Thursday, June 22, 2023

An Odyssey into the Oddities of English; My Magma cum laude in volcanic chemistry; Supremacy at sea... and elsewhere; Mister Logan, Mister Woods, Mister Rushdie; Future skipper in a flivver? Sippable “spoonerizable” beverages;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Supremacy at sea... and elsewhere

Name a historical two-word nine-letter competition between Germany and Britain for supremacy on the seas.

Later that century, a two-word nine-letter competition arose between Russia and the United States – not for supremacy at sea but rather in a place that rhymes with the second word in the Germany-Britain competition. Both the Russia-United States competition and the Germany-Britain competition have that second word in common.

Rearrange the letters in the two-word Germany-Britain competition to spell a nine-letter word closely associated with the Russia-United States competition. It is a word on the U.S. map.

What is this nine-letter word?

What were the two two-word competitions between Germany and Britain and between Russia and the United States? 

Hint: The two words in the Russia-United States competition for supremacy can be spelled using just six of the nine letters in the word “supremacy,” using three of them twice. 

Appetizer Menu:

Debut Stradivarian Appetizer:

An Odyssey into the Oddities of English

Note: We inaugurate this week a new “guest-puzzle-maker” feature, the brainchild of our friend ViolinTeddy, titled “Strad-Steiff Subtleties.” 

ViolinTeddy is a long-time contributor to Puzzleria!, posting her insightful and clever comments, occasional puzzles, and corrections of LegoLambda’s many typograpical errors, grammatical faux-pas and just plain mistakes (we often refer to her as “ViolinTedditor”).

Enjoy VT’s debut edition of “Strad-Steiff Subtleties.”

Directions: 
* The answer to each of the “Subtleties” numbered 1 through 14 below is a homonym.

For example:

The musical genre of a group in which each member is a “Stone” vs Stone;
Answer: ROCK 

* Each answer to “Subtleties” numbered 15 through 17 contains words that differ in length by one letter.

* Each answer to “Subtleties” numbered 18 and 19 contains words in which one letter is changed to another letter or letters.

* The answer to “Subtlety #20” contains two words that share half their letters in common.

HOMONYMS:

1. Step  vs  Pealed 

2. Bleater vs tease

3. Wearables  vs  Storage

4.Throw vs Tone       

5. Stem vs Creep             

6. Sound vs Something Seen

7. Goof vs Going            

8. Skin vs Stash       

9. Trek vs Totter      

10. Lard vs Less

11. Lumber vs Leaders

12. Animal vs Annoy

13. Streak vs Bar vs Smidgen
14. Odor vs Order 

ADD A LETTER:

15.  Green vs Reverb 

16. “Better halves” vs Spans 

17. “Bags” vs Buddies 

CHANGE A LETTER:

18.  Stand  vs  “Lemon” (change just one letter) 

19. Stick vs Line (Change one letter into three)

FILL IN THE BLANKS:    

20. Waffle ____ vs Waffle ____ (two-word phrases associated with steam and cream) 

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Vesuvian Hors d’Oeuvre:

My  Magma cum laude in volcanic chemistry

Rearrange the letters in a two-word chemistry term to form two words associated with volcanoes.

What is this chemistry term?

What two words are associated with volcanoes?

Colorful “Quotable” Slice:

Future skipper in a flivver?

Take two words, an adjective and noun, that describe a colorful and quotable Baseball Hall of Fame skipper during the early 1960s.

Rearrange the combined letters in those two words to spell the name of an automobile, in six letters, that he might have driven as a young man. 

The make of that automobile is the surname of an ace pitcher this skipper once managed. 

Who is this skipper?

What are the description of this skipper and the names of the automobile and ace pitcher?

Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices:

Mister Logan, Mister Woods, Mister Rushdie 


Will Shortz’s June 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joe Becker of Palo Alto, California, reads:

Take the name of a fish. Add the name of a mammal. Rearrange all the letters to get the name of a reptile. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the general name of an article of clothing worn above the belt and a specific example of this clothing, both in six letters. 

Also take the truncated name of a diet, in five letters, that might help you fit into this article of clothing (even though it is loose-fitting and open at the front). Rearrange these 17 letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker and the city in which he resides. 

Who is it?

What are the article of clothing, the specific example of this clothing, and the diet?

Hint: The diet typically includes vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots, and meat and excludes processed foods, dairy products, grains, sugar, legumes, oils, salt, alcohol, and coffee.

Note: Entree #2 is a terrific puzzle riff created by our friend Jeff Zarkin, whose “Jeff Zarkin Puzzle Riffs” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Take the name of a fictional fish. Add the name of a fictional mammal. 

Rearrange all the letters to spell a kind of real reptile. 

What are these two names and the real reptile?

Hint #1: The fictional mammal’s name is the same as the real name of a non-fictional mammal (who is known more familiarly by another name, and has also been known, because of his profession, by many other names).

Hint #2: The fictional mammal’s name is a homophone of a wormy bloodsucking parasite.

ENTREE #3

Take the name of a fish. Add the name of a mammal. 

Add a prefix that is associated with creeping and crawling, as many reptiles are wont to do. 

Rearrange these ten letters to get the name of a reptile that is a species of venomous pit viper. 

What is this reptile?

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a lever or wheel that controls the rudder of a ship, and where that ship may be. 

Rearrange these nine letters to get the name of a reptile. What is it?

What are the lever or wheel, and where might the ship be?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a mythological serpentine water monster. Add the common word for a bunny named Bugs, a pig named Porky or a duck named Donald. 

Rearrange these nine letters to get the two-word name of a reptile. 

What is it?

What is the name of this  mythological monster and the word for Bugs, Porky or Donald?

Hint: The word for the bunny, pig or duck is truncated, so is sometimes spelled with an apostrophe preceding its first letter.

ENTREE #6

Take the names of two reptiles, in nine letters each, that many people cannot tell apart from one another. Anagram their combined letters to two spell two new nine-letter words, an adjective and noun beginning, respectively, with an “i” and a “d” – words that identify who is responsible for the interior design of each of the six images pictured here.

What are these reptiles?

Who is responsible for each interior design?

ENTREE #7

Name a two-word reptile in 14 letters. Three of those 14 letters are the same letter; add a fourth one of those letters to the mix. Then replace a “b” with an “e”.

Rearrange these 15 letters to spell two creatures in eight and seven letters: a reptile associated with the Galapagos Islands, and a nocturnal carnivore closely associated with a Caribbean archipelago, an archipelago that also begins with a “G”.

What are this two-word reptile, Galapagos reptile and nocturnal carnivore? 

ENTREE #8

Orlando Figes is a British historian and writer, and retired Professor of History at the University of London, who is known for his works on Russian history. 

In an interview last September he suggested that the Russians’ proclivity to regard political power as “sacred... testifies to the power of a _______ ____.”

Rearrange the combined seven and four letters in those missing words (that begin with “g” and “c”) to spell the names of two reptiles.

What are the words in the blanks?

What are the two reptiles?

ENTREE #9

Take the reptilian model names of Dodge and Ford-Shelby makes of cars, in five letters each.

Rearrange the letters to form two words of approval likely shouted by Italian audiences at
La Scala in Milan after soprano Leontyne’s performances of the title role in Verdi’s Aida.

What are these reptilian car-model names?

What did the Italian audiences shout?

ENTREE #10

Name two different large constricting snakes, in six letters and eight letters.

Rearrange the letters to spell a feline creature, an equine creature, a biblical figure associated with
animals, and a biblical figure associated with lions (as he was known by his close friends).

What are these snakes?

What are the two creatures? 

Who are the two biblical figures?

ENTREE #11

Name a large nine-letter reptile. Letters 1 through 4 plus Letter 9 spell the surname of a 1970s rock singer named Jim. 

The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the surname of a 1980s rock singer named Billy.

What is this reptile?

