Friday, June 10, 2016

“Just when it was getting interes…” “Should wrath be mute, and death dumb?” Every other mother’s son; Grass-clipping assassins; Treading the borders; The plot thinkens; Hookah-ed on the hooch; “The Vest, Shug, Cholly Mac, and Big Game Bob”

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Welcome to our June 10th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! 
We feature this week two “sophomore” puzzle contributors who are anything but “sophomoric.” Both are publishing their second puzzles this week.

About a month ago , in the May 13th Puzzleria!, Chuck from St. Louis introduced many of us to the “theremin” with his “Handel Bars Slice.”
In the 2014 Thanksgiving edition of Puzzleria!, we featured a puzzle titled “Kleinucopia” from David, a “math maven” and distance runner from Seattle.

Chuck’s newest offering is titled “Pardon The Interruption Slice: “Just when it was getting interes…” 
David mixes together “geographical states” with “all the world’s a stage,” to create a “Ripping-Off-Shortz Slice” titled “Treading the borders.”
 
Thank you, Chuck, and thank you, David. Both puzzles appear beneath this week’s main MENU.

Our menus also offer a half-dozen additional hors d’oeuvres, morsels, appetizers and desserts. As were last week’s offerings, all eight puzzles are guaranteed to be 100% anagram-free! 
And, 100% orangutan-free!

Enjoy eating all eight!:

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Double-Worded Hors d’Oeuvre:
The plot thinkens

Name a global campaign, begun in the mid-1980’s, dedicated to dissemination of creative thinking and ideas, in two words.

A movie released after 2010, but which begins with a scene that is set in the mid-1980’s, has a plot device that can be expressed with the same two words.

What are these two words?

Ripping Off Shortz Hors d’Oeuvre
Grass-clipping assassins

Name a famous actor – five-letter first name, six-letter last name. Take five consecutive letters from the last name to name something that might be packed by a man taking a trip to Chicago’s Lincoln Park who has a contract to do some mowing.
Now take four consecutive letters from the first name to name something that was once packed by four men who took a trip to Chicago’s Lincoln Park who had a contract to do some mowing down.  
 
What did these four men who were under contract pack? What might the other man who was under contract pack? What is the name of the actor?

Morsel Menu

Friday The Tenth-plus-third Morsel:
Every other mother’s son

Jason Voorhees, the violently murderous character in the “Friday the 13th” movie series, doesn’t talk much. Actually he doesn’t talk at all, at least not on screen. But Puzzleria! has unearthed a rare audio tape of Jason speaking briefly to his just-about-as-murderous mother, Pamela (or, rather perhaps her ghost), whose death Jason has been avenging since “Friday the 13th” first flickered onto the silver screen.
 
A transcription of our unearthed tape reads:

“I am your son, your Jason, one son of a butcher, so vengeful, as strong as Sampson on steroids, Ma.”

A total of exactly ten words – every other word in the sentence – all share a very unusual property. What is it?

Appetizer Menu

Riffing Off Shortz Appetizer:
“Should wrath be mute, and death dumb?”
Name a famous actor – seven-letter first name, four-letter last name. Insert two consecutive letters from the first name between the third and fourth letters of the last name to form the name of a character from a well-known Shakespearean play who has no lines to speak.

The actor wrote a handbook on Shakespearean acting, and has acted in at least two productions of the play in which the character with no lines appears.

Who is the actor? What is the name of the character?

Hint: The “line-less” Shakespearean character and a character in Shakespeare’s “Henry V” share four letters in common, in the same order. The Henry V character gets to speak two more lines than the line-less character, but the line-less character has two more letters than the Henry V character.

O’s And X’s Appetizer
The Vest, Shug, Cholly Mac, and Big Game Bob

Name a television show that debuted in the 1960’s. Its final three letters can be rearranged to form a synonym for “wearisome” or “uninteresting”... so let’s remove those three letters.

Interchange the second and third letters of what remains to name the nickname by which a legendary football coach was affectionately known.
(Note: After you interchange the second and third letters you may have to remove some spaces and/or perform some capitalization.)
 
