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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Kicking the bucket... down the road
Think of a two-word term, in seven and five letters, that drivers in bucket seats and drivers seeking buckets both ought to be aware of.
What is this two-word term?
Hint: The two-word term contains an adjective and plural noun.
Cosmetic Over-The-Counter Conundrums:
Behind bathroom or boudoir doors
🥁1. Think of a word for a washroom. Change a V to a “UD” to get a word having to do with praise.
🥁2. Think of the brand name for an over-the-counter medication, in seven letters, often taken for a condition that, left untreated, can lead to isolation.
Drop the first letter and reverse the remaining letters to describe something that isolation can lead to.
🥁3. Think of a location in six letters. Drop the first letter, then exchange the first two letters and the second two letters (12345 becomes 21435) to name a makeup often applied at this location.
🥁4. Think of the last name of a well-known musician. Reverse the letters and add a B at the beginning to name a cosmetic product.
🥁5. Think of a slang term for women. Rearrange into a slang term for cute.
Note:
As Megatart Stratagem alertly and astutely pointed out in this week's comments, I, LegoLambda, mistakenly posted a conundrum this week that I had previously posted. Conundrum #2 in this edition of Puzzleria! was, coincidentally, also Conundrum #2 in the October 18, 2019 edition of Puzzleria!
So, I have added a Conundrum #5. Enjoy.
Sol Slice:
A stargazer for all seasons
An observant ancient stargazer, each year when winter dawned, might have murmured a three-word exclamation beginning with “The...” and ending with a noun and verb of three and five letters. Take just the noun and verb, remove the space between them, then switch the fifth and seventh letters of the result to name what a modern stargazer may observe during all seasons, but only with the aid of a telescope.
What exclamation might the ancient stargazer have murmured?
What may the modern stargazer see through a telescope?
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:
“I was gambling in Havana...”
This week’s challenge, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, California, reads:
Write down eight different letters of the alphabet. Add an apostrophe.
Then write the same eight letters in a different order. With proper spacing, you now have a four-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Anne, Charlotte and Emily invite Ellen Nussey, Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Ann Evans over to the Bronte Parsonage for an evening of parlor game play. They draw straws to choose teams: Ellen, Elizabeth and Mary versus Anne, Charlotte and Emily. When the first parlor game ends Charlotte gleefully exclaims – in words of 3, 3 and 8 letters – the result of the friendly competition.
Rearrange the 14 letters in that exclamation to spell the answer to the question, “Whose puzzles have appeared often on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday’s puzzle segment with Will Shortz?”
What does Charlotte exclaim?
Whose puzzles have appeared often on NPR?
ENTREE #2
“The Serpent was a master of persuasion. He knew how to _____. So the Serpent, in effect, ___ Eve the fruit. And, she ___ of it.”
Write down the letters that belong in those three blanks, in order. Tweak the order of the letters in the middle blank.
With proper spacing (that is, by eliminating one space) you now have a two-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
ENTREE #3
Take a three-word, 13-letter phrase (including one apostrophe) meaning “take a risk.”
Rearrange the letters (and remove the apostrophe) to form a two-word phrase for what people who may want to improve their kissing, whistling or blues harp skills might want to take advantage of.
What are these three-word and two-word phrases?
ENTREE #4
Take a three-word, 11-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.”
Replace a D with a letter much further on in the alphabet. Write these eleven letters in a different order to spell two stringed instruments.
What phrase and instruments are these?
ENTREE #5
Take a five-word, 12-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.” Write these twelve letters in a different order to spell two words: the home country of a current world featherweight champion, and what he first competed in as a professional on March 13, 2015, resulting in the first of nine knockouts.
What are this phrase, home country and word for a competition?
“Noel” Is NOT In The Girls’ Repertoire Dessert:
Three cryptic gifts of the iMAGInation
GOLD: Take two names associated with Christmas. One is a performance artist’s first name, but spelled slightly differently; the other describes the artist as a performer.
Who is the artist and what are the two Christmas names?
FRANKINCENSE: Describe, using an adjective and noun, one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Rearrange the letters in these two words to spell two names associated with Christmas. What are this description and these names?
MYRRH: ’Tis the night before Yuletide, all through the wee hours. Mamma in her ’kerchief has already settled her brain for a long winter’s nap. So have the children: Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy.
One creature, however, remains downstairs, stirring... stirring an eggnog latte, that is. It is Pappa, enjoying a nightcap he whipped up using his new espresso gourmet coffee maker he plucked from beneath the tree and unwrapped prematurely earlier that eve.
While his five daughters are still nestled all snug in their beds upstairs, Pappa is busy checking off the four chores on Mamma’s holiday honey-do list.
And so Pappa, after draining his latte:
1. _____ the tree (5 letters)
2. Tends to his daughters’ stockings hung by the chimney with care, stuffing them with Nut Goodies and other goodies... except for the stocking of his youngest daughter, the naughtier-than-nice little Lucy, which Pappa fills with ____ (5 letters)
3. Drives over to an ATM machine to get some ____ (4 letters)
4. Wraps five _____, one each for Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy (5 letters).
The answer to #4 appears in the lyrics to one of the songs with which Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally serenade their neighbors on the eve of Yuletide. (’Tis the sole “unfowl” gift of the first seven gifts enumerated on a gift list in the song’s lyrics.)
Thus, the girls, on the eve of every Yuletide, ____ _________ ______ (4, 9 and 6 letters).
The 19 letters that fill the four blanks on Pappa’s honey-do list can be rearranged to spell the three words for what Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally do on Yuletide Eve.
What do Pappa’s five daughters do every Yuletide Eve?
What are the words that fill the blanks in the four listed chores that Pappa must perform on Yuletide Eve?
BONUS PUZZLE:
What is the connection between this Yuletide puzzle and the image that contains the caption “Nerd Rhyming ‘Cornflakes’ ”?
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:
Kicking the bucket... down the road
Think of a two-word term, in seven and five letters, that drivers in bucket seats and drivers seeking buckets both ought to be aware of.
