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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Creating a creature of habitat
Take the surnames of families created by John Ernst Steinbeck, Jerome David Salinger and Louisa May Alcott.
Change one letter in each name.
The result is a creature and two of its habitats.
What are these fictional names?
What are the creature and its two habitats?
Name Games Appetizer:
Terrific Trif-f-fecta, plus three
Trif-f-fecta
1. Think of a small US city, best known for a specific event, that contains a double letter and has the same number of letters as the state in which it is located.
Add one letter to make the double letter a triple one. Split this result into three words: (1), a type of legal document;
(2), a currently “trendy” boy's name; and
(3), an overarching term for the activity for which this small city is best known.
What are the city and the three parts of its “expanded” name?
Count those letters
2. Think of a landmark partially located in a U.S. state whose name has the same number of letters as the landmark's common name. The full, official name of the landmark adds one additional word that has one fewer letter than the full location of the remainder of this landmark. What are the state and landmark? Where is the rest of it located?
Female nomenclature
3. Think of a common female name.
Drop the first letter. Split the remaining letters in half to obtain two nicknames for this name.
What are the name and the two nicknames?
Papal schism
4. Think of a papal name.
Split this name in two to obtain a possible nickname for this pope and a policy statement issued by a pope.
Harri the Spy but not Rht and Scarlt Slice:
One rascally yet romantic puzzle
Take the first names of two fictional characters, a rascal and a romantic.
From the rascal’s name remove the nickname of an extraterrestrial fictional character.
Leave the romantic’s name just as it is.
The result is the name of a car.
What car is it?
Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices:
The “person in history” mystery
Will Shortz’s August 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota (who runs the blog Puzzleria!), reads:
Name a famous person in history with a five-letter first name and four-letter last name. The letters of the last name can be rearranged to name a popular game. And the letters in the first name can be rearranged to name an action in this game. Who is this famous person?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker who is not-at-all famous, in six and five letters. The 11 letters, if combined, can be rearranged to name three words:
1. a popular game animal,
2. a newborn critter, especially one that...
3. ____ about, after leaving the pouch.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the three words?
Hint: The popular game animal is a homophone of one of the 28 syllables (including the word in the blank) in the clues for the the three words).
ENTREE #2:
Consider the two images in the illustration pictured here. Write a two-word caption for each, in five and six letters.
The letters of each word in the caption on the left can be rearranged to spell each word in the caption on the right.
What are your two captions?
ENTREE #3:
Name what you may be seeking, in four and five letters, when you visit websites such as Travelocity or Expedia.
Switch the order of the two words.
Rearrange the letters of each word to form a two-word phrase that is synonymous with “things that are more likely to happen” or “more likely possibilities.”
What are Travelocity or Expedia visitors seeking?
What is the synonymous two-word phrase?
ENTREE #4:
Take the last two words, in seven and six letters, in a book title by a east-coast-based espionage thriller novelist.
Rearrange the letters in each word to form the last two words in a book title by a west-coast-based author of historical romance novels. What are these two book titles?
ENTREE #5:
Name a two-word phrase for what lies on either side of what flows southward down New York State.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for certain “barehoof” creatures.
Each word in the phrases contains six letters.
What are these two 2-word phrases?
ENTREE #6:
Name a two-word phrase for one of three things Al Capone had since he was 18 years old. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name 45-year-old MPG regulations and what those regulations pertain to.
Each of the four words (one of which is an ACRONYM) contains four letters.
What are these four 4-letter words?
ENTREE #7:
Name a two-word phrase for a kind of museum.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for something you might have that would preclude you from adopting a certain vermin as a pet.
Each phrase contains ten total letters.
What are these two 10-letter phrases?
ENTREE #8:
Name a two-word phrase for transactions that might take place at an automobile dealership.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name one two-word phrase for what you might find either in the Navy, or at a theme park, or on a newspaper staff.
Each phrase contains twelve total letters.
What are these two 12-letter phrases?
Hint: One of the four words is hyphenated.
ENTREE #9:
Name a two-word phrase for a window at a hotel that can range from around noon to about 3pm, typically.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what poultry farmers don’t want to find in their coops or on their roosts.
Each phrase contains twelve total letters.
What are these two 12-letter phrases?
Hint: One of the four words is hyphenated.
ENTREE #10:
Name a two-word phrase that describes Tatum Riley, Courtney Shayne and Debbie Dinsdale.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for someone, say, who slams his fist on the chessboard after his opponent says “check.”
Each phrase contains a four-letter word followed by a five letter word.
What are these two 2-word phrases?
ENTREE #11:
Name a two-word 14-letter phrase for garments you would find in the wardrobe of a stage production of “The Ten Commandments.”
Reverse the order of the words.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for “grim truths.”
What are these two phrases?
ENTREE #12:
Consider the two images in the illustration pictured here. Write a caption for each, in four and three letters.
The letters of each word in the caption on the left can be rearranged to spell each word in the caption on the right.
What are your two captions?
ENTREE #13:
Name a two-word place on earth where you can visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Königssee, Neuschwanstein and Eibsee.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what the Magi might have heard right after the nativity of Jesus.
Each phrase contains ten letters.
What are this place and this phrase?
ENTREE #14:
Take two words: the title of a famous poem and the surname of the poet who wrote it, in five and six letters.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what a modern dairy farmer must do if his automated apparatus attached to his cows’ udders utterly stops functioning!
What are this poem title, poet and two-word phrase?
ENTREE #15:
Name a two-word phrase, in eight and seven letters, that describes a pupil’s performance of Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for a newspaper story written about 40 years ago that includes the names Foster Brooks, Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Rich Little and Redd Foxx.
What are these two phrases?
ENTREE #16:
Name a two-word phrase, in five and four letters, that describes the following six: Chesley Sullenberger, Minnie Vautrin, Raoul Wallenberg, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela.
The letters in each word of this phrase can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for a hairy part of an equine creature.
What are these two phrases?
Precious Dessert:
Moonstones on the map?
A word in a name on the U.S. map sounds like a letter of the alphabet.
Replace the word with the letter.
Rearranging the letters of this result spells types of precious gemstones.
What are these gemstones and the name on the map?
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:
Creating a creature of habitat
Take the surnames of families created by John Ernst Steinbeck, Jerome David Salinger and Louisa May Alcott.
Change one letter in each name.
The result is a creature and two of its habitats.
