PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (2!)(6!) SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Great baseballs of fire?
“The pitcher hurls the ball homeward from atop the hill at the heart of the diamond.’’
Consider three nouns in that statement: ball, hill and diamond.
Which of those three is greatest, according to the Bible?
Homeland And Hometown Appetizer:
Emily’s transplanted ancestree
Emily was born, raised and still lives in a United States capital city. She is a native (with a lowercase “n”) American citizen who can trace her family tree back several generations to a homeland across the sea.
Take the word for what one calls a native of that homeland – one of the Emily’s ancestors, for example – and place in front of it the rearranged letters of the name of a tree that is native to that homeland.
The result is the name for what Emily, or any other native of her hometown, is called.
What are these two names?
Lushous Appetizer:
“Squeezing” corporate America ’til it sings
Remove the first letter from the beginning and add three letters to the end of a prominent American company. The result is a singer, first and last names, who appeared in a movie that was nominated for many Oscars. Who is this singer?
Hint: The letter you removed plus the three letters you added, in order, spell a 4-letter synonym of “lush.”
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Fanfare for the common ground
Will Shortz’s August 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common. What is it?
NEANDERTHAL
EMBARRASS
SATURATION
CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices appear below.
Note: The number in parentheses after each UPPERCASE WORD in the seven Entree Slices may help you solve them.
ENTREE #1:
These four words – and one word pair – have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
TURMERIC CURRY (7)
FLUORIDE (4)
HODGEPODGE (5)
HOLLANDAISE (5)
SKIDMARKS (3)
ENTREE #2:
These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
ADVENTURESOME (5)
TRANSCENDENTALISM (6)
CUSPIDOR (5)
JUNKANOO (4)
DIAGONAL (5)
ENTREE #3:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
HEARTACHE (5)
SOCIAL (4)
ADMIRATION (4)
CLOAKROOM (4)
ENTREE #4:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
METAMORPHOSIS (4)
DUMBFOUNDS (6)
CRYPTOLOGY (4)
TREEHOUSES (6)
ENTREE #5:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
SCATURIENT (6)
UNSPEAKABLE (4)
HEADMASTERLY (5)
DESOLATION (6)
ENTREE #6:
These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
SUPERANNUATES (6)
INSTITUTIONALIZE (6)
COLUMBINES (5)
MISTREATMENT (6)
EXPENDABLE (5)
ENTREE #7:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
PLURALIZATION (5)
LEPIDOPTEROLOGY (5)
DIABOLIC (3)
GLOOMFULLY (5)
Is Today’s Date “August” Or Not? Dessert:
It’s in Anna’s or Hannah’s hands
Today is Friday, August 10th, 2018.
Anna believes a day like today is not so special, especially during this month of August in which there are ten other days similar to today.
Hannah, on the other hand, believes a day like today is quite special; indeed, from her perspective there won’t be another day like it for another thirteen months.
Explain Anna’s and Hannah’s conflicting beliefs about this second Friday in August.
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.
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Great baseballs of fire?
“The pitcher hurls the ball homeward from atop the hill at the heart of the diamond.’’
Consider three nouns in that statement: ball, hill and diamond.
Which of those three is greatest, according to the Bible?
Appetizer Menu
Homeland And Hometown Appetizer:
Emily’s transplanted ancestree
Emily was born, raised and still lives in a United States capital city. She is a native (with a lowercase “n”) American citizen who can trace her family tree back several generations to a homeland across the sea. Take the word for what one calls a native of that homeland – one of the Emily’s ancestors, for example – and place in front of it the rearranged letters of the name of a tree that is native to that homeland.
The result is the name for what Emily, or any other native of her hometown, is called.
What are these two names?
Lushous Appetizer:
“Squeezing” corporate America ’til it sings
Remove the first letter from the beginning and add three letters to the end of a prominent American company. The result is a singer, first and last names, who appeared in a movie that was nominated for many Oscars. Who is this singer? Hint: The letter you removed plus the three letters you added, in order, spell a 4-letter synonym of “lush.”
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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Fanfare for the common ground
Will Shortz’s August 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common. What is it?
NEANDERTHAL
EMBARRASS
SATURATION
CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices appear below.
Note: The number in parentheses after each UPPERCASE WORD in the seven Entree Slices may help you solve them.
