Schpuzzle of the Week:
Toponym, idiom, synonym
Reverse the word order to form an idiom
meaning “to become infuriated.”
Replace the word on the right with a common article and remove the space to form a one-word synonym of that idiom.
What are the toponym, idiom and synonym?
Appetizer Menu
Tortoiseshell Challenges:
“Crittergories!”
1. 🏝 Think of a popular U.S. vacation spot in two words.
Change the first letter to a copy of the last letter, and anagram.
You’ll find a category of critters that are popular at the vacation spot.
What is the vacation spot?
What is the critter category?
State becomes a statesman?
Duplicate the sixth letter, then rearrange the letters to form the first and last names of a current politician from California.
What is the state?
Who is the politician?
Sitcommy actresses, seafaring vessels
3. 👭Name two actresses who worked together.
The first is well-known for several sitcoms.
The first actress’ first name rhymes with the
second actress’ last name, as well as a word associated with seafaring vessels. The second actress’ first name is an Old French translation of a common word.
Place the first actress’ last name before this common word. You’ll have a company name, one that was associated with several seafaring vessels and one in particular.
Who are the actresses? What is the word associated with seafaring vessels? What is the common word? What is the company? What is the most famous seafaring vessel associated with it?
Thumb of Pamela, Up or Down?
4. 🍇🍉🥑Pamela likes:
JAMES BUCHANAN and GROVER CLEVELAND, but not JAMES POLK or ZACHARY TAYLOR;
TINA FEY, but not AMY POEHLER;
JAMES BROWN, but not ARETHA FRANKLIN.
Based on this, does Pamela like OHIO or TEXAS? Why?
5. 🤝Think of a two-syllable brand name that’s good for greeting.
Replace each syllable with a rhyme.
You’ll get a brand name that’s good for eating.
What are the two brand names?
MENU
Malevolent Modifier Hors d’Oeuvre:
Pointed, painful & perhaps painted
Move its first letter to the end to spell its
synonym.
Replace that letter at the end with an anagram of something pointed, painful, and sometimes painted to form a seven-letter noun with negative connotations.
What are this adjective, its synonym, and something pointed and painful?
What is the seven-letter negative noun?
Creature Creeping Thru A Calendar! Slice:
Yearlings? Dog days? March hare? June bug?
Take the letters of a word that can be seen on a calendar.
Write a duplicate of one of those letters.
Rearrange the result to spell a creature and word that often describes it. What are the creature and descriptive word?
Riffing Off Shortz And Popp Entrees:
A crop in soil (along with oil!)
Name a famous European tourist site in nine
letters. Rearrange its last four letters to name something that its first five letters can be planted in.
Puzzleria!s riffing-off Shortz and Popp puzzles read:
Name a puzzle-maker whose name contains four consecutive letters that spell a word for a movable bar attached to the fingerboard of a fretted instrument to uniformly raise the pitch of all the strings.
Place a space between the sixth and seventh letters. Replace the sixth letter with the last letter. Delete the third letter. Translate a French word into English.
The result is how a guitar-playing stage performer might answer the question: “What do you do between songs to refresh yourself and relax?”
Who is this puzzle-maker? What is the “movable bar?”
How does the guitarist reply to the question?
Entrees #2-through-#7 were created by our friend and riff-meister Nodd.
ENTREE #2
Double the last two letters. Rearrange these eleven letters to spell a two-word phrase for tourist attractions that many European countries are known for, especially Italy, France, and Greece.
Take the name of the tourist site featured in the preceding Entree and remove from it a word for a kind of sound made by certain birds.
Rearrange the remaining letters to spell a food that is grown in the country in which the site is located.
ENTREE #4
This time remove a word for a kind of mountain pass and rearrange the remaining letters to spell a food that originated in a country adjoining the country in which the site is located.
Name a famous European tourist site in eight
letters.
Rearrange its letters to spell the first name and the first letter of the last name of a famous American.
ENTREE #6
Remove the first four letters and slightly
rearrange the rest to spell a word for a body of nations that figured prominently in the history of the location of this site.
Name a famous European tourist site in two words comprising ten letters. Remove from the second word a U.S. state postal abbreviation.
Slightly rearrange the remaining letters to spell a vegetable and something that may explain why some people dislike this vegetable.
