PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Riots, radish, lily, plum & bolero
Change each letter in the following phrases to a different letter with which it is sometimes paired because of their positions relative to one another in the alphabet.
(One such pairing, for an example, might be A with N, B with O, C with P ... K with X, L with Y, M with Z; these pairs are all 13 places apart in the alphabet.)
vivid bolero
plum oil
riots roughly
calm lily
radish logo
Rearrange the transformed letters of each of these five results to form answers, in no particular order, to each of the following clues:
Big Apple attraction
long waterway
radio personality
historic document
Virginia city
What are these names? What is the property?
Appetizer Menu
Worldplayeria!
An odd couple... of words, etc.
A Puzzleria! puzzle
❓1. Think of a frequently-used category of puzzles on Puzzleria! Move the third-last letter of this category to the third position and replace the original letter at the third position with it to obtain the mineral form of alumina.
If this term is not familiar, insert three letters anagrammed from the legal profession into this second word to obtain a more-familiar abrasive which contains neither aluminum nor oxygen. What are the mineral and abrasive?
An odd couple... of words
❓2. Think of a familiar 5-letter geographic term that begins with a consonant pair.
Change the second letter of this pair to the letter one place earlier in the alphabet to obtain an alternative spelling of the word (but with the same meaning).
What are the two words?
Hint: there are only two 5-letter words (one obscure) that begin with the consonant pair.
Internally oxymoronic
❓3. Think of an 11-letter word that could describe a person. Split to give a 5-letter verb that characterizes such persons and a 6-letter quality that they lack.
What are the 5- and 6-letter words?
Legendary Slice:
Arborcarburetor Day
Name two kinds of trees that look similar from afar.
A part of one of these trees is also a part of an American legend.
Rearrange the combined letters the names of the two trees and that tree part to spell two legendary American car brands that are associated with one another.
What are these brands?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
AT-divided-by-10 KG puzzles
Will Shortz’s November 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” And the letters I + V together sound like “ivy.” Take the 18 letters in the phrase END BACKSTAGE TV QUIZ. Rearrange them into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make nine common, uncapitalized words phonetically. Can you do it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” And the letters I + V together sound like “ivy.”
Take the ten letters in the slogan “ZAP TAR, RUST!” which is used in advertising for DIY and commercial electrolysis tanks.
Rearrange the ten letters into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make five common, lowercase words phonetically. Can you do it?
Now add four more letters to this ten-letter mix – I, M, M and T, in alphabetical order – to form the name of a commercial deodorant: “MUM ATTAR SPRITZ.”
Rearrange these four new letters into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make two additional common lowercase words phonetically. Can you do it?
ENTREE #2:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” Take the five initial letters of a mother’s probable lament voiced in the 1950’s. A lengthier paraphrase of her lament is:
“Frederick’s and my second-born son requires remediation!”
Can you find the five initial letters?
Hint: The five letters, spoken aloud one after the other, sound like a five-syllable word for what the mother had hoped to instill into her lad. The letters consist a vowel followed by four different consonants. The five words in her lament are, in order, a pronoun, noun, proper noun, verb and noun, of 1, 1, 2, 1 and 3 syllables.
ENTREE #3:
The letters I + V together sound like “ivy,” as in “hallowed halls of ivy.”
Take a pair letters that together sound like the literary vehicle a philosopher might have used to expound on, say, existentialism.
Take a second pair of letters that together sound like an adjective describing this philosopher, who was also a playwright, novelist and screenwriter.
Take a third pair of letters that together sound like how a close friend might have informally addressed a more ancient philosopher who penned similar “literary vehicles” on ethics, politics, metaphysics and poetics.
Place these three pairs of letters side-by-side-by-side to spell the surname of the less ancient philosopher (the one who was also a playwright, novelist and screenwriter).
Who are these two philosophers?
ENTREE #4:
“People with family responsibilities often seek to escape what they perceive as their (1. things that happen on runways and in end zones, for short) existence by resorting to (2. technology and software for disk jockeys to emulate records through digital music) conduct and secretly succumbing to the transitory (3. group Fronted by songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding) that (4. an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that manages the government’s civilian workforce) provides. It is an (5. Oracle file extension) habit and an (6. a British music journalism website and former magazine) of one’s spirit.”
Find six trios of letters that are answers to the clues within parentheses in the paragraph above.
