Friday, October 5, 2018

Interior linemen mixing it up; Nameth this Broadway Banjo; Rehabs and habits; Pols, police and criminal chemical elements; Then sings my soul...;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Rehabs and habits

Switch the second and fifth letters of a well-known product brand you might see at a in a patient’s room at a hospital. 
Add an “f” somewhere in the interior. 
Divide the result in half to name something you might see, in two words, at the hospital’s physical rehabilitation unit... or perhaps at a house of worship. 
What brand might you see in a patient’s room, and what might you see in the rehab unit or worship house?


Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
Pols, police and criminal chemical elements

Note: Puzzleria! is running a second helping of our new feature, “Mathew Huffman’s Conundrum Set.

🥁1. Think of a modern day humorist, first and last names, with a total of two T’s in their name. Change these to a B and a D and rearrange to name a film musical of the 1950s.


🥁2. Think of an American politician of the 1980s. Insert an H between their first and last names and the result contains the brand name of a modern invention.

🥁3. Think of a slang term for law enforcement that contains a vowel followed by a doubled consonant. Make the vowel double and the consonant single to name a car maker best known for a particular brand.

🥁4. Think of a current news anchor with a two-word nickname that invokes a chemical element. The anchor’s last name contains a doubled vowel followed by a consonant. Make the vowel single and the consonant double to name another chemical element.

🥁5. Think of the last name of someone influential in the automobile industry. Advance the last letter of the last name one place in the alphabet, and the result spelled backwards is a type of vehicle.

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Lovin’ Spoonerismful:
Then sings my soul... 


Name a vocal group known for its soulful stylings

If you spoonerize (switch the beginning letters of) two words in the vocal group’s name, the result will sound like two antonyms. What is the name of this vocal group?


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Riffing Off Shortz And Strandskov Slices:
Interior linemen mixing it up

Will Shortz’s September 30th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Henrik Strandskov of Luck, Wisconsin, reads:
Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s name specify something that is an anagram of its interior letters. 
What team is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Strandskov Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s nickname are letters you might see written at the end of a letter. The nickname’s interior letters can be rearranged to spell a word that might be written at the beginning of a letter. 
Those same letters also can be rearranged to spell what the recipient of any letter will likely do with it. 
What team is this?

ENTREE #2:
Name a major professional sports team. The last and first letters of the team’s nickname spell the name of an independent record label with studios both in London and in a state with a postal code that is an anagram of its interior letters. What team is it?

ENTREE #3:
Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s nickname are the first two letters in the brand name of a lubricant. 
Subtract a Greek letter from an anagram of its interior letters to form the second part of the brand name. 
What team is it?

ENTREE #4:
Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. The first letter of the team’s city name and the last letter of the team’s nickname are the first and last letters of an affliction (in 9 letters) that would likely be career-ending for any of the team’s players. An anagram of the remaining interior letters spells a medical procedure, in two words, that would probably make the affliction worse. What team is it?
Hint: The story of a past rookie on the team was made into an Oscar-nominated movie, the title of which contains a word that is the first syllable of the 9-letter affliction.

ENTREE #5:
Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. The first and last letters of the team’s two-word name are the first two of the three initials of a U.S. president. An anagram of its interior letters spell two words specifying what, historically, some election officials did in the wake of close presidential outcomes. (The opponent that this president defeated, however, did not ask election officials to do this.) 
What team is this?

ENTREE #6:
Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. Take the first letter of its city name and first and last letters of its nickname. Take the mirror images of the three letters and sharpen their rounded contours to form acute angles. The result will be a familiar onomatopoeic expression pertaining to sleeping.  
An anagram of all but the first letter of its city name and last letter of its nickname can be rearranged to spell a two-word noun-verb statement about members of the team who, after “sleepwalking” through the first half, come back after a halftime pep talk (by a Knute-Rocknesque head coach, for example) to win the game. What team is it?

ENTREE #7:
Give the last name of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange all but the first and final letters of the last name to form two words: a synonym of “boozer” and a verb for what the boozer did before he blacked out. The final and first letters of the puzzle-maker’s last name, in that order, specify two things: 
1. a designation of a blend of booze in which the youngest brandy has been stored for at least two years in a cask; and 
2. briefly, what the boozer may end up in if he continues and intensifies this self-destructive behavior. 
Who is this puzzle-maker?


