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Evenly divisible odd numbers
The odd numbers 580,087 and 72,836,197 are both evenly divisible by 29.
Name another, perhaps more interesting, property they share.
Appetizer Menu
Note: The following Appetizer is the debut of a new “amphibiabulous” feature on Puzzleria!
It is called “Tortie’s Slow But Sure Puzzles.” The puzzle-creator, Laura Kozma, whose screen-name is “Tortitude,” posts always-insightful-and-encouraging comments on our blog.
Laura says her creations “are often inspired by previous puzzles.” The title “Tortie’s Slow But Sure Puzzles,” she explains, “alludes to the long time it often takes her to create new ones.”
Laura is making history as the first female guest puzzle-maker to contribute puzzles regularly to Puzzleria! We welcome “Tortie” and all her puzzling contributions!
Enjoy her debut “Slow But Sure” puzzle, below.
“Ab Ovo Benedicta” Appetizer
A Tale of Three Chefs
Chef #1 is named Al. Al steals ingredients for Eggs Benedict all the time. There’s a small farm down the street, and somehow Al managed to steal a few chickens from the farm; after all, you need eggs to make Eggs Benedict! Al also catches salmon in the local lake, even though he doesn’t have a fishing license. You might use a certain seven-letter word to describe Al.
Chef #2 is named Bob. While Bob is basically honest – all of his ingredients are paid for! – he goes out of his way to spend as little as possible for his ingredients. The other day he bought Tommy’s English muffins instead of Thomas’. Needless to say, the English muffins were stale. Take the word you used to describe Al, remove the last letter, anagram what remains, and you’ll find an informal term used to describe Bob’s ingredients.
Take the letters in the word you used to describe Al and produce two separate words.
The first word is an informal term that describes Clive. The other word describes an ingredient that Clive uses for his Eggs Benedict.
Swap the initial letters of these words to form two new words:
These four words consist of two rhyming pairs
that consist of seventeen letters total, and five syllables total.
Will Shortz’s July 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:
A panhandler on a busy city street ____, holding out his grubby, shabby capsized ___.
No one _____ him filthy lucre, only dirty looks.
ENTREE #2
Name an average, ordinary man — 3 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Double the first letter in the last name. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the modified last name. Then reverse the order of two consecutive letters of this result. You’ll get what an average, ordinary man typically has, and the kind of grease he may use to help him keep what he has.
Change her unconventionally-spelled 7-letter first name to its more conventional 5-letter
spelling. Switch the last letter of this 5-letter first name with the first letter of her last name. You’ll get a food associated with St. John and Locusts, and a proper noun describing a cager who, before turning pro, was associated with John Wooden.
1. a term for a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States, and...
The second modified name, followed by the word “off,” is something he did 72 times in the course of earning the privilege to wear the green jacket (which is what he has also done a few times since, to some golf fans who suspect him of, and even accuse him of, cheating). 
ENTREE #11
Name an oughta-be-more-famous actor in American television — 3 letters in the first
name, 6 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then move the space between the two modified names between the seventh and
eighth letters.
Name a famous creature in American television — 3 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. You’ll get an article of clothing that encircles a toddler’s neck, and a synonym of “encircle.”
ENTREE #14
Move the first letter of the last name to the beginning of the modified first name, then insert two spaces. 
Add a another person’s surname to the end of the singer’s modified first name to spell a word the singer’s critics may have used to describe his recordings and performances.
Take a two-word idiom with a meaning similar to “dodging a bullet.”
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Chef #3 is named Clive. Clive is a chef at the fanciest 3-Michelin-Star restaurant in London. His restaurant uses the freshest and most expensive ingredients. Butter is churned on premises. Lemons are plucked from the lemon tree out back, and are freshly squeezed. Clive’s restaurant has a special agreement with a local fishery which provides the tastiest fish eggs.
The first word is an informal term that describes Clive. The other word describes an ingredient that Clive uses for his Eggs Benedict.
What word describes Al? What word describes Bob’s ingredients? What word describes Clive? What does Clive put on his Eggs Benedict?
MENU
“Kill the Emp!” Slice:
“Pull the shades, don’t answer the doorbell!”
Name a two-word term for “impressive successes.”
1. the locus of a particular empire, and
2. some “unwelcome visitors” to this empire.
What are this synonym, empire and “visitors?”
Rising From A “Weatherbed” Mattress Slice:
Getting Back-on-track Quatrain
Clearly nothing is under the sun, new or ___,
Nary thunder nor _____.
I’m now over the weather, and over my ____...
Praise! Raise warmth! Shine _____!
Provide the last word in each of the four lines of the quatrain above.
that consist of seventeen letters total, and five syllables total.
What are these four words?
Hint: The initial letters of the missing words are an anagram of the first four letters of a soft drink brand.
Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:
“All(most) in the (near normal) Family”
(Let not this puzzling snnafu* mystify you)
Note: *snnafu is an acronym of “Situation Near Normal, All Fouled Up”
Will Shortz’s July 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:
Name a famous person in American television — 6 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then reverse the order of the two modified names. You’ll get a phrase meaning “almost typical.” What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:
ENTREE #1
No one _____ him filthy lucre, only dirty looks.
Anagram the combined twelve letters in the three blanks to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
Name a famous past person in American politics — 3 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last.
Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. You’ll get a slang term for the torso or trunk of a human and a term for the trunk of a tree.
Who is this person?
What are these terms?
ENTREE #3
What is the name of this average, ordinary man?
What does he have, and what helps him keep it?
ENTREE #4
Name a not-so-famous person in American television — 4 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. 
The first of these modified names is a word this person’s friends likely spoke in early December, 2011. The second of these modified names sounds like something bad that his friends heard during that time.
Who is this television personality?
What is the word his friends spoke, and the bad thing his friends heard?
ENTREE #5
Name a somewhat famous movie star — 7 letters in her first name, 5 letters in her last — who studied acting under Lee Strasberg and was directed by Elia Kazan, and whose career lasted nearly 50 years.
spelling. Switch the last letter of this 5-letter first name with the first letter of her last name. You’ll get a food associated with St. John and Locusts, and a proper noun describing a cager who, before turning pro, was associated with John Wooden.
Both this movie star and hoops star are associated with Los Angeles.
Who are this movie star and hoops star.
