Friday, January 15, 2021

An aquatic “creature of habitat” Fruity, Meaty, Yeatsy, Ducky! Subtract 3 letters, add 10 years; Flappers, flivvers, foxtrots, firewater, Fitzgerald; “I see by your outfit that you are a nemesis”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

An aquatic “creature of habitat”


Name a three-word phrase that has lately been in the news. 

Delete its first eight letters and spell the remaining letters backward to form two words:

1. a habitat of an aquatic creature, and 

2. the creature itself. 

What is this phrase?

What is the habitat of an aquatic creature? 

What is the creature?


Appetizer Menu


Puzzley Garden West Of Nod Appetizer:

Fruity, Meaty, Yeatsy, Ducky!

Poetry Class Assignment

1. 📘📚Think of a three-word, 18-letter social gathering you should avoid during this viral time. 

Drop one repeated letter. Scramble the result to get a four-word poetry class assignment requiring the parsing of one poem each by
Edgar Allan Poe, George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Paul Valéry, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Jorge Guillén. 

This assignment might be especially beneficial and even therapeutic to a person who is addicted to ribald limericks written by the likes of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Isaac Asimov and scores of anonymous authors... like the one first published in 1927 that begins "There was a young man from Nantucket..."

What is the three-word, eighteen-letter social gathering you should avoid during this viral time?

What is the four-word poetry class assignment?

Hint: All 18 letters of the social gathering can be scrambled to spell three words associated with religion:

A. The final assumption of Christians into heaven during the end-time,

B. A land west of Nod in the Book of Genesis, and

C. A service of evening worship.

Noël, Noël, Novël! 

2. 🎄📕Think of a famous fictional Christmas character in six letters. Move the fourth letter five places later in alphabet. 

Replace the fifth and sixth letters with some meat that is traditionally served at a Christmas meal, especially in Australia. 

The result will be the surname of a famous novelist.

Who are the Chrismas character and famous author?


A Fruity Phrasey Ducky Puzzle

3. 🍌🦆Think of a nine-letter fruit. Move the first letter 16 places earlier in the alphabet. Add to the end a part of a duck’s anatomy.

The result is a phrase that includes three words (the third one is hyphenated). This phrase signals a warning about a specific place – in an area of a hotel, hospital or other large building, for example.

What is the fruit?

What is the warning phrase?

Hint: If you remove the hyphen from the third word you will form the surname of a real guy first-named Patrick who made shots and a fictional guy first-and-middle-named John Ross who got shot.


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Spidey Sensory Slice:

“I see by your outfit that you are a nemesis”


At the Marvel Comics convention an attendee dressed as a nemesis of Spiderman won the competition for best outfit. 

The name of Spiderman's nemesis and the word describing the competition are anagrams of each other that begin with the same letter. 

What are they?

Hint: The name of the Spiderman nemesis is also the name of a resident of a mythical island Homer wrote about, and of an oceanographic vessel a songwriter wrote about.


Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:

Subtract 3 letters, add 10 years

Will Shortz’s January 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Shteyman, of Freeland, Maryland, reads:

Name a person in 2011 world news in eight letters. Remove the third, fourth and fifth letters. The remaining letters, in order, will name a person in 2021 world news. What names are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the surname a puzzle-maker in eight letters. 

The first, third and fifth letters spell a synonym of “pigpen.” Remove them. 

Add a hyphen to the remaining letters, to spell a word for a well-built, muscular guy. 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What are the synonym of “pigpen” and word for a well-built, muscular guy?

ENTREE #2

Take the three-word name of a person in 1841 U.S. news, in twenty letters. 

Remove all but the first three and final three letters. 

The remaining six letters, in order, will spell the surname of a person in 1913 U.S. news. 

What names are these?

ENTREE #3

Take the surname of an American novelist in eight letters. 

Remove the second and third letters. 

The remaining letters, in order, will spell the surname of a Poland-born-and-reared novelist. 

What novelists are these?

ENTREE #4

Take the surname of a U.S. president. 

Remove the first, second, third and fifth letters. 

