PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Fast food flies from slow cookers
Take a homophone of a dish served on a chilly day.
Place within it what the dish is often cooked in.
The result names a fast-food chain in one word.
What is this dish and what is this chain?
Cosmopolitan Christmas Appetizer:
Holiday hint Haydn in plain sight
Name the nationality of a composer associated with Christmas music.
Switch the two syllables of this nationality to form a word in the title of a Christmas carol popular in the land he adopted after coming of age.
What’s the word in the carol’s title?
Who is the composer?
Hint: Within the text of this puzzle is hidden, in plain sight, an anagram of the composer’s last name.
From: Mathew... To: Puzzlerians! Appetizer:
Conundrums under the tree
🥁1. Think of a former politician, first and last names, total of nine letters. The first three letters name a television character, the middle three describe what an elected politician did to hold office, and the last three name a popular children’s toy.
🥁2. Think of an historical figure, first and last names. Remove five letters to name a type of anthropomorphic toy you might find beneath a Christmas tree.
🥁3. Think of a two-word phrase to describe a choir member (in six letters) who may perform, for example, at a Christmas concert. Rearrange into a word meaning “showy”.
🥁4. Think of a common object with a distinctive shape, in five letters. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to name a class of children’s toys.
🥁5. Think of a word that is both a type of food and a salutation associated with celebrities.
Shift the first letter two places later in the alphabet to get another word that is also a type of food and also a salutation associated often with celebratory holiday gatherings of family and friends.
Ugly Sweater Slice:
’Tis better to give than to deceive
If you are what this eight-letter word says you are, you may experience a twinge of regret if your Uncle Jude from Virginia, after opening his Christmas gift from you (an ugly virgin wool Christmas sweater), looks chagrined. Indeed, your uncle may look even more chagined if as he opens your gift he experiences a twinge of deja vu, which would confirm that he himself was what this eight-letter word says he was... exactly one year ago!
What is this eight-letter word?
What is the hidden anagram of the eight-letter word? (See Hint #1, immediately below.)
Hint #1: Within the text of this puzzle is hidden an anagram of the eight-letter word.
Hint #2: the eight-letter word is sometimes hyphenated.
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Ladies deliver belles lettres
(“The 12 Maze of Xmas”)
Will Shortz’s December 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle was created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, who conducts the blog Puzzleria! It reads:
Think of two words meaning “certain groups of females.” If you have the right ones, you can rearrange all the letters to name a famous novel by a female writer. The title has 13 letters in total. What novel is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a caption for the image pictured here, in a 8-letter noun used as a modifier and 7-letter plural noun. If you have the right caption, you can rearrange all 15 letters to name the title of a famous novel. What novel is it?
ENTREE #2:
Think of two words – one associated with a male bovine animal and the other associated with a female bovine animal.
Rearrange the letters in each word and place the results next to each other to form the title of an acclaimed novel.
The title has eight letters in total. What novel is it?
ENTREE #3:
The phrase “act of good writing” might apply to a novel, short story, essay, poem or play. Remove one letter from the phrase and rearrange the remainder to form a title of a well known play, in three words. What play is it?
ENTREE #4:
A team of Jehovah’s Witnesses takes a break from neighborhood door-to-door ministry on a sweltering summer’s day.
They notice a makeshift cold drink stand nearby, staffed by a pair of pre-adolescent entrepreneurs, and order two drinks.
One Witness takes a taste and puckers up... not to kiss but to cuss (if he weren’t a Jehovah’s Witness, that is). Anyway, through puckered lips he exclaims: “This ________ __ too sour!”
Rearrange the combined ten letters in those two blanks to form the title of a novel, in two words, written by the playwright in ENTREE #3, above.
What is this novel’s title?
ENTREE #5
Think of two words – an amphibian bug-eater and a wading fish-eater.
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange all the letters to name a somewhat famous novel by an American writer.
The title has 3 words consisting of 9 letters in total.
What novel is it?
Hint: The three words of the title are the first three words of the title of a county hit song.
ENTREE #6
It’s Saturday in Dodge, poker night. The boys is drinkin’, dealin’, biddin’, raisin’, holdin’ and foldin’.
In the middle of a hand, Doc Holiday’s meat hook of a hand suddenly clamps down like a bear trap on Soapy Smith’s wrist, just as Soapy is surreptitiously palming an ace of spades sleight-of-handily from inside his right sleeve.
“N___ t__, c______!” Doc bellows with sardonic sarcasm as he nudges Soapy’s snout with the the un-sub-nosed snout of his Colt 45.
Add an “h” to the 14 letters of what Doc bellowed, and rearrange the result to form the four-word title of a famous novel. What novel is it?
Hint: A homophone of a word in the text of this puzzle is the first name of the novel’s protagonist.
ENTREE #7
Those 365-pages-a-year calendars-in-a-box make great last-minute Christmas gifts... you know, the ones you place on your bedside or kitchen table so that you can be greeted each morning with a different new word, Bible verse, brain teaser, crossword puzzle, word origin, trivia tidbit, or other fun fact.