What are the food associated with St. John and the cager associated with John Wooden?
ENTREE #6
Name a title character in an American novel — 5 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Move the last letter of the last name to the end of the first. Then move a duplicate of the new last letter in the last name to the beginning of the first name.
The result will be two words, in 7 and four letters, that belong in the blanks in the following statement:
“_______, an abundant chemical compound on Earth, comes ____ cows, termites, rice paddies, fossil fuels, coal mines, fracking and gas leaks.”
Who is this title character?
What are the two words in the blanks?
ENTREE #7
Name an Oscar-Award-nominated actress from the past — 4 letters in her first name, 7 letters in the last.
Her father was a successful insurance broker of Irish descent. He had the same monogram as a U.S. president who was his contemporary.
The father said that if his daughter was “to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre.”
The father said that if his daughter was “to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre.”
Switch the last letter of this actress’s first name with the first letter of her last name.
The first modified name is a word that describes her father.
Switch the order of the third and fourth letters of her last name, then delete the three letters at the end. The result is the Gaelic name for the country of her father’s descent.
Who is this actress?
What are the word describing her father and the Gaelic name of the country of his descent?
ENTREE #8
Name an oughta-be-more-famous but yet a very successful American musician, record producer and record executive — 3 letters in the first name, 3 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last.
You’ll get:
2. the first three letters of a 6-letter acronym of an American stock exchange based in New York City.
Who is this American musician?
What are the stock market index and the American stock exchange acronym?
ENTREE #9
Name a famous past person in American theater and literature, as he might have been known to his close friends — 3 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then reverse the order of the two modified names.
You’ll get:
1. a word for a lever used to turn the rudder of a boat from side-to-side which is also a word for a person whose work involves plowing, sowing, and raising crops, and
2. a part of boat operator’s body that is used in turning the rudder and to plow and sow.
Who is this famous past person?
What body part is used to turn the rudder, plow and sow?
ENTREE #10
Name a guy who wore a green jacket for one year. — 3 letters in the first name (a shortened form of his longer 7-letter first name), and 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last.
The first modified name is something he had to be under in order to wear the jacket.
Who is this green jacket wearer?
What did he have to be under?
What did he do 72 times?
Name a famous fictional person in American literature — 3 letters in the first name, 6 letters
in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. The first modified name is now the abbreviated brand name of luxury sports car the title character might have driven had he lived another couple of decades.
in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. The first modified name is now the abbreviated brand name of luxury sports car the title character might have driven had he lived another couple of decades.
Add a “ch” and a space inside the second modified name. The result (a verb and adverb) is what a haughty present-day descendant of this character likely does while navigating his watercraft indifferently across the bay, as those on shore watch longingly and wave their unreciprocated greetings.
Who is this fictional person?
What luxury sports car might he have driven?
What does his descendant likely do as those on the bayshore wave?
ENTREE #12
name, 6 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then move the space between the two modified names between the seventh and
eighth letters.
The result is two words that fill the third and fourth blanks in the sentence: “___ ______ was _______ __ casting directors’ lists of TV situation comedy character actors.” The actor’s name belongs in the first two blanks.
What four words fill in the blanks?
Hint: This actor played the role of a handyman in a dream from which Bob Hartley awoke, his wife Emily at his side, in a TV sitcom finale. About a decade later, this handyman-portrayer and the woman who portrayed Emily wed.
ENTREE #13
Just as a belt encircles a toddler’s waist, so too does another functional and sanitary article of clothing encircle a toddler’s neck.
Who is the television creature?
What are the article of clothing that encircles a toddler’s neck, and the synonym of “encircle.”
Name a fictional creature from the entertainment industry who is nearly 90-years-old — 4 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last.
The first modified name is the member of a British band that recorded a song about an apeman.
The second modified name is the third word in the U.S. title of song by a British band that is named after a dinosaur.
What is the fictional creature?
What are the two British bands and the two song titles?
ENTREE #15
Name a famous fictional character in American television and movies — 4 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last.
You’ll get what sounds like a pair of positive, complimentary adjectives.
You’ll get what sounds like a pair of positive, complimentary adjectives.
The first sounds like a word that may describe a friend, family pet or a member of a royal court.
The second is more of a “low-bar” adjective that sets a minimum standard of what you might expect of your friend, or any anyone you know for that matter. For example, “My boyfriend may not have many good qualities, but at least he’s alive!”
Who is this fictional character?
What are the two complimentary adjectives?
ENTREE #16
Name a famous person in American literature and film — 7 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last.
Take the first name. Double its last letter, but delete one of two letters in an existing set of double letters.
You’ll get the following phrase, one exclaimed by a faithful but frustrated dieter and/or exerciser standing in front of a full-length mirror, tape measure in hand:
“I’m ___! _ ____! I’ve added at least one ____!”
Who is this famous person in American literature and film?
What does the faithful but frustrated dieter and/or exerciser exclaim?
ENTREE #17:
Name a still-living famous American singer — 3 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last — who in the mid-1950s was the headliner at a show in which Elvis Presley performed as the opening act.
Switch the last letter of his first name with the first letter of the last.
The modified last name sounds like the singular form of several well-selling things this singer recorded in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll.
(The surname you added belongs to a baseball player who broke an ethnic barrier in Major League Baseball, and who was only one of three players to pinch-hit for Henry Aaron.)
Who is this singer?
What is the singular form of the well-selling things did he record?
What word may singer’s critics have used to describe his recordings and performances?
Who pinch-hit for Hank Aaron?
Dessert Menu
Idiomatic Dessert:
Dodging bullets in Dodge City
Remove the initial letters, forming two new words.
Place the words “what you” between them to form a phrase for what happens to you if you take the two-word idiom literally.
What is this idiom?
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ReplyDeleteIn Entrée #3, it would appear that it is necessary to keep the original 1st letter of the last name to yield the intended answer. A better wording might be: Switch the last letter of the 1st name and first letter of the last name. Now insert a copy of the last letter of the 1st word in this result into the third place of the second "word". The two words of the solution thus have 3 and 5 letters.
ReplyDeleteOr is this an over-involved alternate?
I agree, Geo
DeleteThanks, geofan and VT. I tinkered a bit.
DeleteYou have both solved it. Good goin'.
Lego"ViolinTeddited"And"Geofact-checked!"