The remaining letters, in order, will spell an adjective that does not at all describe his successor. 

What presidents are these?

What is the adjective that does not describe the successor?

ENTREE #5

Take the six-letter surname of a poet and novelist whose most famous title alludes to a wall-sitter who “fell apart” after a fall. 

Remove the second and third letters. 

The remaining letters, in order, will name creature who might perch on a wall but would not fall. It would fly safely away.

These letters also spell the surname of an acclaimed British architect.

What poet/novelist is this? What is the creature? Who is the architect.

Hint: The creature rhymes with the poet/novelist’s middle name. 

ENTREE #6

Name a major world city. 

Its third and forth letters spell a U.S. state postal code. 

The remaining letters, in order, will name the official state bird of a state that is adjacent to the state designated by that postal code. 

What world city is this?

What is the official state bird of the state adjacent to the “postal-code state?

ENTREE #7

Take the surname of an English poet. 

Remove the third letter. 

The remaining letters, in order, will spell the surname of an American poet. 

What poets are these?

ENTREE #8

Name an English statesman, first and last names. 

The first and last letters of his first name plus all but the first four letters of his surname spell the surname of the pen name of an English novelist who lived three centuries after the statesman. 

Who are these two Britons?

ENTREE #9

Take the surname of a U.S. founding father.  

Subtract 501 (in ancient Rome) from its interior to spell the name of a member of a fraternal organization of which several founding fathers – like George Washington,

Benjamin Franklin and James Monroe – were members... although this particular founding father claimed he was not a member of this fraternal organization. 

Who is this founding father? 

What is a member of the fraternal organization called?

ENTREE #10

Take the first and last names of a U.S. president. 

Remove nine consecutive letters, leaving a body part your parakeet has.

Take the first and last names of this president’s successor. 

Remove ten consecutive letters, leaving a place you might keep your parakeet.

What presidents are these?

What is your parakeet’s body part and the place you might keep your parakeet?


Dessert Menu


Jazz Age Dessert:

Flappers, flivvers, foxtrots, firewater, Fitzgerald

Spoonerize a two-word name seen on movie posters during the Roaring 20s to form what sounds like a possible headline seen in newspapers 50 years earlier.

(“Spoonerize,” in this case, means to switch the initial the initial consonant sounds in the two words of the name.)

What is this name?

What is this headline?


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46 comments:

  1. Hi, all -
    Have not even finished reading all the puzzles yet, but already have an answer to Entrée #9, which in a curious way is a repeat from not long ago. But only your Lego knows for sure.

    Bonus Presidential puzzle: Take the full (first, middle, and last) name of a U.S. President, in 6, 4, and 5 letters respectively.

    Remove six letters from the first name, four from the middle, and five from the last name, leaving nothing. Who is this President?

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    1. geofan,
      I hope my Entree #9 did not rip-off one of your puzzles... although by at this point in my puzzle-making "career" I suppose almost anything is possible.

      LegoNotesThatEvenBeforeWeRemoveSixLettersFromTheFirstNameFourFromTheMiddleAndFiveFromTheLastNameThe2016ElectionHadAlreadyLeftUsWithABigFatZero!

