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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Hooked on Frankie, Funicello and Phonetics
Name a quick thing one might take at the beach and a brief thing one might wear there.
Connect these two words with a consonant to form a phonetic term for something that occurs four times in the text of this puzzle.
What are this term and the two things?
Cryptic Crossword Appetizer:
Enjoy cranberry’s on Thanksgiving Friday
Yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day feast is now is in the past. You have probably had your fill of turkey, gravy, stuffing, potatoes, squash, green bean casserole, cranberries and pumpkin pie...
Today, however, is also a day to give thanks... thanks to “cranberry,” the screen name of Patrick J. Berry, longtime friend of and contributor to Puzzleria!
Patrick today is serving up, not leftovers, but a fresh serving of his juicily delicious Cryptic Crossword Puzzle, the tenth such gem with which he has graced our blog.
Here are nine links to Patrick’s previous “feasts”... there is not one “turkey” in the bunch!:
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
Here are a few basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions:
Regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:
The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer. Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers.
For example, (6) indicates a six-letter answer like “jalopy,” (5, 3) indicates a five-and-three-letter answer like “cargo van,” and (5-5) indicates a five-and-five-letter hyphenated answer like “Rolls-Royce.”
(For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword. The Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!)
ACROSS
1. Man, old sort, Clue suspect!(7,7)
9. Said “No cops”(5)
10. Herb stops in backstage(9)
11. Murder – decapitation? That’s sick!(3)
12. Profanity, a little no-no at home(4)
13. Property, excellent condition(6)
15. Viewers sure to follow latest episode(4)
16. Rip off celebrity, being diva?(5,5)
19. Our mental breakdown involving B movie?(7,3)
20. American journalist employed(4)
22. Language lawyers put back in counterintelligence?(6)
24. No time to kill? Go!(4)
25. Sometimes compassion is key(3)
27. Hurries off when it’s dark(6,3)
28. Speaker of 22 needing fresh air and energy?(5)
29. Rodeo beginner sure got bronco bucking in John Wayne film(7,7)
DOWN
1. Certain associate takes one behind closed doors(14)
2. Picture Rachel having trouble in bathroom(5,4)
3. Boy brought up on Doctor Who? He’s not here(2-4)
4. Go after sunshine, looking for shade?(5,5)
5. Familiar with coupon-clipping?(2,2)
6. Part of England’s destiny out East?(8)
7. Bob Marley, perhaps embraced by opera stars?(5)
8. Reason for a person’s sudden disappearance could be due to cannibal(5,9)
14. Feeling it could make you sick? Way to come through!(10)
17. Vampire after us? No, surprisingly(9)
18. It’s above building blocks?(8)
21. Loved ones getting runaround – not being serious at all(6)
23. Bag groceries to hide pain?(5)
26. Acceptable in class project(4)
Head-Spinning Slice:
Vertigo for everyone!
Name something that might make an adult dizzy.
Change the second-last letter to name something that might make a child dizzy.
What are these two words?
Riffing Off Shortz And Siegel Slices:
“My word, how brain-curdlingly absurd! A roller-skating bird in a buffalo herd!”
Will Shortz’s November 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jon Siegel of Chevy Chase, Maryland, reads:
The words WON and SUN rhyme, even though their vowels are different. Can you name four common, uncapitalized 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Siegel Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Part 1:
A puzzle-maker is associated with the name of a well-known comedian on a TV comedy sketch show.
A second well-known comedian once performed a sketch on that same show in which he suggested that the Barbie doll ditch her boyfriend Ken in favor of another more macho doll on the market.
Take:
1. the letters in a shorthand name of that comedy show,
2. the first letter of the first name of the second comedian (or the last letter of the last name of the first comedian), and
3. the letters in the name of the more macho doll.
Rearrange these letters to form the name of the puzzle-maker. Who is it?
Part 2:
A singer/songwriter wrote and recorded a song about a multicolored upper-body garment that reached position #7 on the U.S. County Charts. Three years later, a one-word song she wrote (inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her hubby) peaked at #6.
The song this singer/songwriter chooses to sing when she performs live for the U.S. troops, however, is a song she did not write.
