Friday, October 26, 2018

“Paging Dr. Gastropodiatrist” Bases ain’t all that’s loaded! Portuguese man o’ wordplay; Shish-kabalphabobets on the griddle; Enigmatic transmissions in a five-car garage

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 7!/3 SERVED


Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Portuguese man o’ wordplay  

Complete the following sentence with five additional words: 
“What’s boa for the Portuguese...” 
The final word is a 12-letter plural proper noun. 
What is this noun?
Complete the entire ten-word sentence.


Appetizer Menu


Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Enigmatic transmissions in a five-car garage

🥁1. Name a popular website in three words. Take the initials of the first and last words, with the second word still in the middle, to name a car manufacturer in one word.

🥁2. Name an explorer whose first name sounds like a car model and whose last name sounds like a telecommunications company.


🥁3. Think of a current car brand in six letters. Change the first letter to an R and rearrange to name a former car brand.

🥁4. Think of a high-end car brand in seven letters. Drop the last letter and rearrange to name a genre of literature.


🥁5. Think of a comedian, first and last names, five and five letters. Drop a vowel from the first name and the last two letters of the last name and rearrange to name a car brand by Hyundai.

Doctor Do Lots Not Little Appetizer:
“Paging the Gastropodiatrist”

Add three letters to the beginning of a singular noun and you’ll name a mollusk. 
Add two letters to the end of the noun’s plural form and you’ll name what some doctors do. 
Form a new five-letter word by reversing the order of those two added letters and placing the three added letters to the left of them. 
This new word is something sometimes heard during the plural noun. 
What are the singular and plural forms of the noun?
What is sometimes heard during the noun’s plural form?


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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Shish-kabalphabobets on the griddle

Will Shortz’s October 21st  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Take the 9 letters of BEER MOUTH. Arrange them in a 3x3 array so that the three lines Across, three lines Down, and both diagonals spell common 3-letter words. Can you do it?
Note: For Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices this week, the solver is challenged to fill in each entree’s 3x3  grid with six words – 3 across and 3 down (no diagonal word clues) – and then arrange those nine letters to form either a two-word phrase or single word. 
Clues, in no particular order, will be provided for the six 3-letter words. 
A seventh clue will be given for the 9-letter word formed from all letters in the grid:  
ENTREE #1:
1. Dynamic ___
2. Syllable that follows “Gator” but not “Kool”
3. “Sunny” syllable on the scale
4. They often accompany “oohs!”
5. ___ and cry
6. Slippery critter
7. One of several tiny pests infesting one’s hair (2 words)

ENTREE #2:
1. Itsy-bitsy
2. Saint’s aura, according to a Cockney
3. Norse goddess of the nether regions
4. Hip hop pioneers from L.A.
5. Home of the Lightning, Knights, Flames and Flyers (abbr.)
6. Hoover, Obama or Clinton, according to the stars
7. Harvest holiday when the reaping is grim (1 word)

ENTREE #3:
1. Vladimir Nabokov title
2. “And I Love ___” by the Beatles
3. Skylark or Nightingale verse
4. “Sheepish” exclamation of disgust?
5. “The Christians and the Pagans” singer Williams
6. Physique, for slangy short
7. Wooden bed part (1 word)

ENTREE #4:
1. Blue party (abbr.)
2. Marshy marshy marshy mire
3. “Thriller” follow-up
4. Dame’s leg
5. Mined material
6. Coach Parseghian
7. Go, Risk, Operation, or Battleship, Sorry! (2 words)

ENTREE #5:
1. Sound made by Cockney geese?
2. Game, ___, Match!
3. ___ story, a tale of woe
4. “Music for Airports” composer Brian
5. How the “Thrilla in Manila” ended
6. Word heard in the midst of hisses or hobgoblins 
7. Longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history (1 word)

ENTREE #6:
1. Island chain?
2. Euphemism that sounds like a “podded plant”
3. An “alive” hill, according to Maria von Trapp
4. TED, Dragon Dictation or Candy Crush Saga, for example
5. Something found in a cushion
6. A cygnet’s parent or the enclosure she may be in
7. Inverted-cake ingredient (1 word)

