PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
To tweet, perch-ance to retweet elsewhere
Remove a letter from certain tree-perching birds, in two syllables.
The result sounds like what might deprive these birds of their perches, forcing them to fly elsewhere.
Name these birds.
All The Colornundrums Of The Spectrum Slice:
Hot red, and other cool colors
🥁1. Think of something hot in seven letters. Remove the third and fifth letters to get something that helps keep people hot.
🥁2. Think of a color. Exchange the first half of the letters with the second half. The result will sound like a word meaning restless.
🥁3. Think of a word related to speed used in sports and military. Double the first letter and the result, when read backwards, will be a color.
🥁4. Think of a six-letter adjective for more of an office supply.
Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet.
The result will be an adjective describing a common color of the supply.
Prancing Though Interstellar Space Slice:
Half-a-dozen gray-day egghead-scratchers
Solve the six clues below. Each answer contains six letters.
They also share something else in common. What is it?
1. A region of chromosomal DNA between genes
2. Summaries
3. About three-and-a-quarter light-years of interstellar space
4. Prances playfully
5. What one might do to the bottom of the barrel
6. Curls hair
Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slice:
Moscow, Muscat, Tegoosegalpa, Santo Dominko...
Will Shortz’s September 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joe Becker of Palo Alto, California, reads:
Name a world capital in 12 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to name two animals – one in three letters and the other in nine. What capital is it, and what are the animals?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a world capital in 12 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to name a two-word description of Gil Elvgren or George Petty. What capital is it, and what is this description?
ENTREE #2:
Name a world capital in 12 letters.
If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here.
What capital is it, and what is the caption?
ENTREE #3:
Name a world capital in 11 letters. Two of them are the same letter. Add one more of that same letter to the mix. You can rearrange these twelve letters to form:
(1) the last name of an athlete who is famous largely, alas, because of the player who took his place in the line-up,
(2) a word for people in the bleachers, and
(3) what these people do for the home team, according to a song.
What capital is it?
What is the last name of the athlete, the people in the bleachers, and what they do for the home team?
ENTREE #4:
Name a playing card that rhymes with a popular card game.
Somewhere within this name, insert the acronym for an annual international engineering competition open to college students.
If you have the right playing card and competition, you will have spelled the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is the puzzle-maker? What are the card and competition?
Historical Dessert:
Landmarks along the highway of history
Write without a space the first and last names of a person associated with a landmark in transportation history.
Invert the first letter and delete the final letter of the person’s first name to form a synonym of this landmark.
Who is this person?
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:
To tweet, perch-ance to retweet elsewhere
Remove a letter from certain tree-perching birds, in two syllables. 
The result sounds like what might deprive these birds of their perches, forcing them to fly elsewhere. Name these birds.
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All The Colornundrums Of The Spectrum Slice:
Hot red, and other cool colors
🥁1. Think of something hot in seven letters. Remove the third and fifth letters to get something that helps keep people hot.
🥁2. Think of a color. Exchange the first half of the letters with the second half. The result will sound like a word meaning restless.
🥁3. Think of a word related to speed used in sports and military. Double the first letter and the result, when read backwards, will be a color.🥁4. Think of a six-letter adjective for more of an office supply.
Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet. The result will be an adjective describing a common color of the supply.
Prancing Though Interstellar Space Slice:
Half-a-dozen gray-day egghead-scratchers
Solve the six clues below. Each answer contains six letters.
They also share something else in common. What is it?1. A region of chromosomal DNA between genes
2. Summaries
3. About three-and-a-quarter light-years of interstellar space
4. Prances playfully
5. What one might do to the bottom of the barrel
6. Curls hair
Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slice:
Moscow, Muscat, Tegoosegalpa, Santo Dominko...
Will Shortz’s September 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joe Becker of Palo Alto, California, reads:
Name a world capital in 12 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to name two animals – one in three letters and the other in nine. What capital is it, and what are the animals?Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a world capital in 12 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to name a two-word description of Gil Elvgren or George Petty. What capital is it, and what is this description?
ENTREE #2:
Name a world capital in 12 letters.
If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. What capital is it, and what is the caption?
ENTREE #3:Name a world capital in 11 letters. Two of them are the same letter. Add one more of that same letter to the mix. You can rearrange these twelve letters to form:
(1) the last name of an athlete who is famous largely, alas, because of the player who took his place in the line-up,
(2) a word for people in the bleachers, and
(3) what these people do for the home team, according to a song. What capital is it?
