PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/20 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Star-studded celestial stage
Rearrange the combined letters of two signs of the zodiac to spell three things you might see and/or hear on a performance stage.
What are these three things?
Hint: All three things are related, in some way, to music. And all three are plural words.
Note: When n = 12, (n)(n-1)/2 = 66.
That’s not so daunting!
Save Me A Conundrumstick! Appetizer:
What’s for lunch or munchin’?
🥁1. Take the last name of a well-known scientist. Drop the last letter, then reverse the first three letters and place at the end. When spoken aloud the result will sound like a health food but spelled very differently.
🥁2. Think of a two word phrase used in a drink order. Remove the space to get a slang word of approval.
🥁3. Think of a type of mailing address in two words. Advance the last letter one place forward in the alphabet to name a kind of sandwich.
🥁4. Name a drink in three letters. Duplicate this word, one after the other, with a space in between. Add a P to the front of the first word to name a particular type of the first drink.
Sippy Cup Slice:
Garden-variety victory gardens
The alliterative four-word nickname of a competitive event includes a word for favorites people pick from their gardens.
An alcoholic beverage sipped at the event rhymes with similar but different garden-variety favorites that people pick.
At the competitive event itself, however (which, incidentally, is not held at Madison Square Garden), people pick favorites not found in a garden.
What is the beverage?
What are the two favorites people pick from gardens?
What non-garden favorites are picked at the event?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Two rungs don’t make a “flight”
Will Shortz’s April 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting LARGE to SMALL, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. Here’s the tricky part: Plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are not allowed.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Each Sunday, the puzzlemaster Will Shortz entraps us (like rats in a maze!) with his amazingly clever National Public Radio puzzles.
This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting WILL to MAZE, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. There’s no tricky part.
Note: I believe there are four different correct “ladders” that will allow you to climb from WILL to MAZE. On each ladder there are only three “rungs” between the WILL and MAZE rungs.
ENTREE #2
The puzzlemaster Will Shortz stumps us every Sunday with his National Public Radio puzzles.
This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting SHORTZ to STUMPS, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word (except for “Shortz,” of course) each step of the way. Again, there’s no tricky part.
Note: The shortest “ladder” I can construct that will allow me to climb from SHORTZ to STUMPS has eight rungs – with SHORTZ on the bottom, STUMPS on the top, and six rungs in between.
ENTREE #3
The challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting RUNGS to ELOPE, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. Again, there’s no tricky part.
Note: The shortest “ladder” I can construct that will allow me to climb up the elopement ladder from RUNGS to ELOPE has thirteen rungs – with RUNGS on the bottom, ELOPE on the top, and eleven rungs in between.
ENTREE #4
Each Sunday on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday program, host Lulu Garcia-Navarro introduces “The Puzzle” segment with puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting LULU to HOST, changing one letter at a time. There’s no tricky part: Plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:
1. NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host: LULU
2. “Disney on demand”: ____
3. The kind of hoop that Alvin coveted for Christmas: ____
4. Word likely preceding “cómo estás?” (“How are ya?”) in Guadalajara: ____
5. Otters’ den: ____
6. Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s role on NPR’s “The Puzzle” segment: HOST
ENTREE #5
Here are clues for another ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. A multinational corporation: _____
3. First name of a novelist who acknowledged Christ’s “warts”: _____
4. A pair of sweaty “swooshy”
footwear: _____
5. Something that a “football” gives the president control over: _____
6. Blimp-shaped green gourds: _____
7. Brand-name soft drinks: _____
8. Staple of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show monologue (at the expense of the president in Clue #1) during the mid 1970s: _____
ENTREE #6
This challenge is to complete the following word ladder connecting two 4-letter words, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. The words are used in an idiom meaning “from beginning to end, completely, everything.” There’s no tricky part... plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:
1. “There’s a Girl in My ____”:
2. Pittances: ____
3. Dipsomaniacs: ____
4. The plural counterpart of “tittle” in Matthew 5: ____
5. What Jay’s jaw does: ____
6. Anthony McAuliffe’s terse response to a German surrender ultimatum: ____
ENTREE #7
This challenge is to complete the following word ladder connecting two 4-letter words, changing one letter at a time, making a common word each step of the way. The words are used in an idiom meaning either “nighttime” or “daytime,” depending on which word appears first in the idiom. (The order of clues given below indicates the idiom meaning nighttime.) There’s no tricky part... plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:
1.The darker part of twilight: ____
2. Dodge a bullet, for example: ____
3. Jim’s rafting companion: ____
4. Wilson who holds the single-season record for “ribbies”: ____
5. “Listen up!”: ____
6. Adjective for the “Star” of Churchill Downs in 1953: ____
7. Sew the holey hell outta socks: ____
8. Orlando’s back-ups: ____
ENTREE #8
Here are clues for an eighth ladder:
Note: The answer to Clue #3 is not a single word but rather an abbreviation followed by a word.
