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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Excalibur & high-caliber rhetoricians
Take a word for a writer or speaker who uses language skillfully and creatively.
What are these three words?
Appetizer Menu
Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:
Truth or Consonyms?
1. 🏰Name a fictional kingdom.
However, if you move the last vowel next to first one you’ll get a compound word for the thing everybody’s working for, according to a guy with the same surname as a former U.S. attorney general. Remove the third vowel in this compound word to get the name of a current popular recording artist and entertainer. “The Children’s Hour”
Change one consonant to name a character from a children’s book.
“The Spovin’ Loonful?”
3. 🥣Take the name of a popular singing group formed in the mid-1970s.
Spoonerize its two words. Replace the first letter in the second word with the letter nine places earlier in the alphabet stream.
What is this group?
What might be done several times a day at a Nordstom’s store?
Hint: The words in what is done at Nordstrom’s rhyme with the name of the singing group.
“Jerseys on an artist’s Canvas”
4. 🐄Name a famous Barbeque Steakhouse in Alabama that is frequented by a famous puzzle-maker. This restaurant – which consists of an abbreviation followed by a possessive surname – displays a jersey worn by a famous athlete, among other Gulf States mementos.
What is the name of the restaurant. What city is it in? Who is the famous puzzle maker? Who is famous athlete and what number is on his jersey? What is the spin-off eatery?
Plantsmithian Note 1: Bonus points for anyone who can identify the artist in the image, an artist whose name (if substituted for “artist”) would make our headline, “Jerseys on an artist’s canvas,” very alliterative indeed!
Plantsmitian Note 2: Appetizer #4 is more of a “reading comprehension test,” like they had on the SATs of the past. But all the answers to this Appetizer (or almost all) appear in the Comments Sections of previous Puzzleria! posts.
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Potable Hors d’Oeuvre:
“Who spiked my soft drink?”
The result suggests that the beverage may contain alcohol.
What is this beverage?
Red Rider Slice:
Black & white & riddled all over
What rides all over? What makes that possible?
Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:
Boiled stromboli in a storm
Will Shortz’s May 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Reiss, who’s a writer/producer for “The Simpsons,” reads:
the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. The result is two words describing what this place famously does.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names, in nine letters.
Replace the first letter in the first name with the letter following it in the alphabet, forming the name of a Greek goddess. Then remove the last letter of the last name and anagram the remaining letters to form the name of a second Greek goddess.
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Who are these Greek deities?
ENTREE #2
Name a place in Europe in ten letters. Swap the ninth and tenth letters. The result is the first name (as it appears on his birth certificate) of a long-running TV game show host and the first name of a model on that game show.
What is this place in Europe?
Who are the host and model?
What is the name of the game show?
Hint: The first name of the model is the same as her birth name. The first name the host used on the show differs by one letter from his stage name.
ENTREE #3
Name a European city in eight letters. Divide it in half.
Swap the third and fourth letters in the first part, then remove a vowel from that first part.
fourth letters of that noun. The result is a plural word that might also be described by the adjective – a dog that bites and a cat that claws, for two examples.
What is this European city?
What are the adjective and two nouns?
ENTREE #4
What is this place in Europe?
What are the characters’ names, and what is the title of the thriller?
ENTREE #5
Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters.
A homophone of those marks is a word used for units of weight of precious gemstones like diamonds, that are mined extensively in India.
What are this place in Europe, city in India and units of weight?
ENTREE #6
Take the common shorthand name of a place in Europe in nine letters. (The formal name of the place contains 17 letters and two hyphens.)
The result is two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do – not with a spur but with a key – when they need to get somewhere.
What are the common and formal names of this European place?
What are the two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do?
ENTREE #7
Name a word for an officious or inquisitive person, in eight letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the seventh and eighth letters.
The result is two words, a verb and proper noun, describing what a person who is
inquisitive about how to get a good night’s sleep possibly does.
What is this eight-letter word?
What are the verb and proper noun?
Hint: The proper noun is a 46-year-old company.
ENTREE #8
Name a place in Europe, in 13 letters, that is famous for its artwork. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the seventh letter and add a space between the fourth and fifth letters.
6 letters, describing what a visitor to this place does to get a better gander at the artwork (and to give their knees a break).
What is this place?
What is the three-word description?
ENTREE #9
Name a cathedral city in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the seventh and eighth letters.
The result, if you add a space someplace, is a two-word description for what a yacht does when you watch it from the shore.
If you take just the last four letters of the city and delete just the third one, the result is what those in the market for a yacht must do in order for “what a yacht does” to be accomplished.
What is this European cathedral city?
What does a yacht do?
What must those in the market for a yacht do in order to accomplish what the yacht does?
Hint: Just as one might see “stromboli” on a restaurant menu, one might also see this cathedral city on a restaurant menu.
ENTREE #10
Name a Chicago-based corporation, in 11 letters that maufactured kewpie dolls, slot cars and other toys.
The result is two verbs with the following meanings:
😠 To rage, to exhibit a violent passion, or to rush about or move impetuously, violently, or angrily, and
🥊To engage in a petulant or petty quarrel.
What is this corporation?
What are the two verbs?
ENTREE #11
Name a hyphenated place, in nine letters, that you can find in three European cities – Paris, France; London, England; and Istanbul, Turkey. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters.
