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Welcome to our October 27th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
On our menus this week are:
⇓ One “duodramatic” Appetizer,
⇓ One “ericarchitectural” Slice, and
⇓ One “anagrammatic” Dessert.
Please enjoy.
Oscarina Appetizer:
Duodrama
Name an Oscar-nominated actress.
Move the last letter of her last name to its beginning, and remove the last letter of her first name.
The result is a two-word hit song title by a musical duo.
What is this song title, and who is this actress?
Eric Architect Slice:
Security’s familiar ring
Eric Cathcote, an architect who is also an inventor and entrepreneur, invents a keyless titanium-deadbolt security system for residences in which doors and windows can be opened only by using a patented smart phone app accessible via a personalized passcode.
Eric begins a house-building business and also begins building his brand. He creates advertising that touts and guarantees the integrity and security of all doors and windows of his patented safeguarded houses.
Eric’s business/brand name features a hyphenated modifier and a noun which together total 13 letters. When the brand is spoken aloud it has a familiar ring... a ring that might just be generated by foiled, frustrated and thwarted would-be burglars at the front doorbell!
What is the name of Eric’s business and brand?
Anagrammatic Dessert
An idyll in the park
Name two words that are anagrams of one another.
Place a shorter word after one of the anagrams to form a two-word feature of one of the United States’ 417 national parks that seldom sits idle during daytime hours.
Remove an “h” from the shorter word and rearrage what remains to form a new word. Place it after the other anagram to form a two-word term for something that often idles when it is parked and which was once associated with a Parker.
What is the two-word feature of the national park?
What often idles when it is parked?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Welcome to our October 27th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!On our menus this week are:
⇓ One “duodramatic” Appetizer,
⇓ One “ericarchitectural” Slice, and
⇓ One “anagrammatic” Dessert.
Please enjoy.
Appetizer Menu
Oscarina Appetizer:Duodrama
Name an Oscar-nominated actress.
Move the last letter of her last name to its beginning, and remove the last letter of her first name.
The result is a two-word hit song title by a musical duo.What is this song title, and who is this actress?
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Eric Architect Slice:Security’s familiar ring
Eric Cathcote, an architect who is also an inventor and entrepreneur, invents a keyless titanium-deadbolt security system for residences in which doors and windows can be opened only by using a patented smart phone app accessible via a personalized passcode.
Eric begins a house-building business and also begins building his brand. He creates advertising that touts and guarantees the integrity and security of all doors and windows of his patented safeguarded houses.
Eric’s business/brand name features a hyphenated modifier and a noun which together total 13 letters. When the brand is spoken aloud it has a familiar ring... a ring that might just be generated by foiled, frustrated and thwarted would-be burglars at the front doorbell!What is the name of Eric’s business and brand?
Dessert Menu
Anagrammatic Dessert
An idyll in the park
Name two words that are anagrams of one another.
Place a shorter word after one of the anagrams to form a two-word feature of one of the United States’ 417 national parks that seldom sits idle during daytime hours.
Remove an “h” from the shorter word and rearrage what remains to form a new word. Place it after the other anagram to form a two-word term for something that often idles when it is parked and which was once associated with a Parker.What is the two-word feature of the national park?
What often idles when it is parked?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
So, lego, are you planning on taking Smitten trick-or-treating this year? (I hope I don't end up having to apologize for these hints.)
ReplyDeleteHowdy of a very warm Friday here on the West Coast.
ReplyDeleteSheer grit in going through a list finally led me to the Appetizer solution [because as I say so nauseatingly often, I never heard of the song.]
More interestingly, I THINK I came up with the Dessert solution, although I am not absolutely sure (the "Parker" connection is dubious)...but I love the two anagrams, and the other two requirements seem to work.
I don't think I'm going to get anywhere on the Slice.....and I surely don't see any 'hints' in Paul's post above.
I don't understand Paul's hints either, VT. Too tough for me to 'scrute.
DeleteSmitten, of course, is my black-and-white-and-rude-all-over kitten. She is sweet, but not sufficiently sweet to carry around in my Halloween bag of goodies... so I guess the cat is outta the bag.
