PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Play this dating game
Name five consecutive letters of the alphabet, all associated with dating.
Each letter is sometimes followed by a period.
What are these five letters and how are they associated with dating.
Seven Tough-To-Beat Conundrums Appetizer:
Full-fontal typography
🥁1. WEDDING INVITATIONS:
Think of a typographic term containing three T’s. Drop one T to name a form of capitalization. Drop another T to name something used in old-fashioned typesetting. Drop the final T to leave what sounds like a word used in a four word phrase synonymous with marriage.
🥁2. Think of a two-word typography phrase. Drop the last letter from each word, and append a number to the second word, to get the name of a well-known criminal.
🥁3. Take the second word from Conundrum #2, reverse it, and append a typographic unit of distance to name a well-known transportation company.
🥁4. Name a singular eleven letter word that contains five consecutive consonants and has “I” as its only two vowels (where Y is considered a vowel).
I have two answers.
🥁5. Name a department store in nine letters that contains five consecutive consonants and has only two of the same vowel (where Y is considered a vowel).
🥁6. Think of a type of noodle. Change the first letter to the next two letters in the alphabet to name a flower part.
🥁7. This puzzle is a sort of a word ladder. Start with a short word and at each step successively add a letter to answer the next clue.
The words are, a type of: 1) Club 2) Road 3) Party 4) Bird 5) Image.
Edible Ears And Spoonfuls Of Spumoni Slice:
Oh oh! Oops! No goofs or Boo-Boos
Solve for the following clues.
The letters and numbers in parentheses stand for the first letter and number of letters in each word.
Clues:
1. Portable party-tune blaster (B7)
2. Sweeper storage, and its shape (O6, B5, B3)
3. Bromodosis (F4, O4)
4. Possible cause of halitosis (T5, R4, R3)
5. Slang term for a high-hit homer (M4, S4)
6. Slang term for “in the mood for love” (H3, T2, T4)
7. Hundred Acre Wood denizen (R3, O2, P4)
8. Big spoonful of Spumoni or Neapolitan (C4, S5)
9. Mesa or Salt Lake City (M6, T5)
10. Count Dracula encounterer, perhaps (B5, D5)
11. Pyrite (F5, G4)
12. “Effigetical pin cushion” (V6, D4)
13. Title of a biography of a beloved circus performer? (C8, O2, B4)... or usung the superior alternative answers suggested by geofan, (C9, O2, B4)
14. What you heard after the Beatles’ breakup (B4, F3, Y4, O3)
15. Where recipes for “campfire casserole,” “meatball stew” and “boxcar burritos” can be found (H4, C8)
16. English, draw, topspin or “massé,” for example (P4, S4)
17. Convertible alternative (M8)
18. Leopold’s wife, to those who know her well (M4, B5)
19. Early Elvis hit (H5, D3)
20.“Who Knows Where the Time Goes,” “Too Soon Tomorrow” and “Witchi-tai-to,” for example (F4, R4, S5)
21. Phil’s and Harry’s catchphrase (H4, C3)
22. Luke’s and Bo’s nemesis (B4, H4)
23. Edible ears (C4, O2, C4)
24. Places for college students to study and sleep (D4, R5)
25. New York Times daily challenges (S7, C10)
26. Group that found “gold” at the end of a “Neon Rainbow” (B3, T4)
27. O.J.’s ride, 25 years ago (F4, B6)
28. Elocution exercise phrase enunciated by Ron Burgundy (H3, N3, B5, C3)
29. Item on a fashion model’s appointment calendar (P5, S5)
30. BBC Sci-fi program title character (D6, W3)
31. The 1978 Yanks, according to Sparky (B5, Z3)
32. Caption for the image at the right (Y4, L4)
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sue falls for Lou Rawls!
Will Shortz’s June 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with the first and last names of a famous singer. What city is it, and who’s the singer?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with a competitive team activity in which participants wear goggles. What city is it, and what is the competitive team activity?
ENTREE #2:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. Reverse the order of the words. The two words of this result rhyme, respectively, with a compound word for a tool that features a “single helix.” What city is it, and what’s the tool?
ENTREE #3:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name.
The two words rhyme, respectively, with a two-word sentence for what your automobile engine will do if its cylinders do not receive the correct balance of air and fuel.
The first word in the two-word sentence is a contraction.
What city is it, and what will your engine do?
ENTREE #4:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with something a recent prestigious prize winner is known for writing and recording, and what this winner wrote and recorded in June of 2017.
What city is it, and who’s the writer and recorder?
What is the prize winner known for writing and recording, and what did the winner write and record in June of 2017?
ENTREE #5:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. Replace one of its letters with the letter two places earlier in the alphabet to form a second major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. The two cities’ populations differ by about 40,000.
What cities are these?
ENTREE #6:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a four-syllable name. The first syllable and the third and fourth syllables together rhyme, respectively, with the first and last names of a well-known short story title character.
(The first name of the short story title character is a familiar one-syllable shortened form.)
What city is it, and who’s the short story character?
ENTREE #7:
Name a major southern U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word, two-syllable name. The first word rhymes, with the first part of a compound word that is a northwestern U.S. city, also with a population of more than 100,000.
The second word of the major southern U.S. city rhymes with a synonym of the second part of that northwestern U.S. city. What cities are these?
Hint: The name of the northwestern U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000 is also the name of a northeastern U.S. city with a population of more than 50,000 but less than 100,000. The northwestern city was named after the northeastern city.
Dandy Dessert:
Old (MacDonald’s) Navy
Change one letter in a candy brand to form a two-word term for certain scarves, cravats, pajamas and stockings.
Change one letter in just one piece of this same candy to name two words associated with certain farm animals.
What is this candy brand?
