Friday, March 4, 2022

“Botany, Chemistry, and a Dynasty with Energy;” Rocky “Maine”tain High, Colorado; Actors and animals; “Hey! Knock off all the noise!” “We come from the land of the ice and snow”

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Hey! Knock off all the noise!”


Anagram a four-syllable word associated with loud noises to get a three-syllable word associated with loud noises. 

What are these two words?

Appetizer Menu

Bobby Jacobs Puzzle Fun  Appetizer:

“Botany, Chemistry, and a Dynasty with Energy”

1. 🌹Take the name of a chemical element. 

Remove the fourth letter to get the name of a flower. 

What is the element?

What is the flower?

2. 🚗Take the name of a dynasty. 

Remove the second and third letters. Replace the antepenultmate letter with a V. 

You will get a two-word type of transportation.

What is this dynasty?

What is this type of transportation?

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Anti-tank Slice:

“We come from the land of the ice and snow

Take an adjective that describes weather in lands where heating oil tanks are commonplace. 

Change the order of the syllables and place the word “to” between them to form a three-word antonym of “tank.” 

What is this adjective?

What is the three-word antonym of “tank?”

Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices:

Actors and animals

Will Shortz’s February 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Alan Hochbaum, of Duluth, Georgia, reads:

Name a famous actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. You’ll be left with an animal and an adjective that describes that animal, respectively. Who is the actor?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker — first and last names. 

Remove the last letter of each name. 

You’ll be left with a three-letter abbreviation of a state that borders the puzzle-maker’s state, and seven letters that can be rearranged to form a pair of interjections — one used to express disdain and another used to express sudden pain. 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What is the bordering state?

What are the interjections?

ENTREE #2

Name a past American comedian — first and last names. Remove the last letter of his first name, then add a space somewhere within the name. 

You’ll be left with a seven-letter expression that follows a word for a kind of meat in a dish. 

What is this dish, and who is the actor/comedian? 

Hint: the dish was first served in the 1890s in Brooklyn.

ENTREE #3

Name a famous past British actor — first and last names. 

Remove the last letter of the first name.

Place the surname in front of this result to spell a brand-name alcoholic beverage.

Who is the actor? 

What is the beverage?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. 

You’ll be left with a generic name for a type of vehicle, followed by a four-letter word that precedes the Italian word for the city of Turin in the name of a Ford model that was introduced in 1972. 

Who is the actor? What are the generic vehicle name and specific name of the model?

Hint: The automobile model featured a large egg-crate grille in an oval opening (see illustration). 

ENTREE #5

Name a famous actor — first and last name, ten letters total. The first three letters spell an animal. 

The remaining seven letters can be rearranged to form two words — a three-letter adjective that modifies a four-letter proper noun — that belong in the blanks of the following  statement: “In Entree #4, above, the name of the model that was introduced in 1972 is a specific name, not just ___ ____.”

Who is the actor?

What is the animal?

What words belong in the blanks?

ENTREE #6

Name an actor who is also a director — first and last names. 

Add a letter to the beginning of the first name and change the last letter of the last name. 

You’ll be left with the plural forms of two animals.

Who is the actor/director?

What are the animals?

ENTREE #7

Name a famous past British actor — first and last names. 

Remove the last letter of each name. In the first name, change an “a” to an “o”. 

Switch the order of the names. You’ll be left with something that might be seeded. 

Who is the actor?

What is the seeded something?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous poet — first and last names.


The first name is also a male animal. 

The second name is a bird.

Who is the poet?

ENTREE #9

Name a famous past actor — first and last names. 

Remove the final two letters of the last name.

The first name is also a male animal. 

The second name is now a female bird.

Who is the actor?

Dessert Menu

Doublespoken Dessert:

Rocky “Maine”tain High, Colorado

Name a real Colorado town that is also the name of a fictional town in Maine. 

Change a “c” to an “o”. The result is two names for the same object used in a game. What are the two names for the game object and the name of the towns?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

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86 comments:

  1. "Boo!" exclaimed a taleteller.

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    1. I am not bright enough, of course, to decipher Paul's cryptic comments, but I suspect the comment above may contain a hint to the Schpuzzle.
      My cryptic hint:
      A track from the second album by a band from Austin... Minnesota!

      LegoWhoPondersHowNoisyAZamboniActuallyIs

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    2. Last time i pointed also to the the Schpuzzle. I was incredibly wrong. Boo may reference TKAM but i am unsure.

