Friday, December 28, 2018

Pouring “t” into Proper Porcelain; Three coins... and a’countin’; Patrick Berry’s Celebrity “Webitry” Auld Lang Lullabyin’; Frequent contractions lead to new life;

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED

Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Frequent contractions lead to new life

Name a food that reputedly promotes longevity of life, in eight letters. 
Divide the word in two and place a frequently used contraction (without the apostrophe) between these two parts to form a phrase associated with the beginning of life. 
What is this phrase?


Appetizer Menu


“All Righty, Then!”  Appetizer:
Patrick Berry’s Celebrity “Webitry”

Can you unravel the labyrinthine  “web of celebrity,” below, spun by master puzzle-weaver Patrick J. Berry?
The creator of a decades-old children’s “edutainment” franchise shares a last name with an award-winning actress.
The first name of this creator’s long-time “righthand man” (lets call him Righty”) is the middle name of a well-known children’s author. Rightys last name is the last word in the title of a celebrated book by this author.
Righty, who is also a director and actor, provided the voice for a wise and powerful figure in a successful movie franchise. 
The aforementioned award-winning actress stars in a current television series. (The title of her series is a word in the title of the movie in which Righty’s wise figure first appeared.) The first name of her character is the first word of a two-word creature portrayed by Righty. The last name of the actress’s character, when pronounced out loud, is the second word of a two-word creature in the book by the aforementioned children’s author. This creature was portrayed in a movie version of the book by an actor who shares a first name with another of Righty’s portrayals. Righty also portrayed a creature whose first name begins with Righty’s first name’s initial plus his entire last name.

1. Who is “Righty”? 
2. Who are the actress and the children’s “edutainment” franchise creator who share a last name?
3. Who is the children’s author, and what is that author’s celebrated book? 
4. What are the  actress’s TV series and her character’s name? 
5. In what movie did Righty’s wise figure first appear?
6. Who is the creature in a movie version of the author’s celebrated book, and who is the actor who portrayed that creature? 
7. What are the names of the figure and three other creatures that Righty portrayed?



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Have A Spot Of Alphabet Soup Slice:
Pouring “t” into Proper Porcelain

Name a proper noun closely associated with a certain profession. 
Alphabetize the letters of this noun and change the capital letter of the noun to lowercase. 
Add a “t” somewhere within this result to name members of this profession. 
Who are these professionals?
Hint: Placing the “t” within the result disrupted the perfect alphabetical order of that result. The alphabetical order would have remained intact had the “t” been added at the end.

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Three coins... and a’countin’

Will Shortz’s December 23rd  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
It’s a straightforward puzzle. Think of a place you can find coins, in two words. Put the second word first, and you’ll get a compound word describing most holiday cards. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:


ENTREE #1:
Think of a place you can find coins, in two words of four and five letters, as depicted by the image here. 
Put the second word first, and you’ll get a compound word describing many holiday cards. 
What words are these? 

ENTREE #2:
Think of a place you can find coins, in two words. 
Double the first letter of the first word.
Put the second word first and place a space between the doubled letters. 
You’ll get a part of a piece of game equipment that caused the game to be banned in Canada and the United States.
What words are these?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a place you can find coins, in two words. 
Rearrange the letters in the words to describe, in two words, certain Senators during 1968. 
What is this place where can you find coins? 
What is the description of the Senators? 

ENTREE #4:
Think of a place you can find a flippable coin, in two words. 
Remove an apostrophe from the first word and put the second word first. 
You’ll get the names of handbooks, in two words. This handbook has been called “the oracle of all things do-it-yourself.” 
What place is this? 
What are these handbooks titled?

ENTREE #5:
Think of a place you might find coins, in two words. Rearrange the ten combined letters in these two words and you’ll get a synonym of “receive” and the past tense of another synonym of “receive.” 
What place is this? What are these synonyms?