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:
Play this dating game
Name five consecutive letters of the alphabet, all associated with dating. Each letter is sometimes followed by a period.
What are these five letters and how are they associated with dating.
Appetizer Menu
Seven Tough-To-Beat Conundrums Appetizer:
Full-fontal typography
🥁1. WEDDING INVITATIONS:
Think of a typographic term containing three T’s. Drop one T to name a form of capitalization. Drop another T to name something used in old-fashioned typesetting. Drop the final T to leave what sounds like a word used in a four word phrase synonymous with marriage.
🥁2. Think of a two-word typography phrase. Drop the last letter from each word, and append a number to the second word, to get the name of a well-known criminal.🥁3. Take the second word from Conundrum #2, reverse it, and append a typographic unit of distance to name a well-known transportation company.
🥁4. Name a singular eleven letter word that contains five consecutive consonants and has “I” as its only two vowels (where Y is considered a vowel).
I have two answers.
🥁5. Name a department store in nine letters that contains five consecutive consonants and has only two of the same vowel (where Y is considered a vowel).
🥁6. Think of a type of noodle. Change the first letter to the next two letters in the alphabet to name a flower part.
🥁7. This puzzle is a sort of a word ladder. Start with a short word and at each step successively add a letter to answer the next clue. The words are, a type of: 1) Club 2) Road 3) Party 4) Bird 5) Image.
MENU
Edible Ears And Spoonfuls Of Spumoni Slice:
Oh oh! Oops! No goofs or Boo-Boos
Solve for the following clues.
The letters and numbers in parentheses stand for the first letter and number of letters in each word.
Clues:
1. Portable party-tune blaster (B7)
2. Sweeper storage, and its shape (O6, B5, B3)
3. Bromodosis (F4, O4)
4. Possible cause of halitosis (T5, R4, R3)
5. Slang term for a high-hit homer (M4, S4)
6. Slang term for “in the mood for love” (H3, T2, T4)
7. Hundred Acre Wood denizen (R3, O2, P4)
8. Big spoonful of Spumoni or Neapolitan (C4, S5)9. Mesa or Salt Lake City (M6, T5)
10. Count Dracula encounterer, perhaps (B5, D5)
11. Pyrite (F5, G4)
12. “Effigetical pin cushion” (V6, D4)
13. Title of a biography of a beloved circus performer? (C8, O2, B4)... or usung the superior alternative answers suggested by geofan, (C9, O2, B4) 14. What you heard after the Beatles’ breakup (B4, F3, Y4, O3)
15. Where recipes for “campfire casserole,” “meatball stew” and “boxcar burritos” can be found (H4, C8)
16. English, draw, topspin or “massé,” for example (P4, S4)
17. Convertible alternative (M8)
18. Leopold’s wife, to those who know her well (M4, B5)19. Early Elvis hit (H5, D3)
20.“Who Knows Where the Time Goes,” “Too Soon Tomorrow” and “Witchi-tai-to,” for example (F4, R4, S5)
21. Phil’s and Harry’s catchphrase (H4, C3)
22. Luke’s and Bo’s nemesis (B4, H4)
23. Edible ears (C4, O2, C4)
24. Places for college students to study and sleep (D4, R5)
25. New York Times daily challenges (S7, C10)
26. Group that found “gold” at the end of a “Neon Rainbow” (B3, T4)27. O.J.’s ride, 25 years ago (F4, B6)
28. Elocution exercise phrase enunciated by Ron Burgundy (H3, N3, B5, C3)
29. Item on a fashion model’s appointment calendar (P5, S5)
30. BBC Sci-fi program title character (D6, W3)
31. The 1978 Yanks, according to Sparky (B5, Z3)32. Caption for the image at the right (Y4, L4)
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sue falls for Lou Rawls!
Will Shortz’s June 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads: Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with the first and last names of a famous singer. What city is it, and who’s the singer?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with a competitive team activity in which participants wear goggles. What city is it, and what is the competitive team activity?
ENTREE #2:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. Reverse the order of the words. The two words of this result rhyme, respectively, with a compound word for a tool that features a “single helix.” What city is it, and what’s the tool?
ENTREE #3:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name.
The two words rhyme, respectively, with a two-word sentence for what your automobile engine will do if its cylinders do not receive the correct balance of air and fuel. The first word in the two-word sentence is a contraction.
What city is it, and what will your engine do?
ENTREE #4:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with something a recent prestigious prize winner is known for writing and recording, and what this winner wrote and recorded in June of 2017.
What city is it, and who’s the writer and recorder?
What is the prize winner known for writing and recording, and what did the winner write and record in June of 2017?
ENTREE #5:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. Replace one of its letters with the letter two places earlier in the alphabet to form a second major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. The two cities’ populations differ by about 40,000.
What cities are these?ENTREE #6:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a four-syllable name. The first syllable and the third and fourth syllables together rhyme, respectively, with the first and last names of a well-known short story title character.
(The first name of the short story title character is a familiar one-syllable shortened form.)
What city is it, and who’s the short story character?
ENTREE #7:Name a major southern U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word, two-syllable name. The first word rhymes, with the first part of a compound word that is a northwestern U.S. city, also with a population of more than 100,000.
The second word of the major southern U.S. city rhymes with a synonym of the second part of that northwestern U.S. city. What cities are these?
Hint: The name of the northwestern U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000 is also the name of a northeastern U.S. city with a population of more than 50,000 but less than 100,000. The northwestern city was named after the northeastern city.
Dessert Menu
Dandy Dessert:
Old (MacDonald’s) Navy
Change one letter in a candy brand to form a two-word term for certain scarves, cravats, pajamas and stockings. Change one letter in just one piece of this same candy to name two words associated with certain farm animals.
What is this candy brand?
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.
