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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Striking a pose, strict silence in pews
The result is antonyms that differ only in their first letter.
What are these antonyms?
What are heard in church and on stage?
Appetizer Menu
Extra SpeShell Appetizer:
Hungry for pie, Lone Star, Buckeye & Cooper
1. 🍕Name an Oscar-winning actress whose first major role was in 1950.
The first letter of her first name sounds like a word that could precede “...you hungry?”
Without the first letter, her first name sounds like a two-word phrase that could precede “slice of pie.”
Her last name looks like it can be divided into two separate words, each of which could be a valid reaction to the question, “Would you like another slice of pie?”
What word could precede “...you hungry?”
What two-word term might precede “slice of pie?”
What two words could be a valid response to the pie question?
Hunger Games
2. 🎥Name a movie actress of the past. The first letter of her first name sounds like a word that could precede “you hungry?” Without the first letter, her first name sounds like the sixth and seventh words of a response that metaphorically (hopefully!) describes someone who is really famished! The eighth word of that phrase is an animal.
Who is the actress? What is the eight-word phrase? What is the animal? What is the animal’s food? What region does the animal appear in?
“Who Flew the Coop to Cooperstown?”
Remove the letters of his first name from his last name, and rearrange the four remaining letters. You’ll have a brand name often associated with sports.
Who is the baseball player? What is the brand name?
“Pairs,“ Texas?
🩰 Two words associated with a native of Lawnton, PA
🩰 A Disney dog and a Disney cat
🩰 The crowd at Walmart on Black Friday
🩰 A kind of food and how you might cook it
🩰 1984
What is the city? What are the word pairs?
5. 🏛Why might seeing Sen. Sherrod Brown or Sen. J. D. Vance on TV remind you of two cartoon characters? The answer is related to something the characters say.
Who are the two characters? What “words” do they say that might remind you of the politicians?
Note: J. D. Vance might actually remind you of two characters, both of the same species, who say the same thing. Either answer is acceptable.
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Mending Wall Slice:
Good fences make good “neigh”bors
Replace the fourth letter with a duplicate of the third letter and rearrange the result to form another word associated with fencing.
What are these words?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Little “Rock-the-Boat Spirit” or Big “Bolder”?
Name a U.S. state capital for which the name of another well-known U.S. city is an antonym.The second city has a population of more than 100,000.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take a possible nickname a large southern U.S. city that is not a state capital.
Rearrange the letters of the possessive surname after deleting an apostrophe to form an article of clothing. Name a homophone of a second article of clothing that is worn with this article of clothing
Rearrange the letters of the “city” synonym and insert an apostrophe to form a verb.
The antonym of this verb is the first name of a puzzle-maker. The second name of that puzzle-maker is a homophone of the second article of clothing.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the southern city’s nickname?
What are the verb and two articles of clothing?
Note: Entree #2 was created by Greg VanMechelen (Ecoarchitect), whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Entrees #3, #4, #5 and #6 were created by Ken Pratt (geofan), whose “Worldplay” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Thank you, Greg and Ken.
ENTREE #2
ENTREE #3
Hint: The second state capital is also the largest city in its state. The third city is not the state capital of its state.
ENTREE #4
PR, MN, OH, NC, DC, MO, WI, MS, NE, ND. What determines the order of this list?
ENTREE #5
What attribute is shared by: CA, IA, MN, NM, OR, PR, and RI?
What connects the USA with the small Czech town of Jáchymov, and via it to the scientist
Marie Curie?
Hint: This is not a word puzzle.
ENTREE #7
Name an eponymous U.S. state capital. The person after whom it was named was formerly known by a name five letters shorter.
miles, as the crow flies, northeast of, the capital.
What are the capital and smaller city?
What might stylists do to your hair?
Hint: The two cities are situated in states two borders apart that begin with the same letter.
Take a six-letter antonym of a seven-letter U.S. state capital. Remove the first letter from this
antonym. The result, when pronounced, sounds like a historic U.S. trail. What are this U.S. capital, antonym and historic trail?
ENTREE #9
Name an eponymous Midwest U.S. state capital for which the name of a smaller eponymous U.S. Mexican-border city is an antonym of sorts, or perhaps rather a “rival.” The second city has a population of only 6 percent that of the capital.
Move the letters of the second city six places later in the alphabet. Rearrange the result to form a four-letter word associated with the words “Union” and “Confederate,” and a three-letter synonym of of a container associated with soldiers.