QUESTION on the first entree. Following our 'normal' pattern, don't the three words needs to add up to 12 letters, not 11?
ReplyDeleteAffirmative
DeleteAgain, both of you are correct. I shall correct the errors of my wily ways!
DeleteLegoWhoThanksVT&geo
I'm afraid I have yet another one: Entree #7....the actress has to have a 7-letter last name, not 7.
DeleteI spent a LONG time on both 4 and 5 and got absolutely nowhere.
Oops, I meant "not 6"...I realize this must have just been a typo.
DeleteThanks again, VT. I fixed it.
DeleteLegoWhoApologizesForCarelessness(HeDidNotLeaveHimselfSufficientProofReadingTimeThisWeek)
*The not-so-famous person in Entree #4 was a male performer on an ensemble sketch-comedy TV show that also featured Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin.
Delete*The somewhat famous movie star in Entree #5 earned a Best Acress Oscar nomination playing a role as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride.
(This actress also spelled her first name unconventionally, a factoid I failed to mention in my original version of the puzzle, which I just now revised.)
LegoInAStateOfTextualFlux
Thank you, Lego...later, I will go see if those clues help....
DeleteOkie doke, Lego...I had never even heard of the person in Entree #4...having never watched the show at all. So I would never have been able to solve the puzzle without the above hint.
DeleteLikewise for #5...never heard of her, and I had even had the wrong 'food' written down, which was impossible to form from anybody's name anywhere!
DeleteI agree Miss Viiolet i had never heard of the person in 4 and have not found the person in 5 either.
DeleteAm I one of the few people on this blog who has definitely heard of the "not-so-famous" person in Entree #4? I will admit I was very little when the sketch-comedy show was on the air, but I have seen reruns of it since then(some clips even running on YouTube recently, BTW), and I certainly would most likely recognize this person if I saw a picture. The only reason the person is "not-so-famous" is that, well, their career never took off as well as that of either Goldie or Lily, as a result of appearing on the show.
DeletepjbSaysIfYouDon'tKnowTheName,MaybeYouShould"LookItUpInYourFunkAndWagnall's"(OrGoogleIt)
To tell the truth i don't even remember Lilly being on that show. Just Goldie.
DeleteShe did look good back then. Until recently I had honestly believed she was much better looking than her daughter, Kate Hudson. Now I've definitely changed my mind.
DeletepjbBelievesAnyFemaleCelebWhoLookedGoodInThe70sMightNotLookAsGoodInTheir70s
Actually Goldie is still golden. A timeless beauty and so much funnier than the Miss Raunch- Amy Schumer.
DeleteGreetings to all this late going into Friday morning!
ReplyDeleteI swear I thought I was going to be the first to leave a comment, but when I clicked on the button that clearly said "No Comments", all of a sudden y'all popped right up! How did you do that? Oh well, I guess I needn't mention that Entree #1 is 12, not 11, letters. And I did think there was a little confusion with #3 as well. But I have a little more to add based on my findings tonight. For starters, my compliments to Laura(Tortie)regarding her puzzle debut. After answer #1, everything else easily fell into place. Welcome aboard, Tortie! Keep up the great work! Second, I had no trouble with Slice #1, but in #2 I may very well have an OK alternative answer, provided you disregard the abbreviation in the brand name(there are at least two well-known brands that possess this, but I won't say which one I arrived at). I'm only confident about two of the four words anyway. Finally, for the answer to Entree #5 to work, one must use a spelling variant of the star's first name before making the letter switch. Even then, I never really found the word associated with John Wooden in his Wikipedia listing, but I still know it would have to be the answer. All in all, the puzzles I know for sure that I couldn't get right away are the Schpuzzle(I hate that kind of puzzle, BTW)and Entree #15. I'm not sure about Slice #2, so I'm hoping there will be some hints/clarifications forthcoming about all of these. I also think the phrase in Entree #16 is slightly imperfect due to the modification of the name. If I were angry enough to do what's mentioned in the phrase, I wouldn't necessarily say I'd do it in the first person like that(hope that's not TMI!). Otherwise, I solved it, so I'm fine with it. End of story.
Final points of interest regarding the puzzles(on a personal note):
My mom considers the sitcom finale in Entree #12 the best she's ever seen, and I would have to agree with her.
I like the apeman song in Entree #14, but as for the dinosaur band's song, I much rather prefer the cover version recorded a decade later by a supergroup which was a side project for two members of a popular British New Wave band.
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and good night and pleasant dreams as well. May check back in with y'all later tonight. Cranberry out!
pjbSaysTheTwoMembersAlsoSharedASurname(ButIt'sNotThompson!)
The early bird is a puzzler? Welcome Miss Laura. I really like these story puzzles. And math not so much.
ReplyDeleteWarning:: The song in #14 may be an earworm.
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ReplyDeleteHave everything -- Lego's giveaway hints facilitated appropriate Google searches for unknown personages.
ReplyDeleteMy answer for the Dessert somewhat puts the cart before the horse, so it may not be the intended one.
Hint for the Schpuzzle (which I solved right off): It is not really a mathematical puzzle at all. More of a word puzzle. So cranberry and PS could rejoice. Sort of how I would rejoice if a week of Puzzleria! would pass by without the words "sitcom", "band" or "slang" appearing once in the week's text. But, alas, it seems that this will never happen.
Final general hint: knowing Lego's predilections for literary sources can be helpful for at least 3 answers this week. I find that this is good advice -- every week.
You mean Dr. Zeuss and company?
DeleteI think I have the same answer for the Dessert. I'm not sure it's right.
DeleteI'm happy to have even more sitcom and band questions, as long as the questions relate to older stuff! Sports questions, on the other hand, are very difficult for me.
Thank you for the info about the Schpuzzle. I'm struggling with that one, as well as the first Slice.
Hint for Slice one. Think Joe Dimaggio.(sp)
DeleteGot it now. Thanks!
DeleteTortieWhosePaltrySportsKnowledgebaseIncludesJoeDiMaggioAtLeast
And now I have the Schpuzzle as well!
DeleteA word puzzle huh?? Schpuzzle.