The question IS: who is OLGA OMEGA?????
ReplyDeleteO! O!
DeleteShe is, alas, but a fignewtonment of my imagination, VT.
LegoDurnTootin'
Well, I kinda thought so, but couldn't resist asking anyway!
DeleteLego,
ReplyDeleteIt is a very large menu this week. Working on it; some came at once; some not.
Questions/edits:
1. Is there a link among the 30 Menu items (e.g., a missing crossword), or are they stand-alones?
2. Entrée #5: IMHO it should read: "Replace one of its letters..." (not Replace of of its...)
geofan
PS: Per your reply to VT, my congratulations are hereby retracted.
geofan,
DeleteThanks for the editing on ENTREE #5. It is fixed.
There is indeed a link among the 30 Menu items... and also in the puzzle's "Oh oh! Oops! No goofs or Boo-Boos" title.
LegoWhoNotes:Regardinggeofan'sRetractionOfWeddingCongrats:ItProbablyWouldHaveWEndedInDivorce(OrEvenMurder!)
geofanJune 21, 2019 at 4:09 AM
DeleteI thought so, but there is no indication that such exists in the text and the nature of the connection is not asked for.
wrt the Dating Game SOTW, I thought of:
A. Acquaintance
B. Best Friends
C. Commitment
D. Divorce
E. Extrication
Quite amusing, geo!
DeleteI've figured out five of the conundrums (NOT #5 or 7), and all the Spumoni Slice, EXCEPT #2, 13 and 18. Got a kick out of it, once I saw the 'pattern.'
ReplyDeleteSolved Dessert, but have only just begun on the Entrees. I am, as usual of late, NOT hopeful about the Schpuzzle....I've been batting ZERO the last few weeks!
ViolinTeddy,
DeleteBy design the Schpuzzle has been challenging.
This week's Schpuzzle is swimming with red herrings.
LegoWhoAdvisesIgnoranceOfSodaShoppeAndOtherSuchRockwellianImagery
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DeleteJust starting, I believe I have the Schpuzzle and am confident I have Entrees #1 and #2. The answer to Entree #2 is also the title of a song I've had in my head for MONTHS.
ReplyDeleteI believe I have the SOTW (eliminated the red herrings).
ReplyDeleteHave all the Spumoni Slices except #2 (adjective only), #10, #29. Have a M5,O5 for #18 but the M4 abbreviation seems spurious - is there an error here?
Solved all Entrées except #1, #6. Have Apps #5, #6 only. Hints welcome on the others.
geofan
geofan,
DeleteThe M4 for #18 is indeed spurious... but it is also what I intended. I could have also written the clue as: "Leopold's wife, for short." (And, who knows, perhaps she was packing heat.)
Legopold
Y do U say this?
Deletegeofan,
DeleteI know U know Y.
But, as a hint to anyone in the dark, if M4 were M5, the way JJ intended, an unwanted letter would have to have been introduced into the mix. Yahoo is acceptable; banYan is acceptable; but twentY-five is right out!
LegUlymbda
WHO IN HECK is Leopold? [Google has been no help]
DeleteLeopold is a connoisseur giblets and gizzards. His wife sings a soliloquy.
DeleteLegoWhoRecommendsTheOnionAtOutback
VT-
DeleteNot the Belgian king who raped the Congo. See below, my hints to OhOh #5/#18.
Thanks to your hint above, Lego (really, its sign off), and geo's hint below, I finally got #18. [Actually, Leopold I of Belgium was the first person I thought of....being a huge fan of 'Victoria' and currently reading a book about her manipulating her kids' marriages, long after Albert was dead.
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DeleteLego, Entrée #3 gave me a real laugh when I got it - made my day. Almost as good as the "double-U" a while back.
ReplyDeleteFor those who thought they were finished with the "Edible Ears And Spoonfuls Of Spumoni Slice: Oh oh! Oops! No goofs or Boo-Boos" puzzle, you are sadly mistaken. I just added clues #31 and #32.
ReplyDeleteLegoAddsThatPuzzlerians!AreWelcomeToComeUpWithTheirOwnRiffOffCluesToo
Good Weekend Eve to all!
ReplyDeleteI checked Puzzleria! late last night, and I got most of the Oh Oh Oops Puzzle(#19 seems a little questionable compared to the other answers, if I'm right). Tonight I've managed to get Conundrum #6 and the Dessert as well. The other Oh Oh answers I can't get are #2, #5, #9, #13, #17, and #18. Any good hints you can provide will, of course, prove most helpful. On the homefront I solved Paul's latest Prize Crossword, and Mom prepared a Chinese pulled pork dish, courtesy of Home Chef. It was pretty good, considering I don't particularly like pulled pork. Good puzzles this week, Lego!
Thanks, cranberry.
DeleteYou are 100% correct about the questionability of "Oh Oh Oops Puzzle #19." You "fond" an inconsistency in my otherwise impeccable puzzle . I goofed. Good catch.
LegoSays"Oups!"
cranberry,
DeleteHints for the OhOh questions:
#2 The first word in my answer is hyphenated. The other words are straightforward. There may be a better solution than mine.
#5 Apollo 11
#9 Think historic polygamy. St George, Nauvoo, Kirtland are others. Splinter groups are in Colorado City/Hildale and in Bountiful, BC.
#13 My preliminary answer does not totally confirm. A red herring? The performer was on TV.
#17 Usually the reference is to the greater light, but this time to the lesser one.
#18 See Lego's post above.. Also, the last word in the original clue to #5 is indirectly a clue to #18. Lego had to do a hatchet job to make it conform: it is really M5,B5. The author is JJ.
#19 is defective, as Lego said. It is another red herring. There is no way to correct it.
geofan
Should read: #13 My preliminary answer does not totally conform.
