PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (987 + 65) SERVED
Welcome to our December 1st edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our five ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩Riffing-Off-Shortz slices are baked with “French bread” crusts this week – a nod to the November 26th offering from Will Shortz, the esteemed weekly NPR puzzle-provider who is known by the nom de plume “Puzzlemaster.”
Our other three puzzles, all baked with our usual “English-language-muffin” breadcrusts, include:
⇩ One “22-state salute” Appetizer
⇩ One poetic and painterly Slice; and
⇩ One planes, trains and catamarans Dessert.
Profitez de nos puzzles s’il vous plaît.
Catch-22 Appetizer:
Sno Itai Verb Bala TSOP
Ultimately, the answer to each of the 22 clues below is the name of a U.S. state.
But before you can discern the name of each state you must first find the two-letter answer to each clue.
What are these 22 states?
1. Belongs in the category with MK, LK and MT
2. Word that is the “Lost Chord,” according to the MB
3. Company that would not have existed if not for Cy McCormick and JP Morgan
4. A refreshing appliance, and the form of electical energy that powers it
5. Sounds like the first two-thirds of a rapper
6. Monogram sported on the Killer’s and Tony O’s caps
7. “Don Don Don, Mele Kalikimaka!”
8. “England’s Rose,” according to Bernie
9. What you can call Paul from Newark
10. Mr. “TeeVeequine”?
11. Position taken by the Slendid Splinter and Yaz
12. What was black and white and spread all over... during the 1950s?
13. Where you can find MK, LK and MT
14. Notable Super Bowl comeback numeral
15. “Sandwich bread” for 2 at the turn of a century
16. Opposite of PM and FM
17. Sounds like the last two-thirds of a candy morsel packaged in a wrapper
18. Pronoun associated with Brute
19. Deep Blue and Watson are examples of this
20. Golfing tour? No, touring Golf
21. Sessions, for short
22. An Auntie
Programming Is Made Possible Slice:
Antiquing painter and poets readshow
Consider the names of three artists – a painter and two poets – who thrived during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.
One of the three names bears a curious connection to “Weekend Edition Sunday,” “Fresh Air,” “Car Talk” and other such programming.
The name of a second artist bears a similar connection to “Washington Week,” “Sesame Street,” “Antiques Roadshow” and other such programming.
The name of the third artist bears the same curious connection to all such programming.
Who are these three artists?
Hint: One of the poets and the painter were born about a century apart. The other poet was born a year before that poet’s death.
Hint: One of the three artists dovetails with this week’s French theme.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Something gained in translation?
Will Shortz’s November 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 5 letters, respectively. Then take its standard translation in English, which is a two-word phrase. If you have the right phrases, the first words of the two phrases said out loud will sound like a world capital. What is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
Think of a somewhat familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 3 letters, respectively. Then take its standard translation in English, which is one word.
If you have the right phrases, the third word of the French expression and the first syllable of the English word, if said out loud, will sound something like what a person experiencing the effects of the expression might beg for.
What are this French expression, its English translation, and what the person might beg for?
TWO:
Think of a somewhat familiar French expression in two words, containing 4 letters and 5 letters, respectively.
Then take its literal translation in English, which is a two-word phrase. If you have the right phrases, saying out loud the first word of the English translation followed the first word of the French expression (after you add a long-e syllable to its end) will sound like a Huddie Ledbetter song title.
What are this French expression, its English translation, and the Ledbetter song title?
THREE:
Name a luxury auto brand. Rotate its middle letter 90 degrees clockwise to form the name of a world capital city whose etymology pertains to entomology. What is this city?
FOUR:
Think of a world capital that sounds like the first word of a French expression followed by the first word in the English translation of that expression. The capital’s official name, in its short form (according to Wikipedia), contains three of the same consonant.
These three letters form the short form of a hateful hate group. The remaining letters in the capital’s official short-form name can be rearranged to form two words a law officer might want to say upon arresting a member of the group in the act of commiting a hate crime.
What is the short form of the capital’s official name? What is the hate group? What might the arresting officer want to say?