ENTREE #6: 
Think of a place you can find coins, in two words. 
Switch the first two letters of the first word with the first two letters of the second word. You’ll get two adjectives, each which describes the apparel pictured in the image here. 
What is this place coins are found? 
What are these two adjectives?

ENTREE #7:
Think of a place you can find coins. It consists of a 12-letter possessive noun and a 10-letter noun.
Remove COINS from this place... (You may not want to do this, but you might be in a situation where you need to buy something.) Also remove the letters in a 4-letter word for what you need to know so that you know how many coins to remove to buy what you need to buy. 
Now, add a coin-shaped letter (plus the letter preceding it in the alphabet) to the 13 letters that remain. 
Rearrange these 15 letters and you’ll get a two-word phrase, in 10 and 5 letters, describing an activity many people around the world were engaged in during New Year’s Eve 19 years ago. 
What is this place you can find coins? 
In what activity were many people engaged 19 years ago?

ENTREE #8:
Think of a container where you can sometimes find coins, in two words of six and four letters. This container is sometimes placed on a downtown sidewalk. 
The primary function of this container is transporting an object with strings attached. Rearrange the combined letters of the words of the container to name, in two words of four and six letters, what the container becomes when its owner closes and totes it after an extremely profitable day – indeed, a day so profitable that the container is so packed with cash that there is no longer any room in the container to put the object with strings attached! 
What is this container, and what does it sometimes become?

ENTREE #9:
Think of a place you can find coins, in three words. 
Rearrange the 13 combined letters of the three words to form a two-word term for male mail carriers who, like the fictional Cliff Clavin, sometimes engage in silly or foolish behavior. 
The two-word phrase consists of a a 6-letter noun used as a modifier and a 7-letter noun. 
What is this place coins can be found? 
What is the two-word term for these silly mail carriers?


Dessert Menu

Iambic Tetrameter Dessert:
Auld Lang Lullabyin

“Now hush, my darlings, drift to sleep...
Make murmurs, coos, but not _ ____.”


Solve for the missing words (of one and four letters) in the above lullaby couplet that parents might sing to their young’uns. 
Move each of the five letters the same number of places ahead in the alphabet* to form five new letters. 

Capitalize all five and rearrange them to form something soon-to-be timely. 

What is it?

* For example, B moved five places ahead in the alphabet becomes G.

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.)

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35 comments:

  1. Still no comments? Gosh, I'd better do something about this!
    Happy last Friday of 2018 to all! After some last-minute changes to my puzzle late last night(which I'm glad Lego caught, BTW), I could only solve Entree #1 as far as the other puzzles go. Truth be told, after last week I'm a little "puzzled out". It was all I could do to solve the Prize Crossword, and then skim the Private Eye(Jumbo)Crossword before giving up on it. I've done a few of them before, and it's work enough without having to do P! as well! Granted the puzzle's there for two weeks, but I don't think I can handle it this time around. As for P!, I'm going to need hints all around on this one. Can't think of that many places offhand to find coins. Everybody else, enjoy my puzzle!

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  2. I DID enjoy your puzzle, pjb, mostly because I hit on the correct "in common" last name right off the bat, and then was able to follow it through all the way. It was fun!

    As for my Entree percentage, it's only slightly better, but definitely different: I could solve only #s 6 and 8....although Lego KNEW I'd be able to solve #8, right Lego? Hee heee

    In addition, I was able to figure out the Alphabet Soup Slice, AND the Dessert. So that leaves the Schpuzzle and all the rest of the Entrees undone by me, too.

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    1. Thanks, ViolinTeddy and Patrick. Yes, it has been a good year.
      I knew ENTREE #* would be a gimme for you, VT. Glad you enjoyed Patrick's aMAZEing puzzle. It is excellent, IMHO.

      LegoAuldLangSighin'

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    2. Thank you for saying so, Lego, but where are those hints? It's almost the new year!

