Friday, February 28, 2020

Pet a hot dog, burn your hand! Dealing black jacks and red aces; Proverbial wisdom comes true; Names of games and human frames; Log-on before you leap

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Dealing black jacks and red aces

Take a word found on a gift card. Spell it backward. 
Remove two consecutive letters – a pair that you might find on a baseball scorecard, leaving two numbers whose sum wins a card game. 
What is this word?


Appetizer Menu

Dining On Sandwiches With A Spoon Appetizer:
Pet a hot dog, burn your hand!

Note: We are pleased and proud as punch to serve up this week another excellent “sky diversion” puzzle created by Mark Scott of Seattle, Washington, whose screen name is “skydiveboy”... because Mark has been known to jump out of airplanes! 

Spoonerize a well known sandwich in two words to describe why a dog might be difficult to pet.
What is this sandwich.
Why might a dog be difficult to pet?



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The Year Of The Frog Slice:
Log-on before you leap

Describe, using two adjectives and a noun, a description of any witty and quick-witted social-network message poster. Rearrange the letters of this description to spell two words associated with leap year. 
What are these two words and the three-word description?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
Names of games and human frames

Will Shortz’s February 23rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michican, reads:
Name a well-known game in 8 letters. Drop the fifth letter. Move the first letter into the vacated spot ... and you’ll spell, in order, part of the human body. What game is it, and what’s the body part?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the combined letters of either:
I. The title of a magazine that “died” in 1957 and the first syllable of a not-dead-yet “men’s” magazine (8 letters, 4 letters), or...
II. Molecules made up of long chains of amino acids that function in membrane-enclosed microscopic masses of protoplasm (4, 8), or...
III. The basic plot feature of the 1996 movie "Multiplicity" (6, 6).
Rearrange them to form the first and last names of a puzzle- maker. Who is it, and what are the answers to the three clues?
ENTREE #2
Name an item, in two 4-letter words, found in the costume department of a theater that specializes in Shakespearean productions. 
Remove the space and drop the fifth letter. Move the first letter into the vacated spot ... and you’ll spell, in order, part of the human body. 
What item is it, and what’s the body part?
ENTREE #3
Name a well-known game in 8 letters. 
Drop the second letter. 
Move the first letter so that it becomes the third letter in this 7-letter result, forming a word for places where games are played. 
What game is it, and what’s the place where games are played?
ENTREE #4
Name one word for  “sub-parts” of two different types of body parts contained in the human head. Rearrange its letters to form a synonym for the human trunk. 
What is this synonym? 
What is the word for the “sub-parts” of body parts in the head.
Hint: Trees (which have trunks) also have these “sub-parts.”
ENTREE #5
Name a well-known game in 7 letters. Move the last letter into the third position. 
Remove the first and last letters of the result  ... and you’ll spell, in order, part of the human body. 
What game is it, and what’s the body part? 
ENTREE #6
Name a well-known two-word game in 5 and 4 letters. 
Take the first word. Drop its third and fifth letters, add an  “a” and rearrange the result to form a synonym of body. 
Spell the second word of the game backward to name what you might call any part of the human body.
What is this game?
What are this synonym and name for any part of the body?
ENTREE #7
Name a well-known oriental game in 7 letters. Move each letter one place ahead in the alphabet (so that A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.). Rearrange the result to spell a word that is part of the anatomy of an axe and a word that is not a part of the anatomy of an axe but is a part of the human anatomy.
What game is it, and what are the two body parts?
ENTREE #8
Name a well-known game in 5 letters. 
Move one of its letters one place ahead in the alphabet (so that A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.) ... and you’ll spell a part of the human body. 
What game is it, and what’s the body part?
ENTREE #9
Name a human body part in 5 letters and 2 syllables. 
If you switch the order of the syllables and pronounce the result it will sound like the name of a kind of bed ... like the kind from which a person recovering from an injury to this body part might take comfort and rest.
What’s the body part? What is the name of the bed?