ENTREE #7:
1. Prefix with -colonialism or -classical
2. Drink brewed from malted barley’s common ingredients
3. “The English guys with the big fiddles” 
4. “Bad actor” who might “co-star” with a “good egg”
5. Cow talk
6. One of many layers?
7. Movie title marketed partially with “The Scream” (2 words)

ENTREE #8:
1. Word preceding “Lobos” or “Lonely Boys”
2. Put plates and utensils on a table
3. “Prefix” for a Pacific state that has four sides, kind of
4. What a strong indoor miler does to the field
5. A kitten, for example, or what you might do to it
6. Pirates’ favorite verb?
7. A fresh one costs about 3 cents, according to florists (2 words)

ENTREE #9:
1. “As I ___ Dying”
2. Word before cell or spell
3. A Gershwin
4. Auction action
5. ___ Canto
6.To boot a ball... not a pigskin but a horsehide
7. Sometimes the fish just gets the hook, but the _____ ___ always gets the worm (2 words)


Dessert Menu

Inside Boozeball Slanguage Dessert:
Bases ain’t all that’s loaded!


Saying aloud the words of two alcoholic beverages one after the other will sound like a slang term for a particular baseball player at a certain position. 
What is this slang term?

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36 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

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  2. Pod
    Notorious Justice
    Speak Latin
    Fourth of a chain
    A Herbert or Bucky structure?
    Bandeau
    Destination for hood or sleigh?(2 words)

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    1. I am stumped so far, Paul. I know "Notorious Justice," "A Herbert or Bucky structure?" and "Bandeau." Thought I might know "Speak Latin," but no, I don't think so. So I know 7 letters, missing two. I have a guess for one of the two "Destination for hood or sleigh?" words, if it is 4 letters long.

      LegoStillGnawingOnPaul'sRiffOff

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    2. I MESSED UP! Now, how do I fix this?
      I suspect you've got everything as I had intended, including the "Latinspeak", and the only 5-letter words you can think of, using the available letters, don't make much sense. One of them even seems quite insulting to a lady who should be held in high esteem. So let's go with that (5,4) combo and change the definition to "15 or 16 grains?". Not very elegant, but this is damage control. Perhaps it would be better to form an agency to mitigate the consequences of this "change of base". Although banishing the bandeau, it would retain the lady's golden reputation, and return her to her home, which was my original intent.
      I obviously need to go back to school, but I don't want to leave my comfortable perch. Is there a third state I'm not taking into consideration?

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    3. Having acted in haste, I am now repenting, in leisurely fashion, on the island of Ceylon.

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    4. Messed-up Schmessed-up! I do it all the time (just ask ViolinTedditor). I am actually really enjoying working on your riff-off of my riff-off, Paul, but your early-morning rain of posts is, alas, still not sinking in to my frozen tundra of a brain...
      Since my 8:09 PM post, I did figure out (I thought) at least the fuzzy edges of your "Destination for hood or sleigh?" answer. When I wrote: "I have a guess for one of the two 'Destination for hood or sleigh?' words, if it is 4 letters long," my guess was "berg" as in "iceberg." But I now believe that was a wrongheaded notion. I finally put the "sleigh" and "hood" connection together (although wondering why "hood" was not "Hood") and then tried to fit versions of "the lady" (and perhaps her residence) into my 2-word, 9-letter final answer, but with no success.
      I know what the answer to "15 or 16 grains" might be, but in one 9-letter word, not a (5,4) combo.
      My 3-letter answer to "Speak Latin" was more of an answer to "Pray Latin," and the answers to "Pod" and "Fourth of a chain" continue to elude me.
      Still, I am having fun. Thanks, Paul. Your puzzles are almost as inscrutable as some of your posts!

      LegoHopingToStumbleBumbleFumbleIntoSomeKindOfSolution

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    5. Why wasn't "hood" capitalized? The better to deceive you, my dear Lego!
      "Pray" is indeed more precise than "speak", but some Federal Agency or State Association bridging the gap between my comfortable perch and an offshore school may be even closer to home. Phew! Such a darned tangled web I have woven!
      I've been searching for an image involving a pointing finger and a garment that I remember from the far side, but I don't think I'm free to enter and reclaim it. (2,4,3)
      And I'm trying desperately to avoid having a fatwa issued against me. (2,4,3)
      Iceberg, you say? "I'm crying icicles instead of tears".