Note: An abbreviation of the capital’s official full name (again, according to Wikipedia) differs from the short form of its official name by one letter. If you remove the same three identical consonants from this abbreviated name, you can rearrange the remaining letters into two words to describe the arrested member of the hate group after his arrest.
FIVE:
Think of a familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 5 letters, respectively. Take the standard translation, in French, of the English word “seated” which sounds like the 4-letter English-word answer to all the following crossword clues: “On open waters,” “Completely lost,” “Traversing the deep” and “Fishing, perhaps.”
Place the the second and third words of the 3-word familiar French expression in front of the French translation of the English word “seated” to form what sounds something like an 4-syllable English word that can follow “Checkbook,” “Gunboat” or “French.”
What is this 4-syllable word?
Blue Onesies Dessert:
None if by air, two if by sea
Remove the first half of the name of a global air transporter and place a boy’s baby name after the result.
Name one of many assets this transportation company has. Place the same boy’s baby name after it.
You’ll name two things you might see not in the air (or even on land) but instead in the sea. What are they?
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 Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
Welcome to our December 1st edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our five ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩Riffing-Off-Shortz slices are baked with “French bread” crusts this week – a nod to the November 26th offering from Will Shortz, the esteemed weekly NPR puzzle-provider who is known by the nom de plume “Puzzlemaster.”
Our other three puzzles, all baked with our usual “English-language-muffin” breadcrusts, include:
⇩ One “22-state salute” Appetizer
⇩ One poetic and painterly Slice; and
⇩ One planes, trains and catamarans Dessert.
Profitez de nos puzzles s’il vous plaît.
Appetizer Menu
Catch-22 Appetizer:
Sno Itai Verb Bala TSOP
Ultimately, the answer to each of the 22 clues below is the name of a U.S. state.
But before you can discern the name of each state you must first find the two-letter answer to each clue.
What are these 22 states?
1. Belongs in the category with MK, LK and MT
2. Word that is the “Lost Chord,” according to the MB
3. Company that would not have existed if not for Cy McCormick and JP Morgan
4. A refreshing appliance, and the form of electical energy that powers it 5. Sounds like the first two-thirds of a rapper
6. Monogram sported on the Killer’s and Tony O’s caps
7. “Don Don Don, Mele Kalikimaka!”8. “England’s Rose,” according to Bernie
9. What you can call Paul from Newark
10. Mr. “TeeVeequine”?
11. Position taken by the Slendid Splinter and Yaz
12. What was black and white and spread all over... during the 1950s?13. Where you can find MK, LK and MT
14. Notable Super Bowl comeback numeral
15. “Sandwich bread” for 2 at the turn of a century16. Opposite of PM and FM
17. Sounds like the last two-thirds of a candy morsel packaged in a wrapper
18. Pronoun associated with Brute19. Deep Blue and Watson are examples of this
20. Golfing tour? No, touring Golf
21. Sessions, for short
22. An Auntie
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Programming Is Made Possible Slice:
Antiquing painter and poets readshow
Consider the names of three artists – a painter and two poets – who thrived during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.
One of the three names bears a curious connection to “Weekend Edition Sunday,” “Fresh Air,” “Car Talk” and other such programming.
The name of a second artist bears a similar connection to “Washington Week,” “Sesame Street,” “Antiques Roadshow” and other such programming.
The name of the third artist bears the same curious connection to all such programming.Who are these three artists?
Hint: One of the poets and the painter were born about a century apart. The other poet was born a year before that poet’s death.
Hint: One of the three artists dovetails with this week’s French theme.
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Something gained in translation?
Will Shortz’s November 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 5 letters, respectively. Then take its standard translation in English, which is a two-word phrase. If you have the right phrases, the first words of the two phrases said out loud will sound like a world capital. What is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:Think of a somewhat familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 3 letters, respectively. Then take its standard translation in English, which is one word.
If you have the right phrases, the third word of the French expression and the first syllable of the English word, if said out loud, will sound something like what a person experiencing the effects of the expression might beg for.