Dessert Menu

CalenDessert:
Proverbial wisdom comes true 

Name a proverbial phrase. Change the word  “time” to a specific period of time, remove an article and rearrange the letters of the last word. 
The result is a true statement about our calendar. 
What are this phrase and true statement?


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26 comments:

  1. Happy Leap Day to all!
    Once again I'm the first to comment, and just like last week, we ate at Bryan and Renae's house.(Only this time we had Chinese food, and we didn't stay as long.)Then when we got home, I solved the Prize Crossword, this time by Brendan. As for this week's Puzzleria!, I noticed late last night it wasn't ready, so I just did what I could, which is as follows:
    The Schpuzzle
    SDB's puzzle
    All of the Entrees except #5, #6, and #7
    Don't forget those hints, Lego! Also, keep watching for the next cryptic crossword in your email coming soon! To everyone else, good solving, and enjoy Feb. 29th! There's something you don't see every year!

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  2. My report is the usual being 'stuck' on the Schpuzzle (WHY do I seem to be the only one who has so much trouble with those?), the Frog Slice, Entree 2 and the Dessert.

    I did manage to work out all the other Entrees, and I hope SDB's slice (though I think the resultant first word is a bit suspect, thus I remain dubious.)

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  3. Name a somewhat well-known game in 5 letters.
    Move one of its letters ten places ahead in the alphabet to spell a body part. Move that same letter seven places back to name a different body part.
    I'd offer my "joke answer" to sdb's puzzle, but I'm afraid of breaking some sort of law.

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  4. ViolinTeddy,
    You have solved skydiveboy's puzzle, I am sure. In my official answers on Wednesday there will be a link to a dictionary definition that shows the "suspect" word to be "innocent" of all "grammatical guilt." Do not be dubious!
    Paul,
    Your "5-letter-game puzzle" (although I have not yet solved it) is a great puzzle that, if it were mine, I would send to Will Shortz as an NPR Sunday Puzzle possibility. In any event, it is much better than any one of the nine riff-off Entrees that I have trotted out this week.
    cranberry,
    I am on pins and needles in anticipation of your next cryptic crossword masterpiece!

    LegoWhoNotesThatTheDoomedFattedCalfWasAlsoADoomedFattyCalf

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    1. Ah, thanks, LegoCalf for your reassurance...I fully 'get' what you are talking about!

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  5. Have solved everything except the Schpuzzle.

    For sdb's puzzle, I likely have the same issue as does ViolinTeddy. But I note that if the last letter of the first word is replaced with ED, then the problem goes away, but at the cost of violating the spooneristic and sandwichian criteria of the original puzzle.

    Finally, I also found an alternate answer to Entrée #9. More after Lego's hints, as the alternate answer could point toward the intended answer.

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    1. Like you, I have an alternate answer, but not to #9, rather to Entree #4....the only problem with it being that the 'synonym' for trunk applies apparently only to TREES, rather than to humans, at least in the lists I saw. But I actually like the 'sub part' in this alternate answer BETTER than the presumably 'real' answer.

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  6. OOH, to my delight, I just bashed out the FROG Slice....with a certain amount of reverse logic.

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  7. Sunday Hints:

    Paul's excellent riff-off puzzle:
    Move one of its letters ten places ahead in the alphabet to spell a body part. Move that same letter seven places back to name a different body part.
    Hint: Rearrange the letters in "Let claret ebb!" to form two words for apparel worn on the respective body parts.

    Schpuzzle:
    The two consecutive letters you might find on a baseball scorecard are the position of a player.
    The sum that wins at a card game is 21.

    skydiveboy's Dining On Sandwiches With A Spoon Appetizer:
    Was the Wicked Witch of the West named Patricia?
    Did the middle Alou brother hurl baseballs at hecklers?