Who are the rock singers?

Hint: The reptile can also be anagrammed to spell a refreshing drink on a hot day, in four and five letters.

ENTREE #12

Take the name of a species of reptile, a member of the viper family, found in the southwestern United States and Mexico, in two words of 11 letters each.

Rearrange these 22 letters to spell:

* a small child, especially a boy,

* what that boy becomes during the first
decade of his two-digit years,

* a northern U.S. capital city, and

* a California city.

What is this reptile?

What are the four words formed from it?

Dessert Menu

Indochinese Dessert:

Sippable “spoonerizable” beverages

Spoonerize a two-word Indian beverage that you sip to name what sounds like an ancient Chinese discipline. 

What are this sippable beverage and discipline?

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122 comments:

  1. The math isn't right in Entree #7. I haven't solved it yet, but clearly, if we begin with 14 letters, add another (fourth) letter, we then have 15 letters. So it isn't correct that we should then find two 7-letter creatures....so is it an eight letter one associated with Galapagos (I hope) and then a 7-letter nocturnal carnivore?

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    1. I have corrected Entree #7, "ViolinTedditor." Thank you.

      LegoTheFallible(ButWhoGetsByWithALottaHelpFromHisFriendsLikeViolinTeddyAndNoddAndManyOthers)

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    2. You're most welcome, Lego. I still can't solve #7. The eight-letter reptile is pretty obvious, but no matter which 7-letter nocturnal carnivore I have tried (paying attention that there has to be a total of FOUR of some letter between the two animals), I can't go backwards and find a two-word 14-letter reptile. I have looked and looked...and looked....and anagrammed....etc etc

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    3. And I DID remember to switch an 'e' back to a 'b'.

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  2. VT, congratulations on your debut! It occurred to me that the first part of the answer to App #10, if I have it right, was also an answer to one of my recent puzzles.

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    1. Thank you so much, Nodd! #10 is one of my favorites (I had three favorites), and I can't honestly say that I can recall one of your recent puzzles having the same answer...hmmm...it shall be interesting to see.....

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    2. Thanks, Plantie. Are you feeling better?

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    3. No not really. Very few on the plane back had masks but many were coughing and sneezing. I wore a mask.
      You know i thought or read that Theodore Roosevelt invented the Teddy Bear after rescuing a bear cub after he had just shot and killed it's mom. Then people started making the dolls and calling him Teddy. Such a macho animal killer he was. I have grown to dislike him very much. It was his kind of attitude that got 50,000 young men of my generation killed in Vietnam. Don't get me started.
      But where did the Teddy Bear come from?

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    4. There has long been a 'battle' as to the origins of the Teddy Bear. In America, Ideal claimed they had done so, based on T. Roosevelt (and I agree with you on how horrible his trophy hunting was)....In Germany, of course, Steiff claims THEY invented the Teddy Bear. I don't know who is right, but I tend to side with Steiff (since I love their versions.)

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    5. I agree but i still kill lots of fish when i can, so i am not a total innocent. Could these be parallel inventions.? The truth is out there.

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  3. Happy First-Week-Of-Summer, y'all!
    Mom and I are fine. We went to Cracker Barrel this evening with Bryan and Mia Kate. Renae pulled a muscle in her back recently, and she's in the hospital right now, so she couldn't make it, and Maddy just didn't want to come along. I had some chicken fingers with some kind of sauce "drizzled" all over them, on a bed of mac 'n' cheese. Bryan had fish, Mom had roast beef, and Mia Kate had chicken with French toast(probably the most interesting pairing of foods at our table). At some point, Mia Kate said she'd actually love to be one of those people on TV that goes anywhere worldwide just to eat unusual food, sort of like what Guy Fieri or Anthony Bourdain would usually do. Then Bryan said he was not too crazy about a place where they ate a while back in Hawaii, and Guy had raved about it on "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives". Bryan said this place was definitely a "dive". After we all finished our meals, Mom decided she'd just go back outside after paying for our half of the meal. She said she felt cold from the moment she first set foot in the building! Then we had to wait for Bryan to finish his conversation with somebody else he knew in there, and then he paid for his half of the meal, and we left. BTW I don't know if anyone else here has ever been in a Cracker Barrel before, but lately in ours they've been selling a few interesting vinyl record albums if you're into pop or rock music like I am. This is not to be confused with the rack of country CDs you see when you first walk in and turn left. The vinyl albums(which are located a little further away in the back)include a few from the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Simon and Garfunkel, the Eagles, the Who, CCR, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Police, Michael Jackson, and soundtracks for "Forrest Gump" and "Stranger Things"(which would mostly be 60s, 70s, and 80s). One of these days when we're back in Cracker Barrel, I really should buy some of those, because I actually got a new(not even out of the box)record player for Christmas, and I still don't have anything to play on it yet! Those records probably cost a lot in there, though. Never really checked any price tags while I was looking at them, anyway. We finally got home and I've already done this week's Prize Crossword(by Brummie), and then Wordle et al. on the NYT Website. Which of course brings me here.
    Now for my progress on this week's puzzles:
    First of all, let me say "Congratulations!" and "Welcome Aboard!" to the Tedditor herself, ViolinTeddy, for getting her first series of Appetizers on this week! I only wish I could say I managed to solve every last one of them, but alas, I still haven't found #3, #6, #7, #10, #13, #14, or #17. But I did love working on them last night, and I especially got a laugh out of #18. You really have to think of another connotation for the word "lemon" on that one, but it is hilarious! Elsewhere, I've also solved the Schpuzzle, the Slice, the Dessert, and all Entrees except #3, and I was going to say I didn't have #6 either, but as I'm writing this it just occurred to me what the actual first nine-letter adjective is, and the word I thought it was at first is actually in the puzzle text, so I would've totally embarrassed myself by pointing out it's only an eight-letter word, and Lego would need to change it, or whatever. But it's fine. It just turned out to be an adjective I would not have normally chosen to describe the noun, but if you choose the right reptile names, the anagram certainly does check out. All in all, some hints will still be required from Lego(and VT, too!).
    Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and let's all enjoy the summer(and remember to keep hydrated if you've been outside for a while)! Cranberry out!
    pjbWondersWhy"Summer"AndTheOtherSeasonsAren'tNormallySupposedToBeCapitalizedWhenWrittenOut?

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    1. I have a couple of boxes of vinyl records packed away in Seattle.
      Probably worth something and i should check that out rather than just taking to second hand store.

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    2. I remember buying the Carole King- Caroling album "Tapestry" from the local record store in Bellingham. I also took my stereo turn table to a Goodwill. Should have kept it.

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    3. Know what you mean about having gotten rid of your turntable. For years, I regretted having done the same with my childhood record player that could accommodate 78 rpms. (Because I could no longer listen to my childhood memories..which I DID keep.) However, a few years ago, Groupon had a coupon for a turntable, so I bought one. Now, of course, I should listen to those childhood memories more than I have done.

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  4. Thank you, pjb! I'm glad you got a chuckle out of #18. #s 7 and 10 are two of my favorites (along with #11), as I'd mentioned above to Nodd (re 10). I was actually afraid that all these things would be too EASY for this group on here, so I'm glad if there turn out to be a couple of 'stumpers' along the way!

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  5. Hi, everyone. First of all, congrats to VT for your first set of puzzles! Still missing quite a few of them. I'm also missing the Hors d'Oeuvre. Slice wasn't too bad for a change. The Entrees mostly seemed easy, thanks to looking over lists more than once trying to solve the NPR puzzle. Entree #12 was pretty hard, though.

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    1. Thank you, Tortie. I am actually proud if you haven't been able to solve all my Apps. (As I mentioned to pjb above, I feared they'd be way too easy for our Puzzlerians.)

