PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Punishment for the “punnish”
Remove from it the letters in the first name of a man executed in a more modern form of capital punishment. The remaining letters, in order, sound like an adjective describing the man.
What are these two forms of capital punishment?
Who is the man? What is the adjective?
Appetizer Menu
“A Nodd Is As Shrewd As A Sphinx...” Appetizer:
Politics, A to Z
1. 🫏🐘Rearrange the letters of a word for a
person of a certain political persuasion to spell the name of an alphabet.
breaking at least a few of the Ten Commandments.
Finally, rearrange the letters of a word for a person of a third political persuasion to spell a two-word bit of advice one might give to a friend who is seeking to improve their love life.
What are these three political persuasions and their anagrams?
Best S[up]porting Actors
Common Usage
1. Synonym for food.
2. Sticker.
3. Emphatic communication.
4. Hearty dish.
What are the words, and what do they have in common?
Anagrammatic Actresses
4. 🎥Each two-word answer is an anagram of the letters in the first and last names of a well-known actress. Guess the actresses and the words from the hints.
2. Sports participant; race participant. (Before rearranging the letters, remove the first letter of the actress’s first name. In one of her most successful roles, she played a character named after a popular 1950s song.)
3. Southwestern geographical feature after a rain. (The name of the actress is also a popular name for an item used in aviation.)
4. Tool for gripping; schedule of items. (One of the actress’s first box office hits was the 1986 remake of a 1958 film.)
5. Undermine an item of equipment used in pairs by parade participants or circus performers. (The actress achieved global stardom after she played a character inspired by an American artist. The first name of the character was the name of a flower; the last name of the artist was a word associated with trees. For extra credit, identify the artist.)
Fab Four Frivolities
5. 🪲🐞🪲🐞Guess the Beatles songs suggested by the hints:
1. Filmmakers Arthur, May.
2. Former Attorney General, former Raiders coach. (Say their last names rapidly one after
the other.)
3. Titles of novels by Wells and Ellison
4. Another answer for No. 3.
5. Diet guru who promoted low carbs.
6. Kind of donut, plus a laundry product brand name.
7. Many a Congress member.
8. Pro athlete Stadler.
9. Vlad’s dream come true.
10. No. 5’s plan didn’t work.
11. Pro athlete Richards dozes off on the bench?
12. Child TV star.
13. 910.
14. Former Attorney General John’s spousal salutation.
15. NPR’s lament to listeners.
16. Puzzlerians to Lego.
17. Hopefully NOT Lego’s response to No. 16.
Poetry Corner, by Anna Graham
6. 📚Fill in the five blanks with five anagramatic words or phrases to complete the verse. Two of the blanks contain single words; the other three contain two-word phrases.
The _____ _____ to resurrect
The _____ _____ long forgot.
His heirs, he feared, would yet reject
__________, and, his work for nought,
________ __ a disrespect,
___________ breached, a doomed fool’s plot.
MENU
Be fruitful and “Air Supply!”
Take the first names of three singers to name a two-word fruit. Who are these three singers?
What is the fruit?
“Bother, Sin & Helly Ghost” Slice:
“Wholly Troubling Trinity”
Rearrange its letters to spell three types of troublesome, problematic people.
What are this idiom and three types of people?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sippin’ Schweppes in Oceania
Think of a well-known seven-letter geographical name in a single word that has just two consonants and yet is pronounced in five syllables.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
pictured in the image and the singular word for any one of the six objects pictured in the image.
Who is this puzzle maker?
What are the surname and singular word?
Note: Entree #2 was composed by an excellent puzzle-maker and friend of Puzzleria!
Think of an actual well-known seven-letter geographical unit that is also the name of a well-known fictional geographical unit. It is a single word that has just two consonants. If the second and sixth letters are removed, the remaining letters can be rearranged to describe what those units are.
What is it and what is the description?
Note: Entrees #3 through #8 were composed by Nodd, whose excellent “Nodd ready for prime time” appears in this edition of Puzzleria!
ENTREE #3
A small town and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them nine letters, two consonants, and seven syllables.
ENTREE #4
A small city and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them ten letters, three consonants, and seven syllables.
What are the city and state?
A two-word phrase with eight letters, two consonants, and five syllables describes an
event you might go to if you were visiting an island in the western U.S. What is this event?
