Friday, August 3, 2018

Filling a cuplet five-sixths full; “Those amazin’ metatheses!” Simmernonymous fun in the summertime; Does Penny pocket “citrus and sugar” coin?

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



Schpuzzle of the Week:
Simmernonymous fun in the summertime

Remove 5 letters from what someone sometimes does during summer. 
Spell the remaining letters backward to form a synonym of that word. 
Hint: Rearrange the removed letters and add an “s” to the end to name what might be an impediment to this summer pastime. 
What are these two synonyms?
And, for extra credit, what is the impediment?  


Appetizer Menu

Entrepreneurial Ledger-Domain Appetizer:
Does Penny pocket “citrus and sugar” coin?

Three pennies
A nickel and three pennies
A dime and a penny.
These three amounts represent three numerals – 3, 8 and 11 – that 7-year-old lemonade stand entrepreneur Penny Nichols recorded one morning in her ledger book, either as a debit in red at the left of the page or a credit in black at the right. 
In no particular order, the amounts represent:
1. an expense, paid to her parents, for three lemons
2. an expense, paid to a neighbor lady, for three-quarters-cup of sugar
3. a profit for selling one cup of lemonade, including a penny tip for Penny's good service
Penny had paid for the lemons and sugar with coins she rattled out from the top slot of her piggy bank. She made her parents and neighbor lady sign homemade receipts, which she promptly tucked away in the back of her ledger book.
At noon, Penny takes a break after a morn’s-worth of “toiling” at these “citrus and sugar mines.” While sipping on a splash of her inventory, she proceeds to pool the morning’s cash and receipts, checking to ensure they jibe with her ledger entries. They do.
What is the price of a cup of lemonade at Penny’s stand?
Of the three numerals Penny entered, which two are “in the red” and which one is “in the black”? 
Did Penny finish the morning in the red, in the black, or did she break even?
Essential Hint: There is one word in the text of this puzzle that is the sole key to solving it. A word in the puzzle’s title – “Penny pockets ‘citrus and sugar’ coin” – hints at this key word.

Blank Verse Appetizer:
Filling a cuplet five-sixths full

If you  ____ someone off they may send you to  ____.
You may pay and get sprung though... until you  ____ ____.

Spoonerize the missing words in the first line of this couplet (in anapestic tetrameter) to produce the missing words in the second line, thereby completing the couplet. 
What are these four words?
Note: For the purposes of this puzzle, to “spoonerize” means to switch the beginning sounds of the two missing words in the first line to produce the two missing words in the second line.)


MENU

Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:
“Those amazin’ metatheses!”

Will Shortz’s July 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Oshin of Portland, Oregon, reads:
Think of a familiar two-word phrase in 8 letters – with 4 letters in each word. The first word starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word, which, amazingly, other than the M, doesn’t share any sounds with the original two-word phrase. What phrase is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices read: 
ENTREE #1:
Think of a somewhat familiar 8-letter noun. Move the fifth letter to the end and you’ll get, amazingly, a synonym of the 8-letter noun. What synonyms are these?

ENTREE #2:
Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase – with 4 letters in each word – that might characterize an angry mob’s motivation. The first word starts with M, the second with an R. Move the R to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word which, not-so-amazingly, is a noun naming the subtly manipulative role a mob’s ringleader might play in stirring up of the mob’s emotions. 
What phrase is it? What noun is it?

ENTREE #3:
“We ____ ____ make it our personal responsibility.”
“You ____ ____ decide in your heart how much to give.” 
“We have never preached violence, except the violence of love ... that we ____ ____ do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us.”
Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase with 4 letters in each word that fills in the two blanks in each of the three quotations above  which were, in no particular order, spoken by Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador in a homily, spoken by President Ronald Reagan in a radio address, and written by St. Paul (or perhaps his trusted sidekick Timothy), in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians (New Living Translation). 
The first word in the phrase starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter noun, which, not-so-amazingly, was sported by neither Romero nor Reagan but was likely sported by Paul according to iconography (the jury is still out on Timothy).  
What phrase is it? 
What did Reagan and Romero not sport that Paul did and Timothy might have sported?