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  2. Great joke, geofan! A real "impeach" of a joke, one might say!
    Good Friday to all, and with this post I will actually be through with all of my usual Friday night activities for the week. Mom and I had another one of our "meals from a box" for supper, this time steak with some kind of sauce on top, red potatoes, and yellow corn. It was good. With "Ask Me Another" being a rerun, and the Private Eye Crossword being a fortnightly(two-week)event, I only had the Guardian Prize Crossword(set by Paul once again)to solve tonight. Interesting theme. It involved world capitals, as well as the capital letters of the countries, anagrammed(plus occasionally another word added, such as ONE or TWO)to get the answer. Luckily, I solved the whole thing. I can usually solve an entire puzzle by Paul, but there have been a few times when I had to wait until the following week to see the official answer and fill in what all I'd missed. Here are a couple of clues I got a kick out of, along with their answers. I'll explain the wordplay afterward.
    1D Reportedly, break up exchange(4)
    21A Tango, then go for twist(7)
    Answers: SWAP, TWIDDLE
    SWAP spelled backwards is PAWS, a homophone of PAUSE, which is a synonym of BREAK. "Reportedly" is a "sounds like" indicator. "Break up" means that, since it's a Down clue, "up" indicates PAWS must be spelled backwards, and by doing that the solver would go up as he/she fills in the letters. Two different bits of wordplay in one! Clever, huh?
    TWIDDLE is a "charade", or as I like to call it, a "rebus". The T is represented by "Tango", as in the NATO Alphabet. WIDDLE, as I just learned, is a British euphemism for "urinate". Thus, it is represented by the word "go", which...well, do I really have to explain that part? Surely we've all used "go" in this context!
    Just a couple I thought were clever(and a little amusing). Paul's work is usually like that.
    Now to this week's offerings.
    The only ones I have yet to solve are the Schpuzzle and the Poetry Class Assignment puzzle. And the Dessert did give me a bit of a chuckle when I solved it. Good one, Lego! You'll still have to provide hints for the unsolved two, though.
    As always in closing, I wish you all good luck and good solving, stay safe, and above all, keep wearing those masks! And let's all pray there'll be no further disturbances surrounding Biden's inauguration next week! Cranberry out!
    pjbAboutToTakeAShower,ButIfIHaveToWiddle,That'sMyBusinessNotYours!

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    1. pjb, you live in the (im)Peach state.

      I have spent much of the last two days perfecting a satire of the 2nd impeachment. It is titled "Impeached Again" and is structured after Loretta Lynn's 1980 hit "Pregnant Again". So unfortunately, have not gotten to look at the Puzzleria! puzzles yet. Should get to it this weekend.

      Also today I received a long email from an old friend in Arnstadt (Thüringen, Germany) on the occasion of my birthday. So have also been writing a long email to him on what has happened in the last 7 years or so. As well as the last week.

      Happy MLK day to all (his actual birthday is today)

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    2. First of all, I must kindly correct you by saying I live in Alabama, not Georgia. Second, you just reminded me that I forgot to mention that today(by now it'll be yesterday, actually)is also the birthday of my sister-in-law Renae. She is now 47(Happy B'day,Renae!). Sadly, some(maybe even most)in my state consider it Robert E. Lee's birthday rather than Dr. King's. I know my mom has actually "corrected" me in the past when I've mentioned the latter.(She also thinks Mr. Two-Times actually did some good things as President!)Looking forward to seeing the lyrics to your satire, though I must admit I'm unfamiliar with the original. I certainly would have remembered a Loretta Lynn song with the word "pregnant" in the title! I know there's also an impeachment song on YouTube that's a parody of Gilbert O'Sullivan's 1972 hit "Alone Again, Naturally", replacing "Alone" with "Impeached", of course. Haven't really listened to it yet, though. I should try to find the clip when I get off here. As for the many birthdays on Jan. 15th, I say whoever has one, have the happiest one(especially Renae, who is using our condo in Ft. Walton this weekend with my brother Bryan and my nieces)!
      pjbWhoThoughtClearlyMyQuoting"SweetHomeYou-Know-What"OnLastWeek'sBlogWouldHaveRegisteredWithEveryoneHere,But...

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    3. Happy birthday geofan. You are in great company with the Reverend King. (I share my birthday with Tony Oliva.)
      I hope to see your Impeachment Satire reach the broad audience it deserves, perhaps even go national... ("go", that is, in the non-urinary sense).
      I always appreciate and am entertained and illuminated by cranberry's Friday posts on Puzzleria! And, the one above was no exception. Those cryptic crossword clues are mike mini-labyrinths! The only thing I understood about how cranberry solved those two clues was the "go-as-euphemism part"!

      LegoWhoSaysTocranberry"YourInnatePispercacityAndInsightNeverCeaseToAmazeMe!"

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    4. pjb, my goof and sincere apologies, I was confusing you with Plantsmith, who I believe does live in Georgia. Of course I know the difference between AL and GA and have been in both. And I know that you live in Jasper, AL (which I had never heard of before Puzzleria!).