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. First name that means “lion-like” _____
3. A word-ending paired with “di-,” “pan-” or “cycl-” prefixes: _____
4. Aid to surgeons who like to pump the volume up to “11”: _____
5. To walk with a heavy step: _____
6. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
ENTREE #9
Here are clues for a ninth ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. Hobo: _____
3. London streetcars: _____
4. Plural word with no “i” in it: _____
5. Six-, four- and two-year stints, respectively, in the Senate, White House and House: _____
6. Belonging to Mr. Melville or Mr. Munster: _____
7. Word, spoken by Ed, preceding “Johnny!”: _____
8. Root beer brand introduced at the U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia: _____
9. Keeps under wraps: _____
10. What one does to “one’s time” while waiting: _____
11. Last name of a U.S. vice president:_____
Live? Memorex? Bandstand? Dessert:
Hear no awful, see no awful
In 1967 a soul singer performed and recorded something that many people heard.
In 1968 that same singer appeared on something else that many people saw.
These things both contain the same three words in the same order. Each has an apostrophe, but in a different place.
What are these three words?
Hint: What the people heard in 1967 was likely very satisfying... at least for the listener.
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:
Star-studded celestial stage
Rearrange the combined letters of two signs of the zodiac to spell three things you might see and/or hear on a performance stage. What are these three things?
Hint: All three things are related, in some way, to music. And all three are plural words.
Note: When n = 12, (n)(n-1)/2 = 66.
That’s not so daunting!
Appetizer Menu
Save Me A Conundrumstick! Appetizer:
What’s for lunch or munchin’?
🥁1. Take the last name of a well-known scientist. Drop the last letter, then reverse the first three letters and place at the end. When spoken aloud the result will sound like a health food but spelled very differently.🥁2. Think of a two word phrase used in a drink order. Remove the space to get a slang word of approval.
🥁3. Think of a type of mailing address in two words. Advance the last letter one place forward in the alphabet to name a kind of sandwich.🥁4. Name a drink in three letters. Duplicate this word, one after the other, with a space in between. Add a P to the front of the first word to name a particular type of the first drink.
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Sippy Cup Slice:
Garden-variety victory gardens
The alliterative four-word nickname of a competitive event includes a word for favorites people pick from their gardens.
An alcoholic beverage sipped at the event rhymes with similar but different garden-variety favorites that people pick.At the competitive event itself, however (which, incidentally, is not held at Madison Square Garden), people pick favorites not found in a garden.
What is the beverage?
What are the two favorites people pick from gardens?
What non-garden favorites are picked at the event?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Two rungs don’t make a “flight”
Will Shortz’s April 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting LARGE to SMALL, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. Here’s the tricky part: Plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are not allowed.Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Each Sunday, the puzzlemaster Will Shortz entraps us (like rats in a maze!) with his amazingly clever National Public Radio puzzles. This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting WILL to MAZE, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. There’s no tricky part.
Note: I believe there are four different correct “ladders” that will allow you to climb from WILL to MAZE. On each ladder there are only three “rungs” between the WILL and MAZE rungs.
ENTREE #2
The puzzlemaster Will Shortz stumps us every Sunday with his National Public Radio puzzles.
This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting SHORTZ to STUMPS, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word (except for “Shortz,” of course) each step of the way. Again, there’s no tricky part.Note: The shortest “ladder” I can construct that will allow me to climb from SHORTZ to STUMPS has eight rungs – with SHORTZ on the bottom, STUMPS on the top, and six rungs in between.
ENTREE #3
The challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting RUNGS to ELOPE, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. Again, there’s no tricky part.Note: The shortest “ladder” I can construct that will allow me to climb up the elopement ladder from RUNGS to ELOPE has thirteen rungs – with RUNGS on the bottom, ELOPE on the top, and eleven rungs in between.
ENTREE #4
Each Sunday on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday program, host Lulu Garcia-Navarro introduces “The Puzzle” segment with puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting LULU to HOST, changing one letter at a time. There’s no tricky part: Plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.Here are clues to the ladder:
1. NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host: LULU
2. “Disney on demand”: ____
3. The kind of hoop that Alvin coveted for Christmas: ____
4. Word likely preceding “cómo estás?” (“How are ya?”) in Guadalajara: ____
5. Otters’ den: ____
6. Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s role on NPR’s “The Puzzle” segment: HOST
ENTREE #5
Here are clues for another ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. A multinational corporation: _____
3. First name of a novelist who acknowledged Christ’s “warts”: _____4. A pair of sweaty “swooshy”
footwear: _____
5. Something that a “football” gives the president control over: _____
6. Blimp-shaped green gourds: _____
7. Brand-name soft drinks: _____
8. Staple of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show monologue (at the expense of the president in Clue #1) during the mid 1970s: _____
ENTREE #6
This challenge is to complete the following word ladder connecting two 4-letter words, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. The words are used in an idiom meaning “from beginning to end, completely, everything.” There’s no tricky part... plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:1. “There’s a Girl in My ____”:
2. Pittances: ____
3. Dipsomaniacs: ____
4. The plural counterpart of “tittle” in Matthew 5: ____
5. What Jay’s jaw does: ____
6. Anthony McAuliffe’s terse response to a German surrender ultimatum: ____
ENTREE #7
This challenge is to complete the following word ladder connecting two 4-letter words, changing one letter at a time, making a common word each step of the way. The words are used in an idiom meaning either “nighttime” or “daytime,” depending on which word appears first in the idiom. (The order of clues given below indicates the idiom meaning nighttime.) There’s no tricky part... plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:1.The darker part of twilight: ____
2. Dodge a bullet, for example: ____
3. Jim’s rafting companion: ____
4. Wilson who holds the single-season record for “ribbies”: ____
5. “Listen up!”: ____
6. Adjective for the “Star” of Churchill Downs in 1953: ____
7. Sew the holey hell outta socks: ____
8. Orlando’s back-ups: ____
ENTREE #8
Here are clues for an eighth ladder:
Note: The answer to Clue #3 is not a single word but rather an abbreviation followed by a word.