ENTREE #1:These four words – and one word pair – have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
TURMERIC CURRY (7)
FLUORIDE (4)
HODGEPODGE (5)
HOLLANDAISE (5)
SKIDMARKS (3)
ENTREE #2:
These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?ADVENTURESOME (5)
TRANSCENDENTALISM (6)
CUSPIDOR (5)
JUNKANOO (4)
DIAGONAL (5)
ENTREE #3:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common. What is it?
HEARTACHE (5)
SOCIAL (4)
ADMIRATION (4)
CLOAKROOM (4)
ENTREE #4:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
METAMORPHOSIS (4)DUMBFOUNDS (6)
CRYPTOLOGY (4)
TREEHOUSES (6)
ENTREE #5:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?SCATURIENT (6)
UNSPEAKABLE (4)
HEADMASTERLY (5)
DESOLATION (6)
ENTREE #6:These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
SUPERANNUATES (6)
INSTITUTIONALIZE (6)
COLUMBINES (5)
MISTREATMENT (6)
EXPENDABLE (5)
ENTREE #7:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common. What is it?
PLURALIZATION (5)
LEPIDOPTEROLOGY (5)
DIABOLIC (3)
GLOOMFULLY (5)
Is Today’s Date “August” Or Not? Dessert:
It’s in Anna’s or Hannah’s hands
Today is Friday, August 10th, 2018.
Anna believes a day like today is not so special, especially during this month of August in which there are ten other days similar to today.
Hannah, on the other hand, believes a day like today is quite special; indeed, from her perspective there won’t be another day like it for another thirteen months.Explain Anna’s and Hannah’s conflicting beliefs about this second Friday in August.
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.
The only comment I have to make about this week's Schpuzzle is: HUH?
ReplyDeleteHad better luck with Appetizer #2, Entrees #1 and 3, and 4/5ths of Entree #2.
As well as THE DESSERT! Three cheers for the return of DESSERT!!!
Am giving up now, but am duly stuck, in addition to that Schpuzzle, on
App #1 [nothing I tried worked out, even though I THOUGHT I had ID'd which state capital, but no luck with any tree name rearrangement], Entrees 4 thru 7, and "transcendentalism" in Entree #2
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteThe puzzles this week are a tad on the tough side. Congrats on what you have already solved.
In App #1, the state capital is east of the Mississippi; The tree seems to have been one of Monty Python's Flying Circus's favorites.
For ENTREE #3's TRANSCENDENTALISM, go back to the protagonist of a book written around the time Mary and Joseph were born.
If you have cracked ENTREES 1, 2 and 3, it seems to me the others ought to fall like dominoes. You know the "trick" and should be able to deduce at least the first word for each of the remaining ENTREES. (ENTREE # 6 is probably the toughest.)
For the Schpuzzle of the Week, the watchword is not "guilt by association" but "greatness by association."
LegoGuiltyOfEnjoyingGuiltyPleasuresByAssociation
Sweet Eternal Blindness
ReplyDeleteThanks, Paul, for that blast from the best-of-the-'60s past.
DeleteLaura had a talent, and a ticket on a 'trane bound for the Lush life.
LegoSaysLauraAlsoMightHaveHoppedAboardThatGoodLookin'RiverboatBoundForTheLushLife
Happy Friday everyone! Just looked over the four other comments, and I have to say the Monty Python clue definitely helped me. Now I have both Appetizers, and all Riff-Offs except #6(you're right, that one is the tricky one). But the Schpuzzle and the Dessert are real head-scratchers. While I too am happy to have the Dessert back, I must share VT's Schpuzzle sentiment: HUH? Hints please! BTW I do have the first word of #6, but the common thread escapes me. You might say, Lego, it's not my butt on the line here, it's---fill in the blank. As for the Laura Nyro reference, all I only really know is she wrote "Eli's Coming" for Three Dog Night in 1969. Hide your heart, VT!
ReplyDeleteHide my heart? You mean because it's rock music, so I should run?
DeleteTouche, VT. Good rejoinder. We all better better never underestimate your rock music prowess!
DeleteA Few Hints:
SOTW:
The title of a Rolling Stones album echoed a line from a verse in 1 Corinthians. The key to solving this Schpuzzle can be found in the verse immediately following that one, King James Version.
ROSS, ENTREE #6:
Mastication, formication, cockles, dongle, coccyx, sextant...