      I have been typing all day in German and some Czech, so must switch the brain (and keyboard), to be able, in colloquial English to speak to be able to. The switching of the by me frequently-used languages is an endeavor, which to the brain much exercise causes. But this shoves back maybe the onset of dementia into the future.

      Possibly with effect from this morning hope I, the solving of the puzzles to begin.
      -geofan

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    5. And now in Alabama you have senator Tommy Turinger who wants to delay the inauguration?? Ex coach of Alabama?

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    6. BTW- what do you call Ducks feet? Webbies? I think Penguins have flippers?

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    7. Is not Fort Walton close to Destin,Fl. I think we passed by there on our trip to visit cousin Floyd, last mid February right before the virus hit the fan.

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    8. His name is Tommy Tuberville, actually. He's been ex-coach of a few different football teams, but to the best of my knowledge he never coached Alabama. I'm not a fan of him as a senator, either.

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    9. He was coach of Auburn(1999-2008), Alabama's closest rival, and under him they beat Alabama in six straight victories, the longest winning streak in the rivalry since 1982(the year Auburn broke Alabama's nine-year winning streak).

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    10. And yes, Ft. Walton is close to Destin. We've eaten out in Destin many times while staying at the condo.
      pjbAdmitsMiaKate'sFavoritePlaceToEatInFloridaIsOliveGarden!

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    11. Have you been to the "Back porch." My cousin took us there and i thought it very good. Nothing wrong with OGIMHO.

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    12. The Back Porch is good. I especially like McGuire's Pub. Great burgers there. But their boxties(pronounced BOX TEASE, unsure of the spelling now that I think of it)are awesome! And of course, how could you not like Olive Garden? I love pasta!

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    13. Is McGuires on the Waterfront where all the boats go? My cousin took us to a place on the water it may have been McGuires. I hope to get back and do some fishing- as they were pretty much battened down for the winter when we were ther.

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  3. Happy BD Geofan. You should meet my cousin Floyd. Stationed in Germany- in the 60's in the Army tank Corps. Married a girl from near Frankfurt. Loves all things German- is fluent and almost retired there and still might. His younger son lives in Basel, Switzerland. He stayed with a family in Marburgh- ( I visited there once).
    I live in Canton,Ga. via Seattle where i still have a house and hope to return someday.
    There is also a Jasper, Georgia not far north from us.

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  4. Wow, lots of conversation above. Will put in my two cents' worth-- Zuerst, zu Geo: Glücklich verspätet Geburtstag!

    Und: Funny Bonus Presidential puzzle!

    I, too, have solved all the weekly puzzles set up for us by Lego, EXCEPT as usual, the Schpuzzle. Have tried and tried on it, but simply can't work anything out...despite my finding ONE creature who seems promising.

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    1. ViolinTeddy,
      In regard to the Schpuzzle:
      The first eight letters of the three-word phrase are the first eight letters in a 56-year-old family-fun game that involves broken hearts, spare ribs and funny bones!

      LegoWhoAddsThatTheCreature(WereItNotForThatDarn"R")WouldBeOneOfSixteenPiecesInAMuchOlderAnd(SomeMightSay)MoreCerebralGame

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    2. Not to give too much away, but should the habitat be pluralized?
      pjbNotWantingToMakeAn"S"OfHimself

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    3. Okie doke, Lego, your hint gave it to me, thank you so much, I had been nowhere close, trying mainly with OTTER, which had seemed to be the only thing I tried the COULD be reversed at all.

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    4. cranberry is correct. The habitat is a plural word, according to Merriam-Webster. M-W adds that "gulfs" and "oceans" are synonyms of this plural word.

      LegoWhoBelievesThatcranberryAndViolinTeddyOtterBeInductedIntoThePuzzlingHallOfFame

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  5. I could use a little dessert topping.

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    1. The two-word name seen on movie posters during the Roaring 20s is that of a silent-era actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. One might infer from a nickname he was given that he should have been included on Mount Rushmore!
      The possible headline seen in newspapers 50 years earlier was about a bloody event that happened at a place with a somewhat oxymoronic name.

