PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Not rocket science, yet no mean feat
This puzzle may not be rocket science.
Still, solving it will be no mean feat.
The first – and perhaps best-known – work by a poet employs a figure of speech that is an anagram of the poet’s name.
What is this figure of speech?
Who is the poet?
Appetizer Menu
Worldplayful Appetizer:
Russian news, “Processcity,” State becomes city, Food & spice, Natural techno, Who or what am I?
News from Russia
What are the newsy word, Russian city and mountain range?
“Processcity”
2. 🌍Take a European city. Place a copy of an internal letter next to the original letter. The result sounds like what you were just doing. What are the city and process?
3. 🌎Change two internal letters inside the name of a US state to a single letter. You obtain the name of the largest city in another state. What are the state and city?
Name that food, name that spice
remaining letters name a spice.
What are the food, country, and spice?
Natural technology
5. 🌅Think of a natural phenomenon that temporarily achieves a certain result.
longer time. Return to the original, natural phenomenon. Add a letter to the first word to yield a result that could be associated with either the phenomenon or the technology.
6. 🐫🐘Some call me a camel, an officer, a shooter, a messenger, a jester, a runner, or a standard-bearer.
Originally I was an elephant.
Who or what am I?
MENU
À La Carte Before The Horse d’Oeuvre:
He wore a holster, rode a horse
Delete a letter, leaving the last name of an actor in a role who rode a horse and wore a holster.
What does a horse sometimes wear?
Who is this actor?
“Serving Spoon” Slice:
Comedy, cargo, cars & chores outdoors
Spoonerize the name of a past comedian to get what sounds like a service that carries passengers, cars and cargo across bodies of water.
Who are these two fellow comedians?
What is the service that carries passengers, cars and cargo across bodies of water?
What are the two verbs for outdoor chores?
Where are the chores done?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Get Brett! Smart Hart!
Name a classic TV show in two words, in which the respective words rhyme with the first and last names of a famous writer – four letters in the first name, five letters in the last name. Who is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
“Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of ______: the ______ of victory, the agony of defeat. ...”
appointments.”
Two of the words in those four blanks rhyme with the first name of a puzzle-maker. The words in the remaining blanks rhyme with the surname.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the four missing words?
ENTREE #2
Name a classic TV sitcom, in two words, in which the first word rhymes with the nickname of a member of the United States Navy Fleet to whom a former Beatle alluded in song.
Remove the last letter of the Navy Fleet member’s surname, then replace two consecutive letters with two new letters. The result is the second word in the classic TV sitcom.
Hint: The two letters you replace in the Navy member’s surname followed by the two letters that replace them spell the surname of three brothers who made Major League Baseball history when they played in the same outfield together in 1963.
ENTREE #3
which appear in one of the author’s works.
Who is this TV character?
Who is the author of classical literature?
What is the word for Aeaea or Ogygia?
Name a classic TV show. Its two words rhyme with words that describe Wrangler, Dickies and Toughskins.
What is this TV show?
What words describe Wrangler, Dickies and Toughskins?
ENTREE #5
What is this TV show?
What is the life-threatening condition?
ENTREE #6
“I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.”
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.”
“You make me want to be a better man.”
“It’s like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together.”
“You’re the first boy I ever kissed, Jake, and I want you to be the last.”
Name a two-word classic TV show in which the respective words rhyme with two words that describe each one of the six mushy utterances above.
What is the TV show?
What is the description of each mushy utterance?
Name a classic TV show in four words.
Delete an article and preposition, leaving two words.
Replace each word with a rhyming word, resulting in a side dish served at a restaurant, in six and five letters.
What are this TV show and side dish?
Hint: The singular form of the second word in the side dish rhymes with the color of the side dish.
ENTREE #8
The remaining words rhyme with a synonym of “hard liquor” and a slang term for liquor (that is sometimes preceded by “the”).
What is this sitcom?
What are the synonym and slang term?
ENTREE #9
Name a two-word 1980s-90s TV sitcom in which the respective words rhyme with a big bovine critter and a minuscule murine critter.
These same words rhyme, respectively, with a two-word term for a woman’s winterwear
garment made from material produced by an ovine critter.
What is this TV show?
What are the bovine and murine critters?
What is the woman’s winterwear garment?
Hint: The woman’s winterwear garment might seem incongruous, but apparently it’s “a thing.”
ENTREE #10
Name a three-syllable word coined in the 1950’s. Delete its second syllable, which consists of two consecutive letters of the alphabet. The remaining syllables rhyme with a name in the news in the 1970’s.
The first syllable rhymes with something in a yard that is the color of the third syllable.
What are this 1950’s word and 1970’s name?
What are the chess pieces?
What’s in a yard and what is its color?
Name a “much-prized” author, in two words.
Spoonerize these words to get 1.) a verb meaning “to use your feet to force a floating log to spin” and 2.) a piece of hockey equipment. The author’s names also rhyme with two synonyms of “fling.”
Who is the author?
What are the verb meaning “to use your feet to force a floating log to spin” and the piece of hockey equipment?
What are the two synonyms of “fling”?
ENTREE #12
Name a mystery writer known for detective fiction. Remove from the name the four letters in a synonym of “nap...” but, ironically, leave the rest. (The four letters in the synonym of “nap” are in order but not consecutive.)
Bonus: Anagram the combined letters in the name of a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective to whom this writer “gave birth” in 1934. The result is a protection on a house’s exterior and and a post on a house’s interior.
Who is this writer? What might he do to a part of his rough draft?
What is the name of his fictional detective? What are the exterior and interior house parts?
ENTREE #13
Who is this past poet/preacher?
What are the words associated with the past?
Name a classic TV sitcom in two words. Take rhymes of these words – rhymes of three and four letters – that form a phrase that applies to any one of the following items: compressor, combustor, turbine, afterburner or supersonic nozzle.
What is this sitcom?
What is the description?
ENTREE #15
Name a famous past author whose first and last names rhyme with:
* a person in court who may emerge after the
verdict is read.
Who are this author and two courtroom players?
ENTREE #16
Name an actor, in two words, from a classic 1950s-60s TV show. The respective words in the name, if you go by how they are spelled, appear to rhyme with a two-word term for “clever sayings, phrases, witticisms or witty ripostes in dialogue.”
