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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Cloudbursts and Loud Blasts
A multisyllabic barrier shields you from small objects falling precipitously from the sky.
This “explosive-weapons-dropper” might also be described as an “_-____ ______.”
What are this multisyllabic barrier, small objects, weapon-dropper’s yell, large sky-falling object, and other name for the weapon dropper?
Hint: the barrier, yell and large object are anagrams of one another.
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Terrifically Jefferific Riffery:
“Doth villainy fill any sinister void?”
1. 🎥Take a four-letter adjective for something unpleasant.
What is the word and who are the characters.
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2. 👼Take a term for a place where one might find refuge.
Drop a letter and rearrange to get someone you might find there.
“Drop a pair... then party there!”
3. 🗺Take the two-word name of a famous place.
Note: In the accompanying illustration, captions for the images emerge after the initial letter of each word in the city is deleted.
“Take a 5-second power nap... then solve!”
A schoolmaster may hate the classroom!
What are they?
There is nothing a _________ hates more than a _________.
6. Insert a three-letter garment into a five-letter garment to get a homophone for something a parent dressing a two-year-old needs. Name these two garments and what this parent needs.
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“Compeerative” Hors D’Oeuvre:
Halve a letter in a name & an adjective you’ll have!
Replace another letter with a letter that rhymes with it.
The result is an adjective that describes this
character, compared to his peers.
What are this surname and adjective?
Bobby Fischer-King “Chess Nuts Toasting...”Slice:
History & Whodunit mystery: “Gambitten” by the “Chess bug”
You will spell four words that describe “A Brief History of Time,” and where it may have been
published.
What are these four chess pieces?
What two words describe “A Brief History of Time”?
What two words denote where it may have been published?
Riffing Off Shortz Squeeze-Playfully Entrees:
“If I were a rich man (with a halo) I would march in, but don’t squeeze my chin! (I guess my arm’s ok”)
Will Shortz’s November 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
t of the human body. Insert it into a four-letter part of the body to get a brand name you might see at the supermarket. What names are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
Name a ten-letter puzzlemaster who is a conundrum-creating ____. For him, designing an ingeniously wordplayful puzzle is as effortless as taking a leisurely _____ in the park!
Fill in the first blank with letters #1, #6, #2 & #10.
Fill in the second blank with letters #5, #9, #8, #7, #4 & #3.
What words belong in the two blanks?
Who is this Puzzlemaster?
(Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 are the fruits of the riffmaking genius of our friend Nodd.)
ENTREE #2
Change an A to a C. Rearrange to spell a brand name you might see in the candy section of the supermarket.
What are the body parts and the brand name?
Think of a four-letter body part and a five-letter part of some people’s bodies. Change an E to an A. Rearrange to spell a two-word brand name you might see in the cereal aisle at the supermarket. What are the body parts and the brand name?
Think of two body parts of four letters each. Delete one letter and rearrange to spell a brand name you might see in the coffee and tea section of the supermarket.
What are the body parts and the brand name?
Think of a three-letter body part and something in four letters you might get on parts of your body.
Change an A to an H. Rearrange to spell a brand name you might see in the candy section of the supermarket.
What are the body part, what you might get, and the brand name?
ENTREE #6
Change a G to an A. Rearrange to spell a two-word brand name you might see in the baked goods section of the supermarket.
What are the body parts and the brand name?
Think of a famous unkept promise by a successful presidential candidate, in six words. The second and third words refer to certain of his body parts.
Rearrange their letters to get a brand name you might see in the refrigerated beverage section of the supermarket. What are the promise and the brand?
(Note: Entrees #8 & #9 were composed by our gifted and talented friend Plantsmith.)
ENTREE #8
Drop the last letter to get a brand name of
something you might see at Best Buy.
Name this body part and brand name.
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Take a five-letter body part and replace the last letter with a vacation destination.
“Pluralize” the result to get a cereal.
What are this cereal and destination?