Speaking of fun facts, legend has it that an “Eli” (who was a professor of English Renaissance literature, a university president and Commissioner of Major League Baseball) gave one particular such calendar to each of his friends as Christmas gifts. And so, 365 times during the following year, these recipients of were treated to a d____ s_____ (a 5-letter adjective and 6-letter noun, the first syllables of which rhyme).
Rearrange those 11 letters to form the title of a great novel, in four words. What is this novel?
ENTREE #8
Think of two verbs, each indicating what a manicurist might do to your nails.
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange all the letters to name an ought-to-be famous novel by a multilingual writer.
The title has 8 letters in total.
What novel is this?
ENTREE #9
Don’t write a caption for the image shown here.
Instead, just describe what the image is, in four words of 1, 7, 7 and 5 letters, beginning with an A, P, A and P (an article, adjective, noun and noun).
Take those 20 letters, remove a D, and rearrange the rest to form the 4-word title of a novel with a bird in its title.
What is this novel?
ENTREE #10
The answer to each of the ten clues below can be formed from a pool of ten different letters of the alphabet. Solve as many of the clues as you can to determine the letters in this pool, then form the name of a puzzle maker, first and last names, using nine of the letters just once and one of the letters twice. The number of letters in each answer is given in parentheses at the end of each clue.
1. A compulsive desire fans might have for singers Tom or Davy, or for David (keeping in mind his surname at birth) (5)
2. Word connected by a hyphen to a homophone of Mrs. Ricardo or Miss van Pelt (6)
3. Syllable sung at midnight that is a homophone of a synonym of “omen”(4)
4. Best word to describe telemarketing fraud? (6)
5. “Christmas day ______, feast of all peoples...,” according to John Victor (6)
6. Ed’s reaction to the music of the composer of “Music for Airports” (3) was an informal exclamation of disgust! (3)... After listening for a while, he had all he could take, and cried “______!” (6)
(The 6-letter word in the blank is formed by placing the 3 and 3 side-by-side.)
7. Father of Tony and the Tiger Hunt (5)
8. Word preceding “moon” and “comb” in compound words (5)
9. First word in a tribute album ending with “... Every Sandwich” (5)
10. Title of a novel in an “Asian Saga” (6)
ENTREE #11
Solve the three clues below.
Rearrange the combined letters in the answers to form the first and last names of a puzzle maker. The number of letters in each answer is given in parentheses at the end of each clue.
1. Word in the title of a beloved Christmas carol (3)
2. How it’s nice to be nestled, according to Clement Clarke Moore (4)
3. A line in a Christmas poem by Maya Angelou reads:
“Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of ___” (4)
What are the clue answers, and who is the puzzle maker?
ENTREE #12
Name a member of both the College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame.
This athlete played college football under two of the most famous football coaches in history: Pop Warner and John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
He was also a teammate of the legendary athlete Jim Thorpe, both in college and professionally.
This athlete shares his first name with a puzzle maker, and you can rearrange the letters in his last name to form the last name of that puzzle maker.
The athlete was a native Minnesotan and American Indian from the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe. The puzzle maker was born and reared in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
Who are this athlete and puzzle maker?
Decorative Dessert:
The ghostly shape of Christmas Present
Name a Christmas decoration in two words.
The first word describes a larger Christmas decoration, in two words, and the second word describes the shapes of both decorations.
What are these small and large decorations?
Bijou And Trinket Dessert:
Pastries on Earth to shoppers of Goodwill
Bijou buys batter-fried apple cakes from a bakery, then stops by a Goodwill outlet to pick up trinkets and used clothing.
Rearrange the letters in the 2-word 11-letter cakes to form a 2-word synonym for the Goodwill outlet.
What are these cakes?
What is this synonym?
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.
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Fast food flies from slow cookers
Take a homophone of a dish served on a chilly day.
Place within it what the dish is often cooked in. The result names a fast-food chain in one word.
What is this dish and what is this chain?
Appetizer Menu
Cosmopolitan Christmas Appetizer:
Holiday hint Haydn in plain sight
Name the nationality of a composer associated with Christmas music.
Switch the two syllables of this nationality to form a word in the title of a Christmas carol popular in the land he adopted after coming of age.
What’s the word in the carol’s title?
Who is the composer?
Hint: Within the text of this puzzle is hidden, in plain sight, an anagram of the composer’s last name.
From: Mathew... To: Puzzlerians! Appetizer:
Conundrums under the tree
🥁1. Think of a former politician, first and last names, total of nine letters. The first three letters name a television character, the middle three describe what an elected politician did to hold office, and the last three name a popular children’s toy.
🥁2. Think of an historical figure, first and last names. Remove five letters to name a type of anthropomorphic toy you might find beneath a Christmas tree.
🥁3. Think of a two-word phrase to describe a choir member (in six letters) who may perform, for example, at a Christmas concert. Rearrange into a word meaning “showy”.
🥁4. Think of a common object with a distinctive shape, in five letters. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to name a class of children’s toys.
🥁5. Think of a word that is both a type of food and a salutation associated with celebrities.
Shift the first letter two places later in the alphabet to get another word that is also a type of food and also a salutation associated often with celebratory holiday gatherings of family and friends.
