PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!p SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Buzzard, moonbeam, boink!
Take a polysyllabic word associated with words like “buzz,” “moo,” “meow” and “oink.”
Move its first letter to the end to spell a one-syllable synonym of “high quality.”
What two words are these?
Appetizer Menu
Mighty Village Plantsmithy Appetizer:
Name that tune, watch this space, eat raw meat
Name that tune
🎶1. Think of a 1965 hit song title that contains what sounds like the first name of a famous philosopher.
The name of the group that recorded the song contains the name of a place probably frequented by this philosopher and his followers.
The 18-year-old lead singer of the song originally used just his first and middle names as his stage name. But he eventually began using his full name – first, middle and last names.
That middle name, coincidentally, was the first name of a second famous philosopher. But that was not the reason the singer wanted to use his full name as a stage name; he did so to avoid confusion with an emerging comedic performer.
What is the hit song, and what group sang it?
What is the first name of the philosopher in the song. What is the place where this philosopher and his followers probably hung out?
What was the full name of the lead singer?
And what is the name of the other philosopher whose first name was the middle name of the singer?
Bonus Question: The emergence of what comedic performer prompted the singer to opt to use his full name (instead of just his first and middle names)?
“Watch this space for news”
Add a space. The result sounds like a beloved TV series in the mid-1960s.
Who is the official?
What is the TV series?
Raw meat for the critics
🥩3. Take a word used to describe someone who is “under the influence.”
Replace the first letter with a kind of meat to get a word for what many critics did to quarterback Carson Wentze in the wake of his press conferences during the past NFL season.
What are these two words?
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Roman-Gothic Slice:
Visigoths and Versifiers
Rearrange the combined letters of the name to form names of a Visigoth and an ancient Roman poet, and the surname of a more recent English poet.
Who is the historical person?
What are the names of the two poets and the Visigoth?
Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices:
A, E, I, nO U (and somehow Y!)
Take the phrase ZANY BOX KEPT HIM. Write it in capital letters. Something is special about the 14 letters in this sentence that sets them apart from all the other 12 letters of the
alphabet. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the name of a puzzle-maker and the city where he lives.
Who is the puzzle-maker?
What is the caption?
Hint: In the caption, the vehicle on the left is a short-bed pickup truck manufactured in the early 1960s by a South Bend-based company. The vehicle being towed (on the right) “might give you the Willys!”
ENTREE #2
Take the phrase A HANK & NAZZ FAN, alluding to a eclectic aficionado of both the country music legend Hank Williams and the psychedelic-era rock group fronted by Todd Rundgren.
Something is special about the six different letters in this phrase (ignore the ampersand) that sets them apart from the other twenty letters of the alphabet.
What is it?
ENTREE #3
It read tersely: DROP Q&A. Write that memo in capital letters.
Something is special about the six letters in this memo that sets them apart from the other twenty letters of the alphabet.
What is it?
ENTREE #4
Take the seven total letters in:
1. The name of a late-Eighteenth Century diplomatic affair that involved the United States and France and led to an undeclared war at sea,
3. The first name of a man who is brother and son of two U.S. presidents.
Write them all in capital letters. Something is special about these seven letters that sets them apart from all the other 19 letters of the alphabet. What is it?
ENTREE #5
Take the eight total letters in:
1. The first name of the person who came up with the name “Pink Floyd,”
2. a letter that “marks the spot,” and
3. a word for an “eccentric person” or “a practical joke.”
Write them all in capital letters.
Something is special about these eight letters that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet.
What is it?
ENTREE #6
Grateful Dead fans and folks in the Jam and Jelly of the Month Club are FOND OF JAMS.
Commuters in cars who experience heavy traffic to and from work are not FOND OF JAMS.
There is something special about the eight different letters in the phrase FOND OF JAMS (written in UPPERCASE for a good reason) that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet.
What is it?
ENTREE #7
In 1958, Major League Baseball began recognizing star players by giving them a Player of the Month Award. The honor was, in essence, a monthly Most Valuable Player Award.
Wade Boggs, Kirby Puckett, Prince Fielder and Mike Trout.
Write JUNE MVP’S in capital letters. Something is special about the eight letters in this term that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet. What is it?
ENTREE #8
Write in uppercase all five letters in the surname of an author who wrote poems titled “Helter Skelter,” “The Beasts’ Confession to the Priest” and “The Puppet Show.”