A midsize city and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them thirteen letters, five consonants, and eight syllables.
What are the city and state?
ENTREE #7
What are they?
An island in the Pacific and a city in an island nation that is also in the Pacific have between them eight letters, zero vowels, and five syllables. What are the island and the city?
ENTREE #9
Name an eight-letter beverage that contains only one vowel, an “a”. Add an “e”, “i”, “o” and “u” to those eight letters.
Rearrange the letters of the synonym of “sea” to spell something much more likely seen on a river or lake than on the sea.
What are this beverage, synonym of “sea,” thing seen on the sea and the Fortune 500 company?
What is much more likely seen on a river?
Dessert Menu
“Goes ‘Round A’buttin’” Dessert:
“This is your song...”
Write a kind of song in lowercase letters.
Rotate the second letter 90 degrees counterclockwise and let the first letter abut it.
The result is one to whom the song is often sung. What are the song and who hears it?
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QUESTIONS:
ReplyDeleteDessert? Is that Billie Eilish and her brother-Killian?
DeleteEntree 2 -- should it be the second and *sixth* letters that are removed? My answer works if that change is made.
DeleteEntree #8: should "zero vowels" be "zero consonants" instead? The only places I found with zero vowels are mostly in Europe, although there is one place in California that fits if you don't count "y" as a vowel.
DeleteTrks and Crcks?
DeleteTortie, you're right -- zero CONSONANTS. My bad; apologies to all.
DeleteHINTS:
ReplyDeleteE9- If you were to change the vowel in the featured beverage to an A it might sound like another beverage. -sort of. Then flip a consonant and split it. And Wallah..
DeleteSunday Appetizer Hints:
Delete1. The first word becomes an African country if you change one letter and move it one place earlier in the word.
2. The sport was first played at the beach.
3. A plural word describing the answers is part of the answer to App #6.
4. 1. Her first initial and her dad’s make up two-thirds of a sandwich.
2. One of her films involved a 17th Century British law.
3. Moving the first letter of her surname one place earlier in the alphabet describes the item used in aviation.
4. She married her costar from the ‘86 film.
5. Her first name anagrams to a kind of tree.
5. Each hint describes something mentioned in the song.
1. Health care worker hawking flowers.
2. Mon amie.
3. Your phone’s always busy.
4. Love tends to vanish by next morning.
5. British NHS.
6. Infant mixes 007 a martini.
7. Silly smile.
8. Ensconced on a bit of cereal.
9. That plane trip from Florida was horrible.
10. You can’t have my cushion.
11. I’ll vocalize Brahms.
12. Child of the sea.
13. Scoot over again.
14. See what you caused, foolish lass.
15. No cash, just comics.
16. SOS.
17. Radio silence. (Alternative answer – “Don’t Bother Me.”)
6. Falstaff, after faking his demise in Henry IV, Part I.
Sunday Hints for Entrees 3-8:
3. The first part is charged.
4. Raymond, prevarication.
5. Gold, oxygen, trailer for rent.
6. Almost marching there.
7. The land body is not the big one.
8. The island is in the Marquesas; the city is on Honshu.
Monday Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
The man executed in a more modern form of capital punishment was an assassin.
The adjective describing this man rhymes with the name of an "Uncle" in the early days of television.
“A Nodd Is As Shrewd As A Sphinx” Appetizer:
Nodd's excellent hints to his Appetizer are posted above. We thank him.
And we thank Plantsmith for his hint to Entree #9.
Tutti Frutti Hors d’Oeuvre:
Be fruitful and “Air Supply!”
The singers are:
A man who played an Irish priest in a few movies,
A woman who seemed to have no surname, and
A man also known as a great guitarist.
Idiomatic Slice:
“Wholly Troubling Trinity”
The first letters of the four-word idiom are: TOTI.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
ENTREE #1
The surname of the person pictured in the image sounds like something Schindler had.
ENTREE #2
The answer is indeed Orwellian. The "units" contain three vowels and two adjacent-in-the-alphabet consonants.
ENTREE #3
The state? Think of a character portrayed by Donald Sutherland and Alan Alda.
ENTREE #4
The state? One in the chorus of a song sung by The Essex Green.
ENTREE #5
'Tis in a state that is similar to a church... in that it has many "aisles."