"Cheshire cat," as you know, could be a hint for the Appetizer.
Not a cat but a pooch is associated with the answer to the Slice.
No cats or dogs that I am aware of are associated with the Dessert.
You likely have the Dessert answer. Transposing just two letters in one of the anagram words will result in forming the second anagram word. The "Parker" is a surname.
LegoWhoIsSmittenWithMeowlloween
Hmmmmm, Lego Meowlloween (that's cute!)...I do NOT think I have the correct Dessert answer, because my two anagrams don't vary by only a transpose of two letters. I guess I'll keep looking.
DeleteBUt thanks for letting me know i'm not alone in being non-plussed (is that the correct term?) by Paul's "hints."
Using the 'pooch' clue, I've now got a 12-letter answer for the Slice, but I simply can't come up with a 13-letter one.
DeleteUNLESS I make it PLURAL?
DeleteOOH, I just got the RIGHT answer for the Dessert!
DeleteYes, VT, plural is not a bad idea for the Slice. Congrats also on the Dessert.
DeleteLegoThinksThat"Plus"IsTo"Plural"As"Minus"IsTo"Minural"(WhichEquals"Singular")
I wasn't thinking about you carrying Smitten around in a bag, lego. If she needs a conveyance, perhaps you could shuttle her from door to door in a wheelbarrow.
ReplyDeleteFinally, a Paul-hint that I get!
DeleteExcellent suggestion, Paul. I shall plop Smitten down smack-dab in the bed of the wheelbarrow and wheel her around, parking her at each doorbell. Just so people on our "neighborhood itinerary" know, Smitten is partial to buckeyes (YES!), blanched almonds and turkey and chicken grizzards.
LegoSaysARolling1934FordSedanGathersJustABitOfMossButAWholeLottaLead
Do I see a unicorn? Is that even within the range of possibility?
ReplyDeleteChigago was not a unicorn act... more like tricorn. Now this was a unicorn act.
DeleteLegoCornucopious
Unicorn? What on earth? I have answers for all three, and can't remotely even guess at what a unicorn would have to do with any of them, Paul. Am frustrated that I never know what you are talking about.
DeleteOr did you mean as a costume for Smittens?
DeleteNo, I didn't imagine Smitten as a unicorn, but I did run a quick scan of dog names.
DeleteHello everyone! I'm a little late commenting because yesterday, due to my state of incapacitation, I just didn't feel like it. A few weeks ago, my hiatal hernia got worse and I was in intense, debilitating pain all through my body. After all that, I now feel like I'm starving to death and weak, and I have dizziness which just won't go away. I've been getting more nourishment, but it doesn't seem enough to combat the dizziness which began last week. Also, it's been two weeks and I'm too dizzy to shower, so I haven't been outside. The big problem is trying to keep my food down. I woke up especially nauseated, and have gagged a few times while eating. I hope to feel much better soon. Anything else would be better than this. I've seen my doctor, but she wasn't much help. Anyway, regardless of all that I have managed to check this week's puzzles(no Ripoffs? Weird!), and so far I have the first one, but not the other two. BTW I like the song and much of the duo's music. Too bad they really only have a working relationship by now, but at least they can still perform together. I hope neither one gets as bad off as I am right now. I wouldn't wish what I'm going through on my worst enemy.
ReplyDeleteRe the dizziness, pjb: if you have 'otoliths', which are tiny pieces of calcium or something that can DISLODGE, which they may well have if you've been throwing up a lot.....they can cause this massive dizziness (once again, I know)....so the 'fix' for them is the EPPLEY maneuver. I've seen/heard different versions of this (one was on a rerun just last night of Doc Martin), but my doctor's instructions were for 45 seconds for each maneuver (unlike the 5 minutes Doc Martin instructed).
DeleteIf the dizziness seems in the right ear, sit up and look 45 degrees to the right, counting to 45; then without looking around, lie back...prop shoulders in back on a pillow...and keep looking 45 degrees to the right.
