PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 3(7!) SERVED
Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Four on a match
Your puzzle assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a two-word title to the five-stanza anapestic dimeter poem, below.
Hint: Identify 18 words in the poem. These words contain a total of 63 letters (but only 7 different letters!).
Consider 14 of these 18 words as 7 pairs, consider 3 of them as one triplet, and consider one of them as a single stand-alone 7-letter word.
Each of the pairs contains 7 different letters, as does the one triplet, as does the single word.
The words in each of these seven pairs of words are in close proximity within the text of the poem. The three words in the one triplet are consecutive in the poem’s text.
On the court, four did joust:
Ed and Deb, Bud and Sue.
Two were skirted and bloused,
Two wore tees from J. Crew.
Sue was bold, Deb had soul,
Young buck Ed had no clue.
Graybeard Bud had a hole
In the sole of his shoe.
“Hey Ed, lob us the ball,”
Yelled Bud, trusting that Sue
(Who had grace like Bacall)
Would smash-volley it true.
Ed indeed used a lob,
But Sue whiffed! What bad news!
Deb cheered, “Ed, Superb job!
We win! Sue and Bud lose!”
And so ends this sob story
Of a duel two-on-two.
On green sod two found glory...
For two, blue was the hue.
Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer:
Mamas & Papas, Marimba? & Grammys
Name a musical instrument in five letters, two syllables.
Add the name of a famous theatrical award to the first syllable.
Add what mothers and fathers have in common to the second syllable.
You will name a very famous pop/rock musical group in two words, 14 letters.
What is the instrument and who is the group?
MENU
Southern Creature Comfort Slice:
What did Noah drink on the Ark?
Say the names of two creatures aloud, in alphabetical order. Both creatures begin with an S.
What you say will sound like something non-alcoholic from which you drink when you are outdoors, in one word, followed by something alcoholic you drink, in two words.
What are these two creatures?
Hint: Add a letter to the beginning of a word associated with the biblical Jacob to spell a word associated with this alcoholic “something” (and also with its consumer).
Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices:
Run for the border, loosen your belts
Will Shortz’s June 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Chad Graham of St. Louis, Missouri, reads:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Interchange the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. Rotate the last letter of this result 180 degrees to form a new letter.
After this new letter write the three-letter word that belongs in the following blank: “Wise ___ #2,” the name of a character in “Life of Brian.”
The result is the name of the actor who portrayed “Wise ___ #2.”
Who are this puzzle-maker and actor?
ENTREE #2:
Name the two-word generic female subject of an 1860’s-era oil painting by an American artist. Rearrange the 11 letters in the words to name a large area in North America.
This area has a two-word name. What is it?
Hint: The artist’s first name is the same as that of a Nobel prize-winner who served in the cabinets of two presidents. The artist’s surname is the same as that of the lead singer of of a rock band formed 30 years ago on the West Coast.
ENTREE #3:
Give a description of this stuffed animal using two adjectives beginning with an F and C and a noun beginning with T.
Rearrange the letters of this description to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name.
What are this name and this description?
ENTREE #4:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to spell two words:
1. a type of carriage, and
2. an adjective for the animal that the carriage is drawn by (like “feline” or “canine,” for example).
What is this chain?
What are this carriage and creature-adjective?
ENTREE #5:
Name a somewhat well-known restaurant chain that was founded in Florida. Rearrange its 13 letters to spell three words:
1. one that follows “kobe” on a menu,
2. a cool seafood on a menu that is often served with soy sauce, and
3. a word on the drink menu that follows “whiskey.”
This restaurant chain has a two-word name.
What is it?
ENTREE #6:
Name a reasonably well-known restaurant chain.
Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here.
What are this caption and restaurant chain?
Hint: Lopping of the final two letters of the caption will produce an alternative caption for the image.
ENTREE #7:
Chad Graham, the creator of this week’s NPR puzzle, also created this week’s Appetizer (under his screen name, Chuck).
The title of his “Conundrumbstruck by Chuck!” feature this week is titled “Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer.”
Rearrange the combined letters in “Rock,” “Fare” and “Chad” to name a well-known restaurant chain.
