Friday, August 31, 2018

Swinging far north of Mendoza; Statuettes of illimitation? “Dominicknames!” Operoxymoretta

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 7!/3 SERVED 



Schpuzzle of the Week:
Statuettes of illimitation? 

Name a winner of multiple Oscar statuettes, first and last names. 
Replace the first letter of the last name with an “r”. The last 6 letters of the result spell a tool of this multiple Academy Award winner’s trade. 
The first 4 letters spell something others do to win Oscars. 
Who is this Oscar winner? 


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Round Ball? Round Bat? Hit It Squarely! Appetizer: 
Swinging far north of Mendoza

Take just the first name of perhaps one of the best hitters in major league baseball history. 
Remove one letter. 
The result is a prefix pertaining to certain body parts that are vital to superior hitting. 
Who is this hitter?

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Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
“Dominicknames!”

Will Shortz’s August 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dominick Talvacchio of Chicago, reads:
Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains a body part. The musician has a single-word nickname that anagrams to a different body part. Who is this musician, and what is the nickname?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains the plural form of a body part and whose first name has a syllable that sounds like a second body part. This musician was once a member of a group of youngsters who were associated with the last name’s body part.
The musician has a single-word nickname that, when you remove its last letter, anagrams to a third body part. The musician has another single-word nickname, one that sounds like a slang term for a body part. 
Who is this musician? Of what group of youngsters was the musician a member? What are the musician’s two nicknames that have connections to body parts?

ENTREE #2:
Think of a not-so-well-known musician – one who is known to most fans only by the middle name, a middle name that contains a body part. The musician’s last single record that charted (in the early 1970’s) contained a lyric about something that “tasted good.” 
Too much of that “good-tasting something,” however, might well have a detrimental effect on the body part contained in the middle name. 
Who is this musician and what is the title of the single recording that sold well enough to make the charts? 
And just what was it that tasted so good?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains a body part. 
The musician wrote the song in ENTREE #2 that contained the lyric about something that “tasted good.” 
Combine and rearrange the letters in the musician’s first name plus the letters in the non-body-part part of the last name to spell a 4-letter word used in the title of two of the musician’s compilation albums plus a 2-word title (in 5 and 2 letters) of two albums released by other artists in 1970, just as the musician began receiving widespread and worldwide acclaim as a singer-songwriter.
Who is this musician? What is the word in the title of two of the musician’s compilation albums? What is the title of two albums released by other artists in 1970?

ENTREE #4:
Think of a moderately well-known musician with single-word nickname that is also a common 4-letter word for a particular class of warm-blooded vertibrates. 
Take the combined letters of the musician’s first and last names and change an “e” to an “h”.
Rearrange the result to form two 4-letter members of that class and one 5-letter word for a sound they make. 
Who is this musician, what is the class of vertibrates, what are the two members of the class, and what sound do they make?

ENTREE #5:
Name of a puzzle-maker whose last name contains the middle name of a well-known American and a Greek letter (in its spelled-out form). Replace an “h” in the puzzle-maker’s last name with an “l”. Combine the letters of this result with the letters in the puzzle-maker’s first name. Rearrange these combined letters to form an oxymoronic 3-word phrase consisting of two adjectives and a noun that begin, respectively, with an “i”, “a” and “c”.  
Who is this puzzle-maker, and what is the 3-word oxymoronic phrase?


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Libretto’d Dessert:
Operoxymoretta

Take the English translation of an operetta title, in three words. 
Put a “d” sound at the end of one of the words to form what sounds like an oxymoronic phrase. 
What is this title?

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25 comments:

  1. Greetings from(usually)beautiful Ft. Walton Beach, FL! We got rained on off and on getting here, and weather-wise we may have picked the wrong time to come anyway. Once I got the Wi-Fi working for both Kindles, I managed to solve everything but the Appetizer and Entree #5(though I know who the puzzlemaker is, it's a very tricky anagram). But I didn't totally strike out in the oxymoron department. I did manage to figure out the Dessert, despite knowing virtually nothing about operettas. I'm sure ViolinTeddy will get that one right off the bat. I look forward to whatever good hints you can offer for the ones I don't have, Lego. I'm not sure what we'll actually be doing here if it does rain most of the time. Some of our group may go see a movie. They've done it before. Mom and I are heading out now to get some supper. Will talk to you again soon. Happy upcoming Labor Day, BTW!

