Friday, July 20, 2018

“Pie? Though I’m partial to peach, to each culture its own” Professional groomers' toolbox; Mourning becomes Electra? Wendy becomes the Windy City! A fifth and a four, an unknown, but no more

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (2!)(6!) SERVED


Schpuzzle of the Week:
“Pie? Though I’m partial to peach, to each culture its own”

Name a kind of pie. 
Remove the first letter and insert a space to name an ingredient in certain traditional Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian dishes, but also in some Peruvian, Italian and French dishes. 
What kind of pie is this?


Appetizers

A  “Blank” Verse Appetizer:
A fifth and a four, an unknown, but no more

Fill in the two blanks in the quatrain below. Explain your choices.

Fifth but not five, 
Not the fourth, instead four,
_______, not _____... 
There aren't any more.



LaNoisseforp Appetizer:
Professional groomers’ toolbox


Certain grooming tools have been sometimes pitched by somewhat famous people involved in a certain profession. 
Spell the 6-letter profession backward to name other tools used for maintaining the efficiency of some of these tools. 
What is the profession? 
What are these maintenance tools?


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Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices:
Mourning becomes Electra? Wendy becomes the Windy City

Will Shortz’s July 15th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, from Sandy Weisz of Chicago, reads:
Name a famous person from Chicago — first and last names. The last name ends in an E. 
Change the E to an I and rearrange the letters in just the last name to get a famous actor — whose first name is the same as the first person’s. 
Who are these people?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices read: 
ENTREE #1:
Name a person from Chicago who is famous in certain circles — first and last names. Rotate the last letter of the last name 90 degrees to form a new letter. Insert two of those letters after the second letter in the last name, then delete the original letter you rotated from the end. 
Replace the first letter of the last name with the letter that is the same distance from the beginning (or the end) of the alphabet (see the Letter Pairs that are Equidistant from the Ends (or the Middle) of the Alphabet chart). The result is the last name of a person whose first name is the same as the first person’s. 
Who are these people?
ENTREE #2:
Name a well-known person from a southwestern state — first and last names. 
Change the I in the last name to an E and add an L, then rearrange the letters in just the last name to get the last name of a character  — whose first name is the same as the famous person’s. 
Both this person and this character (who is portrayed by a well-known actor) have been described as “mavericks.”
Who is this person and what is the name of the character?
ENTREE #3:
Name a famous public servant born in Chicago  — first and last names. Change the first letter of the last name to get the last name of a famous Chicago-born broadcasting pioneer. 
The first name of the public servant is the same as the first name of a king whose story was written more than four centuries ago. 
The first name of the broadcasting pioneer is the same as the first name of a king whose story has yet to be written. 
Who are these people? 
ENTREE #4:
Name a somewhat famous person from a western state  — first and last names.  Rearrange the letters in just the last name to get the last name of a somewhat famous actor/comedian — whose first name begins with the same letter as the first person’s first name. 
Who are these people?
Hint: A pair of other men with those first names are associated with achieving sobriety 

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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28 comments:

  1. Got the pie! Here’s to another luminescent trip around the sun!

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    1. Merci BOW-COO, Word Woman.

      LegoSaysYes"AroundTheSun"YetTheMoonIsAlsoInPlay

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    2. Yes, indeed. Hard to imagine it has been 49 years!

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    3. Is it somebody's birthday today?

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    4. Yes, Joe's! . . .As well as the 49th anniversary of the moon landing.

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  2. As for puzzling success, or I should say, LACK thereof, I've gotten nowhere except for Entree #2, which I just solved about half an hour ago, with a stroke of luck.