What are these fictional names?
What are the creature and its two habitats?
Appetizer Menu
Name Games Appetizer:
Terrific Trif-f-fecta, plus three
Trif-f-fecta1. Think of a small US city, best known for a specific event, that contains a double letter and has the same number of letters as the state in which it is located.
Add one letter to make the double letter a triple one. Split this result into three words: (1), a type of legal document;
(2), a currently “trendy” boy's name; and
(3), an overarching term for the activity for which this small city is best known.
What are the city and the three parts of its “expanded” name?Count those letters
2. Think of a landmark partially located in a U.S. state whose name has the same number of letters as the landmark's common name. The full, official name of the landmark adds one additional word that has one fewer letter than the full location of the remainder of this landmark. What are the state and landmark? Where is the rest of it located?
Female nomenclature
3. Think of a common female name.
Drop the first letter. Split the remaining letters in half to obtain two nicknames for this name.
What are the name and the two nicknames?Papal schism
4. Think of a papal name.
Split this name in two to obtain a possible nickname for this pope and a policy statement issued by a pope.
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Harri the Spy but not Rht and Scarlt Slice:
One rascally yet romantic puzzle
Take the first names of two fictional characters, a rascal and a romantic. From the rascal’s name remove the nickname of an extraterrestrial fictional character.
Leave the romantic’s name just as it is.
The result is the name of a car.
What car is it?
Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices:
The “person in history” mystery
Will Shortz’s August 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota (who runs the blog Puzzleria!), reads:
Name a famous person in history with a five-letter first name and four-letter last name. The letters of the last name can be rearranged to name a popular game. And the letters in the first name can be rearranged to name an action in this game. Who is this famous person?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker who is not-at-all famous, in six and five letters. The 11 letters, if combined, can be rearranged to name three words:
1. a popular game animal,2. a newborn critter, especially one that...
3. ____ about, after leaving the pouch.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the three words?
Hint: The popular game animal is a homophone of one of the 28 syllables (including the word in the blank) in the clues for the the three words).
ENTREE #2:
Consider the two images in the illustration pictured here. Write a two-word caption for each, in five and six letters. The letters of each word in the caption on the left can be rearranged to spell each word in the caption on the right.
What are your two captions?
ENTREE #3:
Name what you may be seeking, in four and five letters, when you visit websites such as Travelocity or Expedia.
Switch the order of the two words. Rearrange the letters of each word to form a two-word phrase that is synonymous with “things that are more likely to happen” or “more likely possibilities.”
What are Travelocity or Expedia visitors seeking?
What is the synonymous two-word phrase?
ENTREE #4:
Take the last two words, in seven and six letters, in a book title by a east-coast-based espionage thriller novelist. Rearrange the letters in each word to form the last two words in a book title by a west-coast-based author of historical romance novels. What are these two book titles?
ENTREE #5:
Name a two-word phrase for what lies on either side of what flows southward down New York State. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for certain “barehoof” creatures.
Each word in the phrases contains six letters.
What are these two 2-word phrases?
ENTREE #6:
Name a two-word phrase for one of three things Al Capone had since he was 18 years old. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name 45-year-old MPG regulations and what those regulations pertain to.Each of the four words (one of which is an ACRONYM) contains four letters.
What are these four 4-letter words?
ENTREE #7:
Name a two-word phrase for a kind of museum.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for something you might have that would preclude you from adopting a certain vermin as a pet.Each phrase contains ten total letters.
What are these two 10-letter phrases?
ENTREE #8:
Name a two-word phrase for transactions that might take place at an automobile dealership.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name one two-word phrase for what you might find either in the Navy, or at a theme park, or on a newspaper staff. Each phrase contains twelve total letters.
What are these two 12-letter phrases?
Hint: One of the four words is hyphenated.
ENTREE #9:
Name a two-word phrase for a window at a hotel that can range from around noon to about 3pm, typically.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what poultry farmers don’t want to find in their coops or on their roosts. Each phrase contains twelve total letters.
What are these two 12-letter phrases?
Hint: One of the four words is hyphenated.
ENTREE #10:
Name a two-word phrase that describes Tatum Riley, Courtney Shayne and Debbie Dinsdale. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for someone, say, who slams his fist on the chessboard after his opponent says “check.”
Each phrase contains a four-letter word followed by a five letter word.
What are these two 2-word phrases?
ENTREE #11:
Name a two-word 14-letter phrase for garments you would find in the wardrobe of a stage production of “The Ten Commandments.”
Reverse the order of the words. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for “grim truths.”
What are these two phrases?
ENTREE #12:
Consider the two images in the illustration pictured here. Write a caption for each, in four and three letters.The letters of each word in the caption on the left can be rearranged to spell each word in the caption on the right.
What are your two captions?
ENTREE #13:
Name a two-word place on earth where you can visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Königssee, Neuschwanstein and Eibsee. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what the Magi might have heard right after the nativity of Jesus.
Each phrase contains ten letters.
What are this place and this phrase?
ENTREE #14:
Take two words: the title of a famous poem and the surname of the poet who wrote it, in five and six letters.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what a modern dairy farmer must do if his automated apparatus attached to his cows’ udders utterly stops functioning! What are this poem title, poet and two-word phrase?
ENTREE #15:
Name a two-word phrase, in eight and seven letters, that describes a pupil’s performance of Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for a newspaper story written about 40 years ago that includes the names Foster Brooks, Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Rich Little and Redd Foxx. What are these two phrases?
ENTREE #16:
Name a two-word phrase, in five and four letters, that describes the following six: Chesley Sullenberger, Minnie Vautrin, Raoul Wallenberg, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela. The letters in each word of this phrase can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for a hairy part of an equine creature.
What are these two phrases?
Dessert Menu
Precious Dessert:
Moonstones on the map?
A word in a name on the U.S. map sounds like a letter of the alphabet.
Replace the word with the letter. Rearranging the letters of this result spells types of precious gemstones.
What are these gemstones and the name on the map?
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.
I apologize for the tardiness.
ReplyDeleteLegoLaterThanUsual
No need to apologize, Lego. I'm sure you have your reasons. Good Weekend Eve to all on the blog!
ReplyDeleteWe've had a visit from my brother Bryan and their dog Harry McLarry Berry(yes, that is his full name, thanks to my niece Maddy), Bryan helped us throw out some garbage and fixed our lights in the living room, I solved Tramp's Prize Puzzle, and Mom got us chicken sandwiches and sides from Popeye's. Delicious, but a bit spicy!
