Friday, January 5, 2018

Bob Dylan singing Noel = boy band! Wolff inn Boo-Peepp’s clothingg? Insert Desserts Into Our Mouths! Eagles and Tigers, "Potweetus," oh my! An uncommon commonality

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Welcome to our January 5th 2018 edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Our featured puzzles this week are an octet of Riffing-Off-Shortz-And-Berry-Slices. That’s “Berry” as in Patrick J. Berry (whose screen name is “cranberry”), a regular contributor of cryptic crosswords and other excellent word puzzles here on our Puzzleria! blog. 
This is the third time in the 2017 calendar year that Will Shortz has honored and recognized the excellence of one of Patrick’s puzzling creations by using in on the National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle segment. Congratulations, Patrick!
Our 8 ⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓ Puzzleria! Riff-offs this week, alas, pale in comparison to Patrick’s puzzle when it comes to cleverness and elegance. Thus, we choose to characterize our efforts as a triumph of Quantity over Quality.
Also on our menus are:
2 ⇓⇓Appetizers: one about a publication getting a bit of publicity, and another asking what uncommon characteristic certain cities share in common;
1 ⇓ Slice about West Wingnuts; and
1 ⇓ vowelly Dessert to stick in your craw.
Wecome to Puzzleria! 2018, a place where you can have “a lot of fun!” And remember to “Think Good, It’s Friday!”


Appetizer Menu

Next Week’s News Appetizer:
Wolff inn Boo-Peepp’s clothingg?

Here is the first paragraph of a news story that may appear in the media sometime next week:
“Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff, was originally scheduled to go on sale today. That on-sale date was moved ahead four days, however, becoming availalble for purchase last ______. The book figuratively  ____ ___ the shelves, prompting Publisher Henry Holt & Co. to increase its press ___ from five figures to six figures, perhaps even one million.

Select four words in the first sentence of the news paragraph. Rearrange this pool of 16 letters to form the four words that belong in the paragraph’s four blanks. The blank words, in order, are 6, 4, 3 and 3 letters long.

Municipal Property Appetizer:
An uncommon commonality

Fort Collins, Naperville, Broken Arrow, Albany, Kodiak, Hilo, Rancho Cucamonga, Portland, and Lafayette are nine U.S. cities that share a somewhat uncommon property in common. 
What is this property? Can you name another city with this property?
Hint: Topeka seems like an tenth city that might share this property, but it does not.


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West Wingnuts White House Slice:
Eagles and Tigers, “Potweetus,” oh my!


Solve the following three clues:
1. An informal word for someone with an office in the West Wing of the White House (4 letters). 
2. An informal word for senators and representatives who often visit the West Wing of the White House (4 letters).
3. Belonging to a Cooperstown-plaqued Tiger or a handlebar-mustachioed legal eagle with a roost in the West Wing of the White House (3 letters).
Rearrange these 11 letters to form an epithetic nickname, in two words, that appeared in a very recent “Potweetus.”

Riffing Off Shortz And Berry Slices:
Bob Dylan singing Noel = boy band!

Will Shortz’s December 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Patrick Berry, reads:
Name a famous singer — 3 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Drop the middle letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name a variety of singing group. What is it?

Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Berry Slices read:
ONE:
Name a famous singer whose band had an association with a visual artist — 3 letters in the singer’s first name, 4 letters in the last. Drop an interior letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name what rowdy fans might have shouted during the singer’s more subdued songs. Who is this singer?
TWO:
Name the famous visual artist in Puzzle # ONE, above — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Drop the last letter of the first name and rearrange the result to name 4-letter and 5-letter words that fit into the blanks in the following sentence: 
“In the visual artist’s reinterpretation of Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ a rectangular golden ___ is _____, superimposed over the face of Jesus.” 
What words belong in the blanks?
THREE:
Name a famous singer — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Drop the penultimate and antepenultimate letters of the last name and move the third letter of the last name to the end of the first name. 
Now move the altered last name in front of the altered first name. 
The result is what people might do after hearing a “B-2.” 
Who is this singer?
FOUR: 
Name a famous singer — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. 
Drop either the first letter of the first name or the penultimate letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name a word in a 1933 recording by the singer, and a synonym of the first half of that word. 
Who is this singer?
FIVE:
Name a famous singer — 7 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Drop the final letter of the first name and rearrange the result to name the title of a Christmas carol. Who is this singer?
SIX:
Name a famous singer — 2 letters in the first name, 7 letters in the last. 
Drop the penultimate letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name a 2-word epithet, in 3 and 5 letters, that a midwestern band called a contemporary American female novelist in a song title. 
Who is this singer?
SEVEN:
Name a famous singer — 9 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. Drop either the last letter of the first name or either the first or last letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name where in church this singer, if she were at least 30 years older, might have knelt as as a girl. Who is this singer?
Extra credit: Britney Spears was reared in a family of Southern Baptists. But, given her nomination (first and last names), what denomination of Protestants perhaps ought better have reared her?
(Note: This denomination is reportedly best in prayer.)
EIGHT:
Name a famous singer — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. You cannot rearrange those letters, using all ten, to form other words. Now try dropping any one of the ten letters, leaving nine. In all ten of those combinations the nine letters, using all nine, cannot be rearranged to form other words. Who is this singer?


