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Welcome to our July 14th Bastille Day edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
July, 14, 2017 is of course also written as 7/14/17, which is palindromic. That is, its digits read the same forward and back: 71417. We are in the midst of a 10-date skein of such palindromosity which commenced this past Monday, 7/10/17, and will conclude next Wednesday, 7/19/17.
Our featured puzzle this week again comes to us courtesy of Patrick J. Berry (screen name: “cranberry”), who has been on a “puzzle roll” of late, having contributed the excellent “Wolfgang Puck (Wolf gang = Pack)” poser to last Friday’s Puzzleria!
Patrick’s latest contribution is another clever Appetizer about the “ups and downs” in the entertainment industry.
Merci beaucoup to you, Patrick, for your encore puzzling coup.
Also on this week’s menus are:
🔻A trio of FACTUAL and ACTUAL yet FALSE Ripping-Off-Shortz And Eiger Slices,
🔻A fourth Slice that takes you on a worldwide tour,
🔻A Dessert lacking a caption for an image captured on canvas,
🔻And a second helping of Dessert about questionable opioid usage by a page with a whole Camelotta knighthood aspirations.
So, please enjoy... without using mood-altering substances, of course.
Appetizer Menu
Meeting Entertainment Royalty In Elevators Appetizer:
The Billy Crudups and Lesley-Anne Downs of the entertainment industry
Think of two words, each which means “to go up and down.” Add a letter to the end of one of the words to name a famous entertainer.
Who is this entertainer?
Hint: The entertainer’s first name at birth is shared by an Oscar best actress nominee’s first name at birth. (Both were in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on that Oscar night, in different roles.) Their birth first name is also shared by the birth first name of a very powerful person who made philanthropic appearances with the entertainer.
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Global Itinerary Slice:
Kinsasha, Juba, Walla Walla...
Consider the cities on the following list:
Paris, France;
Cleveland, Ohio;
Moscow, Russia;
Memphis, Tennessee;
Birmingham, England;
Toronto, Canada;
Tulsa, Oklahoma;
Juba, South Sudan;
Walla Walla, Washington;
Asuncion, Paraguay;
Kinsasha, Republic of the Congo;
Montreal, Canada;
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Duisburg, Germany;
Name one adjective that describes every city on the list. Add a capital letter to the beginning of this adjective to name a country.
Name one noun that every city on the list can claim to be (perhaps surprisingly or ironically, given the adjective you just found).
Add a letter to the beginning of this noun to name another noun. Bandy is a popular example of that other noun in the country formed from the adjective. Nest ball is another popular example.
What are the adjective and country? What are the two nouns?
Ripping Off Shortz And Eiger Slices:
A letter’s dropped off by a carrier, the mailbag has just become airier
Will Shortz’s July 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Martin Eiger of Montville, New Jersey, reads:
Take a certain 7-letter word. Remove the first letter and you get a 6-letter synonym of that word. And the letter you removed is an abbreviation of the opposite of both words. What words are these?
Puzzleria’s! Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz and Eiger Slices read:
ONE:
Take a certain 9-letter word. Remove the first letter and you get an 8-letter word that is the first of 5 words in a phrase that is synonymous with the 9-letter word. The letters in the second, third, fourth and fifth words in the phrase can be rearranged to form the phrase “the hot housewife.” And the letter you removed from the 9-letter word is the initial letter in the surname of a person who has decent odds of becoming the 9-letter word.
What words are these?
TWO:
Take a certain 7-letter word. Remove the first letter and you get a 6-letter synonym of that word... a synonym, that is, if you are passenger on the Titanic on its maiden voyage, April 13, 1912.
And the letter you removed – if you capitalize it and rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise (Could we but turn back time!) – is an abbreviation of the opposite of the 7-letter word (and the 6-letter word... if you are on the Titanic, April 13, 1912).
What words are these?
Hint: And the letter you removed, if you do not rotate it, is the initial letter of the country from which the Titanic commenced her voyage.