Now to this week's bunch of toughies. I could only solve the last Worldplay puzzle and the first Entree(so far, anyway). Hints will be expected, of course.
Until my next comment, good solving to all, good luck, and please stay safe! Wear those masks!
Now I've got the Schpuzzle!
ReplyDeleteFrom here on I'll probably be needing hints, Lego.
ReplyDeleteSo far, have everything except the Slice (haven't spent much time on it), Entrée #8 and half of Entrée #9, and the Dessert.
ReplyDeleteHave a great alternate for Entrée #13, based on the "native" name of the local region where the sites are located. Hint: "beery baron" (appropriate). I thought of the native name first: also 10 letters, but 1 word. Then got the intended answer.
geofan,
DeleteYour screen name is "geofan" for a very good reason. You really know your "geo"! Me? Not that much. But I shall attempt to crack your alternative answer to Entree #13, given your hint.
LegoNotes:"Beery"&"Bacon"(What'sNotToLike!?)
Lego: baron, not bacon (though bacon tastes better).
DeleteAlas, the Schloss Neuschwanstein is in the Landkreis Ostallgäu and not in that one denoted by my alternate answer. However, it is only ca. 5 km from the border. My apologies. All the other mentioned sites are in the region I mentioned.
DeleteIt is a little like confusing Collegeville MN and St Cloud MN (actually, somewhat closer).
geo,
DeleteI worked in Collegeville in 2008-2009, often commuting from St. Cloud on my bicycle. 30 miles round-trip.
LegoWhoNotesThatThereIsAVeryGermanPresenceInStearnsCounty(WhereILive)WithDescendantsOfImmigrantsFromSchlossNeuschwanstein/LandkreisOstallgäuLikelyLivingHereInCentralMinnesota
Lego, if you're up and around at this ghastly hour, or some other ghastly hour, can you revisit the wording of Entree #10?
ReplyDeleteI must agree with GB. Is it supposed to be two four-letter words or actually two two-letter words? That seems inconceivable to me.
ReplyDeleteThere also seems to be a 4/5 letter phrase which might fit the bill, unless the 4/4 arrangement is the intended one, and 2/2 or 4/5 isn't. Just wanted to make sure I was reading everything correctly and there wasn't a typo somewhere in the Entree.
DeleteI have the 4/5 letter phrase and it makes the most sense.
Delete4/4 is questionable and 2/2 impossible.
Sorry, GB, cranberry and geofan. It was erroneous wording in two places at the puzzle's conclusion.
DeleteI corected the text. It npw reads:
ENTREE #10:
Name a two-word phrase that describes Tatum Riley, Courtney Shayne and Debbie Dinsdale.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for someone, say, who slams his fist on the chessboard after his opponent says “check.”
Each phrase contains a four-letter word followed by a five letter word.
What are these two 2-word phrases?
LegoWhoLikesTobe(AndNeedsToBe!)KeptHonest
Got two different phrases, but can't figure out the anagram offhand. I also couldn't find Debbie Dinsdale, but the first two names are both fictional characters, that much I got. No connection to either phrase as of yet, though. At least they're not 2/2, as we were initially led to believe.
DeleteThanks for the clarification, Lego. I'm amazed at the amount of gray cell testing work you turn out on schedule with an infinitesimally low confusion (of the unintended type) rate.
DeleteAs much trouble as I'm having with some of the Entrees, #10 is one I solved fairly easily (with proper research)....#4 is driving me nuts, because I THOUGHT I'd chosen the correct thriller author and title, and then found a historical romance to fit the puzzle, only to discover that ITS author was dead, and didn't live on the West Coast.
ReplyDeleteI've also gotten the Schpuzzle, Entrees 1, 2, half of 4 & 5 (I think), 9, 12, 14 and 15.
Entree #13 is also making me frustrated....given that I have ONE word that seems correct, but can't come up with the second word, even though I know what Geo's native word is.
So, capping this, I am thus far stuck on #3, #8; 6 & 7 [tho thought I'd made some progress on these latter two, not sure] and 11. Haven't tried #16 yet.
Oh, I also did well on Geo's appetizer's #3 (fast and easy) and 4 (also fairly easy), but am NOwhere on his #1, and MIGHT have #2, I just don't know. I'd come up with a great city for #1, with matching number of letters to its state, and then realized it did NOT have a 'double letter'. Rats!
VT, good work on the Worldplays and the Entrées. As I see it, nothing in the wording of Entrée #4 precludes the authors' being dead. My answer has both of them (rather recently) dead. "Tom Sawyer" is a novel "by a Midwest-based author" and he is certainly dead.
DeleteAlso, I now have the Dessert (rather clever) and Entrée #9. So only Entrée #8 and the Slice are now left.
Actually, Twain/Clemens was probably CT-based at the time, not Midwest, but the point still holds.
DeleteMore or less permanently based as of the present time. But a question, geo and Ted, if I may: Since you both have a lock on Entree #10, do all of your solution words contain 4 letters? That is the clarification I'm looking for. A 4/5 possibility jumped out at me, and since the 2-letter entry is probably a miscue, I wanted to see if the 4/4 requirement could also be not set in a permanent base. If it's all fours, I will continue to puzzle.
DeleteGB, my answer is 4/5 and makes sense. But we really need a judgement/clarification from Lego.
DeleteMany thanks, geo. That one does make perfect sense, so I'm beginning to think the 4/4 might be a miscue. If it's 4/5, I am now 23/23 for the cycle. I'll make my typos on Wednesday.
DeleteI agree...I had failed to actually pay attention to how many letters the second word(s) had, but indeed, it's 5 (with 4 letters for the first words).
DeleteLego: In Entrée #8, are the three phrases (Navy, park, newspaper) identical, or are they different 2-word phrases?
ReplyDeleteObviously, either way they differ from the dealership phrase.
FWIW, I think they are identical. Lego is probably having a bit of fun with his newspaper staff brethren from a past life.
DeleteGood question, geofan.
DeleteIn Entree #8, you are to to name just ONE two-word phrase that describes what you might find in either the Navy, at a theme park, or on a newspaper staff.
