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Welcome to our April 14th edition
of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Hope you’re having a Good Friday. 
We are serving up ten challenges this
week, six which are Riff-Offs/Rip-offs of the NPR puzzle from April 9 on the National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle segment hosted by Will Shortz (see photo, above left).
This past Sunday’s challenge was composed by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota. That means, of
course, that I get to riff/rip myself off on this week’s Puzzleria!
Also on our menus are:
A newsy Hors d’Oeuvre, a newsy
Appetizer, and a Dessert that may or may not be lip-smacking.
And, there is another puzzle slice immediately beneath our main MENU. Will Shortz himself has a bearing on its answer(s).
And, there is another puzzle slice immediately beneath our main MENU. Will Shortz himself has a bearing on its answer(s).
Please enjoy.
Hors d’Oeuvre Menu
Hyphens In The News Hors d’Oeuvre:
The answer is not “re-sign”this time
A euphemistic hyphenated word has been
in the news this past week. Rearrange the letters in that word to form a two-word
description of any one of the following videos:
What is the two-word description, and
what is the hyphenated word in the news?
Appetizer Menu
News Biz Appetizer:
Parsley, not-so-sage,
Rosemary Woods, and thyme to go?
Name a person lately in the news whose
job it is to interact with others in the news business. Write the person’s
first name twice and last name once. Rearrange those 14 letters to form a
possible editorial headline – containing, in order, 1, 7 and 6 letters – that
those “others in the news business” might write if the person resigns (not re-signs) or is fired, whichever comes
first.
Who is this person? What is the possible
headline?
MENU
Shortz Circuited Slice:
What word “Will” fill in the blank?
Fill in the blank in this sequence with
a word that belongs:
a, I, us, go, if, coy, zone, killjoy, _______,
super-razzmatazz
Explain your selection.
Note: There are more words than just one word that
can properly belong in the blank. Among the possible answers are:
A word that cannot be found in
dictionaries but that can be found on the National Public Radio website and
airwaves, and is familiar to fans of Will Shortz.
Another word that works as a correct
answer (and is found in dictionaries) is a verb for something Will Shortz
does.
Ripping Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Creature from the brackish lagoon
Will Shortz’s
April 9nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Joseph Young, reads:
Name a well-known U.S. city in two
words. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it and you’ll
name a large sea creature in two words. What is it?
Puzzleria’s
Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ONE:
Name a somewhat well-known eastern U.S.
city in two words. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it
and the result will be how you would describe anything belonging to the late
great Richard Lane.
What is this city?
TWO:
Name a somewhat
well-known Canadian city in two words. Replace each of these words with a word
that rhymes with it and you’ll name a two-word adverb (sometimes written as one
word) meaning “afoot” or “in progress.”
What is this
city?
THREE:
Name a somewhat well-known eastern U.S.
city in two words. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it
and you’ll name something a farmer does and the type of farmer he/she is
because he/she does it.
What is this city? What is it the farmer
does?
Note: the city’s name contains some
punctuation, and the pronunciation of its second word is somewhat disputed. The
pronunciation I used in the puzzle is reportedly how the local residents
pronounce it.
FOUR:
Name a somewhat well-known western U.S.
city that is a two-syllable compound word. Replace each of these words with a
word that rhymes with it and you’ll name something a performer delivers from
the stage, and the hoped-for reaction from the audience.
What is this city? What is delivered and
what is the reaction?
FIVE:
Name a not-so-well-known northeastern
U.S. city that is a three-syllable word. If you replace the first syllable with
a word that rhymes with it and replace the second and third syllables with a
two-syllable word that rhymes with it, you’ll name a two-word description of
Luna 2, Surveyor 3 or Apollo 11.
What is this city? What is the two-word
description?
SIX:
Name a somewhat well-known western U.S.
city in two words and three total syllables. Replace each of these syllables
with a syllable that rhymes with it and you’ll name a three-word description of
what you would have seen at a 1960’s Beatles concert with Ruth Brandin, Ina Martell and the Pop Dollies as the opening acts.
What is this city? What is the
three-word description?
Dessert Menu
Too Tough To Swallow Dessert
Ingestion or indigestion?