What are these two cities?
Hint: The smaller city was named for a mining pioneer, not a Democrat with the same surname who won a senate election against a future president after a series of seven debates.
Dessert Menu
100A5015050A100=?
Translate 100A5015050A100 into a well-known brand name.
What is this brand name?
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ReplyDeleteI just worked out the Schpuzzle. Haven't yet read anything else. As a hint, I might say that it would help to have been Catholic (not that I ever was.)
A synonym of one of the Schpuzzle antonyms might serve as a hint for at least two of the slow but sure puzzles, and is an anagram of a sports (and/or military) term.
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew which ones, Paul, because I could solve only Tortie's first three.
DeleteIn that case, you've already solved both of the ones I had in mind.
DeleteWell, I will be interested on Wed to find out what your hint was and to which two Apps it applied.
DeleteARE + EAT A (slice of pie) + MORE / NO = RITA MORENO
DeleteARE + EAT A (horse) => RITA HAYWORTH (WEST - SE + HOR)
Reminded me of "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid".
LOVELY (anagram of VOLLEY) is a synonym of COMELY (derived from COMEDY) which is an antonym of HOMELY (derived from HOMILY).
"Serve" served as a hint for "volley".
Quite brilliant Paul. And you would think a former," person of the cloth,"would know the word Homily.
DeletePaul can i assume your initial clues are usually pointed at the first puzzle?
DeleteMy initial clues are usually pointed at whatever puzzle I happen to solve first.
DeleteAnother good Friday to all!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. I overslept a little(quite late getting to bed after trying in vain to get much of the puzzles this week), but Mom obviously didn't get enough sleep because she slept long enough we couldn't even really have one of our box meals for supper, or even go to a drive through somewhere! I know we weren't going out to eat with Bryan and Renae because they actually decided to go to the condo in FL for the first week of 2023. I know this because yesterday they called to say they were on their way there, but they got to Prattville when they finally realized they forgot the key to get in! There's been some confusion about how to get in the room lately, changing of the code and whatnot. I hope they finally made it by now. Mom hasn't said if they called back today. Anyway, we fixed our own suppers independently tonight. She had hers, I had mine. I also actually got to watch "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" with Mom in the room asleep. She never has liked the show, so I took a little risk. After all, she could have woke up and told me to change it, but she didn't, even though she did wake up before the second episode was over. Too tired to complain, I guess.
Now for this week's conundrums.
Tough ones this week. Like VT, only managed to get the first three of Tortie's offerings. I do have an issue regarding the second syllable of the actress's last name in #2. Although I pretty much got her name up to that point, the "four-letter region in the USA" seems quite confusing. Unless I have the wrong actress in mind(and I'm pretty sure I don't), that last syllable could have had a much better worded way of getting to it. I know if I had created the puzzle, I would have(hopefully not TMI)simply alluded to it being an anagram for another word which is a synonym for a word associated with actresses or acting in general, only as a verb. Otherwise, I don't really get how whatever is being suggested in that part of the puzzle is supposed to lead to the final syllable. I'll explain my idea on Wednesday if you will. The Entrees seem uncharacteristically difficult this week. I could only really solve #1 and #8, and even then I have everything in #1 except the musician's surname, and to that end, the corresponding article of clothing. I also solved the Dessert, which proved much easier than I had initially thought. Lego, please don't forget to provide hints for everything else. PLEASE!
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and let's all have a great weekend(and rest of the year, for that matter). Cranberry out!
pjbKnowsWhyTheA'sAreInTheDessert,ButHe'sNotTelling(MusicalClue:BillyJoel,BruceSpringsteen,AndrewGold,ChuckBerry,TheClash,TheBangles,TheStrayCats,AndPossiblyMany,ManyMore!)
pjb, I'm confused about your comments about App #2. Sure, there are easier ways of deriving the second syllable, but I decided to connect it all to the animal. The only common anagram for the second syllable I can come up with doesn't have anything to do with acting, unless I'm missing something (I probably am!).
DeleteThe four-letter region is a direction, if that helps. In any case, thank you for your constructive comments. Sometimes it's hard to know as a puzzlemaker whether to be cute or just more straightforward.
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DeleteI understand what you mean now about the other word. That's certainly a valid way of getting to the syllable. It didn't even occur to me, however.
DeleteHere's a way to connect the second syllable to the animal: The animal wears something that is used in a certain game. Think about what you do with that item in the game, and anagram that action. You'll have the second syllable.