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    6. OK, Paul. I still have not completely cracked your conundrum. But the answer to your "Pod" clue finally hit home (kicking myself!). My answer to "LatinSpeak/Speak Latin" I am about 83% sure of. I still don't get how what must be the answer to "Fourth in a chain" is an answer to "Fourth in a chain."
      But, because I are a puzzle-maker, I have tried to recreate/tweak your puzzle, using your raw material:
      1. Pod
      2. Notorious Justice
      3. Preceder of "Pro Nobis"
      4. A Carew not named Thomas
      5. XY-chromosomed sib
      6. Vince's and Joe's 5.
      7. Mom (or Dad) and all her (or his) sibs, both XY-chromosomed and XX-chromosomed (4, 5)
      So, Paul, is my answer to #4 one of your answers? How about my #3?

      LegoStillSomewhatStumpedButAtLeastRootedInSomethingPossiblycorrect

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    7. #3 is correct
      So is #4, but please review your prep.
      My alteration of the bandeau did not involve gender. I see all my work with Federal Agencies and State Associations was to no avail. I'm not going to agonize about it, however.
      Your grid contains a name that is not found in either of my grids. The first person I think of with that name was the youngest of three children but had only one 5, and was married to someone with the same last name as the lady I was thinking of with the golden reputation.

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    8. I'm getting warmer, I think.
      Vince's and Joe's sib is not found in your grid.
      Office of Economic Adjustment? Ohio Education Association?
      Estelle and Betty, Rue and ___!

      LegoWho'sGoingOverTheRverAndThroughTheWoodsToGrammaMillie'sAdobeAbode...HeyThere'sAChillInTheAirBecauseLegoStillIsInTheDarkAbout"FourthInAChain"...AndJustWhenHeThoughtHeWasGettingWarmer!

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    9. Yes, indeed, the Office of Economic Adjustment helps the civilian community pick up the pieces when base changes occur, and Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon all have Education Associations, and Arthur is doing what she pleases, so your grid matches my (revised) grid, but, if you're still stuck on, with, by, to, in, or alongside the chain gang, I again suggest you check your prep.!

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    10. Yes, I am still stuck, Paul. But I do appreciate your "hit-me-over-the-thick-head" string of preps., and the helpful ! at the end of your post. I would gently suggest, however, that it is not my prep. but your prep. that I ought to be checking!
      Racking my brain: Is there some 12-letter chain-story with that letter trio embedded? Perhaps a synonym of "chain"? Some DNA/RNA double helix term with which I am unfamiliar?
      I also remain baffled by your (2,4,3) phrase(s) in your 1:20 PM post. "GO READ BAM"? "DO GAME BAR"? "OR MADE BAG"?
      Fourth of a chain... is making a missing-link monkey out of me!

      LegoWhoMayHaveToBecomeAChainSmokerIfThisFrustrationContinues

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    11. I don't want to be responsible for ruining your health, lego, let's change the definition to "perch". The answer's still the same.

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    12. I think "Perch" is a peach of a clue, Paul...
      Makes me think of non-Thomas-Carew-ball.
      I am in finer fettle now!
      Still don't get "fourth of a chain."

      LegoNotesThat"Carew"WhenPrecededBy"Thomas"IsPronounced"Carry"AndIsThereforeNotAnApproximateRhymeOf"Peru"

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    13. RBG
      ORA
      DAM
      Anagrams to BROAD GRAM, which is 15 or 16 grains, with 15.4324 grains being a more precise, or "narrow" gram.
      Other possible anagrams include "Go, Adam ... brr!", wich reminded me of a Far Side cartoon about "Adam and Eve being cast out of the garment, and "Mr. Arab God", which some might find blasphemous. Together, they had me thinking about the mythology surrounding a mountain peak on Ceylon and a chain of shoals connecting the teardrop-shaped island to India.
      But I really wanted to convert BOARD GAME, from Riff#4 to GRAM ABODE, which is what I was going for with "hood" and "sleigh". I think lego's GRAM BROOD / DiMaggio brothers modification is better than my OEA / BEA patch:
      RBG RBG
      OEA ORA
      DAM DOM

      My whole purpose for digging around in the world of worms was to forge a link between (early) birds and fish, and PERCH fills the bill quite nicely,
      Equivalent to a ROD, a PERCH is also 25 LINKS, or one quarter of a CHAIN.