Name something
very seldom ingested (except perhaps by accident) that is often removed from an
item of food. So, remove it. But don't throw it away. Instead, stuff three
consecutive letters inside of it, and then tack one letter onto its end.
The result
something usually ingested that often replaces the thing that is very seldom
ingested.
What is this item of food? What are the
seldom ingested thing and often ingested thing found within the food item?
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German satyr goes bankrupt in Jamaica?
ReplyDeleteSean Sean bo Bonn(Germany)
DeleteBanana fanna fo faun(satyr)
Fee fie mo mon(Jamaica, mon)...
You lose your spin if you hit BANKRUPT on The Wheel of Fortune.
Rumplestiltskin had a knack for spinning, but his name game did not end well for him.
Happy Birthday Eve to me! Alas, the puzzles are tough this week. I could only get the Appetizer. As for the Hors d'Oeuvre, I think I have the words for each video, but I can't seem to get the hyphenated word. I know it's been a special few days for the both of us, Lego, but I'll still need hints for all the others.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Patrick! (cranberry). Hope you can manage to "cram berry" much joy into the coming year.
DeleteHere are some...
Hints:
HITNHO:
United we stand, divided we get dragged off.
The answer contains two A's, C's, E's, M's and O's. One of the words in the two-word description of the videos can be spelled using one each of those five letters.
NBA:
Speculation about this person's resignation or firing has been recently rampant. His boss has much experience firing folks, in reality.
SCS:
"Hijinks" would also work as a replacement for "killjoy" as the eighth word. Two other perhaps-apt-Will-Shortz fill-ins for the ninth word are "contextualizing," and extemporizing." You'll have to ask Will if "jacuzzi," (which also works as the ninth word) applies to him!
I would be fibbing if I told you I didn't expect this puzzle to make solvers scramble, and perhaps draw the occasional blank.
ROSAYS:
ONE:
The answer is not Los Angeles ,Chicago or Detroit, although all three do pertain to Richard Lane.
TWO:
Some puzzle solvers, when confronted with a challenge such as this one, well... they blunder.
THREE:
Some Wisconsinites might guzzle a whole stein of what the farmer produces... and no, it ain't the hops and barley that help to brew Leinenkugel's!
FOUR:
I thought I'd run this one up the "puzzle pole" to see if anyone salutes.
FIVE:
Court & spark & woo & spoon & take me to Places that will let me see the stars.
SIX:
In '64, the "New Bl _ _ _ _ on the block" invaded America. When no one was watching they copped some s'mokes.
SAD AUTOS HONK not like geese but like whippoorwills.
TTTSD:
The item of food, with its inedibility excised and its edible insert stuff in, can be quite delightful. As a lad once requested, "'Please, sir, I want some more."
LegoWhoOncePlayedDoubleABaseballWithTheSantaFeMantaRays
Without the hint, the Dessert made no sense at all to me. The hint is such a giveaway, it feels like Xmas.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter, by the way!
Yeah, you're right, Paul (excuses, excuses!). I was very sleepy when I posted that softball of a hint. I wish a real blog administrator (like Blaine, for example) could have been around to remove it!
DeleteLego(AlsoKnownAsJosEephus)
Well, nothing is a giveaway to ME.....the only two puzzles I've had any luck on have been the Appetizer (pre-hint) and the #2 Rip Off (also pre-hint.) Sadly, the hints this time have not enlightened me in any way on any of the others. [Well, I'd already had the Hors D'O's one particular word [that is spelled out in the hint], but the hyphenated term I had been thinking all along HAD to be the answer -- doesn't have all the correct letters to make said word, let alone another set of the same letters. Grrrr...
ReplyDeleteSorry, VT.
DeleteI shall assay better hints after Easter celebration and visitation... That may mean tomorrow.
LegoHuntingForPastelEggos
NO rush, Lego, but thanks. I'll be gone at two eye surgeon appts tomorrow afternoon and BOok Club in the evening, so won't even get a chance to LOOK here until late tomorrow night. Thus, as far as it goes for me, you have plenty of time! Happy Easter!
DeleteI figure the description of the four videos would NOT apply to this video, but that's as far as I've gotten with that one.