Entree #8 is the brainchild by our friend and riff-meister Plantsmith.
ENTREE #8
Add a third consonant to make “three of the same consonant.”
Mix these letters to get a pretty plant and a bryophytic plant that is preceded by the words “Spanish,” “Peat” or “Randy.”
What is this tourist sight?
What are the pretty plant and bryophytic plant?
ENTREE #9
Name a famous European tourist site in 17 letters. Rearrange these letters to name:
example of (6 letters)...
2. what Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the
Ancient Mariner” is an example of (6 letters)... and
3. what Kasparov, Karpov or Fischer are a master of (5 letters).
What is this tourist site?
What are the two “examples of” and one “master of?”
ENTREE #10
What is this tourist site?
What are the things that spanned the years from 1797 to 1801 and from 1825 to 1829?
Name a famous European tourist site in 16 letters. Rearrange these letters to spell two eight-letter words: one preceded by “Mother” and another that precedes “whale.”
What is this tourist site?
What are the two eight-letter words?
Dessert Menu
Spelled-Alike Sound-Alike Dessert:
Quizzing a kind of cuisine?
The first four letters spell a body part.
The final four letters sound like body parts.
What are this cuisine, body part and body parts?
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QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteI have an answer for App 5, but the first brand name is one word and the second is two. Is that the intended answer?
DeleteYes, the first brand name is one word and the second is two.
DeleteThanks. Nice Apps, BTW. I have 1, 2, and 5 so far.
DeleteIn Entree 8, I am wondering if the bryophytic plant follows, rather than precedes, Spanish, Peat or Randy.
DeleteYou are correct, Nodd. Thanks for the editing. It is my mistake, not Plantsmith's. I shall fix it.
DeleteLegoFallibly
HINTS!
ReplyDeleteApp hints:
Delete1. Lobster order.
2. The politician was on a famous “short list” in 2020. The last name when read might remind you of fish or music.
3. There was a hit movie about the famous seafaring vessel. The main female character’s first name is the same as a character portrayed by the first actress. That name is a common flower.
4. Pamela likes the rock band Genesis. She likes “Abacab,” but not “Misunderstanding.”
Pamela likes JD Vance, Mike Pence, and Dick Cheney, but not Dan Quayle, Gerald Ford, or George Bush.
Pamela doesn’t like Donald Trump, but she’d like him if he called himself “Don Trump” instead.
5. The food sounds like something you'd get at Citi Field or Yankee Stadium.
SUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. The site has the same name as a 12,473’ peak in the Sierra Nevada.
3. Sounds like something guys like to show off.
4. Mrs. Castevet called the food a rodent.
5. A fighting force in the country where the site is located was named after the famous American.
6. Not a white whale, but could be a silver seal.
7. Scientists identify the thing that may explain why some people dislike the vegetable as TAS2R38.
Wow, Nodd, I never HEARD of that mountain you refer to in the hint for #2! But it was nice to reassure myself I had the correct answers. Am about to see if hints 6 and 7 will help me.
DeleteTortie, at least your hints helped me solve your #s 1, 2, and 3. I still have NO Idea, however, what to do with Pamela in your #4.
Lego, will a hint for your Slice be forthcoming?
Hurrah, by mostly grit and good luck, I finally managed to solved the rest of your Entrees, Nodd (5, 6 and 7.). The hint turned out to be most critical for #5, not so much for #6, but necessary for #7. How Tortie got all these without any hints is, as usual, beyond me!
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DeleteMore Pamela (App 4) examples/hints:
DeleteWhen it comes to types of clouds, Pamela likes cumulus, but not stratus.
When it comes to movies about the afterlife, Pamela likes “Soul” (and not just because of Tina Fey!) but really doesn’t like “Ghost.”
When it comes to video game characters, Pamela likes Mario, but really doesn’t like Sonic.
When it comes to nautical measurements, she like “fathom” but really doesn’t like “knot.”
Pamela likes sixty, but doesn’t like fifty, and really doesn’t like forty.
(Side note: there is something special about the words ghost, Sonic, knot, and forty. This type of word is far rarer than the words Pamela likes. Stu likes ghost, knot, and forty. Tom likes Sonic.)