In its title is a “unicolored” (not red, however) garment worn above the neck. This song was recorded by a U.S. Army staff sergeant about a decade earlier, and reached #1 on the U.S. charts.
Take the combined letters in the 6-letter title of the song that peaked at #6 and the 3-letter shorthand form of “the U.S. troops.”
Rearrange these nine letters to form the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
ENTREE #2:
The words WON and SUN rhyme, even though their vowels are different. Can you name four common, 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
A lass depressed tried St. John’s ____,
She reasoned: “Herbal cures can’t ___,
they grow in earthy godly ___!”
So now she’s peppy, perky, ____.
ENTREE #3:
Can you name four common, uncapitalized 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
My boss was quite a Scroogey ____
So one day at the end of ____
Outside our office did I ____
And pierced his black heart with my ____.
ENTREE #4:
Can you name three common, uncapitalized 3-letter words and one somewhat common, uncapitalized 5-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
’Tis Yuletide: gifts ’neath trees of ___.
Forgive me! I, a human ___
Am not Divine, I tend to ___
By bringing “bribes” of gold and _____.
ENTREE #5:
Can you name three common, uncapitalized 4-letter words and one capitalized non-English 5-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
Eve on a whim, temptation’s ____,
Plucked Satan’s apple, round and ____...
Inside, a Serpent (not a ____)
Which led to widespread Drang und _____.
ENTREE #6:
Find two common, uncapitalized 5-letter words and one uncapitalized 6-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all three vowels are different.
A second uncapitalized 6-letter word rhymes with these three. It contains two vowels, one which is different from the three different vowels in the other three words.
The four words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
The faithful flock filed into ______.
All circled o’er the pews of ____...
Flocks welcome suff’ring, thus their ______
To light upon a hardwood _____.
ENTREE #7:
Name two somewhat common, uncapitalized 4-letter words (one is a contraction), each of which has exactly one vowel, and both which rhyme, even though their vowels are different.
A third very common 4-letter word rhymes with the first two words and contains two vowels that both differ from the two vowels in the other two words.
These three words fill the blanks in the tercet below:
O the night before Christmas day ’____.
Through the house, all the doorbells did ____...
(If there’s chimney smoke that’s what he ____.)
Toasty Dessert:
Choose strong “lass-words” for your female?
Name something one consumes that is associated with toasting.
Remove a letter, change a letter and slice the result in two to form two different words that you might use to address a female.
What is this consumable?
What are the two words for a female?
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:
Hooked on Frankie, Funicello and Phonetics
Name a quick thing one might take at the beach and a brief thing one might wear there. Connect these two words with a consonant to form a phonetic term for something that occurs four times in the text of this puzzle.
What are this term and the two things?
Appetizer Menu
Cryptic Crossword Appetizer:
Enjoy cranberry’s on Thanksgiving Friday
Yesterday’s Thanksgiving Day feast is now is in the past. You have probably had your fill of turkey, gravy, stuffing, potatoes, squash, green bean casserole, cranberries and pumpkin pie...Today, however, is also a day to give thanks... thanks to “cranberry,” the screen name of Patrick J. Berry, longtime friend of and contributor to Puzzleria!
Patrick today is serving up, not leftovers, but a fresh serving of his juicily delicious Cryptic Crossword Puzzle, the tenth such gem with which he has graced our blog.
Here are nine links to Patrick’s previous “feasts”... there is not one “turkey” in the bunch!:ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE
Here are a few basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions:
Regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:
The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer. Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers.
For example, (6) indicates a six-letter answer like “jalopy,” (5, 3) indicates a five-and-three-letter answer like “cargo van,” and (5-5) indicates a five-and-five-letter hyphenated answer like “Rolls-Royce.”(For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword. The Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!)
