PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
????? ???’ll soon be ?????
Think of a healthful food.
Spell it backwards.
The last three letters of the result are an anagram of what a certain type of this less-healthful food started out as.
What are these three words?
Hint: Two of these three words appear in the puzzle title. The contraction rhymes with a healthful-yet-tasty food. The first word in the title would rhyme with that contraction and tasty food if it had a short rather than long vowel sound. (For example, “code” would rhyme with “god” and “sod” if it had a short-o instead of a long-o.)
Appetizer Menu
A Gem Of An Appetizer:
Multifaceted Crossword Diamond
1 Be subject to something bad as a result of one’s actions
6 Isolated spots
8 After the cross-country Greyhound pit stop
10 A “chapter” in the Qur’an
12 Reddish brown
DOWN
1 Type of beam
2 Yes we have bananas
3 Hard-to-find #54
4 Useless less les
5 Another one rides the bus
7 One before surf
9 Gullible one
11 Aloha
13 Your grade on this test
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Proverbial Slice:
Critters in English and French
Replace two consecutive letters with a “t” to spell an English word for a critter. If you instead delete the first and third letters and place the second letter in the midst of the remaining letters the result is a French word for another critter.
What are these three words?
Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices:
Claire Annette Funi Cello
Think of an eight-letter noun composed phonetically of two consecutive names traditionally given to girls. Remove the sixth letter and rearrange the result. You’ll get an event where you might hear the thing named by the original noun. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the 16-letter name of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the letters to get:
2. the surname of a Lebanese-American
author, and
3. a five-letter word that is the name of a publishing group that printed a 1972 paperback edition of the first author’s stories, and which also is the singular form of the missing word in “For even as love ______ you so shall he crucify you...” which appears in the second author’s most well-known work.
Who are these authors and the puzzle-maker?
What is this five-letter word?
Place two names traditionally given to girls side-by-side, in three letters and five letters. Insert an “r” in the three-letter word, resulting in a nine-letter noun associated with women.
Replace the first letter of this noun with a “g” and divide the result into two parts, forming the first names of the actor and actress who starred in an early-1990s sitcom with a title that alluded, albeit obliquely, to the nine-letter noun.
What are these two girls’ names?
What is the nine-letter noun associated with women?
What is the sitcom title and who were its stars?
ENTREE #3
What city is this?
What is the means of transportation?
ENTREE #4
Remove the sixth letter from the noun and rearrange the result.
You’ll get a word that describes St. Augustine and where he hailed from. What five words are these?
ENTREE #5
This word is composed of the name of a princess, a letter that sounds like the name of any French girl, and the name of a fictional French Madame.
What noun and three names are these?
ENTREE #6
II. Name Don’s brother and Ernie’s buddy to get what sounds like a nut.
III. Name Kanga’s kid and the first name of a comic book superheroine whose surname, if you ROT-9 it, is Kukla’s creator.
IV. Place side-by-side the first names of two actors who portrayed a Brazil native with the middle name Riddle who served 13 years in prison for bribery and fraud. The result spells a creature that is also a word for a person who serves or collaborates with another especially in the commission of base acts. Name these actors and creature.
Both are “persons of color.” Their surnames are both colors.
Place their first names side-by-side to spell an adjective associated with kings.
Who are these skillful people?
What is the adjective?
Dessert Menu
Self-Aware Dessert:
Dy(e)ing in style
What are these three words?
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Another week, another bunch of hours spent on Lego's brain workouts!
ReplyDeleteIf I have the Schpuzzle correct (and it's the only one I've looked at so far), then the 'what it started out as" isn't the last three digits, it is three of the last four digits. Do I have some sort of alternate answer?
Actually, I'm sure I have the intended answer, as it meets all the other (title rhyming etc) specifications.
DeleteThe "last three letters" is what I intended to say in the Schpuzzle. (But the second-last, third-last and fourth-last letters would also work.) If you use the last four letters you could get the plural form of my intended 3-letter word.
DeleteYou solved it. Nice work.
LegoWhoCongratulatesViolinTeddyandPlantsmithForTheirEarlyBirdery
Lego...duh....clearly, I wasn't thinking straight re my question above....can only claim the lateness of the hour when I did so.