Something is special about the four consonants in that surname that sets them apart from 21 of the other letters of the alphabet.
Take a Somali word that begins with the only vowel in the author’s surname. Translate it into English.
The first letter in that translated-into-English word (which is a consonant), along with the four other consonants of the surname, all share that same “something special” that sets them apart from all 21 other letters of the alphabet.
Who is the author?
What is the Somali word that begins with a vowel, and what is its English translation?
What are the five consonants that share that “something special,” and what is it?
Dessert Menu
Sweetly Sorrowful Dessert:
The initial letters of a verbal parting expression spell a noun associated with a nonverbal
parting expression.
What is this verbal expression.
What is the noun associated with the nonverbal parting expression?
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First to comment.
ReplyDeleteQuickly got Entrées #1,4 (because I am geofan), and have an idea of #8.
But it seems that in #8, does Lego mean the 4th and not the 5th letter? I think of the word as more Ethiopian than Somali (but it is understandable, as there are many Somalis in MN and more Ethiopians in DC area). It is a tuff nut to crack.
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DeleteTo add insult to injury, a correction to the correction? 3rd letter, not the 4th or 5th?? Wat is wrong with me?
DeleteGeo, Lego didnt' mean the fifth PLACE letter in the author's last name...he meant the fifth (as in leftover after the four consonants) letter.
Deletegeofan and ViolinTeddy,
DeleteVT is correct that I didnt' mean the fifth PLACE letter in the author's last name...but rather the fifth (as in leftover after the four consonants) letter.
But it is worded poorly and very confusingly, so I changed the text of the paragraph to read:
Take a Somali word that begins with the only vowel in the author’s surname. Translate it into English.
LegoSaysThanksToBothOfYouEarlyBirdsWhoAreCatchingMyWormyPuzzleProse!
I seem to have had very good luck this week. I believe I have answers to everything except the resultant commonality for
ReplyDeleteEntree #5's letters....altho I am NOT confident about that Schpuzzle first word...still it is unusual (I'd neer heard it), but I wouldn't have associated it with the stated words. (Natch, I tried the obvious too-long word first...no way to turn THAT word into one syllable.)
Also, I wanted to say that I thought Plantsmith's second puzzle was VERY clever indeed...assuming I solved it correctly (catching onto 'the trick').
VT,
DeleteBy your comments I can tell you have solved the Schpuzzle of the Week.
And I agree with you about the "cleverness content" of Plantsmith's Puzzle #2. And, again, I daresay you have cracked it correcly as well.
LegoCrackingNotSoWise
The Schpuzzle word is one of those that I didn't know, but I'll bet it sounds familiar when we hear it again. And I'll bet we hear it again.
DeleteI know exactly the sort of thing you mean, GB. Why is that, that when we hear of something (be it a word, or a story, or a phrase), that suddenly that very word/whatever suddenly seems to pop up everywhere?
DeleteYes, and an excellent hint, GB...
DeleteAnd now, for something completely different, a more strained hint...
LegoWhoNotesThatTheNarcIsSuspiciousOfTheChoirboy!
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ReplyDeleteWow VT. I have not looked at anything yet, after last nights terrifying storm. I hope my neighbor in Alabama- Cranberry- survived. I think they got the brunt of it as they often do.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to hear you had to endure those frightening tornadoes, etc., Plsh! I don't know how you stand it!
DeleteWere OK, but Noewman (sp?) only 60 miles away was destroyed. Hey i thought you knew little or nothing about sports? A#3. I thought oh man VT is never going to get this.
ReplyDeleteI looked up the football player, of course, got a 'gist' of what was going on, looked at a bunch of terms for DUI, and suddenly BOOM, the two things came together, as the critics' 'word' came into focus!
DeleteGreetings from the off-and-on tornado target that is the state of Alabama!
ReplyDeleteIn case you're wondering after yesterday afternoon's return of the severe weather, we came very close to having a tornado here in Walker County, and we had our helmets on, and we were going to stay in the utility room for God knows how long, etc., and lucky for us the tornado headed for our area weakened quite a bit. Whew! I'm getting tired of this, but apparently Part III comes overnight tomorrow night going into Sunday morning! Mom's already said she will not be going to church as a result. But if she has to get me up early that day, I know the drill, and it probably won't end well. Pray for us once more.