ACROSS
1. Man, old sort, Clue suspect!(7,7)
9. Said “No cops”(5)
10. Herb stops in backstage(9)11. Murder – decapitation? That’s sick!(3)
12. Profanity, a little no-no at home(4)
13. Property, excellent condition(6)
15. Viewers sure to follow latest episode(4)
16. Rip off celebrity, being diva?(5,5)
19. Our mental breakdown involving B movie?(7,3)
20. American journalist employed(4)
22. Language lawyers put back in counterintelligence?(6)
24. No time to kill? Go!(4)25. Sometimes compassion is key(3)
27. Hurries off when it’s dark(6,3)
28. Speaker of 22 needing fresh air and energy?(5)
29. Rodeo beginner sure got bronco bucking in John Wayne film(7,7)
DOWN
1. Certain associate takes one behind closed doors(14)
2. Picture Rachel having trouble in bathroom(5,4)
3. Boy brought up on Doctor Who? He’s not here(2-4)4. Go after sunshine, looking for shade?(5,5)
5. Familiar with coupon-clipping?(2,2)
6. Part of England’s destiny out East?(8)
7. Bob Marley, perhaps embraced by opera stars?(5)
8. Reason for a person’s sudden disappearance could be due to cannibal(5,9)
14. Feeling it could make you sick? Way to come through!(10)
17. Vampire after us? No, surprisingly(9)
18. It’s above building blocks?(8)21. Loved ones getting runaround – not being serious at all(6)
23. Bag groceries to hide pain?(5)
26. Acceptable in class project(4)
MENU
Head-Spinning Slice:
Vertigo for everyone!
Name something that might make an adult dizzy. Change the second-last letter to name something that might make a child dizzy.
What are these two words?
Riffing Off Shortz And Siegel Slices:
“My word, how brain-curdlingly absurd! A roller-skating bird in a buffalo herd!”
Will Shortz’s November 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jon Siegel of Chevy Chase, Maryland, reads: The words WON and SUN rhyme, even though their vowels are different. Can you name four common, uncapitalized 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Siegel Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Part 1:
A puzzle-maker is associated with the name of a well-known comedian on a TV comedy sketch show.
A second well-known comedian once performed a sketch on that same show in which he suggested that the Barbie doll ditch her boyfriend Ken in favor of another more macho doll on the market. Take:
1. the letters in a shorthand name of that comedy show,
2. the first letter of the first name of the second comedian (or the last letter of the last name of the first comedian), and
3. the letters in the name of the more macho doll.
Rearrange these letters to form the name of the puzzle-maker. Who is it?
Part 2:
A singer/songwriter wrote and recorded a song about a multicolored upper-body garment that reached position #7 on the U.S. County Charts. Three years later, a one-word song she wrote (inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her hubby) peaked at #6.
The song this singer/songwriter chooses to sing when she performs live for the U.S. troops, however, is a song she did not write. In its title is a “unicolored” (not red, however) garment worn above the neck. This song was recorded by a U.S. Army staff sergeant about a decade earlier, and reached #1 on the U.S. charts.
Take the combined letters in the 6-letter title of the song that peaked at #6 and the 3-letter shorthand form of “the U.S. troops.”
Rearrange these nine letters to form the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
ENTREE #2:
The words WON and SUN rhyme, even though their vowels are different. Can you name four common, 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different? The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
A lass depressed tried St. John’s ____,
She reasoned: “Herbal cures can’t ___,
they grow in earthy godly ___!”
So now she’s peppy, perky, ____.
ENTREE #3:Can you name four common, uncapitalized 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
My boss was quite a Scroogey ____
So one day at the end of ____
Outside our office did I ____
And pierced his black heart with my ____.
ENTREE #4:
Can you name three common, uncapitalized 3-letter words and one somewhat common, uncapitalized 5-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different? The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
’Tis Yuletide: gifts ’neath trees of ___.
Forgive me! I, a human ___
Am not Divine, I tend to ___
By bringing “bribes” of gold and _____.
ENTREE #5:
Can you name three common, uncapitalized 4-letter words and one capitalized non-English 5-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different? The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
Eve on a whim, temptation’s ____,
Plucked Satan’s apple, round and ____...
Inside, a Serpent (not a ____)
Which led to widespread Drang und _____.
ENTREE #6:
Find two common, uncapitalized 5-letter words and one uncapitalized 6-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all three vowels are different. A second uncapitalized 6-letter word rhymes with these three. It contains two vowels, one which is different from the three different vowels in the other three words.
The four words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
The faithful flock filed into ______.
All circled o’er the pews of ____...
Flocks welcome suff’ring, thus their ______
To light upon a hardwood _____.
