Friday, May 24, 2019

Of cabbages and broccoli crowns; Religious fanaticism run a-monk? Quartet of Quirky QWERTY Queries; Sheep outleapers comfort sleepers; Landlocked in a Banana Republic job

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED

Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Sheep outleapers comfort sleepers

Name something comforting that one appreciates while counting leaping sheep, in two words. 
Switching the order of the words and saying the result aloud sounds like creatures that leap higher than sheep. 
What creatures are these?


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Conundrums You Just Can’t Beat Appetizer:
Quartet of Quirky QWERTY Queries


Note: This week’s first three Conundrums are open-ended “creative challenges.” Your answers may differ from Mathew’s “intended answers.”


🥁1. The word “ERASER” is comprised of the pairs of letters ER, AS, and ER, which appear next to each other on the QWERTY computer keyboard. 
What is the longest common English word or phrase that can be constructed this way? 
I allow letters to be in reverse order (e.g. “TR” is allowed), to break across lines (PA, LZ, MQ), and for spaces/punctuation to appear anywhere. 
For words longer than six letters, I have only found one common eight letter word.
🥁2. Same as the conditions in Conundrum #1, but using the alphabet rather than QWERTY.
🥁3. Think of a well-known author whose last name satisfies the conditions in Conundrum #1. 
🥁4. Name two things lumberjacks do. Each is a three-letter word.  
Hint: Look QWERTilY, then clockwise (assuming the clock has a triangular face).


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Chapter And Verse Slice:
Religious fanaticism run a-monk?

Take the title of a religious leader followed by a first name from scripture that the leader might have. 
Remove one letter and divide the result in two to form synonyms meaning “fanatically enthusiastic.” 
What are these synonyms?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Landlocked in a Banana Republic job 

Will Shortz’s May 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads: 
Name a profession in 13 letters that is associated with a particular 5-letter country. The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, although not consecutively, in that profession’s name. What is it?
Hint: The profession is a single word.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a one-word profession in 13 letters, beginning with “o” and ending with “r”, that is not particularly associated with a particular 5-letter country. 
The letters of that country, however, do appear, albeit not in order, in the first seven letters of that profession’s name. (The two of those seven letters that are not in the country are an adjacent “e” and “a”.)
What is the profession?
Vital hint: The profession is not particularly associated with the 5-letter country because only 0.35 percent of the country borders the sea. The country is, for all intents and purposes, landlocked.
ENTREE #2:
Give the familiar name, in 11 letters, of the leader of a 5-letter country. The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, although not consecutively, in that leader’s name. 
Who is this leader?
ENTREE #3: 
Name a one-word “job requirement” in 13 letters for the leader of nation that is associated with a second, 5-letter, nation. 
The letters of that 5-letter nation all appear somewhere in the job requirement – and the first and last letters of that 5-letter nation are the same as the first and last letters of of this “job requirement.” What is it?
Hint: The leader’s nation can be called by two different names, both containing two words.
ENTREE #4:
Name a one-word profession in 13 letters of a woman named Bernadette who advocates for the rights of abused women in her 5-letter country. 
The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, the first four consecutively, in that profession’s name. 
What is the profession?

ENTREE #5:
Name a one-word profession in 10 letters that is not particularly associated with a particular 5-letter country, although there are millions of members of that profession in the country. The final eight letters of the profession all appear in the name of the country. 
What profession is it?
ENTREE #6:
Name a country with an even number of letters. Move one of those letters three places later in the country’s name. 
Divide the result in half to form a non-human body part and a human body part. 
What is this country?


Dessert Menu 

King Of Cabbages Dessert:
Of cabbages and broccoli crowns

Take a 2-word term for a head of cabbage or a broccoli crown. 
Reverse the words and the result will sound like a figurative hyphenated description of a solar panel installer or recycling coordinator. 
What are this two word term and hyphenated description?


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  2. First impresions:
    For Con #1 I quickly found the 8-letter word. If putting a single letter after an (extended) set of pairs is permitted, I found a 11-letter word, also fairly common.

