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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Nissans or Novas vrooming past!
Two of those ten words above ought to begin with a different letter.
What words are they?
What letters should they begin with?
Put each of the two “different letters” at the beginning of each word and place these two results next to each other to form a word that persons kneeling at a rail once heard (and occasionally still do) while sticking out their tongues.
Econfusing Rebushwacky Appetizer:
Yummy Mother’s Day “Menumami”
M is for the Many things she gave us,
O means only that she’s growing Old.
T is for the Tears she shed to save us,
H is for her Heart of purest gold.
E is for kind Eyes that watch and keep us...
R is for a brain-wave-bending Rebus!
And, this time, the menu is all Mom’s.
You may recall that last November 13 Eco
elected to inaugurate his rebus-puzzle campaign with “E Plu Rebus Unum,” a slate of 26 rebus puzzles with presidents... but without precedent on Puzzleria!
Then, on Christmas Eve, Eco presented us with a bagful of 43 Holiday Repast Rebuses.
Which brings us to this week’s gustatory “Rebustatory” Mother’s Day Delights...
Enjoy!
MENU
The Alpha(betical) And The Omega Slice:
“A reading from the Book of Genevasis”*
Name two world capitals, in alphabetical order.
These anagrams form a phrase that would
make a fitting caption for a memorable scene from the Book of Genesis.
What is the caption?
* Granted, Geneva may not be the capital of Switzerland but it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices:
Singin’ the red, white and blues
Will Shortz’s May 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Evan Kalish of Bayside, New York, reads:
Change the first letter to a “B”, and phonetically you’ll get a nationality. Who’s the singer, and what’s the nationality?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker — first and last names.
Remove the first letter of the last name to form an adjective that means “resembling or characteristic of a beer that is brewed by fast fermentation with a quick-acting yeast.”
Spell the puzzle-maker’s first name backward to form an area of a building that usually reaches high “skywardly.”
Who’s the puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2
Name a famous professional basketball player — first and last name as he is generally known.
He died recently and was thus in the news. But a just fortnight later, his surname was again in the news — the collegiate basketball news.
Move the first letter of his surname to the beginning of his first name and phonetically you’ll get two words:
1. a nationality, and
2. a five-letter synonym of “patient” that appears in no dictionaries (and is not even allowed in Scrabble!).
Who’s the cager?
What are the the nationality and the verboten-in-Scrabble “word”?
ENTREE #3
Take the first names of two title characters — a female from the pen of a female and a male from the pen of a male — from novels published within a span of 20 years.
(But if you remove one syllable from the adjacent names you’ll get the demonym of a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula.)
Who are the two characters?
What is the member of fictional race?
What’s the demonym of the microstate?
ENTREE #4
Name a famous past blues singer, band leader and “harpoon” player — first and last name as this person is generally known. Divide the surname, a compound word, into two words.
Switch the initial letters of the first name and first part of the surname.
Who’s the blues singer/“harpoon” player?
What are the two pieces of sports equipment and the setting for many other sports
ENTREE #5
Change the first letter to a two-consonant blend that begins with the letter five places earlier in the alphabet.
The result, phonetically will be a nationality.
What’s the large number?
What’s the nationality?
Descibe, in one noun, a coarse, gross, pretentious and earthy person who is lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste; who is morally crude, undeveloped, or unregenerate; who is ostentatious or excessive in expenditure or display; who is lewdly or profanely indecent and who spouts offensive language.
Change its first letter (which appears in the second half of the alphabet) to a letter that rhymes with it (which appears in the first half of the alphabet) to spell a nationality.
What’s the noun?
What’s the nationality?
ENTREE #7
Take the four-syllable first name of a fictional character created by a British author.
Change this letter to a letter that is more befitting of one occupying a spot on the left end of the word, as opposed to the right end.
The result, phonetically, sounds like a three-syllable nationality.
Who’s the fictional character?
What’s the nationality?
Dessert Menu
Français Dessert:
Trente-deux hachoirs à mâcher
Invert one letter and add a letter to the end.
The result is an English word for something that helps you to chew.
What are these two words?
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Save the letter you remove in the beginning of ENTREE #1. Place it in front of the skyward-reaching building area, forming a new word. Think of a synonym of that word and make it plural to get part of the answer to one of the rebuses.
ReplyDeleteVery nice connection you make, Paul, between Entree #1 and one of Ecoarchitect's rebuses.
DeleteLegoWhoVaguelyRecallsThe1968SprotsHeadlines:TigersFaceCardinals
Just for the official record..
DeleteAt the end of last week's Comments Section, Paul posted the answer to his "Schpuzzle-of-the-Week" Riff-off puzzle.
His fine puzzle read:
Think of a two-word phrase a U.S. politician once used in defense of a stance his opponents objected to. Remove the space between those words to form a new, unrelated word. Now think of a slang, two-syllable synonym for that word. Each of these syllables sounds like a creature you might see on an African safari, and the letters in the names of these creatures can be rearranged to spell something you might take with you on a safari.
What might you take with you, what are the two creatures you might see, what is the slang word that they sound like when spoken together (in the right order), what is the synonym of that word and the two-word phrase resulting from breaking it apart, and who's the politician?