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Society Page Dessert:
Diamonds... both ballpark & sparkling
Former major league star Rick may marry a famous movie star whose surname is a synonym of “fuse”... Indeed, such nuptials are still possible!
Were this slim possibility to become a full-blown reality, a headline in newspapers’
society pages might read like an entry in an appointment booklet consisting of words of 6, 7 & 3 letters.
Name these stars and possible society-page headline.
Hint: The third word in the headline is the surname of these star-crossed stars... but only after you apply to it what what sounds like a synonym of Christmas.
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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ReplyDeleteI think the Dessert hint should read: "The third word in the headline is the surname of ONE OF these star-crossed stars..."
DeleteThank you for some fine "hint-editing," Nodd. That was one sloppy hint! I have just now tried to clean it up...
DeleteIt was all just one-or-two-too-many moving parts for my gray matter to keep track of.
LegoTryingToTrack&FieldHelpfulCorrectionSuggestionsLikeNodd's
I just managed to solved the Dessert (luckily, Google was my friend), but I didn't notice any CHANGE in your hint, Lego, per Nodd's comment above. Your reply sounded as though you had attempted to 'fix' your 'hint', but it still reads that the 3-letter word is the surname of BOTH of them.
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ReplyDeleteIF YOU HAVE COMMENTS THAT DO NOT PERTAIN TO ANY OF THE FOUR CATEGORIES ABOVE, YOU MAY WRITE THEM BELOW THIS POST. THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday to all here on this great blog!
ReplyDeleteMom, Bryan, and Renae left for FL yesterday to attend a Condo Owners' Association meeting. None of the kids or I went with them. Just this past hour Daisy Aldredge actually came by to tell me to call Mom. Seems she had actually been trying to reach me a number of times between last night and today, but for some reason my phone was not ringing! So I called her, and she told me all about it, and where all they'd been eating so far, and everything. We also tested my phone, with her hanging up and trying to call me again. For some unknown reason, my phone appears to be on the vibrator setting, because I totally heard it(or felt it)doing that. So somehow it's on vibrate, and I don't know how it got there, or how to get it back to normal ringing. But both ends found out the other is all right, so no problem there. But now I have to call her first some time tomorrow night, instead of her trying to get me first. So I have that to remember tomorrow. But they've been having a good time so far, and they went to Aldi over there. Mom says theirs has scooters for her to be able to ride around in there, but it's self-checkout. They don't even have the one(and only)counter working like we have here.
Mom was able to get some peanut butter and jelly, but she doesn't like the bread Bryan got. No flour in it whatsoever, and she said it doesn't even seem to have any taste to it, as a result. They did go to Dewey Destin, but she said it's still a mess after the hurricane. The weather's been great over there, but it's a little cold at night, and Mom had packed a coat, but she doesn't know where Renae put it once they arrived, so Bryan had to go get his coat for her to wear, and she says she could barely get her arms through the sleeves! They also ate at Olive Garden when they arrived last night, and Mom had shrimp scampi, and Renae had chicken scampi, but the former had asparagus(I think), and the latter had peppers. But clearly all the children are back in school by now, because Mom said no one is at the pool, and there I've only been maybe three people at the hot tub. But it's good that somebody told me I should call her, because I honestly did not have my phone even in the room with me, and I never heard it ring, or I surely would've gone to answer it. My phone was in my bedroom, and I was in the living room and kitchen most of the day. Mom said she would've had the girls come to check on me, but if there were something wrong with me and I couldn't answer the phone, they would've been traumatized. Luckily I've had no problems here so far, but I almost couldn't get Mom back on the phone. Apparently, Daisy called her afterward to let her know I was all right, and she said she recently had a similar situation in her family, and when she finally got in touch with whoever it was, the bathtub had been left running, and she was still thinking about that when she had to come here. But everything is all right with my family all the way round, so don't anyone here worry about us.