Now to this week's offerings. First off, Lego, I just want to say that, though I know you must "riff-off" the recent Sunday Puzzle challenge, I really did not like Mr. Pegg's submission. And once I finally saw the intended answer yesterday, I knew there was no way I was going to have solved it even if I had really tried. Sometimes the challenge will be so bizarre I cannot even start to attempt looking up any possible answer, intended, alternate, or otherwise. So it should come as no surprise that I will need any sort of hint you can come up with to help me figure out why "these few letters of the alphabet are in any way different from the remaining letters". So be ready. I will say I have solved Entree #1, in which everything fell into place after I'd looked up the make of the truck on the left, and #8, despite my best efforts. Once I found the poet's name, I immediately figured out how those consonants differ from all the others, but late last night I didn't feel like going through all the Somali words beginning with T, or apparently I should've been looking up those beginning with I. At the very least I know what letter starts the English translation, but after that I'm going to need a hint there, too.
As for the rest, I've solved everything else except for the Roman-Gothic Slice, which I consider one of those "the-answer-could-be-just-about-anything" puzzles of yours, in which the main part is so random, even if I can look up the other individual parts, I still have to rearrange their letters, and I'm still not sure about their answers either, so that leaves me unsure about the whole thing altogether. Also, though I think I have the Dessert, I feel I must question the part about it being a nonverbal parting "expression". Though one could certainly "express" it, I still find it a little confusing that one would call it an "expression" after knowing the verbal "expression" is what one would normally call an "expression". Basically, I don't think a nonverbal gesture constitutes an "expression", but then I've never really read or heard one equated with the other before, so...that's really the only problem I have with it. I will say I agree with VT about PS's second puzzle being clever. I also will say I almost thought President Biden appointed someone whose name would've actually been I. Spy, but of course, then I looked up all the appointees and figured out the trick to it, so I certainly know better. BTW PS's #3 can be solved without knowing anything about sports, so, just throwing that out there. Hope my saying that doesn't give anything away.
Anyway, I've probably broken my own record for longest post on this blog already, and Picaroon's Prize Crossword still awaits, so in closing, as usual, I'll wish y'all good luck in solving, please stay safe(in all kinds of weather), and wherever you go whenever you go, please wear a mask, and Lego, I hope to contact you soon about my next cryptic crossword. Hopefully after all this tornado crap is over, I'll email you my latest, and we can try to get it ready for next week's edition(weather permitting!). Cranberry(finally)out!
pjbWillLetYouAllKnowWhenHisNextNovelComesOut
So glad you are OK Cranberry. Newnan got hammered bad and has been in the news-about 60 miles from us here in Cherokee county. I thought you were kidding about Ed Pegg, but i guess you really don't like Ed Peg Jr.
ReplyDeleteRe Ed Pegg, Jr.: Of the few puzzles he's submitted that WS has used, I've successfully solved maybe one or two. I'm actually hard pressed trying to remember any of his past efforts at the moment, but I do remember they were tougher than most. To say I hate or "don't like" him can definitely be misconstrued as a dislike of the man himself, though. Since I know nothing else about the man, I cannot really make such a loaded judgment call. I'm sure despite his puzzles being quite tricky on occasion, he must still be a fairly decent guy. If not, that's on him. My comment on Blaine's Blog was merely another example of sour grapes on my part. Just couldn't figure this one out or where to even begin, I'm certainly no expert on the Greek alphabet so it was never going to come to me that quickly to even consider it, and of course, if you've ever been on Blaine's Blog, you know they can't be of any help to anyone who has not solved it as fast as they have. So they must post the vaguest-sounding comments they can think of, and if not, someone else will immediately call TMI on them, and they'll have to remove that post. It's almost an insult to the intelligence of those of us who might like or possibly need some assistance should the challenge seem rather difficult, and we honestly don't know where to go that might provide at least a starting point, if not the most obvious route to the intended answer. If they tick me off over there from time to time, maybe I'm still fairly new to the blog. Maybe I have a short fuse some Sundays when presented with a particularly difficult challenge. Maybe that's the whole "challenge" part of it. Really, in the grand scheme of things, I may never get to play on-air with WS ever again. But as long as there's a chance, I'm up for it. Nothing much else to do on a Sunday, when you think about it. And Blaine and Co. are pretty much the only game in town as far as even discussing the Sunday Puzzle. A "necessary evil", one might say. I may get angry at certain people there, or those who may submit puzzle ideas that seem well-nigh impossible at first glance, but I don't "hate" anybody
DeleteSorry, it published before I really got finished right then. I don't "hate" anybody. I also don't expect to solve the puzzle right away, either. If it literally takes me until Thursday to solve, so be it. But just remember this: I may not like the puzzle, but it's nothing personal against the puzzlemaker. I'm generally a nice guy, but if I'm going to play, I'd like to play to win. If anything, Blaine and Co. just make it difficult to be friends with them sometimes. Thank goodness Legolambda and I get along well.