DeleteVery fine hinting, geofan. Thank you.
DeleteAs for #19. I'm going with "I did it on purpose. I knew exactly what I was doing. It was an intentional bit of clever misdirection... Yeah, that's the ticket!"
LegoAin'tNothin'ButAHungDodo
Red herrings are to be found and expected in all waters.
DeleteThanks, geo, for the hints. At least I now have the person for #13. The long "C" word still eludes, and I haven't tried applying any hinting to #2 yet.
DeleteFor Entrée #2, as I said above, it made my day. But if the solution could have used the feminine pronoun instead (as some mechanics do) it would have been even better!!
ReplyDeleteIn the 8:21 PM post above, should read Entrée #3 (not #2). geofan
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ReplyDeleteI now have #5. Thanks, geofan! Too bad nothing else is coming from the rest of the hints.
ReplyDeleteFor OhOh #13, extensive use of a word finder reveals that there is no plausible dictionary word that could both be C9 and fulfill the general requirement. The closest two are CLOWNINGS and CHRONICLE. But neither of these is I-less, so eye had to resort to coining a hyphenated word that does comply.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the C9 "word" does not appear in standard dictionaries. But there is a blog with the "word" in its name. And in the realm of crossword puzzles, the clue "First name in (the C9 word)" is used for RONALD, EMMETT, and presumably BOZO.
DeleteLegoWhoThinksWe'reAllBozosOnThisBlog"
Status before Sun/Mon hints:
ReplyDeleteHave all except Cons #1, #7; Entrée #6; Dessert.
OhOh #2 answer O7 is not satisfying; for #21, H4 could be considered nonconforming, but it is what Phil and Harry actually said.
True, geofan, Entree #2 is a tad "stretchy." And, Entree #21, I fell into the "Y trap" that I avoided, albeit inartfully, in Entree #18.
DeleteLegoObservesThatAsLittleRichardSang:GoodGollMossMoll"
My own tally prior to reading/absorbing the newest hints (below) is: an answer for the Schpuzzle, that has nothing to do, however, with Latin: all the Conundrums except (as stated earlier) #5 and #7; all of Spumoni, with what is undoubtedly a NOT correct #2's much-discussed first word; answers for Entrees #3, 6 and 7, and what I had hoped was half of #4, but I fear not; and the Dessert.
DeleteI am hoping the hints below will help with Cons #5 and 7, and Entrees #1, 2, 4 and 5. But I have no intention of going back to the Schpuzzle to figure out what Latin has to do with it!!
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DeleteTrying this again: you mean Spumoni Slices 2 and 21 being either stretchy or with 'y' problems, NOT Entrees....all these comments and hints get confusing enough!
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DeleteAnswer Update:
ReplyDeleteI now have Conundrum #5, Entrees #3 and #6.
Oh Oh #2 is no big secret. What I don't know is the first word beginning with an O.
And now I have Oh Oh #18.
ReplyDeletecranberry,
ReplyDeleteChange one letter in the first word beginning with O to another O to get a kind of tea.
LegOrangePekoe
Lego, for that to be true it must be a six-letter, not a seven-letter, word.
DeleteMy apologies to you and other Puzzlerian!s, cranberry. You are cOrrect and I again gOOfed,
DeleteLegoWhoIsApparentlyNotSoGreatAtCountingLetters
Hurrah, Spumoni #2 finally makes sense.
DeleteThe hints also helped me solve Con #5 (which I SHOULD have seen before, when looking at lists), and Entrees 1, 2 and 5. I indeed had had Entree 4 half-correct, but the rest of it finally hit me.
I still don't know why Spumoni #13's first 'C" word is a 9 letters, instead of 8 letters....I stuck an 's' on the end.
But, boy, that Con #7 (and its hint) STILL has me puzzled.
originally had Con #2 with the 6-letter word + Y as a 7-letter option (which yields 2,140 Google hits).
DeleteThe container is an O-----Y THINGY
DeleteVT,
DeleteWith regard to your 11:59 PM comment:
I am having a real bad week counting letters! In my intended answer to Spumoni #13, the first 'C" word is indeed 8 letters, not 9 letters.
As for my hint for Mathew's Con #7, my "Door-tapper/bust-percher" hint alludes to a poem. It is meant to point to Mathew's answer for the "Bird" rung of his word ladder.
LegoClueless
Maybe you are in a dizzy whirl about your engagement to Olga Omega!!!
DeleteI have Con #7 now, but I hadn't realized an abbreviation would be allowed....
Deletefor Con #13, I had CLOWNINGS, CLOWN-BOOK, and the plural of the expected word. But my favorite was COSMOLOGY OF (B4) -- it has an interesting philosophical ring to it, no?
Deletegeofan,
DeleteI love both your CLOWN-BOOK and COSMOLOGY better than my now-more-lackluster-looking intended answer, especially COSMOLOGY which does ring philosophically (and "philoSopicles") true, except for the pesky Y at the end.
ViolinTeddy,
I cannot, alas, blame my letter-counting errors on my upcoming imaginary wedding to Olga Omega... she and her mother Omicron are handling all the arrangements and other particulars for the ceremony and reception!
LegoAndOlga:AWeddingMadeInLimbo
I hope there will be swans!! And NO clowns!
DeleteGood point, VT. It would cut down on the cost of transporting "the entertainment" to our reception. After all, you can stuff more swans (or ducks) in a car than you can clowns in a car.
DeleteLozoTheClown
Actually, Lozo, I suppose that in the spirit of the week here, I should have written "swOOns" instead of swans!
DeleteWhere did Lego's hints go?
ReplyDeleteI misspelled the word "word," so I deleted the post. Then I reposted it, below.
