Friday, July 3, 2020

Houses of the wholly grueling puzzles; Shout “Eureka!” ere solving this puzzle? Warhog, woodhuck & other heartless critters; A pair of patriotic puzzles; A pilgrimward progression;


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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
A pilgrimward progression

Name a five-word idiom that describes the cost of something pricey. 
Rearrange its combined letters to form two words that can be read as instructions, the second word of which is an African creature. Following the instructions will result in last name of a Mayflower pilgrim. 
What is this idiom?
What is the creature?
Who is the pilgrim?

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Econfusions Appetizer:
Houses of the wholly grueling puzzles


Around the house 
?1. Name something in two words (of 5 and 8 letters) that you wouldn’t want to see around your house.  Combine the two words to get something that you also wouldn’t want in your house. What are the two items?
Hint: The first thing is something that is literally around your house, and the second involves a sense that is not sight.

Houses of Wor(d)ship  
?2. Name something you might see in a church in nine letters.  Move the third and fourth letters three places later in the alphabet (for example, A becomes D) and the result will be something else you might see in a church.

To have or to have not  
?3. Name something you can find in your house. The item’s etymology involves something that was once used, is no longer permitted, and that is often removed. 
What is the item and what is the word origin?

Boy’s Town  
?4. Take a common male first name in six letters.  The first four letters name an animal, the last four letters name where you might find that animal. What are the boy’s name, the animal, and the location?

Greatest Show on Earth at the Landmark Theatres
?5. Think of a well-known movie with one word in the title. Divide that word and translate to another language and the result will be a well-known landmark. What is the movie and what is the landmark?


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Astrological Slice:
Shout “Eureka!” ere solving this puzzle?

Rearrange the combined letters of two signs of the zodiac to form what solvers might exclaim just as they are about to complete a puzzle. 
What is it?

Riffing Off Shortz and Pegg Slices:
Warhog, woodhuck & other heartless critters

Will Shortz’s June 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ed Pegg Jr. (who runs the website MathPuzzle.com.), reads:
Think of a five-letter animal. Remove the middle letter, and two opposites remain. What animal is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Pegg Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a word in the lyrics of a TV sitcom theme song, a word that follows the word “scrambled.” 
Take another word in the lyrics that is an approximate rhyme of the first word. 
Move the last two letters of this approximate-rhyming word to the beginning of the approximate-rhyming word, leaving a space between. 
The result is the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?

ENTREE #2:
Divide into two parts the surname of a past British poet/playwright, forming two antonyms. 
Who is this poet/playwright?
Hint: The poet/playwright taught English literature at Princeton to two twentieth-century men of letters: 
1. a novelist whose surname is the same as the middle name of a twentieth-century U.S. president, and 
2. a literary critic whose surname is the same as the surname of a twentieth-century U.S. president.
ENTREE #3:
Think of  a nine-letter hyphenated word. Remove a word meaning “bodies of water” from the interior and two antonyms remain.
Hint: The hyphenated word is:
Summer, for Sharks and Jets;
Winter, for Cardinals and Orioles;
Spring, for Titans and Giants.
What is this word?
ENTREE #4:
Name something seen on a football field, in eight letters. 
Remove two consecutive interior letters. Rearrange the letters to the right of the resultant gap, and two antonyms remain. 
What eight-letter word is this?
ENTREE #5:
Think of what puppies use to dig and kittens use to knead. 
Move the second letter to the end and remove the first letter. Divide the result into two parts. 
Rearrange the letters of each part to form a pair of antonyms. 
What do puppies and kittens use?
What are the antonyms?
ENTREE #6:
Take a word that means “supplying with ample fluid or moisture.” 
Remove the fourth letter, and move the first letter to the end. The first three letters and the last five letters of this result can be rearranged to spell a pair of antonyms. 
What are they?


Dessert Menu

Independence Day Duo Dessert:
A pair of patriotic puzzles

1. Take three of the final six words in the first verse of a patriotic song. Make an anagram for each word. Arrange these anagrams in such an order that they form a three-word phrase describing the lyrical content of most of that verse. 
Now delete the first word of this phrase to describe the content of the chorus that follows. 
What are these phrases?

2. Take three consecutive words from a patriotic song. 
Move the third word between the first two. A string of consecutive letters within the result spells the female and male names of an animal. 
What are these names?
Hint: The three consecutive words are an article, noun and pronoun.

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32 comments:

  1. For a happy change, the Schpuzzle was cinchy...quite a relief from the difficulties of last week and, it seems to me, some prior weeks.

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    1. Congrats, VT. One down, fourteen to go!

      LegoWhoWillNowAddTheWord"Cinchy"ToHisVocabulary

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    2. My glee is at an end....I couldn't solve a single one of Eco's. Sob....

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    3. By now, I also have the second Dessert, and a very BAD (too complicated, am sure it's not right) answer for the first Dessert (does one have the correct song? Then the correct words chosen from among the six, etc etc?)

      And I worked out all the Entrees EXCEPT #5, which seems that it should have been easy enough, but nothing I tried would work. Don't know what I'm doing wrong.

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    4. VT,
      "Rocket Man" (with lyrics by Bernie Taupin) is another song that begins with the "verse-chorus" configuration:
      Verse
      She packed my bags last night pre-flight
      Zero hour nine AM
      And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
      I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
      It's lonely out in space
      On such a timeless flight...
      Chorus
      And I think it's gonna be a long long time
      'Till touch down brings me round again to find
      I'm not the man they think I am at home
      Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
      Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone...

