Friday, March 6, 2020

Birds and bugs and Hippopotami! Putting on your big boy pants! Framing the lead-painted farmers; Larceny and literacy; Goldberg garb and Moore garmentia;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Framing the lead-painted farmers

Many framers of the U.S. Constitution were farmers. 
If you switch a pair of consecutive letters in “framers” – “r” and “a” – the result is “farmers.” 
Switch two pairs of consecutive letters in a word for something that eliminates impurities – impurities like lead, for example – to get a word for something that might lead to impurity, according to Puritans. 
What are these two words?


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Creepy Crawly Critter Conundrums Appetizer:
Birds and bugs and Hippopotami!

🥁1. Name an insect. Change the last three letters to a vowel. The result is a place of worship.
🥁2. Name a contagious disease in two words. 
Change the last four letters of the phrase to a different four letters to name an endangered bird.
🥁3. Think of a word you might use to describe an action in Hungry Hungry Hippos, in six letters. 
Move its third and fourth letters five places later in the alphabet (for example, A becomes F, B becomes G, etc.).
Move its first letter five places earlier in the alphabet (for example, H becomes C, I becomes D, etc.). 
The result is the name of a word game.


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Base-Pathfinder, Or The Infield Steal Slice:
Larceny and literacy

What literary connection does a past novelist from the American Midwest have with the last names of two of Major League Baseball’s all-time leading base stealers?
Hint: The last name of a manager who managed a third all-time leading base stealer also shares this literary connection with the novelist.

Riffing Off Shortz And Wilk Slices:
Putting on your big boy pants!

Will Shortz’s March 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Wilk of Goleta, California, reads:
Think of a hyphenated word that describes certain pants. The first half of the word and a homophone of the second half are synonyms. What kind of pants are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Wilk Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a Spanish word for a beverage associated with mothers. 
Name an Italian pronoun associated with mothers (thanks to a Swedish band’s song that inspired a Broadway musical, a movie and its sequel).
Combine the letters in these two words, removing one of the two letters that occurs twice. Rearrange the result to form a first name.
Now name the English word for the same beverage associated with mothers. Invert its first letter. The result is a surname.
This first name and surname belong to a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
ENTREE #2
Name a type of pants associated with working men and women. 
Replace a vowel with a different vowel and divide the result into two words that together form a synonym for “cow pastures.”
What type of pants are these?
ENTREE #3
Think of a compound (sometimes hyphenated) word that describes certain pants. Switch the initial letters of its two parts. Insert a “y” between the first and second letters of the first part. 
If you pronounce the result aloud, phonetically it will sound like a “politically incorrect” comment one might make to a man or woman clad in such pants.  
What kind of pants are these?
ENTREE #4
Name a 9-letter compound word that is a synonym of “culotte.” Switch the compound parts, separate them with a space, and add an “s” at the end. 
The result is formal or semi-formal menswear, in two words, sometimes worn with a matching suit jacket. (These two words are oxymoronic. The menswear, however, ought not be laundered in Oxydol, but rather drycleaned!)
What is this two-word menswear?  
ENTREE #5
Write a two-word caption for the left-hand side of the image pictured here, and a three-word caption for the right-hand side of the image. 
What are these captions?
ENTREE #6
Think of a hyphenated word (often written as two words) that describes certain pants that taper all the way down to the bottom of the leg. 
These pants are sometimes called “skinny jeans.” 
A person who is described by the second half of the hyphenated word can usually also be described by the first half of the hyphenated word. 
What kind of pants are these?
ENTREE #7
Think of a hyphenated word that describes certain pants. 
The noun form of the adjective that is the first half of the word is a near-synonym of a homophone of the second half of the word. 
What kind of pants are these?
Hint: This puzzle has nothing to do with clothing.
ENTREE #8
Think of a compound word that describes certain pants. 
The first and second parts of the word can function as verbs. 
If you place the word “out” after each, they form synonymous two-word phrases that both mean “prolong.”  
What kind of pants are these?