What are this French expression, its English translation, and what the person might beg for?
TWO:
Think of a somewhat familiar French expression in two words, containing 4 letters and 5 letters, respectively.
Then take its literal translation in English, which is a two-word phrase. If you have the right phrases, saying out loud the first word of the English translation followed the first word of the French expression (after you add a long-e syllable to its end) will sound like a Huddie Ledbetter song title. What are this French expression, its English translation, and the Ledbetter song title?
THREE:Name a luxury auto brand. Rotate its middle letter 90 degrees clockwise to form the name of a world capital city whose etymology pertains to entomology. What is this city?
FOUR:Think of a world capital that sounds like the first word of a French expression followed by the first word in the English translation of that expression. The capital’s official name, in its short form (according to Wikipedia), contains three of the same consonant.
These three letters form the short form of a hateful hate group. The remaining letters in the capital’s official short-form name can be rearranged to form two words a law officer might want to say upon arresting a member of the group in the act of commiting a hate crime.
What is the short form of the capital’s official name? What is the hate group? What might the arresting officer want to say?Note: An abbreviation of the capital’s official full name (again, according to Wikipedia) differs from the short form of its official name by one letter. If you remove the same three identical consonants from this abbreviated name, you can rearrange the remaining letters into two words to describe the arrested member of the hate group after his arrest.
FIVE:Think of a familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 5 letters, respectively. Take the standard translation, in French, of the English word “seated” which sounds like the 4-letter English-word answer to all the following crossword clues: “On open waters,” “Completely lost,” “Traversing the deep” and “Fishing, perhaps.”
Place the the second and third words of the 3-word familiar French expression in front of the French translation of the English word “seated” to form what sounds something like an 4-syllable English word that can follow “Checkbook,” “Gunboat” or “French.”What is this 4-syllable word?
Dessert Menu
Blue Onesies Dessert:
None if by air, two if by sea
Remove the first half of the name of a global air transporter and place a boy’s baby name after the result.
Name one of many assets this transportation company has. Place the same boy’s baby name after it.
You’ll name two things you might see not in the air (or even on land) but instead in the sea. What are they?
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 Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
You're contributing to the exhaustion of this P! fan, Lego, because I have to be up to sing in a noon concert that takes place in only 8.5 hours, and here I sit instead, wading through this week's lengthy appetizer!
ReplyDeleteBut I DID finally catch on to what is going on, and have nabbed all but #1, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17 and 20. I don't DARE even look at the rest of this week's "Menu", lest I get NO sleep at all!
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteHave a lovely noon concert. I wish I had a million Puzzleria! fans like you. Thank you.
LegoSincerelyAppreciative
Gosh, jeepers, gee whiz, blush....
DeleteBTW, I DID succumb, after all, to having a BRIEF look at the rest of the new puzzles, before I forced myself to shut the computer off, and solved Riff Off #5. No luck on anything else yet, however.
DeleteSo, VT, what did you sing at that concert? I wish I could have been there.
DeleteSo nice of you to be interested, Paul. Yes, I sang in the concert. It's the "University Chorale' which is open to both students at OSU and the community at large....it exists as a training ground for both graduate and undergraduate conducting students. (This term, we had all grad students, and they were so great, and fun. But next term they'll all be out student teaching, darn it. I will miss them. We'll have rookie undergrads conducting instead, each one gets ONE piece, or section of a larger work...we do larger works, like requiems or Masses, in the winter and spring concerts.)
DeleteFor the fall term concert (which is always done as a 'noon concert' in the big old beamed lounge of the student union, along with a community choir (so we really get to do only a half-concert.), we usually have multiple languages to sing (i.e., Hebrew, Latin, sometimes French or German, which are my favorite)....and this time, we also had a piece called "TREES", whose lyrics were the James Joyce poem (so really, rather LOOSELY connected to the holidays)...it was great fun.
Wish, too, Paul, that and you and Lego and everyone else from this blog could have been there.
Oops, Paul, somehow I missed the word "what" in your question above.