ReplyDeleteBut it would apply to the gipper before 1962 and the "Oops guy" from Texas before 1988... if they had made an appearance on a TV show, of course.
DeleteLegoSays"ThisPartyIsDullsville,Man...Let'sGoToThatOneInstead!"
So far, all I have are the Appetizer and the Canadian city ripoff puzzle. Still pretty tough, but then I've just come from a big Easter celebration with my family, so I'm kinda tired anyway.
ReplyDeleteI finally got the Hors d'Oeuvre!
ReplyDeleteYIPPEE...so did I, just now! [The Hors D'O. Suddenly I paid more attention to the start of your hint, which I'd skipped over yesterday. Realized I'd been on the completely wrong hyphenated word track.]
ReplyDeleteHey Lego, weren't there supposed to be more hints coming today? I'm still having trouble with those US cities and the Dessert!
ReplyDeleteHere are some more...
DeleteHints:
HITNHO:
The "commodes" on those Boeing products need to be refurbished.
NBA:
Melissa McCarthy will have more free time when the headline becomes a reality.
SCS:
I would be "fibbing" (hint to the progression of the series, which is numerically based) if I told you I didn't expect this puzzle to make solvers "Scramble," and perhaps "draw the occasional blank" (hint to how to convert the words into numbers, after you replace one letter in Scramble).
ROSAYS:
ONE:
The city is in a pretty populous state
TWO:
"This is a thoroughly enjoyable rip-off, Baby!"
THREE:
Some Wisconsinites might guzzle a whole stein of what the farmer produces... and no, it ain't the hops and barley that help to brew Leinenkugel's!
There is a hyphen between the two words.
The first word (left of the hyphen) is not Frank, Julius or Harvey.
FOUR:
This is a puzzle with pizzAZz
FIVE:
Think RI or SD.
When the cops come knocking on your door with search warrant in hand and drug-sniffing dogs on leash, it is comforting to know that you did STOW NO COKE!
SIX:
Last word in a Buber title
The middle "ground" between gravel and silt
Fegley
TTTSD:
If anyone needs a hint for this Dessert, politely ask Paul. He solved it, and he is an excellent hinter!
LegoWhoStowsHisCoke(AndPepsi)InHisFridge
Thank you, Lego. I've been able, with the above, to figure out the Short-Circuit Slice, and Rip Offs #3, 4, 5 and the city in #6 (though not the rhyming words re the Beatles etc). #1 is still elusive, as is the Dessert (well, you didn't provide another hint for IT, and it's still not clear to ME, as it was to Paul.)
ReplyDeleteWell, now I have all the Ripoffs except the Richard Lane one. Might as well ask Paul about the Dessert. Say Paul...what about this Dessert? BTW I do know one word that may or may not pertain to Will Shortz that fits the list, particularly according to the new hint about "Scramble". LOL
ReplyDeleteFor the Dessert, assuming I'm correct:
ReplyDeletethe "three consecutive letters" are not consecutive letters of the alphabet, like ABC or HIJ or XYZ, but they are stuffed consecutively into the "inedible thing"; i.e., if the inedible thing is a WORM (which it isn't, if I'm correct), then you might stuff DGA into it and add an E at the end to get WORDGAME, but WROSTRUMB wouldn't cut it, even if it were a word and RSTU were only three letters. By the way, my three letters, in the order in which I have them stuffed in, spell a common, plural, English word.
The coloration of the finished edible product is the basis for my earlier hint.
Lego provided a BIG hint on 2/24/17.
Thanks, Paul. The hint in your April 16, 2017 at 1:48 AM comment confirms the correctness of your answer. Thanks also for clarifying that the "consecutive" letters that you stuff inside "something very seldom ingested" are NOT consecutive in the alphabet...
DeleteSerendipitously, however, the third, fifth, seventh and first letters in the "often ingested thing found within the food item" just so happen to be consecutive letters in the alphabet!
LegoLegoBoBegoBananaFanaFoFegoFeeFiMoMego...Lego!
