Schpuzzle of the Week:
“Does this restaurant serve port?”
words, ending with the same word.
The two first words of these names, together, without a space, spell a port city.
What are this city, chain and service industry?
Appetizer Menu
“Collegiate Encouragement Of Youths” Appetizer:
“The late radio host’s great organization”
Change a letter in the last name to get the second word in the two-word name of a nonprofit organization. The radio personality’s first name and the first word in the organization have the same first two letters. Who is the person? What is the organization?
MENU
Hot Cold-War-Era Teen Idols Hors d’Oeuvre:
“Salamander Mineo?”
Caretakers Of Culture Slice:
Exhibitors of uninhibited artistry
exhibitions.
Interchange two adjacent letters and replace one of them with a different vowel to name those who exhibit at these exhibitions.
Who are these exhibition hosts and the exhibitors?
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:
Angry Rangers, Evil Devils, Slander Islanders, Ruin Bruins!
Will Shortz’s (September 1st NPR) Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Eric Chaikin of Westlake Village, California, reads:
What channel was I watching and what specifically was on the screen?”
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names.
Remove and rearrange the first and last three letters to spell the world’s largest supplier of athletic shoes.
The last two followed by the first two of the remaining letters spell the brand of a producer of jeans that churns out more than half a million articles of clothing every week.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the supplier, line of basketball shoes, and jeans producer?
ENTREE #2
A TV channel’s name, with a punctuation mark added, suggests it would be popular with radio enthusiasts.
What is this TV channel?
Switch two letters in the name of a TV channel to get the first name of a popular writer who created three TV shows in the 1960s and
1970s.
What’s the channel and who’s the writer?
Move the last two syllables of the name of a TV channel to the front of the name and add a space to get a two-word description of much of the popular music in the 1970s.
What are the channel and the description?
The name of a former TV network has the same letters in the same order as the last name of a performer who starred with popular comedians in seven films from the 1920s to the 1940s.
This performer’s most memorable co-star hosted a TV show in the 1950s and 1960s.
What’s the network and who’s the performer?
ENTREE #6
What’s the channel and what is often discussed?
Many a host of a TV channel’s programs might be described by the name of that channel.
What is the name of this channel?
ENTREE #8
Teams hailing from states containing double-n’s (like Connecticut or Tennessee, for example) play each another.
Delete the first letter from one team’s singular-form nickname – like “Whaler”/“haler” (Hartford) – to spell what that team celebrated vis-à-vis the game’s outcome.
Delete the first letter from the other team’s singular-form nickname – Like “Titan”/“itan” (Tennessee). The result is an adjective describing that team’s players vis-à-vis that game’s outcome.
What are the states and the names of the teams?
What did one team celebrate? What is the adjective?
ENTREE #9
When a pair of professional sports teams from Los Angeles and New York square off at Madison Square Garden, the nickname of the visiting team, if not properly maintained, may inflict:
~ a homophone of the first syllable of the long
version of this nickname,
or...
~ the first syllable of a word that has thus far appeared thrice in this puzzle.
What are these competing teams and their nicknames?
ENTREE #10
“I turned on the TV and saw An NFL game with a team from Denver, then switched the channel and watched an NBA game with a team from Indiana. I saw John Elway and Floyd Little. I saw Reggie Miller and, more recently, Tyrese Haliburton.
What four-letter network was I watching?
What are the teams from Denver and Indiana?
What two companies were hawking their kitchen hardware and computer hardware?
ENTREE #11
One Minor League Baseball team, based in a North Carolina town in with an arboreal name, is known by two nicknames.
One nickname ends with a synonym of “papas”; the other nickname begins with a double-consonant (like “ssh,” a synonym of “shush”). Delete the first letter from that nickname and, as an “Ogden” could have told you, a beast becomes a priest!
What are these two team nicknames?
Take the two-word nickname of a collegiate team with one of the most successful baseball
programs in the country. Remove its first letter and the space between the two words. The result is not word. However, if it were a word, it would be a synonym of the nickname of a major league baseball team that is based in a neighboring state.
What are these two teams and their nicknames?