What is it?
ENTREE #8:
Name a very large two-word area in the United States that is also the brand name of a beverage produced in Minnesota.
Rearrange its letters to form two words:
1. how certain native Europeans say the word “day” and
2. a city where such a European might reside.
What are the beverage/area and the European’s hometown?
Dangling Dessert:
Dang good, but also dang bad!
Name two words: something good that is dangled and something that is bad when it is dangling.
Both begin with the same syllable.
What are these two words?
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 TheWeek:
Four on a match
Your puzzle assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a two-word title to the five-stanza anapestic dimeter poem, below.
Hint: Identify 18 words in the poem. These words contain a total of 63 letters (but only 7 different letters!).
Consider 14 of these 18 words as 7 pairs, consider 3 of them as one triplet, and consider one of them as a single stand-alone 7-letter word.
Each of the pairs contains 7 different letters, as does the one triplet, as does the single word. The words in each of these seven pairs of words are in close proximity within the text of the poem. The three words in the one triplet are consecutive in the poem’s text.
MIXED DOUBLES
On the court, four did joust:
Ed and Deb, Bud and Sue.
Two were skirted and bloused,
Two wore tees from J. Crew.
Sue was bold, Deb had soul,
Young buck Ed had no clue.
Graybeard Bud had a hole
In the sole of his shoe.
“Hey Ed, lob us the ball,”
Yelled Bud, trusting that Sue
(Who had grace like Bacall)
Would smash-volley it true.
Ed indeed used a lob,
But Sue whiffed! What bad news!
Deb cheered, “Ed, Superb job!
We win! Sue and Bud lose!”
And so ends this sob story
Of a duel two-on-two.
On green sod two found glory...
For two, blue was the hue.
Appetizer Menu
Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer:
Mamas & Papas, Marimba? & Grammys
Name a musical instrument in five letters, two syllables.
Add the name of a famous theatrical award to the first syllable.
Add what mothers and fathers have in common to the second syllable. You will name a very famous pop/rock musical group in two words, 14 letters.
What is the instrument and who is the group?
MENU
Southern Creature Comfort Slice:
What did Noah drink on the Ark?
Say the names of two creatures aloud, in alphabetical order. Both creatures begin with an S.
What you say will sound like something non-alcoholic from which you drink when you are outdoors, in one word, followed by something alcoholic you drink, in two words.What are these two creatures?
Hint: Add a letter to the beginning of a word associated with the biblical Jacob to spell a word associated with this alcoholic “something” (and also with its consumer).
Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices:
Run for the border, loosen your belts
Will Shortz’s June 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Chad Graham of St. Louis, Missouri, reads:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. What is it?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Interchange the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. Rotate the last letter of this result 180 degrees to form a new letter.
After this new letter write the three-letter word that belongs in the following blank: “Wise ___ #2,” the name of a character in “Life of Brian.” The result is the name of the actor who portrayed “Wise ___ #2.”
Who are this puzzle-maker and actor?
ENTREE #2:
Name the two-word generic female subject of an 1860’s-era oil painting by an American artist. Rearrange the 11 letters in the words to name a large area in North America.
This area has a two-word name. What is it?Hint: The artist’s first name is the same as that of a Nobel prize-winner who served in the cabinets of two presidents. The artist’s surname is the same as that of the lead singer of of a rock band formed 30 years ago on the West Coast.
ENTREE #3:
Give a description of this stuffed animal using two adjectives beginning with an F and C and a noun beginning with T.
Rearrange the letters of this description to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. What are this name and this description?
ENTREE #4:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to spell two words:1. a type of carriage, and
2. an adjective for the animal that the carriage is drawn by (like “feline” or “canine,” for example).
What is this chain?
What are this carriage and creature-adjective?
ENTREE #5:
Name a somewhat well-known restaurant chain that was founded in Florida. Rearrange its 13 letters to spell three words:
1. one that follows “kobe” on a menu,
2. a cool seafood on a menu that is often served with soy sauce, and 3. a word on the drink menu that follows “whiskey.”
This restaurant chain has a two-word name.
What is it?