ITDAOND:
eleven squared; seven cubed; eleven cubed; three hundred seven squared; one hundred eleven squared, two thousand two hundred one cubed, or...
"We saw Brian Eno one time at a concert."
"The fisherman's goal was to net ten speckled trout."
LegoWhoBelievesPaulInHisCommentWasGivingAHintToOneOfTheAppetizers
The "hide your heart" line comes from the lyrics to "Eli's Coming". Because the singer is talking to a female(the full line is "Eli's comin'/hide your heart, girl"), I directed it toward you, VT. But you shouldn't take it so seriously. It is merely a lyric in a pop song. I just couldn't resist using it in my previous comment, that's all. No offense, if any was taken.
DeleteBTW just got #6, and Lego, you should be ashamed of yourself! As for the Dessert, turned out it was easier than I thought. But the Schpuzzle is still kind of eluding me. While I may have found the Stones album, I haven't exactly found the Bible verses. Might there be another hint that can clear things up?
Deletecranberry,
DeleteIn the hint I posted in Friday's comments, I wrote:
"For the Schpuzzle of the Week, the watchword is not 'guilt by association' but 'greatness by association...'"
Greatness, that is, by word association.
I interpreted ViolinTeddy's August 11, 2018 at 2:44 AM comment ("Hide my heart? You mean because it's rock music, so I should run?") as an indication that she was savvy to Laura Nyro's "Eli's Coming" song, which contains the repeated lyric "She walked, but she never got away." In her comment, VT seems to realize that running rather than walking would be the only means of eluding the wily Eli!
LegoNotesThatWhenYouWalkAndDon'tRunItMayTurnIntoAMisadventure
I'm sorry to say, Lego, that you indeed gave me too much credit. I hadn't listened to the You Tube of that song, so I was totally unaware of the lyrics. IN fact, I had meant to reply to your 'touche, VT" comment by telling you that it was NOT in any way a "rejoinder", merely an actual question to pjb as to what he meant.
DeleteNo, I didn't take offense, pjb, I was merely puzzled! I figured my well-known aversion to all this rock music was my closest guess as to what you might have been talking about.
Oh, I also finally solved Entrees #4 and 7 yesterday, having realized that I had actually been MISSING the 'other' secret, re the first answer in each puzzle. I also think I know what your hint for the elusive #6 meant, but given what pjb said about it above, I have a feeling I am NOT going to get the rest of them, other than the first, and I think perhaps the last word.
ReplyDeleteI'm still stuck on #5 except for its first word, as well as the infamous "transcendentalism." I simply could NOT find any book written at the time your hint indicated.
Hints:
DeleteENTREE #3 (TRANSCENDENTALISM):
The first name of one of Wyatt's five brothers is the name of the book author.
ENTREE #5:
UNSPEAKABLE (4)
A Swedish export with double-A's in the middle
HEADMASTERLY (5)
A first name that rolled off the assembly line and promptly became a punch line
DESOLATION (6)
A Spanish explorer who died on the banks of the Big Muddy
LegoDefunct
Whew, ok, I FINALLY pinned down the Transcendentalism answer. How pjb got that without the latest hint is beyond me. It never showed up in any lists *I* was finding.
DeleteThanks for all the hints; finally put together Entree #5, but I can see why it was difficult for me. although I had SORT OF figured out the 'category' before. Many subjects that you are obviously very familiar with, I am really NOT (i.e. religion, cars, the infamous rock music, etc.)
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteYou make an excellent point about the plethora of "religion, cars, the infamous rock music, etc." in my puzzles. I will work on broadening my scope somewhat. Thank you for your always astute feedback.
LegoWhoIsAJackOfAFewTradesButMasterOfNone
Lego, I didn't mean my comment above as a 'tsk tsk' or any such thing (i.e. not even as feedback)...I was just making excuses for myself! [I forgot to include sports in the list, of course!) It's your blog, and a lot of work, so it's natural you would mine what you know most about.
DeleteGot it, VT. Thanks.
DeleteStill, I would like to broaden my interests... just as I am "forcing" or "allowing" (depending on one's perspective) Puzzlerians! to broaden theirs.
LegoBroadly
Hee hee....to whom, exactly, would you be referring? (i.e. MOI?)
DeleteI take it back about not being able (willing?) to solve the rest of #6. Somehow crazily, a webpage was sitting in a separate tab that was completely relevant, and helped me get all the rest. I have NO IDEA where that webpage came from!! Weird.
