie doke, Lego of the balmy mood.....in that case, I guess I'll just laugh at its utter silliness!
DeletePuzzlerians!:
ReplyDeleteOver on Blainesville, our friend an all-round good guy jan posted that he "got the call" and therefore will be the NPR on-air puzzle contestant with Will Shortz on Sunday, the broadcast of which was recorded earlier today.
jan generously revealed that Will's April 23 puzzle is one of those "two-week creative challenges," one that involves pop music titles.
Our friend PatrickJ. Berry (screen name "cranberry") is:
1. a whiz at Will's two-week creative challenges, and
2. a whiz at pop music...
You do the math.
LegoWhoPredictsTriumphForPatrickAndWishesHimTheBest
Lego, Tedditor here (it's been awhile.) I think you have some extra words in Rip Off #1(B).....asking again for the dish and dessert that had been in (A). Thought you'd want to edit out the unwanted words.
ReplyDeleteMerci, VT.
DeleteGreat ViolinTedditing!
I believe I have now healed my ailing text.
LegoWhoTendsToWriteUnwantedWordsGalore
Oh good. Happy to help, as always.
DeleteGood Friday to all this early Saturday morning! Just read about the two-week challenge, can hardly wait to find out what I'm supposed to do! I already have the Appetizer and the Dessert, but the rest, alas, shall require hints from you, Lego. Looks like I'll be "Workin' for the Weekend" at my "Sweet Home Alabama", trying to figure out your "Pretzel Logic" as well as trying to impress the Puzzlemaster with my "Strange Magic" using song titles! "It's Only Rock'n'Roll", but "It's in the Way That You Use It" that counts!
ReplyDeleteLet's see, before I give up for the night, I just solved the Appetizer (to my delight), and got the first Rip Off (both parts) a while ago. And the dessert, with the proviso that the second letter (see my post above) went two spots later in the alphabet, rather than earlier, so I'm not sure it's right, but I can't imagine what else the adverb and adjective could BE.
ReplyDeleteI know who the group is for Rip Off #2, but nowhere could I find any reliable lists for their B-side songs.
The newspaper one is very frustrating. None of the possibilities would work. out. Oh, and though I have some of the words for the Hors D'O, it doesn't seem to make much sense. Are the words themselves supposed to have some kind of relationship? IN any case, I'm stuck on the airport (also could find nothing that worked with 'hold the mayo") and the 'axes'.
You are again correct, VT. I should have worded the Dessert as you suggested.
DeleteI wrote:
"Replace the second letter of this adverb with the letter two places ahead of it in the alphabet."
Your correction:
"Replace the second letter of this adverb with the letter two places later in the alphabet."
"My new version:Replace the second letter of this adverb with the letter two places past it (that is, two places further on) in the alphabet."
In my feeble defense, I was thinking of little Lego, a young schoolboy, reciting his alphabet. When he reaches the letter X, the letter Z is still "ahead".
So, I confused myself! Thanks for unconfusing me and bringing me to my linguistic senses.
In the "New Sprinter Slice," the city in the name of the newspaper has lately been in the news, bad and sad news.
The seven answers to the Hors d'Oeuvre do have an alphabetical relationship.
Clue #4 reads "hold the Mayo," not "hold the mayo."
In Clue #7, "Axes" is a plural word whose singular form also ends in an s.
LegoWhoAgainAppreciatesAndIsThankfulForViolinTedditing
You are most welcome, as always, Lego.
DeleteI'll attempt to tackle the above hints and see if I get anywhere. : o )
Ah, thanks to the hint, I just figured out the Sprinter Slice.
DeleteAnd somehow, no hints, RIp-Off #4.
I got a last word for the Hors D'O, but totally fail to find any relationship, alphabetical or otherwise, in my seven words.....so at least some of them must be wrong.
BTW Lego, since you've given us a puzzle about the apocalypse this week, I'm wondering: Which song do you think might by chance be the last song playing on the radio when the apocalypse occurs: "It's the End Of the World As We Know It(And I Feel Fine)" by REM, or "Rapture" by Blondie? Leonard Bernstein!
ReplyDeleteWhich song would more likely be played, I mean?