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Bright Neon Lights Dessert:
Nameth this Broadway Banjo

A man’s first name is also the last name of a Broadway-musical star. 
Drop one letter from a shorter, less formal variant of the man’s first name to form the Broadway star's first name.
Who is the star?

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    1. Congratulations on solving at least one of the seven riff-offs, Paul. And, lovely music on that link. Thanks to your post, I tweaked an error I made in one of the riff-offs. Thanks.

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  2. Happy Friday(for the next few minutes here, anyway)everyone! My family and I ate out earlier tonight at Cracker Barrel, and I hadn't seen my nieces in a few days, so it was good to reconnect and have some good food together. Afterward, I listened to Ask Me Another and did the Prize and Private Eye crosswords(as usual), and now here I am to discuss the head-scratchers that are most of the puzzles on Puzzleria! this week. After seeing them for the first time late last night, I now have solved Conundrum #2, Entrees #1 and #7, the Dessert, and the Appetizer(I think. If anything I have a great alternative answer, if not the intended one.)Lego, I have never been more serious in my life, and maybe last night I needed more sleep, but I feel this must be said in All Caps:
    HINTS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Thank you.

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  3. Just thought I'd pop in before hitting the hay, to note that I've managed to work out Conundrums 3, 4 and 5, along with Entrees 1 and 7 and the Dessert. That's all for now!

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  4. I once owned the Ford version of a Mercury product relating to one of these puzzles.

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  5. I never know what Paul is talking about, but I THINK I just solved the Schpuzzle.

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  6. I now have Conundrum #1! It came to me in bed late last night!

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  7. Sunday evening hints:
    SOW:
    "Here's lookin' at-chyou, kiddo!"
    TCTBA:
    1. A brooding tar might be confined to these quarters.
    2. See Paul's Cheers!/cameo clue.
    3. Long arm of the law... a not so long car.
    4. They must be sheltering some kind of menagerie over on that network... a cable line-up you don't need to liven-up.
    5. Blood! Guts! Gore! Bushwacking! Raiders of the Lost Election!
    ASCWACA:
    The vocal group known for its soulful stylings is a duo. Pouring flour into a vase is the act of a mad man.
    ROSASS:
    ENTREE #1:
    Yes, I know, you've spared no effort, agonised over and spread yourselves thin as you've parsed and diagnosed this puzzle...
    ENTREE #2:
    The name a major professional sports team would be a good name for a team in a golf league.
    ENTREE #3:
    The Greek letter is not merely a letter; it has value. The anagram of the team's interior letters has value also. The lubricant comes wth a thin red tube.
    ENTREE #4:
    This puzzle is tad strange (no hint).
    The rookie in the hint is an offensive lineman. The major professional sports team in two words is related to an author whose monogram rhymes with "sleep."
    ENTREE #5:
    Do we really have to revisit this election? We've been there/done that already with a similar close race in Mathew Huffman's Conundrum Set #5. The team nickname denotes vehicles that transport people who are denoted by the nickname of another team in the same city.
    ENTREE #6:
    Isn't the Great Northwest a lumbering region, a place where they saw wood?
    ENTREE #7:
    I hope that by now you astute Puzzlerians! have begun to work backward on these eponymous riff-off slices.
    BNLD:
    The "man’s first name" is the first name of a Chicago-based theologian and biblical scholar whose surname is the "shorter, less formal variant" of his first name.

    LegoWhoIsMoreA"BroodingTar"Than"BuddingStar"

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    1. The title of the duo's (possibly) best known recording became the title of a short-lived sitcom having (perhaps) more to do with the spoonerific dichotomy than the original song.

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    2. I'd really like to think ENTREE #3 involves Roman numerals as well as a Greek letter, but it's just not working out.

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    3. What in heck is a 'brooding tar?" Google had nothing for it.

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  8. I seem to have done better with the conundrums than the entrees. I now have the Schpuzzle, the Appetizer, all but Conundrum #4, and only Entree #4(which makes three entrees so far). Anything else?