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Distracting Dessert:
Goldberg garb and Moore garmentia 

Name something thespians named Moore and Goldberg both wore, and what they both had that required them to wear it. 
If you switch the beginning sounds of these two words and say the result aloud it will sound like a trendy two-word idiom for an obsessive distraction. 
What is this idiom?
Hint: The obsessive distraction is “subterranean” and is rooted in children’s literature.

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42 comments:

  1. Whee, I just solved the Schpuzzle....one of the few times, especially right away!

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    1. Congrats, VT. I hope you enjoyed solving this puzzle as much as I enjoyed creating it.

      LegoPuritanicalPurifiedPuppetry

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    2. As usual, I try to envision HOW you come up with these brainstorms, um, puzzles....so this time, I imagined you seeing one of the two words, and then realizing how the letters could be transposed, et voila, the second word. Is this one you have had in your portfolio for awhile, or did it only recently 'hit' you?

      Also, I had planned to say that the Conundrums were easy this time (apologies to Mathew), but then the only answer I could form for the third one required doubling one consonant, and undoubling a different consonant.

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    3. For Conundrum #3: have that same pair.

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    4. Before I begin my first post of the week in my usual way, I must start by agreeing with ViolinTeddy about Conundrum #3. The only answer I could find that could possibly be right is not a perfect anagram at all. The problem does involve two different consonants, one appearing twice and the other only once in the first word, but in the other word it's the other way around. The doubled letter is now single, and vice versa. As a cryptic crossword constructor, I know a little something about anagrams. One minor error with the letters, and it becomes nothing like the original word. I know exactly what the intended answer is for this puzzle, and I must strongly insist there be some clarification(and a much-needed rewrite of the question)to clear up the confusion, that is, unless there is another answer we haven't thought of yet. Bear in mind I'm not angry about this small imperfection in an otherwise perfect set of puzzles, just a little disappointed. The ball's in your court now, Lego(or perhaps Mathew's). That being said, I would like to wish everyone a happy Saturday morning, and here in AL it is 12:55AM, and I have just got around to commenting here after eating at Cracker Barrel last night, listening to Ask Me Another, and doing my other puzzles from Private Eye Magazine and the Guardian. The latter was a little rough to finish because I had to look up famous battles in history, and I had never really heard of the answer before. So now I know there was a Battle of Prestonpans(you can look it up for yourself if you like). As for this week's puzzles here, I checked them early Friday morning, and have solved all except the following:
      The Schpuzzle
      Conundrum #3(as discussed earlier)
      The "base stealer" puzzle
      Entrees #4 and #7
      As always, I shall require hints for these, but I hope there shall be some sort of explanation for Con #3. Lego, I say this as a friend: You need to be more careful regarding mistakes in the puzzles. They can really affect trying to solve them sometimes. We're trying to have fun here, not get confused or frustrated due to minor mistakes that can make it much more difficult than it has to be. Any way you can straighten this out will be fine with us. And to everyone else, good luck and good solving!

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  2. I'm pretty sure I just solved the Dessert (I took a guess at the literature, and in reading an resultant article, stumbled on the two-word 'trendy' term)....all in all, pretty clever, imho.

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  3. I forgot to add that I'd also come up with AN answer for the Pathfinder Slice, after working on the Schpuzzle and Conundrums; however, since it involves a MOVIE, rather than merely literature, it could be completely wrong.

    But I'm still stuck on Entrees 2, 3 and 7.

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  4. I'm thinking we're all thinking Matthew did something a SS might do with a ground ball, but, hey, we're all human!

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  5. I'm becoming kinda concerned about Lego, who not only hasn't commented here but not on Blaine's blog either, even though it's HIS puzzle up this week. Perhaps he is off at that place in WI that had no internet? I just hope he is okay.

