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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Keyboarding & crime combined
What are these four words?
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Waiting For Godot Or Guffman Slice:
A waiter in the waiting room?
Saying one after the other sounds like something a doctor might give you.
What are these foods?
Riffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices:
Decide & concur, divide & conquer
Will Shortz’s October 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Edelheit of Oyster Bay, New York, reads:
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Use five letters to indicate the year that the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great dedicated his Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (in Ravenna) to “Christ the Redeemer.”
Reverse their order to spell the first name of a puzzle-maker.
Now name an alpine perennial that is also the title of a song featured in a late-1950s musical. The last syllable of the title is a German word for a five-letter color. Replace that word with the last four letters of its five-letter English equivalent. Move the last letter of this resultinto the antepenultimate position.
What is the German word for the five-letter color its English equivalent.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What year, in five letters, did Theodoric dedicate his Basilica?
What is the alpine perennial?
Note: The following seven puzzle Entrees are the brainchildren of our friend Greg VanMechelen. We thank him, and will likely publish more of them on this coming week’s edition of Puzzleria!
______ may be covered with dirt, while Senator ______ uncovered the dirt by releasing the Pentagon Papers.
Fill in the blanks with words that are
pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables — like, for example, “concur” and “conquer.”
ENTREE #3
Fill in the blanks with words that are
pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.
ENTREE #4
The surname of a missionary and explorer is the name of major Midwestern county that was named in his honor.
performed as a missionary. Replace that six-letter noun with a seven-letter surname that is pronounced the same but is accented on the opposite syllables — like, for example, “concur” and “conquer.” The result is the name of a microbiologist.
Who is the explorer, and what was his overseer role?
Who is the microbiologist?
ENTREE #5
Think of a pair of two-syllable words that are pronounced the same, except one is accented on the first syllable while the other is accented on the second.
Hint: The name of the past world leader who is associated with the musical instrument is also the surname of a still-living American pianist.
Judges at a callipygian beauty contest must be able to ______ _____.
Fill in the blanks with words that are
pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.
ENTREE #7
ENTREE #8
Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.
Dessert Menu
Deletion Dessert:
Suriname’s in the news
Take a five-letter surname in the news. Using the clues below, succesively delete the initial letters to form answers of 4, 3, 2 and 1 letters:
🔆____ roast
🔆A masked man on a diamond
🔆For gold, 1,948 degrees Fahrenheit (abbr.)
🔆Homophone of a small green sphere
🔆____ one’s time
🔆An auction action
🔆Prefix that sounds like a purchase
🔆Homophone of a small buzzer
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ReplyDeleteYes, welcome back, Lego! We missed you. Fairly easy puzzles this week, too. I only have problems with Entrees #5 and #6, but everything else I've managed to solve within the past hour. Sunday Puzzle was easy, but only once you find the right list. Has to do with a movie title with all the words beginning with a vowel(five words). Somebody on Blaine's Blog even said they had just watched the film the night before! Most of us had never even heard of it, though. Whenever you feel you're ready to provide hints for your puzzles, please do so. No rush. I kind of have an answer for #6, but they're not exactly pronounced or spelled the same, and it may be a NSFW answer, so I won't say anything further about it. Good to know you're feeling better, just take it easy for a while. Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and let's all take it easy too while we're at it. Sunday is a day of rest, you know. Cranberry out!
ReplyDeletepjbWillNowCheckOut"SoundsOfTheSeventies"OnBBC2(HopeIt'sAGoodShow!)
Glad you're back from the internet deserts giving us our just desserts. And thanks for the word callipygian, that's a new one for me (and the blogspot spell checker).
ReplyDeleteI had to look at my emails to figure some of them out, even though I sent them in the first place. There was some crackling obfuscation in the questions.
And Cranberry, one of the answers for #6 might be controversial, except for the Democratic Party. If WS can use the D-word.... And you noted spelling: all except one pair of the answers have different spellings. And I was surprised that the name was spelled the same, I originally thought it wasn't.
Like pjb, I'm stuck on only Entrees 5 and 6. Hit the right two words on the first try for the Schpuzzle. That was a pleasant surprise!