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    1. Conundrun #4:
      The anchor has one of those "biblical names," you know, where the last could be first and the first could be last. The anchor has good jea..., I mean genes. The anchor's heritage echoes, somewhat, a legendary anchor: Sander Vanocur.
      ENTREE #4:
      Milton (not Uncle Miltie) penned a poem about the affliction... and lived it too.

      LegoHinter

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    2. Now I have all conundrums and the first entree, the middle entree, and the last entree. I'm guessing your current Wi-Fi situation must be preventing Lego from commenting as he usually does, Joe. BTW I'm currently babysitting Mia Kate, and we've been reading her Sisters Grimm book this afternoon. Quite fascinating!

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  9. Joe? Are you still there? I never heard back from you after you emailed last! Why is your Wi-Fi going to be out for a month? I noticed you didn't post as Legolambda the last time. What's going on where you are? I've got a funeral to go to tomorrow, so I'll probably be late with my answers. I hope nothing's wrong in Puzzlerialand. It may be a while before we get any more puzzles here, folks!

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  10. If I had to guess, I'd say a "brooding tar" is the same as a "sullen sailor". Fortunately, I don't really have to guess. Tig Notaro's "real" name is Mathilde, which is kind of like the Matilda they sing about in Australia, which is neighbor to New Caledonia, which was named, in a roundabout sort of way, for Scotland, which is where you'll find Brigadoon, if you time things right.
    There's also a Caledonia in Ontario, and they have a team called the Corvairs. You could drive a Corvair from Caledonia to the headquarters of Fireweed Zinc (FWZ) in Vancouver, I suppose, as long as the Mounties (Canadian FUZZ) didn't pull you over. But I wouldn't recommend it, because those Corvairs are (were) unsafe at any speed. And Fireweed is mainly into zinc; I don't think copper is really part of their game.
    Well, if you do make the arduous journey to Vancouver somehow, you may as well make a mini-excursion down to Seattle, take in a football game (or catch a few ZZZ's), and then head back East to Boston to visit that bar where a Speaker of the House once had a drink or two. What was his name? Did he take a selfie while he was there? Probably not.

    OK, that's about enough of my "ingenuity". The KLEENEX / KNEE FLEX puzzle was genuinely clever. And, although I knew the lubricant with the red tube had to be WD-40, it took me a while to discover that there's a team called the WILD, and then a while longer to work out the math (51-41). Another clever one; genufleXIon to the chef is in order.

    Marty is short for Martin and Mary had to be short to play the role of a perpetually young boy. And Jiminy Glick did not appear in Pinocchio (I know, it all gets very confusing).
    The sot drank very special brandy; I don't know how old or pale it was.
    I once owned a Ford Escort, which was "rebadged" as a Mercury Lynx. I think LYNX is a jazzier name than WILD for a sports team. XL Recordings has studios in London and New York.
    RETINA REMOVAL would almost certainly result in total BLINDNESS.
    Padres read post scripts.

    Rev. Mike Webber originally appeared in Season 7 of Home Improvement.(according to IMDb)

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    1. I did the math right but copied my result wrong. It's 51-11=40 or LI-XI=XL

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    2. If LI-XI=XL, shouldn't WI-FI=FW?

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  11. Haven't read your entry above yet, Paul.....but will as soon as I've posted what answers I did get. I was just feeling too ill (from medication post surgery, not to mention ongoing pain) to tackle all the sports teams with any gusto, which are NOT my favorite subject to wade around in.

    However, it seems I finally DID get all the entrees except #2, although my #3 is only halfway done, per your comment Paul about the Roman numerals.

    SCHPUZZLE: KLEENEX => KNEE FLEX [Particularly appropriate re my operation last week....it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to flex one's knee, for a long time.

    CONUNDRUM APPETIZER:
    1. DEMETRI MARTIN => BIRDIED MERMAN [Ha ha]; Somebody, but who? => BRIGADOON
    2. TIP O'NEILL => TIP/ HO / NEIL => TI PHONE [Thanks, Paul]
    3. COPPER => COOPER (MINI)
    4. ANDERSON COOPER [SILVER FOX] => COPPER
    5. NADER => SEDAN

    LOVIN' SPOONERISM APPETIZER: SAM & DAVE => DAMN and SAVE [Never heard of them, as per usual] And no idea what the hint about pouring flour into a vase means.