The result is two words that may be related to this place:
💰A unit of currency that you might use to book a visit to any of two places in Muscat, Oman that have this same nine-letter name.
What is this hyphenated place?
What is the slang word?
What is the unit of currency?
Dessert Menu
X’s and O’s Dessert:
Publish... or Robert Parrish?
Name a defensive basketball strategy in two words.
Let A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.
with a letter equal to their sum.
Remove some punctuation.
The two-word result is the name of a past publishing firm and a word associated with it. What is this strategy?
What is the publishing firm?
What is the associated word?
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My go-to anagram machine is:
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WORDSMITH > SWORD, MITH (MYTH)
Ogden Nash tells us "a panther is like a leopard except it hasn't been peppered", but this webpage (https://pediaa.com/difference-between-panther-and-leopard/) would seem to indicate that the panther has been not merely sprinkled with pepper, but completely covered with it, so that the term "black panther" is a bit redundant. Anyway, the fictional kingdom is WAKANDA, and the recording artist is The WEEKND. (Who, along with Kendrick Lamar, performed "Pray for Me" on the Black Panther soundtrack.)
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As usual, I have no idea what you are referring to, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI just checked in on P!, and am happy to have solved the Schpuzzle already. Perhaps others will too?
Now to go start looking at the rest of it.....
Hey y'all. #4 Is more of a reading comprehension test like they had on the SAT's in the past.Do they still do S.A.T.s? But all the answers or almost all are in the comments section of previous posts.
ReplyDeleteCatching the "Daylight" plane to Seattle today. Heading to Westport where Internet is sketchy. Hope to fish a little.
Thanks, Plantsmith. Somehow I misplaced that note in my shambles of a shuffle. My apologies.
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OH- i thought i forget to read the "fine print. "
DeleteI wish i had caught the Spoovin Loonfull when they played the Greek Amphitheatre in Berkeley. Alas. I heard it was a great show.
ReplyDeleteWorking. through the puzzles.
ReplyDeleteFor App #1, the artist "misspells" the usual spellling of the word, so the last vowel shouldn't be there.
TortieWhoCaresMoreAboutByrds(Birds)AndBeatles(Beetles)
Thank you Tortitude. I have just now changed the text of App #1. The incorrect wording was not Plantsmith's doing but rather the result of my poor "overediting."
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Good three-days-before-Memorial-Day, y'all!
ReplyDeleteMom and Bryan left for the condo around 5:30pm today. I hope they stopped off to get her some new beachwear on the way. She kept going on and on about not being able to find her swimsuit before she left. She's not even going to do anything anyway, but use the hot tub(and maybe not even that)and sit on the beach! That's about it! It was just going to be Mom, Bryan, Renae, Maddy, and Leann's daughter Ava, and I just didn't want to go through with it again. Summer most likely, but not this weekend. Also, I've put on a little weight for this sort of thing, and I've had some Wi-Fi troubles of my own, never mind Blogger here lately. My phone has twice informed me that "Safari cannot open the page because it could not connect with the server", but somehow it got back to normal both times(I clicked on something, but I couldn't tell you what). Then I had to re-register on this Kindle, and almost never got my email or other settings back. As a result of that, I lost all my cryptic drafts, so I spent most of last night trying to put one back together from memory! Then of course, I had to wait for this week's P!, and here's my progress so far:
Solved the Schpuzzle(like VT said, others will probably get it easily), got Apps #1(would've mentioned the spelling issue myself, but Tortie beat me to it), #3, and(of course)#4(all but the bonus), couldn't get either the Hors d'Oeuvre(thought it was going to be easier)or the Slice(don't know where to begin), got all Entrees except #11(can't find anything about this "place", but I did at least get the currency), and I solved the Dessert(second easiest behind the Schpuzzle).
Lego and PS, DON'T forget those hints!
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and may we all have a safe and happy Memorial Day on Monday(and a safe return for Mom and Bryan). Cranberry out!
pjbIsThankfulTheGuyWhoWasJustOnTheJohnnyCarsonRerunShowingHisHugeDominoCreationNeverHadTheSameKindOfTroubleIHadLastNightOnMyKindle(RealTestOfOne'sPatience!)
Hello, all.
ReplyDeleteHave solved all the Entrées rather quickly, as well as Appetizer #2 (possibly an alternate answer).
For Appetizer #4 I immediately got the town (it is not exactly a city) and from it the artist, but not the athlete nor the jersey number.
So I used an unorthodox method to solve the puzzle. First I made a search of all the restaurants in that town and found the one that fits the puzzle description. Then I found its Web site and from it its contact info.
Finally I sent the restaurant the following email:
Hello,
Greetings from Rockville, Maryland. I am trying to solve an online puzzle that refers to your restaurant. This puzzle mentions that your restaurant displays a "jersey worn by a famous athlete, among other Gulf States mementos".
What is the name of this famous athlete, and what is the number on his jersey?
Many thanks in advance,
Ken Pratt
Found an image of the athlete with jersey. So if the restaurant replies to my email, it will confirm of my hypothesis. He is a local native.
DeleteVery resourceful! I figured out who it was from the food his name sounds like. I recall the name was also used in one of our puzzles a few weeks back.
DeleteVery good!