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  3. Is it your birthday, WW? Happy birthday to you! And happy Friday(and Tax-Free Weekend)to all! I checked today's puzzles late last night, and already I have Part 2 of the Appetizer and all of the Entrees but #1. Will of course be requiring hints for all others. Unfortunately for most people in my neck of the woods, we're about to have some SEVERE storms coming our way roundabout 9:00 or 10:00 tonight, and then going into Saturday morning. They say there could be a slight possibility of tornadoes, but mostly the winds may do the most damage, if any. Good Lord willin' we won't lose power, but if we do, I sure hope it will be restored sooner than later. All the utility companies in our area are prepared for whatever happens, so we can only hope if anything does go wrong, things will get back to normal shortly. We've got to enjoy the Tax-Free Weekend too, you know! Gotta go now, as my brother Bryan and my nieces should be here any minute now, and then we can decide where to get something for supper! See y'all later(most likely tomorrow)! Pray for us!

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    1. No, thanks, cb, it is Joe’s (Hope you weren’t going for very low-key this year, Joe).

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  4. Ah, well, HAPPY B'DAY, Lego! And oh yeah, the moon landing (I had to goconsult the commemorative cross-stitch that I made decades ago, to be sure!! )

    I forgot to mention above that I'd solved Appetizer 2, as well. But those two are the only ones for me. Sigh.

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  5. My mistake. Happy Birthday Lego! Does this mean you're a year older than I am? I would've guessed you were much older(no offense). They revised our weather forecast BTW. If anything does happen here, it'll be around 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. Sure takes a load off my mind! Although it'll probably be so loud as to wake me up. I'm a very late riser.

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  6. Some Hints:
    SOTW:
    Buying a vowel is not what Puzzlerians! need-oh to do-oh to solve-oh this puzzle... they rather need to sell-oh a consonant! (But if they were to buy-oh a vowel, an "a" or an "i" might be good choices.
    ABVA:
    "Delta, not deltath" might have been added to the quatrain to make it a quintain... but we then would have to allow rounding up to the nearest whole number.
    LNA:
    The 6-letter profession that is spelled backward contains but one vowel.
    ROSS:
    E#1
    I have only recently come to know the "person from Chicago who is famous in certain circles." The two people in the answer are not of the same gender.
    E#4
    The somewhat famous person from the western state is no pauper.

    LegoWhoIsAConstantCompanionOfFeigenbaum...ThoughWeHaveNeverBrokenBread

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  7. I finally got Entree #1, but as for the Schpuzzle, I'm battling-oh zer-oh. Funny you don't have hints for Entrees #2 and #3. I already got the 6-letter profession BTW. Got anything else?

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  8. Some More Hints:
    SOTW:
    Neil Young wrote a song titled "From Hank to Hendrix." You won't need the lyrics to "Purple Haze," "Hey Joe," or "The Wind Cries Mary" to solve this puzzle, but...
    ROSS:
    E#2
    The title of the movie in which the character first appears is a pretty accurate desciption of the entire life of the famous person from the southwestern state.
    E#3
    The public servant was a Democrat. The broadcasting pioneer, who reportedly had an "eye" for the ladies, began voting for Democrats, after his first marriage, according to his first wife.

    LegoAddsItWasPerhapsHank'sMostWellKnownSong

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    1. FInally, finally, finally....re the Schpuzzle. But I wouldn't say ANY of the hints were obvious!! Never in a million years would I have come up with this answer. How did WW do it so fast?

      I am still laughing at pjb's "Battling-oh zer-oh." [ Although I'm sure he was battling, but he was BATTING-oh zer-oh.]

      I've given up on Entrees 1 and 4. Have what I'm sure is a WRONG answer idea (or two) for Appetizer 1.

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    2. Thanks for noticing that, VT. Only after reading your comment did I notice I had done that. At least it's not would and wouldn't. That makes a huge difference!

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  9. Hints 11th Hour:

    ABVA:
    Think of the words "four" and "fifth" as cousins to words (or other entities) that describe themselves, like "pentasyllabic," "word," "noun," "mispelled," "UPPERCASE," "adjectival," and "There are seven words in this sentence."
    ROSS:
    E#1
    The person from Chicago is famous in certain puzzle circles. I am reasonably sure he has met Will Shortz!
    E#4
    The actor/comedian was in the cast of a sitcom that was pretty successful... but it wasn't as good as "Four of a Kind."

