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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Classical decomposition
Take the last name of a composer and the title of one of the composer’s works.
Read these words to yourself as if they were instuctions.
These instructions, if followed, would result in a clump of thread.
Who is the composer and what is the work?
Double-Meaning Appetizer:
Makin’ certain... just saying
Think of a well-known four-word saying.
The second and fourth words of the saying, placed side-by-side, describe how certain things are made.
What’s the saying, and how are certain things made?
Hint: The meanings of the second and fourth words of the saying are both different from their meanings in the description of how certain things are made.
Simmerin’ Summertime Slice:
GeoMetro Goldwyn Mayer
Name a two-word geometrical term that has a numerical property that might remind you of a hot summer day.
Rearrange the combined letters of these two words to spell two one-time-hot past Hollywood surnames that might remind you of a pair of military leaders who had a rivalry that, if not heated, was at least simmering below the surface.
What geometrical figure is this?
What are the Hollywood surnames?
Who are the military leaders?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Franco-Italian farrago!
Will Shortz’s August 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a major city in France whose name is an anagram of a major city in Italy. Each city has more than 100,000 people.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Egotistical Heavyweight champ Apollo Creed selects a journeyman boxer named Rocky Balboa as his opponent in a boxing bout in defense of his title. Balboa, an overwhelming underdog trains hard in preparation.
The challenger actually knocks Creed down in the first round. Creed starts taking Balboa more seriously for the remainder of the fight, with both pugilists sustaining various injuries.
Balboa suffers relentless blows to the head, sustaining eye-swelling that nearly blinds him. His trainer must cut Balboa’s right eyelid so that he can see! Creed continues pummeling Balboa, who staggers but absorbs each punch and refuses to go down...
At his point in this 1976 Oscar-winning movie, set in Philadelphia during America’s Bicentennial year, theater-goers must have been thinking to themselves, “Can _____ ___ ___?”
Rearranging the combined eleven letters in the three missing words of that thoughtful query do not spell “Philadelphia.” But they do spell a different well-known American city.
What is it?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a major city in South America whose name can be anagrammed into an adjective and proper noun that describe Roy, but not Orson.
What is this city?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a major city in a transcontinental nation whose name is anagrams into two words for the same human body part.
What city is this?
Hint: One of the words is a slang term.
ENTREE #4:
Think of a major “city” in Asia whose name is an anagram of two sounds that visitors to that city may hear.
What city is this?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a major city in Western Europe whose name can be anagrammed into a two-word caption that would not be truthful if it were to be used in what is being advertised in the dual image pictured here.
What is this city?
What would be the untruthful caption?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people. It is known for its architecture and art.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a city in Great Britain whose name can be anagrammed to form two words that describe any person who prefers to lose weight not through healthy dieting or exercise but via surgery.
What is this city?
What is the two-word description?
Hint: The first word in the anagram is an informal word.
ENTREE #7:
Think of a major city in Africa whose name can be anagrammed into a two-word caption for the image pictured here.
What is this city?
What is the caption?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people.
ENTREE #8:
Think of a major city in Africa.
Its first four letters can be anagrammed into a mechanical term associated with the center of a wheel.
Its remaining letters can be anagrammed into a geometrical term associated with the center of a circle.
What is this city?
What are the two terms?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people.
ENTREE #9:
Write down a major city in the United States, followed by its U.S. Postal Service state abbreviation.
These letters can be rearranged to form two words that belong in the blanks of a caption for the dual image pictured here.
The caption reads: “How to ____ a ________”
What is this city?
What are the missing words in the caption?
“Quit Dealing Dem Damn Deuces!” Dessert:
“Creature from the Blackjack Lagoon”
Name a phrase you might hear at a blackjack table.
Invert one letter and rearrange the result to form the title of a classic creature feature film.
What is the film title?
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:
Classical decomposition
Take the last name of a composer and the title of one of the composer’s works. Read these words to yourself as if they were instuctions.
These instructions, if followed, would result in a clump of thread.
Who is the composer and what is the work?
Appetizer Menu
Double-Meaning Appetizer:Makin’ certain... just saying
Think of a well-known four-word saying.
The second and fourth words of the saying, placed side-by-side, describe how certain things are made.