    ENTREE #1: PADRES; P.S.; "DEAR" and "READ"

    ENTREE #2: REDS? : SR in DE? RAMS? : SR in MA? Nothing works!

    ENTREE #3: [Minnesota] WILD => WD-40 Subtract IOTA (I), leaving L, but that is FIFTY not FORTY, so I'm stuck.

    ENTREE #4: BALTIMORE RAVENS => RETINA REMOVAL; BLINDNESS & "THE BLIND SIDE" [Author: EAP]

    ENTREE #5: HOUSTON ROCKETS => HST (TRUMAN); "Ouston rocket" => TOOK RECOUNTS

    ENTREE #6: SEATTLE SEAHAWKS => SSS => ZZZ; "Eattle Seahawk" => ATHLETES AWAKE

    ENTREE #7: STRANDSKOV "Transdsko" => DRANK & SOT; "VS" => "very special"


    DESSERT: MARY MARTIN [MARTY => MARY]

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  12. Schpuzzle
    KLEENEX, KNEEFLEX
    Conundrums
    1. TIG NOTARO, BRIGADOON
    2. TIP O'NEILL(real first name Thomas), iPHONE
    3. COPPER, (Mini-)COOPER
    4. ANDERSON COOPER("Silver Fox"), COPPER
    5. RALPH NADER, SEDAN
    Appetizer
    SAM AND DAVE, DAMN AND SAVE
    Menu
    Entrees
    1. (San Diego)PADRES, P. S.(post script), DEAR, READ
    4. BALTIMORE RAVENS, BLINDNESS, RETINA REMOVAL(ouch!)
    7. HENRIK STRANDSKOV, SOT, DRANK, V. S.(Very Special, vegetative state)
    Dessert
    MARY MARTIN, MARTY(short for MARTIN)
    Hope we hear back from Legolambda later tonight. How will Puzzleria even begin to function without Wi-Fi? STAY TUNED!-pjb


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  13. This week's answers for the record, part 1:

    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    Rehab and habits

    Switch the second and fifth letters of a well-known product brand you might see at a in a patient’s room at a hospital. Add an “f” somewhere in the middle. Divide the result in half to name something you might see at the hospital’s physical rehabilitation unit... or perhaps at a house of worship.
    What brand might you see in a patient’s room, and what might you see in the rebab unit?
    Hint: A part of what you might see at the hospital’s physical rehabilitation unit or house of worship is a body part.
    Answer:
    Kleenex; Knee flex
    Kleenex >> Kneelex >> Kneeflex >> Knee flex
    (Doing squats in exercise class and genuflecting/kneeling in church requires knee flexion.)

    Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
    Pols, Police and Criminal Chemical Elements
    1. Think of a modern day humorist, first and last names, with a total of two T’s in their name. Change these to a B and a D and rearrange to name a film musical of the 1950s.
    Answer:
    TIG NOTARO, BRIGADOON
    2. Think of an American politician of the 1980s. Insert an H between their first and last names and the result contains the brand name of a modern invention.
    Answer:
    TIP O’NEILL, IPHONE
    3. Think of a slang term for law enforcement that contains a vowel followed by a doubled consonant. Make the vowel double and the consonant single to name a car maker best known for a particular brand.
    Answer:
    COPPER, COOPER (mini)
    4. Think of a current news anchor with a two-word nickname that invokes a chemical element. The anchor’s last name contains a doubled vowel followed by a consonant. Make the vowel single and the consonant double to name another chemical element.
    Answer:
    SILVER FOX, ANDERSON COOPER, COPPER
    5. Think of the last name of someone influential in the automobile industry. Advance the last letter of the last name one place in the alphabet, and the result spelled backwards is a type of vehicle.
    Answer:
    RALPH NADER, SEDAN
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    A Symbol Clashes With A Conundrum Appetizer:
    Lovin’ Spoonerismful?
    Name a vocal group known for its soulful stylings. If you spoonerize (switch the beginning letters of) two words in the inductee’s name, the result will sound like two antonyms. What is the name of this inductee?
    Answer:
    Sam & Dave (dam, save... sounds like: damn, save)

    Lego...