ReplyDeleteThe song I would like to be most likely to be played would be "It's the End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by REM.
DeleteHere's why: My late mother preferred the "standards" from the 1940s and 1950s over "rock music." But for some reason she loved this apocalyptic REM song. If I heard it as the Apocalypse was occurring I would feel comforted, thinking of my mom.
And, I hope I would be enjoying every sandwich... preferably a Dagwood sandwich.
LegoWhoAlsoLikesApocalypsoMusic
I'm still waiting for those hints, although I'll bet if it is such an interesting Sunday Puzzle challenge tomorrow, I may be too busy doing that instead. I'll get back to the hints soon if it is a two-week challenge.
ReplyDeleteIf it's anything like what they used to do with song titles on "Whose Line Is It Anyway", I think I might know what I have to do in this challenge.
ReplyDeleteJust submitted four entries to NPR. The two-week challenge is a little trickier than I had previously thought, but they'll let you look up Wikipedia for number one songs, so I had no trouble with that. This promises to be fun!
ReplyDeleteThe challenge specifically indicated that you could submit THREE, so they won't even look at your fourth one, presumably.
DeleteHINTS:
ReplyDeleteCHOCHO:
Letters that do not appear in the seven answers:
A letter that is short for gravity
A two-letter greeting
One half of the name of the guy who thought he was a loner then left his home inTuscon, Arizona.
Two letters you ought to mind
A Rabbit or Beetle
DDA:
The journalist/TV personality is related, by blood, to an answer in one of our April 7 Ripping Off Shortz Slices.
The journalist/TV personality and one of the divas share something in common
NSS:
The major U.S. newspaper sounds like it might be known for its spelling.
The piece of recreational equipment is sometimes bitten down on by canines.
ROSS:
ONE:
A.) The first word of the dessert is also an ingredient in the dessert.
B.) The former Beatle who penned the lyrics recorded the song with his wife who was an artist in her own right (no, not "write"), but was sometimes criticized for her singing.
TWO:
The first two words of three-word first course is more likely to be used in a dessert than in a soup or salad. The first word is "searchable." The third word is either "soup" or "salad."
THREE:
The first word in the appetizer is a person who eats no meats, eggs or cheeses.
The second word is either "soup" or "salad."
The first word, post-spoonerization, is very obscure. I can find it in only the Urban Dictionary.
FOUR:
Sea turdle?
FIVE:
A 2017 NFL schedule might come in handy.
SIX:
The QB may be handing of to AP this season, it is rumored.
I hear that the still life subjects Antoine Vollon painted can be "loose," according to a notable puzzlemeister.
PAD:
The adverb has four syllables; the has adjective three, including a common prefix.
LegoWhoSaysThePrefixIsInAndThePrepositionIsOut
OKay, the hints enabled my solving of Rip Offs #2 and 3 thus far, so now Tedditor needs to interject that she thus realizes that #3 needs an 'and' in its presentation, since the answer turns out to be not one two-word term, but two separate words, presumably which have nothing to do with each other.
ReplyDeleteOn to RIp Off #6. I still can't get anywhere with the Hors D'O, but the clues had me erase 5 of the words I HAD had. Sigh.
Thanks, VT. I just fixed the ROSS #3 glitch. The fix is in!
DeleteIn my PAD hint, above:
"The adverb has four syllables; the has adjective three, including a common prefix," should of course read:
PAD:
"The adverb has four syllables; the adjective has three, including a common prefix."
Every answer in he CHOCHO consists of three letters. #1 is the shortened form of the bassist's first name.
LegoWhoIsJustAChatanoogoChoChoDoingHisWeaklyFlawedChaCha
Whew, I FINALLY grasped the alphabetic 'relationship' of all the Hors D'O's words....but only after ALL these many hints (especially the fact that they each are only three letters....natch, I'd thought they had to have six, for the full name of the bassist. It took awhile, even with the latest hint, to finally slam me in the brain what said 'relationship' is! Then had to hunt for the ones I still didn't have....
DeleteI now have Ripoffs #2 and #6. Still tough.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know....I still can't solve #5, and I'm officially resigning from trying!