But the actor’s name does not rhyme with that two-word term. Instead it rhymes with a two-word caption (not beginning with “mug”) for the images shown here – the kind of images the actor’s character was quite familair with.
Who is this actor?
What is the two-word term for “clever sayings, phrases, witticisms or witty ripostes?”
What is the two-word term for the images?
Name a Hall-of-Fame quarterback – five letters in the first name, five letters in the last name.
Move the 5th letter so that it is between the 9th and 10th letters. Delete from the result the first and third letters of the 3-letter International Telecommunication Union designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. Place the second letter in that designation in the middle of the eight letters that remain. Remove a space. The result is a somewhat famous writer.
Who is it?
Who is the quarterback?
What is the 3-letter International Telecommunication Union designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves?
Dessert Menu:
Christmas Kitsch In The Kitchen? Dessert:
A kitchen sink, a Santa’s wink?
Name something seen in a house around the kitchen.
What are these things?
Hint: Both things are usually the same color.
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Should the first sentence of App. 2 say "European capital city"? The last sentence calls the city a capital but the first doesn't specify.
ReplyDeleteGood observation, Nodd. I know the answer, of course, but I will wait for geofan (composer of this week's Appetizers) to weigh in before I say more.
DeleteLegoAsks"ToCAPOrNotTocap?ThatIsOurQuestion
I got the answer after I posted the comment, but for the sake of consistency it might be worth clarifying.
DeleteBTW, the puzzle is reminiscent of an old riddle about the richest country in the world.
DeleteIn Appetizer #2, please change "capital" to "city" in the final sentence.
DeleteOf course, one could also change "city" to "capital" in the first sentence, which would make the puzzle easier. Bot of course, the present post has the same effect, so in the end is a wash.
Hope all like the puzzles. My favorite is #6, as it is an interesting bit of cultural trivia.
geofan
Thanks, geofan. I made the change in App #2. Sorry about that.
DeleteI agree that #6 is a really interesting bit of unknown-to-most-people information. I learn something I didn't know every time we run "Worldplay" on Puzzleria!
LegoWhoAssumesThatgeofanIsAVoraciousReaderWhoRetainsWhatHeReads
I thought that App #6 was clever as well. What's funny is that "elephant" reminded me of another recent puzzle I did (one where it didn't work well at all), so I was on the right track from the beginning.
DeleteThere are SEVENTEEN entrees? Was your puzzl-y brain going at warp speed this week?
ReplyDeleteI've just gotten to them, having managed to solve both the H'O and the Slice (for a change!) plus 3.5 of the 6 Appetizers, and I DID get an answer for the Schpuzzle, but I'm not sure the poet is really correct (it's a last name of a movie star, who doesn't use said last name.) Oh, I also stumbled rather quickly onto the Dessert answer. Hurrah. Onward to the 17....
Some kind of record. We have two weeks right?
DeleteTwo weeks! Plantsmith! Now I am considering moving the answer deadline from Wednesday to Tuesday!
DeleteAs for 17 Entrees being a record, it is "close but no cigar!". But we've still got a month of summer to go.
As for my brain, ViolinTeddy, "warp speed" does not apply, but just plain "warped" does.
And, speaking of warped brains...
LegoWho(SeriouslyNow)VaguelyRecallsComposingNearlyFiftyRiffsForASummertimeEditionOfPuzzleria!ButICannotFindIt...AndSoCanAnyoneHelpMeRecallWhenItWas(IfItWas(MaybeIJustDremptThatICreated50Entrees!)
I'm confused about the deadline.
DeleteWhen I first discovered this site and the NPR puzzle, I looked at some old puzzles, and every so often did a search, perhaps to make sure that I wasn't writing a puzzle that was already written. In any case, I seem to recall a puzzle on this site with fifty parts (or maybe it was fifty puzzles) where each answer was the abbreviation of a state.
Sorry, Tortitude, for that ball of confusion that I caused. This week's deadline for posting answers is still the "same old same old" Wednesday at Noon Pacific Standard Time, not on Tuesday. That was simply my feeble attempt at "humor" -- posing a bogus "threat" to Plantsmith suggesting that I would move our normal deadline a day earlier because he had the audacity to suggest I would allow y'all (channeling my inner-Patrick J. Berry) and extra week to solve these 17 Entrees! (and ten other puzzles).
DeleteLegoWhoHasComeToTheConclusionThatItIsBecomingIncreasinglyDifficultToCompose"APuzzleThatHasNotAlreadyBeenWritten!"
In Entree 9, you want to change "Murine" to "Marine", I believe.
ReplyDelete"Murine" is correct, in my answer at least.
DeleteOh, well in that case, I need to change my answer.
DeleteSounds like you might have a pretty good alternative answer though, VT, which is always fun. So, change your answer but post both answers on Wednesday.
DeleteLegoWhoWondersIfAMarinewouldRespondAffirmativelyWithAn"EyeEyeSir!
That is a feast of entrees; we know now how Lego spent his youth. May I add another (a riff riff?) that is not TV related:
ReplyDeleteName a person who has recently emerged in the news, who typically goes by a shortened version of their first name. Their last name rhymes with a certain prepared food, or at least how many characterize the pronunciation of that food by people from a certain region of the US, and their full first name rhymes with a brand name that might be added while consuming that food.
Who is the person, what is the food, and what do people add?
Thank you, eco. I probably won't be able to solve it, of course, but I am confident that some of the brilliant folks who comment here will come up with the answer. (Of course, they may ask for a hint or two...)
DeleteLegoWhoMustCorrectEcoarchitect:"WeKnowNowHowLegoWastedHisYouth!"
I have an answer, but my rhyme is a bit of a stretch, and the thing that is added is not a brand name.
DeleteI have heard different pronunciations for the person's last name, even among two people talking to each other. Some rhyme, some almost rhyme, and some don't rhyme at all. And Tortitude is right, I thought the additive was a brand name, but it's a actually a form of a very generic food item.
DeleteThe research division has been sacked.
The "research division" may have been sacked, eco, but we insist that they retain the "creative talent!"
DeleteLegoWhoExclaims"RhymeSchmyme!"
I have an answer in which the additive is both a brand name and a generic name, but I would be surprised if the two foods were eaten together. So one of my words might be wrong.