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    3. I've never once been able to grasp what Paul's short comments mean.

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    4. Ditto, VT. Though I belive Plantsmith may be onto something with his Harper Lee allusion (talented author from Monroeville, Alabama, somewhat south of our friend cranberry)... Ah, the mysterious Mr. Radley, portrayed in the 1962 movie by the wonderful Robert Duvall in his film debut.

      LegoWhoAlwaysThoughtHisHouseWasHauntedEvenThoughNoOneEverSaid"Boo"ToHim!

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    5. Probably my favorite book- one of the GOATS.

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    6. Stephen King (not to be confused with Stephen Bishop or Steve McQueen) is a teller of spooky tales, while b.e.a.t. points to percussion (particularly if you turn it around, as I did over at Blaine's). "Transcontinental aircraft exceed barrier" probably would have been TMI.
      I also got Bobby's "Germanium geranium" and "Merovingian moving van".

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  2. Lego, re Entree #6....a question. Is it possible that we are also supposed to remove the first letter of the LAST name, as well as the first name? That's the only way I can make the only name I can find work out to meet the requirements.

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    1. ViolinTeddy,
      You may have come up with an alternative answer.
      This actor/director that I have in mind, is perhaps more well-known as a word that is a homophone of something one must remove in order to enjoy a Twix, Milky Way, Snickers, 3 Musketeers, Butterfinger, Crunch, KitKat, AlmondJoy, Mounds, BabyRuth or MrGoodbar!

      LegoWhoAddsThatThePluralFormsOfTheTwoAnimalsEndIn"e"And"s"Respectively

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    2. But my answer can't really be an "alternative' when it doesn't meet all the criteria, i.e. the first letter of last name. I have yet to put together your hint above, either.

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    3. Oh, I got it now. Would never have realized that this person was an actor/director.

      Can simply not solve 2 or #8 either, despite going through lengthy lists for a long time.

      And I don't mean to imply success with the Schpuzzle or Appetizer #1, because there isn't!

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    4. VT,
      Just as the "cool" image is a great hint to Entree #6, the "dishy" and "kitschy" images that accompany Entrees #2 and #8 are also great hints.
      Each word in the Schpuzzle contains ten letters.
      I will defer to Bobby regarding hints for his great Appetizers. Historically, he has provided quite clever hints.

      LegoWhoAgreesThatAPictureMayBeWorthAHintOfAThousandWords

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    5. Here is a clue for Bobby-#1 " The Californiums here in Georgia are not out yet.However -their arrival is predicted for next week. Their common name is of course, California Poppy with a beautiful golden sheen. And Poppy has five letters.

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    6. #2 if it is what i think it is is probably my least favorite entree of all time.

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    7. PLTH, do you hate the comedian or the dish?

      Lego, I finally just got #2. I had (once again) totally misunderstood the directions...I thought that the comedian's altered name INCLUDED the meat, when it turns out it doesn't. I had actually picked out this particular dish early on, but found that it seemed to have been served somewhere else earlier than in Brooklyn, not that I can remember when or where.

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    8. And yeah, that picture for #8 really IS a hint! Thanks....

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    9. The dish. One of my all time embarassing moments when my friend's mom served this at dinner -and i could just not imbibe. So embarassing.

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    10. It looks delicious to me, MINUS the disgusting mushrooms.

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    11. P'Smith (as I have seen your called in other posts): your Appetzeri #1 hint propelled me to try solving it again...and I did (by becoming Google-lucky this time around)....although I don't understand what your "Poppy has five letters" has to do with anything.

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    12. You live in Oregon (mushroom capitol of the northwest) and you don't like mushrooms?

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    13. Oddly enough, I have long had a mushroom kitchen theme...Sears came out with "merry Mushrooms" years ago, and I adored them (red tops with white dots), and my mom bought me a whole bunch of the stuff for a 'hope chest'. Which my brother then built for me. I still everything she gave me, and it's all in my kitchen!

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    14. But as for EATING those slimy things that taste like dirt....forget it!

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    15. My reference to the poppy in five letters may have been a red herring as it seems i don't know how to count syllables.

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    16. Have you read Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a great notion." Wonderful descriptions of Oregon mycology.

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    17. Sorry, P'th, I'm really NOT interested in fungi. Only how the cute red with white dots ones look, as I mentioned above. Once, long ago, on a hike somewhere up in WA, we actually SAW some of those in real life. It was a thrill.