ReplyDeleteWas relieved to see the puzzles appear. What happened to SDB's appetizers (as indicated on Blaine's)? Will they show up next week instead?
Ooh, I missed the fact that I haven't solved the Slice yet, but have no time right now to try.
DeleteYes, ViolinTeddy, skydiveboy's four fine Appetizers will appear on this coming Friday's Puzzleria! It is probably a good idea to hold off on them for a spell since I have presented you all with a "short puzzle-solving week."
DeleteLegoWho'sThankfulForEverybody'sKindWordsAndWellWishes
Welcome back, Lego! What was the answer to last week's Slice? I think we solved everything else.
ReplyDeleteAs for this week, I still need to solve the Slice. For Entree #6, I got an answer related to "booty beauty", yes, NSFW. For #5, the first name of the more recent world leader can be anagrammed into a word that describes (hopefully!) something you did with your taxes earlier this year.
Tortie,
DeleteYes, you have solved ROSS #5. And the NSFW but AOP (Acceptable On Puzzleria!) "booty beauty" is a clever and close alternative to Eco's intended answer, which contains seven of the same letter.
LegoWhoNowHasBeenUnfortunatelyInfectedWithAnEarwormOncePerpetratedByKCAndTheSunshineBand
Thanks, Tortie! Your clue for #5 led me right to the answer! In case anyone else is having trouble with that one, I'll throw in another anagram clue: The world leader's first name can also be rearranged to spell the surname of a well-known actress that many fans have "really, really liked" over the years, whether she could fly, surf, or just ride shotgun with a known "bandit" in his car(to say nothing of the bit of wisdom she would later pass on to her son about life and chocolate).
DeletepjbSaying10-4,GoodBuddies,He'sEastboundAndDown,AndHe'llCatchY'AllOnTheFlip-Flop!
The answer for Entree 6 just hit me [given the discussion about being acceptable on P!], and the hints also allowed me to mostly solve #5, though I found TWO very 'past' world leaders who played the instrument in question. The only thing I can't make any sense of is the 'hint' about surname of the living American pianist----neither of the musician/leaders' surnames seems to bring up such a pianist.
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DeleteVT, confusing! I was able to find an American pianist with the surname of the more recent world leader, but he's deceased. The surname of the more recent world leader can anagrammed into the following two blanks, similar to a past Puzzleria! puzzle: Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon were ______. Walter was Jack's _____ in The Odd Couple and Grumpy Old Men. (The letters that fill in the second blank are the first six letters of a two-word country where you might find sloths and toucans.)
DeleteThe world leader associated with the first instrument is typically known by only one name. He's very famous for a phrase mentioning his name and the instrument.
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DeleteSorry to have confused, Tortie. I had originally used the WRONG instrument, and forgot that I had already corrected it, then using the wrong instrument again in the post that I made yesterday evening. Then, I even forgot that I had already corrected myself, and kept on posting just a little bit ago (hence all the deletions above) as if that instrument were still in question. Oh brother....woe is me!)
DeleteAnyway, the gist now is that I have the correct 'more recent' world leader, the right much older world leader, although I had written down two Presidents who also played the (correct) instrument, hence my inaccurate problem with the hint to which I referred. All a moot point now.
Good puzzle week. Have solved everything, with several creative answers for the Slice.
ReplyDeleteYippee, after writing down about two dozen foods and myriad things a doctor might 'give' us, the thing finally hit me, and the foods to make it also. So now I am completely done, for the first time in several weeks.
ReplyDeleteI'm done as well! And I see that Lego has posted the official answers from last week. Looks like the Slice was PORTRAY -> PLAY, so Paul was on the right track.
ReplyDeleteHard to believe we have an extra day this week before we must reveal our answers! Mom and I spent it doing some grocery shopping, and we went to Hardee's for supper, since they just reopened yesterday and we got some coupons in the mail today. They're definitely trying to give McDonald's a run for their money. I had the "Big Hardee"(sound familiar?)and perhaps an even better cinnamon roll(and messier)! They said it's supposed to be a more "state-of-the-art" Hardee's, but Mom said that just means it's cleaner than it was before. We only used the drive-through, though. Might be even more impressive inside.
