PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVEDSchpuzzle of the Week:
What a name in a novel became
Name a character in a novel.Add an “F” to the beginning of the name. Reverse the order of two adjacent vowels.
Insert a space someplace.
The result is a description of what a part of another character in the novel had become.
Who are these characters? What did the part of the other character become?
Appetizer Menu
“Try the Knot”ty Cryptic Crossword Appetizer:
“Merry Marriage Day, Berrys!”
The Berrys are about to celebrate a very merry fairytale marriage! Austin, the son of Patrick J. Berry’s cousin Tammy, will be wed this weekend... and a whole “Bowlful of Berrys” have been picked to be in attendance as wedding guests!
The ceremony, Patrick says, will take place “at some kind of castle” in central Alabama.Alas, we “non-Berrys!” have not been picked to be in attendance as wedding guests. We can, however, celebrate the couple’s nuptials in absentia by enjoying the following fresh new mystifying mind-defying masterpiece of wordplayfulness – Patrick’s 39th tricky cryptic crossword to grace the cyberpages of Puzzleria!
You can access any of Patrick’s previous 38 cryptic crosswords by opening the links below:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38For those who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled the following list of basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions:
Regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:The number, or numbers, that appear in parentheses at the end of each clue indicate
how many letters are in the answer.
Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers.
For example, (9) simply indicates a nine-letter word like “matrimony,” (7,4) indicates a seven-letter-plus-four-letter answer like “wedding vows,” and (1-4) indicates a one-letter and four-letter hyphenated answer like “a-line,” as
in a wedding dress style.For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 puzzle.
That Tutorial appears below the filled-in answer-grid in that edition of Puzzleria!
And so, even though you haven’t been picked to be in that “Bowlful of Berrys” with Patrick and his kinfolk, you are invited to instead “celebrate in spirit” by filling in the following “Gridful of (Patrick J.) Berry’s”:
Enjoy!
ACROSS1. Having taken drug, sort of learn the guitar at home using song by 14 (8,2,3,4)6. Britney’s ex, fellow wearing one sneaker?(1-3 )
9. Object, then: last through sunrise! (2,3,5)10. In Oahu, ladies’ dance (4)
12. Sound of conversation after one enters club, not having used head (6-6)
15. Put in “Pistol Packin’ Mama”? (7)16. 1 Across
17. Top anchorman’s first-rate comeback involving new radio format... (3-4)
19. ...about to have journalist choose, with some delay (3,4)
20. Was creative? Was attractive, awfully cute pair! (4,1,7)23. Old friend’s birthstone (4)
24. Duh! Radio’s top song by 14 (8,2,2,4,2,2)
25. Country gal heading off (4)
26. Small, went in flash (5,5)
DOWN
1. See success with trademark (4)
2. Some without a home in this state? (4)3. Drunk getting sacked after first two quarters of football game?(4,2,3,3)
4. Out of spite, left note or letter (7)
5. Receive fortune first off, claiming possible heir (7)
7. Dish served up—swell to eat it with a little ambrosia, man!(5,5)8. Double date badly arranged—I start to apologize, going to hug sweetheart (4,6)
11. Recall daring arrangement of song by 14 (8,4)
13. See 24 Across14. Stranger, upset, having asked about
singer/songwriter (4,6)
18. Act to criticize when one goes downhill a number of times? (3,4)
19. Go back over former President’s rise prior to primary election (7)
21. Eager to leave after first of August? Good! (4)
22. Quarrel got disgusting? (4)
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World Altas Hors d’Oeuvre:
Geography by the numbers
A six-letter word is a plural synonym of the singular word formed by its letters 5, 2 and 1. Letters 1,2,3 & 6 of the word spell one of two places on earth where you can find the word that letters 4, 5 & 6 spell.
What are these six-letter, four-letter and three-letter words?
Hint: The letters of the six-letter word, except for the last two, are in reverse alphabetical order
Bad Odds Slice:
One life-saver vs two deadly quavers
Name a potentially life-saving first line of defense against cyberattacks.
Move the second and third letters to the beginning. The result is two potentially deadly things.
What are this potential life-saver and two deadly things?
Hint: The potentially life-saving first line of defense against cyberattacks is a compound word.
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Entrees:
Fawnzie dotes & dozy dotes... Will Shortz’s June 6th National Public Radio Weekend Edition puzzle challenge, written by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:
Name certain female animals. Insert a T somewhere inside the word, and you’ll get a synonym for this animal’s offspring. What animals are these? Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Name certain male and female animals who may “hop up the hill” to fetch a drink of water from a spring, along with their offspring. Also name the eight-letter collective term for all three. Place a space someplace within the singular
form of the word for the offspring, followed by:
~ the 7th letter of the collective term,
~ the third letter of that term, inverted,
~ the third letter of that term, not inverted, and
~ the fourth letter of that term.
The result is the name of a puzzle-maker.
What three animals are these, and their collective term?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were composed and contributed by our friend Nodd.)
Name certain female animals.
Add a B and rearrange to get a name for the offspring of a different species.
What names are these?
Hint: The word for the “certain female animals” is “chiefly British,” according to Merriam-Webster.
Name a kind of bird and change the second letter to an E.
Follow this with the name for a female member of the bird species, with the last letter doubled.
The result will be the name of a famous person who is not a female.
What are these two names, and who is the famous person?
Think of two names for the female of a kind of animal.
Add an E to the first one to get a generic term for a female. Divide the second word into two parts to get a part of an article of clothing and another article of clothing that is worn by females.
What are these five words?
Name certain females. Insert a P and an N somewhere inside the word, and you'll get a name for certain other females.
What are the two names?
Name a certain female animal.
Delete the last letter and spell the rest
backward to get a name for the male of a different animal.