Pamela likes Tina Fey, but doesn’t quite like “Yeti fan.” Similarly, while Pamela likes grapes, she doesn’t quite like pagers. (In other words, anagramming a word or name might cause Pamela to not like it, so it's something to do with the placement of the letters and not just the letters themselves. Another note: Neither Stu nor Tom like Tina Fey or "Yeti Fan." However, Stu likes the movie "Flow" while Tom likes all of the movies called "Wolf.")
VT, the photos were helpful this week!
DeleteHint for the Slice (mercifully shorter than the Pamela hints!): One of the words describes Fuzzy Wuzzy; the other one doesn't! The "calendar word" is in accompanying picture.
Hint for the Slice:
DeleteWhen you duplicate one of those letters on the calendar, you end up with three of them! Some people do not pronounce the first instance of this letter in the word on the calendar.
LegoWhoNotesThatThereIsAConnectionBetweenThisSliceAnswerAndViolinTeddy'sStradSteiffSubtleties!
VT, I hadn't heard of the mountain until I went on a Sierra Club trip to climb it, along with three other peaks in the area. Those were the days.
DeleteGosh, Nodd, climbing a mountain (or four) in the Sierras surely sounds like it was a fabulously fun challenge. I envy you!
DeleteLego, I came up with clearly an alternate answer for your Slice, but will now try to see if I can figure out the one you intended. KI used a word NOT in the Slice's photos, and then actually double checked that the 'descriptive' word IS applied to the creature in my alt answer.
Tortie, thank you for all the example hints for Pamela (who in heck are Stu and Tom, tho?). But so far nothing is 'hitting me', so I may just have to admit defeat, despite all your attempts at help.
Okie doke, thanks to both Tortie's and Lego's Slice hints, I came up with the intended answer.
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DeleteVT, Pamela, Stu, and Tom are all fictional. Their names are a bit of a clue for the stuff that they like. Instead of Stu, the name "Amy" would also work. In this case, if you figure out one of the names and why they like what they like, you can probably figure out the other two as well, as they're based on a similar principle.
DeleteThis "somebody likes" puzzle is based on puzzles that sometimes occur in The New York Times Gameplay newsletter. They used to be in Games magazine as well.
Here's an example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/comments/16g320y/brain_tickler/
I believe I know what is special about ghost, sonic, knot, and forty, but the principle doesn't seem to apply to other words Pamela doesn't like, e.g. stratus. Perhaps she has degrees of like/dislike? BTW if she's fictional, who posed for that cute pic?
DeleteNodd, yes, it's degrees of like/dislike. "Stratus" just doesn't fit the pattern Pamela likes, but some of that word does fit the pattern (falls apart once you reach the letter "a"). Ghost, etc. don't fit Pamela's pattern at all - well, at least from the third letter on.
DeleteChatGPT:
make a picture of a young woman named Pamela who is happily looking at a photo of Grover Cleveland
(nice picture, but hands look a bit strange)
I basically like the picture but the hands are bit wonky, especially the right hand. The index finger seems too long for example. Can you redo the picture where the hands are not visible?
(shows a pic of Grover Cleveland floating in midair)
I like it, but Grover's picture is just hanging there. Can you make it a picture on a wall instead?
ChatGPT generated most of what you see in App 4 - however, I noticed that Grover Cleveland looked different in all 3 pictures! I think that ChatGPT takes even photos of famous people and kind of averages them out/tweaks them somehow. So I used the Grover Cleveland picture from Wikipedia, added a slight sepia tone to it, and turned it a bit (never could get exactly the correct angle that the original ChatGPT picture had, though; the top part was at a different angle than the bottom).
TortieWhoNotesThatStuLikesWordsThatGoInOneWay,TomLikeTheOther,AndPamelaLikesToGoBackAndForth!
When you consider Pamela's name, it's interesting that the puzzle asks about her preference in states. I tried to discern a principle of likes/dislikes from this, but it didn't work. I still don't have an answer that covers every case, but I've figured out which ways Stu and Tom like to go.
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteApp 3 Riff -- Think of two sitcom actresses of the 1970s. The last name of one of the actresses followed by the first name of the other actress name an American novelist. Who are the actresses and the novelist?