DeleteHi, everyone. Looks like I've solved all of the puzzles this week, although I'm not entirely sure about App #2.
ReplyDeleteMy answer for App #2 is a bit of a paradox, in that adding the copy of the letter doesn't change what the result sounds like, but you still must add the letter for the result to be correct.
DeleteSince you are all finished, perhaps you would like to try another riff: Name a well-known puzzle-maker. Move one letter to name something you should avoid if you are in the ocean or flying in a plane. Who is the puzzle-maker and what should you avoid?
Thanks for the "bonus riff," Nodd.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatThereAreScoresOfPuzzleMakersToConsiderIncludingManyWhoPostRegularlyOnOurBlog
Nodd, I have App #2 correct then.
DeleteI don't have your riff yet, but I did come up with an answer that involves changing one of the letters, not moving it.
Tortie, my riff answer is partly phonetic, which I should have specified when I said moving a letter would "name" the thing to avoid. Changing a letter would make the answer literal rather than phonetical, but a letter would still need to move. I'll be interested to see your answer.
DeleteI still don't have it. I was able to move one letter in the puzzlemaker's name to produce two words, but the last few letters are not a word, nor do they sound like one.
DeleteIn my answer, the first word is not a real word; it just sounds like one. The real word that it sounds like, minus one letter, is a flower.
DeleteThe second word in my answer is a real word. It sounds like the first name of the father of a movie princess. The father was a singer.
Nodd, now that you've clarified why one must move a letter(though clearly you should've said insert a space)as well as that the answer sounds phonetically like something else, and especially due to your hints just now, I'm proud to say I've solved your bonus riff! Would it be TMI at this point to say the puzzlemaker in question is not yours truly? It'll narrow down the choices by one at least.
DeletepjbStillDoesn'tHaveTheOneCalledACamel,AnOfficer,AnElephant,Etc.,ButHeDoesKnowWho'sBeenCalled"TheSpaceCowboy","TheGangsterOfLove","Maurice",APicker,AGrinner,ALover,ASinner,Etc.
With geofan's indulgence, I will assay a hint for his wonderful Appetizer #6:
DeleteThink of a company "born" around the time LegoLambda was born somewhere north of the Midwestern Metropolis of that company's "birth." The company was initially associated with rhythm and blues, but expanded into soul, gospel, rock 'n' roll, jazz and even comedy. It spawned a "Chubby subsidiary."
LegoWhoMayNotHaveBeenBornInThatMidwesternMetropolisButWhoseMother(AnImmigrantOrphanToddlerWhoWasAPatientAtMercyHospitalInThatMetropolis)WasAdoptedByANurseWhoWasAnEmployeeAtThatHospital
Nice hint. Easy as pie.
DeleteMRI? Hope you're feeling OK!
ReplyDeleteI've been doing the Connections puzzles, although I'm sad that Digits is going away. I suspect given your distaste for math you don't share my opinion on Digits.
Cranberry, the figure of speech for the Schpuzzle anagrams to something that is even more essential to the enjoyment of life than poetry. I found it on a list of poetic terms, but it wasn't on any other of the lists I consulted.
ReplyDeleteMy answer to App #1 only works with the former name of the city.
ReplyDeleteIn my answer to App #4, the remaining letters name an herb, not a spice.
Sunday Post Meridiem Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
The poet's name includes some punctuation and abbreviation.
The missing words in the following sentence can be anagrammed to spell the poet's name/figure of speech.
"We came from 8 runs down to ___ the game in the bottom of the ninth inning, but then ____ it in extra innings.
Worldplayful Appetizer:
Note: the following six hints come courtesy of geofan. My (our) thanks to him.
1. The city had a different name from 1924-1991. In English it is frequently spelled with an added initial letter.
2. The city is a national capital. Add a G at the end to achieve a more standard pronunciation of the process.
3. The city is in a neighboring state. The single letter is an A. Also, a space must be deleted.
4. The food has seven letters. The spice, four.
5. Eventually the dawn will come and you will see the answer.
6. The words are translations from various languages into English.
À La Carte Before The Horse d’Oeuvre
The "something worn by a horse" was worn by many a horse employed by Wells Fargo in the mid-19th Century
“Serving Spoon” Slice:
___, _____, Joe... & Iggy?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
ENTREE #1
ABC Wide World of Sports;
Donald, with a little help from his former friend Mitch, took maximum advantage of this perquisite.
ENTREE #2
"...The butter wouldn't melt so I put it in the pie!"
ENTREE #3
Honda makes the Odyssey; Did this fellow design the prototype?
ENTREE #4
Zsa Zsa's sis co-starred
ENTREE #5
See the "À La Carte Before The Horse d’Oeuvre"
ENTREE #6
Not "Somber Nights"
ENTREE #7
"Baked" would imply "brown"; this side dish is not brown.
ENTREE #8
Spoonerize the first and third words of the 1980s-90s TV sitcom to get what sounds like the synonym of “hard liquor” and the middle Cartwright brother.
ENTREE #9
Beats a Flush, loses to Four of a Kind
ENTREE #10
" 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy..." (Perhaps Jimi was not so choosy when he was in a "Purple Haze!")
ENTREE #11
Forget all the rhyming with the "synonyms of 'fling'." Take rhymes of “fling” itself instead... like Darjeeling (although we actually prefer herbal tea produced by the Good Earth company."
ENTREE #12
Did this mystery writer write "sour text?" Did he make money on the side as a "sex tutor?"
ENTREE #13
The poet/preacher from the distant past somehow managed to take Olivia Newton-John's advice and would have gotten, not merely physical, but metaphysical!
ENTREE #14
Packer great Boyd Dowler probably approved of the number (which is the two-digit sum of two primes) associated with the title character of this sitcom.
ENTREE #15
Describe a resident of Oklahoma's third-largest city sending a message ("via snail" or electronically) to one of her representatives in the District of Columbia.
ENTREE #16
The plural noun that follows "mug" stays the same. The word substituted for "mug" rhymes with a noun for "something shrimpy," or with a word that means"unoff."
ENTREE #17
This somewhat famous writer ought to have written a story titled "The Barter".
Christmas Kitsch In The Kitchen? Dessert:
The "something seen in a house around the kitchen" begins with an anagram of what a car mechanic does to an engine to make it purr. The remaining letters, in reverse, spell Jim Ringo's non-prime jersey number had he been an ancient Roman gladiator instead of a Green Bay Packer.