ENTREE #6
"How would this puzzle play" in a larger city with the same name but in a midwestern and not southwestern state?
ENTREE #7
(See the hint to ENTREE #5.)
ENTREE #8
No U's or Y's among the eight vowels... but one E, two A's. two O's and 3 I's.
ENTREE #9
There is really only one synonym of "sea..." it has five letters. What you see on the sea is an anagram of swiveling body parts Elvis was famous for.
“Goes ‘Round A’buttin’” Dessert:
“This is your song...”
Brahams!
Lego...
I figured any comments relating to "points", "direction", or "encompassing" would be TMI. Same goes for "rock" songs.
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS
ReplyDeleteRearrange the letters of a Pacific Island to get a car brand.
DeleteDid Osama start a car company?
DeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer 3 and Dessert.
DeleteSolved the Schpuzzle (I think), App #2, some of App #4, about a third of App #5, Hors d'Oeuvre, Slice, Entres #1, #5, and #7, and Dessert. Haven't spent much time on the Entrees yet this week.
DeleteOK, have App #3 and Entree #3 now.
DeleteWell, at least I will have the (easy) Dessert this week, if nothing else.
DeleteTortie, did the man in your Schpuzzle answer "execute" himself, as the man in my answer did?
DeleteNo, the man in my answer didn't execute himself. It's possible there are multiple answers; in fact, I found another lesser-known person with the same first name that also fits the description.
DeleteThe first name in my answer is the first four letters of the male costar of App #4 part 5, in the movie that's referenced.
Thanks for the hints! I hope they will help. While I've made some additional progress on my own, primarily on the Beatles puzzles, I still have quite a bit left to solve.
That's the first name I have, too. Maybe the intended answer is a different guy by that name.
DeleteAdmittedly, there are a lot of parts to some of the puzzles I submitted, making for a lot of work. If you need help on certain ones, I can provide follow-up hints today or tomorrow.
The Beatles songs proved to be the easiest of them all. Got Parts 1, 2, 9, 13, and 16 easily, but figured out the songs mostly (references to the songs, that is)and couldn't get the connections to the clues half the time. Also solved the Hors d'Oeuvre and most of Entree #9(not the beverage yet).
DeletepjbStillNotFeelingUpToSolvingEverythingJustYet,Though
Made a lot of progress yesterday. I'm only missing App 4 part 3, and Entree #4. Think I have the right state (if so, there are more obvious acts that could have been been mentioned) but can't figure out the city.
DeleteCame up with several actress riffs recently. May post them next week at this point, or save them as "official" puzzles for the future.
Happy Friday y'all!
ReplyDeleteSorry if I'm a little late posting my opening remarks, but tonight I decided to listen to Sounds of the Seventies with Johnnie Walker on BBC2 first. Hadn't been feeling good this week, so I wanted to do something different tonight. Also, Bryan and Renae chose to go eat with my eldest niece Morgan at her house this evening(didn't invite us, BTW), and Mia Kate was too tired to go out from practicing for her dance recital on Sunday afternoon. So Mom and I had to fend for ourselves, and since she had to go to Walgreens to pick up some of our prescriptions, I suggested she get supper from McDonald's, which is right nearby. She had a big lunch though, but she got an apple pie to eat anyway. I on the other hand had a whole meal: the Bacon Cajun Ranch Chicken Sandwich, fries, a Diet Dr. Pepper, and an M&M's McFlurry for dessert. Although I'd mentioned last time that Mom and I have had some kind of stomach bug going into this week, it hasn't been severe, like diarrhea or vomiting or anything like that. Just a sour stomach, and in Mom's case, her stomach had been making noises Sunday morning to the point where she decided not to go to church simply for that reason. I started feeling bad Tuesday morning, and decided to take a shower to feel better, even though I had a doctor's appointment two days later(I got up Wednesday morning and showered again, though I didn't need to). I asked my doctor if there was a stomach flu going around, and even though a nurse had said there was, my doctor hadn't heard about it. She did prescribe nausea medication for me, which Mom picked up earlier this evening. If anything, I've been feeling more gas than nausea, but again, nothing severe. I do wake up feeling much worse, though, as the day begins for me. As for Mom, she hasn't really said for sure if she's over it by now, but I do hope I get over it soon. I've got a few other appointments coming up, and the dance recital, and a trip to FL, and my therapist might tell me my being sick may even be something psychological, because I know I've had a few things coming up this month and the next, and it might just be anxiety-driven. I always seem to get nervous over things like this, although when I told Mom about my getting sick, she says my symptoms sounded like hers, so maybe it was something we ate? I don't know. As for the latest puzzles, I haven't really made any progress whatsoever, as they didn't show up on this site for me until 2:00am this morning, and I really only skimmed them and then shortly went to bed. Eventually I will be checking back here under HINTS from time to time, but I've just had other things on my mind right now. Bear with me.