      I, too, found the Slice easy (for a change, for sure), yet can't get the Hors D'O. And I'm still stuck on Entree 12 (found one 22 letter reptile, haven't been able to anagram it into anything.) And am STILL stymied (to use geo's favorite word) by Entree #7.....and have reached the point of being sick of trying (as so often happens.)

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    2. VT, for the reptile in #7, see the photo. The nocturnal carnivore is not necessarily one you would expect to find in the Caribbean. It was the subject of a song by a popular British group.

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    3. Thank you so much, Nodd. Once again, your hint (I never even thought to look at the photo, because they didn't used to have anything really to do with answers) helped me out. You're right, I never would have thought of that mammal. I had tried "opossum" and "manicou."

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  6. Riff-off to the Hors d'oeuvre:
    Take two words related to volcanoes, one of which is included in the title. Rearrange to give what we heard from 2016 to 2021 (and to a lesser extent, since then).

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    1. I can think of a couple possibilities using the same two words. Both of my answers have two words of equal length.

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    2. My answer has 2 words of unequal length and is probably more direct.

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    3. Geo, I knew right away that YOU would be solving the Hors D'O!

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    4. VT, believe it or not, the Hors d'oeuvre is the only puzzle (with about half of your homonym puzzles) that I have not solved this week. It is likely a case of knowing too much about the topic: phrases like "equilibrium constant" and "buffer capacity" immediately come to mind, that are likely not familiar to the general reader.

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    5. Well, geo, I am amazed at the info in your above post! First, surprised about the Hors D'O and you (although you did a riff of it), and secondly, that about half of mine have stumped you.

      If everyone will let me know WHICH Appetizers they haven't been able to get, I could attempt clues (probably with Lego's help, since I'm not much good at clues). I just don't want to waste time on a clue for an App that everyone has solved.

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    6. Well, i think i have the first one.

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    7. VT, on #19 does "change one letter into three" mean three new letters replace the original letter, or the original letter is kept and two new letters are added?

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    8. It means three NEW letters. And it's the original first letter of the first word that gets thrown away. (I hope I didn't just confuse you.)

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    9. No, I understand now. Thanks!

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  7. As if we need any more riffs this week, I just stumbled on one while attempting to solve our Hors D'O, that amused me so much, I simply had to put it on here: take two words associated with volcanoes, and come up with a past presidential surname and a 'problem' that this person has, that we all know about.

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    1. Great find, VT! Thanks for sharing it!

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    3. VT, your riffoff is the same as mine, above.

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    4. Oops, that one slipped right by me, geofan.

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    5. Jeepers, geo, since I hadn't fully comprehended your riff, I never dreamed I'd come up with the same thing! Must go take a better look at yours! I guess we both can give out our answers on Wed.

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    6. Okay, geo, I get it now. One reason was because when you said that one of the two volcano words is included in the 'title', I had looked at the wrong title....but now having looked at the correct title, I can put yours together with mine...great minds think alike, eh?

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  8. VT, still do not have answers to your Apps #1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 17, 18, 19. Not sure of my answer to #5.

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    1. Just got #17. The "bags" are a homophone for a condition that I have.

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    2. And now #18 [possibly an alternate answer].

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    3. geo, sorry to hear that you have that condition. It sounds pretty terrible.

      VT, I'm missing some of the same ones as geo, but also #3, #13, #15. Also missing #18, which geo may have solved. It might be helpful as a hint to have word length or maybe the starting letter.

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    4. I think I have 1,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12,13,&15, but I'm not entirely certain about any of them. I believe one of them may have a slight, roundabout connection to this week's NPR puzzle.

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    5. I know what you mean, Paul. I have answers to all but 17 and 19, but I'm not confident about 18 and 11. And due to the nature of the puzzle and the multiplicity of meanings of so many words, it's difficult to be 'entirely' certain of any answer.

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    6. OK, guys, I am going to have to put on my 'computer program' (ha) to list who has what, and which numbers need a clue.

      Geo, I am indeed sorry to learn that you have the homophone condition. That really is crummy!

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    7. From what I have just attempted at a list, it would appear (please correct me somebody, if I'm wrong) that the ONLY App #s that everyone seems to have solved are: 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12. Is this right?

      Of course, that means coming up with clues for 14 of the stumpers. Nuts! Lego, I need help!

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    8. My health condition (from which I do, in fact, suffer) is the hint for App #17. So now you only have to devise clues for 13 more.

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    9. I'm not sure that Paul and pjb (who I think are the only ones who need a #17 clue) will be able to sleuth out what your health condition IS, geo.

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    10. Other VT-App hints (provided my answers are correct):
      #12: Lego is from Wisconsin.
      #15: Both "words" can be pronounced identically, but more often are not -- are not.
      #16: Some choose a civil ceremony, and some civil engineering.
      #20: Rearrange the unshared letters to give a cereal grain. The shared letters, in order, are a Canadian provincial postal abbreviation.

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    11. #16: Of course, in #16, some choose both.

      Other hints:
      #2: Not all bleaters are ovine.
      #3: Both answers have a tropical connection [possibly a alternate answer]
      #13: (Lah)-di-dah-di-dah.

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  9. Well, Tortie, at least I've thought of a clue for #3 for you: C.S. Lewis.

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    1. If I have the right answer, you can move the last letter to the front to spell the surname of a text author.

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  10. I'd forgotten that pjb listed his unfound numbers way above in these comments, which included #10 (my favorite): so here's a rather obvious clue: Crisco.

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  11. #18 clue: the stand is for a specific craft, the "lemon" was a specific manufactured item.

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  12. #7 (this was another one of my favorites, actually): leave country

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  13. Let me try half the #14 clue: army

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  14. Ah, it was the first half of my clue that vanished, as I just tried it for a third time, and poof....not sure what to do

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    1. I emailed Lego, and the post that I just wrote about THAT was removed, as well. What is going on here?

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    2. Apparently, the Blog won't allow me to post any more (too many in a row?) Not sure THIS will remain, but since it is a REPLY, perhaps it won't be stricken. Sorry, but I can't do anymore clues, therefore, now. I'll try to think of some more, pass them to Lego, and let him post them.

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    3. I believe that there is a max number of posts/day. Try after midnight PDT tonight.

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    4. So far after reviewing all the hints, I can say I now definitely have #10(great hint, VT!), and I may have #17, but I'm a little confused as to which of the two words you're supposed to add a letter to, the first or the second. #15 and #16 both have the letter added to the second word, but if my hunch about #17 is correct, it's just the opposite there. Am I right or wrong?
      pjbThinksVTIsDoingWellFirstTimeOutWithTheHintsAsWell,BTW

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    5. It is not yet midnight PDT (as geo advised me above), but thought I'd at least attempt another post, to see if it STAYS on here. PJB, the answer for #17 is that it works the same way that 15 and 16 did...the first word is the shorter word.

      If this post remains, I will add the rest of my clues, that I had asked Lego via email to post on here...but I don't see them yet.

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    6. #1: Bell tower;
      #8: animal vs seek’s opposite;
      #13: run vs punctuation vs cooking
      #19: second answer is a British term;
      #20 (which I’d also posted, but it’s gone): Both are appliances;
      Let me know, guys, if I have now covered all the puzzle numbers, piecemeal (granted)....

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    7. VT, my answer to #20 fits with geo's hint, but I don't see how it fits with yours. Perhaps geo and I both have a different answer than you do?

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    8. That's because I goofed on my #20 hint...I don't know what I was thinking, except that the inability to post had me in a kerfuffle! Thus, I should have said that only one of the answers is an appliance. I had actually failed to READ geo's hint above for #20 (had focused on the others), but having now done so, it is correct. This hinting business is a LOT OF WORK! I don't know how Lego does it every week.

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    9. VT, I did not see a hint for #11, for which I have an answer but not one I'm sure about. Also, the "health condition" hint for #17 hasn't worked for me so far.