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Vowelly Idiomatic Dessert:
Insert Desserts Into Our Mouths!

Only one of the seven words in a familiar English idiom begins with a consonant. The initial letters of the final three words of the idiom spell a prefix that pertains to the key word in the idiom, a noun. 
What is this idiom?

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38 comments:

  1. About as useful as old odds and ends...

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    1. Or, "about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike."

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    2. Nice vowelly idioms, ron!

      LegoWhoSaysBothOfTheseFineIdiomsFromronMightWellApplyToSomeoneWhomVladimirPutinConsidersAUsefulIdiot

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    3. Don't put All One's Easter Eggs In One basket!

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    5. Please "do it all over and over again."

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    6. All in all, it is about as useful as an over-sized elephant... (12)

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  2. Happy Friday everyone!
    Got a haircut today. Wish I could show you how much better I look now. It was long overdue. At present I have both Appetizers and the Menu. BTW thanks Lego, for the kind words up top. Even I didn't expect to have a third idea of mine to be picked by Will Shortz, but what a great way to end the year! As for your Ripoffs of my original idea, my progress goes as follows:
    I have #1-5(and noticed one singer's name used twice, but I won't say which); for #6 I've come up with three singers whose names fit the description, but I've never heard of the Midwestern band or the female novelist or the song title; I have the singer for #7, but can't figure out the anagram(but am quite familiar with Britney's connection to the extra credit answer); as far as #8 and the dessert, I'll take any hint you can throw at me. I'm stumped. Otherwise, great puzzles this week!

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  4. Lego, I was cruising along nicely until I hit the third Riff Off.....on which I am still stuck.

    But my question is about Riff Off #4. I found an answer that requires NOT removing the "first letter of the first name" or the 'penultimate letter of the last name." Indeed, one NEEDS that letter in order to arrive at the word in the song (although I haven't been able to verify 1933 as the year of the recording, even though 'other' info seems to suggest it's about right), and then the synonym for the first half of the word.

    Could you please check into this? Thanks....

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    1. VT,
      I am reasonably sure you have the correct answer for Riff-Off #4. The "first letter of the first name" and the 'penultimate letter of the last name" are the same letter.
      You need one of those two letters to form the synonym of the first half of the word in the 1933 recording. Incidentally, the second half of the word in the 1933 recording rhymes with "sing."
      Hope that adds some clarity.
      You may be having trouble solving Riff-Off #3 because of a goof I have just now corrected. The correction is in the form of added text printed in blue. Sorry about being so sloppy with my wording.
      I will reel out hints as the weekend progresses.

      LegoIsConfidentThatViolinTeddyIsLikelyOnTopOfThesePuzzles

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    2. RE RIff #4, Lego: but I contend that I need BOTH those 'same letters' to form the longer word [the puzzle says to drop one], both of said letters then occuring in the middle of the new [in song] word, and indeed,that word ending rhymes as you so indicate.

      I will now go check out your correction for #3. Thanks...

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    3. Oooh, I finally realized that the same singer, with a different song, I can move all the letters around and at last get what must be your answer, WITH removal of one of the duplicate letters, as you intended. BUt I'll still list the variation I had before.

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  5. Indeed, I remain unable to solve Riff #3, or the Dessert...but seem to have everything else, UNLESS my concern about Riff#4 is wrong...then I'm stuck on it, too.

    These puzzles WERE really fun!

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  6. Lego, I JUST STUMBLED UPON THE IDIOM for the Dessert!!! I am SO excited!