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and I hope no one else here is any way under the weather at this moment. Cranberry out!
pjbWillNowBeCheckingThisWeek'sPrizeCrosswordOnTheGuardianWebsite---SeeY'allLater!
Simethicone is an effective remedy for gas, if you haven't already tried it. (My diet differs somewhat from yours; I had broccoli, carrots and cauliflower for lunch yesterday.)
DeletePaleo?
DeleteMcDonald's has something called the Grandma McFlurry coming out soon. What a strange name, but it sounds like it might be tasty.
DeleteDoes it have oatmeal in it? I like oatmeal.
DeleteDoesn't sound like oatmeal. It will have candy pieces and syrup in it.
DeleteBe better soon PJB.
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE – GUILLOTINE; LEON F. CZOLGOSZ; GUILTY
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. LIBERAL, BRAILLE; CONSERVATIVE, VAIN COVETERS; MODERATE, DATE MORE
2. JAMES WOODS, JEREMY IRONS; GOLF
3. EATS, THORN, SHOUT, STEW; EACH ONE ANAGRAMS TO A COMPASS DIRECTION
4.
1. LAURA DERN; RURAL DANE
2. KATHLEEN TURNER; ATHLETE, RUNNER
3. MAE WEST; WET MESA
4. VISE, AGENDA; GEENA DAVIS
5. KATE WINSLET; WEAKEN STILT (EXTRA CREDIT: BEATRICE WOOD)
5.
1. PENN, ELAINE => PENNY LANE
2. MEESE, SHELL => MICHELLE
3. THE INVISIBLE MAN, INVISIBLE MAN => YOU WON’T SEE ME
4. I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU
5. DR. ROBERT ATKINS => DOCTOR ROBERT
6. TWIST, SHOUT => TWIST AND SHOUT
7. THE FOOL ON THE HILL
8. GOLFER CRAIG, AKA “THE WALRUS” => I AM THE WALRUS
9. PUTIN’S DREAM => BACK IN THE USSR
10. ATKINS DIET DIDN’T WORK => CARRY THAT WEIGHT
11. GOLDEN RICHARDS => GOLDEN SLUMBERS
12. JULIA CHILD => JULIA
13. ONE AFTER 909
14. JOHN MITCHELL, MARTHA MITCHELL => MARTHA MY DEAR
15. YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
16. HELP!
17. NO REPLY
6. SCION TRIED; TIRED ICONS; DIRECTIONS; CONSIDER IT; DISCRETION
HORS D’OEUVRE – BING CHERRY; BING CROSBY, CHER, RY COODER,
SLICE – TIP OF THE ICEBERG; BIGOT, CREEP, THIEF
ENTREES
1. WILL SHORTZ; LISZT, WHORL
2. EURASIA; AREAS
3. IONIA, IOWA
4. ELYRIA, OHIO
5. OAHU LUAU
6. PEORIA, ARIZONA
7. AIEA, OAHU
8. EIAO, MARQUESAS ISLANDS; AIOI, JAPAN
9. SCHNAPPS; OCEAN, SHIP, UPS; CANOE
DESSERT – LULLABY, BABY
Schpuzzle: GUILLOTINE; LEON CZOLGOSZ (assassin of William McKinley); (GUILTI ->) GUILTY
ReplyDeleteApp:
1. LIBERAL, BRAILLE; CONSERVATIVE, VAIN COVETERS; MODERATE, DATE MORE
2. JAMES WOODS, JEREMY IRONS
3. EATS, THORN, SHOUT, STEW; ALL ANAGRAM TO CARDINAL DIRECTIONS (EAST, NORTH, SOUTH, WEST)
4. 1. LAURA DERN, AURLANDER (NORWAY); 2. KATHLEEN TURNER (PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED), ATHLETE, RUNNER; 3. ????; 4. GEENA DAVIS (THE FLY), VISE, AGENDA; 5. KATE WINSLET (ROSE in Titanic, based on Beatrice Wood), WEAKEN STILT
5. 1. PENNY LANE (PENN, ELAINE), 2. MICHELLE (MEESE, SHELL), 3. YOU WON’T SEE ME (alt: NOWHERE MAN) ((THE) INVISIBLE MAN); 4. I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU; 5. DR. ROBERT (ATKINS); 6. TWIST AND SHOUT; 7. FOOL ON THE HILL (alt: BABY, YOU’RE A RICH MAN); 8. I AM THE WALRUS; 9. BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. (alt: REVOLUTION); 10. CARRY THAT WEIGHT; 11. GOLDEN SLUMBERS; 12. JULIA; 13. ONE AFTER 909; 14. MARTHA, MY DEAR; 15. YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY (LOL; alt: DON’T PASS ME BY); 16. HELP; 17. NO REPLY