ReplyDeleteNOTICE TO PUZZLERIAN!S:
ReplyDeleteLET'S DELAY REVEALING OUR ANSWERS THIS WEEK, FOR ONE DAY.
PLEASE DON'T POST ANSWERS THIS WEEK UNTIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 AT NOON PDT (WHICH IS THE SAME TIME FOR REVEALING ANSWERS OVER ON BLAINE'S BLOG).
I AM CONCERNED THAT OUR ANSWERS TO THE "RIFFING OFF SHORTZ" SLICES MIGHT COMPROMISE THE INTEGRITY OF WILL SHORTZ'S TWO-WEEK NPR CHALLENGE. (ACTUALLY, YOU COULD REVEAL YOUR ANSWERS TO OUR OTHER PUZZLES ON WEDNESDAY IF YOU LIKE, BUT PLEASE WAIT ONE DAY BEFORE REVEALING YOUR ROSS ANSWERS.)
NEXT WEEK WE CAN RETURN TO OUR NORMAL WEDNESDAY REVEAL DATE FOR ALL OUR PUZZLERIA! PUZZLES. THANK YOU.
lEGOtYPINGbOLDLYaNDiNuPPERCASE
Indeed, NO entrees!
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SCHPUZZLE: HILL? Baseball pitcher SLIM LOVE would have stood on the pitcher's mound.... "the greatest of these is LOVE".
APPETIZER #1: ESTONIAN & LARCH = CHARLESTONIAN [I didn't finally solve this until the wee hours of Tuesday, because all along I'd been putting the supposed tree AFTER the demonym for the country, instead of in front of it.]
APPETIZER #2: WALMART minus W plus INO => AL MARTINO [in the GODFATHER movies]
DESSERT!!: HANNAH's perspective: PALINDROME DATE -- 8102018; NEXT ONE 9102019
Nice solving on the non-ENTREES, VT.
DeleteYour answer to the Schpuzzle is not my intended, but it is darn good! Indeed you taught me something I did not know about baseball. I had never before heard of Edward Haughton "Slim" Love (August 1, 1890 – November 30, 1942, doncha love the old-time nicknames).
Very interesting fellow... or should I say Longfellow: 6'8" and weighing in at 195! That is Slim!
Thanks for your sports nugget.
LegoSaysAHurlerOfSlim'sStatureWouldNotEvenNeedAHillToPitchFrom!
I'm eagerly awaiting YOUR intended answer on the Schpuzzle, Lego. As for my 'sports nugget", I just got lucky on Google. I'd never heard of the guy before, of course! But am pleased you were pleased.
DeleteCHARITY BALL
DeleteFAITH HILL
HOPE DIAMOND
My alternatives:
SWEET CHARITY
HOPE (SPRINGS) ETERNAL
BLIND FAITH
Mashing it all together made me think about the Laura Nyro song which just happens to be about the activity a WINO engages in.
I love the way make you make connections (sweet eternal blindness + wino!) between my puzzles, Paul, where no obvious connections would seem to exist.
DeleteCongrats on solving the Schpuzzle also. That is my intended answer, with the "BALL" being the greatest thanks to its Pauline association with "charity" (which, I discovered to my surprise/chagrin, was not as strong a link as FAITH + HILL or HOPE + DIAMOND).
LegoSaysHere'sAnIdea:HowAboutAnAlbumOfAlMartinoCoversOfLauraNyroSongs!
ROSS: Planets.
ReplyDeleteEntrée #1: Makes of cars.
MERCURY [You could have used “MAGNETOSTRUCTURALLY,”or “METROCURRENCY”]
FORD
DODGE
HONDA
KIA
Entrée #2: Romans of Myth.
VENUS
AENEAS
CUPID
JUNO
DIANA
Entrée # 3: Earth.
EARTH
SOIL
DIRT
LOAM
Entrée #4: Candy Bars
MARS
MOUNDS
ROLO
REESE'S
Entrée #5: Cars
DESOTO
SATURN
SAAB
EDSEL
Entrée #6: Cities?