    I found a notable person, initials and last name, who fulfills the conditions of Con #1, #2, and #3. Although this person is not primarily noted as an author, he was the author of an inaugural address.

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    1. Very nice. Would you describe that notable person as far to the right?

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    2. For his time, no. For today, possibly.

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    3. Yes. Also I found what I believe is the expected answer.

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    4. I don't have it yet, but I did find what I suspect is the intended 8-letter word.

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    5. I can't get anything longer than six letters using the "closed-loop circular seamless alphabet", but I found an 8-letter word on the keyboard, which made finding an author as easy as ... well, let's just say easy.

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    6. Love your riff-off of Mathew's "well-known author" challenge, geofan. These conundrums are proving to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys...

      LegoAdds"OrPerhapsABarrelOfBeer"InTheCaseOfgeofan'sRiffOff

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  3. Lego -
    Congratulations on getting your (easy) puzzle on NPR this week!

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  4. Lego-
    As you note, Cons #1, #2 and #3 are open-ended. In view of this fact, do you still want us to wait until after Wednesday to post our solutions t these puzzles?

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    1. Good question, geofan. Yes, let's still wait until Wednesday. Perhaps though one might hint at his or her answer(s).

      LegoQwertiquizzical

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    3. Hi all - Remember that phrases were allowed.
      For #3 (closed-loop alphabet), have one well-known 8-letter phrase and a contrived 7-word "headline". As Paul noted, no word over 6 letters.
      For #4, if you extend your clock a bit and look CCW (not CW), there is a third 3-letter activity that lumberjacks do.

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  5. Happy Sunday everyone, from beautiful Ft. Walton Beach, FL!
    Sorry I haven't commented earlier, or for that matter haven't barely even glimpsed at this week's edition. We left on Friday, and I've been busy with other things since then. I did catch Lego's latest challenge used by Will Shortz today. Almost didn't solve it! Believe me, once we get back tomorrow P! Will have my full attention! And that means hints as well, Lego! I'll glance at everything tonight and see what I might solve on my own. Careless of me not to have got to it sooner!

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    1. Got the "fanatically enthusiastic" puzzle and Entree #1, but the rest are quite difficult. Hints please!

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  6. Indeed, congrats Lego....I love your puzzle! Has WS chosen your creations more than anyone else's, especially lately?

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    1. Thanks, VT. I like the answer to my NPR puzzle. But in retrospect I wish I would have worded it a bit differently.
      It seems there are a number of puzzle-makers whose puzzles Will Shortz has used more than once. In January of 2018 he used one of Patrick J. Berry's puzzles on NPR, then three weeks later used a second puzzle of Patrick's. Will used a puzzle by Mathew Huffman this past January. I believe that puzzles created by skydiveboy and Word Woman that I have had the privilege to read are worthy of NPR also.

      LegoWhoThinksLuvIsJustAThreeLetterWord

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    2. Well, I KNOW WS had used one of Mathew's recently (was that a econd one, and I somehow MISSED the one in January?), and also at least one of PJB's, but it seems to me that YOU have had at least THREE used, is that not correct?

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  7. Have solved all except Entrées #2, #3, and #4, and I have ideas on those.

    Some observations on the ones I haven't solved:

    Entrée #2: I have 2 solutions that qualify, but have different lengths: 12 letters for one country and 13 for another. None for 11 letters. The 12-letter answer I like better. I may sense a small trick.

    Entrée #3: I believe I know the 2 countries, but have no 13-letter occupations. However, I coined a 13-letter "word" that fits perfectly! Only problem is: it is not (yet) a word.

    Entrée #4: I believe I know the woman's name and country but have no 13-letter occupation (two possibilities but neither really fits). However, I have a 14-letter posibility that almost fits.

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  8. I will defer comments on the others until after Lego's Sunday or Monday hints.

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  9. End-Of-The-Weekend Hints:

    Schpuzzle:
    While the "something" may be "comforting" it is nevertheless somewhat akin (in function and location) to the pea upon which the princess slept.