MENU
Ugly Sweater Slice:
’Tis better to give than to deceive
If you are what this eight-letter word says you are, you may experience a twinge of regret if your Uncle Jude from Virginia, after opening his Christmas gift from you (an ugly virgin wool Christmas sweater), looks chagrined. Indeed, your uncle may look even more chagined if as he opens your gift he experiences a twinge of deja vu, which would confirm that he himself was what this eight-letter word says he was... exactly one year ago!
What is this eight-letter word?
What is the hidden anagram of the eight-letter word? (See Hint #1, immediately below.)Hint #1: Within the text of this puzzle is hidden an anagram of the eight-letter word.
Hint #2: the eight-letter word is sometimes hyphenated.
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Ladies deliver belles lettres
(“The 12 Maze of Xmas”)
Will Shortz’s December 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle was created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, who conducts the blog Puzzleria! It reads:
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:Think of a caption for the image pictured here, in a 8-letter noun used as a modifier and 7-letter plural noun. If you have the right caption, you can rearrange all 15 letters to name the title of a famous novel. What novel is it?
ENTREE #2:
Think of two words – one associated with a male bovine animal and the other associated with a female bovine animal.
Rearrange the letters in each word and place the results next to each other to form the title of an acclaimed novel. The title has eight letters in total. What novel is it?
ENTREE #3:
The phrase “act of good writing” might apply to a novel, short story, essay, poem or play. Remove one letter from the phrase and rearrange the remainder to form a title of a well known play, in three words. What play is it?
ENTREE #4:
A team of Jehovah’s Witnesses takes a break from neighborhood door-to-door ministry on a sweltering summer’s day.
They notice a makeshift cold drink stand nearby, staffed by a pair of pre-adolescent entrepreneurs, and order two drinks. One Witness takes a taste and puckers up... not to kiss but to cuss (if he weren’t a Jehovah’s Witness, that is). Anyway, through puckered lips he exclaims: “This ________ __ too sour!”
Rearrange the combined ten letters in those two blanks to form the title of a novel, in two words, written by the playwright in ENTREE #3, above.
What is this novel’s title?
ENTREE #5
Think of two words – an amphibian bug-eater and a wading fish-eater.
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange all the letters to name a somewhat famous novel by an American writer. The title has 3 words consisting of 9 letters in total.
What novel is it?
Hint: The three words of the title are the first three words of the title of a county hit song.
ENTREE #6
It’s Saturday in Dodge, poker night. The boys is drinkin’, dealin’, biddin’, raisin’, holdin’ and foldin’. In the middle of a hand, Doc Holiday’s meat hook of a hand suddenly clamps down like a bear trap on Soapy Smith’s wrist, just as Soapy is surreptitiously palming an ace of spades sleight-of-handily from inside his right sleeve.
“N___ t__, c______!” Doc bellows with sardonic sarcasm as he nudges Soapy’s snout with the the un-sub-nosed snout of his Colt 45.
Add an “h” to the 14 letters of what Doc bellowed, and rearrange the result to form the four-word title of a famous novel. What novel is it?Hint: A homophone of a word in the text of this puzzle is the first name of the novel’s protagonist.
ENTREE #7
Those 365-pages-a-year calendars-in-a-box make great last-minute Christmas gifts... you know, the ones you place on your bedside or kitchen table so that you can be greeted each morning with a different new word, Bible verse, brain teaser, crossword puzzle, word origin, trivia tidbit, or other fun fact.
Speaking of fun facts, legend has it that an “Eli” (who was a professor of English Renaissance literature, a university president and Commissioner of Major League Baseball) gave one particular such calendar to each of his friends as Christmas gifts. And so, 365 times during the following year, these recipients of were treated to a d____ s_____ (a 5-letter adjective and 6-letter noun, the first syllables of which rhyme).Rearrange those 11 letters to form the title of a great novel, in four words. What is this novel?
ENTREE #8
Think of two verbs, each indicating what a manicurist might do to your nails.
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange all the letters to name an ought-to-be famous novel by a multilingual writer. The title has 8 letters in total.
What novel is this?
ENTREE #9
Don’t write a caption for the image shown here.
Instead, just describe what the image is, in four words of 1, 7, 7 and 5 letters, beginning with an A, P, A and P (an article, adjective, noun and noun). Take those 20 letters, remove a D, and rearrange the rest to form the 4-word title of a novel with a bird in its title.
What is this novel?
ENTREE #10
The answer to each of the ten clues below can be formed from a pool of ten different letters of the alphabet. Solve as many of the clues as you can to determine the letters in this pool, then form the name of a puzzle maker, first and last names, using nine of the letters just once and one of the letters twice. The number of letters in each answer is given in parentheses at the end of each clue.
1. A compulsive desire fans might have for singers Tom or Davy, or for David (keeping in mind his surname at birth) (5)
2. Word connected by a hyphen to a homophone of Mrs. Ricardo or Miss van Pelt (6)
3. Syllable sung at midnight that is a homophone of a synonym of “omen”(4)
4. Best word to describe telemarketing fraud? (6)
5. “Christmas day ______, feast of all peoples...,” according to John Victor (6) 6. Ed’s reaction to the music of the composer of “Music for Airports” (3) was an informal exclamation of disgust! (3)... After listening for a while, he had all he could take, and cried “______!” (6)
(The 6-letter word in the blank is formed by placing the 3 and 3 side-by-side.)