DeleteHmm, may (or may not!) be on the right track with the riff. The novelist and first actress came to mind immediately, but after doing some Wikipedia research, I have two possible answers for the second actress. The problem is that I really don't consider either one of the actresses to be a sitcom actress. One is probably most famous for a 1970s TV drama, while the other is more famous for movies, although she also had dramatic roles on TV. Both of them had sitcoms in the 1970s that I'd say were hardly hits - both lasted exactly 10 episodes! So, it's probably not the intended answer, but an OK alt.
DeleteThe funny thing is that one of the actresses I have as a possibility had a daughter who appeared in a 1970s sitcom, but probably is more famous for a later sitcom. That later sitcom is related to the two actresses in App 3.
OK, that helped me to narrow it down, as only one of the two is an Oscar and Emmy winner.
DeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased to say that the Schpuzzle was fast and easy; I assume others will find it so, too. However, lately for me that hasn't boded well (I looked up that past participle!)for how the rest of the puzzles will go. It all looks very LONG this week, but perhaps it's no longer than usual?
DeleteAfter a lot of work, this week's "stuck list" for me turns out to be: Apps 1 thru 4, the Slice, and Entrees 5, 6, 7. [At least I solved Nodd's 2, 3, 4...always a thrill!]
DeleteLooks like I've solved everything this week, except for, of course, the Apps. I'll be posting hints for those on Sunday evening. Of the Apps, I think #4 is the hardest.
DeleteGood Friday(and it really is, too!)one and all upon the blog!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine under the circumstances. My hiatal hernia has gotten much better, and Mom says it may have just been an ulcer that I'd had for a while. My cough and stopped-up ear are minor inconveniences at best right now. Not planning on eating out with the rest this evening, but I think we'll have supper from a drive-through later tonight. We will be joining everyone on Easter Sunday, though. Hoping to have everyone wish me a belated Happy Birthday then. This week I've had an MRI, and we've watched the new "Tic Tac Dough" (BTW Sort of ironic that the original host, Wink Martindale, passed away this week as well.)and "Bingo Blitz". Pretty good shows, and I think Valerie Bertinelli is doing a great job as host of the latter. I still remember her from the original "One Day At A Time" in the 70s and 80s. She's still kinda cute, though she's much older now. Of course, we've watched "The Masked Singer" and "The Floor", both having only a few episodes left in the season. I've also listened to a lot of "American Top 40" reruns from the 70s and 80s, and done a lot of cryptic crosswords on the Guardian website(I'm up to Page 13, as a matter of fact!). I even listened to Casey Kasem while taking a shower! Might do that Saturday night as well! Of course, I checked the latest puzzles here last night. Unfortunately, the easiest hands down was the Dessert, so that's the only one I've been able to solve. Looking forward to any and all hints from all involved(Tortie, Nodd, PS, and of course, Lego).
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and may I be the first to wish you and yours a Happy Easter, as well as a Happy rest of Good Friday this evening. Cranberry out!
pjbWillLikelyBeHelpingOutHidingEggsOnSunday(EvenThoughMostOfTheKidsAreProbablyTooOldForThatStuffByNow!)
Happy Easter to you and your family!
DeleteI enjoy listening to countdown shows on SiriusXM. I've listened to the 1950s (top 10 only), 60s, 70s and 80s shows at times. The 1970s ones are Casey Kasem, and you have to listen while it's on (copyright issues). SiriusXM 70s on 7 plays it a few times during the week, though. The others are On Demand, so you can listen through the app, and start and stop as you please.
I somehow missed the news that Wink Martindale died. I used to watch him on "Tic Tac Dough." Valerie Bertinelli was great on Kids Baking Championship - very motherly and kind to the contestants. Food Network dumped her for some reason, and I don't even think she knows why.
SCHPUZZLE – RED SEA; SEE RED; SEETHE
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. CAPE COD; DECAPOD
2. NEBRASKA; KAREN BASS
3. BETTY WHITE, ESTELLE GETTY; JETTY; STAR; WHITE STAR; TITANIC
4. TEXAS. It appears Pamela doesn’t like words with letters in alphabetical order (ghost, knot, forty) or reverse alphabetical order (sonic). Stu likes forward; Tom likes reverse. (This rule doesn’t seem to cover all of Pamela’s likes/dislikes, but it’s all I could comd up with.)