DeleteSo VT- you late night point lady- do you have a Nissan Leaf -per last week- and how do you like it? I was thinking of getting one.
ReplyDeleteYes, Pl'th...I do have one. I like it, although am disappointed in the strangeness of the battery miles and how they can unceremoniously DROP even without air conditioning being on. I just had it in to the dealership to be checked over before the manuf warrantee expires, and they insisted that in the HEAT, some 'water pump' that I had no idea it HAD goes on to keep things cool, and that uses 'mileage.' So it seems to me one can't count on one's mileage, even if you start with a full charge. I.e. one could get stuck somewhere having to charge at one of those expensive chargers (like 40 cents per KW), and I don't even have the fancy smartphone app to do so. They briefly tried to talk me into a hybrid...NO thanks, said I. I want nothing to do with gas, oil, belts, spark plugs, etc.
DeleteOtherwise I love my Leaf! I named it "Redolf Valentino." Can you guess what color it is? : o )
Hold it, ViolinTeddy! I have heard of John Greenleaf Whittier, but not John Redleaf Whittier! The Red Leafs (sic) I've seen are usually on their last "stems," awaiting raking and bonfiring...
Delete(I have, however, read "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman Whittier.)
LegoWhoHasConcludedThatViolinTeddyAndPlantsmithAreBoth"GreenleafWittier"ThanIsHe
There is no grass, or w(h)its of any kind, involved!
DeleteGives "I was kissin' Valentino by a crystal-blue Italian stream" from the Bangles' "Manic Monday" a new meaning!
DeleteIndeed, Tortie. 'Tis a ditty penned by Prince, a native of my neck of the woods.
DeleteLegoWhoSeldomGotOrStillGetsToWorkOnTimeEvenIfHeHadAnAeroplane
And do you have a home charger for Redolfo. Sounds hauntingly close to Rudolpho. Coincidence?? Isn't the title sculpture one of Rodin's?
DeletePl'th, I actually call him Valentino; the Redolfo is, of course, a variation of Rudolph itself. No, I don't have a home charger, because I am home so much, I can let it charge for 24 or more hours at a time. In fact, I've gone only just over 2600 miles...the dealership almost laughed at me!
Delete??? So you just plug it into the wall 110V?? I have many friends with Prius's-- not a board game- who swear by them.
DeleteYup....it's a heavy thing and has to go upside down, so it's a pain (I have to support it with something underneath), but it works. The home charger must be nice,but on top of the cost of the car, it was just too expensive for me.
DeleteBigtime regret never getting to see Prince in concert. Though i did see Jimmy Hendrix Experience one time. Many many years ago and far, far away in Vancouver,B.C.
DeleteHappy end-of-the-week to you all!
ReplyDeleteI'm on my own 'til Sunday. Mom found out Tuesday that Bryan and Renae were headed back over to the condo later in the week, so she went to join them. I like to have more notice about things like this, and really I just thought I'd have my doctor's appointment Wednesday, and at the least we'd be eating out tonight. That's it. Would've been a lot more laundry and packing to do, obviously, if I had gone too, but my nieces didn't want to go either and they weren't forced to go, so Mom didn't make me go either. At the very least, without the kids it would've meant better sleeping arrangements for me, but I don't like just picking up and going somewhere for a few days, especially after the whole pandemic thing. I mean, Bryan and Renae were traveling quite a bit shortly before this and they immediately got COVID. Still might be a little risky. Anyway, I'm staying behind and probably doing some laundry just the same, and we went grocery shopping Wednesday after my appointment, so I've got plenty of food to last the weekend and beyond. Just solved the latest Private Eye Crossword, but the Prize Crossword won't be ready for another few hours, so here I am.
And now, my progress with this week's puzzles:
Got the Schpuzzle and Rudolfo's crossword(a little confused about 8 Across and 5 Down, though), got all Entrees except #4(the St. Augustine one), and I also need help with the Proverbial Slice and the Dessert(you'd think the latter would be easier). Looking forward to any forthcoming hints later on(feel free to second that if necessary like last week, Tortie!).