      LegoBorglum

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    2. For some reason, the resultant Dessert answer sounds "eggy" to me!

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    3. VT,
      I may be no Jamie Oliver, but even I know you gotta whip up some eggs to make a custard!

      EmerilLegassoLambda

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  7. Still chewing on E6. Hope it is not a duck. Ground control to major Tom???

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    1. Entree #6:
      Name a major world city.
      Its third and forth letters spell a U.S. state postal code.
      The remaining letters, in order, will name the official state bird of a state that is adjacent to the state designated by that postal code.
      What world city is this?
      What is the official state bird of the state adjacent to the “postal-code” state?

      The major world city's country reminded Roger Miller of a pendulum.
      The two adjacent states share a border with a country as well as with one another.
      The bird makes two distinctive calls.

      LegoSittingInATinCanFarAboveTheWorld...CanYouHearMeMajorSmithCanYouHearMeMajorSmith...

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    2. Entree #6:
      Name a major world city.
      Its third and forth letters spell a U.S. state postal code.
      The remaining letters, in order, will name the official state bird of a state that is adjacent to the state designated by that postal code.
      What world city is this?
      What is the official state bird of the state adjacent to the “postal-code” state?

      The major world city's country reminded Roger Miller of a pendulum.
      The two adjacent states share a border with a country as well as with one another.
      The bird makes two distinctive calls.

      LegoSittingInATinCanFarAboveTheWorld...CanYouHearMeMajorSmithCanYouHearMeMajorSmith...

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    3. I don't know why your last post is on there twice, but I'd like to have another hint for the Poetry Class Assignment while you're at it.
      pjbWho'dLoveToRespondByParaphrasingAPeterSchillingLyric,Perhaps"AcrossTheStratosphere,AFinalMessage:GiveViolinTeddyMyLove,ThenNothingMore..."?

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    4. 'Tis a puzzle to me why my comment above appeared twice!
      The four words in the Poetry Class Assignment are 4,3, 4 and 6 letters long and begin with R, T, P and V, a verb, adjective, adjective and plural noun.

      LegoSaysThe"V-Word"IsASynonymOf"Poems"

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    5. Still can't get the social gathering, though. I think EVENT is in there, but I can't get the rest of it. Got a hint for that part, Lego?

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    6. The three-word, 18-letter social gathering you should avoid during this viral time begins with an S, S and E, in 5, 8 and 5 letters. (Some might hypenate the first two words.)

      LegoAddsThatYouSeldomSeeDistancingOrMasksAtTheGathering

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    7. Got it, and I'm done! See y'all later!

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  8. Is this also a place people might refer to fair haired young ladies as "birds?"

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    1. Perhaps, Plantsmith. LBJ, for example, refered to his wife as Ladybird. But I believe people at such events might instead unfurl a blanket onto the grounds of the event and have a picnic with lotsa sandwich bread slathered with lotsa butter, Nutella, jellies, jams, ham salad, etc.

      LegoWhoSurmisesThatThePicnickersMightThenPlaceAWagerAgainstTheBettingLineOn"TheBigGame"HeldInTampaThisYearPittingThePackersAgainstTheBills

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    2. Oxford dictionary of Word Origins says that the British slang use of bird to mean a young woman is associated with 1960s and 1970s but as you mentioned also, it dates back to Middle Ages. It also adds that the Virgin Mary could be described in those days as "the blissful bird of grace." The modern use appears to be something of a revival.
      etymology - What is the origin of BrEng ‘bird’ meaning “young ...
      english.stackexchange.com/questions/215980/what-is-the-origin-of-breng-bird-meaning-young-woman#:~:text.
      "The sweet bird of youth?"