What are these two names?
Name a certain female animal. Double the first letter and change the last letter to an H.
Rearrange the result to get a word often applied to certain offspring.
What are the name for the animal and the word applied to offspring?
ENTREE #8
Name an animal and what its male, female and offspring are called.
Play “musical chairs” with the initial letters of the male, female and offspring. When the “music stops,” the male inherits the female’s first letter, the female inherits the offspring’s first letter, and the offspring inherits the male’s first letter to form three new words. The second word is a synonym of “murder.” Place the third word to the left of the first word to form a compound word for a “premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes.”
What are this animal... and its male, female and offspring?
What are the synonym of “murder” and compound word?
ENTREE #9
Write down what the male, female and offspring of a certain animal are called – an animal that some associate with Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential career, or with a name wordplayfully associated with a “tardy mob.”
The first two letters of the female name of the animal are the first two letters in the archaic present tense third-person singular form of a
verb that is a homophone of a noun preceded by “morning” or “mountain.” (My sincere apologies for saddling you puzzle-solvers with that sentence!) Replace those two letters with the last two letters in that same archaic present tense third-person singular form of the verb. The result is a common 3-letter article.
What you wrote down is now the three-word moniker of a “Bonney Lad Gone Wrong.”
What are this animal and its male, female and offspring?
What is the archaic present tense third-person singular form of the verb?
What is the noun preceded by “morning” or “mountain” that is a homophone of non-archaic form of the verb?
What is the three-word moniker of a “Bonney Lad Gone Wrong?”
ENTREE #10
(In the blue italicized text below, the words in the blanks are defined by the parenthetical clues to their immediate right.)
Otto, who is ___ __ (fully committed) when it comes to _____ (a game of chance resembling bingo),
Did spew a ______ (screech) of joy when his
seventh winning number came into view!
Rearrange the combined 3, 2, 5 and 6 letters that belong in the blanks to spell the names of the male, female and offspring names of an animal. What are the four missing words?
What are the three animal names?
Dessert Menu
Double-Named Nation Dessert:
Sundering Redundancy!
If you remove a the first instance of verb that appears twice in the name of a fictional character the result is the former name of a nation that is an anagram of two body parts. What are this fictional name and nation's two names? Every Thursday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!
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QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteThis is more an answer than a question: if you're like me it's impossible to do a cryptic crossword on the screen, so I've created a pdf (without Joe's images) at https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cw5q21bcmi2t6c9h2ngt6/Patrick-Berry-Cryptic-2025-06-12.pdf?rlkey=fr7l04d5p72sjypm6mzvmyoyn&st=e9gugbnn&dl=0
DeleteWow! Thanks Greg! Great grid! That is very thoughtful of you.
DeleteThe "unadorned" grid is even greater sans all the "clutter" from my images!
LegoLeGridLover
Yes, thank you very much, eco! If I knew how to make these things in the PDF form, much like the occasional Guardian Prize Crossword(usually set by Maskarade on a holiday weekend), I certainly would. Unfortunately, I'm not that technically inclined. It was all I could do just to run off my earliest puzzles on our printer(back when it was still working properly).
DeletepjbWillAdmit,However,It'sStillImpossibleToWorkOneOfThosePuzzlesUsingAKindleFire
Re Entree #1: it seems to me that the 'inverting' of the third letter should really be more of a 'rotating around the origin". This assumes the letter is NOT capitalized (as I always type all my answers in capitals, which on this letter, won't work at all.)
DeleteNo technical prowess here, just putting everything into a Word document, puzzle image first, then the text, manipulating the format to make it fit. Hanging indents make it easy to look clean. About 10 minutes.
DeleteI'll send the Word to Joe, he can forward to you.
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DeleteA Dessert question just occurred to me: when you say that the nation's name is an "anagram of two body parts", is the the FORMER versions of its name, or its CURRENT version?
DeleteNever mind, I finally figured it out.
DeleteHINTS!
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DeleteSUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2–7:
Delete2. Hiss, bah!
3. Not 007.
4. Como se?
5. Can a nun be a widow?
6. Award winning ham.
7. Devilish charged particles.
Sunday-Into-Monday Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
What a name in a novel became
Note: I revealed the first of these two hints when I posted this Schpuzzle on Blaine's Blog Sunday morn.
1. The novel's author's surname rhymes with the last word in "one of those ‘Road’ pictures."
2. The name of the "another character in the novel," spelled backward, is the name of a peninsula... and the first 44.4% of a Scroogie exclamation.
I also gave a hint in my June 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM post (in which "Keith's" surname is also a common first name).
“Trying the Knot”ty Cryptic Crossword Appetizer:
“Merry Marriage Day, Berrys!”
Note: I shall defer to Patrick regarding any "Cryptic Crossword clue-giving" he may wish to impart.
World Altas Hors d’Oeuvre
Geography by the numbers
Change the fifth letter in the six-letter word to a "t" to get an adjective for how you should comport yourself soon after seeing red flashing lights in your rear view mirror.
Bad Odds Slice:
One life-saver vs two deadly quavers
It's a good idea to write down the "potentially life-saving first line of defense against cyberattacks" someplace, and keep it safe and secure. One of the two deadly things is alive, the other is inanimate.
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Entrees:
Fawnzie dotes & dozy dotes...
ENTREE #1
Knaves; Dr. Biden et al; Bishop, Tribbiani; pouched ones, movie ape!
(Note: Nodd provides hints for his Entrees #2 through #7 in his June 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM post.)
ENTREE #8
You've heard of Ironman Contests. This animal might win and "Ironmammal Contest!"
ENTREE #9
This riff is not exactly the greatest of all time!... like the guy whose name is an anagram of "tardy mob."