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    1. In the ROSATS ENTREE #5, the adjective beginning with an “i” in the oxymoronic 3-word phrase actually modifies a 2-word object that begins with the “a” and “c”. Think of “a” and “c” as one entity that the “i”-adjective defines.
      The object is a wonderfully precise instrument, but the “i”-adjective calls that precision into question, thereby rendering the three-word phrase oxymoronic.
      In the Appetizer, the hitter is not exactly Babe Ruth. Of every 100 hits he made, fewer that 4 were round-trippers.

      LegoWhoAlsoHasMadeFewRoundTripsAroundTheBasesIndeedAllHeCouldManageWasAOneWayTickerToPalookaville!

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  2. Am just checking in for the first time today; had no time to do so in the wee hours of last night. So I haven't read anything yet, but do see the entrees are all about musicians. This should thus be fun...UNLESS of course, they are all the kinds of musicians I've never heard of (which kind everyone hear knows what I mean)....so on to the fun! Maybe I'll start with the Operetta, since pjb thinks I'll get it right away....

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    1. Ooh, I think I DID Just solve the dessert!!

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    2. Actually, ViolinTeddy, "hear" did seem to make some sense in the context of these music puzzles.
      Congrats of the Dessert triumph. I thought of you when I wrote that puzzle.

      LegoSays"LookHearPuzzlerians!Let'sHereItForVT!"

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    4. Aw, I am touched, Lego. In truth, I've never actually seen that operetta.

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    5. VT, Perhaps, but I'll bet you could have performed its music.

      Yes, indeed. Paul... by the late great Enrico Caroce!

      LegoWhoIsNoOperettaMan

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  3. So far, I can only name one musician who released an album with a certain catch-phrase for a title, but I've soled everything else connected with it. Maybe if I slow down and refine my search methods, I'll come up with the other one at the last minute.

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  5. I'm stuck on Entree 5 also, but solved everything else. #2 took forever to research, and it had me completely stumped until I began researching for #3, then things worked out. Yay!

    Also, I had gotten lucky and found the Appetizer person [after yet more research], whom (as I always say), I'd never heard of.

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  6. Lego, might the H in #Entree 5 actually be replaced by an L, not an I, to make the intended anagram?

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    1. cranberry, You are correct. I am very sorry!
      Thank you for your correction.
      LegoInShame!

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    2. BTW anything else about the Appetizer, Lego?

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    3. This hitter has REALLY a lot of hits. When a young man he rode a Wave, then sailed eastward and continued paddling base hits until he became ancient... well, relatively ancient.
      He was a fine fielder also.

      LegoWhoIsHandingOverAnotherHint

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    4. OK, let's look at it from another angle: Is there any hint you could provide about the prefix? The only real prefix I can think of that can possibly come from dropping one letter from a first name and apply in this puzzle at all has not really given me a famous ballplayer's name. Lego, I realize you may be a big baseball fan, but even if I were too, I would be growing so tired of it by now. No offense.

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    5. Practor. Podist. Mancy.

      LegoTweets"CheerUpIt'sNotLikeSolvingWordPuzzlesIsManualLabor"

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  7. I think the baseball player is Tris Speaker and the body parts are triceps.

    "Oliver" came to mind fairly easily when thinking about 60's-70's singers with one name; I didn't know it was his middle name, but "liver" checked out as a body part that can be damaged by overindulgence in something ingested.
    Early Morning Rain; liquor tasted good; Gordon Lightfoot; Gold; Right On; Wilson Pickett; and, finally, in the midnight hour, I searched out The Supremes (minus Diana Ross).

    INVALID ATOMIC CLOCK

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  8. SCHPUZZLE: EDITH HEAD => THREAD & EDIT

    APPETIZER: TRIS [SPEAKER] => TRI [CEPS]

    ENTREE #1: BRITNEY SPEARS; BRIT => RIB; PINKEY

    ENTREE #2: OLIVER SWOFFORD [LIVER] Song: "EARLY MORNING RAIN"; LIQUOR

    ENTREE #3: GORDON LIGHTFOOT => GOLD & "RIGHT ON" [The Supremes and Wilson Pickett?]