DeletepjbSometimesStandsForPerturbed?JustBarely!
my clue that was more of a fish was -You mean it has nothing to do with the Greek alphabet? I was not sure and when i got home my clue was gone and Enya word fan had a urgent messageto me. So then i knew i probably had it. But i agree most of the cluers are not much help and some like SDB seem to take a special pleasure and not helping.
DeleteThe only non -verbal goodbye i know is the one my wife uses with her sister who is deaf. It is a sign language sign for i love you with -thumb, pointer and pinky.
ReplyDeletePlantsmith,
DeleteI have seen that sign.
Thus, "a noun associated with (that) nonverbal parting expression" might be "pinkie" or "thumb."
Lego(Signing)"ILoveYourPuzzlesPlantsmith"
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DeleteI can think of some nonverbal fare[not-so-]well gestures, but they involve a different finger.
DeleteWhat brought that on, geofan?
DeletepjbKeepsLookingOutForNo.1,ButHopesIt'sAnAcceptableOne!
Oh yeah the Shaga sign in Hawaii means "hangloose Brah". Thumb and pinky waved -or rotated from the wrist back and forth
DeleteTornado watch for Walker County until 6:00AM, flood warning until 5:55AM. Sure hope I'll be able to get back to you guys later today. Pray for us yet again!
ReplyDeletepjbSaysSoFarWe'veDodgedAFewBullets,ButHeJustWishesThey'dStopFiringTheGun!
We made it through this morning! The National Weather Service downgraded it from a tornado watch to a severe thunderstorm watch! Guess it wasn't as bad as they'd originally thought!
ReplyDeletepjbSaysWhenIt'sTimeToRevealThisWeek'sAnswers,It'llBeAnotherDayOfBadWeather(NoDetailsAsOfYet,Though!)
Glad you are okay, cranberry. Continued prayers fou you and all in tornadoes' paths.
ReplyDeleteEarly Monday Hints:
Schpuzzle:
Take a polysyllabic word is NOT "narcissistic."
Mighty Village Plantsmithy Appetizer:
1. The name of the group: Christopher Reeve played Superman... did he ever play a gaucho?
2. The official is a cabinet appointee with a state capital for a surname.
3. Pummel! Pound! Thrash!
Roman-Gothic Slice:
Let's face it, there is really only one Visigoth of any note...
One poet did not believe he was an island, the other is one letter shy of a pandemic.
Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices:
ENTREE #1
The image could have instead depicted the Studebaker and Willys competing in a quarter-mile race.
ENTREE #2
You could rearrange the components of each letter to form a Greek Delta
ENTREE #3
Six topological donuts.
ENTREE #4
Were it not for the nicknames Pelican, Beehive and Peach, I would have had to up the total to 10, and add: 4. "Drag, Pull, Tug"
ENTREE #5
The first name of the person who came up with the name “Pink Floyd was one of its founding members.”
The a word for an eccentric person or a practical joke begins with a Q.
Were it not for Ike, Abe, Marty and Barrack, I would have had to up the total to 12, and add: 4. "What makes the world go 'round"
ENTREE #6
Even if we "Marched" directly into July by somehow bypassing three "good baby names for girls," the wording of this puzzle would not need to change a whit!
ENTREE #7
Had I bought into the "Dwarf Planet hysteria" this puzzle would have instead had to have been about a June issue of "The American Philatelist."
ENTREE #8
Were we to rename "Wednesday" as "Humpday" and "Friday" as "Ichthyoday," I could have simply given some kind of clue for Adam SMITH!