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  9. BUSTER KEATON > CUSTER BEATEN
    W[ARREN HARD]ING / CA[LVIN COOLID]GE
    MA[DI]SON
    O[LIVE]R [CROM]WELL
    PO[P]E
    LO[ND]ON (MN)
    (Robert Penn) W[AR]REN (Christopher)
    (Teddy) [ROO]S[E]VELT (TAFT was FAT)
    S[AL]INGER
    WIL[LIAM HENRY HARRI]SON
    SHTEYMAN > STY, HE-MAN
    CALYPSO > COSPLAY
    TANGERINE + WING > DANGER IN E-WING
    GRINCH + HAM > GRISHAM
    RAPTURE, EDEN, VESPERS >
    SUPER SPREADER EVENT > READ TEN PURE VERSES
    OPERATION WARP SPEED > DEEPS, PRAWN

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  10. SCHPUZZLE: OPERATIO/N WARP SPEED => DEEPS & PRAWN

    APPETIZERS:

    1. RAPTURE, EDEN, VESPERS => SUPER SPREADER EVENT minus “P” => READ TEN PURE VERSES

    2. GRINCH => GRISHAM

    3. TANGERINE & WING => DANGER IN E-WING. [J.R. EWING]

    SLICE: CALYPSO => COSPLAY

    ENTREES:

    1. SHTEYMAN minus “STY” => HE-MAN

    2. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON => WILSON

    3. SALINGER => (Isaac) SINGER

    4. ROOSEVELT => SVELT [Ha!]

    5. [Robert Penn] WARREN => WREN

    6. LONDON => LOON [Minnesota's state bird, neighbor state to ND]

    7. [Alexander] POPE => POE

    8. OLIVER CROMWELL => ORWELL

    9. MADISON minus “DI” => MASON

    10. WARREN HARDING => WING; CALVIN COOLIDGE => CAGE

    DESSERT: BUSTER KEATON => CUSTER BEATEN. [The ‘egg-iness’ comes from BEATEN CUSTARD.]

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  11. Hi all -- didn't do so well this week. I had a lot going on this week. Sometimes there are bigger fish to fry...
    Looking forward to next week.

    Schpuzzle:

    Appetizers:
    #1:
    #2: + HAM
    #3:

    Sensory Slice: RAPTURE, VESPERS, EDEN => ???

    Entrées
    #1: SHTEYMAN – STY => HE – MAN
    #2: WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON – LIAM HENRY HARRI => WILSON
    #3: => CONRAD
    #4:
    #5:
    #6: LONDON – ND => LOON
    #7:
    #8:
    #9: MADISON – ID => MASON
    #10:

    Dessert:

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  12. 1/20/21 / Temperature. degrees AM
    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Operation warp speed, deeps, Prawn



    Borderline Befuddling Appetizer

    1. Super Spreader Event, Read ten pure verses, vespers, eden, rapture
    2. Grinch - Grisham
    3. Tangerine- Danger in E wing.

    Church Ceremonial Slice:
    Calypso--??
    Riffing Off Shortz And Flood Slices:
    ENTREE #1 Michael Shteyman-- He man, sty
    ENTREE #2 William Harrison -Wilson
    ENTREE #3 Salinger- -LI = Singer
    ENTREE #4 Roosevelt-- Svelt
    ENTREE #5 Robert- Penn Warren- Wren
    ENTREE #6 London- -ND = Loon

    ENTREE #7 Alexander Pope- Poe

    ENTREE #8 Oliver Cromwell--Orwell
    .
    ENTREE #9 Madison - mason
    Entree #10 - Warren Harding--Wing
    Calvin Coolidge- Cage
    Dessert Menu
    Buster Keaton- Kuster Beaten