THREE:
Take a 2-syllable 9-letter hyphenated word consisting of a certain 7-letter word and the word “-up” after the hyphen. Replace the first letter of the 7-letter word with a D and replace the word’s short vowel sound with a different short vowel sound. Pronouncing this result aloud sounds like a 6-letter word which, when followed by the word “-up” forms an 8-letter hyphenated synonym of the 9-letter hyphenated word.
And the first letter you replaced is an abbreviation of the opposite of both hyphenated words.
What words are these?
Hint: The 9-letter hyphenated word and the word that is the opposite of both hyphenated words begin with the same three letters in the same order.
Dessert Menu
Served To You On A Tray, ron, Dessert:
Still life in the city
Write a terse 2-word 10-letter caption for the image pictured here. Write the two words sans a space between them. If you’ve got the right two words the result will be the name of a town which is in the process of becoming a city.
Hint: This municipality is the hometown of:
1. An enshrined athlete with a wonderful nickname that befits this menu.
2. A “pioneer” teacher who has an asteroid named after her, as well as craters on Venus and the moon.
3. A current member of Congress who has this past week been very much in the news.
What is the name of this soon-to-be city? Who are our three home-towners?
Fun With Gus-The-Knight-Wannabe Desenex Dessert:
Pages in the annals of opioidiatry (Opie oy DYE a tree)
The final eight words (printed in blue text) in the sentence above share a very unusual property. What is it?
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Are all of the cities in the GIS list unGary? Yes, this is supposed to be some kind of hint.
ReplyDeleteSpendid observation, Paul! Nice Opie(not Opie-oid)-in-The-Music-Man link too.
DeleteIronically, Gary could have been on my list!
Sometimes I feel as if we are all just jesters, jugglers and jokers in the royal Court of Paul!
LegoWhoSaysYouCanAlwaysCountOnPaulForSomeKindOfHint
An INLAND PORT is probably situated either on a lake (like Gary) or on a river (as I assume River City is).
DeleteI can't say I'm proud of it, but while investigating the 'still life' dessert, I was reminded of this.
ReplyDeleteTit for tat
DeleteContrary to Paul's abilities on the Global slice, I am totally, utterly befuddled. LIkewise on pjb's Appetizer, and the second dessert -- I mean, no clue!
ReplyDeleteI DID immediately get the word for Rip Off #1 (after reading the whole puzzle), and I have AN answer for #2, although I'm not quite sure how the two words are synonyms (but everything else works.)
Oh, no luck on Rip Off 3 yet, either. Not a very good start, I fear. Off to bed, it's 5 a.m. here. I'm crazy!
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteThe synonymity of the two words in ROSAES #2 does indeed hang from a bit of a tenuous thread. If the Titanic (or any other vessel) were headed in any direction other than setting-sunward, the words would not be synonymous. It's a "conditional synonym."
LegoWhoWondersIfTheHowardEverReceivedASternTongueLashingFromTheDonald
Aaah, thanks for that bit of info. I DO have the right answer then after all.
DeleteBTW, I was thinking while falling asleep early this morning, that I STILL don't understand how the philosopher clue from last week applied....the one about Kildare/Casey and Welby/Huxtable. To ZENO? What am I not grasping? (aside from straws...ha ha)
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteZeno pondered many a paradox.
Kildare/Casey were a pair o' docs. So were Welby/Huxtable. And I forgot Quinn/Howser.
LegoCommands:DoctorDuos,HealThyColleague!
Wow, LegoDoc, I NEVER would have put that together!! I guess I'm not very good at these word-jokes like everyone on Blaine's blog seems to be. Thanks
DeleteHappy Friday everyone! I hope you all enjoy my second offering in two consecutive weeks! As for my progress with this week's puzzles, I currently have the Menu puzzle with all the cities listed, as well as Ripoffs #2 and #3. Can't quite figure out "the hot housewife", or the picture that needs to be captioned, or the thing about Gus and his fungus. I will need hints for those, Lego. Gotta go, our other Kindle needs to be recharged BAD!