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    3. Sorry, crannberry. I've been out on a date, ringing in 2019. I shall try to post a hint or two ere the ball drops on 2018.

      LegoWhoWondersIfTheGuyWhoIsChargedWithDroppingTheBallIsAlsoChargedWithAnError?

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  4. Ball-dropping hints:

    SOTW:
    The 8-letter food that reputedly promotes longevity of life is a compound word that sounds somewhat oxymoric. Also sounds like it might be good for breakfast.

    ARTA:
    Is it the angels who sweep the clouds away?

    HASOASS:
    The proper noun closely associated with a certain profession is a coveted possession. You may not believe this, but this i kind of academic puzzle.

    ROSS:
    ENTREE #1:
    Valentines are usually red. This one is green and is made of an especially tactful fabric. But it's still a Valentine shape.
    ENTREE #2:
    It's a game played on the lawn. The pieces of equipment have fins.
    ENTREE #3:
    Senators like Darold Knowles, Frank Coggins, Mike Epstein and Bob Humphreys... who were chasing some guys from Detroit.
    ENTREE #4:
    "Okay, you lost the coin flip; which goal do you want to defend?"
    ENTREE #5:
    "Please receive this gift as a token of my gratitude... 'token,' you say? Hey, that contains the letters of the second synonym of 'receive'."
    ENTREE #6:
    "What color is the apparel? Do they fit okay... or are they a bit _____?"
    ENTREE #7:
    The place you can find coins is in a album of sorts, but it is called something else: a 12-letter possessive word beginning with N, followed by 10-letter possessive word beginning with C that hobbyists add to.
    ENTREE #8:
    The object transported in the container is neither a marionette nor guitar. What the container becomes after an extremely profitable day are two words of 4 and 6 letters beginning with a C and V.
    ENTREE #9:
    It's a place you can find not just a coins, but a whole lot of coins.... really shiny coins! Shiny as the spit-polished buttons on a cadet's dress jacket.

    DOTND:
    The words in the blanks are tsomething Tom might take.
    The number of places you move ahead in the alphabet, when spoken in French, sounds like a cereal plant in English.

    LegoRehearsingAuldLangSyneLanguage

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  5. Okay, now I have Entrees #1, #5, #7, #8 and the Dessert.

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  6. I guess I'll put in my two cents' worth: 12 hours ago or so, the clues allowed me to solve Entrees 1, 7 and 9. With the 6 and 8 I already had, that leaves me with #s 2, 3, 4 and 5 undone.

    I know the banned game equipment for #2 [and its various iterations], but have been unable to go backwards and turn any of them into where coins are.

    I have ideas on #4's coin location, but can't make it turn into any sort of handbook (Google has been a complete failure here).

    I've tried NUMEROUS combos of "receive" synonyms and its past tense pairs for #5, and NOTHING goes backwards (once again) to any coin locations.

    And I'm hopelessly stuck on #3 and the baseball stuff. And the Schpuzzle....

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  7. 2019 Hints:

    SOTW:
    The food that reputedly promotes longevity of life begins with a really common vowel. Prince probably ate it, but alas...

    ARTA:
    Ali Baba

    HASOASS:
    This is kind of an Academic puzzle... One that a grouchy guy from Patrick's ARTA puzzle would easily solve.

    ROSS:
    ENTREE #2:
    Revisit the autobiographical lyrics of Billy Joel's breakthrough hit single.
    ENTREE #3:
    These Senators are no longer Senators. They are now Twins and Rangers. The "two words" you seek also describe certain Twins during 1968, but not certain Rangers. Rangers did not yet exist. What these Senators and Twins were doing was tryng to catch creatures not native to Africa.
    ENTREE #4:
    It's a DIY tool that I had never heard of before either. Google "Glover."
    ENTREE #5:
    the present-tense verb is sometimes confused with a 2-syllable word that begins with "ex-". The past-tense verb might be followed by "... advantage of."
    ENTREE #6:
    This answe also has a connection to Patrick J. Berry's ARTA puzzle. Don't Miss the connection.
    ENTREE #7:
    If this puzzle were about where you can find stamps in a album of sorts, the first part of the answer would be "philatelist's".
    ENTREE #9:
    "These" can be very refreshing.