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    18. might be Amanita Muscarias-- highly poisonous.

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    19. If so, I can only reiterate my hatred for mushrooms, so I would have NO temptation to try one!

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    20. They are also magic mushrooms i.e. Alice in Wonderland but much more dangerous than Pysilosybins, which i have never tried.

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  3. Believe it or not if i have the correct town for the Dessert -there is also a real one in Washington State-where i have visited more than once. Fact or Fiction?

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    1. Yes, Plantsmith... south of Seattle, north of Portland. 'Tis a "Gateway" to a "smoky mountain."

      LegoWhoConfirmsThatPlantsmithHasSolvedTheDessert

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    2. Washington state sometimes take a second fiddle to the East coast- the right coast. Like i grew up in the real Vancouver, Vancouver USA- in wash.state and not Vancouver, Canada which is another bird altogether. Not sure why they call it the right coast.? Can someone interpret?

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    3. I think I've been through the town in the Dessert, as well.

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    4. I thought you said that town in the desert.

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  4. Another great Friday to all upon the blog!
    Mom and I tried a new place for supper, "Alabama Stackers". Bryan suggested it, and it has a very limited menu. Basically burgers, grilled cheese, and hot dogs. We had burgers, which come in "2 stacks", "3 stacks", and "4 stacks". Bryan said the 2 stacks are enough for anyone to eat. I could've had a 3 stack myself, but I had a 2. Great burger, but they overdo it with the fries. I usually finish everything, even if Mom left some, but I had to throw out the rest of the fries this time. I've had better fries anyway. Mom had a Sprite to drink, I had a Coke.
    Now to this week's puzzles. Easier than I initially thought. Solved everything except the Schpuzzle and Entrees #5 and(possibly)#8. Found nothing about Cock Robin as a poet, so I assume I have that one wrong. Just now got #6 after reading Lego's earlier hint, BTW. Didn't realize the person in question directed any films, but the name certainly fits the criteria, so that must be it. Don't forget those hints, Lego!
    Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and keep up with your vaccinations, boosters, etc. Cranberry out!
    pjbSayingGreatAppetizers,Bobby!You'reGettingGoodAtThis!

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    1. I concur with cranberry's sign-off about Bobby being a superb puzzlemeister.

      LegoWhoOpinesThatWhenItComesToDeliveringPunchyPuzzlesThatHitTheMarkBobby"SoxItToUs"

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    2. I will take a good burger any day. Alabama stackers sounds like what the Tide defensive line did to Clemson.

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  5. P'Smith - You must have given up moderation for Lent. Anyway, I had been bouncing around an element of the Schpuzzle solution (if I'm correct), but Lego's cryptic hint brought it into focus. An adjective artificially turned into a noun?

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    1. Thanks to your post, GB, I went back up in the posts and revisited the 'cryptic hint' from Lego, which somehow I'd missed...and thus have solved (I believe) the Schpuzzle. I swear, I must have tried EVERY other ten-letter word with no luck. Somehow, these two words never showed up in any of the synonym lists.

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    2. guess firecracker does not quite fit the bill.

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    3. How many syllables in Champagnes? Cham-pag-nes?

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    4. Sham Pain = Hypochondriac's complaint?

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    5. Yes Good one. there is also an Irish joke like that. "What does an Irishperson kiss for luck? The blarney stone-? No-The Sham-rock." I don't think that is quite right

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    6. Here is a hint for last week-- "Good to the last drop." Better late than never.

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    7. I think that's what Socrates said.

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  6. Yes given up the double stack and going with the single.

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  7. Hints:

    1. If you believed you had to remove the first letter of the element to get the flower, then you would be close.

    2. A hint on Blaine's Blog for a recent Will Shortz puzzle is also a hint for this puzzle.

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    1. Bobby, you should be glad if you haven't seen Will's latest challenge. I won't go into further details, but I doubt there's even an actual answer for it!
      pjbThinksIt'sAPieceOf"Kwap"(SeeNPRSite)

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    2. Yes, there's an answer, because I found it only an hour or two after the new puzzle was put online.

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    3. I have one word and i guess there are three. Kind of a chore to find if you follow my drift. If you change one letter my answer is in this paragraph. But it was not an SDB week for me. And i don't have Bobby's 1 or the slice.

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    4. P'th, I came up later with a second word (after reading all the comments on Blaine's), but not a third one.