ENTREE #7:
Name two somewhat common, uncapitalized 4-letter words (one is a contraction), each of which has exactly one vowel, and both which rhyme, even though their vowels are different. A third very common 4-letter word rhymes with the first two words and contains two vowels that both differ from the two vowels in the other two words.
These three words fill the blanks in the tercet below:
O the night before Christmas day ’____.
Through the house, all the doorbells did ____...
(If there’s chimney smoke that’s what he ____.)
Dessert Menu
Toasty Dessert:
Choose strong “lass-words” for your female?
Name something one consumes that is associated with toasting.
Remove a letter, change a letter and slice the result in two to form two different words that you might use to address a female. What is this consumable?
What are the two words for a female?
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.
Happy Black Friday everyone!
ReplyDeleteI decided to be the first to post a comment to say three things:
1. I hope everyone enjoys my cryptic crossword, and I also hope those of you on this blog who are not particularly fans of my work in this field should at least give it a try. You never know, you might actually like this sort of puzzle.
2. I have already actually solved all the other puzzles except one.
3. Ironically, I can't get the one about dizziness. Imagine that, and I've already had to look up possible causes of my own dizziness(which, in case you're wondering, has recently improved thank God)! I think it was my sinuses after all, but I just wasn't sure. Anyway, whatever hint you can offer will of course be most helpful, Lego. And of course, thanks again for using my puzzle this week! I promise more to come in the new year, so watch for them! Cranberry out!
Thanks cranberry- cryptics aren't my forte, but I got the first clue and am looking forward to trying the rest over the weekend.
DeleteI would submit that what I believe to be the intended "something that might make a child dizzy" could in fact make people of all ages dizzy, and might in fact make an adult more dizzy than a child, though a child might be more likely to partake in this something.
Point well taken, Megatart Stratagem. Indeed I think I recall Audrey and Cary involved with "something that might make a child dizzy" in a 1960s film. And they were not child actors.
DeleteLegoRidin'AlongWithAllanAndGrahamAndTheGang
Have solved all the puzzles and 5 of the Cryptic clues.
DeleteOnly got the dizziness slide via Lego's hint - had thought of the child-dizzier but did not connect it with the adult word.
My answer to the Dessert may be an alternate - it has a semi-military theme.
Hmmm... "semi-military theme" for the Dessert, eh? I sounds as if that is not my intended answer but, knowing geofan, it is likely a solid alternative answer.
DeleteLegoWhoLikesSemiSweetCremeCandiesForDessert
For a change, the Schpuzzle was easy (and I imagine, will be for everyone else, too), and I've just gone through all the Entrees and solved them EXCEPT for the two middle words for #4. [Well, I can't decide what the first word for #5 must be, either.] I thought the three words for #7 were very clever indeed.
ReplyDeleteBUt I went nowhere with the Spinning Slice [didn't spend all that long on it, however] , and thought the Dessert was going to fall right out, but then it didn't.
Cryptic progress:
ReplyDeleteGot the top and bottom lines
Got 6&7 Down
DeleteClipped 5 Down
DeleteI have another that I'm not quite ready to bank on yet.
Delete1983?
DeleteHelter Skelter
Deletesecond hand
DeleteKinch?
DeleteLeft side just fell into place
DeleteGot the who-boy, the profanity, and one more (just in time for Christmas)
DeleteFinished off the NW corner and moved on to get the celebrity diva
DeleteUsed https://crossword-dictionary.com/ to get 14 Down. Excellent wordplay.
DeleteThe vampire was new to me
DeleteNot sure what kind of grade I'll get on the class project.
DeleteFound the key to the right side, and now I'm able to make sense of 10 Across
DeleteA completely unfamiliar word leads to the intelligent language; darkness is left behind, and the SW corner is no longer hidden.
DeleteAnd I'm done; no kidding!
DeleteThanks for sharing your progress, Paul! I'm sure you enjoyed solving it as much as I did compiling it!
DeleteBravo, Paul! Thou hast managed to cryptically cross swords with cranberry and emerge victorious.
DeleteLegoWhoEncouagesAllPuzzlerians!ToFollowPaul'sExampleByNotSittingOnTheFenceButBySimilarlyEngagingInSomeFunFencing
We'll call it a draw.