Sweetly Sorrowful Dessert:
Wave
LegoNotesThatOnAnIcyBlusterDayInNovemberWhenTheCenterCannotHoldThePigskinSufficientlySecurelyToSnapItAccuratelyThatIsWhenThingsFallApartForTheFieldGoalKickingTeam!
AH, I finally figured out the last half of Entree #5, given its hint above, although I must admit, I still can't understand how #4's hint applies, even though I do have that one's answer. Will have to do some more thinking on that!
DeleteFigured out #6 and #7. Lego, did you just give away the nonverbal parting expression?
ReplyDeletepjbCanPrettyMuchKissThatAnswerGoodbye
cranberry,
DeleteI don't believe so, but I could be wrong. I am curious to see your answer for the Dessert.
LegoWhoseCluesApparentlyJustAin'tSufficientlyCryptic
My reaction exactly on that parting shot deal, pjb.
DeleteMy answer would have been "wave", oddly enough, if a gesture could be an expression. If I need some additional information about the intended answer, and "wave" is merely the hint, I'm clearly stumped!
DeletepjbCaughtAWave,ButHe'sNotSittingOnTopOfTheWorld
Taking the verbal element of this one as being the operative part, there could be a number of nonverbal solutions I expect, pjb. I'm sticking with what first came to mind.
DeleteBTW The famous person in history in the Roman-Gothic Slice and I share a birthday!
ReplyDeletepjbJustHadToSmileUponRealizingThis!
Believe it or not, I had [pre-hint] an alternate for Appetizer #2. A different Cabinet official, and part of his last name sounds like a state capital. The "beloved series" in the alternate was a TV movie.
ReplyDeleteVery cool. Looking forward to it.
DeleteThen again perhaps the alternate is the "real" answer.
DeleteThe 4-letter word in Entrée #5 is familiar to me only with a third meaning. I had never heard it used with either meaning stated in the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteAccording to my source, the definitions of "an eccentric person" and "a practical joke" are both obsolete.
DeletepjbBelievesLegolambdaIsTestingUs(InMoreWaysThanOne)
Yeah, I thought initially that it was rather odd that Lego didn't TELL us that the word was obsolete as a syn for both those phrases.
DeleteI'm surprised he didn't say it would be a high-scoring word in Scrabble(hope that's not TMI for anyone else!).
DeletepjbIsLookingForAPlayerWithAGreatRack
CHOICE > ECHOIC
ReplyDeleteWALK AWAY RENEE, THE LEFT BANKE, RENE DESCARTES, THE LEFT BANK (PARIS), STEVE MARTIN CARO, MARTIN HEIDEGGER, STEVE MARTIN
LLOYD AUSTIN + _ > LOST IN SPACE
WASTED > LAMBASTED
RODERIC + OVID + DONNE < ??? // LEONARDO DA VINCI > ALARIC + OVID + DONNE
ED PEGG JR CHAMPAIGN > CHAMP DRAGGING JEEP
Schpuzle: Echoic & Choice
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
1. Walk Away Renee & The Left Banke; Rene (Descartes) & The Left Bank (in Paris); Steve Martin Caro; Martin Heidegger; Bonus: Steve Martin
2. Lloyd Austin; L + Austin + Space = Lost In Space
3. Wasted & Lambasted
R-G Slice: Leonardo da Vinci; Ovid, Donne & Alaric
Entrees:
1. Ed Pegg, Jr.; Champ Dragging Jeep
2. AHNKZF - Original thought was that ehey all consist of three straight lines. That is supported by the Greek Delta hint, but, is countered by Y. So, stumped on this one.
3. DROPQA - a clean miss
4. XYZ + Q + JEB = But No Further
5. SYD + X + QUIZ = Ditto
6. FONDJAMS = Initial letters of months of the year
7. JUNEMVPS = Initial letters of planets and demoted planet of the solar system
8. SWIFT; ii & Me; SWMFT = Initial letters of the days of the week
Dessert - Have A Nice Day; HAND (Hand Wave; Hand Shake [no longer in vogue]) If this is incorrect, it shouldn't be.
Schpuzzle: ECHOIC → CHOICE
ReplyDeleteGarden of Puzzley Delights Appetizers:
#1: PETER NOONE (Herman's Hermits) , HERMAN(n) (Hesse) → ???