Dessert Menu
Tinny Time Dessert:
Dickens’ Scrooge-Cratchit Stitchcraft
In the BLANKS, from left to right: (9-letter verb), (4-letter noun), (6-letter verb)
Words 1 and 3 share identical 5-letter strings.
The first 4 letters of Word 1 are a rearrangement of Word 2.
What is the sentence?
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Lego...
QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteThe only puzzle I've gotten so far is the Hors D'O, BUT I do not understand what that parenthetical instruction to 'begin with the other word for the salamander' is doing there. That is just confusing, because one is ALREADY dealing with the altered word for the salamander.
DeleteYou are correct about the hors d'oeuvre, VT. I have tried to "unclunk" my "clunky prose" a tad.
DeleteLegoWhoMayNeedToTweakFurther
Lego, I do see an improvement in how you began the Hors D'O, but I still question why the phrase in parentheses is still there at all? It isn't necessary, unless I somehow have completely misunderstood the puzzle (but I don't think so.)
DeleteThanks for hangin' in there with me, ViolinTeddy. You are 100% correct. No need for the parentheses. Tried to re-re-write it a bit more...
DeleteLegoWhoNeedsA"ViolinTedditor!"
Ah, thanks so much, Lego! I was beginning to think there was something wrong with ME!
DeleteHINTS!
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle hint: Steve Miller
DeleteI find it amusing that I remember the name of the teen idol in the Hors D'O, but none of their work.
DeleteI was thinking the exact same thing with the Schpuzzle, Paul. Should've said something sooner.
DeletepjbAlwaysHasToDealWithA"Joker"OnThisBlog
"(Tulsa,) Oklahoma" woulda been a better rhyme than "(Phoenix,) Arizona," Mr. Miller! (who turns age 82 in October!)
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatMitchMillerMadeItToAge99!
SUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. Ivy journalism school.
3. The writer wrote about 12 AM and thereafter.
4. Van McCoy.
5. "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while."
6. Mariano Rivera hung out there most of the time.
7. “Are You Experienced.”
LATE SUNDAY/EARLY MONDAY HINTS:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
“Does this restaurant serve port?”
(I enjoyed Paul's "Steve Miller" hint.)
Here's mine, perhaps a giveaway:
Toyota...
Appetizer Menu
“Collegiate Encouragement Of Youths” Appetizer:
“The late radio host’s great organization”
(Note: See Bobby's hint, below, that he posted at August 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM.)
Lego's Additional Hint:
The first two letters of the real first name of the famous radio personality of the past are different from the first two letters of his stage first name (pseudonym). They are the same two different letter-pairs that have followed the word "Cape..." in a Florida city that was known by both names in past decades.
MENU
Hot Cold-War-Era Teen Idols Hors d’Oeuvre
“Salamander Mineo?”
Detergent that once preceded "...Four" gents + "Bondsman"
Caretakers Of Culture Slice:
Exhibitors of uninhibited artistry may us a Google product as a their default browser.
The hosts of these exhibitions possess common artistic "cents."
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:
Angry Ranger, Evil Devil, Slander Islanders, Ruin Bruins!
ENTREE #1
Victorious goddess, (surrounding) Michael suspended in mid-___, (surrounding) "smart elegance and sophistication especially of dress or manner"
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our friend and puzzle-maker extraordinaire, Nodd. His hints can be found at August 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM under our HINTS section.
ENTREE #8
Identical siblings, angry buccaneers
ENTREE #9
"Did _______ ships transport ______________ from the Old World to the New World's Eastern Seaboard?"
ENTREE #10
LeBron is a hoops Ace (who likely could have excelled in the NFL).
ENTREE #11
“Ogden” wagered, correctly, that there is no "three-L LLama!"... (unless, of course, you're talkin' fires)
ENTREE #12
The two-word nickname of a collegiate team, beheaded, becomes at worst, neutral, and at best perhaps even "heaven-worthy!"
Tinny Time Dessert:
Dickens’ Scrooge-Cratchit Stitchcraft
The word in the first blank can mean "to withdraw from a contest or engagement."
The word in the second blank is an anagram of curved lines or cars.
The word in the third blank is what a trigger-finger sometimes does.