What is the television show? Who is the football coach?

Hint: Actually, you will not just “name the nickname by which a legendary football coach was affectionately known,” but will “exclaim” it.

MENU

Pardon The Interruption Slice:
“Just when it was getting interes…”

“When their reading is interrupted, people _____ while ________ the _____.”

Take the first two letters of the first missing word and add the first three letters of the second missing word – in order, no rearranging necessary – to find the third missing word and create a natural-sounding sentence.

David’s Ripping Off Shortz Slice:
Treading the borders

Will Shortz’s June 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Name a famous actor – seven-letter first name, four-letter last name. Take four consecutive letters from the first name and three consecutive letters from the last name. These seven letters, in order from left to right, will name something that’s often packed nowadays when taking a trip. What is it?

David’s “Ripping Off Shortz Slice reads:
Name a famous (?) actor – four-letter first name, seven-letter last name. Take three consecutive letters from the first name and four consecutive letters from the last name. Change one of those seven letters to the prior letter in the alphabet. These seven letters, in order from left to right, will name a United States state. What is it?

Hint: In order, the three unused letters from the last name, then the unused letter from the first name, will form a first name.

Dessert Menu

Easy As Pie-ce Of Cake Dessert
Hookah-ed on the hooch

If you’ve been paying attention to Puzzleria! during the past fortnight or so, this puzzle ought to be as easy as pie-ce of cake.

A recording artist who was known to have been once hooked on the “hookah” confessed recently that he had also been briefly hooked on the “hooch,” but he used a two-word term as a synonym for “hooch.”

Shift the space in the two-word synonym one space to the right. The result is a slang term for a substance used in the hookah, followed by the title of an album the artist recorded when he was hooked simultaneously on both the hookah and hooch.
 
Who is the artist? What are the two-word synonym for hooch, the substance used in a hookah, and the album title? 

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.)


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62 comments:

  1. Happy Friday!

    Thanks to there being only 9 states with 7 letters I was able to figure out David's puzzle.

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    1. Interesting that 2/3 of these 9 states end with the letter 'A.'

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    1. little brother on big brother. very touching.

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    2. Lego,
      Sorry to inform you, but Billy Crystal is scheduled to be out of the country on vacation next month.

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    3. Damn! I gotta delay my demise.

      LegoAsksJustWhenWillMr.CrystalBeAvailable?

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    4. Please DO (delay your demise)!!

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  3. Got all the actor puzzles and the football coach puzzle. Unsure about the Jason puzzle, will need hints for all others.

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  4. For me, only success so far is the two Appetizers and the Dessert (although I'm not absolutely sure about the album title itself.) Am thus stuck on both Hors D'ouevres, the Morsel, and both Menu Slices (have worked long and hard on David's states puzzle and feel I SHOULD have hit upon it by now, but not...boo hoo.....

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  5. Got the mower puzzle and the football coach, and just now the dessert. No proper hints for any of them yet. Kinda sad.

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  6. There are at least a few names that can provide the requisite letters to transform a Henry V character into another Shakespearean character. Not all of them satisfy the other requirements, however. For a while, I thought subterfuge might be involved. Which reminds me, I need a haircut.

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    1. Paul, are you referencing the MOWER puzzle, when you mention needing a haircut? Hee hee ha ha

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    2. Lotsa characters with this moniker: Archbishops of, Duchesses of, and John Waynes of…

      LegAumerle(AndNotJohnWaynesOfHazzard)

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    3. One of these days, lego, instant karma gonna getcha.

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  7. Oh joy, having actually written down the correct Appetizer #2 lawn mowing item tentatively, the proper actor name suddenly came to me in a fit of whatever, and his first name worked out, too. : o )

    AND I came up with a guess for the FIRST appetizer answer, though still can NOT pin down the movie referred to.

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  8. Ive got the ROSHd'O (mowing), ROSA (Shakespeare), and O'sAX'sA (football coach). I really think I should get the PTIS (interruption).

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  9. Any new hints, guys? There haven't been any new posts for a day now. Whatcha up to, Lego?