NEXT, turn head 90 degrees, i.e. 45 degrees to the left; hold for 45 seconds. Lastly, turn over (going left) 45 degrees into the pillow/bed whatever you are on. It isn't an imediate cure, but the idea is to dislodge the wretched little particles from the wrong place where they are now.
If you are also (or otherwise) dizzy on the LEFT side, do everything in reverse. Of course, you can also look this up online...but who knows WHAT version you would find.
I hope this could help you, at least with the dizzy part. THe OTHER thing I used to do was CAREFULLY with a Q tip , put a little vinegar in each ear (be careful not to puncture anything.)
Please post if/when you read this.
I forgot to mention, you are supposed to do the Eppley several times per day, until it seems that the dizziness has gone.
DeleteAnd it surely seems to me like you have a crummy doctor (sorry, but this is ridiculous.) He/she should be sending you, like I posted before, to a GASTROENTEROLOGIST. You should have an upper GI set of tests, and who knows what else.
DeleteI sure hope you can lick this malaise, cranberry. It sounds to me like VT has some knowledge that may well be helpful. I defer to her apparent medical savvy.
DeletePerhaps a second medical professional opinion may be beneficial also. No one deserves to be in misery.
The Slice involves a literary allusion.
The Dessert, like the Slice, involves architecture, but of a more geometical bent.
LegoHopingForHealthForPatrick
Gee, Lego, my Slice answer does NOT involve architecture, so I guess it must not be your answer (I like it, however.) So unless I get some 'bolt' of inspiration, that will be the only Slice answer you hear from me next Wednesday.
DeleteMy 'medical savvy' as you call it comes from having experienced all this crap.....the dizzy spells, the hiatal hernia 'burning' up the esophagus, ripped knee meniscusi(?) and much more. By early next year, I will ALSO be familiar with knee replacements!
I am really upset that Patrick's medical care seem to be so awful/negligent. Do they not have ANY decent doctors where he lives?
VT,
DeleteThe Slice involves architecture only inasmuch as Eric Cathcote is an architect... (How did I choose that name?)
LegoWhoConcursWithViolinTeddy'sUpsettiness
My doctor is fine. She knows what she's doing, or she wouldn't be in the business. The dizziness may well be from my not having much to eat lately. We're trying to rectify that, certainly. But if I went to my doctor later today and told her to prescribe something for the dizziness, I'm sure she would do it to the best of her abilities. Thank God the pain went away, though. But I won't have you guys disparaging her competence like this. She is a fine, nice lady and deserves respect as anyone of the medical profession should.
ReplyDeleteBoy, pjb, you sure know how to punch people in the stomach who are merely trying to help you and/or be sympathetic. From now on, I won't bother.
DeletePatrick, we are simply concerned about your health.
DeleteLego...
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh. Just defending my doctor, that's all. At this rate it seems like nothing can help my dizziness. It's driving me insane. Everything I find online says ginger could help me, but the only ginger we have around here is in some gingerbread cookies. I tried one and it didn't work. I will have to go back to the doctor and see if she can prescribe something. I think ultimately my only solution may be surgery. I'll keep you posted. But I didn't mean to hurt anyone with my previous comment. I'm not sure I could handle doing what VT described. Just leave my doctor out of this, okay? I still need her help.
ReplyDeleteWhere do I begin?
ReplyDeleteThe Irish Rovers sang about a unicorn and a Range Rover is a kind of car. I'm not sure I'd choose a Range Rover as a getaway car (maybe a little too recognizable). If I needed to get away from a flood, I'd choose an ark, which sounds like arc, which is to say a mathematical curve. Something like a catenary arch, like the one in St. Louis, or the arch in a black Halloween cat's back. Or maybe you have a cat who loves dancing. In that case, you should find an actress with a five-letter first name, remove the last letter, and change the second letter from an A to a U; just to dress that cat ballerina up right. Whose daughter would that actress be? Certainly not Steve McQueen's.