Each trio of letters, spoken aloud, sounds like a three-syllable word (for example: “MLE” = “Emily”) that makes sense when you “plug it in” to the sentence text.
ENTREE #5:
Solve for three images pictured in this “Riffing Off Shortz Slices” portion of this week’s Menu.
The images are titled: “Screen name of a Puzzleria! contributor,” “Synonym of fawn” and “A rebus.”
1. The solution to the first image involves three consecutive letters of a Puzzleria! contributor’s screen name that, when spoken aloud, sound like two letters.
Those two letters spell another word that relates to the image.
2. The solution to the second image requires the solver to identify and combine “a heifer + a letter” within the image.
3. The solution to the third image requires the solver to identify and string together the four images connected with +signs to form a four-syllable word that is synonymous with “dwindle,” “downsize” or “decrease.”
ENTREE #6:
Identify the following four states:
1. A state with plenty of room to spare?
2. A state that the other 49 states are jealous of?
3. Neither a great state nor a third-rate state.
4. Actress Susan Lucci might have finally been awarded the “keys to this state” in 1999.
ENTREE #7:
Name a kind of pepper that might give you an allergic rash, and a kind of sash.
If you say these two words aloud it will sound like you are spelling a word for something you might find on a radio or a door.
What are this pepper and sash?
ENTREE #8:
Name a kind of doll, a slang term for a 180-degree turn, and a synonym of “pacify. ”If you say the three words aloud it will sound like a series of six letters.
Rearrange them to spell a word for what you might find on some teeth, or find on a wall decorated with a laurel wreath.
What are this doll, turn and synonym?
What might you find on teeth, or find on a wall decorated with a laurel wreath?
Paul Muni...cipal Dessert:
Thespian, Serbian, Cosmopolitan
Remove the last four letters from the first name of a famous thespian.
Rescue the vowel you removed and place it smack-dab in the middle of the thespian’s last name.
Place a common English pronoun within the first name, then place this pronoun’s Serbian counterpart within the last name.
The result is the name a major world city.
What are the names of this thespian and city?
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:
Riots, radish, lily, plum & bolero
Change each letter in the following phrases to a different letter with which it is sometimes paired because of their positions relative to one another in the alphabet.
(One such pairing, for an example, might be A with N, B with O, C with P ... K with X, L with Y, M with Z; these pairs are all 13 places apart in the alphabet.)
vivid bolero plum oil
riots roughly
calm lily
radish logo
Rearrange the transformed letters of each of these five results to form answers, in no particular order, to each of the following clues:
Big Apple attractionlong waterway
radio personality
historic document
Virginia city
What are these names? What is the property?
Appetizer Menu
Worldplayeria!
An odd couple... of words, etc.
A Puzzleria! puzzle
❓1. Think of a frequently-used category of puzzles on Puzzleria! Move the third-last letter of this category to the third position and replace the original letter at the third position with it to obtain the mineral form of alumina.
If this term is not familiar, insert three letters anagrammed from the legal profession into this second word to obtain a more-familiar abrasive which contains neither aluminum nor oxygen. What are the mineral and abrasive?
An odd couple... of words
❓2. Think of a familiar 5-letter geographic term that begins with a consonant pair.
Change the second letter of this pair to the letter one place earlier in the alphabet to obtain an alternative spelling of the word (but with the same meaning). What are the two words?
Hint: there are only two 5-letter words (one obscure) that begin with the consonant pair.
Internally oxymoronic
❓3. Think of an 11-letter word that could describe a person. Split to give a 5-letter verb that characterizes such persons and a 6-letter quality that they lack.
What are the 5- and 6-letter words?
MENU
Legendary Slice:
Arborcarburetor Day
Name two kinds of trees that look similar from afar.
A part of one of these trees is also a part of an American legend.
Rearrange the combined letters the names of the two trees and that tree part to spell two legendary American car brands that are associated with one another. What are these brands?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
AT-divided-by-10 KG puzzles
Will Shortz’s November 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” And the letters I + V together sound like “ivy.” Take the 18 letters in the phrase END BACKSTAGE TV QUIZ. Rearrange them into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make nine common, uncapitalized words phonetically. Can you do it?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” And the letters I + V together sound like “ivy.”
Take the ten letters in the slogan “ZAP TAR, RUST!” which is used in advertising for DIY and commercial electrolysis tanks.