    The Year Of The Frog Slice:
    One of the two words associated with leap year is hyphenated.
    Donald Trump, vis-a-vis the three-word description of the witty and quick-witted social-network message poster... Well, I guess one-outta-three ain't bad.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    Hint available upon request
    ENTREE #2
    Jewelry often dangles from the body part.
    "There was once a Brit king who prized fawners..."
    ENTREE #3
    Hepburn/Grant flick; Penny...
    ENTREE #4
    Yelah Xela
    ENTREE #5
    Tornado watch site
    ENTREE #6
    Title of a play that has been running continuously at London's West End since Winston Churchill was prime minister!
    ENTREE #7
    One body part is on one end of a baseball bat. The other body part is very fashionable.
    ENTREE #8
    A game where do-si-doing may ensue... but do-si-doing involving royalty and his residence, not his mount!
    ENTREE #9
    The inventor of the bed came up (and down) with a "sofa-less hide-a-bed!"

    CalenDessert:
    'Tis a timely puzzle, as of today.

    LegoAlouLuauFelipeJesus&?????

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  8. CORRECTION: I have all Entrees except #5, #7, and #8. I got #6 already. So far with these new hints I only have Paul's puzzle.

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    1. Later Sunday Hints:
      ENTREE #5
      The well-known game in 7 letters at times resembles wresting on a mat.
      ENTREE #7
      One body part is also a part on many doors and old radios. The other is an anagram of a Greek letter.
      ENTREE #8
      Treasure in it, 15 men on it. Arrrghrr!

      LegYoHoHo

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    2. WRESTING or WRESTLING? Either way, I haven't found it yet.

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    3. It is "Wrestling." Sorry for my typo.
      Picture big colorful circles. It's a game at which a certain "Corpulent Cab" presumably would have excelled... and I don't mean Cab Calloway.

      LegoWhoNotesThatTheGameInQuestionIsNotCheckersOrDominoes(AlthoughThe"CorpulentCab"IsAssociatedWithBothNamesOfThoseGames)

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    4. Got it! Now the only ones I haven't got have something to do with the leap year. Help me out here, Lego!

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    5. The social-network message poster is more of a bird than a frog.
      A synonym for "witty" and synonym for "quick-witted" both begin with letters that appear in the first 23% of the alphabet.

      LegoChirpin'NotCroakin'

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  9. No, I did get #8! Sorry. I only lack #5 and #7. That's it.

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  10. Now I've got #7! At least I'm solving something today!
    Isthay eekway's Undaysay Uzzlepay ucks-say!

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  11. PATTY MELT > MATTY PELT [Although Brylcreem claimed to make women "love to run their fingers through your hair," I don't think CHILLED GREASE is a remedy for a MATTY PELT]
    PETER COLLINS > COLLIER'S PENT(house); CELL PROTEINS; TRIPLE CLONES
    LEAR ROBE > EARLOBE
    CHARADES > ARCADES
    ROOTS (hair and teeth) > TORSO
    TWISTER > WRIST
    MOUSE TRAP > SOMA; PART
    MAHJONG > NBIKPOH > KNOB; HIP
    CHESS > CHEST
    FEMUR > MURPHY [I probably could have divulged my joke answer to sdb's puzzle without fear of "breaking Murphy's Law".]

    A BRACELET and a BELT could, indeed, encircle body parts derived from a bridge precursor.

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  12. Schpuzzle: BENEVELENET (?) => TEN + ELEVEN + EB (benevolent – misspelled)

    Sandwich-Spoon Appetizer: PATTY MELT => MATTY PELT

    Year of the Frog Slice: FEBRUARY, TWENTY-NINE => FUNNY, BRAINY TWEETER

    Entrées
    #1: PETER COLLINS: I, COLLIERS, PENT; II, CELL PROTEINS; III, TRIPLE CLONES
    #2: LEAR ROBE => EARLOBE
    #3: CHARADES => ARCADES
    #4: ROOTS, TORSO
    #5: TWISTER => TWRISTE => WRIST
    #6: MOUSE TRAP => MOS + A, PART => SOMA, PART
    #7: MAH-JONG => NBI-KPOH => KNOB + HIP
    #8: CHESS => CHEST
    #9: FEMUR => MUR-FE => MURPHY BED
    Alternate: ULNAE => NAE-UL => NAIL BED ( ! )