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    10. Just checked in here, but happened to spot below that Tortie provided you with a hint for #17. (I haven't actually READ all the posts below, tho)....so I will go check to see if someone put on a #11 hint, and if not, I'll try to think of one.

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    11. I agree or in Spanish "Estoy-de acuerdo. " In regards to hinting.

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  15. VT, thank you for all the hints! Need to look through them more thoroughly, but solved one of the ones I was missing.

    A few suggestions for the future: 1) More puzzles = more hints! Adjust what you submit to Lego accordingly; 2) I like to give Lego hints ahead of time, so he can post the guest hints along with the hints for his puzzles; 3) I try to give hints for all puzzles, even those that I think are really easy (because usually I am wrong!); 4) It's easier to see all the hints if you post them in one post.

    Of course, you can always take SDB's position, and not supply any hints at all! But I think most of us like hints. :)

    Nodd, for #17, take the shorter word, and move the first letter one letter ahead in the alphabet (ROT-1). You'll get a word for flying living creatures, and also flying inorganic objects.

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    1. Thanks, Tortie, I have it now. Geo, my wife has the condition too, so I feel your pain.

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  16. Have a lame answer for App #7; all others solved.

    Still no solution for the Hors d'oeuvre.

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    1. I have answers for all the Apps except #11 & 15. I'm also not sure of #7.

      I found a volcano related word that anagrams into a word that can be used as a chemistry term in its plural form. But I can't really find a word that goes with it.

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    2. I found that same word. But the puzzle says that a chemical phrase transforms to two volcanic words.

      However, using this one word, I found an rather obscure chemical phrase that transforms to a volcanic and a geological word, sort of as required by the puzzle. As a hint for your search (assuming that the one word is a component of the chemical phrase), the volcanic word transforms to the singular plus an E. If you can find a second volcanic word that, along with an E, transforms to a chemical word, th puzzle might be solved.

      geofan (PhD analytical chemistry 1981)

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    3. Yes, I was trying to find the second volcanic word with no luck. Found a few things that look like they might have been chemical terms, but nothing worked out.

      I just tried a totally different word that looked like it could become a word related to chemistry if a few letters are added. I found an additional word that did contain the missing letters, but that didn't lead anywhere either.

      Hopefully Lego will show up soon to give us hints.

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    5. Torts,
      My "solution", apart from its use of a geological (not volcanic) term, yields a specific chemical phrase. Hint: SO4=
      [= denotes a -2 charge]. Close but no seegar.

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  17. Overdue hints:
    Sorry so late...
    (Thanks to all for providing helpful hints, especially for the Entrees.)

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    The "word on the U.S. map" was a president's surname for a spell, till they changed it back.

    Appetizer Menu
    I thank ViolinTeddy (and geofan et. al) for providing hints for these great Appetizers.
    If anyone needs more I might try giving a few, last minute (if that's copacetic with VT).

    Vesuvian Hors d’Oeuvre
    The two-word chemistry term begins with an F and a R. (The R-word is rooted in "root.")
    The two words associated with volcanoes begin with C and an F. (The C-word reminds me of a former hurler who started out as a Pirate and was nicknamed "The Candy Man.")

    Colorful “Quotable” Slice:
    The ace pitcher's nickname rhymes with "Mighty."


    Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    The specific example of the clothing is also a Spanish dance.
    ENTREE #2
    The fictional fish is a cartoon fish.
    ENTREE #3
    This puzzle has an etymological connection to "herpes."
    ENTREE #4
    The reptile ends with a backwards Christmas.
    ENTREE #5
    The reptile might be brassy and able to make some music.
    ENTREE #6
    Bill Haley and His Comets, in 1956
    ENTREE #7
    "Who was that masked nocturnal carnivore?"
    ENTREE #8
    The reptiles begin with G and L.
    ENTREE #9
    Take Dodge model rhymes with something that aids visibility in bad weather.
    ENTREE #10
    Name two large constricting snakes, in six and eight letters...
    Monty "and a condor"?
    ENTREE #11
    In my Hint, the refreshing drink on a hot day, in four and five letters, begins with a hard-C and soft-C.
    ENTREE #12
    These reptiles "sport diamonds" on their skin. Certain Arizona sports figures play on diamonds."

    Indochinese Dessert:
    The ancient Chinese discipline is a martial art.
    The sippable beverage ends with what sounds like a "T."

    LegoWithApologiesForHisLateness

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  18. Thanks, Lego, I finally have the Hors d'Oeuvre. I would appreciate additional hints for Apps #3 and #11, to confirm what I think are correct answers.

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    1. PS I congratulate you on the Hors d'Oeuvre, Lego. None of the words is obscure, yet it was still very difficult to solve. I very much doubt I could have figured it out by tomorrow on my own.

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    2. Nodd,did you see the #3 hint well above, for Tortie: C.S. Lewis? I thought that would nearly be a giveaway.

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    3. #11 hint for Tortie and Nodd (I think): 2 x 4s & CEOs

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    4. Thanks, VT. I did have the answers but was a little unsure because of the specialized meaning sometimes attached to one of the words in #3. I saw the CS Lewis hint but what he said sounded a little nutty. I note people often use #11 wearing #3.

      Thanks for the Apps; they were fun!

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    5. Nodd and VT: I had already solved App #3, but totally fail to understand any link to C. S. Lewis. So VT's comment that her hint is a giveaway is puzzling. However, my answer does conform to the link noted by Nodd between #3 and #11.

      Also I second the appreciation to VT for her puzzles.

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    6. Geo, I believe the CS Lewis link is what pops up if you search his name plus the answer to #3. It's a synonym that works on a couple levels.

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  19. Finally got the Hd'O and Entree #3. If there's any way you can help with VT's Appetizers, Lego, then keep those hints coming!
    pjbKnowsOneOfTheVolcanoWordsBetterThanTheOther,Actually

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  20. Appetizer Hints:

    Homonyms:
    1. Step vs Pealed
    Jacob had one
    2. Bleater vs tease
    Guys named Billy or Captain
    3. Wearables vs Storage
    Combat and an aerial weapon used in combat
    4.Throw vs Tone
    or "Throw vs Tone vs Adman Patter"
    5. Stem vs Creep
    Anagram of a synonym of "converses"
    6. Sound vs Something Seen
    Anagram of, say, a hemidemisemiquaver
    7. Goof vs Going
    a flaw in a product vs to then seek asylum
    8. Skin vs Stash
    think "animal skin" then "try to outwit the seeker"
    9. Trek vs Totter
    Voyage vs bumble and stumble
    10. Lard vs Less
    It's a 3-syllable answer... "Less" in the sense of "curtailing"
    11. Lumber vs Leaders
    Homophone of a one-word description of a thumb-twiddler/yawner
    12. Animal vs Annoy
    Gopher's rival
    13. Streak vs Bar vs Smidgen
    100-yards vs em or en or Sam vs chef's meager sprinkle
    14. Odor vs Order
    Anagram of an alternate spelling of a government agent who tracks down drug dealers

    Add a letter:
    15. Green vs Reverb
    The "Green part" is quite timely, given this week's NPR puzzle
    16. “Better halves” vs Spans
    The "Better Halves" are not normally the Husbands!
    17. “Bags” vs Buddies
    "Witchy women" vs "that ol' gang of mine"

    Change a letter:
    18. Stand vs “Lemon” (change one letter)
    Art-room furniture or a Ford that resembled a painting by Edvard Munch
    19. Stick vs Line (Change one letter into three)
    A piece of game equipment sometimes used in conjunction with a "crib" vs a single-file string of standers

    Fill in the blanks:
    20. The Waffle ____ makes hot edibles vs Waffle ____ which holds cold edibles

    LegoEleventhHourly

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  21. Thank you, Lego and VT, for the additional hints! I now have the vast majority solved, esp. the pesky Hors d'Oeuvre. One of the words didn't even show up on the lists I found, even though it's the simplest word (and I didn't think of either).