DeleteMore ROSS Hints:
ReplyDeleteTWO:
The first two words of three-word first course, when it is used in a dessert, has a few inedible parts removed. It is named after a Chinese gentleman. The third word is "salad."
FIVE:
Might we call the visiting team a "guest"? I guess so.
Dean Martin liked to___ it up with fellow celebrities during his ______.
SIX:
The QB may be handing of to Adrian Peterson this season, it is rumored.
I hear that the still life subjects Antoine Vollon painted can be "loose," according to the answer to a notable puzzlemeister's follow-up puzzle to Joseph Young's Santa Fe/manta ray puzzle.
LegO66..._____!
Hurrah, I think I finally got RIp Off #5....I'd been close all along... but could never quite come up with the second word in the entree, until the Dean Martin hint.
DeleteOr rather the FIRST word in the entree (depending on which way around one puts it down, but to match the two football words, I switched the entree around.)
DeleteI definitely got #5 thanks to the Dean Martin hint.
ReplyDeleteYeah, pjb, some of these puzzles are simply impossible without very germane hints!
DeleteHORS D'O:
ReplyDelete1. STU 2. DEF [seems to be about the only combo left] 3. ABC 4. RST (Rochester, Mayo Clinic) 5. KLM 6. LMN 7. XYZ
No G, HI, JO, P, Q or VW
APPETIZER: "PERSONA CROONED" => "ANDERSON COOPER" [Pre-hint]
NEW SPRINTER SLICE: "FRESNO BEE" => "FRISBEE" [Pre-hint]
RIP OFFS:
1. (a) "BUTTER CAKE" => "CUTTER" and "BAKE" (b) "BUTTER PIE" => "PUTTER" and "BYE" [Pre=hint]
2. Group: MARMALADE : "BING CHERRY SALAD" => "SING CHERRY BALLADE"
3. "VEGAN SALAD" => "SEGAN" and "VALID"
4. "PEA SOUP" => "SEE POOP" [Pre-hint]
5. "HAM ROAST" => "RAM HOST"
6. "DREW BREES" => "BLUE CHEESE" and "DREW CHEESE"
DESSERT: "ULTIMATELY" => "UNTIMELY" [Pre-hint]
Hd'O:
ReplyDelete1-STU
2-DEF
3-ABC
4-RST
5-I know it's not TWA or JAL
6-LMN
7-XYZ
Appetizer:
SOPRANO ENCORED / ANDERSON COOPER
Dessert:
ULTIMATELY > UNTIMELY
Appetizer
ReplyDeleteANDERSON COOPER, SOPRANO ENCORED
Ripoffs
2. BING CHERRY SALAD, SING "CHERRY" BALLAD(Marmalade)
5. ROAST HAMS, HOST RAMS
6. BLEU CHEESE, DREW BREES(drew bries)
Dessert
ULTIMATELY, UNTIMELY
...and I feel fine-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteHors d’Oeuvre Menu
Cool Hepcats On Cable Hors d’Oeuvre:
Hey, Daddio, hold the mayo on my dogg!
Each answer to the seven clues below contains the same number of letters:
1. Beatles bassist
2. Cool is to “hepcat and daddio” as ___ is to “homie and dogg”
3. A nearly seven-decades-old TV network
4. An international airport in the United States ... hold the Mayo
5. An international airline
6. A nearly two-decades-old cable TV network
7. Axes
Solve for the seven clues.
Answer:
1. Stu (Sutcliff)
2. Def
3. ABC
4. RST
5. KLM
6. LMN
7. x, y, z
(All are three consecutive letters in the alphabet.)
Appetizer Menu
Double-Diva Appetizer:
Amazin’ Mets… a duo of divas!
The audience at the Metropolitan Opera clamored for the contralto diva Marian Anderson – the first African American performer to perform at the Met (in 1955) – to sing a bonus aria. She indulged them.
About a half-decade later, a similar Met audience clamored for Anderson’s protégé, Leontine Price, to do the same. So, Leontine did the same as her precursor, Marian.
The entertainment section of the New York Times the following day bore a headline (consisting of two 7-letter words) chronicling Leontine’s bonus aria performance. (Note: This is all speculation or, to be honest, fake news. I have no clue, for example, what the Times headlines were on that following day.)
