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Welcome to our January 12th 2018 edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our featured puzzles this week are a octet of Riffing-Off-Shortz-And-Fogarty-Slices, most which deal with National Public Radio journalists – such as Liane Hansen, Rachel Martin, and Lulu Garcia-Navarro: three recent Weekend Edition Sunday hosts (and occasional ad hoc hinters on Will Shortz’s Puzzle segment).
Also on our menus are:
ONE ⇩ “Don We Whenever Our Gay Apparel” Appetizer;
ONE ⇩ “We make the meats!” Slice; and
ONE ⇩ “Bork meets Mork... Nanu Nanu of the North” Dessert.
Enjoy the riffs, enjoy the rest, then get some rest. And remember to have a lot of fun.
Wear, And When Appetizer:
Nightcaps? Snowshoes? Hourglasses?
Replace the final letter of a multi-syllable adjective with a different consonant. Move that new consonant to the beginning of the word.
Divide the result in half to form two nouns: the second which is worn during the first, and the first which can be described by the original adjective.
What is this adjective and what are the two nouns?
.
Missing Links Making Sausage Slice:
DACAtylic manipulation
In a meeting with lawmakers January 9, President Donald Trump encouraged Congress to pass something, in two words (adjective and noun).
On January 12, the president was scheduled to meet with someone one-on-one, hoping to pass something else, also in two words. If that passage would occur, President Trump would be given a four-word idiom that has positive connotations.
The first two words of this idiom are the same as what he urged Congress to pass. These two words’ initial letters were once (and in some circles still are) associated with the number 41. The initial letters of the third and fourth words in the idiom are two-letter postal code of a state that a state highway named Route 41 runs through.
Hint: The 19 letters in the two-word something President Trump was hoping to pass on January 12 can be rearranged to form a four-word “fake” phrase (in words of 1, 5, 8 and 5 letters) for what the chiropractors feel when they manipulate and adjust the backbones of James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.
The second, third and fourth words of this phrase begin, respectively, with an S, A and H.
What did the president encourage Congress to pass on January 9?
What did he hope to pass on January 12 and, as a result, what did he expect to be given?
Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices:
Journalists’ Jumbled Journeys
Will Shortz’s January 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty, reads:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell two modes of transport. And here’s a hint: The modes of transport have the same number of wheels. Who is the journalist, and what are the modes of transport?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices read:
ONE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. Who is the journalist, and what is this caption?
TWO:
(Note: the following riff-off puzzle slice is based on fiction... and not merely science fiction... in other words, it is fake news.)
Take the first and last names of a humorous personality well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the first name.
(Warning: Fake news immediately ahead!) The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the 4-word, 11-letter working title (alluding to a slothful automaton) of an early collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov.
Who is the humorous personality, and what is the fictitious, fake working title of Asimov’s collection of short stories?
THREE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell “critters” you can see on the gridiron in a Lone Star State showdown between teams from Dallas and Waco. Who is the journalist, and what are the critters?
FOUR:
A: Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners.
Spell it as Elmer Fudd would pronounce it by changing the first letter of the last name. Remove the first and last letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something the journalist likes to do as an avocation. And here’s a hint: The avocation is associated with the journalist’s “day job.” Who is the journalist, and what does the journalist like to do as an avocation?
B: Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a mode of transport, and certain musical instruments.
And here’s a hint: The mode of transport has the same number of wheels as each of the musical instuments has main parts (that can be disassembled for transport). And here’s another hint: The mode of transport rhymes with, and begins with the same letter as, who is usually using it.
Who is the journalist, and what are the mode of transport and musical instruments?
C: Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the last letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase for news articles written relatively recently about Pat DiNizio and Tommy Keene, but not about Pat Benatar and Tommy James. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase for these articles.
FIVE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first and third letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something that contributing NPR listeners grip in their hands, in two words totaling seven letters, and something Santa Claus grips in his hands, in one word of four letters. Who is the journalist, and what do NPR contributors and Santa grip in their hands?
SIX:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase (consisting of a comparative adjective and noun) that describes King Kong. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase?
SEVEN:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NBC watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a the name of a critter that “eats shoots and leaves” (without wounding anyone and leaving the scene of the crime... thanks to the lack of a comma after the word “eats”), and where this critter hangs out.