DeleteA tip of the chapeau on your quick Schpuzzle solution, geo. Lego will probably revoke my poetic license for my Quatrain Slice guess; but, it does fit all the criteria. And it is poetry. My dessert works in the right setting. Speaking of dodging bullets - the hickory nuts are falling fast here, P'Smith. The squirrels are dropping them from above and are making an obstacle course of the front walk with shells. Nothing to do with P!; but, leaf season can't be far away.
ReplyDeleteThat could be a harbinger of a tough winter: early squirrel harvest of seeds and nuts. Still in the 90's here.
DeleteAnd another tip of the chapeau to Tortitude for Schpuzzle solving. When you say that, you've said it all.
ReplyDeleteWhen did an Entree #17 appear?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, but I just solved it.
DeletepjbNoticedAPropertyHeAndTheSingerBothShare(NoFurtherComment)
...Very early this morning, ViolinTeddy.
DeleteCongrats, cranberry.
LegoWhoVowsHoweverTogeofanThatHeShallAttemptToComeUpWithMore"NonSitcomBand&Slang"PuzzlesInTheFuture
I was at a "Clambake" several years ago during one of the last Crosby Celebrity Golf Tournaments. E17 subject was a tournament participant that year and was one of the celebrity host/performers at the Clambake along with Jimmy Dean and others. I remember Jimmy Dean saying something like, "It must be terrible to be _ _ _ and know when you wake up in the morning that's the best you're going to feel all $#&^ day." _ _ _'s entertainment was wholesome; Jimmy's wasn't. (Note: I was neither celebrity nor player - just a face among the tournament volunteers.)
DeleteSolved it as well. I figured out the singer almost immediately, but had to look up the baseball player.
DeleteSame here. I'm always having to look up sports personalities with Lego's puzzles. And I can honestly say I had never ever heard of the person identified in Entree #10.
DeletepjbIsJustHappyKnowingWho'sOnFirst,What'sOnSecond,AndIDon'tKnow'sOnThird
Me, too [Re #17.]
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ReplyDeleteYou think you have it bad. This week, the celebrities/people in Entrées #4,5,7,8,10,12,14,17 were totally unfamiliar. I solved them only by being able to Google appropriate phrases from the puzzle text or by other strategies, in some cases starting with the "other half" of the puzzle. Such is a typical week, excepting only that this time there were more puzzles.
ReplyDeleteIn many cases I only know certain of these celebrities/sitcoms retrospectively only as Puzzleria! answers, not from their "celebritiness" as generally known to the public. Examples: Len Cariou [all 5 vowels once]; Burger Bob and characters therein. Totally unfamiliar. Remember that I have never even seen an episode of Cheers or Seinfeld (though I did know that these sitcoms existed), so had to use Wikipedia to probe possibilities for Puzzleria! answers there.
So I categorize them not as celebrities or programs, but rather as "Puzzleria! answers. Stumbling on a trailer/ad that mentions them (subsequent to their use in Puzzleria!), I am often surprised to recognize not the celeebrity or programs as such, but rather have the epiphany "Gee, a Puzzleria! answer was on TV."
I know what you mean, Geo. While I have seen some Cheers and many SEinfelds, I never know any of those obscure rock bands/members, nor most of the sports figures. I did the same as you....Googled entire phrases from the puzzles, which generally worked pretty well, and I used to comment frequently on "solving puzzle backwards." Often I wonder if Lego came up with the puzzles backwards! Anyway, I, too, run across P! answers in life (or crossword puzzles) and think as you do: ah, a PUzzleria answer, that I would never have known otherwise!
DeleteYou might consider watching ET. Or not.
ReplyDeleteFun article in ATL Journal today on Savannah Banannas baseball team and their senior citizen cheerleaders. One of their oponents is the Holly Springs Salamanders- not that far from me.
ReplyDeleteLate Tuesday/Early Wednesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
As geofan astutely noted, it's not really a "number puzzle."
My two illustrations provide hints.
The New York Giants, counterintuitively, seldom were retired "one-two-three" in an inning in which Mel Ott batted!
“Ab Ovo Benedicta” Appetizer
The certain 7-letter word you might use to describe Al has an eggshellent double meaning.
“Kill the Emp!” Slice
Mel Ott (see Schpuzzle hint) had 511 of the “two-word term for impressive successes” during his career.
I’m Back-On-Track Quatrain Slice
The rhyming lines are non-consecutive.
The final blank contains two syllables, and is a homophone of a synonym of "permitted."
ENTREE #1
The word in the second blank is a synonym of the first syllable of the third adjective (after "grubby" and "shabby") that modifies it.
ENTREE #2
The slang term for the torso or trunk of a human rhymes with a synonym of "diety." The term for a trunk of a tree is a homophone of a kind of haircut.
ENTREE #3
The average, ordinary man's first and last names rhyme. The kind of grease he may use to help him keep what he has is also a plumbing joint.
ENTREE #4
The not-so-famous-person-in-American-television's last name is the plural form of a boy's name, at least according to Johnny Cash.
ENTREE #5
The somewhat famous movie star shared screen-time with Karl Maulden and Eli Wallach in the movie in which she received an Oscar nomination.
ENTREE #6
Remove the two E's from the beginning and end title character's full name. You are left with a conjunction/preposition and a preposition, each 4 letters long.
ENTREE #7
The Oscar-Award-nominated actress from the past has a 2-syllable surname that sounds like "a saline drop trickling down the cheek," and "an elbow... but lower, lower down below."
ENTREE #8
Spell the oughta-be-more-famous American musician's name backwards to get a synonym od "proverb" and "a silent assent."
ENTREE #9
The famous past person in American theater and literature created "Willy, Happy and Biff," and stepped up to the plate after Joe DiMaggio "struck out."
ENTREE #10
An anagram of the name of this "green-jacket-donner" is "red tape."
ENTREE #11
...Forget "red tape." How about "Red Ford!"
ENTREE #12
The initials of this oughta-be-more-famous actor in American television sound like a synonym of wigwam.
ENTREE #13
"The creature may have "street-smarts," but still seems kinda seedy..." sez, me!
ENTREE #14
do ti la sol FA (as in "FAble") mi RE (as in "REad") do!
ENTREE #15
Forget Lana! Forget Fritz! Get low, slain!"
ENTREE #16
Tequila Sunrise.
ENTREE #17:
Not Dan'l.
Idiomatic Dessert:
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl..."