I looked over this week's offerings, and could only get the Hors d'Oeuvre and Entree #1 at first glance. The rest will require some detective work, and the hints later some time Sunday evening.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and I do hope Mom and Co. will be making a safe return Sunday evening as well. Cranberry out!
pjbHasHadThreeMealsOfLee'sChickenSoFar,BecauseAsMomCameBackFromTheBeautyShopThursdayMorning,SheStoppedByLee'sWithEnoughForAFewMealsForHim(RightThoughtfulOfHer,Really!)
PJB, I don't know if you have an iphone (I don't) but on a Samsung at least all you have to do is hit SETTINGS (usually has a gear-thingie look) and then go for "Sounds and Vibration". Tap that, and at least on my phone, what appears at the type are choices for SOUND, VIBRATE and MUTE. Then below those choices (from which you should switch it back to SOUND), you can ALSO choose to toggle on "Vibrate while ringing" (which is what I have on. That way you get BOTH...a ring and the movement of the phone that you can feel. I hope this helps. [There are lots of OTHER choices on that screen also...such as a choice of 'ringtones', what intensity of vibration (medium, or others), a choice of type of vibration, and more that I haven't even explored myself.]
DeleteAt the very end of last week's Comments Section, ViolinTeddy posted an astute and helpful comment inquiring the whereabout of the missing solution to my ENTREE #1.
ReplyDeleteI just posted my tardy answer in last week's Comments, but I shall also repost it below in this post... thank to Violinteddy!
Here is what i tardily posted:
Thank you, ViolinTeddy!
And, my apologies to all!
Here are my Belated answers to Entree #1:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzlemasterful conundrum-creating _______ and ____ who provides us with a week’s _____ of cryptic challenges and enjoyment every Sunday...
... a puzzlemaker ___ ____ ___ and wisdom ____ us weekly by posing ____ of puzzles that begin with a “What,” “Why,” “Where,” “When” “___” or “___...”
... puzzles filled with challenging _______,
“mysterious ______” and skillfully-compiled fill-in-the-word lists; puzzles involving square, cube or etymological _____; puzzles consisting of missing-word _____...
... all courtesy of this wordsmith with Hoosier _____ who _____ a weekly nationally radio broadcast!
Bonus Timely Holiday Addendum:
Nestled deep within the All Hallows Eve Wilderness are eerie heard-by-ears, albeit unseen, ___ _____ and _____ hidden deep within forest _______.
Name the 19 different missing words in the above text, including the Bonus Addendum. (One of these 19 words “appears” twice.)
These 19 words contain only 9 different letters of our 26-letter alphabet.
Use these 9 different letters, one of them twice, to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.
Name these 20 missing words:
five 3-letter words; four 4-letter words; seven 5-letter words; one 6-letter word; three 7-letter words
Who is the puzzle-maker?
The answer (thanks to ViolinTeddy!) is:
WILL SHORTZ (The letters in blanks contain only the letters:
W , I, L, S, H, O, R, T & Z
Name a puzzlemasterful conundrum-creating HOTSHOT and WHIZ who provides us with a week’s WORTH of cryptic challenges and enjoyment every Sunday...
... a puzzlemaker WHO WITH WIT and wisdom WOWS us weekly by posing LOTS of puzzles that begin with a “What,” “Why,” “Where,” “When” “WHO” or “HOW...”
... puzzles filled with challenging THRILLS, “mysterious TWISTS” and skillfully-compiled fill-in-the-word lists; puzzles involving square, cube or etymological ROOTS; puzzles consisting of missing-word LISTS...
... all courtesy of this wordsmith with Hoosier ROOTS who HOSTS a weekly nationally radio broadcast!
Bonus Timely Holiday Addendum:
Nestled deep within the All Hallows Eve Wilderness are eerie heard-by-ears, albeit unseen, OWL HOOTS and HOWLS hidden deep within forest HOLLOWS.
Lego...
...Thus, the name of the "mystery" puzzle-maker is:
DeleteWILL SHORTZ...
The missing words contain only the letters W, I, L, S, H, O, R, T, & Z.
Lego...