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. First name that means “lion-like” _____
3. A word-ending paired with “di-,” “pan-” or “cycl-” prefixes: _____4. Aid to surgeons who like to pump the volume up to “11”: _____
5. To walk with a heavy step: _____
6. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
ENTREE #9
Here are clues for a ninth ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. Hobo: _____
3. London streetcars: _____
4. Plural word with no “i” in it: _____
5. Six-, four- and two-year stints, respectively, in the Senate, White House and House: _____
6. Belonging to Mr. Melville or Mr. Munster: _____
7. Word, spoken by Ed, preceding “Johnny!”: _____ 8. Root beer brand introduced at the U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia: _____
9. Keeps under wraps: _____
10. What one does to “one’s time” while waiting: _____
11. Last name of a U.S. vice president:_____
Dessert Menu
Live? Memorex? Bandstand? Dessert:
Hear no awful, see no awful
In 1967 a soul singer performed and recorded something that many people heard.
In 1968 that same singer appeared on something else that many people saw. These things both contain the same three words in the same order. Each has an apostrophe, but in a different place.
What are these three words?
Hint: What the people heard in 1967 was likely very satisfying... at least for the listener.
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.
Seeing as there are still no comments, I'll start things off again.
ReplyDeleteTo my delight, the Schpuzzle was actually DO-able this week...it only took about eight tries (as opposed to 66), mostly because it was sort of obvious WHICH Sign should definitely be included, and then which other ones to try.
The Conundrums came next, although I'm not actually SURE about #2, having NEVER heard the 'word' in question before. My favorite was #1, and I guessed the right person right away, and got a kick out of the spelling difference.
Most happily, since I usually get stuck on the Appetizers, I managed to solve the Sippy Slice, looking up a hunch that I only later realized that it almost had 'hints' within the puzzle text.
But then came this week's Entrees. #1 was easy enough, but I am stuck on #s 2, 3 and 8. The others worked out okay, except for ONE of the words in #5 [those blimp-shaped gourds' name is eluding me, no matter how many different ways I look them up, and the ONLY possibilities, working from both ends, don't make a lot of sense.]
No luck on Dessert yet. And that's how it stands at my house for April 17.
VT,
DeleteThe word for those "blimp-shaped gourds" (which appears in Merriam Webster) is an informal short form of a 3-syllable word. I didn't realize it was gourd... it seems more like a vegetable or perhaps even a fruit.
BlimpoBlambda
I believe I know what short form you are talking about, however that word doesn't get me to the final word necessary...and I can't imagine that the final word would be anything OTHER than what I have selected.
DeleteOh never mind. I just figured it out, how the correct gourd word works.
DeleteHappy Housebound Friday to all!
ReplyDeleteUnlike VT, I found the Schpuzzle to be not as doable as I'd first hoped. Obviously the zodiac sign with the longest name would be the reason you'd come up with THREE plural words, but sadly, I could only find one good possibility as one of those words. Also, I could never find the answer to Conundrum #2 to ever be sure about it to begin with. Got all the other ones, though. The Sippy Cup Slice proved to be one of those rare "got-it-at-first-glance" moments I sometimes have here. Got all the Entrees except #3(a bit too long for a word ladder, IMHO), and was actually a bit disappointed in the Dessert. You'd think there'd be something on the Internet that would easily reveal the story of the soul singer recording something in 1967, then appearing on TV(I assume)the following year. No such luck. Rest assured, hints will be needed. On the homefront, I've been for a walk today, come home, changed clothes, had something to drink, then checked Puzzleria! first only because "Ask Me Another" is a rerun, and neither the Prize Crossword nor the Private Eye Crossword are ready yet. Mom will fix supper later this evening. She won't be using a drive-through. I already had her do that for lunch on my birthday this past Wednesday, in part because Bryan hadn't got our groceries yet, and I didn't want to fix our last pizza. That was all I had left. Mom also says we've got to cut my hair eventually, but I'll have to shower again before that because she says it has to be clean for her to do it. But though I'm in no hurry to do so, for obvious reasons, I will have to do it sometime this week just to get it over with anyway. I just haven't decided when. Good luck and good solving to all, and please STAY SAFE!
No sports highlights to cover, so sportscasters gotta get creative.