ReplyDeleteI finally just now solved your puzzle, PJB. The first name finally popped into ye olde head as a decent verb for the up-down.
DeleteBut I still can't work out either the Global cities puzzle, OR RIp Off #3. Or the second Dessert (I do badly with 'what unusual property do these words share? type puzzles.)
HINTS:
ReplyDeleteMERIEA:
I will defer to Patrick regarding hints for his fine puzzle.
But I will say that the entertainer and the Oscar best actress nominee (who share the same first name at birth) probably both were in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on that Oscar night, in different roles. We can find no YouTube or other internet proof that places them there together. But it is reasonably safe to assume both were present at those Academy Award ceremonies.
GIS:
I would suggest working backward to find the adjective, removing an initial letter from a country as Paul did to unearth the adjective "unGary" (which is not my intended adjective, but is 100 times better than my intended adjective!)
The two nouns may be trickier, but I would suggest working backward again, from "bandy" and "nest ball."
ROSAES:
Ripping Off Shortz And Eiger Slices:
ONE:
Were I solving this poser I first would investigate 4-word anagrams of the letters in "the hot housewife." If I found the right 4-word anagram, the first word in the 5-word phrase that is synonymous with the 9-letter word would likely emerge.
The 9-letter word and 8-letter word each contain 3 syllables.
TWO:
Remove the last letter from the certain 7-letter word to obtain not the title of a famous autor's memoir but rather an observance to which some people may erroneously believe the title alludes. In actuality, the observance to which the title alludes is not an observance at all but instead a city. Indeed, it is a city that appears in this week's Global Itinerary Slice.
THREE:
The 9-letter and 8-letter hyphenated words are both adjectives.
The 9-letter hyphenated word has a familiar ring these days. The 6-letter part of the 8-letter hyphenated word might even trip up some of those whiz kids at the Scripps Spelling Bee!
STYOATrD:
Focus :
Still life in the city
Focus on the entree, not the beverage. The town is east of the Mississip, north of the Mason-Dix.
1. The enshrined athlete with a wonderful nickname that befits this Dessert menu was a Pirate.
2. The “pioneer” teacher who has an asteroid named after her, as well as craters on Venus and the moon died young, tragically.
3. The current member of Congress who has this past week been very much in the news is a member of the Democratic Party.
FWGTKWDD:
Like the Who in an early song
The Moody Blues apparently owned one, according to some early lyrics
diaphanous
bubble-up (has pa-zazz!)
ooziness's
leaked
appeared (to be)
ranting
LegoListsTheWhOO(OneSyllable)TheMOOdyBlOOz(TwoSyllables)HOOdOOGOOrOOS(FourSyllables!OOOOhh!)
Just got Ripoff #1!
ReplyDeleteJust got Dessert #2!
ReplyDeleteJust got Dessert #1! Got the athlete, got the teacher, but the politician is still eluding me. But I know the location thanks to looking a lot closer at the picture! I'm practically done!
ReplyDeleteThanks to the hints, I managed to solve the Global slice at last...although the nouns took a while to catch on to, as well as the second dessert [never would have gotten without those hints], and just now FINALLY the third Rip Off. What threw me on #3 was that I didn't realize that when changing to the 'D", we could produce a non-word....that it was the 'sound alike' word that mattered.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I had NOT properly read the Global slice...for instance, had missed completely the part about adding a letter to the adjective to get a country....I might have gone Paul's route (i.e. backwards) had I noticed that sentence!!
I don't suppose you have a hint for this week's Sunday Puzzle, do you Lego? You sound on Blaine like you know it.
ReplyDeleteI thought we had previously agreed that it is not fair to do hints on P! for the NPR puzzle, didn't we?
ReplyDeleteYes, VT, I believe that is the best policy, and is what we had decided previously.