LegoHopingTheseHintsHelp
Lego, if I hadn't already solved the Hors D'O and Slice on Thursday, I would have NO IDEA what your hints mean for them. After Wed, could you please explain them to me?
DeleteI can't solve Nodd's Entrees #2, 6 or 7 [or the TV channel for #3, tho I think I have the person; it just makes NO sense to me], and haven't even had the strength yet to read your Entrees #11 and 12.
Whew! Finally got them all, I think. The App was the most difficult. The App's radio personality was one of the first ones I thought of, but couldn't get anywhere with the nonprofit. Bobby's and Lego's hints cemented who the radio personality must be, and therefore I was able to find the nonprofit organization.
DeleteVT, I also can't make any sense of Lego's hints for the Hors D'O or the Slice.
For Entree #3, think of a song about someone with light brown hair, although the woman on the TV show had even lighter hair. I was stuck on a different writer for a long time even after Nodd's hint. The two letters you need to swap to get the channel are not consecutive.
It is some comfort, Tortie, to know that those two hints also don't make any sense to you.
DeleteRe the Appetizer, I'd had the radio person written down as one of many possibilities; but like you, struggled with the non-profit, because (as is so often the case), I had never heard of it.
I 'get' the first name you mean for Entree #3, but don't understand if you mean that IS the first name of the TV writer (in which case, the one I have down is wrong, altho IT matches the hint either from Lego or from Bobby...who can keep it all straight at this point?) By this point, I have had 'enough' of trying.
Scratch what I wrote above about Entree #3, Tortie (If I still had access to the vanished DELETE button, I would have used it.). I just re-did my Googling and finally came up with the correct TV writer which I had had completely wrong, and its obvious TV channel name. hanks!
DeleteDon't give up, VT. The TV show Tortie referred to for Entree 3 starred the actor who later played J.R. on "Dallas." The TV channel shows a lot of kids' animated shows.
DeleteEntree 2 -- The channel is one of the original "big three," and although it goes by a three-letter acronym, the first word, written out in full, is also the name of the journalism school referred to in my hint (which is the only journalism grad school in the Ivy League).
Entree 6 -- The channel anagrams to writing implements. The animal is a bovine. Put these together, with the animal first, and you have the place relief pitchers like Mariano Rivera go to warm up.
Entree 7 -- The name of the channel is the name of a small animal that was being hunted in the movie "Tom Jones." The animal's name is also slang for an attractive woman (or less commonly, an attractive man).
OK, Nodd, now explain Entree #7 as it pertains to the original puzzle. I don't really get the connection there. Also, regarding the radio personality in Bobby's Appetizer: Can I possibly get some kind of hint for the radio personality that does NOT require the first two letters in his on-air name or his real name? If I've gotten nowhere trying to name the guy as he was known on the air(and I surely have), what real chance do I have to figure out his real name?! At this point, I really could care less about any "first two letters" of anything involved in this puzzle! I have got the answer to Entree #5, as well as the Dessert(despite my best efforts). Everything else has pretty much confirmed the answers I've already got. If there's anything else that can be said about the radio personality WITHOUT referencing any "first two letters" of whatever, I'd love to read it.
DeletepjbAlsoCan'tGetThisWeek'sSundayPuzzle,SoHe'sAlreadyAngryAboutThat,Too
Not sure what you're asking about #7, pjb, but the idea behind the puzzle was that the channel hires a lot of attractive females to host its shows.
DeleteThanks (once again), Nodd. [I actually had already solved your #3, given the help Tortie had provided.]
DeleteBut with your most recent hints, I pretty easily came up with your #2, 6 and 7 just now. It turns out, however, that I still don't have your #5, altho I THINK I have the correct person based on your prior hint (I could be wrong, given what had occurred with #3), I definitely do NOT have the channel.
VT, the performer in #5 acted as a foil for the comedians, and one in particular (hence the cigar hint). If you have the performer, the channel is just the performer's last name followed by "Television Network."
DeleteAnother hint:
DeleteZoinks! The radio personality's last name starts with the same letter as a lot of people that I have done puzzles about.
