PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Conakry, Guinea... Pig?
Replace a consonant that appears twice with a duplicate of the consonant next to it.
Divide the result into three parts.
Spell each part backwards to name a test subject used in scientific research.
What are this world capital and test subject?
Appetizer Menu
Apt & Applicable To Our Times Appetizer:
Views and Satire from the Other Side of the Hill, Pond, Globe, and Cosmos
Note: This week’s featured Appetizer is the six-part brainchild of a master-puzzle-maker and great friend of Puzzleria!
laDy maCbeth
[The following is a riff of Lego’s January 30, 2025, Puzzleria! Schpuzzle of the Week.]
The result could be a fitting phrase mouthed by some who claim to have suffered through, and since, this past January.
What are the phrases?
“Not to boast, but...”
[The following is a riff of Lego’s February 13, 2025, Puzzleria! Brow-Furrowing headline Uppercase Hors d’oeuvre.]
All three letters in the second word as well as
the first four letters in the first word, would be UPPERCASE letters. The headline would likely have been in a publication critical of the event to which the headline refers.
What is the headline?
3. Take a nine-letter word that means to make up something. ROT 10 the eighth letter. Remove letters from the result that appear left to right, but not consecutively, which spell a
place where games are played. The remaining letters identify an organization that reputedly makes up things and plays games.
What is the 9-letter word and the organization?
“Creatures crash cruiser!”
[The following is a riff of Lego’s February 20, 2025, Puzzleria! Schpuzzle of the Week.]
The phrase references the creatures and,
when said aloud, sounds like an island whereabouts popular with retirees and vacationers, babes and non-babes alike.
What is the phrase and the whereabouts?
“Out-of-this-world, Found-on-this-world”
[The following is a riff of Lego’s March 16, 2025, NPR Challenge.]
The result is the name of a legendary island.
What are the event, the particular geographical feature, the exclamation, and the legendary island?
“Dredged from the sod & name of a god”
[The following is a riff of the April 13, 2025, NPR Challenge.]
What is the landmark/tourist attraction?
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Orchestral Hors d’Oeuvre:
“Suitely” circling movement
Take the seven-letter first word in the title of the final movement of an orchestral suite by an English composer.
The result is what the composer had to do to as he composed this movement. What are this suite, first word in the final movement, and what the composer had to do as he composed?
Keep On Keeping On Slice:
beGINners’ sCRABble
Name a two-word presidential edict. The first word can be anagrammed to spell two verbs we might define as “to keep on keeping on.”
The second word can be anagrammed to spell an the name of a Greek philosopher and surname of an Italian inventor.
What are this edict, the two verbs, and the philosopher and inventor?
Hint: A three-letter beverage is embedded within the edict’s first word and a four-letter shellfish is embedded within the second.
Riffing Off Shortz And Guttman Entrees:
Arts & carts, crafts & rafts
Name an activity in the form of “blank and blank.” Move the first letter of the second word to the start of the first word. The result will be two modes of transporting things. What is the activity and what are the modes of transport?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Guttman Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker whose surname begins with a synonym of stomach. The seven different letters of his name, if you use some of them as many times as you need to, can be used to spell:
MANNA, LLAMA, MALT, TUNA, TANG & NUT.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the three-letter tree and the three-letter sudden, hurried flight that are homophones of things edible?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the brainchildren of our good friend Nodd:
ENTREE #2
Name something that, in Greek mythology, transported people, and one of the people who was transported in it.
The result will be something often transported using this form of transportation, and the last name of a famous American who died while using this form of transportation. What are the three names and the thing that is transported?
ENTREE #3
Name two body parts.
Move the first letter of the second part to the start of the first part to get two modes of transportation.
What are the body parts and the modes of transportation?
ENTREE #4
Name two kinds of weather.
Remove the second letter of the second one.
Move the first letter of the second one to the start of the first one to get a mode of transportation and where belongings are often stored when using this mode of transportation.
What are the kinds of weather, the mode of transportation, and the place where belongings are stored?
ENTREE #5
Name two works by a Scottish novelist and put them in chronological order.
You will end up with a mode of transportation and a brand name associated with another mode of transportation.
What are the titles, the mode of transportation, and the brand name?
Name a two-word food item that is supposed to have health benefits.
Move the first letter of the second word to the start of the first word. The result will be a mode of transportation and the past tense of a verb describing another mode of transportation.
What are these four words?
Name a favorite American activity in two words.
Move the first letter of the second word to the
start of the first word.
The result will be a mode of powering vehicles for transporting things and places between which things are transported.
What are these four words?
ENTREE #8
Name an activity in the form of “BLANK for the BLANK” that indicates that there is indeed grain that is ready to be ground.
Interchange the first two letters of the first word and the first letter of the fourth word. The result describes a weather condition that is conducive to maintaining a shiny front end on a 1974 Cadillac Coupe deVille.
What is the “blank for the blank” activity?
What is the weather-condition description?
ENTREE #9
After an afternoon of dark purple skies and intermittent downpours at Boston’s Fenway Park, the sun finally BLANK BLANK, began burning off the haze, heating up the humidity, and nurturing a BLANK in the throat of every Fenway fan for a hoppy cold BLANK poured out by a peripatetic Fenway concessionaire.
Move what had been the first letter of the first word to the spot vacated by the first two letters of the second word to get what sounds like the fourth word.
What are the four words in the blanks?
ENTREE #10
When the leprechaun _ _ _ _,
all of Erin did _ _ _ _ ...