    Still missing App #15. "Green" can refer to many things (color? inexperienced? environment friendly?); reverb, not so many. And I only really see one current NPR puzzle that can apply to "green" and I can't get anything out of that that can apply to "reverb." The current listener supplied puzzle can also somewhat work; "green" + the last name of the current answer = an actor's last name, but I can't seem to do anything with that either!

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    1. Forgot to mention: a word in the NPR example puzzle might also refer to "green," but I can't get anything resembling "reverb" out of that either.

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    2. Tortie, as a friendly hint, the word for "green" really isn't one. The addition of the new letter changes the pronunciation from long to short.

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    3. Thanks! Got it now. And the NPR hint makes sense!

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    4. I had the right word for reverb all along. I think I forgot the instructions for that one! I was trying to change a letter, not add one. Could have solved this a lot earlier. :P

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  22. Also realized I don't have App #3. The combat / weapon hint makes no sense for my answer, and neither do the various discussions regarding it. It does match the C. S. Lewis hint, though.

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  23. I think my answer to App #3 must be wrong, even though it works with the original hint. It does not work at all with combat/weapon, that I can see. I had a few others wrong which I have corrected, so thanks, Lego, for the additional hints, especially the gopher one which is quite clever.

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    1. The first part of my answer matches "combat," but the remaining letters don't seem to make "combat weapon." I think I'm supposed to be looking at the whole word, however.

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    2. If I'm thinking of the same word, inserting a space between letters 3 and 4 and changing letter 7 would yield an aerial weapon. But I'm sure you're right and we have to look at the whole word. The whole word works so well with the CS Lewis hint that it's hard to believe it's not VT's answer, but so far I can't square it with combat or weapon.

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    3. I don't quite get Lego's Wardrobe hint either....although I see your WAR DRONE version....again, I had thought C.S. Lewis would be a direct giveaway hint to Wardrobe.

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  24. SCHPUZZLE – CANAVERAL; NAVAL RACE; SPACE RACE
    APPETIZERS
    1. RUNG
    2. KID
    3. WARDROBE (ALTERNATIVE ANSWERS – TRUNKS; BOOTS)
    4. PITCH
    5. STALK
    6. TONE
    7. DEFECT
    8. HIDE
    9. TRIP
    10. SHORTENING
    11. BOARDS
    12. BADGER
    13. DASH
    14. RANK
    15. ECO, ECHO
    16. BRIDES, BRIDGES
    17. CRONES, CRONIES
    18. EASEL, EDSEL
    19. CUE, QUEUE
    20. IRON, CONE
    HORS D’OEUVRE – FREE RADICAL; CALDERA, FIRE
    SLICE – LEO DUROCHER; MAD LEO; MODEL A; WHITEY FORD
    ENTREES
    1. JOE BECKER, PALO ALTO; JACKET, BOLERO, PALEO
    2. NEMO; LEACH; CHAMELEON
    3. COD; APE; HERP; COPPERHEAD
    4. CHAMELEON; HELM; OCEAN
    5. HORNY TOAD; HYDRA; TOON
    6. ALLIGATOR, CROCODILE; ILLOGICAL DECORATOR
    7. BOA CONSTRICTOR; TORTOISE; RACCOON
    8. GODLIKE CZAR; GECKO, LIZARD
    9. VIPER, COBRA; BRAVO, PRICE
    10. PYTHON, ANACONDA; CAT, PONY; NOAH, DAN
    11. CROCODILE; CROCE; IDOL; COOL CIDER
    12. DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE; TAD; TEEN; BISMARCK; OAKLAND
    DESSERT – CHAI TEA; TAI CHI

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  25. Thank you for the puzzles, VT and Lego! Some real stumpers this week!

    Schpuzzle: (Cape) CANAVERAL; NAVAL RACE; SPACE RACE
    App (many of these are post hint):
    1. RUNG
    2. KID
    3. Alt: WARDROBE (Hint and most of the conversation doesn’t make sense for this answer. Can get “WAR” out of WARDROBE, but then DROBE doesn’t make sense.)
    4. PITCH
    5. STALK
    6. TONE
    7. DEFECT
    8. HIDE
    9. TRIP
    10. SHORTENING
    11. BOARDS
    12. BADGER (Alt: BUG)
    13. DASH
    14. RANK
    15. ECO, ECHO
    16. BRIDES, BRIDGES
    17. CRONES, CRONIES
    18. EASEL, EDSEL
    19. CUE, QUEUE
    20. IRON, CONE
    Hors D’Oeuvre: (Post hint) FREE RADICAL; CALDERA, FIRE (Some pre hint tries (mostly gobbledygook, except maybe SHEA FORMULA): PURE FORMULATE; ERUPT, FUMAROLE (or SHEA FORMULA, ASH, FUMAROLE; GRAY ELEMENTS, MANTLE, GEYSER) (VT/geo riffoff: ERUPT + RIM = TRUMP IRE)
    Slice: CASEY STENGEL; OLD MET, MODEL T, (Whitey) FORD
    Entree:
    1. JOE BECKER; JACKET, BOLERO, PALEO
    2. NEMO, LEACH (Archie (Fish Called Wanda)/Archibald (aka Cary Grant)); CHAMELEON (saw this on Blaine blog’s first; sorry!)
    3. COPPERHEAD; COD, APE, HERP
    4. CHAMELEON; HELM, OCEAN
    5. HORNY TOAD; HYDRA, TOON (Hint: cartoon, ‘toon)
    6. ALLIGATOR, CROCODILE; ILLOGICAL DECORATOR
    7. BOA CONSTRICTOR (+ O / change B to E -> EOACONSTRICTORO ->); TORTOISE, RACCOON (Guadeloupe raccoon)
    8. GODLIKE CZAR; LIZARD, GECKO
    9. VIPER, COBRA; BRAVO PRICE
    10. ANACONDA, PYTHON; CAT, PONY; NOAH, DAN (Daniel)
    11. CROCODILE; (Jim) CROCE; (Billy) IDOL (Hint: cool cider)
    12. DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE; TAD, TEEN, BISMARCK, OAKLAND
    Dessert: CHAI TEA; TAI CHI

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  26. Naval race; space race; Canaveral

    Rung
    Trunks
    Pitch
    Stalk
    Hide
    Trip
    Board
    Badger
    Dash
    ec(h)o

    “Old Met” Casey Stengel may have driven a Model T

    Jacket, bolero, paleo / Joe Becker, Palo Alto {Joe Santos played Jim Rockford’s buddy, Dennis Becker … I knew that name seemed familiar}


    Chai tea / tai chi

    —-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    CRONES & CRONIES {I’m too much of a gentleman to ever use the first term or its synonym in the given context}

    NEMO, LEACH (Archie & Robin) > CHAMELEON

    HYDRA, TOON > HORNY TOAD

    VIPER, COBRA > BRAVO PRICE {Shouldn’t it be “bravA”?}

    PYTHON, ANACONDA > CAT, PONY, NOAH, DAN

    CROCODILE > CROCE, IDOL

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  27. Schpuzzle: NAVAL RACE, SPACE RACE, CANAVERAL

    Appetizers
    #1: RUNG [post-Mon-hint: was hung up on simple past rang instead of past participle]
    #2: KID
    #3: TRUNKS
    #4: PITCH
    #5: STALK
    #6: TONE [post-Mon-hint]
    #7: SLIP? [post-Mon-hint]
    #8: HIDE [post-Mon-hint]
    #9: TRIP
    #10: SHORTENING
    #11: BOARDS
    #12: BADGER
    #13: DASH (run [naked], Morse code “dash”, a small amount)
    #14: RANK [partially post-Mon-hint]
    #15: ECO + H = ECHO
    #16: BRIDES + R = BRIDGES
    #17: CRONES [old hag] + R → CRONIES [hint: Crohn's disease]
    #18: BOOTH, chg O to R → lemon BROTH [Post-Mon-hint: EASEL, chg A to D → EDSEL]
    #19: CUE – C + QUE → QUEUE [post-Mon-hint]
    #20: IRON, CONE

