Friday, September 9, 2016

Track and field of dreams; Scrunched Kernosabes of corn; Put some stone on those bones! Scherzo modulation; “Things you rob? Poach? Eat? Open? Read?” Cereal assessin’ 'n' censorin’; Sitcom heart replacement


 Welcome to the “Life of P!” (Thanks, ViolinTeddy, for conjuring that nifty slogan.) 

And welcome also to our September 9th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! (known also as P!, for short)

This week we feature another fine puzzle from the high-flying and mystifying mind of PlannedChaos. 
It appears under our main MENU and is titled Radio Freequency Europe Slice: Scherzo modulation. 
Thank you, PC.


A smorgasbord of eight additional mini-puzzles Ripping Off Shortz are served up on a slice titled “Scrunched Kernosabes of corn” and on a bonus slice titled “Put some stone on those bones!” 
That’s nine servings for the price of two!

Choose also from our menus’ synapse-smacking Hors d’oeuvres, Morsels, Appetizers and Desserts.

So, come explore the Life of P!, where our goal is never to repeat any digits… or puzzles!

Please enjoy.

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Enigmatic Cinematic Hors d’Oeuvre:
Track and field of dreams

Dreams are often compared with cinema. Some people experience their “dreamy nocturnal movies” as slow-motion or even 3-D sequences, for instance. Others may dream in blah black-and-white or in living Technicolor.”

Name a technique sometimes employed by cinematographers, in nine letters. In their wildest dreams, track and field coaches might experience “nocturnal movies” that would seem to employ this technique.  

A homophone of that technique – a two-word phrase containing eight letters – names what track and field coaches sometimes do during practices.

What is the cinematic technique? What do coaches do during practices?

Morsel Menu

Fall Season Roundup (Or Rounddown) Morsel:
Sitcom heart replacement

Note: In the following “alphanumeric puzzle,” each letter of the alphabet is assigned a number from 1 to 26 thusly:
A=1, B=2, C=3,... Z=26 (see chart below).

Take the last name of a female character on a popular television situation comedy. Take the alphanumeric sum of three consecutive letters at the heart of her surname, divide by 3, and round up or down to the nearer whole number. In other words, find the rounded-off average of the three numbers.

Replace the three letters with the letter that has the alphanumeric value of that average.

The result is the name of the sitcom.

Who is this female character? What is the sitcom?

(Just an observation: I was taught to “round up” (or “round down” or “round off”) to the nearest whole number. I never questioned it, but now I realize that we round not to the nearest but to the nearer whole number…
Rounding to the nearest whole number, of course, might apply were we to adopt some type of multi-dimensional number system in which the counting of numbers is not linear but hyper-spatial within a context of higher orders of infinity.)

Appetizer Menu

Easy As Pecan Pie Appetizer:
“Things you rob? Poach? Eat? Open? Read?”

Safes. Ribs. Windows. Knuckles. Whips. Mysteries. Smiles. Books. Eggs. Codes. …

These ten nouns are all “Things you _____.” To complete this puzzle you must first find the verb that belongs in the blank.

Name an eleventh possible “thing you_____,” according to a common idiom. In this idiom the “thing,” also a noun, is preceded by and modified by an adjective.

Remove the first letter from the adjective along with the space between the two words. Spell this series of letters backward. The result, after capitalizing the initial letter, is the model of a popular vehicle.

What verb belongs in the blank? What is the model name?
Hint: They likely sell scores of these vehicles in the host city of a particular NFL team.


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Radio Freequency Europe Slice:
Scherzo modulation

Think of the last name of a European composer. Shift the first letter one place forward in the alphabet and read the result aloud to name a popular radio program.

Who is the composer and what is the program?

Squishin’ And Rippin’ Off Shortz, Thereby Undraping Statues Slice:
Put some stone on those bones!

Name a bone of the human skeleton in eight letters. Drop the last letter, and squish together two pairs of adjacent letters, to name a well-known European sculpture in five letters.

What is the bone? What is the name of the sculpture?


Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slices:
Scrunched Kernosabes of corn

Will’s Shortz’s National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle broadcast September 4th was created by Norm Baird. It reads:
If you squish the small letters “r” and “n” too closely together, they look like an “m.” Think of a common five-letter word with the consecutive letters “r” and “n” that becomes its own opposite if you change them to an “m.”

Puzzleria!’s first Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slice reads:
If you scrunch (not squish!) the small letters “v” and “v” too closely together, they look like a “w.” Think of an often misspelled seven-letter word that means “shrewder” or “more canny.” If you change this misspelling’s two consecutive “v’s” to one “w” it becomes a word in the title of a 19th century classic American novel.
What are the misspelled word and the novel word?

Puzzleria!’s second (two-part) Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slice reads:
If you scrunch the small letters “l” and “n” too closely together, they look like an “h”…

A: Think of a four-letter Maine town with the consecutive letters “l” and “n” that becomes an interjection of triumph or derision if you change them to an “h.”
What are this town and interjection?
Hint: The town was once named New Milford.

B: Think of a six-letter surname of a man of Hungarian letters (literary, not alphabetical) with the consecutive letters “l” and “n” (alphabetical, not literary) that becomes a biblical word meaning dowry if you change them to an “h.

What is this surname?
What is this word?

Hint: The biblical word, according to Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon (KJV) means “a price paid for a wife to her parents.”

Puzzleria!’s third (five-part) Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slice reads:
If you scrunch the small letters “c” and “l” too closely together, they look like a “d”…
A: Think of a common five-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for the sound a certain critter makes. If you change them to a “d” the result is a different critter from the same taxonomic class.
B: Think of a common six-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a woman’s strapless handbag. Change them to a “d” to form a word describing a woman’s night out on the town with a friend during which she will occasionally need to open her six-letter word.
C: Think of a common eight-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a gigantic grooming device God apparently uses, judging from periodic appearances of a night-sky satellite in its old and new phases. Change the “c” and “l” to a “d” to name two other sights seen in the night sky.
D: Think of a common nine-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a word associated with a certain fruit. Change the “c” and “l” to a “d” to name the job of a longshoreman.
E: Think of a not-so-common seven-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a dubious digit possessed by certain hoofed animals. Change the “c” and “l” to a “d” to spell out a two-syllable homophone for what the ladies sing – to the accompaniment of hoof beats – at the Camptown Racetrack.