URANUS, Missouri
INTONE/IONIZE
CLUBS/LINES/CUBES/COINS
STREAM/STREET
PENAL/EXPEL/PEDAL
Entrée #7: Disney Dogs & Dwarves
PLUTO
DOPEY
DOC
GOOFY
Entrée #8: New Technology
3D JUMBOPRINTER (7) → JUPITER
IMPAIRED (4) → IPAD
I am sure you can fill in a few more...
ron,
DeleteI love your idea for ENTREE #8! Wish I would have thought of it.
Thanks also for your one-word MERCURY suggestions: “MAGNETOSTRUCTURALLY,”or “METROCURRENCY” would have been much more elegant than "TURMERIC CURRY."
LegoWhoIsPrintingOutThisCommentOnHisJUNBOPRINTER!
Appetizer Part 1
ReplyDeleteLARCH anagram+ESTONIAN=CHARLESTONIAN(one from Charleston, SC or WV)
Appetizer Part 2
WALMART, AL MARTINO, WINO
Menu/Riff-Offs
1. Automobile brands
MERCURY
FORD
DODGE
HONDA
KIA
2. Roman names in mythology
VENUS
AENEAS
CUPID
JUNO
DIANA
3. Synonyms for "ground"
EARTH
SOIL
DIRT
LOAM
4. Candy brands
MARS
MOUNDS
ROLO
REESE'S
5. More automobile brands
SATURN
SAAB
EDSEL
DE SOTO
6. Words containing or sounding like dirty words(I need not elaborate)
URANUS
TITTLE
CUMIN
SEAMEN
PENAL
7. Disney characters
PLUTO
DOPEY
DOC
GOOFY
Dessert
August 10, 2018, written entirely in numbers, would look like a numerical palindrome, reading the same backward and forward:
8102018
A year from now, the palindromic date would be in September:
9102019
The Schpuzzle and the Sunday Puzzle proved tougher than I had expected. If I seemed a little angry about either, I apologize. Still don't get the Rolling Stones reference, but then "You can't always get what you want."-pjb
cranberry,
DeleteSee verses 12 and 13 in this Chapter of 1 Corinthians.
"Through a glass, darkly" in verse 12 is echoed in the Stones' album title "Through the Past, Darkly.
Verse 13 reveals that of these three -- Faith, Hope and Charity -- Charity is the Greatest.
LegoNowSurryingDownToARollingStonedSoulPicnicWhereHeWillLookThroughHisRedWineGlassDarkly
Nothing original in my Entree answers that haven't already been posted above, i.e. nothing like Ron's [or Paul's] ideas. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteEVERY ENTREE BEGINS WITH A PLANET!
ENTREE #1: Brands of cars: MERCURY in TURMERIC CURRY; FORD in FLUORIDE; DODGE in HODGEPODGE; HONDA in HOLLANDAISE; KIA in SKIDMARKS
ENTREE #2: Names of Roman Gods: VENUS in ADVENTURESOME; AENEAS in TRANSCENDENTALISM; CUPID in CUSPIDOR; JUNO in JUNKADOO; DIANA in DIAGONAL:
ENTREE #3: Synonyms for dirt: EARTH in HEARTACHE: SOIL in SOCIAL; DIRT in ADMIRATION; LOAM in CLOAKROOM
ENTREE #4: Candy: MARS in METAMORPHOSIS; MOUNDS in DUMBFOUNDS; POLO in CRYPTOLOGY; REESES in TREEHOUSES.
ENTREE #5: Cars again, defunct this time: SATURN in SCATURIENT; SAAB in UNSPEAKABLE; EDSEL in HEADMASTERLY; DESOTO in DESOLATION
ENTREE #6: Legit words that sound, um, well.....URANUS in SUPERANNUATES; TITTLE in INSTITUTIONALIZE; CUMIN in COLUMBINES; SEAMEN in MISTREATMENT; PENAL in EXPENDABLE
ENTREE#7: Disney cartoon characters: PLUTO from PLURALIZATION; DOPEY from LEPIDOPTEROLOGY; DOC from DIABOLIC; GOOFY from GLOOMFULLY;
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Great baseballs of fire?
“The pitcher hurls the ball homeward from atop the hill at the heart of the diamond.’’
Consider three nouns in that statement: ball, hill and diamond.
According to the Bible, which of the three is greatest?
Answer:
Of the three nouns – ball, hill and diamond – ball is the greatest.
Hill is associated with Faith, Faith (Hill), the singer.
Diamond is associated with Hope, the Hope (Diamond).