    Hors d'oeuvre: SULFATE FORMULA → FUMAROLE, FAULTS
    Post-Tue-hint: CALDERA, FIRE → FREE RADICAL

    Slice: MODEL T → OLD MET, Whitey FORD

    Entrées
    #1: JACKET, BOLERO, PALEO diet → JOE BECKER, PALO ALTO
    #2: NEMO, LEACH [Hint: Archie Leach = Gary Grant] → CHAMELEON
    #3: COD, APE, HERP- → COPPERHEAD
    #4: HELM, OCEAN → CHAMELEON
    #5: HYDRA, 'TOON → HORNY TOAD
    #6: ALLIGATOR, CROCODILE → ILLOGICAL DECORATOR
    #7: BOA CONSTRICTOR – B + O,E → Galápagos TORTOISE, Guadeloupe RACCOON
    #8: GODLIKE CZAR → GECKO, LIZARD
    #9: VIPER, COBRA → BRAVO PRICE
    #10: PYTHON, ANACONDA → CAT, PONY, NOAH, DAN
    #11: CROCODILE → Jim CROCE, ODIL → Billy IDOL
    #12: DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE → TAD, TEEN, BISMARCK, OAKLAND

    Dessert: CHAI TEA → TAI CHI

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  28. Riffoff to Hors d'oeuvre: ERUPTION MAGMA -> TRUMP EGOMANIA

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    1. Perfect! I was focused on Trump and MAGA but couldn't get it to come out right.

      BTW, the answer to my riff-off ("Name a puzzle-maker, then rearrange the letters to spell a fish and either something the fish may follow or something the fish may be a part of") was TORTITUDE; TROUT; TIDE or DIET.

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    2. Aw, that was a nice puzzle, Nodd!

      I noticed that my TRUMP + IRE answer didn't have any words from the title, but I was happy enough just to come up with an answer. Somehow, I think ERUPT (or ERUPTION) plus numerous volcano words will lead to valid Trump puzzles.

      TortitudeWhoCanNowAddTroutToTheListOfAssociatedAnimalsInAdditionToTortoisesAndTortoiseshellCats

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  29. Pizzaria-6-26/23 . 91 degrees out- Yikes

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Appetizer Menu
    Stare, Rung (post hint)
    Kid,
    3.
    20. Iron, cone



    Vesuvian Hors d’Oeuvre
    Caldera,Fire, Free Radical
    “Quotable” Slice:
    The ace pitcher Whitey Ford, The mightyFordd, Old Met. “ Model “,T Ford.


    Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    Joe Becker- Paleo, Bolero Jackett
    ENTREE #2
    Nemo, Leach (Leech)
    ENTREE #3
    Copperhead,, Ape, Cod, Herp
    ENTREE #4 Helm, Ocean, Chameleon
    ENTREE #5
    ENTREE #6
    ENTREE #7
    ENTREE #8
    Gecko and L., Lizard
    ENTREE #9
    Dodge viper, Ford shelby Cobra, Bravo ,Price
    ENTREE #10.
    Python, Anaconda.Cat, Pony , Noah, Dan
    ENTREE #11
    IJim Croce, Idol, Crocodile– Billy Idol
    ENTREE #12
    Blue-spotted salamanders

    Indochinese Dessert:
    Chai- Tea- Tai Chi- “ i do this most days” with Don Fiore

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  30. I'm so sorry....I was sound asleep, and then my computer has been giving me all sorts of problems, and I had to shut it all down, and then wait, wait, wait for it to reboot, and for the troublesome Chrome to actually decide to reappear, not to mention my email account, where I keep my P! answers....

    SCHPUZZLE: NAVAL RACE; SPACE RACE => CANAVERAL

    MY APPETIZERS:

    1. RUNG; 2. KID; 3. WARDROBE; 4. PITCH; 5. STALK 6. TONE; 7. DEFECT; 8. HIDE; 9. TRIP; 10. SHORTENING; 11. BOARD; 12. BADGER; 13. DASH; 14. RANK; 15. ECO/ECHO; 16. BRIDES/BRIDGES; 17. CRONES/CRONIES; 18. EASEL/EDSEL; 19. CUE/QUEUE; 20. IRON/CONE. [My favorites are Defect, Shortening and Board.]

    HORS D’O: FREE RADICAL => CALDERA, FIRE [I kept trying to do something with GAMMA => MAGMA]

    SLICE: CASEY STENGEL => OLD MET => MODEL T (WHITEY FORD)

    ENTREES:

    1. BOLERO JACKET & PALEO => JOE BECKER, PALO ALTO

    2. NEMO & LEACH [in movie A Fish Named Wanda] => CHAMELEON; ARCHIBALD LEACH [CARY GRANT]

    3. COD & APE & HERP => COPPERHEAD

    4. HELM & OCEAN => CHAMELEON

    5. HYDRA & TOON => HORNY TOAD

    6. ALLIGATOR & CROCODILE => ILLOGICAL DECORATOR

    7. BOA CONSTRICTOR => TORTOISE & RACCOON

    8. GODLIKE CZAR => GECKO & LIZARD

    9. VIPER & COBRA => "BRAVO, PRICE"

    10. PYTHON & ANACONDA => CAT, PONY, NOAH, DAN

    11. CROCODILE => CROCE, IDOL [Hint: COOL CIDER]

    12. DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE => LAD, TEEN, BISMARCK, DAKOTAN [I can’t find anything else that works]

    DESSERT: CHAI TEA => TAI CHI

    My RIFF: MAGMA & ERUPTION => TRUMP & EGOMANIA

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    1. The remaining (still unsolved) puzzle in my mind is how to get "combat" and "aerial weapon" out of "wardrobe."

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    2. I commented above, under your last pre-answer-reveal post, that I didn't understand Lego's hint either, but that your WAR DRONE idea seemed pretty good.

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  32. Schpuzzle
    NAVAL RACE, SPACE RACE, (Cape)CANAVERAL
    Appetizer Menu
    Debut Stradivarian Appetizer
    Homonyms
    1. RUNG
    2. KID
    3. WARDROBE
    4. PITCH
    5. STALK
    6. TONE
    7. DEFECT
    8. HIDE
    9. TRIP
    10. SHORTENING
    11. BOARD
    12. BADGER
    13. DASH
    14. RANK
    Add A Letter
    15. ECO, ECHO
    16. BRIDES, BRIDGES
    17. CRONES, CRONIES
    Change A Letter
    18. EASEL, EDSEL
    19. POKE, STROKE
    Fill In The Blanks
    20. IRON, CONE
    Menu
    Vesuvian Hors d'Oeuvre
    FREE RADICAL=CALDERA, FIRE
    Colorful "Quotable" Slice
    OLD MET; YOGI BERRA, who played with the Mets, would've driven a MODEL T FORD.(WHITEY FORD)
    Entrees
    1.BOLERO, JACKET, PALE(PALEO diet), JOE BECKER, PALO ALTO(CA)
    2. (Finding)NEMO, (Archie)LEACH("A Fish Called Wanda"), CARY GRANT(real name: Archibald Leach), LEECH, CHAMELEON
    3. COD+APE+HERP=COPPERHEAD
    4. HELM+OCEAN=CHAMELEON(again)
    5. HYDRA+TOON=HORNY TOAD
    6. ALLIGATOR+CROCODILE=ILLOGICAL DECORATOR
    7. BOA CONSTRICTOR, TORTOISE, RACCOON
    8. GODLIKE CZAR=GECKO, LIZARD
    9. COBRA+VIPER="BRAVO, PRICE!"
    10. PYTHON, ANACONDA=CAT, PONY, NOAH, DAN(Daniel)
    11. CROCODILE=(Jim)CROCE, (Billy)IDOL
    12. DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE=TAD, TEEN, BISMARCK(ND), OAKLAND(CA)
    Dessert
    Indochinese Dessert
    CHAI TEA, TAI CHI
    Remember: This next Friday will be Cryptic Crossword #31 from yours truly! Be ready for it!-pjb