    Dessert: THIRD TIME IS A CHARM – A => THIRD MONTH IS MARCH

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  13. Schpuzzle
    NETFLIX, LF(Left Fielder), XI(Roman numeral eleven)+TEN=TWENTY-ONE
    Appetizer Menu
    SDB's puzzle
    PATTY MELT, MATTY PELT
    Menu
    FEBRUARY TWENTY-NINE; FUNNY, BRAINY TWEETER
    Entrees
    1. PETER COLLINS
    I. COLLIER'S, PENT(house)
    II. CELL PROTEINS
    III. TRIPLE CLONES
    2. (King)LEAR ROBE, EARLOBE
    3. CHARADES, ARCADES
    4. ROOTS, TORSO
    5. TWISTER, WRIST
    6. MOUSE TRAP, SOMA, PART
    7. MAHJONG, KNOB, HIP
    8. CHESS, CHEST
    9. FEMUR, MURPHY(bed)
    Dessert
    THIRD TIME IS A CHARM, THIRD MONTH IS MARCH
    Paul's puzzle
    WHIST, WRIST, WAIST
    Today I shall finally send you my next cryptic crossword, Lego. Don't forget to check your email!-pjb

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  14. SCHPUZZLE: I invented a word, since I was utterly unable to find anything that worked: NEBATECA => ACET(AB)EN => ACE & TEN, WHERE 'AB' = AT BAT

    SKYDIVEBOY SLICE: PATTY MELT => MATTY PELT

    FROG SLICE: FUNNY BRAINY TWEETER => FEBRUARY TWENTY-NINE

    ENTREES:

    1. COLLIERS & PENT; CELL PROTEINS; TRIPLE CLONES => PETER COLLINS

    2. LEAR ROBE => EARLOBE

    3. CHARADES => ARCADES

    4. ROOTS => TORSO [Alternate thought: LOBES (of both brain and ears) => BOLES , except that the latter seems to be a syn ONLY for TREE TRUNKS, rather than human ones.]

    5. TWISTER => WRIST

    6. MOUSE TRAP => SOMA & PART

    7. MAH JONG => N B I K P O H => KNOB & HIP

    8. CHESS => CHEST

    9. FEMUR => MURPHY

    DESSERT: THE MARCH OF TIME?

    PAUL'S: WHIST => WRIST & WAIST

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  15. This week's official answers for the record, part 1:

    Schpuzzle Of The Week:
    Dealing black jacks and red aces

    Take a word found on a gift card. Spell it backward. Remove two consecutive letters – a pair that you might find on a baseball scorecard, leaving two numbers whose sum wins a card game.
    What is this word?
    Answer:
    Netflix (XILFTEN - LF (Left Field) = XI + TEN = 11+10=21

    Appetizer Menu

    Dining On Sandwiches With A Spoon Appetizer:
    Pet a hot dog, burn your hand!

    Note: We are pleased and proud to serve up this week another excellent “sky diversion” puzzle created by Mark Scott of Seattle, Washington, whose screen name is “skydiveboy” (because Mark has been known to jump out of airplaines!).

    Spoonerize a well known sandwich in two words to describe why a dog might be difficult to pet.
    What is this sandwich.
    Why might a dog be difficult to pet?
    Answer:
    Patty melt; Matty pelt

    MENU

    The Year Of The Frog Slice:
    Log-on before you leap

    Describe, using two adjectives and a noun, a description of any witty and quick-witted social-network message poster. Rearrange the letters of this description to spell two words associated with leap year. What are these two words and the three-word description?
    Answer:
    February twenty-nine; (Funny brainy Tweeter)

    Lego...