DeleteI remembered who the puzzlemaker was (of course), the football player, and the puzzle it referred to. Finding the jersey number was easy because I knew the football player answer. Only thing I didn't remember was the restaurant. I forget what order this stuff happened in, but I did see the restaurant on Google Maps, but I also searched for one of the pertinent terms on the website in Google.
Very creative methodology.
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#1. According to E.t. the artist recently changed their stage name.
#2. The children's book character has some common interests with King Charles 3.
#3. Adidas
4. The jersey is not as pristine as once thought to be.
Hi, everyone. I've solved most of the puzzles this week, although it's possible my answers for App #2 and the Slice are wrong. Totally stumped by the Hors d'Oeuvre.
ReplyDeleteMy tentative answer for Entree #11 works great if you don't swap the third and fourth letters, only the eighth and ninth. Did anyone else encounter this problem, or do I just have an incorrect answer?
ReplyDeleteThat was the trickiest Entree. Try looking up what remains if you go through the correct manipulations. It should show up as a word in Urban Dictionary. If not, then you may have the wrong answer.
DeleteThanks for that, Tortie. I get a slang word that fits the definition given in the puzzle only if I leave the third and fourth letters from the hyphenated word alone. If I swap them, I get a non-word, although the second (currency) part of the answer fits. But my answer is not tricky. Therefore, it must be wrong but perhaps it's similar to the correct one.
DeleteSorry about that. I should have said it was the most difficult, and not the trickiest. It's rather straightforward.
DeleteBefore I wrote this puzzle, I had never heard of the slang word that means “a good or fair deal” or “to enjoy oneself and have a good time.”
DeleteLegoWhoAdmitsThatMeansThatHeWouldVeryProbablyNotHaveSolvedEntree#11!
Oddly enough, I found the slang word in question immediately, and thus Entree 11 was one of the quickest for me. Apparently, unlike everyone else, I am stuck on #s 2, 4 and 6.
DeleteTortie and Lego, thanks. My hyphenated place name originated in a 1933 novel written by someone whose last name also names places found in London, Paris and Istanbul, plus many more cities. But again, this place name works perfectly if you switch letters 8 and 9 and leave 3 and 4 as they are. I can't figure out what other hyphenated place name it could be, so I'm quite perplexed.
DeleteVT, the place name in #2 is a car model (past) of a major car brand, and the last part of the shorthand place name in #6 is a different major car brand.
Thanks, as always, Nodd, for your nice hints. I was wrongly using just "car" in #6. I haven't applied your hints yet, but will try them later.
DeleteGeez, just solved #6...I have even been there (many decades ago.)
DeleteThe term in the Urban Dictionary that I found while looking for #11 has nothing to do with Lego's definition whatsoever. It has two definitions, one that describes a person and the other that is a slang term for a certain bodily function(or result thereof), and that's all I will say about that. Trust me Nodd, if you have the answer I think you have for the "place" spanning three different parts of Europe, I would say this is the wrong answer. Unfortunately, due to the currency being correct(I guess), it makes it very hard to find anything else that ends in this few letters in this order. Although, if it turns out we were right all along on this one, I would love to find out where Lego got the definitions for the first part, because I've only found the Urban Dictionary definitions, and they sure ain't right.
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Thanks Cranberry. That is helpful.
DeleteWhen I click on the Urban Dictionary link from Google, and scroll down, I see the "To enjoy oneself" definition, although the slang word has an "s" on the end. After that definition, it has the "A good deal" definition.
DeleteLooks like this word has a lot of definitions, kind of like "smurf."
Methinks I hath a character flaw.
ReplyDeleteI thought lego had made an error in ENTREE#6, but the error was mine. I was thinking STRATFORD-ON-AVON, which has 17 characters, but only 15 letters. STRATFORD-UPON-AVON has 17 letters plus two hyphens, as lego correctly indicated.
DeleteLate Sunday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
A respected Green Bay-born sportswriting legend, if you delete the middle letter of his first name, has all but the first two letters of the "word for a writer or speaker who uses language skillfully and creatively."
Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer: Truth or Consonyms?
With Plantsmith's indulgence, I shall attempt a few hints:
1. Remove the state postal abbreviation of a Mississippi River state to name the name of a fish in a movie.
2. Take product name you might find in your kitchen reminds some people of mules.
3. Take name of popular, once-in-a-lifetime singing group.
4. This puzzle is #4... so is the jersey.
Potable Hors d’Oeuvre
The non-alcoholic beverage is a post-WWII fruit juice-flavored soft drink.
"Some punctuation" is a hyphen.
Red Rider Slice:
The Brits have a better shot at knowing what makes what's black-and-white ride all over.
Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:
ENTREE #1
The first Greek goddess is a shoe
ENTREE #2
"I'll take Door #3!"
ENTREE #3
The European city begins with "The King of Beers."
ENTREE #4
The movie is not "Rear Window," but it is by the same director.
ENTREE #5
"I'm feeling a bit peckish... what time do they serve "Breakfarest?"
ENTREE #6
"The Bard"
ENTREE #7
The word for an officious or inquisitive person is an alliterative compound word.
The 46-year-old company has the same name as the Coach's successor Woody.
ENTREE #8
The place in Europe that is famous for its artwork is also the place where they decide who the next pope will be.
ENTREE #9
Steak
ENTREE #10
Stromboli, minus the oil (slot cars don't need it!)... put perhaps (if they take a corner too fast) plus a (wr)ecker.