Nodd..thanks for that. I never heard of that TV network, of course, so never would have come up with it. I Googled, to make sure that the person's surname was indeed associated with a defunct TV station, and that seems to be the case, so I guess I am finally done with your entrees. (Hurrah)...I still haven't had the oomph to read Lego's last two entrees, however. Sigh...
DeleteSorry, Nodd. I totally glossed over that idea about the women on the channel. It's so obvious now. BTW Thank you, Bobby, for your last hint. I didn't think we were going back to that particular late radio personality, but I guess we are. Now all I have to do is look up his birth name, and maybe that might clear up the nonprofit part of it. Or maybe I'll need another hint to get that part of it now. We shall see what we shall see.
DeletepjbRemainsDedicatedToThisWebsite,NoMatterHowLongTheDistanceWhenActuallySolvingAnythingHere
And now I have solved the Appetizer. Good one, Bobby!
DeletepjbMightSuggestThatTheFirstWordInTheNonprofitOrganizationCanAlsoBeDefinedAs"DeliberatelyExaggeratedAndTheatricalInStyle",OrTheStyleItself(HopefullyNot[TMI]!)
Thanks, pjb. I don't think I'd have gotten the App without your additional hint for the first word of the nonprofit.
DeleteCasey Kasem voiced Shaggy, who said, "Zoinks!" in Scooby-Doo. Zoinks contains a K, the last initial of a lot of people in my puzzles. I have done puzzles about Colin Kaepernick, Ashton Kutcher, Ash Ketchum, Martin Luther King, Jr., Beyonce Knowles, Amanda "Ava Max" Koci, and Casey Kasem.
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteCurrently missing the App, as well as Entrees #3, 6, and 7, although I do have Alts for the latter.
DeleteIF YOU HAVE COMMENTS THAT DO NOT PERTAIN TO ANY OF THE FOUR CATEGORIES ABOVE, YOU MAY WRITE THEM BELOW THIS POST. THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteI am on Puzzleria!
ReplyDelete💗
DeleteGood job on the App. It's a challenge, at least for me!
DeleteGood Friday evening to all regulars here on the blog(and you too, Eileen!)!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. In fact, Mom checked her blood pressure earlier today, and it said exactly 120/80. Exactly. What are the odds? Anyway, she made it walking around Kirklin Clinic with me for my appointment Tuesday afternoon with no trouble whatsoever, even though she didn't get any sleep the night before. Also, she sleeps with the TV tuned to FOX News, and they must have talked about either RuPaul or Billy Porter or both making appearances on "Sesame Street", something like that, because I made some comment about "The Electric Company" in the car on the way over Tuesday, and she all of a sudden just blurts out something about there being drag queens on "Sesame Street". And apparently RFK Jr. must have chewed out the PBS representative, too, because Mom mentioned that as well. At first, I never really dignified any if this with a response(and I certainly haven't brought it up again since!), but I did look up "drag queens on Sesame Street" online, and there was some information about Mr. Porter either having already made an appearance or that he will, and the info I found clearly stated he would not be in drag on the program. While I will obviously not agree with anything FOX said about this, nor condone whatever RFK said that Mom heard, I do know some parents may still not be okay with this if they know enough about Mr. Porter and why he is currently famous. Luckily, this has not gotten past FOX, so we don't really know what any of the late night talk show hosts(all of whom are fathers, BTW)will have to say about this should they even choose to discuss it on their respective programs. Will there be any backlash over this? Who's to say? Not I. I haven't really watched the show in decades, and I have no children of my own to really have any just cause to worry about this at all. I do know a few years ago by now they did have Sarah Jessica Parker as a guest star, and she referred to Big Bird as simply "Big", much like I guess she did with the "Mr. Big" character on "Sex and the City". If parents weren't bothered by this, then they might not be bothered by Mr. Porter, or RuPaul, or whichever one of the two may appear on the long-running children's show. But if it bothers you, then it bothers you. Whether you choose to proceed any further on this, that's up to you. I personally hope Mom never brings it up again, but that's just me.