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  13. Schpuzzle
    OPERATION WARP SPEED, DEEPS, PRAWN
    Appetizer Menu
    1. SUPER SPREADER EVENT, READ TEN PURE VERSES
    A. RAPTURE
    B. EDEN
    C. VESPERS
    2. GRINCH, (John)GRISHAM
    3. TANGERINE, WING, DANGER IN E-WING
    Menu
    Spidey Sensory Slice
    CALYPSO, COSPLAY
    Entrees
    1. (Michael)SHTEYMAN, STY, HE-MAN
    2. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, (Woodrow)WILSON
    3. (J.D.)SALINGER, (Isaac Bashevis)SINGER
    4. (Teddy)ROOSEVELT, SVELT(variant of SVELTE); William Howard Taft, our most overweight president, was anything but SVELT.
    5. (Robert Penn)WARREN, WREN
    6. LONDON-ND(North Dakota)=LOON
    7. (Alexander)POPE, (Edgar Allan)POE
    8. OLIVER CROMWELL, (George)ORWELL
    9. (James)MADISON-DI(501 in Roman numerals)=MASON
    10. WARREN HARDING(WING), CALVIN COOLIDGE(CAGE)
    Dessert
    BUSTER KEATON, CUSTER BEATEN
    Supposed last words of Gen. Custer: "I don't know what's with those Indians. They sure were friendly at the dance last night!"-pjb(and no, they didn't call them "Native Americans" back then)

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    An aquatic “creature of habitat”
    Name a three-word phrase that has lately been in the news.
    Delete its first eight letters and spell the remaining letters backward to form two words:
    1. a habitat of an aquatic creature, and
    2. the creature itself.
    What is this phrase?
    What is the habitat of an aquatic creature and the creature itself?
    Answer:
    Operation Warp Speed; Deeps, Prawn

    Appetizer Menu

    Puzzley Garden West Of Nod Appetizer:
    Fruity, Meaty, Yeatsy, Ducky!
    Poetry Class Assignment
    1. Think of a three-word, 18-letter social gathering you should avoid during this viral time.
    Drop one repeated letter. Scramble the result to get a four-word poetry class assignment requiring the parsing of one poem each by Edgar Allan Poe, George Moore,William Butler Yeats, Charles Baudelaire, T.S. Eliot, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Paul Valéry, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Jorge Guillén.
    This assignment might be especially beneficial and even therapeutic to a person who is addicted to ribald limericks written by the likes of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Isaac Asimov and scores of anonymous authors... like the one first published in 1927 that begins "There was a young man from Nantucket..."
    What is the three-word, 18-letter social gathering you should avoid during this viral time?
    What is the four-word poetry class assignment?
    Hint: All 18 letters of the social gathering can be scrambled to spell three words associated with religion:
    1. The final assumption of Christians into heaven during the end-time,
    2. A land west of Nod in the Book of Genesis, and
    3. A service of evening worship.
    Answer:
    Super Spreader Event; Read ten pure verses
    Hint:
    1. Rapture
    2, Eden
    3. Vespers

    Noël, Noël , Novël!
    2. Think of a famous fictional Christmas character in six letters. Move the fourth letter five places later in alphabet. Replace the fifth and sixth letters with some meat that is traditionally served at a Christmas meal, especially in Australia. The result will be the surname of a famous novelist.
    Who are the Chrismas character and famous author?
    Answer:
    (How the) Grinch (stole Christmas); John Grisham
    Grinch=>grin=>gris=>Gris+ham=>Grisham.

    A Fruity Phrasey Ducky Puzzle
    3. Think of a nine-letter fruit. Move first letter 16 places earlier in the alphabet. Add to the end a part of a duck’s anatomy.
    The result is a phrase that includes three words (the third one is hyphenated). This phrase signals a warning about a specific place – in an area of a hotel, hospital or other large building.
    What is the fruit?
    What is the warning phrase?
    Hint: If you remove the hyphen from the third word you form the surname of a real guy first-named Patrick who made shots and a fictional guy first-and-middle-named John Ross who got shot.
    Answer:
    Tangerine (Dangerine + wing)=> "Danger in E-wing!"
    Hint: Patrick Ewing made basketball shots for Georgetown University and the New York Knicks; John Ross (J.R.) Ewing was shot by who-knows-who in the TV prime-time soap opera "Dallas."