BTW Both that action and its synonym can be used as a verb or a noun. If you're still puzzled about the connection to "actresses or acting in general", I might suggest checking a list of synonyms for the action. I'm sure one word will definitely stand out from all others once you see it.
DeletepjbWillFinallyBeGladToFindOutAboutTortie'sMysteryAnimalOnWednesday
PJB why is Alabama supposedly rooting for TCU? According to GMA-the nation's authority.
Deletecranberry, I did figure out what you meant eventually. It just didn't hit me the first time around (another clue to the word). As to the other word, there was a puzzle recently that dealt with the synonym. None of us figured it out, although (I believe) Paul was closest.
DeleteIn any case, I'm pretty sure your answer is correct.
TortieWhoThinksTheGameVariationOfTheSecondSyllableIsProbablyTheLeastConvolutedButThoughtOfItTooLate
Plantsmith, what is TCU? I'm guessing this is sports related.
DeleteIt is the team from Fort Worth, Texas- Texas Christian University - the Horned Frogs (what a mascot) who are playing to night against the Georgia UGA Bulldogs for the national championship.
DeleteI predict someone whose teams name ends in "ogs" will win!
DeleteI'm surprised GMA would report on who Alabama is rooting for, but not why. Do Alabama and UGA have a famous rivalry of some sorts?
Oh yes Alabama is a perennial SEC champion -south east conference. Also Auburn is in there. Sounds like a puzzle in the making. Ogs."The Ogs have it." To me it is hard to get used to another Dawg team after u Wash. huskies.
DeleteI am afraid the Georgia Bulldogs can also be Georgia bullies in my opinion. That kind of score is unsportsmanlike- 65-7. I actually was hoping the Hornfrogs might leap into contention. Last time there was a back-to back championship was when Alabama won in 2011 and 2012. If you order the championship hat for 35 dollars you get free shipping.
DeleteI second that notion that this week, it is the ENTREES that are the toughies. (If I have the correct Slice answer, it was remarkably easy. Dessert, also)....I am stuck on Entrees 2, 3, 4, 7. and am not sure if I have an oversimplified answer for #5. Usually, this kind of thing never happens.
ReplyDeleteMy progress this week is really pathetic! Not only am I struggling with the Entrees -- I think having non-Lego Entrees makes things more difficult -- I can't even get the Schpuzzle or Dessert! I did just figure out the Slice, however, after working on it for a minute or so.
ReplyDeleteI came up with a Riff-off for the Slice, but won't even bother to post it until we make more progress on the official puzzles this week.
Also struggling. In app. three i would have six left over letters in my name- from the Cooperstown boys -possible pseudo -alternate.?It is also bad when you can't solve your own puzzles- as has happened to me.
ReplyDeleteThe letters from the first name should be removed from the last name, and then the four letters remaining in the last name should be anagrammed to produce the brand name. Curious about your answer, though!
DeleteIn any case, good to see you again, Plantsmith!
Yes, always good to see Plantsmith posting.
DeleteLegoWhoAddsThatTheBrandNameIsAssociatedWithVictory
I was able to figure out the Dessert yesterday, so now I need to figure out the Schpuzzle, Entrees #2, 3, and 5. I also don't have the bonus for #4. There are a few alternates that I have for 2 & 3, but nothing that quite works with the instructions.
ReplyDeleteE2. Are there more than two Disneylands?
ReplyDeleteLooks like there are three: in addition to the one in CA, there's one in Paris and one in Hong Kong.
DeleteI thought I might be making progress on the Schpuzzle today. I thought of a really obvious thing to hear in church that I didn't think of before. Changing the fourth letter also worked, but nothing worked after that.
Hope we get some hints for the tough puzzles this week!
The two sites are natural, not human made. And there is no entry fee to visit either. Big hint: this planet is not the only one to have these two sites.
DeleteTortie, don't forget my 'hint' above re the Schpuzzle about the Catholic church. At least, that was why I even thought of the church word!
DeleteCatholics are into confession, but think these are silent?
Delete"Confession" was the obvious Catholic word that took me forever to think of.
DeleteTuesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Each of the four words contains six letters.
Change the fifth letter of something heard in church to get a "corny" food.
Extra SpeShell Appetizer:
(All hints are compliments of Tortitude. Thanks, Tortie.)
1.
The actress’ last name anagrams to that of another actress of the past who had much lighter hair in the 1950s than the actress in this puzzle.
2.