Paul, on early Friday morning, posted this answer:
For the record:
Barry Goldwater (AuH2O) claimed that "extremism in the defense of liberty is NO VICE." A NOVICE is a NEWBIE. A GNU and a BEE might be seen on safari, and a BUNGEE (cord) is a handy gadget to have along on any venture into the wild.
LegoWhoAppreciatesAll"NonLegoPenned"PuzzlesThatAppearOnThisBlog
See * below
DeleteFor those needing bedtime reading, click here for a link to a pdf of the Mother's Day Menu.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ecoarchitect.
DeleteLegoWhoBelievesThatToBeOnePrettyDarnFinePDF
Happy Friday to everyone!
ReplyDeleteIn case y'all are wondering how our team(Granna And Her Bitches, and no, I did not choose the name)fared at the trivia night last night, we won! And had it not been for two of the song snippets we had to recognize being "Cherry Bomb" by the Runaways, which I had never ever heard before, and "Mademoiselle" by STYX, which I was also unfamiliar with(but Bryan said he knew it was STYX, just not which song), we would have made a clean sweep. I got everything in the first two rounds as well as all three in the bonus round, but those two showed up in Round Three. Anyway, we won a $20 gift card from Waffle House and some kind of Freddie Mercury doll(that's for Mia Kate, because she's such a Queen fan). It was such fun, and I'm a little hoarse after all that. There was a bit of screaming involved. Later on I did check Puzzleria! and I ended up getting all the Entrees, but not as many rebuses(rebi?)as I'd hoped. Some tricky ones in there! Also, if my Dessert answer is indeed correct, there should be an E added to the end of the English word. Not trying to be former Vice President Quayle circa 1992 here, but that's just how I found my answer. The French term does not end in E, and there's no mention of that in the puzzle at all. Also, for those who may be struggling with that "inversion" in the Dessert, just know there's very few letters in the alphabet that become other letters when inverted. And as for the Schpuzzle, I am totally lost there. Any and every hint provided should surely help any and every one of us.
Not eating out tonight, we did that last night, and I had lunch a little late so I'm not even hungry yet. Mom will fix us something later. As for my regular Friday night rituals, "Ask Me Another" is a rerun, so I won't be listening, and the Private Eye Crossword is the same one from last week, so I've already solved it. Pretty much just the Prize Crossword. That's it. And now, I'm going to end this post.
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and remember to wear those masks(and make sure you get vaccinated when you can).
Keep on rockin' in the puzzle world! Cranberry out!
pjbRemindingYouDon'tForgetThisSunday,Mom'sTheWord!
Congrats on your Trivia Tourney victory. Can't say I'm surprised you won, however. (But before yiu let Mia Kate play with her new Freddie Mercury doll you should check to make sure it is mercury-free.)
DeleteThanks for correcting the Dessert. You are correct. I did not even look the French word up because I was so confident I thought I knew how to spell it. Too sure of myself... incautious and arrogant!
LegoQuayle
I was glad to see the subject of the missing "E" in the Dessert come up, as I had discovered that last night myself.
DeleteRe the Schpuzzle, I have a word that meets its 'hint' but it makes zero sense to me that the two words necessary to make that word "OUGHT" to start with different letters...it seems to me the original two words are just fine the way they are.
Here is an Early Schpuzzle hint.
DeleteLegoWhoWarns"AndPleaseDoNotLetMeSeeAnyoneUsingHis(Middle)Finger!"
That hint brings to mind: I had the occasion to cross paths with a fellow who was a PhD professor of anatomy at a medical school and also an artillery battalion commander in the National Guard. When asked how he squared the two, he gave the TV ad reply: "Parts is parts." Rarely interchangeable though, I suspect. No hint here, just a jog of the memory by Lego's post.
DeleteParts is parts...
DeleteLegoWhoNotes"ButWithMuttonBurgersRampartsIsRamparts!"
Sunday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
"or" ought to start with a "c" and "us" ought to start with a "p" (as VT is aware). Fast-backward to your past parsing days... if you had them.
Econfusing Rebushwacky Appetizer:
I will give Eco the first crack at parceling out any rebus hints he deems appropriate.
The Alpha(betical) And the Omega Slice:
The countries of the two capitals begin with the same consonant sound. One of the six images in the Genesis collage is germaine.
Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices:
ENTREE #1
The "beer that is brewed by fast fermentation with a quick-acting yeast” begins with I, P or A. The "noun for a group of people who perform tasks (like constructing puzzles) at the highest level of excellence" is an anagram of "waggers."
ENTREE #2
The past famous professional basketball player's surname is not "Gonzaga."
ENTREE #3
The novels were penned about a century ago.
"Meld" the last words in the two titles to to form a word for a classic actress with "million-dollar legs" and her kin.
ENTREE #4
The past blues singer was mentored by Muddy and toured with Band members.
ENTREE #5
I was surprised to find the "very large number" in Merriam-Webster... it's not even slang!
The nationality lives south of the Equator
ENTREE #6
The nationality is Eastern European.
ENTREE #7
The character appeared as a graphic red herring in one of last week's riff-off puzzles.
Français Dessert:
"Wow, this toast-topping tastes good!"
MillionDollarLegosMustBeInsured!