ENTREE #11
Any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – an enduringly happy land, isolated from the world.
X’s and O’s Dessert:
Let the guards dribble and pass their way up to midcourt, then start seriously guarding them!
LegoLettingTheDaysGoByWaterFlowingUnderground...
The initial Schpuzzle word: If Green Bay used a cryostat to maintain the Tundra temperature, that language segment could be rearranged to name a Green Bay related figure who was and is an example of one most highly so skilled.
DeleteCoincidentally, and briefly, the names of this legendary figure and the legend in the Official Hint for the Schpuzzle have the same initials and the same letter distribution.
DeleteGot App #2 and the Hors d'Oeuvre, still haven't got the Slice, am now convinced the answer to Entree #11 is precisely what we thought all along, but now I have to wonder where Lego got the "enjoy oneself and have a good time" definition for that part of the name. Will have to check after I finish this post.
ReplyDeletepjbSaysThankGoodnessThisWeek'sSundayPuzzleChallengeIsMuchEasierThanLastWeek's!
Re #11: I'm figuring it's NOT a place you can go to on a ship.
DeleteThat word has multiple definitions. If you scroll down on the Urban Dictionary page, you'll see the definitions that Lego describes.
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DeleteI'm glad I checked that. I don't normally mess with the Urban Dictionary, but I had to in this case.
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I was thinking of "a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or "aft", part of the superstructure of a ship."
DeleteLike cranberry, I now have App #2 (had an alt before) and I also have an answer for the Hors d'Oeuvre. I am unsure about the Slice. I had an answer pre-hint, but the new hint makes me believe my answer is wrong.
ReplyDeleteMe too, Tortie (re App 2). And like you and pjb, the only thing I've come up with for the Slice doens't seem to go anywhere (i.e. to the conclusion of the puzzle)
DeleteAlso, I finally solved the Slice. (Lego's hint hit home, at last.) If I can think of a hint (not that I have), anyone still need an assist?
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ReplyDeleteTortie, the Slice hint just refers to different nomenclature here and in the UK/EU for the same thing.
ReplyDeleteOh, perhaps I do have the first part of the Slice, then....but have no idea what letter to change to produce the final answer.
DeleteIf you have the first word of the Slice answer, it is readily apparent which letter to change, so you may need to try a different word.
DeleteI have an answer that makes sense when changing one of the letters, but I can't see how the British hint works. The British equivalent of my answer is not black and white; however, one of its nicknames is black and white.
DeleteThe puzzle isn't literally correct if you interpret it to mean the thing that rides all over is always black and white; it isn't, even in the US. The thing that makes it possible for the first thing to ride all over is used in the UK but not usually used in the US, and that's why Lego's hint said Brits would have an advantage in solving that part of the puzzle.
DeleteI should say the WORD for the thing that makes it possible to ride all over is used in the UK but not usually in the US. The thing itself is the same in both countries; they just use different words for it.
DeleteI put my Slice comment above in the wrong place.
DeleteAnd I STILL haven't been able to solve Entree 4. I went through the ENTIRE LIST of the director's films, clicking on each title to see the main characters (hunting for names that had the third and fourth letters the same), and while I did find several of those, could never combine them with another character's first name to 'induce' a nine-letter spot in Europe. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteI have not been through the entire list, but I have tried many films and like you, have not had any luck so far. So don't feel too bad.
DeleteChange the first letter of the place name. You'll have the name of a well-known athlete.
DeleteI think the wording that they're both main characters is a bit misleading. One is, one really isn't. There's another character in the movie that I'd say is really the main character. Change the fourth letter of the main character in the puzzle to an "N", and anagram. You'll have the name of the main character of the movie.
So you're saying take the name of the character who you agree is a main character (and whose letters are part of the place name), change the fourth letter, and anagram to get ANOTHER main character, whose letters are NOT part of the place name? Thanks!
DeleteAt least I feel a little better, Nodd, that even you haven't solved Entree 4. No one had been talking about it, so I thought everyone else had. I'm not sure Tortie's latest hint will help me, since I haven't been able to come up with the European place name, and was thus attempting to solve backwards, as so often works. Not this time.
DeleteActually, all of the letters of the first name of the main character are in the place name.
DeleteHere's a new hint: Think of the band who is the answer to App #3. Now think of one of their most famous songs in two words. The first word in that title is the name of the movie. The second word describes the main character.
I appreciate the compliment, VT, but I had to chuckle at "even you." Whatever success I have in solving these puzzles is mostly due to the many hints that are available here plus the fact I don't work anymore and so I have lots of time to spend on trifles.
DeleteOK, Tortie, that last hint got me the film and the character. Many thanks!
DeleteNodd, great!
DeleteVT, the first character's name ends with the same letter that begins the other name. It's not a case where the third and fourth letters are the same in one character's name.
Oh, well, that might make some difference, Tortie. This means that the first character's name is only 3 letters long, right?
DeleteWait, though, my conclusion directly above doesn't jibe with when you said that 'all the first character's letters are in the place name." Since the THIRD letter is the one that gets wiped out, in favor of a duplicate of the fourth letter, how is this possible?
DeleteI JUST GOT IT! Was becoming pretty sick of the entire thing, but when my eye fell finally on the correct place, your athlete hint made me realize it was the spot!