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  16. This week's official answers for the record, part 2:

    Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
    Names of games and human frames

    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:
    ENTREE #1
    Take the combined letters of either:
    I. The title of a magazine that “died” in 1957 and the first syllable of a not-dead-yet “men’s” magazine (8 letters, 4 letters), or...
    II. Molecules made up of long chains of amino acids that funcion in membrane-enclosed microscopic masses of protoplasm (4, 8), or...
    III. The basic plot feature of the 1996 movie "Multiplicity" (6, 6).
    Rearrange them to form the first and last names of a puzzle- maker. Who is it, and what are the answers to the three clues?
    Answer: Peter Collins; Collier's, Pent(house); Protein cells; Triple clones
    ENTREE #2
    Name an item, in two 4-letter words, found in the costume department of a theater that specializes in Shakespearean productions. Remove the space and drop the fifth letter. Move the first letter into the vacated spot ... and you’ll spell, in order, part of the human body. What item is it, and what’s the body part?
    Answer:
    Lear robe; Earlobe
    ENTREE #3
    Name a well-known game in 8 letters. Drop the second letter. Move the first letter so that it becomes the third letter in this 7-letter result, forming a word for places where games are played.
    What game is it, and what’s the place where games are played?
    Answer:
    Charades; Arcades
    ENTREE #4
    Name a word for “sub-parts” of two different types of body parts contained in the human head. Rearrange the letters to form a synonym for the human trunk.
    What is this synonym? What is the word for the parts of body parts in the head.
    Hint: Trees also have these parts.
    Answer:
    Torso; roots (hair and teeth)
    ENTREE #5
    Name a well-known game in 7 letters. Move the last letter into the third position. Remove the first and last letters of the result ... and you’ll spell, in order, part of the human body. What game is it, and what’s the body part?
    Answer:
    Twister; wrist
    ENTREE #6
    Name a well-known two-word game in 5 and 4 letters.
    Take the first word. Drop its third and fifth letters, add an “a” and rearrange the result to form a synonym of body.
    Spell the second word of the game backward to name what you might call any part of the human body.
    What is this game?
    What are this synonym and name for any part of the body?
    Move the first letter into the vacated spot ... and you’ll spell, in order, part of the human body. What game is it, and what’s the body part?
    Answer:
    Mouse Trap; Soma, part
    ENTREE #7
    Name a well-known oriental game in 7 letters. Move each letter one place ahead in the alphabet (so that A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.). Rearrange the result to spell a word that is part of the anatomy of an axe https://buyaxesonline.com/axe-buyers-guide/axe-anatomy-identifying-parts-axe/ and a word that is not a part of the anatomy of an axe but is a pert of the human anatomy.What game is it, and what are the two body parts?
    Answer: Mahjong; Hip, knob
    ENTREE #8
    Name a well-known game in 5 letters. Move one of its letters one place ahead in the alphabet (so that A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.) ... and you’ll spell, in order, a part of the human body.
    What game is it, and what’s the body part?
    Answer:
    Chess; chest
    ENTREE #9
    Name a human body part in 5 letters and 2 syllables. If you switch the order of the syllables and pronounce the result it will sound like the name of a kind of bed ... like the kind from which a person recovering from an injury to this body part might take comfort and rest.
    What’s the body part? What is the name of the bed?
    Femur; Murphy bed

    Lego...

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  17. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Dessert Menu

    CalenDessert:
    Proverbial wisdom comes true

    Name a proverbial phrase. Change the word “time” to a specific period of time, remove an article and rearrange the letters of the last word.
    The result is a true statement about our calendar.
    What are this phrase and true statement?
    Answer:
    "The third time's a charm." (or "The third time's the charm.")
    "The third month's March."

    Lego!

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  18. VT,

    BOLES and LOBES is very nice.

    LegoEarboley

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  19. Thanks, Legolobe.....but re the Schpuzzle, I am flummoxed as to Netflix being a word on a gift card!!! That's news to me... I didn't know there WERE Netflix gift cards! I'd been madly trying words like "redeemable" and "refundable" etc ad infinitum.

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