5. HALLMARK; BALLPARK
HORS D’OEUVRE – EVIL; VILE; NAIL; VILLAIN
SLICE – FEBRUARY; BEAR, FURRY or OCTOBER; COOT, BORE
ENTREES
1. JESSICA POPP; CAPO; “I SIP A POP”
2. COLOSSEUM; COOL MUSEUMS
3. COLOSSEUM; MUSSEL
4. COLOSSEUM; MOUSSE
5. ALHAMBRA; ABRAHAM L.
6. VERSAILLES; ALLIES
7. LAKE GENEVA; KALE, GENE
8. COLOSSEUM; COLEUS; MOSS
9. ST. BASIL’S CATHEDRAL; ARTIST, BALLAD, CHESS
10. AMSTERDAM; ADAMS TERM
11. SUPERIOR HUMPBACK
DESSERT – CHINESE; CHIN, KNEES
NODD RIFF ON APP 3 – VALERIE HARPER, LEE GRANT; HARPER LEE
You are right about Stu and Tom, and are kind of on the right track with Pamela. She does like Texas. She likes words that alternate between alphabetical order and reverse alphabetical order (or vice versa) (e.g., 't', then 'e' is before 't', ' x' is after 'e', 'a' is before 'x', 's' is after 'a'.).
DeleteThis puzzle was admittedly difficult. I made up Stu and Tom when I was developing hints; they probably would have made for an easier puzzle (if limited in the amount of words I could use). If I ever have another puzzle like this, I promise it will be easier!
TortieWhoSubmittedSlightlyDifferentWordingForThe"Official"SolutionButHopesThatAtLeastOneExplanationMakesSense!
Yes, pretty difficult -- especially with so many examples to parse through letter by letter -- but very clever and creative. Your algorithm occurred to me when you said Pamela likes to go both ways, but it seemed too complicated to be the right answer!
DeleteBTW, why the name Pamela? I notice her name consists of three state postal abbreviations and the puzzle asks which state she likes. Is there a connection?
"Pamela" was simply the longest name I could think of that fit the algorithm, other than "Kamala." (There are probably longer common names that fit; it's simply that I couldn't think of any!) For the most part, I wanted to stay away examples where every other letter is an 'a', though. I didn't even notice the state postal abbreviations! That was just a coincidence.
DeleteSchpuzzle: RED SEA, SEE RED, SEETHE
ReplyDeleteApp: I have the week off!
Hors d’Oeuvre: EVIL, VILE, NAIL; VILLAIN
Slice: (FEBRUARY+R) BEAR, FURRY
Entrees:
1. JESSICA POPP; CAPO; I SIP A POP
2. COLOSSEUM, COOL MUSEUMS
3. COLOSSEUM, COO, MUSSEL
4. COLOSSEUM, COL, MOUSSE
5. ALHAMBRA, ABRAHAM L(INCOLN)
6. VERSAILLES, ALLIES
7. LAKE GENEVA (-VA), KALE, GENE
8. COLOSSEUM (+S); COLEUS, MOSS
9. ST. BASIL’S CATHEDRAL; ARTIST, BALLAD, CHESS
10. AMSTERDAM; ADAMS TERM
11. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, ANGELICA, HUMPBACK
Dessert: CHINESE, CHIN, KNEES
Nodd riff: HARPER LEE, VALERIE HARPER, LEE GRANT (LEE MERIWETHER would work as well; she was mostly known for “Barnaby Jones,” but also was in “The New Andy Griffith Show” in 1971.)
Lee Grant’s daughter Dinah Manoff was on “Empty Nest,” which was a spin-off of “The Golden Girls” (App 3).
SCHPUZZLE: RED SEA => SEE RED; SEETHE
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. CAPE COD => DAPE COD => DECAPOD
2. NEBRASKA => KAREN BASS [Never heard of her]
3. BETTY WHITE, ESTELLE [meaning STAR] GETTY; JETTY => WHITE STAR; TITANIC
4.