ENTREE #6:
Name a reasonably well-known restaurant chain.
Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. What are this caption and restaurant chain?
Hint: Lopping of the final two letters of the caption will produce an alternative caption for the image.
ENTREE #7:
Chad Graham, the creator of this week’s NPR puzzle, also created this week’s Appetizer (under his screen name, Chuck).
The title of his “Conundrumbstruck by Chuck!” feature this week is titled “Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer.”Rearrange the combined letters in “Rock,” “Fare” and “Chad” to name a well-known restaurant chain.
What is it?
ENTREE #8:
Name a very large two-word area in the United States that is also the brand name of a beverage produced in Minnesota.
Rearrange its letters to form two words:1. how certain native Europeans say the word “day” and
2. a city where such a European might reside.
What are the beverage/area and the European’s hometown?
Dessert Menu
Dangling Dessert:
Dang good, but also dang bad!
Name two words: something good that is dangled and something that is bad when it is dangling. Both begin with the same syllable.
What are these two words?
Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
The Schpuzzle is WAY too complicated, but that's OK with me.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that you have already solved the Schpuzzle, Paul,
Deletebut I shall provide a hint anyway:
The two-word title of the poem is simply an adjective-noun description of the competition.
LoadGamble
I figured out the single 7-letter word right away, and all the pairs, etc. However, I seem to be able to make only a ONE-word sensible title for the poem, assuming we are to use the seven letters in question. What am I doing wrong?
DeleteNice work, VT. You have solved it for sure and have done not a thing wrong.
DeleteYou have found, of course, the second word in my two-word poem title. The first word in the title is a 5-letter adjective with a Scrabble value of 15.
LegoCuisinart
Oh, thanks, Lego. The adjective just occurred to me.
DeleteYour suspicion was unfounded, Lego. I was being perfectly candid in expressing my feeling of being overwhelmed by the Schpuzzle. But your hint has since enabled me to solve it. So now the ball is in your court again: which puzzle was I really hinting at?
DeletePaul,
DeleteYou may have returned the ball to my court but, as usual, I have whiffed on your volley (just as Sue did!).
Thus I am in the dark regarding which puzzle you are really hinting at...but I suspect it may be the Southern Creature Comfort Slice.
LegoWhoIsAlasNotWayOK
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DeleteHappy Friday to all!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't get P! late last night, so I tried my luck today. So far, I have the Schpuzzle(the main idea), Chuck's Conundrum, and Entrees #1, #4, and #7(easiest). Will need help with the rest, of course. Good hints, Lego. Good ones. We're about to have supper from a local restaurant chain(not one of the answers here, I'm sure). Good luck and solving to all, and stay safe!
Solved the Schpuzzle, including the first adjective.
ReplyDeleteHint: Not all the 18 words are discrete. Two words repeat.
Also there is an additional word that qualifies but is not used in any of the singlet-doublet-triplet sets.
The title is a cute pun. Nice puzzle, Lego
Congratulations and thanks, geofan.
DeleteLegoJustAFatSlobDueToConsumingMassQuantitiesOfDolePineappleSubs
I have always liked your self-styled "second-class" poetry. To me it is always first-class (and eternally bulb-lit).
DeletePre-hints:
ReplyDeleteHave solved everything except Entrée #3 and the Dessert.
My answer for the Southern Creature Comfort slice has an interesting twist, but it is likely the intended one.
I have some alternate Dessert answers, but they are definitely not the intended ones.
Also solved Blaine's new puzzle in < 1 minute.
lego: This is my first crack at Puzzleria. On first look, I think I have the Schpuzzle, the Appetizer, and a couple of the entrees. I've been playing the Sunday Puzzle for a few years, and I drop in on Blaine from time to time. I've drifted by here a couple of times but never tackled the challenges. This seems like a really good place to agitate the gray cells. Thanks for the work in putting this together. Should be exasperating fun trying to come up with more solutions.
ReplyDeleteNice to have you here, GB. Glad you are enjoying our challenges. And, thanks for you kind words about our blog. It is a true group effort... a great community of bright puzzle-makers and commentors. I hope to see more of your comments. Thank you again.