DeleteLegoWhoMispells(Sic)TooManyWords
Sunday-into-Monday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
The answer involves some Latin, about 40%-worth.
Conundrums:
1. YA
2. THIS
3. "CANTALOUPE" - L
4. I understand that Word Woman and other alumnae from this Massachusetts college are quite intelligent. I understand that TAFKAP has recordings in a vault somewhere... perhaps even a burial vault!
5. I thought Thurmond represented a Southern state!
6. I pray all Puzzlerian!s solve this wonderful conundrum of Mathew created. And the people all shouted... ____!
7. Birds fly south in _ ___.
A meeting room, hotel, conference center, restaurant or convention center is each an example of _ _____.
Descriptor of a complimentary review
Door-tapper/bust-percher
This diagram
EEASSS:
2. B5 + B3 rhymes with B7 from Clue #1
13. "__O___OM O_ _O_O"
18. By Joyce (but not Carol Oates)
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
'Tis a capital city
ENTREE #2:
You wouldn't need this for Thunderbird, Boone’s Farm, Ripple or Wild Irish Rose
ENTREE #3:
"Who's there?"
ENTREE #4:
"Nobelity"
ENTREE #5:
The second major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000 is sometimes followed by Texas, other times preceded by Washington.
ENTREE #6:
Thurber
ENTREE #7:
The cities are in Texas, Oregon and Maine.
DD:
The candy morsels are not perfectly spherical; thus the second word in their name.
LegoNotesThatEvenRegurgitatedGrassIsMoreHealthfulThanCaramel/Chocolate
Lego's Sun/Mon hints revealed Con #4, Entrées #2 and #6.
DeleteStill working on Con #1 and #7. Other comments:
Con #2/#3 - UNLESS THE HINT IS IN THE TEXT LINK, IT IS MISLEADING [apologies for shouting, for illustration only]. If not, I have an alternate answer that also conforms to the clue.
Con #4 - originally had NIGHTSTICKS / NIGHTSHIRTS pre-hint, but these are plural nouns. The hint revealed 3 singular proper nouns that do comply and yield Google hits.
Entrée #1 - had FIELD HOCKEY / MILWAUKEE, but the city is 1 word.
Entrée #2 - had a pre-hint alternate answer using a much smaller city (still > 100K) that complies (though the rhyme is not as perfect).
geofan
Oh crap, I MISSED completely that the Con 4 nouns have to be singular....i had had KNIGHTSHIPS and NIGHTSHIFTS. Back to the drawing board, will go read the hint....sigh.
DeleteCrunch time, Lego! We need some eleventh-hour hints tonight! What else have you got?
ReplyDeleteSpeak for yourself, PJB.
DeleteCrunch-time Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
You are more likely to encounter these five letters in history books than in People or Us magazines.
Conundrums:
1. YA was a QB
2. Anagram the three words of THIS (in 1, 4 and 3 words) to get the name of the well=known criminal
3. Advance the last letter in the name of the well-known transportation company one place ahead in the alphabet to get the surname of a 2-time Oscar-winning actor who twice hosted SNL.
4. Previous hint:
I understand that Word Woman and other alumnae from this Massachusetts college are quite intelligent. I understand that TAFKAP has recordings in a vault somewhere... perhaps even a burial vault!
quite intelligent + Massachusetts college = ?; TAFKAP + burial vault = ?;
5. Our president has probably stopped shopping at the department store. They dropped Ivanka's wares.
6.The type of oriental noodle is the staple of many a college student's diet.
7. Birds fly south in _ ___ formation.
"___ Maria"
Cousin of a crow
An image "carved in stone," so to speak
EEASSS:
Hints for this section are available upon specific request
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
'Tis a very early Christian convert
ENTREE #2
An Irish County + a word in titles by Henry James and C.S. Lewis
ENTREE #3:
James Matthews' hometown
ENTREE #4:
The city: Outstretched seashore
ENTREE #5:
Both U.S. cities begin with the first name of a guy who once worked with Phyllis and Brent
ENTREE #6:
It's a capital city. The character had a "secret life."
ENTREE #7:
The major southern U.S. city: Buffalo Springfield's signature song
The northeastern and northwestern cities are the opposite of "Starboardsea"
DD:
The candy brand starts out sounding pure and healthful, only to fizzle out at the end.
LegoForTheDessertMorselSuggestsTruncatingTheNameOfAMemorableJeffBridgesCharacter
Answer Update:
ReplyDeleteI have Conundrums #1, #5-#7.
I have all the Oh Oh answers(I think)except #9 and #17.
I have all the Entrees except #1 and #4.
I have the Dessert, but not the Schpuzzle.
I still don't get the Lady Luck Pen connection.(1, 4, and 3 WORDS or LETTERS?)Explanation please!
A few more hints might help, Lego.
now has everything except the Dessert (which everyone else seems to have).
ReplyDeleteOther observations:
The latest hints, in general, are way too pop-culture-related for me.
Con #1, the YA hint misled me to the pre-1920 Russian letter YAT (ѣ, now written as "e") but no further. The QB reference gave it away.
Con #2, I only got the 1+3+4 hint by back-anagramming from the answer (which I had known from the first day).
Con #4, I had several proper nouns. The latest hints revealed one "word" not in my dictionaries and another I had missed.
Early Wednesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
Each of the five letters is a one-letter abbreviation for a word. Think Johnny Hart.
Conundrums:
2. The three words of 1, 4 and 3 letters that anagram to get the name of the well-known criminal begin with an A, C and P. Think Chicago.
3. The transportation company is out of this world!
4. brilliant + a Mister that went to Washington, on the silver screen = ?; word that follows hand-, finger- or foot-... toe-? Not so much + the dialogue of a movie before it is spoken on the silver screen = ?;
EEASSS:
#9. Think of the demographics of SLC and Mesa, and faith tradition
#17 You're cruisin' down Arkadelpha road. It's dusk. The sunset is giving way to the stars. You reach above your head and slide back the headboard above you...