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    1. For the DROSS (love the acronym), both the changed from and changes to letters can be put in front of the "leftover letters" first name, to form a different first name.

      I have a couple more more revealing hints, let me know if you need them.

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    2. I haven't been able to solve your puzzle, either, David. And I've gone through each of the 9 states laboriously, dissecting what first names of actors could be, unable to make anything work out (paying attention to the pushing back one letter of the alphabet for one letter of the state when going to the potential actor's name. NO luck.

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    3. I know the answer to that one. The best hint I can give you is think of an unusual-sounding foreign first name.(That, and this name begins with a "sometimes" vowel.)

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    4. Thanks pjb, that's MTEI.

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    5. OOh, thank you pjb, I just got home and will thus take another stab at it...hoping that indeed, it's MTEI!!!

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    6. Indeed, that first name became clear as I was warming up some dinner....and I must say, this is a fellow I never would have come up with, having never even heard of him (to sing the old song yet again.)

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    7. The name popped in my head just after looking through a list that did NOT contain it. Go figure.

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  10. Feqhj Cxavo Prxiapp
    Rssqnzig khq sec wye epegnj fqhp.
    Xkv fxwtndtke di tuvpmnih wf mmjkmd
    Neda svgvrqz fc 'gvmaj keqaa'.

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  11. I HAVE, however, come up with an answer at long last for the Interruption slice (I simply can NOT deal with those acronyms, as I've said before)....which at first I thought would probably constitute an 'alternate answer', but the more I look at it, the better I like it, and figure it may well be THE answer.

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  12. Lego, I still need a few more hints for all the puzzles besides the actor ones and the one with the football coach. Seems like you've had bigger fish to fry than this week's blog.

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    1. Hints:

      DWHO:
      A priest, a rabbi and a bear walk into a bar. The priest orders wine, the rabbi orders tea and the bear orders a big beer. After drinking her tea the rabbit turns into a rabbit and the bear starts hitting on her, asking her, “What’s ursine.”
      ViolinTeddy has an unfair advantage with this puzzle, kind of like Blainesvillian 68 Charger had with Will’s Richard Gere puzzle.

      ROSHO:
      The actor was awarded an Oscar but did not attend the ceremony.

      FTTM:
      Some mothers team with their felonious sons.

      The “very unusual quality” would be shared by the first four of the five letters of the first name of a former spouse of a person much in the recent news

      The ten “every-other words” are:
      Am, son, Jason, son, a, so, as, as, on, Ma.

      ROSA:
      Santa Claus jelly-belly-laughs, “Ha ha ho ho ho hee hee har har,” a quotient of exactly 3/9.

      OAXA:
      The football coach’s surname is befitting of a father figure.

      PTIS:
      Lotsa legumes in the solution to Chuck’s excellent puzzle.

      DROSS:
      You actually kinda “get two seven-letter states for the price of one” in David’s excellent puzzle.

      EAPOC:
      A pseudo-cryptic-crossword clue:
      Let’s travel back in time and celebrate a Quick Draw Mardee-McGraW!

      LegoWhoInHisFTTMHintBrokeSomeKindOfLexicalRecordByStringingTogetherFourConsecutivePrepositionalPhrasesBeginningWithTheWord”Of”

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    2. Well, LegoOfTheOFs, if I DO have an advantage re the first Hors D'O, it must be the movie title (I thus finally found one), but definitely NOT the 'global campaign" because I still can't find that (and clearly, the one I had chosen would NOT go with that movie.)

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  13. Got the last one! Easiest one of the bunch, if you ask me!

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  14. Another FTTM hint:

    JASON = 7,8,9,10,11, or, in a way, and in another day, 5,6,7,8,9.

    LegoWhoNotesThat"AnotherDay"WasManyMoonsAgo

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    1. Thanks, Paul. Smoothly beautiful solo. Timely clip.

      LegoWhoJustLinkedToAPaul&LindaClipOnOneOfWednesday'sAnswers

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    2. Your hint above finally pinned down that puzzle (I had a wrong answer earlier on it.)

      I'm afraid I didn't know who Henry McC was, till I Googled him.

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    3. Alas, poor Henry, we all knew him, even if we didn't.