ReplyDeleteMasked Singer Results:
BEETLE=JERRY SPRINGER
ROBO GIRL=KAT GRAHAM(Neither Mom not I really know her that well.)
The LAMBS(three of them)go through to next week.
Unlike VT, I sort of worked backwards on the Slice. The first, maybe one of the first things I thought of, sounded like two logical things a waiter may bring, so I'm going with that. Are they actually foods or something totally inedible, but associated with a night of dining out? I won't tell until tomorrow. This I know for sure. And if it turns out it's not right, then I've got a great alternative answer. But I have got an answer. BTW Be forewarned: I'm afraid I shall have to reveal my "NSFW" answer for #6 tomorrow. Don't worry. It won't be as bad as you think. It just sounded close enough(if not absolutely right)that I'll be fine with just putting it as my answer, and that'll be that. I'll be interested to see eco's intended answer, though. Probably be just as funny, if not funnier. Until then, hasta manana y'all!
pjbWillBeGladToFinallyGetToTheBottomOfThingsTomorrow
Like many on Blaine's blog, I had never heard of the movie that is the answer to this week's NPR puzzle; however, I've seen it mentioned twice since.
ReplyDeleteI think we all got the same NSFW answer. In any case, I'll be glad to put all of that behind us soon.
SHIFT ENTER > THIEF SIREN
ReplyDeleteEGGS & HAM > EXAM
DIV (504) A.D. > DAVID / EDELWEISS - WEISS + (W)HITE > EDELHITE > EDELHEIT
GRAVEL
Not really a football fan, sorry
I’m thinking it has to be LOUIS JOLLIET > LOUIS PASTOR > LOUIS PASTEUR, but I can’t find a Jolliet (or Joliet) County, just a Marquette County
FIDDLE & FIDEL (Castro); Peter NERO can really burn up the keyboard
ASSESS ASSES
ROCKETTE, ROCKET
DRIESELL, DRIZZLE
TRUMP > RUMP > UMP > MP > P
BIDEN > BIDE > BID > BI > B
OK, THEFT is correct, my answer used the I twice and the second T not at all, and confused the crime with the criminal.
DeleteCHECK, CUP -> CHECKUP was my first thought for the slice, but they're not foods. I like TREAT + MINTS = TREATMENTS.
Never heard of Louis Hennepin or his county, so that's another miss for me.
Parcells is a familiar name, but I didn't make the connection.
I think I got DRIZZLE and then searched for 'lefty dr'
Schpuzzle: SHIFT, ENTER, THEFT, SIREN
ReplyDeleteSlice: EGGS, HAM (EXAM) (Alt: Name two things seen at a restaurant that are not edible. Saying one after the other sounds like something a doctor might give you. CHECK, CUP -> CHECKUP) (Alt 2: TREAT + MINTS = TREATMENTS)
Entrees:
1. DAVID EDELHEIT; DIV AD (504 AD); EDELWEISS
2. GRAVEL (Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska)
3. PARCELS, PARCELLS (sports person I’ve actually heard of)
4. LOUIS (HENNEPIN), PASTOR; LOUIS PASTEUR
5. FIDDLE, FIDEL (Castro) (Hint: Peter Nero)
6. ASSESS ASSES (LOL)
7. ROCKETTE, ROCKET
8. DRIESELL, DRIZZLE (true to form, never heard of basketball guy)
Dessert: TRUMP -> RUMP -> UMP -> MP (melting point) -> P (pea); BIDEN -> BIDE -> BID -> BI -> B (bee)
Schpuzzle: SHIFT, ENTER → THEFT, SIREN
ReplyDeleteSlice: EGGS, RAY (fish) → X-RAY
Alternates:
1. SHINGLES (SOS chipped beef on toast), SHOT (of booze) → SHINGLES SHOT