5. HALLMARK => BALL PARK
HORS D’O: EVIL => VIL(E) + NAIL => VILLAIN
SLICE: BIRTHDAY + R => HYBRID RAT; Intended answer: FEBRUARY + R => BEAR, FURRY
ENTREES:
1. JESSICA POPP => CAPO; JE SIP A POP => I SIP A POP
2. COLOSSEUM + UM => COOL MUSEUMS
3. COLOSSEUM minus COO => LSSEUM => MUSSEL
4. COLOSSEUM minus COL => MOUSSE from France
5. ALHAMBRA => ABRAHAM L. [Finally getting this answer was a result of sheer grit and determination, working backwards.]
6. VERSAILLES => ALLIES
7. LAKE GENEVA => KALE & GENE
8. COLOSSEUM => COLEUS & MOSS
9. ST BASILS CATHEDRAL => ARTIST, BALLAD, CHESS
10. AMSTERDAM => ADAMS TERM
DESSERT: CHINESE => CHIN, KNEES
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteRED SEA, SEE RED, SEETHE
Appetizer Menu
1. CAPE COD, DECAPOD
2. NEBRASKA, KAREN BASS(Mayor of Los Angeles)
3. BETTY WHITE, ESTELLE GETTY("The Golden Girls"), JETTY, STAR, WHITE STAR, TITANIC
5. HALLMARK(greeting cards), BALLPARK(franks)
Menu
Malevolent Hors d'Oeuvre
EVIL, VILE, NAIL, VILLAIN
Creature Creeping Thru A Calendar! Slice
FEBRUARY, BEAR, FURRY
Entrees
1. JESSICA POPP, CAPO, I SIP A POP
2. COLOSSEUM, COOL MUSEUMS
3. COLOSSEUM, MUSSEL
4. COLOSSEUM, MOUSSE
5. ALHAMBRA, ABRAHAM L.(Lincoln)
6. VERSAILLES, ALLIES
7. LAKE GENEVA, KALE, GENE
8. COLOSSEUM(again!), COLEUS, MOSS
9. ST. BASIL'S CATHEDRAL, (1.)ARTIST, (2.)BALLAD, (3.)CHESS
10. AMSTERDAM, ADAMS TERM(John and John Quincy)
11. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, ANGELICA, HUMPBACK
Spelled-Alike Sound-Alike Dessert
CHINESE, CHIN, KNEES
Masked Singer Results:
Tonight was "Soundtrack of My Life" Night.
NESSY=EDWIN MCCAIN(a singer; I've heard of him and recognized the song he sang at the end of the show, but once again Mom wasn't familiar with him)
McCain was chosen to be unmasked in what host Nick Cannon called "the closest margin in "Masked Singer" history"(a vote margin that was "less than 1%").
Robin Thicke guessed correctly, which tied him with Jenny McCarthy yeah over for most correct guesses this season: 4 for both.
Next week will be the semifinals, in which both the Golden Mask and Golden Ear trophies will be up for grabs. Y'all have been warned. See you then!-pjb
Have fun at the condo. And if you visit Harry T.'s- say hello for me.
ReplyDeleteThat's something I don't miss about GA- chiggers and fire ants. The latter sent me to the E.R. once.
ReplyDeleteThis week's official answers, for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteTake a two-word body of water. Transpose the words and replace one with a homophone. The result is an idiom meaning "to become a 5-letter word in an Irving Berlin lyric" that describes the body of water. What are the body of water, idiom and Berlin lyric?
Answer:
Red Sea; See red; "...angry sea" ("A pair of sailor boys are we / We sail across the angry sea" from Irving Berlin's "Sailor Song")
Red Sea=>Sea Red => See Red....
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteCreature Creeping Thru A Calendar Slice:
Dog days? Yearlings? March hare? June bug?
Double a letter in a word on a calendar.
Rearrange the result to name a creature and word that might describe it.
What is the word on the calendar?
What is the creature and the word that might describe it?
ANSWER:
Furry Bear; (February + r)
Hint: Some people fail to pronounce this letter when they say the word on the calendar aloud... as if pronouncing it were not allowed!
Riffing Off Shortz And Popp Entrees:
A crop in soil (along with oil!)
Will Shortz’s April 13th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Jessica Popp, of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Name a famous European tourist site in nine letters. Rearrange its last four letters to name something that its first five letters can be planted in.
Puzzleria!s riffing-off Shortz and Popp puzzles read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker whose name contains four consecutive letters that spell a word for a movable bar attached to the fingerboard of a fretted instrument to uniformly raise the pitch of all the strings.
Place a space between the sixth and seventh letters. Replace the sixth letter with the last letter. Delete the third letter. Translate a French word into English.