EIGHT:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to PBS watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two missing words in the following three-word phrase that a NPR listener might say to Dr. Shortz after solving one of his Sunday puzzles:
“____ puzzle, ____!”
Those same remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two missing words in the following five-word phrase for what an NPR listener might do to celebrate solving one of Dr. Shortz’s Sunday puzzles:
“____ a glass with ____ ”
What is the name of this journalist? What are the missing words in the two phrases?
Bork From Ork Dessert:
The incredible red edible candidate
Write in lowercase letters a compound word for something red and edible. Change the first letter to a different letter so that the pronunciation of the word does not change (but is just spelled wrong). Place a mirror image of the middle letter to the left of the middle letter. Divide the result exactly in half.
Interchange the initial letters of these two equal parts to form a two-word phrase (consisting of a verb and proper noun) that characterizes what opponents of a past presidential candidate did to try to swing the election their way.
What is this red edible? What is the two-word phrase?
Hint: A compound verb (which is sometimes hyphenated) was coined as a result of what some of the candidate’s past acquaintances publicly said about the candidate. This coinage was somewhat similar to the coinage of the word “bork.”
The first part of the verb is the surname of an author who wrote about a character whose main mode of transport is the second part of the verb.
If you remove one letter from each part of the verb, the result could be a caption for the image of the woman pictured at the right.
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 January 12th 2018 edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our featured puzzles this week are a octet of Riffing-Off-Shortz-And-Fogarty-Slices, most which deal with National Public Radio journalists – such as Liane Hansen, Rachel Martin, and Lulu Garcia-Navarro: three recent Weekend Edition Sunday hosts (and occasional ad hoc hinters on Will Shortz’s Puzzle segment).
Also on our menus are:
ONE ⇩ “Don We Whenever Our Gay Apparel” Appetizer;
ONE ⇩ “We make the meats!” Slice; and
ONE ⇩ “Bork meets Mork... Nanu Nanu of the North” Dessert.
Enjoy the riffs, enjoy the rest, then get some rest. And remember to have a lot of fun.
Appetizer Menu
Wear, And When Appetizer:
Nightcaps? Snowshoes? Hourglasses?Replace the final letter of a multi-syllable adjective with a different consonant. Move that new consonant to the beginning of the word.
Divide the result in half to form two nouns: the second which is worn during the first, and the first which can be described by the original adjective.What is this adjective and what are the two nouns?
.
MENU
Missing Links Making Sausage Slice:
DACAtylic manipulation
In a meeting with lawmakers January 9, President Donald Trump encouraged Congress to pass something, in two words (adjective and noun). On January 12, the president was scheduled to meet with someone one-on-one, hoping to pass something else, also in two words. If that passage would occur, President Trump would be given a four-word idiom that has positive connotations.
The first two words of this idiom are the same as what he urged Congress to pass. These two words’ initial letters were once (and in some circles still are) associated with the number 41. The initial letters of the third and fourth words in the idiom are two-letter postal code of a state that a state highway named Route 41 runs through.Hint: The 19 letters in the two-word something President Trump was hoping to pass on January 12 can be rearranged to form a four-word “fake” phrase (in words of 1, 5, 8 and 5 letters) for what the chiropractors feel when they manipulate and adjust the backbones of James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.
The second, third and fourth words of this phrase begin, respectively, with an S, A and H.What did the president encourage Congress to pass on January 9?
What did he hope to pass on January 12 and, as a result, what did he expect to be given?
Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices:
Journalists’ Jumbled Journeys
Will Shortz’s January 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty, reads:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell two modes of transport. And here’s a hint: The modes of transport have the same number of wheels. Who is the journalist, and what are the modes of transport?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices read:
ONE:Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. Who is the journalist, and what is this caption?
TWO:
(Note: the following riff-off puzzle slice is based on fiction... and not merely science fiction... in other words, it is fake news.)Take the first and last names of a humorous personality well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the first name.
(Warning: Fake news immediately ahead!) The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the 4-word, 11-letter working title (alluding to a slothful automaton) of an early collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov.
Who is the humorous personality, and what is the fictitious, fake working title of Asimov’s collection of short stories?
THREE:Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell “critters” you can see on the gridiron in a Lone Star State showdown between teams from Dallas and Waco. Who is the journalist, and what are the critters?