Mourners flocked to his gravesite,
his memory to keep.
long or _ _ _ _...
So no tossing or turning,
just eternal sleep.
The first and third missing words rhyme, as do the second and forth missing words.
The first and fourth missing words begin with the same consonant, as do the second and third missing words.
What are the four missing words?
ENTREE #11
The first result sounds like a place to keep tools and implements. The second result sounds like places to put your cigarettes.
What is this brand name? What are the place to keep tools and places to put your cigarettes?
Dessert Menu
Huddled-up Play-caller Dessert:
Playwrights who call plays right
What are this surname, nickname and guy?
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QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteIn the Schpuzzle, does "consonant that appears twice" mean twice consecutively?
DeleteIn the answer that seems to make the most sense to me, the two instances of the consonant are non-adjacent.
DeleteAnother confusion I had about the Schpuzzle (altho I think I've now solved it) was whether the consonant that appeared twice was to be replaced ONLY once (i.e. leave the other consonant as it was), or in both of its occurrences. My answer seems to indicate that we are supposed to replace one of the twice-occurring consonants ONLY once, i.e. the one next to the consonant we USE as the replacement. IF that makes any sense....
DeleteI apologize, both for the confusion about the puzzle, and about this tardiness of this reply.
Delete* Yes, you replace only one of the two consonants (with the consonant adjacent to it).
* Paul is correct that the two instances of the same consonant are indeed non-adjacent.
LegoWhoAddsThatTheTwoConsonantsAreLkeTheTwoZeesInZigzagButNotLikeTheTwoZeesInPuzzle
It also may be worth noting that when you spell each of the three parts backwards, you keep the parts in the same order as in the original capital, and read left to right.
DeleteYeah, Nodd, that is a good point about keeping the parts where they originally were, just individually writing them backwards. That had at first made me do it wrong, even though I had the correct "capital."
DeleteThis is how slow I am this week; Finally looked at Entree #1 last night. Should the tree name be four letters, and not three? There is a three-letter tree name found in those letters that matches something you can put in your mouth (not really meant to eat it, though), but it's not a homophone of that item; it's spelled exactly the same.
DeleteOn the other hand, there is a four-letter tree that matches the clue. The tree is obscure and I wouldn't want to eat the item, though!
Agree with Tortie re the tree name for Entree 1. I could find only two possiblities (with three letters) and neither were homophones, they were the actual 'food'.
DeleteBut now I hae a question about the first half of the Slice (I got the second half PRE-hint on Thursday.). When you say that the first word can be anagrammed to get TWo verbs, does that mean one does the anagramming TWICE, with two different results, OR does it mean that the selected word splits itself up when anagrammed into those two verbs?
VT, it means that the selected word splits itself up when anagrammed into those two verbs.
DeleteThanks, Tortie, not that this means I have any new inspirations. But I am still processing your longer post down below.
DeleteIt seems to me the tree in Entree 1 has to be four letters. As a vegetarian, I wouldn't eat the homophone, but it helps to have one when you want to eat something else.
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DeleteRe Entree 1's tree: I hadn't read the directions properly about the two words not repeating any letters, so now I have to agree with you, Nodd, that the only possiblity is a four-letter tree (not that I'd ever even heard of the required tree, but I just looked it up. Thus, it makes sense now about the homophone...and I would NEVER eat it either (gag.)
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DeleteSUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. The thing in Greek mythology that transported people is also the four-letter title of a 2012 film. The famous American’s last name is an anagram of something Dino Crocetti was known for.
3. The first body part is a synonym for trendy or cool. James Bond had the second body part, on his cheek.
4. According to a kids’ book by Margaret Wise Brown, you can take this mode of transportation to Timbuctoo.
5. The novelist had the same first name as a famous news anchor and the same last name as the Enterprise’s Chief Engineer. The two works start with I and K.
6. The health benefits include improved blood sugar control, digestion, weight management, and heart health.
7. The first letters of the two words of the activity are the initials of a famous poet.
Pretty good hints, Nodd! I've already solved #2-5. The last two may be a little tougher.
DeletepjbDoesWonderWhySheSpelledTimbuktuSoStrangely,Though
Late-Sunday/Early-Monday Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
"This Schpuzzle rocks!
All hints are courtesy of our friend, the puzzle-composer, except for the #3 and #4 hints.
Apt & Applicable To Our Times Appetizer:
(Hints are courtesy of our puzzle-composing great friend of Puzzleria!)
1. Hint: A clue to locating of the "MacBeth" phrase appears in the first sentence of this puzzle.
2. Hint: The 12-letter word does not appear in M-W., but is in the Lego Lexicon of Wordsmithery. Everyone knows one or more of them.
Hint: As in the 2/13/2025 Hors d'oeuvre, the second word isn't a word.
Hint: Out with the old; in with the new; in with the newer new which looks and sounds like the old.
3. Hint: Laundry detergent
4. Hint: Did Mindy's pal have one of these seagoing creatures as a pet?
5. Hint: Literary could be applied to the island and perhaps to the geographical feature.
Hint: Three of the words are or have been well known commercial products. The fourth word is or has been a less well known name or part of names of commercial products.
6. Hint: The solution has a link with Lego's April 17, 2025, Puzzleria! Schpuzzle of the Week.
Orchestral Hors d’Oeuvre
Ironically, this composer was not slothful.