What’s the saying, and how are certain things made?Hint: The meanings of the second and fourth words of the saying are both different from their meanings in the description of how certain things are made.
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Simmerin’ Summertime Slice:
GeoMetro Goldwyn Mayer
Name a two-word geometrical term that has a numerical property that might remind you of a hot summer day. Rearrange the combined letters of these two words to spell two one-time-hot past Hollywood surnames that might remind you of a pair of military leaders who had a rivalry that, if not heated, was at least simmering below the surface.
What geometrical figure is this?
What are the Hollywood surnames?
Who are the military leaders?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Franco-Italian farrago!
Will Shortz’s August 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:Think of a major city in France whose name is an anagram of a major city in Italy. Each city has more than 100,000 people.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Egotistical Heavyweight champ Apollo Creed selects a journeyman boxer named Rocky Balboa as his opponent in a boxing bout in defense of his title. Balboa, an overwhelming underdog trains hard in preparation.
The challenger actually knocks Creed down in the first round. Creed starts taking Balboa more seriously for the remainder of the fight, with both pugilists sustaining various injuries.
Balboa suffers relentless blows to the head, sustaining eye-swelling that nearly blinds him. His trainer must cut Balboa’s right eyelid so that he can see! Creed continues pummeling Balboa, who staggers but absorbs each punch and refuses to go down...At his point in this 1976 Oscar-winning movie, set in Philadelphia during America’s Bicentennial year, theater-goers must have been thinking to themselves, “Can _____ ___ ___?”
Rearranging the combined eleven letters in the three missing words of that thoughtful query do not spell “Philadelphia.” But they do spell a different well-known American city.
What is it?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a major city in South America whose name can be anagrammed into an adjective and proper noun that describe Roy, but not Orson. What is this city?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a major city in a transcontinental nation whose name is anagrams into two words for the same human body part.
What city is this?Hint: One of the words is a slang term.
ENTREE #4:
Think of a major “city” in Asia whose name is an anagram of two sounds that visitors to that city may hear.
What city is this?
ENTREE #5:Think of a major city in Western Europe whose name can be anagrammed into a two-word caption that would not be truthful if it were to be used in what is being advertised in the dual image pictured here.
What is this city?
What would be the untruthful caption?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people. It is known for its architecture and art.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a city in Great Britain whose name can be anagrammed to form two words that describe any person who prefers to lose weight not through healthy dieting or exercise but via surgery. What is this city?
What is the two-word description?
Hint: The first word in the anagram is an informal word.
ENTREE #7:
Think of a major city in Africa whose name can be anagrammed into a two-word caption for the image pictured here. What is this city?
What is the caption?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people.
ENTREE #8:Think of a major city in Africa.
Its first four letters can be anagrammed into a mechanical term associated with the center of a wheel.
Its remaining letters can be anagrammed into a geometrical term associated with the center of a circle.
What is this city?
What are the two terms?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people.
ENTREE #9:
Write down a major city in the United States, followed by its U.S. Postal Service state abbreviation.
These letters can be rearranged to form two words that belong in the blanks of a caption for the dual image pictured here. The caption reads: “How to ____ a ________”
What is this city?
What are the missing words in the caption?
Dessert Menu
“Quit Dealing Dem Damn Deuces!” Dessert:
“Creature from the Blackjack Lagoon”
Name a phrase you might hear at a blackjack table. Invert one letter and rearrange the result to form the title of a classic creature feature film.
What is the film title?
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.
Good Friday to all in Puzzlerialand!
ReplyDeleteWhat a difference a week makes! Last week I had everything but two puzzles, and this week not so much! Here's what I have so far:
I have an answer for Chuck's puzzle, but probably not the intended answer.
I have Entrees #2, #5, #7, and #8, but after looking up my answer for #8, I found you, Lego, got the geometrical term and the mechanical term mixed up. The latter is the four-letter word.
No luck with the rest, so I can expect occasional hints between now and Wednesday. To the rest of you, as always, good luck, good solving, and stay safe! WEAR THOSE MASKS!!!
pjbWhoWasThatMaskedBerry?IWantedToThankHim!
Thanks for your correction on Entree #8, cranberry. I got my wheels and my circles confused!