LegoWhoWondersIfThereWerePossiblyAnyOtherHintsHeCouldHaveGivenThatMightHaveInvolvedJerseyNumbersOfLombardiEraPackers!
Got the author's name, couldn't find the figure of speech in his first poem. Got the Russian city's name, now I need a hint for the news-related hyphenated word. Still need a little more help with Apps #5 and #6(way to be really vague on the latter hint, geofan!).
ReplyDeletepjbCouldJustAsEasilySayEveryWordUsedInHisPostCouldBe"TranslationsFromVariousLanguagesIntoEnglish"
For #6, thinking of Elizabeth or Joey might help.
DeleteThis is a really tiny elephant!
TortieWhoWillMentionThatJoeyTravelledInAPack...ButHeWasNotTheWolf,Camel,ElephantOrKangarooKind!
Okay, I get it now. Did you note the connection to this week's NPR puzzle?
DeleteI surely had the wrong figure of speech (but I'll leave my 'wrong' answer in place); indeed, who ever HEARD of the figure of speech which IS correct? Certainly not me!
ReplyDeleteThis figure of speech was new to me as well.
DeleteOne definition of this figure of speech in the Schpuzzle of the Week is: "an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary." It is an interesting figure of speech in this sense:
DeleteFew people have heard of the "word" for it, but everybody uses it in everyday speech!
For examples:
"How was the pot roast, dear?"
"Not bad, Sugarplum."
or...
"What do you think of my stil- life painting, Gertrude?"
"Well, it's interesting, Sweetie, but I'm afraid it's no Goya!"
or...
"Did you like this week's Schpuzzle, Puzzlerian!s?"
"It's okay, we guess, but it's no Will Shortz!
LegoWhoIsNotExactlyTheBrightestBulbOnTheTree!
"Senator, you're no JFK."
DeleteExactly, Nodd! Perfect example!
DeleteLegoWhoVaguelyRecallsWatchingThatParticularVicePresidentialDebateLiveONTelevisionAndActuallyFeelingATadSorryForSenatorQuayleAsTheAudienceEruptedInPealsOfRidiculingLaughter...(AlsoAtThe27SecondMarkInTheVideoNoteTheAnticipatoryLookOfPleasureOnSenatorBentson'sFaceAsHeRealizesHeIsBeingServedUpADownTheMiddleOfThePlateLollipopOfAPitchThatHeIsAboutToHitOuttaThePark!)
I felt kinda sorry for him too, despite my generally low opinion of his abilities and his politics. Snarkiness wasn't so common then in political discourse as it has, regrettably, become now. And Bentsen was "no JFK" either.
DeleteOoh, I finally manipulated things enough to get the news hyphenated term for App 1. [Pjb, knowing the mountain range is helpful for going backwards to the news term.]
ReplyDeleteVT, I solved that one your favorite way: backwards! Got the mountain range first, then the city, then guessed which letters would be swapped with the others, then anagrammed. Kind of shocked that it pretty much worked out on the first try, especially since there were two choices for the city name!
DeleteThat's exactly how I did it, too, Tortie (chuckling at your mention of my 'favorite way')....although originally (pre-hint) I had the extra letter on the city name that would have prevented any solving of the thing.
DeleteHi, everyone. Some sad news to report: my beautiful cat Senorita has passed away from kidney disease yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAbout a month ago, we noticed that she was losing weight and seemed more lethargic. She was already on medicine for hyperthyroidism, so she was already skinny. She was diagnosed with kidney disease, got some injections, an appetite stimulant, and prescription food. She seemed to make a bit of a comeback at first, but then she started to refuse not only the prescription food, but even the tastier (various degrees of healthy!) foods, just in a desperate attempt to try to get her to eat. She was admitted to the hospital Monday night.
I may not be participating much here over the next week or two; on the other hand, puzzles may make a nice distraction! I’ll have to see.
I had created puzzles for each of my pets (don’t worry; there were only four). I will post Senorita’s puzzle when I am up to it. Obviously, it won’t be much of a puzzle at this point. I will post puzzles about my other two pets (you already know about Misty :) ) at some point - obviously, completely optional puzzles!
So very sorry, Tortie. I didn't realize you had four kitties; sending hugs.
DeleteSo sorry, Tortie. I have been there with some of my own kitties. Hope you feel up to participating, but if not it's perfectly understandable.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nodd.
DeleteI have gone through this a few times before, but it was a long time ago (over a decade).
I too add my condolences, Tortitude. I could tell from the time you became a part of our blog that you were a feline befriender and lover of cats. Your "handle," Tortitude, if I recall, alludes to a tortoiseshell coat a tabby of yours boasts. You are obviously a "cat person," and "cat people" are my kind of people!
DeleteYour Senorita surely sounds like a special cat. Your puzzle about her (which I look forward to seeing) will help, I hope, to keep her memory in your heart and, perhaps, let us know why she was so special.
My mother and father both loved cats, and we always had at least one (sometimes a handful of 'em) as pets when my siblings and I were kids. As an adult I have also enjoyed the companionship (and antics!) that our feline friends provide.
It helps to share grief when such a loss occurs.
(No need to respsond to this comment, Tortie)
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SCHPUZZLE–LITOTES; T.S. ELIOT
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. LATE-BREAKING; EKATERINBURG; URAL
2. DUBLIN → DUBBLIN’ (DOUBLING)
3. NEW YORK; NEWARK
4. SAUSAGE; USA; SAGE
5. LIGHTNING; LIGHTING; LIGHTENING
6. A BISHOP IN THE GAME OF CHESS, in its various permutations
HORS D’OEUVRE–HARNESS; JAMES ARNESS
SLICE–LARRY FINE; MOE HOWARD; FERRY LINE; HOE, MOW, YARD
ENTREES
1. WILL SHORTZ; SPORTS, THRILL, FILL, COURTS
2. FULL HOUSE; BULL HALSEY
3. GOMER PYLE; HOMER; ISLE
4. GREEN ACRES; JEAN MAKERS
5. GUNSMOKE; SUNSTROKE
6. “HAPPY DAYS”, SAPPY PHRASE; alternative answer: “FALLING SKIES”, GALLING LIES
7. THE KING OF QUEENS; STRING BEANS
8. WHO’S THE BOSS?; BOOZE, SAUCE
9. FULL HOUSE; BULL, MOUSE; WOOL BLOUSE
10. MONDEGREEN; JOHN DEAN; PAWN, QUEEN; LAWN, GREEN
11. PEARL BUCK; BIRL, PUCK; HURL, CHUCK
12. REX STOUT; REST; X-OUT; NERO WOLFE; ROOF, NEWEL
13. JOHN DONNE; GONE, DONE
14. GET SMART; JET PART
15. NORMAN MAILER; FOREMAN, JAILER
16. DON KNOTTS; BON MOTS; CON SHOTS
17. BRET HARTE; BRETT FAVRE
DESSERT–UTENSIL; TINSEL
ECO RIFF–WALTINE NAUTA; FLAUTA, SALTINE (?)