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    4. Speaking of clever hints, Paul, regarding your post from June 13, 2016 at 10:38 AM
      Feqhj Cxavo Prxiapp
      Rssqnzig khq sec wye epegnj fqhp.
      Xkv fxwtndtke di tuvpmnih wf mmjkmd
      Neda svgvrqz fc 'gvmaj keqaa'...

      As usual, I'm groping for the key. I've "turned" a few, with no success. And, is it Sharkey's Vigenere Cipher 2.1.0 or Sharky's Vigenere Cipher 1.0?

      LegoWhoIsOneSadCipherWhenItComesToCiphersOrEvenJustSharky'sMachines!

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    5. I hope my comment just above wasn't 'merely clever'.

      The 'key' is below.

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    6. I hope my comment just above wasn't 'merely clever'.

      The 'key' is below.

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  15. No luck with the global campaign / plot device.

    Heat+h L+edger (kinda sad)

    Jeopardy -> JoePa! (again, kinda sad)

    The key to my encrypted clerihew is the answer to the dessert puzzle.

    Yves Montand -> Vermont, thanks to pjb

    Didn't get the 'interruption'.

    I guess since 'of' does not have 'the property', then 'damn' doesn't either ... so 'sands' and 'anon' don't either (but 'and' does (I think)). Mass confusion, here!

    There's no trickery, duplicity, or chicanery involved in the Shakespearean puzzle, such as might have been employed by Richard Allen "Dick" York's TV wife, or Theodoric, the barber. Which is for the best, I think:
    Don't want to go by the devil, don't want to go by the demon ...

    Before I forget, thanks to ron for the Victor Hugo quote last week; it's a keeper. Hugo "shares a crypt within the Panthéon with Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola." (per Wikipedia) 'Alexandre Dumas', I've heard of him ...

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    1. Paul,
      First, nothing you do is "merely anything."

      I have taken the liberty, given the "ganja/DodgeTruck" key, of reprinting your newly decryped clerihewical matherpiece:
      James Clerk Maxwell
      Observed the way the stacks fell.
      The flapjacks he prepared to mangia
      Were ordered by 'demon ganja'


      If you are the victim of a Jason who axes well, you will need a medicine that acts well.

      LegoTheSilverHammerSlowlyPoundingTheGoldenSpike

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  16. David's state puzzle >>> YVES MONTAND >>> VERMONT

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    1. I got this one mainly because I went to school with a French boy, YVES. Other kids called him EVES, though he was quite good-natured about it.

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    2. With the leftover letters forming ANDY.

      Lego's clue about a 2nd state is the MONTAND is one letter different from MONTANA.

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  17. The Ripping Off Shortz / Shakespeare is Michael York / Yorick. Richard (known as Dick) York, sort of also works.

    For the Jason puzzle, all the words are made of the initial letters of months, in order. For example, JASON = July + August + September + October + November.

    For the Interruption, I think it is PAuse / PERusing / PAPER.

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  18. I also got the others, as above, except for the Global Campaign / Movie and the recording Artist / Hooch / Hookah / Album.

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  19. DOUBLE-WORDED HORS D'OEUVRE: I THOUGHT the answer was going to be THE INTERNET.....but I guess not. Is the movie THE DEVIL'S VIOLINIST?

    RIPPING OFF SHORTZ HORS D'OEUVRE: HEATH LEDGER; EDGER; HEAT


    FRIDAY THE TENTH MORSEL: "AM SON JASON SON A SO AS AS ON MA" [SONJ Ali] ALL WORDS' FIRST LETTERS ARE THE FIRST LETTERS OF MONTHS, in order: APRIL/MAY; SEPT/OCT/NOV; JULY/AUG/SEPT/OCT/NOV; SEPT/OCT/NOV; APRIL (or AUGUST); SEPT/OCT; AUG/SEPT; Ditto; OCT/NOV; MARCH/APRIL.