2. DAIRY, SOLE (fish) → DRE (digital rectal exam) of prostate, SOUL (some docs give “soul”)
3. CATS (eaten in some cuisines), CAN (e.g., of beans) → CAT SCAN
Entrées
#1: DIV AD (504 A.D.) → DAVID; EDELWEISS → EDEL+(W)HITE → EDELHEIT
#2: GRAVEL, GRAVEL (Gra-VELL)
#3: LAUNDRY, LANDRY
#4: (Louis Hennepin) PASTOR, Louis PASTEUR
#5: FIDDLE (Nero), FIDEL (Castro)
#6: ASSESS ASSES Alt: BUTTOCKS, BOTOX
#7: ROCKETTE, ROCKET
#8: LEFTY DRIESELL, DRIZZLE
Desserts
1. RUMP roast, UMP (umpire), MP (melting point), P (pea)
2. BIDEN, BIDE, BIDE, BID, BI (buy) , B (bee)
SCHPUZZLE: SHIFT & ENTER => THEFT, SIREN
ReplyDeleteSLICE: EGGS HAM => EXAM
ENTREES:
1. 504 AD => DIV AD => DAVID; EDELWEISS => EDELHITE => EDELHEIT; WEISS = WHITE
2. GRA’/VEL & SEN. GRA/VEL'
3. PARCELS & BILL PARCELLS
4. LOUIS [JOLLIET] PASTOR => LOUIS PASTEUR
5. FIDDLE [NERO] & FIDEL [Castro, who apparently played the piano.] The hint: PETER NERO
6. ASSESS ASSES
7. ROCKETTE & ROCKET
8. DRIESELL & DRIZZLE
DESSERT: TRUMP => RUMP, UMP, MP [Melting point], P [Pea]; BIDEN => BIDE, BID, BI [Buy], B [Bee]
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteENTER, SHIFT; THEFT, SIREN
Menu
Waiting For Godot Or Huffman Slice
I went with CHECK, CUP=CHECKUP. EGGS, HAM=EXAM sounds better, though, now that I've seen it(and they are foods).
Entrees
1. DIV A.D.(504 in Roman numerals), EDELWEISS(from "The Sound of Music"), WEISS(white), DAVID EDELHEIT
2. GRAVEL(GRA-vel), (Mike)GRAVEL(Gra-VEL)
3. PARCELS(PAR-cels), (Bill)PARCELLS(Par-CELLS)
4. LOUIS JOLLIET(Joliet, a city, NOT a county, in Illinois), LOUIS, PASTOR(PAS-tor), LOUIS PASTEUR(Pas-TEUR)
5. FIDDLE(FI-ddle, played by NERO), FIDEL(Fi-DEL, CASTRO), (Peter)NERO
6. I also chose ASSESS ASSES(a-SSESS, A-sses). Looks like just about everybody did!
7. ROCKETTE(rock-ETTE), ROCKET(ROCK-et)
8. (Lefty)DRIESELL(Drie-SELL), DRIZZLE(DRI-zzle)
Dessert
TRUMP, RUMP, UMP, MP(melting point), P(pea)
BIDEN, BIDE, BID, BI(buy), B(bee)
Seems as though Seuss would be the doctor offering the EGGS and HAM, actually.-pjb-I-Am
WOW!
ReplyDeleteLots of fantastic alternative answers (from all of you clever Puzzlerian!s) to the Slice about the waiter!
For instance:
CHECK, CUP -> CHECKUP
TREAT + MINTS = TREATMENTS
EGGS, RAY (fish) → X-RAY
SHINGLES (SOS chipped beef on toast), SHOT (of booze) → SHINGLES SHOT
DAIRY, SOLE (fish) → DRE (digital rectal exam) of prostate, SOUL (some docs give “soul”)
CATS (eaten in some cuisines), CAN (e.g., of beans) → CAT SCAN
(geofan gets the trophy for being most-prolific!)
When I created this puzzle, considered using the following alternative version:
Name two foods a waiter might give to you on a plate.
Saying one after the other sounds like something a teacher might give you. What are these foods?...
but I thought that version might be too easy... a teacher doesn't give you as many things as a doctor does.
LegoWhoseIntendedAnswerIs"EggsHam"
This week's official answers for the record, part 1
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Keyboarding & crime combined
Rearrange the combined letters of two words seen on a keyboard to name a crime and what the criminal might hear after committing it. What are these four words?