The following are the rebi I can't figure out:
ReplyDeleteAll under #2's category except #7, all of #3 except the first word, and half of #5
The name of #10's category
#13, half of #14, #16, #19, #30-#32, #34, and #43-#45
Got some real toughies there, eco! Please help a brother out!
pjbAlsoHasToAskLegoThisAboutTheSchpuzzle:YouReallyPutThatManyRedHerringsInOneSentence?!
cranberry,
DeleteYes indeed I did!
LegoPurveyorOfRedHerringsRearingHeadsQuiteUgly!
My own list of unsolved Rebi includes: #1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, the first half of 18 (I think), 19, 22, 23, 25, 29, 31, 34, 36., 37, 38, 44, 45. So I shall be greatly looking forward to reading eco's hints below, later, as I must go out and water my poor otherwise-going-to-die plants. [I'd much rather stay inside!]
DeleteI had also been stuck on Entrees 5, 6 and 7, but now have the last one, thanks to the graphics hint.
I believe I had the Slice correct from the beginning, but what to do with the Schpuzzle beyond what I already have (to which Lego referred) is beyond me!
By now, I've cut my unsolved Rebi to only 13 (i.e. cut their number in half), however, not really so much from the hints, but from just looking harder at the original clues.
DeleteHoping these clues don't make it even more difficult:
ReplyDelete1. BFA STED – Madam, you have been served!
2. kdrs – We mixed this in before.
3. Amcer
EoS – Putting the squeeze on the “o”. can you top this?
4. OO – You may long for this.
5. no rage – think of a word that can mean either liquid or incite/ set off.
6. “g” – it’s an unusual color, perhaps for a reason, and it’s certainly out of this world!
7. This may be a way of getting into shape.
8. The answer is very abbreviated.
9. I don’t think we hit the target with this one.
10. V
d
e
r
s – The V is an inverted caret, which in mathematics has certain meanings
11. R
Y
S – A pretty drippy answer.
12. Bac
Strips – Lately this has become a slice of life.
13. Σ – Though the clue may be a little Greek, the answer is about 5000 miles away.
14. Rise, Reb! – This one’s for Patrick J. and his family, perhaps at a college party.
15. Worn BS – You can hash this out.
16. B-B-B-B Agrast – For Porky Pig, not from him.
17. We don’t hear the chants as much as we used to.
18. m i
a n – Proud Mary is “Rollin’ down a river….”
19. ELP – A possible choice if you’re going (Pennsylvania) Dutch.
20. Eggs
Easy – Do you really need a clue?
21. Gsge – You CAN beat this item!
22. Lean Big– It helps to use the little gray cells.
23. À ta santé – Did Sam Malone serve this in Paris?
24. Is this a revolutionary ending?
25. try move spirit – This one’s for Lego, did I spell that right?
26. crelllll – John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy might find this a sound clue that is ultimately, well, to die for!
27. Well past 18.
28. What foe – The Best! Or at least one version of it.
29. K – What an exceptional font!
30. Por e – Am I missing something here?
31. L → E – the → is used in mathematics and logic, though this interpretation is a bit iffy]
32. Maybe Husks & Shoulders would help
33. Ha Wet! – Don’t eat on your surfboard, dude!
34. A triumph of automobile engineering – almost perfect!
35. Brraisan – A novel approach might yield TheARaisSun.
36. Lit Fur – Brittany Spears did it again?
37. Plebe bs – It really rocks!
38. Pager – Have Gibbons gone ape?
39. H
eysmacks – H(on)eysmacks
40. e
l
p
p
a – This might give you a morning lift.
41. S ts – don’t think big!
42. E C
D A
I K
S E – Every puzzle has advantages and disadvantages.
43. Ncam
Roll – A possible command from Rajesh Koothrappali?
44. C ack! Eee! – Start your morning off with this!
45. drabe – Could be a rotten problem or a rotten solution.
46. Cro = sant – Folks from New Orleans might think this was named for their city.
47. pop
s – Come up and see me some time…
48. SC
ES – As they say on “Says You!” this word has Scottish origins.
OOH, of course, now I see #1!!
DeleteCould be a rotten problem just getting to the solution. Very few roses among these thorns. Got #5, #10, and #31, but nothing more.
ReplyDeletepjbPicturingTheLateRichardSherTellingMe,"You'reFurtherThanYouKnow. "
Maybe that should've read "further off" or "further away".
ReplyDeletepjbSaysMostOfTheseHintsCouldEasilyBeAppetiteSuppressants(NoLongerHungeringForEco'sPuzzles,IfThisKeepsUp)
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Deletecranberry, I agree with you that a good many of Eco's 48 rebuses this week are challenging. But I know that he painstakingly sought to present us with a package featuring a broad range of difficulty, from "slam-dunks" to "length-of-the-court desperation heaves!" And, IMO, he was successful. The "degree-of-rebi-difficulty" in this rebus package is "barn-broad-side-wide."
DeleteIndeed Eco's rebuses remind me a tad of some other excellent puzzles we proudly feature regularly here on Puzzleria!... Cryptic Crossword Puzzles by a brilliant fellow named Patrick J. Berry. The degree-of-difficulty in Patrick's crossword clues runs the gamut — from "very challenging" to "reasonably solvable."
Variety just might be the spice of "puzzlife."
LegoWhoGivesEcoarchitectKudosForComingUpWithHintsForAllFortyEightOfHisGreatRebi(AndTocranberryKudosTooForExpressingHisViews)!
I was posting up above in the wrong place, I think....