What is this two-word term?Hint: The two-word term contains an adjective and plural noun.
Appetizer Menu
Cosmetic Over-The-Counter Conundrums:
Behind bathroom or boudoir doors
🥁1. Think of a word for a washroom. Change a V to a “UD” to get a word having to do with praise.🥁2. Think of the brand name for an over-the-counter medication, in seven letters, often taken for a condition that, left untreated, can lead to isolation.
Drop the first letter and reverse the remaining letters to describe something that isolation can lead to.
🥁3. Think of a location in six letters. Drop the first letter, then exchange the first two letters and the second two letters (12345 becomes 21435) to name a makeup often applied at this location.🥁4. Think of the last name of a well-known musician. Reverse the letters and add a B at the beginning to name a cosmetic product.
🥁5. Think of a slang term for women. Rearrange into a slang term for cute.
Note:
As Megatart Stratagem alertly and astutely pointed out in this week's comments, I, LegoLambda, mistakenly posted a conundrum this week that I had previously posted. Conundrum #2 in this edition of Puzzleria! was, coincidentally, also Conundrum #2 in the October 18, 2019 edition of Puzzleria!
So, I have added a Conundrum #5. Enjoy.
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Sol Slice:
A stargazer for all seasons
An observant ancient stargazer, each year when winter dawned, might have murmured a three-word exclamation beginning with “The...” and ending with a noun and verb of three and five letters. Take just the noun and verb, remove the space between them, then switch the fifth and seventh letters of the result to name what a modern stargazer may observe during all seasons, but only with the aid of a telescope.
What exclamation might the ancient stargazer have murmured?
What may the modern stargazer see through a telescope?
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:
“I was gambling in Havana...”
This week’s challenge, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, California, reads: Write down eight different letters of the alphabet. Add an apostrophe.
Then write the same eight letters in a different order. With proper spacing, you now have a four-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:ENTREE #1
Anne, Charlotte and Emily invite Ellen Nussey, Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Ann Evans over to the Bronte Parsonage for an evening of parlor game play. They draw straws to choose teams: Ellen, Elizabeth and Mary versus Anne, Charlotte and Emily. When the first parlor game ends Charlotte gleefully exclaims – in words of 3, 3 and 8 letters – the result of the friendly competition.
What does Charlotte exclaim?
Whose puzzles have appeared often on NPR?
ENTREE #2
“The Serpent was a master of persuasion. He knew how to _____. So the Serpent, in effect, ___ Eve the fruit. And, she ___ of it.”Write down the letters that belong in those three blanks, in order. Tweak the order of the letters in the middle blank.
With proper spacing (that is, by eliminating one space) you now have a two-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
ENTREE #3Take a three-word, 13-letter phrase (including one apostrophe) meaning “take a risk.”
Rearrange the letters (and remove the apostrophe) to form a two-word phrase for what people who may want to improve their kissing, whistling or blues harp skills might want to take advantage of.
What are these three-word and two-word phrases?
ENTREE #4Take a three-word, 11-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.”
Replace a D with a letter much further on in the alphabet. Write these eleven letters in a different order to spell two stringed instruments.
What phrase and instruments are these?
ENTREE #5Take a five-word, 12-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.” Write these twelve letters in a different order to spell two words: the home country of a current world featherweight champion, and what he first competed in as a professional on March 13, 2015, resulting in the first of nine knockouts.
What are this phrase, home country and word for a competition?
Dessert Menu
“Noel” Is NOT In The Girls’ Repertoire Dessert:
Three cryptic gifts of the iMAGInation
GOLD: Take two names associated with Christmas. One is a performance artist’s first name, but spelled slightly differently; the other describes the artist as a performer.
Who is the artist and what are the two Christmas names?
FRANKINCENSE: Describe, using an adjective and noun, one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Rearrange the letters in these two words to spell two names associated with Christmas. What are this description and these names?MYRRH: ’Tis the night before Yuletide, all through the wee hours. Mamma in her ’kerchief has already settled her brain for a long winter’s nap. So have the children: Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy.
One creature, however, remains downstairs, stirring... stirring an eggnog latte, that is. It is Pappa, enjoying a nightcap he whipped up using his new espresso gourmet coffee maker he plucked from beneath the tree and unwrapped prematurely earlier that eve.
While his five daughters are still nestled all snug in their beds upstairs, Pappa is busy checking off the four chores on Mamma’s holiday honey-do list. And so Pappa, after draining his latte:
1. _____ the tree (5 letters)
2. Tends to his daughters’ stockings hung by the chimney with care, stuffing them with Nut Goodies and other goodies... except for the stocking of his youngest daughter, the naughtier-than-nice little Lucy, which Pappa fills with ____ (5 letters)
3. Drives over to an ATM machine to get some ____ (4 letters)
4. Wraps five _____, one each for Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy (5 letters).
The answer to #4 appears in the lyrics to one of the songs with which Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally serenade their neighbors on the eve of Yuletide. (’Tis the sole “unfowl” gift of the first seven gifts enumerated on a gift list in the song’s lyrics.)Thus, the girls, on the eve of every Yuletide, ____ _________ ______ (4, 9 and 6 letters).
The 19 letters that fill the four blanks on Pappa’s honey-do list can be rearranged to spell the three words for what Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally do on Yuletide Eve.
What do Pappa’s five daughters do every Yuletide Eve?
What are the words that fill the blanks in the four listed chores that Pappa must perform on Yuletide Eve?
BONUS PUZZLE:
What is the connection between this Yuletide puzzle and the image that contains the caption “Nerd Rhyming ‘Cornflakes’ ”?
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.
It's Merry Christmas time, so let me say so now to all here. ; o )
ReplyDeleteI believe (?) I have an answer to the Schpuzzle, but I could be wrong as it seemed too simple.
Have solved all the Cons and all the Entrees [the latter's #3 was the hardest, I thought] plus Dessert's MYRRH section. I"m sort of dancing around Frankincense, but don't have it yet. And Gold...forget it. I don't even 'get' the question, really.