DeleteI have posted a few comments over on Blaine's today, but no hint. But I eventually might post a hint there. This week's puzzle is a bit easier than last week's factual/actual/false NPR puzzle.
Still, there have been many hints posted on Blaine's today, especially regarding the surname of the author.
Early this morning, at the end of the previous week's comments, SuperZee gave an excellent hint: "The author was known for being well versed."
LegoWhoWillLikelyBeCommentingFurtherOnBlainesville
SuperZee's hint prompted my sigh of relief about my joke hint which I feared might have accidentally, in some unknown manner, led to the anther, even though the title involved was one letter too long.
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ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: BOB HOPE [Birth name: LESLIE} But Leslie Caron was nominated in the Oscars that took place in 1963, a year when Bob Hope did NOT host. He hosted in 1962 and 1965, and a total of 19 times.
ReplyDeleteGLOBAL ITINERARY SLICE: INLAND => FINLAND; PORT / SPORT
RIP OFFS:
1. PRESIDENT => RESIDENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE => PENCE
2. EASTERN => ASTERN => "W" [SHORT FOR WESTERN]; [ E FOR ENGLAND]
3. TRUMPED-UP => DREMPED-UP => DREAMT-UP [Antonym: TRUE]
DESSERT #1: FRAMINGHAM, MA => HAROLD JOSEPH "PIE" TRAYNOR; CHRISTA MCAULIFFE; REP. KATHERINE CLARK
DESSERT #2: ALL WORDS CAN HAVE 'SEE' PUT IN FRONT OF THEM TO MAKE A WORD: SEEKING; SEESAW; SEE-THROUGH; SEETHE; SEEPAGE; SEEPED; SEEMED; SEETHING
John McCain reported has been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Here is how John McCain is different from our present president.
ReplyDeleteLegoThinksOurPresentPrsidentMightHaveBeenInThatAntiObamaCrowd
Appetizer
ReplyDeleteBOB HOPE(BOB HOP+E), whose real name was Leslie Townes Hope.
Menu
INLAND, FINLAND; PORT, SPORT
Ripoffs
1. PRESIDENT, "RESIDENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE"
2. EASTERN, ASTERN, W for WESTERN
3. TRUMPED-UP, DREAMT-UP(The antonym is TRUE.)
Dessert
1. FRAMINGHAM,(Massachusetts), birthplace of baseball player "Pie" Traynor, teacher Christa McAuliffe, and Rep. Catherine Clark
2. Put "see" before all the words to make new words: SEEKING, SEESAW, SEE-THROUGH, SEETHE, SEEPAGES, SEEPED, SEEMED, SEETHING.
I finally know the answer to that other puzzle, but it may have cost me some friends.-pjb
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu:
Meeting Entertainment Royalty In Elevators Appetizer:
The Billy Crudups and Lesley-Anne Downs of the entertainment industry
Think of two words, each which means “to go up and down.” Add a letter to the end of one of the words to name a famous entertainer.
Who is this entertainer?
Hint: The entertainer’s first name at birth is shared by an Oscar best actress nominee’s first name at birth. (Both were in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on that Oscar night, in different roles.) Their birth first name is also shared by the birth first name of a very powerful person who made philanthropic appearances with the entertainer.
Answer:
Bob Hope
Hint: Leslie Townes Hope (Bob Hope, "The King of the Oscars," who although not hosting at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 13, 1964, the evening Leslie Caron was nominated for best actress for "The L-Shaped Room," was present at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to give moral support and encouragement to host Jack Lemmon); Leslie Caron; Leslie Lynch King (Gerald Ford)
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Global Itinerary Slice:
Kinsasha, Juba, Walla Walla...
Consider the cities on the following list:
Paris, France;
Cleveland, Ohio;
Moscow, Russia;
Memphis, Tennessee;
Birmingham, England;
Toronto, Canada;
Tulsa, Oklahoma;
Juba, South Sudan;
Walla Walla, Washington;
Asuncion, Paraguay;
Kinsasha, Republic of the Congo;
Montreal, Canada;
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Duisburg, Germany;
Name one adjective that describes every city on the list. Add a capital letter to the beginning of this adjective to name a country.