Finally, I got a new GAMES Magazine in the mail earlier this week, so I might be doing some more puzzles in that as well tonight. Gonna be real busy this weekend, but I will keep monitoring the blog(and occasionally join the conversation)should the need arise. You know how it is.
Good luck and solving to all, please stay safe, and if you can find anything good on TV this evening, "you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"! Cranberry out!
pjbCanFlipAroundAllTheChannelsWithTheBestOfThem(AndStillNotFindMuchOfAnythingWorthWatching!)
As of last night, I'm only missing Dessert, but Lego has posted a new Entree overnight that I haven't even read yet. Hints are always helpful in any case.
ReplyDeleteIn another news, two of four Will Shortz Puzzlemaster Decks are on sale at Amazon in the Kindle version for $1.99 each. I bought a third a few days ago when that one was one sale. Now I'm only apparently missing Word Riddles. I did notice that one puzzle I read was also printed in The New York Times, which we subscribe to, so it's possible that all of the puzzles have been (or will be) NYT/NPR puzzles.
If you decide to buy, make sure the books are still on sale, as the sales could go away at any moment.
I really shouldn't do puzzles right before bed. I kept thinking of the last Will Shortz puzzle I read, and also the Dessert. No progress made on either, nor sleep.
Puzzle decks?
DeletePl'th, Originally they were presented as card decks, but now they're in book form as well. In any case, I'm down to figuring out that pesky Dessert!
DeleteThankyou Miss T.
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ReplyDeleteHave solved everything (including the added Entrée #6). However, my 11-letter starting word for the Dessert does not closely relate to self-awareness (the split words do fit, however). So it might be an alternate answer.
ReplyDeleteThe toughest part of the diamond crossword was figuring out some of the clues.
Something I learned from the Slice: it appears that the French word for "walrus" derives from the Russian word морж (morsh) for the same animal -- see here. The same source states that the word for this animal in several other languages has the same derivation.
Russian, in turn, got the word from the Saami (Lapland and Kola peninsula) languages.
DeleteMerci beaucoup and Spasibo mnogo, geofan. Now we have learned it also... Well, kinda.
DeleteLego"WhoIsTheYaytsmanWhoIsTheYaytsmanWhoIsTheMorshGooGooG'Joob!"
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DeleteAnd what is the connection to Skunk Baxter???
DeleteRegarding the current NPR Sunday Puzzle:
ReplyDeleteJust in case you missed the correction over on Blaine's Blog, the original wording:
Name a well-known island. Move the LAST letter six spaces later in the alphabet. Read the result backward. You'll get where this island is located. What island is it?...
should instead read:
Name a well-known island. Move the FIRST letter six spaces later in the alphabet. Read the result backward. You'll get where this island is located. What island is it?
LegoWhoSuggestsThatWillShortzHireOurOwn"ViolinTedditor!"(ViolinTeddyThatIsWhoHasHadLoadsOfPracticeEditingMyGoogolplexesOfPuzzleGoofsOverTheYears)
Definitely needs the tedditor.
DeleteIt'a Deserted island.
DeleteVerily, I blush....
DeleteI did see that on Blaine's blog, but thank you for posting it here as well. Sometimes I don't like visiting Blaine's blog, as usually there's a slew of "I solved this before I finished listening to it" comments, along with some extremely esoteric hints, and I was struggling. I finally looked at it yesterday evening, and I"m glad I did.
DeleteI thought that you might be a good editor, Lego, but VT would be an excellent choice. Actually, I think just about any of us or anyone on Blaine's blog would do well. Certainly better than what's happening now, which is probably only Will looking at everything.
Sheesh, there sure have been a lot of mistakes on the NPR puzzle recently . If you listen to the episode, you'll find that two of the honorable mentions for the creative puzzle were disqualified for including incorrect letters. And I still think that "Claire" and the "Clar" part of "clarinet" don't sound alike (and Will seemed to pronounce those words like I do).
TortieWhoNotesThatThereHaven'tBeenAnyMistakesInWill'sNYTPuzzlesButThoseLikelyHaveALongerTimeBetweenCreationAndPublishing
If this is correct, those who are neither Puzzlerian! nor Blainiac, might be a bit miffed. Or, more precisely, - take miffed, change one double letter to match the last letter, divide the result in half, rearrange to get = Dim Fed.