#2: A(ntony) BLINKEN (US Sec of State) → ABE LINCOLN (… in Illinois, 1964 TV movie)
[post-Mon-hint]: LLOYD AUSTIN → LAUSTIN → LOST IN [Space]
#3: WASTED – W + LAMB → LAMBASTED
Roman-Gothic Slice: ALARIC, OVID, DONNE → LEONARDO DA VINCI [post-Mon-hint]
Entrées
#1: ED PEGG JR, CHAMPAIGN → CHAMP DRAGGING JEEP
#2: AFHKNZ: All letters are formed with three straight lines, of which at least one is full-length [to exclude Y].
#3: ADOPQR: Each capital letter has exactly one enclosed space [note: B has two]
#4: JEB, Q, XYZ → no USA state begins with these letters.
#5: SYD(Barrett), X, QUIZ → DIQSUXYZ → no US president's last name starts with these letters [post-Mon-hint].
#6: JFMASOND: First letters of calendar months (at least one each).
#7: MVE[M]JSUNP: First letters of names of planets [Pluto included]
#8: (Jonathan)SWIFT → SWFT + INJERA(Amharic/Ethiopian, not Somali) → MAIZE(bread) [true injera is made with teff grain] → SMTWF → First letters of days of the week (S and T repeat).
Parting Dessert: HAVE A NICE DAY → HAND(wave)
Great alternates. Herman's Hermits.
Delete3/31/21 65 / torrential rain
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle ???
Appetizers:
1. Walk Away Renee & The Left Banke; Rene (Descartes) & The Left Bank (in Paris); Steve Martin Caro; Martin Heidegger; Bonus: Steve Martin
2. Lloyd Austin; L + Austin + Space = Lost In Space
3. Wasted & Lambasted
Slice Donne & Alaric ??
Entrees:
1. Ed Pegg, Jr.; Champ Dragging Jeep- My GPA had a Studebaker Hawk which was original Batmobile??
2. AHNKZF - three straight lines to configure
3. DROPQA - Math terms, Quotient, remainder, numerator, operator, Algebra, positive interger
4. XYZ + Q + JEB = State nick names, Peach -Pelican etc.
5. SYD + X + ????
6. FONDJAMS = Initial letters of months of the year
7. JUNEMVPS = Initial letters of planets.
8. SWIFT; SWMFT = Mahadsamid - thankyou ,Initial letters of the days of the week
Dessert - Hang loose- Shaka sign --Han--D.
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteECHOIC, CHOICE
Appetizer Menu
1. STEVE MARTIN CARO(not to be confused with STEVE MARTIN), THE LEFT BANKE(not to be confused with the Left Bank in Paris), "WALK AWAY RENEE"(not to be confused with Rene Descartes), and I assumed the philosopher named Martin was MARTIN LUTHER, as I've never heard of MARTIN HEIDEGGER.
2. LLOYD AUSTIN, LOST IN SPACE
3. WASTED, LAMBASTED
Menu
Roman-Gothic Slice
ALARIC, OVID, (John)DONNE=LEONARDO DaVINCI(also born on Apr. 15)
Entrees
1. ED PEGG, JR., CHAMPAIGN(IL), CHAMP DRAGGING JEEP
2. HANKZF(all formed using three straight lines)
3. DROPQA(all capital letters having one enclosed space)
4. XYZ+Q+JEB(no states' names begin with these letters)
5. SYD+X+QUIZ(no surnames of U.S. Presidents begin with these letters)
6. FONDJAMS(initials of all the months)
7. JUNEMVPS(initials of all the planets)
8. SWIFT(change the I to M, and you get all the initials of the days of the week)
Dessert
HAVE A NICE DAY, HAND, WAVE(I swear I thought that was the answer)
May y'all have as much sunshine wherever you are as Jasper shall have for the next few days, going into Easter(thank God!).-pjb
SCHPUZZLE: ECHOIC => CHOICE
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1, STEVE MARTIN CARO; “WALK AWAY RENEE”; THE LEFT BANKE [THE LEFT BANK OF THE SEINE IN PARIS]; MARTIN HEIDEGGER; COMEDIAN STEVE MARTIN, of course!