DeleteLegoWhoIsMerelyASidekicking"Tonto"Tocranberry'sButtkicking"RangerJohnReid!"
Just as long as you don't call me "Kemo Sabe". That actually means "one who knows nothing". But seriously, where is everybody today? This only makes three comments so far!
DeletepjbAndLegolambdaProbablyBothFeelReallyLonelyRightNowPleaseHelpSomebodyAnybody
Okay, I take pity on the above! I just have nothing much to say. I haven't even had the oomph to tackle the Entrees, but I couldnd't get anywhere on any of the other puzzles, other than the first part of the GEO MCM Slice.
ReplyDeleteI have answers for everything. However, my Schpuzzle guess takes some creative reading; and my Appetizer guesses (so far) are on the thin side and are not likely the intended solution.
DeleteHave the intended answers to the Appetizer, Slice, and all the Entrées except #3 and #6.
ReplyDeleteHave a good alternate also for the Appetizer, and poor alternates for the Schpuzzle and Entrée #6. No clue on the Dessert and Entrée #3.
Sunday hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
The last name of a composer is an anagram of the last name of an Aussie athlete who is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport
The title of one of the composer’s works is an anagram of two men's names, for short.
The combined letters of the last name of a composer and the title of one of the composer’s works can be earearranged to spell a beau or sweetheart from way up north.
Double-Meaning Appetizer:
"Boxcars"
Simmerin’ Summertime Slice:
The two-word geometrical term is "a matter of degree."
One of the past Hollywood surnames can be paired with either of two first names, beginning with V and J. The pair of pair of military leaders is the pair you thought of first! Don't overthink and second-guess yourself!
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
ENTREE #1:
Skip ahead to 1:25.
ENTREE #2:
The major city consists of two words.
ENTREE #3:
The transcontinental nation can also be a lowercase word for something what rhymes with a word that appears twice in this hint.
ENTREE #4:
The major “city” is actually not a "city" but a four-syllable word whose plural sounds like a trillion Whig rivals.
ENTREE #5:
The major city in Western Europe whose name can be anagrammed into a part of your eye and the room, for short, where they might test it.
ENTREE #6:
Because ______ Cromwell was a member of Parliament, we could also call him a ___. The name of the city in Great Britain can also be anagrammed to form two words that belong in those blanks.
ENTREE #7:
There in dinnerware within the city.
ENTREE #8:
Trebek & Moreno, minus a t.
ENTREE #9:
The city is, fittingly for this answer, a place where pork is carved up.
Dessert Menu
The film title consists of five letters. The phrase you might hear at a blackjack table is likely not spoken by a player holding two faces. Two deuces? Now that's a different story!
LegoWhoUrgesAllPuzzlerian!PuzzleSolversToFireAwayAtOurElusiveTargetsWithTheirBestShots!
Well i guess it is not John Newcombe. Also an Aussis great.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you drop by, Plantsmith. Welcome!
DeleteOui, Monsieur Newcombe aussi. Bien sure!
LegoSissyFusSmyth
i think i have the Schpuzzle.
DeleteI usually eat dessert first.
DeleteI had so not a ravel. Sew not a ravel.??
DeleteI had hit me--- White -South Korean horror classic-which i have never seen. Great puzzles Lego.
DeleteI now have Entrees #1, #2, and #5-#8. Need a little more help with the others.
ReplyDeleteNow I have the Schpuzzle! It's so obvious!
ReplyDeleteStill need more help with the others, though.
ReplyDeleteLate Sunday/Early Monday hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Toyota makes a RAV4. Is a RAV50 on the drawing board?
Double-Meaning Appetizer:
"Matchbox"
Simmerin’ Summertime Slice:
"Geez it's hot! If we could stick a thermometer into Mother Natures's maw, granted it may measure below normal. But a handful-or-so of degrees higher and she'll be running a real temperature!
The three thespians (two with the same surname) all appear in the triple feature: "Gone with the Notorious Psycho!"
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
ENTREE #1:
80% of the letters of the word in the first blank (“Can _____ ___ ___?”) can be rearranged to spell the second of the three words in the answer.
The last word of the answer appears in the penultimate sentence of the puzzle.