DeleteLegoWho(AsALifelongPackerFan)IsAlsoAFanOfAnyoneWithTheScreenNameGB
Thanks. Lifelong Packer fan here too, by the way. Did you know that Carroll Dale was born in the Coal Belt? I'm not sure which of us has the most years in, but those were the teams.
ReplyDeleteCarroll Dale. Late 1960's glory years. Overshadowed by Max and Boyd, and Hornung and Taylor in an era when running superseded passing.
DeleteSpeaking of passing, Gus Dorais, a native of my hometown, and teammate of "theGipper," is responsible for the dominance of passing in the NFL today!
LegoLombardi
Where are the hints?
ReplyDeleteTuesday morning hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
The initials of the title are the initials of any physician.
Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer:
An anagram of the musical instrument is a synonym of "nest of chicks" or "gloomily contemplate."
Southern Creature Comfort Slice:
The something non-alcoholic you drink from when you are outdoors is a seasonal refresher in colder climes. The something alcoholic you drink goes from one bladder to another bladder.
ENTREE #1:
The actor also portrayed Arthur, King of the Britons.
ENTREE #2:
The oil painting is titled "_______ ____, Spinning." A person with the surname of the Nobel prize-winner and the first name of the lead singer of the Seattle rock band would be known as Eddie Root.
ENTREE #3:
The large are includes neither coast. The two adjectives describe the critter's pelt and its hooves.
ENTREE #4:
You might order a cone with curly-cue on top at the restaurant.
ENTREE #5:
The restaurant chain serves "submergeable" sandwiches. It sounds as if they may be really spicy.
ENTREE #6:
The APE RAN past a man with a BEARD.
ENTREE #7:
The restaurant chain includes the word "Rock."
ENTREE #8:
The beverage produded in Minnesota is made with hops and barley.
Dangling Dessert:
The answer to this puzzle is neither a birdie nor bogie.
LegoNeitherAConradNorAHumphrey
At least, I now have all the Entrees, although I had already worked out #s 1 and 7, and portions of #3 and #5. The hints made all the difference; these guys would have been impossible without them.
ReplyDeleteI think my Dessert answer is not the intended one, given the hint, but I kinda like it.
And I've been able to solve only the second half of the Creature Comfort Slice...I've tried everything, trying to be clever with the initial letters' pronunciations, but no luck.
ViolinTeddy, I look forward to your Dessert answer. Your alternative answers are always entertainingly excellent.
DeleteLeGazellinePorcine
Post-Mon/Tues hint, got Entrée #3 immediately and a not-too-satisfying answer for the Dessert.
ReplyDeleteMy original answer to the Southern Comfort Slice has a botanical creature at the end. But otherwise it fits the puzzle and hint well. And aren't plants creations, hence creatures?
geofan, I am somewhat in the dark about what your answer may be. But a agree with you that plants are creatures/creations. Those with a religious bent, for example, might say, for example that plants are created by God.
DeleteAs I revisit my hint for this Southern Creature Comfort Slice, I sense that it is perhaps not such a great hint... perhaps too cryptic by a half. It reads:
"Southern Creature Comfort Slice:
The something non-alcoholic you drink from when you are outdoors is a seasonal refresher in colder climes. The something alcoholic you drink goes from one bladder to another bladder."
The word "seasonal" is the best part of the hint. "Colder climes" might be misleading. Perhaps best to ignore it.
LegoWhoNotesThereIsAlsoAHintInTheSignOffToMyAboveCommentToViolinTeddy
Lego,
ReplyDeleteI suspect that I have the same answer as you. The first part is a leaping creature that I saw from a train from Jo'burg to Cape Town. The cold source is the one hinted at to ViolinTeddy. The second item goes to the bladder: it is "rented".
I have solutions that I think are right for everything except Dessert. For that one, I have a guess but not one I am completely comfortable with. Leaves me hanging as it were. We'll see tomorrow I suppose. Meantime, for the first time out I've found this to be a lot of fun. Some brain wracking but a couple of new more bricks in the wall of my education. Beats stacking bb's on a windy day.