DeleteEarly Tuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
The healthful food is a green veggie.
The less-healthful food is white, sometimes brown.
“Classic” Crossword Appetizer:
Hints available upon request. (I believe rudolfo woud be okay with this.) Ask for hints to specific clues you are struggling with.
Proverbial Slice:
The proverb involves needles and threads.
Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices:
ENTREE #1
Spell the first three letters of one author's surname backward to name an early Tom Hanks movie.
The last four letters of the other author's surname are an anagram of a synonym of "observes."
The five-letter word that is the name of a publishing group is what Jack broke when he face-planted.
ENTREE #2
"___ o' My Heart"; Sluggo's pal
ENTREE #3
'Tis a Swiss city... D'accord?
ENTREE #4
The 2nd-through-5th letters of the ten-letter noun spell a very rainy Hawaiian coastal city.
ENTREE #5
Folks are sometimes faced with this seven-letter noun... damned if they do, damned if they don't, for example.
ENTREE #6
I. Burt's one-time "squeeze," and any one of Iggy's bandmates.
II. That's "Don Everly"; Ernie was the cop, not the cabbie.
III. The "kind of a heated dispute or controversy" in baseball is also something that makes a scrumptious pie filling!
IV. One of the actors also portrayed Randle, fun-loving and looney; the other portayed Michael, brother of Sonny and Fredo.
V. The "colorful surnames" smack of Starbucks, MSU, and Pakistan.
Self-Aware Dessert:
The word related to style sounds like a word for an Arab chief.
LegoWhoWonders"ShouldPeterRabbit'sThirdSisterCottonTailBeRenamed(ToReflectHerRapidGrowth)AfterACharacterIn'UncleTom'sCabin'"?
I don't know about anybody else, but that Dessert hint really makes me freak out!
DeleteIn any case, I have now finished Dessert. It's a word that I've never heard before.
Got Entree #4, but that's it so far. Maybe if I had a hint regarding the place in the Slice, or the "dying" word.
ReplyDeletepjbStillCan'tBelieveThereWasSomeSortOfErrorInTheWordingOfTheLatestSundayPuzzleChallenge(WhichIStillHaven'tSolvedYet)
Death cab for cutie"
ReplyDeleteThe "dying word" is something that is "performed" on the deceased.
ReplyDeleteThe "place" in the Slice is a room in the house... one that (fittingly, given the current NPR puzzle) often contains an island.
LegoSaysItIsAGoodThingThatWeNeverHaveAnyErrorsHereOnPuzzleria!(RightViolinTeddy?)
Right, Lego-of-the-Wishful-Thinking
Deletepjb, is it time to remind Lego that there are no "R"s in Neptune?
DeleteTortieWhoNotesThatThePuzzleAnswerCouldHaveBeenPuttOrEvenPuttPuttInstead
Another hint for pjb: The "dying word" was performed by Jack Klugman on TV, but not on Tony Randall. (He probably did want to do this to Brett Somers after the divorce.)
DeleteTortieWhoRegretsLookingUpTheEnglishWordsTo"Alouette"AndAlsoWatchedWayTooMuch"MatchGame"AsAKid
Finally got the intended answer to the Dessert. The 11-letter word is rather obscure. A Google search yields only 82K hits, similar (per order of magnitude) to "isenthalpic" and "chronopotentiometry", terms likely not familiar to Puzzlerian!s.
DeleteI already had a fairly good alternate. In it, the 11- and 4-letter words fit well, though the 7-letter style-related word is a bit far-fetched.
OK, now I've got everything except the two words in Rudolfo's puzzle(5 Down, 8 Across). While I have figured out a word for both(the same word), I don't quite get the clues for either. If both are his attempts at "cryptic" clues, he's actually managed to confuse the resident cryptic setter here. Rudolfo, we need a little clarification on those, if you don't mind.