Think of a rhyme for the animal’s food. Place that before the name of the region, and you’ll have another movie actress of the past.
3.
This person was the answer to a Puzzleria! puzzle from the very early days of the blog.
4.
Disney dog? Disney cat? You might prefer “That’s So Raven” on Disney+. In any case, I hope you can solve this immediately; if not, I hope you can solve it under The Wire!
5.
Hearing either politician on the radio won’t help you with this puzzle, although reading a newspaper or Web article about them might. If you don’t solve this and then realize it was easy, you might repeat the first cartoon character’s catchphrase.
Mending Wall Slice:
One of the two words describes Walters and Streisand.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
ENTREE #1
The image is a photo of Al.
I invite Greg and Ken to provide additional puzzle hints for their riffs #2 through #6, if they wish.
ENTREE #7
The two things stylists might do to your hair are 4 and 5 letters, both beginning with a "t".
ENTREE #8
"Surely" you have solved this riff already.
ENTREE #9
Name an eponymous Midwest U.S. state capital is named for a prez on a fin.
Brand-X Dessert:
It's a well-known automobile brand name.
LegoCarryin'ClubsOnACourse
Lego, is there any chance I could get your web address? I started to send you my next cryptic crossword, and it told me "some email addresses are invalid". Isn't it still "jrywriter.com", something like that? I saved everything as a draft just in case. Lord willing the address will be the last thing I'll have trouble with here.
ReplyDeletepjbSaysYouMayHaveToMakeTheFirstMoveWithTheEmailOnThisOne
cranberry,
Deletejrywriter@aol.com
LegoHopesThisHelps(AndWorks)
Updated progress:
ReplyDeleteFinally got the Schpuzzle. I have only barely heard of the church word. I didn't stumble across it in my research, either. I may have been better off concentrating on the stage word, but I also was not close on that.
Think I have the two sites for App #2; in fact, I had them all along! But I still don't feel great about the U.S. example. I think there is a better example that I am not thinking of.
Turns out I had an alt for the Slice. I have the intended answer now. Here's the riffoff I mentioned earlier:
Take a two-word phrase relating to fencing. Remove the first letter. Move the now first (formerly second) letter to the end. You'll have another word relating to fencing.
Tortie,
DeleteThat riffoff is far easier than the original puzzle. NPRworthy, IMHO. Good job!
pjbAlsoGotTheSliceAndEntree#9ThanksToTheLatestHintsProvided
Thanks!
DeleteI think maybe it is too easy for an NPR puzzle, but then again, there have been some pretty easy ones. I sent another puzzle to NPR yesterday. Looks like another rejection! Guess I can't feel too bad, as several people on Blaine's blog create good puzzles that are rejected.
One of these days I'll get one through...
I think i have sent in like 20 or so. Never heard a whisper in reply. But it is not on my bucket list either.
DeleteI think NPR has an East Coast bias. After all, who on the West coast has heard of Chesapeake bay?
20? Wow, that's a lot!
DeleteI think Chesapeake Bay is well known. My real sticking point is with the pronunciation puzzles. In any case, I liked the latest chemical elements puzzle, even if it was easy. I know many on Blaine's blog disagree.
i have to agree. It's part of the East coast bias as they always prefer the Boston accents.
DeleteNot hearing a reply to a puzzle suggestion is not necessarily a rejection, especially if you're submitting via the website. The first time I had a puzzle aired I only learned about it the Friday before, when WS copied me on the instructions he sent to the NPR intern who posts it on the website. Many months after I submitted it.
DeleteFrom that I learned his email address, and now submit to him directly. Usually he replies with a very kind rejection, occasionally with a "let me think about it," most often with a "thanks but I don't think I can use it," and very rarely with an "I like it!" Very rarely. And sometimes he doesn't reply at all. My batting average is way below the Mendoza line, I'd be sent to the minor leagues. 20 submissions is not a lot, I've had 20 rejections in the last 6 months!
I agree about the pronunciation; remember the puzzle where the word changed based on whether you emphasized the first or second syllable? I proposed a follow up using the names Marie (2nd syllable emphasis) and Murray (1st emphasis). He said he's always heard Murray as Mur-Ray, with a long a sound, not Mur-ree, like Surrey or curry.
Mary Tyler Moore's coworker was Mur-ree Slaughter, and I can't argue with 70's television.
I think Murray can be pronounced either way. I agree with you about Murray Slaughter, but I believe F. Murray Abraham is pronounced like Mur-Ray.