Keep On Keeping On Slice:
Hint: beverage: IPA; beverage: CLAM
ENTREE #1
mAnna lLama mAlt tuNa + tanG nUt Tuna Tang llaMa tunA taNg
ENTREES #2 through #7, courtesy of Nodd, appear at:
NoddMay 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
ENTREE #8
G____ for the M___, just like General M___s!
ENTREE #9
Rhymes: FIRST, TWO
ENTREE #10
croaked; blubber; broad; bottomless
ENTREE #11:
"The second result sounds like places to keep your cigarettes... after they are lit!
Huddled-up Play-caller Dessert:
"...a surname in the news...?"
Could be the understatement of the year, so far.
There is a one-letter overlap: the last letter of the nickname is the first letter of the play-calling guy.
LegoOverlappingTheField&OverlookingTheObvious
I'm not sure at this point whether we are meant to put 'progress' up here under the latest hints, or down in the Progress category. (Last week, everything ended up under the HInts section.)
DeleteMy "report" is that I am hopelessly stuck (and wasted way too much time on) Appetizers 2, 5 and 6. Had gotten #s 1 and 3 the other day, and #4 thanks to the hint.
Also, am utterly frustrated on the first half of the Slice. Having searched and searched, i can find NO word that means "presidential" or anything close to it, that contains "IPA" and which will then anagram into the verbs. I'm completely OUT of ideas.
Have all the Entrees EXCEPT for the second part of Nodd's #4, where no weather word seems to work as a place for luggage after removal of its first letter.
Dessert was the easiest one in a long time! I hope I haven't said that already somewhere.
My report: I'm also having some difficulties with the Apps. In my case, I think I have Apps 1, 3, 5, and 6. I have a funny answer for App 2 that is probably wrong. For App 4, I think I am on the right track. There are two islands for this country with complementary names. Each island also goes by another name. The answer I have isn't proper English, and I don't even think I have it pronounced correctly.
DeleteLike VT, I am stuck on the second part of Entree 4. Again, I think I'm on the right track (pun not intended 😉) but I think the second part of the second weather term needs another word attached. I have a few possibilities, but not convinced of any of them.
Some hints:
App 5: The brand name that shares its name with the legendary geographical feature was originally sold door-to-door. The brand names that share their names with the event and island have doors. (BTW, the exclamation part doesn't make sense to me, but the rest of my answer fits, so I think it's correct).
App 6: I won't give you the "runaround," so I'll say that the landmark starts with a girl's name, or - in the case of a certain country star - a boy's name. To turn things around, the last four letters of the landmark spell a different girl's name, backwards (not Tina).
Slice: This is a very specific presidential edict, which was delivered by a president who shows up quite a bit on Puzzleria! - twice in the last month, in fact.
I struggled a little with the Dessert, as I know the playwright for things other than plays.
Well, Tortie, at least App #6 just occurred to me, thanks to your comments about it.
DeleteQuestion, Tortie on your App #5 comments: WHAT BRAND NAME? I see no such thing mentioned in App 5. Were you mixing it up with ENTREE #5? Which does have a brand name....which I found, but as is so often the case, had NEVER heard of.
DeleteOh perhaps you were referring to the 'commercial products' which were mentioned in Lego's (or the App author's) hint re #5?
DeleteAt last, I believe I, too, have three of the four required words for App #5. (Thanks to putting together Lego/'mystery app person's' hint along with your comments, Tortie)....however, like you, I remain utterly stumped re the EXCLAMATION because it makes no sense.
DeleteHint for Tortie on App #4: the island I came up with is in the US.
DeleteLadies: In Entree 4, the second weather term is something heard, not seen. Remember to remove the second letter before moving the first letter to the beginning of the first word. The resulting word describes where the belongings are carried in relation to the mode of transportation. (Tortie, enjoyed your pun. You are right that the second word would be more descriptive if it had another word added on, e.g., one that rhymes with a synonym of matrimony.)
DeleteThanks, Nodd. Your post above makes me realize that I HAD the correct second word in the beginning, and then abandoned it....because it WAS just sound, and because it left me with just an inadquate (I thought) single word that seemed to need more. BUT I had truly then FORGOTTEn about removing the SECOND letter, so I'd been super-stumped ever since.
DeleteVT, regarding App 5, I did find a clothing line with a brand name that consists of the letters to be inserted to get the island, but the letters make no sense as an exclamation, unless you happen to be with someone who uses those letters as his/her name at the time you see the event.
DeleteI wonder if the exclamation is supposed to be the fourth and fifth letters of the island. When I removed those letters from the island name, I got a word that has some definitions, but nothing that matches the puzzle.
DeletePuzzleria!ns: I take this extraordinary step to let you know that there is an error in Appetizer #5. The reference to an exclamation should be disregarded. The short explanation is that that parts of an original and subsequent drafts were mixed, overlooked, and not corrected. The fault is mine alone. Profound apologies, and my compliments on excellent puzzle solving. The correct iteration should have called for insertion of a musical note before reversing the out of this world event.
DeleteWow, C'n'D, thank you for putting Tortie and me (et al) out of our misery re App 5. More than that, you have solved the mystery for us as to WHO Lego always refers to as one of his 'many great friends of Puzzleria" [or some such words] when you've been the author of the weekly Appetizers. This 'unknown' has sometimes about driven my curiosity crazy.
DeleteYes, thanks, C'n'D for letting us know!
DeleteI had sent along a correction, but, as we all know, Lego has way too much on his plate. So, I decided to blow my cover to unravel this knot I created. If the official solutions still match Appetizer #5 as posted, disregard them in pertinent part. It appears that everyone has the correct/corrected solution; however, if questions remain, I will attempt to clarify. Good hunting.