No luck on the Sol Slice. Thus, off to bed go I!
ViolinTeddy,
DeletePlease allow me to try to clarify the GOLDen section (no hint) of the Dessert. Consider the puzzle text:
...One (name) is a performance artist’s first name, but spelled slightly differently; the other (name) describes the artist as a performer.
An example of "a performance artist’s first name... spelled slightly differently" would be Marc Ribot, who spells his first name "slightly differently" from many other people who spell their first name M-a-r-k.
An example of a name (albeit a surname, not a first name) that describes an artist as a performer would be, for example, Isaac Bashevis Singer.
LegoWhoBelievePurdueCoachMattPainterIsAPicassoOnThePracticeCourt
OOOh, you mean that for the second word of "GOLD", the person's actual first name happens to DESCRIBE what kind of performer he/she is?
DeleteAnd now I get that the first person's first name has just a different spelling from the normal....thanks.
From the early Schpuzle hint, which I haven't totally digested yet, I fear my Schpuzzle answer can't be correct....we shall see.
VT,
DeleteSorry about the confusion. My wording for this puzzle could have been much more clear.
Here it is again:
GOLD: Take two names associated with Christmas. One is a performance artist’s first name, but spelled slightly differently; the other describes the artist as a performer.
Who is the artist and what are the two Christmas names?
The performance artist's first name is one of the names that is also associated with Christmas. But it is the other name associated with Christmas that describes what kind of performer the performance artist is, like Singer, Drummer, Hornblower, etc. This "other" name need not be a first name, but it could be.
It could be either Scrooge or Ebenezer. It could be Mary, Marley, Joseph, Jesus, Melchior, Grinch, Frosty (the Snowman), or Nestor (the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey). Alas, none of those names "describes an artist as a performer," as the puzzle requires. If only Bob Cratchit were Bob Drummer, if Tiny Tim were Tiny Mime. If only Tony Soprano were a Christmas character.
LegoAltoMummerKabukist
Hey Lego, I think Appetizer 2 is a repeat from Oct. 18.
ReplyDeleteI've got a lead on the Schpuzzle but am not sure about the adjective, still need to work through the bulk of this week's offerings.
Thank you, Megatart Stratagem. I thought Conundrum #2 sounded a tad familiar. I will leave it where it is, but add a note that it is a repeat. And I will add a fifth "fresh" conundrum. There are many to choose from. Mathew Huffman, conundrum creator, is prolific as well as gifted.
DeleteHere is an early hint to the Schpuzzle adjective: Remove a creature from within the adjective. The remaining letters spell a word associated with golf and high school baseball.
LegoUnintentionallyRepetitive
The funny part is that I don't think I solved it on Oct. 18, don't remember what the answer was, and am stuck on it again.
DeleteOH OK, I have it now, I remember thinking the phrasing was a little questionable.
DeleteJust got home and put the GOLD Dessert together...duh...once I understood the whole thing (somehow, I still hadn't) it came together pretty easily. I like it!!
ReplyDeleteSo far, have all except:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
Conundrum #5
Entrée #3
Dessert: Gold and Frankincense
Got Conundrum #5. Had never heard the slang term for "cute."
DeleteFinally got Entrée #3. Had focused on possibilities with "lip" without success.
DeleteGosh, geo, I actually FOUND an answer using 'lip' after repeatedly trying an action therewith, and getting nowhere.
DeleteViolinTeddy, look forward to hearing (reading) it!
DeleteViolinTeddy, with creative use of an anagrammer, I did find a solution with "lip." But the one with an alternate word seems better. Will report both on Thursday.
DeleteYeah, geo, having now figured out the 'real' answer, I agree with your statement above....but I still love my original answer, because it is just so silly!
DeleteHappy Eddie-Murphy-back-on-SNL-after-35-years Eve everybody!
ReplyDeleteDue to a miscommunication(actually, a missed communication)with Bryan or Renae(whoever was on the phone at the time, but we didn't answer), Mom and I stayed home and got our own supper for the third week in a row. We had Lee's. She had chicken livers, and I had country fried steak. Delicious!
Then I watched two episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway, and they were both new(at least to me, anyway, because I didn't remember seeing them before if they were reruns). I know they weren't that new because if they were, the other cast members would've called Wayne Brady "The Fox" incessantly after Wednesday's The Masked Singer finale. Then I listened to Ask Me Another doing a "Tournament of Champions" episode, and after that I checked the Prize Crossword and it's a jumbo puzzle this week(special Christmas episode, I guess), but after skimming the clues I realized this puzzle was much tougher than usual, so I decided not to do it. It would've required a huge map of Great Britain, or a vast knowledge of British geography, or both, and definitely more time than I have to spend on any one puzzle lately. I'd probably never have time for the puzzles here if I were doing that one! Speaking of which, here's what I have so far after last night:
All the Conundrums except #5(Lego, Mathew, you guys didn't have to add another one. I was perfectly happy getting all #4, including the repeat. I couldn't find any good lists of slang words for women or cute, and none of the words I did find worked as anagrams. HINTS PLEASE!)
All Entrees except #1(I know it's "Andrew Chaikin's", but I just can't figure out the anagram there either.)
The MYRRH part of the Dessert(obviously, the easiest part judging from previous comments)
And in closing, I'll just say "hints please" again, only not in the all caps "angry Trump" version. Rest assured, I feel no anger whatsoever about missing any answers so far. As the late Karen Carpenter sang, "We've Only Just Begun".
BTW some week we've had, huh? Trump got impeached, Wayne Brady won The Masked Singer, Hardee's Restaurant closed here in Jasper(I'm going to miss those Thickburgers), Eddie Murphy's hosting SNL tomorrow night...one of those "Do you remember where you were when..." weeks, it seems. I may never forget the week before Christmas 2019. But then, maybe that's just me. After all, we're still a couple of weeks away from recapping the whole year! Get ready, folks!
cranberry,
DeleteHere are a few early hints:
Conundrum #5:
The slang term for women is pretty non-PC.