DeletepjbWillSayTheOfficialCrypticClueForTheWord(s)WouldBe"AboutClear",ThoughForTheMomentIt'sNotNecessarilyApt
In Rudolfo's Crossword Diamond, the clue for 8 ACROSS ("After the cross-country Greyhound pit stop") the solver must mentally add words to the effect of "What passengers do..." before the clue.
DeleteAs for 5 DOWN ("Another one rides the bus"), if "one after another after another after another..." keep riding the bus, a repetitive prefix is required.
LegoLambusBusBusBusBusBusBusBus
Tortie: I feel for you. "Alouette" is a PETA-nightmare.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: Asparagus; Sugar; Sap (Title: Maple Sap'll Soon Be Sugar)
ReplyDeleteAppetizer:
Across: 1. Incur 6. Oases 8. Rebus 10. Surah 12. Sepia
Down: 1. I 2. No 3. Car 4. Uses 5. Rebus 7. Sure 9. Sap 11. Hi 13. A
P Slice: Kitchen; Kitten; Chien
Entrees:
1. (Hermann) Hesse; (Khalil) Gibran; Rawson Scheinberg & Crown
2. Peg & Nancy; Pregnancy; Greg & Nancy, although a sitcom that fits the bill eludes me
3. Geneva (Switzerland); Train
4. Philosophy (Phil, Oz, Sophie); Holy; Hippo
5. Dilemma; Di(ana, Princess of Wales); Elle; Emma (Bovary)
6. I. (Dinah) Shore & Moe (Howard) = Dynamo II. Phil (Everly) & Bert = Filbert. III. Roo & Barb (Wire) = Rhubarb IV. Jack (Nicholson) & Al (Pacino) = Jackal V. Roy White & Al Green; Royal
Dessert: Autopsychic; Autopsy; Chic
No doubt about it. Rudolfo and Lego are the top two puzzle makers this week.
"Rudolfo and Lego are the top two puzzle makers this week" - Agree. Certainly WS was not. Shame on NPR.
DeleteSchpuzzle: ASPARAGUS → SUGAR, PSA → SAP, MAPLE; SAP'LL (rhymes w/APPLE) soon be SUGAR
ReplyDeleteAppetizer crossword
Across: INCUR, OASES, REBUS, SURAH, SEPIA
Down: I, NO, CAR, USES, REBUS, SURE, SAP, HI, A
Slice: (a stitch in time …) → KITCHEN, KITTEN (cat), CHIEN (dog)
Entrées
#1: RAWSON SCHEINBERG → Hermann HESSE, Kahlil GIBRAN, CROWN Books
#2: PEG + R, NANCY → PREGNANCY; GREG Harrison + NANCY Everhard, “The Family Man” [never heard of actors or series]
#3: GENEVA → GENE, EVA; – R → TRAIN
#4: PHIL, OZ, SOPHIE → PHILOSOPHY – S → HOLY, HIPPO
#5: LEIA, DI, ELLE (L), EMMA Bovary → DILEMMA
#6:
1 DINAH + MOE → DYNAMO
2 PHIL + BERT → FILBERT (I always called them “hazelnuts”.)
3 ROO + BARB (Wire) → RHUBARB
4 JAMES RIDDLE HOFFA, JACK (Nicholson) + AL (Pacino) → JACKAL
5 (Roy) WHITE + (Al) GREEN → ROYAL
Dessert, several candidates:
[post-Tue-hint] AUTOPSYCHIC → AUTOPSY, CHIC
Alternates:
WAKEFULNESS → WAKE, FULNESS [best alternate]
WILLFULNESS → WILL, FULNESS
INTERACTIVE → INTER, ACTIVE
INTERFUSION → INTER, FUSION
Really fine alternative answers, geofan.
DeleteLegoWhoPrefersThemToHis"Autopsychic"
Schpuzzle: ASPARAGUS; SUGAR, SAP
ReplyDeleteAppetizer (across words): INCUR, OASES, REBUS, SURAH, SEPIA
Slice: Proverb: A Stitch in Time Will Save Nine; Place: KITCHEN -CH + T; KITTEN; KITCHEN - K -T & move I = CHIEN (dog)
Entrees:
1. HESSE; GIBRAN; RAWSON SCHEINBERG; CROWN
2. PEG, NANCY; PREGNANCY; THE FAMILY MAN, GREG (Gregory Harrison), NANCY (Everhard)
3. GENEVA; -E -> TRAIN
4. PHILOSOPHY (Phil; Oz; Sophie); - S -> HOLY, HIPPO
5. DILEMMA (DI + ELLE + EMMA)
6.