ReplyDeleteHere is a good example of that:
INTRO
DAY 3
DAY 10
DAY 11
DAY 12
DAY 22
DAY 23
Note: If you watch just one of these links, open DAY 23. It's my favorite. (If you like these "Highlights from Home," there are likely more of them online.)
LegoWhoEnjoysTheseHighlightsBetterThan"RealSports"Highlights
Do you allow REMOVING or ADDING a letter as a step in your ladders?
ReplyDeleteExample:
LARGE
SARGE
SAGE
STAGE
STALE
STALL
SMALL
6 STEPS in all (7 words)
That's a very interesting wrinkle, ron, one that I had not considered. In my nine riff-offs this week, however, I have conformed to Mr. Shortz's rules (for the most part anyway).
DeleteYour idea of removing-or-adding letters, rather than merely changing them, elevates/escalates the "ladder-puzzle-genre" to a whole new level!
LegoWhoWondersIfThereIsSuchAThingAs"EscalatorShoes"
Just what do you consider to be Mr. Shortz rules? All he said was "changing one letter at a time" which does not rule out dropping or adding a letter as a step.
DeleteWill did NOT say: "changing one letter at a time" TO ANOTHER LETTER.
DeleteIt still looks a little weird to me.
DeleteYou make an excellent point, ron. I may well have read something into the NPR puzzle that was not there.
DeleteWe'll find out tomorrow morning.
LegoAdmitsThatWhenHeAssumesHeMakesAnAssOutOfHeAndMe!
...HimAndMe :-)
DeleteI believe Lego just wanted it to rhyme, geo. However, I share your grammatical bent....if I hear ONE MORE PERSON say "ME and BOB walked on the beach..." I am going to completely lose it! Was this entire generation NEVER taught anything about English grammar in school?
DeleteVT - agree :)
DeleteThe worst one is "between you and I". I once lost a relationship because of that one.
If I ever get my hands on that Julio kid I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention ... but I still have fond memories of Bobbie McGee.
DeleteKris Kristopherson wrote:
Delete"You know, feelin' good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee..."
"me" = the object of "was good enough for..."
Paul Simon wrote:
"Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard."
"me" = the object of "seein' "
Both perfectly grammatical.
LegoWhoDefendsHimselfByNoting"HeyItCouldHaveBeenWorseAtLeastIDidn'tSignOffWithLegoAdmitsThatWhenHeAssumesHeMakesAnAssOutOfHeAndI!
Geo, "between you and I" drives me NUTSO also. EVERYBODY on TV does it....news reporters, people being interviewed, even some of the Royal Family, for heaven's sakes. Were people NEVER taught the difference between subject pronouns and object pronouns? I often end up screaming at the TV, be it a show or a news program.
DeleteI'd love to hear the story about how you somehow lost a relationship due to this!! I presume the other person kept misusing grammar, and it drove you nuts, so you broke up? Cant' say that I blame you!!!
I, Kris, and Paul find this all very amusing.
DeleteGerman saying (wrt using "I" first):
DeleteDer Esel nennt sich immer zuerst.
The ass always names himself first.
Now have everything except Conundrum 2 and the Dessert.
ReplyDeleteGetting Entrée #8 was a bit of a struggle; others were rather easy.
Got Conundrum 2 but had never heard the slang term.
ReplyDeleteI defy anyone to parse out the following clue I had to figure out a couple of hours ago in the latest Everyman Crossword on the Guardian Website. I couldn't:
ReplyDeleteAlert: 'Following boundary, Australian captain declared'(8)
The answer is FOREWARN. It's obvious this is a synonym of ALERT, but I could never figure out the wordplay that followed. I had to actually check an answer website to find it.
There was a recent successful Australian cricket captain named David WARNER. There is an "FO" in FOllowing. But "boundary" and "declared" mystify me!
DeleteLegoWhoIsButAMereDabblerInTheCrypticArts
I just assumed the F alone would stand for Following. I found no connection between "boundary" and ORE. But the WARNER part actually makes sense, because they'd simply call him "WARN", wouldn't they? Maybe that's how they'd "declare" him. I don't know. Sometimes you can only get the answer after enough letters are revealed by the intersecting answers you did get. You still might not be able to parse it out after that. I never try to be that ambiguous with the wordplay element of it. And, spoiler alert, y'all are going to be able to see for yourself when my next puzzle drops next week! I hope to be making no apologies for MY wordplay, I can tell you that!
Deletecranberry,
DeleteI hoped the ER in WARNER might somehow be moved to the beginning to form REWARN, and then that the FO in FOllowing might then somehow be attached to the front to form FO-RE-WARN.
But, yes, the best news is that we will be featuring another of cranberry's cryptic crossword puzzles on next Friday's (April 24) Puzzleria!
LegoJustForewarnin'Y'all!
Sunday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle:
One of my favorite NPR puzzles challenged us to rearrange the letters in a 12-word meaning "to make something worse" to form two plural words. The 12-letter word contains no esses.
My Schpuzzle is not as elegant as that puzzle. Ergo, my hint ("All three are plural words") actually ought to be quite helpful.