ENTREE #4:
Think of two 4-letter words: 
1. A feature of a horse that judges consider during showmanship events at horse shows, and 
2. What judges do regarding that feature.  
The first word starts with an M, the second with an R. 
Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter singular noun which, not-at-all-amazingly, does not pertain to horses but does sometimes pertain to “lions and tigers and bears, oh...!” (oh well, you know how it ends... and it doesn’t end well!). 
What 8-letter noun is this?

ENTREE #5:
Take the letters in the first and last names of a puzzlemaker who is an apparent fan of the Tour de France (or perhaps of the ballet or gymkhana) who hails from the Great Northwest. 
(My thanks to ron for the Tour de France insight.)  
Rearrange these letters to form a 2-word phrase that indicates something that largely doesn’t exist (at least where tonsure is practiced – as it was at Erfurt, Germany during the early 16th century)
Who is this Great Northwesterner?
Hint: I just became aware of this puzzlemaker less than a week ago. 

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.

15 comments:

  1. Howdy for a Friday evening. I haven't had a chance yet to read the entire new P!, because it wasn't up late last night. But I am amused to tell you that I figured out the Schpuzzle while I was lying in an MRI machine! Was doing all I could to distract myself from the noise (very audible even with ear plugs AND earphones playing classical music), but I had remembered the Schpuzzle slightly wrong: thought one had to remove 8 letters, so I didn't have it quite right. Am pleased to get home and see it was only 5 letters to take out, so then that works. : o )

    On to the rest!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Happy Friday everyone! I never saw this week's edition appear late last night either. When I did see it for the first time earlier today, I almost didn't think I'd be able to solve anything! But I eventually got the Schpuzzle(I think. My answer sounds logical, but I'm not totally sure it's the intended answer.), Appetizer Part 2, and all the Riff-Offs except #1 and #5(The Tour de France? Gymkhana? Erfurt, Germany? WTF?!). I can't believe I actually solved an entire Prize Crossword with Daphne du Maurier as its theme, but you've got the tougher puzzles here! HINTS PLEASE LEGO!
    BTW they're talking about going back to the condo in FL this next week, so when I do reveal my answers Wednesday, I may be there. Then, after we come back Sunday, I have a doctor's appointment Monday and a dental appointment Tuesday! I hope I can find the time to do next Friday's Puzzleria!, as I'll probably be very tired by Tuesday night(even though I will have asked for the nitrous oxide that day). I'll certainly do my best!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Amish fellow overcomes hayfield obstacle, disguises himself, and gets a job driving truck for Quaker.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. He jumped over a bale, stopped shaving his upper lip, and got a job haulin' oats. No hints there, just confusion.

      I guessed fairly early that the stuff in short supply in 16th century Erfurt was "monk's hair", but it took a while to figure out the name it anagrams to. Lego has done this a few times now, but I'm a little slow on the uptake.

      Delete
    2. Great links, Paul. (I especially love "Driving Truck for Quaker," your new name for the Philly soulster duo!)
      Yes, my go-to hint in recent weeks has been something like "I learned of this puzzlemaker just very recently."

      LegoWhoNowWondersIfTimothyWasPerhapsAmish

      Delete
  4. HINTS:

    SOTW:
    Summertime Phosphorescent Fun
    ABOELDA:
    The word in the puzzle title – “Penny pockets ‘sugar and citrus’ coin” – that hints at the "key word" begins with a P. (Come to think of it, that's what the key word begins with also!)
    BVA:
    Two of the words rhyme with a U.S. VP surname. The other two words rhyme with a U.S. POTUS.
    ROSAOS:
    ENTREE #1:
    Chuck Yeager... Now there was a he-man!
    ENTREE #2:
    The 8-letter noun is a person who performs a verb's action... something that might be done on one's ego, for example.
    ENTREE #3:
    It seems that St. Paul sported both a goatee and a...
    ENTREE #4:
    Hall & Oates
    ENTREE #5:
    The "Amazin' Metatheses" image is a hint, especially as to "Erfurt." (Note the top of the hammer-holder's head.)
    I was not aware of this puzzlemaker before a week ago. Speaking of hammering, I believe ron hit the nail on the head when he hinted on Blaine's blog that the Tour de France may have been the inspiration for a recent NPR puzzle.