1. DINAH + MO = DYNAMO
2. PHIL + BERT = FILBERT
3. ROO + BARB (Wire -> Fran) = RHUBARB (don’t know this as a baseball term, but know it as a baseball movie starring Orangey the cat)
4. JACK (NICHOLSON) + AL (PACINO) (both played Jimmy Hoffa) = JACKAL
5. ROY (WHITE) + AL (GREEN) = ROYAL (needless to say, I’ve never heard of Roy White before)
Dessert:
AUTOPSYCHIC (alternate clue: name a TV show with Shawn and Gus. Add two letters at the end that sound like a phrase used often in the show. Prepend a place where Shawn was locked into on one episode.)
SCHPUZZLE: ASPARAGUS => SUGAR; SAP [Title: Maple sap’ll soon be sugar]
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: 1 Across: INCUR; 6: OASES; 8: REBUS; 10: SURAH; 12: SEPIA;
1 Down: “I”; 2: NO; 3: CAR: 4: USES; 5: REBUS; 7: SURE; 9: SAP; 11: HI; 13: A
SLICE: KITCHEN => KITTEN; CHIEN [I’ll be darned if I could FIND the proverb itself.]
ENTREES:
1. RAWSON SCHEINBERG => HESSE, GIBRAN, CROWN
2. PEG & NANCY & R => PREGNANCY; GREG & NANCY [Can’t find the TV series to save my life]
3. GEN(E)VA => TRAIN
4. PHIL & ’OZ’ & PIAN (?) => => HIPPOLIAN
5. DILEMMA => “On the horns of…”, "DI", “L”, “EMMA”
6:
(I) DINAH & MOE => DYNAMO;
(II) PHIL [Everly] & BERT => FILBERT;
(III) ROO & BARB [Wire/Fran] => RHUBARB [Question: Google says Franklin Burr Tillstrom was Kukla’s CREATOR; Fran Allison was just on air with the puppet.]
(IV) JACK [Nicholson] & AL [Pacino] who played JIMMY HOFFA => JACKAL
(V) ROY [White] & AL [Green] => ROYAL
DESSERT: AUTO/PSYCHIC => AUTOPSY & CHIC [Like Tortie, I never heard of this word and it sure never came up in any synonym lists! Not until after the hints, whereby this could be done backwards, could I come up with the word.]
Once again, I clearly MIS-understood the Slice directions about the two consecutive words that rhymed with kitchen. I never thought to put together the two consecutive words that sounded different from each other (or obviously, I would have written down 'Stitch in Time')....I stupidly thought EACH word had to rhyme with kitchen. Sigh....
DeleteWhen I read sounds like, rhymes with, or (Egadz!) somewhat phonetically, ala E4, I just reach for the [stymied] key and move on.
DeleteMy wording was confusing, VT and y'all. Sorry.
DeleteLegoWhoDeservesToHearNotJustGentleReprimandsAboutHis"RhymesWithKitchen"WordingButInAdditionSomeSeriousBitchin'!
GB...I'm chuckling!
Delete8/31/22 88 degrees
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Asparagus—- Sugar//Sap (kept trying to make lard work)
“Classic” Crossword Appetizer:
1a Incur
6a Oases
8a rerun
10a surah
12. Cocoa
1d-I
3d-car
2d no
4d users
5d
11d.Ho. as in Ho ho,ho!!