    DOTND:
    The "something Tom might take" was likely furtive. Tom probably also lusted after Godiva chocolates.

    LegoWhoResolveToBeABetterHinterIn2019

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  8. Got the Academic puzzle, but still can't figure out the rest. Googling Glover gets you to Donald mostly. Did find a plumbing company, a wrecking company, and a towing company based in AL, though. Nothing helped.

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    1. The first name of the guy named Glover is the same name as the guy who lusted after chocolates in the Dessert.

      LegoWhoHasNoDoubt

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  9. What does Tom Glover have to do with the diy handbook?

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    1. cranberry, try putting "Tom Glover" and "handbook" in a search engine.

      LegoNotesThatTomGloverWouldBeAGreatNameForASlickFieldingShortstop

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  10. Hurrah, your Schpuzzle hint allowed me to solve it quickly. Thank you.

    I haven't read the other new hints yet, but will hold out hope! : O )

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  11. Just solved both Entree #2 and 4. Only now that I know #4"s answer ,can I find the "oracle of all things DIY"...it surely never showed up in GOogle before.

    Will have additional comments on each in my answers tomorrow. On to #3 and 5.

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  12. Is there a way to contact the person who runs this blog?

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    1. Sure, Gregory. Welcome.
      Email me at jrywriter@aol.com
      Thanks.

      LegoAkaJosephYoung

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  13. It is utterly hopeless on 3 and 5. I give up.

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    1. Two more Hints:
      ROSS:
      ENTREE #3:
      Wail till you hear the ding. Them make some change.
      You've heard of the tortoise and the hare? Well, this was another word that begins with T... and the rest of the field. Except that this time the field was in the rear-view mirror from the start of the race. They didn't even have to take a roadside rest in order to lose!
      ENTREE #5:
      The past-tense verb rhymes with "shook."
      This "place you might find coins" is something you wear and stick your hand into when you need to buy something.

      LegoSaysHeCanAcceptThePossibilityOfPigsInFlight...ButTheOnlyUdderlyHopelessScenarioIsThatCowsWillFly...TheAerodynamicsSimplyDoNotWorkOut

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  14. Alrighty, many thanks again for those latest, Lego....the answers finally got through my thick skull! One problem I was DEFINITELY having was 'thinking female' in terms of where coins might reside! And in the other case, forgetting where coins USED to live pre-computers!

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  15. Just got #4! Still need the Schpuzzle, and Entrees #3 and #9, though. I have an operative word for #9, but can't figure out the anagram. I have the seven-letter word, but not the six-letter word. In short, I have a four-letter word for where you might find the coins, but not the specific one. And I've gone through a whole list of them, too. And I'm not quite sure about #3, either.

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  16. Schpuzzle:
    Fertility clinics, but not necessarily.
    Prince (or the "Purple One" as we call him in Minnesota) was probably fond of the color of the food.
    Entree #3: The first word of the place you can find coins is the 4-letter surname of a hitter named Norm who once wore the uniform of the team everybody was in pursuit of. The second word is what virtually all professional ballplayers did in the early-to-mid-1940's, vis-a-vis the draft. And most served. Greatest Generation, and all that.
    Norm, and each of his teammates, were what everyone was in hot pursuit of.
    ENTREE #9:
    The place you can find coins, in three words, is a specific place in New York State. It makes polished soldiers and shiny, happy minty-fresh inedible "wafers."
    What about the two-word term for male mail carriers that consists of a a 6-letter noun used as a modifier and a 7-letter noun?
    The modifier consists of two small rhyming words.
    The Carpenters, Marvelettes and Fab Four sang about the singular form of the synonym of male mail carriers.