NODD RIFF–VIOLIN TEDDY; VIOLINT EDDY
Sorry for your loss Tortie. Senorita, Misty and.? I just sent my DIL "How to tell if your cat is trying to Kill you." She has not told me if she likes it. Rachel has Tiki and Melitus.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Plantsmith.
DeleteI think I have that book somewhere in my house, but good luck finding it...
The book describes in part that when cats "noodle you" and gently rock their head against you- they are really checking the condition of your internal organs and ;hence, your overall condition. Now i am on the lookout for Melitus.
DeleteSchpuzzle: LITOTES, T. S. ELIOT
ReplyDeleteApp:
1.LATE-BREAKING (-LA + UR - almost my first name!), EKATERINBURG, URAL
2. DUBLIN; DOUBLIN’
3. NEWARK (NJ), NEW YORK
4. SAUSAGE, AUSTRALIA (AUS), SAGE
5. LIGHTNING, LIGHTING, LIGHTENING
6. BISHOP (chess piece)
Hors d’Oeuvre: HARNESS, (James) ARNESS
Slice: LARRY FINE & MOE HOWARD (3 Stooges); FERRY LINE; HOE, MOW; YARD
Entrees:
1. WILL SHORTZ; SPORTS, THRILL; FILL, COURTS
2. FULL HOUSE; ADMIRAL HALSEY (nickname: Bull) (hint: Alou)
3. GOMER PYLE; HOMER; ISLE
4. GREEN ACRES; JEAN MAKERS
5. GUNSMOKE; SUNSTROKE
6. HAPPY DAYS; SAPPY PHRASE
7. THE KING OF QUEENS, STRING BEANS (hint: bean -> green)
8. WHO’S THE BOSS; BOOZE, SAUCE
9. FULL HOUSE; BULL, MOUSE; WOOL BLOUSE
10. MONDEGREEN, JOHN DEAN; PAWN, QUEEN; LAWN, GREEN
11. PEARL BUCK; BIRL, PUCK; HURL, CHUCK
12. REX STOUT (-REST); X OUT (Bonus: NERO WOLFE; ROOF, NEWEL
13. JOHN DONNE: GONE, DONE
14. GET SMART; JET PART
15. NORMAN MAILER, FOREMAN, JAILER
16. DON KNOTTS; BON MOTS; CON SHOTS
17. BRETT FAVRE, BRET HARTE, VHF
Dessert: UTENSIL; TINSEL
Eco riff: WALT NAUTA, CHOWDER (? - WATER?), SALTINE
Nodd riff: VIOLINTEDDY -> VIOLINT EDDY (VIOLENT EDDY) (don’t understand which letter has to move, unless it’s the “T” from “Teddy” to the end of “Violin”); VIOLINTEDDY -> change second I to E -> VIOLENT EDDY (turbulence)
Tortie, congrats on solving my riff; yes, the moving letter is the T. Also congrats on the Eco riff; your answer makes a lot more sense than mine! (I forgot how my son-in-law's family in Bahston say that word.) I think in App 4 the country is USA, since we are to remove it from the middle.
DeleteYou did a riff on my screen name???? I didn't even 'register' anybody's riffs this week, as there were just so many other puzzles. I must go try to find it on here.
DeleteVT, if you didn't find it yet -- Name a well-known puzzle-maker. Move one letter to [phonetically] name something you should avoid if you are in the ocean or flying in a plane. Who is the puzzle-maker and what should you avoid?
DeleteAh, I remember seeing that now! But never would have dreamed that the 'puzzle-maker' was ME! More like "who takes stabs at everyone else's puzzles!" Heh heh...but thank you.
DeleteI don't think of her as that violent a person. But?
DeleteSorry about your loss Tortie, it is hard to see beloved pets go.
ReplyDeleteA bit happier, both you and Nodd were essentially right on the riff raff's riff: the intended answer was Waltine Nauta (his full name) and Saltine Chowder - Chow-dah as JFK or Freddy Quimby would pronounce it.
That was a nice riff. "Chowder" eluded me, as I confessed above. "Flauta" occurred to me because of all the Mexican eateries around here, but I don't think anyone would eat one with crackers.
DeleteSCHPUZZLE: Pre-hint: METAPHOR => MAPOTHER; Post-hint: LITOTES => T. S. ELIOT
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. LATE-BREAKING => EKATERINBURG; URAL [Partially pre-hint]
2. DUBLIN => DUBBLIN [DOUBLING] [Pre-hint]
3. NEW YORK => NEWARK [Pre-hint]
4. SAUSAGE minus USA => SAGE
5. SHADOW? SUNSET/SUNDOWN? SUNRISE? DAYBREAK?
6. CHESS PIECE: BISHOP [Pre-hint]
HORS D’O: HARNESS => ARNESS
SLICE: LARRY FINE => FERRY LINE; MOE HOWARD => HOE, MOW, YARD
ENTREES:
1. SPORTS; THRILL; FILL; COURTS => WILL SHORTZ, of course
2. FULL HOUSE => ADMIRAL WILLIAM “BULL” HALSEY [Hint: ALOU]
3. GOMER PYLE => HOMER, ISLE
4. GREEN ACRES => JEANS MAKERS
5. GUNSMOKE => SUNSTROKE
6. HAPPY DAYS => SAPPY PHRASE
7. THE KING OF QUEENS => KING QUEENS => STRING BEANS
8. WHOS THE BOSS? => BOOZE, SAUCE [Pre-hint, but Hint: BOOZE HOSS]
9. Using M’A'rine: STEER, PRAWN => DEAR JOHN; Using M’U'rine: BULL MOUSE => FULL HOUSE (again); Winterwear: WOOL BLOUSE
10. MONDEGREEN => PAWN QUEEN, LAWN GREEN => JOHN DEAN [Yet another new word to me!]
11. PEARL BUCK => BIRL, PUCK; HURL, CHUCK
12. REX STOUT minus “REST” => X OUT; NERO WOLFE => ROOF, NEWEL
13. JOHN DONNE => GONE, DONE
14. GET SMART => JET START [Hint: Agent 86]
15. FOREMAN, JAILER => NORMAN MAILER
16. BON MOTS => DON KNOTTS; "CON SHOTS"
17. BRETT FAVRE => BRETFAVRTE minus ‘VF’ plus “H" => BRET HARTE
DESSERT: UTENSIL => TINSEL
Puzzeleria 8/1/23 911 degrees
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
T.S. Elliot
Lilliotes– as a figure of speech- used often in the “Wasteland” Never heard of this one.
Worldplayful Appetizer:
1.
3.
4. Sausage– Aus– sage.
5. Sunrise/Daybreak?
6. Bishop and variations- per Chess records and Joey Bishop clues
À La Carte Before The Horse d’Oeuvre
Harness, James ARness “Gunsmoke”
Christmas Kitsch In The Kitchen? Dessert:
Utensil- tinsel.
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteT. S. ELIOT, LITOTES(a word meaning "ironic understatement")
Appetizer Menu
1. LATE-BREAKING, EKATERINBURG(sometimes spelled with a Y at the beginning), URAL
2. DUBLIN(Ireland), DOUBLIN'(doubling)
3. NEW YORK, NEWARK(NJ)
4. SAUSAGE-USA=SAGE
5. LIGHTNING, LIGHTING, LIGHTENING
6. BISHOP(chess piece)
Menu
A La Carte Before The Horse d'Oeuvre
HARNESS, (James)ARNESS(Marshal Matt Dillon, "Gunsmoke")
"Serving Spoon" Slice
LARRY FINE, FERRY LINE; MOE HOWARD, HOE, MOW, YARD
Entrees
1. SPORTS, THRILL, FILL, COURTS; WILL SHORTZ
2. "FULL HOUSE", ADMIRAL WILLIAM "BULL" HALSEY(HALSE)
3. "GOMER PYLE(USMC)", HOMER, ISLE
4. "GREEN ACRES", JEAN(S)MAKERS
5. "GUNSMOKE"(again), SUNSTROKE
6. "HAPPY DAYS", SAPPY PHRASE
7. "(THE)KING(OF)QUEENS", STRING BEANS
8. "WHO'S(THE)BOSS?", BOOZE, SAUCE
9. "FULL HOUSE"(again), BULL, MOUSE, WOOL BLOUSE
10. MONDEGREEN(misheard lyric), JOHN DEAN(Watergate), PAWN, QUEEN
11. PEARL BUCK, BIRL, PUCK, HURL, CHUCK
12. REX STOUT, REST, "X" OUT(cross out), NERO WOLFE, ROOF, NEWEL
13. JOHN DONNE, GONE, DONE
14. "GET SMART", JET PART
15. NORMAN MAILER, FOREMAN, JAILER
16. DON KNOTTS("The Andy Griffith Show", which premiered in 1960, although Mr. Knotts was working prior to that in the 1950s), BON MOTS, CON SHOTS
17. BRETT FAVRE, VHF(very high frequency), BRET HARTE
Dessert Menu
Christmas Kitsch In The Kitchen?
UTENSIL, TINSEL
And now, supper awaits. Tonight we're having Chicken Sausage Spaghetti Bolognese(or as the Brits might call it, "spag bol".)-pjb
Lego: a question I've thought of many times, but never thought to ask, for some reason: HOW is Puzzleria pronounced? Is it (as I tend to do) Puzzle-AIR-eeA? Or is it "Puzzle-A-ReeeA?"
ReplyDeleteExcellent question, ViolinTeddy!
DeleteI came up with the name hoping to echo the word "Pizzeria," a place where people can come to sample and feast NOT on pizzas but on puzzles! After much tinkering, I decided on "Puzzleria!.. although the "L" tends to negate the "Pizzeria echo." I also considered "Puzzaria!" but ultimately rejected that. It seemed to echo neither "Puzzle" nor "Pizzeria!"
I did like the idea having both the words "Puzzleria!" and "Puzzleria!" in the title.
As for pronunciation, it is four syllables long:
ˈpə-zəl-ˈrē-ə
or
PUZZ - EL - REE - A
Will Shortz does a good job pronouncing it whenever he uses one of my puzzles on NPR. Of course, I really appreciate that he mentions it.
LegoJustCallMeMisterPhonics
Ok, thanks, Lego, I've been doing it wrong all this time, which I began to have a sneaking hunch was the case.
DeleteHere in the southern climes -er - is sounded more like the Ar sound in Aria. Puzz-el-Ar------ia.
DeleteI had always assumed it was "Puzzle-REE-a" based on the caption "PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED," and the weekly "Slice" and Riffing Off Shortz "Slices." I'm glad this has now been clarified. It would be embarassing to brag about my puzzles appearing here and pronounce it wrong.
DeleteSchpuzzle: T.S. ELIOT → LITOTES [post-hint]
ReplyDeleteAppetizers
#1: LATE-BREAKING – AL + UR → EKATERINBURG
#2: DUBLIN + B – Result sounds like DOUBLING (as does the original). Nothing in the puzzle says that the original word does not sound the same, or that the added letter changes the pronunciation.
#3: NEW YORK – WY + A → NEWARK (largest city in NJ)
#4: SAUSAGE – USA = SAGE (motivated by a TV ad)
#5: LIGHTNING – M = LIGHTING; LIGHTNING + E = LIGHTENING
#6: A chess bishop
Hors d'oeuvre: ???
Slice: ???