DeleteOur other pieces were: Maringa Krismes (in some kind of African dialect), accompanied by three kinds of percussion; O Magnum Mysterium (which my high school Concert Choir sang from memory long ago, but this time I would bounce around off the soprano part, whenever I thought the altos needed some volume), Here We Come A-Caroling; Ma Navu (in Hebrew); the above-mentioned lovely TREES; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (whose harmonies I just adored); and Here's A Pretty Little Baby (a spiritual, very bouncy), which our presiding prof conducted herself.
Don't tell me who or what MK, ML, and MT are just right away, but I have the feeling I'm not going to figure it out until you do.
ReplyDeleteOne of the Riffs reminds me of the other Newton (not pictured) that I thought about last week.
You mean, Lego didn't cover ALL the Newtons last week, Paul?
DeletePaul,
DeleteI cannot figure out who/what ML is... Mara Lago? Matt Lauer? Martin Luther? Mona Lisa? Merrill Lynch?
LegoWhoPredictsThatWillShortz'sOnAirChallengeOnNationalPublicRadioThisSundayWillBeTheMostDifficultOnAirChallengeEver
I'm tickled to say that I DID finally figure out who MK etc are, thus solving two more appetizer puzzles.
DeleteDid I write ML? JK!
DeleteHappy Friday, and December, everyone! Got every part of the Appetizer except #1, #5, #6, #13, #15, and #17, but I have figured out the trick to it! Got all the Ripoffs as well(the one about the hate group provided a bit of a chuckle!), but the rest prove rather difficult. Will need hints for those and the ones I can't get in the Appetizer, obviously. Who are MK, LK, and MT anyway?
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, Happy Holidays to all!
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ReplyDeleteIf Lego hinted (on purpose) that would violate the precepts of Blaine's Blog. . .and I know you wouldn't ask Lego to do that!
DeleteIndeed, WW....we have gone through this before, and already established, I had thought, that it was unfair for anyone to ask for hints on the Sunday puzzle here. Cheating, if you ask me...
DeleteSo saying, CONGRATS, Lego, on having one of yours chosen. I'm happy to say I just solved it! But not right off the bat! [Actually, I'd come up with the correct first country right away, but the wrong noun to go with it!]
VT, we likely went down similar paths. . .
DeleteAh, WW, most interesting.....
DeleteForget I said anything. Just read the Blaine's Blog comments and it came to me.
ReplyDeleteHope nobody minds if I still ask for Puzzleria! hints, right Lego? Great Sunday Puzzle, BTW. That's all I have to say about it.
ReplyDeleteHints, 11th hour:
DeleteSIVBT:
1. ...three (= 18 feet); ...warm; ...Southern Comfort
2. These MB (I realize you solved this, Patrick, but I thought you, and others, might enjoy the clip!)
5. A "Shady" rapper whose stompin' grounds are the same as that of the Motor City Madman
6. A bear that succeeded "Twinkie" the loon
13. You cannot find them in the OT
15. "Sandwich bread" is a metaphor for things that flank the sandwich "meat" or "filling"... in this case, the meat/filling is "2"
17. Translation of the candy's slogan: "Just heaven for the taste buds... without the messy palms!"
PIMPS:
LBJ, JFK, FDR, RLS...
BOD:
After today's news, there won't be as many passengers traveling from this global transporter's hub to Pyeong Chang this coming February.
Lego"JustCallMeLeventh"
NJ*, MO, HI, CA, NM, CT, OH, SD, LA, DE, FL, VT, TN*, IL(?), KY*, MA, MN(?)*, UT, IA, WV, GA, ME
ReplyDelete*needed the hints
Note: #19 might be a hint for the NPR puzzle
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Norman Perceval Rockwell
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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mal de mer = seasickness >> mercy [John Newton]
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Thanks, VT (that's ViolinTeddy, not Vermont), for the concert information. I was familiar with Infant Holy, Infant Lowly and Here We Come A-Caroling, but the others were new to me. I've been working up my own little arrangement of Ma Navu which I may play as an offertory on Sunday.