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  3. According to an extremely reliable source (The Internet), "the longest tape worm ever found in a human was 82 feet long," while earthworms are generally somewhat shorter.

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    1. Put one o' them earthworms on your fishin' hook and it will gobble up all the fish!

      LegoWhoAdds"...AndGobbleUpAllTheBabyRobinsWhenTheMamaRobinBringsItBackToTheNest"

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  4. Happy Friday all in the Land of the P! After examining the puzzles late last night, I'm now proud to say I have left only the Schpuzzle and Conundrum #4! Still, I may require hints, though I hope not too many. I almost thought I'd be spending the evening trying to solve Paul(not our Paul, but the British cryptic setter of the same pseudonym)'s latest Prize Crossword to no avail, but I got lucky as usual looking up bits and pieces of Paul's clues, and I quickly moved on to the surprisingly easy Entrees. Now I have just the two puzzles left, Ask Me Another is a rerun this week, this is the second of the two weeks for the Private Eye Crossword(they're fortnightly, of course), and as I just said, the Prize Puzzle is completed. As usual, I shall check back periodically until I've got all this week's puzzles, but I'll need those hints, Lego, so don't forget! Everyone is fine here, but we decided not to eat out tonight. I can only assume my young nieces stayed home and watched Linus wait up in vain for the Great Pumpkin(again). Good grief! And with Wednesday being you-know-what, I may have to try revealing my answers in-between answering the front door(but I bet we may all be in the same boat there). Have a happy one! I will!

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  5. Okay, now I only need the Schpuzzle. Conundrums covered!

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  6. Checking in to report that I likewise have all the Entrees (they were fun, but indeed, more simple than usual, happily), as wellas the last three Conundrums (I'm stuck on the first two, despite lots of list-searching), and I THINK the Schpuzzle (But after last week, I'm no longer confident!) OH, also the other appetizer (liked it!)

    The two subject areas of the Dessert are, as I've so often mentioned, nothing I know anything about, and all list-perusal here has also come up fruitless. Without Google info, there is no hope for me on this one.

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  7. Late Sunday Hints:
    SOTW:
    The key word is "Portuguese" – as both a people and a language, and what the word itself sounds like.
    TBTCA:
    1. Concentrating should sharpen your focus
    2. Timely for the season
    3. The current car brand shares something with Jesus. The former car brand shares something with the pope's finger.
    4. The car brand and genre of literature seem to dovetail, stereotypically.
    5. The comedian is associated with a guy who was associated with a future president.
    DDLNLA:
    The mollusk: "spider of the sea"?
    ROSS:
    ENTREE #1. The 7-letter answer is not usually in this singular form
    ENTREE #2. The 7-letter answer is almost too timely
    ENTREE #3. The 7-letter answer oft comes in contact with pillows
    ENTREE #4. Chess and Checkers are some more seasoned examples of the 7-letter answer
    ENTREE #5. The 7-letter answer is a C-SPAN production
    ENTREE #6. The 7-letter answer may be Liddy and Bobs favorite food
    ENTREE #7. The 7-letter answer is a movie starring a kid who appeared in "Uncle Buck"
    ENTREE #8. The 7-letter answer can be anagrammed to "The Case for Christ" author Strobel, to his friends
    ENTREE #9. The 7-letter answer rhymes with a synonym of "chopper."
    IBSD:
    A homonym of the first alcoholic beverage has a nautical meaning that also applies to the slang term.

    LegoWhoHasLeftTheBuilding

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  8. Don't you mean 9, not 7, letter words in the Entrees?

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  9. BTW, still don't quite get the Schpuzzle. I mean, I get what phrase it's a play on, but I'm still not sure what the answer is supposed to be. Am I supposed to make up a whole new nonsensical word or an actual word? Another hint, please!