Entrées
#1: THRILL, SPORTS; FILL, COURTS → WILL SHORTZ
#2: William (BULL) HALSEY – Y = HALSE – AL + OU → FULL HOUSE
#3: HOMER ISLE → GOMER PYLE
#4: GREEN ACRES → JEAN MAKERS
#5: → HEATSTROKE
#6: HAPPY DAYS → SAPPY PHRASE
#7: ???
#8: WHO'S THE BOSS → BOOZE, (The) SAUCE
#9: WOOL BLOUSE → FULL HOUSE; BULL, MOUSE
#10: ???
#11: BIRL, PUCK → PEARL BUCK
#12: REX STOUT – REST = X-OUT; bonus NERO WOLFE → ROOF, NEWEL
#13: JOHN DONNE → GONE, DONE
#14: GET SMART → JET PART
#15: FOREMAN, BAILER → NORMAN MAILER
#16: BON MOTS → DON KNOTTS rhymes with CON SHOTS
#17: BRETT FAVRE → BRET FAVRTE – V, F + H → BRET HARTE
Dessert: ???
God i was just in Newark. Doh!
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Not rocket science, yet no mean feat
This puzzle may not be rocket science.
Still, solving it is no mean feat.
The first – and perhaps best-known – work by a poet employs a figure of speech that is an anagram of the poet’s name.
What is this figure of speech?
Who is the poet?
Answer:
Litotes; T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot employed litotes in his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")
Appetizer Menu
Worldplayful Appetizer:
Russian news, “Processcity,” State becomes city, Food & spice, Natural techno, Who or what am I?
News from Russia,
1. Take a hyphenated word that is used in connection with news. Exchange two letters in this word for two others. Rearrange the result to yield a major city in Russia. Rearrange the two letters and their replacements to spell a nearby mountain range in Russia. What are the newsy word, Russian city and mountain range?
Answer:
LATEBREAKING, EKATERINBURG (often written Yekaterinburg), URAL
City names a process
2. Take a European city. Place a copy of an internal letter next to the original letter. The result sounds like what you were just doing. What are the capital and process?
Answer:
DUBLIN + B => DUBBLIN (DOUBLING)
State to city
3. Change two internal letters inside the name of a US state to a single letter. You obtain the name of the largest city in another state. What are the state and city?
Answer:
NEW YORK – YO => NEWARK (NJ)
Name that food, name that spice
4. Take the name of a food. Remove the abbreviation for a country from its middle. The remaining letters name a spice. What are the food, country, and spice?
Answer:
SAUSAGE – USA => SAGE
Natural technology
5. Think of a natural phenomenon that temporarily achieves a certain result. Remove a letter to obtain a word for a technological concept that achieves a similar result for a longer time. Return to the original, natural phenomenon. Add a letter to the first word to yield a result that could be associated with either the phenomenon or the technology.
Answer:
LIGHTNING – N => LIGHTING; + E => LIGHTENING
Who or what am I?
6. Some call me a camel, an officer, a shooter, a messenger, a jester, a runner, or a standard-bearer. Originally I was an elephant. Who or what am I?
Answer:
A chess bishop
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
À La Carte Before The Horse d’Oeuvre
He wore a holster, rode a horse
Name something worn by a horse.
Delete a letter, leaving the last name of an actor in a role who rode a horse and wore a holster.
What does a horse wear?
Who is this actor?
Answer:
Harness; James Arness (who played Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke")
11/3/22
Name something worn by a horse. Delete the first letter, leaving the surname of an actor who rode a horse and wore a holster. What does a horse wear and who is this actor?
Answer:
Harness; James Arness (Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke")
“Serving Spoon” Slice:
Comedy, cargo, cars & chores outdoors
Spoonerize the name of a past comedian to get what sounds like a service that carries passengers, cars and cargo across bodies of water.
Name a second comedian, one associated with the past comedian. Spoonerize this second comedian’s name, then insert a space and a “y” someplace. The result is three words: two verbs for outdoor chores and a noun for where these chores are done.
Who are these two fellow comedians?
What is the service that carries passengers, cars and cargo across bodies of water?
What are the service and the chores. Where are the chores done?
Answer:
Larry Fine, Ferry Line; Moe Howard; Hoe, Mow, yard
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices:
Get Brett! Smart Hart!
ENTREE #1
“Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of ______: the ______ of victory, the agony of defeat. ...”
“One of the perks of being president is that you can ____ the ______ by making judicial appointments.”
Two of the words in those four blanks rhyme with the first name of a puzzle-maker. The words in the remaining blanks rhyme with the surname.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the four missing words?
Answer:
Will Shortz; sports, thrill, fill, courts
“Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of SPORTS: the THRILL of victory, the agony of defeat. ...”
“One of the perks of being president is that you can FILL the COURTS by making judicial appointments.”
ENTREE #2
Name a classic TV sitcom in two words, in which the first word rhymes with the nickname of a member of the United States Navy Fleet to whom a former Beatle alluded in song.
Remove the last letter of the Navy fleet member’s surname, then replace two letters with two new letters. The result is the second word in the classic TV sitcom.
What is this TV show?
Who is the member of the United States Navy Fleet?
Hint: The two letters you replace in the Navy member’s surname followed by the two letters that replace them spell the surname of three brothers who made Major League Baseball history when they played in the same outfield together in 1963.
Answer:
"Full House"; William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (1882–1959), United States Navy fleet admiral, to whom Paul McCartney alluded in his Wings song, "Uncle Albert, Admiral Halsey"
(HALSEY=>HALSE=>HOUSE)
Hint: On September 15, 1963, brothers Felipe, Jesus, and Matty Alou made baseball history when they played in the same outfield for the San Francisco Giants. (hALse=>hOUse=ALOU)
ENTREE #3
Name a classic TV show’s title character, in two words. The first name rhymes with an author of classical literature. The surname rhymes with a word for Aeaea or Ogygia, which appear in one of the author’s works.
Who is this TV character?
Who is the author of classical literature?
What is the word for Aeaea or Ogygia?
Answer:
Gomer Pyle ("Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.); Homer; Isle (Aeaea and Ogygia are islands in "The Odyssey")
ENTREE #4
Name a classic TV show in two words, in which the respective words rhyme with words that describe Wrangler, Dickies and Toughskins.
What is this TV show?
What words describe Wrangler, Dickies and Toughskins?