      I'm surprised to read that you don't have Appetizer #1, since you wrote about Californium, etc. That WAs you, right?

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    5. A few hints
      In the Slice, when you change the order of the syllables in the chilly adjective and place the word “to” between them to form a three-word antonym of “tank,” it is helpful to know that "tank" is not a noun. It is a verb.
      For Bobby's #1, anagram the combined letters of a soldier in a particular military branch and his face to spell the chemical element.

      LegoAddsThatItIsASlangTermFor"Face"

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    6. Also, the flower in App 1 comes in red, pink and not sure what else, but I usually buy one or two each spring for the pots in my yard.

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    7. Thanks i meant the second one-. in regards to a certain Dynasty and i take it is not the Duck Dynasty. I got the slice finally.
      You probably heard the sports world in Seattle is reeling right now.

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    8. Here are some more hints.

      1. The element sounds like a European country.

      2. 1011101111_2

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    9. 1. An element that turns into a flower if you remove its first letter is gallium (allium). Gallium and germanium are consecutive elements in the Periodic Table (gallium=#31, germanium=#32). Germanium sounds like Germany.

      2. Blaine's hint for the Pakistan, Parisian puzzle on November 21, 2021 was 1011101111_2. That puzzle was about France. 1011101111 in binary is 751 in decimal. The Merovingian dynasty ended in France in 751.

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  8. Monday Schpuzzle hint:
    The three-syllable word associated with loud noises is a noun. The four-syllable word associated with loud noises is an adjective. For about 40 years, however, this four-syllable word was also a proper noun – one associated with Shawn, Sedale, Xavier or Detlef. About 15 years ago that four-syllable proper noun was transformed into a two-syllable proper noun associated with loud noises.

    LegoLambdetlef

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    1. In the 1990s, I remember that the Concorde would fly over my house soon after its takeoff from Dulles airport for Paris about 1 pm. It made a characteristic rattling noise that was different from other aircraft.

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    2. That's fascinating, geo. I wish I could have heard it, but lived nowhere near, of course.

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    3. The plane only flew above Mach 1 over oceans.

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    4. Ah Detlef such a great guy. I used to see him when he dropped his kid off at the day care center next to campus-right by the hospital i worked at.

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    5. Finally got the Schpuzzle! It was those odd names that did it, especially Detlef. I looked them up, and it just popped into my head!
      pjbOnceAgainWonderingWhyDidn'tHeGetItBefore?(He'sAlreadyFamiliarWithSaidAnagram!)

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    6. It is interesting to believe the Concorde was brought down by a small piece of metal that fell from the plane behind it on the runway. The piece came off the engine cowl and when the Concorde ran over it a tire blew and pieces of it set the engine on fire. Apparently the Concorde needed better puncture resistant tires. This according to what i read or watched.

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    7. Sort of a "first there was a nail story."

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  9. After daunting research, now have all this week's puzzles. I liked Bobby's best of the bunch. His #1 I got immediately, since as a child, knowing the element, I mispronounced the flower.

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  10. Schpuzzle: Supersonic & Percussion (might not have zeroed in except for Lego's Minnesota band track reference)

    Appetizers:
    1. Germanium; Geranium
    2. Merovingian; Moving Van

    A-t Slice: Wintry; Try to Win

    Entrees:
    1. Alan Hochbaum; Alabama/Georgia; Bah & Ouch
    2. Alan King; (Chicken) a la King
    3. Alec Guinness; Guinness Ale
    4. Cary Grant; Car; Gran Torino
    5. Henry Fonda; Hen; "any Ford"
    6. Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson, Sr.); Mice & Cubs
    7. Claude Rains; Rain Cloud
    8. (Harold) Hart Crane
    9. Buck Henry

    Dessert: Castle & Rook (in Chess); Castle Rock

    A tip of the hat to Bobby and Lego.

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  11. SCHPUZZLE: SUPERSONIC => PERCUSSION [I SO wanted the word to be CACOPHONY!]

