PUZZLERIA! SLICES:OVER 6!Ο SERVEDForecast: Overcast... or shadows cast?
Name a two-word plural term you might hear on a weather forecast, in four and six letters.
Double either the third or the fifth letter in the second word. Rearrange the eleven letters of either of these results to spell three other words you might hear on a weather forecast.
What are these five weather words?
What two answers are possible for one of the “three other words?”
Appetizer Menu
An Ordinal (But No Ordinary!) Appetizer:
Our 8th & cranberry’s 26th, on Friday’s 13th
Eight years ago, on May 9, 2014, Puzzleria! cranked out its first weekly edition.
The first Cryptic Crossword by Patrick J. Berry (screen name cranberry), appeared on Puzzleria! less than two years later, on March 4, 2016. (Patrick had previously and subsequently also contributed more conventional “NPR-style” word puzzles to our blog.)So, on this, Puzzleria!s eighth anniversary, it seems fitting that we feature Patrick’s 26th Cryptic Crossword on Puzzleria!
We thank him, as well as all the talented puzzle-makers who have graced our blog’s pages with their genius and ingenuity.
Here are links to Patrick’s previous 25 Cryptic Crosswords on Puzzleria!:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
For those who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled a few basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions to help you reach the “pot o’ gold at the end of the cryptic rainbow.”
Here are his instructions:
Regarding the Across and Down clues and
their format...
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| See 24 Down |
The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer.
Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how
letters are distributed in multiple-word answers.
For example, (6) simply indicates a six-letter answer like “jalopy,” (5,3) indicates a five-and-three-letter answer like “cargo van,” and (5-5) indicates a five-and-five-letter hyphenated answer like “Rolls-Royce.”
(For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword. The Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!)
Happy 8th to Puzzleria!
Happy 26th to Patrick!
Happy Friday the 13th (and happy solving) to us all!
ACROSS
1. Correct to have married vain entertainer?(5,6)9. Mexican food with a little corn getting in the
way?(4)
10. Replaced gift in rush(11)
11. Had discussed college(4)14. Remain at sea with first-rate sailor(7)
16. Roman mixed up with Latin, as usual(6)
17. Lower n-number?(6)
18. Tonight, Manolo’s performing a Beethoven classic(9,6)19. Police using grass to entrap yours truly?(6)
21. Chap put in top order(6)
22. A poet lost in North Dakota looking for something to write on(7)23. Parliament members, slow-moving(4)
26. Sweet girl kidnapped by outlaws, left in ditch(6,5)
27. The woman would take off(4)
28. Noticeable problem with Republican Party(11)
DOWN
2. Always cut head off(4)3. Said, “Spell ‘bird’ ”(4)
4. Forget almost everything in songbook?(6)
5. Comic strip kid raised, was bad—punishment coming up in paper(6,3,6)
6. Football team uniform getting extremely loose(6)7. Witch doctor: “Could be healthier after diet?
No way!”(5,6)
8. Portrayed tragically, getting close to starvation, ending in desperation!(6,5)
12. Alas, uh, I’m one crazy movie!(6,5)
13. Actor in “Citizen Kane” turning swollen and sore?(5,6)
14. Awfully mean, describing movie with no following? We’re gonna get letters from them!(7)
15. Kicked out one musical group meeting another musical group on the rise?(7)20. One man cooked chopped liver(2-4)
21. Heard strange exchange(6)
24. Fight to turn lights out?(4)
25. Prank accomplished nothing(4)
MENU
Unidentified Flying Keyboards Slice:
Extraterrestrial typewriting
Name certain extraterrestrial vehicles, in two words.
The last four letters of the second word can be rearranged to spell a terrestrial wetland that is
a synonym of a five-letter wetland that is often associated with UFOs. Remove these four letters.
What remains are two words seen on many computer keyboards.
The first word sometimes appears as the second part of a compound word you often see on keyboards. This word is also the function of a long unlabled keyboard key.
The second word is a four-letter plural word sometimes seen on a key along with a second word.
What is the five-letter terrestrial wetland associated with UFOs and its four-letter synonym?
What are the keys upon which the remaining words appear?
What is the “long unlabled keyboard key?”
Riffing Off Shortz And Gori Slices:
“Soap Flakes on a Plane!”
Will Shortz’s May 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Al Gori of Oak Ridge, New Jersey, reads:
The initial letters in the title of a popular movie from this century spell the name of a popular sitcom from the last century. What titles are these? Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Gori Slices
read:
The initial letters in the name of a puzzle-maker from this century (and, likely, also a part of the last century), when spoken aloud, sound like the surname of of a popular member of the
Miracle Mets and the surname of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter and critic.
Who are this puzzle-maker, Met and novelist?
The initial letters in the title of a 2002 horror/comedy movie spell the title of a popular 2003 comedy movie.
What titles are these?
Hint: The original title of the 2002 movie was “Arach Attack.”
ENTREE #3
Take the title of a 20th-Century novel that many in the literary community (including Boni & Liveright and Scribner’s) were “bullish on.
The four initial letters of this title spell the title of rulers named Peter, Paul, Nicholas, Alexander and...Ivan.
What are the title of the novel and the title of the rulers?
ENTREE #4
Take the three initial letters in the title of a popular novel from the 20th Century.
The title character in the novel is a rodent. The title also contains plural word for things that grow in a field.
These three letters are the same as the initial letters in a nearly-century-old organization originally formed to promote and support young people planning to enter careers that involve growing things in a field.
What are the titles of this novel and organization.
ENTREE #5
The four initial letters in the title of a popular novella from the 20th Century can be rearranged to spell a word that means “projectiles with fuses, propelling charges, and primers fired from guns.”
The four letters can also be rearranged to spell an acronym of a New York City repository of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, etc.
What are this novella title, word and acronym?
People often mistakenly place a one-letter article in front of a five-word 20th-Century science fiction novel.
The last two words of this result indicate how some people in the Western Hemisphere might describe the land spelled out by the initial letters of the first four words of the result. What is the title of this novel?
Take the initial letters in the title of a “papalur” novella from the 20th-Century.
They spell the French word for certain fruits.
What are this novella title and these fruits?
ENTREE #8
The initial letters in the title of a novel from the late-19th-Century (by an author who has been called the “Shakespeare of science fiction”) spell the title of a 1980s-era album by a Minnesota rock band. What titles are these?
Dessert Menu
B-Movie Book Ballad Batting Title Dessert:
In seach of a “Sioneer” and a “Puperstar”
Swap the initial letters of well known two-word title to get the names of two former major leaguers: the surname of a pioneer and the nickname of a superstar. Who are these former major leaguers?
What is the title?
Hint: These two major league ballplayers combined to win six home run titles during a nine-year span.
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