    CYJCBA:
    Conundrum #4:
    A farmer clears a forest. A lumberjack plows a field.

    CAVS:
    The first name from scripture is that of a king. The name has palindromic tendencies.

    ROSS:
    ENTREE #1:
    An eggy beverage appears in the midst of the profession.
    ENTREE #2:
    The macho airman ate macaroni ham.
    ENTREE #3:
    'Tis a simple “job requirement”: Do not make any mistakes.
    The nations name: H.S. or V.C.
    ENTREE #4:
    Bernadette is Kamela-or-Kirsten-like.
    ENTREE #5:
    The profession in 10 letters begins with a T and ends with an N.
    ENTREE #6:
    'Tis a wonderful country for girls and boys.

    KOCD:
    We might have been able to do a similar puzzles using blueberries instead of broccoli and cabbage but, as George Carlin noted, blueberrys are really purple and therefore there is no blue food!

    LegoCuttingHimselfASliceOfCeruleanSky

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  10. I'm confused (what else is new?) When I first looked at this week's P! right after midnight my time on Friday morning, there were only FOUR Entrees. Did you add two more sometime later? (I saw geofan talking about a 'woman' for Entree 4, which I HAD solved, but now what was #4 has moved (I'm didn't look long enough yet to figure out to which number.) What happened?

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    1. Sorry, ViolinTeddy. I am not too certain what happened either. Last Thursday evening/early Friday morning is a bit hazy to me now. (I attended some graduations over the weekend and was working on writing graduation poems.) I might well have added an Entree or two to the ROSS Slices and "moved the furniture on the deck of this Titanic" around a skosh.

      LegoExperiencingCap'nCrunchTimeDuringCap'n'GownSeason

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  11. Hints and comments:
    Lego's late-Sunday hints revealed Entrées #3 and #4 in quick order. Alas, I was on the wrong track on both :(

    For #3, I was sure that the 2-named country was G.B./U.K. and the associated country was thus WALES. So all that was needed was a 13-letter word W---S. The leader -- simple requirement -- has to be a member of the House of Windsor. No 13-letter word fit until I coined WINDSORLINESS. Sounds good, or..?

    #4 I had found another Bernadette, from the same country, who also specializes in rights for abused women. But the solution word did not apply to her. An almost-fit, hyphenated 14-letter word does apply to this other Bernadette, however. More Wednesday.

    #2 - still in the dark. Still have the 12-letter solution in my back pocket, and thinking.

    A hint for #3: In 1998, the leader's country (not the associated country) had the highest per-capita murder rate - worldwide. Caveat emptor -- statistics lie and liars do statistics.

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    1. I like WINDSORLINESS, geofan, a nice "coinage of the realm."
      The hint I was going to give for Entree #2 (that now you don't need it!) was that the leader is associated with a book, not a big book (and it is not a blue book or a green book either).
      As for Entree #3, another crime, not murder, should not have been the been the main crime concern of that nation in 1998!

      LegoWhoWondersIfThePerCapitaMurderRateMightHaveBeenSimilarlyHighInThatNationIn1978

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    2. Alas, WINDSORLINESS does not contain a A. My bad.

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    3. Still a nice minting.

      LegoJustWindSorfingOnTheWatersOfLife

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    4. I was going to comment when I read geofan's post of today, although Lego beat me to it, I then saw, that I love 'windsorliness", especially because, until the weekend hint, I had come to the same conclusion, that the nation was G.B and U.K....and that the job requirement was something along the lines of 'be born to it", not that I could make anything similar to that phrase (and it was supposed to be ONE word anyhow) work into a five-letter country.

      I still don't have Entrees #2 and 4, despite spending a lot of time on them. And am way behind geo, re not having solved the Schpuzzle, or the Dessert (although I MIGHT have half of that one, not sure) or any of the Conundrums, except possibly #4, but I'm not in any way confident of IT either. Sigh...double sigh....triple sigh....