    ENTREE #4: BIRD => CHARLIE PARKER => LARK, RHEA, CHIRP


    DESSERT: THE MERRY(D) WIDOW

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  9. Schpuzzle
    EDITH HEAD(costume designer), THREAD, EDIT
    Appetizer
    ICHIRO SUZUKI(just got it), CHIRO(hands)
    Menu/Riff-Offs
    1. BRITNEY SPEARS(Mickey Mouse Club), BRIT(RIB), KNEE, EARS
    2. OLIVER(SWOFFORD), LIVER. He covered Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain", in which he sang of liquor tasting good.
    3. GORDON LIGHTFOOT, FOOT, GOLD(Gord's Gold, Vols. 1 and 2), RIGHT ON(Wilson Pickett and the Supremes)
    4. CHARLIE "BIRD" PARKER(LARK, RHEA, CHIRP)
    5. DOMINICK TALVACCHIO, "INVALID ATOMIC CLOCK"
    Dessert
    THE MERRY WIDOW("The Married Widow")
    One more oxymoronic phrase: President Trump(or would that be simply "moronic"?).-pjb

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  10. This weeks answers for the record, part 1:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Statuettes of illimitation?
    Name a winner of multiple Oscar statuettes, first and last names. Replace the first letter of the last name with an “r”. The last 6 letters of the result spell a tool of this multiple Academy Award winner’s trade, and the first 4 letters spell something others do to win Oscars.
    Who is this Oscar winner?
    Answer:
    Edith Head (edit; thread)

    Appetizer Menu

    Round Ball? Round Bat? Hit It Squarely! Appetizer:
    Swinging far north of Mendoza

    Take just the first name of perhaps one of the best hitters in major league baseball history. Remove one letter. The result is a prefix pertaining to certain body parts that are vital to superior hitting.
    Who is this hitter?
    Answer: Ichiro Suzuki; (Ichiro - I = chiro)

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    Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
    “Dominicknames!”
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
    ENTREE #1:
    Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains the plural form of a body part and whose first name has a syllable that sounds like a second body part. This musician was once a member of a group of youngsters who were associated with the last name’s body part.
    The musician has a single-word nickname that, when you remove its last letter, anagrams to a third body part. The musician has another single-word nickname, one that sounds like a slang term for a body part.
    Who is this musician? Of what group of youngsters was the musician a member? What are the musician’s two nicknames?
    Answer:
    Britney Spears;
    The Mickey Mouse Club, whose early members, called Mouseketeers, wore mouse ears;
    Brit, Pinkey;
    ENTREE #2:
    Think of a not-so-well-known musician known to most fans only by the middle name, which contains a body part. The musician’s last single record that charted (in the early 1970’s) contained a lyric about something that “tasted good.” Too much of that “good-tasting something,” however, might well have a detrimental effect on the body part contained in the middle name.
    Who is this musician and the the title of the single recording that sold enough to make the charts? And just what was it that tasted so good?
    Answer:
    Oliver; liquor

    Lego...

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  11. This weeks answers for the record, part 2:

    Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
    “Dominicknames!
    (continued)
    ENTREE #3:
    Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains a body part. The musician wrote the song in ENTREE #2 that contained the lyric about something that “tasted good.” Combine and rearrange the letters in the musician’s first name plus the non-body-part part of the last name to spell a 4-letter word in the title of two of the musician’s compilation albums plus a 2-word title (in 5 and 2 letters) of two albums released by other artists in 1970, just as the musician began receiving widespread and worldwide acclaim as a singer-songwriter.
    Who is this musician? What is the word in the title of two of the musician’s compilation albums? What is the title of two albums released by other artists in 1970?
    Answer:
    Gordon Lightfoot; (Gord's) Gold; "Right On" (the title of albums released by both The Supremes and Wilson Pickett in 1970)
    ENTREE #4:
    Think of a moderately well-known musician with single-word nickname that anagrams to a common 4-letter word for a particular class of warm-blooded vertibrates.
    Take the combined letters of the musician’s first and last names and change an “e” to an “h”.
    Rearrange the result to form two 4-letter members of that class and one 5-letter word for a sound they make.
    Who is this musician, what is the class of vertibrates, what are the two members of the class, and what sound do they make?
    Answer:
    Charlie Parker; Bird; Lark, rhea; chirp
    ENTREE #5:
    Name of a puzzle-maker whose last name contains the middle name of a well-known American and a Greek letter in its spelled-out form. Replace an “h” in the puzzle-maker’s last name with an “i”. Combine the letters of this result with the letters in the puzzle-maker’s first name. Rearrange these combined letters to form an oxymoronic 3-word phrase consisting of two adjectives and a noun that begin, respectively, with an “i”, “a” and “c”.
    Who is this puzzle-maker, and what is the 3-word oxymoronic phrase?
    Answer:
    Dominick Talvacchio (of Chicago); Invalid Atomic Clock

    Dessert Menu:

    Libretto’d Dessert:
    Operoxymoretta

    Take the English translation of an operetta title, in three words. Put a “d” sound at the end of one of the words to form what sounds like an oxymoronic phrase. What is this title?
    Answer:
    The Merry Widow (The married widow)

    Lego...

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