What is the last name of the athlete, the people in the bleachers, and what they do for the home team?
ENTREE #4:
Name a playing card that rhymes with a popular card game. Somewhere within this name, insert the acronym for an annual international engineering competition open to college students.
If you have the right playing card and competition, you will have spelled the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is the puzzle-maker? What are the card and competition?
Dessert Menu
Historical Dessert:Landmarks along the highway of history
Write without a space the first and last names of a person associated with a landmark in transportation history.
Invert the first letter and delete the final letter of the person’s first name to form a synonym of this landmark. Who is this person?
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.
To get this week rolling, I'll check in to say that what I've managed to work out thus far are the first three Conundrums, the first five of the six answers in the Space Slice, and Entrees 1, 2 and 4. I tried really hard on Con #4, the last Space Slice word, and Entree #3 as well as yon dessert, but alas....nowhere....
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteThe sixth Space Slice word is indeed somewhat obscure. But it does appear in my Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition. The word is related etymologically to the word "crisp," like crispy bacon curling up in a sizzling pan. The MWCD says the word is an "alteration of French crêpe, from Middle French crespe, from crespe curly, from Latin crispus."
LegoWhoNotesThatThe"CongaLine"InThisVideoFromThe1960s"CurlsCrisply"AllAroundTheDanceFloor
I figured it out, thanks....
DeleteI have everything from the PTISS down; everything else is still baffling me. I hadn't heard of the person in the Dessert but managed to reverse-engineer the answer.
ReplyDeleteI just managed to reverse-engineer it too, after a LOT of guessing in the process....finally hit the guy. Hurrah.
DeleteI have the same as Megatart, plus also Conundrum #2. Used Google image search to get the individuals.
ReplyDeleteHave a bird for the SOTW, but it is rather obscure. An alternate answer?
ReplyDeleteAlso used Google Image Search to find the obscure engineering competition in Entrée #4.
Megatart Stratagem,
DeleteCongrats on "reverse-engineering" the Dessert answer... (something the college student engineers in the ROSABS ENTREE #4 competition could also presumably do!)
geofan,
The Schpuzzle bird word is admittedly not a household one. It appears in verse within a work by my favorite novelist.
When I was in my early 20s I used the image from this poem as a lead-in to a reflective editorial/story I wrote in my college newspaper which decried the carnage of our feathered friends who flew headlong into a reflective pane-glass breezeway connecting two wings (pun intended) of a campus arts center.
When I was in my mid-20s I composed a verse (infinitely inferior to that on the novelist) that featured this same bird.
So, this winged one is held in high esteem in my household.
LegoWhoAtTimesJustFeelsLikASmudgeOfAshenFluff
Well, LegoFluff, I came up with AN answer for the Schpuzzle, that I am not at all sure is correct, mainly because I always have trouble with the 'sounds like" requirements! IN this case, one major consonant is missing between the reduced bird name and the perch-removing event. And the vowels are a tad 'off', too. However, lacking any other ideas, I will just stick with it.
DeleteMy alternate answer is a green bird that is native to SE Asia. The "event" is an animal that can climb trees (but would not generally eat this bird, as it is too small). The bird is a title in an (apparently) self-published novel that could conceivably include verse with the bird's name in it.
DeleteSomehow I suspect that this is not the intended answer...
In other news, got Con #1, so only Cons #3 and #4 and the intended answer for the SOTW are still out.
I suspect that both ViolinTeddy and geofan have both discovered likely-very-fine answers that are not-my-intended answer. I look forward to seeing them on Wednesday. I shall provide hints later this weekend.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatWhatMightDepriveTheseBirdsOfTheirPerchesWouldLikelyAlterTheAltitudeOfThosePerchesAndThereforeLeaveOurTwitterersVulnerableToPredatorsThatNeitherFlitterFlutterNorScaleTreeTrunkery
LegoPerch, I suspect that a really good hint at this point (possibly give-away, however) would be WHO your favorite novelist IS. I tried John Updike, but couldn't get anywhere that way.
DeleteI still need Con #4 and Entree #3, the latter of which I THOUGHT I had two of the three words (missing the baseball player like pjb), but no 11-letter capitals (& one letter) seems to encompass my two chosen words, at least that I can see.