What are these five pairs of words?
    
Dessert Menu:

Hit The Road Dessert:
Cereal assessin’ ‘n’ censorin’

The image shown here suggests a quite recent news story.

What is the story, and what is the brand name of the cereal shown in the image?

Hint: Wood I hear a “gadgetree” if one fell in the orchard?






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!


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135 comments:

  1. Maine main town? Main Maine town? Ha! TGIM. . .

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    1. Speaking of eminems, we have a town here in CO that differs by only the m/n. And it has some mighty fine (g)emstones!

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    2. Maine minor town! Minor Maine town! Ha! T-GEM... (Tyrannosaurus-Rocks!)
      Colorado miner town. Miner Colorado town.
      The color (ado-rable) of the mined rocks appears to be salmon. So, let's go panning for salmon.

      Congrats on the solve, BTW, Word Woman.

      Legochrodorhosite

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  2. How much did Kellogg's pay you for that plug, lego?

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    1. I would love to divulge that information to you, Paul, and I will do so immediately after the IRS has completed their witch-huntingesque audit of my tax returns... I believe that should happen sometime around the morning of November 9th.

      LegoK-E-Double-L-O-DoubleSpeak...

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  3. Think back to a month ago, thinking Jewish. Think of two letters. Determine the mode length of the words in my previous comment, pick one of the words exemplifying same, insert your two letters somewhere, and tell me the puzzle I just spelled out the answer to.

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    1. For those of you who have a hankerin' (as I do) for solvin' Paul's challenge, I offer this refresher (which I needed!).

      LegoWhoNowSuddenlyAlsoHasAHankerin'ForABigHelpingOfPieAlaMedian

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  4. I hear that's Dan Rather's favorite cereal.

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  5. It's a somewhat known fact that the European composer has the same name as a Disney character.

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  6. The letters in the name of the popular radio program can be rearranged into a two word description for the puzzle's accompanying picture. This description requires knowledge of a sitcom that shares a heart with the one from the "fall season roundup" morsel.

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  7. I got the cinematographer / track coach, composer / radio program (I thought for sure there was a composer named Veekendeditionsunday, but I guess I was wrong), some of the rip-offs and the cereal.

    I don't yet have the sitcom answer, but due have a couple ripoffs:

    1. Take a sitcom title and change the first letter two different letters to get the surname of the actress who played a lead female.

    2. Take the surname of the lead character of a sitcom, remove the last 3 letters, take the middle letter of the 3 removed letters, move it to the exact middle of the remaining initial letters and you will get the name of the sitcom.

    The first sitcom above lasted over 100 episodes, the second sitcom I had not heard of before today (and lasted only 1 season).

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  8. HOWDY Lego, WW, Paul, David and PC...I DO have the Morsel (female character and TV show), and the Dessert; haven't read the rest yet, other than the Hors D'Oeuvre, which I can't solve (yet anyway.)

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  9. Solved (happily) the Appetizer, too.

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  10. Name a well-known fictional location in eight letters. Reverse and read aloud to caption this picture in two words.

    Name another well-known fictional location in six letters. Squish together a pair of letters and rearrange to name a condition the artist of that picture was known to have. If instead of rearranging you reverse the result and read aloud, you will bring an apt conclusion to this bountiful harvest of puzzles.

    Write down the correct spelling of this most recent word. Think of the name of a statistical analysis method in one and four letters. Write the one-letter word at the end and the four-letter word at the beginning to form a nine letter word that lets you know I swear these puzzles are true and not works of fiction.

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    1. Never, er, I mean always, gets old, PC. {STAT}

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    2. Pumbaa is sixpence none the richer for discovering an alternate reality. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da.

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  11. Pleased to say PC's puzzle's answer finally hit me. [I was sending the first letter the wrong way!]

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    1. The answer hit you? You might want to have your brakes inspected. Please send me your answer written on the back of a $20 bill.

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    2. Very funny. I wish I were as clever at the wordplay comebacks as so many others of you are, because it would have been fun to do with this one.

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    3. It's never too late to be unencumbered by the thought process.

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  12. I knew what the statue was (Squishin and Ripping) and found the bone to fit it!

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  13. I am but a vessel that speaks through the puzzle-making spirit that has seized me. Since it would be sacrilege to break this holy streak…

    Name a term from scripture for a particular kind of religious song, in eight letters. Squish together a consecutive "cl" to form "d". Reverse the order of the last four letters. The result can be split into two words (three and four letters) that fill in the blanks of the following common phrase used in the film industry: "The ____ is in the ___." (4,3)

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    1. Or, Ripping/Riffing Off PlannedChaos:
      Name a term from scripture for a particular kind of religious song, in eight letters. Squish together a consecutive "cl" to form "d". Replace a consonant in the result with another "d" to form a Voltaire title (character).

      LegoBelievesAPiggybackSuchAsThisCanTickleOne'sFancy

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    3. I just went through all PC's "holy streak" puzzles plus Lego's rip-off thereof -- I have all the answers EXCEPT #2 (the six-letter fictional place and disease, although I have the 'final word', having worked backwards from the statistical method. Am amused because in my high school Concert Choir, we sang one piece that had the eight-letter 'religious song' word in its title. My brother got to play a very fancy accompaniment for it on the organ.

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    4. For #2, an anagram clue is: When you get it, you're sure to emit a nasal laugh.

      I can tell you the answer is not the Caspian Sea. But hopefully my intended answer will fill you with Turkish Delight once it dawns on you.

      You might say the hardcore fans have an incurable case of [fictional location] [condition].

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    5. Your hints in the second paragraph above match the location I already thought of {although the first paragraph's anagram clue doesn't seem to work...trouble is, I don't know how to 'squish' two of its letters to get the disease that seems to be required. Perhaps I have the wrong five-letter disease?