DeleteThat song by the band in App #3 is my favorite of theirs, BTW. I also think the movie in Entree #4 was the first one that came to mind for me. Then all I had to do was look up the cast of the film, and there both names were. I obviously have never seen the film(nor do I care to), so I never really knew any other characters except the two main ones(and I only knew one of them by name for sure). Is it TMI at this point to add that there is one memorable scene in the film which you don't even have to have watched it at all to still know about it?
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Still need help with the Slice. Think my current answer is rather a cute alternative answer, as the word I'm changing to is commonly used here.
ReplyDeleteSee if either of these helps, Tortie:
Delete(1) The look of adulation on that bespectacled kid's face makes me suspect he might one day find himself in "what’s black and white and rides all over," either by choice or not.
(2) The "British" word you get after the letter change in the first word of the answer is derived from a longer word that is not especially British. In fact, what is described by the longer word is the subject of much "heated" controversy in the US. To form the longer word, you add a common suffix to the British word. The same suffix ends a number of other words, including a word for a kind of archive, a word for a kind of grave, and a place in Europe that is in the same country as the answer to last week's NPR puzzle.
Got it now. Sheesh! It was actually a synonym for my original answer.
DeleteI had had the same thing, Tortie....the 'synonym' for the Slice's phrase, until the light finally shone yesterday!
DeleteNow I finally have the Slice! Thanks, Nodd!
DeletepjbSaysWorkingOnThisWeek'sPuzzlesHasReallyBeenAGas!
My pleasure, Cranberry.
DeleteIt seems as if most have solved my Entree #4 by now. Congrats. The most memorable pair of characters in that movie were not the two in my answer. The two in my answer, however, both had more screen time than the character played by "Jamie Lee's mom," and probably had more screen time than even the "mother" who stabbed her, resulting in streams of perfectly good chocolate syrup swirling down the shower drain!
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Hee hee, for some reason, "PsychoLambda" strikes me as utterly amusing!
DeleteWouldn't it be interesting if that were actually the working title of that band's song? It fits perfectly!
DeletepjbBetterRunRunRunRunRunRunRunAway!
Lego, you say that the two characters in your answer "both had more screen time than the character played by 'Jamie Lee's mom'." In my answer, the character played by "Jamie Leigh's mom" IS one of the two characters whose first names make up the name of the place in Europe. Is that character's name NOT part of your answer, or am I misunderstanding your comment?
DeleteNot only was it chocolate syrup, it was Hershey's!
Agreed, Nodd. In fact, that was bothering me as I was trying to get to sleep (which I still haven't managed to do.)
DeleteSorry to hear you have sleep problems too, VT. I hope that by the time you see this you will have managed to get some zzz's in.
DeleteNodd and VT are, as usual, correct. The character played by "Jamie Lee's mom" is indeed one of my answers, not the character who was her amateur-sleuthing sister (whose name was very similar to the name of Frasier Crane's wife).
DeleteLegoWhoGotHisHerAndHisSheMixedUp!
Thanks, Lego, that was a close shave.
DeleteThanks, Nodd...re the sleep issue. I did finally drift off! The trouble is, my stupid circadian rhythms always want me to sleep in the afternoon....and even then, it is hard to get up!
DeleteMe too, VT. I like to sunbathe when the weather's good and it's one of life's great pleasures, but it's powerfully soporific and I have to use a timer to avoid burning when I inevitably doze off.
DeleteSchpuzzle: WORDSMITH, SWORD, MYTH
ReplyDeleteApp:
1. WAKANDA; (-> WEKENDE -> ) WEEKEND; WEEKND
2. (Post hint) BORAX, LORAX; (Pre hint alt:) SARAN, SARAH
3. TALKING HEADS; HAWKING KEDS
4. MR. BEANS, JASPER, PATRICK BERRY; BRETT FAVRE, 4; MR. FAVA BEANS (Note 1: JASPER JOHNS; 2: Puzzleria! from 3/2/23; I remembered the word “roommate” was part of that puzzle, and searched for it on Google for this website)
Hors d’Oeuvre: (Post hint) Hi-C (“hic”)
Slice: (Post hint) PATROL CAR; PETROL (Alt 1: COP CAR, COG; Alt 2: POLICE CAR, POLICY) (Fun fact: British cop cars are not black and white; however, they are called pandas.)
Entrees:
1. MIKE REISS; NIKE, ERIS
2. MONTE CARLO; MONTE (Monty) HALL, CAROL MERRILL; LET’S MAKE A DEAL
3. BUDAPEST; BAD, PEST, PETS
4. SAN MARINO; SAM (Loomis), MARION (Crane), PSYCHO
5. BUCHAREST, BUH, CARETS
6. STRATFORD, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON; START FORD
7. BUSYBODY; BUYS BOYD
8. SISTINE CHAPEL; SITS IN CHAPEL
9. SALISBURY; SAILS BY; BUY (Hint: Salisbury steak)
10. STROMBECKER; STORM, BICKER
11. SHANGRI-LA; SHNAG; RIAL
Dessert: HALF-COURT PRESS; HARCOURT; PRESS
The Brit cop cars I saw online when I was giving hints for the Slice were white with a yellow and blue checkerboard pattern. Kind of benign, almost festive in appearance, in keeping, I guess, with the fact that 90 percent of London cops do not carry guns.