DeleteYour secret's safe with me.
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteI haven't been able to look at puzzles all that much in the last few days, so I haven't put in my full effort so far. I did solve the Schpuzzle, Dessert, and most of the Entrees, however.
DeleteLego,
ReplyDeleteare you aware that you've printed out the intended answers to Entree #9 directly under the puzzle itself? Or was this supposed to be an example of words that might work? I hate to admit I got the answers straight from that, but that makes three in all: Entrees #8 and #9, plus the Dessert. Now I just need to find out who the playwright is that went by that "nickname", because I know for sure who "calls plays right".
pjbAndHisMotherWillBeTryingOutFoodFromTacoBellThisEveningForTheFirstTime(Hers,NotHis!)
No, I think he goofed and just hasn't seen your post yet!
DeleteMy profuse apologies to cranberry, ViolinTeddy and all Puzzlerian!s
DeleteI shall try to make it up by adding an eleventh ROSS.
Legoofed
Good Friday evening one and all!
DeleteSorry I had to call you out on that one, Lego, but it did look weird(though I'm pretty sure this wasn't the first time you accidentally did that sort of thing).
Mom and I are fine. Our meal from Taco Bell last night was great! I had a chicken enchilada burrito, a beef taco, nacho fries with cheese for dipping, Diet Dr. Pepper, and some Cinnabon delights. Mom had the Nachos Bell Grande. This all started when Mom was scrolling through Facebook on her Kindle, and she noticed a lot of people trying various fast foods and "reacting" (almost like the reaction videos I've seen on YouTube, except this was eating instead of listening to or watching certain things). She said a lot of the food looked good, especially some Taco Bell food(some kind of salad, which when we officially checked their menu online, we found out they don't have it anymore). So here's this 82-year-old woman, spent most of her life avoiding Taco Bell like the plague, and all of a sudden she's craving Taco Bell! I already like it, and I've been before. My brother Bryan and I once went when we were still going to UAB in the 90s, and I tried their Mexican Pizza. It was pretty good. Didn't order that this time, though. I felt like having something with chicken in it. Anyway, this all started with Mom having to go to Walgreens to pick up some of our prescriptions, and it was getting close to suppertime. I know Walgreens is located between McDonald's and Burger King, so I wrote down an order for the latter. Then Mom brought up how she'd like to have Taco Bell, and I thought, "No way am I getting left out of this," so I immediately changed my mind and consulted their menu on my phone. And boy did they have a lot of things to choose from! After letting Mom look the menu over, I decided and wrote down my order, and she did too. I decided I wouldn't have a taco, because they fall apart so easily when you eat them. But I got one anyway. Mom said she ordered a combo for me, so I got a little something extra. But it all tasted so good! Also, they have a strange choice regarding their Cinnabon delights: You either just get two, or 12. No real ink between there. Mom could've just got me two, but she thought they sounded so good that she got the 12, so we could share them. And we had some left over for today, so we both warmed them up in the toaster oven. Would you believe they're just as good the next day? I'm telling you, we're going to be having Taco Bell more often! BTW Didn't eat out with Bryan or Mia Kate or the rest of them tonight. Weather was too bad around here, and Mia Kate never called to suggest it. So we had one of our Hello Fresh meals, some kind of lemony chicken-and-spaghetti dish. For some reason, Hello Fresh sent us another box today, so that meal came from it. Tomorrow we may be going to the Dollar Tree to get me some more socks to wear to FL next week. Lot of holes in what I have now, including my Pink Floyd socks I won a few trivia nights back at Tallulah's(missed the last one due to my recent health problems, BTW). Maybe we'll try out Jersey Mike's, which has recently opened up here near the Dollar Tree, but I know we'll have to hurry home so we don't miss the Kentucky Derby tomorrow. We almost forgot it'll be on! Hopefully the weather won't be a factor again.
Not much progress with the puzzles this week. I've only solved Entrees #8, #9(for obvious reasons)and the new #11, as well as the Dessert. Here's hoping the subsequent hints will help, although we're going to be busy enough just packing and going to FL, not to mention watching the "Masked Singer" finale(we should be leaving Thursday!).
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and I really hope the hot tubs they have over there will somehow help unstop my ear. Cranberry out!
pjbSaysHisMomSaidTheHotTubsMightWork,SoIfNot,ItMayBeSurgeryForHim!
Regarding my premature "spilling" of the answer to Entree #9:
DeleteTrue, goofs like that in a puzzle blog are never a good thing. But, in this case, I am actually kind of happy it happened...
Here's why:
I have two siblings: Mary Helen, two years older, and Michael Peter, two years younger. We are reasonably close and friendly but do not do things together enough!
On this Thursday, Mike had asked me to drive him to some medical appointments he had scheduled in Stanley, WI and in Eau Claire, WI. Afterward, we stopped at the Eau Claire Red Lobster for a late lunch. I suggested we invite Mary Helen (who lives in Eau Claire) to the lunch, and Mike agreed. (As siblings, we are pretty close, and get along okay, but our geography precludes us from meeting face-to-face-to-face very often. So I drove to Mary Helen's place, picked her up and brought her to Red Lobster.
It was a wonderful get-together! Mary and Mike visited nicely. I, however, with my laptop open on our Red Lobster table, was instead hunting-and-pecking keyboard keys and scrambling feverishly to upload this present edition of Puzzleria!