The slang term for cute is within-the-past-five-years recent teen-speak. It smacks of amazeballs, cray-cray, or turkey drop.
Entree #1:
Those Bronte sisters sure are good with words written in INK and literary stuff and such. But in this particular parlor game they were reduced, virtually, to using sign language. Still they WERE VICTORIOUS. Sister Power!
LegoWhoPromisesFurtherHintsAnon
Got 'em! Great hints, but it took me a while to figure them out/find them!
DeleteWhen is Anon?
DeleteANON means soon. It was coined by an individual who never gave his/her name.
Delete"Anon" is nearly upon us. I'll get to work on rustling up some hintation.
DeleteLegoHomeOnTheRadarRange
Sunday PM/Monday AM Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle:
The buckets drivers seek are bottomless. The Eagles sang about the two-word term, singularly, that bucket-seated drivers seek.
Conundrums:
1. There may be a bar of hot sandpapery soap in the washroom.
2. The over-the-counter medication begins with the same four letters that begin the surname of a president never elected to the office. The final three letters of the medication spell the surname of a past world leader with a palindromic full name.
3. This location, in a slangy sense, can be found in newsrooms... especially, perhaps, newsrooms that are black and white and "red" all over.
4. The cosmetic product sounds as if it may be third-rate. The musician and band mates might want to schedule an appointment with a manicurist.
5. The slang term for cute sound like what God decided to do on the Second Day, according to the Book of Genesis.
Sol Slice:
"Sol Slice" is a hint to solving this puzzle... just change one letter.
ROSACS Entrees:
ENTREE #1
The first two words of the exclamation rhyme. The parlor game begins with the same four letters of the first name of one of the victorious game participants.
ENTREE #2
The words in the blanks, in order, contain 5, 3 and 3 letters that contain, respectively, 1, 1 and 2 vowels.
ENTREE #3
People who may want to improve their kissing, whistling or blues harp might do just as well just to suck on a lemon.
ENTREE #4
Switch the initial letters of the first and third words of the three-word 11-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.” The new first word sounds like a pineapple brand; the new third word is a variety of grain.
ENTREE #5
It is difficult to tell, during the preliminary weigh-ins, whether the current world featherweight champion's navel is an "outie" or "innie."
Dessert:
GOLD:
Do NOT avoid the Christmas rushin' as you hustle and bustle to solve this puzzle.
FRANKINCENSE:
Abstract thinking may not help you solve this puzzle. Those victimized by the Grinch might begin to help you solve it. Or perhaps a true "hoofer" and an Ajax nemesis that glides across the nighttime sky may give you a leg up.
MYRRH:
The blanks:
1. "O come let us adorn it..."
2. "Take your lumps, Lucy!"
3. Mr. Browne and his kin and Mr. Spock and his kin.
4. Not Swans, geese, calling birds, French hens, turtle doves or a partridge...
BONUS QUESTION:
Rearrange the letters in “Nerd Rhyming ‘Cornflakes’ ” to form three other words.
LegoWhoBelievesThatTomNastPicturedSantaAsAPiperPiping
Thanks, Lego...I finally worked out the Sol Slice, and easily got the Bonus Question. However, my alternate Entree #3 answer will probably be my only one, since I simply can't come up with a three word phrase that leads to what I think must be the required verb. AND despite Googling, I can't get another answer for that Schpuzzle, either.
DeleteThink I finally have the GOLD answer, from the signature hints.
DeleteBut have never heard of the singer at all - she is as familiar to me as Margit Sponheimer or Katja Ebstein would be to the readers of this blog.
In my case at least you are correct, geofan. The names Margit Sponheimer or Katja Ebstein were unfamiliar to me till I DuckDuckWent and found out who they be.
DeleteIn the Schpuzzle, VT, the "drivers in bucket seats" are, perhaps, actually commuters motoring down the highway. The "drivers seeking buckets," on the other hand, do so usually under a roof, often in front of cheering crowds. They are wary of being intercepted.
In ENTREE #3, the three-word 13-letter phrase (including one apostrophe) meaning “take a risk” was also the title of a mid-1980's TV game show (albeit with a different non-apostrophied pronoun as its second word). This game show was revived this past summer TV season as weekly primetime fare.
LegoCheckingHisRearViewAndSideMirrorsAndEmployingHisBlinkersPrudentlyAsHisHandsRearInTheTenO'ClockAndTwoO'ClockPositions
OK, I get the word the Sol Slice refers to, but according to the wordplay, this means the five-letter verb(?)would be SCITE. Am I totally wrong here? That's not a word.
DeleteAlso, got the Seventh Wonder, don't know how to describe it. Is the Ajax part supposed to help here?
DeleteActually, LegoBlink, the game show doesn't USE the middle word with the apostrophe...that has been one thing that has thrown me off. But if one changes that middle word, then I am sure I now have the intended answer for Entree #3. [But I think I"ll leave in my original answer, as well, just for the fun of it.]
DeleteThat 'scite' thing threw me, too, pjb, until I realized that Lego meant that the expression is a CLUE to the actual two words, especially to the first word.
DeleteJust got the Ajax part, still doesn't help describe the Seventh Wonder. You're alluding to the reindeer, that much I know. Pretty much a dead end after that.
DeleteAlso, got the last word of the Schpuzzle, but as I recall, the Eagles described it as FAST, not whatever the seven-letter word is, and I only get the possible full answer in the motorist sense, not in the sports sense. Still a lot of loose ends to tie up here, Lego, and I'm sure you realize we all have other things on our minds, for obvious reasons.
DeleteGot any other hints to help us, Lego?
pjbremindingLegoWednesday'sanswerrevealwillmostlikelybealittlelateisitstillWednesday?
BTW most Russian performance artist's surnames won't work with the GOLD puzzle. Hope you knew that already.
DeleteBTW SUNRESIS isn't a word either.
DeleteMerry Christmas Eve eve, everybody!
Delete(Three Faces of Eve?)