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    6. In case I wasn't clear, the clues in my prior comment (including the anagram) are all to the fictional location, not the condition. And I did say condition, not disease—not sure if the artist's affliction is considered a disease. But if my hints match your location, then you probably have it. The anagram is of a single word in that sentence, and clues to a character name from the series.

      Oh, and related to this week's NPR Sunday Puzzle, both of the fictional locations are part of a series of seven publications. I swear I had no foreknowledge as to what this week's puzzle was going to be.

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    7. Yes, that is rather amazing, PC....you must have "ESP(c)!"

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    8. Ah, I get the anagram clue.....And your very last sentence of clues appears to me to include the 'condition' as well, correct? In which case, I have the correct, but STILL can't understand how to squish two of the location letters properly...You can explain on Wednesday, if you would.

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  14. Old New Milford is within a 20 mi. radius of the capital city.

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    1. Radius, Paul?! Are you sure you don't mean ulna?

      😂

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    2. Congrats, Word Woman. You are on the cutting edge, as usual. I believe this is the first known use of an emoticon on Puzzleria!... unless PC used emoticons in his rebus puzzles on last week's Comments section.

      BTW, your "comment image" looks like "Roy G. Biv and Ivy Roy."

      LegoThinksHeCouldPlayCoolJazzOnThatKeyboard!

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    3. As per usual, I can not SEE the emoticon...it appears only as that annoying SQUARE. I guess it must be because I'm on a mac?

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    4. And isn't it weird that an emoticon or emoji or pictograph is the "word" of the year? And that it's laughing so hard its crying. . .We such are on fleek here, far more than Andy Rooney ever was.

      😀😁😂😎😏 (5,000 words right there!)

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    5. "We such are:" the next "word" of the year. I believe I meant "We are so. . ." but you never know.

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    6. And to answer Lego's query as to if or how emojis are related to Unicode/HTML character entities: they are indeed. If a computer can represent it as text, it has an encoding in the Unicode standard. The Unicode block for emoticons begins at code point 1F600 (that's in hexadecimal).

      By now the Unicode standard contains something like 128,000 characters, and increases with every revision. Much of that is extended language support, but emojis are in there too. It didn't always used to be this way, though. It's only in the last 10-15 years that the Unicode Consortium has been working to standardize emojis as part of its specification so that they can enjoy global support. And then there's always a few years' lag once the spec is finalized for it to be included in operating system updates by Microsoft/Apple/Google/yada yada yada. (Sorry, one last Seinfeld reference.)

      As I understand it, the main difference between an emoticon and an emoji is that an emoji is always a special symbol, but an emoticon can be represented as a collection of more standard symbols, such as the semicolon followed by right parenthesis to represent a winking face.

      The hexadecimal code point for "FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY" is 1F602, and so its HTML entity is 😂

      Oh, and the code point for "CAT FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY" is 1F639. Behold: 😹 Yep, that's a thing. There's tons of crazy-specific stuff in there. You want a hand making the "live long and prosper" sign? That's code point 1F596: 🖖 How about a depiction of every phase of our satellite? Easy-peasy: 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘 But wait, I wanted to anthropomorphize the face! We can do that too: 🌚🌛🌜🌝 What about a bolt with a nut on it? Fine: 🔩 Shower head with running water? Great, pile on: 🚶 Traffic light? Yessir: 🚦 Sorry, I meant a horizontal traffic light. Got that too! 🚥

      …and on and on it goes. Alchemical symbols, pictographs, domino and mahjong tiles, musical symbols, Egyptian hieroglyphs…at some point this stuff can't be organized anymore. I suspect the Unicode Consortium is not going to stop until they have encoded every single thing anyone could ever think of, at which point we will know the singularity is upon us and the universe will collapse in on itself. What's next for inclusion in the standard? I couldn't tell you because I don't have a crystal ball. Oh wait, it's right here: 🔮

      Unicode can predict its own future! It has become self-aware! Run!

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    7. It all comes down to pixels, right? How many we dealin' with?

      Come thou font of every blessing...

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    8. Great tutorial, PC.

      LegoBelievesHisBarnKittenSmittenIsSheddingTears😹OfJoy...OrMaybeShe'sJustSheddingFurAsSheTearsUpTheUpholsteryOnMySofa!

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    9. Paul: In general, text in Unicode is not stored as pixels. Text differs from images in part by the fact that text is vector-based rather than pixel-based: vectors are curves that define boundaries, shape, regions of color. These vectors become pixels only once they're rendered to a display at a specific pixel density. (What is pixel density? The size of each pixel. The smaller the pixel, the higher the pixel density. A typical computer monitor has 72 to 110 pixels per linear inch, whereas a mobile device may have anywhere from around 300 to even 600 pixels per linear inch, which provides much more detail.) How many pixels we're dealing with depends on the pixel density of your device, and the size at which the text is displayed.

      A major benefit of using vectors to represent text is scalability. Edges stay sharp no matter how close you zoom in. With a pixel-based image, zooming in reveals jaggy or blurry edges. Bitmaps (images composed of pixels) are the better option for representing complex data that cannot be easily reduced to a series of curves, such as real-world photographs.

      A sort-of compromise between these two methods is the icon, wherein pixel-based images are stored in a single file at various magnifications (with each size usually differing by a factor of 2), and the choice of image is based on the next-largest match to the required display size and scaled down from there. Depending on their visual complexity, the artwork for emoji is often done this way. Maximum pixel size is probably around 1024x1024, but it's been a while since I've checked so by now it may be 2048x2048. The artwork size will also vary from vendor to vendor (Microsoft vs Apple vs Google et al).

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  15. Quite lucky tonight! Don't have the track-and-field puzzle, don't have the cereal puzzle, do have half the "things you _____" puzzle, do have all ripoff puzzles except C, and do have everything else! The composer puzzle and the sculpture puzzle were exceptionally easy! Will need hints for the cinematographer's technique, the model of vehicle, God's "grooming tool"(?), and of course whatever a box of cereal has to do with something in the news. Also, we will be babysitting later tonight, so I may not talk to you again until Sunday(or until we get both kids to bed, more likely).

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    1. I don't have the cinematographer's technique or the model of vehicle, either.
      I've already given my hint for the cereal.