DeleteI also saw an NPR puzzle where supposedly Aaron is pronounced like Erin. Not in NJ it's not!
In any case, it's interesting about your experience. It looks like Will gets a lot more puzzle ideas than I realized.
Nice puzzles Tortitude, Eco and Geofan.
DeleteNPR is kind of Godlike. Unanswered prayers may still be in the works.Somehow- someway. Or maybe NPR has something better foryou.
DeleteI think this is my worst showing since I started to post here. Hopefully, I will do better with the (presumably) chemical elements/famous people Entrees planned for Friday.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: (post hint) HOMELY & COMELY; HOMILY & COMEDY
Apps: I’ll let Lego post the official answers to these, except see below
Slice: (post hint) SABER, BARBS (pre hint) SWORD, WOODS
Entrees:
1. WILL SHORTZ (must be running out of puzzles for him); HIRT’S TOWN; WON’T, SHIRT, SHORTS
2. POLES (North & South), NORTH POLE, ALASKA (pretty sure this is wrong) (also thought of another answer that doesn’t quite fit the puzzle, but I may make a puzzle of it later)
3. ???? Best I could do was DES MOINES (“The Monks”) & PROVIDENCE, or COLUMBUS & PORTLAND
4. All have capitals named after people. The order is the order in which the people lived. No idea on the bonus.
5. No idea. Best I could do was that CA has a bunch of cities that share the names of the other states mentioned, or cities in those states (e.g., there is a Minnesota, CA)
6. USA connection: mining silver -> silver Joachimsthaler coins -> gave name to dollar; Marie Curie connection: mined uranium
7. ST. PAUL & SAULT STE MARIE; TRIM, TEASE
8. CONCORD (NH), SCHISM, CHISHOLM TRAIL
9. LINCOLN, NE & DOUGLAS, AZ (ROT-6: JUAMRGY, four letter word: ARMY, three letter word: JUG)
Dessert:
CADILLAC (Roman numerals + A)
Re: cranberry's comments and discussion: The second syllable to App 2's last name can also be formed by finding a synonym for "cast" ("throw"), and then anagramming that to produce "worth". The other idea I mentioned is that you throw horseshoes in the game of horseshoes, and once again, anagram "throw" to produce "worth."
DeleteRiffoff answer for the Slice: "En garde" -> "garden"
For Entree #2 you correctly deduced the feature, but the city with a specific pole is Flagstaff, Arizona. From the city's website, "Flagstaff drew its name from a very tall flagpole made from a pine tree to celebrate our nation's centennial in 1876."
DeleteAnd there is a flagstaff- supposedly- on the moon?
DeleteSorry I did not provide hints. I thought I had, but on looking at the file I sent Lego, alas, I did not.
ReplyDeleteWithout any hints, Entrees 2, 3, and possibly 5 were unsolvable or me. Even with hints, Apps 4 and 5 eluded me.
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: HOMILY => HOMELY; COMEDY => COMELY, pre-hint
APPETIZERS:
1. RITA MORENO => "ARE", "EAT A", “MORE” & “NO”, pre-hint
2. I’M SO HUNGRY, I COULD EAT A HORSE => RITA HAY/WORTH [WEST], pre-hint
3. AL KALINE => KINE => NIKE, pre-hint
4. DEAL/SALE SHOPPERS/seekers/hunters DYSTOPIAN NOVELLA ??????
LADY/TRAMP/PONGO/NANA/PEG/JOCK/BRUNO/PLUTO/ ; FIGARO/MARIE/TIBBS/LUCIFER/OLIVER/CHESHIRE/
5. CURT or PUNKINHEAD MARTIN & BUGS BUNNY? ??????
YOSEMITE SAM QUOTE: “THE ONLY TWO THINGS A PIRATE'LL RUN FOR IS MONEY AND PUBLIC OFFICE."
SLICE: SWORD => WOODS [This must be an alternate answer, as I don’t see how the Tuesday hint goes with it.] Tortie’s RIFF: EN GARDE => GARDEN
ENTREES:
1. HIRT’S TOWN; HIRTS => SHIRT; SHORTS; TOWN => WON’T => WILL; WILL SHORTZ , pre-hint
2. NORTH POLE, AK? [I.e., every planet has two poles, north and south]
3. PHOENIX looking for HONOLULU which means "SHELTERED HARBOR” ?? SAFETY HARBOR, FL?
4. All their capitals were named for PEOPLE: San Juan [named after John the Baptist], ST PAUL, COLUMBUS, RALEIGH, WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, MONROE, JACKSON, LINCOLN, BISMARCK => ORDER IN WHICH THEY LIVED.