ROSS:
ENTREE #1:
'Tis a very early Christian convert who had a Damascus revelation.
ENTREE #4:
Strong bleach, Throng screech!...
DD:
The candy brand:
A drink that gives you a mustache + threads or bad bombs
LegoJustAnotherLunaticEnjoyingACroissantAsHeGazesUpAsHeCruisesDownTheRoadToDamascus(OrIsThatJasperUpAhead?)
FINALLY after long struggle, got the Dessert. Had never eaten the answer candy name. Lego's first hints misled me to (Cadbury) CREME MILK (EGGS) => CREPE SILK and MILK + ??? (as EGGS are not spherical) but no further.
ReplyDeleteA.D., B.C., C.E.
ReplyDeleteTITTLE > TITLE > TILE > ILE (aisle)
ALL CAPS > AL CAPONE
SPACEX
BRIGHTSMITH, PRINTSCRIPT
NORDSTROM
RAMEN > STAMEN
AV, AVE, RAVE, RAVEN, GRAVEN
BOOMBOX
OBLONG BROOM BOX
FOOT ODOR
TOOTH ROOT ROT
MOON SHOT
HOT TO TROT
ROO OR POOH
COLD SCOOP
MORMON TOWN
BLOOD DONOR
FOOL'S GOLD
VOODOO DOLL
CLOWNDOM OF BOZO
BOOS FOR YOKO ONO
HOBO COOKBOOK
POOL SHOT
MOONROOF
MOLL(Y) BLOOM
HOUND DOG
FOLK ROCK SONGS
HOLY COW
BOSS HOGG
COBS OF CORN
DORM ROOMS
SHORTZ'S CROSSWORDS
BOX TOPS
FORD BRONCO
HOW NOW BROWN COW
PHOTO SHOOTS
DOCTOR WHO
BRONX ZOO
YOYO LOGO
SAINT PAUL > PAINTBALL
NEW YORK > YORK NEW > CORKSCREW
LITTLE ROCK > IT'LL KNOCK
LONG BEACH; BOB DYLAN; SONG, (Nobel) SPEECH
IRVING (TX) > IRVINE (CA)
SALT LAKE CITY > WALT(er) MITTY
FORT WORTH > PORTLAND (OR & ME) > EARTH
MILK DUDS > SILK DUDS > MILK, CUD
Same answers as Paul except as noted:
DeleteSOTW also B.C.E. for letters B, C, E
Con #4 also KNIGHTSMITH, KNIGHTPRINT (both proper names)
Spumoni
#13 also CLOWN-BOOK, COSMOLOGY (both for original C9)
#23 CORN ON COBS
#29 PROOF SHOOT
Entrées
#2 (pre-hints) also SUGAR LAND / HAND AUGER
geofan
SCHPUZZLE: My original answer: D. E. F. G. H. = Last letters of some online dating sites => okcupiD.com; ourtimE.com; poF.com; sdatinG.co.UK; matcH.com
ReplyDeleteBut it is clear, based on the latest hints, that you intended CALENDAR-DATING. Thus: A.D. {Anno Domino] and B.C. 'E' comes in with the newer "BCE" (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era).
CONUNDRUMS:
1. TITTLE => TITLE => TILE => ILE [I'LL]
2. ALL CAPS => AL CAPONE [PRE ANY and ALL HINTS, but the last hint must have meant: "A COLA PEN"]
3. SPAC & EX => SPACE X
4. BRIGHTSMITH and PRINTSCRIPT [I never heard of Brightsmith, or Printscript, and there don't seem to be any definitions thereof...]
5. NORDSTROM
6. RAMEN => STAMEN
7. A.V. => AVE => RAVE => RAVEN => GRAVEN
SPUMONI SLICE:
1. BOOMBOX
2. OBLONG [AT LAST!] BROOM BOX
3. FOOT ODOR
4. TOOTH ROOT ROT
5. MOON SHOT
6. HOT TO TROT
7. ROO OR POOH
8. COOL SCOOP
9. MORMON TOWNS
10. BLOOD DONOR
11. FOOLS GOLD
12 VOODOO DOLL
13. CLOWNDOM OF BOZO
14. BOOS FOR YOKO ONO
15. HOBO COOKBOOK
16. POOL SHOT
17. MOONROOF
18. MOLL/Y BLOOM
19. HOUND DOG [With the undesired "U"]
20. FOLK ROCK SONGS
21. HOLY COW [But WHO are Phil and Harry?]
22. BOSS HOGG
23. COBS OF CORN
24. DORM ROOMS
25. SHORTZS CROSSWORDS
26. BOX TOPS
27. FORD BRONCO
28. HOW NOW BROWN COW
29. PHOTO SHOOT
30. DOCTOR WHO
31. BRONX ZOO
32. YOYO LOGO
ENTREES:
1. SAINT PAUL => PAINT BALL
2. NEW YORK => CORKSCREW
3. LITTLE ROCK => IT'LL KNOCK
4. LONG BEACH; BOB DYLAN => SONG & SPEECH [For Nobel lecture]
5. IRVING, TX => IRVINE, CA [However, according to the list I saw, the pops differ by 52,000, not 40,000]
6. SALT LAKE CITY => WALT MITTY
7. FORT WORTH => PORTLAND (Syn: EARTH)
DESSERT: MILK DUDS => SILK DUDS; MILK & CUDS [Cows]
PHIL (Rizzuto) and HARRY (Carey) were baseball announcers for the NY Yankees and Chicago Cubs, respectively. I saw Harry Carey at Wrigley Field about 1987 and listened to Phil Rizzuto as a child.