      Mrs. Robinson.

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    2. ECHO:
      Track and field coaches, in order to do what they sometimes do during practices, might employ an instrument with a stem, but not a stern.

      HTRD:
      The brand name of the cereal is the generic name for a kind of boozy beverage.
      The brand name: A record label + the plural form of the first two-thirds of the first name of a singer whose 1968 single appeared on that label.

      ROSABS C3:
      See hints by PC (11:47PM) and lego (11:51PM), below, and Paul's comment, immediately above.

      EAPPA:
      The first syllable of the model is a homophone of a measure of one of the specifications of the vehicle... the vehicle possesses about 2.5 of these measures.

      LegoSaysThere'sNoUseCryingOverSourMilk

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    3. Now I have the first and last puzzles and ripoff puzzle C! All I need now is the other half of the "things you _____" puzzle! But I can't figure out the hint above. You may need to try something else, Lego.

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    4. In addition to the vehicle manufacturer, the popular vehicle model can follow any of the words arctic, antarctic, and alpine.

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  16. Like a thunderbolt, the Hors D'Oeuvre answers finally came to me (after being stumped all evening on that one.) I still don't quite know how...

    So this is my rare event of having solved everything (although my second word for the God grooming thing I don't trust, i.e. can't figure out WHAT it's supposed to mean, but I can't come with any other first word for 3C.)

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    1. Seems like a missed opportunity with your wording there, VT. For instance, one answer came to me as quick as lightning—though some claim I cheated because I ate from the tree of knowledge. As for my authored puzzles, with my recent turn to religious topics some may question my prophet motivation, but I assure you it takes great internal fortitude to do what I've done. My critics always predict the End Times, but in a year everyone will be copying my success.

      Oh, and one more thing: speaking of Acts of God, the God groomer is the last of the puzzles I finally solved, and I must say I'm delighted with how clever the wordplay is.

      VT, some hints for you (if I may Lego): the name of the grooming device is shared by a basketball team. The connection to "periodic appearances of a night-sky satellite" is the deliciously clever part, and I solved it shortly thereafter once this part occurred to me. Try to connect the concepts of "satellite phases" and "grooming". Then think of an alternate way to accomplish the "satellite phase" in the context of grooming. I have a couple other clues if needed. Quickly now, hurry!

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    2. The upshot of God using the grooming item is new and old satellites. The c + l = d transformation yields night-sky visions that are big and little. George gets it.

      LegoObservesThatGod'sPointsOfContactWithAdamOnTheSistineCeilingAreLousyWithLunules

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    3. OKay, I get the two words now, guys.....however, despite knowing the god-grooming tool, and thus the two visible night-sky items (which make more sense than the tool), I don't really understand what the designated first word has to do with the phases of the satellite, as the puzzle states. Obviously, I have missed some 'connection.' Maybe it will come to me....and then I'll be embarrassed that I said this. Thanks, PC.

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    4. VT,
      May I suggest duck duck googling "satellite phases images"? Something might then click and fall into space.

      LegoLooneyTooney

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    5. I did go look, but still don't know what I'm looking for. I'll just wait till Wednesday for someone to explain it all. Thanks anyway, PC.

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    6. I think this concept has appeared here at P! previously, but without a handy search tool like Blaine has, I don't think I can find it. I'm sure lego knows exactly where to find it ... unless, of course, I'm mistaken, and there's never been another instance of this idea on this blog, in which case you should contact my attorney, Emily Litella, Esq..
      BUT, if it HAS appeared here previously, then play around with my hints about the Maine town and the statue for a while and see what you can make of it.

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    7. Paul, The concept, of which I am enamored, may well have appeared previously on these P! pages, but not in a puzzle, I'm pretty sure. Aside from not having a handy Blainesvillian archives search tool, I have virtually no effective filing system whatsoever. I do kind of keep a record of the puzzles I've run, however, in hopes that I won't repeat them.
      While I cannot guarantee said idea has not crossed the face of this blog in the past, I can say with complete uncertainty that I cannot recall whether it has.

      LegoSaysPaul'sCounselMs.LitellaWillSoonBeContactedByMyAttorneyAndItAin'tGonnaBeBeanbag!

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    8. When DuckDuckGoogling, use "site:puzzleria.blogspot.com" to restrict your search query.

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    9. Lego, Blogger offers a "Search Tool" as one of the features you can pick for your blog. I have that feature over at Partial Ellipsis of the Sun where I searched for search.

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    10. Thanks, Word Woman.
      You were more than instrumental in helping me begin Puzzleria! And you continue to help me improve it.

      The search tool appears in the northeast region of our blog.

      LegoSearched"MakingFootwearFromTreeBark"InTheNewSearchBoxAndFoundAnEntryOn"BirchSocks!"

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    11. Thank you, lego (and WW), for your quick response to this consumer's inordinate demand.
      I just searched some words which took me directly to the previous incarnation of the concept in question. I could tell you what those words were, but what's the fun in that? Search 'Scripps' and take your pick, if you feel lucky.
      Thanks also to PC, even though I couldn't make that workaround work. There's syntax involved. Do I put my word of interest before or after "site:puzzleria.blogspot.com"? Do I include the quotation marks? Do I need some kind of connector between them?

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    12. Do not include the quotation marks, make sure the term is separated by a space from the search terms. The "site:" syntax can be used for any website. It can come before or after your search terms. Below I include an example search query on wikipedia, for both Google and DuckDuckGo.

      feldspar site:en.wikipedia.org

      feldspar site:en.wikipedia.org

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    13. Orthoclase feldspar: perfect cleavage on {001}, good cleavage on {010}, and monoclinic doesn't mean a doctor's office

      Funny clip, Paul.

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  17. RIPPIN' OFF LEGO'S RIPPIN' OFF SHORTZ:

    Name a well-known grooming brand. Insert a pre-squished "cl" exactly in its middle to name a celestial direction. This word's antonym is shared by a radio manufacturer.

    But careful where you rip off Shortz, or you might have to proclaim, "I was in the pool! I was in the pool!"

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    1. PC,

      "Celestial direction":
      Upward? Northereal? Southereal? Celeast?