This evening Mom and I joined Bryan and Mia Kate at Los Reyes(not one of Mom's favorite places to eat, mind you). No mention of "Sesame Street", thank God, but we did find out that Renae's surgery will be on Sept. 16th, the week we were planning on going back to the condo in Ft. Walton. So it's been cancelled for that week. They may want to go the previous week(weekend, actually, pretty much Friday until Monday), and even then it may just be Mom and Bryan. They could bring another person, but neither one of them thought me or Mia Kate would want to go, not to mention Maddy or Renae, for obvious reasons. They have invited Leann's husband Ed to go with them on two separate occasions, but this summer Ed has taken Leann and their son Jackson to tour a lot of baseball stadiums across the country, so he might not be able to make it this one time. Bryan did suggest a mutual childhood friend, Scottie Waid, might join them, but still Bryan will have to be with Renae for the most part, especially during her physical therapy. Mia Kate will also be joining the annual production of "The Nutcracker" in December, of course.
To Be Continued-pjb
Part 2
ReplyDeleteLos Reyes is a Mexican restaurant, so we dined accordingly. I had a stuffed chicken burrito and a Diet Dr. Pepper, Mom had something with shrimp and jalapenos(she didn't eat the latter), Bryan ordered something off the Appetizer Menu, and Mia Kate ordered what she usually gets(though I've forgotten what by now). When we got back home, I solved the Guardian Prize Crossword, this week set by Brendan. This puzzle featured the phrase DOUBLEENTRY BOOKKEEPING, with both parts of the phrase, as I have separated them here, intersecting with each other, at 13 Across and 8 Down. Surprisingly, the "double-entry" idea went all the way through the Across clues, with 5 Across through 12 Across being the exact same clues as 18 Across through 25 Across would have, only in reverse order. Both clues would have different answers, while still pretty much maintaining the same wordplay. For instance, my favorite clue(s)were for 11 Across and 21 Across:
Seabird downloadable from Internet(4)
The two answers, respectfully, are ERNE and TERN. Both are seabirds, and both can be found hidden inside the word INTERNET. It was quite a unique puzzle, and as always I ended up consulting Wordplays.com for help with any answers I was having trouble with. They will eventually have a list of clues from that night's crossword, usually some time after 9:00pm our time. I thought there might be some confusion regarding each clue being used twice, but they did have each clue repeated with both answers, so I still managed to fill out the puzzle. BTW Although 12 Across and 18 Across were both the same, the former had the word "that", while the latter had the word "than"! Can you believe that, a typo in a cryptic clue? How could you tell most of the time?
As for my current progress here, I've solved everything except the Appetizer(sorry Bobby!), the Dessert(if any puzzle ever required hints along the way, this one most certainly does!), and Entrees #5 and #7(didn't get the jeans "producer" in #1, though). The Hors d'Oeuvre proved to be the easiest, and by far the cleverest, the Schpuzzle answer popped into my head after a fruitless search for port cities, and the Slice made me think if I do have the intended answer, then this one isn't as creative as the other two. Not by a long shot. Entrees #8-12 were much easier than I thought, and Nodd had a few good ones regarding TV channels, especially #4(reminded me of one of ELO's records)and #6(quite ingenious!). And now, all involved(Lego, Nodd, and of course, Bobby)will need to provide hints for all others as the week progresses. Good luck, guys!
And good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and in closing, I'll just leave you with 10 Across/22Across from Brendan's crossword, and see if y'all can answer this one(remember: there are two different answers with the same wordplay!):
Show follower of Washington, historically, in US(8)
Cranberry out!
pjbMightJustRevealBothAnswersNextWednesday(!)
Hint:
ReplyDeleteThe radio personality's real first name has the same first 2 letters as the second word in the nonprofit organization.
Casey Kasem's real name is Kemal Kasem. Kemal starts with KE like Kesem.