Sorry about the confusion, cranberry. Changing one letter in "Sol Slice" is a hint to the overall theme of the puzzle, to both words, as ViolinTeddy noted (thanks, VT), and especially the first word. The "Sol S(l)ice" just occured a few days ago.
DeleteAn Ajax competitor is the name of a reindeer that pertains (along with the "hoofer").
LegoSunnySideUp
cranberry,
DeleteIn the Schpuzzle, the FAST _ _ _ _ is also the _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _.
Also, the "sports sense" of the Schpuzzle is also the "basketball sense." (And, if I recall correctly, wasn't your father a pretty decent basketball player?)
See the post I wrote last week (December 18) in response to your excellent suggestion that we move this week's answer reveal back a day:
Good point, cranberry. That will be a busy week for many of us. So, let's extend the deadline one day:
Post you answers to next week's Puzzleria! puzzles no sooner than 2PM Central Standard Time on Thursday, December 26.
Now, back to this week:
In the GOLD puzzle, no surnames come into play.
SUNRESIS isn't a word, true. But, if the ancient stargazer exclaimed "The SUN SPINS," then the modern stargazer might see, through the lens of a telescope, SUNSNIPS... whatever those might be.
LegoAnticipatingEveryOne'sAnswersOnDecember26
Ah, relief and satisfaction, I FINALLy got the intended Schpuzzle answer. It sure took long enough to put it together, but I was actually MIXINg UP hints between it and the Frankincense Dessert!! Which made things more complicated. When hints stretch on and on like this week, it becomes very difficult to FIND what you saw before, etc etc
DeleteHe certainly knew more about the game than I did. I sure miss him. Finally found the basketball term and thus, solved the Schpuzzle! Hope I have all the answers by Thursday. Now that I think about it, I may have the Sol Slice too!
DeleteBoy, this is becoming a loooong comment thread!
DeleteVT, you make an excellent point about how my hints this week were haphazardly sprinkled around in various comments. In future comments sections I shall try to consolidate them into just one or two posts.
I sure miss both my parents (Helen and Bob) also, cranberry, especially around Christmas, Thanksgiving and other such "family-gathering days."
LegoChristmasEvily
Oh, the above two comments make my eyes tear up. I, also, miss my mom. She always did Christmas GREAT!
DeleteI wasn't criticizing, Lego, about the sprinkled hints. I just figured that's the way the blog cookie crumbles....
Finally got the Schpuzzle (at least the first word and a reasonable 2nd word). Why was I such an a-- ?
ReplyDeleteStill stumped on FRANKINCENSE. Don't know who Ajax is (a comics character?). Think I have the Grinch hint, but don't know how it relates to the answer.
Merry Christmas and/or happy Chanukah to those to whom it applies; happy holidays to others.
geofan
geofan.
DeleteNice covering of the "inclusivity bases" in your final paragraph.
Ajax.
The Grinch hint is a bit of a stretch. Those victimized by the Grinch are "Whovillers," the first four letters of which sound like the beginning of the pertinent Seventh Wonder of the Industrial World.
The first word of the Schpuzzle is really the crux of the Schpuzzle. The first 80% of the second word, a plural noun, is also the last name of a fictional dame named Lois.
LegoWhoIsAWhovillerWhoAlsoWishesAllTheHappiestOfHolidays
Finally, worked out Frankincense. It helps to not have thought that "Lois" applied here! Geez...anyway, I am not ALL finished. Joy!
DeleteNOW, not "not".
DeleteApart from all the talk about the Sol Slice (which puzzle I solved early on the first day), still do not have the FRANKINCENSE answer, but know which industrial wonder is meant.
ReplyDeleteHowever, from early on, I have an alternate answer for FRANKINCENSE, to be posted on Thursday (or Wednesday if the deadline is not moved). The alternate answer pertains to a different Wonder than that intended by Lego.
I had an alternate Frankincense answer, as well, geo, EXCEPT for the fact that I needed an 'ing' that then didn't translate into the two Christmas names.
DeleteStill lack those pesky GOLD and FRANKINCENSE puzzles! Lego, I really need some good hints this time! I know the Seventh Wonder if the Industrial World, but how to describe it escapes me! BTW I hope everyone sleeps well tonight. Gotta get to bed early, y'know!
ReplyDeleteBecause Christmas falls on a Wednesday this year, let us all hold off on posting our answers until no sooner than Thursday, December 26 at noon PST.
ReplyDeleteThus, I anticipate geofan's and ViolinTeddy alternative answers to the Frankincense portion of the Dessert on THURSDAY.
A few hints:
GOLD:
The name that "describes the artist" is also the profession of the artist.
Rearrange the letters in the last name of the performance artist to spell one of the deadly sins and a word seen on many French street signs.
The alternative spelling of the performance artist's first name has lately been in the political news, as it was also in the wake of 9/11.
FRANKINCENSE: The noun in the description of "one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World" appears in the name of the Wonder. The adjective describes the substance of the Wonder.
The owner of the creatures with the two names associated with Christmas might have given them Nicknames... "Fred" and "Halley," perhaps?
Note: One of the "names associated with Christmas" in the GOLD puzzle is the same as one of the "names associated with Christmas" in the FRANKINCENSE puzzle.
LegoWhoNotesThatSeventyYearsAgoOrvonTheFuture"MasterOfAngels"IntroducedUsToOneOfTheChristmasNamesInTheGoldPuzzle
It appears that I also have an alternate name for the GOLD puzzle as well as FRANKINCENSE. My GOLD solution has the first name as the "profession" and the second (last?) name as the soundalike.
DeleteOK, with the latest hint now have the "shared" GOLD/FRANKINCENSE name. The only "performance artists" that I can find with that name are:
Delete(1) A Dutch self-published YouTube singer, last name is another of the sleigh-pullers. His best known work appears to be "God, I'm So Horny." Doesn't sound very Christmassy.
(2) An American female comedian, first name is a pre-Columbian civilization and last name the shared one. Said civilization does not seem to relate to Christmas, so not a good answer.