Jimmy Carter's brother + common 3-letter article + Cager Jason, minus a "d"
ENTREE #10
Otto, who is ___ __ (NOT PARTIALLY OUT) when it comes to _____ ("that's a ___ __ process"),
Did spew a ______ (DUSTIN DIAMOND ROLE) of joy when his seventh winning number came into view!
Double-Named Nation Dessert:
Sundering Redundancy!
If you delve into our Puzzleria! Archives ("Garden of Puzzley Delights"), you will see that our friend Plantsmith has an advantage in solving the fictional name.
The verb that appears twice is a 2-letter radio setting that is an alternative to Frequency Modulation.
LegoOpenToProvidingMoreHintsUponRequestIfNecessary
Thanks for the hints. I finally have Entree #5. Don't understand some of the other Entree hints.
DeleteSpeaking of not understanding hints, I'm still confused by the Schpuzzle. The last name of the author I have apparently doesn't rhyme with the last word of any of the "road pictures" unless I'm wrong about what that means. The peninsula hint only works phonetically, and the Scrooge hint works for only the first three letters of the name when spelled backwards.
I think I may know who "Keith" is, but you have to remove the last letter from his last name to get a common first name. He did go by the other name in the past, though. Still confused by the hint, however.
Does Maynard's amigo rhyme with the first word, as opposed to being the exact word?
DeleteMaynard's amigo rhymes with the first word in the novel's title.
DeleteKeith's comrade rhymes with the second word in the novel's title.
Maynard's amigo + Keith's comrade = a spoonerism of the novel's title.
LegoWhoIsAlsoAFanOfThe"Spoonerism"RiverAnthology
Ok, it just occurred to me that the second word might also be a rhyme and this confirms it. Thanks!
DeleteAs for the "road" movie, it isn't one of the Hope-Crosby seven, but one from 1994.
DeleteI am going to beg someone to please elucidate for me on Wednesday what the 1994 'Road' movie is supposed to be (I looked it up, found what I THOUGHT was the movie, found its script, but the last word that appears definitely does NOT rhyme with the author of the Schpuzzle...So I am completely stumped as to what the rhyming word was meant to be and in what movie it occurred.)
DeleteVT, it's the last word of the title, not the script. I found it on a list of American movies from 1994.
DeleteI was previously looking at the Hope/Crosby movies. No wonder I didn't find it.
If only I had a photographic memory.
DeleteAnd now, some late hints for the cryptic:
DeleteACROSS
1.16. As he was writing his hit "Moving Out/Anthony's Song", Billy Joel first considered singing it to the tune of this song. Luckily, his then-drummer Liberty Devitto talked him out of it.
6. A nickname for Britney Spears' second ex-husband, it reads like the call letters for any TV or radio station west of the Mississippi.
9. This phrase is featured in the lyrics to the song "Shake It Up" by the Cars(the title track of their 1981 album). This was not what I was thinking of when I used the phrase in the puzzle, though.
10. What sort of dance would be most associated with Oahu?
12. The sound of little feet(not to be confused with the sound of Little Feat, the "swamp rock" group formed in 1969 which featured Lowell George on guitar and lead vocals).
15. Removing the first and last letters would reveal either the first name of an Australian actor who starred in "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Dark Knight", or the surname of a former Prime Minister of the UK.
17. If you were scanning the AM radio dial long after dark, you'd find a lot of stations with this format.
19. Bloody adhesive?
20. Carey or Barrymore+the alphabet's beginning+"Every _____ Tells a Story".
23. An American activist with this as a first name helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday.
24.13. The singer/songwriter named in 14 Down had a hit with this song twice: First in 1962, in a more upbeat style, and then again in 1975, in a slower version.
25. Read another way, this country's name might suggest that it is completely uninhabited.
26. With a certain preposition inserted between the two words, it would be approximately 186,000 miles per second.
DOWN
1. The one representing McDonald's has shown its "Golden Arches" since 1961.
2. The only capital with a three-word name is located here.
3. Certain to be won, but not completely?
4. One of 27 which can be found in the New Testament.
5. In a movie title, it precedes "The Wind". It's also what the meek shall do to the earth(another biblical reference).
7. A dish immortalized in song by the Wiggles(yummy yummy!).
8. A Bette Davis film from 1964.
11. Her days are numbered?
14. Not Diamond, or Young, or Giraldo, or Tennant, or Finn, or Peart, or even Schon!
18. A vacay in Vail, Aspen, or Telluride, perhaps.
19. Change the first vowel to the one preceding it, and you'll get a common two-word phrase meaning a "pointless pursuit".
21. This word has been used to describe the eyes of "The Two-Headed Snake of Newbury"(John Greenleaf Whittier).
22. One of four compass points+my nickname.
pjbWasn'tExpectingTheWigglesOrBetteDavis,That'sForSure!
Oh, Tortie, once again, I mis-interpreted something Lego had written, i.e. last word of movie vs last word of its title. Just for curiosity's sake, I am going to go see if at this late date, i can figure out what that last word in the title might be.
DeleteAh, I just managed to locate the movie title. Another "never heard of it" for me...so all the Schpuzzle hints (except the one about the peninsula) were a total zero for helping me to have figured it out.
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteI have answers for most of the cryptic crossword now. I'm just missing 4 Down and 15 Across, although some of my other answers may be wrong. In any case, here's a cryptic version of a puzzle I've posted here in the past from Puzzability:
Delete14 Down and Bread act together to create a mix tape with stripped down arrangements; women love it! (9, 6)
MY PROGRESS SO FAR...
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DeleteI'm going to try this again, having goofed it up on my first attempt (now deleted):
DeleteI have utterly NO shot at the Schpuzzle without some major hint; however, I am pleased to say that somehow I solved the Hors D'O, almost right off the bat.