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    1. Thanks, cranberry. I did mean 9, not 7, letter words. Thank you for your correction. I was confused because it was clue number 7! (I am obviously easily confused.)
      As for the Schpuzzle, you are looking for an actual legitimate proper noun. It stands for a particular group of people... people like Madonna, Lily Tomlin and Gilda Radner, for instance.

      LegoWhoIsNotInThisGroupOfPeople(NorIscranberry)ButAtLeastLegoIsCloserToBeingInTheGroupThanIscranberry

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  10. Got that part! Now what about the "boa"? Is it some other animal that sounds like the female? Because if it is, I have that one, too!

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    1. Good questions, cranberry. You are correct; "boa" is really the key word. But so is Portuguese. That is to say, this is a bilingual puzzle.
      Sure, "boa" is an English word. If you look closely, it's on the plate (in the Schpuzzle image) squaring off against the Portuguese man o' war. A feather boa is also draped around Miss Portugal's pretty neck. But, beyond English, boa has other meanings. One of them will help you solve this thing!

      LegoHopesThatcranberryAndOtherPuzzlerians!WillBeAbleToTieThisPuzzleUpWithAPrettyBoa

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  11. What's boa for the Portuguese is bueno for the Argentinians, but I suppose it's good for the Michiganders. I don't know what it is for the Greenlanders.


    Funny OR Die

    Giovanni (Geo?(van?)) da Verrazano (Verizon)??
    CORRECTION:Leif(Leaf) Eriksson(Ericsson)

    I know it's not Saturn and Taurus.
    I was right, it's Datsun and Saturn(I think); I can't keep track of which cars are dead or alive, but I guess the Datsun has been resurrected and I know the Pope's finger is ringed.

    I hope it's not Citroën and ërotic, but I'm afraid it is.

    Artie Lange > Elantra

    OCT+OPUS / OPERA+TE / OCTET

    HEAD LOUSE
    AHS
    DUO
    EEL

    HALLOWEEN
    NWA
    HEL
    LEO

    BOARD GAME
    BOG
    ARA
    DEM

    BOOKNOTES
    SET
    ONK
    BOO

    PINEAPPLE
    ALP
    PEE
    PIN

    HOME ALONE
    HEN
    ALE
    MOO

    ROSE PETAL
    LAP
    ORE
    SET

    EARLY BIRD
    BEL
    IRA
    DRY



    PORT, CIDER > PORTSIDER (lefthander)


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    1. I forgot ENTREE 3:
      HEADBOARD
      BAH
      ODE
      DAR

      I also note that the Pope signs documents with a pen and affixes his seal with his signet ring.

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  12. SCHPUZZLE: ".... IS GOOD FOR THE SINGAPOREANS." Or perhaps: "...IS BON FOR THE CAMEROONIANS." Or perhaps, "...IS GOOD FOR THE PORTUGANDERS?"


    CONUYNDRUMS:

    1. FORD? MINI?

    2. CHRISTOPHER COLOMBUS? [COLUMBIA Broadcasting?]

    3. DATSUN => SATURN

    4. CITROEN => EROTIC [I don't like this answer, but it was the only thing I could find that worked.]

    5. ARTIE LANGE => ELANTRA

    APPETIZER: OCTOPUS; OPERA/TE; OCT/ET

    ENTREES:

    1. ADE HEAD LOUSE
    HUE
    SOL

    2. NWA HALLOWEEN
    HEL
    LEO

    3. BAH HEADBOARD
    ODE
    DAR

    4. BOG BOARD GAME
    ARA
    DEM

    5. SOB BOOKNOTES
    ENO
    TKO

    6. APP PINEAPPLE
    LEI
    PEN

    7. HAM HOME ALONE
    ELO
    NEO

    8. LOS ROSE PETAL
    ARE
    PET

    9. BID EARLY BIRD
    ERR
    LAY

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    1. Oh nuts, I was going to put on PORT as a guess for the Dessert and I see now from Paul's that it IS one of the drinks. But nowhere could I EVER find "portsider" as a slang term for anything in baseball.