2. LLOYD AUSTIN => LAUSTIN & ‘space’ => LOST IN SPACE
3. WASTED => LAMBASTED
SLICE: LEONARDO DA VINCI => ALARIC, OVID, DONNE
ENTREES:
1. ED PEGG JR, CHAMPAIGN => CHAMP DRAGGING JEEP
2. HANK NAZZ FAN => H A N K Z F => They are all formed with just THREE STROKES, and no curves. [But so is “I”]
3. DROP Q A => They each have ONE enclosed area.
4. XYZ Q JEB => No USA states begin with any of these letters.
5. SYD X QUIZ => DIQSUXYZ => No PRESIDENTS’ LAST NAMES begin with any of these letters.
6. FOND OF JAMS => ADFJMNOS => These letters begin MONTHS of the year.
7. JUNE MVPS => EJMNPSUV => These letters begin the nine PLANETS’ names.
8. [Jonathan] SWIFT => SWFT => DAYS of the week; INTA => MUCH [M for MONDAY]
DESSERT: HAVE A NICE DAY => HAND [shake]
Sorry to be so late; I was sound asleep, as is sadly, so often the case.
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Buzzard, moonbeam, boink!
Take a polysyllabic word associated with words like “buzz,” “moo,” “meow” and “oink.”
Move its first letter to the end to spell a one-syllable synonym of “high quality.”
What two words are these?
Answer:
Echoic; Choice
Appetizer Menu
Mighty Village Plantsmithy Appetizer:
Name that tune, watch this space, eat raw meat
Name that tune.
1. Think of a 1965 hit song title that contains what sounds like the first name of a famous philosopher.
The name of the group that recorded the song contains the name of a place probably frequented by this philosopher and his followers.
The 18-year-old lead singer in the group originally used just his first and middle name as his stage name. But eventually he began using his full name – first, middle and last names.
That middle name, coincidentally, was the first name of a second famous philosopher. But that was not the reason the singer wanted to use his full name as a stage name; he did so to avoid confusion with an emerging comedic performer.
What is the hit song, and what group sang it?
What is the first name of the philosopher in the song. What is the place this philosopher and his followers probably hung out?
What was the full name of the lead singer?
And what is the name of the other philosopher whose first name was the middle name of the singer?
Bonus Question: Why did the singer eventualy opt to use his full name (instead of just his first and middle names)?
Answer:
“Walk Away Renée” by The Left Banke.
Philosopher René Descartes; The Left Bank of the Seine River in Paris (Rive Gauche);
Steve Martin Caro.
Martin Heidegger.
Caro began using his full name to avoid identity confusion with a upcoming comic named Steve Martin.
“Watch this space for news”
2.. Name a newly appointed official in the 2021 news. Place the official’s first-name initial in front of the last name.
Add a space. The result sounds like a beloved TV series in the mid-1960s.
Who is the official?
What is the TV series?
Answer:
Lloyd Austin; "Lost in Space"
Lloyd Austin=>LAustin+space=>which sounds like: “Lost in space.”
Raw meat for the critics
3. Take a word used to describe someone who is “under the influence.”
Replace the first letter with a kind of meat to get a word for what many critics did to Carson Wentze in the wake of his press conferences during the past NFL season.
What are these two words?
Hint:The last two-thirds of the word for what many critics did to Carson Wentze form a word for what a chef might have done during the cooking process to moisten the “kind of meat” (with melted butter, fat, or pan drippings, for example) to prevent drying and add flavor.
Answer:
Wasted, Lambasted
Wasted=>Lamb+asted=>Lambasted.
Hint: The chef may have "basted" the lamb.
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Visigoths and Versifiers
Take the full name of a well-known historical person. Rearrange the letters to form names of a Visigoth and an ancient Roman poet, and the surname of a more recent English poet. Who is the historical person?
Answer:
Leonardo da Vinci;
Alaric, Ovid, (John) Donne
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As i know you are partial to lamb i have endeavored to make a couple of lamb based (basted) offerings. My MIL was also partial to lamb and fixed a leg of lamb every Easter with the required mint jelly. I just never really got into lamb.
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A, E, I, nO U (and somehow Y!)
ENTREE #1
Take the name of a puzzle-maker and the city where he lives. Rearrange these combined 17 letters to spell a three-word caption for the image pictured here.
Who is the puzzle-maker?
What is the caption?
Hint: In the caption, the vehicle on the left is a short-bed pickup truck manufactured in the early 1960s by a South Bend-based company. The vehicle being towed (on the right) “might give you the Willys!”