Conundrums:
1. The scientist is relatively recently no longer with us.
2. The slang word of approval, amazingly, appears, in dialogue in Dickens' "Nicholas Nickelby! It is an affirming word>
3. The mailing address contains an abbreviation.
4. As for the drink, think "India..."
Sippy Cup Slice:
Imagine a church on a hill in the home of a Slugger...
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
ENTREE #1
A few synonyms of the "middle rungs":
mural, shopping complex, guy, stratagem, about one-twenty-sixth of a marathon, grinding operation
ENTREE #2
One of my "middle-rung" words is the root of a word that caused Otis Campbell to spend some novernights at the Mayberry jail. Another "rung-word" is what "She" does "to Conquer."
ENTREE #3
My middle (seventh) word is something apples have.
ENTREE #4
Alvin coveted a fad-gift from the 1950s. Theodore and Simon wanted "a plane that loops the loop."
ENTREE #5
3. The novelist wrote about a "Last Temptation."
5. Many believe HST ought not have passed the “football” forward, but instead passed on the football.
ENTREE #6
4. The plural counterpart of “tittle” in Matthew 5: is a synonym of "to quickly pen."
ENTREE #7
2. A ____ might have to ____ down to dodge a bullet from a hunter in a blind.
5. “Listen up to those herald angels!”
ENTREE #8
The president in Clue #6 succeeded the president in Clue #1.
ENTREE #9
The vice-president in Clue #11 may succeed the president in Clue #1.
Dessert:
The soul singer performed a song live in Paris in early 1967. (It had already a been hit by the band that wrote it.) The soul singer's song was recorded live and put on a live album which was released in mid-1967.
Early in 1968 a photo of the singer appeared posthumously on magazine racks.
LegoWhoBelievesThatRaySawyerAndShelSilversteimWouldHaveALegUpInSolvingTheDessert
Finally! I got the Dessert! Still can't find the Nicholas Nickleby word, though.
ReplyDeleteNice solving, cranberry.
DeleteLegoSlingingSlanguage
cranberry
ReplyDeleteShane Warne was a famous cricket star back in the Dark Ages. He shows up fairly often in cryptic puzzles. What the clue tells you is all about position; the famous captain "declared"means "Sounds like" because of the silent E in Warne. And Warn follows Fore.
A very satisfying and involved puzzle which uses several devices and tricks, all mixed up. I like it.
Were you affected by that freight train of tornadoes? The whole world is discombobulated -- the clocks strike thirteen. Looks like Mother Nature is getting of all these two-legged parasites with their arrogance and filthy wasteful h
abits.
Stay safe. D.E.
Thank you for being concerned, DE. Luckily, last night's brief weather "event" was not as bad as the week before. We almost had the electricity go out twice last night, and my Wi-Fi was affected momentarily, but we survived. Our next bad weather is supposed to be Thursday, but until then, I hope to take a walk while it's beautiful outside right now. A week ago, it got to the point where we had to get helmets and a "preparedness kit" and stand in the utility room waiting for it to pass through. Thank God we haven't had another April 27, 2011. We had no power for about a week. Then we went to Birmingham just to go somewhere else that wasn't hit like we were, and when we came back we had power, though it would be another day until we got our cable back. I actually started to cry when I saw the light in our garage come on when we returned that day. I didn't know how long we might have to put up with an outage. Of course, I never dreamed that nine years later there'd be a global pandemic. This is much worse than just having bad weather, but at least we don't have to worry about our electricity as much.
ReplyDeleteIN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
ReplyDeleteTRUMP
TRAMP
TRAMS
TEAMS
TERMS
HERMS
HERES
HIRES
HIDES
BIDES
BIDEN
DUSK
DUCK
HUCK
HACK
HARK
DARK
DARN
DAWN
SOUP
SOUS
SOTS
JOTS
JUTS
NUTS
NIXON
NIKON
NIKOS
NIKES
NUKES
CUKES
COKES
JOKES
WILL
MILL (WALL)
MILE (MALL)
MALE
MAZE
JULEP, TULIP, ROSES, HORSES
SAGITTARIUS > GUITARS+SITA
...avoiding the temptation of SITARS, which would force an irregular plural, choose ARIES, then...
SITA+ARIES > ARIAS+SITE >
ARIAS+TIES
Musicians sometimes wear TIES, but that doesn't mean that sort of TIE pertains to music. However, musical TIES connect notes. But I'm not sure you'd be aware of such TIES unless you were looking over the performer's shoulder, or were already familiar with the score.
PALE ALE
LULU
HULU
HULA
HOLA
HOLT
HOST
HAWKING > QUINOA
P.O. BOX > PO'BOY
STUMPS
STOMPS
STOOPS
SCOOPS
SCOOTS
SHOOTS
SHORTS
SHORTZ
ELOPE
SLOPE
SLOPS
SHOPS
CHOPS
COOPS
COOLS
COALS
COATS
COSTS
CASTS
CASES
CANES
PANES
PANGS
PINGS
RINGS
RUNGS
ROLLING STONES' COVER / ROLLING STONE'S COVER
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteSAGITTARIUS, ARIES(GUITARS, ARIAS, TIES)
Appetizer Menu
Conundrums
1. (Stephen)HAWKING, QUINOA
3. P. O. BOX, PO'BOY
4. PALE ALE
Menu
RUN FOR THE ROSES(Kentucky Derby), MINT JULEPS, TULIPS, RACEHORSES
Entrees
1.