DeleteAnswer:
ReplyDeleteCasey Kasem, Camp Kesem
Schpuzzle: TACOMA, TACO BELL, MA BELL
ReplyDeleteApp: CASEY KASEM, CAMP KESEM
Hors d’Oeuvre: AMPHIBIAN; I’M FABIAN
Slice: CURATORS, CREATORS
Entrees:
1. ERIC CHAIKIN; NIKE, AIR, CHIC
2. CBS (CB’S)
3. (Post hint: ) DISNEY, SIDNEY SHELDON
4. DISCOVERY, VERY DISCO
5. DuMont, Margaret Dumont
6. (Post hint: ) ESPN, BULLPENS
7. FOX / FOX NEWS (Alt: AMC (A MC - bad grammar, though), HEROES AND ICONS, STARZ - phonetic)
8. MINNESOTA TWINS, PITTSBURGH (PENNSYLVANIA) PIRATES; WIN, IRATE
9. LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS, NEW YORK KNICKS (AKA KNICKERBOCKERS/“NICK”)
10. ESPN; BRONCOS, PACERS; RONCO, ACER
11. HICKORY ‘DADS, LLAMAS
12. ARIZONA STATES SUN DEVILS (“UNDEVILS”), LOS ANGELES ANGELS
Dessert: A child sometimes SCRATCHES a SCAR that ITCHES.
SCHPUZZLE–TACOMA, TACO BELL, MA BELL
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER–CASEY KASEM; CAMP KESEM
HORS D’OEUVRE–AMPHIBIAN, “I’M FABIAN”
SLICE–CURATORS, CREATORS
ENTREES
1. ERIC CHAIKIN, NIKE, AIR, CHIC
2. CBS (CB’S)
3. DISNEY, SIDNEY SHELDON
4. DISCOVERY, VERY DISCO
5. DUMONT TELEVISION NETWORK, MARGARET DUMONT
6. ESPN; BULLPENS
7. FOX
8. MINNESOTA TWINS, PITTSBURGH PIRATES, WIN, IRATE
9. CLIPPERS, KNICKERBOCKERS, KNICKS
10. BRONCOS, PACERS; RONCO, ACER
11. CRAWDADS, LLAMAS
12. SUN DEVILS, ANGELS
DESSERT–SCRATCHES, SCAR, ITCHES
Next stop, Philadelphia.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteTACO BELL, MA BELL, TACOMA(WA)
Appetizer Menu
KEMAL AMIN "CASEY" KASEM, CAMP KESEM
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Hot Cold-War-Era Teen Idols Hors d'Oeuvre
AMPHIBIAN, "I'M FABIAN!"
Caretakers Of Culture Slice
CURATORS, CREATORS
Entrees
1. ERIC CHAIKIN, NIKE, AIR, CHIC
2. CBS, CB'S(citizen's band radios)
3. DISNEY, SIDNEY SHELDON
4. DISCOVERY, VERY DISCO(ELO's 1979 album was also called "Discovery", and after listening to it, some people thought the title actually read "Disco Very".)
5. DUMONT, MARGARET DUMONT(who appeared in a few Marx Brothers films and had quite a few scenes with Groucho, who would later host the popular radio and TV game show "You Bet Your Life")
6. ESPN, BULLPENS(where many a team's manager could be found)
7. FOX NEWS(where many female news anchors/talking heads could be seen wearing dresses that many viewers might say are more than slightly provocative-looking for a news channel, so these women could easily be considered "foxes" themselves!)
8. MINNESOTA TWINS(WINS), PENNSYLVANIA PIRATES(IRATE)
9. LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS, NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKERS, or KNICKS(NICK is also found at the beginning of the word "nickname", which appears three times, or "thrice", in the puzzle; Plus, if not used properly, clippers could make nicks!)
10. ESPN(again), DENVER BRONCOS(RONCO), INDIANA PACERS(ACER)
11. HICKORY CRAWDADS, "LAS LLAMAS DE HICKORY"
12. ARIZONA STATE SUN DEVILS, "UNDEVILS", LOS ANGELES ANGELS
Tinny Time Dessert(may be a typo there, come to think of it!)
"A child sometimes SCRATCHES a SCAR that ITCHES."
I'm actually surprised that, even though the word NICK was used in an Entree, there was no puzzle about the NICKELODEON Channel(or NICK AT NITE, for that matter).-pjb
Darn it, once again I TOTALLY forgot about it being Wed and the day to post answers. Woe is me...