Name one noun that every city on the list can claim to be (perhaps surprisingly or ironically, given the adjective you just found).
Add a letter to the beginning of this noun to name another noun. Bandy is a popular example of that other noun in the country formed from the adjective. Nest ball is another popular example.
What are the adjective and country? What are the two nouns?
Answer:
Inland, Finland;
Port, sport;
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU (continued)
Ripping Off Shortz And Eiger Slices:
A letter’s dropped off by a carrier, the mailbag has just become airier
ONE:
Take a certain 9-letter word. Remove the first letter and you get an 8-letter word that is the first of 5 words in a phrase that is synonymous with the 9-letter word. The letters in the second, third, fourth and fifth words in the phrase can be rearranged to form the phrase “the hot housewife.” And the letter you removed from the 9-letter word is the initial letter in the surname of a person who has decent odds of becoming the 9-letter word.
What words are these?
Answer:
President; resident (of the White House);
(President) Pence
TWO:
Take a certain 7-letter word. Remove the first letter and you get a 6-letter synonym of that word... a synonym, that is, if you are passenger on the Titanic on its maiden voyage, April 13, 1912.
And the letter you removed – if you capitalize it and rotate it 90 degrees counterclockwise (Could we but turn back time!) – is an abbreviation of the opposite of the 7-letter word (and the 6-letter word... if you are on the Titanic, April 13, 1912).
What words are these?
Hint: And the letter you removed, if you do not rotate it, is the initial letter of the country from which the Titanic commenced her voyage.
Answer:
Eastern; astern (Because the Titanic was headed westward, the stern would be on its eastern end.)
The "E" in "Eastern" rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise becomes a "W," which is an abbreviation for "Western," which is opposite of "Eastern."
Hint: Titanic commenced her voyage in England (Southampton).
THREE:
Take a 2-syllable 9-letter hyphenated word consisting of a certain 7-letter word and the word “-up” after the hyphen. Replace the first letter of the 7-letter word with a D and replace the word’s short vowel sound with a different short vowel sound. Pronouncing this result aloud sounds like a 6-letter word which, when followed by the word “-up” forms an 8-letter hyphenated synonym of the 9-letter hyphenated word.
And the first letter you replaced is an abbreviation of the opposite of both hyphenated words.
What words are these?
Hint: The 9-letter hyphenated word and the word that is the opposite of both hyphenated words begin with the same three letters in the same order.
Answer: Trumped-up; Dreamt-up (dreamed = dreamt); True
Trumped-up >> Drumped-up >> Dremped-up >> Dreamt-up
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, Part 3:
ReplyDeleteDessert Menu
Served To You On A Tray, ron, Dessert:
Still life in the city
Write a terse 2-word 10-letter caption for the image pictured here. Write the two words sans a space between them. If you’ve got the right two words the result will be the name of a town which is in the process of becoming a city.
Hint: This municipality is the hometown of:
1. An enshrined athlete with a wonderful nickname that befits this menu.
2. A “pioneer” teacher who has an asteroid named after her, as well as craters on Venus and the moon.
3. A current member of Congress who has this past week been very much in the news.
What is the name of this soon-to-be city? Who are our three home-towners?
Answer:
Framingham (framing ham), Massachusetts
Pie Traynor
Christa McAuliffe
Adam Schiff
Fun With Gus-The-Knight-Wannabe Desenex Dessert:
Pages in the annals of opioidiatry (Opie oy DYE a tree)
A knight-to-be named Gus claimed he had to take a daily opioid for his foot fungus, but the wise king saw through the page’s “ped med thing.”
The final eight words (printed in blue text) in the sentence above share a very unusual property. What is it?
Answer:
Placing the word “see” at the front of each word forms a new word:
seethe, seeking, see-saw, see-through, seethe, seepage's, seeped, seemed, seething
Lego...