      LegoWhoSomeDayHopesToRetireAtHisCelestialHolm

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    2. Yeah, what are you up to PC? Trying to screw things up like you did in 2000?

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    3. I was stumped, too, Lego by "celestial direction.' So I simply gave up on that last PC puzzle.

      To what is Paul referring above? Is it an inside joke? I don't even know where PC came from...has he been around on Blaine's since 2000? He only recently appeared on this blog, correct?

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    4. The "celestial direction" word is a common word that gives direction relative to another body. The term is used in a wide variety of fields, but is most rigorously defined in astronomy. The grooming brand would help with Miyagi's hairy student.

      VT, I'm not exactly certain what Paul is on about, either. Sometimes these references go over my head (or in this case, below my head). My best guess is he may be invoking the Y2K bug as a play on my initials. (Remember that overblown mass panic? Good times.) I've been a longtime reader of Blainesville, but not as early as 2000.

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    5. I certainly DO remember Y2K....but your PC initials would be involved only as standing for 'personal computers' that were supposed to get all messed up? Or was there some other connotation for PC related to that, yes, 'good times?'

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    6. I'm not even sure Blaine was around in 2000. Looks like his archive only goes back to 2005. I crashed the party around 2010.
      I apologize for my bush league attempts at humor; I wasn't trying to gore anyone's ox, believe it or not.
      At any rate, I enjoyed the Seinfeld clip, even though a car that leaks blood doesn't seem very safe to me.

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    7. Like I said, I'm just guessing. I could be completely wrong. But in my estimation most average folks do use PCs (personal computers) as a synecdoche for technology.

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    1. Oh, holy crap! I have missed some addenda.

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    2. Tom Lehrer is a national treasure.

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    3. To which of your many puzzles does Tom Lehrer refer, PC? I'm lost, as per usual!!

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    4. VT: none. I was making a completely un-cluing comment regarding Paul's link. Unusual for me to be straightforward like that, I know. Just glad I was able to clear the Lehrer.

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  19. Since I think by now everyone who is going to solve "Radio Freequency" has solved it, I will say that this puzzle's accompanying image can be captioned with the phrase "KACL art".

    "Do we really have to have so many music-themed puzzles?"

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    1. If you try to pronounce KACL, does it sound like something, or am I just being a dumb ... whatever?

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    2. KACL is the name of a fictional radio station featured in a popular sitcom, where the main character was known for enjoying classical music.

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  20. I've got an even better hint for the radio program: According to Rev. Spooner, it's some black stuff, then some white stuff (phonetically speaking, of course).

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    1. You'll never be able to get your spoon out of that sticky mess. But at least you've got a well-insulated roof over your head.

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    2. Great hint, patjberry. It is always a coup when your hint can stand on its own as a puzzle!

      Also the Rev. Spooner received a Christmas card from the European composer and his/her family, signed, "Seasons greetings from the _____!" But the good man of God, as was his wont, read the word in the blank incorrectly and thought the greeting card was from another of his friends -- the first female photojournalist in the U.S.!

      LegoThinksNoodlyRamonTastesGreat!

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    3. The incorrectly read Christmas card was sent to the Rev. Spooner before the photojournalist wed Alfred Tennyson Beals, of course.

      LegoHasANikonCameraLikesToTakeAPhotograph

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    4. Good one, Lego! Only took a few seconds to look up that one! Still need help with the "things you _____" puzzle, though. I definitely have the verb, just can't find the idiom. A good enough hint for that should get me the vehicle in question. I've got everything else(including the Sunday Puzzle). Probably the fastest time I've ever gotten everything on Puzzleria! Got any more good hints, Lego?

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    5. pjb,
      In the idiom in which "the 'thing,' also a noun, is preceded by and modified by an adjective," a synonymous alternative adjective is sometimes used. This alternative adjective is contained in the title of a "Convoy-era" movie with a "Highwayman" and a "Music Man" in the cast. Starring in the movie was an actor starring also in another "Convoy-era" movie with a Convy in the cast. These two movies were released in the same year.

      The adjective that is used in the puzzle (that is, the synonym of the word in the movie title) appears in:
      1. a Three Dog Night song title with that contains an antonym of the adjective
      2. An early Beatles song that also contains a pair of words that are exact antonyms of each other.

      LegoVyingToConveyConvenientConvoyAndConvyClues

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    6. Who sang the Three Dog Night song originally, and what does that have to do with anything?

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    7. Paul,
      Not that I knew this before I Duck Duck Went, but the singer has the first name of the surname of that ELO guy.
      And what that has to do with is this week's Dessert.

      LegoL-Y-Double_N-O-Double-Feature

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    8. Give or take a silent 'e' ... maybe even a silent 'n' ... what do I know?

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    1. At 0:28, Meg Ryan is not certain what to do and looks off screen at director Rob Reiner, because Billy Crystal was going off script during this whole scene.

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    2. Amusing...how do you know that, PC?

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    3. I heard about it on the side. It was already out there.

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  22. Well, lego, I have to say your misspelling puzzle is the best card trick I've ever seen!

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  23. Got it! Thanks, Lego! I'm done! See y'all Wednesday!

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  24. Hmmmm, comment 101 both here and at Blaine's: The E. O. "Scene"

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    1. Yes, Word Woman, but we of course had a two-day head start.

      LegoSaysYouCannotTeachFiveDayOldPuzzlerianDisneyDalmationsNewTricksThatThreeDayOldBlainesvillianDalmationPupsHaveAlreadyMastered

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    2. TIME-LAPSE, TIME LAPS
      (Diane)CHAMBERS, CHEERS
      THINGS YOU CRACK, A HARD NUT TO CRACK, (Toyota)TUNDRA
      (Bela)BARTOK, CAR TALK
      clavicle, david(David)
      1st Savvyer, (Tom)Sawyer
      2nd A. Alna, "Aha!"
      B. (Ferenc)Molnar, mohair
      3rd A. cluck, duck
      B. clutch, dutch(Dutch)
      C. clippers, dippers
      D. clockwork("A Clockwork Orange"), dockwork
      E. dewclaw, dewdaw
      "APPLE JACKS"(Apple phones removing their headphone jacks)
      "...and I've been workin' like a dog"


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  25. APPETIZER MENU:
    “Things you CRACK.” a HARD NUT to crack.>>>Toyota TUNDRA.