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: TACO BELL, MA BELL => TACOMA [Only after the hint, and even then, I almost didn’t get it]
APPETIZER: CASEY KASEM => CAMP KESEM
HORS D’O: AMPHIBIAN => IMPHABIAN => I'M FABIAN
SLICE: CURATORS => CREATORS
ENTREES:
1. ERIC CHAIKIN => NIKE; AIR; CHIC
2. CBS [Columbia] => CBs [radios]
3. DISNEY => SIDNEY Shelton
4. DISCOVERY => VERY DISCO
5. MARGARET DRUMMOND => DRUMMOND TELEVISION NETWORK
6. ESPN => BULL PENS
7. FOX
8. MINNESOTA => TWIN => WIN; & PENNSYLVANIA => PIRATE => IRATE
9. LA CLIPPERS [basketball]; NY KNICKERBOCKERS, KNICKS [basketball] => CLIP, NICK
10. ESPN; DENVER BRONCOS; INDIANA PACERS; POPEIL BROTHERS and ACER
DESSERT: SCRATCHES SCAR ITCHES
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
“Does this restaurant serve port?”
Name a restaurant chain and a colloquial name of a past service industry – both in two
words, ending with the same word.
The first two words, together, without a space, spell a port city.
What are this city, chain and service industry?
ANSWER:
Tacoma (Washington); Taco Bell, "Ma Bell"
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
“Collegiate Encouragement Of Youths” Appetizer:
“The late radio host’s great organization”
Take the name of a famous radio personality of the past.
Change a letter in the last name to get the second word in the two-word name of a nonprofit organization.
The radio personality’s first name and the first word in the organization have the same first two letters.
Who is the person, and what is the organization?
Answer
Casey Kasem, Camp Kesem
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Kesem
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Hot Cold-War-Era Teen Idols Hors d’Oeuvre
“Salamander Mineo?”
Name a heading under which one might classify a salamander. Interchange the first two vowels that appear in the name and then change their vowel-sound pronunciations from short-to-long. (For example “ad-libber” would become “I’d-labor.”)
The result, if spoken aloud, is how a particular Cold-War-Era teen idol, who is still living, likely introduced himself.
What is this salamander classification?
How might this teen idol have introduced himself?
Answer:
Amphibian, "I'm Fabian!"
Caretakers Of Culture Slice:
Exhibitors of uninhibited artistry
7/8/25
Take a word for hosts, caretakers or custodians of certain cultural or artistic exhibitions.
Interchange two adjacent letters and replace one of them with a different vowel to name those who exhibit at these exhibitions.
Who are these exhibition hosts and the exhibitors?
Answer:
Curators, Creators
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:
Angry Ranger, Evil Devil, Slander Islanders, Ruin Bruins!
Will Shortz’s August 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Eric Chaikin of Westlake Village, California, reads:
“I turned on the TV and saw anger, evil, slander, and ruin. It was all pleasant news. What channel was I watching and what specifically was on the screen?”
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names.
Remove and rearrange the first and last three letters to spell the world’s largest supplier of athletic shoes.
The last two letters followed by the first of the remaining letters spell the first word a line of basketball shoes produced by this supplier. The last two followed by the first two of the remaining letters spell the brand of a producer of jeans that churns out more than half a million articles of clothing every week.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the supplier, line of basketball shoes, and jeans producer?
Answer:
Nike; Air (Jordan); Chic (jeans)
(ErIC CHaiKIN)
Air Jordan is a line of basketball and sportswear shoes produced by Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon. It is the world’s largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022.
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This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
ReplyDeleteNote: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our friend and puzzle-maker extraordinaire, Nodd.
ENTREE #2
What TV channel’s name, with a punctuation mark added, suggests it would be popular with radio enthusiasts?
Answer:
CBS (CB’S)
ENTREE #3
Switch two letters in the name of a TV channel to get the first name of a popular writer who created three TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s. What’s the channel and who’s the writer?
Answer:
DISNEY; SIDNEY SHELDON
ENTREE #4
Move the last two syllables of the name of a TV channel to the front of the name and add a space to get a two-word description of much of the popular music in the 1970s. What are the channel and the description?
Answer:
DISCOVERY; VERY DISCO
ENTREE #5
The name of a former TV network has the same letters in the same order as the last name of a performer who starred with popular comedians in seven films from the 1920s to the 1940s. This performer’s most memorable co-star hosted a TV show in the 1950s and 1960s. What’s the network and who’s the performer?