LegoWhoWasHereoforeUnawareThatOneCouldFindTheseEntitiesOnANewspaperStaff
In connection with the Slice, I stumbled on the Wikipedia article on Stephen King's villain, It. This article contains the sentence: "It's natural enemy is the 'Space Turtle' or 'Maturin'..."
ReplyDeleteThis must be an almost unique instance of a case in which the orthography of the possessive "It's" is correct.
Along those lines, come to think of it, Entree #10 could be 5/5. Mysteriouser and mysteriouser.
Deletegeofan,
DeleteKeen observation about "It's natural enemy is the 'Space Turtle'..."
LegoWhoAgreesWithGBThatTheFirstTwoWordPhraseEntree#10CouldBe(AndProbablyShouldBe)5/5ButDoesNotSeeHowTheSecondPhraseCouldBeAnythingBut4/5
I love it, GB.....I'm worn out from seeing journalist articles online with "Its" spelled incorrectly as "It's".
Delete'Twas I, not GB.
DeleteBut thanks for the observation. Along that line, I suspect that in time, along with other changes such as the demise of the full stop, "it's" will become the accepted 3rd-person neutrum possessive form. Sigh...
So sorry...I have a nasty habit of mixing up your screen names, since they both start with 'g'....sigh.....let us hope its doesn't become it's. NOt to mention, everyone erroneously saying and writing 'lay' for 'lie' in the intransitive usage. Grrrrr.....we won't even discuss the constant "ME" employed as a subject/noun!
DeleteTed, I'm certain that that myself and geo agree with your sentiments. You express the current demise of grammar good. (Examples of two of my personal Grrrr's.)
DeleteHeh heh, GB!
DeleteThe only puzzle maker i know is Mark Scott.
ReplyDeleteHi, Legolambda! I emailed you with some puzzles.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bobby. I will check my email.
DeleteLegoWhoIsConfidentThatPuzzlerian!sWillEnjoyBobby'sPuzzles
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ReplyDeleteFinally solved the Slice and Entrée #8 (I believe), but #8 doesn't really apply to a newspaper staff. Also have an alternate for Entrée #8, but not the intended answer. Job done.
ReplyDeleteLaborious Labor Day Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
The creature? Change the name's first letter.
The habitats? Change a name's second letter. Change a name's fouth letter.
Name Games Appetizer:
1. Take your socks off. You might need your toes.
2 (See hint for #1)
3. After you drop the first letter in the common female name, the first three of the remaining letters also form a nickname of the common female name.
(Note: This hint must be confirmed by geofan. I am not 100% sure that my answer is his intended answer.)
4. It's not John or Paul. (It's not Ringo either, although the pope does wear a papal ring.)
Harri the Spy but not Rht and Scarlt Slice:
The letters in the home planet of the extraterrestrial fictional character, if you remove one of the two letters that occur twice, can be rearranged to spell a creature.
Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices:
ENTREE #1:
1. The popular game animal is not-so-common but has a quite common homophone
2. Bishop, Ramone
3. Also a beer ingredient
ENTREE #2:
One of the four words is usually more associated with the moon.
ENTREE #3:
Hint for the two-word phrase that is synonymous with “things that are more likely to happen” or “more likely possibilities”: Morley... and Dicky or Mookie, if you change their double letter into a single letter
ENTREE #4:
Right Coast: Tom
Left Coast: Judith
ENTREE #5:
"Wild, Wild" creatures, as Mick and Keith would descibe them, are likelto be "barehooved."
ENTREE #6:
Did Al Capone nick himself while shaving? Did he have a nickname?
ENTREE #7:
The ten total letters in the two phrases are distributed to form phrases of 3 and 7 letters.
ENTREE #8:
"I've got a used car. How much it it worth to you?"
SeaWorld
ENTREE #9:
"Whaddya mean my room's not ready? It's four o'clock in the afternoon! We made our reservations a week ago, and just got done driving 300 miles to get here!"
It might be bad news if poultry farmers actually do find what they "don’t want to find in their coops or on their roosts!"
ENTREE #10:
Axl ____ rocks... but do we know if he _____?
ENTREE #11:
Desmond Decker and the Aces
ENTREE #12:
"Ghost" scene;
Concentrate on, and describe, the white garment.
ENTREE #13:
The ten total letters of the two-word place and of the two-word phrase are distributed as words of 6 and 4 letters. There was no doctor at the scene of the Nativity, so Joseph (or perhaps one of the visiting trio) had to administer a smack to the newborn babe's rosy cheeks!
ENTREE #14:
In the poem, the poet admits to being a fool. (More puzzler-makers, like me, ought to do likewise.)
ENTREE #15:
Comics sitting around a banquet table, jesting while their ingesting!
ENTREE #16:
The hairy part of an equine creature is somtimes (but not advisedly) used as reins.
Precious Dessert:
The name on the U.S. map sounds is south and center.
LegoWhoWondersIfQuarterbackBillyOrThespianValWereAlsoArborphiles?
Correction:
DeletePrecious Dessert:
The name on the U.S. map is situated south and center.
LegoWhoHasNoClueHowTheWord"Sounds"SnuckIntoThatHint!
You might say I just got lucky with some of these hints. I was only able to solve #7 and #11! I know the words in #10, but I think the second word is misspelled.
ReplyDeleteI've managed to solve everything now except the infamous SLICE. I just am not familiar enough with Sci Fi and characters/planets to be able to come up with a 'nickname' (and googling extensively didn't help.) So I make peace with it, and will wait to see who/what the answer is on Wed.
ReplyDeleteI have about half the entrees,but again no dessert this week. But i did remember another puzzle maker.
ReplyDeleteI still need more hints for the rest of them. It is the eleventh hour, you know.
ReplyDelete'Leventh Hour Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Goad, Larch, Class
Name Games Appetizer:
1. Take your socks off. You might need your toes.
2 (See hint for #1)
3. Judy's daughter, Kiss title
4. It's not John or Paul or Ringo... and George just ain't a papal name.
Slice:
The letters in the home planet of the extraterrestrial fictional character, if you remove one of the two letters that occur twice, can be rearranged to spell a creature with two humps or one.
Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices:
ENTREE #1:
What do you call a baby roo, and what does it do? The game animal rhymes with roo and do.
ENTREE #2:
Rhymes for the captions: Tart grapes; Perth hazes.