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DeleteOK, with the French hint probably got the answer to GOLD. But the profession name is NOT a part of the "performance artist's" actual name, whereas in the case of (1) above it is his last name.
DeleteAnd is the "performing artist" known for performing any Christmas works? Wikipedia mentions one, but it does not appear to be his main "claim to fame." Also, he apparently performed with Miss Piggy in a parody of a song, often associated with Christmas, that has recently come under substantial criticism.
geofan,
DeleteI appreciate your perseverance on these "Magi" puzzles, but I fear I have opened a can of worms with my wording. And I apologize. You are not alone, alas, in being befuddled by these GOLD and FRANKINCENSE "gifts"!
In the GOLD puzzle:
Take two names associated with Christmas. One is a performance artist’s first name, but spelled slightly differently; the other describes the artist as a performer.
Who is the artist and what are the two Christmas names?...
There are four elements, three of which are names (1,2 & 3):
1&2. two names associated with Christmas;
3. the first name of a performance artist which is the same as one of those first two names but with an altered spelling;
4. a word describing the artist as a performer. This word is more commonly understood as a profession, not a name. It's akin to the name "Hunter," for example.
I have two goals in creating these puzzles and putting them on this blog"
1. To entertain
2. To educate
I want them never to be drudgery, but I fear these "gifts" may be bordering on drudgery for some of you. And, I truly apologize for that.
LegoWhoAdds(AndAdmits)ThatCreatingPuzzlesThatEntertainIsAnEasierTaskForForHimThanCreatingPuzzlesThatEducate
I had been assuming all along (until the very end this evening) that the artist had to have two "first names" (or possibly a first and family name) in which both names related to Christmas, one was an alternate spelling of the Christmas name, and the second was the occupation-describer. I got this impression from your post above. It turned out that the "occupation-describer" is not a part of the performer's name. Very confusing.
DeleteAdditionally, I had discarded the first word of the FRANKINCENSE solution as being a noun, not an adjective. Referral to Wiktionary revealed that, in fact, it is also considered an adjective. This error (along with the mis-transfer of the "other" name from GOLD) cost me a couple of hours at least.
I've figured out what Christmas names are involved, but that's about it. Have even consulted Ranker to find the performance artist's name, but to no avail. Even more confused about the rest, unfortunately. Still know the Seventh Wonder, but can't quite get a good enough anagram of both Christmas names to describe it(DAM can be obtained from both names, but the rest seems impossible to parse out). I can only assume if Santa was very good to you, Lego, he obviously hasn't seen the GOLD and FRANKINCENSE puzzles. Sad to say, all this confusion is rather coal-in-the-stocking-worthy indeed.
Deletepjb-who-admits-not-too-many-Alabamians-are-experts-on-performance-artists-to-begin-with-though-some-may-have-seen-the-Seventh-Wonder-on-vacation-(not-me)
Yes, cranberry, those GOLD and FRANKINCENSE puzzles, alas, have proven to be COAL Deposited in nice-not-naughty Puzzlerian!s stockings and FRANKLY INSENSitive to innocent solvers everywhere!
DeleteLegoBorderingOnTheGrinchy
FINALLY got the FRANKINCENSE. The shared name is not the first name of the GOLD performance artist. Rather, it is the other one that describes him but is not a part of the artist's name. My alternate answer (1) above has the (correct) shared name as the artist's last name.
ReplyDeleteEverything done, finally can now go to sleep.
ReplyDeleteThe only remaining mystery is Lego's hint for MYRRH #3:
"Mr. Browne and his kin and Mr. Spock and his kin."
But had long since had solved that one, so the hint was not necessary in my case.
Merry Christmas / happy Holiday to all - geofan
geofan, Thank you (and others who have spent time on these puzzles) for your patience.
DeleteMy "Mr. Browne and his kin and Mr. Spock (I should have written Dr. Spock!) and his kin" hint was likely gratuitous. What else does one get at an ATM machine? CASH, of course. So...
Mr. Browne's (and his kin's) first name, and
Dr. Spock's (and his kin's) first name
are Jacksons ($20 bills) and Benjamins ($100 bills).
LegOComeAllYeFaithfulPuzzleSolversJoyfulAndTriumphant
Merry Christmas, lego and all your commentators. I wish I had you all around my big table telling stories and lies and having a lovely time. The whole year has been fun -- your blog is probably the best one around. Keep it up for the new year!
ReplyDeleteBuon natale e buon anno. D.E.
Thank you, Dowager Empress, and Merry Christmas to you also.
DeleteThe best Christmas gifts I get every year are the yearlong contributions from you and all others who comment on Puzzleria!... and from all who contribute mysteriously wrapped puzzles to its space.
LegoWhoReceivesAndWelcomesTheGiftsofManyMoreThaThreeWiseMen(AndWomen!)
PASSING LANE?
ReplyDeleteLAVATORY > LAUDATORY
TYLENOL > LONELY
MORGUE > ROUGE
(Trent) REZNOR > BRONZER
SUN STOPS > SUNSPOTS ?
KIN WIN CHARADES > ANDREW CHAIKIN'S
SCHPUZZLE: My alternate answer: ROLLING BALLS? [ i.e. for the driver: kid's balls going out into the street; for a GOLFER, where the ball lands after he/she hits it.] From the hints, I realized you meant BASKETBALL players....I'd never have guessed that, so: PASSING LANES
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. LAV => LAUD
2. TYLENOL => LONELY [Boy, I don't remember this, like Megatart did. I DO recall there was one that had an odd syntax, though, at some recent point.]
3. MORGUE => ROUGE
4. REZNOR => BRONZER
5. BROADS => ADORBS
SOL SLICE: SOLSTICE implying: SUN STOPS => SUN SPOTS
ENTREES:
1. KIN WIN CHARADES => ANDREW CHAIKIN'S
2. TEMPT, FED, ATE => TEMPTED FATE
3. PUSH ONE'S LIMIT => LIP MOUTHINESS [I had kept trying with 'PURSE'] Intended answer: PRESS ONE'S LUCK => PUCKER LESSONS
4. ROLL THE DICE => D to Z => CELLO & ZITHER
5. GO OUT ON A LIMB => BOUT, MONGOLIA
DESSERT:
GOLD: RUDOLPH & DANCER => RUDOLF NUREYEV [Love it!]