Rearrange the ten letters into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make five common, lowercase words phonetically. Can you do it?Now add four more letters to this ten-letter mix – I, M, M and T, in alphabetical order – to form the name of a commercial deodorant: “MUM ATTAR SPRITZ.”
Rearrange these four new letters into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make two additional common lowercase words phonetically. Can you do it?
ENTREE #2:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” Take the five initial letters of a mother’s probable lament voiced in the 1950’s. A lengthier paraphrase of her lament is:
“Frederick’s and my second-born son requires remediation!”Can you find the five initial letters?
Hint: The five letters, spoken aloud one after the other, sound like a five-syllable word for what the mother had hoped to instill into her lad. The letters consist a vowel followed by four different consonants. The five words in her lament are, in order, a pronoun, noun, proper noun, verb and noun, of 1, 1, 2, 1 and 3 syllables.
ENTREE #3:
The letters I + V together sound like “ivy,” as in “hallowed halls of ivy.”
Take a pair letters that together sound like the literary vehicle a philosopher might have used to expound on, say, existentialism.
Take a second pair of letters that together sound like an adjective describing this philosopher, who was also a playwright, novelist and screenwriter. Take a third pair of letters that together sound like how a close friend might have informally addressed a more ancient philosopher who penned similar “literary vehicles” on ethics, politics, metaphysics and poetics.
Place these three pairs of letters side-by-side-by-side to spell the surname of the less ancient philosopher (the one who was also a playwright, novelist and screenwriter).
Who are these two philosophers?
ENTREE #4:
“People with family responsibilities often seek to escape what they perceive as their (1. things that happen on runways and in end zones, for short) existence by resorting to (2. technology and software for disk jockeys to emulate records through digital music) conduct and secretly succumbing to the transitory (3. group Fronted by songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding) that (4. an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that manages the government’s civilian workforce) provides. It is an (5. Oracle file extension) habit and an (6. a British music journalism website and former magazine) of one’s spirit.”Find six trios of letters that are answers to the clues within parentheses in the paragraph above.
Each trio of letters, spoken aloud, sounds like a three-syllable word (for example: “MLE” = “Emily”) that makes sense when you “plug it in” to the sentence text.ENTREE #5:
Solve for three images pictured in this “Riffing Off Shortz Slices” portion of this week’s Menu.
The images are titled: “Screen name of a Puzzleria! contributor,” “Synonym of fawn” and “A rebus.”
1. The solution to the first image involves three consecutive letters of a Puzzleria! contributor’s screen name that, when spoken aloud, sound like two letters. Those two letters spell another word that relates to the image.
2. The solution to the second image requires the solver to identify and combine “a heifer + a letter” within the image.
3. The solution to the third image requires the solver to identify and string together the four images connected with +signs to form a four-syllable word that is synonymous with “dwindle,” “downsize” or “decrease.”
ENTREE #6:Identify the following four states:
1. A state with plenty of room to spare?
2. A state that the other 49 states are jealous of?
3. Neither a great state nor a third-rate state.
4. Actress Susan Lucci might have finally been awarded the “keys to this state” in 1999.
ENTREE #7:Name a kind of pepper that might give you an allergic rash, and a kind of sash.
If you say these two words aloud it will sound like you are spelling a word for something you might find on a radio or a door.
What are this pepper and sash?
ENTREE #8:
Name a kind of doll, a slang term for a 180-degree turn, and a synonym of “pacify. ”If you say the three words aloud it will sound like a series of six letters.
Rearrange them to spell a word for what you might find on some teeth, or find on a wall decorated with a laurel wreath. What are this doll, turn and synonym?
What might you find on teeth, or find on a wall decorated with a laurel wreath?
Dessert Menu
Paul Muni...cipal Dessert:
Thespian, Serbian, Cosmopolitan
Remove the last four letters from the first name of a famous thespian.
Rescue the vowel you removed and place it smack-dab in the middle of the thespian’s last name. Place a common English pronoun within the first name, then place this pronoun’s Serbian counterpart within the last name.
The result is the name a major world city.
What are the names of this thespian and city?
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.
Clarification for Worldplay #1:
ReplyDeleteThe letter that is substituted into the third place of the original Puzzleria! category is moved there from the third-to-last position, not copied. In other words, after the move, the moved letter is present at position 3 and no longer at the third-from-last position.
A better wording of the puzzle might be: "Think of a frequently-used category of puzzles on Puzzleria! Move the third-to-last letter of this category to the third position and replace the original letter at the third position with it...