DeleteBy now, I've gotten all Eco's rebi except for: the first word of #3 (unlike pjb, who got only its first word) and #9; #s 14 and 16; #s19 and 25; #34; and #45.
I'm glad you got almost all of them, and solved most without the hints. Sometimes studying hard is good, and it's satisfying when the little light goes off. At least for me.
DeleteI'm only missing the first word of #3, VT. I haven't "got" it. I could still use some(better)hints for the rebi(Does anyone mind if I say "rebuses" instead? It just looks better to me, not that it matters, really.)
DeletepjbDoesNotRecallTheFolksOn"SesameStreet"ReferringToMoreThanOneOfThemAs"Snuffleupagi"
Boy, I had really read that upside down and backwards, didn't I, pjb? Ooops....
DeleteRandom Tuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteThe 6-letter word in Rebus #3 is a past-tense verb. (The verb has the same "root" as the surname of a Yankee exec during the glory years.)
Schpuzzle:
Foodie hint: Parsnip
Familial hint: "When grandchildren die, a Gramma mourns."
Lego
So let's see, it looks like the rebuses that are most challenging are (with additional hints):
ReplyDelete3. those red arrows are a push, part of the first word. the 6 letter word might make you think of a chapeau for Astaire.
7. think of the letters separate from the shape.
9. Once you get the shape it should be easy, note that I use Helvetica font.
13. this is popular in some San Francisco restaurants, could also be 501+1000.
14. Patrick, think of a whole bunch of your family.
16. This is utterly unfair.
19. This is not junk food, but you might want to junk it.
25. Maybe it's not for Lego, but for Leggo?
30. there's a hidden message here, perhaps subtraction is harder than addition.
32. Is that dandruff
34. this is also tough for those who aren't car enthusiasts, Lego thought 10+10+10 was a clue, I wish I had originally phrased this as XXX, even though it IS for kids!
43. If you've watched Big Bang Theory you'll know this dogs Rajesh.
44. this is an anagram, the question is find the right keyword.
45. also an anagram, don't be yellow about the supporting word.
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DeleteGreat hints, Eco. Thanks.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatMountHorebUsuallyWasWhereMosesEncounteredTheFirebush!
YOu are so right (above), eco, about the satisfaction when the little light goes on!
DeleteI've just figured out #9 and am ashamed it took me so long, because as familiar as the shape looked, I had done a brain fog...my mother was even born there, and still it took me forever to see it. On to the others that are left....
I think I finally came up with the first word for #3, eco, although more from looking up what it's called when you have the latter four words, rather than getting it from the diagram. And because I never consume the stuff, it never came to mind.
DeleteIs there any chance that for #45, the word lengths should be 6,5, NOT 6,4?
DeleteI'll agree with your current hint for #16. BTW We've pretty much established how my surname figures into #14, now we just have to figure out the modifying adjective. Maybe I've got #32, but at this rate that's a pretty big maybe. And I will also admit I clearly don't watch "The Big Bang Theory" reruns as often as I should, or I would definitely know what "dogs Rajesh"(typo?). I'll conclude by saying the purpose of hints are to provide assistance, not to make the puzzles seem much harder than they first appear at face value. I shouldn't have to end up trying to decipher what is supposed to be helping me figure out the original problem. This isn't Blaine's Blog, these rebuses are not this week's NPR challenge, you don't have to be so opaque in your hints as to appear almost condescending(if SDB actually offered hints, I'm sure they'd be this bad). I'm surprised you haven't said anything about solving these yourself so quickly, and then you just went back to bed, crap like that. I guess I'll just have to wait until later today and reveal what I did get, but nothing else, no thanks to eco. Those rebuses I solved were good, eco, but not these impossible ones.
DeletepjbWondering"CanIGoBackToThinkingAboutAWholeBunchOfMyFamilyNow?"
BTW This week NPR challenge is unsolvable enough without being forced to have a similar experience here.
DeletepjbBelievesOnBlaine'sBlog,It'sTheFunThat'sBeenRemovedByABlogAdministrator
VT: you are right, the word length for #45 should be 6,5. The arithmetic and editorial divisions have been sacked.
DeleteCranberry: While there are no prizes to be gained (as in NPR/ Blainesville) it doesn't seem fair to others to give clues that are too obvious in advance of the reveal. I don't intend to be condescending, but (speaking, er, typing for myself) I find the possibility of satisfaction from the little light that VT mentions to outweigh the alternative frustration of not getting the answer.
It's a judgement call, but as a solver I've long learned to live with the fact that I can't come up with the answer every time, and take that as a learning experience. Perhaps that's a good lesson for life, considering how many problems there are in the world that are more consequential.
For the NPR puzzle, it definitely takes some thinking about English words - as opposed to pop culture stars, anagrams, or geographic cuteness. That made me enjoy the puzzle much more.
I almost immediately intuited what the repeating vowel would be, goes a long way towards limiting the choices. Especially as simple math determines that there can't be a lot of consonants, and commonalities of English word construction helped me determine the vowels for the opening and closing syllables.
I completely agree with you, eco, that the entire point of doing puzzles is rather removed if hints become so blatant that they give away the answer. This subject has come up before on here, and I have expressed the same feelings.
DeleteRe the NPR puzzle, I found the answer by narrowing a Google search and then methodically going down the list, till 'bingo.' It wasn't that hard.