FOUR:
A: Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners.
Spell it as Elmer Fudd would pronounce it by changing the first letter of the last name. Remove the first and last letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something the journalist likes to do as an avocation. And here’s a hint: The avocation is associated with the journalist’s “day job.” Who is the journalist, and what does the journalist like to do as an avocation?B: Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a mode of transport, and certain musical instruments.
And here’s a hint: The mode of transport has the same number of wheels as each of the musical instuments has main parts (that can be disassembled for transport). And here’s another hint: The mode of transport rhymes with, and begins with the same letter as, who is usually using it. Who is the journalist, and what are the mode of transport and musical instruments?
C: Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the last letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase for news articles written relatively recently about Pat DiNizio and Tommy Keene, but not about Pat Benatar and Tommy James. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase for these articles.
FIVE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first and third letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something that contributing NPR listeners grip in their hands, in two words totaling seven letters, and something Santa Claus grips in his hands, in one word of four letters. Who is the journalist, and what do NPR contributors and Santa grip in their hands?SIX:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase (consisting of a comparative adjective and noun) that describes King Kong. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase?
SEVEN:Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NBC watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a the name of a critter that “eats shoots and leaves” (without wounding anyone and leaving the scene of the crime... thanks to the lack of a comma after the word “eats”), and where this critter hangs out.
EIGHT:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to PBS watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two missing words in the following three-word phrase that a NPR listener might say to Dr. Shortz after solving one of his Sunday puzzles:
“____ puzzle, ____!”Those same remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two missing words in the following five-word phrase for what an NPR listener might do to celebrate solving one of Dr. Shortz’s Sunday puzzles:
“____ a glass with ____ ”
What is the name of this journalist? What are the missing words in the two phrases?
Dessert Menu
Bork From Ork Dessert:
The incredible red edible candidate
Write in lowercase letters a compound word for something red and edible. Change the first letter to a different letter so that the pronunciation of the word does not change (but is just spelled wrong). Place a mirror image of the middle letter to the left of the middle letter. Divide the result exactly in half.
Interchange the initial letters of these two equal parts to form a two-word phrase (consisting of a verb and proper noun) that characterizes what opponents of a past presidential candidate did to try to swing the election their way.What is this red edible? What is the two-word phrase?
Hint: A compound verb (which is sometimes hyphenated) was coined as a result of what some of the candidate’s past acquaintances publicly said about the candidate. This coinage was somewhat similar to the coinage of the word “bork.”
The first part of the verb is the surname of an author who wrote about a character whose main mode of transport is the second part of the verb. If you remove one letter from each part of the verb, the result could be a caption for the image of the woman pictured at the right.
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.
Did the Dessert candidate ever supply weapons to a Soviet operative? (Just kidding.)
ReplyDeletecranberry >> krandberry >> brand Kerry
DeleteI don't recall anything about John Kerry being involved in arms deals with the Soviets; Jason McCord, however, was branded as yellow (not red), while Chuck Connors is reported to have presented a pair of six-shooters to Leonid Brezhnev.
I also got Gwen Ifill >> fine, Will >> fill, wine
Woe is me, once again I've been up all night, engrossed in all these new puzzles.
ReplyDeleteThings were going quickly, until I tackled the Riffs. Even so, managed #1 (only thanks to certain info provided), and the three #4s (at long last.) HOWEVER, tedditor has a question or two: it seems to her that 4B should have the first letter of the first name removed as well, as it is 'extra.'
And at the end of 4A, you don't really mean "modes of transport." That phrase somehow inserted itself from other puzzles (or the original?)
I'm stuck on Riff #2 and 3 [my knowledge of NPR folks is minimal], haven't spent much time yet on #5 or 6, and haven't even read #7 or 8 yet....must quit this utter lack of willpower, and go to bed.
Great catches of my goofs, ViolinTedditor. As usual, you are correct. I have made the changes. A thousand thanks.