The 14 letters in those two words can be rearranged to form the first and last names of a journalist who is also a television personality.
Who is this TV journalist? What is the two-word headline?
Answer:
Anderson Cooper
Soprano Encored (Price was a soprano)
But ViolinTeddy's "persona crooned" deserves an A++!
MENU
New Sprinter Slice:
Recreation promotes circulation
Name a major U.S. newspaper (with a circulation in six figures) in two words. After changing one letter to an “i”, Remove the space and a ubiquitous two-letter word. The result is a piece of recreational equipment.
What is it, and what is the newspaper?
Answer:
Fresno Bee;
frisbee
Lego...
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DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU (continued):
Ripping Off Shortz Slices:
May I use my soup spoon for the caviar?
ONE:
A.) Spoonerize a basic American dessert (whose ingredients include eggs, sugar and flour) to form a two-syllable synonym of the one-syllable tool used to slice it, and what you must do to the dessert after mixing its ingredients.
What are the synonym of the tool and the word for what you must do to the dessert ingredients?
Answer:
cutter; bake (butter cake)
B.) Spoonerize a meatless British dish (that appears in lyrics penned by a former Beatle) to form two words: one associated with golf and another that sounds like a word associated with tournaments.
What are the word associated with golf and the word associated with tournaments?
Answer:
putter; bye (Butter pie)
TWO:
Spoonerize just the first and third words of a possible three-word first course during a three-course meal to form a three-word description of what a Scottish musical group (that is named after a sweet fruity jelly) might do at a concert.
What is the possible first course? What might the group do at a concert.
Hint: What the “musical group might do at a concert” involves the B-side of a single. The A-side was a hit.
The group had a UK Singles Chart topper with a Beatles cover from the White Album.
Answer:
Bing cherry salad;
sing cherry ballad
THREE:
Spoonerize the name of a meatless, eggless and cheese-less two-word appetizer to form a word meaning “a really nice person” (at least according to the Urban Dictionary) a homophone of a word meaning “well-grounded” (at least according to Merriam Webster’s Dictionary).
Answer:
Vegan salad;
segan, valid
FOUR:
Spoonerize a two-word appetizer to form what sounds like a two-word caption for the image of the two girls with a magnifying glass pictured at the right.
Answer:
See poop ('nuff said)
FIVE:
Spoonerize the name of a two-word entree (prepared in an oven) to form two words that sound like what each of the following proper nouns will be on one day during the last third of 2017:
Forty-Niner, Cowboy, Jaguar, Giant, Viking, Cardinal, Seahawk, Titan.
What is the entrée? What will each proper noun be one day in 2017?
Answer:
Ham roast
Ram host
SIX:
Find rhymes for the first and last names of a well-known quarterback to form a two-word “variety of crumbly cheese”?
Replacing the quarterback’s last name with a homophone and keeping his first name intact will describe what Antoine Vollon often did, as evidenced by the image of the still life artwork pictured at the right.
Who is the quarterback?
What is the crumbly cheese, and what did Antoine Vollon do?
Answer:
Bleu cheese rhymes with Drew Brees
Antoine Vollon drew bries.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, Part 3:
ReplyDeleteDessert Menu
Prepositioning Adverbs Dessert
Apocalypse presently… M’aider! M’aider!
Don’t obsess on the end times incessantly…
There shall be an Apocalypse presently.
Name an adverb that conveys the sense that a given event will occur sooner or later, but will surely occur. For example, a holy person might proclaim, “We don't know the exact day, but the Apocalypse will take place, _______.”
Replace the second letter of this adverb with the letter two places past it (that is, two places further on) in the alphabet, and also remove from the adverb two consecutive letters that spell out a common preposition. The result is an adjective that might describe an event that happens sooner rather than later. For example, a holy person, now a dweller in the post-apocalyptic messianic kingdom, might proclaim, “We all knew the Apocalypse would take place _______, but its occurrence on May 1, 2017 seemed just so ______!”
What are this adverb and adjective?
Answer:
ultimately; untimely
Lego...