Apologies for the poor original wording.
Thanks, geofan. I apologize to you.
DeleteI will insert your text into the puzzle.
LegoWhoAppreciatesgeofan'sClarification
Happy Saturday morning to all!
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm a bit late. We ate out at Cracker Barrel, and it took a little long to get our food. Too many parties going on or something. Then we got home and I listened to Ask Me Another and solved the Prize Crossword, which was rather difficult at first. As to this week's P!, I checked it late last night, and managed to solve parts of some puzzles, but not those entire puzzles. Here's what I have so far:
Worldplay #1(the mineral, not the abrasive)
#2 and #3
Entree #3
Entree #4(not 2. and 5.)
Entree #5(not 1.)
Entree #7
Entree #8
The Dessert
Don't forget those hints, Lego!
BTW Alabama plays LSU this afternoon! Roll Tide!
Well, let's see, my tally is having solved the Dessert, all 3 Worldplays (I'm not SURE about #3, though); Entrees #3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 (all parts), but I wonder if some of #6 is MISSING? I.e. what are we supposed to DO with those four states? Make a word?
ReplyDeleteI also think I might have part of #2, but the second and third initials are just now working out into anything.
Thus, aside from Entrees 2 and 6, am stuck on Entree #1, yon Schpuzzle, and the Legendary Slice (for which I had excitedly THOUGHT I was on to something, but alas, my three choices then refused to anagram into anything car brand-ish.)
Correction: NOT "working out into anything"
ReplyDeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteFor Entree #6, the answer I am looking for is four different states. The map image is a hint to "A state that the other 49 states are jealous of?" Think Elvis going postal.
In Entree #2, the second and third initials belong to a synonym of "lad" and a first name of a Rumsfeld, Driver or Duck.
Schpuzzle hint:
"Good ol' Catfish, Number 27, shore wuz sum flinger of horsehides!"
LegoSaysCatfish(Pitches)AreJumpin'
Got the hint, and the Schpuzzle from it!
ReplyDeleteCatfish shore dun throw sum curve balls.
So far, have everything except the Legendary Slice and Entrée #4(2.) [for which I have several possibilities, none good]
A couple of the other pairs/triplets seem strained.
Got the Dessert by working backwards. Knowing that Serbian (but not Croatian) is written in the Cyrillic абецеда aids in selecting the pronoun.
ReplyDeleteI think I have Entree #2, but I'm not sure about the last word with three syllables. Also, the five-syllable word I came up with phonetically seems to be a less common version of a much more common four-syllable word. But I do think I know who the son turned out to be. Everyone should think of a certain person in the news lately whose father was named "Frederick". You may be surprised!
ReplyDeletelegolambdaNovember 10, 2019 at 6:47 PM
Deletecranberry,
I am pretty sure you have my intended answer to Entree #2. The 5-syllable word is not as common as its synonym with four syllables. The last word, with three syllables, contains 10 letters. It's a pretty straightforward synonym of "remediation."
LegoWhoIsWorkingOnHintsForAllThisWeek'sPuzzles
Googling the image of the woman reveals the name immediately.
ReplyDeleteAgree with cranberry wrt the 4- vs 5-syllable word. My 3-letter word is a version of a word that often follows "guidance."
3-syllable (not letter) word
Deletegeofan,
DeleteYour 3-letter word, if I infer correctly, is a fine alternative to mine.
LegoSeekerOfSpiritGuidance
Hints for Worldplay puzzles:
ReplyDelete#1 The abrasive is often used in knife/tool sharpening blocks. Illegitimi non _____.
#2 Think Norway. Or New Zealand.
#3 Scrooge. Or maybe not.
Now I have all of #1! Great clue, geofan!
ReplyDeleteMonday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
Wizard, bevy
WorldPlay:
1. In the process of solving this puzzle a percussion instrument is silenced.
2. Add a syllable from the musical scale to the alternative spelling of the word and rearrange to name a state.
3. See geofan's hint in his post immediately above.
Legendary Slice:
Rearrange the letters in pro-am.
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
try, toss a Scott product at a residence, pasta, display, vessel, unit used by Shakespeare, devoid
ENTREE #2:
Holly hit, Old Mac..., Homophone of what a baker does to dough, something often penned in red ink
ENTREE #3:
The philosophers: TAROT LIES, ARREST!