    RIPPING OFF SHORTZ APPETIZER: MICHAEL YORK & YORICK

    O's AND X's APPETIZER: JEOPARDY! JOEPA! JOE PATERNO


    CHUCK's PARDON THE INTERRUPTION SLICE: PAUSE PERUSING PAPER

    DAVID's RIPPING OFF SHORTZ SLICE: YVES MONTAND -> VERMONT; Leftover letters: ANDY [one of my very favorite names!]

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  20. Finally got the global campaign. I guess it took looking up "The Devil's Violinist" and shaking my head to open up the right door. Here is a more pertinent musical hint.

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    1. An even more pertinent musical clue.
      And I could give you a plethora of very pertinent non-musical YouTube links.
      I actually saw Anne Murray in concert once. Great!

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  21. First of all, let me preface this by saying I've been a little preoccupied, so I almost forgot we reveal answers today. I have a big week coming up. Friday, my oldest niece Morgan wants to eat out for lunch for her birthday. Then Saturday, we keep my younger two nieces for the whole weekend. Then Monday, we take them with us to Ft. Walton Beach for the whole week. We come back Saturday, then they go home, and on the following Monday I go back to the dentist(nothing serious).
    That being said, here's what I got so far:
    HEATH LEDGER, EDGER, HEAT
    MICHAEL YORK, YORICK
    JEOPARDY, DRY, JOE PA!(Joe Paterno)
    YVES MONTAND(VERMONT and MONTANA)
    WEE DRAM, WEED, RAM
    See y'all in Florida!

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  22. This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 1:

    (For the record: I was stumped on both Chuck’s and David’s puzzles thus week… until I got hints.)

    Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

    Double-Worded Hors d’Oeuvre:
    The plot thinkens
    Name a global campaign, begun in the mid-1980’s, dedicated to dissemination of creative thinking and ideas, in two words.
    A movie released after 2010, but which begins with a scene that is set in the mid-1980’s, has a plot device that can be expressed with the same two words.
    What are these two words?

    Answer: Ted Talks


    Ripping Off Shortz Hors d’Oeuvre
    Grass-clipping assassins
    Name a famous actor – five-letter first name, six-letter last name. Take five consecutive letters from the last name to name something that might be packed by a man taking a trip to Chicago’s Lincoln Park who has a contract to do some mowing.
    Now take four consecutive letters from the first name to name something that was once packed by four men who took a trip to Chicago’s Lincoln Park who had a contract to do some mowing down.
    What did these four men who were under contract pack? What might the other man who was under contract pack? What is the name of the actor?

    Answer: Heat; (The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.)
    Edger;
    Heath Ledger

    Morsel Menu

    Friday The Tenth-plus-third Morsel:
    Every other mother’s son
    Jason Voorhees, the violently murderous character in the “Friday the 13th” movie series, doesn’t talk much. Actually he doesn’t talk at all, at least not on screen. But Puzzleria! has unearthed a rare audio tape of Jason speaking briefly to his just-about-as-murderous mother, Pamela (or, rather perhaps her ghost), whose death Jason has been avenging since “Friday the 13th” first flickered onto the silver screen.
    A transcription of our unearthed tape reads:
    “I am your son, your Jason, one son of a butcher, so vengeful, as strong as Sampson on steroids, Ma.”
    A total of exactly ten words – every other word in the sentence – all share a very unusual property. What is it?

    Answer: The words “am, son, Jason, son, a, so, as, as, on, Ma” can be formed from first letters of the twelve months, taken in order. For example, JASON, is formed from July, August, September, October, November.

    Lego…

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  23. This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 2:

    Appetizer Menu

    Riffing Off Shortz Appetizer:
    “Should wrath be mute, and death dumb?”
    Name a famous actor – seven-letter first name, four-letter last name. Insert two consecutive letters from the first name between the third and fourth letters of the last name to form the name of a character from a well-known Shakespearean play who has no lines to speak.
    The actor wrote a handbook on Shakespearean acting, and has acted in at least two productions of the play in which the character with no lines appears.
    Who is the actor? What is the name of the character?
    Hint: The “line-less” Shakespearean character and a character in Shakespeare’s “Henry V” share four letters in common, in the same order. The Henry V character gets to speak two more lines than the line-less character, but the line-less character has two more letters than the Henry V character.