And the Slice....
DeleteEarly Schpuzzle Hint:
DeleteMaynard's amigo, Keith's comrade.
LegoIAmAnAmigoAmINot?
I think I have an answer for the Schpuzzle, but there's a bit of a problem with it, and I can't make anything out of Lego's hint. I'm afraid it would be irresponsible of me to comment further.
Delete" Call me irresponsible."
DeleteIndeed, I was originally hopeful when I saw that part about Maynard's amigo, but it led nowhere, and both pjb and Paul say they don't understand the hint. So I'm just as stuck and frustrated as I was before. Sorry, "amigo".
DeleteI have answers for everything but most of the cryptic crossword (got the singer/songwriter stuff, plus a few of the easier clues) and Entree #5. Not too hard this week.. It helps when the category has some good lists available.
DeleteI agree with Paul that there's a problem with the answer. As to Lego's hint, I found a Maynard connection, but not a Keith one. So I'm equally confused.
Ah, finally figured out the Schpuzzle. I'd never been anywhere close, and was once again, actually doing things wrong..somehow thinking I had to put the entire character name into REVERSE, instead of just the two vowels. Geez...
DeleteBut like everyone else, the original hint remains a mystery. Please be sure you explain it on Thursday, Lego.
DeleteKeith plays guitar?
DeleteLegoWhose"Riffs"PaleInComparisonToKeith'sRiffs!
Well, now that I've interpreted all of lego's hints in a way that confirms my original answer, I feel energized, but my soul remains captive.
DeleteSince I've never heard of the Keith (who plays guitar?), that part o the hint could have never helped me. Neither did the rhyming thing (for the first portion) ever occur to me. It was your backwards peninsula that helped...altho it's spelled wrong.
DeleteThanks, VT. My sister would sometimes call me "Jose" ("Hoe-Zay") so I have no excuse, and should have been more careful about, the spelling of that peninsula!
Delete"You say "Bahamas" and I say "Bajamas,
You say "Pahamas" and I say "Pajamas...
"Bahamas!" "Bajamas! "Pahamas!" "Pajamas!"
Let's call the whole thing... a draw!
LegoWho(Scroogelike)Exclaims"BajJumbug!"
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DeleteDid you realize (because I never had) that that song about Potatoes, PotatOES, Tomato, TomatOES , let's call the whole thing off [which my mom used to love to quote/sing]....came from the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie "Shall we dance?" Which also had the fabulous song "They Can't Take That Away from Me', that my beloved OSU Chorale JUST sang 11 days ago in our spring term concert. Loved it.
DeleteIt just occurred to me there's a word for "a social gathering" which can apply to the "part" of the "other character" that becomes whatever it becomes.
DeleteGot Nodd's #3 and #7; I finally figured out which "Road" movie it was, and the last word in its title does rhyme perfectly with the author's surname, but if it's the character I'm thinking of from the novel, spelled backward it would be a word that Scrooge did use+the last letter in PENINSULA, if I may be so bold as to speak cryptically(hopefully without it being TMI!); I did get the title of the novel from spoonerizing Maynard's "amigo" and Keith's "comrade"; I still have a problem with how to get the puzzle maker's name and the "Bonney Lad Gone Wrong" using the other elements provided for both; I don't understand why in the puzzle it's(screech), but then in the hint it's(DUSTIN DIAMOND ROLE)?!; and I did get the Dessert, thanks in no small part to your hint. Clarify any of this, please!
DeletepjbCannotWaitToSay"TGIW!"LaterTonight
pjb, the word I used to replace "screech" is not the Dustin Diamond role, but the second word in the title of a famous painting (first word is "the") or a horror movie / franchise starring Courtney Cox.
DeleteYou're right about the word Scrooge used. You have to add a letter to get the character's name.
The puzzlemaker's name is a nickname this time, like if it was "Pat Berry" instead of "Patrick Berry." (I'm guessing you don't go by "Pat" but other Patricks do!)
Finally, for the "Bonney Lad Gone Wrong", you're replacing the first two letters of the archaic term with the last two letters. The picture is a big help for this puzzle.
TortieWhoNotesThatTheAuthor'sLastNameAlsoRhymesWithTheLastWordInTheTitleOfAnAnimatedMovieAbout"Trip"lets,Not"Road"lets!
Good Wedding Eve to you all!
ReplyDeleteI'm fine, but Mom has been feeling dizzy lately, and her stomach feels funny. She bumped her head on the railing by the front steps, and she hasn't been feeling well ever since. Hopefully she can make it to the wedding tomorrow. I got a haircut at Cuts By Us earlier this afternoon, and then we got lunch at Burger King. The woman at the drive-through saw Mom wasn't feeling well, and she actually prayed for her right there. Probably only in the deep South could you have someone pray at a fast food drive-through! Never seen that happen before, in all my 55 years on this Earth. A few hours later, Bryan let us know over the phone(via text, I think)that we would not be eating out because we would be going out to the wedding tomorrow. Mom wanted something to eat from Cracker Barrel for supper, but she didn't feel like eating in the restaurant. So we ordered online, and she went to pick it up. She had some kind of "campfire meal", or something like that. It comes in aluminum foil, and she had roast beef and a corn on the cob, that much I can remember. Anyway, she couldn't finish it. I had a house salad with ranch dressing, two homestyle boneless chicken breasts, and bacon mac 'n' cheese. We both had two biscuits each with our meals. From Burger King I had a Bacon King sandwich, fries, chicken fries, a Dr. Pepper, and a Hershey's Sundae Pie for dessert. After supper I solved the Private Eye Crossword and the Guardian Prize Crossword(set by Brummie, who also goes by the pseudonym Cyclops when he sets the Private Eye puzzle). In the latter puzzle, Eddie James(the real name of Brummie/Cyclops)put in a lot of Broadway-musical-themed answers: CHORUS, LINE, SWEET, CHARITY, HIGH, SOCIETY, WEST, SIDE, STORY, HELLO, DOLLY, HAIRSPRAY, STREETCAR, and CATS. As far as my progress so far(excluding my own puzzle, of course), I was looking over the puzzles one more time when all of a sudden I immediately got the Schpuzzle(and before Lego's hint, which I'm not sure it would have helped anyway, now that I've read it too, and can't make heads nor tails of it!). BTW, Lego, cute answer. Unfortunately, that's all I have so far, and as big a problem as I had with the Sunday Puzzle, I'm not sure I even want to be going back over female animal names or animal offspring names any time soon. I'd rather just concentrate on being ready to go to the wedding, and not embarrassing anyone while I'm there. I'll provide details here afterward(whatever I can remember), but I may not be able to provide photos. I'm still kind of a neophyte when it comes to uploading things like that.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and let's all hope that Austin and his new bride have a wonderful life together. Cranberry out!