LegoNotes"BuckIsBearingWhat?DidHeJustGetHis EarsLowered?!"
Now I have everything EXCEPT that pesky Schpuzzle! I guess I'll just have to find out later today.
DeletepjbCan'tWin'EmAll,YouKnow
In my Schpuzzle hint, compare Mel's surname with the litany of "outs."
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatLaterOnInTheCountThereIsASimilarSequenceThatSuggestsAWord(ButInFourNotThreeLetters)That"Heaven"Precedes
Possible Schpuzzle clue-" Nestles -Nestles makes the very best.Chocolate." Except for two letters.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: The first letter in each number, in order, spell two headgear(s): Fezzes; Stetsons (I'm not sure this matches the hints though. It does account for my tips of the chapeau kudos-"hints" for solvers geo and T.)
ReplyDeleteAppetizer: Poacher; Cheapo; Chap; Roe
K t E Slice: Home Runs: Rome; Huns
SWUTS Slice: Old, Cloud, Cold, Aloud (Not poetic or sensical, but has 17 letters, 5 syllables and anagrams COCA [-Cola])
Entrees:
1. Steve Baggish (Begs, Hat, Gives)
2. Bob Done; Bod & Bole
3. Joe Blow; Job; Elbow (Grease)
4. Alan Sues; Alas & (Bad News) Nues
5. Carol Baker & Lewis (as Wooden called him) Alcindor - later Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Carob & Laker
6. Ethan Frome; Methane & From
7. Gene Tierney; Gent & Eire
8. Don Was; Dow (Jones) & NASDAQ
9. Art(hur) Miller; Arm (Tiller)
10. Pat(rick) Reed; Par; Teed Off
11. Jay Gatsby; Jag(uar); Yachts By
12. Tom Poston & Topmost On
13. Big Bird; Bib & Gird
14. King Kong; Kinks & T. Rex; "Apeman"; "Get it On" & "Bang a Gong"
15. Lois Lane; Loil (Loyal) & Sane
16. Atticus Finch: ". . . fat! I cuss! . . . inch!"
17. Pat Boone; Tune; Pablum; Mike Lum
Dessert: Close Shave; Lose What You Have (This might not be the intended solution, but if you had a big lunch just before dodging. . . )
Fun entries, Tortitude and Lego.
Thank you, GB!
DeleteI figured out your "tip of the chapeau" hint after I had solved the puzzle.
GB - Did you see the article about squirrel "splooting" in hot weather where they lay out on the ground as if sky diving? I have never seen this -but apparently it is a real deal.
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ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: The initial letters of the digits spell out types of hats (FEZZES and STETSONS)
Slice #1: HOME RUNS -> ROME, HUNS
Slice #2: OLD CLOUD COLD ALOUD (hint: COCA)
Entrees:
1. STEVE BAGGISH (BEGS, HAT, GIVES)
2. BOB DOLE; BOD, BOLE (first time I’ve heard of BOLE)
3. JOE BLOW; JOB, ELBOW (GREASE)
4. ALAN SUES;ALAS, NEWS (never heard this name before. Never really watched Laugh-In, although I do know some people that were on it. However, my research showed that he was also in “The Masks” episode of The Twilight Zone, and that I’ve seen)
5. CARROLL BAKER; LAKER; CAROB (note: my research showed that there is a controversy re: whether the “locusts” in the Bible refer to the trees or to the insects.)
6. ETHAN FROME; METHANE, FROM (something else I learned: I always thought this novel and author were British, just based on the names)
7. GENE TIERNEY; GENT, EIRE
8. DON WAS; DOW, NAS (NASDAQ)
9. ARTHUR MILLER (ART MILLER); ARM, TILLER
10. PATRICK REED (PAT REED); PAR, TEED
11. JAY GATSBY; JAG; YACHTS BY
12. TOM POSTON; TOPMOST; ON
13. BIG BIRD; BIB; GIRD
14. KING KONG; KINKS - APEMAN; T. REX - BANG A GONG (GET IT ON) (note: there is also a more obscure band called Gong. I also learned recently that Marc Bolan of T. Rex inspired Ringo’s “Back Off Boogaloo”)
15. LOIS LANE; LOYAL, SANE (Note: I actually call one of my four cats - yes, a whopping one of four - “the sane one”)
16. ATTICUS FINCH; FAT, I CUSS, INCH
17. PAT BOONE; TUNE; PABLUM; MIKE LUM
Dessert:
CLOSE SHAVE - LOSE WHAT YOU HAVE (was a bit confused on this one, as it seems more like what will happen if you don’t dodge the bullet; similar answer: with “IT” instead of “WHAT YOU” - CLOSE CALL - LOSE IT ALL)
I hope that everyone enjoyed my debut puzzle! I was inspired by Tom Rymsza’s puzzle from July 8, 2022. When I saw the picture of Eggs Benedict, I thought of a poacher, both in the sense of poaching an egg, and illegal hunting. I never could come up with an opposite word that fit Tom’s clue. However, finding the Arnold car via Google Lens showed that the pictures actually represented “Benedict Arnold,” and had nothing to do with poaching. That was not the first time I went down a really, really wrong path, and I’m pretty sure it won’t be the last!
DeleteSCHPUZZLE: Prime Factors: 29 X 83 X 241 AND 29 X 7 X 7 X 51257 [ I’m afraid I could only think mathematically for this one; if it has to do with baseball, I’m out to lunch!]
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: POACHER => CHEAPO => CHAP, ROE
SLICES:
1. HOME RUNS => ROME, HUNS
2. OLD, CLOUD, COLD, ALOUD? [How does the sun shine aloud?]
ENTREES:
1. BEGS, HAT, GIVES => STEVE BAGGISH
2. BOB DOLE => BOD & BOLE
3. JOE BLOW => JOB & ELBOW
4. ALAN SUES => ALAS, NEWS [He died Dec. 1, 2011]
5. CARROLL BAKER => CAROL BAKER => CAROB & LAKER
6. ETHAN FROME => METHANE & FROM
7. GENE TIERNEY => GENT & EIRE
8. DON WAS => DOW & NAS [Never heard of him]
9. ART MILLER => ARM & TILLER => TILLER & ARM
10. PAT[rick] REED => PAR & TEED
11. JAY GATSBY => JAG[uar] & YA[CH]TS BY
12. TOM POSTON => TOP MOSTON => TOPMOST ON [I learned something…never knew he and Suzanne Pleshette had married!]
13. BIG BIRD => BIB & GIRD
14. KING KONG => KINK [APEMAN] & T REX’s {BANG A GONG]
15. LOIS LANE => LOIL SANE => LOYAL & SANE
16. ATTICUS FINCH => FAT! I CUSS! INCH
17. PAT BOONE => TOONE/TUNE; PAB + [Mike] LUM => PABLUM
DESSERT: CLOSE SHAVE => LOSE [WHAT YOU] HAVE
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DeleteGood question. "Sun shines aloud in my old Kentucky home."