As a result, I messed up some of my uploading! Believe me, there might well have been more goofs on my part.
Thanks to you all for your understanding and patience.
LegoWhoWasFranticallyTypingInTheSyllablesAsHisSiblingsChewedTheFatAndTheCheddarBayBiscuits...(AndWhoNowSeemsToBeTakingACueFromThePatrickJ.BerryManualOnFineDiningWithFellowFamilyMembers!)
Lego, it sounds like a wonderful afternoon with your siblings! I think we all would have understood if Puzzleria! would have a been a bit late this week.
DeleteLego, you are an absolute trooper! But cut yourself some slack once in a while too. Puzzleria! is wonderful, but it is not more important than you and your family.
DeleteApparently the Guardian website has discontinued the Everyman crossword. I should've known something when last week the latest puzzle never showed up on the site. Some regulars on the Crossword Blog suggested it was no longer as easy(in fact, downright difficult)as it used to be. I have to admit sometimes I couldn't even finish it myself. But now, it's no longer even listed with the rest of the puzzle choices to click on, so clearly they have done away with it. I, for one, am going to miss it, though. It wasn't so bad, really.
ReplyDeletepjbStillHasTheirCrypticAndPrizePuzzles,Luckily(AndY'all,Too!)
Schpuzzle: GIBRALTAR, BIG LAB RAT
ReplyDeleteApp:
1. WHAT’S DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE,, WHAT’S DON CANNOT BE JUSTICE
2. ??? MAGALOMANIAC DJT PLAYED GOLF (same headline as the week of 2/6, 2/20, 2/27, etc.)
3. FABRICATE (-> FABRICADE), FBI
4. ORCAS I LAND, ORCAS ISLAND (alt: MINE ORCAS PAIN, MINORCA, SPAIN)
5. NOVA, AVON (RIVER), LA, AVALON
6. SUEZ CANAL
Hors d’Oeuvre: THE PLANETS, NEPTUNE, PEN THE TUNE
Slice: EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, MAINTAIN, COPE, PLATO, MARCONI
Entrees:
1. ALAN GUTTMAN; TUNG (if four-letters), LAM
2. ARGO, CASTOR, JOHN JACOB ASTOR IV, CARGO
3. HIP, SCAR, SHIP, CAR (Alt: HIP, SCAB, SHIP, CAB)
4. RAIN, THUNDER, TRAIN, UNDER (Or variant of THUNDER: THUNDERSTORM, THUNDERHEAD, THUNDERBOLT, etc.)
5. IVANHOE, KENILWORTH, CANOE, KENWORTH
6. OAT BRAN, BOAT, RAN
7. TEAM SPORTS, STEAM, PORTS
8. GRIST FOR THE MILL; MIST FOR THE GRILL
9. BURST THROUGH, THIRST, BREW
10. DIED, WEEP, WIDE, DEEP
11. HEAD AND SHOULDERS; SHED, HOLDERS
Dessert: TRUMP, TRU (Truman Capote), UMP
SCHPUZZLE: GIBRALTAR => GIBBALTAR => BIG LAB RAT
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. WHAT 'S DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE. =>. WHAT 'S DON CANNOT BE JUSTICE
2. Headline with 12, 3, 6 and 4 letters: RIKERSISLAND ICE OFFICE OPEN [ I know this doesn’t meet the requirement that the first four letters of the 12 letter “word” must be capitalized. But given that the ‘word’ is NOT in the dictionary….s]
3. FABRICATE => FABRICADE => ARCADE => FBI
4. ORCAS I LAND => ORCAS ISLAND
5. NOVA => AVON (River) & ‘AL' => AVALON
6. SUEZ CANAL => ZEUS & parts of the EAR (DIGESTIVE TRACT, etc)
HORS D’O: HOLST’S "THE PLANETS" => NEPTUNE => PEN THE TUNE
SLICE: PARTICIPATION => ????; PROCLAMATION => PLATO, MARCONI
ENTREES:
1. ALAN GUTTMAN => A L N G U T M => TUNG (gag) & LAM
2. ARGO; CASTOR => CARGO; ASTOR
3. HIP, SCAR => SHIP & CAR
4. RAIN, THUNDER => TRAIN, UNDER [the train’s CARRIAGE..or how about under one’s SEAT or one’s BERTH?]
5. WALTER SCOTT: IVANHOE => CANOE; KENILWORTH => KENWORTH [I never heard of this brand; had a different answer until your hint: ROB ROY => ROBY]
6. OAT BRAN => BOAT & RAN
7. WATCHING SPORTS => SWATCHING & PORTS
8. GRIST for the MILL => MIST for the GRILL
9. BURST THROUGH, THIRST, BREW
10. DIED, WEEP, WIDE, DEEP
11. HEAD & SHOULDERS. => SHED & HOLDERS
DESSERT: TRUMP [TRU, UMP]
SCHPUZZLE – GIBRALTAR; BIG LAB RAT
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. ““What’s done cannot be undone” > WHAT’S DON CANNOT BE JUSTICE (??)