Answer:
Ed Pegg Jr., Champaign, (Illinois); "Champ dragging Jeep"
ENTREE #2
Take the phrase A NAZZ & HANK FAN, alluding to a eclectic aficionado of country legend Hank Williams and the psychedelic-era rock group fronted by Todd Rundgren. Write it in capital letters. Something is special about the six different letters in this phrase (ignore the ampersand) that sets them apart from the other twenty letters of the alphabet. What is it?
Answer:
A, F, H, K, N and Z each consist of exactly three straight lines.
ENTREE #3
A politician in hot water texted a memo to his press secretary regarding an upcoming press conference at which he hoped to avoid embarrassing questions. It read tersely: DROP Q&A.
Write that memo in capital letters. Something is special about the six letters in this memo that sets them apart from the other twenty letters of the alphabet. What is it?
Answer:
A, D, O, P, Q and R each contain exactly one completely enclosed space.
ENTREE #4
Take the seven total letters in:
1. The name of a late-Eighteenth Century diplomatic affair that involved the United States and France and led to an undeclared war at sea,
2. an anonymous conspiracy theory, and
3. The first name of a brother and son of two U.S. presidents.
Write them all in capital letters. Something is special about these seven letters that sets them apart from all the other 19 letters of the alphabet. What is it?
Answer:
The letters (XYZ, Q, and JEB) are the only letters that do not begin the name of any U.S. state.
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ENTREE #5
Take the eight total letters in:
1. The first name of the person who came up with the name “Pink Floyd,”
2. a letter that “marks the spot,” and
3. a word for an eccentric person or a practical joke.
Write them all in capital letters. Something is special about these eight letters that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet. What is it?
Answer:
The letters (SYD, X, and QUIZ) are the only letters that do not begin the surname of any U.S. president.
ENTREE #6
Grateful Dead fans and folks in the Jam and Jelly of the Month Club are FOND OF JAMS. Commuters in cars who experience heavy traffic to and from work are not FOND OF JAMS.
There is something special about the eight different letters in the phrase FOND OF JAMS (written in UPPERCASE for a good reason) that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet. What is it?
Answer:
The letters F, O, N, D, J, A, M and S are the only letters that begin the names of the twelve months.
ENTREE #7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Player_of_the_Month_Award
In 1958, Major League Baseball began recognizing star players by giving them a Player of the Month Award. The honor was, in essence, a Most Valuable Player Award. Some of the JUNE MVP’S over the years have been Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron, Buzz Capra, Gaylord Perry, Mark Fidrych, Kent Hrbek, Wade Boggs, Kirby Puckett, Prince Fielder and Mike Trout.
Write JUNE MVP’S in capital letters. Something is special about the eight letters in this term that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet. What is it?
Answer:
The letters J, U, N, E, M, V, P and S are the only letters that begin the names of the nine planets in our solar system (Including Pluto!)..
ENTREE #8
Write in uppercase all five letters in the surname of an author who wrote poems titled “Helter Skelter,” “The Beasts’ Confession to the Priest” and “The Puppet Show.” Something is special about the four consonants in that surname that sets them apart from 21 of the other letters of the alphabet. That “something special” involves a number of words (with something in common) that begin with those four letters. Take a Somali word that begins with the fifth letter in the author’s surname, a vowel. Translate it into English. The first letter in that translated-into- English word (which is a consonant), along with the four consonants of the surname, share something special that sets them apart from all 21 other letters of the alphabet.
Who is the author?
What is the Somali word that begins with a vowel, and what is its English translation?
What are the five consonants that share something special, and what is it?
Write in uppercase all five letters F, M, S, T and W. Something is special about those five letters that sets them apart from all the other 21 letters of the alphabet. What is it?
Answer:
(Jonathan) Swift;
"Isniinta," which means "Monday" in the Somali language
The letters S, W, M, F and T are the only letters in the alphabet that begin the names of the seven days of the week.
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Sweetly Sorrowful Dessert:
Expressions verbal and non-verbal
The initial letters of a verbal parting expression spell a noun associated with a nonverbal parting expression.
What are this verbal expression and noun?
Answer:
Have A Nice Day; HAND; (A wave of one's HAND is a nonverbal parting expression.)
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