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteUse Google image search to find the baseball player. The 11-letter capital is not the first one that came to mind.
Thanks muchly, geo-Ken! Who would have thought Lego would put the photo of the actual guy ON its puzzle on P!? I don't think he has ever done that before? I have Entree #3 complete now, thanks to your direction. Aaaaah.....
DeleteViolinTeddy, Lego has rather often used images of the solution person or object in the past. Often, they derive from Wikipedia.
DeleteVT,
DeleteI do like Updike, but he is not my favorite novelist. My favorite liked openings, defenses, attacks and gambits...
LegoWhoAdds...AndButterflies
Nabokov, perchance?
DeleteOOh, I think I just found it....
DeleteINterestingly, my alternate answer is directly related!
DeleteThink I have the "correct" answer now also, thanks ViolinTeddy and LegoSignature. But the "sounds like" is a bit tenuous. However, if one removes TWO letters, the "sounds like" becomes exact.
DeleteI believe that was an intentional 'trick' on Lego's part, geo!
DeleteOr if two words are allowed in the answer, the "sounds like" with 1 letter dropped is closer than my original 1-word answer. Checkmate!
DeleteGood last week of Summer to all!
ReplyDeleteMom is doing fine, but hasn't gotten out much(except for a Sorority meeting and a doctor's appointment). Bryan and I are helping out as much as we can around our house to make it easier for Mom to get around. And she's had many visitors in the past few days. On the puzzle front, I've completed the Prize and Private Eye ones, and though I couldn't find this week's P! late last night, I did just manage to solve the following:
Conundrum #2
All but #6 "Curls hair", same as everyone else
All Entrees except the baseball player's name in #3
Dessert
As usual, I shall require hints for the rest(but you probably already guessed that by now). Good solving to all this week!
Ekes, I just now noticed that the Schpuzzle says the bird has two SYLLABLES; I had completely mis-read it (what else is new?) as two WORDS. Thus, my alternate answer no longer fulfills the directions, as it is two words, but three syllables.
ReplyDeleteNow have an unsatisfying answer for Con #4. Squid, anyone?
ReplyDeleteI believe, thanks to your comment, geo, that I have just obtained the same 'unsatisfying' answer for Con #4. There sure as heck don't seem to be any other possibilities! I believe the difficulty lies in the description of "more of an office supply"....which is kind of an odd description of the word we were supposed to come up with.
DeleteAgree. The color word is a bit more plausible.
Deletegeofan and ViolinTeddy,
DeleteYes, you both have solved Mathew's Conundrum #4. Congrats to you both for cracking a pretty tough nut of a puzzle.
An alternative wording to the "six-letter adjective for more of an office supply" might have been "a synonym of "more murky."
As you both are aware, if you place the first letter of the "adjective describing a common color of the supply" in front of the first four letters of the "six-letter adjective for more of an office supply" you will spell a second color.
LegoWhoHasAlwaysAdmiredJauneGreenlyWhiter
First 3 letters, or?
DeleteThabks, geofan. Indeed, I should have written the first three letters, not the first four.
DeleteLegoWhoAlwaysFeelsABitBlueiWhenHeMakesAGoof
Monday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Just who was that guy who sang "I Got You Babe"... Sonny B. or Paul B.? (I cannot find any photographic evidence of Sonny wielding a guitar, but I can find oodles of pictures of Paul wielding a slang term for a guitar!)
Conundrums:
1. Spicy hot. in seven letters. Say the word "car" after "something that helps keep people hot" to get something a valet does.
2. Got carpenters and queens in your pants?
3. In tennis doubles, this "word related to speed" usually happens near the net.
4. The common color is Princely... and, alas. Four-Time-Super-Bowl-Losey.
Prancing Though Interstellar Space Slice:
A seventh clue:
7. Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, Reggie Miller...
ROSABS:
ENTREE #1:
Elvgren and Petty were painters. But the two-word description can apply also to photographers (of Marilyn Monroe and Farrah Fawcett, for example) and even to Hugh Hefner.
ENTREE #2:
Cub Ron, Tenor/Baritone Placingo;
Asinine behavior by three amphibians
ENTREE #3:
"Die-or-domino-dimple, Die-or-domino-dimple, Hooray!"
ENTREE #4:
Put the acronym within a wild card... like Leno, Letterman, et al.