5. CALIFORNIA, IOWA, MINNESOTA NEW MEXICO, OREGON, PUERTO RICO, RHODE ISLAND => THEY ALL CONTAIN AN ‘O’ or TWO?? VOWELS: A I O I A, I O A, I E O A, E E I O, O E O, U E O I O, O E I A
6. LOADED WITH SILVER, IT WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE “DOLLAR” or originally the "THALER.” And where Marie Curie figured out that their first ‘dollars’ contained RADIUM and POLONIUM, located down in their mines.
7. ALBUQUERQUE, the DUKE OF….minus 5 letters => VALDES; TINT/TONE, TREAT ????
8. CONCORD => SCHISM => CHISM [CHISHOLM], pre-hint
9. LINCOLN, NE => DOUGLAS, AZ => JUAMRGY => ARMY, JUG, pre-hint
DESSERT: ( C)A(DI)(L)(L)A(C) => CADILLAC, pre-hint
1-11-23 Puzzeleria
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Extra SpeShell Appetizer:
Rita, Moreno —Are, more and no.
Rita Hayworth, “I am so hungry i could eat a horse. Hay, “ West, worth -Mae West
3.Al Sp(al)ding. Also last name is a sports equipment company that he started in 1896. (Alt.)Spalding sports equipment -Who knew?
4.
5.Homer and Bart, “No one wants to work anymore.”
Mending Wall Slice
Barb, Barr
ENTREE #9
Lincoln , NB, Douglas, Ar. tin, .
Brand-X Dessert:
Cadillac
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteHOMILY, COMEDY, HOMELY and COMELY(ugly and attractive)
Appetizer Menu
1. RITA MORENO, R(are), ITA(eat a), MORE, NO
2. RITA HAYWORTH, "I FEEL LIKE(or I'M SO HUNGRY)I COULD EAT A HORSE!"; HAY+WORTH(WEST, HORSE, and I just now got her wordplay---sorry I didn't see that before, Tortie!); My wordplay was simply WORTH/THROW(synonym for CAST as a verb, which is a group of actors as a noun, although as I said before, both can be interchangeable, as to cast actors for a show or one's last throw in baseball, horseshoes, etc.).
3. AL KALINE, NIKE
4. BALTIMORE(where Renae and Maddy have been this week, coincidentally), MOBILE ART(created by Alexander Calder of Lawnton), BOLT and MARIE, RETAIL MOB, MEAT and BROIL(couldn't figure out "1984"---"LABOR TIME"?)
5. BROWN, DEMOCRAT from OHIO(D-OH)=HOMER SIMPSON(D'OH!);
VANCE, REPUBLICAN from OHIO(R-OH)=SCOOBY DOO(ROH!)
Menu
Mending Wall Slice
SABER, BARBS(I do like SWORD/WOODS as well.)
Entrees
1. WILL SHORTZ, HIRT'S TOWN(found no real evidence of this being a real nickname for New Orleans, though), WON'T(antonym of WILL), SHIRT and SHORTS
2. NORTH AND SOUTH POLES, NORTH POLE(AK)
3-5 We appear to be not of one mind on these.
6. Joachimsthal in the Czech Republic(formerly Jachymov)was home to silver and uranium mines, where the Joachimsthaler coins were minted ever since the 16th Century. These coins gave their name to the German Thaler and the U.S. dollar. Marie Curie would later discover ore containing radium in a uraninite spoil dump from there at the end of the 19th Century, and win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry as a result.
7. ST. PAUL(SAUL), SAULT STE. MARIE(MI), TRIM and TEASE
8. CONCORD(NH), SCHISM, CHISHOLM
9. LINCOLN(NE), DOUGLAS(AZ), JUAMRGY=ARMY, JUG(tank?)
Dessert Menu
Nearly Palindrome Dessert
CADILLAC(all but the A's represent Roman numerals: C=100, DI=501, L=50)
A little severe weather moving into our area starting early tomorrow morning, with the worst of it said to be hitting Birmingham and pretty much East Alabama by early afternoon. West Alabama(where we are)will be affected between 9am and 11am or noon or thereabouts(hopefully not too badly affected, good Lord willing). Please pray for us.-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Striking a pose, strict silence in pews
Change the fourth letter of something heard in church and the fifth letter of something heard on stage. The result is antonyms that differ only in their first letter. What are these antonyms? What are heard in church and on stage?