    APPETIZERS:

    1. GERMANIUM => GERANIUM

    2. MEROVINGIAN => MOVING VAN [The Franks, 481-751]


    SLICE: WINTRY => TRY TO WIN

    ENTREES:

    1. ALAN HOCHBAUM => ALA HOCHBAU => ALAMBAMA & BAH, OUCH

    2. ALAN KING => CHICKEN => CHICKEN A LA KING

    3. ALEC GUINESS => GUINESS ALE

    4. CARY GRANT => CAR & "GRAN TORINO"

    5. HENRY FONDA => HEN; "ANY FORD"

    6. ICE CUBE (RAPPER) => MICE & CUBS; My original answer: WES (C)RAVEN => EWES & RAVENS

    7. CLAUDE RAINS => RAIN CLOUD

    8. HART CRANE

    9. BUCK HENRY => BUCK & HEN

    DESSERT: CASTLE ROCK => CASTLE/ROOK in Chess

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    1. I like your "Wes Craven" alternative for Entree #6, ViolinTeddy.

      LegoWhoBelievesThatBoPeepAndPoeTrumpBlindRodentsAndBanksSantoHubbsHack&Hartnett

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  12. 3/1222 -50 degrees AM Back to winter snow on Saturday ??

    Schpuzzle of the Week: Supersonic/ Percussion - my favorite Sonics player was “Downtown” Freddy Brown. They have been trying to resurrect the sonics for a long time.

    Appetizer:
    Germanium/ Geraniium
    ??



    Slice// wintry -try to win.

    ENTREE #1 Alan Hochbaum, Ala/ bah/ ouch
    Entree #2. Alan King/ Ala King - I thought it was chipped beef on toast which i feel about; the same way that VT feels about shrooms.


    ENTREE #3 Alec Guiness- Guiness Ale


    ENTREE #4 Cary Grant, Car Gran Torino.
    ENTREE #5 Henry Fonda, hen, any Ford


    Dessert Menu
    Castle Rock. Washington., Maine etc. Castle -Rook

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  13. 1. Germanium, geranium

    2. Merovingian, moving van

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  14. Good ones Bobby. On to Friday. Buckle up sports fans.

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    1. You are clairvoyant, Plantsmith. This Friday's Schuzzle does indeed incorporate a sports component, one that relates to Pi Day.

      LegoWhoNotesThatPieWasAPirate!

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    2. I just had a feeling especially with all that is going on in the world of sports.

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  15. Schpuzzle: SUPERSONIC, PERCUSSION [post-Mon-hint]

    Appetizers
    #1: GERMANIUM – M → GERANIUM
    #2: MEROVINGIAN – ER; I → V → MOVING VAN

    Slice: WINTRY + TO → TRY TO WIN

    Entrées
    #1: ALAN HOCHBAUM – N, M → ALAbama, HOCHBAU → BAH, OUCH
    #2: ALAN KING – N → A LA KING
    #3: ALEC GUINNESS – C → GUINNESS ALE
    #4: CARY GRANT – Y, T → CAR, GRAN Torino
    #5: HENRY FONDA – HEN → ANY FORD
    #6: ICE CUBE → MICE, CUBS
    #7: CLAUDE REINS → RAIN CLOUD
    #8: HART CRANE
    #9: BUCK HENRY – RY → BUCK, HEN

    Dessert: CASTLE ROCK – C + O → CASTLE, ROOK

    My comments on hearing the Concorde in the 1990s, although true, were also hints for the Schpuzzle.

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  16. Schpuzzle
    SUPERSONIC, PERCUSSION
    Appetizer Menu
    1. GERMANIUM, GERANIUM
    2. MEROVINGIAN, MOVING VAN
    Menu
    WINTRY, TRY TO WIN
    Entrees
    1. ALAN HOCHBAUM, ALA(Bama), BAH, OUCH
    2. ALAN KING, (chicken)A LA KING
    3. ALEC GUINNESS, GUINNESS ALE
    4. CARY GRANT, CAR, GRAN(Torino)
    5. HENRY FONDA, HEN, ANY FORD
    6. ICE CUBE, MICE, CUBS
    7. CLAUDE RAINS, RAIN CLOUD
    8. (Harold)HART CRANE
    9. BUCK HENRY, BUCK, HEN
    Dessert
    CASTLE ROCK, CASTLE, ROOK(in chess)
    I actually thought there was a poet named COCK ROBIN, but I found out there wasn't. I also thought it was the HUNAN Dynasty and the (Citroen)H VAN. The latter might have been a decent alternative answer, but I thought better of including it.-pjb

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    1. It seemed like Hunan should have worked. Now you are also known as Kwanberry? You can call me Kwant Smith or Mr. Kwan.
      The there is the Kweditor. And Kwego.

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    2. Actually, Hunan would turn into "van". That is a 1-word type of transportation, but the puzzle asked for a 2-word type of transportation.