6. SCION TRIED, TIRED ICONS, DIRECTIONS, CONSIDER IT, DISCRETION
Hors d’Oeuvre: BING CROSBY, CHER, RY COODER; BING CHERRY
Slice: TIP OF THE ICEBERG, CREEP, THIEF, BIGOT
Entrees:
1. WILL SHORTZ; LISZT, WHORL
2. EURASIA, AREAS
3. IONIA, IOWA
4. ???? OHIO?
5. OAHU LUAU
6. PEORIA, ARIZONA
7. AIEA, OAHU
8. EIAO (MARQUESAS ISLANDS); AIOI, JAPAN
9. SCHNAPPS, OCEAN, SHIP, UPS; CANOE
Dessert: LULLABY (delete LL, l + u rotated -> b), BABY
PS Riff: ???? (Didn’t have a lot of time to tackle extra puzzles this week)
DESSERT: lullaby => BABY
ReplyDeletePuzzleria. 5/21//24/ –85 degrees.
ReplyDelete‘- –Schpuzzle of the Week
Appetizer Menu-
E1. Will Shortz, Whorl, Listz
E2. Eurasia, Areas
ENTREE #3 Iowa, Ionia
ENTREE#4-
ENTREE #5 Oahu,Luau
ENTREE #6
ENTREE #7 Oahu . ? * Actually been on the Aiea trail loop- but thought it was a separate city, more of a suburb like Hawaii Kai.
ENTREE#8. Eiao Island, Aiao on Honshu
ENTREE #9 Schnapps–Ships, ocean, UPS,
Dessert Menu
Lullaby – transmorphed to Baby- ll and flip the U and then.
** My riff- Totoya island in Fiji to Toyota.
Guys, I barely feel up to putting all my answers here tonight, and I've already seen everybody else's, so it would almost seem like I'm plagiarizing anyone else anyway. Suffice it to say, I got most of the Beatles songs("Help!", "The One After 909", "Penny Lane")and the Hors d'Oeuvre(BING CHERRY=BING[Crosby]+CHER+RY[Cooder])and Entree #1(WILL SHORTZ, [Franz]LISZT, WHORL). BTW Vanessa Hudgens( "High School Musical")beat Scott Porter("Friday Night Lights") on tonight's finale of "The Masked Singer".
ReplyDeletepjb'sSinusesGotWorseEarlierThisEvening,SoHe'sFeelingALittleDizzierThanHeThoughtHeWasBefore(Hadn'tBeenSureAboutHisSinusesForAWhileNowAnyway)
Get better PJB.
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, Part 1
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Punishment for the “punnish?”
Name a form of capital punishment.
Remove from it the letters in the first name of a man executed in a more modern form of capital punishment.
The remaining letters, in order, sound like an adjective describing the man.
What are these two forms?
Who is the man?
What is the adjective?
Answer:
Guillotine, electric chair; guilty; Leon (Czolgosz), assassin of William McKinley
GUILLOTINE - LEON = GUILTI => GUILTY
Appetizer Menu
“A Nodd Is As Shrewd As A Sphinx” Appetizer:
Politics A to Z, Best S[up]porting Actors, Common Usage, Anagrammatic Actresses, Fab Four Frivolities, Poetry Corner, by Anna Graham
Politics, A to Z
1. Rearrange the letters of a word for a person of a certain political persuasion to spell the name of an alphabet.
Now rearrange the letters of a word for a person of a different political persuasion to spell a two-word term for people who are breaking at least few of the Ten Commandments.