ENTREE #3:
Hint for the two-word phrase that is synonymous with “things that are more likely to happen” or “more likely possibilities”:
1. Former newsman Morley
2. AAB Guitarist Dicky (if you change his double letter into a single letter)
ENTREE #4:
Right Coast: Mr. Clancy
Left Coast: Ms. Riley
ENTREE #5:
Equines that perhaps need a smithy
Long river in New York State
ENTREE #6:
Reverse the syllables' order in Al's nickname to get one phrase. The first word of the other phrase is an acronym.
ENTREE #7:
The first word in each phrase is also an anagram of "TAR".
ENTREE #8:
"You'll give me that much for my used car? It's a deal!"
Sleek whiskered fishies jumping through hoops.
ENTREE #9:
You also are given the first 2-word phrase for a doctor's or dental appointment. Don't be late!
ENTREE #10:
The kind of thumb that sticks out (but not while hitchhiking); People enlist in the armed forces are "suckers and ______, according to our president!
ENTREE #11:
Desmond Decker and the Aces, sang about the Jerusalemites who wore the flowing garments.
Teetotaling facts of life
ENTREE #12:
The pictured vessel is fired in a kiln.
And, the "arsenic-and-old" white garment is not on the woman's bottom.
ENTREE #13:
A rhyme for the first phrase: HERMAN buys rolls of game tickets for the 'Bama/Clemson football game, then SCALPS them for thrice the price!
ENTREE #14:
Was the poet related to past 'Niners, Saints and Redskins QB Billy?
ENTREE #15:
Comics sitting around a banquet table, jesting while they're ingesting!
Or... a duck or slab of beef sizzling over an open fire pit.
ENTREE #16:
Bowie Berlin-fence song title + "monikers"
Precious Dessert:
The name on the U.S. map is in Texas. It is a 2-word name, like San Antonio.
LegoWhoIfHeWereADairyFarmerWouldBeUdderlyFlummoxedIfHisAutomatic"CowDrainer"WentONTheFritzNecessitatingAPokeOnAPushButton?
Current puzzles solved after all total hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
Worldplay puzzles #3 and #4
Entrees #1-3, #7-9, #11, and #12
Current puzzle hints still not understood:
The "socks and toes" hint
The "extraterrestrial character" hints(need more about the rascal and the romantic character, got the ET and his home planet)
"Right coast" and "Left coast" hints(it's TOM somewhere in there, I know)
Entree #5 hints(it's HORSES, I know)
Entree #6 hints(haven't looked up Al Capone's nickname, that's on me)
Entree #10 hints(focused more on the unhappy chess player part than the slasher film characters)
Entree #13 hints(thanks for mentioning Alabama, though)
Entree #14 hints(still need more to go on about the poet)
Entree #15 hints(we've established it has to do with ROASTS)
Entree #16 hints(I may need to look up "Bowie Berlin-fence song title")
Dessert hints(I'll need to look up places with two-word names in Texas now)
pjbLookingForFurtherClarificationWhereNeededFromLego
Twelfth Hour Hints:
DeleteAppetizer #1 and #2 (See geofan's comment below)
Harri the Spy but not Rht and Scarlt Slice:
The "romantic's" name begins with the initial 3 letters of "romantic." The "rascal" is a "Little Rascal," a buddy of Spanky and Buckwheat.
Riffing-Off-Shortz-And-Young:
Entree #4:
Clancy's "Clear and _______ ______"
Entree #5:
(it's a long southward flowing river in the Empire State, followed by a synonym of its "banks".)
Entree #6:
Ol' Al's mug was knifed up pretty good in his youth... it left some marks.
Entree #10:
The slasher film characters were portrayed by the same actress. Take her first name and a synonym of "movie parts."
Entree #13:
The two-word place on earth (in 6 and 4 letters) where you can visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Königssee, Neuschwanstein and Eibsee is synonymous with "Deutsch Mountains."
Entree #15:
The two-word phrase (in eight and seven letters that describes a pupil’s performance of Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3) consists of a a player of a particular instrument (that is associated with this particular symphony) and of a general word for a performance that begins with "R" and ends with "L".
LegoWhoApologizesThatTheseHintsAreSo"LastMinute"
Just got #14!
ReplyDeleteJust got #16!
ReplyDeleteJust got the Dessert!
ReplyDeleteI take back a piece of my prior post....I missed the fact that I really don't have the solution for Geo's #1. I had one city that I SO wanted it to be, but that doesn't work out....and the next city I tried, well, I can get a legal word, and a trendy name, but what's left doesn't seem to describe any event I can think of.
ReplyDeleteVT - Would be interested to hear of your "so-wanted-to-be" city.
DeleteI'll include it, geo, don't worry!
DeleteHowever, I just now finally worked out the Slice!
ReplyDeleteGeo hints:
ReplyDelete1. and 2. Take your socks off, because you need to count to more than 10 in each case.
1. Little League
2. It is on the license plate.
3. Think of a British queen.
4. One resigned, and one reigned for only a month..
OOH, thanks so much for that hint, because the second I saw it, I knew the answer to your #1. Hurrah.
DeleteThanks to geofan for those added hints. I do not even know the answer to geofan's #1 and #2, and I am not sure of his answer to #3. The hints I gave earlier for #1+2 and #4 are geofan's hints.
DeleteThanks again, geofan, for your help. And thanks to the rest of you Puzzlerian!s for your patience!
LegoSayHePerhapsDoledOutMorePuzzlesThanHeShouldHaveThisWeek
Cranberry the poet in 14 is from WW1. And his parents wanted a girl.
ReplyDeleteI got part of appetiser 3 and 4. Entrees1,2,3,6,7,8, 12 and 14.
ReplyDeleteJOAD, GLASS, MARCH > TOAD, GRASS, MARSH
ReplyDeleteWILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA > WILL, LIAM, SPORT (Little League World Series)
Appetizer #2 ??
(E)(LIZA)(BETH)
(BEN)(EDICT) [and that's no bull]
ALFALFA, ROMEO > ALFA ROMEO
JOSEPH YOUNG > GNU, JOEY, HOPS
HEART SHAPES > EARTH PHASES
BEST FARES > SAFER BETS
NOVELS?
HUDSON SHORES > HOUNDS & HORSES
FACE SCAR > CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy), CARS
ART GALLERY > RAT ALLERGY
TRADE-IN? MASTHEAD? HEADLINE?
CHECK-IN TIMES > CHICKEN MITES
ROSE ROLES > SORE LOSER
ISRAELITE ROBES > SOBER REALITIES
CLAY POT > LACY TOP
GERMAN ? > MANGER ?