HORS D'O: RE-ACCOMMODATE => CAMEO DEMOCRAT
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: SEAN SEAN SPICER => "A SINNER'S ESCAPE"
SHORT-CIRCUITED SLICE: Scrabble tile letter values: 1, 1, 2 (us), 3 (go), 5 (if), 8 (coy), 13 (zone), 21 (killjoy), 34 [JACUZZI or QUIZZER or JAZZMAN]
RIP OFFS OF SELF:
1. ? SPRINGS? => NightTrain's THINGS? or ? BLUFF => ? STUFF
2. THUNDER BAY => UNDER WAY [PRE-hint, which hint I DO NOT understand at all.]
3. WILKES-BARRE => MILKS and DAIRY (type of farmer) [I actually had the two farmer words already, but the hyphen hint was necessary for the city.]
4. FLAGSTAFF => GAG & LAUGH
5. WOONSOCKET -> MOON ROCKET
6. THOUSAND OAKS => ? AND ?
DESSERT: SEED? PITT? HUSK? PEEL? HULL? SKIN? CORE? STEM? OATMEAL GRUEL? [Nowhere, Paul, could I find a 'big hint' on the 2/24/17 Puzzleria.]
VT,
Delete"A sinner's escape" is not my intended answer... but it is better than my intended answer.
LegoSaysBravoViolinTeddy
a PEACH?
ReplyDeletePIMENTO!!! BUt how does that go with a peach?
ReplyDeleteI don't know where "peach" came from. Lego's "I want more" hint led me directly to Oliver! Remove the pit from the olive and stuff it (the PIT) with MEN, then tack on an O to get the pimento. A red pimento stuffed into a pitted green olive seemed kind of Xmassy to me. The 2/24/17 Appetizer was all about olive pitters, cherry stoners, and Oliver Stone.
DeleteI figured out CAMEO and DEMOCRAT, but had no idea what the hyphenated euphemism was. I'm off now to discover how RE-ACCOMMODATE found it's way into the news last week.
Look above for "name game" insights.
My "peach" came from the intro to Lego's Puzzleria on Feb. 24...where that fruit was in the title of the Dessert that week. THus, I thought "AHA"......Next I digested Lego's last hint about the first, fifth, seventh etc letters being consecutive in the alphabet, and since I then knew that P was first (for PIT), I could figure out Pimento from that. OLIVE never occured to me...even though I realized the quote was from Oliver. DUH! It all makes sense now (and I'd realized that your Xma thing was due to the red and green pimento.)
DeleteOh, "Re-accommodate" was from the United Airlines disaster with their violent removal of that poor doctor, to make room for United employees to fly. I had thought for several days that Lego's hyphenated word was "non-nuclear."
DeleteHors d'Oeuvre
ReplyDeleteRE-ACCOMMODATE(DEMOCRAT CAMEO)
Appetizer
SEAN SEAN SPICER, "A SPINNER CEASES"(I like "A SINNER ESCAPES" too, VT!)
Menu
PUZZLER or PUZZLEMASTER
Ripoffs
2. THUNDER BAY(UNDER WAY)
3. WILKES-BARRE(MILKS, DAIRY)
4. FLAGSTAFF(GAG, LAUGH)
5. WOONSOCKET(MOON ROCKET)
6. THOUSAND OAKS(FRAUS AND BLOKES)
Dessert
PIT, PIMENTO?
See y'all Friday when we do it all over again!-pjb
I had OAKLAND (JOKE, HAND) for Ripoff 4.
ReplyDeleteThat's a cool alternative answer, Ron. Lego had given a hint that the city was in AZ, so that's the only reason I even came up with naything at all.
Deleteron,
DeleteI agree with VT. Excellent answer, ron! And amazingly, in the same genre: comedy.
LegoAsksWhatAreTheOdds?
This week's official answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteHors d’Oeuvre Menu
Hyphens In The News Hors d’Oeuvre:
The answer is not “re-sign”this time
A euphemistic hyphenated word has been in the news this past week. Rearrange the letters in that word to form a two-word description of any one of the following videos:
Video #1, Video #2, Video #3 Video #4
What is the two-word description, and what is the hyphenated word in the news?
Answer:
Democrat Cameo; "re-accommodate"
Appetizer Menu
News Biz Appetizer:
Parsley, not-so-sage, Rosemary Woods, and thyme to go?