Finally, rearrange the letters of a word for a person of a third political persuasion to spell a two-word bit of advice one might give to a friend who is seeking to improve their love life.
What are these three political persuasions and their anagrams?
ANSWER:
LIBERAL, BRAILLE; CONSERVATIVE, VAIN COVETERS; MODERATE, DATE MORE.
BEST S[UP]PORTING ACTORS
2. Two actors, one American and one British, have five-letter last names that name items used in a sport. Their first names start with the same letter and have two other letters in common. Who are the actors? What is the sport?
ANSWER:
JAMES WOODS, JEREMY IRONS; GOLF
Common Usage
3. Guess the following everyday words from the hints:
1. Synonym for food.
2. Sticker.
3. Emphatic communication.
4. Hearty dish.
What are the words, and what do they have in common?
ANSWER:
1. EATS
2. THORN
3. SHOUT
4. STEW
EACH WORD ANAGRAMS TO A COMPASS DIRECTION.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, Part 2
ReplyDelete“A Nodd Is As Shrewd As A Sphinx” Appetizer (continued):
Anagrammatic Actresses
4. Each two-word answer is an anagram of the letters in the first and last names of a well-known actress. Guess the actresses and the words from the hints.
1. Resident of an isolated part of one of the Scandinavian countries. (Her dad is also an actor.)
2. Sports participant; race participant. (Before rearranging the letters, remove the first letter of the actress’s first name. In one of her most successful roles, she played a character named after a popular 1950s song.)
3. Southwestern geographical feature after a rain. (The name of the actress is also a popular name for an item used in aviation.)
4. Tool for gripping; schedule of items. (One of the actress’s first box office hits was the 1986 remake of a 1958 film.)
5. Undermine an item of equipment used in pairs by parade participants or circus performers. (The actress achieved global stardom after she played a character inspired by an American artist. The first name of the character was the name of a flower; the last name of the artist was a word associated with trees. For extra credit, identify the artist.)
ANSWER:
1. LAURA DERN; RURAL DANE
2. KATHLEEN TURNER; ATHLETE, RUNNER
3. MAE WEST; WET MESA
4. GEENA DAVIS; VISE, AGENDA
5. KATE WINSLET; WEAKEN STILT (EXTRA CREDIT: BEATRICE WOOD)
Fab Four Frivolities
5. Guess the Beatles songs suggested by the hints:
1. Filmmakers Arthur, May.
2. Former Attorney General, former Raiders coach. (Say their last names rapidly one after the other.)
3. Titles of novels by Wells and Ellison
4. Another answer for No. 3.
5. Diet guru who promoted low carbs.
6. Kind of donut, plus a laundry product brand name.
7. Many a Congress member.
8. Pro athlete Stadler.
9. Vlad’s dream come true.
10. No. 5’s plan didn’t work.
11. Pro athlete Richards dozes off on the bench?
12. Child TV star.
13. 910.
14. Former Attorney General John’s spousal salutation.
15. NPR’s lament to listeners.
16. Puzzlerians to Lego.
17. Hopefully NOT Lego’s response to No. 16.
ANSWER:
1. PENN, ELAINE => PENNY LANE
2. MEESE, SHELL => MICHELL
3. THE INVISIBLE MAN, INVISIBLE MAN => YOU WON’T SEE ME
4. THE INVISIBLE MAN, INVISIBLE MAN => I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU
5. DR. ROBERT ATKINS => DOCTOR ROBERT
6. TWIST, SHOUT => TWIST AND SHOUT
7. THE FOOL ON THE HILL
8. GOLFER CRAIG, AKA “THE WALRUS” => I AM THE WALRUS
9. PUTIN’S DREAM => BACK IN THE USSR
10. ATKINS DIET DIDN’T WORK => CARRY THAT WEIGHT
11. GOLDEN RICHARDS => GOLDEN SLUMBERS
12. JULIA CHILD => JULIA
13. ONE AFTER 909
14. JOHN MITCHELL => MARTHA, MY DEAR
15. YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY
16. HELP!
17. NO REPLY
Poetry Corner, by Anna Graham
6. Fill in the five blanks with five anagrammatic words or phrases to complete the verse. Two of the blanks contain single words; the other three contain two-word phrases.