Sorry, eco, clearly I was not implying that the hints should be "blatantly giving away the answer". Far from it. It just seemed like your hints were getting to be a chore in itself. I really didn't know where to begin, I was just getting further away from the answer with almost every one of them, and of course this week's NPR puzzle had already stymied me. I didn't know where to begin there, either. I actually prefer Lego's hints, because eventually I'll get somewhere with those. It's unfair to offer such difficult clues the day before the answers are to be revealed, so naturally I flew off the handle about that. I was just lucky to get the explanations of the "inverted caret" and the "arrow" to get SIDE ORDERS and LIFE. After that, I honestly had nothing.
DeleteBTW I still remember when I had a puzzle(not a cryptic crossword)used here early on, and VT commented that my "hint" to solve it seemed like a whole other puzzle altogether. It came to mind as I was trying in vain to decipher whatever message eco was attempting to convey in his hints. Forgive me. Sometimes these things are fun, sometimes these things really test the old mood swings. The latter seemed to rear its ugly head this week. I'm sorry.
pjbRemindingAllTheBloggersHereThatNobody'sPerfect(AndSomeMayBeMoreImperfectThanOthers)
CORPUS (as in Corpus Christi; I didn't understand the instructions; still don't, really)
ReplyDeleteBREAKFAST IN BED
DRINKS
ESPRESSO TOPPED WITH WHIPPED CREAM
OOLONG
ORANGE JUICE (?)
MIMOSA
SWISS MISS
SIDE ORDERS
SYRUP
BACON STRIPS
DIM SUM
MIXED (?) BERRIES ("mixed" is only 5 letters)
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SAUSAGE
MAIN COURSES (?)
SCRAPPLE
EGGS OVER EASY
SCRAMBLED EGGS
BELGIAN WAFFLE
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QUICHE
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CEREALS
ROLLED OATS
SPECIAL K
PORRIDGE
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CORN FLAKES
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RAISIN BRAN
FRUIT LOOPS
FRUITY PEBBLES
GRAPE-NUTS
HONEY SMACKS
APPLE JACKS*
SWEETS
UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE
CINNAMON ROLL
- BREAD
CROISSANT
POPOVERS
SCONES
MANILA PARIS > ANIMAL PAIRS
EVAN KALISH > ALISH, A-LIST, NAVE [K + NAVE > JACK*]
ELGIN BAYLOR > BELGIAN AILER
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GAZILLION > BRAZILIAN
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Schpuzzle: or & us; c & P (or possibly an & or; c & t - cantor could be heard in some services perhaps) [I do miss the nuance as to what those altered words mean in the sentence.]
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
1. Breakfast in Bed
2. Drinks
3. Espresso Coffee with Whipped Cream
4.
5. Orange Juice
6.
7.
8. Mimosa
9.
10. Side Orders
11. Syrup
12. Bacon Strips
13.
14. Sliced Berries
15. Hash Browns
16.
17. Sausage
18. Main Courses
19.
20. Eggs Over Easy
21. Scrambled Eggs
22. Belgian Waffle
23. French Toast
24. Quiche
25.
26. Cereals
27. Rolled Oats
28. Cream of Wheat
29. Special K
30. Porridge
31. Life
32. Corn Flakes
33. Shredded Wheat
34. Cars
35. Raisin Bran
36. Froot Loops
37. Fruity Pebbles
38. Grape-Nuts
39. Honey Smacks
40. Apple Jacks
41. Pastry
42. Upside-Down Cake
43. Cinnamon Roll
44. Coffee Cake
45.
46. Croissant
47. Popovers
48. Scones
[All pre-hints. Excellent, eco. Didn't get 'em all, but the gray cell exercise is in the puzzling.]
TAATO Slice: Manila & Paris; Animal Pairs (Aboard Noah's Ark)
Entrees:
1. Evan Kalish (Alish, A-List, Nave)
2. Elgin Baylor; Belgian; Ailer
3. Anne (Shirley of Green Gables) & Dorian (Gray); Andorian; Andorran
4. Paul Butterfield; Ball, Putter & Field
5. Gazillion; Brazilian (Hillion - found in the Urban Dictionary, but not M-W, can make Chilean)
6. Vulgarian; Bulgarian
7. Ebenezer (Scrooge); Lebanese
Dessert: Jambon (Ham); Jawbone [Thanks to Madame Edwards back in French 1, I could read that part of the menu in Strasbourg much later.]
I was typing when you posted, GB. Excellent job, note that I had different answers for #3, 14, 34, 36 (spelling), and 41.
DeleteI'd never heard of Cars cereal, looks disgusting.
Paul nailed almost all the rebuses, and pointed out the shortcomings of the word count for #14 - the arithmetic and editorial divisions have now been sent to the Gulag.
ReplyDeleteOther answers:
5. juice can mean fluid, a tricky cryptic ruse.
6. {Tan)g
7. (Oval)tine
15. Hash Browns
16. B(uttered) gra(in to)ast - this one was pretty evil, but I couldn't resist.
18. Main (courses) is correct, with more time I could have made the word look like it was coursing down a river.
23. French Toast
25. e.g. go - the three words are synonymous, and hence examples (exempli gratia), of go. I do not endorse frozen waffles.