    MENU:
    Béla BARTÓK>>>CAR TALK
    CLAVICLE>>>DAVID

    ROSABS:
    I. SAVVYER (SAVVIER)>>>Tom SAWYER
    II. A. ALNA, Maine>>>AHA!
    B. Ferenc MOLNAR (miller)>>>MOHAR
    III. A. CLUCK>>>DUCK
    B. CLUTCH>>>DUTCH
    C. CLIPPERS>>>DIPPERS
    D. CLOCKWORK (orange)>>>DOCKWORK
    E. DOECLAW>>>DOO-DAH

    OTHER:
    CANTICLE>>>The EDIT is in the CAN>>>CANDIDE.

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  26. A: ALNA, ME (ALMA, CO for rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home Mine)

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  27. xHORS D'OEUVRE: "TIME-LAPSE"; "TIME LAPS"

    MORSEL: "CHAMBERS" and "CHEERS"

    APPETIZER: "CRACK" ; "HARD NUT" ; Toyota "TUNDRA"

    Menu:

    RADIO FREQUENCY: "BARTOK" and "CAR TALK"

    SQUISHIN and RIPPIN/STATUE: "PARIETAL" and "PIETA"

    RIPPING OFF SHORTZ AND BAIRD SLICES:
    1. "SAVVYER" ->"SAWYER"
    2A. "ALNA" -> "AHA"
    2B. " MOLNAR" -> "MOHAR"
    3A. "CLUCK" -> "DUCK"
    3B. "CLUTCH" -> "DUTCH"
    3C. "CLIPPERS" -> "DIPPERS"
    3D. "CLOCKWORK (orange) -> "DOCK WORK"
    3E. "DEWCLAW" -> "DOODAH"

    DESSERT: CEREAL SALES ARE DOWN, so KELLOGG'S has OPENED A CEREAL SNACK BAR IN NYC; APPLE JACKS


    DAVID's Sept 9 PUZZLE 1: BENSON/(Inga) SWENSON PUZZLE 2: ????

    PLANNEDCHAOS's Sept 9 PUZZLE: 1. HOGWARTS -> STRAW GOGH; 2. NARNIA; MANIA; AMEN 3. T-TEST -> TESTAMENT 4. CANTICLE -> CANTIDE -> CANEDIT -> The "EDIT" is in the "CAN."

    LEGO'S RIPOFF OF PC: CANDIDE

    PC's SEPT 10 PUZZLE: SCHICK ??

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    1. "Parietal/Pieta" would make its own quality puzzle. In this case, it almost works but misses the instruction to squish together two pairs of letters. The intended answer is "clavicle, David".

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    2. The intended answer for the dessert is in fact Apple Jacks, but is in reference to Apple's recent decision to remove the headphone jacks from their latest iPhones.

      The answer to my Sept 10th puzzle is Nair, nadir, Zenith.

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    3. Yes, PC, when I noticed (after I had posted my answers) the clavicle/David thing, I cringed....because indeed, I had paid NO attention to the letter-squishing direction. Thank you to whoever it was (for the life of me, now I can't find the quote) who said my answer could be its own clever puzzle...or some such thing.

      Speaking of which, even though I had the correct answer, PC, for your NARNIA/MANIA/AMEN, I STILL don't understand how the squishing of letters in Narnia worked (duh, dumb, I know), could you please give me a detailed explanation? Somehow N and R had to turn into M, which I do not grasp.

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    4. Ah, I re-found it, PC...you indeed. I get completely LOST in all these comments, and can hardly find anything, there are so many of them, and in all discombobulated order, by the time we reply and reply to replies!

      I hadn't even HEARD of the new Apple phone/no phone jack story....and HAD heard of the cereal-eating diminution. I had double-checked that news, and thus it became my answer.

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    5. The "squishing" to get from Narnia to mania involves compressing the "rn" in "Narnia" into an "m", just as we did in last week's NPR puzzle. Yes, it doesn't make sense when you look at the letters in uppercase.

      Another fine second answer with the Apple Jacks. Who'd've thought another story existed that could fit such a specific clue?

      To sort through the new comments, I often search the page for certain terms. For instance, to focus on the new comments posted this hour I search for " 14, 2016 at 4", which currently has 3 hits (but will have 4 after I post!).

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    6. Ah, I guess that makes perfect sense...I never put the words into lower case, I always use upper case for P! answers....even so, the order was 'nr' and I never thought to switch them PRE-squish! Ha ha....

      As I've said twice to Paul in the last half hour, thanks re my Kelloggs answer. It was sheer economy of time...i.e.'here's the answer' and look no further (especially since I was NOT aware of the Apple iphone earplug news.)

      I thought perhaps there was some way to organize replies via who the poster is, but your method sounds more reasonable!

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    7. There are two n's in Narnia, and it is the second "n" (the one following the "r") that gets squished. No switching necessary.

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    8. I see, but of course, I just left the "nia" for both words in place....

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    9. And by now, I realize we are beating a dead ...centaur? Unicorn? Pegasus?

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    10. Right, which is why I also said "rearrange" in the puzzle's wording.

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  28. timelapse / time laps [an example of a silent 'e' that doesn't change the other vowel from short to long -- so Thehrer!]
    Diane Chambers / Cheers
    crack / hard nut / Tundra [not Datsun] [Go, Vikings!]
    Bartok / CarTalk [I'm sure Cliff Clavin is familiar with the albino bat from Anastasia]
    clavicle / David [last month was Av; now it's Elul]
    Savvyer / Sawyer [I will never, ever, figure out how lego managed, on Friday morning, to predict the one out of fifty-two that an independent panel of judges would choose the following Sunday evening ... never]
    Alna / aha [19.3 miles from Augusta, if I'm not mistaken]
    Molnár / mohar ["'the coolest guy' that is, what am" is "fast-talkin', slow-walkin', good-lookin' Mohair Sam"] [and VT is definitely a groovy lady]
    cluck / duck [I still think KACL sounds like 'cackle']
    clutch / dutch
    clippers / dippers [I got a lotta 'splainin' to do here -- another post, perhaps]
    clockwork / dockwork
    dewclaw / doo-dah
    no Apple Jacks [Lynn Kellogg sang 'Easy To Be Hard' before 3DN -- it's a 'Hair plug', get it?]