7. Father of Tony and the Tiger Hunt (5)
8. Word preceding “moon” and “comb” in compound words (5)
9. First word in a tribute album ending with “... Every Sandwich” (5)
10. Title of a novel in an “Asian Saga” (6)
ENTREE #11
Solve the three clues below.
Rearrange the combined letters in the answers to form the first and last names of a puzzle maker. The number of letters in each answer is given in parentheses at the end of each clue.
1. Word in the title of a beloved Christmas carol (3)2. How it’s nice to be nestled, according to Clement Clarke Moore (4)
3. A line in a Christmas poem by Maya Angelou reads:
“Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of ___” (4)
What are the clue answers, and who is the puzzle maker?
ENTREE #12
Name a member of both the College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame.
This athlete played college football under two of the most famous football coaches in history: Pop Warner and John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
He was also a teammate of the legendary athlete Jim Thorpe, both in college and professionally.This athlete shares his first name with a puzzle maker, and you can rearrange the letters in his last name to form the last name of that puzzle maker.
The athlete was a native Minnesotan and American Indian from the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe. The puzzle maker was born and reared in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
Who are this athlete and puzzle maker?
Dessert Menu
Decorative Dessert:
The ghostly shape of Christmas Present
Name a Christmas decoration in two words.
The first word describes a larger Christmas decoration, in two words, and the second word describes the shapes of both decorations.
What are these small and large decorations?
Bijou And Trinket Dessert:
Pastries on Earth to shoppers of Goodwill
Bijou buys batter-fried apple cakes from a bakery, then stops by a Goodwill outlet to pick up trinkets and used clothing.
Rearrange the letters in the 2-word 11-letter cakes to form a 2-word synonym for the Goodwill outlet.What are these cakes?
What is this synonym?
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.
OOh, I was waiting for it! Let me be first to wish MERRY CHRISTMAS to all!
ReplyDeleteHappy solstice in 11 minutes!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Christmas wishes, ViolinTeddy, and thinks for the solstice greeting, Word Woman. As the days get longer, the wait get shorter.
DeleteLegoWhoObservesThatTheTheSunMaySeemLowInTheSkyButTheBirthOfTheChristChildIsNigh!
Oh, I forgot, I had also immediately know the answer to the Ugly Sweater Slice last night....which was fun.
DeleteBefore I had hit the sack in the wee hours last night, I managed to work out the Schpuzzle, both Desserts, Conundrums #1, 3 and 4; half of the NON-Con Appetizer (the exact composer is eluding me); and now Entree #7, and am in the midst of #10. [Skipping around somehow!]
ReplyDeleteSo saying, I believe we have a small error to fix, that is for the last clue within Entree #10.....it should be (6) letters, not 5.
Thanks for the ROSS ENTREE #10 heads-up, ViolinTedditor. 'Tis fixed.
DeleteLegoAppreciatesThatHeHasViolinTeddyRiding"EditorialShotgun"OnThisStage!
Giddyap!
DeleteMerry Christmas to all! Man, we really have our work cut out for us this week! The following are what I've solved already since first seeing this week's edition late last night:
ReplyDeleteThe Schpuzzle
Appetizer Part 1
Conundrums #1 and #3
The Ugly Sweater Slice
Entrees #3, #6, #10(1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9), #11(all), and #12
(basically all the "puzzlemaker's name" puzzles)
But I'm not sure we can do all this AND be able to celebrate the holiday itself. We'll certainly try. Lots to think about, you know. I certainly hope Santa brings some good hints by Xmas Day! Until then I hope everyone has the merriest of Christmases this Tuesday! Ho ho ho!
Let's say the bovine male is WXYZ and the female is ABCD. I'm laboring under the presumption that YWZX CBDA, YWZXC BDA, and YZWXACBD could be suitable novel titles but AYDWZBXC and CXZB WADY could not.
ReplyDeleteAm I laboring in vain?
Paul,
DeleteNow that I revisit this ROSAYS # 2 slice, I notice that I was perhaps overly vague.
And that is why you may be laboring in vain, for which I shoulder the blame!
My puzzle reads:
Think of two words – one associated with a male bovine animal and the other associated with a female bovine animal.
Rearrange the letters in each word and place the results next to each other to form the title of an acclaimed novel.
The title has eight letters in total. What novel is it?
The two words – one associated with a male bovine animal and the other associated with a female bovine animal – are noises. Place those noises next to each other (after mixing up the letters in each) and, voila!, you've got a one-word novel title in 8 letters.
LegoWhoWillBeCuriousToKnowWherePaulWasHeadedInHisSolvingEfforts
I wasn't really laboring all that hard, but I wanted to confirm that the words were to be anagrammed separately, and then it wasn't clear to me whether or not they remained separate in the title. With the added information, I quickly found the title in a list. I was familiar with the author, but not the novel.
DeleteGot it, Paul. Sorry about the confusion. Gotta write more precisely and unambiguously.
DeleteLegoWhoSometimesWritesWithA"HeartOfGrayness"
I now have all in Entree #10 but 4 and 7.
ReplyDeleteAnd Entree 7!
ReplyDeletecranberry,
DeleteThe answer to the #4 puzzle in ROSAYS #10 is a synonym of "bogus" that is also a kind of pun on what "telemarketing" involves.