Name a person lately in the news whose job it is to interact with others in the news business. Write the person’s first name twice and last name once. Rearrange those 14 letters to form a possible editorial headline – containing, in order, 1, 7 and 6 letters – that those “others in the news business” might write if the person resigns (not re-signs) or is fired, whichever comes first.
Who is this person? What is the possible headline?
Answer:
Sean Spicer;
A spinner ceases
MENU
Shortz Circuited Slice:
What word “Will” fill in the blank?
Fill in the blank in this sequence with a word that belongs:
a, I, us, go, if, coy, zone, killjoy, _______, super-razzmatazz
Explain your selection.
Note: There are more words than just one word that can properly belong in the blank. Among the possible answers are:
A word that cannot be found in dictionaries but that can be found on the National Public Radio website and airwaves, and is familiar to fans of Will Shortz.
Another word that works as a correct answer (and is found in dictionaries) is a verbs for something Will Shortz does.
Answer:
Puzzlemaster" and "quizzer" both are correct ninth words.
If youadd up the Scrabble letters of eachof th words in "puzzlemaster" or "quizzer" you will get a sum of 34, the ninth number in the Fibonacci Sequence: (0), 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55,...
The words: a, I, us, go, if, coy, zone, killjoy, puzzlemaster/quizzer, super-razzmatazz, respectively, have Scrabble values of:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteRipping Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Creature from the brackish lagoon
Will Shortz’s April 9nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Joseph Young, reads:
Name a well-known U.S. city in two words. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it and you’ll name a large sea creature in two words. What is it?
Answer:
Manta Ray (Santa Fe)
Puzzleria’s Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ONE:
Name a somewhat well-known eastern U.S. city in two words. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it and the result will be how you would describe anything belonging to the late great Richard Lane.
What is this city?
Answer:
White Plains, NY;
(Richard) Night Train's (Lane)
TWO:
Name a somewhat well-known Canadian city in two words. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it and you’ll name a two-word adverb (sometimes written as one word) meaning “afoot” or “in progress.”
What is this city?
Answer:
Thunder Bay, (Ontario);
(underway)
THREE:
Name a somewhat well-known eastern U.S. city in two words. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it and you’ll name something a farmer does and the type of farmer he/she is because he/she does it.
What is this city? What is it the farmer does?
Note: the city’s name contains some punctuation, and the pronunciation of its second word is somewhat disputed. The pronunciation I used in the puzzle is reportedly how the local residents pronounce it.
Answer:
Wilkes-Barre, (PA)
Milks; (Dairy)
FOUR:
Name a somewhat well-known western U.S. city that is a two-syllable compound word. Replace each of these words with a word that rhymes with it and you’ll name something a performer delivers from the stage, and the hoped-for reaction from the audience.
What is this city? What is delivered and what is the reaction?
Answer:
Flagstaff, (AZ)
gag; laugh
FIVE:
Name a not-so-well-known northeastern U.S. city that is a three-syllable word. If you replace the first syllable with a word that rhymes with it and replace the second and third syllables with a two-syllable word that rhymes with it, you’ll name a two-word description of Luna 2, Surveyor 3 or Apollo 11.
What is this city? What is the two-word description?
Answer:
Woonsocket, (RI);
Moon rocket
SIX:
Name a somewhat well-known western U.S. city in two words and three total syllables. Replace each of these syllables with a syllable that rhymes with it and you’ll name a three-word description of what you would have seen at a 1960’s Beatles concert with Ruth Brandin, Ina Martell and the Pop Dollies as the opening acts.
What is this city? What is the three-word description?
Answer:
Thousand Oaks, (CA);
Fraus and blokes
Dessert Menu
Too Tough To Swallow Dessert
Ingestion or indigestion?
Name something very seldom ingested (except perhaps by accident) that is often removed from an item of food. So, remove it. But don't throw it away. Instead, stuff three consecutive letters inside of it, and then tack one letter onto its end.
The result something usually ingested that often replaces the thing that is very seldom ingested.
What is this item of food? What are the seldom ingested, and the often ingested things found within the food item?
Answer:
Olive ; pit; pimento
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