Almost works: “What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley” > HIDEOUS TRUMP CALLS TO JUSTICE
2. Something starting with MAGA?? MAGALOMANIAC??
3. FABRICATE; ARCADE; FBI
4. MY ORCA DREAMS; MAJORCA DREAMS(??)
5. NOVA; RIVER AVON; AVALON
6. SUEZ CANAL
HORS D’OEUVRE – THE PLANETS; NEPTUNE; PEN A TUNE
SLICE – EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION; COPE, MAINTAIN; PLATO, MARCONI
ENTREES
1. ALAN GUTTMAN; TUNG; LAM
2. ARGO, CASTOR; CARGO, ASTOR
3. HIP, SCAR; SHIP, CAR
4. RAIN, THUNDER; TRAIN, UNDER
5. IVANHOE, KENILWORTH; CANOE, KENWORTH
6. OAT BRAN; BOAT, RAN
7. TEAM SPORTS; STEAM, PORTS
8. GRIST FOR THE MILL; MIST FOR THE GRILLE
9. BURST; THROUGH; THIRST; BREW
10. DIED, CRY, WIDE, HIGH
11. HEAD AND SHOULDERS; SHED, HOLDERS
DESSERT – TRUMP; TRU; UMP
Nodd, re your Entree 7, I actually looked up the word SWATCHING and it apparently means to charge an electric vehicle (not that I'd ever heard of that, of course.)
DeleteNice alt answer, VT!
DeleteI tried to hint at the Schpuzzle in a way that seemed prudent to me.
ReplyDeleteFrom Iraq?
DeleteFinal Masked Singer Results:
ReplyDeleteMAD SCIENTIST MONSTER=BRIAN KELLEY(one half of the country duo FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE; Neither Mom nor I knew him)
CORAL=MEG DONNELLY(played the cheerleader in the "Zombie" franchise, whatever that is; Neither Mom nor I knew her)
BOOGIE WOOGIE=ANDY GRAMMER(singer; Mom didn't know him, I've heard of him)
PEARL=GRETCHEN WILSON(country singer; Both Mom and I have heard of her)
Gretchen won the Masked Singer trophy.
Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg correctly guessed Brian Kelley.
Robin Thicke correctly guessed Gretchen Wilson.
Both Jenny and Robin won a Golden Ear trophy.
Both correctly guessed five contestants this season.
Rita Ora correctly guessed three.
Ken Jeong correctly guessed one.
The next "Masked Singer" will be in January of next year.
Now back to the regular "Puzzleria!" results.
Schpuzzle
GIBRALTAR, BIG LAB RAT
Appetizer Menu
1. WHAT'S DONE CANNOT BE UNDONE, WHAT'S DON CANNOT BE JUSTICE
3. FABRICATE, ARCADE, FBI
4. ORCAS I LAND, ORCAS ISLAND
5. NOVA, AVON(river), AVALON
6. SUEZ CANAL, ZEUS, (alimentary)CANAL
Menu
Orchestral Hors d'Oeuvre
"THE PLANETS" (by Gustav Holst), "NEPTUNE", PEN A TUNE
Keep On Keeping On Slice
"EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION", MAINTAIN, COPE, PLATO, MARCONI
Entrees
1. ALAN GUTTMAN, LAM(lamb; couldn't find the tree, but I wasn't about to use TUNG(tongue)either)
2. ARGO, CASTOR; CARGO, ASTOR
3. HIP, SCAR; SHIP, CAR
4. RAIN, THUNDER; TRAIN, UNDER
5. IVANHOE, KEBILWORTH;CANOE, KENWORTH
6. OAT BRAN; BOAT, RAN
7. TEAM SPORTS; STEAM, PORTS
8. GRIST, MILL; MIST, GRILL
9. BURST THROUGH; THIRST, BREW
10. DIED, CRY, WIDE, HIGH
11. HEAD AND SHOULDERS; SHED, HOLDERS
Huddled-up Play-caller Dessert
TRUMP(T.R.=Theodore Dreiser+UMP)
Tomorrow we will be leaving for Ft. Walton Beach for a few days at our condo. I must go now to continue packing and take a shower. Will check back with you Friday night most likely. See y'all there!-pjb
I did not know Meg Donnely either-but when she sang that song at the end I recognized the song, but don't ask me the title.
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ReplyDeleteThis week's Official Answers, for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Conakry, Guinea... Pig?
Name a world capital.
Replace a consonant that appears twice with a duplicate of the consonant next to it.
Divide the result into three parts.
Spell each part backwards to name a test subject used in scientific research.
What are this world capital and test subject?
Answer:
Gibraltar; Big lab rat
Lego...
This week's Official Answers, for the record, part 2:
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Apt & Applicable To Our Times Appetizer
Views and satire from the Other Side of the Hill, Pond, Globe, and Cosmos
laDy maCbeth
[The following is a riff of Lego’s January 30, 2025, Puzzleria! Schpuzzle of the Week.]
1. Take a five-word phrase attributed to one Lady MacBeth in Shakespeare’s “MacBeth”. Remove a vowel that appears in “team” from the second word and capitalize a consonant in that same word. Replace the fifth word as called for in the 1/30/2025 Schpuzzle. The result could be a fitting phrase MOUTHED BY some who claim to have suffered through, and since, this past January. What are the phrases?
SOLUTION: "What's done cannot be undone." Lady Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1 & "What's Don cannot be justice."
Hint: A clue to locating of the "MacBeth" phrase appears in the first sentence of this puzzle.
“Not to boast, but...”
[The following is a riff of Lego’s February 13, 2025, Puzzleria! Brow-Furrowing headline Uppercase Hors d’oeuvre.]
2. Name a headline you might have seen the week of February 13, 2025, in 12, 3, 6, and 4 letters – the same configuration as in the 2/13/25 Hors d’oeuvre. All three letters in the second word as well as the first four letters in the first word, would be UPPERCASE letters. The headline would likely have been in a publication critical of the event to which the headline refers. What is the headline?