Answer:
Shift, Enter (on a keyboard); Theft, Siren
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Waiting For Godot Or Guffman Slice:
A waiter in the waiting room?
Name two foods a waiter might give to you on a plate. Saying one after the other sounds like what a doctor might give you. What are these foods?
Answer:
Eggs, Ham; (Exam)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices:
Decide & concur, divide & Conquer
ENTREE #1
Use five letters to indicate the year that the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great dedicated his Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (in Ravenna) to “Christ the Redeemer.”
Reverse their order to spell the first name of a puzzle-maker.
Now name an alpine perennial that is also the title of a song featured in a late-1950s musical. The last syllable of the title is a German word for a five-letter color. Replace that word with the last four letters of its five-letter English equivalent. Move the last letter of this result into the antepenultimate position.
The result is a three-syllable German word that means “grandeur, grandness, magnificence or majesty.” It is also the surname of the puzzle-maker.
What is the German word for the five-letter color its English equivalent.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What year, in five letters, did Theodoric dedicate his Basilica?
What is the alpine perennial?
Answer:
David Edelheit; DIV AD (504 A.D.); Edelweiss (which means "noble white" in English)
Note: The following puzzle Entrees are the brainchildren of our friend Greg VanMechelen. We thank him, and will likely publish more of them on next week’s edition of Puzzleria!
ENTREE #2
______ may be covered with dirt, while Senator ______ uncovered the dirt by releasing the Pentagon Papers.
Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables — like, for example, “concur” and “conquer.”
Answer: Gravel, (former Alaska Senator Mike) Gravel.
ENTREE #3
If you could find his address, you might mail _______ to former football coach ________.
Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.
Answer: ...you can mail parcels to former football coach Bill Parcells
ENTREE #4
The surname of a missionary and explorer is the name of major Minnesota county that was named in his honor.
Place his five-letter first name before the six-letter noun for the spiritual overseer role he performed as a missionary. Replace that six-noun with a seven-letter surname that is pronounced the same but is accented on the opposite syllables — like, for example, “concur” and “conquer.” The result is the name of a microbiologist.
Who is the explorer, and what was his overseer role?
Who is the microbiologist?
Answer:
Father Louis Hennepin; Pastor; Louis Pasteur
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3
ReplyDelete(Riffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices, continued)
ENTREE #5
Think of a pair of two-syllable words that are pronounced the same, except one is accented on the first syllable while the other is accented on the second. The word that’s accented on the first syllable is a musical instrument associated with a past world leader, while the word that’s accented on the second syllable is the first name of a more recently passed world leader. What words are these?
Hint: The name of the past world leader who is associated with the musical instrument is also the surname of a still-living American pianist and pops conductor.
Answer:
Fiddle, as the Roman emperor Nero did as Rome burned; Fidel (Castro)
Hint: Peter Nero
ENTREE #6
Judges at a callipygian beauty contest must be able to ______ _____.
Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.
Answer: assess asses
ENTREE #7
The ________ kicked her leg so high in the air that it reminded the audience of a ______ launch!
Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.
Answer:
Rockette → rocket
ENTREE #8
Hoops legend Lefty ________ , after he retired and “hit the links,” always carried an umbrella in his golf bag along with his clubs, whether the weather forcast predicted a downpour or just a _______. Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.
Answer:
(Lefty) Driesell → drizzle.
Dessert Menu
Deletion Dessert:
Suriname’s in the news
Take a five-letter surname in the news. Succesively delete the initial letters to form words of 4, 3, 2 and 1 letters:
____ roast RUMP
A masked man on a diamond UMP (short for "UMPIRE")
For gold, 1,948 degrees Fahrenheit MP (the abbreviation of "Melting Point"
Homophone of a small green sphere P (a homophone of PEA)
Take another five-letter surname in the news. Succesively delete the final letters to form words of 4, 3, 2 and 1 letters:
To wait for BIDE
An auction action BID
Prefix that sounds like a purchase BI (sounds like BUY
Homophone of a small buzzer B (a homophone of "bee"
Answer:
Donald TRUMP; Joe BIDEN
Lego!