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  14. This week's answers for the record, part 2:

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    Riffing Off Shortz And Strandskov Slices:
    Interior linemen mixing it up
    ENTREE #1:
    Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s nickname are letters you might see written at the end of a letter. The nickname’s interior letters can be rearranged to spell a word that might be written at the beginning of the letter. Those same letters also can be rearranged to spell what the recipient of the letter will likely do with it.
    What team is it?
    Answer:
    San Diego Padres; (PS is a PostScript written at the end of a letter. The letters "adre" anagram to spell both "dear" and "read."
    ENTREE #2:
    Name a major professional sports team. The last and first letters of this result spell the name of an independent record label with studios in London and in a city in a state with a postal code that is an anagram of its interior letters. What team is it?
    Answer:
    Minnesota Lynx; (LYNX >> XL + NY
    ENTREE #3:
    Name a major professional sports team. The first and last letters of the team’s nickname are the first two letters in the brand name of a lubricant. Subtract a Greek letter from an anagram of its interior letters to form the second part of the brand name. What team is it?
    Answer:
    Minnesota Wild; WD + (LI - XI) = WD + 40 = WD-40
    ENTREE #4:
    Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. The first letter of the team’s city name and the last letter of the team’s nickname are the first and last letters of an affliction (in 9 letters) that would likely be career-ending for any of the team’s players. An anagram of the remaining interior letters spells a medical procedure, in two words, that would probably make the affliction worse. What team is it?
    Hint: The story of a rookie on the team was made into an Oscar-nominated movie, the title of which contains a word that is the first syllable of the 9-letter affliction.
    Answer:
    Baltimore Ravens; (The team's player may be facing Blindness, so he may need to undergo surgery. The letters of "altimoreRaven" can be anagrammed to form "retina removal.")
    Hint: Michael Oher was drafted in the first round by the Baltimore Ravens. His story was made into a movie, "The Blind Side."

    Lego...

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  15. This week's answers for the record, part 3:

    MENU (continued)
    Riffing Off Shortz And Strandskov Slices:
    Interior linemen mixing it up
    ENTREE #5:
    Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. The first and last letters of the team’s two-word name are the first two of the three initials of a U.S. president. An anagram of its interior letters spell two words specifying what, historically, some election officials did in the wake of close presidential outcomes. (The defeated opponent to this president, however, did not ask election officials to do this.)
    What team is this?
    Answer:
    Houston RocketS; (H.S. are the first two initials of H.S.T., Harry S. Truman. The letters "oustonrocket" can be anagrammed to spell "took recounts."
    ENTREE #6:
    Name a major professional sports team in two words, its city name plus its nickname. Take the first letter of its city name and first and last letters of its nickname. Take their mirror images of the three letters and sharpen their rounded contours to form acute angles. The result will be a familiar onomatopoeic expression. An anagram of all but the first letter of its city name and last letter of its nickname can be rearranged to spell a two-word description of members of the team who, after “sleepwalking” through the first half, come back after a halftime peptalk to win the game. What team is it?
    Answer:
    Seattle Seahawks; (SSs >> ZZZ; Athletes awake)
    ENTREE #7:
    Give the last name of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange all but the first and final letters of the last name to form two words: a synonym of “boozer” and a verb for what the boozer did before he blacked out. The final and first letters of the puzzle-maker’s last name, in that order, specify two things:
    1. a designation of a blend of booze in which the youngest brandy has been stored for at least two years in a cask; and
    2. briefly, what the boozer may end up in if he continues and intensifies this self-destructive behavior. Who is this puzzle-maker?
    Answer:
    Henrik Strandskov; (Strandskov - (S + v) = trandsko, which can be rearranged to form "sot" and "drank." 1. V.S. ("very special") is the designation of a blend of booze in which the youngest brandy has been stored for at least two years in a cask.
    2. A habitual boozer may end up in a Vegetative State.)

    Lego...

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    Bright Neon Lights Dessert:
    Nameth this Broadway Banjo

    A man’s first name is also the last name of a Broadway-musical star. Drop one letter from a shorter, less formal variant of the man’s first name to form the Broadway star's first name.
    Who is the star?
    Answer:
    Mary Martin (Marty - t = Mary)

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