DeleteSchpuzzle: WORDSMITH, move S to front → SWORD, MITH sounds like MYTH (referring to King Arthur's sword)
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#1: WAKANDA → WEKENDE → WEEKEND – E → The WEEKND [never heard of him]
#2: PORTER (beer), chg R to T → (Harry) POTTER
alt.: PETER PAN [peanut butter and children's story]. No consonant change.
#3: TALKING HEADS → HALKING KEADS (sounds like HAWKING KEDS)
#4: JASPER, AL; MR. BEAN'S BBQ; JASPER JOHNS (Artist); Jim PYBURN, #8 – RN + Y → PYBUY → MR. PIE BY BEAN'S BBQ [jersey post-hint: Brett FAVRE, #4 ???]
Hors d'oeuvre: HI-C – [hyphen] → HICcough [post-Sun-hint]
Slice: ???
Entrées
#1: MIKE REISS, chg M to N; – S → NIKE, ERIS
#2: MONTE CARLO, swap L,O → MONTE Hall, CAROL Merrill [Let's Make a Deal]
#3: BUDAPEST, swap A,D; drop U → BAD, PEST; PETS
#4: SAN MARINO, chg N to M; swap N,O → SAM Loomis, MARION Crane
#5: BUCHAREST, swap C,H; S,T → BUH + CARETS [Buh is one of several villages, none well-known]
#6: STRATFORD-UPON-AVON; STRATFORD, swap A,R → START FORD
#7: BUSYBODY, swap S,Y; D,Y; add space → BUYS BOYD [never heard of Boyd as a mattress manufacturer]
#8: SISTINE CHAPEL, swap S,T; drop E → SITS IN CHAPEL
#9: SALISBURY, swap I,L; drop U,R → SAILS BY; – R → BUY
#10: STROMBECKER, swap O,R; chg E to I → STORM, BICKER
#11: SHANGRI-LA, swap N,A and A,L → SHNAG, RIAL [never heard of the slang term]
Dessert: ???
If this posts in its entirety. it would seem to indicate that the length of the post is NOT what caused the previous problems in posting in previous weeks. Rather, it is the presence of (what Blogger, in its sole judgement, qualifies as "offensive" content.
Ooh, I love your Peter Pan. Never occurred to me! But then I loathe peanut butter (and my son turns out to be deathly allergic to it.)
DeleteLego, it just occurred to me that you missed a great opportunity -- Entree #4 would have been a perfect fit as this week's "Slice."
ReplyDeleteYes, Nodd. I could have called it:
DeleteSlash & Gash & Stab & Slice
Assault and Batery!
LegoWhoAddsThatHeCouldHavePouredTheLeftoverHershey'sSyrupAllOverTheDessert!
SCHPUZZLE: WORDSMITH => SWORD & MYTH
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. WAKANDA => WEKENDE => WEEKEND
2. Alternate answer: GORTON => HORTON Intended answer per Sunday hint: BORAX => LORAX (At least, I was in the Dr. Seuss realm!)
3. TALKING HEADS => HAWKING KEDS
4. MR. BEAN’S in JASPER & [Brett] FAVRE (#4) => MR. FAVA BEANS [Artist: Joe Taylor?]
HORS D’OEUVRE: HI-C => HIC
SLICE: PATROL CAR => PETROL
ENTREES:
1. MIKE REISS => NIKE; REIS => ERIS
2. MONTE CARLO => MONTY (Hall) & CAROL (Merrill)
3. BUDAPEST => BAD PEST / PETS
4. SAN MARINO => SAM, MARION [PSYCHO]
5. BUCHAREST => BUH & CARETS / CARATS
6. STRATFORD => START FORD
7. BUSYBODY => BUYS BOYD
8. SISTINE CHAPEL => SITS IN CHAPEL
9. SALISBURY => SAILS BY; BURY => BUY
10. STROMBECKER => STORM & BICKER
11. SHANGRI-LA => SHNAG & RIAL
DESSERT: HA(LF)-COURT PRESS => HARCOURT & PRESS
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteWORDSMITH, SWORD, MYTH
Appetizer Menu
1. WAKANDA(from the "Black Panther" movies), WEEKEND(the recording artist's stage name is "The WEEKND", but why he dropped one E, especially in that place in the word, I'll never know)
2. ("20-Mule Team")BORAX, (The)LORAX(by Dr. Seuss)
3. TALKING HEADS, HAWKING KEDS(sneaker brand)
4. MR. BEAN'S here in Jasper(yours truly, PATRICK BERRY, does frequent the place from time to time), BRETT FAVRE, NUMBER #4, "MR. FAVA BEAN'S"(Cute, PS. BTW, they serve neither liver nor Chianti!)