28. (Cream) of Wheat
31. L(if)e - Hey Mikey! It's a cereal brand.
34. Trix - the image is a Triumph TR9. Though XXX would have been a better rebus.
45. (banana) bread - I underestimated the difficulty of this one.
I hope all enjoyed them. I must confess there were some that I couldn't figure out in the many months between when I first created them and last week. Fortunately I've learned to create an answer file.
This week I spent almost all my time on the Rebuses, which were particularly enjoyable. So the other items got short shrift.
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Schpuzzle:
Appetizer Rebuses [p-h = post-Mon- or Tue-hints]
#1: Breakfast to Mom #25:
#2: drinks #26: cereals
#3: see below #27: rolled oats
#4: oolong (tea) #28: cream of wheat
#5: orange juice #29: Special K
#6: milk? #30: porridge
#7: Ovaltine #31: Life
#8: mimosa #32: corn flakes
#9: Swiss Miss #33:
#10: hors d'oeuvres #34: Trix [p-h]
#11: syrup #35: Raisin bran
#12: bacon strips #36:
#13: dim sum #37:
#14: berries [p-h] #38: grape nuts
#15: hash browns [p-h] #39: honey smacks
#16: see below #40: Apple Jacks
#17: sausage #41: sweets
#18: main courses #42: upside-down cake
#19: scrapple [p-h] #43: cinnamon roll
#20: eggs over easy #44: coffee cake [p-h]
#21: eggs [p-h] #45: banana bread [p-h] (2. word 5 letters)
#22: #46: croissant
#23: health foods #47: popovers
#24: quiche #48: scones
#3: American coffee with whipped cream
#16: Barbara's brown betty
Slice: OR, US + C, P → CORPUS (hint)
Entrées
#1: EVAN KALISH → NAVE, ALISH, A-LIST
#2:
#3: ANNE(of Green Gables), DORIAN(Gray), ANDORIAN, ANDORRAN
#4:
#5: GAZILLION – G + BR → BRAZILIAN [p-h]
#6: VULGARIAN (not a familiar word) → BULGARIAN [p-h]
#7: EBENEZER → REBENEZE -R + L → LEBENEZE → LEBANESE [p-h]
Dessert:
SCHPUZZLE: CORPUS...I never knew what else to do with this.
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1. BREAKFAST IN BED
2. DRINKS <--------------
3. ESPRESSO TOPPED WITH WHIPPED CREAM
4. OOLONG (TEA)
5. ORANGE JUICE
6. TANG
7. OVALTINE [Love this one!]
8. MIMOSA
9. SWISS MISS
10. SIDE ORDERS <-----------------
11. SYRUP
12. BACON STRIPS
13. DIM SUM [But this one’s my favorite!]
14. Huckle? BERRIES
15. HASH BROWNS
16. (8,5,5). B-B-B-B Agrast. BUTTERED BAGEL?
17. SAUSAGE
18. MAIN ENTREES? <--------------
19. SCRAPPLE !!!! (Finally)
20. EGGS OVER EASY
21. SCRAMBLED EGGS
22. BELGIAN WAFFLE
23. FRENCH TOAST
24. QUICHE
25. EGGO
26. CEREALS <-------------
27. ROLLED OATS [This one was so cute!]
28. CREAM OF WHEAT
29. SPECIAL K
30. PORRIDGE
31. LIFE
32. CORN FLAKES
33. SHREDDED WHEAT
34. TRIX
35. RAISIN BRAN
36. FRUIT LOOPS
37. FRUITY PEBBLES
38. GRAPE NUTS
39. HONEY SMACKS
40. APPLE JACKS
41. SWEETS <--------------
42. UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE
43. CINNAMON ROLL [Love the clue, tho was unneeded]
44. COFFEE CAKE
45. BANANA BREAD (Altho it said 6,4, not 6,5)
46. CROISSANT
47. POPOVERS
48. SCONES
SLICE: PARIS => PAIRS & ROME => MORE => MORE PAIRS. [Animals loading onto the Ark]
ENTREES:
1. EVAN KALISH => ALISH => A-LIST; NAVE
2. ELGIN BAYLOR => BELGI(A)N; AYLOR / AILER
3. ANNE (of Green Gables) & DORIAN (Gray) => ANDORIAN; ANDORRIAN
4. PAUL BUTTERFIELD => BALL & PUTTER; FIELD
5. GAZILLION => BRAZILIAN
6. VULGARIAN => BULGARIAN
7. EBENEEZER => REBENEEZE => LEBANESE
DESSERT: JAMBON [Ham] => JAWBONE
Ma favorite was #43, CINNAMON ROLL. Clever!
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Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteCORPUS(Christi, during Holy Communion)
Appetizer Menu
Eco's Rebuses
1. BREAKFAST IN BED
2. DRINKS
3. ESPRESSO TOPPED WITH WHIPPED CREAM(I had everything but ESPRESSO, and eco kept providing hints for TOPPED, which I did not need.)
4. OOLONG(How did I miss this? The Guardian Crossword Blog just had it as the latest word we were all supposed to create cryptic clues for!)