MILK BY HAND?
ORGANIST RECITAL > ROASTING ARTICLE
HERO'S NAME > HORSE MANE
C? K? DES MOINES > DIAMONDS?
*******************************
EL PASO > OPALS
TREES, KILMER > RESET MILKER
GERMAN ALPS > MANGER SLAP
HUDSON SHORES > UNSHOD HORSES (I misread the puzzle)
(Clear and) PRESENT DANGER / (The) SERPENT GARDEN
(INTERNATIONAL) PEACE GARDEN in NORTH DAKOTA and MANITOBA, CANADA
[solved all puzzles before first (Mon) hints]
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: JOAD(East of Eden, Steinbeck); GLASS(Salinger, Uncle Wiggily in CT); MARCH(Alcott, Little Women) => TOAD, GRASS, MARSH
Worldplay appetizers
#1: WILLIAMSPORT(Pa) + L => WILL, LIAM, SPORT (Little League World Series)
#2: PEACE GARDEN => NORTH DAKOTA; INTERNATIONAL + 1 => MANITOBA, CANADA
#3: ELIZABETH – E => LIZA, BETH
#4: BENEDICT => BEN, EDICT
Harri Rht Scrlt Slice: ALFA(Alfalfa – ALF) + ROMEO(Romeo and Juliet) => ALFA ROMEO
Entrées
#1: JOSEPH YOUNG => GNU, JOEY, HOPS
#2: HEART SHAPES => EARTH PHASES
#3: BEST FARES => SAFER BETS
#4: PRESENT DANGER(Tom Clancy) => SERPENT GARDEN(Judith Riley)
#5: HUDSON SHORES => UNSHOD HORSES
#6: FACE, SCAR => CAFE(Corporate Average Fuel Economy), CARS
#7: ART GALLERY=> RAT ALLERGY
#8: TRADE-IN SALES => TRAINED SEALS. Alternate: TRADE-IN SCREW/TRAINED CREWS
#9: CHECK-IN TIMES => CHICKEN MITES
#10: ROSE ROLES => SORE LOSER
#11: ISRAELITE ROBES => SOBER REALITIES
#12: CLAY POT => LACY TOP
#13: GERMAN ALPS => MANGER SLAP. Alternate: OBERBAYERN => ORNERY BABE [beery baron]
#14: TREES, KILMER => STEER MILKER
#15: ORGANIST RECITAL => ROASTING ARTICLE
#16: HERO'S NAME => HORSE MANE
Dessert: EL PASO(Texas) => LPASO => OPALS (finally -- after I had spent much time with the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, all bordering AK)
geofan, your answer to #14 is not my intended answer... but it is far superior (and more fun!) than my intended answer!
DeleteLegoThinksThatHeShallNeverSee/ASteerThat'sMilked,ProducingPee!
And that commentary, Ladies and Gentlemen, does lend color to this story, thus validating the answer to #8. One learns something every day in Puzzleria Land.
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DeleteLego, hahaha.
DeleteI had honestly meant "steer" in terms of "to guide the milker", not as "a castrated male bovine". Honestly, only just now did I realize that your comment revealed that the intended answer was "reset milker". But then, considering present-day practice, where do the cows come from?
Of course, one must "milk" the aforesaid formerly intact male bovine first. Which then reminds me of the memorable statement (in a course on IEEE-488 protocols, to be specific) that in plundering a conquered village, one must pillage and burn, not vice versa. Otherwise one gets only ashes.
...which further reminds me that in English, there are three terms: a bull, a steer, and an ox. The German cognates are a Bulle, a Stier, and an Ochs. In English, the second two terms are synonymous. In German, the first two are synonymous.
DeleteWhich might explain the failure of some recently-arrived Germans trying to establish a WI dairy farm in the 1800s.
Here Goes:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: Joad, Glass & March; Toad, Grass & Marsh
Appetizers:
1. Williamsport (Pennsylvania); Will; Liam; Sport
2. New York; Niagara (Falls); Canada
3. Elizabeth; Liza; Beth
4. Benedict; Ben; Edict
HTSENRAS Slice: Alfa Romeo (Alfalfa minus ALF)
Entrees:
1. Josehp Young; Gnu; Joey; Hops
2. Heart Shapes; Earth Phases
3. Best Fares; Safer Bets
4. Clear and Present Danger; The Serpent Garden
5. Hudson Shores; Unshod Horses
6. Face Scar; CAFE; Cars
7. Art Gallery; Rat Allergy
8. Trade-in Sales; Trained Seals
9. Check-in Times; Chicken Mites
10. Rose Roles; Sore Loser
11. Israelite Robes; Sober Realities
12. Clay Pot; Lacy Top
13. German Alps; Manger Slap
14. Trees; Kilmer; Reset Milker
15. Organist Recital; Roasting Article
16. Hero's Name; Horse Mane
Dessert: Opals; El Paso
And make that Joseph Young. Told you I'd hold my typos til today.
DeleteGB - Niagara (Falls) does fit the constraints of #2, but it was not the intended answer (the full answers of "Ontario, Canada" or "Niagara Falls, Ontario (Canada)" would not have fit).
DeleteIt is noteworthy that the Peace Garden (now closed, owing to Covid-19) is on ND's license plate, but is virtually unknown outside ND. And can you think of another ND landmark?
Trained seals on a newspaper staff?
ReplyDeletePaul - My point exactly.
DeleteJudging from our local paper, some of them are barely housebroken.
DeleteTheir use of "it's" is appalling. Note, VT and GB.
DeleteExample:
Delete"New York says it’s list is based on a seven-day rolling average of positive tests..." [emphasis mine]
Maybe Stevie King's clown keeps a list.
DeletePaul, geofan, GB et al:
DeleteHere is what "The Bible According To Will Shortz" says.
LegoWhoSays"SoThere!"
Totally unfamiliar term, thanks for edification.
DeleteJust as the terms "titration thief" and "argentometric" may not be familiar to some readers of this blog.
Now I am familiar with "titration thief" and "argentometric," geofan, thanks to you. (I could kinda guess at what "argentometric" meant though.)
DeleteLegoWhoUntilHeWroteThisPuzzleLastWeekDidNotKnowThat"TrainedSeal"WasAlsoATermForAJournalist(EvenThoughHeWasSupposedlyOnceA"Journalist"Himself!