Good work on #7. I thought that one was pretty tough. I was going to these guys as a hint for that one.
LegoThinkingWhatYourThinking
And of course I now have 4 in #10!
DeleteI'm still stuck on Conundrums #2 and 5, but have all the Entrees EXCEPT #5, 8 and 9 (I have a few ideas, but nothing that has worked out, yet)....and also, like pjb, I DON'T have the 7th word in Entree #10. Everything I have attempted on that 7th word has refused to yield fruit.
ReplyDeleteJust got Conundrum #4.
ReplyDeleteJust got Entree #4 too! May the 4s be with me!
ReplyDeleteI think at this rate I'll need hints to get anything else. Don't let me down, Lego!
ReplyDeleteJust got Entree #1! Now I'll need hints!
ReplyDeleteEarly Sunday hints:
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
#2. The anthropomorphic toy might be found beneath a Christmas tree, that is pine (or perhaps even an "oak?).
#5. First word: Foster Brooks; Second word: the fight song of purple professionals
ROSAYS:
ENTREE #2: Hint for the novelist: "I dare you to knock this battery off my shoulder!"
ENTREE #5: Hint for the American writer: "beat it!"; Hint for the song title in the hint given at the end of the puzzle: "Sterno"
ENTREE #6: The word in the text of this puzzle this is a homophone of a the first name of the novel’s protagonist is "one of them things them boys is doin'"
ENTREE #7: I thought this would be an easy puzzle... just sayin'
ENTREE #8: Those waxed windows in your car, even when it's parked, can be murder for waxwings!
ENTREE #9: That's a relatively recent image of the Juice. The fourth word in your description, though it begins with a P, sounds like it begins with a different letter. The third letter pertains O.J. in his playing heyday.
ENTREE #10:
#2. It's a word connected by hyphen to a homophone of the first name of Mrs. Ricardo or Miss van Pelt. The word we're looking for occurs in the lyics of this song.
#4. This "best word" sound like it begins with an F, but it don't.
#7. The answer involves a group similar to these guys. (Also, see my links in my previous post to cranberry.)
LegoRecallsFangAndTheKeystoneKopsOnTelevisionOnSaturdaysCirca1959
BTW re Entree #5: Don't you mean a "hit country song"? And where are the Dessert hints?
ReplyDeleteGood point, cranberry. The "Sterno" hint alludes to the purveyors of an earlier, bluesier song that is not a "country song," but that has the same title as the country song.
DeleteHints for both Desserts shall be in the offing.
LegoSaysLet'sWorkTogetherAndWeCanSolveAllThesePuzzles!
Entree #5 solved, BTW.
ReplyDeleteSo there's no confusion, I have solved Entree #7, not part 7 of #10.
ReplyDeleteI admit to being confused. Probably posted a few too many puzzles this week, but I am in a giving mood!
DeleteAs for ENTREE #10, Part 7, I am looking for a father's first name. He is like Desi Arnaz Sr. and Dean Martin in that he is a celebrity whose son(s) formed a rock group.
LegoCoveringAllMatterOfPuzzleSubjectMatterFromeMinestroneToNuts
Ok, finally I managed to google enough to find the first name (although the son has a completely different name now. I'd never heard of that guy...what else is new? [Have heard of the dad, of course.]
DeleteJust got Entree #9!
ReplyDeleteA little slice of senendipity:
ReplyDeleteI have the Seattle Seahawks vs Kansas City Chiefs game on in the background. Seahawk place-kicker Sebastian Janikowski just missed a field goal attempt by "doinking" it off the right crossbar. NBC went to commercial, playing holiday music. The song happened to be "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch."
As they showed a slow-motion reaction of Janikowski doing a slow burn after his missed kick, the lyrics you heard were "...You really are a heel...!"
Ouch!
LegoSaysLou"TheToe"GrozaProbablyLikedHisNicknameButSebastian"TheHeel"JanikowskiJustDoesn'tHaveTheSameRing
Dessert Hints:
ReplyDeleteDD:
The image hints somewhat at the larger decoration.
The Christmas decoration in two words can be held in the palm of your hand. The words, both 4 letters long, begin with a P and C.
The P word describes the larger Christmas decoration, in two words, the first of which is the P word itself. The second word of this larger Christmas decoration is a 4-letter word beginning with T.
The C-word is associated with ice cream.
BATD:
The 2 words in the 11-letter cakes are three and eight letters long. The first word is an adjective.
The 2-word synonym for the Goodwill outlet is a synonym for any Goodwill outlet -- a 6-letter adjective and 5-letter noun.
LegoWhoDidNotDessertYou
Got 'em! Now all I need are Conundrums #2 and #5, Entrees #2 and #8, and Part 7 of #10!
ReplyDeleteConundrum #2 and Entree #8 must really be the HARD ones, because I managed to solve everything BUT those two.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait, that's not quite true....on Entree #9, I believe I have the four-word phrase, but have yet to be able to turn it into a novel, even though I did find 'a bird' among the letters....nothing I research turns up a title that works with the REST of the letters. Sigh.
Xmas Morning Hints:
DeleteCONUNDRUM 2:
The historical figure is female. Four of the five letters you remove are consecutive. She was responsible for one of the best quotations in history involving a dessert.