5. ORANGE JUICE(I guess it's JUICE, the ORANGE part was easier.)
6. TANG
7. OVALTINE
8. MIMOSA(Michigan, Missouri, South America?)
9. SWISS MISS
10. SIDE ORDERS
11. SYRUP
12. BACON STRIPS
13. DIM SUM(?)
14. BERRIES(not my family)
15. HASH BROWNS
16. BUTTERED GRAIN TOAST(That's a bad one, even for you, eco!)
17. SAUSAGE
18. MAIN COURSES
19. SCRAPPLE
20. EGGS OVER EASY
21. SCRAMBLED EGGS
22. BELGIAN WAFFLE
23. FRENCH TOAST
24. QUICHE
25. EGGO
26. CEREALS
27. ROLLED OATS
28. CREAM OF WHEAT
29. SPECIAL K
30. PORRIDGE(?)
31. LIFE
32. CORN FLAKES
33. SHREDDED WHEAT
34. TRIX(also unfair)
35. RAISIN BRAN
36. FRUIT LOOPS
37. FRUITY PEBBLES
38. GRAPE NUTS
39. HONEY SMACKS
40. APPLE JACKS
41. SWEETS
42. UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE
43. CINNAMON ROLL
44. COFFEE CAKE
45. BANANA BREAD
46. CROISSANT
47. POPOVERS
48. SCONES
(Mom won't be having lunch, for obvious reasons.)
Menu
Alpha-Omega Slice
MANILA, PARIS, ANIMAL PAIRS(two by two in Noah's Ark)
Entrees
1. EVAN KALISH, ALISH(like ale), A-LIST, NAVE
2. ELGIN BAYLOR, BELGIAN, AILER(one who ails)
3. ANNE(of Green Gables), DORIAN(Gray), ANDORIAN, ANDORRAN
4. PAUL BUTTERFIELD, BALL, PUTTER, FIELD
5. GAZILLION, BRAZILIAN
6. VULGARIAN, BULGARIAN
7. EBENEZER(Scrooge), LEBANESE
Dessert
JAMBON(ham), JAWBONE
My best cryptic clue for OOLONG(in my opinion):
I'll be seeing you topless after your second drink?(6)
O(second letter in "your")+SO LONG-S("less" the "top" letter)-pjb
I never thought about it before, but a Swiss Miss certainly could have been disastrous for Walter Tell.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, Cranberry's solution is the most complete for the rebuses, all correct except #14 is mixed berries.
ReplyDeleteFull credit to our humble host for #'s 6, 8, 17, 24, 27, 30, 41, 43 and 47. He also came up with #7, but his graphic was too obscure for even me! #32 was a collaboration, he had embedded the NFL logo and an Alaska outline into cor(nfl)akes; I found the flaky font instead.
I heartlessly rejected his combination of S + (a picture of a young Paul) Anka. Che's image is iconic, not so much Paul's.
He also had one for Pop Tarts, weaving Andy Warhol images into PTS, but that seemed not quite right. He had some other oddballs like ycashomserole, omelett? te, and gldan=hkre that stretched the boundaries. Though in retrospect I wish I included the last one.
Eco,
DeleteBelieve me, you included "all the rebi what were fit to print!"
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 1:
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Nissans and Novas vrooming!
"An accelerating Nissan or Nova vroomed past us alarmingly. Indeed!"
Two of those ten words ought to begin with a different letter.
What words are they?
What letters should they begin with?
Hint: Take the two words that ought to begin with a different letter. Put each of the two “different letters” at the beginning of each word and put the results next to each other to form a word that persons kneeling at a rail would hear after sticking out their tongues.
Answer:
"or," which ought to begin with a "c" (as in "conjunction"); "us," which ought to begin with a "p" (as in "pronoun").
Each of the other eight words begins with the letter with which its part of speech begins:
an=article, accelerating=adjective, Nissan=noun, Nova=noun, vroomed=verb, past=preposition, alarmingly=adverb, indeed=interjection
Hint: Pre-Vatican II Catholics kneeling at the altar rail, sticking out their tongues while awaiting the reception Holy Eucharist, heard the priest say, “Corpus Domini Nostri Iesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vitam aeternam, Amen,” which in English means “May the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve your soul unto life everlasting.” (CORPUS=C+OR and P+US)
Econfusing Rebushwacky Appetizer:
Yummy Mother’s Day “Menumami”
My thanks to Ecoarchitect for compiling and providing these answers.
1. BFA STED – (Break)FAST in BED
2. kdrs – dr(in)ks
3. Amcer
EoS – ES (press) O (topped with whipped) cream
4. OO – Oo(long) [tea]
5. no rage – Orange Juice (juice meaning either liquid or incite/ set off)
6. “g” – “tan” G
7. (Oval) tine
8. MI+MO+SA
9. Swiss (Miss)
10. V
d
e
r
s – (side) (Or)ders [in mathematics the inverted ^ can mean “or”]
11. R
Y
S = SYR(up)
12. Bac
Strips – bac(on) strips
13. Σ – dim sum
14. Rise, Reb! - Mixed Berries
15. B-B-B-B Agrast – b (uttered) gra (in to) ast
16. Worn BS (Hash Browns)
17. Sa (USA) ge
18. m i
a n – Main (courses)
19. ELP – (scrap) PLE [it’s a Pennsylvania Dutch treat, pretty grim]
20. Eggs
Easy – Eggs (over) Easy
21. Gsge – (scrambled) Eggs
22. Lean Big– Belgian (waffle)
23. À ta santé – French Toast [literally “to your health”]
24. Qui+Che (Guevera)
25. try move spirit – Eggo – e.g. go [all are synonyms (or examples) of “go”]
26. crelllll – Cereals (c+re+l’s)