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  7. ROLL TIDE! BAMA JUST BEAT GEORGIA 26-23! COACH NICK SABAN NOW HAS SIX CHAMPIONSHIP WINS AND TIES BEAR BRYANT! ALREADY I CAN HEAR THE SPECTATORS SINGING QUEEN'S "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS"! YOU BETTER KNOW IT!!!!!!!YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Congrats, cranberry. You have had a lot to celebrate lately. The Tide is indeed a deserving champ.
      Ironically, had the Wisconsin Badgers beaten Ohio State in the Big 10 Championship, they would have been the fourth seed in the tournament, edging out 'Bama for that spot. So I guess Nick and his Crimson Crew can thank my home state's failure for their success this year.
      Or, had the Badgers been the fourth seed, perhaps THEY would have gone on beat Clemson and Georgia!

      LegoSaysTheTideMayRollButOurBadgersBurrow!

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  8. Hints:

    ROSABS:
    SIX:
    I had never heard of the Midwestern band or their song title either. The female novelist shares a surname with a character actor known for his western roles and one particular military role in a comedy movie.
    SEVEN:
    To figure out the anagram it helps if you are a Roman Catholic, in particular, a Pre-Vatican-II Roman Catholic.
    EIGHT:
    The famous singer was in an equally famous "boy band" (definitely not a "boy bland!"), one that in a "literally mixed-up" way has something in common with Jacksonville this past Sunday, January 7th.

    VID:
    The word that begins with the consonant is the most commonly used English-language word. (It accounts for 7 out of every 100 words). Two of the letters in the prefix are the same letter, and appear as an initial letter in 42.8% of the words in the idiom.

    LegoYourUnleavenedHost

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    1. Sob....Lego, but where is the hint for Riff #3 ?

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    2. Sorry, 'bout that, ViolinTeddy.
      First off, both images accompanying the puzzle are red herrings.
      To solve this puzzle, don't get your dauber down... or, rather, don't put your dauber down.
      Instead of:
      The result is what people might do after hearing a “B-2...”
      I could have written:
      The result is what people might do after hearing the answer to "What's the best route to take to get from Memphis to Birmingham?"

      LegoWhoIsJustABoulderRollingFromMemphisToBirmingham

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    3. I'm completely worn out from this puzzle, but I finally got it...had never tried the correct singer because ...well, I won't say.....but I WILL say that the hint did NOT help me (in fact, I still don't understand the Memphis to B'ham thing)....Now I can go to bed happy.

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    4. VT,
      Q: "What's the best route to take to get from Memphis to Birmingham?"
      A: "I-22..."
      "_ _ _ _ _!"
      Sorry this was a draining exercise for you. That is never my intent.

      LegoUnderstatingInterstatingAndUndertakingToBeUnderstanding

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    5. Ah, I understand now, for sure!

      I am just relieved that I no longer have to ponder/drive myself nuts trying to solve this puzzle, while out walking, or waiting to fall asleep, etc.....but no apology required, Lego!

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  9. By any chance is an extra L added to the anagram in #7?

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    1. I don't believe so, cranberry. There is but one L... it's in the singer's surname.
      The place where a young pre-Vatican II Catholic girl (or boy or adult) may have knelt, say in the 1950s, is one of the few places in church where it was appropriate to stick out one's tongue!
      This place is a two-word term of 9 and 7 letters, beginning with an E and an R, respectively... and reverently.

      LegoWhoCannotSpeakInTonguesButDidOncePartakeOfStarkCandies"InTongues"

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  10. I got it, but I was surer of the first word than the second. No real listing of the phrase itself when I checked the Internet.

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  11. DESSERT:

    One out of all ordinary idioms in English is: "In one ear and out the other." (oto- = ear)

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    1. Fantastic, ron!
      LegoDeclaresron"ChampionOfAllVowels"

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  12. Fire and Fury Wolff >> Friday flew off run

    veep pols ty's >> sloppy Steve

    Lou Reed >> louder

    Andy Warhol >> halo drawn

    Bing Crosby >> cry bingo

    Bing Crosby >> crying sob

    Slim Pickens (?)

    Christina Aguilera (?)
    Britney Spears >> Presbyterian

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  13. APPETIZER "NEWS": FIRE, AND, FURY, WOLFF => "FRIDAY; FLEW OFF; RUN" [FUN! DONE BACKWARDS, of course]

    APPETIZER "PROPERTY": POSTAL ABBREVIATION OF STATE IS CONTAINED IN THOSE CITIES' NAMES. 10TH: MEDFORD, OR (I used to live there} And how about WALLA WALLA, WA; WASHOUGAL, WA; WAPATO, WA; CALABASAS, CA; LA CANADA, CA; FRANKLIN, IN; WASHINGTON, IN; PRINCETON, IN; BIRMINGHAM, MI etc etc etc.