    Answer:
    Michael York; Yorick
    Hint: York (the Duke of) in Shakespeare’s “Henry V” shares four letters in common, and in the same order, with Yorick from “Hamlet.” York has two fewer letters, but two more lines than Yorick, who has no lines to speak.

    O’s And X’s Appetizer
    The Vest, Shug, Cholly Mac, and Big Game Bob
    Name a television show that debuted in the 1960’s. Its final three letters can be rearranged to form a synonym for “wearisome” or “uninteresting”... so let’s remove those three letters.
    Interchange the second and third letters of what remains to name the nickname by which a legendary football coach was affectionately known.
    (Note: After you interchange the second and third letters you may have to remove some spaces and/or perform some capitalization.)
    What is the television show? Who is the football coach?
    Hint: Actually, you will not just “name the nickname by which a legendary football coach was affectionately known,” but will“exclaim” it.

    Answer: Jeopardy!
    JoePa! (Joe Paterno)
    Jeopardy! – rdy (which anagrams to “dry”) = Jeopa! >> JoePa!

    Lego:

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  24. This week’s official answers, for the record, Part 3:

    MENU

    Pardon The Interruption Slice:
    “Just when it was getting interes…”
    “When their reading is interrupted, people _____ while ________ the _____.”
    Take the first two letters of the first missing word and add the first three letters of the second missing word – in order, no rearranging necessary – to find the third missing word and create a natural-sounding sentence.

    Answer:
    “When their reading is interrupted, people PAUSE while PERUSING the PAPER.”

    David’s Ripping Off Shortz Slice:
    Treading the borders
    Name a famous (?) actor – four-letter first name, seven-letter last name. Take three consecutive letters from the first name and four consecutive letters from the last name. Change one of those seven letters to the prior letter in the alphabet. These seven letters, in order from left to right, will name a United States state. What is it?
    Hint: In order, the three unused letters from the last name, then the unused letter from the first name, will form a first name.

    Answer: Yves Montand; Vermont
    Yves >> Yver; Montand >> Mont;
    Ver + mont = Vermont
    Hint: and + y = Andy

    Dessert Menu

    Easy As Pie-ce Of Cake Dessert
    Hookah-ed on the hooch
    If you’ve been paying attention to Puzzleria! during the past fortnight or so, this puzzle ought to be as easy as pie-ce of cake.
    A recording artist who was known to have been once hooked on the “hookah” confessed recently that he had also been briefly hooked on the “hooch,” but he used a two-word term as a synonym for “hooch.”
    Shift the space in the two-word synonym one space to the right. The result is a slang term for a substance used in the hookah, followed by the title of an album the artist recorded when he was hooked simultaneously on both the hookah and hooch.
    Who is the artist? What are the two-word synonym for hooch, the substance used in a hookah, and the album title?

    Answer: Paul McCartney;
    wee dram”;
    weed
    Ram

    Lego…

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    1. BUT, Lego, what was the title of the movie in the first Hors D'O???? (TED TALK never occurred to me, darn it.) Also, what was the name of McCartney's ALBUM?

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    2. Oh wait, the MOVIE itself was "TED", right? And the fact that he talks IS the plot device. I'm a little slow on the uptake here, geeeeeez....

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    3. I just realized that somehow when I copied all my answers from my email drafts (where I keep them), I totally MISSED the Dessert, for which I had the 'wee dram/weed & ram" answers. But I thought the album was "McCartney II."

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  25. I can't believe TED TALKS never occurred to me. Or PAUSE, PERUSING, PAPER for that matter. The RAM album I knew about. I just needed a good enough hint for the rest of it.

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    1. I believe that all you posting Puzzlerians! did darn well on some disturbingly devious conundrums this week. Brava and Bravo!

      LegoWhoAlsoBelievesSirPaulOughtToStartSendingUsRoyaltyChecks...HeIsBritish"Royalty"AfterAll

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  26. One more challenge: I defy you not to Laugh Out Loud.

    LegoLOL

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    1. His Bernie was the MOST hilarious impression. Loved the 'free donuts."

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