27. (rolled) oats
28. What foe – (cream) of Wheat
29. K – (special) K
30. Por e – Por(rid)g e = another Lego masterwork.
31. L → E L (if) E [the → is used in mathematics and logic to denote if, though that’s a bit iffy]
32. Corn Flakes
33. Ha Wet! – (shredded) Wheat
34. Trix [image is a Triumph TR9, substitute ix for 9]
35. Brraisan – Rais (in) Bran
36. Lit Fur – Fruit L (oops!)
37. Plebe bs – (fruity) Pebbles
38. Pager – Grape (nuts)
39. H
eysmacks – H(on)ey Smacks
40. e
l
p
p
a – Apple (jacks)
41. SWEETS - S(wee)ts (all credit to Lego!)
42. E C
D A
I K
S E – (up) side (down) cake
43. C ack! Eee! – C(off)ee cake
44. Ncam
roll – C (in) nam (on) roll
45. drabe – Banana (Bread)
46. Cro = sant – Croissant
47. Pop (over) s
48. SC
ES – SC(on)ES
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteThe Alpha(betical) And the Omega Slice:
“A reading from the Book of Genevasis”
Name two world capitals, in alphabetical order.
Make anagrams of each — which will also be in alphabetical order.
These anagrams form a phrase that would make a fitting caption for a memorable scene from the Book of Genesis.
What are these capitals?
What is the caption?
Answer:
Manila, Paris; Animal pairs
Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices:
Singin’ the red, white and blues
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker — first and last names.
Remove the first letter of the last name to form an adjective that means “resembling or characteristic of a beer that is brewed by fast fermentation with a quick-acting yeast.” Insert a hyphen someplace in this adjective and change the last letter to a “t” to form a noun for a group of people who perform tasks (like constructing puzzles) at the highest level of excellence (like this puzzle-maker).
Spell the puzzle-maker’s first name backward to form an area of a building that usually reaches high “skywardly.”
Who’s the puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Evan Kalish
Evan=>nave
Kalish=>A-lish=>A-list
ENTREE #2
Name a famous professional basketball player — first and last name as he is generally known. His surname was in the collegiate basketball news just a fortnight after his recent death. Move the first letter of his surname to the beginning of his first name and phonetically you’ll get two words:
1. a nationality, and
2. a five-letter synonym of “patient” that appears in no dictionaries (and is not even allowed in Scrabble!).
Who’s the cager https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cager?
What are the the nationality and the non-allowed-in-Scrabble “word”?
Answer:
Elgin Baylor
Belgian; "ailer"
ENTREE #3
Take the first names of two title characters — a female from the pen of a female and a male from the pen of a male — from novels published within a span of 20 years. Put the names side-by-side and phonetically you’ll get a member of a fictional race of humanoid extraterrestrials familiar to Trekkies. (Remove one syllable and you’ll get the demonym of a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula.)
Who are the two characters?
What is the member of fictional race?
What’s the demonym of the microstate?
Answer:
Anne (Shirley), in "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908)
Dorian (Gray), in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (1891)
Andorian
Andorran
ENTREE #4
Name a famous past blues singer, band leader and “harpoon” player — first and surname as this person is generally known. Divide the surname, a compound word, into two words.
Switch the initial letters of the first name and first part of the surname. The result, phonetically, sounds like two pieces of sports equipment that make contact with each other. The second part of the surname is the setting for many other sports.
Who’s the blues singer/“harpoon” player?
What are the two pieces of sports equipment and the setting for many other sports
Answer:
Paul Butterfield.
Ball, putter (golf), field (baseball, football, soccer, etc.)
PAUL BUTTERFIELD=>BAUL PUTTER FIELD=>BALL PUTTER FIELD
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ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices (continued):
ENTREE #5
Name a very large number — one that is perhaps larger than googol, or even googolplex! Change the first letter to a two-consonant blend that begins with the letter five places earlier in the alphabet. The result, phonetically will be a nationality.
What’s the large number?
What’s the nationality?
Answer:
Gazillion; Brazilian;
ENTREE #6
Descibe, in one noun, a coarse, gross, pretentious and earthy person who is lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste; who is morally crude, undeveloped, or unregenerate; who is ostentatious or excessive in expenditure or display; who is lewdly or profanely indecent and who uses offensive in language.
Change its first letter (which appears in the second half of the alphabet) to a letter that rhymes with it (which appears in the first half of the alphabet) to spell a nationality.
What’s the noun?
What’s the nationality?
Answer:
Vulgarian; Bulgarian
ENTREE #7
Take the four-syllable first name of a fictional character created by a British author. Move the letter that sits (appropriately) on the Right end of the name to its Left end. Change it to a letter more appropriate of occupying a spot there.
The result, phonetically, sounds like a three-syllable nationality.
Who’s the fictional character?
What’s the nationality?
Answer:
Ebenezer (Scrooge); Lebanese
Dessert Menu
Français Dessert:
Trente-deux hachoirs à mâcher
Take a French word for something you chew.
Invert one letter and add a letter to the end.
The result is an English word that helps you chew.
What are these two words?
Answer:
jambon (ham), jawbone
Lego!