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  13. Schpuzzle
    What's boa for the Portuguese is good for the Michiganders.
    "Boa" is the Portuguese word for "good".
    Michiganders, or residents of Michigan, obviously speak English.
    "Portuguese" sounds like "geese" at the end.
    "Michiganders" sounds like "ganders" at the end.
    Ganders are female geese.
    Appetizer Part 1
    Conundrums
    1. FUNNY OR DIE, FORD
    2. LEIF ERICSON(LEAF, ERICKSON)
    3. DATSUN, SATURN
    4. CITROEN, EROTIC
    5. ARTIE LANGE, ELANTRA
    Part 2
    OCTOPUS, OPUS, OPERA, OPERATE, OCTET
    Menu
    Entrees
    1. HEAD LOUSE
    AHS
    DUO
    EEL
    2. HALLOWEEN(Today!)
    NWA
    HEL
    LEO
    3. HEADBOARD
    BAH
    ODE
    DAR
    4. BOARD GAME
    BAD
    ORE
    GAM
    5. BOOKNOTES
    SET
    ONK
    BOO
    6. PINEAPPLE
    APP
    LEI
    PEN
    7. HOME ALONE
    HEN
    ALE
    MOO
    8. ROSE PETAL
    LOS
    ARE
    PET
    9. EARLY BIRD
    BID
    ERR
    LAY
    Dessert
    PORTSIDER(PORT+CIDER); A "portsider" is any left-handed pitcher.
    I hope you've all had a happy Entree No. 2! Pleasant dreams! (EVIL)LOL!-pjb

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

    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    Portuguese man o’ wordplay
    Complete the following sentence with five additional words: “What’s boa for the Portuguese...” The final word is a 12-letter plural proper noun. What is it?
    Answer:
    Michiganders ("What's boa for the Portuguese is good for the Michiganders."
    ("boa" means "good" in the Portuguese language; goose/gander >> geese(-guese)/-gander)

    Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
    Enigmatic transmissions in a 5-car garage
    1. Name a popular website in three words. Take the initials of the first and last words, with the second word still in the middle, to name a car manufacturer in one word.
    FUNNY OR DIE, FORD
    2. Name an explorer whose first name sounds like a car model and whose last name sounds like a telecommunications company.
    LEIF ERIKSON (Nissan LEAF, ERICSSON)
    3. Think of a current car brand in six letters. Change the first letter to an R and rearrange to name a former car brand.
    DATSUN, SATURN
    4. Think of a high-end car brand in seven letters. Drop the last letter and rearrange to name a genre of literature.
    CITROËN, EROTIC
    5. Think of a comedian, first and last names, five and five letters. Drop a vowel from the first name and the last two letters of the last name and rearrange to name a car brand by Hyundai.
    ARTIE LANGE, ELANTRA

    Doctor Do Lots Not Little Appetizer:
    “Paging the Gastropodiatrist”
    Add three letters to the beginning of a singular noun and you’ll name a mollusk. Add two letters to the end of the noun’s plural form and you’ll name what some doctors do.
    Form a new five-letter word by reversing the order of those two added letters and placing the three added letters to the left of them. This new word is something sometimes heard during the plural noun.
    What are the singular and plural forms of the noun?
    What is sometimes heard during the noun’s plural form?
    Answer:
    Opus, opera (Octopus, operate); Octet

    Lego...

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  15. This week's answers for the record, Part 2:

    MENU

    Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
    Shish-kabalphabobets on the griddle
    In Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices this week, the solver is challenged to fill in each entree’s 3x3 grid with six words – 3 across and 3 down (no diagonal word clues) – and then arrange those nine letters to form either a two-word phrase or single word. Clues, in no particular order, will be provided for the six 3-letter words. A seventh clue will be given for the 9-letter word formed from all letters in the grid:
    ENTREE #1:
    1. Dynamic ___ (DUO)
    2. Syllable that follows “Gator” but not “Kool” (ADE)
    3. “Sunny” syllable on the scale (SOL)
    4. They often accompany “oohs!” (AHS)
    5. ___ and cry (HUE)
    6. Slippery critter (EEL)
    7. One of several tiny pests infesting one’s hair (2 words) (HEAD LOUSE)
    AHS
    DUO
    EEL
    ENTREE #2:
    Answer:
    1. Itsy-bitsy (WEE)
    2. Saint’s aura, according to a Cockney (ALO)
    3. Norse goddess of the nether regions (HEL)
    4. Hip hop pioneers from L.A. (N.W.A.)
    5. Home of the Lightning, Knights, Flames and Flyers (abbr.) (NHL)
    6. Hoover, Obama or Clinton, according to the stars (LEO)
    7. Harvest holiday when the reaping is grim (1 word) (HALLOWEEN)
    NHL
    WEE
    ALO
    ENTREE #3:
    Answer:
    1. Nabokov title (ADA)
    2. “And I Love ___” by the Beatles (HER)
    3. Skylark or Nightingale verse (ODE)
    4. “Sheepish” exclamation of disgust? (BAH!)
    5. “The Christians and the Pagans” singer Williams (DAR)
    6. Physique, for short (BOD)
    7. Wooden bed part (1 word) (HEADBOARD)
    BAH
    ODE
    DAR
    ENTREE #4:
    Answer:
    1. Blue party (abbr.) (DEM)
    2. Marshy marshy marshy mire (BOG)
    3. “Thriller” follow-up (BAD)
    4. Dame’s leg (GAM)
    5. Mined material (ORE)
    6. Coach Parseghian (ARA)
    7. Sorry!, Go, Risk, Operation, or Battleship (2 words) (BOARD GAME)
    BAD
    ORE
    GAM
    ENTREE #5:
    Answer:
    1. Sound made by Cockney geese? (ONK)
    2. Game, ___, Match! (SET)
    3. ___ story, a tale of woe (SOB)
    4. “Music for Airports” composer Brian (ENO)
    5. How the “Thrilla in Manila” ended (TKO)
    6. Word heard in the midst of hobgoblins or hisses (BOO)
    7. Longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history (1 word) (BOOKNOTES)
    SOB
    ENO
    TKO
    ENTREE #6:
    Answer:
    1. Island chain? (LEI)
    2. Euphemism that sounds like a “podded plant” (PEE)
    3. An “alive” hill, according to Maria von Trapp (ALP)
    4. TED, Dragon Dictation or Candy Crush Saga, for example (APP)
    5. Something found in a cushion (PIN)
    6. A cygnet’s parent or the enclosure she may be in (PEN)
    7. Inverted-cake ingredient (1 word) (PINEAPPLE)
    ALP
    PEE
    PIN
    ENTREE #7:
    Answer:
    1. Prefix with -colonialism or -classical (NEO)
    2. Drink brewed from malted barley’s common ingredients (ALE)
    3. “The English guys with the big fiddles” (ELO)
    4. “Bad actor” who might “co-star” with a “good egg” (HAM)
    5. Cow talk (MOO)
    6. One of many layers? (HEN)
    7. Movie title marketed partially with “The Scream” (2 words) (HOME ALONE)
    HEN
    ALE
    MOO
    ENTREE #8:
    Answer:
    1. Word preceding “Lobos” or “Lonely Boys” (LOS)
    2. Put plates and utensils on a table (SET)
    3. “Prefix” for a Pacific state that four sides, kind of (ORE)
    4. What a strong indoor miler does to the field (LAP)
    5. A kitten, or what you might do to it (PET)
    6. Pirates’ favorite verb? (ARE)
    7. A fresh one costs about 3 cents, according to florists (2 words) (ROSE PETAL)
    LAP
    ORE
    SET
    ENTREE #9:
    Answer:
    1. “As I ___ Dying” (LAY)
    2. Word before cell or spell (DRY)
    3. A Gershwin (IRA)
    4. Action at an auction (BID)
    5. ___ Canto (BEL)
    6.To boot a ball, not a pigskin but a horsehide (ERR)
    7. Sometimes the fish just gets the hook, but the _____ ___ always gets the worm (2 words) (EARLY BIRD)
    BID
    ERR
    LAY

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

    Dessert Menu
    Inside Boozeball Slanguage Dessert:
    Bases ain’t all that’s loaded
    Saying aloud the words for two alcoholic beverages one after the other will sound like a slang term for a particular baseball player at a certain position. What is this slang term?
    Answer:
    Portsider

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