ENTREE #4:
1. humdrum
2. cleverly deceptive
3. bliss
4. an addictive drug
5. disgusting
6. foe
ENTREE #5:
1. Focus on the green light and the whirring thing.
2. The solution to the second image is a verb.
3. Sandra+A Hisser+Silent Prez+What Homer Did To Donuts
ENTREE #6:
Are there "any" Puzzlerian!s who hail from Nebraska out there? Just Nebraskin'.
ENTREE #7:
Ken it be kosher for a Jedi Master to ever wear such a robe?
ENTREE #8:
It's nice to have on your wall... not so nice to have on your teeth!
Dessert:
Blame this puzzle on Michael Caine and Demi Moore.
LegoBangingTheJailedSister'sSkinsSlowlyAllDay
Got the Schpuzzle and Entree #5 Part1! But are you sure there's not more to it than PRO-AM? I don't get it.
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteFor the Legendary Slice, anagram "PRO-AM" to get the name of car parts associated with the legendary American car brands.
LegoLists:BartStarr'sSpouseJanuszKamiński'sFirstSpouseFallOutBoy'sFrontman
Got the Legendary Slice with the last hint, thanks Lego.
DeleteOnly Entrée #4(5.) is still out - may have the answer without knowing it.
So did I, just now.....never would have otherwise. I was WAY WAY off tree-wise!
DeleteUnlike everyone else, I still don't have that wretched Schpuzzle. And I don't have any time to keep trying (not that I have any idea what else to try.)
I should have added that I still have NO idea what 'car parts' one makes from Pro Am, that apply.
DeleteSchpuzzle hint
DeleteFor Entrée #4(5.), my intended answer was developed by Oracle... but was created by the Calc program included with the Apache OpenOffice suite. It is a spreadsheet.
LegoWhoIsATadOutOfHisElementWhenItComesToFileExtensions
Believe that I have found the answer to Entrée #4(5.), but to be correct, the word before "(5. Oracle file extension)" should be "an" and not "a" as the puzzle is written.
DeleteI fixed the word before "(5. Oracle file extension)." Thanks, geofan.
DeleteLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOracLegOrac...
I also got Entree #4 Part 5, but Part 2 is definitely living up to its definition.
ReplyDeleteEnough "PRO-AM" nonsense! Just give me a hint about the trees and/or the cars!
ReplyDeleteThe trees appear very Christmassy... all red & green.
DeleteLegoHorizonNewportNeonCrossfireTown&CountryImperialSebringFifthAvenue(NotTheCandyBar)NewYorkerWindsorLeBaron(NotDonald'sKid)PacificaCirrusValiantRoyalSaratogaFuryProwlerSundanceAcclaimColtBreezeLaser
Just got the PRO-AM anagram by accident. Got one car brand that can be anagrammed into a type of tree(I think), but I can't figure out the other car brand, or the other tree, or its part. Still need help! And what is the unit used by Shakespeare, anyway?
ReplyDeleteThe combined letters of the two legendary American car brands can be rearranged to form three words: the names of the two trees and the tree part.
DeleteThe unit used by the Bard of Avon is a certain two-syllable metrical foot.
LegoWhoNotesThatTheShakespeareUnitRemindsHimOfACatFoodBrand
I had always thought that the B in that word was pronounced. I checked. I was dumb.
DeleteGot the Shakespeare unit, but I believe the rest we've established already. I need a better hint than just re-explaining the directions.
ReplyDeletevivid bolero = Yellow River
ReplyDeleteplum oil = Norfolk
riots roughly = Bill of Rights
calm lily = Bronx Zoo
radish logo = Will Shortz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atbash
CONUNDRUM / CORUNDUM / CARBORUNDUM
FJORD / FIORD
TIGHT??????
???????????
ZT / TP / SA / RA / UR / MT / ??
Our Boy Donald Needs Counselling
SA + RT + RE
?
?
?
?
?
?
GEOFAN / KOWTOW / DE-ESCALATE
MT / NV / OK / ME
CAYENNE OBI > KNOB
QP+UE+LA = PLAQUE
ROBERT DE NIRO > RIO DE JANEIRO
WORLDPLAY:
ReplyDelete1. CONUNDRUM => CORUNDUM & 'BAR' => CARBORUNDUM
2. FJORD => FIORD [Lego's hint: LA/ FLORIDA]
3. LIGHTWEIGHT? LIGHT & WEIGHT [According to the Scrooge clue, I fear this is incorrect.]
LEGENDARY SLICE: CHERRY HOLLY STUMP => PLYMOUTH CHRYSLER [Due ONLY to Lego's 'sign off hint'....was nowhere close with Aspen and Birch!]