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    1. I apologize for not posting a comment sooner, and for the snafu with Conundrum #3. Bad editing on my part. I changed the errant text.
      It now reads:
      3. Think of a word you might use to describe an action in Hungry Hungry Hippos, in six letters.
      Move its third and fourth letters five places later in the alphabet (for example, A becomes F, B becomes G, etc.).
      Move its first letter five places earlier in the alphabet (for example, H becomes C, I becomes D, etc.).
      The result is the name of a word game.

      I shall post some hints anon.

      LegoWhoThanksViolinTeddyForHerConcernAboutHisWellBeing

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    2. Whew, glad you are there, Lego!!!!

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    3. Me too, and now it makes much more sense! I did get Conundrum #3! Thanks for clearing it up!

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    4. My 'whew' was about Lego being safe and okay, NOT about the Conundrum problem, which was not nearly as big a deal as you made it, pjb.

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    5. VT, it goes without saying that I'm glad Lego is safe and okay, too. I just had a problem with Conundrum #3, that's all. I knew Lego was going to respond eventually. He's not always going to respond right away, but he will respond. I'm sure something must have come up that he had to deal with first. But don't be angry with me about my comment. I'm sorry if I sounded insensitive. Obviously I care just as much as you do about Lego's well-being, if not more!

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    6. I'm glad to hear that, pjb....

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  6. Hints:

    Schpuzzle:
    The two pairs of consecutive letters in a word for something that eliminates impurities are also consecutive pairs. In other words, there are four letters in a row that get juggled.

    Conundrums:
    1. The last part of the insect spells a world capital. The remaining letters are an anagram of a word intoned during meditation.
    2. Ms. Goldberg has an unfair advantage in solving this puzzle.
    3. The word game, played with 16 dice, is fun to play at Thanksgiving get-togethers.

    Base-Pathfinder Or The Infield Steal Slice:
    One of the novelist's handful of wives was a mathemetician and a "word-crafter's" wife!(4:34)
    One of the three base-pilferers in my puzzle is not Lou Brock.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Wilk Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    Hint available upon request
    ENTREE #2
    Kind of a crappy puzzle?
    ENTREE #3
    Kind of a asinine puzzle?
    ENTREE #4
    Klinger wore the first word in the answer. Chuckles the Clown wore the seltzer-soaked second word in the answer.
    ENTREE #5
    The pooch on the righthand side of the image is just trying to keep cool.
    ENTREE #6
    ____ Pickens + "Itchy Coo" co-founder Matthew ____.
    ENTREE #7
    These are "pants" that the pooch in Entree #5 makes... not that Haggar or Levi's make.
    ENTREE #8
    The compound word describing these kinds of pants is something that you can tie... but not snap, button or clasp.

    Distracting Dessert:
    The thespians are actresses.
    Like the wife of the novelist in the Base-Pathfinder Or The Infield Steal Slice, the writer of the children's literature was also a mathematician.

    LegoTangledUpInClue

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  7. Got Entree #4 this time around, but that's it.

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    1. Schpuzzle:
      Some cigarettes have the "something that eliminates impurities."
      It is a 10-letter word.
      Base Pathfinder Slice:
      The novelist hails from Chicago. The surname of one of his title characters is a month of the year.
      Entree #7:
      These pants are made by dogs... not "yip dogs" but large dogs with great lung capacity.
      The parts of the "hyphenated word that describes certain pants" begin with D and B.
      The "noun form of the adjective that is the first half of the word" and the "near-synonym of a homophone of the second half of the word" both end in "th". The first five letters of the near-synonym is food that come in a loaf form.

      LegoWhoBelievesHalfALoafOsWorseThanOne

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  8. Dowager Empress,
    Did you post a comment? I thought I saw a comment from you but before I read it I deleted some spam immediately below it. I may have deleted your comment by mistake. If so, I am very sorry.

    LegoAsksThatDowagerEmpressPleaseRepostHerCommentIfPossible

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    1. Not this week, lego. But the NPR puzzle was the best one over there since Judo. Am slavering for cranberry's next cryptic.. D.E.