DeleteHa ha ha, PL'th!
DeleteSchpuzzle: Initial letters of the numbers spell styles of hats: FEZZES, STETSONS
ReplyDeleteAppetizer: POACHER – R → CHEAPO – CHAP, ROE
Emp Slice: HOME RUNS → ROME, HUNS
Sun Slice: OLD – CLOUD (or CLOUT) – COLD – ALOUD (or ABOUT)
Entrées
#1: STEVE BAGGISH → BEGS, HAT, GIVES
#2: BOB DOLE → BOD, BOLE
#3: JOE BLOW → JOB, ELOW → JOB, ELBOW
#4: post-hint: ALAN SUES → ALAS (he died 1 Dec 2011), NEUS → NOOSE
#5: post-hint: CARROLL BAKER → CAROL BAKER → CAROB LAKER Never heard of her, nor of St John's food – I thought it was HONEY – thought St John ate the insects. And I thought BRUIN (UCLA player) was the proper noun. Lakers are the LA pro team.
#6: ETHAN FROME → METHANE, FROM
#7: GENE TIERNEY → GENT, EIRE
#8: DON WAS → DOW, NAS
#9: ARThur MILLER → TILLER, ARM
#10: PATrick REED → PAR, TEED
#11: JAY GATSBY + CH, space → JAG, YACHTS BY
#12: TOM POSTON → TOPMOST, ON [got from the image – not familiar to me at all]
#13: BIB, GIRD → BIG BIRD
#14: KING KONG → KINK, bang a GONG (T. Rex)
#15: LOIS LANE → LOIL (LOYAL), SANE
#16: ATTICUS FINCH → ATICUSS FINCH → I'm FAT! I CUSS! I've added at least one INCH!
#17: PAT BOONE → PAB + (Mike) LUM; TOONE → PABLUM, TUNE
Dessert: CLOSE SHAVE → LOSE, HAVE (lose what you have)
Alt.: CHEAT FATE → HEAT, ATE (heat what you ate)
Like "cheat fate."
DeleteThat had been what I was trying to do on Entree 5, geo: use Honey and Laker, and of course that led nowhere.
DeletePuzzerleria 8/10/22– 82 degrees
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: No Consecutive numbers in either. 580,087 is also some kind of a nucleotide variant?? Also is order number for a NIke cap. LOL.
App.
Chef 1- Poacher,
Bob= cheapo ingredients
Clive -Capers, ( I kept trying to make capers work) I think they might work? But i did not think Clive was one of those people.
chap–roe
P Slice:1 Big Wins- * Home runs–Rome/ Huns.
S2. Old, cold, clouds, Aloud- COCA-
E.1. Steve Baggish-Hat, gives,begs
2. Two– Bob Dole -Bod,Bole
3. Joe Blow -Job , Elbow—grease
4. Alan Sues–Alas–Nues-News
5. Carol Baker- Carob, Laker
10. Patrick Reed– Par–teed.
14. King kong -Kinks/ Gong “I am an apeman.”
16. Atticus Finch, L,m fat -i cuss .Added an inch.
17. Pat boone- Pam , Toone-toon. Pablum- via Michael Lum
Dessert: ". close shave-” Lose what you have.”
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteReally? The letters of FEZZES and STETSONS? Now I've seen everything.
Appetizer Menu
Chef #1: POACHER
Chef #2: CHEAPO
Chef #3: CHAP, ROE
Good one, Tortie! Keep 'em coming!
Menu
Slice #1
HOME RUNS
1. ROME
2. HUNS
Slice #2
OLD, CLOUD, COLD, ALOUD, COCA(Cola)
Entrees
1. BEGS, HAT, GIVES, STEVE BAGGISH
2. BOB DOLE, BOD, BOLE
3. JOE BLOW, JOB, ELBOW
4. ALAN SUES, ALAS, NEWS(NUES)
5. CARROLL BAKER, CAROB, LAKER
6. ETHAN FROME, METHANE, FROM
7. GENE TIERNEY, GENT, EIRE(Ireland; Her father, Howard Sherwood Tierney, shared his monogram with Harry S. Truman.)
8. DON WAS, 1. DOW, 2. NAS(abbreviation for NASDAQ)
9. ART(Arthur)MILLER, 1. TILLER, 2. ARM
10. PAT REED, PAR, TEED
11. JAY GATSBY("The Great Gatsby"), JAG(Jaguar), YACHTS BY
12. TOM POSTON, TOPMOST ON
13. BIG BIRD, BIB, GIRD
14. KING KONG, KINK(The Kinks), (Bang a)GONG(by T. Rex, 1971)
15. LOIS LANE, LOYAL(LOIL), SANE
16. ATTICUS FINCH("To Kill a Mockingbird"), FAT, I CUSS(I'd just cuss and not say it like that), INCH
17. PAT BOONE, TUNE(TOONE), PABLUM(Mike Lum)
Dessert
CLOSE SHAVE, LOSE WHAT YOU HAVE
Don Was(real name: Don Edward Fagenson)is a musician, producer, and record executive who formed the pop rock group Was(Not Was)with David Weiss(who would then be known as "David Was"), in 1979. Their biggest hit was "Walk the Dinosaur", from their 1988 album "What Up, Dog?". Don Was also produced recordings for Bonnie Raitt, the B-52s, and the Rolling Stones, just to name a few. Just thought anyone might like to know.-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Evenly divisible odd numbers
The numbers 580,087 and 72,836,197 are both evenly divisible by 29.
Name another, perhaps more interesting, property they share.
Answer:
The first letters of their digits, in order, spell headwear: "fezzes" and "stetsons."