ENTREES:
1. ZAP TAR RUST => SA [essay], TP [tepee], ZT [ziti], RA [array], UR [ewer]; IM [Iamb], MT (empty)
2. OUR BOY DONALD NEEDS CORRECTION /COUNSELING => OBEDIENCY
3. S A [Essay] R T [Arty] R E [Ari, Aristotle] => SARTRE
4. TDS [Tedious]; DVS [Devious] ; XTC [Ecstasy]; OPM [Opium]; BAD [Bad]; NME [Enemy]
5. (1) GEO FAN [GO, as in Stop/Go]; (2) COW TOW (Tau); (3) DEESCALATE [Sandra Dee, "S", CAL, 8]
6. (1.) MT (empty), (2.) NV (envy), (3) OK (okay), (4) ME (Emmy)
7. CAYENNE PEPPER (KN) & OBI (OB) => KNOB
8. KEWPIE [QP] & ALLAY [LA] & U-IE [UE] => PLAQUE
DESSERT: RO/BERT DENIRO => RIO DE JANIERO
Same answers as ViolinTeddy, except as noted below:
ReplyDeleteWorldplay #3: SPEND, THRIFT => SPENDTHRIFT.
Personally, I can never remember which "half" determines the meaning of the full word, so I avoid using it.
Legendary Slice: got it from the PRO-AM => MOPAR hint.
Entrées
#1: Did not get RA (array) but know that it had to be the final one, as I got all the others.
#4: Same as ViolinTeddy except 5. = ODS (ODIOUS).
I did not think that the graphogram puzzles were very SXE (neither the NPR ones nor Lego's). Glad to see the last of them this week.
Also , I got the same answers to the Schpuzzle as Paul listed above.
ReplyDeleteI had valiantly tried to turn the Bill of Rights into 'riots roughly' or vice versa, but could never make it work.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteCALM LILY=BRONX ZOO
VIVID BOLERO=YELLOW RIVER
RADISH LOGO=WILL SHORTZ
RIOTS ROUGHLY=BILL OF RIGHTS
PLUM OIL=NORFOLK
Appetizer Menu
Worldplay
1. CONUNDRUM, CORUNDUM, CARBORUNDUM(BAR)
2. FJORD, FIORD
3. SPENDTHRIFT
Menu
CHERRY, HOLLY, STUMP, CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH(MOPAR)
Entrees
1. ZT=ZITI, RA=ARRAY, SA=ESSAY, TP=TEPEE, UR=EWER, RT=ARTY,
IM=IAMB, MT=EMPTY
2. Our Boy Donald Needs Correction!(OBDNC=obediency)
3. (Jean-Paul)SARTRE(essay, arty, Ari)
4. TDS=tedious, DVS=devious, XTC=ecstasy, OPM=opium, ODS=odious, NME=enemy
5. 1. geofan(G-O+FAN)
2. KOWTOW(COW TAU)
3. (Sandra)DEE+ESS+CAL(ifornia)+EIGHT=DEESCALATE
6. 1. MT(empty)
2. NV(envy)
3. OK(okay)
4. ME(Emmy)
7. CAYENNE, OBI(K-N-O-B=KNOB)
8. QP(Kewpie), UE(uey), LA(allay), PLAQUE
Dessert
ROBERT DE NIRO, RIO DE JANEIRO(I and JA)
"Yellow river, yellow river/is in my mind and in my eyes/Yellow river, yellow river/is in my blood, it's the place I love..."-pjb
Nice blast from the past, cranberry.
DeleteLegoSays"YellowRiver"IsNoVivid"Bolero
If there's any connection between atbash and catfish I'm sure it's entirely coincidental.
ReplyDeleteCatfish, the Hunter, has ball. Atbash, the anagram, has bat.
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Paul: The sum of the "atbashed" letters always equals 27 = Catfish's number. That was the hint that gave it to me.
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ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Riots, radish, lily, plum & bolero
Change each letter in the following phrases to a different letter with which it is sometimes paired because of their positions relative to one another in the alphabet.