pjbHadToBuyNewClothesForThisSpecialOccasion,SoNoOneThereShouldThinkILookAtAll"Tacky"(Mom'sWord,NotMine)
pjb, I'm sorry to hear that your mom isn't feeling well. She should definitely see a doctor ASAP, at least after this wedding is over, if not before. According to Google, her symptoms could be the results of a concussion, which can be more dangerous for older people. Or it could be nothing wrong, but let the doctor tell you that.
DeleteTortie, I appreciate your concern for my mother's health. You'll be happy to know she will be seeing a doctor sometime this week. She did, however, end up missing out on the wedding last night. They were all set to start the ceremony(which was held outside, and weather-wise, this was a bad idea, IMHO), when it started to rain. So we all had to take shelter in the reception area in the castle, which was actually called "Sterling Castle", located in Shelby, AL. They actually said something about not really being inside the castle the whole time, so I'm a little confused about it. I thought we were in the castle, but you'd have to ask them. Anyway, we all stayed in the reception area for a while, and then somebody said it was all clear outside again, so we went back out to the same place as before, but this time Mom said she didn't feel like walking back down the hill again, so she just stayed put inside. Maddy stayed with her, partly because with her leg problems she wouldn't have made the hill either. So we had to tell them about it afterward. Pretty much a standard ceremony: Austin and his bride, named Rose, delivered their vows, said "I do", kissed, and did something else we couldn't see because of where we were seated. We were also near a pond outside(I think it was a pond). The preacher was miked, so we could really hear him, but the bride and groom didn't speak up loud enough most of the time. They did kiss a second time as they went back down the aisle, this time really dramatic-looking. There were a lot of bridesmaids, groomsmen, and a couple of flower girls. We all had to turn around to see them as they first walked down the aisle. There was a little more thunder during the ceremony, but no further storms in the area. Then we all went back to the reception area, and watched the bride and groom's first dance together, as well as the bride's dance with her father, and Austin's dance with Tammy. Hors d'oeuvres were served, though they were just tortilla chips and salsa. I've had better, honestly. Later they served a main course, which was just a taco bar, and you had to wait until your table's number was called to be able to get in line to use it. Ours was Table 17. We joked that there'd probably be nothing left by the time we went up, but there was still enough for us to eat. Knowing how stale the tortilla chips tasted already, I didn't get any more of them. I just got some Mexican rice, black beans, corn, onions, salsa, lettuce, and sour cream. All on the plate. For dessert they had Bundt cakes: chocolate, lemon, and strawberry. Bryan said the chocolate didn't taste good, but I tried some and I thought it was good. They had an open bar, so almost everybody was getting alcoholic beverages. Bryan got a Michelob Ultra, and Renae got a tangerine White Claw. The rest of us had to choose from lemonade, water, and tea, although Mom somehow managed to get someone working there to get her a Sprite. I just had water(and a little of her Sprite). It was Mom, me, Bryan, Renae, Mia Kate, and Maddy, though we didn't know anyone there besides Tammy, her husband Steve, and their kids Brooke and Austin. We also brought Mia Kate's boyfriend Austin with us, and luckily there was no confusion between Mia Kate's Austin and the groom. First person I saw there when we arrived was Tammy, and I had to ask her where the restroom was. Her hair has really gotten grey lately! By now, Austin is 26, and his bride Rose is 30. She's also a teacher. I also had to use the restroom on our way out, but I may have used the employee restroom by accident that time! That's about all I can remember. We were pretty tired when we got home, and I had to wait before I could post this because I was using the Kindle, and my phone needed recharging badly. BTW Mom's fine, and I think she just called me a few minutes ago. We've got to decide on supper, so I'll have to end it here. Talk to y'all later!
DeletepjbGotAlmostHisEntireOutfitFromAThriftStore,ButWeSurelyCouldn'tTellAnybodyThere!
I'm glad your mom is seeing a doctor this week. She should still mention bumping her head even though she is feeling better. As for your mom and Maddy missing the actual ceremony; is it possible it was videotaped?
DeleteYour opinion on the tortilla chips reminds me of the time I ordered "nachos" from a movie theater. It was just a small bag of Tostitos with some cheese sauce and it was extremely overpriced. For all I know, the cheese sauce came from a jar. At least the Tostitos weren't stale, however.
A few years ago a friend (also older) of mine bumped his head in Guatemala - he was taller than the roof eave. While he was visiting his daughter in the Bay Area he suddenly collapsed on the street. Fortunately help was close at hand, and the ER determined he'd had an aneurysm from the seemingly minor injury, at least they were pretty sure.