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  12. got Entrée #2 from the hint. The week's work is done.

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  13. For Entrée #1, I advised two postdocs in this field from 2012-2016. One has the most fitting last name of "Waters." Alas, I had to turn both of them into metrologists, so that they each could keep their jobs after their respective postdocs ended.

    A world-known expert in this field is originally from Kenya and his name rhymes with a US president, who resigned.

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  14. Got Entrees #2 and, I think, #5.

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  15. Monday Hints:

    Schpuzzle:
    The "outleaper" is related to a creature that rhymes with a summertime fruit.

    CYJCBA:
    Conundrum #4:
    Spell both 3-letter words backward to make two other words: a common past-tense verb, and a slangy term for a Potomac office holder, Washington bureaucrat or spinner.

    ROSS:
    ENTREE #2:
    The leader is associated with a red book (no, not the magazine!).
    ENTREE #4:
    Bernadette's one-word profession in 13 letters begins with the first four letters of her country. The fifth letter in the country shows up finally as the tenth letter of the profession. It's a profession that really didn't much exist a century ago.

    KOCD:
    The figurative hyphenated description of a solar panel installer or recycling coordinator smacks of tree-hugging. A tree has rings: Ring around the Rosie? No. Ring around the bathtub? No. Ring around the sun? No. Ring around the finger? No. Ring around the ______? Yes!

    LegoWhoSings"ThereAin'tNoCureForTheSummertimeBlueFruits"(WhichIsFortunateBecauseTheFruit ThatRhymesWithTheCreatureRelatedToTheSchpuzzle'sOutleaperISNotABlueFruitButAnOrangeFruit!)

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    1. Methinks there may be an alternate answer to the KOCD. More on Wednesday.

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    2. For the SOTW, in December 2016, I saw some of these beasts from a train. They definitely leapt higher than sheep.

      Also, while I was solving the SOTW, I touched the reversed comfort item - this revealed the clue!. But neither of these relates to an orange fruit. Another alternate answer??

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    3. Found the fruit, but feel that it is not orange, but more tan or brown in color.

      As to the beasts, just the week before, I personally saw - from a different train - many kangaroos leaping. But these are not the leaping beasts in question, though they also leap much higher than sheep, even higher than the beasts in question.

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  16. AH, I FINALLY circled round all the hints (I hadn't quite properly applied the intiial Entree #2 hint) and solved it, at last. If only on the Schpuzzle...tackling Dessert yet again now...

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  17. Just got Conundrum #4 and the Dessert!

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  18. A Few Tuesday Hints:

    Schpuzzle:
    You can probably go to one of those big box stores and spring for the "something" that may be "comforting."
    KOCD:
    The 2-word term for heads of cabbage or broccoli crowns is sometimes served with COrnmeal GRits.

    LegoCOmmentingGRatuitously

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    1. Ok, I finally (DUH) realized what the Schpuzzle answer is....I had been desperate enough to try "soft sheet" leading to a very BAD representation of "CHEETAH." Thank you!

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    2. Likewise now on the Dessert, although I HAD had one word correct already.....

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    3. DUH for the Schpuzzle? I have yet to figure it out myself! At the moment I still don't have the Schpuzzle, all Conundrums except #4, or Entrees #3 and #4. A few more hints please?

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    4. I don't have the first three conundrums either (well, I have some six-letter words for #1, but so what?) I basically gave up on those, as they surely are NOT my forte!

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    5. CB, if it makes you feel better I wasn't aware of the creatures in question until about two weeks ago when I was coincidentally informed of their existence and their leaping ability. And even with it fresh in my mind it took me a while to come around to the Schpuzzle answer.