SOLUTION: MAGAlomaniac, DOD Rename Fort. [from Bragg to Liberty and back to (a different) Bragg]
Hint: The 12-letter word does not appear in M-W., but is in the Lego Lexicon of Wordsmithery. Everyone knows one or more of them.
Hint: As in the 2/13/2025 Hors d'oeuvre, the second word isn't a word.
Hint: Out with the old; in with the new; in with the newer new which looks and sounds like the old.
“Make-up Games”
3. Take a nine-letter word that means to make up something. ROT 10 the 8th letter. Remove letters from the result that appear left to right, but not consecutively, which spell a place where games are played. The remaining letters identify an organization that reputedly makes up things and plays games. What is the 9-letter word and the organization?
SOLUTION: Fabricate & FBI
“Creatures crash cruiser!”
[The following is a riff of Lego’s February 20, 2025, Puzzleria! Schpuzzle of the Week.]Name an event that is out of this world. Reverse its spelling to get the name of a legendary geographical feature that is found on this world. Then insert into the spelling of the out of this world event a musical note and reverse the result to get the name of a legendary island. What is the event, the particular geographical feature, and the legendary island.
Lego...
This week's Official Answers, for the record, part 3:
ReplyDelete4. A three-word personalized term was coined by a boater for the lingering effect experienced by the boater after seagoing creatures crashed into the boat, causing the boater to reel with great force into the railing. The phrase references the creatures and, when said aloud, sounds like an island whereabouts popular with retirees and vacationers, babes and non-babes alike. What is the phrase and the whereabouts?
SOLUTION: "My Orcas pain" & Mallorca, Spain
“Out-of-this-world, found-on-this-world”
[The following is a riff of Lego’s March 16, 2025, NPR Challenge.]
5. Name an event that is out of this world. Reverse its spelling to get the name of a legendary geographical feature that is found on this world. Insert into the spelling of that particular feature an exclamation that might be uttered by one witnessing the out of this world event. The result is the name of a legendary island. What is the event, the particular geographical feature, the exclamation, and the legendary island?
SOLUTION: Nova; Avon (River); Lo; Avalon
Hint: Literary could be applied to the island and perhaps to the geographical feature.
Hint: Three of the words are or have been well known commercial products. The fourth word is or has been a less well known name or part of names of commercial products.
“Dredged from the sod & name of a god”
[The following is a riff of the April 13, 2025, NPR Challenge.]
6. Name a famous intercontinental landmark and tourist attraction in nine letters. The first four letters are the name of a deity spelled backward. The last five letters name a part of some body parts. What is the landmark/tourist attraction?
SOLUTION: Suez Canal
Hint: The solution has a link with Lego's April 17, 2025, Puzzleria! Schpuzzle of the Week.
Name an event that is out of this world. Reverse its spelling to get the name of a legendary geographical feature that is found on this world. Then insert into the spelling of the out of this world event a musical note and reverse the result to get the name of a legendary island. What is the event, the particular geographical feature, and the legendary island.Name an event that is out of this world. Reverse its spelling to get the name of a legendary geographical feature that is found on this world. Then insert into the spelling of the out of this world event a musical note and reverse the result to get the name of a legendary island. What is the event, the particular geographical feature, and the legendary island.
Lego...
This week's Official Answers, for the record, part 4:
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Orchestral Hors d’Oeuvre
“Suitely” circling movement
Take the seven-letter first word in the title of the final movement of an orchestral suite by an English composer.
Reverse the order of letters in the first syllable of that word, followed by a space, an article, another space and the second syllable.
The result is what the composer had to do to as he composed this movement.
What are this suite, first word in the final movement, and what the composer had to do as he composed?
Answer:
"The Planets" by Gustav Holst; Neptune (the Mystic); pen tune
Hints: (seven-movement) (century-plus-old) orchestral suite
Keep On Keeping On Slice:
beGINners’ sCRABble
Name a two-word presidential edict. The first word can be anagrammed to spell two verbs we might define as “to keep on keeping on.” The second word can be anagrammed to spell an the name of a Greek philosopher and surname of an Italian inventor.
What are this edict, the two verbs, and the philosopher and inventor?
Hint: A three-letter beverage is embedded within the first word and a shellfish is embedded within the second.
Answer:
Emancipation Proclamation; Maintain, Cope; Plato, Marconi
Hint: emancIPAtion proCLAMation
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Guttman Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker whose surname begins with a synonym of stomach. The seven different letters of his name, if you use some of them as many times as you need to, can be used to spell:
MANNA, LLAMA, MALT, TUNA, TANG and NUT.
The seven different letters, if each is used just once, can be used to spell a three-letter tree that is a homophone of something edible and a three-letter sudden or hurried flight, especially from the law, that is a homophone of something else that is edible.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the three-letter tree and the three-letter sudden, hurried flight that are homophones of things edible?
Answer:
Alan Guttman; Tung tree(tongue); Lam (lamb)
Lego...
This week's Official Answers, for the record, part 5:
ReplyDeleteNote: Entrees #2 through #7 are the brainchildren of our good friend Nodd:
ENTREE #2
Name something that, in Greek mythology, transported people, and one of the people who was transported in it. Move the first letter of the second name to the start of the first name. The result will be something often transported using this form of transportation, and the last name of a famous American who died while using this form of transportation. What are the three names and the thing that is transported?