(One such pairing, for an example, might be A with N, B with O, C with P ... K with X, L with Y, M with Z; these pairs are all 13 places apart in the alphabet.)
vivid bolero
plum oil
riots roughly
calm lily
radish logo
Rearrange the transformed letters of each of these five results to form answers, in no particular order, to each of the following clues:
Big Apple attraction
long waterway
radio personality
historic document
Virginia city
What are these names? What is the property?
Answer:
1. Yellow River
2. Norfolk
3. Bill of Rights
4. Bronx Zoo
5. Will Shortz
The property: Each letter and the letter to which it is changed are equidistant from the middle of the alphabet (A=Z, B=Y, C=X,... M=N).
Thus:
VIVID BOLERO --> ERERW YLOVIL --> YELLOW RIVER
PLUM OIL --> KOFN LRO --> NORFOLK
RIOTS ROUGHLY --> IRLGH ILFTSOB --> BILL OF RIGHTS
CALM LILY --> XZON OROB --> BRONX ZOO
RADISH LOGO --> IZWRHS OLTL --> WILL SHORTZ
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An odd couple... of words, etc.
A Puzzleria! puzzle
?1. Think of a frequently-used category of puzzles on Puzzleria! Replace the third letter of this category with its third-last letter to obtain the mineral form of alumina. If this term is not familiar, insert three letters anagrammed from the legal profession into this second word to obtain a more-familiar abrasive which contains neither aluminum nor oxygen. What are the mineral and abrasive?
Answer:
Corundum (conundrum); Carbonundum (C+BAR+ONUNDUM-->C+ARB+ONUNDUM)
An odd couple... of words
?2. Think of a familiar 5-letter geographic term that begins with a consonant pair. Change the second letter of this pair to the letter one place earlier in the alphabet to obtain an alternative spelling of the word (but with the same meaning). What are the two words?
Hint: there are only two 5-letter words (one obscure) that begin with the consonant pair.
Answer:
Fjord; Fiord
Internally oxymoronic
?3. Think of an 11-letter word that could describe a person. Split to give a 5-letter verb that characterizes such persons and a 6-letter quality that they lack. What are the 5- and 6-letter words?
Answer:
Spendthrift; spend, thrift
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Legendary Slice:
Arborcarburator Day
Name two kinds of trees that look similar from afar.
A part of one of these trees is also a part of an American legend.
Rearrange the combined letters the names of the two trees and that tree part to spell two legendary American car brands that are associated with one another.
What are these brands?
Answer:
Chrysler, Plymouth; (Holly, Cherry; Stump; In the legend of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, only a stump remained.)
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This week's official answers for the record. part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices:
AT-divided-by-10 KG puzzles
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” And the letters I + V together sound like “ivy.”
Take the ten letters in the slogan “ZAP TAR, RUST!”
advertising for DIY and commercial electrolysis tanks. Rearrange the ten letter into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make five common, uncapitalized words phonetically. Can you do it?
Now add four more letters to this ten-letter mix – I, M, M and T, in alphabetical order – to form the name of a commercial deororant: “MUM ATTAR SPRITZ.” Rearrange these four new letters into pairs, using each letter exactly once, to make two additional common, uncapitalized words phonetically. Can you do it?
Answer:
ZAP TAR, RUST = SA (essay), TP (tepee), ZT (ziti), RA (array), UR (ewer)
MUM ATTAR SPRITZ = SA (essay), TP (tepee), ZT (ziti), RA (array), UR (ewer) + im (iamb), (MT) empty
ENTREE #2:
The letters C + D together sound like the word “seedy.” Take the five initial letters of a mother’s probable lament voiced in the 1950’s. A lengthier paraphrase of her lament is:
“Frederick’s and my second-born son requires remediation!”
Can you find the five initial letters?
Hint: The letters together sound like a five-syllable word for what the mother had hoped to instill into her lad. The letters consist a vowel followed by four different consonants. The five words in her lament are, in order, a pronoun, noun, proper noun, verb and noun, of 1, 1, 2, 1 and 3 syllables, respectively.
Answer:
OBDNC (The mother hoped to instill "obediency" in her son.)
"Our Boy Donald Needs Correction!" (or "Counseling")
ENTREE #3:
The letters I + V together sound like “ivy,” as in “hallowed halls of ivy.”
Take a pair letters that together sound like the literary vehicle a philosopher might have used to expound on, say, existentialism.
Take a second pair that together sound like an adjective describing this philosopher, who was also a playwright, novelist and screenwriter.