ReplyDeleteGB,
Deletethe syllable that begins the something good that is dangled and the something that is bad when it is dangling also starts a word for of one of Jesus's stories in the Gospels as well as a 3-syllable alternative name for a setting (west of Nod) in Genesis.
Lego"WalkingThroughThisRoseGardenOfComments,TheHintsSoFarThisWeekSeemPrettyLameAndLessPromisingThanTheyOughtToBe!"
Got Entrees #2 and #6!
ReplyDeleteStill need the others! Any more hints, Lego?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Dessert hint, Lego. However, I had the bad. . . ah. . . segment. Just not the good one. You did confirm the first syllable and kept me from chasing wild geese. I'll post my wild Dessert guess tomorrow. Who knows?
ReplyDeleteTuesday evening hints:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #3:
The large area includes neither coast. Let's hop a jet from New York to L.A., or vice versa.
The critter's pelt is plush and hirsuit, and its hooves are somewhat bifurcated. (Those who observe Jewish dietary laws strictly are well aware of such hooves.)
ENTREE #5:
The word that follows “Kobe” on a menu is not Bryant, but it does start with a B. The seafood on a menu that is often served with soy sauce sounds like the name of a boy Cash sang about and and a feminine subjective pronoun. The word on the drink menu that follows “whiskey” precedes "cream," "dough" and "puss." This restaurant chain's second word is a 3-letter synonym of bench-sitter.
ENTREE #8:
The second word in the large two-word area in the United States that is also a Minnesota beverage brand is "belt." The certain native Europeans are Germans (who may reside in the capital city).
Dangling Dessert:
The second syllable of something good that is dangled precedes Adams, Knotts and King. The second syllable of "something bad when it is dangling" precedes do and follows sol.
LegoAddsThatTheFirstSyllableSoundsLikeANameThatPrecededAllenAndFollowedAllen
I plan to post my original Dessert guess to see what reaction/cat-calls I elicit.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see it GB. No catcalls from Puzzlerian!s, though; we're a pretty polite bunch... Honest, but polite.
DeleteLegoWhoOnceTriedToCallACattWithADogWhistle...ItDidNotWork
I forgot to post a welcome, as well, GB. Was too busy being mired in hints and attempted solutions! So, welcome!
DeleteStill don't have #3, not sure about the Dessert.
ReplyDeleteAlso need the beverage/animal one.
ReplyDeleteLate Tuesday evening hints:
ReplyDeleteSouthern Creature Comfort Slice:
The non-alcoholic drink is natural, but it can be bottled or canned, and even carbonated and flavored. It is a 6-letter one-syllable word.
The alcoholic drink, in two words, is NOT bottled or canned at all. It is bladdered!
The first animal is quite a leaper... indeed its name reflects that ability.
Take care not to fling any nacreous bling in front of the second animal!
ENTREE #3:
Anagrams for the two words of the large area in the United States:
The small-town city council approved a LEVY FOR its aldermen (no alderwomen!) to travel to the Big Apple for an N.Y.C. TOUR junket!
Dangling Dessert:
Trump dangled the good thing to Manafort, Stone, Flynn, et. al.
The bad thing is a 4-syllable grammatical term.
LegoWondersThatIfTONYHasFERVORForLUCYWhyDoesn'tHeGiverHerADouglasLiamLlamaPlushStuffedAnimalForSt.Valentine'sDay?
MIXED DOUBLES
ReplyDeleteBLOUSED
SUE BOLD
DEB SOUL
BUD SOLE
ED LOB US
USED LOB
BUD LOSE
SOB DUEL
SOD BLUE
DOBRO > DOOBIE BROTHERS
If I'd written "alright with me" instead of "OK with me" it might have been too obvious a hint. "WAY" wasn't really intended as a hint, but in light of John 14:6, I guess it was.
Paul, I am ashamed I did not figure out your hint. You are correct that "alright with me" might have been too obvious. But I believe I would have figured out your hint had you written "just OK with me."