Bonus: JASPER JOHNS(Also cute, although in my town this name sounds like what we would call our restrooms. LOL)
Menu
Potable Hors d'Oeuvre
HI-C, "HIC!"(comic strip cliche used by any character who is drunk, because it somehow gives them the hiccups; origin unknown)
Red Rider Slice
PATROL CAR, PETROL(primarily a British term for gasoline)
Entrees
1. MIKE REISS, NIKE(goddess of victory), ERIS(goddess of strife and discord)
2. MONTE CARLO, MONTY(MONTE)HALL, CAROL MERRILL
3. BUDAPEST, BAD PETS
4. SAN MARINO, SAM(Loomis, portrayed by John Gavin)and MARION(Crane, portrayed by Janet Leigh), in PSYCHO(1960)
5. BUCHAREST, BUH, CARETS, KARATS
6. STRATFORD(-on-Avon), START FORD
7. BUSYBODY, BUYS BOYD(had never heard of this mattress brand)
8. SISTINE CHAPEL, SITS IN CHAPEL
9. SALISBURY(like the steak), SAILS BY, BUY
10. STROMBECKER, STORM, BICKER
11. SHANGRI-LA, SHNAG(quite a few definitions for this word in the Urban Dictionary, some unfit for publication here of course, glad I came back to it later!), RIAL
Dessert
X's and O's Dessert
HALF-COURT PRESS, HARCOURT, PRESS(L=12 and F=6, so added together they make R=18.)
Thanks again, PS, for making part of my town the basis for one of your puzzles! I hope I can return the favor someday!-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, Part 1:
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Excalibur & rhetorical excellence
Take a word for a writer or speaker who uses language skillfully and creatively.
Move its middle letter to the front, leaving a space.
The result is a word, and four letters that sound like a word.
Both these words are associated with Excalibur.
What are these three words?
Answer:
Wordsmith; Sword, Myth ("mith")
Take a word for writer who uses language skillfully and creatively. Move its middle letter to the front, leaving a space. The result is a word and (four) letters that sound like a word. Both words are associated with Excalibur. What are these three words?
Answer:
Wordsmith; Sword, Myth ("mith")
Appetizer Menu
Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:
Truth or Consonyms?
“Consonymity!”
1. Name a fictional kingdom. Change its vowels to next ones later in the alphabet sequence (A becomes E, E becomes I, etc.) to form a “consonym” (https://en.everybodywiki.com/Consonyms) of that kingdom, but a consonym not found in dictionaries. However, if you move the last vowel next to first one you’ll get a compound word for the thing everybody’s working for, according to a guy with the same surname as a former U.S. attorney general. Remove the third vowel in this compound word to get the name of a current popular recording artist and entertainer.
What is the kingdom?
What is everybody working for?
Who is the recording artist?
Answer:
Wakanda; “Forever”; The “Weeknd” (Canadian pop singer Extraordinaire)
WAKANDA => WEKENDE => WEEKEND
“The Children’s Hour”
2. Take product name you might find in your kitchen. Change one consonant to name a character from a children’s book.
What is the product?
Who is the character?
Answer:
Borax; "The Lorax," by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
“The Spovin’ Loonful?”
3. Take name of popular singing group formed in the mid-1970s. Spoonerize its two words. Replace the first letter in the second word to the letter nine places earlier in the alphabet stream. The result sounds like what might be done several times a day at a Nordstrom’s store.
What is this group?
What might be done several times a day at a Nordstom’s store?
Hint: The words in what is done at Nordstrom’s rhymes with the name of the singing group.
Answer:
Talking Heads- Halking Teads- Hawking Keds.
TALKING HEADS => HALKING TEADS => HALKING KEADS => HAWKING KEDS
Note: The answer to Appetizer #4 can be found within the Comments Section of an edition of Puzzeleria of a while back. (Thus this puzzleis a bit like a SAT reading comprehension test.)
“Jerseys on an artist’s canvas”
4. Name a famous Barbeque Steakhouse in Alabama that is frequented by a famous puzzle maker. This restaurant – which consists of an abbreviation followed by a possessive surname – displays a jersey worn by a famous athlete, among others.
Take the name on the jersey. Replace its last two letters with a duplicate of the second letter. Then put this name between the two words in the name of the restaurant. The result could be the name of a spin-off eatery.
What is the name of the restaurant. What city is it in? Who is the famous puzzle maker? Who is famous athlete and what number is on his jersey? What is the spin-off eatery?
Note: Bonus points for anyone who can identify the artist in the image, an artist whose name would make our headline, “Jerseys on an artist’s canvas,” very alliterative indeed!
Answer:
Mr. Bean’s, in Jasper, Alabama; Patrick J. Berry (Cranberry); Bret Favre, #4; "Mr. Fava Beans"
Favre – re + a = Fav + a = Fava; "Mr. Fava Beans"
Note: Jasper Johns is the artist, which would make our headline read “Jerseys on Jasper Johns’ canvas”
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 2:
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Potable Hors d’Oeuvre
“Who spiked my soft drink?”
Remove some punctuation from the brand name of an non-alcoholic beverage.
The result suggests that the beverage may contain alcohol.
What is this beverage?
Answer:
Hi-C (Hic, short for "hiccup"
Two links: 1. a definition of "hic" 2. hiccups association with alcohol
1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hic#:~:text=often%20read%20as%20%CB%88hik%20used%20to%20express%20the,one%20that%E2%80%99s%20only%20in%20the%20Merriam-Webster%20Unabridged%20Dictionary.
2. https://www.healthline.com/health/alcohol/hiccups-when-drunk
Red Rider Slice:
Black & white & riddled all over
What’s black and white and rides all over, in two words? Take the first word. Change one letter in it to get what makes it possible for what’s black and white to ride all over. What rides all over? What makes that possible?