Answer:
homely, comely; homily, comedy
Change the fourth letter of something heard in church and the fifth letter of something heard on stage. The result is antonyms that differ only in their first letter. What are they? What are heard in church and on stage?
Answer:
homely, comely; homily, comedy
Appetizer Menu
Extra SpeShell Appetizer:
Hungry for pie, Lone Star, Buckeye & Cooper
1.
“The Life of Pie”
Name an Oscar-winning actress whose first major role was in 1950. The first letter of her first name sounds like a word that could precede “you hungry?” Without the first letter, her first name sounds like a two-word phrase that could precede “slice of pie.” Her last name looks like it can be divided into two separate words, each of which could be a valid reaction to the question of “Would you like another slice of pie?”
Who is the actress? What word could precede “you hungry?” What two-word term might precede “slice of pie?” What two words could be a valid response to the pie question?
Answer:
RITA MORENO; ARE; EAT A; MORE, NO
2.
Hunger Games
Name a movie actress of the past. The first letter of her first name sounds like a word that could precede “you hungry?” Without the first letter, her first name sounds like the sixth and seventh words of a response that metaphorically (hopefully!) describes someone who is really famished! The eighth word of that phrase is an animal.
The first syllable of her last name is something that you could feed the animal. The second syllable may be determined as follows: Think of a general four-letter region in the USA that the animal appears in, especially in movies. The middle two letters of the region appear in the animal name. Replace those two letters in the animal name with the other two letters in the region, and anagram the result.
Who is the actress? What is the eight-word phrase? What is the animal? What is the animal’s food? What region does the animal appear in?
Answer:
RITA HAYWORTH; I’M SO HUNGRY I COULD EAT A HORSE; HORSE; HAY; WEST
3.
“Who Flew the Coop to Cooperstown?”
Name a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. The letters of his first name can be found in order and consecutively within his last name. Remove the letters of his first name from his last name, and rearrange the four remaining letters. You’ll have a brand name often associated with sports.
Who is the baseball player? What is the brand name?
AL KALINE; NIKE
In regards to Tortie's hint, Al Kaline was the answer to the second puzzle ever posted on Puzzleria! back in May of 2014!
4.
“Pairs,“ Texas?
Name a well-known city in the U.S. which can be anagrammed into any of the following pairs of words:
* Two words associated with a native of Lawnton, PA
* A Disney dog and a Disney cat
* The crowd at Walmart on Black Friday
* A kind of food and how you might cook it
* 1984
What is the city? What are the word pairs?
Answer:
BALTIMORE; MOBILE ART (Alexander Calder); BOLT, MARIE; RETAIL MOB; MEAT, BROIL; BLAIR TOME
5.
A Timely Buckeye State Puzzle
Why might seeing Sen. Sherrod Brown or Sen. J. D. Vance on TV remind you of two cartoon characters? The answer is related to something the characters say.
(Note: J. D. Vance might actually remind you of two characters, both of the same species, who say the same thing. Either answer is acceptable.)
Who are the two characters? What “words” do they say that might remind you of the politicians?
Answer:
SHERROD BROWN - HOMER SIMPSON (Democrat representing Ohio - ”D-OH” ? “D’OH!”); J. D. VANCE - SCOOBY-DOO (or ASTRO) (Republican representing Ohio - ”R-OH” ? “RUH ROH!”)
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This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
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Mending Wall Slice:
Good fences make good “neigh”bors
Take a word associated with fencing. Replace the fourth letter with a duplicate of the third letter and rearrange the result to form another word associated with fencing. What are these words?
Answer:
Saber (in competitive fencing); Barbs (on barbed wire fencing)
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Little “ ‘Rock-the-Boat’ Spirit” or Big “Bolder”?
ENTREE #1
Take a possible nickname a large southern U.S. city that is not a state capital. The nickname consists of a possessive form of a surname of a musician and a synonym of “city.”
Rearrange the letters of the possessive surname after deleting an apostrophe to form an article of clothing. Name a homophone of a second article of clothing that is worn with this article of clothing
Rearrange the letters of the “city” synonym and insert an apostrophe to form a verb.
The antonym of this verb is the first name of a puzzle-maker. The second name of that puzzle-maker is a homophone of the second article of clothing.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the southern city’s nickname?
What are the verb and two articles of clothing?