ENTREE #2:
Roy was a judge. Orson was a comedian. The city is "silvery."
ENTREE #3:
This Entree may be easier to get to the bottom of if you are sitting down. But, I digrass...
ENTREE #4:
The major “city” may be thought of as a mini-poem.
ENTREE #5:
Genuine Sir Francis.
The city sounds like a three-part night out on the town with your rowdy friends:
1. It starts with boozing at a ___.
2. Continues behind bars in a ____.
3. How does it end? You now ___ _ criminal record!
ENTREE #6:
The two-word description is alliterative. The first part of the city name is sometimes served with onions.
ENTREE #7:
There is dinnerware within the city (a correction of my previous batch of hints).
The city consists of the vessels preceded by the state of the vessels.
ENTREE #8:
The city, besides being "Trebek & Moreno, minus a t," is also:
"Karras or Van Halen/Martin, McArdle or Mitchell." (The common name of Martin, McArdle or Mitchell just sounds like the second part of the city, when spoken aloud.
ENTREE #9:
The residents of this "city" were not able to vote for president prior to the Goldwater/Johnson race.
Dessert Menu
The letter you invert becomes a letter no longer.... so let's relegate it to the end of the film title!
LegoWhoExplainsThatHisPreviousAppetizerHint"Boxcars"HintedAtTheSayingWhileInThePresentAppetizerHint(AboveInThisPost)"Matchbox"HintsAtHowCertainThingsAreMade
Now I have the Summertime Slice and the Dessert, but that's all.
ReplyDeleteI believe I know the body part in #3, but not the transcontinental nation. Forgive me for being a little behind in this, butt...
ReplyDeletepjbStillBringingUpTheRearWithNoEndInSight
The city is in a transcontinental nation whose name is the centerpiece of many a family dinner table in late November.
DeleteThe major city contains 8 letters. The two words for the same body part are 4-letter words that begin with a T and B.
LegoWhoProclaims:"TheEndIsRear!"
That takes care of #3 finally! Thanks again, Lego!
DeleteAll I have left are the Double Meaning Appetizer, and Entrees #4 and #9. Got any other hints for me, Lego? BTW My original answer to the Appetizer was TAKE BY THE HAND, which would make things be made BY HAND. Too simple, though.
ReplyDeleteI feel a little better now. At first glance, I thought my Led By The Hand was the ticket. But after the hints, I am baffled. I get the hints, I think. Just not how to sting them into the correct saying. FWI: Entree #4, which I may also have wrong, sounds like a cacophony to me. Entree #9's abbreviation reference might just be wishful thinking by some.
ReplyDeleteTuesday hints:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer:
"You say that Kristen Stewart will portray the Princess of Wales in the upcoming movie 'Spencer', produced and directed by Pablo Larraín? Well I guess ___ role of __ __ ____!"
Entree #4
The place name kind of rhymes with Will's Shortz's favorite sport... one he calls by a different name.
Entree #9
Hint to the place:
"My Maytag busted! Something with a 'Direct Current overload,' according to my power company. What's worse, the Maytag repairman has retired! So I wound up laundering loads of clothes by hand!"
LegoLaundry
Entree #4 - A cacophony it is. Thanks for the confirmation.
ReplyDeleteEntree #9 - Busted, overload, retired repairman? That's certainly no
state to be in.
I dont know how everyone else has done it, but I still don't have Entree #1 OR the Dessert....I thought I knew the blackjack phrase (the obvious one), but I can't turn it into ANY monster movie in five letters, let alone with a number at the end.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the Appetizer yet either (like others), but don''t have time to digest the new hint now.
VT,
DeleteFor the Dessert, see geofan's helpful clarification, below. Actually, there is one "number at the end (in a way), but only if you hit the shift key!
As for Entree #1, "theater-goers must have been thinking to themselves, “Can _____ ___ ___?”
(The words in the blanks are 5, 3 and 3 letters: Proper Noun, adverb, verb...
"Balboa was on the ropes. It seemed as if he would lose. But, wait? could it be that he might not lose after all?"
The adverb is a synonym of "still," when "still" is used as an adverb (instead of, say, a noun, verb or adjective).
LegoWhoWonders:"Can/Bullwinkle'sBuddy/HoochCooker/CharacterActorKeenan'sSurname?