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  33. his week's official answers for the record, part 1:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Supremacy at sea & someplace elsewhere
    Name a past two-word nine-letter competition between Germany and Britain for supremacy on the seas.
    Later that century, a two-word nine-letter competition arose Russia and the United States – not for supremacy at sea but rather in a place that rhymes with the second word, which both competitions have in common.
    Rearrange the letters in the two-word Germany-Britain competition to spell a nine-letter word associated with the Russia-United States competition. It is a word on the U.S. map.
    What is this nine-letter word?
    What were the two two-word competitions between Germany and Britain and between Russia and the United States?
    Hint: The two words in the Russia-United States competition for supremacy can be spelled using just six of the nine letters in the word “supremacy,” using three of them twice.
    Answer:
    Canaveral (Cape Canaveral is in Florida); Naval Race, Space Race
    Hint: SuPREmACy => S+P+R+EE+AA+CC => SPACE RACE

    Lego...

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  34. This week's official answers for the record, part 2A:

    Appetizer Menu
    Debut Stradivarian Appetizer:
    An Odyssey into the Oddities of English
    Note: We inaugurate this week a new “guest-puzzle-maker” feature, the brainchild of our friend ViolinTeddy, titled “Strad-Steiff Subtleties.”
    ViolinTeddy is a long-time contributor to Puzzleria!, posting her insightful and clever comments, occasional puzzles, and corrections of LegoLambda’s many typograpical errors, grammatical faux-pas and just plain mistakes.
    Enjoy VT’s debut edition of “Strad-Steiff Subtleties.”
    Directions: The answer to each of the “Subtleties” numbered 1 through14 below is a homonym.
    For example:
    Stone vs “The Stones” musical genre
    Answer: ROCK
    Each answer to “Subtleties” numbered 15 through 17 contains words that differ in length by one letter.
    Each answer to “Subtleties” numbered 18 and 19 contains words in which one letter is changed to another letter or letters.
    The answer to “Subtlety #20” contains two words that share half their letters in common.
    HOMONYMS:
    1. Step vs Pealed
    2. Bleater vs tease
    3. Wearables vs Storage
    4.Throw vs Tone
    5. Stem vs Creep
    6. Sound vs Something Seen
    7. Goof vs Going
    8. Skin vs Stash
    9. Trek vs Totter
    10. Lard vs Less
    11. Lumber vs Leaders
    12. Animal vs Annoy
    13. Streak vs Bar vs Smidgen
    14. Odor vs Order
    ADD A LETTER:
    15. Green vs Reverb
    16. “Better halves” vs Spans
    17. “Bags” vs Buddies
    CHANGE A LETTER:
    18. Stand vs “Lemon” (change just one letter)
    19. Stick vs Line (Change one letter into three)
    FILL IN THE BLANKS:
    20. Waffle ____ vs Waffle ____ (two-word phrases associated with steam and cream)

    Lego...

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  35. This week's official answers for the record, part 2B:
    ANSWERS:
    Homonyms:
    1. Step vs Pealed
    Answer: RUNG (rung of a ladder vs past tense of ring)
    2. Bleater vs tease
    Answer: KID (child or baby goat, a noun vs to joke or josh)
    3. Wearables vs Storage
    Answer: WARDROBE (wardrobes are stored inside wardrobes)
    4.Throw vs Tone
    Answer: PITCH (baseball hurl or fling vs musical note)
    5. Stem vs Creep
    Answer: STALK (plant stem vs a scary and obsessive predator and what such predators do)
    6. Sound vs Something Seen
    Answer: TONE (Musical note vs Color shade)
    7. Goof vs Going
    Answer: DEFECT (fault vs leave country)
    8. Skin vs Stash
    Answer: HIDE (pelt vs conceal)
    9. Trek vs Totter
    Answer: TRIP (traveling vs. stumble)
    10. Lard vs Less
    Answer: SHORTENING (fat for a recipe vs making less long)
    11. Lumber vs Leaders
    Answer: BOARD (wooden plank vs managerial or supervisory group)
    12. Animal vs Annoy
    Answer: BADGER (burrowing mammal and University of Wisconsin mascot vs bother)
    13. Streak vs Bar vs Smidgen
    Answer: DASH (race vs punctuation mark vs sprinkle)
    14. Odor vs Order
    Answer: RANK (stench vs level of office)

    Add a letter:
    15. Green vs Reverb
    Answer: ECO vs ECHO (the prefix meaning "Green environmentally" vs Repetition generated by the reflection of sound waves)
    16. “Better halves” vs Spans
    Answer: BRIDES vs BRIDGES (female newlywed vs shore-to-shore structure)
    17. “Bags” vs Buddies
    Answer: CRONES vs CRONIES (cruel or ugly old women vs friends)

    Change a letter:
    18. Stand vs “Lemon” (change one letter)
    Answer: EASEL vs EDSEL (support for artwork vs an unpopular car)
    19. Stick vs Line (Change one letter into three)
    Answer: CUE vs QUEUE (white-pool-ballpoker vs single-file line of upstanding humanity)

    Fill in the blanks:
    20. Waffle ____ vs Waffle ____ (two-word phrases associated with steam and cream)
    Answer: Waffle IRON vs Waffle CONE; (waffle iron filled with steam vs waffle cone filled with ice cream)

    ANSWERS:
    Homonyms:
    1. Step vs Pealed
    Answer: RUNG (rung of a ladder vs past tense of ring)
    2. Bleater vs tease
    Answer: KID (child or baby goat, a noun vs to joke or josh)
    3. Wearables vs Storage
    Answer: WARDROBE (wardrobes are stored inside wardrobes)
    4.Throw vs Tone
    Answer: PITCH (baseball hurl or fling vs musical note)
    5. Stem vs Creep
    Answer: STALK (plant stem vs a scary and obsessive predator and what such predators do)
    6. Sound vs Something Seen
    Answer: TONE (Musical note vs Color shade)
    7. Goof vs Going
    Answer: DEFECT (fault vs leave country)
    8. Skin vs Stash
    Answer: HIDE (pelt vs conceal)
    9. Trek vs Totter
    Answer: TRIP (traveling vs. stumble)
    10. Lard vs Less
    Answer: SHORTENING (fat for a recipe vs making less long)
    11. Lumber vs Leaders
    Answer: BOARD (wooden plank vs managerial or supervisory group)
    12. Animal vs Annoy
    Answer: BADGER (burrowing mammal and University of Wisconsin mascot vs bother)
    13. Streak vs Bar vs Smidgen
    Answer: DASH (race vs punctuation mark vs sprinkle)
    14. Odor vs Order
    Answer: RANK (stench vs level of office)

    Add a letter:
    15. Green vs Reverb
    Answer: ECO vs ECHO (the prefix meaning "Green environmentally" vs Repetition generated by the reflection of sound waves)
    16. “Better halves” vs Spans
    Answer: BRIDES vs BRIDGES (female newlywed vs shore-to-shore structure)
    17. “Bags” vs Buddies
    Answer: CRONES vs CRONIES (cruel or ugly old women vs friends)

    Change a letter:
    18. Stand vs “Lemon” (change one letter)
    Answer: EASEL vs EDSEL (support for artwork vs an unpopular car)
    19. Stick vs Line (Change one letter into three)
    Answer: CUE vs QUEUE (white-pool-ballpoker vs single-file line of upstanding humanity)