DeleteA draw it is then. No real harm done. 'Tis but a few flesh wounds.
DeleteLegoNotTheKingOfPrussiaComedyTheHillQueensDiamondsHeartsSpadesClubsOrTheBritons...JustTheKingOfNothing
"Man, old sort, Clue" anagrams to COLONEL MUSTARD
DeleteR from rodeo + anagram of "sure got bronco" = ROOSTER COGBURN
opeRA STArs
"Destiny"anagram + E = TYNESIDE (never heard of it)
coUP ON
LIGHT GREEN reminded me of those green banker's lampshades
LOCAL HERO (1983)
Helter Skelter > S. Tate' E + STATE > ESTATE
second hand > USED
Ivan Dixon directed TROUBLE MAN and played "Kinch" on Hogan's Heroes
CONFIDENT1ALLY
SON backwards on top of anagram of WHO = NO SHOW
no-nO AT Home
"Cops" and NICKS are both slang for stealing; NICKS sounds like NIX
KILL-K=ILL
"Viewers" are EYES = the last E in "episode" + YES(sure)
Anagram of "rip" + MADONNA = PRIMA DONNA
EM(PATH)ETIC
"After us no" anagrams to NOSFERATU (never heard of him)
PE (PHYS ED) with OK inside = POKE?
sometimES Compassion
Anagram of ("due to cannibal" + I) = ALIEN ABDUCTION, but I'm not sure where the I comes from
I think a "stage" is a LEG, and backwards that's GEL, but I'm not sure how "stops" equates to ROUNDS; it all made sense to me a couple days ago, though.... Oh, wait a minute, ROUNDS like "postman's rounds", maybe ... or perhaps like "rounding off"?? Anyway, I guess I vaguely knew GROUNDSEL was a plant, but wasn't sure the "herb" classification fit until I looked it up.
bAG GROceries (never heard of it)
CIA backwards with BAR backwards inside it = ARABIC
"Blocks" = OBVIATES, anagram of "it's above"
AIR anagram + QI = IRAQI (I think this is where this fits in; I think I forgot to post a comment when I solved it; I'm not sure if it was before or after ARABIC.
SHOOT-E=SHOO
JO(KIN)G
SHOOT - T, not SHOOT-E
DeleteI also got 17D: NOSFERATU but forgot to list it. Had heard of him somewhere in my darker past.
DeleteFor 23D had CACHE, but it would not fit with ROOSTER COGBURN (whom I had never heard of and could not have gotten). Also had never heard of Ivan Dixon or TROUBLE MAN so never could have gotten A19 either. Was on the track of CONFIDENTIALLY, but could not figure out how to enter "14 letter word with 1st C and 5th I" into my favorite Web site for such searches.
DeletePaul, for 8D (ALIEN ABDUCTION): Maybe the missing I got abducted by an alien?
DeleteAnd now I've just got the dizziness puzzle! I'm done already! Sure were easy ones this week!
ReplyDeleteWell,Cranberry has pulled off another masterpiece. Congrats and
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving to him! Good for Paul who got the whole thing too.
Happy holidays to everybody -- looks like the NFL turned
topsy turvy this weekend.
D.E.
I was hoping you would check in, Dowager Empress. We all know how you enjoy an excellent cryptic crossword, and cranberry is a master of the art. I do wager that you have completed Patrick's latest and were again "empressed" by his prowess.
DeleteDo you have a favorite NFL squad, DE?
LegoAddsThatTheGreenBayPackersOfTheNationalFootballLeagueAreTheCheesyCurdyCreamThatWillRiseToTheTop
Actually, I have three: Cowboys,Saints and Texans. It's a little discombobulating when every once in a while they play each other...Best thing to do is draw one of the names out of a hat, and have another Lone Star. D.E.
DeleteEverything is bigger in Texas, or so I hear. If you would try to draw one of the three names from a Texas-size ten-galloon (sic) hat, I would think you would spend hours fumbling around the bottom, like trying to retrieve a BB from a parachute silk.
DeleteLegoWhoHasNeverBeenCalledDiscombobuLateForDinner
sdb could probably help me out. He knows all the ropes, so to speak. But we write on big pieces of paper, too. D.E.