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  29. A hard nut, a Toyota Tundra, ha!

    Dan Rather was known for signing off with "courage", which was the word Apple used to defend their decision to remove the headphone jack from the latest iPhones.

    The image accompanying Bartók/Car Talk is artwork seen on the walls of the KACL studio ("car talk" can be rearranged into "KACL art") on the television sitcom "Frasier", which was a spin-off series from "Cheers" (Diane Chambers).

    Name a well-known fictional location in eight letters. Reverse and read aloud to caption this picture in two words.

    Hogwarts, straw Gogh

    Name another well-known fictional location in six letters. Squish together a pair of letters and rearrange to name a condition the artist of that picture was known to have. If instead of rearranging you reverse the result and read aloud, you will bring an apt conclusion to this bountiful harvest of puzzles.

    Narnia, mania, amen

    Anagram clue: When you get it, you're sure to emit a nasal laugh. NASAL becomes ASLAN.

    Write down the correct spelling of this most recent word. Think of the name of a statistical analysis method in one and four letters. Write the one-letter word at the end and the four-letter word at the beginning to form a nine letter word that lets you know I swear these puzzles are true and not works of fiction.

    Amen, t-test, testament

    Name a term from scripture for a particular kind of religious song, in eight letters. Squish together a consecutive "cl" to form "d". Reverse the order of the last four letters. The result can be split into two words (three and four letters) that fill in the blanks of the following common phrase used in the film industry: "The ____ is in the ___." (4,3)

    Canticle, the edit is in the can

    The connection between "periodic appearances of a night-sky satellite" and "grooming" is "waxing"—as in, the waxing phase of the moon. Thus, God uses "clippers", which becomes "dippers", as in the big and little dipper constellations.

    RIPPIN' OFF LEGO'S RIPPIN' OFF SHORTZ:

    Name a well-known grooming brand. Insert a pre-squished "cl" exactly in its middle to name a celestial direction. This word's antonym is shared by a radio manufacturer.


    Nair, nadir, zenith

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    1. Yes, I got the "amen, t-test, testament" puzzle also, PlannedChaos, thanks to your spoon-feeding us the statistics term. I thought intro statistics was a blast!

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  30. "Pumbaa is sixpence none the richer for discovering an alternate reality. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da." I've been reading that Ob-la-di, ob-la-da is reggae or ska. I don't really know what ska is, but I thought I knew what reggae sounded like, and I never thought Ob-la-di, ob-la-da was reggae. It always sounded like a polka to me, so that's what I meant. Of course, the polka that "everybody's got a MANIA to do" is the one from Pennsylvania. Remove Aslan (the lion from Narnia) from Pennsylvania, and you have "VI penny", or sixpence which you can return to C.S. Lewis and and it's all good. Pumbaa is a friend of a different lion from a different place, and he's a warthog. Daniel Radcliffe will know his career has jumped the shark when he finds himself starring in Welcome Back, Potter.
    I got TESTAMENT but didn't make up a hint for it. Same for CANTICLE, but I did offer "Mrs. Robinson" as a hint for CLIPPER (Joe DiMaggio). I guess we're talking about nail clippers, rather than hair clippers (although we might be able do something with the "bowl haircut" idea, maybe) and a connection between "moon" and "fingernail" appeared in the July 29, 2016 edition of this blog. Make up your own puzzle about how to get "lunulae" out of "Elul" and "ulna" (or Alna).

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  31. Earlier today I watched a clip of Ralph Nader talking about Gary Johnson's "Aleppo" problem. Many still blame Ralph for the 2000 debacle in Florida.
    The Kellogg's Cereal Bar story is REAL -- excellent alternative answer. And "Mohair Sam" was written by Dallas Frazier. Good work, VT!
    But the prize goes to lego for picking Savvy Shields as Miss America almost three days in advance. Incredible!

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    1. A second thank you, Paul....although I'm a bit confused as to my having anything to do with "Mohair Sam" and "Dallas Frazier." We ALL had the same answer re Molnar and Mohar.

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    2. You had posted a comment that read "Frazier?" when determining where the initialism "KACL" came from. The show is spelled with an S rather than a Z (Frasier). Another coincidence. There's no end of them if one looks hard enough.

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    3. Oh dear, I coincidentally goofed again! What a week!

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  32. The creativity and brilliance of the Puzzlerians! who comment in this section (and I mean all who comment) ceases never to amaze me!

    Subtract a Roman five from Ms. Shileld’s nickname leaving a Hindu-Arabic place-holder… and spelling out the first word in a British blues-rock band.

    LegoWhoCanPredictTheWeakAndPoorAndHealTheFuture

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  33. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 1:

    Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

    Enigmatic Cinematic Hors d’Oeuvre:
    Track and field of dreams
    Dreams are often compared with cinema. Some people experience their “dreamy nocturnal movies” as slow-motion or even 3-D sequences, for instance. Others may dream in blah black-and-white or in living “Technicolor.”
    Name a technique sometimes employed by cinematographers, in nine letters. In their wildest dreams, track and field coaches might experience “nocturnal movies” that would seem to employ this technique.
    A homophone of that technique – a two-word phrase containing eight letters – names what track and field coaches sometimes do during practices.
    What is the cinematic technique? What do coaches do during practices?

    Answer:
    time lapse; time laps

    Morsel Menu

    Fall Season Roundup (Or Rounddown) Morsel:
    Sitcom heart replacement
    Take the last name of a female character on a popular television situation comedy. Take the alphanumeric sum of three consecutive letters at the heart of her surname, divide by 3, and round up or down to the nearer whole number. In other words, find the rounded-off average of the three numbers.
    Replace the three letters with the letter that has the alphanumeric value of that average.
    The result is the name of the sitcom.
    Who is this female character? What is the sitcom?