Geo, see the erstwhile city for your puzzle below. I completely forgot to put up my answers (apologies to Lego) ...we are surrounded by horrible smoke here from the various fires (in fact, where I used to live in southern OR IS on fire), and have been distracted by it all.
DeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteJOAD, TOAD(The Grapes of Wrath)
MARCH, MARSH(Little Women)
GLASS, GRASS(various short stories by Salinger)
Appetizer Menu
Worldplay
1. WILLIAMSPORT,(PA), WILL, LIAM, SPORT
2. PEACE GARDEN, NORTH DAKOTA
INTERNATIONAL+1=MANITOBA, CANADA
3. ELIZABETH, LIZA, BETH
4. BENEDICT, BEN, EDICT
Menu
Harri...Slice
ALFALFA, ROMEO-ALF=ALFA ROMEO
Entrees
1. JOSEPH YOUNG, GNU, JOEY, HOPS
2. HEART SHAPES, EARTH PHASES
3. BEST FARES, SAFER BETS
4. (Clear and)PRESENT DANGER,(The)SERPENT GARDEN
5. HUDSON SHORES, UNSHOD HORSES
6. FACE SCAR, CAFE, CARS
7. ART GALLERY, RAT ALLERGY
8. TRADE-IN SALES, TRAINED SEALS
9. CHECK-IN TIMES, CHICKEN MITES
10. ROSE ROLES, SORE LOSER
11. ISRAELITE ROBES, SOBER REALITIES
12. CLAY POT, LACY TOP
13. GERMAN ALPS, MANGER SLAP
14. TREES,(Joyce)KILMER, RESET MILKER
15. ORGANIST RECITAL, ROASTING ARTICLE
16. HERO'S NAME, HORSE MANE
Dessert
EL PASO=L PASO=OPALS
Can I put my socks back on now?-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Creating a creature of habitat
Take the surnames of families created by John Ernst Steinbeck, Jerome David Salinger and Louisa May Alcott.
Change one letter in each name.
The result is a creature and two of its habitats.
What are these fictional names?
What are the creature and its two habitats?
Answer:
Joad, Glass, March;
Toad, Grass, Marsh
Appetizer Menu
Name Games Appetizer:
Terrific Trif-f-fecta, plus three
Trif-f-fecta
1. Think of a small US city, best known for a specific event, that contains a double letter and has the same number of letters as the state in which it is located. Add one letter to make the double letter a triple one. Split this result into three words: (1), a type of legal document; (2), a currently “trendy” boy's name; and (3), an overarching term for the activity for which this small city is best known. What are the city and the three parts of its “expanded” name?
Answer:
WILLIAMSPORT(Pa) + L => WILL, LIAM, SPORT (Little League World Series)
Count those letters
2. Think of a landmark partially located in a U.S. state whose name has the same number of letters as the landmark's common name. The full, official name of the landmark adds one additional word that has one fewer letter than the full location of the remainder of this landmark. What are the state and landmark? Where is the rest of it located?
Answer:
PEACE GARDEN => NORTH DAKOTA; INTERNATIONAL + 1 => MANITOBA, CANADA
Female nomenclature
3. Think of a common female name. Drop the first letter. Split the remaining letters in half to obtain two nicknames for this name. What are the name and the two nicknames?
Answer:
ELIZABETH – E => LIZA, BETH
Papal schism
4. Think of a papal name. Split this name in two to obtain a possible nickname for this Pope and a policy statement issued by a Pope.
Answer:
BENEDICT => BEN, EDICT
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Harri the Spy but not Rht and Scarlt Slice:
A rascally yet romantic puzzle
Take the first names of two fictional characters, a rascal and a romantic.
From the rascal’s name remove the nickname of an extraterrestrial fictional character. Leave the romantic’s name as it is. The result is the name of a car.
What car is it?
Answer:
Alfa Romeo
Alfalfa ("The Little Rascals"); Romeo ("Romeo and Juliet"); Alf (from the planet Melmac)
(Alfalfa – Alf = Alfa)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteA “person in history” mystery
Will Shortz’s August 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota (who runs the blog Puzzleria!), reads:
Name a famous person in history with a five-letter first name and four-letter last name. The letters of the last name can be rearranged to name a popular game. And the letters in the first name can be rearranged to name an action in this game. Who is this famous person?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker who is not-at-all famous, in six and five letters. The 11 letters, if combined. can be rearranged to name three words:
1. a popular game animal,
2. a newborn critter, especially one that...
3. ____ about, after leaving the pouch.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the three words?
Hint: The popular game animal is a homophone of one of the 28 syllables (including the word in the blank) in the clues for the the three words).
Answer:
Joseph Young; Gnu, joey, hops
ENTREE #2:
Consider the two images in the illustration pictured here. Write a two-word caption for each, in five and six letters.
The letters of each word in the caption on the left can be rearranged to spell each word in the caption on the right.
What are your two captions?
Answer:
Earth phases; Heart shapes
ENTREE #3:
Name what you may be seeking, in four and five letters, when you visit websites such as Travelocity or Expedia.
Switch the order of the two words.
Rearrange the letters of each word to form a two-word phrase that is synonymous with “things that are more likely to happen” or “more likely possibilities.”
What are Travelocity or Expedia visitors seeking?
What is the synonymous two-word phrase?
Answer:
Best fares; Safer bets
ENTREE #4:
Take the last two words, in seven and six letters, in a book title by a east-coast-based espionage thriller novelist. Rearrange the letters in each word to form the last two words in a book title by a west-coast-based author of historical romance novels. What are these two book titles?
Answer: "Clear and Present Danger" by Tom Clancy; The Serpent Garden" by a Judith Merkle Riley
ENTREE #5:
Name a two-word phrase for what lies on either side of what flows southward in New York State. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for certain “barehoof” creatures.
Each word in the phrases contains six letters.
What are these two 2-word phrases?
Answer:
Hudson shores; Unshod horses
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz and Young Slices (continued):
ENTREE #6:
Name a two-word phrase for one of three things Al Capone had since he was 18 years old. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name 45-year-old MPG regulations and what those regulations pertain to.
Each word in the phrases contains four letters.
What are these four 4-letter words?
Answer:
Face scar; Cafe cars
ENTREE #7:
Name a two-word phrase for a kind of museum. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for something you might have that would preclude you from adopting a certain vermin as a pet.