DeleteThis IS Wednesday, right? And 3.5 hours AFTER 12 noon PST? Where are everyone else's answers? I'm usually last or next to last to post them.....such as mine are this week, minus the Crossword, as per normal for me, and never having gotten the dizzy slice or even the Dessert....
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: DIP & THONG => DIPHTHONG
SPINNING SLICE: SOMERSAULTS? SPINS? MERRY-GO-ROUND?
ENTREES:
1. SNL; GI JOE; & "E" [EDDIE MURPHY?] => JON SIEGEL; Song: GREEN BERETS; GI'S & JOLENE => JON SIEGEL
2. WORT; HURT; DIRT; PERT
3. JERK; WORK; LURK; DIRK
4. FIR; CUR; ERR?; MYRRH
5. P?ERM; FIRM; WORM; STURM
6. CHURCH; BIRCH; SEARCH; PERCH
7. 'TWAS; BUZZ; DOES
DESSERT: BUTTER => MUTTER (German for Mother) MISS?, MADAM?, LADY?
SOTW: DIP + H + THONG => DIPHTHONG
ReplyDeleteCryptic: believe I got
1A: COLONEL MUSTARD
11A: ILL
20A: USED
5D: UP ON
26D: PASS
Spinning Slice: CAROUSEL, CAROUSAL (as in "carousing")
Entrées:
#1 part 1: SNL + G.I. JOE + E => JON SIEGEL
part 2: JOLEEN + GIs => JON SIEGEL
#2: WORT (alternate pronunciation), HURT, DIRT, PERT (FWIW, I usually pronounce WORT [as in St. John's wort] to rhyme with FORT or COURT)
#3: JERK, WORK, LURK, DIRK (Is DIRK a common word?)
#4: FIR, CUR, ERR, MYRRH (Liked ERR, though I often pronounce it to rhyme with AIR, not FIR.)
#5: GERM, FIRM, WORM, STURM
#6: CHURCH, BIRCH, SEARCH, PERCH
#7: 'TWAS, BUZZ, DOES
Dessert: MARGARINE, drop R; change G to M, split => MA, MARINE (since women can now be [and are] Marines). Both are "strong" words.
Oh nuts...I HAD Margarine written down, but removed it before posting....that said, I never would have thought of 'marine'.
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ReplyDeleteFurther to the comment of ViolinTeddy, also there were no hints the entire week for any of the puzzles: I have not seen this ever on this blog.
ReplyDeleteThere is the impression that "for the blog 'insiders', only the Cryptic matters, and the other puzzles this week were mere fluff." That said, I DID have fun getting as far as I did on the Cryptic.
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Appetizer
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CAROUSAL, CAROUSEL
Entrees
1. Part 1.I SNL+E(Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chase)+G.I.JOE=JON SIEGEL
Part 2. JOLENE+GIS(The Ballad of the Green Berets)=JON SIEGEL
2. WORT, HURT, DIRT, PERT
3. JERK, WORK, LURK, DIRK
4. FIR, CUR, ERR, MYRRH
5. GERM, FIRM, WORM, STURM
6. CHURCH, BIRCH, SEARCH, PERCH
7. 'TWAS, BUZZ, DOES
Dessert
WINEGLASS, WIFE, LASS
Personally, I've never heard WORT or ERR pronounced as they are here, but then that's just me.-pjb
Cranberry, I like your WINEGLASS answer to the Dessert. I was occupied with M-words (MOM, MOTHER, …) so missed WINEGLASS even though I considered a host of alcoholic spirits (but alas, not their containers) as worthy candidates.
DeleteAlso I had an trial alternate with ENGLISH MUFFIN => ENGLISH MUM, but FIN did not work.
WINEGLASS and MARGARINE are both excellent alternative answers for the Dessert. Nice work!
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I had assiduously kept trying to turn 'champagne' (given its m and a's) for the Dessert, but that was all the alcohol I attempted, knowing by choice virtually nothing about it.
DeleteHow would MARGARINE work? I can't quite parse that one out.
DeleteAs geofan posted:
Delete"MARGARINE, drop R; change G to M, split => MA, MARINE."