Historical Dessert:
This person met his maker exactly at the same instant as did Will Rogers.
The landmark in transportation history happened about four years after Lucky Lindy's landmark.
This person performed this landmark in just a little less than 1% of the time it took Phileas Fogg and Passepartou to perform the feat.
LegoWhoIsLuredByTheFalseAzureOfTheWindowsPanes(AlbeitThankfullyNotYetSlain!)
Having now read some about our Dessert hero, I am mystified as to how I (and others) could have NEVER heard of him before. Especially, given the circumstances of his (their) death(s)....
DeleteThanks for the hints - finally got Con #3, after I discovered the trick.
ReplyDeletePlease correct: in the Dessert it was about 10 %, not 1 %.
For the PTISS, it is easy to get #6 when you discover the link among the others (which is rather obvious). This reveals the obscure #6 and also #7.
geofan,
DeleteThanks for your correction on my Dessert percentage.
I should have written in my hint:
"This person performed this landmark in just a little less than 10% of the time it took Phileas Fogg and Passepartou to perform the feat."
In my source, the duration of the feat was given in days, hours and minutes. I somehow ignored the days!
LegoWhoBelievesThatAnExcellentTitleForAHistoricalBookWouldBe"AroundTheWorldInEightDays"
Just got Conundrum #4!
ReplyDeleteAny more hints, Lego? It's Wednesday already!
ReplyDeleteWednesday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
The bird has something in common with Daedalus and Icarus.
Conundrums:
1. The "something hot" contains an abbreviated month. The "something that helps keep people hot" contains a biblical creature-carrier.
2. The color begins with the first name of a legendary pitcher.
ROSABS:
ENTREE #3:
The "luckiest man on earth" knocked this guy out of the line-up.
LegoWhoWarnsAllPuzzlerian!sToNotFlyTooNearToTheSun
I note that someone associated with a similar landmark in transportation actually saw ghosts (apparently friendly).
ReplyDeleteWhile flying over Casper?
DeleteLeghost
While flying over the Atlantic:
Deletehttps://disciplesofflight.com/flying-phantoms-story-charles-lindbergh/
Let's not even mention fishing in Spain.
WAXWING > AX-(s)WING
ReplyDeletePAPRIKA > PARKA
CYAN > ANCY (antsy)
VOLLEY > YELLOW
INKIER > PURPLY
SPACER, RECAPS, PARSEC, CAPERS, CRAPES
PORT-AU-PRINCE > PINUP CREATOR
SANTO DOMINGO > TOADS MOONING
PORT OF SPAIN > PIPP, FANS, ROOT
JO(E BEC)KER
WILEY POST > MILEPOST
SOTW: WAXWING => AX SWING or AXING.
ReplyDeleteAlternate answer LEAFBIRD => LEA + BIRD => LEOPARD (self-published novel "Song of the Leafbird")
Conundrums
#1 PAPRIKA / PARKA
#2 CYAN / ANCY (ANTSY)
#3 VOLLEY => YELLOVV => YELLOW
#4 INKIER / PURPLY
PTISS
1 SPACER
2 RECAPS
3 PARSEC
4 CAPERS
5 SCRAPE
6 CRAPES
7 PACERS
ENTREES
#1 PORT-AU-PRINCE => PINUP CREATOR
#2 SANTO DOMINGO => MOONING TOADS
#3 PORT OF SPAIN => PIPP, FANS, ROOT
#4 JO + EBEC + KER => JOE BECKER
Dessert: WILEY POST / MILEPOST
geofan
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteWAXWING, AX SWING
Menu
Conundrums
1. PAPRIKA, PARKA
2. CYAN, ANTSY
3. VOLLEY, YELLOW
4. INKIER, PURPLY
Menu Part 2
1. SPACER
2. RECAPS
3. PARSEC
4. CAPERS
5. SCRAPE
6. CRAPES
7. PACERS
Entrees
1. PORT-AU-PRINCE, PINUP CREATOR
2. SANTO DOMINGO, MOONING TOADS
3. PORT OF SPAIN, PIPP, FANS, ROOT
4. EBEC inside JOKER=JOE BECKER
Dessert
WILEY POST, MILEPOST
See y'all next week!-pjb
SCHPUZZLE: Original answer: PASSERINE => ASSERINE => ACID RAIN; Intended answer: WAXWING => AXING
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. PAPRIKA => PARKA
2. CYAN => ANCY/ ANTSY
3. VOLLEY => YELLOW
4. INKIER => PURPLY
SPACE SLICE: 1. SPACER 2. RECAPS 3. PARSEC 4. CAPERS 5. SCRAPE 6. CRAPES 7. PACERS
ENTREES:
1. PORT AU PRINCE => PINUP CREATOR
2. SANTO DOMINGO => MOONING TOADS
3. PORT OF SPAIN => PIPP & FANS & ROOT
4. JOKER & EBEC => JOE BECKER
DESSERT: WILEY POST => MILEPOST
Violin, love your Italian alternate to the SOTW :-)
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteIndeed... what geofan said.