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ReplyDeleteOkay, here goes:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: Mixed Doubles
Appetizer: Dobro & Doobie Brothers
Southern CCS: Springbok & Swine (Spring & Boxwine)
Entrees:
#1 Chad Graham & Graham Chapman
#2 Great Plains (Peasant Girl)
#3 Furry Cloven Toy (Flyover Country)
#4 Dairy Queen & Equine
#5 Firehouse Subs (Beef, Sushi, & Sour)
#6 Panda Bearer (Panera Bread)
#7 Hard Rock Cafe
#8 Grain Belt and Berlin
Dessert: (even though I should have the correct solution from Lego's hints, my original guess as promised: Bad: Participle Good: Paratrooper
"Paratrooper" is an excellent alternative answer, GB. They decidedly DO dangle! And, to be frank, pardons that are dangled my be good for the accused criminal, but they are probably bad for justice!
DeleteLegoWhoAdmitsThatYouOughtToAllJustDangMe!
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteMIXED DOUBLES(anagrams of DOUBLES)
Appetizer
DOBRO, DOOBIE BROTHERS
Southern Comfort Slice
SPRINGBOK, SWINE, SPRING, BOXWINE
Entrees
1. CHAD GRAHAM, GRAHAM CHAPMAN
2. PEASANT GIRL, GREAT PLAINS
3. FURRY CLOVEN TOY, FLYOVER COUNTRY
4. DAIRY QUEEN, DRAY, EQUINE
5. FIREHOUSE SUBS, BEEF, SUSHI, SOUR
6. PANERA BREAD, PANDA BEARER
7. HARD ROCK CAFE
8. GRAIN BELT, TAG, BERLIN
Dessert
Good: PARDON(?)
Bad: PARTICIPLE
Certain parts of these puzzles made me hungry!-pjb
Schpuzzle:
ReplyDeleteTitle: MIXED DOUBLES
Singlet: BLOUSED
Triplet: ED+LOB+US
Doublets: SUE+BOLD, DEB+SOUL, BUD+SOLE, USED+LOB, BUD+LOSE, SOB+DUEL, SOD+BLUE
Unrelated word: SO
Conundumbstruck: DO-BRO + OBIE (Award), (mo-, fa-) THERS => DOOBIE BROTHERS
Southern Creature Comfort Slice: SPRINGBOK, SPRUCE => SPRING, BOCKS BREWS
Answer assumes that a spruce is a “creature.” Clue: B +LADDER => BLADDER (Beer is “rented”)
Post-Tues-eve-hint: SPRINGBOK, SWINE => SPRING, BOX WINE (never heard that wine is “rented”)
Entrées
#1: CHAD GRAHAM => GRAHAM CHAP + MAN => GRAHAM CHAPMAN
#2: PEASANT GIRL => GREAT PLAINS. The pictured painting is not by an American, but by the Russian artist Ivan Ivanovich Tvorozhnikov). His family name does not anagram to anything. It derives from творожник, a fried dish made from творог, a dish similar to cottage cheese (more like German Quark).
[Post-Tues-hint: Elihu Root, Peasant girl, spinning. Different painting from one shown, but same puzzle-result]
#3: FURRY CLOVEN TOY => FLYOVER COUNTRY [post-Tues-hint]
#4: DAIRY QUEEN => EQUINE DRAY
#5: BEEF, SUSHI, SOUR => FIREHOUSE SUBS (not a familiar chain to me)
#6: PANDA BEAR(ER) => PANERA BREAD
#7: ROCK, FARE, CHAD => HARD ROCK CAFE (but I also liked FOR CRACKHEAD)
#8: GRAIN BELT => TAG, BERLIN
Dessert: DANGLING PARACHUTIST or PARACHUTE, DANGLING PARTICIPLE [pre-hints].
If you were in the French resistance, you would have welcomed a dangling parachutist (from England).
[post-Tues-hint] DANGLING BALLOON, DANGLING BALANCE (in a bank or credit account).
[post-Tues-eve-hint] DANGLING PARDON, DANGLING PARTICIPLE
geofan,
DeleteI did not picture Elihu Root's painting (but rather a different painting of a peasant girl, as you noted) because I was afraid you cyber-savvy types would be able to ken the answer from the image!