(Five Eight Zero Zero Eight Seven;
Seven Two Eight Three Six One Nine Seven)
“Ab Ovo Benedicta” Appetizer
A Tale of Three Chefs
Three chefs all love preparing Eggs Benedict; however, they have all taken different approaches to their cooking.
Chef #1 is named Al. Al steals ingredients for Eggs Benedict all the time. There’s a small farm down the street, and somehow Al managed to steal a few chickens from the farm; after all, you need eggs to make Eggs Benedict! Al also catches salmon in the local lake, even though he doesn’t have a fishing license. You might use a certain seven letter word to describe Al.
Chef #2 is named Bob. While Bob is basically honest - all of his ingredients are paid for! – he goes out of his way to spend as little as possible for his ingredients. The other day he bought Tommy’s English muffins instead of Thomas’. Needless to say, the English muffins were stale. Take the word you used to describe Al, remove the last letter, anagram what remains, and you’ll find an informal term used to describe Bob’s ingredients.
Chef #3 is named Clive. Clive is a chef at the fanciest 3-Michelin-Star restaurant in London. His restaurant uses the freshest and most expensive ingredients. Butter is churned on premises. Lemons are plucked from the lemon tree out back, and are freshly squeezed. Clive’s restaurant has a special agreement with a local fishery which provides the tastiest fish eggs.
Take the letters in the word you used to describe Al and produce two separate words. The first word is an informal term that describes Clive. The other word describes an ingredient that Clive uses for his Eggs Benedict.
What word describes Al? What word describes Bob’s ingredients? What word describes Clive? What does Clive put on his Eggs Benedict?
Answer:
POACHER; CHEAPO; CHAP; ROE
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“Kill the Emp!” Slice
“Pull the shades, don’t answer the doorbell!”
Name a two-word term for “impressive successes.”
Swap the initial letters of these words to form two new words:
1. the locus of a particular empire, and
2. some “unwelcome visitors” to this empire.
What are this synonym, empire and “visitors?”
Answer:
Home runs; Rome, Huns
I’m Back-On-Track Quatrain Slice
Rising from a “weatherbed” mattress
Clearly nothing is under the sun, new or ___,
Nary thunder nor _____.
I’m now over the weather, and over my ____...
Praise! Raise warmth! Shine _____!
Provide the last word in each of the four lines of the quatrain above.
These four words consist of two rhyming pairs consisting of seventeen letters and five syllables.
Hint: The initial letters of the missing words are an anagram of the first four letters of a soft drink brand.
Answer:
old, cloud, cold, aloud
Clearly nothing is under the sun, new or old,
Nary thunder nor cloud.
I'm now over the weather, now over my cold...
Praise! Raise warmth! Shine aloud!
Hint: The first letters of the missing words anagram to spell "Coca," the first four letters of the soft drink brand "Coca-Cola."
Lego...
DeleteWell it could be the song-"Here comes the sun." shining aloud.
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ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:
All(most) in the (near normal) Family
(Let not this puzzling snnafu* mystify you)
ENTREE #1
A panhandler on a busy city street ____, holding out his grubby, shabby capsized ___. No one _____ him filthy lucre, only dirty looks.
Anagram the combined twelve letters in the three blanks to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
Answer:
Steve Baggish; (BEGS, HAT, GIVES)
ENTREE #2
Name a famous past person in American politics — 3 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. You’ll get a slang term for the torso or trunk of a human and a term for the trunk of a tree.
Who is this person?
What are these terms?
Answer:
Bob Dole; Bod, Bole
ENTREE #3
Name an average, ordinary man — 3 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Double the first letter in the last name. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the modified last name. Then reverse the order of two consecutive letters of this result. You’ll get what an average, ordinary man typically has, and the kind of grease he may use to help him keep what he has.
What is the name of this average, ordinary man?
What does he have, and what helps him keep it?
Answer:
Joe Blow; Job, elbow (grease); (JOE BLOW=>JOE BBLOW=>JOB EBLOW=>JOB ELBOW
ENTREE #4
Name a not-so-famous person in American television — 4 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. The first of these modified names is a word this person’s friends likely spoke in early December, 2011. The second of these modified names sounds like something bad that his friends heard during that time.
Who is this television personality?
What is the word his friends spoke, and the bad thing his friends heard?
Answer:
Alan Sues; "Alas!"; (Bad) Nues, ("Bad News") Alan Sues died on December 1, 2011.
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ENTREE #5
Name a somewhat famous movie star — 7 letters in her first name, 5 letters in her last — who studied acting under Lee Strasberg and was directed by Elia Kazan, and whose career lasted nearly 50 years.
Change her unconventionally-spelled 7-letter first name to its more conventional 5-letter spelling. Switch the last letter of this 5-letter first name with the first letter of her last name. You’ll get a food associated with St. John and Locusts, and a proper noun describing a cager who, before turning pro, was associated with John Wooden.
Both this movie star and hoops star are associated with Los Angeles.
Who are this movie star and hoops star.
What are the food associated with St. John and the cager associated with John Wooden?
Answer:
Carroll Baker; Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was a Los Angeles Laker); Carob, Laker
ENTREE #6
Name a title character in American novel — 5 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Move the last letter of the last name to the end of the first. Then move a duplicate of the new last letter in the last name to the beginning of the first name.
The result will be two words, in 7 and four letters, that belong in the blanks in the following statement:
“_______, an abundant chemical compound on Earth, comes ____ cows, termites, rice paddies, fossil fuels, coal mines, fracking and gas leaks.”
Who is this title character?
What are the two words in the blanks?
Answer:
Ethan Frome; Methane, from;
ETHAN FROME=>ETHANE FROM=>METHANE FROM
ENTREE #7
Name an Oscar-Award-nominated actress from the past — 4 letters in her first name, 7 letters in the last.
Her father was a successful insurance broker of Irish descent. He had the same monogram as a U.S. president who was his contemporary. The father said that if his daughter was “to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre.”
Switch the last letter of this actress’s first name with the first letter of her last name.
The first modified name is a word that describes her father.
Switch the order of ther third and fourth letters of her last name, then delete the three letters at the end. The result is the Gaelic name for the country of her father’s descent.
Who is this actress?
What are the word describing her father and the Gaelic name of the country of his descent?