WILL
WILE
MILE
MALE
MAZE
or
WILL
WALL
MALL
MALE
MAZE
2.
STUMPS
STOMPS
STOOPS
SCOOPS
SCOOTS
SHOOTS
SHORTS
SHORTZ
3.
ELOPE
SLOPE
SLOPS
SHOPS
CHOPS
COOPS
COOLS
COALS
COATS
COSTS
CASTS
CASES
CANES
PANES
PANGS
PINGS
RINGS
RUNGS
4.
LULU
HULU
HULA
HOLA
HOLT
HOST
5.
NIXON
NIKON
NIKEN
NIKES
NUKES
CUKES
COKES
JOKES
6.
SOUP
SOUS
SOTS
JOTS
JUTS
NUTS
7.
DUSK
DUCK
HUCK
HURK
HARK
DARK
DARN
DAWN
8.
OBAMA
OSAMA
ORAMA
TRAMA
TRAMP
TRUMP
9.
TRUMP
TRAMP
TRAMS
TEAMS
TERMS
HERMS
HERES
HIRES
HIDES
BIDES
BIDEN
Dessert
ROLLING STONES COVER(Otis Redding recorded a version of "(I Can't Get No)Satisfaction" for his 1967 live album "Live In Europe".),
ROLLING STONE'S COVER(A photo of Redding was featured posthumously the next year on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.)
Next time there'll be a new cryptic crossword from yours truly! Y'all have been warned!-pjb
BTW Happy Birthday, Leann! She's my sister-in-law Renae's younger sister, and today's her 36th! Too bad we won't be having a party for her, for obvious reasons.
ReplyDeleteNIKOS, not NIKEN. I think I actually looked up NIKEN at first when I did that puzzle, and then totally forgot I'd found NIKOS after I had no luck with my first choice.
ReplyDeleteI also put HURK where the guy's name was HACK. Must've had something else on my mind today.
DeleteSCHPUZZLE: SAGITTARIUS & TAURUS => GUITARS, ARIAS & TUTUS
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. HAWKING => KINWAH => QUINOA
2. NO ICE => NOICE
3. PO BOX => PO' BOY
4. ALE ALE => PALE ALE
SIPPY SLICE: KENTUCKY DERBY = RUN FOR THE ROSES => ROSES; MINT JULEP; TULIP; HORSES
ENTREES:
1. WILL, MILL, MALL, MALE, MAZE. Also: WILL, MILL, MILE, MALE, MAZE.
2. SHORTZ, SHORTS, SNORTS, SNOOTS, SNOOPS, STOOPS, STOMPS, STUMPS
3. RUNGS 2. lungs 3. lunge 4. 5. 6. 7. CORES 8. 9. 10. 11. ELOPE
4. LULU, HULU, HULA, HOLA, HOLT, HOST.
5. NIXON, NIKON, NIKOS, NIKES, NUKES, CUKES, COKES, JOKES
6. SOUP, SOUS, SOTS, JOTS, JUTS, NUTS.
7. DUSK, DUCK, HUCK, HACK, HARK, DARK, DARN, DAWN
8. OBAMA, -ORAMA, ORAMP?, TRAMP, TRUMP [Why is the Lion-like first name even necessary here?]
9. TRUMP, TRAMP, TRAMS, TEAMS, TERMS, HERMS, HERES, HIRES, HIDES, BIDES, BIDEN.
DESSERT: OTIS REDDING: "I CAN'T GET NO SATISFACTION"??
Actually, I had considered the Schpuzzle answer with Aries and 'ties' but rejected it, because I didn't think someone who wasn't familiar with written music would KNOW about 'ties.'
DeleteTUTUS actually makes more sense, really.
DeleteI can't believe I couldn't get NOICE(NO ICE). The closest I came was ON ICE, but I couldn't find ONICE anywhere.
DeleteI can't actually remember WHERE I found it....possibly that "urban slang' dictionary site?
DeleteSchpuzzle: ARIES, SAGITTARIUS => ARIAS, GUITARS, TIES
ReplyDeleteConundrums
#1: HAWKINS => HAWKIN => KINWAH (QUINOA)
#2: NO ICE => NOICE => NICE
#3: PO BOX => POBOX => PO'BOY
#4: ALE ALE + P => PALE ALE
Sippy-Cup Slice: RUN FOR THE ROSES, JULEP, TULIP, HORSES
Entrées
#1: WILL WILE WALE MALE MAZE or WILL WALL MALL MALE MAZE
#2: SHORTZ SHORTS SHOOTS SCOOTS SCOOPS STOOPS STOMPS STUMPS
#3: RUNGS RINGS PINGS PONGS PONDS POODS POOPS PLOPS SLOPS SLOPE ELOPE
#4: LULU HULU HULA HOLA HOLT HOST
#5: NIXON NIKON NIKOS NIKES NUKES CUKES COKES JOKES
#6: SOUP SOUS SOTS JOTS JUTS NUTS
#7: DUSK DUCK HUCK HACK HARK DARK DARN DAWN
#8: OBAMA OSAMA ORAMA ORAMP TRAMP TRUMP
#9: TRUMP TRAMP TRAMS TEAMS TERMS HERMS HERES HIRES HIDES BIDES BIDEN
Dessert: OTIS (Redding) Didn't get further.