I like your SPRINGBOK, SPRUCE => SPRING, BOCKS BREWS alternative for the Slice.
LegoWhoNotesThatA"Crackhead"MightAgreeTheHardRockCafeIsTheRestaurant"For"Him
SCHPUZZLE: Single word: BLOUSED; 1. SUE & BOLD; 2. DEB & SOUL; 3. BUD & SOLE; Triplet: ED LOB US; 4. USED LOB; 5. BUD LOSE; 6. SOB & DUEL; 7. SOD & BLUE TITLE: MIXED DOUBLES,
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: DO/BRO => DO(OBIE) BROTHERS [Don't get, tho, what moms and dads have in common being "THERS"]
SOUTHERN CREATURE COMFORT SLICE: (B)LADDER; SPRINGBOK? (given the Gazelline hint) & SWINE => SPRINGBOX? & WINE; although, I have NO idea what a Springbox drink might be!
ENTREES:
1. GRAHAM CHAD => GRAHAM CHAPMAN
2. ELIHU VEDDER's "PEASANT GIRL" => GREAT PLAINS
3. FURRY CLOVEN TOY => OVERFLY COUNTRY [I had had the Furry and the Toy, but had chosen CUTE instead of CLOVEN.]
4. DAIRY QUEEN => DRAY; EQUINE [I worked two summers as a teen at a Dairy Queen in NJ, and made LOTS of those curlicue tops!!!]
5. FIREHOUSE SUBS => BEEF ; SUSHI; SOUR
6. PANERA BREAD => PANDA BEAR/ER
7. HARD ROCK CAFE
8. GRAIN BELT => TAG (German) & BERLIN
DESSERT: Alternate answer: CARROT & CAR / CARGO [Per the hint, Paradise, clearly the intended answer is PARDON & PARTICIPLE. I'd THOUGHT of participles, of course, but not pardons.]
DUH, re "thers"
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DeleteAs a boy I was endlessly fascinated when watching the Dairy Queen cone-maker doing the little fillip of the hand as the last gasp of the ribbon of frosty white custard oozed from the ice cream maker which, of course, produced that magical curlicue atop the treat! It was like a piglet's tail.
And, ViolinTeddy, you could do this!
LegoWhoFindsItFittingThatOneOfTheAnswersThisWeek Is"Swine"
Yeah, I sure could, Lego, and furthermore I STILL CAN!! [In past years, that is, when my boys and I might be at one of those places where you can make your own cones.]
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Four on a match
Your puzzle assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a two-word title to the five-stanza anapestic dimeter poem, below.
Hint: Identify 18 words in the puzzle, that contain a total of 63 letters (but only 7 DIFFERENT letters!).
Consider 14 of these words as 7 pairs, consider 3 of them as one triplet, and consider one of them as a single, stand-alone 7-letter word. Each of the pairs contains 7 different letters, as does the one triplet, as does the single word.
The words in each of these seven pairs of words are in close proximity within the text of the poem. The three words in the one triplet are consecutive.
Answer:
Mixed Doubles;
*The word "doubles" can be formed by "unmixing" the stand-alone word:
Stanza 1:
BLOUSED
*The word "doubles" can be formed by "unmixing" the triplet of words:
Stanza 3:
ED+LOB+US
*The word "doubles" can be formed by "unmixing" each of the 7 pairs of words:
Stanza 2:
SUE+BOLD
DEB+SOUL
BUD+SOUL
Stanza 4:
USED+LOB
BUD+LOSE
Stanza 5:
SOD+DUEL
SOD+BLUE
Mixed Doubles
1 (word)
On the court, four did joust:
Ed and Deb, Bud and Sue.
Two were skirted and BLOUSED,
Two wore tees from J. Crew.
3+4; 3+4; 3+4
SUE was BOLD, DEB had SOUL,
Young buck Ed had no clue.
Greybeard BUD had a hole
In the SOLE of his shoe.
2+3+2
" Hey ED, LOB US the ball,"
Yelled Bud, trusting that Sue
(Who had grace like Bacall)
Would smash-volley it true.