Each phrase contains ten total letters.
What are these two 10-letter phrases?
Answer:
Art gallery; Rat allergy
ENTREE #8:
Name a two-word phrase for transactions that might take place at an automobile dealership. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what you might find in the Navy, at a theme park, or on a newspaper staff.
Each phrase contains twelve total letters.
What are these two 12-letter phrases?
Hint: One of the four words is hyphenated.
Answer:
Trade-in sales; Trained seals (or SEALS, in the Navy)
ENTREE #9:
Name a two-word phrase for a window at a hotel that can range from around noon to about 3pm, typically. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what poultry farmers don’t want to find in their coops on on their roosts.
Each phrase contains twelve total letters.
What are these two 12-letter phrases?
Hint: One of the four words is hyphenated.
Answer:
Check-in times; Chicken mites
ENTREE #10:
Name a two-word phrase that describes Tatum Riley, Courtney Shayne and Debbie Dinsdale.
The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for someone, say, who slams his fist on the chessboard after his opponent says “check.”
Each phrase contains a four-letter word followed by a five letter word.
What are these two 2-word phrases?
Answer:
Rose (McGowan) roles; Sore loser
ENTREE #11:
Name a two-word, 14-letter phrase for garments you would find in the wardrobe of a stage production of “The Ten Commandments.” Reverse the order of the words. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for “grim truths.”
What are these two phrases?
Answer:
Israelite robes, Sober realities
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz and Young Slices (continued continued):
ENTREE #12:
Consider the two images in the illustration pictured here. Write a caption for each, in four and three letters.
The letters of each word in the caption on the left can be rearranged to spell each word in the caption on the right.
What are your two captions?
Answer:
Clay pot; Lacy top
ENTREE #13:
Name a two-word place on earth where you can visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Königssee, Neuschwanstein and Eibsee. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for What the Magi might have heard right after the nativity of Jesus.
Each phrase contains ten letters.
What are this place and this phrase?
Answer:
German Alps; Manger slap (on the newborn babe's butt)
ENTREE #14:
Take two words: the title of a famous poem and the surname of the poet who wrote it, in five and six letters. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for what a modern dairy farmer must do if his automated apparatus attached to his cows’ udders utterly stops functioning!
What are this poem title, poet and two-word phrase?
Answer:
"Trees" (by Joyce) Kilmer; Reset milker
ENTREE #15:
Name a two-word phrase, in eight and seven letters, that describes a pupil’s performance of Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3. The letters in each word can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for a newspaper story written about 40 years ago that includes the names Foster Brooks, Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Rich Little and Redd Foxx.
What are these two phrases?
Answer:
Organist recital; roasting article
ENTREE #16:
Name a two-word phrase, in five and four letters, that describes Chesley Sullenberger, Minnie Vautrin, Raoul Wallenberg, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela. The letters in each word of this phrase can be rearranged to name a two-word phrase for a hairy part of an equine creature.
What are these two phrases?
Answer:
Hero's name; Horse mane
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Precious Dessert:
Moonstones on the map?
A word in a name on the U.S. map sounds like a letter of the alphabet. Replace the word with the letter. Rearranging the letters of this result spells types of precious gemstones. What are these gemstones and the name on the map?
Answer:
Opals; El Paso
Lego!!!!
SCHPUZZLE: JOAD => TOAD; GLASS => GRASS; MARCH => MARSH
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. WILLIAMSPORT!!!! => WILL, LIAM & SPORT [What I had wanted it to be was: PUNXSUTAWNEY, PENNSYLVANIA.....12 letters, Ground Hog Day] Until the last minute hint, I had tried NASHVILLE....getting LIEN, ASH and the useless LVL......but I hadn't realized we weren't supposed to move the letters around, until now.
2. NIAGARA (7) FALLS (5), NEW YORK (7) and CANADA (6) [Wasn't SURE this is correct answer, altho given the hint I just now saw, I believe it must be.]
3. ELIZABETH => LIZA & BETH [Pre all hints]
4. BENEDICT => BEN & EDICT [Pre all hints]
SPY SLICE: ALF from MELMAC => ALFALFA minus ALF => ALFA ROMEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ENTREES:
1. JOSEPH YOUNG => GNU, JOEY, HOPS [Pre-hint]
2. HEART SHAPES => EARTH PHASES [Pre-hint]
3. BEST FARES => SAFER BETS
4. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER [Tom Clancy] => SERPENT & GARDEN => THE SERPENT GARDEN [Judith Riley] <= [This indeed WAS my original answer, PRE-HINT.]
5. HUDSON SHORES => UNSHOD HORSES [I originally thought HUDSON would change to HOUNDS....not that THEY are unshod, well, yes they are, but....]
6. FACE SCAR => CAFE & CARS
7. ART GALLERY => RAT ALLERGY
8. TRADE-IN SALES => TRAINED SEALS [Would 'at the circus' have been too much of a dead give-away?]
9. CHECK-IN TIMES => CHICKEN MITES [Pre-hint]
10. ROSE ROLES => SORE LOSER [Pre-hint]
11. ISRAELITE ROBES => SOBER REALITIES
12. CLAY POT => LACY TOP [Pre-hint]
13. GERMAN ALPS => MANGER SLAP [Native name of region: OBERBAYERN] [Had 'GERMAN' & 'MANGER', but NEVER would have come up with 'SLAP'!]
14. TREES / KILMER => RESET MILKER [Pre-hint]
15. ORGANIST ARTISAN => ROASTING SINATRA [Pre-hint]
16. HEROS NAME => HORSE MANE [Pre-hint]
DESSERT: EL PASO => OPALS
You sliced through those anagram Entrees like a hot knife through butter, VT. Nice work.
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Heh heh, indeed, I never even THOUGHT of "recital/article" once I had turned Sinatra into Artisan...
DeleteHow did you get Joad again as a surname??
ReplyDeleteI also had dashy hearts and shady earths for #2. Can i get a partial credit?
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DeleteYou deserve FULL credit for "dashy hearts and shady earths." It's a very fine and creative alternative answer.
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Thanks. Also thanks for the earworm last week about a song from my youth=Desmond Decker and "The Israelites" I did not know it is about the plight of the poor in Jamaica- downtrodden and exploited by a corrupt few- wake up every morning slavin for bread.Still I love de reggae music mann.
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