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

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    Spidey Sense Slice:
    “I can tell by your outfit that you are a nemesis”
    At the Marvel Comics convention an attendee dressed as a nemesis of Spiderman won the competition for best outfit.
    The name of Spiderman's nemesis and the word describing the competition are anagrams of each other that begin with the same letter.
    What are they?
    Hint: The name of the Spiderman nemesis is also the name of a resident of a mythical island Homer wrote about, and of an oceanographic vessel a songwriter wrote about.
    Answer:
    Calypso; Cosplay (competition)

    Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:
    Subtract 3 letters, add 10 years
    ENTREE #1
    Take the surname a puzzle-maker in eight letters. The first, third and fifth letters spell a synonym of “pigpen.” Remove them. Add a hyphen to the remaining letters, to spell a word for a well-built, muscular guy.
    Who is the puzzle-maker?
    What are the synonym of “pigpen” and word for a well-built, muscular guy?
    Answer:
    Michael Shteyman; sty, he-man
    ENTREE #2
    Take the three-word name of a person in 1841 U.S. news, in twenty letters. Remove all but the first three and final three letters. The remaining six letters, in order, will spell the surname of a person in 1913 U.S. news. What names are these?
    Answer:
    William Henry Harrison; Woodrow Wilson
    ENTREE #3
    Take the surname of an American novelist in eight letters. Remove the second and third letters. The remaining letters, in order, will spell the surname of a Poland-born-and-reared novelist. What novelists are these?
    Answer:
    J.D. Salinger; Isaac Bashevis Singer
    ENTREE #4
    Take the surname of a U.S. president. Remove the first, second, third and fifth letters. The remaining letters, in order, will spell an adjective that does not at all describe his successor.
    What presidents are these?
    What is the adjective that does not descibe one of them?
    Answer:
    Theodore Roosevelt; svelt; William Howard Taft

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  16. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices (continued):

    ENTREE #5
    Take the six-letter surname of a poet and novelist whose most famous title alludes to a wall-sitter who “fell apart” after a fall. Remove the second and third letters. The remaining letters, in order, will name creature who might PERCH on a wall but would not fall but would fly safely away.
    These letters also spell the surname of an acclaimed British architect.
    What poet/novelist is this? What is the creature? Who is the architect.
    Hint: The creature rhymes with the poet/novelist’s middle name.
    Answer:
    Robert Penn Warren, author of "All the king's Men"; Wren; Christopher Wren
    ENTREE #6
    Name a major world city. Its third and forth letters spell a U.S. state postal code. The remaining letters, in order, will name the official state bird of a state that is adjacent to the state designated by that postal code.
    What world city is this?
    What is the official state bird of the state adjacent to the “postal-code state?”
    Answer:
    London ;The common loon is the official state bird of Minnesota
    ENTREE #7
    Take the surname of an English poet. Remove the third letter. The remaining letters, in order, will spell the surname of an American poet.
    What poets are these?
    Answer:
    Alexander Pope; Edgar Allan Poe
    ENTREE #8
    Name an English statesman, first and last names. The first and last letters of his first name plus all but the first four letters of his surname spell the surname of the pen name of an English novelist who lived three centuries after the statesman.
    Who are these two Britons?
    Answer:
    Oliver Cromwell, George Orwell
    ENTREE #9
    Take the surname of a U.S. founding father. Subtract 501 (in ancient Rome) from its interior to spell the name of a member of a fraternal organization of which several founding fathers – like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Monroe – were members... although this particular founding father claimed he was NOT a member of this fraternal organization.
    Who is this founding father? What is a memner of the fraternal organization called?
    Answer:
    James Madison; Mason
    ENTREE #10
    Take the first and last names of a U.S. president. Remove nine consecutive letters, leaving a body part your parakeet has.
    Take the first and last names of this president’s successor. Remove ten consecutive letters, leaving a place you might keep your parakeet.
    What presidents are these?
    What is your parakeet’s body part and the place you might keep your parakeet?
    Answer:
    Warren Harding; Calvin Coolidge; wing, cage

    Dessert Menu

    Jazz Age Dessert:
    Flappers, flivvers, foxtrots, firewater, Fitzgerald
    Spoonerize a two-word name seen on movie posters during the Roaring 20s to form what sounds like a possible headline seen in newspapers 50 years earlier.
    (“Spoonerize,” in this case, means to switch the initial the initial consonant sounds in the two words of the name.)
    What is this name?
    What is this headline?
    Answer:
    Buster Keaton; Custer beaten

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