Answer:
Patrol car; Petrol
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 3:
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Boiled stromboli in a storm
Will Shortz’s May 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Reiss, who’s a writer/producer for “The Simpsons,” reads:
Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. The result is two words describing what this place famously does.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names, in nine letters. Replace the first letter in the first name with the letter following it in the alphabet, forming the name of a Greek goddess. Then remove the last latter of the last name and anagram the remaining letters to form the name of a second Greek goddess.
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Who are these Greek deities?
Answer:
Mike Reiss; Nike, Eris
ENTREE #2
Name a place in Europe in ten letters. Swap the ninth and tenth letters. The result is the first name on the birth certificate of a long-running TV game show and the first name of a model on that game show.
What is this place in Europe?
Who are the host and model?
What is the name of the game show?
Hint: The first name of the model is the same as her birth name. The first name the host went by on the show differs by one letter from his stage name.
Answer:
Monte Carlo; Monty Hall (born Monte Halparin); Carol Merrill; "Let's Make a Deal"
ENTREE #3
Name a European city in eight letters. Divide it in half. Swap the third and fourth letters in the first part, then remove a vowel from that first part. The result is an adjective that describes the second part, a noun. Swap the third and fourth letters of that noun. The result is a plural word that might also be described by the adjective – a dog that bites and a cat that claws, for two examples.
What is this European city?
What are the adjective and two nouns?
Answer:
Budapest; Bad; Pest, pets
ENTREE #4
Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Replace the third letter with a duplicate of the fourth letter; then swap the eighth and ninth letters. The result is the first names of two main characters in a classic move thriller.
What is this place in Europe?
What are the characters’ names, and what is the title of the thriller?
Answer:
San Marino; Sam Loomis (portrayed by John Gavin), Marion Crane (portrayed by Janet Leigh); "Psycho," (1960)
SAN MARINO => SAM MARINO => SAM MARION
ENTREE #5
Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. The result is two words: a three-letter city in India, and a plural word for wedge-shaped proofreading marks. A homophone of those marks is a word used for units of weight of precious gemstones like diamonds, that are mined extensively in India.
What are this place in Europe, city in India and units of weight?
Answer:
Bucharest (Hungary); Buh; carats (a homophone of the proofreading mark "carets")
BUCHAREST => BUH+CARETS => BUH+CARATS
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 4:
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ENTREE #6
Take the common shorthand name of a place in Europe in nine letters. (The formal name of the place contains 17 letters and two hyphens.) Swap the third and fourth letters and place a space between the fifth and sixth letters. The result is two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do – not with a spur but with a key – when they need to get somewhere.
What are the common and formal names of this European place?
What are the two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do?
Answer:
Stratford (Stratford-upon-Avon); Start Ford
ENTREE #7
Name a word for an officious or inquisitive person, in eight letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the seventh and eighth letters.The result is two words, a verb and proper noun, describing what a person who is inquisitive about how to get a good night’s sleep possibly does.
What is this eight-letter word?
What are the verb and proper noun?
Hint: The proper noun in a 46-year-old company.
Answer:
busybody; buys Boyd
ENTREE #8
Name a place in Europe, in 13 letters, that is famous for its artwork. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the seventh letter and add a space between the fourth and fifth letters. The result is three words – in 4, 2 and 6 letters, describing what a visitor to this place does to get a better gander at the artwork (and to give their knees a break).
What is this place.
What is the three-word description?
Answer:
Sistine Chapel; Sits in chapel
ENTREE #9
Name a cathedral city in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the eighth letter. The result is a word for what a yacht does. The second word is what those in the market for a yacht must do in order for a homophone for “what a yacht does” to be accomplished.
What is this European cathedral city?
What does a yacht do?
What must those in the market for a yacht do in order to accomplish the homophone?
Answer:
Salisbury; Sails; Buy
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 4:
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ENTREE #6
Take the common shorthand name of a place in Europe in nine letters. (The formal name of the place contains 17 letters and two hyphens.) Swap the third and fourth letters and place a space between the fifth and sixth letters. The result is two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do – not with a spur but with a key – when they need to get somewhere.
What are the common and formal names of this European place?
What are the two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do?
Answer:
Stratford (Stratford-upon-Avon); Start Ford
ENTREE #7
Name a word for an officious or inquisitive person, in eight letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the seventh and eighth letters.The result is two words, a verb and proper noun, describing what a person who is inquisitive about how to get a good night’s sleep possibly does.
What is this eight-letter word?
What are the verb and proper noun?
Hint: The proper noun in a 46-year-old company.
Answer:
busybody; buys Boyd
ENTREE #8
Name a place in Europe, in 13 letters, that is famous for its artwork. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the seventh letter and add a space between the fourth and fifth letters. The result is three words – in 4, 2 and 6 letters, describing what a visitor to this place does to get a better gander at the artwork (and to give their knees a break).
What is this place.
What is the three-word description?
Answer:
Sistine Chapel; Sits in chapel
ENTREE #9
Name a cathedral city in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the eighth letter. The result is a word for what a yacht does. The second word is what those in the market for a yacht must do in order for a homophone for “what a yacht does” to be accomplished.
What is this European cathedral city?
What does a yacht do?
What must those in the market for a yacht do in order to accomplish the homophone?
Answer:
Salisbury; Sails; Buy
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