Answer:
ARGO, CASTOR; CARGO, ASTOR
ENTREE #3
Name two body parts. Everyone has the first one, but only some people have the second one. Move the first letter of the second part to the start of the first part to get two modes of transportation. What are the body parts and the modes of transportation?
Answer:
HIP, SCAR; SHIP, CAR
ENTREE #4
Name two kinds of weather. Remove the second letter of the second one. Move the first letter of the second one to the start of the first one to get a mode of transportation and where belongings are often stored when using this mode of transportation. What are the kinds of weather, the mode of transportation, and the place where belongings are stored?
Answer:
RAIN, THUNDER; TRAIN, UNDER
ENTREE #5
Name two works by a Scottish novelist and put them in chronological order. Remove the fifth letter of the first title and replace the first two letters, which form a Roman numeral, with another Roman numeral. Remove the fourth and fifth letters of the second title. You will end up with a mode of transportation and a brand name associated with another mode of transportation. What are the titles, the mode of transportation, and the brand name?
Answer:
IVANHOE, KENILWORTH; CANOE, KENWORTH
ENTREE #6
Name a two-word food item that is supposed to have health benefits. Move the first letter of the second word to the start of the first word. The result will be a mode of transportation and the past tense of a verb describing another mode of transportation. What are these four words?
Answer:
OAT BRAN; BOAT, RAN
ENTREE #7
Name a favorite American activity in two words. Move the first letter of the second word to the start of the first word. The result will be a mode of powering vehicles for transporting things and places between which things are transported. What are these four words?
Answer:
TEAM SPORTS; STEAM, PORTS
Lego...
This week's Official Answers, for the record, part 6
ReplyDeleteENTREE #8
Name an activity in the form of “BLANK for the BLANK” that indicates that there is indeed grain that is ready to be ground. Interchange the first two letters of the first word and the first letter of the fourth word. The result describes a weather condition that is conducive to maintaining a shiny front end on a 1974 Cadillac Coupe deVille.
What is the “blank for the blank” activity?
What is the weather-condition description?
Answer:
Grist for the Mill; Mist for the grill;
ENTREE #9
After an afternoon of dark purple skies and intermittent downpours in Boston’s Fenway Park, the sun finally BLANK BLANK, began burning off the haze, heating up the humidity, and nurturing a BLANK in the throat of every Fenway fan for a hoppy cold BLANK poured out by a peripatetic Fenway concessionaire.
Replace the first letter in the first blank with the first two letters in the second blank to get what sounds like the word in the third blank. Move what had been the first letter of the first word to the spot vacated by the first two letters of the second word to get what sounds like the fourth word.
What are the four words in the blanks?
Answer:
After an afternoon of dark purple skies and intermittent downpours in Boston’s Fenway Park, the sun finally BURST THROUGH, began burning off the haze, heating up the humidity, and nurturing a THIRST in the throat of every Fenway fan for a hoppy cold BREW poured out by a peripatetic Fenway concessionaire.
THURST THROUGH; BIRST, BREW=> BIRST THROUGH; THURST, BREW
ENTREE #10
When the leprechaun _ _ _ _, all of Erin did _ _ _ _ ...
Mourners flocked to his gravesite, his mem'ry to keep.
His tomb was not oversized: _ _ _ _, long or _ _ _ _...
So no tossing or turning, just eternal sleep.
The first and third missing words rhyme, as do the second and forth missing words.
The first and fourth missing words begin with the same consonant, as do the second and third missing words.
What are the four missing words?
Answer: DIED, WEEP; WIDE, DEEP
ENTREE #11:
Name a brand name in the form of “blank and blank.” Move the initial letter of one word to the beginning of the other word.
The first result sounds like a place to keep tools and implements. The second result sounds like places to keep your cigarettes.
What is this brand name? What are the place to keep tools and places to keep cigarettes?
Answer:
Head and Shoulders; Shed and holders; HEAD and SHOULDERS => SHEAD and HOULDERS => SHED and HOLDERS
Dessert Menu
Huddled-up Play-caller Dessert:
Playwrights who call plays right
Take a surname in the news.
This surname begins with the nickname of a playwright and ends with a guy who is paid to call plays right.
What are this surname, nickname and guy?
Answer:
Trump; Tru (Truman Capote); ump
Lego!
Since the Official Solutions aren't up yet, and it looks as if everyone has the intended solutions on most of the Appetizers, and right track solutions on the others, specifically 2 & 5, here are those intended solutions:
ReplyDelete2. MAGAlomaniac, DOD, Rename Fort [Bragg to Liberty and back to another Bragg, which looks and sounds like the original. The most recent change was made during the week of 2/13/25.]
5. My Orcas Pain [personalized description of the boat being struck by Killer Whales] & Mallorca/Majorca, Spain
Again, my profound apologies for the A5 error. My compliments on solving. Now I must return to the other side of the hill and search for a replacement cover.
Although it looks as if the Official Solutions were in progress as I was typing. Maybe my new cover can be a variation of Redundant.
ReplyDeleteBTW Our trip to Florida has been cancelled on account of bad weather. This morning Bryan called and said if we go, it would be raining everyday(particularly all day Saturday). So we've rescheduled it for May 25-29. Also, I just checked the official answers, and it's spelled BURST and THIRST, not BIRST and THURST. Furthermore, if it was a TUNG TREE, it should've been a four-letter word, not a three-letter word. Surprised me to see everybody else went for TUNG(tongue)anyway!
ReplyDeletepjbWasAllSetToBuyGroceriesForTheNextFewDaysAtTheCondo,Too!