LegoWhoLovesViolinTeddy'sOriginalAnswer
OOh, thanks so much, you guys! : o ) P.S. LIke I indicated originally, there was a 'major consonant missing', i.e. the 'd'.
DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
To tweet, perch-ance to retweet elsewhere
Remove a letter from certain tree-perching birds, in two syllables.
The result sounds like what might deprive these birds of their perches, forcing them to fly elsewhere.
Name these birds.
Answer:
Waxwings (Ax swings)
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All The Conundrums Of The Spectrum Slice:
Hot red, and other cool colors
1. Think of something hot in seven letters. Remove the third and fifth letters to get something that helps keep people hot.
Answer:
PAPRIKA, PARKA
2. Think of a color. Exchange the first half of the letters with the second half. The result will sound like a word meaning restless.
Answer:
CYAN, ANTSY
3. Think of a word related to speed used in sports and military. Double the first letter and the result, when read backwards, will be a color.
Answer:
VOLLEY, YELLOW
4. Think of a six-letter adjective for more of an office supply. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet. The result will be an adjective describing a common color of the supply.
Answer:
INKIER, PURPLY
Prancing Though Interstellar Space Slice:
Half-a-dozen gray-day egghead scratchers
Solve the six clues below. Each answer contains six letters.
They also share something else in common. What is it?
1. A region of chromosomal DNA between genes
2. Summaries
3. About three-and-a-quarter light-years of interstellar space
4. Prances playfully
5. What one might do to the bottom of the barrel
6. Curls hair
Answer: All answers to the clues are anagrams of one another:
1. A region of chromosomal DNA between genes SPACER
2. Summaries RECAPS
3. About three-and-a-quarter light-years of interstellar space PARSEC
4. Prances playfully CAPERS
5. What one might do to the bottom of the barrel SCRAPE
6. Curls hair CRAPES
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Becker Slice:
Moscow, Muscat, Tegoosegalpa, Santo Dominko...
Will Shortz’s September 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joe Becker of Palo Alto, California, reads:
Name a world capital in 12 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to name two animals – one in three letters and the other in nine. What capital is it, and what are the animals?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Becker Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a world capital in 12 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to name a two-word description of Gil Elvgren or George Petty. What capital is it, and what is this description?
Answer:
Port-au-Prince; Pin-up creator
ENTREE #2:
Name a world capital in 12 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange its letters to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. What capital is it, and what is the caption?
Answer:
Santo Domingo; Toads mooning
ENTREE #3:
Name a world capital in 11 letters. Two of them are the same letter. Add one more of that same letter. You can rearrange these twelve letters to form (1) the last name of an athlete who was famous because of the player who took his place in the line-up, (2) a word for people in the bleachers, and (3) what these people do for the home team, according to a song.
What capital is it?
What is the last name of the athlete, the people in the bleachers, and what thy do for the home team?
Answer:
Port of Spain
Wally Pipp, fans, root
ENTREE #4:
Name a playing card that rhymes with a popular card game. Somewhere within it, insert the acronym for an annual international engineering competition open to college students. If you have the right playing card and competition, you will have spelled the name of a puzzle maker.
Who is the puzzle maker?
What are the card and competition?
Answer:
Joe Becker; Joker; ebec (Jo+ebec+ker = Joe Becker)
Dessert Menu
Historical Dessert:
Landmarks along the highway of time
Write without a space the first and last names of a person associated with a landmark in transportation history.
Invert the first letter and delete the final letter of the person’s first name to form a synonym of landmark.
Who is this person?
Answer:
Wiley Post; (Milepost)
Lego!