    Fill in the blanks:
    20. Waffle ____ vs Waffle ____ (two-word phrases associated with steam and cream)
    Answer: Waffle IRON vs Waffle CONE; (waffle iron filled with steam vs waffle cone filled with ice cream)

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  36. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:

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    Vesuvian Hors d’Oeuvre
    Magma cum laude in volcanic chemistry
    Rearrange the letters in a two-word chemistry term to form two words associated with volcanoes.
    What is this chemistry term?
    What two words are associated with volcanoes?
    Answer:
    Free radical; Caldera, fire

    Colorful “Quotable” Slice:
    A future skipper in a flivver?
    Take two words, an adjective and noun, that describe a colorful and quotable Baseball Hall of Fame skipper during the early 1960s.
    Rearrange the combined letters in those two words to spell the name of an automobile, in six letters, that he might have driven as a young man. The make of that automobile is the surname of an ace pitcher this manager once managed.
    Who is this manager?
    What are the description and the names of the aurtomobile and ace pitcher?
    Answer:
    Casey Stengel; Old Met; Model-T, Whitey Ford

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  37. This week's official answers for the record, part 4:

    Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices:
    Mister Logan, Mister Woods, Mister Rushdie (sic)


    ENTREE #1
    Take the general name of an article of clothing worn above the belt and a specific example of this clothing, both in six letters. Also take the truncated name of a diet, in five letters, that might help you fit into this article of clothing (even though it is loose-fitting and open at the front). Rearrange these 17 letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker and the city in which he resides.
    Who is it?
    What are the article of clothing, the specific example of this clothing, and the diet?
    Hint: The diet typically includes vegetables, fruits, nuts, roots, and meat and excludes processed foods, dairy products, grains, sugar, legumes, oils, salt, alcohol, and coffee.
    Answer:
    Joe Becker, who lives in Palo Alto, California; Jacket, bolero, Paleo(lithic) diet;
    ENTREE #2
    Take the name of a fictional fish. Add the name of a fictional mammal. Rearrange all the letters to spell a kind of reptile.
    What are these two names and the reptile?
    Hint #1: The fictional mammal’s name is the same as the real name of a non-fictional mammal (who is known more familiarly by another name, and has also been known, because of his profession, by many other names).
    Hint #2: The fictional mammal’s name is a homophone of a wormy bloodsucking parasite.
    Answer:
    Nemo (the cartoon "star" fish of the 2003 Disney movie "Finding Nemo")
    Leach (the surname of Archie Leach, the character [and mammal] portayed by John Cleese in the 1988 movie "A Fish Called Wanda");
    Chameleon (a reptile)
    Hint: Archibald (Archie) Leach is the birth name of actor Cary Grant, who has assumed the names of several characters during his movie career.
    ENTREE #3
    Take the name of a fish. Add the name of a mammal. Add a prefix that means to creep, as many reptiles do. Rearrange these ten letters to get the name of a reptile that is a species of venomous pit viper.
    What is this reptile?
    Answer:
    Copperhead (snake); cod, ape, herp- (as in herpetology, herpes, etc., the prefix derives from the Greek, herpein, to creep as a reptile. Herpes was a general term for creeping skin disorders of all kinds, especially shingles, from the 15th to the 19th centuries when the blanket term herpes was broken down to several disoders.)
    ENTREE #4
    Take the name of a lever or wheel that controls the rudder of a ship, and where that ship may be. Rearrange these nine letters to get the name of a reptile.
    What is it?
    What are the lever or wheel, and where might the ship be?
    Answer:
    Chameleon; helm, ocean

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  38. This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices, continued:
    ENTREE #5
    Take the name of a mythological serpentine water monster. Add the word for a bunny named Bugs, a pig named Porky or a duck named Donald.
    Rearrange these nine letters to get the name of a reptile.
    What is it?
    What are the mythological monster and the word for Bugs, Porky or Donald?
    Answer:
    Horny Toad; Hydra, toon (or 'toon, short for cartoon character)
    ENTREE #6
    Take the names of two reptiles, in nine letters each, that many people cannot tell apart from one another. Anagram their combined letters to two spell two new nine-letter words, an adjective and noun beginning with an “i” and a “d” – words that identify who is responsible for the the interior design of for each of the six images pictured here.
    What are these reptiles?
    Who is responsible for each interior design?
    Answer:
    Alligator, Crocodile; illogical decorator
    ENTREE #7
    Name a two-word reptile in 14 letters. Three of those 14 letters are the same letter; add a fourth to the mix. Replace a “b” with an “e”.
    Rearrange these 15 letters to spell two creatures in eight and seven letters: a reptile associated with the Galapagos Islands, and a nocturnal carnivore closely associated with a Caribbean archipelago that also begins with a “G”.
    What are this two-word reptile, Galapagos reptile and nocturnal carnivore?
    Answer:
    Boa constrictor; Tortoise; Raccoon
    BOA CONSTRICTOR + O + E - B = EOA CONSTRICTOOR => TORTOISE + RACCOON
    ENTREE #8
    Orlando Figes is a British historian and writer, and retired Professor of History at the University of London, who is known for his works on Russian history. In an interview last September he suggested that the Russians’ proclivity to regard political power as “sacred... testifies to the power of a _______ ____.”
    Rearrange the combined seven and four letters in those missing words (that begin with “g” and “c”) to spell the names of two reptiles.
    What are the words in the blanks?
    What are the two reptiles?
    Answer:
    "Godlike Czar"; Lizard, Gecko
    ENTREE #9
    Take the reptilian model names of Dodge and Ford-Shelby makes of cars, in five letters each.
    Rearrange the letters to form two words of approval likely shouted by Italian audiences at La Scala in Milan after soprano Leontyne’s performances of the title role in Verdi’s Aida.
    What are these reptilian car-model names?
    What did the Italian audiences shout?
    Answer:
    (Dodge) Viper, (Ford) Cobra; "Bravo, (Leontyne) Price!"

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  39. This week's official answers for the record, part 6:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices, continued:
    ENTREE #10
    Name two large constricting snakes, in six and eight letters.
    Rearrange the letters to spell a feline creature, an equine creature, a biblical figure associated with animals and a biblical figure associated with lions (as he was called by his close friends).
    What are these snakes?
    What are the two creatures?
    Who are the two biblical figures?
    Answer:
    Python, Anaconda; Cat, pony, Noah, Dan(iel)
    ENTREE #11
    Name a large nine-letter reptile. Letters 1 through 4 and 9 spell the surname of a 1970s rock singer named Jim. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the surname of a 1980s rock singer named Billy.
    What is this reptile?
    Who are the rock singers?
    Hint: The reptile can also be anagrammed to spell a refreshing drink on a hot day, in four and five letters.
    Answer:
    Crocodile; Jim Croce, Billy Idol
    Hint: Cool cider
    ENTREE #12
    Take the name of a species of reptile, a member of the viper family, found in the southwestern United States and Mexico, in two words of 11 letters each.
    Rearrange these 22 letters to spell:
    * a small child, especially a boy,
    * what that boy becomes during the first decade of his two-digit years,
    * a northern U.S. capital city, and
    * a California city.
    What is this reptile?
    What are the four words formed from it?
    Answer:
    Diamondback Rattlesnake; tad, teen, Bismarck, (North Dakota), Oakland, (California)

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    Indochinese Dessert:
    Sippable “spoonerizable” beverages
    Spoonerize a two-word Indian beverage you sip to name what sounds like an ancient Chinese discipline.
    What are this sippable beverage and discipline?
    Answer:
    Chai tea, Tai chi

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    1. So Lego, was your combat/aerial weapon hint for wardrobe a reference to war and dro[n]e as some of us speculated? That one mystified me.

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    2. Nodd, you'll probably have to bring that up on the new week's P!, as I imagine Lego is knee-deep in preparing it (especially now that he puts it on early...happy day), and probably isn't noticing any reply to his last post here.

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