13d A
Proverbial Slice:
Kitchen, Kitten, Chien (Dog) “Harder for a rich man””--- to get through the eye of a needle. “
Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices:
ENTREE #1
Crown, Gibran (Kahil), Hesse
ENTREE #2
Nancy– Pregnancy- Peg/Nancy
ENTREE #3
Geneva. Jen and Eva, Train
ENTREE #4
Philosophy Phil, Hilo, Sophie, Holy
ENTREE #5
Dilemma, Lady Di, El, Emma -Emma Thompson
ENTREE #6
I. Sally
2. Phil- Bert, filbert
I
Self-Aware Dessert:
Autopsychic– Never heard of this word.Autopsy, chic
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteASPARAGUS, SUGAR, SAP
Appetizer Menu
A Gem Of An Appetizer
ACROSS
1. INCUR
6. OASES
8. REBUS
10. SURAH
12. SEPIA
DOWN
1. I
2. NO(should've been a blank in the clue, actually)
3. CAR("Car 54 Where Are You?")
4. USES
5. REBUS
7. SURE
9. SAP
11. HI
13. A
Menu
Proverbial Slice
KITCHEN, "A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE." ; KITTEN, CHIEN(French for "dog")
Entrees
1. RAWSON SCHEINBERG
(1.)(Hermann)HESSE
(2.)(Kahlil)GIBRAN
(3.)CROWN
2. PEG, NANCY, PREGNANCY, GREG(Gregory Harrison), NANCY(Everhard), "THE FAMILY MAN", 1990(lasted only one season, never really heard of it)
3. GENEVA, TRAIN
4. PHILOSOPHY(PHIL, OZ, SOPHIE), HOLY, HIPPO
5. DILEMMA(PRINCESS DIANA, ELLE, EMMA BOVARY)
6.
I. DYNAMO(DINAH, MOE)
II. FILBERT(PHIL EVERLY, BERT)
III. RHUBARB(ROO, BARB WIRE, FRAN "BURR" TILLSTROM)
IV. JACKAL(NICHOLSON and PACINO both played JIMMY HOFFA)
V. ROYAL(WHITE and GREEN)
Dessert
AUTOPSYCHIC(AUTOPSY, CHIC)
Like others here, I too was unfamiliar with the Dessert word. The hints helped especially. I did immediately get the CHIC/SHEIKH part, but had trouble finding any words that ended with it. Quincy M. E. to the rescue, I guess!-pjb
Schpuzzle of the Week:
ReplyDeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
Schpuzzle of the Week:
????? ???’ll soon be ?????
Think of a healthful food.
Spell it backwards.
The first five letters of this result spell a less-healthful food.
The last three letters of the result are an anagram of what a certain type of this less-healthful food started out as.
What are these three words?
Hint: Two of these three words appear in the puzzle title. The contraction rhymes with a healthful-yet-tasty food. The first word in the title would rhyme with that contraction and tasty food if it had a short rather than long vowel sound. (For example, “code” would rhyme with “god” and “sod” if it had a short-o instead of a long-o.)
Answer:
Asparagus; sugar, sap (maple sap may become maple sugar, or, as the mysterious puzzle title (with it question marks replaced by letters) reads, "Maple sap'll soon be sugar")
Appetizer Menu
“Classic” Crossword Appetizer:
Multifaceted Crossword Diamond
Note: The filled-in Crossword Diamond grid appears just above this week's Comments Section.
Answers:
ACROSS
1 Be subject to something bad as a result of one’s actions: INCUR
6 Isolated spots: OASES
8 After the cross-country Greyhound pit stop: REBUS
10 A “chapter” in the Qur’an: SURAH
12 Reddish brown: SEPIA
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1 Type of beam: I
2 Yes we have bananas: NO
3 Hard-to-find #54: CAR
4 Useless less les: USES
5 Another one rides the bus: REBUS
7 One before surf: SURE
9 Gullible one: SAP
11 Aloha: HI
13 Your grade on this test: A
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Proverbial Slice:
Critters in English and French
Name a place that rhymes with a pair of consecutive words in a proverb.
Replace two consecutive letters with a “t” to spell an English word for a critter. If you instead delete the first and third letters and place the second letter in the midst of the remaining letters the result is a French word for another critter.
What are these three words?
Answer:
Kitchen; kitten, chien
"a STITCH IN time saves nine" (STITCH IN rhymes, approximately, with KITCHEN)
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
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Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices:
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ENTREE #1
Take the 16-letter name of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the letters to get:
1. the surname of a German-Swiss author,
2. the surname of a Lebanese-American author, and
3. a five-letter word that is the name of a publishing group that printed a 1972 paperback edition of the first author’s stories, and which also is the singular form of the missing word in “For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you...” which appears in the second author’s most well-known work.