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    3. yes. And i had never heard of the Citreon H Van.mentioned above.

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    “Hey! Knock off all the noise!”
    Anagram a four-syllable word associated with loud noises to get a three-syllable word associated with loud noises. What are these words?
    Answer
    Supersonic (sonic booms), Percussion (drumbeats)

    Appetizer Menu
    Bobby Jacobs Puzzle Fun Appetizer:
    “Botany, Chemistry, and a Dynasty with Energy”
    1. Take the name of a chemical element.
    Remove the fourth letter to get the name of a flower.
    What is the element?
    What is the flower?
    Answer:
    Germanium, geranium
    2. Take the name of a dynasty.
    Remove the second and third letters. Replace the antepenultmate (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/antepenultimate) letter with a V.
    You will get a two-word type of transportation.
    What is this dynasty?
    What is this type of transportation?
    Answer:
    Merovingian, moving van

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    Anti-tank Slice:
    “We come from the land of the ice & snow”
    Take an adjective that describes weather in lands where heating oil tanks are commonplace.
    Change the order of the syllables and place the word “to” between them to form a three-word antonym of “tank.”
    What is this adjective?
    What is the three-word antonym of “tank?”
    Answer
    Wintry; "try (to) win" is an antonym of "tank."

    Lego...

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    Name a puzzle-maker — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. You’ll be left with a three-letter abbreviation for a state that borders the puzzle-maker’s state, and seven letters that can be rearranged to form a pair of interjections — one used to express disdain and another used to express sudden pain.
    Who is the puzzle-maker?
    What is the bordering state?
    What are the interjections?
    Answer:
    Alan Hochbaum; ALA(bama), which borders Georgia; Bah! Ouch!
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices read:
    ENTREE #2
    Name a past American comedian — first and last names. Remove the last letter of his first name, then add a space somewhere within it. You’ll be left with a seven-letter expression that follows a word for a kind of meat in a dish.
    What is this dish, and who is the comedian?
    Hint: the dish was first served in the 1890s in Brooklyn.
    Answer:
    Chicken a la King; Alan King
    ENTREE #3
    Name a famous past British actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of the first name. Place the surname in front of this result to spell a brand-name alcoholic beverage.
    Who is the actor? What is the beverage?
    Answer:
    Alec Guinness; Guinness Ale
    ENTREE #4
    Name a famous actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. You’ll be left with a generic name for a type of vehicle, followed by a four-letter word that precedes the Italian name of an Italian city in the name of a Ford model that was introduced in 1972.
    Who is the actor? What is the generic vehicle and name of the model?
    Hint: The automobile model featured a large eggcrate grille in an oval opening.
    Answer:
    Cary Grant; Car; Gran (Torino)
    ENTREE #5
    Name a famous actor — first and last name, ten letters total. The first three letters spell an animal. The remaining seven letters can be rearrange to form two words — a three-letter adjective that modifies a four-letter proper noun — that belong in the blanks of the following statement: “In Entree #4, above, the name of the model that was introduced in 1972 is a specific name, not just ___ ____.”
    Who is the actor?
    What is the animal?
    What words belong in the blanks?
    Answer:
    Henry Fonda; Hen; "any Ford"

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  19. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices.ontinued:
    ENTREE #6
    Name an actor who is also a director — first and last names. Add a letter to the beginning of the first name and change the last letter of the last name. You’ll be left with the plural forms of two animals.
    Who is the actor/director?
    What are the animals?
    Answer:
    Ice Cube; Mice, Cubs
    ENTREE #7
    Name a famous past British actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. In the first name, change an “a” to an “o”. Switch the order of the names. You’ll be left with asomething that might be seeded.
    Who is the actor?
    What is the seeded something?
    Answer:
    Claude Rains; Rain Cloud
    ENTREE #8
    Name a famous poet — first and last names. The first name is also a male animal. The second name is a bird.
    Who is the poet?
    Answer:
    Hart Crane
    ENTREE #9
    Name a famous past actor — first and last names. Remove the final two letters of the last name.The first name is also a male animal. The second name is now a female bird.
    Who is the actor?
    Answer:
    Buck Henry

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    Doublespoken Dessert:
    Rocky “Maine”tain High, Colorado
    Name a real Colorado town that is also a fictional town in Maine. Change a “c” to an “o”. The result is two names for the same object used in a game.
    What are the two names for the game object and the name of the towns?
    Answer
    Castle, Rook; Castle Rock

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