Answer:
Gene Tierney; Gent, Eire
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ENTREE #8
Name a oughta-be-more-famous but very successful American musician, record producer and record executive — 3 letters in the first name, 3 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last.
You’ll get:
1. a term for a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States, and
2. the first three letters of a 6-letter acronym of an American stock exchange based in New York City.
Who is this American musician?
What are the stock market index and the American stock exchange acronym?
Answer:
Don Was; Dow (Jones); NASDAQ
ENTREE #9
Name a famous past person in American theater and literature, as he might have been known to his close friends — 3 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then reverse the order of the two modified names.
You’ll get:
1. a word for a lever used to turn the rudder of a boat from side-to-side which is also a word for a person whose work involves plowing, sowing, and raising crops, and
2. a part of boat operator’s body that is used in turning the rudder and to plow and sow.
Who is this famous past person?
What body part is used to turn the rudder, plow and sow?
Answer:
Arthur Miller; Tiller, Arm;
ENTREE #10
Name a guy who wore a green jacket for one year. — 3 letters in the first name (a shortened form of the longer 7-letter name), and 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last.
The first modified name is something he had to be under in order to wear the jacket.
The second modified name, followed by the word “off,” is something he did 72 times in the course of earning the privilege to wear the green jacket (which is what he has also done a few times since, to some golf fans who suspect him of, and even accuse him of, cheating).
Who is this green jacket wearer?
What did he have to be under?
What did he do 72 times?
Answer:
Pat(rick) Reed; Par, Teed (off)
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ENTREE #11
Name a famous fictional person in American literature — 3 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. The first modified name is now the abbreviated brand name of luxury sports car the title character might have driven had he lived another couple of decades.
Add a “ch” and a space inside the second modified name. The result (a verb and adverb) is what a haughty present-day descendant of this character likely does while navigating his watercraft indifferently across the bay, as those on shore watch longingly and wave their unreciprocated greetings.
Who is this fictional person?
What luxury sports car might he have driven?
What does his descendant likely do as those on the bayshore wave?
Answer:
Jay Gatsby; Jag(uar); Yachts by
(Jay Gatsby=>Jag Yatsby=>Jag Yachtsby
ENTREE #12
Name an oughta-be-more-famous actor in American television — 3 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. Then move the space between the two modified names between the seventh and eighth letters.
The result is two words that fill the third and fourth blanks in the sentence: “___ ______ was _______ __ casting directors’ lists of TV situation comedy character actors.” The actor’s name belongs in the first two blanks.
What four word fill in the blanks?
Hint: This actor played the role of a handyman in a dream from which Bob Hartley awoke, his wife Emily at his side, in a TV sitcom finale. About a decade later, this actor and the woman who played Emily wed.
Answer:
Tom Poston, topmost on
Tom Poston=>Top Moston=>Topmost on
Hint: Poston wed Susan Pleshette in 2001, eleven years after the finale of "Newhart " aired.
ENTREE #13
Just as a belt encircles a toddler’s waist, so too does another functional and sanitary article of clothing encircle a toddler’s neck.
Name a famous creature in American television — 3 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. You’ll get an article of clothing that encircles a toddler’s neck, and a synonym of “encircle.”
Who is the television creature?
What are the article of clothing that encircles a toddler’s neck, and the synonym of “encircle.”
Answer:
Big Bird; Bib, Gird
ENTREE #14
Name a fictional creature from the entertainment industry who is nearly 90-years -old — 4 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last.
The first modified name is the member of a British band that recorded a song about an apeman.
The second modified name is the third word in the U.S. title of song by a British band that is named after a dinosaur.
What is the fictional creature?
What are the two British bands and the two song titles?
Answer:
King Kong; The Kinks, "Apeman"; T.Rex, "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"
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ENTREE #15
Name a famous fictional character in American television and movies — 4 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last. You’ll get a pair of positive, complimentary adjectives.
The first sounds like a word that may describe a friend, family pet or a member of a royal court.
The second is more of a “low-bar” adjective that sets a minimum standard of what you might expect of your friend, or any anyone you know for that matter. For example, “My boyfriend may not have many good qualities, but at least he’s alive!”
Who is this fictional character?
What are the two complimentary adjectives?
Answer:
Lois Lane; Loil, Sane
ENTREE #16
Name a famous person in American literature and film — 7 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last.
Take the first name. Double its last letter, but delete one of two letters in an existing set of double letters.
Move the first letter of the last name to the beginning of the modified first name, then insert two spaces.
You’ll get the following phrase, one exclaimed by a faithful but frustrated dieter and/or exerciser standing in front of a full-length mirror, tape measure in hand:
“I’m ___! _ ____! I’ve added at least one ____!”
Who is this famous person in American literature and film?
What does the faithful but frustrated dieter and/or exerciser exclaim?
Answer:
Atticus Finch; "(I'm) fat! I cuss! (I've added an) inch!
ATTICUS FINCH=>ATICUSS FINCH=>FATICUSS INCH
ENTREE #17:
Name a still-living famous American singer — 3 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last — who in the mid-1950s was the headliner at a show in which Elvis Presley performed as the opening act.
Switch the last letter of his first name with the first letter of the last.
The modified last name sounds like the singular form of several well-selling things this singer recorded in the early years of rock ‘n’ roll.
Add a surname to the singer’s modified first name to spell a word the singer’s critics may have used to describe his recordings and performances.
(The surname you added belongs to a baseball player who broke an ethnic barrier in Major League baseball, and who was only one of three players to pinch-hit for Henry Aaron.)
Who is this singer?
What is the singular form of the well-selling things did he record?
What word may singer’s critics have used to describe his recordings and performances?
Who pinch-hit for Hank Aaron?
Answer:
Pat Boone; Tune (Toone); Pablum; Mike Lum
Pat Boone=>Pab toone=>Pablum tune
Idiomatic Dessert:
Dodging bullets in Dodge City
Take a two-word idiom with a meaning similar to “dodging a bullet.” Remove the initial letters, forming two new words. Place the words “what you” between them to form a phrase for what happens to you if you take the two-word idiom literally. What is this idiom?
Answer:
Close Shave; CLOSE SHAVE=>LOSE (what you) HAVE (A close shave results in losing the hair – on the face or leg, for example – that you have.)
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