DeleteLegoofy
; O )
DeleteHappy Friday everyone! So far I have the Menu puzzle, and Riff Offs #4-6 and #8(after my struggle to solve the actual Sunday Puzzle this week, I wasn't exactly happy to have to do variations on that theme, but luckily my trip back to the long list of NPR journalists et al finally paid off). As for the Dessert, I'm a little confused about using the mirror image for the middle letter. I don't know about anyone else, but I find that part unnecessary, since after figuring out which letter to replace the first letter of the red edible and using it to replace the middle letter, I think I came up with the intended answer anyway. No offense, but usually in this kind of puzzle where you have to change one letter into its "mirror image" or "rotate it 90 degrees" or something like that(personally I blame the wording, because you could just say "turn it upside-down" or "flip it", whereas your way just sounds more technical than it needs to be, IMHO), it just makes it harder to do what is actually quite simple, whether it be making M=W, N=Z or b=d, etc. In this case, I just didn't find it necessary, and it actually ruins the answer I got(if I'm right). As always I expect good hints to help along the way where needed. Good luck to everyone else!
ReplyDeletePatrick,
DeleteI am happy you have solved this week's Dessert. I wrote it as a kind of tribute to you. Your point regarding my use of "more technical" sounding wording is well taken. Thank you.
LegoAppreciative
A few hints:
ReplyDeleteWAWA:
The multisyllable adjective has 4 syllables.
This puzzle is timely... especially so this year.
ROSAFS:
ONE:
I have talked to this person on NPR air. As for the image, forget the beach and concentrate on the furniture.
TWO:
The 4-word, 11-letter working title (alluding to a slothful automaton) begins with a pair of 1-letter words. The third and fourth words are 4 ad 5 letters long and begin with an L and G.
THREE:
College teams: "sporty Fords" and "Monsters of the Midway South."
FIVE:
Pledge week. "Hey I can use this canvas container to carry my groceries home from Lunds & Byerlys!"
Santa has no steering wheel in his sleigh
SIX:
Hold on! Hold on! This NPR-celeb is more like a kind of a wise-cracking emcee/journalist.
SEVEN:
This answer echoes some of the wording in ROSAFS # TWO. The critter is not a koala. Where this critter hangs out rhymes with the probervial # of pedal digits it has.
EIGHT:
The journalist is relatively recently deceased.
A proper noun belongs in the second blank, immediately below; the word in each blank is 4 letters long:
“____ puzzle, ____!”
Each of the following blank words is also 4 letters long; the second one is a beverage:
“____ a glass with ____ ”
Dessert Menu
BFOD:
The compound word for something red and edible has been in the news, sadly, and very recently. In another sense, the red edible has (not quite as recently, but much more happily) been familiar to Puzzleria! and Blainesville followers.
Lemuel.
The image pictured here shows the Television M*A*S*H Hawkeye foil/friend.
LegoHopesThatGreenNeckwearDoesn'tConstrictHer!
Still having trouble with WAWA and Riff-Off #3. It might help if I knew something else about the NPR journalist. I think I have both football teams.
ReplyDeleteBTW we're having a Winter Weather Advisory down here in Alabama. Snowed here all day yesterday. Possibly turning to freezing rain today. Lego, how do y'all stand it up there in Minnesota? From what I've heard from Garrison Keillor, y'all get it all winter! It has to suck being situated so close to Canada! I don't think I could handle it year after year! It must make people physically ill every so often! But down here, you should see our TV news and weather people preempting regular programming for hours! Do they do that up there too?
ReplyDeleteDESSERT:
ReplyDeleteCRANBERRY → KRANDBERRY (mirror image: b→d) → BRAND KERRY → SWIFTBOAT → Loretta SWIT BOA.
Nice work, ron.
Delete13th hour hints:
WAWA:
Winter weather wear
ROSAFS:
THREE
The journalist used to host Will and his puzzle.
cranberry,
It's not so bad being so close to Canada. There are some cold spells, yes, but they pass. I do look forward to April, though.
LegoooLoooCoooCoooCoooCoooCoooCooo
APPETIZER: INTERMITTENT => WINTER & MITTEN [PRE HINT]
ReplyDeleteMENU SAUSAGE SLICE: "CLEAN BILL" and "PHYSICAL EXAMINATION"; "CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH" [OHIO]; THE HINT: "A SPINY ANATOMIC HELIX"
RIFF OFFS:
1. RACHEL MARTIN => RENTAL CHAIR [It's a good thing you mentioned her in the intro, because I'd never heard of her.] [PRE HINT]
2. RAY MAGLIOZZI => AY MAGLIOZZI => A I, LAZY GIZMO [Finally, post-hint!...although I had the "I, Robot" idea earlier.]
3. ?????? ?????? => COUGARS and BEARS ??