    LegoSettingAnAllTimeHighHintRecord!

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  17. Finally! Now I can go to bed! See y'all later today!

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  18. Before the hints:
    A PEEP > MMXIX

    VIOLIN CASE > COIN VALISE

    After the hints:
    FELT HEART > HEARTFELT

    TIP JAR > JART TIP

    CASH REGISTER > TIGER CHASERS

    WEST POINT MINT > NITWIT POSTMEN

    EGGPLANT > EGG IMPLANT

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    1. Glad to see your replies above, Paul...I had wondered WHERE you had gone this week!

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    2. ...What Violin Teddy said.

      LegoWhoChoosesNotToSpeakForHimselfWhenSpeakersWhoSpeakBetterThanHeHaveSpoken

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  19. SCHPUZZLE: EGGPLANT => EGG IMPLANT

    PJB's APPETIZER:

    1. FRANK OZ;

    2. TARAJI & JIM HENSON;

    3. L. FRANK BAUM; WIZARD OF OZ

    4. EMPIRE; COOKIE LYON

    5. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

    6. COWARDLY LION; BERT LAHR

    7. YODA; COOKIE MONSTER; BERT (on Sesame Street) and FOZZIE BEAR


    ALPHABET SOUP SLICE: OSCAR => ACTORS


    ENTREES:

    1. FELT HEART => HEARTFELT

    2. T/TIP JAR => JART TIP [ I hadn't noticed before that the puzzle said "PART of a piece of equipment", not to mention I hadn't realized that LAWN DARTS were also called JARTs.]

    3. CASH REGISTER => TIGER CHASERS

    4. REF'S POCKET => POCKET REFS [Whoever heard of this? I had had the referee part, but thought it was his HAND or FIST or PALM or something]

    5. COAT POCKET => ACCEPT & TOOK

    6. PIGGY BANK => BAGGY PINK [Pre hint, but CUTE connection!! Love Miss Piggy!]

    7. NUMISMATIST'S COLLECTION minus "COINS" & "COST" => MILLENNIUM TOAST

    8. VIOLIN CASE => COIN VALISE : o )

    9. WEST POINT MINT => NITWIT POSTMEN

    DESSERT: A PEEP => I X M M X => M M X X I (the year 2021)

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  20. Schpuzzle
    EGGPLANT, EGG IMPLANT
    Appetizer
    FRANK OZ, TARAJI P. HENSON and JIM HENSON, LYMAN FRANK BAUM, who wrote "THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ", EMPIRE, on which TARAJI plays COOKIE LYON, "STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK", THE COWARDLY LION, played by BERT LAHR in "THE WIZARD OF OZ", FRANK OZ played YODA, COOKIE MONSTER, BERT, and FOZZIE BEAR.
    Menu
    OSCAR, ACTORS
    Entrees
    1. FELT HEART, HEARTFELT
    2. TIP JAR, JART TIP
    3. CASH REGISTER, "TIGER CHASERS"
    4. REF'S POCKET, POCKET REF
    5. COAT POCKET, ACCEPT, TOOK
    6. PIGGY BANK, BAGGY, PINK
    7. NUMISMATIST'S COLLECTION-COINS and COST=MILLENNIUM TOAST
    8. VIOLIN CASE, COIN VALISE
    9. WEST POINT MINT, "NITWIT POSTMEN"
    Dessert
    "A PEEP", MMXIX(2019 in Roman numerals)
    And no, I never thought Bert and Ernie were gay. It always seemed more like "The Odd Couple" to me.-pjb

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

    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    Frequent contractions lead to new life
    Name a food that reputedly promotes longevity of life, in 8 letters. Divide the word in two and place a frequently used contraction (without the apostrophe) before the second part to form a phrase associated with the beginning of life. What are this word and this phrase?
    Answer:
    eggplant; >> egg (im)+plant