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  19. A Few Wednesday Hints:

    Schpuzzle:
    Sure, you can place a bed frame or even a pea under your mattress. But In the past century or so it was commonplace to place this two-syllable rectangular parallelepiped (A.K.A. a right rectangular prism), beneath one's mattress.
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    ENTREE #3:
    This "leader of a nation" (that is spelled H___ S__, or V______ C___) is in the news today for criticizing another "leader" of a nation. His "job requirement" (and it is a "his"...this leader will probably never be a "her") requires that the leader be flawless when it comes to making decisions regarding the "governing" of his "nation" which is, in a sense, global.
    ENTREE #4:
    It is an African country.
    There are a handful-or-so of people in the profession who are currently vying to be U.S. president.
    (Note to cranberry: "All Conundrums except #4" are akin to those "creative challenges," (at which you excel!) that Will Shortz periodically presents on NPR.)

    LegoWhoBelievesThatSleepingOnAPeaIsPreferableToSleepingOnItsHomograph

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    1. Now I've got the Schpuzzle and Entrees #3 and #4. The creative ones are much too difficult, I think.

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  20. BOX SPRING > SPRINGBOKS

    REPORTER
    DEPOTS, DEFERS
    (William Sydney) PORTER [After finding my 8-letter word, this was like taking (a certain brand of) candy from a baby]
    SAW, LOP

    RABBI DAVID > RABID, AVID

    OCEANOGRAPHER > CONGO
    CHAIRMAN MAO > CHINA
    INFALLIBILITY > ITALY [Vatican City, Holy See]
    CONGOlese Senator Bernadette Mafuta Nkoy [Not to be confused with Philippine CONGRESSWOMAN Bernadette Herrera-Dy] {Very tricky, lego!}
    TECHNICIAN > CHINA
    THAILAND > TAIL, HAND

    COLLARD GREEN (Brassica oleracea, the same species as many common vegetables, including cabbage and broccoli) > GREEN-COLLARED


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  21. Same answers as Paul, with following comments/additions:

    SOTW: In Dec 2016 I saw leaping kangaroos from the Indian Pacific train and leaping springboks from the PremierClasse train.

    Cons #1/#2, see following post and discussion.

    Con #3: My alternate author is SARTRE. The famous "semi-author" was J.K. POLK (US president, 1845-1849).

    Con #4: Extending one's view outward and looking CCW yields AXE (verb), another lumberjacking activity.

    Entrée #2: Alternate answer: INDIRA GANDHI/INDIA (12 letters).

    Entrée #3: See previous post.

    Entrée #4: The “other” Bernadette”, also in DR Congo, is Bernadette Ntumba. She is an NGO-coordinator (14 letters and doesn't quite fit the CONG + O model). Ms Ntumba appears to be more visible than Ms Nkoy, though.

    KOCD: My alternate (and first) answer was CHOPPED GREENS/GREEN JOBS.
    Only after the first hint did I suspect COLLARD GREENS/GREEN SCHOLAR and at last COLLARD GREENS/GREEN-COLLAR. Only the last one is hyphenated.

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  22. Con #1/#2 both: The stated rules specifically allow spaces and punctuation marks to be placed anywhere in the string of characters. I interpret this to include within a given "letter-pair." In this way, there is (admittedly limited) access to words with an odd number of letters, and to otherwise inaccessible keys. Of course, at some point, each odd-number word must be "mated" with another odd-number word to come out even at the end (in a manner of speaking – or typing).

    Con #1: Single words, longest (and expected solution) is likely REPORTER. If adding a letter at the end is OK (probably not), then REAPPORTIO(n) is 11 letters. I am looking at “mating” it with an odd-number word to legitimize “REAPPORTION Bxx” or “REAPPORTION Mxx”.
    Two phrases, each admittedly contrived:
    (a) A shipping journalist was detailed to review cultural opportunities in the city. The resulting headline: PORT REPORTER: OPERAS WERE PART POLKA POP. (note 5- and 3-letter words at end, per discussion above).
    (b) In the spirit of Gleichschaltung, a decree was promulgated to unify all musical presentations along Party lines (as was done in Germany in 1933). The headline in the memo to the apparatchiks:
    PARTY TASK: JOIN BREASTY OPERAS, POLKAS AS POP ART. (two sets of odd-number words, the first with two inserted even-number words. In this case, it affords access to J, N, B, which are otherwise inaccessible)