4A. COKIE ROBERtS => COKIE WOBERTS => OKI WOBERTS => WRITE BOOKS
4B. COKIE ROBERTS => OKIE OBERTS => OBOES and TRIKE [TYKE]
4C. COKIE ROBERTS => COKI ROBERTS => ROCKER OBITS
5. THEIR ID ?/ A WALLET / and REIN ?????????????????
6. BIGGER/ HUGER / LARGER/GREATER APE / GORILLA ???????????????
7. LESTER HOLT => SLOTH TREE [I'd tried Lester Holt before, but thought it was koala, not sloth, although I'd considered a sloth.]
8. GWEN IFILL => WEN IFILL => FINE WILL and FILL WiNE [ PRE HINT]
DESSERT: cranberry => krand + berry => BRAND KERRY; The Hint: SWIFT-BOAT => SWIT BOA [PRE HINT]
#3: BEARS and MUSTANGS SUSAN STAMBERG Only due to the 13th hour hint.
ReplyDeleteAnd I just now FINALLY (geez) got #6: PETER SAGAL => LARGEST APE
ReplyDeleteNo wonder I couldn't get #3. I was trying to make MAVERICKS and LIONS work.
ReplyDeleteMenu
ReplyDeleteCLEAN(DACA)BILL, CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH(OH=Ohio), PHYSICAL EXAMINATION(A SPINY ANATOMIC HELIX; Lego, I bow to your superior anagramming ability. That makes EUCHARIST RAILING sound normal!)
Riff-Offs
1. RACHEL MARTIN, RENTAL CHAIR
2. RAY MAGLIOZZI; I, A LAZY GIZMO
4. COKIE ROBERTS
A. OKI WOBERTS=WRITE BOOKS
B. OKIE OBERTS=TRIKE, OBOES
C. COKI ROBERTS=ROCKER OBITS
5. NINA TOTENBERG, TOTE BAG, REIN
6. PETER SAGAL, LARGEST APE
7. LESTER HOLT, SLOTH, TREE(At first I kept thinking it was PANDA.)
8. GWEN IFILL; FINE, WILL; FILL, WINE
Dessert
CRANBERRY, RAN KERRY
No longer snowing here, but it's still very cold! I had to put out the garbage today!-pjb
This week's answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Wear, And When Appetizer:
Nightcaps? Snowshoes? Hourglasses?
Replace the final letter of a multi-syllable adjective with a different consonant. Move that new consonant to the beginning of the word. Divide the result in half to form two nouns: the second which is worn during the first, and the first which can be described by the original adjective.
What is this adjective and what are the two nouns?
Answer:
Intermittent; winter, mitten
MENU
Missing Links Making Sausage Slice:
DACAtylic manipulation
In a meeting with lawmakers January 9, President Donald Trump encouraged Congress to pass something, in two words. On January 12, the president was scheduled to meet with someone one-on-one, hoping to pass something else, also in two words. If that passage would occur, President Trump would be given a four-word idiom that has positive connotations.
The first two words of this idiom are the same as what he urged Congress to pass. These two words’ initial letters were once (and in some circles still are) associated with the number 41. The initial letters of the third and fourth words in the idiom are two-letter postal code of a state that a state highway named Route 41 runs through.
Hint: The 19 letters in the two-word something President Trump was hoping to pass on January 12 can be rearranged to form a four-word “fake” phrase (in words of 1, 5, 8 and 5 letters) for what the chiropractors feel when they manipulate and adjust the backbones of James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. The second, third and fourth words of this phrase begin, respectively, with an S, A and H.
What did the president encourage Congress to pass on January 9?
What did he hope to pass on January 12 and, as a result, what did he expect to be given?
Answer:
Clean bill;
Physical examination;
Clean bill of health;
Explanation of Hint: The letters in PHYSICAL EXAMINATION can be rearranged to spell A SPINY ANATOMIC HELIX. As any chiropractor could tell you, if anybody would have a "helical spine," it would be Watson, Crick and Franklin, co-discoverers of the "double helix" DNA.
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices:
Journalists’ Jumbled Journeys
ONE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. Who is the journalist, and what is this caption?