    Appetizer Menu

    “All Righty, Then!” Appetizer
    Patrick Berry’s Celebrity “Webitry”
    Can you unravel the “web of celebrity,” below, spun by master puzzle-weaver Patrick J. Berry?
    The creator of decades-old children’s “edutainment” franchise shares a last name with an award-winning actress.
    The first name of this creator’s long-time “right-hand man” (let’s call him “Righty”) is the middle name of a well-known children’s author. Righty’s last name is the last word in the title of a celebrated book by this author.
    Righty, who is also a director and actor, provided the voice for a wise character in a successful movie franchise. The aforementioned award-winning actress stars as a character in a current television series. The title of her series is the last word in the title of the movie in which Righty’s character first appeared. The first name of her character is the first word of a two-word character portrayed by Righty. The last name of the actress’s character, when pronounced out loud, is the second word of a two-word character in the book by the aforementioned children’s author. This character was portrayed in a movie version of the book by an actor who shares a first name with another of Righty’s characters. Righty also played a character whose first name begins with Righty’s first name initial plus his last name.
    1. Who is “Righty”?
    2. Who are the the actress and the children’s “edutainment” franchise creator who share a last name?
    3. Who is the children’s author, and what is that author’s celebrated book?
    4. What are the actress’s TV series and her character’s name?
    5. In what movie did Righty’s wise character first appear?
    6. Who is the character in a movie version of the author’s celebrated book, and who portrayed that character?
    7. What are the names of characters that Righty portrayed?

    Answers:
    1. Who is “Righty”? FRANK OZ
    2. Who are the the actress and the children’s “edutainment” franchise creator who share a last name? TARAJI P. HENSON; JIM HENSON
    3. Who is the children’s author, and what is that author’s celebrated book? L. (LYMAN) FRANK BAUM; THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ
    4. What are the actress’s TV series and her character’s name? EMPIRE; COOKIE LYON
    5. In what movie did Righty’s wise character first appear? "STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK"
    6. Who is the character in a movie version of the author’s celebrated book, and who portrayed that character? COWARDLY LION; BERT LAHR
    7. What are the names of characters that Righty portrayed? YODA (in the "Star Wars" franchise; and Muppets/Sesame Street characters: COOKIE MONSTER, BERT and FOZZIE BEAR

    Lego...

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

    MENU

    Have A Spot Of Alphabet Soup Slice
    Pouring “t” into proper porcelain

    Name a proper noun closely associated with a certain profession. Alphabetize the letters of this noun and change the capital letter of the noun to lowercase. Add a “t” somewhere within this result to name members of this profession.
    Who are these professionals?
    Hint: Placing the “t” within the result disrupted the perfect alphabetical order of that result. The alphabetical order would have remained intact had the “t” been added at the end.
    Answer:
    Actors (Oscar => acors + t = actors

    Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
    Three coins... and a’countin’
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
    ENTREE #1:
    Think of a place you can find coins, in two words of four and five letters, as depicted by the image here. Put the second word first, and you’ll get a compound word describing many holiday cards. What words are these?
    Answer:
    "Felt heart";
    ENTREE #2:
    Think of a place you can find coins, in two words. Double the first letter of the first word. Put the second word first and place a space between the doubled letters. You’ll get a part of a piece of game equipment that caused the game to be banned in Canada and the United States.word describing most holiday cards. What words are these?
    Answer:
    Tip jar; Jart tip
    ENTREE #3:
    Think of a place you can find coins, in two words. Rearrange the letters in the words to describe, in two words, certain Senators in 1968. Where can you find coins and what is the description of Senators?
    Answer:
    Cash Register; Tiger Chasers
    The Detroit Tigers won the 1968 American League Pennant with a record of 103 wins and 59 losses. The Washinton Senators, who finished the 1968 season with 65 wins and 96 losses, were chasing the Tigers all summer long. Other Tiger chasers were the Baltimore Orioles (91-71), Cleveland Indians (86-75), Boston Red Sox (86-76), New York Yankees (83-79), Oakland Athletics (82-80), Minnesota Twins (79-83), California Angels (67-95) and Chicago White Sox, (67-95).
    ENTREE #4:
    Think of a place you can find a flippable coin, in two words. Remove an apostrophe from the first word and put the second word first.
    You’ll get the names handbooks, in two words. This handbook has been called “the oracle of all things do-it-yourself.”
    What place is this? What are these handbooks titled?
    Answer:
    Ref's pocket; "Pocket Ref(s)"