The _____ _____ to resurrect
The _____ _____ long forgot.
His heirs, he feared, would yet reject
__________, and, his work for nought,
________ __ a disrespect,
___________ breached, a doomed fool’s plot.
ANSWER:
SCION TRIED; TIRED ICONS; DIRECTIONS; CONSIDER IT; DISCRETION
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, Part 3
ReplyDeleteTutti Frutti Hors d’Oeuvre:
Be fruitful and “Air Supply!”
Take the first names of three singers to name a two-word fruit.
Who are these singers?
What is this fruit?
Answer:
Bing (Crosby); Cher; Ry (Cooder); Bing Cherry
Idiomatic Slice:
“Wholly Troubling Trinity”
Take a four-word idiom for a small part of something troubling – a problem, for example – that is obvious, although there is a much larger part of that “something” that is not obvious at all.
Rearrange its letters to spell three types of troublesome, problematic people.
What are this idiom and three types of people?
ANSWER:
"Tip of the iceberg"; Bigot, Creep, Thief
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sippin’ Schweppes in Oceania
Will Shortz’s May 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a well-known seven-letter geographical name in a single word that has just two consonants and yet is pronounced in five syllables.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
There are two vowels in a puzzle-maker’s name, one in each of the name’s two syllables. Rearrange the name’s combined letters to spell the surname of the person pictured in the image and the singular word for any one of the six objects pictured in the image.
Who is this puzzle maker?
What are the surname and singular word?
Answer:
Will Shortz; (Franz) Liszt, Whorl
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 4
ReplyDeleteNote: Entree #2 was composed by an excellent puzzle-maker and friend of Puzzleria!
ENTREE #2
Think of an actual well-known seven-letter geographical unit that is also the name of a well-known fictional geographical unit. It is a single word that has just two consonants. If the second and sixth letters are removed, the remaining letters can be rearranged to describe what those units are. What is it and what is the description?
Answer: Eurasia (Europe and Asia taken as a unit or a fictional state in the novel "1984", which is often in conflict with Oceania) (Eurasia - u - i, and rearranged = areas) (Orwellian, indeed)
Note: Entrees #3 through #8 were composed by Nodd, whose excellent “Nodd ready for prime time” appears in this edition of Puzzleria!
ENTREE #3
A small town and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them nine letters, two consonants, and seven syllables. What are the city and state?
Answer:
IONIA, IOWA
ENTREE #4
A small city and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them ten letters, three consonants, and seven syllables. What are the city and state?
Answer:
ELYRIA, OHIO
ENTREE #5
A two-word phrase with eight letters, two consonants, and five syllables describes an event you might go to if you were visiting an island in the western U.S. What is this event?
Answer:
OAHU LUAU
ENTREE #6
A midsize city and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them thirteen letters, five consonants, and eight syllables. What are the city and state?
Answer:
PEORIA, ARIZONA
ENTREE #7
A western U.S. census-designated place and the name of the body of land in which it is located have between them eight letters, one consonant, and six syllables. What are they?
Answer:
AIEA, OAHU
ENTREE #8
An island in the Pacific and a city in an island nation that is also in the Pacific have between them eight letters, zero vowels, and five syllables. What are the island and the city?
Answer:
EIAO, MARQUESAS ISLANDS; AIOI, JAPAN
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This week's official answers for the record, Part 5
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Name an eight-letter beverage that contains only one vowel, an “a”. Add an “e”, “i”, “o” and “u” to those eight letters.
Rearrange the result to spell a synonym of “sea,” something seen on the sea and a three-letter multinational Fortune 500 company whose business is to ____ products (with the missing word being the verb form of the “something seen on the sea”).
What are this beverage, synonym of “sea” and thing seen on the sea?
Answer:
Schnapps; Ocean, ship
Dessert Menu
“Goes ‘Round A’buttin’” Dessert:
“This is your song...”
Write a kind of song in lowercase letters.
Remove two adjacent interior letters and the space they leave.
Rotate the second letter 90 degrees counterclockwise and let the first letter abut it.
The result is one to whom the song is often sung. What are the song and who hears it?
ANSWER:
lullaby, baby
(lullaby=>luaby=>baby)
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