"No-Key Approver" can't be a correct answer because I see no literary allusion in it, but I like it anyway. See, it's an APP which takes the place of a watchdog named ROVER, and it APPROVEs your entry to a house, provided you enter the correct passcode on your Nokia phone (which PROVEs you have a legitimate right to enter).
Now I really do have to say I'm sorry for leading you up a blind alley and back down again.
APPETIZER: SARAH MILES => SARA SMILE by HALL & OATES
ReplyDeleteSLICE: WI-FI WATCHDOGS {Clearly, the business is SECURITY.]
DESSERT: GETAWAY and GATEWAY => GATEWAY ARCH and GETAWAY CAR [Alternate answer (the one I had first): ANTLER ARCH and RENTAL CAR ]
Appetizer
ReplyDeleteSARAH MILES, SARA SMILE by Daryl Hall and John Oates
Sorry, that's all I got.-pjb
Paul, nice job of tying all three far-fetched puzzles together. You are good at finding rainbow connections... and connections in general.
DeleteVT, I like your ANTLER ARCH and RENTAL CAR answer for the Dessert immensely. You deserve two lapel pins!
Patrick, no shame in batting .333 this week. The Slice is proving to be nigh unhittable... as least as far as my "intended" answer goes.
And, of course, you were "playing hurt." Gutty, spunky performance, I'd say.
LegoGloatingOverHisHaulAndFeelingHisOats
My Slice answer, well....I tried to think that the frustrated burglars would be saying, "WHY FIND WATCHDOGS?"
DeleteI don't quite understand why they would say, "Sherlock Holmes".
You are correct VT. I tried to get a bit too cute by half at the end of the puzzle. I apologize. I wrote:
DeleteEric’s business/brand name features a hyphenated modifier and a noun which together total 13 letters. When the brand is spoken aloud it has a familiar ring... a ring that might just be generated by foiled, frustrated and thwarted would-be burglars at the front doorbell!.
Eric's brand is "Sure-Lock Homes," which of course has a familiar ring to it because everybody's heard of Sherlock Holmes.
When I went a step too far and confusingly added:
... a ring that might just be generated by foiled, frustrated and thwarted would-be burglars at the front doorbell!, I was thinking that the burglars would throw up their hands in defeat and generate a ring by actually ringing the doorbell... and then perhaps mugging the homeowner who might foolishly answer the bell and open the door.
I know. Dumb.
LegoGoingOverboard
Wow! I don't think I would have EVER come up with that scenario!
DeleteThis week's official answers, for the record:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Oscarina Appetizer:
Duodrama
Name an Oscar-nominated actress.
Move the last letter of her last name to its beginning, and remove the last letter of her first name.
The result is a two-word hit song title by a musical duo.
What is this song title, and who is this actress?
Answer:
"Sara Smile" (by Hall & Oates), Sarah Miles
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Eric Architect Slice:
Security’s familiar ring
Eric Cathcote, an architect who is also an inventor and entrepreneur, invents a keyless titanium-deadbolt security system for residences in which doors and windows can be opened only by using a patented smart phone app accessible via a personalized passcode.
Eric begins a house-building business and also begins building his brand. He creates advertising that touts and guarantees the integrity and security of all doors and windows of his patented safeguarded houses.
Eric’s business/brand name features a hyphenated modifier and a noun which together total 13 letters. When the brand is spoken aloud it has a familiar ring... a ring that might just be generated by foiled, frustrated and thwarted would-be burglars at the front doorbell!
What is the name of Eric’s business and brand?
Answer:
Sure-Lock Homes (Sherlock Holmes)
Dessert Menu
Anagrammatic Dessert
An idyll in the park
Name two words that are anagrams of one another.
Place a shorter word after one of the anagrams to form a two-word feature of one of the United States’ 417 national parks that seldom sits idle during daytime hours.
Remove an “h” from the shorter word and rearrage what remains to form a new word. Place it after the other anagram to form a two-word term for something that often idles when it is parked and which was once associated with a Parker.
What is the two-word feature of the national park?
What often idles when it is parked?
Answer:
Gateway Arch (on the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial;
Getaway car (like the one Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow used while robbing banks)
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