Take a third pair that together sound like how close friends might have addressed a more ancient philosopher who penned similar “literary vehicles” on ethics, politics, metaphysics and poetics.
Place these three pairs of letters side-by-side-by-side to spell the surname of the less ancient philosopher.
Who are these two philosophers?
Answer:
(Jean-Paul) Sartre (SA = essay; RT = arty; RE =Ari, a shorter, more familiar, name for Aristotle)
ENTREE #4:
“People with family responsibilities often seek to escape what they perceive as their (1. things that happen on runways and in end zones, for short) existence by resorting to (2. technology and software for disk jockeys to emulate records through digital music) conduct and secretly succumbing to the illusory (3. group Fronted by songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding) that (4. an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that manages the government’s civilian workforce) provides. It is a (5. Oracle file extension) habit and an (6. a British music journalism website and former magazine) to one’s spirit.”
Find six trios of letters that are answers to the clues within parentheses in the paragraph above. Each trio of letters, spoken aloud, sounds like a three-syllable word (for example: “MLE” = “Emily”) that makes sense within the sentence text.
Answer:
tedious (TDS), devious (DVS), ecstasy (XTC), opium (OPM), odious (ODS), enemy (NME)
"People with family responsibilities often seek to escape what they perceive as their TEDIOUS existence by resorting to DEVIOUS conduct and secretly succumbing to the transitory ECSTASY that OPIUM provides. It is a ODIUS habit and an ENEMY to one’s spirit."
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This week's official answers for the record. part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices (continued):
ENTREE #5:
Solve for three images pictured in this “Riffing Off Shortz Slices” portion of this week’s Menu. They are titled: “Screen name of a Puzzleria! backer,” “Synonym of fawn” and “A rebus.”
1. The solution to the first image involves three consecutive letters of a Puzzleria! contributor’s screen name that, when spoken aloud, sound like two letters. Those two letters spell another word.
2. The solution to the second image requires the solver to identify and combine “a heifer + a letter” within the image.
3. The solution to the third image requires the solver to identify and string together the four sub-images to form a four-syllable word that is synonymous to “dwindle,” “downsize” or “decrase.”
Answer:
1. A "GO-fan" (which is not a real thing but, if it were, would whir when it is green-lighted, but stop on red). Spelling out GO sounds like "Gee + Oh" which sounds like "geo," the first part of Puzzleria! contributor Ken Pratt's screen name, geofan.
2. "Cow + Tau" sounds like "kowtow," a synonym of "fawn."
3. (Sandra) Dee + An Ess-shaped snake + Cal(ifornia) + An 8-shaped donut = D+S+Cal+8 = "de-escalate"
ENTREE #6:
Identify the following four states:
1. A state with plenty of room to spare?
2. A state the other 49 are resentfully jealous of?
3. Neither a great state nor a third-rate state.
4. Actress Susan Lucci might have finally been awarded the “keys to this state” in 1999.
Answer:
1. Montana (MT = "empty")
2. Nevada (NV = "envy")
3. Oklahoma (OK = "okay")
4. Maine (ME = "Emmy")
ENTREE #7:
Name a kind of pepper that might give you an allergic rash, and a kind of sash. If you say the two words aloud it will sound like you are spelling a word for what you might find on a radio or door.
What are this pepper and sash?
Answer:
Cayenne (sounds like KN); Obi (sounds like OB);n KN+OB=KNOB
ENTREE #8:
Name a kind of doll, a slang term for a 180-degree turn, and a synonym of “pacify. ”If you say the three words aloud it will sound like a series of six letters. Rearrange them to spell a word for what you might find on some teeth, or find on a wall decorated with a laurel wreath.
What are this doll, turn and synonym?
What might you find on teeth, or find on a wall decorated with a laurel wreath?
Answer:
Kewpie (QP), U-ey (UE), allay (LA); PLAQUE
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Dessert:
Thespian, Serbian, Cosmopolitan
Remove the last four letters from the first name of a famous thespian. Rescue the vowel you removed and place it smack-dab in the middle of the thespian’s last name. Place a common English pronoun within the first name and its Serbian counterpart within the last name to name a major world city.
What are the names of this thespian and city?
Answer:
Robert de Niro; Rio de Janeiro
Robert de Niro >> Ro de Niro >> Ro de Neiro >> R(i)o de Janeiro >> Rio de (Ja)neiro
Answer:
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