PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER e4 + 5! SERVED
Welcome to the
August 28th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! This week we offer
you fresh trending-news appetizers, an entrée slice, and, to top it all off, a
dessert baked up by gourmet French puzzle chef Monsieur Garcon du Parachutisme.
Blog-followers may know the chef better by his cyber-screen-name “skydiveboy.” His
friends know him as Mark Scott of Seattle.
So click and
tighten your seat belts… you are in for a wild puzzle ride. But eventually, as you continue to gobble and guzzle our scrumptious puzzles, also be prepared to
loosen your seat belts a notch or two – as at a Thanksgiving dinner served on a Greyhound bus, for instance, or at a drive-thru oriental buffet restaurant.
Appetizer
Menu
Mr. Capital Gain?
A 2016
presidential candidate’s use of a two-word term (deemed by a number of people as “disparaging”
or “pejorative”) sparked controversy this past week on the campaign trail. The
two words in the plural term contain six letters each.
Each of the
following nine clues leads to a three-word phrase that can be anagrammed to form the
controversial term. (In the fourth clue only two words are anagrammed.)
1. Ubiquitous
blare on Manhattan streets…
2. Scruffier
inmate…
3. Opens some trash
receptacle…
4. Pessimistic
about the future silver-screen bankability of actor Kevin (two words divided by
the word “on”)…
5. Taxi driver,
fresh from the barber…
7. What a frisky
kitten might do during Christmas gift unwrapping…
8. What a famished
French filcher does while passing a patisserie…
9. John the
Baptist, after days of wandering alone in the wilderness, addressing his lunch…
What is this
controversial term? What are the nine answers to the clues?
Boxing
Outside The Ring Appetizer:
Sunday Punch
On August 19,
1930, in Queensboro Stadium in New York, Justo Suarez delivered a knockout
punch sending Bruce Flowers to the canvas with a thud. On April 27, 1996, in Miami
Beach, Florida, Elieser Castillo delivered a knockout punch sending James
Flowers to the canvas with a thud.
Just this past
week, on August 23, half-a-world away in Asia, a mere boy engaging in “the manly
art” stumbled against the ropes and seemingly was about to go down for the count, yet somehow managed to deliver a knockout punch so potent (or shall we say “puissant”?)
and thud-provoking to yet another Flowers that the canvas was torn and had to
be restored.
In what Asian city
did this occur? Explain your answer.
Hint: The city
sounds like a kind of personality or blood.
The sub-rosa way
The following
statement may have appeared as a part of an editorial in the wake of a scandal
in the recent news:
“People were
led to believe these men were out to benefit (5-letter adjective) (8-letter
noun), but sadly they were apparently in it chiefly to (5-letter verb)
(8-letter noun).”
The 8-letter
nouns are identical. The 5-letter adjective and verb are identical except for their
first and third letters. What are these words?
Financial
Interest Comedy-pounded Appetizer:
Sitcommerce
Imagine you are
reading the Wall Street Journal to glean financial news of the day. Four words
you might expect to see there are associated with a popular TV sitcom from the
distant past.
Two of the
words are surnames of two of the cast members, while a third word comprises the first
seven letters, in order, of the surname of another cast member. The fourth word is the
name of the title character after you remove from it what some people
mistakenly believe is the postal abbreviation of a New England State.
Two of these
four words were especially pertinent to recent reporting in the WSJ’s Markets
Section.
What is the
sitcom and what are the four words?
MENU
Sounds Of
Science Slice:
Rock ’n’
rotate-about-a-fixed-axis
Place the
surname of a well-known scientist to the left of the surname of an
engineer/inventor who ought to be more well-known. The result is a song title
appearing on an early album by a popular rock musician.
The
engineer/inventor founded and developed two upscale product brands. One brand
appears in the lyrics of a title song track by the musician. The other brand
appears in the titles of two songs by the musician.
Who are the
scientist, inventor/engineer and musician? What are the early-album song title
and the two brands founded by the inventor/engineer?
Dessert Menu
Picking the
Miranda right fruit
People and
products from France are French. If from Italy they are Italian.
Think of
another country and replace the last letter with a different letter to get the
word commonly used to refer to their people or products. Now, rearrange those
letters and you will name a fruit this country produces and exports.
What is this
country and what is the fruit?
Every Friday 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!
Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)
Please post
your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not
give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on
Tuesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We
serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.