    Answer:
    Diane Chambers; Cheers
    chAMBers >> AMB = 1 + 13 + 2 = 16;
    16/3 = 5.333... >> 5 >> E >> Ch + E + ers = Cheers

    Appetizer Menu

    Easy As Pecan Pie Appetizer:
    “Things you rob? Poach? Eat? Open? Read?”
    Safes. Ribs. Windows. Knuckles. Whips. Mysteries. Smiles. Books. Eggs. Codes. …
    These ten nouns are all “Things you _____.” To complete this puzzle you must first find the verb that belongs in the blank.
    Name an eleventh possible “thing you_____,” according to a common idiom. In this idiom the “thing,” also a noun, is preceded by and modified by an adjective.
    Remove the first letter from the adjective along with the space between the two words. Spell this series of letters backward. The result, after capitalizing the initial letter, is the model of a popular vehicle.
    What verb belongs in the blank? What is the model name?
    Hint: They likely sell scores of these vehicles in the host city of a particular NFL team.

    Answer:
    Crack; (Toyota) Tundra
    "hard nut to crack"
    HARD NUT - H = ARDNUT >> TUNDRA
    Hint: The Green Bay Packers play on the "Frozen Tundra" of Lambeau Field.

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    Radio Freequency Europe Slice:
    Scherzo modulation
    Think of the last name of a European composer. Shift the first letter one place forward in the alphabet and read the result aloud to name a popular radio program.
    Who is the composer and what is the program?

    Answer:
    (Bela) Bartok;
    Car Talk

    Lego...

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  34. Lego...
    This week's official answers, for the record, Part 2:

    Squishin’ And Rippin’ Off Shortz, Thereby Undraping Statues Slice:
    Put some stone on those bones!
    Name a bone of the human skeleton in eight letters. Drop the last letter, and squish together two pairs of adjacent letters, to name a well-known European sculpture in five letters.
    What is the bone? What is the name of the sculpture?

    Answer:
    clavicle;
    David
    clavicle - e = clavcl = david



    Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slices:
    Scrunched Kernosabes of corn
    Puzzleria!’s first Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slice reads:
    If you scrunch (not squish!) the small letters “v” and “v” too closely together, they look like a “w.” Think of an often misspelled seven-letter word that means “shrewder” or “more canny.” If you change this misspelling’s two consecutive “v’s” to one “w” it becomes a word in the title of a 19th century classic American novel.
    What are the misspelled word and the novel word?
    Answer:
    savvyer (sic);
    "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

    Puzzleria!’s second (two-part) Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slice reads:
    If you scrunch the small letters “l” and “n” too closely together, they look like an “h”…
    A: Think of a four-letter Maine town with the consecutive letters “l” and “n” that becomes an interjection of triumph or derision if you change them to an “h.”
    What are this town and interjection?
    Hint: The town was once named New Milford.
    Answer:
    Alna, Maine; Aha!

    B: Think of a six-letter surname of a man of Hungarian letters (literary, not alphabetical) with the consecutive letters “l” and “n” (alphabetical, not literary) that becomes a biblical word meaning dowry if you change them to an “h.”
    What is this surname?
    What is this word?
    Hint: The biblical word, according to Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon (KJV) means “a price paid for a wife to her parents.”
    Answer:
    Ferenc Molnar;
    Mohar

    Lego...

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  35. This week's official answers, for the record, Part 3:

    Puzzleria!’s third (five-part) Ripping Off Shortz And Baird Slice reads:
    If you scrunch the small letters “c” and “l” too closely together, they look like a “d”…
    A: Think of a common five-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for the sound a certain critter makes. If you change them to a “d” the result is a different critter from the same taxonomic class.
    Answer:
    Cluck; Duck

    B: Think of a common six-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a woman’s strapless handbag. Change them to a “d” to form a word describing a woman’s night out on the town with a friend during which she will occasionally need to open her “six-letter word.”
    Answer:
    Clutch;
    (Going) dutch

    C: Think of a common eight-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a gigantic grooming device God apparently uses, judging from periodic appearances of a night-sky satellite in its old and new phases. Change the “c” and “l” to a “d” to name two other sights seen in the night sky.
    Answer:
    (Fingernail) clippers, the result of which resembles old or new moons;
    Dippers: Big Dipper and Little Dipper

    D: Think of a common nine-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a word associated with a certain fruit. Change the “c” and “l” to a “d” to name the job of a longshoreman.
    Answer:
    Clockwork Orange;
    Dockworker

    E: Think of a not-so-common seven-letter word with the consecutive letters “c” and “l” for a dubious digit possessed by certain hoofed animals. Change the “c” and “l” to a “d” to spell out a two-syllable homophone for what “the ladies” sing – to the accompaniment of hoof beats – at the Camptown Racetrack.
    Answer:
    "Doo-da";
    Dewclaw

    What are these five pairs of words?
    (see text above)

    Dessert Menu:

    Hit The Road Dessert:
    Cereal assessin’ ‘n’ censorin’
    The image shown here suggests a quite recent news story.
    What is the story, and what is the brand name of the cereal shown in the image?
    Hint: Wood I hear a “gadgetree” if one fell in the orchard?
    Answer:
    No Apple Jacks
    Apple's latest iPhone will reportedly not include headphone jacks.

    Lego...

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    1. I had thought the connection to clippers was the "waxing" phase of the moon, not noticing that a crescent moon resembled a clipped fingernail! So there's yet another connection.

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    2. Thanks, Puzzlerians! Now when I look up at the waxing or waning moon, I'll be reminded of. . .clipped fingernails!

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    3. And, perhaps, on a particularly beautiful harvest moon prelude evening. . . clipped toenails!😁

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    4. Yes, Word Woman, one of the main missions of many Puzzlerians! is to de-romanticize all things beautiful, awe-inspiring, wondrous, magical, poetic, sublime, sugary, spicy and everything-nicey…

      LegoWouldThenChooseToReplaceAllThisExaltedFolderolWithSnipsSnailsPitBullPuppyDogTailsandGreasyGrimyGopherGuts!

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