I am emerald-hued envious of VT, Paul and others blessed with musical gifts.
DeleteHey, I coulda-shoulda put John Newton in my recent "Newtonian Collage," right Paul? I guess if you're gonna pen a timeless hymn it helps if you are a wretch who has been saved.
"John" (JN), of course is mentioned much in the Good Book. However, the only mention of "Newton," as all good biblical scholars are well aware, is in Genesis, Chapter 3, Verse 7, in which Adam and Eve, after munching the forbidden fruit, get all prudish and don Fig-Newton leaves. They ought to have instead munched Fig Newtons (NOT verboten, indeed very nutritious and delicious!), tossed the leaves into the trash, and picked a PC instead of an Apple... Carly Fiorina would have approved.
LegoAWretchWhoGivesGodAMerciBeaucoupAsHeBegsGodForMercyBeaucoup
PAUL, you are an ORGANIST????!!!!!!! How utterly cool, What kind of organ do you play upon? My brother had a regular organ job from the age of 13 onwards, all the way through his time at Princeton, and I often played the violin with him for stuff.
DeleteHow fascinating, too, that you are doing your own arrangement of Ma Navu. I'd never heard of IT either, nor 'Trees' (which is still running through my head..at least now, I have that poem memorized!) or the African one OR the spiritual.
Let us talk more music here!!! : o )
Appetizer
ReplyDelete1. JN(John), NJ(New Jersey)
2. OM(mantra), MO(Missouri)
3. IH(International Harvester), HI(Hawaii)
4. AC(air conditioner), CA(California)
5. NM(Eminem), MN(Minnesota)
6. TC(the bear), CT(Connecticut)
7. HO(Don), OH(Ohio)
8. DI(Princess Diana), ID(Idaho)
9. AL("You Can Call Me Al"), LA(Louisiana)
10. ED(Mr. Ed), DE(Delaware)
11. LF(left fielder), FL(Florida)
12. TV(television), VT(Vermont)
13. NT(New Testament), TN(Tennessee)
14. LI(fifty-one), IL(Illinois)
15. YK(Y2K), KY(Kentucky)
16. AM(amplitude modulation or ante meridiem), MA(Massachusetts)
17. MN(M&Ms), NM(New Mexico)
18. TU("Et tu, Brute?"), UT(Utah)
19. AI(artificial intelligence), IA(Iowa)
20. VW(Volkswagen), WV(West Virginia)
21. AG(Attorney General), GA(Georgia)
22. EM(Auntie Em), ME(Maine)
Ripoffs
1. MAL DE MER(seasickness), MER+SEA=MERCY
2. BETE NOIRE(black beast), BLACK+BETE+E="BLACK BETTY"
3. ACURA, ACCRA
4. NOM DE PLUME(pen name), PHNOM PENH(also called Krong Chaktomok or Krong Chaktomuk; the anagrams are "GOTCHA MORON" and "CAUGHT MORON", respectively)
5. NOM DE PLUME, ASEA; DE PLUME+ASEA sounds like DIPLOMACY
"Whoa Black Betty, bam-a-lam, whoa Black Betty, bam-a-lam,
She's from Birmingham, bam-a-lam, way down in Alabam, bam-a-lam..."-pjb
APPETIZER:
ReplyDelete1. JN (for JOHN) => Backwards for NEW JERSEY [PRE-hint, but then I don't even understand your hint!]