Who are these authors and the puzzle-maker?
What is this five-letter word?
Answer:
Rawson Scheinberg; Gibran (Khalil); Hesse (Hermann); Crown (Publishing Group)
“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.” Khalil Gibran — “The Prophet”
ENTREE #2
Place two names traditionally given to girls side-by-side, in three letters and five letters. Insert an “r” in the three-letter word, resulting in a nine-letter noun associated with women.
Replace the first letter of this noun with a “g” and divide the result into two parts, forming the first names of the actor and actress who starred in an early-1990s sitcom with a title that alluded, albeit obliquely, to the nine-letter noun.
What are these two girls’ names?
What is the nine-letter noun associated with women?
What is the sitcom title and who were its stars?
Answer:
Peg; Nancy; Pregnancy; "The Family Man," (an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 11, 1990, to July 17, 1991, that starred Gregory Harrison and Nancy Everhard, lasted for 22 episodes)
ENTREE #3
Think of an six-letter European city composed of two consecutive names traditionally given to girls. Remove the fourth letter and ROT-13 the result to get a means of transportation.
What city is this?
What is the means of transportation?
Answer:
Geneva, (Switzerland); Train
ENTREE #4
Think of a ten-letter noun composed, somewhat phonetically, of a man’s first name, a great and mighty wizard’s name and a woman’s first name. Remove the sixth letter from the noun and rearrange the result. You’ll get a word that describes St. Augustine and where he hailed from. What five words are these?
Answer:
Philosophy; Phil, Oz, Sophie; Holy, Hippo;
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
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ENTREE #5
Think of an seven-letter noun that is not associated with cellos or clarinets, but is associated with horns.
This word is composed of the name of a princess, a letter that sounds like the name of any French girl, and the name of a fictional French Madame.
What noun and three names are these?
Answer:
Dilemma; (Princess) Di; elle; Emma (Bovary)
ENTREE #6
I. Name a Shore and a Stooge to get what sounds like a fireball, pistol or live wire.
II. Name Don’s brother and Ernie’s buddy to get what sounds like a nut.
III. Name Kanga’s kid and the first name of a comic book superheroine whose surname, if you ROT-9 it, is Kukla’s creator. The result sounds like the kind of a heated dispute or controversy in which baseball managers Earl Weaver, Billy Martin or Don Zimmer were involved
IV. Place side-by-side the first names of two actors who portrayed a Brazil native with the middle name Riddle who served 13 years in prison for bribery and fraud. The result spells a creature that is also a word for a person who serves or collaborates with another especially in the commission of base acts. Name these actors and creature.
V. Name a “Yankee” whose all-star sporting skills were fit for a king, and an “Arkie” whose soul singing skills are still fit for a king.
Both are “persons of color.” Their surnames are both colors.
Place their first names side-by-side to spell an adjective associated with kings.
Who are these skillful people?
What is the adjective?
Answers:
I. Dinah (Shore), Moe (Howard); Dynamo
II. Phil (Everly), Bert (either the Muppet or the policeman in "it's a Wonderful Life"); Filbert
III. Roo, Barb (Wire) which, if you ROT-9 it, is Fran (Allison, creator of Kukla and Ollie]); Rhubarb
IV. Jack (Nicholson) and Al (Pacino) both portrayed Jimmy Hoffa;
A "jackal" is a "dirty dog" who commits base acts.
V. Roy White, Al Green; Royal
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Self-Aware Dessert:
Dy(e)ing in style
Divide an 11-letter word for self-awareness in two, forming a word related to dying and a word related to style. What are these three words?
Answer:
Autopsychic; Autopsy, chic
Divide in two an 11-letter word self-awareness, forming a word related to dying and a word related to style. What are these three words?
Answer:
Autopsychic; Autopsy, chic
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ReplyDeleteSlice: Here in Hotlanta we pronounce kitchen- like kitch-an. Are you going to the kitchan-y'all? Hence : rich- man to kitchan.