CONUNDRUM 5:
The (good-natured) salutation associated with celebrities, like Dean Martin, Foster Brooks and, especially, Don Rickles. They serve ribs at these affairs.
The salutation associated often with celebratory holiday gatherings of family and friends often involves alcohol.
ROSAYS:
#2:
The words are noises associated with a bull and a cow. The acclaimed novel was written by the guy who also wrote the work upon which "Apocalypse Now" was based.
#8:
Both things the manicurist might do to your nails diminish their size a bit. The ought-to-be famous novel, in 2 words, was written by an author who wrote another more controversial novel, in one word. Delete the first letter in each of the two 4-letter words of the title we seek and you will form two other words: a drink related to lager, and anger.
#10, Part 7:
We are looking for the first name (an unconvential one) of the father of sons named Tony and Hunt. As teens, Tony and Hunt were in a rock band with a name using this form: "_____ and the ______s," like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, for example. Tony and Hunt's band name presumably gave a Kellogg's product free advertising.
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ReplyDeleteConundrum #5 left! Anything else, Lego?
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUM 5:
DeleteThe "testimonials" given during the salutations associated with celebrities can get a little ribald and personal. The "victims" of these get-togethers are always present to squirm through these "festivities" and "ribald ribbings."
As for the salutation associated often with celebratory holiday gatherings of family and friends , all I can say is "Cheers!"
LegoWhoHasBottomedOutSo"BottomsUp!"
And I'm done! Happy holidays to all!
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteCHILE(Chili), POT, CHIPOTLE
Appetizer Part 1
HANDEL, GERMAN, (Away in a Manger)
Part 2
Conundrums
1. AL FRANKEN(ALF, RAN, KEN)
2. MARIE ANTOINETTE, MARIONETTE
3. A TENOR, ORNATE
4. WHEEL, DOLLS
5. ROAST, TOAST
Menu Part 1
REGIFTER(REGRET IF)
Part 2
Entree 1. THE SUN ALSO RISES(SEAHORSE INSULTS)
Entree 2. NOSTROMO(SNORT, MOO)
Entree 3. WAITING FOR GODOT
Entree 4. MALONE DIES(LEMONADE IS)
Entree 5. ON THE ROAD(TOAD, HERON)
Entree 6. CATCHER IN THE RYE(NICE TRY, CHEATER), HOLDEN(Caulfield)
Entree 7. AS I LAY DYING(DAILY SAYING)
Entree 8. PALE FIRE(PARE, FILE)
Entree 9. TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE(A PAROLED ATHLETE PHOTO)
Entree 10.
1. JONES
2. GOOSEY
3. SYNE
4. PHONEY
5. JOYOUS
6. ENOUGH
7. SOUPY
8. HONEY
9. ENJOY
10. SHOGUN
Entree 11.
1. JOY
2. SNUG
3. HOPE
Entree 12.
JOSEPH YOUNG, JOSEPH GUYON
Dessert Part 1
PINE CONE, PINE TREE
Part 2
HOT FRITTERS, THRIFT STORE
In a word, "Whew!"-pjb
SCHPUZZLE: CHILIs + POT => CHIPOTLE'S
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: GERMAN => MANGER; AWAY IN A MANGER; G.F. HANDEL ["....land he...."]
CONUNDRUMS:
1. AL FRANKEN [ALF, RAN, KEN]
2. MARIE ANTOINETTE => MARINONETTE [NEVER would have solved this without the hint. Was never even close....thought toy was a ROBOT.]
3. A TENOR => ORNATE
4. WHEEL => DOLLS
5. ROAST => TOAST [Pre all but FIRST hint]
UGLY SWEATER SLICE: RE-GIFTER => ["REGRET IF"]
ENTREES:
1. SEAHORSE INSULTS => THE SUN ALSO RISES
2. SNORT and MOO => NOSTROMO [PRE HINTS]
3. WAITING FOR GODOT [Get rid of the 'C'.]
4. LEMONADE IS => MALONE DIES
5. TOAD and HERON => ON THE ROAD [Jack Kerouac]
6. NICE TRY, CHEATER => CATCHER IN THE RYE [HOLDEN / holdin']
7. DAILY SAYING => AS I LAY DYING [Faulkner]
8. FILE & PARE? => PALE FIRE by Nabokov (Lolita) [Thank you for the hint! I never would have gotten this one, either, otherwise.]
9. A PAROLED ATHLETE PHOTO => THE EAGLE??? [Can't get the rest, and there were no further hints.]
10. (1) JONES; (2) GOOSEY; (3) SYNE; (4) PHONEY; (5) JOYOUS; (6) ENO & UGH = ENOUGH; (7) SOUPY; (8) HONEY; (9) ENJOY; (10) SHOGUN ======> JOSEPH YOUNG
11. (1) JOY; (2) SNUG; (3) HOPE ======> JOSEPH YOUNG [Who would've guessed?]
12. JOE GUYON and our favorite JOE YOUNG!!!
DESSERT #1: PINE CONE => CHRISTMAS TREE & CONE-SHAPED [PRE HINT}
DESSERT #2: HOT FRITTERS => THRIFT STORE [PRE HINT]
This week's answers for the record, Part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Fast food flies from slow cookers
Take a homophone of a dish served on a chilly day. Place within it what the dish is often cooked in. The result names a fast-food chain in one word. What are this dish and chain?