DeleteHe hadn't thought much about the bump at the time, and obviously traveled great distances in between. But because it burst he ended up in not only in the ICU but also in a convalescent care center for over a month. Had he not gotten immediate help, or been far from a hospital the outcome might have been worse.
Gosh, eco, that is EXTREMELY frightening to hear about. I do hope PJB gets his mom to medical care SOON!
DeleteI don't know if anyone recorded the wedding(I certainly didn't see anyone with a camera of any sort there), but I do know Mom will be seeing the doctor tomorrow. She'll be fine. BTW If anyone's still having trouble solving the cryptic, I've posted hints for all the clues above(under HINTS, of course!).
DeletepjbAndHisMother,Brother,Sister-In-Law,AndNiecesWereTheOnlyFamilyOfTammy'sThatShowedUp(AndWeDon'tEvenKnowWhy!)
Are you saying, pjb, that Tammy's own PARENTS did not appear at her wedding? If so, how utterly sad.
DeleteA "gam" can be a social gathering of either whalers or whales; or it can be a leg, like the one Ahab lost. If that leg provided a meal for a "fish", I guess I missed something, because a whale is a mammal.
ReplyDeleteAhab didn't take the Road to Wellville, preferring his monomaniacal pursuit of revenge.
Whenever I see the name "Maynard" I immediately think of "Ferguson", and that makes it harder to think of any alternative.
Keith's bandmate is Mick, so, to satisfy Rev. Spooner, I needed to find a "Dobie", and, once again, my mind "drifted away" in the wrong direction; but I eventually found the energy to cycle back to "Krebs".
Ishmael has been called an "unreliable narrator". Maybe he was irresponsible, too; I don't know.
It surprised me to find that "Call Me Irresponsible" was written in 1962. I would have thought it was earlier than that. Undeniably a classic.
I got HULA and UTAH in the cryptic.
At some point, I thought the Richard(s) in Lego's hint was referring to musician Richard Melville Hall, better known as Moby. And "Dick" is a nickname for "Richard."
DeleteI also went down the rabbit hole of finding someone with a friend named Maynard, and I found that Virginia Woolf was friends with John Maynard Keynes.
Tortie, I knew that Maynard's friend had to be DOBIE (Gillis), but that was as far as that hint went for me.
DeleteTimeless classic- sung by Nat king Cole if I remember,
DeleteSchpuzzle: ISHMAEL, CAPTAIN AHAB; FISH MEAL (technically mammal food)
ReplyDeleteApp: (surprisingly, all pre-hint!)
Across: 1. LAUGHTER IN; 5. KFED; 9. GO ALL NIGHT; 10. HULA; 12. PITTER PATTER; 15. SHEATHE; 16. THE RAIN; 17. ALL-NEWS; 19. RED TAPE; 20. DREW A PICTURE; 23. OPAL; 24. BREAKING UP; 25. OMAN; 26. SPEED LIGHT
Down: 1. LOGO; 2. UTAH; 3. HALF IN THE BAG; 4. EPISTLE; 5. INHERIT; 7. FRUIT SALAD; 8. DEAD RINGER; 13. IS HARD TO DO; 14. NEIL SEDAKA; 18. SKI TRIP; 19. RETRACE; 21. AGOG; 22. SPAT
Hors d’Oeuvre: POLICE, POLE, COP, ICE
Slice: PASSWORD, ASP, SWORD
Entrees:
1. JACK, JILL, JOEY, KANGAROO; JOE YOUNG
2. MALKINS, LAMBKINS
3. SWAN, PEN, SEAN PENN
4. (ALPACA) DAM, HEMBRA, DAME, HEM, BRA
5. (Post hint: ) SISTERS, SPINSTERS
6. MARE, RAM
7. LIONESS, HELLIONS
8. FERRET, HOB, JILL, KIT; KILL, HITJOB
9. GOAT, BILLY, DOE, KID; DOTH; DEW / DO; BILLY THE KID
10. ALL IN, LOTTO, SCREAM; STALLION, MARE, COLT
Dessert: SAM I AM, SIAM, THAILAND (TAIL, HAND)
Riff: BARENAKED LADIES (anagram NEIL SEDAKA + BREAD, “act” = musical act, “mix” = tells you to anagram, “stripped down” = BARENAKED, “women” = LADIES)
SCHPUZZLE ISHMAEL, AHAB, FISH MEAL
ReplyDeleteHORS D’OEUVRE POLICE, COP; POLE, ICE
SLICE PASSWORD; ASP, SWORD
ENTREES 1. JACK, JILL, JOEY; KANGAROOS; JOE YOUNG
2. MALKINS, LAMBKINS
3. SWAN, PEN; SEAN PENN
4. DAM, HEMBRA; DAME; HEM, BRA
5. SISTERS, SPINSTERS
6. MARE, RAM
7. LIONESS; HELLIONS
8. FERRET; HOB, JILL, KIT; KILL, HIT JOB
9. GOAT; BILLY, DOE, KID; DOTH; DEW; BILLY THE KID
10. ALL IN, LOTTO, SCREAM; STALLION, MARE, COLT
DESSERT SAM-I-AM; SIAM, THAILAND
Nodd, what in heck is a HEMBRA? I've never heard of any such thing!
DeleteI now see why I couldn't solve #2 either....'Malkins' is another word I've NEVEr heard of, and which certainly never showed up in any lists! I say again, how Tortie does it is beyond me!