FRANKINCENSE: ASTONISH (ing) CANAL => SANTA, NICHOLAS. Intended answer: HOOVER DAM => CONCRETE DAM => COMET & DANCER
MYRRH: 1. TRIMS; 2. COALS 3. CASH; 4. RINGS => SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS.
BONUS: GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH
You've come up with some very plausible alternative answers, VT. I especially like ROLLING BALLS, but ASTONISH(ing) CANAL (SANTA/NICHOLAS) is pretty good too.
DeleteLegoNotesTha"RollingBalls"MightAlsoPertaintoBilliards/Pool(OrShotput)
Schpuzzle: PASSING LANES (or RULES) [post-2nd-hint]
ReplyDeleteConundrums
#1: LAVATORY, LAUDATORY
#2: TYLENOL, LONELY
#3: MORGUE, ROUGE
#4: BRONZER, ROZNER (never heard of him)
#5: ADORBS, BROADS (never heard of the slang term for "cute")
Sol Slice: SUN STOPS / SUNSPOTS
Entrées
#1: ANDREW CHAIKIN'S / KIN WIN CHARADES
#2: TEMPT, FED, ATE / TEMPTED FATE
#3: PRESS ONE'S LUCK / PUCKER LESSONS
Alternate, pre-hints: PRINT ONE'S LIES / LIP TENSIONERS
#4: ROLL THE DICE / CELLO, ZITHER
#5: GO OUT ON A LIMB / MONGOLIA, BOUT (got it after spending quite a bit of futile time on variations of ONEs and MMA fighting)
Dessert
GOLD: RUDOLF DANCER (Nureyev) [post-1st-hint]
Alternates: both are little-known, self-published YouTube artists
(1) PIPER ROCKELLE (PIPER came from Lego's Nast Santa-Piper signature hint ). She has performed Christmas music and features GOLD color.
(2) RUDOLPH DANCER (a Dutch rock band, performs "God, I'm So Horny")
FRANKINCENSE: DANCER, COMET / CONCRETE DAM (post-1st-hint)
Alternate, pre-hints: LARGEST SHIP / GILT, SERAPHS
MYRRH: TRIMS, COALS, CASH, RINGS / SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS
BONUS: NERD RHYMING CORN FLAKES => GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, MYRRH
PS: It pisses me off when, after I spend an hour typing out all the above text, Blogger kicks me off "for security reasons" and I lose all the above text. All because I missed an HTML tag in the a href = link. ARRRRRGHH
I like your alternative answers also, geofan. And I appreciate (and again apologize for) the time it took you to come up them.
DeleteLosing entire text on blogs such as Puzzleria!, Blaine's etc., is indeed annoying. It has happened to me often. Sometimes I have resorted to creating a text document, which I then delete after successfully copy-and-pasting it into comments.
LegoWhoHopesHeIsUnderstandingCorrectlygeofansPostingQuandary
Likewise [although I always use my on-mac email program instead of a text document, never having gotten friendly with whatever the mac version that might be] ....I merely copy and paste the entire set of solutions that I've kept all week in said email's draft into P! when it's time.
DeleteViolinTeddy, good idea. I had considered doing similar, but not concurrently with solving the puzzles.
DeleteBTW Lego, you have some spam 2 posts below. Recommend to delete.
Thanks, geofan, for the heads-up.
DeleteLegoWhoSays"Scram"ToSpam(UnlessItIsSpamFromAustinMinnesota!)
Geo, I actually enjoy setting up each new week's P! framework...i.e. typing in the names of the puzzles to a blank draft, and thus when I'm working on one, I have a spot to put my ideas and/or answers, all ready and waiting.
DeleteThis was Lego's link: Santa the Piper
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeletePASSING LANES
Appetizer Menu
Conundrums
1. LAUDATORY, LAVATORY
2. TYLENOL, LONELY
3. MORGUE, ROUGE
4. BRONZER, (Trent)REZNOR
5. BROADS, ADORBS
Entrees
1. ANDREW CHAIKIN'S, KIN WIN CHARADES!
2. TEMPT, FED, ATE, TEMPTED FATE
3. PRESS ONE'S LUCK, PUCKER LESSONS
4. ROLL THE DICE, CELLO, ZITHER
5. GO OUT ON A LIMB, MONGOLIA, BOUT
Dessert
GOLD: RUDOLF(PH, Nureyev), DANCER
FRANKINCENSE: DANCER, COMET, CONCRETE(Hoover)DAM
MYRRH: TRIMS, COALS, CASH, RINGS=SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Bonus: NERD RHYMING CORNFLAKES is a(rather complex)anagram of GOLD, FRANKINCENSE, and MYRRH(of course!).
Happy 2020 to all in Puzzlerialand! May there be many more great, clever, and intriguing puzzles coming our way next year!-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Kicking the bucket... down the road
Think of a two-word term, in seven and five letters, that drivers in bucket seats and drivers seeking buckets both ought to be aware of.
What is this two-word term?
Hint: The two-word term contains an adjective and plural noun.
Answer:
Passing lanes
Appetizer Menu
Cosmetic Over-The-Counter Conundrums
Behind bathroom or boudoir doors
1. Think of a word for a washroom. Change a V to a “UD” to get a word having to do with praise.
Answer:
LAVATORY, LAUDATORY
2. Think of the brand name for an over-the-counter medication, in seven letters, often taken for a condition that, left untreated, can lead to isolation. Drop the first letter and reverse the remaining letters to describe something that isolation can lead to.
Answer:
TYLENOL (headaches), LONELY
3. Think of a location in six letters. Drop the first letter, then exchange the first two letters and the second two letters (12345 becomes 21435) to name a makeup often applied at this location.