Answer:
DUMONT TELEVISION NETWORK, MARGARET DUMONT
ENTREE #6
Rearrange the letters of a popular TV channel and add at the front of the letters the name of a male animal to get something often discussed on the channel. What’s the channel and what is often discussed?
Answer:
ESPN; BULLPENS
ENTREE #7
What TV channel’s name describes many of the hosts of its shows?
Answer:
FOX
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This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #8
Teams hailing from states containing double-n’s (like Connecticut or Tennessee, for example) play each another.
Delete the first letter from one team’s singular-form nickname – like Whaler/haler (Hartford) – to spell what that team achieved vis-à-vis the game’s outcome.
Delete the first letter from the other team’s singular-form nickname – Like Titan/itan (Tennessee). The result is an adjective describing that team’s players vis-à-vis the game’s outcome.
What are the states and the names of the teams?
What did one team achieve? What is the adjective?
Answer:
Minnesota, Pennsylvania; Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates; win, irate
ENTREE #9
When certain professional sports teams from Los Angeles and New York square off at Madison Square Garden, the nickname of the visiting team, if not properly maintained, may inflict a homophone of the nickname on the home team...
Or, if the first letter of the hometown team is deleted, the nickname of the visiting team, if not properly maintained, may inflict just the nickname on the home team (with no deletion of letters necessary).
What are these teams and their nicknames?
Answer:
Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks; Clippers Nicks
ENTREE #10
“I turned on the TV and saw An NFL game with a team from Denver, then switched the channel and watched an NBA game with a team from Indiana. I saw John Elway and Floyd Little. I saw Reggie Miller and Tyrese Haliburton.
Both contests were interspersed with commercials and infomercials. I saw various kitchen gadgets like the Veg-O-Matic and the Pocket Fisherman; I saw various computers like the Predator Triton 14 Gaming Laptop, Chromebook Enterprise and TravelMate!
What four-letter network was I watching?
What are the teams from Denver and Indiana?
What two companies were hawking their kitchen hardware and computer hardware?
Answer:
ESPN; Denver Broncos, Indiana Pacers; Ronco, Acer
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This week's official answers for the record, part 6:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #11
A Minor League Baseball team, based in a North Carolina town in with an arboreal name, is known by two nicknames.
One nickname ends with a synonym of “papas”; the other nickname begins with a double-consonant (like “ssh,” (https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-meaning-of-the-word/ssh.html) a synonym of “shush”). Delete the first letter from that nickname and, as “Ogden” could have told you, a beast becomes a priest!
What are these two team nicknames?
Answer:
Hickory Crawdads, Llamas de Hickory
Note: The Llamas de Hickory (based in Hickory, North Carolina, and also known as the Hickory Crawdads) are part of Minor League Baseball's "Copa de la Diversión" ("Fun Cup") initiative which promotes baseball and connects teams with their local Hispanic/Latino communities.
ENTREE #12
Take the two-word nickname of a collegiate team with one of the most successful baseball programs in the country. Remove its first letter and the space between the two words. The result is not word. However, if it WERE a word, it would be a synonym of the nickname of a major league baseball team that is based in a neighboring state.
What are these two teams and their nicknames?
Answer:
Arizona State Sun Devils ("Undevils"); Los Angeles Angels
(The Sun Devils have won five national championships (1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981), the fourth most by any school, and have the third most College World Series victories with 61.
ASU baseball has reached the College World Series 22 times. The Sun Devils have also reached the NCAA tournament 42 times, most recently in 2025.
Dessert Menu
Tinny Time Dessert:
Dickens’ Scrooge-Cratchit Stitchcraft
"A child sometimes (BLANK) a (BLANK) that (BLANK)."
In the BLANKS, from left to right: (9-letter verb), (4-letter noun), (6-letter verb)
Words 1 and 3 share identical 5-letter strings.
The first 4 letters of Word 1 are a rearrangement of Word 2.
What is the sentence?
Answer:
"A child sometimes SCRATCHES a SCAR that ITCHES."
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