DeleteSCHPUZZLE: ISHMAEL & AHAB; FISH MEAL [Part of Ahab’s LEG]
ReplyDeleteHORS D’O: POLICE => COP; POLE & ICE
SLICE: PASSWORDS => ASP & SWORDS
ENTREES:
1. JACKs & JILLs, JOEY, KAnGAROOs => JOE YOuNG
2. SQUAB?
3. SWAN & PEN => SEAN PENN
4. DAM => DAME & ????
6. MARE => RAM [Altho solved before you posted it, Nodd, I love the MARE WINNING-HAM hint.]
7. LIONESS => HELLIONS
8. FERRET => HOB, JILL, KIT => JOB, KILL, HIT => HITJOB
9. GOAT => BILLY, DOE, KID; DOTH => THE => BILLY THE KID
10. ALL IN, LOTTO, SCREAM => STALLION, MARE, COLT
DESSERT: SAM-I-AM => SIAM / THAILAND [HAND/ TAIL]
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteISHMAEL and(Captain)AHAB("Moby Dick", by Herman Melville), FISH MEAL; Melville rhymes with Wellville, from "The Road To Wellville".
See Lego's official recap for all cryptic answers.
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World Atlas Hors d'Oeuvre
POLICE, COP, POLE(North or South), ICE
Bad Odds Slice
PASSWORD, ASP, SWORD
Entrees
1. JACK and JILL, JOEY, KANGAROO, JOE YOUNG
2. MALKINS(cats), LAMBKINS(sheep)
3. SWAN, PEN, SEAN PENN(There was a past Sunday Puzzle challenge involving all these elements, so I definitely felt a sense of deja by with this one.)
4. DAM, DAME, HEMBRA, HEM, BRA
5. SISTERS, SPINSTERS
6. MARE, RAM
7. LIONESS, HELLIONS
8. FERRET, HOB, JILL, KIT; JOB, KILL, HIT; HITJOB
9. GOAT, BILLY, DOE, KID; DOTH, DEW, DO; BILLY THE KID
10. ALL IN, LOTTO, SCREAM; STALLION, MARE, COLT
Double-Named Nation Dessert
SAM-I-AM("Green Eggs And Ham", by Dr. Seuss), SIAM, THAILAND, HAND, TAIL
And a "Mighty" Joe Young is he! Remember: Manana(should be a tilde over the first N, but there's not)we do it all over again, everybody!-pjb
This week' official answers for the record, part 1
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
What a name in a novel became
Name a character in a novel.
Add an “F” to the beginning of the name. Reverse the order of two adjacent vowels.
Insert a space someplace.
The result is a description of what a part of another character in the novel became.
Who are these characters? What did the part of the other character become?
Answer:
Ishmael, Captain Ahab (from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"); "fish meal" ("Moby Dick," the title character, bit off and devoured whale-hunter Captain Ahab's leg. Ishmael insisted that Moby Dick was a "fish" based on the Bible's depiction of Jonah being swallowed by a "large fish.")
Lego...
This week' official answers for the record, part 2
ReplyDelete“Trying the Knot”ty Cryptic Crossword Appetizer:
“Merry Marriage Day, Berrys!
Note: see the filled-in crossword grid, just above this week's Comments Section.
ANSWERS
ACROSS
1. Having taken drug, sort of learn the guitar at home using song by 14 (8,2,3,4)
LAUGHTER IN
H inside LEARNTHEGUITAR anagram+IN
6. Britney’s ex, fellow wearing one sneaker? (1-3)
K-FED
F inside KED
9. Object, then: last through sunrise! (2,3,5)
GO ALL NIGHT
GOAL+N inside LIGHT &lit.
10. In Oahu, ladies’ dance (4)
HULA
hidden inside oaHULAdies
12. Sound of conversation after one enters club, not having used head (6-6)
PITTER-PATTER
PUTTER with I(one) replacing U+PATTER
15. Put in “Pistol Packin’ Mama”? (7)
SHEATHE
SHE containing HEAT
16. 1 Across
THE RAIN
17. Top anchorman’s first-rate comeback involving new radio format... (3-4)
ALL-NEWS
A+SWELL reversed containing N
19. ...about to have journalist choose, with some delay (3,4)
RED TAPE
RE containing ED.+TAP
20. Was creative? Was attractive, awfully cute pair! (4,1,7)
DREW A PICTURE
DREW+CUTEPAIR anagram
23. Old friend’s birthstone (4)
OPAL
O+PAL
24. Duh! Radio’s top song by 14 (8,2,2,4,2,2)
BREAKING UP
DUHRADIOSTOP anagram ("BREAKING" as an anagram indicator)
25. Country gal heading off (4)
OMAN
WOMAN-W
26. Small, went in flash (5,5)
SPEED LIGHT
SLIGHT containing PEED
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This week' official answers for the record, part 3
ReplyDeleteDOWN
1. See success with trademark (4)
LOGO
LO+GO
2. Some without a home in this state? (4)
UTAH
hidden inside withoUTAHome
3. Drunk getting sacked after first two quarters of football game? (4,2,3,3)
HALF IN THE BAG
HALF+IN THE BAG
4. Out of spite, left note or letter (7)
EPISTLE
SPITE anagram+L+E
5. Receive fortune first off, claiming possible heir (7)
INHERIT
MINT-M containing HEIR anagram
7. Dish served up—swell to eat it with a little ambrosia, man! (5,5)
FRUIT SALAD
SURF reversed containing IT+A+LAD
8. Double date badly arranged—I start to apologize, going to hug sweetheart (4,6)
DEAD RINGER
D+ARRANGEDI anagram-A containing E
11. Recall daring arrangement of song by 14 (8,4)
CALENDAR GIRL
RECALLDARING anagram
13. See 24 Across
IS HARD TO DO
14. Stranger, upset, having asked about singer/songwriter (4,6)
NEIL SEDAKA
ALIEN reversed containing ASKED anagram
18. Act to criticize when one goes downhill a number of times?
SKI TRIP
SKIT+RIP
19. Go back over former President’s rise prior to primary election (7)
RETRACE
CARTER reversed+E
21. Eager to leave after first of August? Good! (4)
AGOG
A+GO+G
22. Quarrel got disgusting? (4)
SPAT
double definition
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This week' official answers for the record, part 4
ReplyDeleteMENU
World Altas Hors d’Oeuvre
Geography by the numbers
A 6-letter word is a synonym of its letters 5, 2 and 1.