    MENU WEST WINGNUTS SLICE: VEEP; POLS; TY'S => SLOPPY STEVE

    RIFF OFFS:

    1. LOU REED [The Velvet Underground/Andy Warhol] => LOUDER

    2. ANDY WARHOL => HALO and DRAWN

    3. BING CROSBY => CRY BINGO [AT LAST!]

    4. My variation: BING CROSBY => SOB/BING and CRY in Song: " Lady of Spain"; INTENDED ANSWER : CRYING and SOB in Song: "You've Got Me Crying Again"

    5. BEVERLY SILLS minus "Y" => SILVER BELLS

    6. BO DIDDLEY minus "E" => BODIDDLY => OLD BIDDY [re JOYCE CAROL OATES]

    7. CHRISTINA AGUILERA minus "A" => EUCHARIST RAILING [HOW did you ever come up with this one, Lego?}

    EXTRA CREDIT: BRITNEY SPEARS => PRESBYTERIANS

    8. JOHN LENNON

    DESSERT: IN ONE EAR AND OUT THE OTHER !!!!!! OTO refers to EAR

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    1. Great work, ron, Paul and VT.
      Regarding "Eucharist Railing," my intended answer to ROSABS #7 (that both VT and Patrick apparently slogged through to solve), Patrick is correct about the term not being on the Internet. The Internet does not preserve ALL history, however... at least not yet. "Eucharist railing" was common parlance in my parish, Notre Dame, when I was an alter boy. All three of our priests used it: Father Hansen, Father Cashman and Father Binkowski, along with the occasional "Communion railing." (That was back in the days when there were three priests per parish instead of three parishes per priest!)

      LegoWhoWasJustATowheadedBoyRecitingPrayersAtTheFootOfTheAltar

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  14. Appetizer
    Part 1: FIRE AND FURY, WOLFF; FRIDAY, FLEW OFF, RUN
    Part 2: All of the cities' names contain the postal abbreviations of their respective states: Fort COllins, Colorado
    NapervILle, Illinois
    BrOKen Arrow, Oklahoma
    AlbaNY, New York
    KodiAK, Alaska
    HIlo, Hawaii
    Rancho CuCAmonga, California
    PORtland, Oregon
    LAfayette, Louisiana
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    1. VEEP
    2. POLS
    3. TYS
    "SLOPPY STEVE", Trump's new nickname for Steve Bannon
    Riffoffs
    1. LOU REED, "LOUDER!"
    2. ANDY WARHOL, HALO, DRAWN
    3. BING CROSBY, CRY "BINGO!"
    4. BING CROSBY(What, again?),CRYING, SOB
    5. BEVERLY SILLS, "SILVER BELLS"
    7. CHRISTINA AGUILERA, EUCHARIST RAILING
    I thought of Al Martino, Al Stewart, Ed Sheeran, and El DeBarge. Bo Diddley never crossed my mind.-pjb

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  15. I also only got as far as Warren Oates(Sgt. Hulka in Stripes)to get Joyce Carol Oates. The Lawrence Arms(?)recorded a song called "Joyce Carol Oates Is An Old Biddy". Just found it.

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  16. Also, BRITNEY SPEARS can be rearranged to spell PRESBYTERIANS. Almost forgot, and it's not the first time I've ever noticed that anagram either!

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

    Appetizer Menu

    Next Week’s News Appetizer:
    Wolff inn Boo-Peepp’s clothingg?
    Here is the first paragraph of a news story that may appear in the media sometime next week:
    “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff, was originally scheduled to go on sale today. That on-sale date was moved ahead four days, however, to ______. The book ____ ___ the shelves, prompting Publisher Henry Holt & Co. to increase its press ___ from five figures to six figures, perhaps even one million.
    Select four words in the first sentence of the paragraph. Rearrange this pool of 16 to form the four words that belong in the paragraph’s four blanks. The blank words, in order, are 6, 4, 3 and 3 letters long.
    Answer:
    Friday; flew off; run...
    which can be formed by rearranging the words:FIRE AND FURY and WOLFF

    Municipal Property Appetizer:
    An uncommon commonality
    Fort Collins, Naperville, Broken Arrow, Albany, Kodiak, Hilo, Rancho Cucamonga, Portland, and Lafayette are nine U.S. cities that share a somewhat uncommon property in common.. What is this property? Can you name another city with this property?
    Hint: Topeka seems like an tenth city that might share this property, but it does not.
    Answer: The two-letter postal abbreviation of the state where the city is situated appears consecutively somewhere in the name of the city. A few other U.S. cities with this property are CArlsbad and LanCAster in CAlifornia, PonchatouLA in LouisianA, and FranklIN in INdiana.
    Hint: The "ka" that ends Topeka is not the postal code of Kansas. Kansas's postal code is KS, not KA.