Have answers to everything after the (first) Sunday hints, which revealed the answers to Entrées #3 and #6. The Dessert is sort of a rehash of an old NPR puzzle and is a bit clever - the film title consists of five characters, not five letters.
ReplyDeleteI still do not like my answer to the Schpuzzle, though (last word does not make sense). For the Appetizer, got the intended answer and a decent alternate (both pre-hints).
Very good hint/clarification on the Dessert, geofan. Thanks.
DeleteIn the Schpuzzle, the title of the composer's work is a word with two definitions, according to Merriam-Webster. It's the second definition that works in the Schpuzzle.
Interestingly, the word in question seems to be somewhat synonymous with something named after a president's surname/nickname.
LeroLamboWhoRemarks"WowThatRobCanReallyDance...Ole!"
Got all but the anagram for #9. I keep wanting to say HOLD, LIFT, or GRAB, but I know they're all wrong according to the city name.
ReplyDeleteWait! I just got it! And I'm done! See y'all tonorrow!
ReplyDeleteSorry, tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteHello Joseph Young, Your puzzles are outstanding! Please would it be OK to have your email address to ask a math/puzzle related question. Also, is your Puzzleria on Twitter or Facebook? Thank you! Eileen
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Puzzleria!, Eileen. Thanks for the compliment.
DeletePuzzleria! is not on Twitter of Facebook (as far as I know).
You can email me, however, at jry51joroyo@gmail.com
It is the email address that appears at the upper-right corner of the blog page.
LegoWhoIsAlwayPleasedToWelcomeNewPuzzlerian!sToOurBlog
I don't see your email address at the upper right corner, Lego....I see my OWN when I am signed in so as to post, but that's it.
DeleteThanks. ViolinTeddy. You are, as usual, correct.
DeleteI usually enter Puzzleria! through my "Blogger" page (which displays P! statistics (such as page-views etc.) and other information like "traffic sources" and "(worldwide) audience.
But just now when I accessed P! by NOT going though Blogger, there was no email, search box, etc. I saw just what you all see -- no bar atop the blog.
LegoWhoIsNotExactlyTheBrightestBloggerOnTheTree!
Thank you, Joseph! You are wonderful and very appreciated! And your puzzles are outstanding. You bring much joy to this world.
DeleteRAVEL BOLERO
ReplyDeleteRIGHT ANGLE > LEIGH & GRANT (GRANT & LEE)
BUENOS AIRES > SERIOUS BEAN
BARCELONA > REAL BACON
MOGADISHU > IDAHO MUGS
ALEXANDRIA > AXLE, RADIAN
WASHINGTON DC > TONG, SANDWICH
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ROCKY WIN YET > NEW YORK CITY
LIVERPOOL > LIPO LOVER
HIT ME > THEM!
ISTANBUL > TAIL, BUNS [I note that BURSA is also a city and body part]
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THE DIE IS CAST / DIECAST
HONG KONG > HONK, GONG
Schpuzzle: Ravel; Suite For Strings (read, not said out loud, would be to "ravel suit(e) for strings", which would result in a clump of thread.)
ReplyDeleteAppetizer: Pre-hints: Led BY the HAND. Even with the hints: Set? Pair? Di? Di's (dice), I just couldn't string it together to get the intended solution.
S.S. Slice: Right Angle (90 degrees); Leigh & Grant; Lee & Grant
Entrees:
1. New York City (Can Rocky yet win?")
2. Buenos Aires (Serious Bean)
3. Istanbul; buns = tail
4. Hong Kong (Honk; Gong)
5. Barcelona; Real Bacon
6. Liverpool; Lipo Lover
7. Mogadishu; Idaho Mugs
8. Alexandria; Radian
9. Washington, DC; Tong & Sandwich (My no state to be in and
wishful thinking by some references were to the fact that
Washington has a postal code but DC is not a state.)
Dessert: THEM!; (HiT ME) [A classic with a capital C]
Entree 8: Axel
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: RAVEL, BOLERO “Ravel, ball, error (or 'arrow')”. Post-Sun-hint: confirmed (Rod Laver, tennis). RAVEL, BOLERO => BOREAL LOVER (Sun hint). Post-Tue-hint: Ravel, bolero (jacket).