4+3; 3+4
Ed indeed USED a LOB,
But Sue whiffed! What bad news!
Deb cheered, "Ed, Superb job!
We win! Sue and BUD LOSE!"
3+4; 3+4
And so ends this SOB story
Of a DUEL two-on-two.
On green SOD two found glory...
For two, BLUE was the hue.
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Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer:
Mamas & Papas, Marimbas & Grammys
Name a musical instrument in five letters, two syllables. Add the name of a famous theatrical award to the first syllable. Add what mothers and fathers have in common to the second syllable. You will name a very famous pop/rock musical group in two words, 14 letters.
What is the instrument and who is the group?
Answer:
Dobro; Doobie Brothers
(Do + Obie = Doobie; Bro + thers = Brothers)
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Southern Creature Comfort Slice:
What did Noah drink on the Ark?
Saying the names of two creatures aloud, in alphabetical order, sounds like something non-alcoholic you drink from when you are outdoors, in one word, followed by something alcoholic you drink, in two words, that goes from one bladder to another bladder in the process.
What are these creatures?
Hint: Both creatures begin with and S.
Answer:
Springbok, Swine (Spring; Box wine)
Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices:
Run for the border, loosen your belts
Will Shortz’s June 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Chad Graham of St. Louis, Missouri, reads:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Interchange the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. Rotate the last letter of this result 180 degrees to form a new letter. After this new letter place the three-letter word that belongs in the following blank: “Wise ___ #2,” the name of a character in “Life of Brian.”
The result is the name of the actor who portrayed “Wise ___ #2.”
Who are this actor and puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Graham Chapman; Chad Graham
ENTREE #2:
Name the two-word female subject of an 1860s-era oil painting by an American artist. Rearrange the 11 letters in the words to name a large area in North America. This area has a two-word name. What is it?
Hint: The artist’s first name is the same as that of a Nobel prize-winner who served in the cabinets of two presidents. The artist’s surname is the same as that of the lead singer of of a rock band formed 30 years ago in Seattle.
Answer:
Great Plains; "Peasant Girl, (spinning)" created by Elihu Vedder
ENTREE #3:
Give a description of this stuffed animal using two adjectives beginning with an F and C and a noun beginning with T.
Rearrange the letters of this description to name a large area in the United States. This area has a two-word name. What are this name and this description?
Answer:
Flyover country; furry cloven toy
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ENTREE #4:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to spell a carriage and the adjective describing the creature (like “feline” or “canine”) that the carriage is drawn by.
What is this chain?
What are this carriage and creature?
Answer:
Dairy Queen; Dray, Equine (Horse)
ENTREE #5:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to name a word that follows “kobe” on a menu, a seafood on a menu that is often served with soy sauce, and a word on the drink menu that follows “whiskey.” This restaurant chain has a two-word name. What is it?
Answer:
Firehouse Subs; (kobe) beef; sushi; (whiskey) sour
ENTREE #6:
Name a well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word caption for this image. What are this caption and restaurant chain?
Hint: Lopping of the final pair of letters of the caption will produce a second caption for the image.
Answer:
Panda bearer; Panera Bread
ENTREE #7:
Chad Graham, the creator of this week’s NPR puzzle, also created this week’s Appetizer under his screen name, Chuck. The title of his “Conundrumbstruck by Chuck!” feature this week is titled “Rock Fare by Chad Appetizer.”
Rearrange the combined letters in “Rock,” “Fare” and “Chad” to name a well-known restaurant chain. What is it?
Answer:
Hard Rock Cafe
ENTREE #8:
Name a very large two-word area in the United States that is also the brand name of a beverage produded in Minnesota. well-known restaurant chain. Rearrange its letters to form two words:
1. how certain native Europeans say the word “day” and
2. a city where such a European might reside.
What are the beverage/area and the European’s hometown?
Answer:
Grain Belt (Beer); Berlin ("tag")
Dessert Menu
Dangling Dessert:
Dang good, but also dang bad!
Name two words: something good that is dangled and something bad when it is dangling. Both begin with the same syllable. What are these two words?
Answer:
Pardon; participle
Lego!