Note: listing the ladders horizontally saves a lot of space.
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle Of The Week:
Star-studded celestial stage
Rearrange the combined letters of two signs of the zodiac to spell three things you might see and/or hear on a performance stage.
What are these three things?
Hint: All three things are related, in some way, to music.
Answer:
Arias, guitars, tutus; (Sagittarius, Taurus)
Appetizer Menu
Save Me A Conundrumstick! Appetizer
What’s for lunch or munchin’?
1. Take the last name of a well-known scientist. Drop the last letter, then reverse the first three letters and place at the end. When spoken aloud the result will sound like a health food but spelled very differently.
Answer:
(Stephen) HAWKING, QUINOA
2, Think of a two word phrase used in a drink order. Remove the space to get a slang word of approval.
Answer:
NO ICE, NOICE
3. Think of a type of mailing address in two words. Advance the last letter one place forward in the alphabet to name a kind of sandwich.
Answer:
P.O. BOX, PO’ BOY
4. Name a drink in three letters. Duplicate this word, one after the other, with a space in between. Add a P to the front of the first word to name a particular type of the first drink.
Answer:
ALE, PALE ALE
MENU
Sippy Cup Slice:
Garden-variety victory gardens
The alliterative nickname of a competitive event includes a word for favorites people pick from gardens. Alcoholc beverages sipped at the event rhyme with similar garden-variety favorites that people pick.
However, at the event itself (which is not held at Madison Square Garden) people pick favorites not found in a garden.
What are the beverages and the two favorites people pick from gardens?
What kind of favorites are picked at the event?
Answer:
Juleps; tulips; roses; People at the "Run for the Roses" (Kentucky Derby) sip (mint) juleps. People pick their "favorite-to-win" thoroughbred horses at the Kentucky Derby.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteTwo rungs don’t make a “flight”
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Each Sunday, the puzzlemaster Will Shortz entraps us (like rats in a maze!) with his amazingly clever National Public Radio puzzles.
This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting WILL to MAZE, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. There’s no tricky part.
Note: I believe there are four different correct “ladders” that will allow you to climb from WILL to MAZE. On each ladder there are only three “rungs” between the WILL and MAZE rungs.
Answers:
WILL, WALL, MALL, MALE, MAZE
WILL, WILE, MILE, MALE, MAZE
WILL, MILL, MALL, MALE, MAZE
WILL, MILL, MILE, MALE, MAZE
ENTREE #2
The puzzlemaster Will Shortz stumps us every Sunday with his National Public Radio puzzles.
This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting SHORTZ to STUMPS, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word (except for “Shortz,” of course) each step of the way. Again, there’s no tricky part.
Note: The shortest “ladder” I can construct that will allow me to climb from SHORTZ to STUMPS has eight rungs – with SHORTZ on the bottom, STUMPS on the top, and six rungs in between.
Answer:
SHORTZ, SHORTS, SHOOTS, SNOOTS, SNOOPS, STOOPS, STOMPS, STUMPS
ENTREE #3
The challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting RUNGS to ELOPE, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. Again, there’s no tricky part.
Note: The shortest “ladder” I can construct that will allow me to climb up the elopement ladder rungs from RUNGS to ELOPE has thirteen rungs – with RUNGS on the bottom, ELOPE on the top, and eleven rungs in between.
Answer:
RUNGS, LUNGS, LONGS, TONGS, TONES, CONES, CORES, CORPS, COOPS, CLOPS, SLOPS, SPOPE, ELOPE
ENTREE #4
Each Sunday on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday program, host Lulu Garcia-Navarro introduces “The Puzzle” segment with puzzlemaster Will Shortz. This challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting LULU to HOST, changing one letter at a time. Here’s the tricky part: Plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are not allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:
1. NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host: LULU
2. “Disney on demand”: ____
3. The kind of hoop that Alvin coveted for Christmas: ____
4. Word likely preceding (ital) “cómo estás?” (“How are ya?”) in Guadalajara: ____
5. Otters’ den: ____
6. Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s role on NPR’s “The Puzzle” segment: HOST
Answer:
1. NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host: LULU
2. “Disney on demand”: HULU
3. The kind of hoop that Alvin coveted for Christmas: HULA (hoop)
4. Word preceding (ital) “cómo estás?” (“How are ya?”) in Guadalajara: HOLA
5. Otters’ den: HOLT
6. Lulu Garcia-Navarro’s role on NPR’s “The Puzzle” segment: HOST
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices (continued):
ENTREE #5
Here are clues for another ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. A multinational corporation: _____
3. First name of a novelist who acknowleged Christ’s “warts”: _____
4. A pair of sweaty swooshy footwear: _____
5. Something over which a “football” gives the president control: _____
6. Blimp-shaped green gourds: _____
7. Brand-name soft drinks: _____
8. Staple of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show monologue (at the expense of the president in Clue #1) during the mid 1970s: _____
Answer:
Here are clues for another ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: NIXON
2. A multinational corporation: NIKON
3. First name of a novelist who acknowleged Christ’s “warts”: NIKOS (Kazantzakis)
4. A pair of sweaty swooshy footwear: NIKES
5. Something a “football” gives the president control over: NUKES
6. Blimp-shaped green gourds: CUKES
7. Brand-name soft drinks: COKES
8. Staples of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show monologue (at the expense of the president in Clue #1) during the mid 1970s: JOKES
ENTREE #6
This challenge is to complete the following word ladder connecting SOUP to NUTS, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. There’s no tricky part... plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:
1. “There’s a Girl in My ____”: (SOUP)