The result is how a guitar-playing stage performer might answer the question: “What do you do between songs to refresh yourself and relax?”
Who is this puzzle-maker? What is the “movable bar?”
How does the guitarist reply to the question?
Answer:
Jessica Popp; Capo; "I sip a Pop!"
Jessica Popp=>Jessic a Popp=>Jessip a Pop=>Je sip a Pop=>"I sip a Pop"
Lego...
This week's official answers, for the record, part 4:
ReplyDeleteEntrees #2-through-#7 were created by our friend and riff-meister Nodd.
ENTREE #2
Name a famous European tourist site in nine letters. Double the last two letters. Rearrange these eleven letters to spell a two-word phrase for tourist attractions that many European countries are known for, especially Italy, France, and Greece. (Hint: The first word in the two-word phrase is used in its informal sense.)
Answer:
COLOSSEUM; COOL MUSEUMS
ENTREE #3
Take the name of the tourist site featured in the preceding Entree and remove from it a word for a kind of sound made by certain birds. Rearrange the remaining letters to spell a food that is grown in the country in which the site is located.
Answer:
COLOSSEUM; MUSSEL
(COLOSSEUM – COO = MUSSEL)
ENTREE #4
Again, take the name of the tourist site featured in the preceding two Entrees. This time remove a word for a kind of mountain pass and rearrange the remaining letters to spell a food that originated in a country adjoining the country in which the site is located.
Answer:
COLOSSEUM; MOUSSE
ENTREE #5
Name a famous European tourist site in eight letters. Rearrange its letters to spell the first name and the first letter of the last name of a famous American. (Hint: Although the famous American never visited the country in which the tourist site is located, a military brigade that was active in that country was named after him.)
Answer:
ALHAMBRA; ABRAHAM L.
ENTREE #6
Name a famous European tourist site in ten letters. Remove the first four letters and slightly rearrange the rest to spell a word for a body of nations that figured prominently in the history of the location of this site.
Answer:
VERSAILLES; ALLIES
ENTREE #7
Name a famous European tourist site in two words comprising ten letters. Remove from the second word a U.S. state postal abbreviation. Slightly rearrange the remaining letters to spell a vegetable and something that may explain why some people dislike this vegetable. (Hint: Scientists identify the thing that may explain why some people dislike this vegetable as TAS2R38.)
Answer:
LAKE GENEVA; KALE, GENE
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ENTREE #8
Take a popular European tourist site that contains two of the same vowel and two of the same consonant. Add a third consonant to make “three of the same consonant.” Mix these letters to get a pretty plant and a bryophytic plant that precedes the words “Spanish,” “Peat” or Randy.”
What is this tourist sight?
What are the pretty plant and bryophytic plant?
Answer:
Colosseum; Coleus, Moss
(COLOSSEUM=>COLOSSSEUM=>COLEUS + MOSS
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Name a famous European tourist site in 17 letters. Rearrange these letters to name:
1. what Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dalí or Rembrandt is an example of (6 letters)...
2. what Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is an example of (6 letters)... and
3. what Kasparov, Karpov or Fischer are a master of (5 letters).
What is this tourist site?
What are the two “examples of” and one “master of?”
Answer:
St. Basil's Cathedral; Artist, Ballad, Chess
ENTREE #10
Name a famous European tourist site in nine letters. Rearrange its nine letters to name something that began in 1797 and ended in 1801, or something that began in 1825 and ended in 1829.
What is this tourist site?
What are the things that spanned the years from 1797 to 1801 and from 1825 to 1829?
Answer:
Amsterdam (the Netherlands);
"Adams' term" (John Adams' presidential term spanned the years 1797 to 1801, and John Quincy Adams' presidential term spanned the years 1825 to 1829.)
ENTREE #11
Name a famous European tourist site in 16 letters. Rearrange these letters to spell two eight-letter words:
one preceded by “Mother” and another that precedes “whale.”
What is this tourist site?
What are the two eight-letter words?
Answer:
Buckingham palace;
Angelica, humpback
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Spelled-Alike Sound-Alike Dessert:
Quizzing a kind of cuisine?
Name a kind of cuisine
The first four letters spell a body part.
The final four letters sound like body parts.
What are this cuisine, body part and body parts?
Answer:
Chinese; Chin; Knees
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