2. OM [Moody Blues song] => MISSOURI
3. IH [International Harvester] => HAWAII
4. AC [air conditioning; form of elec'l current] => CALIFORNIA
5. MN [Eminem] => NEW MEXICO [PRE-hint]
6. TC => CONNECTICUT [From HINT, but I still don't understand why]
7. HO => OHIO
8. DS [Diana Spencer] => SOUTH DAKOTA
9. SM? => MISSISSIPPI [Paul SIMON from Newark singer? guitarist? songwriter?]
10. ED (Mr. Ed) => DELAWARE
11. LF (Left Fielder Ted Williams) => FLORIDA
12. TV => VERMONT
13. NT [New Testament] => TENNESSEE [PRE-hint]
14. LI (Super Bowl) => ILLINOIS
15. Lettuce? Mayo? Butter? Mustard? Ketchup?
16. AM [radio and clock time] => MASSACHUSETTS
17. NM [M & Ms] => MINNESOTA [Needed that candy hint]
18, TU [Et tu, Brute?] => UTAH
19. AI [Artificial intelligence] Backwards for IOWA
20. AP [American Professionals? Press?] => PENNSYLVANIA
21. AG [Atty general] Backwards for GEORGIA
22. EM (from Wizard of Oz) Backwards for MAINE
PROGRAMMING SLICE:
NORMAN PERCEVAL ROCKWELL [NPR] ; PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY [PBS]; CHARLES PIERRE BAUDELAIRE (French poet, born 1821) [CPB]...i.e. he has the middle initials of NPR and PBS? I couldn't FIND any poet (born in 1821, yet) with initials NPRPBS !!!
RIFF OFFS:
1. EAU DE MER (Seawater) => MERSEA => MERCY [Lego, this might not be YOUR answer, but in any case, I thought it would make a nice alternative.]
2. BETE NOIRE (Black Beast) => BLACK BETTY
3. ACURA => ACCRA [Ghana]
4. AMMAN "HOMME/MAN" .... But hate group MUST be the KKK, so I'm stuck.
5. NOM DE PLUME (again) & ASSIS [ASEA] => DIPLOMACY
DESSERT: AERO / FLOT plus SAM => FLOTSAM and JETSAM [PRE-hint]
This week's answers, for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Catch-22 Appetizer:
Sno Itai Verb Bala TSOP
Answers:
(You must transpose the letters of each of the 22 2-letter answers to the clues, thereby forming a postal abbreviation. That postal abbreviation identifies the state that is the ultimate answer:
1. JN (the evangelist John, along with Mark, Luke and Matthew) NEW JERSEY
2. OM (Final cut on the Moody Blues' "In Seach of the Lost Chord" album) MISSOURI
3. IH (International Harvester) HAWAII
4. AC (Air Conditioning, powered by Alternating Current) CALIFORNIA
5. MN (which sounds the first two-thirds of the rapper Eminem) NEW MEXICO
6. TC (for "Twin Cities," emblazoned on Minnesota Twins baseball caps) CONNECTICUT
7. HO ("Don Don Don, Mele Kalikimaka!") OHIO
8. DI (Bernie Taupin called Princess Di "England's Rose" in "Candle in the Wind 1997") IDAHO
9. AL (Paul Simon, a native of Newark, NJ sang "You Can Call Me Al") LOUISIANA
10. ED ("Mr. Ed" was a classic TV situation comedy) DELAWARE
11. LF (Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski roamed Left Field for the BoSox) FLORIDA
12.TV (black and white television was broadcast widely across the USA during the 1950s) VERMONT
13. NT (the gospels of Mark, Luke and Matthew can be found in the New Testament) TENNESSEE
14. LI (In Super Bowl LI the Patriots came back from a 28-3 third-quarter deficit to beat the Falcons 34-28.) ILLINOIS
15. YK (Y2K... the Y and K were bread slices for the "2 meat") KENTUCKY
16. AM (Ante Meridiem, not Post Merideim; and AM, Amplitude Modulation, not Frequency Modulation) MASSACHUSETTS
17. NM (which sounds like "&M," the last two-thirds of an of an "M&M" candy) MINNESOTA
18. TU ("Et TU Brute?") UTAH
19. AI (Arificial Intelligence) IOWA
20. VW (Golf, a nice touring car) WEST VIRGINIA
21. AG (Jeff Sessions, Attorney General) GEORGIA
22. EM (Dorothy's Auntie Em) MAINE
Lego...
This week's answers, for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Programming Is Made Possible Slice:
Antiquing painter and poets readshow
Consider the names of three artists – a painter and two poets – who thrived during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.