    Lego...

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  23. This week's answers for the record, part 3:
    ROSS (continued):

    ENTREE #5:
    Think of a place you might find coins, in two words. Rearrange the ten combined letters in these two words and you’ll get a synonym of “receive” and the past tense of another synonym of “receive.”
    What place is this? What are these synonyms?
    Answer:
    Coat pocket; Accept, took (past tense of "take")
    ENTREE #6:
    Think of a place you can find coins, in two words. Switch the first two letters of the first word with the first two letters of the second word. You’ll get two adjectives, each which describes the apparel pictured in the images here.
    What is this place coins are found? What are these two adjectives?
    Answer:
    Piggy bank; baggy, pink
    ENTREE #7:
    Think of a place you can find coins. It consists of two nouns, the first one possessive. Remove some COINS from this place... you may hate to do this, you might need to buy something. Also remove a 4-letter word for what you need to know so you know how many coins to remove to buy what you want to buy.
    Now, add a coin-shaped letter (and the letter preceding it in the alphabet) to the remaining letters of the place where you can find coins. Put the second word first, and you’ll get a two-word phrase, in 10 and 5 letters, describing what many people around the world were engaged in during New Year’s Eve 19 years ago. What is this place you can find coins? In what were many people engaged 19 years ago?
    Answer:
    Numismatist's collection; Millennial toast
    NUMISMATIST'S COLLECTION - (COINS + COST) + (O+N) =
    NUMMAITSLLECTIN = UMISMATLLETINO --> MILLENNIUM TOAST
    ENTREE #8:
    Think of a container where you can find coins, in two words of six and four letters. This container is sometimes placed on a downtown sidewalk. The primary function of this container is transporting an object with strings attached. Rearrange the combined letters of the words of the container to name, in two words of four and six letters, what the container becomes when its owner closes and totes it after an extremely profitable day – indeed, so profitable that the container is so full of money that there is no longer any room in the container to put the object with strings attached!
    What is this container, and what does it sometimes become?
    Answer:
    Violin case; Coin valise (see 00:23)

    ENTREE #9:
    Think of a place you can find coins, in three words. Rearrange the 13 combined letters of the three words to form a two-word term for male mail carriers who, like the fictional Cliff Clavin, sometimes engage in silly or foolish behavior. The two-word phrase consits of a a 6-letter noun used as a modifyer and a 7-letter noun.
    What is this place coins can be found? What is the two-word term for these silly mail carriers?
    Answer:
    West Point Mint; Nitwit postmen;


    Dessert Menu

    Dream Of The New Dessert:
    Auld Lang Lullabying
    “Hush now, my darlings, drift to sleep...
    Make murmurs, coos, but not _ ____.”
    Solve for the missing words (of one and four letters) in the above lullabye that parents might sing to their young’uns. Move each of the five letters the same number of places ahead in the alphabet to form five different letters. Capitalize all five and rearrange them to form something soon-to-be timely. What is it?
    Answer: MMXIX, the Roman numerals for 2019, the imminent New Year;
    “Hush now, my dear, pray drift to sleep...
    Make dreamy murmurs, not A PEEP.”
    A PEEP --> I XMMX (moving 8 letters ahead)s --> MMXIX

    Lego!

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