ReplyDeleteDouble-Meaning Appetizer: THE DIE IS CAST (fate) => DIE CAST (metal)
Alternate: MY COLD IS CURED (medical) / COLD CURED (salmon = gravlax)
Simmerin' Summertime Slice: RIGHT ANGLE => (Cary)GRANT, (Vivien)LEIGH => (Gens)GRANT, LEE
Entrées
#1: NEW YORK CITY => ROCKY YET WIN
#2: Roy and Orson Bean = SERIOUS, BEAN => BUENOS AIRES
#3: Post-Sun-hint; TURKEY => ISTANBUL => BUNS, TAIL (but BOTH are slang terms)
#4: HONG KONG => HONK, GONG; Post-Sun-hint: TERRITORY (tera-tories)
#5: REAL BACON => BARCELONA
#6: FALMOUTH => HAM FLOUT; Post-Sun-hint: LIVERPOOL => LIPO LOVER
#7: MOGADISHU => IDAHO MUGS
#8: ALEXANDRIA => AXLE, RADIAN
#9: SANDWICH TONG => WASHINGTON DC
Dessert: Post-Sun-hint: “Hit me” => H!t me => THEM! (cf. 17 Apr 2016 NPR puzzle Oliver! => Olivier).
Schpuzzle
ReplyDelete(Maurice)RAVEL, BOLERO(a type of sweater)
(I thought it was pronounced ruh-vel'.)
Appetizer Menu
Double Meaning Appetizer
THE DIE IS CAST, DIE CAST
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Simmerin' Summertime Slice
RIGHT ANGLE, (Janet or Vivien)LEIGH, (Cary)GRANT, Generals(Robert E.)LEE and(Ulysses S.)GRANT
Entrees
1. NEW YORK CITY(ROCKY WIN YET)
2. BUENOS AIRES(SERIOUS BEAN), Judge Roy but not comedian Orson
3. ISTANBUL(TAIL, BUNS)
4. HONG KONG(HONK, GONG)
5. BARCELONA(REAL BACON)
6. LIVERPOOL(LIPO LOVER)
7. MOGADISHU(IDAHO MUGS)
8. ALEXANDRIA(AXLE, RADIAN), mechanical term followed by geometrical term
9. WASHINGTON, D.C.(TONG, SANDWICH)
Dessert
HI(i)T ME, "THEM!"
I sincerely hope everyone in Laura and Marco's path has evacuated the area by now.-pjb
NOT looking at any answers above:
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: RAVEL & BOLERO
APPETIZER: FREIGHT TRAIN? NO idea
GEO MGM SLICE: RIGHT ANGLE [90 degrees] => GRANT & LEIGH => GRANT & LEE [I originally thought it was OBTUSE ANGLE, thus after "GABLE" I couldn't come up with another actor/ess surname.]
ENTREES:
1. ROCKY YET WIN => NEW YORK CITY [DUH!]
2. BUENOS AIRES => SERIOUS BEAN
3. ISTANBUL => BUNS & TAIL
4. HONG KONG => HONK & GONG
5. BARCELONA => REAL BACON [CORNEA LAB]
6. LIVERPOOL => LIPO LOVER
7. MOGADISHU => IDAHO MUGS
8. ALEXANDRIA => AXLE & RADIAN
9. WASHINGTON DC => TONG SANDWICH
DESSERT: HIT ME => HITM3 Utterly stuck.
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Classical decomposition
Take the last name of a composer and the title of one of the composer’s works.
Read these words to yourself as if they were instuctions.
These instructions, if followed, would result in a clump of thread.
Who is the composer and what is the work?
Answer:
(Maurice) Ravel "Bolero" ("bolero" definition 2)
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Double-Meaning Appetizer:
Makin’ certain... just saying
Think of a well-known four-word saying.
The second and fourth words of the saying, placed side-by-side, describe how certain things are made.
What’s the saying, and how are certain things made?
Hint: The meanings of the second and fourth words of the saying are both different from their meanings in the description of how certain things are made.
Answer:
The die is cast; die-cast
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Simmerin’ Summertime Slice:
GeoMetro Goldwyn Mayer
Name a two-word geometical term that has a numerical property that might remind you of a hot summer day.