Ball is associated with Charity, Charity (Ball), the fundraiser.
1 Corinthians 13:13 King James Version reads:
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
Faith Hill
Hope Diamond
Charity Ball
Appetizer Menu
Homeland And Hometown Appetizer:
Emily’s transplanted ancestree
Emily was born, raised and still lives in a United States capital city. She is a native American citizen who can trace her family tree back several generations to a homeland across the sea.
Take the name of a native of that homeland – one of the Emily’s ancestors, for example – and place it in front of it the rearranged letters of a tree that is native to that homeland. The result is the name for what Emily, or any other native of her hometown is called.
What are these two names?
Answer: Estonian; Charlestonian
Charl (which anagrms to "larch") + Estonian = Charlestonian, a native of Charleston, West Virginia.
Lushous Appetizer:
“Squeezing” corporate America ’til it sings
Remove the first letter from the beginning and add three letters to the end of a prominent American company to name a singer who appeared in a well known award-winning movie.
Hint: The letter you removed and the three you added, in order, spell a 4-letter synonym of “lush”.
Who is this singer?
Answer:
Al Martino
(Walmart - W + ino = almartino = Al Martino. A "wino" is a "lush".
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:
Fanfare for the common ground
Will Shortz’s August 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common. What is it?
NEANDERTHAL
EMBARRASS
SATURATION
CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
In the six Entrees below, the number in parentheses after each UPPERCASE WORD may help you solve them. Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
These five words – and one word pair – have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
TURMERIC CURRY (7)
FLUORIDE (4)
HODGEPODGE (5)
HOLLANDAISE (5)
SKIDMARK (3)
Answer: The words contain, in order, the letters of the following automobile brands:
Mercury; Ford; Dodge; Honda; Kia
ENTREE #2:
These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
ADVENTURESOME (5)
TRANSCENDENTALISM (6)
CUSPIDORS (5)
JUNKANOO (4)
DIAGONAL (5)
Answer: The words contain, in order, the letters of the following Roman mythological figures:
Venus; Aeneas; Cupid; Juno; Diana
ENTREE #3:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
HEARTACHE (5)
SOCIAL (4)
ADMIRATION (4)
CLOAKROOM (4)
Answer: The words contain, in order, the letters of the following synonyms for the substance of "terra firma":
Earth; Soil; Dirt; Loam
ENTREE #4:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
METAMORPHOSIS (4)
DUMBFOUNDS (6)
CRYPTOLOGY (4)
TREEHOUSES (6)
Answer: The words contain, in order, the letters of the following candy brands:
Mars; Mounds; Rolo; Reese's
ENTREE #5:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
SCATURIENT (6)
UNSPEAKABLE (4)
HEADMASTERLY (5)
DESOLATION (6)
Answer: The words contain, in order, the letters of defunct car brands:
Saturn; Saab; Edsel; DeSoto
ENTREE #6:
These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
SUPERANNUATES (6)
INSTITUTIONALIZE (6)
COLUMBINES (5)
MISTREATMENT (6)
EXPENDABLE (5)
Answer: The words contain, in order, the letters of words that sound dirty, but are not:
Uranus; Tittle; Cumin; Seamen; Penal
ENTREE #7:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
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Answer: The words contain, in order, the letters of Disney characters:
Pluto; Dopey; Doc; Goofy
Is Today’s Date “August” Or Not? Dessert:
It’s in Anna’s or Hannah’s hands
Today is Friday, August 10th, 2018.
Anna believes a day like today is not so special, especially during this month of August in which there are ten other days like today.
Hannah believes a day like today is quite special; indeed, there won’t be another day like it for another thirteen months.
Explain Anna’s and Hannah’s beliefs about this Friday in August.
Answer:
When August 10th, 2018 is written with five digits (like one of Anna's three hands) it is palindromic: 8/10/18, with the digits reading the same written forward or backward. Other such four-or-five-or-six-digit palindromic dates this August were/are: 8/1/18, 8/11/18, 8/12/18, 8/13/18, 8/14/18, 8/15/18, 8/16/18, 8/17/18, 8/18/18 and 8/19/18.
When August 10th, 2018 is written with seven digits (like one of Hannah's three hands) it is also palindromic: 8/10/2018. Such six-or-seven-or-eight digit palindrominity will not occur again until September 10th, 2019 (9/10/2019).
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