Answer: Chili, Chipotle; (Chili --> Chile --> Chi + pot + le = Chipotle)
Appetizer Menu
Cosmopolitan Christmas Appetizer:
Holiday hint Haydn in plain sight
Name the nationality of a composer associated with Christmas music. Switch the two syllables of this nationality to form a word in the title of a Christmas carol popular in the land he adopted after coming of age. What's the word in the carol’s title? Who is the composer?
Hint: Within the text of this puzzle is hidden an anagram of the composer’s last name.
Answer:
Manger (German)
("Away in a Manger" is a popular carol in Great Britain)
German-born "Messiah" composer George Frederic Handel became a British subject in his late 20s.
Hint: "...land he..." anagrams to "Handel."
From: Mathew... To: Puzzlerians! Appetizer:
Conundrums under the tree
1. Think of a former politician, first and last names, total of nine letters. The first three letters name a television character, the middle three describe what an elected politician did to hold office, and the last three name a popular children’s toy.
AL FRANKEN, ALF, RAN, KEN
2. Think of an historical figure, first and last names. Remove five letters to name a type of anthropomorphic toy you might find beneath a Christmas tree.
MARIE ANTOINETTE, MARIONETTE
3. Think of a two-word phrase to describe a choir member (in six letters) who may perform, for example, at a Christmas concert. Rearrange into a word meaning “showy”.
A TENOR, ORNATE
4. Think of a common object with a distinctive shape, in five letters. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to name a class of children’s toys.
WHEEL, DOLLS
5. Think of a word that is both a type of food and a salutation associated with celebrities. Shift the first letter two places later in the alphabet to get another word that is also a type of food and also a salutation associated often with holiday gatherings of family and friends.
ROAST, TOAST
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Ugly Sweater Slice:
’Tis better to give than to deceive
If you are what this eight-letter word says you are, you may experience a twinge of regret if your Uncle Jude from Virginia, after opening his Christmas gift from you (an ugly virgin wool Christmas sweater), looks chagrined. Indeed, your uncle may look even more chagined if when he opens your gift he experiences a twinge of deja vu, which would confirm that he himself was what this eight-letter word said he was... exactly one year ago!
What is this eight-letter word?
What is the hidden anagram of the eight-letter word?
Hint: Within the text of this puzzle is hidden an anagram of the eight-letter word.
Hint: the eight-letter word is sometimes hyphenated.
Answer:
Regifter; "...regret if..."
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Ladies deliver belles lettres (“The 12 Maze of Xmas”)
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a caption for the image pictured here, in a 8-letter noun used as a modifier and 7-letter plural noun. If you have the right caption, you can rearrange all 15 letters to name the title of a famous novel. What novel is it?
Answer:
"The Sun Also Rises"; by ernest Hemingway (Seahorse insults)
ENTREE #2:
Think of two words – one associated with a male bovine animal and the other assocuated with a female bovine animal. Rearrange the letters in each word and place the results next to each other to form the title of an acclaimed novel. The title has eight letters in total. What novel is it?
Answer:
"Nostromo" by Joseph Conrad; SNORT (bull) + MOO (cow) = SNORT + MOO = NOSTR + OMO
ENTREE #3:
The phrase “act of good writing” might apply to a novel, short story, essay, poem or play. Remove one letter from the phrase and rearrange the remainder to form a title of a well known play, in three words. What play is it?
Answer:
"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett; (ACT OF GOOD WRITING – C)
ENTREE #4:
A pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses take a break from their door-to-door ministry on a sweltering summer’s day. They notice a makeshift cold drink stand nearby, staffed by a pair of pre-adolescent entrepeneurs, and order two drinks. One Witness takes a taste and exclaims “This ________ __ too sour!” Rearrange the combuned ten letters in those two blanks to form the title of a novel, in two words, written by the playwright in ENTREE #3, above. What is this novel title?
Answer:
"Malone Dies" by Samuel Beckett; (LEMONADE IS)
ENTREE #5
Think of two words – an amphibian bug-eater and a wading fish-eater. If you have the right ones, you can rearrange all the letters to name a somewhat famous novel by an American writer. The title has 3 words consisting of 9 letters in total. What novel is it?
Hint: The three words of the title are the first three words of the title of a county hit song.
Answer:
"On the Road," by Jack Kerouac; (TOAD + HERON = ON THE ROAD
Hint: "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson
ENTREE #6
It’s Saturday in Dodge, poker night. The boys is drinkin’, dealin’, biddin’, raisin’, holdin’ and foldin’. In the middle of a hand, Doc Holiday’s meathook of a hand clamps down like a beartrap on Soapy Smith’s wrist, just as Soapy is surreptitiously palming an ace of spades sleight-of-handily from inside his right sleeve.
“N___ t__, c______!” Doc bellows with sardonic sarcasm as he nudges Soapy’s snout with the the snout of his Colt 45.
Add an “h” to the 14 letters of what Doc bellowed, and rearrange the result to form the four-word title of a famous novel. What novel is it?