Rearrange the combined letters of these two words to spell two one-time-hot past Hollywood surnames that might remind you of a pair of military leaders who had a rivalry that, if not heated, was at leasr simmering below the surface.
What geometrical figure is this?
What are the Hollywood surnames?
Who are the military leaders?
Answer:
Right angle (which measures 90 degrees, which is also a hot temperature reading)
(Cary) Grant, (Vivien) Leigh (Civil War generals Grant and Lee)
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This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
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Franco-Italian farrago!
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Egotistical Heavyweight champ Apollo Creed selects a journeyman boxer named Rocky Balboa as his opponent in a boxing bout in defense of his title. Balboa, an overwhelming underdog trains hard in preparation. Balboa actually knocks Creed down in the first round. Creed starts taking Balboa more seriously for the remauinder of the fight, which goes the full fifteen rounds, with both pugilists sustaining various injuries. Balboa suffers relentless blows to the head, sustaining eye-swelling that nearly blinds him. His trainer must cut Balboa’s right eyelid so that he can see! Creed continues pummeling Balboa, who staggers but absorbs each punch and refuses to go down...
At his point in this 1976 Oscar-winning movie, set in Philadelphia during America’s Bicentennial year, theater-goers must have been thinking to themselves, “Can _____ ___ ___?”
Rearranging the combined eleven letters in the three missing words of that thoughtful query do not spell “Philadelphia.” But they DO spell a different well-known American city.
What is it?
Answer:
New York City; "(Can) Rocky yet win?"
ENTREE #2:
Think of a major city in South America whose name can be anagrammed into an adjective and proper noun that describe Roy, but not Orson. What is this city?
Answer:
Buenos Aires, (Argentina)
(Serious Bean)
(Judge Roy Bean "the Law West of Pecos," has been depicted in legend as a "hanging judge." Orson Bean was a comedian.)
ENTREE #3:
Think of a major city in a transcontinental nation whose name is anagrams into two words for the same human body part. What city is this?
Hint: One of the words is a slang term.
Answer:
Istanbul, (Turkey); tail, buns (both are words for the buttocks)
ENTREE #4:
Think of a major “city” in Asia whose name is an anagram of two sounds that visitors to that city may hear.
What city is this?
Answer:
Gong, Honk (see at 1:40)
ENTREE #5:
Think of a major city in Western Europe whose name can be anagrammed into a two-word caption that would NOT be appropriate for the image pictured here.
What is this city?
What is the inappropriate caption?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people.
It is known for its architecture and art.
Answer:
Barcelona, (Spain); "Real Bacon"
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
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ENTREE #6:
Think of a city in Great Britain whose name can be anagrammed to form two words that describe any person who prefers to lose weight not through healthy dieting or exercise but via surgery.
What is this city?
What is the two-word description?
Hint: The first word in the anagram is an informal word.
Answer:
Liverpool, England
Lipo lover;
ENTREE #7:
Think of a major city in Africa whose name can be anagrammed into a two-word caption for the image pictured here.
What is this city?
What is the caption?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people.
Answer:
Mogadishu; "Idaho mugs"
ENTREE #8:
Think of a major city in Africa.
Its first four letters can be anagrammed into a geometrical term associated with the center of a circle
Its remaining letters can be anagrammed into a mechanical term associated with the center of a wheel.
What is this city?
What are the two terms?
Hint: The city has quite a few more than 100,000 people.
Answer:
Alexandria, (Egypt); radian, axle
ENTREE #9:
Write down a major city in the United States, followed by its U.S. Postal Service state abbreviation. These letters can be rearranged to form two words that belong in the blanks of a caption for the dual image pictured here. The caption reads: “How to ____ a ________”
What is this city?
What are the missing words in the caption?
Answer:
Washington, D.C.; “How to TONG a SANDWICH”
Dessert Menu
“Quit Dealing Dem Damn Deuces!” Dessert:
“Creature from the Blackjack Lagoon”
Name a phrase you might hear at a blackjack table.
Invert one letter and rearrange the result to form the title of a classic creature feature film.
What is the film title?
Answer:
Them!; ("Hit me")
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