    LegoWithAThirtyOneLetterSignOff

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  10. Well, now I have everything but the Schpuzzle, and whatever Jimi Hendrix connection there is I'm certainly not getting. If I knew he had ever mentioned the pie or the ingredient in any song lyrics, they would almost definitely be coming to me right now. But they are not. BTW I've gone through countless lists of pies and information on each cuisine mentioned, and nothing popped out at me as if to say, "This is the answer." One more hint, please, Lego? I got nothing for this one.

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    1. One More Hint:
      Here is what I wrote in my Previous hint to the Schpuzzle:
      SOTW:
      Neil Young wrote a song titled "From Hank to Hendrix." You won't need the lyrics to "Purple Haze," "Hey Joe," or "The Wind Cries Mary" to solve this puzzle, but...
      That ellipsis was the key. The end of the sentence would have read:
      "...one of Hank's songs will surely help you solve it."
      I alluded to this in my "sign-off" when I wrote:
      "LegoAddsItWasPerhapsHank'sMostWellKnownSong"
      In other words, forget Jimi's songs. It was a song by Hank, one of his most famous ones, that will lead you to a solution.

      LegoPredictsThatPatrickBerryWillHaveNoProblemSolvingNextWeek'sSchpuzzleOfTheWeekBecauseItIsACrypticCrosswordThatHeHimselfconstructed!

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  11. Son of a gun I got it! Thanks, Lego! Really cutting it close to the deadline, but I got it! See y'all later, I guarantee!

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  12. CRAWFISH PIE   >>>>  CRAWFISH - C =  RAW FISH

    I’d recently been to a New Orleans party including steamed crawfish or crawdads piled high on newspaper, jambalaya, and CRAWFISH PIE!

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    1. Boiled, not steamed, crawfish. My lobster background is showing.

      Also, that picture of a fish on a plate helps, n'est-ce pas?

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  13. Before the hinting started, all I had was John McCain, and I still don't have the associated movie character.
    Late last night I got:
    Sandy Weisz / Sandy Dennis
    and
    Crawfish / raw fish
    [spellchecker does not approve of crawfish]

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  14. Schpuzzle
    CRAWFISH, RAW FISH
    Appetizer Part 1
    SEVENTH, NOT SEVEN
    Fifth has five letters, five does not;
    Four has four letters, fourth does not;
    Therefore, seventh has seven letters, seven does not.
    "There aren't any more" means no other numbers possess this unique property.
    Appetizer Part 2
    SPORTS, STROPS
    (Although to the best of my knowledge, no sports personality has ever advertised a razor that would require a strop to maintain its efficiency.)
    Menu/Riff-Offs
    1. SANDY WEISZ(who submitted last week's Sunday Puzzle challenge), SANDY DENNIS
    2. (Senator)JOHN McCAIN, JOHN McCLANE(Bruce Willis's character in the "Die Hard" movie series)
    3. (Mayor)RICHARD J. DALEY, WILLIAM S. PALEY
    4. BILL GATES, BOB SAGET
    "Goodbye to Joe(Young), we gotta go, me-oh my-oh/For that's all of the puzzles that we've solved from this guy-oh/From crawfish pie all the way down to folks from Chicago/Son of a gun, we've had big fun, thanks to Lego!"-pjb(apologies to Hank, wherever you are)

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    1. Love the lyrics, cranberry! You ought to be a songwriter.

      Me-ohMy-ohLeg-oh

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  15. So sorry to be so late; was out of town at a medical appt.

    SCHPUZZLE: CRAWFISH => RAW FISH

    APPETIZER 1: A FIFTH of liquor? Four quarts? So: "GALLON, not QUART"? Or perhaps: "WINE, not MILK"?
    Another (desperate) idea: MAY 4th, as in "STAR WARS, not STAR TREK."
    Here's yet another nutty idea: if Prince George hadn't just had a b'day on the 22nd, the answer could be "Louis, not George", because Prince Louis is FIFTH in line to the throne and George WAS four years old (until the other day)

    APPETIZER 2: SPORTS => STROPS

    ENTREE #1: ????