Hint: A homophone of a word in the text of this puzzle is the first name of the novel’s protagonist.
Answer:
"Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger; "NICE TRY, CHEATER! + H = CATCHER IN THE RYE
Hint: Holden Caulfield is the novel's protagonist. "Holden" is a homophone of "holdin'."
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 3 (ROSAYS, continued):
ReplyDeleteENTREE #7
Those 365-pages-a-year calendars-in-a-box make great last-minute Christmas gifts... you know, the ones you place on your bedside or kitchen table so you are greeted each morning with a different new word, Bible verse, brain teaser, crossword puzzle, word origin, trivia, or other fun fact.
Speaking of fun facts, legend has it that an “Eli” (who was a professor of English Renaissance literature, a university president and Commissioner of Major League Baseball) gave one certain such calendar to his friends as Christmas gifts. So, 365 times during the following year, these recipients of were treated to a d____ s_____ (a 5-letter adjective and 6-letter noun).
Rearrange those 11 letters to form the title of a great novel, in four words. What is this novel?
Answer: "As I lay dying" by William Faulkner; (DAILY SAYING)
ENTREE #8
Think of two words for what a manicurist might to to your nails. If you have the right ones, you can rearrange all the letters to name a ought-to-be famous novel by a multilingual writer. The title has 8 letters in total. What novel is it?
Answer:
"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov; File, pare
ENTREE #9
Don’t write a caption for the image shown here; rather, just describe what the image is, in four wouds of 1, 7, 7 and 5 letters, beginning with an A, P, A and P (an article, adjective, noun and noun). Take those 20 letters, remove a D, and rearrange the rest to form the 4-word title of a novel with a bird in its title. What is this novel?
Answer:
"Too Late the Phalarope" by Alan Paton; (a paroled athlete photo)
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 4 (ROSAYS, continued):
ReplyDeleteENTREE #10
The answer to each of the ten clues below can be formed from a pool of ten different letters of the alphabet. Solve them to determine the letters in this pool, then form the name of a puzzle maker, first and last names, using nine of the letters just once and one of the letters twice. The number of letters in each answer is given in parentheses at the end of each clue.
Answer:
Joseph Young
The ten letters are:
EGHJNOPSUY
1. A compulsive desire for singers Tom or Davy, or for David, at birth (5) JONES
2. Word connected by hyphen to a homophone of Mrs. Ricardo or Miss van Pelt (6) GOOSEY (Loosey-goosey; "loosey" sounds like Lucy, from "Peanuts" and "I Love Lucy")
3. Syllable sung at midnight that is a homophone of a synonym of “omen”(4) SYNE ("Auld Lang Syne")
4. Best word to describe telemarketing fraud? (6) PHONEY
5. “Christmas day ______, feast of all peoples...,” according to John Victor (6) JOYOUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsxO8K2BzXA
6. Ed’s reaction to the music of the composer of “Music for Airports” (3) was an informal exclamation of disgust! (3) “______!” he cried. (6) (The 6-letter word in the blank is formed by adding the 3 to the 3.) ENOUGH (Eno + Ugh)
7. Father of Tony and the Tiger Hunt (5) SOUPY (Sales)
8. Word preceding “moon” and “comb” in a pair of compound words (5) HONEY
9. First word in a tribute album ending with “... Every Sandwich” (5) ENJOY
10. Title of a novel in an “Asian Saga” (5) SHOGUN
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 5 (ROSAYS, continued):
ReplyDeleteENTREE #11
Solve the three clues below. Rearrange the combined letters in the answers in to the first and last names of a puzzle maker. The number of letters in each answer is given in parentheses at the end of each clue.
1. Word in the title of a beloved Christmas carol (3)
2. How it’s nice to be nestled, according to Clement Clarke Moore (4)
3. A line in a Christmas poem by Maya Angelou reads:
“Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of ___” (4)
What are the clue answers, and who is the puzzle maker?
Answer:
JOY + SNUG + HOPE --> JOSEPH YOUNG
Joseph Young
ENTREE #12
Name a member of both the and College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame. (under head coach PopWarner). This athlete played college football under two of the most famous football coaches in history: Pop Warner and John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named. He was a teammate of the legendary athlete Jim Thorpe, both in college and professionally.
This athlete shares his first name with a puzzle maker, and you can rearrange the letters in his last name to form the last name of the puzzle maker. The athlete was a native Minnesotan and American Indian from the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tribe. The puzzle maker was born and reared in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
Who are this athlete and puzzlemaker?
Answer:
Joseph Guyon; Joseph Young
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, Part 6:
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Decorative Dessert:
The ghostly shape of Christmas Present
Name a Christmas decoration in two words. The first word describes a larger Christmas decoration, in two words, and the second word describes the shapes of both decorations. What are these small and large decorations?
Answer:
Pine cone; Pine tree
Bijou And Trinket Dessert:
Pastries on Earth to shoppers of Goodwill
Bijou buys batter-fried apple cakes from a bakery, then stops by a Goodwill outlet to pick up trinkets and used clothing. Rearrange the letters in the 2-word 11-letter cakes to form a 2-word synonym for the Goodwill outlet.
What are these cakes and this synonym?
Answer:
Hot fritters; thrift store
Lego!