    Con #2: A well-known phrase is 8 letters: HIGH NOON.
    Phrases, admittedly contrived: A military post (for troop transport) or the Swiss postal authority (which operates rural buses in Switzerland) runs buses. For passengers' comfort, these buses make a toilet stop around midday on their longer routes. However, management demands that the route time be shortened for better efficiency. Hence these possible published headlines in newspapers:
    POST BALKED ON HIGH NOON POOP STOP
    or
    POST BALKED: NO HIGH NOON POOP STOP

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  23. For the Schpuzzle I considered Warm Fleece and Flea Swarms. If you've ever seen a flea swarm, you swear it was jumping awfully high.....D.E.

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  24. Just wanted to drop off SATRAP for the QWERTY challenge.

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  25. Schpuzzle
    BOX SPRING, SPRINGBOKS
    Appetizer
    Conundrum #4
    SAW, LOP
    Menu
    RABBI, DAVID, RABID, AVID
    Entrees
    1. OCEANOGRAPHER, CONGO
    2. CHAIRMAN MAO, CHINA
    3. INFALLIBILITY, ITALY
    4. CONGRESSWOMAN, CONGO
    5. TECHNICIANS, CHINA
    6. THAILAND, TAIL, HAND
    Dessert
    COLLARD GREEN, GREEN-COLLAR
    The only green-collar being I know is Kermit the Frog. It's not easy being...well, you know.-pjb

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  26. Sorry to be so late, I'm really sick and wasn't able to get downstairs...

    SCHPUZZLE: BOX SPRING => SPRINGBOKS

    CONUNDRUMS:

    1. PORTER; OPERAS; WERE WE; POLKAS ??????

    2. ?

    3. ?

    4. SAW and LOP [But WHY these two words, I have no idea; someone please explain]


    CHAPTER SLICE: RABBI DAVID => RABID AVID [PRE HINT]


    ENTREES:

    1. OCEANOGRAPHER; OCNOG => CONGO [PRE HINT]

    2. CHAIRMAN MAO => CHINA

    3. IMPECCABILITY; ITALY; HOLY SEE or VATICAN CITY;

    4. CONGRESSWOMAN => CONGO (again?) [When I finally stumbled upon THE Bernadette, nowhere did it say she actuallY WAS a congresswoman.]

    5. TECHNICIAN ; CHINA [Pre any hints there might have been]

    6. THAILAND => TAIL & HAND [PRE HINT]

    DESSERT: COLLARD GREENS => GREEN COLLAR [worker]

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    1. VT,
      Lumberjacks SAW down trees and LOP off branches.

      LegoLopperAndTomSawyerAreLumberjacks!

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    2. I know that, but they also 'CUT', so in what way re the QWERTY keyboard are SAW and LOP special?

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    3. Oh, I see an explanation down below in the 'for the record' answers....

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

    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    Sheep outleapers comfort sleepers
    Name something comforting that one appreciates while counting leaping sheep, in two words.
    Switching the words and saying them aloud sounds like creatures that leap higher than sheep.
    What creatures are these?
    Answer:
    Springboks; (Box spring)

    Appetizer Menu

    Conundrums You Just Can’t Beat Appetizer
    Quartet of Quirky QWERTY Queries
    1. The word “ERASER” is comprised of the pairs of letters ER, AS, and ER, which appear next to each other on the QWERTY computer keyboard. What is the longest common English word or phrase that can be constructed this way? I allow letters to be in reverse order (e.g. “TR” is allowed), to break across lines (PA, LZ, MQ), and for spaces/punctuation to appear anywhere. For words longer than six letters, I have only found one common eight letter word.
    Answer:
    REPORTER, PARTERRE, PATRUITY, POWER TOP; POLKAS, POOPER, POP ART, PORTER, REAPER, REPORT, REWEDS
    2. Same as the conditions in Conundrum #1, but using the alphabet rather than QWERTY.
    Answer:
    HIGH NOON, BAR SPOON; KLUTZY, BALKED, BASTED, BAZARS, DEBARS, DEFERS, DEPOTS, ABUT ON, DEEDED, FEED ON, FEEDED, HIDERS, ON HIGH, POOPED, POP OUT, POSTED, POUTED, STONED, STOP ON
    3. Think of a well-known author whose last name satisfies the conditions in Conundrum #1.
    Answer:
    (Jean-Paul) SARTRE
    4. Name two things lumberjacks do. Each is a three-letter word.
    Hint: Look QWERTilY, then clockwise.
    Answer:
    SAW, LOP (Both words can be spelled in "clockwise triangles" on a QWERTY keyboard.