    LegoWhoOnceMetHammerin'HankAaronInPersonWhenHe(MeNotHenry)WasAKid

    ReplyDelete
  5. I already had gotten Entrees #2, 3 and 4 (like pjb), but the hint above just gave me Appetizer #2. (I guessed correctly, right off the bat, and bingo, it fell out immediately.)

    I am worried that my answer for Appetizer #1 seems too obvious, which leads me to believe said apparent answer probably isn't right, though for the life of me, I don't know why.

    Now must try to figure out Entrees 1 and 5.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. VT,
      In the Schpuzzle of the Week, the something that "someone sometimes does during summer" is a 2-syllable word. its synonym is a short 1-syllable word. The removed letters are rearranged to form a 2-syllable impediment.
      In Entree #1, the "somewhat familiar 8-letter noun" begins with an M. One of the synonyms ends with an M, the other ends with an O.
      In Entree #5, apparent fan of the Tour de France (or perhaps of the ballet or gymkhana) who hails from the Great Northwest is a puzzlemaker of whom I was not aware before a week ago.

      LegoNotesThatTheJeffersonAirplaneOnceDidThisAtBaxter's

      Delete
    2. Please see my comment below, Lego, because I had already solved Entree #5.

      Then I didn't understand why you gave more hints (to ME) about the Schpuzzle, because (please see my very FIRST comment at the beginning of the comments this week), I had solved that too, to my own amusement.

      Delete
    3. Happy day, your Entree #1 hint just gave it to me (when combining it with the prior #1 hint)...thank you.

      Delete
  6. I think I just solved #5. Although I'm still not sure I quite 'get it.'

    ReplyDelete
  7. SCHPUZZLE: SUNBATHE => TAN; EXTRA: SUBHE => BUSHES

    APPETIZER #1: 3 AND 8 ARE IN THE RED (for lemons and sugar), and 11 is her money received, TEN CENTS for the lemonade and the EXTRA PENNY. SHE BROKE EVEN.

    APPETIZER #2: BUMP JAIL => JUMP BAIL

    ENTREE #1: MACHOISM => MACHISMO

    ENTREE #2: MASS RAGE => MASSAGER

    ENTREE #3: MUST EACH => MUSTACHE

    ENTREE #4: MANE RATE => MANEATER

    ENTREE #5: MARK OSHIN -> MONKS' HAIR

    ReplyDelete
  8. BTW we postponed our Florida trip until the last week of August going into Labor Day.
    Schpuzzle
    SUNBATHES, TANS, BUSHES
    Appetizer #2
    BUMP, JAIL, JUMP BAIL
    Menu/Riff-Offs
    1. MACHOISM, MACHISMO
    2. MASS RAGE, MASSAGER
    3. MUST EACH, MUSTACHE
    4. MANE, RATE, MANEATER
    5. MARK OSHIN(last week's Sunday Puzzle contributor), MONK'S HAIR
    To paraphrase another Hall & Oates song, you're NOT out of touch, but I am out of time!-pjb

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Simmernonymous fun in the summertime
    Remove 5 letters from what someone sometimes does during summer. Spell the remaining letters backward to form a synonym of that word.
    Rearrange the removed letters and add an “s” to the end to name what might be an impediment to this summer pastime.
    What are these two synonyms and the impediment?
    Answer:
    Sunbathes, tans; bushes