Personal footnote: When I was very young, the name of a neighbor girl who lived nearby was Maureen. I had not yet been exposed to the word "Marine." When I finally was exposed to "Marine" (probably at age 7 or 8) I associated the word with "Maureen." Ergo, "Marine" has ever since smacked a bit of femininity in my subconscious.
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This week's answers for the record, part 1:
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Hooked on Frankie, Funicello and Phonetics
Name a quick thing one might take at the beach and a brief thing one might wear there. Connect these two words with a consonant to form a phonetic term for something that occurs four times in the text of this puzzle. What are this term and the two things?
Answer:
Diphthong; Dip, Thong;
(Four words in the text contain diphthongs: bEAch, brIEf, wEAr, fOUr.)
Appetizer Menu
Enjoy cranberry’s on Thanksgiving Friday
(Note: See just above this weeks Comment for the completed grid.)
ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS
ACROSS
1. Man, old sort, Clue suspect!(7,7)
Colonel Mustard
MANOLDSORTCLUE anagram & lit.
9. Said "No cops"(5)
nicks
sounds like NIX
10. Herb stops in backstage(9)
groundsel
ROUNDS inside LEG reversed (doctors making their "rounds" are making "stops" into their patients' recovery rooms (see definition 6b "round," noun)
11. Murder – decapitation? That's sick!(3)
ill
KILL-K
12. Profanity, a little no-no at home(4)
oath
hidden inside no-nOATHome
13. Property, excellent condition(6)
estate
E+STATE
15. Viewers sure to follow latest episode(4)
eyes
E+YES
16. Rip off celebrity, being diva?(5,5)
prima donna
RIP anagram+MADONNA
19. Our mental breakdown involving B movie?(7,3)
OURMENTAL anagram containing B
"Trouble Man"
20. American journalist employed(4)
used
US+ED(itor)
22. Language lawyers put back in counterintelligence?(6)
Arabic
BAR reversed inside CIA reversed
24. No time to kill? Go!(4)
shoo!
SHOOT minus T
25. Sometimes compassion is key(3)
esc (key on a keyboard)
hidden inside timESCompassion
27. Hurries off when it's dark(6,3)
lights out
double definition
28. Speaker of 22 needing fresh air and energy?(5)
Iraqi
AIR anagram+QI
29. Rodeo beginner sure got bronco bucking in John Wayne film(7,7)
Rooster Cogburn
R+SUREGOTBRONCO anagram
DOWN
1. Certain associate takes one behind closed doors(14)
confidentially
CONFIDENT ALLY holding I
2. Picture Rachel having trouble in bathroom(5,4)
local hero
RACHEL anagram inside LOO
3. Boy brought up on Doctor Who? He's not here(2-4)
no-show
SON reversed+WHO anagram
4. Go after sunshine, looking for shade?(5,5)
light green
LIGHT+GREEN
5. Familiar with coupon-clipping?(2,2)
upon
coUPON
6. Part of England's destiny out East?(8)
Tyneside
DESTINY anagram+E
7. Bob Marley, perhaps embraced by opera stars?(5)
Rasta
hidden inside opeRASTArs
8. Reason for a person's sudden disappearance could be due to cannibal(5,9)
alien abduction
DUETOCANNIBAL anagram
14. Feeling it could make you sick? Way to come through!(10)
empathetic
PATH inside EMETIC
17. Vampire after us? No, surprisingly(9)
Nosferatu
AFTERUSNO anagram
18. It's above building blocks?(8)
obviates
ITSABOVE anagram
21. Loved ones getting runaround – not being serious at all(6)
joking
JOG containing KIN
23. Bag groceries to hide pain?(5)
aggro
hidden inside bAGGROceries
26. Acceptable in class project(4)
poke
OK inside PE(physical education)
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This week's answers for the record, part 2:
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Head-Spinning Slice:
Vertigo for everyone!
Name something that might make an adult dizzy.
Change the second-last letter to name something that might make a child dizzy.
What are these two words?
Answer:
Carousal; carousel
Riffing Off Shortz And Siegel Slices:
“My word, how brain-curdlingly absurd! A roller-skating bird in a buffalo herd!”