One of the three names bears a curious connection to “Weekend Edition Sunday,” “Fresh Air,” “Prairie Home Companion” and other such programming.
The name of a second artist bears a similar connection to “Washington Week,” “Sesame Street,” “Antiques Roadshow” and other such programming.
The name of the third artist bears the same connection to all such programming.
Who are these three artists?
Hint: One of the poets and the painter were born about a century apart. The other poet was born a year before the first poet’s death.
Answer:
Norman Percival Rockwell 1894-1978 (monogram: NPR, National Public Radio), painter;
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 (monogram: PBS, Public Broadcasting Service), poet;
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (Hey, that rhymes!) 1821-1867 (monogram: CPB, Corporation for Public Broadcasting), poet
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Something gained in translation?
ONE:
Think of a somewhat familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 3 letters, respectively. Then take its standard translation in English, which is one word. If you have the right phrases, the third word of the French expression and the first syllable of the English word, if said out loud, will sound something like what a person experiencing the effects of the expression might beg for.
What are this French expression, its English translation, and what the person might beg for?
Answer:
Mal de mer; seasickness; Mercy! (MER + SEA)
TWO:
Think of a somewhat familiar French expression in two words, containing 4 letters and 5 letters, respectively. Then take its standard translation in English, which is a two-word phrase. If you have the right phrases, saying out loud the first word of the English translation followed the first word of the French expression (after you add a long-e syllable to its end) will sound like a Huddie Ledbetter song title.
What are this French expression, its English translation, and the Ledbetter song title?
Answer:
Bete noire; black beast; “Black Betty”
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THREE:
Name a luxury auto brand. Rotate its middle letter 90 degrees clockwise to form the name of a world capital city whose etymology pertains to entomology. What is this city?
Answer:
Accra, (capital of Ghana; "Accra" comes from the Akan word "Nkran" meaning "ants." ) Acura >> Ac +c+ ra = Accra
FOUR:
Think of a world capital that sounds like the first word of a French expression followed by the first word in the English translation of that expression. The capital’s official name, in its short form (according to Wikipedia), contains three of the same consonant. These three letters form the short form of a hateful hate group. The remaining letters in the capital’s official short-form name can be rearranged to form two words a law officer might want to say upon arresting a member of the group in the act of commiting a hate crime.
What is the short form of the capital's official name? What is the hate group? What might the arresting officer want to say?
Note: An abbreviation of the capital’s official full name (according to Wikipedia) differs from the short form of its official name by one letter. If you remove the same three identical consonants from this abbreviated name, you can rearrange the remaining letters into two words to describe the arrested member of the hate group after his arrest.
Answer:
The capital is Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Phnom Penh's official name, in its short form, is Krong Chaktomok, according to Wikipedia.
Krong Chaktomok – KKK (Ku Klux Klan) can be rearranged to spell "Gotcha, Moron!"
Note:
“Krong Chaktomuk” is an abbreviation of Phnom Penh's full name. “Moron caught” or "Caught moron" can be spelled by rearranging the letters of “Krong Chaktomuk” – "KKK"
FIVE:
Think of a familiar French expression in three words, containing 3 letters, 2 letters, and 5 letters, respectively. Take the standard translation, in French, of the English word “seated” which sounds like the 4-letter English-word answer to all the following crossword clues: “On open waters,” “Completely lost,” “Traversing the deep” and “Fishing, perhaps.”
Place the the second and third words of the 3-word familiar French expression in front of the French translation of the English word “seated” to form what sounds something like an 4-syllable English word that can follow “Checkbook,” “Gunboat” or “French.”
What is this 4-syllable word?
Answer:
Diplomacy;
(Nom) de plume + assis (French for “seated” which sounds like “asea”) = de plume assis, which sounds something like “Diplomacy.”
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Remove the first half of the name of a global transporter and place a boy’s baby name after the result. Name one of many assets this transportaion company has and place the same name after it. You’ll name two things you might see not in the air (or even on land) but instead in the sea. What are they?
Answer:
flotsam; jetsam; (Aero)flot + Sam; jet + Sam;
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