DeleteWhen I was a lad, my dad drove my buddies and me 100 miles west to Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington to watch the Minnesota Twins play. (Met Stadium is razed and now is the site of the Mall of America.)
DeleteI have also watched the Twins play at the Hubert Horatio Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, as well as the Vikings vs. Packers. My dad and uncle took me to a Packer/Viking game at the old Met too. My friend Mary and I, in 2009, watched Packer/Viking games at both the Metrodome (newly renamed Mall of America Stadium) and Lambeau Field in Green Bay. It was the first year the Vikings had Brett Favre. (Just as the officials jobbed the Saint out of a Super Bowl trip this past year, they also jobbed the Vikings out of a trip to the Super Bowl in 2009, as the Saints beat the Vikes in overtime in the NFC championship game and go on to win the Super Bowl.
A fellow-worker/friend from Chicago also invited me to Wrigley Field in the 1990s to watch the cubs play the Dodgers. I got to hear Harry Carey sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." I didn't sing along though.
So, although I am a fan of sports, I've been to only four stadiums to watch pro sports.
(I guess I also watched a Pistons/Timberwolves NBA basketball game at Target Center in Minneapolis, to watch Rice Lake, Wisconsin high school star Henry Ellenson, who had been drafted in the first round by the Pistons.
LegoWhoNeverDidPurchaseAnyPeanutsOrCrackerJack
Thanks, you guys. NO wonder I had no idea who they were....
DeleteThanks, you guys. NO wonder I had no idea who they were....
DeleteOh, and Phil Rizzuto contributed (albeit perhaps under wool-over-his-eyes pretenses) on this song.
DeleteLegoWhoDoesNotSufficiently"SleepOnIt"
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteA. D.(Anno Domino), B. C. E.(Before Common Era)
Appetizer Menu
1. TITTLE, TITLE, TILE, (walking down the)AISLE(ILE)
2. ALL CAPS, AL CAPONE
3. SPACEX
4. BRIGHTSMITH, PRINTSCRIPT
5. NORDSTROM'S
6. RAMEN, STAMEN
7. A.V., AVE., RAVE, RAVEN, GRAVEN
Menu
1. BOOMBOX
2. OBLONG BROOM BOX
3. FOOT ODOR
4. TOOTH ROOT ROT
5. MOON SHOT
6. HOT TO TROT
7. ROO OR POOH
8. COLD SCOOP
9. MORMON TOWNS
10. BLOOD DONOR
11. FOOL'S GOLD
12. VOODOO DOLL
13. "CLOWNDOM" OF BOZO
14. BOOS FOR YOKO ONO
15. HOBO COOKBOOK
16. POOL SHOT
17. MOONROOF
18. "MOLL" BLOOM
19. HOUND DOG(U messed it up for us, Lego!)
20. FOLK ROCK SONGS
21. HOLY COW!
22. BOSS HOGG
23. COBS OF CORN
24. DORM ROOMS
25. SHORTZ'S CROSSWORDS
26. BOX TOPS
27. FORD BRONCO
28. HOW NOW BROWN COW?
29. PHOTO SHOOT
30. DOCTOR WHO
31. BRONX ZOO
32. YOYO LOGO
Entrees
1. SAINT PAUL, PAINTBALL
2. NEW YORK, CORKSCREW
3. LITTLE ROCK, "IT'LL KNOCK"
4. LONG BEACH, SONG, SPEECH(Bob Dylan)
5. IRVING, TX; IRVINE, CA
6. SALT LAKE CITY, WALTER MITTY
7. FORT WORTH, TX; PORTLAND(OR and ME)
Dessert
MILK DUDS(MILK, CUDS)
I'd quote Mr. Dylan from his speech, but I didn't understand what he was saying.-eeeeeepjbeeeeee
This week's answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Play this dating game
Name five consecutive letters of the alphabet, all associated with dating.
Each letter is sometimes followed by a period.
What are these five letters and how are they associated with dating.
Answer:
ABCDE; B.C. (Before Christ), A.D. (Anno Domini), and B.C.E. (Before Common or Before Current Era) and C.E. (Common Era or Current Era) are associated with two systems of dating the years of world history according to the Gregorian Calendar.)
Appetizer Menu
Seven Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
Full-fontal typography
#1: WEDDING INVITATIONS:
Think of a typographic term containing three Ts. Drop one T to name a form of capitalization. Drop another T to name something used in old-fashioned typesetting. Drop the final T to leave what sounds like a word used in a four word phrase synonymous with marriage.
Answer:
TITTLE, TITLE, TILE, (walk down the) AISLE
#2: Think of a two-word typography phrase. Drop the last letter from each word, and append a number to the second word, to get the name of a well-known criminal.
Answer:
ALL CAPS, AL CAPONE
#3: Take the second word from Conundrum #2, reverse it, and append a typographic unit of distance to name a well-known transportation company.
Answer:
CAPS, EX, SPACEX
#4: Name a singular eleven letter word that contains five consecutive consonants and has “I” as its only two vowels (where Y is considered a vowel). I have two answers.
Answer:
BRIGHTSMITH, PRINTSCRIPT
#5: Name a department store in nine letters that contains five consecutive consonants and has only two of the same vowel (where Y is considered a vowel).
Answer:
NORDSTROM
#6: Think of a type of noodle. Change the first letter to the next two letters in the alphabet to name a flower part.
Answer:
RAMEN, STAMEN
#7: This is a sort of a word ladder. Start with a short word and at each step successively add a letter to answer the next clue. The words are, a type of: 1) Club 2) Road 3) Party 4) Bird 5) Image.