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    2. Thanks, Dowager Empress. Thanks also for the compliment on my Pi Day puzzle. There will be Riff-offs of that puzzle this coming Friday on P!...
      But, better yet, we will present Patrick's 13th cryptic crossword on Puzzleria! this Friday, March 13!

      LegoExults:"TheSlaveringShallCeaseSoon!"

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  9. FILTRATION > FLIRTATION
    MOSQUITO > MOSQUE
    WHOOPING COUGH > WHOOPING CRANE
    GOBBLE > BOBBLE [The wording was BOBBLED a bit at first - a minor error]

    LECHE + MIA > MICHAEL; MILK > WILK
    PANTDRESS > DRESS PANTS ?
    SWEAT PANTS ?
    SLIM-FIT ?
    DEEP-BREATH > DEPTH & BREADTH ?
    DRAWSTRING ?

    HABIT ROLE > RABBIT HOLE [Sister Act; Change of Habit; Alice In Wonderland]

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  10. Schpuzzle
    FILTRATION, FLIRTATION
    Appetizer Menu
    Conundrums
    1. MOSQUITO, MOSQUE
    2. WHOOPING COUGH, WHOOPING CRANE
    3. GOBBLE, BOGGLE
    Menu
    1. LECHE, MILK, MIA, MICHAEL WILK
    2. DUNGAREES, DUNG AREAS
    3. BOOTCUT, CUTE BUTT!
    4. PANTDRESS, DRESS PANTS
    5. HOT DOG PANTS
    6. SLIM-FIT
    8. DRAWSTRING(DRAW OUT, STRING OUT)
    Dessert
    HABIT, ROLE, RABBIT HOLE
    Cryptic clue for DOWAGER EMPRESS:
    Solve, by chance, latest puzzle---not one to inspire Puzzleria! regular?(7,7)
    DO+WAGER+E(end of PUZZLE)+IMPRESS-I(one)-pjb

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  11. SCHPUZZLE: FILTRATION => FLIRTATION

    CONUNDRUMS:

    1. MOSQUITO => MOSQUE

    2. WHOOPING COUGH => WHOOPING CRANE

    3. GOBBLE => BOGGLE "

    PATHFINDER SLICE: I know this is wrong, but: Billy HAMILTON & Joe MORGAN => L. FRANK BAUM'S "WIZARD OF OZ" movie version starred Margaret HAMILTON [Bad Witch] & Frank MORGAN [as the Wizard]

    ENTREES:

    1. LECHE & MIA => MICHAEL; MILK => WILK

    2.

    3.

    4. I also know this is wrong: PANTSUIT => SUIT PANTS [Don't know what the 9th letter is for PANTSUIT, tho]

    5. (1) HOTDOG PANTS (2) HOT DOG PANTS

    6. SLIM-FIT

    7.

    8. DRAWSTRING

    DESSERT: HABIT ROLE [Whoopi and Mary Tyler playing nuns, e.g.] => RABBIT HOLE

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  12. I never saw the last set of hints...oh well...

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  13. Re Entree #7: clearly, the second word is BREADTH. I'm still trying to figure out the rest

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  14. Oh, I just now saw that Paul already had that....I promise, I did NOT see his answer!

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

    Schpuzzle Of The Week
    Framing the lead-painted farmers

    Many framers of the U.S. Constitution were farmers. If you switch a pair of consecutive letters in “framers” – “r” and “a” – the result is “farmers.”
    Switch TWO pairs of consecutive letters in a word for something that eliminates impurities – impurities like lead, for example – to get a word for something that might lead to impurity.
    What are these two words?
    Answer:
    Filtration, flirtation