Answer:
"Green Acres"; Jean makers;
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
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ENTREE #5
Name the title of a classic TV show, a two-syllable compound word, in which many characters met their demise. The title rhymes with a compound word for a life-threatening condition marked especially by cessation of sweating, extremely high body temperature, and collapse that results from prolonged exposure to high temperature and lack of shade.
What is this TV show?
What is the life-threatening condition?
Answer:
"Gunsmoke"; sunstroke
ENTREE #6
“I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.”
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love… I love… I love you.”
“I’ll never let go, Jack. I promise.”
“You make me want to be a better man.”
“It’s like in that moment the whole universe existed just to bring us together.”
“You’re the first boy I ever kissed, Jake, and I want you to be the last.”
Name a two-word classic TV show in which the respective words rhyme with two words that describe each one of the six mushy utterances above.
What is the TV show?
What is the description of each mushy utterance?
Answer:
"Happy Days"; sappy phrase
ENTREE #7
Name a classic TV show in four words. Delete an article and preposition, leaving two words. Replace each word with a rhyming word, resulting in a side dish served at a restaurant, in six and five letters.
What are this TV show and side dish?
Hint: The singular form of the second word in the side dish rhymes with the color of the side dish.
Answer:
"The King of Queens"; string beans
Hint: String beans are green.
ENTREE #8
Name a 1980s-90s TV sitcom in three words. Remove the “the” from the middle. The remaining words rhyme with a synonym of “hard liquor” and a slang term for liquor (that is sometimes preceded by “the”).
What is this sitcom?
What are the synonym and slang term?
Answer:
"Who's the Boss"; booze, sauce
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
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ENTREE #9
Name a two-word 1980s-90s TV sitcom in which the respective words rhyme with a big bovine critter and a minuscule murine creature. These same words rhyme, respectively, with a two-word term for a woman’s winterwear garment made from material produced by an ovine critter.
What is this TV show?
What are the big bovine critter and minuscule murine creature?
What is the woman’s winterwear garment?
Hint: The woman’s winterwear garment might seem incongruous, but I guess it’s “a thing.”
Answer:
"Full House"; bull, mouse; wool blouse (If there are "wool blouses" are there "silk sweaters" too?!)
ENTREE #10
Name a three-syllable word coined in the 1950’s. Delete its second syllable, which consists of two consecutive letters of the alphabet. The remaining syllables rhyme with a name in the news two decades later. These syllables also rhyme with two chess pieces. The first syllable rhymes with something in a yard that is the color of the third syllable.
What are this 1950’s word and 1970’s name?
What are the chess pieces?
What’s in a yard and what is its color?
Answer:
Mondegreen, John Dean; Pawn, Queen; Lawn, Green
ENTREE #11
Name a much-“prized” author, in two words. Spoonerize the two words to get a verb meaning “to use your feet to force a floating log to spin” and a piece of hockey equipment. The author’s names also rhyme with two synonyms of “fling.”
Who is the author?
What are the verb meaning “to use your feet to force a floating log to spin” and the piece of hockey equipment?
What are the two synonyms of “fling”?
Answer:
Pearl Buck; birl, puck; hurl, chuck
ENTREE #12
Name a mystery writer known for detective fiction. Remove from the name the four letters in a synonym of “nap...” but ,ironically, leave the rest. (The four letters in the synonym of “nap” are in order but not consecutive.)
The result is a four-letter term for what this writer might do to a part of a rough draft of his manuscript if he wants to improve, or simpy change, it.
Bonus: Anagram the combined letters in the name of a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective that this writer “gave birth to” in 1934. The result is a protection on a house’s exterior and and a post on a house’s interior.
Who is this writer? What might he do to a part of his rough draft?
What is the name of his fictional detective? What are the exterior and interior house parts?
Answer:
Rex Stout; x out; Nero Wolfe; roof, newel
REX STOUT – REST = X OUT;
ENTREE #13
Name a poet/preacher FROM THE PAST, indeed centuries ago. Take a homophone of his surname and a rhyme of his first name. This homophone and rhyming word are identical except for their initial letters. Both words are suggestive or indicative of THE PAST.
Who is this past poet/preacher?
What are the words associated with the past?
Answer:
John Donne; gone, done
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 6:
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ENTREE #14
Name a classic TV sitcom in two words. Take rhymes of these words, in three and four letters, that apply to any one of the following items: compressor, combustor, turbine, afterburner or supersonic nozzle.
What is this sitcom?
What is the description?
Answer:
"Get Smart"; jet part
ENTREE #15
Name a famous past author whose first and last names rhyme with:
* a member of a jury who acts as chairman and spokesman, and
* a person in court who then takes over after the guilty verdict is read.
Who are this author and court personnel?
Answer:
Norman Mailer; (Jury) Foreman, Jailer
ENTREE #16
Name an actor, in two words, from a classic 1950s-60s TV show. The respective words in the name appear to rhyme with a two-word term for “clever sayings, phrases, witticisms or witty ripostes in dialogue” – a term that literally means “good words.” But the actors name does not rhyme with that two-word term. Instead it rhymes with a two-word caption (not beginning with “mug”) for the images shown here – images the actor’s character was quite familair with.
Who is this actor?
What is the two-word term for “clever sayings, phrases, witticisms or witty ripostes?”
What is the two-word term for the images?
Answer:
Don Knotts, bon mots, con shots
ENTREE #17
Name a Hall-of-Fame quarterback – five letters in the first name, five letters in the last name. Move the 5th letter so that it is between the 9th and 10th letters. Delete from the result the first and third letters of the 3-letter International Telecommunication Union designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves. Place the second letter in that designation in the middle of the eight letters that remain. Remove a space. The result is a somewhat famous writer.
Who is it?
Who is the quarterback?
What is the 3-letter International Telecommunication Union designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves?
Bret Harte; Brett Favre; VHF
BRETT FAVRE => BRET FAVRTE;
BRET FAVRTE – V – F = BRET A RTE;
BRET A RTE + H = BRET HARTE
Dessert Menu
Christmas Kitsch In The Kitchen? Dessert:
A kitchen sink, a Santa’s wink?
Name something seen in a house around the kitchen. Remove the first letter and interchange the two vowels to spell something seen in a house around the winter holidays. What are these things?
Hint: Both things are usually the same color.
Answer:
Utensil, Tinsel
Lego!