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    West Wingnuts White House Slice:
    Eagles and Tigers, “Potweetus,” oh my!
    Solve the following three clues:
    1. An informal word for someone with an office in the West Wing of the White House (4 letters).
    2. An informal word for senators and representatives who often visit the West Wing of the White House (4 letters).
    3. Belonging to a Cooperstown-plaqued Tiger or a handlebar-mustachioed legal eagle with a roost in the West Wing of the White House (3 letters).
    Rearrange the 11 letters to form another epithetic nickname, in two words, that appeared in a very recent “Potweetus.”
    Answer:
    1. Veep
    2. Pols
    3. Ty's
    4. Epithetic nickname = "Sloppy Steve"

    Lego...

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Berry Slices:
    Bob Dylan singing Noel = boy band!


    Will Shortz’s December 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Patrick Berry, reads:
    Name a famous singer — 3 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Drop the middle letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name a variety of singing group. What is it?

    Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Berry Slices read:
    ONE:
    Name a famous singer whose band had an association with a visual artist — 3 letters in the singer’s first name, 4 letters in the last. Drop a middle letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name what rowdy fans might have shouted during the singer’s more subdued songs. Who is this singer?
    Answer:
    Lou Reed (Rowdy fans might shout "Louder!")
    TWO:
    Name the famous visual artist in Puzzle # ONE, above. — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Drop the last letter of the first name and rearrange the result to name a 4-letter and 5-letter words that fit into the blanks in the following sentence: “In the artist’s reinterpretation of Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ a rectangular golden ___ is _____, superimposed over the face of Jesus.”
    What words belong in the blanks?
    Answer:
    halo; drawn (Andy Warhol - y)
    THREE:
    Name a famous singer — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Drop the penultimate and antepenultimate letters of the last name and move the third letter of the last name to the end of the first name. The result is what people might do after hearing a “B-2.” Who is this singer?
    Answer:
    Bing Crosby (cry "Bingo!")
    FOUR:
    Name a famous singer — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Drop either the first letter of the first name or the penultimate letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name a word in a 1933 recording by the singer, and a synonym of the first half of that word. Who is this singer?
    Answer:
    Bing Crosby (crying, sob) "You've Got Me Crying Again"
    FIVE:
    Name a famous singer — 7 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Drop the final letter of the first name and rearrange the result to name the title of a Christmas carol. Who is this singer?
    Answer:
    Beverly Sills ("Silver Bells"... well, close enough, they're probably Silver Jingle Bells!)
    SIX:
    Name a famous singer — 2 letters in the first name, 7 letters in the last. Drop the penultimate letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name a 2-word epithet, in 3 and 5 letters, that a midwestern band called a contemporary American female novelist in a song title. Who is this singer?
    Answer:
    Bo Diddley (The Lawrence Arms sang "Joyce Carol Oates Is a Boring Old Biddy.")

    Lego...

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  19. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 3:

    Riffing Off Shortz And Berry Slice (continued)


    SEVEN:
    Name a famous singer — 9 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. Drop either the last letter of the first name or the first of last letter of the last name and rearrange the result to name where in church this singer, if she were at least 30 years older, might have knelt as as a girl. Who is this singer?
    Extra credit: Britney Spears was reared in a family of Southern Baptists. But, given her nomination, what denomination of Protestants ought better have reared her?
    Answer:
    Christina Aguilera (who, were she born in 1950 or earlier, might have knelt at a Eucharist Railing in a Roman Catholic church to receive Holy Communion).
    Extra credit:
    Presbyterians (The letters in Britney Spears can be rearranged to spell “Presbyterians.”)
    EIGHT:
    Name a famous singer — 4 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. You cannot rearrange those letters, using all ten, to form other words. Drop any one of the ten letters, leaving nine. In all ten of those combinations the nine letters, using all nine, cannot be rearranged to form other words. Who is this singer?
    Answer:
    John Lennon

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    Vowelly Idiomatic Dessert:
    Insert Desserts Into Our Mouths!
    Only one of the seven words in a familiar English idiom begins with a consonant. The initial letters of the final three words of the idiom spell a prefix that pertains to the key word in the idiom, a noun. What is this idiom?
    Answer:
    In One Ear And Out The Other ( Out The Other >> OTO: otolaryngology; otoplasty)
    IOEAOTO

    Lego...

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