Answer:
Will Shortz; "Hirt's Town" (New Orleans trumpeter and bandleader Al Hirt); Won't, Shirt, Shorts
(Hirt's Town"=>Shirt Won't=>Shorts Will=>Will Shortz)
Note: Entree #2 was created by Greg VanMechelen (Ecoarchitect), whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Entrees #3-through #6 were created by Ken Pratt (geofan), whose “Worldplay” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Thank you, Greg and Ken.
ENTREE #2
There is an unusual site on Earth – in fact there are only two on the entire planet. Both are famous, sometimes in fact, sometimes in fiction. The name of a well-known US city is a specific example of this site. What is the site and what is the city?
Answer:
North Pole (and South Pole); Flagstaff, Arizona
ENTREE #3
Using a second meaning of one state capital, it might be looking for a place denoted by the meaning of the state capital of a second state, or of the largest city in a third state. What are these cities and their meanings?
Hint: The second state capital is also the largest city in its state. The third city is not the state capital of its state.
Answer:
BISMARCK [German ship in WW II], HONOLULU ( = “safe harbor”), ANCHORAGE
ENTREE #4
PR, MN, OH, NC, DC, MO, WI, MS, NE, ND. What determines the order of this list?
Bonus: What distinguishes DC, MS, and ND from the others in the list?
Answer:
The eponyms for the state capital (+ Washington DC) are in chronological order.
Bonus: The eponyms were still alive when the name was given to the place.
ENTREE #5
What attribute is shared by: CA, IA, MN, NM, OR, PR, and RI?
Answer:
There is a Judeo-Christian basis for the names; that is, all are named for people or concepts in Judeo-Christian religion, specifically:
Sacramento = sacrament
Des Moines = “of the monks”
Saint Paul [the Apostle]
Santa Fé = “holy faith”
Salem (from Jerusalem, possibly indirectly via Salem, MA)
Saint John [the Baptist]
Providence = God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny.
ENTREE #6
What connects the USA with the small Czech town of Jáchymov, and via it to the scientist Marie Curie?
Hint: This is not a word puzzle.
Answer:
USA => currency unit = dollar < thaler < Joachimsthal => silver and (later) uranium ores (pitchblende) from which Mme Curie isolated radium.
Jáchymov was predominantly German-speaking (hence generally called Joachimsthal) from its founding in 1516 to 1945 when its German-speaking inhabitants were expelled after WW II.
Also in Joachimsthal, Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer) wrote the 1566 classic work De Re Metallica on mining and smelting. In 1912, Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover translated De Re Metallica into English. Herbert subsequently became US President in 1928.
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
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ENTREE #7
Name an https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eponymous eponymous U.S. state capital. The person after whom it was named was formerly known by a name five letters shorter.
Name two things stylists at a salon might do to your hair. Rearrange these nine letters and place the result after the person’s former shorter name to spell the name of a city with one-twenty-third the population of, and 435 miles, as the crow flies, northeast of, the capital.
What are the capital and smaller city?
What might stylists do to your hair?
Hint: The two cities are situated in states two borders apart that begin with the same letter.
Answer:
Saint Paul, (Minnesota); Sault Ste. Marie (Michigan); Trim, Tease
ENTREE #8
Take a six-letter antonym of a seven-letter U.S. state capital. Remove the first letter from this antonym. The result, when pronounced, sounds like a historic U.S. trail.
What are this U.S. capitol, antonym and historic trail?
Answer:
Concord (New Hampshire); schism; Chisolm
ENTREE #9
Name an eponymous Midwest U.S. state capital for which the name of a smaller eponymous U.S. Mexican-border city is an antonym of sorts, or perhaps rather a “rival.” The second city has a population of only 6 percent that of the capital.
Move the letters of the second city six places later in the alphabet. Rearrange the result to form a four-letter word associated with the words “Union” and “Confererate,” and a three-letter synonym of of a container associated with soldiers.
What are these two cities?
Hint: The smaller city was named for a mining pioneer, not a Democrat with the same surname who won a senate election against a future president after a series of seven debates.
Answer:
Lincoln (Nebraska), named after Abraham Lincoln; Douglas (Arizona), named after mining pioneer James Douglas, not the politician Stephen Douglas.
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Brand-X Dessert:
100A5015050A100=?
Translate 100A5015050A100 into a well-known brand name.
What is it?
Answer:
Cadillac; (C, A, DI, L, L, A, C) In Roman numerals, C=100, DI=501, L=50, L=50 and C=100.
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