Answer:
Rachel Martin;
chair rental
TWO:
(Note: the following riff-off puzzle slice is based on fiction... and not merely science fiction... in other words, it is fake news.)
Take the first and last names of a humorous personality well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the 4-word, 11-letter working title (alluding to a slothful automaton) of an early collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov. Who is the humorous personality, and what is the fictitious working title of Asimov’s collection of short stories. ?
Answer:
Ray Magliozzi;
"I, A Lazy Gizmo"
THREE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell “critters” you can see on the gridiron in a Lone Star State showdown between teams from Dallas and Waco. Who is the journalist, and what are the critters?
Answer:
Susan Stamberg;
Bears, Mustangs
(Baylor Bears vs, Southern Methodist University Mustangs)
FOUR:
1. Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners.
Spell it as Elmer Fudd would pronounce it by changing the first letter of the last name. Remove the first and last letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something the journalist likes to do as an avocation. And here’s a hint: The avocation is associated with the journalist’s “day job.” Who is the journalist?
2. Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a mode of transport, and certain musical instruments. And here’s a hint: The mode of transport has the same number of wheels as each of the musical instuments has main parts (that can be disassembled for transport). And here’s another hint: The mode of transport rhymes with, and begins with the same letter as, who is usually using it.
Who is the journalist, and what are the mode of transport and musical instruments?
3. Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the last letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase for articles written relatively recently about Pat DiNizio and Tommy Keene, but not about Pat Benatar and Tommy James. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase for these articles.
Answer:
Cokie Roberts;
Write Books
Trike (used by tykes); Oboes
Rocker Obits
(Pat DiNizio and Tommy Keene died in 2017; Pat Benatar and Tommy James are still alive.)
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FIVE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first and third letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something contributing NPR listeners grip in their hands, in two words totaling seven letters, and something Santa Claus grips in his hands, in one word of four letters. Who is the journalist, and what do NPR contributors and Santa grip in their hands?
Answer:
Nina Totenberg
Tote bag; Rein
SIX:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase (consisting of a comparative adjective and noun) that describes King Kong. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase?
Answer:
Peter Sagal;
Largest ape
SEVEN:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NBC watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a the name of a critter that “eats shoots and leaves” (without wounding anyone and leaving the scene of the crime... thanks to the lack of a comma after the word “eats”), and where this critter hangs out.
Answer:
Lester Holt; Sloth, tree
EIGHT:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to PBS watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two missing words in the following three-word phrase that a NPR listener might say to Mr. Shortz after solving one of his Sunday puzzles:
“____ puzzle, ____!”
Those same remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two different missing words in the following five-word phrase that a NPR listener might do to celebrate after solving one of Dr. Shortz’s Sunday puzzles:
“____ a glass with ____ ”
What is the name of this journalist? What are the missing words in the two phrases?
Answer:
Gwen Ifill;
“FINE puzzle, WILL!”
“FILL a glass with WINE ”
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The incredible red edible candidate
Write in lowercase letters a compound word for something red and edible. Change the first letter to a different letter so that the pronunciation of the word does not change (but is just spelled wrong). Place a mirror image of the middle letter to the left of the middle letter. Divide the result exactly in half. Interchange the initial letters of these two equal parts to form a two-word phrase (consisting of a verb and proper noun) that characterizes what opponents of a past presidential candidate did to try to swing the election their way.
What is this red edible? What is the two-word phrase?
Hint: A compound verb (which is sometimes hyphenated) was coined as a result of what some of the candidate’s past acquaintances publicly said about the candidate. This coinage was somewhat similar to the coinage of the word “bork” as a verb.
The first part of the verb is the surname of an author who wrote about a character whose main mode of transport was the second part of the verb.
If you remove one letter from each part of the verb, the result could be a caption for the image pictured here.
Answer:
Cranberry
Brand Kerry: The "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," who served with Kerry in Vietnam, branded John Kerry as unpatriotic in attack ads. The NARRATOR in this interview said that, after John Kerry was nominated, "Karl Rove's team had branded himm as a flip-flopper, a theme they had been pounding for months."
Explanation of Hint:
"swift-boat"
(Jonathan) Swift + boat (Lemuel Gulliver's main mode of transport)
Caption: Swit Boa (Loretta Swit wearing a boa)
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I almost forgot SWIFT BOAT and SWIT BOA!
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