Letters 1,2,3 & 6 of the word spell a place on earth where you can find the word that letters 4, 5 & 6 spell.
What are these six-letter, four-letter and three-letter words?
Answer:
Police; Pole (North Pole and South Pole), Ice
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/police
Bad Odds Slice:
One life-saver vs two deadly quavers
Name a potentially life-saving first line of defense against cyberattacks.
Move the second and third letters to the beginning.
The result is two potentially deadly things. What are this potential life-saver and two deadly things?
Hint: The potentially life-saving first line of defense against cyberattacks is a compound word.
Answer:
Password; Asp, Sword
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Entrees:
Fawnzie dotes & dozy dotes...
Will Shortz’s June 6th National Public Radio Weekend Edition puzzle challenge comes from Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Name certain female animals. Insert a T somewhere inside the word, and you’ll get a synonym for this animal’s offspring. What animals are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Name certain male and female animals who may “hop up the hill” to fetch a drink of water from a spring, along with their offspring. Also name the eight-letter collective term for all three.
Place a space someplace within the singular form of the word for the offspring, followed by:
~ the 7th letter of the collective term,
~ the third letter of that term, inverted,
~ the third letter of that term, NOT inverted, and
~ the fourth letter of that term.
The result is the name of a puzzle-maker.
What three animals are these, and their collective term?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Jacks, Jills, Joeys, Kangaroos; Joe Young
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This week' official answers for the record, part 5
ReplyDeleteNote: The following riffs, #2 through #7, were composed by our friend Nodd.
ENTREE #2
Name certain female animals. Add a B and rearrange to get a name for the offspring of a different species. What names are these?
Answer:
MALKINS; LAMBKINS
ENTREE #3
Name a kind of bird and change the second letter to an E. Follow this with the name for a female member of the bird species, with the last letter doubled. The result will be the name of a famous person who is not a female. What are these two names, and who is the famous person?
Answer:
SWAN, PEN; SEAN PENN
ENTREE #4
Think of two names for the female of a kind of animal. Add an E to the first one to get a generic term for a female. Divide the second word into two parts to get a part of an article of clothing and another article of clothing that is worn by females. What are these five words?
Answer:
DAM, HEMBRA; DAME, HEM, BRA
ENTREE #5
Name certain females. Insert a P and an N somewhere inside the word, and you'll get a name for certain other females. What are the two names?
Answer:
SISTERS; SPINSTERS
ENTREE #6
Name a certain female animal. Delete the last letter and spell the rest backward to get a name for the male of a different animal. What are these two names?
Answer:
MARE, RAM
ENTREE #7
Name a certain female animal. Double the first letter and change the last letter to an H. Rearrange the result to get a word often applied to certain offspring. What are the name for the animal and the word applied to offspring?
Answer:
LIONESS; HELLIONS
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This week' official answers for the record, part 6>
ReplyDeleteENTREE #8
Name an animal and what its male, female and offspring are called. Play “musical chairs” with the initial letters of the male, female and offspring. When the music stops, the male inherits the female’s first letter, the female inherits the offspring’s first letter, and the offspring inherits the male’s first letter to form three new words.
The second word is a synonym of “murder.” Place the third word to the left of the first word to form a compound word for a “premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes.”
What are this animal... and its male, female and offspring?
What are the synonym of “murder” and compound word?
Answer:
Ferret: Hob, Jill, Kit; Kill, Hitjob
https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/biology/plants-animals/animal-names-male-female-and-young
ENTREE #9
Write down what the male, female and offspring of a certain animal are called – an animal that some associate with Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential career, or with a name wordplayfully associated with a “tardy mob.”
The first two letters of the female name of the animal are the first two letters in the archaic present tense third-person singular form of a verb that is a homophone of a noun preceded by “morning” or “mountain.” (My sincere apologies for saddling you puzzle-solvers with that sentence!)
Replace those two letters with the last two letters in that same archaic present tense third-person singular form of the verb. The result is a common 3-letter article.
What you wrote down is now the three-word moniker of a “Bonney Lad Gone Wrong.”
What are this animal and its male, female and offspring?
What is the archaic present tense third-person singular form of the verb?
What is the noun preceded by “morning” or “mountain” that is a homophone of non-archaic form of the verb?
What is the three-word moniker of a “Bonney Lad Gone Wrong?”
Answer:
GOAT (Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential career has been called the Greatest Of All Time, as has NFL quarterback TOM BRADY (an anagram of TARDY MOB);
Billy, Doe, Kid;
Doth; Dew (a homophone of "Do");
Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty, 1859–1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid);
ENTREE #10
Otto, who is ___ __ (fully committed) when it comes to _____ (a game of chance resembling bingo),
Did spew a ______ (screech) of joy when his seventh winning number came into view!
Rearrange the combined 3, 2, 5 and 6 letters that belong in the blanks to spell the names of the male, female and offspring names of an animal.
What are the four missing words?
What are the three animal names?
Answer;
all in, lotto, scream; Stallion, mare, colt
Dessert Menu
Double-Named Nation Dessert:
Sundering Redundancy!
If you remove a the first instance of verb that appears twice in the name of a fictional character the result is the former name of a nation that is an anagram of two body parts. What are this fictional name and nation's two names?
Answer:
"Sam-I-Am"; Siam (former name of Thailand, anagram of "tail" and "hand")
Lego!