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Siegel Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Part 1:
A puzzle-maker is associated with the name of a well-known comedian on a TV comedy sketch show. A second well-known comedian once performed a sketch on that same show in which he suggested that the Barbie doll ditch her boyfriend Ken in favor of another more macho doll on the market.
Take the letters in a shorthand name of that comedy show, the first letter of the first name of the second comedian and the letters in the name of the more macho doll. Rearrange them to form the name of the puzzle-maker. Who is it?
Answer:
Jon Siegel of Chevy Chase, Maryland;
Chevy Chase and Eddy Murphy were comedians on "Saturday Night Live." Murphy performed a segment on SNL's Weekend Update in which he suggested Barbie dump Ken in favor of G.I. Joe;
SNL + E (for Eddie) + GI JOE = JON SIEGEL
Part 2:
A singer/songwriter wrote and recorded a song about a multicolored coat that reached position #7 on the U.S. County Charts. Three years later, a song she wrote (inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her hubby) peaked at #6. The song this singer/songwriter chooses to sing when she performs live for the U.S. troops, however, is a song about a “unicolored” hat (not “multicolored,” but not red either). It was recorded by a U.S. Army staff sergeant about a decade earlier, and reached #1 on the U.S. charts.
Take the combined letters in the 6-letter title of the song that peaked at #6 and the 3-letter shorthand form of “the U.S. troops.”
Rearrange these nine letters to form the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
Answer:
Jon Siegel
("JOLENE" + G.I.S = JON SIEGEL)
ENTREE #2:
The words WON and SUN rhyme, even though their vowels are different. Can you name four common, 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different?
The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
A lass depressed tried St. John’s ____,
She reasoned: “Herbal cures can’t ___,
they grow in earthy godly ___!”
So now she’s peppy, perky, ____.
Answer:
Wort, hurt, dirt, pert
(Note the first of the two pronunciations of "Wort.")
ENTREE #3:
Can you name four common, uncapitalized 4-letter words, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different? The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
My boss was quite a Scroogey ____
So one day at the end of ____
Outside our office did I ____
And pierced his black heart with my ____.
Answer:
jerk, work, lurk, dirk
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ENTREE #4:
Can you name three common, uncapitalized 3-letter words and one somewhat common, uncapitalized 5-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different? The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
’Tis Yuletide: gifts ’neath trees of ___.
Forgive me! I, a human ___
Am not Divine, I tend to ___
By bringing “bribes” of gold and _____.
Answer:
fir, cur, err, myrrh
ENTREE #5:
Can you name three common, uncapitalized 4-letter words and one capitalized non-English 5-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all four vowels are different? The words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
Eve on a whim, temptation’s ____,
Plucked Satan’s apple, round and ____...
Inside, a Serpent (not a ____)
Which led to widespread Drang und _____.
Answer:
germ, firm, worm, Sturm
ENTREE #6:
Find two common, uncapitalized 5-letter words and one uncapitalized 6-letter word, each of which has exactly one vowel, and all of which rhyme, even though all three vowels are different.
A second uncapitalized 6-letter word rhymes with these three. It contains two vowels, one which is different from the three different vowels in the other three words.
The four words fill the blanks in the quatrain below:
The faithful flock filed into ______.
All circled o’er the pews of ____...
Flocks welcome suff’ring, thus their ______
To light upon a hardwood _____.
Answer:
church, birch, search, perch,
ENTREE #7:
Name two not-all-that-common, uncapitalized 4-letter words (one of them is a contraction), each of which has exactly one vowel, and both which rhyme, even though their vowels are different. A third very common 4-letter word rhymes with the first two words and contains two vowels that each differ from the two vowels in the other two words.
These three words fill the blanks in the tercet below:
O the night before Christmas day ’____.
Through the house, all the doorbells did ____...
(If there’s chimney smoke that’s what he ____.)
Answer:
’twas, buzz, does
Dessert Menu
Toasty Dessert:
Choose strong “lass-words” for your female?
Name something one consumes that is associated with toasting.
Remove a letter, change a letter and slice the result in two to form two different words that you might use to address a female.
What is this consumable?
What are the two words for a female?
Answer:
Marmalade; (mama, lady)
Lego!