    ENTREE #2: JOHN McCLAIN => JOHN McCLANE (Die Hard)

    ENTREE #3: RICHARD DALEY => WILLIAM PALEY

    ENTREE #4: ??? [I just accidentally spotted pjb's answer to this one above, and am gnashing teeth because I TRIED Bill Gates and even thought of Bob Saget, but never put the two together!

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  16. This week's answers for the record, part 1:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    “Pie? Tho I’m partial to peach, to each culture its own”

    Name a kind of pie. Remove the first letter and insert a space to name an ingredient in certain traditional Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian dishes, but also in Peruvian, Italian and French dishes.
    What kind of pie is this?
    Answer:
    Crawfish pie (as in the Hank Williams song, "Jambalaya")
    ("Raw fish" is an ingredient in Japanese sashimi, Chinese yusheng, Hawaiian poke, Peruvian ceviche, Italian, carpaccio and French tartare.)
    https://guide.michelin.com/hk/en/hong-kong-macau/features/how-to-eat-raw-fish-7-ways/news

    Appetizer Menu

    A “Blank” Verse Appetizer
    A fifth and a four, an unknown, but no more

    Fill in the two blanks in the quatrain below. Explain your choices.
    Fifth but not five,
    Not the fourth, instead four,
    _______, not _____...
    There aren't any more.
    Answer:
    Fifth but not five,
    Not the fourth, instead four,
    SEVENTH, not SEVEN...
    There aren't any more.
    When you spell out the cardinal and ordinal words for any integer, only three words contain the exact number of letters that corresponds with the value of its integer: Fifth = 5; Four = 4; Seventh = 7.

    LaNoisseforp Appetizer:
    Professional groomers toolbox

    Certain grooming tools have been sometimes pitched by somewhat famous people involved in a certain profession.
    Spell the 6-letter profession backward to name other tools used for maintaining the efficiency of some of these tools.
    What is the profession?
    What are these maintenance tools?
    Answer: Sports; Strops (used to sharpen shaving razor blades)

    Lego...

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  17. This week's answers for the record, part 2:

    MENU

    Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices:
    Mourning becomes Electra? Wendy becomes the Windy City!
    ENTREE #1:
    Name a person from Chicago who is famous in certain circles — first and last names. Rotate the last letter of the last name 90 degrees to form a new letter. Insert two of those letters after the second letter in the last name, then delete the original letter you rotated from the end.
    Replace the first letter of the last name with the letter that is the same distance from the beginning (or the end) of the alphabet (see the Letter Pairs that are Equidistant from the Ends (or the Middle) of the Alphabet chart). The result is the last name of a person whose first name is the same as the first person’s first name.
    Answer:
    Sandy Weisz; Sandy Dennis
    ENTREE #2:
    Name a famous person from a southwestern state — first and last names. Change the I in the last name to an E and add an L, then rearrange the letters in just the last name to get the name of a character — whose first name is the same as the famous person’s. Both this person and this character (who is portrayed by a famous actor) have been described as “mavericks.”
    Who is this person and what is the name of the character?
    Answer:
    (Senator) John McCain; John McClane (from the "Die Hard" movie series)
    ENTREE #3:
    Name a famous public servant born in Chicago — first and last names. Change the first letter of the last name to get the last name of a famous Chicago-born broadcasting pioneer. The first name of the public servant is the same as the first name of a king whose story was written more than four centuries ago. The first name of the broadcasting pioneer is the same as the first name of a king whose story has still to be written. Who are these people?
    Answer:
    (Mayor) Richard Daley; William Paley
    (Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593. The story of King William V is yet to be written.)
    ENTREE #4:
    Name a somewhat famous person from a western state — first and last names. Rearrange the letters in just the last name to get the last name of a somewhat famous actor/comedian — whose first name begins with the same letter as the first person’s. Who are these people?
    Hint: A pair of other men with those first names are associated with achieving sobriety
    Answer:
    Bill Gates; Bob Saget
    Hint: This true story was also made into a play.

    Lego...

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