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    Chapter And Verse Slice
    Religious fanaticism run a-monk?
    Take the title of a religious leader followed by a first name from scripture that the leader might have. Remove one letter and divide the result in two to form synonyms meaning “fanatically enthusiastic.” What are these synonyms?
    Answer:
    Rabid, avid;
    Rabbi David
    RABBI DAVID - B = RABID + AVID

    Lego...

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    1. At least, my 'OPERAS" seems to have been original....

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    2. Yes, I like OPERAS too, VT. It is a plural of a plural... a "superplural," if you will.

      LeFigaro

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    3. Meaning that a SINGLE opera is an "operum"? Haha

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

    Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
    Landlocked in a Banana Repubic job
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
    ENTREE #1:
    Name a one-word profession in 13 letters, beginning with “o” and ending with “r”, that is not particularly associated with a particular 5-letter country. The letters of that country, however, do appear, albeit not in order, in the first seven letters of that profession’s name. (The two of those seven letters you do not use are an adjacent “e” and “a”.) What is the profession?
    Vital hint: The profession is not particularly associated with the 5-letter country because only 0.35 percent of the country borders the sea. The country is, for all intents and purposes, landlocked.
    Answer:
    OCeaNOGrapher; (Congo)
    ENTREE #2:
    Give the familiar name, in 11 letters, of the leader of a 5-letter country. The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, although not consecutively, in that leader’s name. Who is this leader?
    Answer:
    CHaIrmaN mAo (Zedong); (China)
    ENTREE #3:
    Name a one-word “job requirement” in 13 letters for the leader of nation that is associated with a second, 5-letter, nation.
    The letters of that 5-letter nation all appear somewhere in the job requirement – and the first and last letters of that 5-letter nation are the same as the first and last letters of of this “job requirement.” What is it?
    Hint: The leader’s nation can be called by two different names, both containing two words.
    Answer:
    InfALlibiliTY; (Italy, which surrounds Vatican City, the leader of which is required to be infallible (or at least is considered to be so by some)
    ENTREE #4:
    Name a one-word profession in 13 letters of a woman named Bernadette who advocates for the rights of abused women in her 5-letter country. The letters of that country appear in left-to-right order, the first four consecutively, in that profession’s name. What is the profession?
    Answer:
    Congresswoman (Bernadette Nkoy Mafuta, of the Congo)

    ENTREE #5:
    Name a profession in 10 letters that is not particularly associated with a particular 5-letter country, although there are millions of members of that profession in the country. The final eight letters of the profession all appear in the name of the country. What profession is it?
    Hint: The profession is a single word.
    Answer:
    TeCHNICIAN; China
    ENTREE #6:
    Name a country with an even number of letters. Move one of those letters three places later in the country’s name. Divide the result in half to form a non-human body part and a human body part. What is this country?
    Answer:
    Thailand; (Tail, hand)

    Dessert Menu
    King Of Cabbages Dessert:
    Of cabbages and broccoli crowns
    Take a 2-word term for a head of cabbage or a broccoli spear. Reverse the words and the result will sound like a figurative hyphenated description of a solar panel installer or recycling coordinator. What are this two word term and hyphenated description?
    Answer:
    Collard green; Green-collared

    Lego!

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  29. Another contribution to Con #1: REAPPORTION MAP

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