Answer:
MORGUE, ROUGE
4. Think of the last name of a well-known musician. Reverse the letters and add a B at the beginning to name a cosmetic product.
Answer:
(Trent) REZNOR, BRONZER
5. Think of a slang term for women. Rearrange into a slang term for cute.
Answer:
BROADS, ADORBS
MENU
Sol Slice:
A stargazer for all seasons
An observant ancient stargazer, every winter when winter began, might have exclaimed a three-word sentence beginning with “The” and ending with a noun and verb of three and five letters. Take the noun and verb, remove the space between them and interchange the fifth and seventh letters of the result to name what a modern stargazer sees during all seasons, but only with the help of a telescope.
What might have been the ancient stargazers’ exclamation?
What does the modern stargazer see through a telescope?
Answer:
"(The) sun stops!"; sunspots
The sun seems to "stop" in the sky during the winter solstice, which this year happenened on Saturday, December 21, at 10:19 p.m. Central Standard Time.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:
“I was gambling in Havana...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BxGded604
This week’s challenge, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, California, reads:
Write down eight different letters of the alphabet. Add an apostrophe. Then write the same eight letters in a different order. With proper spacing, you now have a four-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Anne, Charlotte and Emily invite Ellen Nussey, Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Ann Evans over to the Bronte Parsonage for an evening of parlor game play. They draw straws to choose teams: Ellen, Elizabeth and Mary versus Anne, Charlotte and Emily. When the first parlor game ends Charlotte gleefully exclaims – in words of 3, 3 and 8 letters – the result of the friendly competition.
Rearrange the 14 letters in that exclamation to spell the answer to the question, “Whose puzzles have appeared often on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday’s puzzle segment with Will Shortz?”
What does Charlotte exclaim?
Whose puzzles have appeared often on NPR?
Answer:
"Kin win Charades!"; Andrew Chaikin's
ENTREE #2
“The Serpent was a master of persuasion. He knew how to _____. So the Serpent, in effect, ___ Eve the fruit. And, she ___ of it.”
Write down the letters that belong in those three blanks, in order. Tweak the order of the letters in the middle blank. With proper spacing (that is, by eliminating one space) you now have a two-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
Answer:
TEMPTED FATE; (TEMPT+FED+ATE--> TEMPT+EDF+ATE--> TEMPTED FATE)
ENTREE #3
Take a three-word, 13-letter phrase (including one apostrophe) meaning “take a risk.” Rearrange the letters (and eliminate the apostrophe) to form a two-word phrase for what people people who may want to improve their kissing, whistling or blues harp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-PhBryFuIM skills might want to take advantage of.
What are these three-word and two-word phrases?
Answer:
Press one's luck; Pucker lessons
ENTREE #4
Take a three-word, 11-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.” Replace a D with a Z. Write these eleven letters in a different order to spell two stringed instruments. What phrase and instruments are these?
Answer:
Roll the dice; cello, zither
ROLL THE DICE -D+Z = CELLO + ZITHER
ENTREE #5
Take a five-word, 12-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.” Write these twelve letters in a different order to spell two words: the home country of a current world featherweight champion, and what he first competed in as a professional on March 13, 2015, resulting in the first of nine KO’s.
What are this phrase, home country and word for a competition?
Answer:
Go out on a limb; Mongolia, bout
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
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“Noel” Is Not In The Girls’ Repertoire Dessert:
Three cryptic gifts of the iMAGInation
GOLD: Take two names associated with Christmas. One is a performance artist’s first name, but spelled slightly differently; the other describes the artist. Who is the artist and what are the two Christmas names?
FRANKINCENSE: Describe, using an adjective and noun, one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.
Rearrange the letters in these two words to spell two names associated with Christmas. What are this description and these names?
MYRRH: ’Tis the night before Yuletide, the wee hours. Mamma in her ’kerchief has already settled her brain for a long winter’s nap. So have the children – Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy.
One creature, however, remains downstairs, stirring... stirring an eggnog latte, that is. It is Pappa, enjoying a nightcap he whipped up using his new espresso gourmet coffee maker he plucked from beneath the tree and unwrapped prematurely earlier that eve. While his four daughters are still nestled all snug in their beds upstairs, Pappa is busy checking off the four chores on Mamma’s honey-do list.
And so Pappa, after draining his latte:
1. _____ the tree (5 letters)
2. Tends to his daughters’ stockings hung by the chimney with care, stuffing them with Nut Goodies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwPp0_qPw6E and other goodies... except for the stocking of his youngest daughter, the naughtier-than-nice little Lucy, which Pappa fills with ____ (5 letters)
3. Drives over to an ATM machine to get some ____ (4 letters)
4. Wraps five _____, one each for Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy (5 letters).
The answer to #4 appears in the lyrics to one of the songs with which Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally serenade their neighbors on the eve of Yuletide. (’Tis the sole “unfowl” gift of the first seven gifts enumerated on a gift list in the song’s lyrics.)
Thus, the girls, on the eve of every Yuletide, ____ _________ ______ (4, 9 and 6 letters).
The 19 letters on Pappa’s honey-do list can be rearranged to spell the three words for what Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally do on Yuletide Eve.
What do Pappa’s daughters do every Yuletide Eve?
What are the four listed chores that Pappa must do on Yuletide Eve?
BONUS QUESTION:
What is the connection between this Yuletide puzzle and the image that contains the caption “Nerd Rhyming ‘Cornflakes’ ”?
Answers:
1. Rudolf Nureyev; Rudolph and Dancer (two of Santa's reindeer)
2. Concrete dam (Hoover Dam); Dancer, Comet (two of Santa's reindeer)
3. SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS; TRIMS, COALS, CASH, RINGS
BONUS QUESTION:
The 19 letters in the titles of the three parts of this Yuletide puzzle – GOLD, FRANKINCENSE and MYRRH – can be rearranged to form the phrase “Nerd Rhyming ‘Cornflakes’ ”?
Lego!