Answer:
AV, AVE, RAVE, RAVEN, GRAVEN
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteMENU
Edible Ears And Spumoni Spoonfuls Slice
Oh oh! Oops! No goofs or Boo-Boos!
Solve for the following clues:
Answer:
1. Portable party-tune blaster (B7) (bOOmbOx)
2. Sweeper storage (O6, B5, B3) (OblOng brOOm bOx)
3. Bromodosis (F4, O4) (fOOT OdOr)
4. Possible cause of halitosis (T5, R4, R3) (tOOth rOOt rOt)
5. Slang term for a high-hit homer (M4, S4) (mOOn shOt)
6. Slang term for “in the mood for love” (H3, T2, T4) (hOt tO trOt)
7. Hundred Acre Wood denizen (R3, O2, P4) (rOO Or pOOh)
8. Big spoonful of Spumoni or Neapolitan (C4, S5) (cOOl scOOp)
9. Mesa or Salt Lake City (M6, T5) (mOrmOn tOwns)
10. Count Dracula encounterer, perhaps (B5, D5) (blOOd "dOnOr")
11. Pyrite (F5, G4) (fOOl's gOld)
12. “Effigetical pin cushion” (V6, D4) (vOOdOO dOll)
13. Title of a biography of a beloved circus performer? (C8, O2, B4) ("clOwndOm Of bOzO")... or usung the superior alternative answers suggested by geofan, (C9, O2, B4) (clOwn-bOOk Of bOzO, cOsmOlOgy Of bOzO)
14. What you heard after the Beatles’ breakup (B4, F3, Y4, O3) (bOOs fOr yOkO OnO)
15. Where recipes for “campfire casserole,” “meatball stew” and “boxcar burritos” can be found (H4, C8) (hObO cOOkbOOk)
16. English, draw, topspin or “massé,” for example (P4, S4) (pOOl shOt)
17. Convertible alternative (M8) (mOOnrOOf)
18. Leopold’s wife, to those who know her well (M4, B5) (mOll blOOm)
19. Early Elvis hit (H5, D3) (hOund dOg)
20.“Who Knows Where the Time Goes,” “Too Soon Tomorrow” and “Witchi-tai-to,” for example (F4, R4, S5) (fOlk rOck sOngs)
21. Phil’s and Harry’s catchphrase (H4, C3) (hOly cOw!)
22. Luke’s and Bo’s nemesis (B4, H4) (bOss hOgg)
23. Edible ears (C4, O2, C4) (cObs Of cOrn)
24. Places for college students to study and sleep (D4, R5) (dOrm rOOms)
25. New York Times daily challenges (S7, C10) (shOrtz's crOsswOrds)
26. Group that found “gold” at the end of a “Neon Rainbow” (B3, T4) (bOx tOps)
27. O.J.’s ride, 25 years ago (F4, B6) (fOrd brOncO)
28. Elocution exercise phrase enunciated by Ron Burgundy (H3, N3, B5, C3) (hOw nOw brOwn cOw)
29. Item on a fashion model’s appointment calendar (P5, S5) (phOtO shOOt)
30. BBC Sci-fi program title character (D6, W3) (dOctOr whO)
31. The 1978 Yanks, according to Sparky (B5, Z3) (brOnx zOO)
32. Caption for the image at the right (the sylized word "Duncan" and a cartoon character with a banner reading :Walk the dog") (Y4, L4) (yOyO lOgO)
Lego...
This week's answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sue falls for Lou Rawls!
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with a team sport in which participants wear goggles. What city is it, and what’s the sport?
Answer:
Saint Paul; Paintball
ENTREE #2:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. Reverse the order of the words. The two words of this result rhyme, respectively, with a compound word for a tool that features a “single helix.” Whay city is it, and what’s the tool?
Answer:
New York; Corkscrew
ENTREE #3:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with the first and last words of what your automobile engine will do if its cylinders do not receive the correct balance of air and fuel. What city is it, and what will your engine do?
The first rhyming word is a contraction.
Answer:
Little Rock; It'll knock
ENTREE #4:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word name. The two words rhyme, respectively, with something a recent pretigious prize winner is known for writing and recording, and what this winner wrote and recorded in June of 2017.
What city is it, and who’s the writer and recorder?
What is the prize winner known for writing and recording, and what did the winner write and record in June of 2017?
Answer:
Long Beach; Bob Dylan; Song, Speech
ENTREE #5:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. Replace of of its letters with the letter two places earlier in the alphabet to form a second major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. The two cities’ populations differ bt about 40,000. What cities are these?
Answer:
Irvine, CA; Irving, TX
ENTREE #6:
Name a major U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a four-syllable name. The first syllable and the third and fourth syllables together rhyme, respectively, with the first and last names of a well-known short story title character. (The first name is a one-syllable familiar shortened form.) What city is it, and who’s the short story character?
Answer:
Salt Lake City; Walt(er) Mitty
ENTREE #7:
Name a major southern U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000. It has a two-word, two-syllable name. The first word rhymes, with the first part of a compound word that is a northwestern U.S. city, also with a population of more than 100,000.
The second word of the major southern U.S. city rhymes with a synonym of the second part of that northwestern U.S. city. What cities are these?
Hint: The name of the northwestern U.S. city with a population of more than 100,000 is also the name of a northeastern U.S. city with a population of more than 50,000 but less than 100,000. The northwestern city was named after the northeastern city.
Answer:
Fort Worth (TX); Portland (OR); (Fort + earth --> Port + land)
Dessert Menu
Dandy Dessert:
Old (Macdonald’s) Navy
Change one letter in a candy brand to form a two-word description of some scarves, cravats, pajamas and stockings. Change one letter in one piece of this candy to name two words associated with certain farm animals. What is this candy brand?
Answer:
Milk Duds; (Silk duds; Milk, cud)
Lego!