    Appetizer Menu

    Creepy Crawly Critter Conundrums Appetizer
    Birds and bugs and Hippopotami

    1. Name an insect. Change the last three letters to a vowel. The result is a place of worship.
    Answer: MOSQUITO, MOSQUE
    2. Name a contagious disease in two words. Change the last four letters of the phrase to a different four letters to name an endangered bird.
    Answer: WHOOPING COUGH, WHOOPING CRANE
    3. Think of a word you might use to describe an action in Hungry Hungry Hippos, in six letters.
    Move its third and fourth letters five places later in the alphabet (for example, A becomes F, B becomes G, etc.).
    Move its first letter five places earlier in the alphabet (for example, H becomes C, I becomes D, etc.).
    The result is the name of a word game.
    Answer: GOBBLE, BOGGLE

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    Base-Pathfinder Or The Infield Steal Slice:
    Larceny and literacy

    What literary connection does a past novelist from the American Midwest have with the names of three of Major League Baseball's all-time leading base stealers?
    Answer:
    Saul Bellow from Chicago wrote novels titled "Henderson the Rain King" and "Herzog." Rickey Henderson and Tim Raines are first and fifth on MLB's all-time leading base-stealers list. Vince Coleman, sixth on MLB's all-time leading base-stealers list, played for Manager Whitey Herzog.

    Lego...

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    1. Oh, once again, I did NOT see your answer above, when I frantically put in my findings just now, at the bottom of the comments. Of course, I hadn't even gotten to the other novel titles yet. But I kinda like my Wizard of Oz answer better!

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    2. VT,
      I absolutely love your alternative answer to my Pathfinder Slice:
      L. FRANK BAUM'S "WIZARD OF OZ" movie version starred Margaret HAMILTON [Bad Witch] & Frank MORGAN [as the Wizard]!
      Billy Hamilton and Joe Morgan are respectively #3 and #11 on the all-time list.
      Nice work!

      LegoSlidingIntoSecondBaseHeadfirst

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    3. Thank you so much, Lego....makes me feel better about my dismal results on the Entrees this week!

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Wilk Slices:
    “Put on your big boy pants!”
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Wilk Slices read:
    ENTREE #1
    Name a Spanish word for a beverage associated with mothers. Name an Italian pronoun associated with mothers (thanks to a Swedish band’s song that inspired a Broadway musical, a movie and its sequel).
    Combine the letters in these two words, removing one of the two that occurs twice. Rearrange the result to form a first name.
    Now name the English word for the same beverage associated with mothers. Invert its first letter. The result is a surname.
    This first name and surname belong to a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
    Answer:
    Michael Wilk
    LECHE+MIA-E-->MICHAEL; MILK-->WILK
    ENTREE #2
    Name a type of pants associated with working men and women. Replace a vowel with a different vowel and divide the result into two words that together form a synonym for “cow pastures.”
    What type of pants are these?
    Answer:
    Dungarees; (DUNGAREES-->DUNGAREAS-->DUNG AREAS
    ENTREE #3
    Think of a compound (sometimes hyphenated) word that describes certain pants. Switch the initial letters of its two parts. Insert a “y” between the first and second letters of the first part. If you pronounce the result aloud, phonetically it wil sound like a “politically incorrect” comment one might make to a man or woman clad in such pants.
    What kind of pants are these?
    Answer:
    Bootcut (pants);
    BOOTCUT-->COOT-BUT-->CYOOT-BUT-->CUTE BUTT!
    ENTREE #4
    Name a 9-letter compound word that is a synonym of “culottes.” Switch the compound parts, separate them with a space, and add an “s” at the end. The result is formal or semi-formal menswear, in two words, sometimes worn with a matching suit jacket. (These two words are oxymoronic. The menswear ought not be laundered in Oxydol, but rather drycleaned!)
    What is this two-word meanswear?
    Answer: Dress pants
    (PANTDRESS-->DRESS PANTS
    ENTREE #5
    Write a two-word caption for the lefthand side of the image pictured here, and a three-word caption for the righthand side of the image.
    What are these captions?
    Answer:
    hotdog pants, hot dog pants
    ENTREE #6
    Think of a hyphenated word (often written as two words) that describes certain pants that taper all the way down to the bottom of the leg. These pants are sometimes called “skinny jeans.” A person who is described by the second half of the hyphenated word can usually also be described by the first half of the hyphenated word. What kind of pants are these?
    Answer:
    Slim-fit pants
    (A person who is fit is usually also fit.)
    ENTREE #7
    Think of a hyphenated word that describes certain pants. The noun form of the adjective that is the first half of the word is a near-synonym of the second half of the word. What kind of pants are these?
    Answer:
    Deep-breath pants; (Depth and breadth are both linear measurements.)
    ENTREE #8
    Think of a compound word that describes certain pants. The first and second parts of the word can function as verbs. If you place the word “out” after each, they form synonymous two-word phrases that both mean “prolong.”
    What kind of pants are these?
    Answer:
    Drawstring pants; Draw (out) = String (out)