    Appetizer Menu

    A Bit Of Entrepreneurial Ledger-Domain Appetizer:
    Penny pockets “sugar and citrus” coin
    Three pennies. A nickel and three pennies. A dime and a penny.
    These three amounts represent three numerals – 3, 8 and 11 – that 7-year-old Penny Nichols, lemonade stand entrepreneur, recorded one morning in her ledger book as either a debit in red at the left of the page or a credit in black at the right.
    In no particular order, the amounts represent:
    1. an expense, paid to her parents, for three lemons
    2. an expense, paid to a neighbor lady, for a three-quarters-cup of sugar
    3. a profit for selling one cup of lemonade, including a penny tip for Penny's good service
    Penny had paid for the lemons and sugar with coins she rattled out from the top slot of her piggy bank. She made her parents and neighbor lady sign homemade receipts, which she promptly tucked away in the back of her ledger book.
    At noon, Penny takes a break after a morn of “toiling” in these “sugar and citrus mines.” While sipping on a splash of her inventory, she proceeds to pool the morning's cash and receipts, checking to ensure they jibe with her ledger entries.
    What is the price of a cup of lemonade at Penny’s stand?
    Of the three numerals Penny entered, which two are “in the red” and which one is “in the black”?
    Did Penny finish the morning in the red, in the black, or break even?
    Hint: There is one word in the text of this puzzle that is the sole key to solving it. A word in the puzzle title – “Penny pockets ‘sugar and citrus’ coin” – hints at this word.
    Answer:
    7 cents;
    3 and 11 were entered in red as debits, and 8 was entered in black as a credit
    Penny finished 6 cents in the red: 8 cents in profits minus (3+11 = 14) cents in debits
    Hint: The word is "pool" is the sole key for solving the puzzle. The 8 appears "in the black" on the black 8 ball. The 3 and 11 appear "in the red" on the red 3 and 11 balls.

    Lego...

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

    Blank Verse Appetizer:
    A cuplet five-sixths full
    If you ____ someone off they may send you to ____.
    You may pay to get sprung though ... until you ____ ____.
    Spoonerize the missing words in the first line of this couplet to produce the missing words in the second line, thereby completing the couplet.
    What are these four words?
    Note: To “spoonerize,” in this case, means to switch the beginning sounds of the two missing words to produce the missing words in the second line.)
    Answer:
    bump, jail;
    jump bail

    MENU

    Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:
    “Those amazin’ metatheses!”
    ENTREE #1:
    Think of a somewhat familiar 8-letter noun. Move the fifth letter to the end and you’ll get, amazingly, a synonym of the 8-letter noun. What synonyms are these?
    Answer:
    Machismo; Machoism
    ENTREE #2:
    Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase – with 4 letters in each word – that might characterize an angry mob’s motivation. The first word starts with M, the second with an R. Move the R to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word which, not-so-amazingly, is a noun that might characterize the perhaps subtle role of mob’s ringleader regarding stirring up the emotions of the mob. What phrase is it? What noun is it?
    Answer:
    Mass Rage; Massager (as in, a manipulator of simmering anger in the masses, which may lead to a boiling raging mob scene)
    ENTREE #3:
    “We ____ ____ make it our personal responsibility.”
    “You ____ ____ decide in your heart how much to give.”
    “We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a
    cross, the violence that we ____ ____ do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel
    inequalities among us.”
    Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase in 8 letters – with 4 letters in each word that fills in the two blanks in each of the three quotations above, which were, in no particular order, spoken by Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador in a homily and by President Ronald Reagan in a radio address, and written by St. Paul (or perhaps his trusted sidekickTimothy), in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians (New Living Translation).
    The first word in the phrase starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word, which, not-so-amazingly, was sported by neither Romero nor Reagan but was likely sported by Paul according to iconography (the jury is still out on Timothy).
    What phrase is it? What did Reagan and Romero not sport?
    Answer:
    Must each; mustache
    “We ____ ____ make it our personal responsibility.” – Ronald Reagan, Jan. 1, 1983
    “You ____ ____ decide in your heart how much to give.” – 2 Corinthians 9:7 NLT
    “We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a
    cross, the violence that we ____ ____ do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel
    inequalities among us.” – Oscar Romero, from "The Violence of Love"
    ENTREE #4:
    Think of two 4-letter words:
    1. A feature of a horse that judges consider during showmanship events at a horse shows, and
    2. What the judge must do regarding that feature. The first word starts with M, the second with an R.
    Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word which, not-at-all-amazingly, does not pertain to horses but does sometimes pertain to “lions and tigers and bears, oh...” well, you know.
    What two words are these?
    Answer:
    Mane, rate; (maneater)
    ENTREE #5:
    Rearrange the letters in a puzzlemaker’s name, first and last, to form a 2-word phrase that largely doesn’t exist as the result of tonsure. Who is this puzzlemaker?
    Answer:
    Mark Oshin of Portland, Oregon
    MARK OSHIN >> MONK'S HAIR, most of which doesn't exist as the result of tonsure.

    Lego...

    ReplyDelete