2. Pittances: ____
3. Dipsomaniacs: ____
4. The plural counterpart of “tittle” in Matthew 5: ____
5. What Jay’s jaw does: ____
6. Anthony McAuliffe’s terse response to a German surrender ultimatum: ____ (“NUTS!”)
Answer:
1. “There’s a Girl in My SOUP”:
2. Pittances: SOUS
3. Dipsomaniacs: SOTS
4. The plural counterpart of “tittle” in Matthew 5: JOTS
5. What Jay’s jaw does: JUTS
6. Anthony McAuliffe’s terse response to a German surrender ultimatum: "NUTS!"
ENTREE #7
This challenge is to complete the following word ladder connecting DUSK to DAWN, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way. There’s no tricky part... plurals and verbs formed by adding -s are indeed allowed.
Here are clues to the ladder:
1.What descends at sundown: DUSK
2. Dodge a bullet, for example: ____
3. Jim’s rafting companion: ____
4. Wilson who holds the single-season record for “ribbies”: ____
5. “Listen up!”: ____
6. Adjective for the “Star” of Churchill Downs in 1953!: ____
7. Sew the holey hell outta socks: ____
8. Orlando’s back-ups: DAWN
Answer:
1.What descends at sundown: DUSK
2. Dodge a bullet, for example: DUCK
3. Jim’s rafting companion: HUCK
4. Wilson who holds the single-season record for “ribbies”: HACK
5. “Listen up!”: HARK
6. Adjective for the “Star” that in 1953 “Ran for the Roses” and got ’em!: DARK
7. Sew the holey hell outta socks: DARN
8. Orlando’s back-ups: DAWN
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz Slices (continued):
ENTREE #8
Here are clues for a eighth ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. First name that means “lion-like” _____
3. Word ending paired with “di-,” “pan-” or “cycl-” prefixes: _____
4. Aid to surgeons who like to pump the volume up to “11”: _____
5. To walk with a heavy step: _____
6. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
Answer:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: OBAMA
2. First name that means “lion-like” OSAMA
3. Word ending paired with “di-,” “pan-” or “cycl-” prefixes: -ORAMA
4. Aid to surgeons who like to pump the volume up to “11”: O.R. AMP (Operating Room Amp)
5. To walk with a heavy step: TRAMP
6. Last name of a U.S. president: TRUMP
ENTREE #9
Here are clues for a ninth ladder:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: _____
2. Hobo: _____
3. Streetcars: _____
4. Plural word with no “I” in it: _____
5. Six, four and two years, respectively, in the Senate, White House and House: _____
6. Belonging to Mr. Melville or Mr. Munster: _____
7. Word, spoken by Ed, preceding “Johnny!”: _____
8. Root beer introduced at the U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia: _____
9. Keeps under wraps: _____
10. Waits for (used before “one’s time”): _____
11. Last name of a U.S. vice president:_____
Answer:
1. Last name of a U.S. president: TRUMP_____
2. Hobo: TRAMP _____
3. London streetcars: TRAMS _____
4. Plural word with no “I” in it: TEAMS _____
5. Six, four and two years, respectively, in the Senate, White House and House: TERMS _____
6. Belonging to Mr. Melville or Mt. Munster: HERMS _____
7. Word, spoken by Ed, preceding “Johnny!”: HERE'S _____
8. Root beer introduced at the U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia: HIRES _____
9. Keeps under wraps: HIDES _____
10. Waits for (used before “one’s time”): BIDES _____
11. Last name of a U.S. vice president: BIDEN_____
Dessert Menu
Live? Memorex? Bandstand? Dessert:
Hear no awful, see no awful
In 1967 a soul singer performed and recorded something that many people heard.
In 1968 the singer appeared on something else that many people saw.
These things both contain the same three words in the same order. Each has an apostrophe, but in a different place.
What are these three words?
Hint: What the people heard in 1967 was likely very satisfying.
Answer:
Rolling Stones' cover; Rolling Stone's cover.
On March 21, 1967 in Paris, Otis Redding performed and recorded the song "Satisfaction," a Rolling Stones "cover," for the album "Otis Redding: Live in Europe."
On January 20, 1968, Otis Redding appeared (along with Jimi Hendrix and Donovan) on the magazine Rolling Stone's front cover.
Lego!