    Lego...

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    1. Thanks, Paul.
      DEPTH and BREADTH
      Incidentally, I have often heard people mispronounce "height" as "heighth."

      LegoWhoNotesFurtherThat"ThoseWhoLoafAreSeldomOutOfBreadth"

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

    Dessert Menu

    Distracting Dessert:
    Goldberg garb and Moore garmentia

    Name something thespians named Moore and Goldberg both wore, and what they both had that required them to wear it.
    If you switch the beginning sounds of these words and say the result aloud it will sound like a trendy two-word idiom for an obsessive distraction.
    What is this idiom?
    Hint: The obsessive distraction is “subterranian” and is rooted in children’s literature.
    Answer:
    Rabbit hole; (Mary Tyler Moore and Whoopi Goldberg each had a movie ROLE which required them to wear a nun's HABIT.

    Lego!

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  18. SAUL BELLOW? "AUGIE MARCH" I haven't got the rest of it yet, not even sure these are correct.

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  19. Puzzlerian!s:
    I am confident that all of you, if you tried, solved my Pi Day puzzle that Will Shortz used on NPR this past Sunday. There will be Riff-Off puzzle entrees, of course, on tomorrow's Puzzleria!
    Here is a comment about my Pi Day puzzle that I posted this afternoon on Blaine's blog:
    Thanks to all Blainesvillians who commented on my Pi Day puzzle.
    Regarding how I came up with it, I just kind of stumbled onto it... as I do with most puzzles I create. There 26 letters of our alphabet. 25, I thought, happens to be a perfect square. The 25th letter of the alphabet is Y. What are the other perfect squares? 1, 4, 9 and 16, corresponding to A, D, I and P. Do those five letters perhaps anagram (sorry STRAP!) into a word? Nope, not an English word anyway. Darn! What about two words? Aha! Pi Day!
    The best question a puzzle-maker can ask is "What if we try this?"

    I have lately been corresponding with an excellent puzzle-maker named Peter Collins from Ann Arbor, Michigan. His name should be familiar to you. Will Shortz has used several of his puzzles, the latest being the CRIBBAGE/RIBCAGE gem from a fortnight ago.
    Peter, a high school math teacher, posed my Pi Day puzzle to one of his students, Jasmine Xu of Ann Arbor. She got the answer, Peter said, but then "she took it a step further. Jasmine also noticed (as did our fellow Blainesvillian ron) that the seven digits in that sequence of squares (1 4 9 16 25) can be rearranged to make 1415926, which are the first seven digits (after the decimal point) in the decimal representation of π."
    How impressive is that! Jasmine's future is bright indeed.

    One last point. Rachel Kuelzer of Las Vegas was this past Sunday's on-air, lapel-pin-winning, contestant. Will Shortz's on-air puzzle was extremely difficult, IMHO. But Rachel demonstrated "Jasmine Xu-like brilliance," needing only one hint as she sailed through Will's posers!

    LegoWhoAspiresToBeAsSmartAsJasmineXuWhenHeGrowsUp

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    1. NO kidding, Lego....I saw those on-air puzzles a few days back, and thought, 'OMG, I'm glad THIS wasn't one of the two times *I* won! I couldn't have gotten MOST of those!" How embarrassing it would have been.

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