      The last six words in the first verse are: "...space
      On such a timeless flight"
      We can make anagrams of space (scape), on (no) and timeless (itemless). You can arrange tose anagrams to form the phrase "No itemless scape," as depicted by this artwork.
      As for Entree #5, "what puppies use to dig and kittens use to knead" is an 8-letter word that is likely a more general term than those you may have tried. The letter you remove is an f. The second letter is a vowel.
      (Incidentally, I am sincerely sorry for including that "Rocket Man" link!)

      LegoBurningOutHisMuseOutHereAlone

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    5. Back to the first of the two Dessert puzzles:
      ...And, if you delete the first word of the three-anagram phrase, "No itemless scape," you get "itemless scape," which describes this artwork.

      LegoWhoWhenHeLeavesAGroceryStoreWithoutBuyingAnythingInvariablyWalksOutThroughThe"TenItemsOrLess"CheckOutLine

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    6. You were right, Lego, about my not having used the right term for the digging/kneading....I'd been close, but hadn't run across that one word term until now.

      Re Dessert #1, I had not realized that EACH word was to be separately anagrammed (I had bunched whatever three words I was trying all together, which made things very complicated.) Now, having checked, I figured out I didn't have the correct song....but I did grasp the verse and chorus set-up, so didn't need the Rocket Man example, I don't think. Now need to find a new song...not that many patriotic ones that I can come up with seem to HAVE verse/chorus forms.

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    7. Thanks for your "ViolinTedditing" on the beginning of the first Dessert puzzle, VT. My wording was a bit ambiguous, so I changed it.
      Hint for the Dessert #1 song: Steinbeck.

      LegoWhoWondersIfThereIsYetABustOfBobDoleInRusselKansas

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    8. I really hadn't intended to Teddit, but agree that the rewording is a good thing.

      Your latest hint shows me that I DID (awhile ago now) find the correct song, so thanks, as I wasn't sure.

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  2. Exotic menu this week. Schpuzzle jumped right out. Then looking at the others, I thought I might be all done.

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    1. Nice hinting, GB. Hinting is something I need help with. Paul provides hints galore in his posts, but I seldom "get" them... and I make up (most of) the puzzles!

      LegoWhoSaysThatAlthoughLastWeek'sDessertWasATadEroticThisWeek'sPuzzlesAreIndeed"Exotic"(NoLonger"Eary?")

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  3. So far, have solved all except Astrological Slice and Dessert #1. Have a probable alternate answer to Econfusion #1.

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  4. Very Early Atrological Slice hint:

    According to Wikipedia, "Eureka" comes from the Ancient Greek word εὕρηκα heúrēka, meaning "I have found (it)."
    Solvers in this Slice, however, who are just on the verge of solving their puzzle might instead exclaim something like "I have lost it!"

    LegoWhoWondersHowMuchRainwaterNoah'sArchimedesDisplaced

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    1. Astrological Slice: Think I have an answer, but I don't like it.

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    2. geofan,
      Does your disliked answer remind you a tad of Sir James Paul playing music in the afternoon for Boris Johnson? If so, It is likely my intended (albeit disliked) answer.

      LegoProducingMysteries

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  5. Not many comments, clues, or hints the past couple of days, so, in a weak moment, I'll stir the pot a bit. Geofan, I too have an alternate answer to Econfusion #1. I arrived at it before I got one I like a little better. Actually there are a lot of things in 5 and 8 letters that I don't want around or in the house. They're just not compound words - but they should be. So far I have 13 fairly reasonable answers, one on the thin (perhaps archaic) side, and one that is surprisingly elusive.

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    1. Found two answers here. One is likely the intended answer and one is an alternate. The "intended" answer is not an obvious compound; the alternate answer is.

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  6. Tuesday hints:

    Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
    One who pays with this "currency" might get digits in change.

    Econfusions Appetizer:
    1. Place an L at the beginning of the 5-letter word in the two-word phrase describing something "you wouldn’t want to see around your house" to name a seasonal event that generates something else that you don't want to see around your house... and that must be remidied lest the neighbors complain to you.
    2. Guttenberg, Galetti
    3. Give the hobo a fruit of the genus prunus.
    4. The common male first name in six letters is also an important lower-case adjective that ought to be in everyone's vocabulary.
    5. It's a well-known U.S. landmark. It has a bowling alley!

    Astrological Slice:
    Usually, a group works on this puzzle together. The border is normally the first order of business.

    Riffing Off Shortz and Pegg Slices:
    ENTREE #1:
    There are also tossed salads in the song lyrics
    ENTREE #2:
    "... You say, 'Stop' but I say, 'Go, go, go.' ... You say, 'Goodbye', and I say, 'Hello'..."
    ENTREE #3:
    Sure the Jets hav hung around New York City, but the Sharks apparenly left for the Left Coast and found their way to San Jose where they now flash their blades.
    ENTREE #4:
    The answer is somewhat of a focal point in the accompanying image.
    ENTREE #5:
    4-11, where 11 is not an eleven, but rather a symbol for something beginning with P.
    ENTREE #6:
    Based on his voting record, NARAL gave Illinois Representative Henry ____ an approval ______ of 0%.

    A pair of patriotic puzzles:
    1. "_____ His truth is ________ __."
    2. All the info you need to solve follows "O'er..."

    LegoNowRowing BastillewardWithIndependenceDayInHisRearviewMirrorBall

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  7. Friday solves:
    AN ARM AND A LEG > ANAGRAM ELAND > ALDEN

    CASABLANCA > WHITE HOUSE

    (tossed salads and scrambled) EGGS > PEGGED > ED PEGG

    OFF-SEASON > OFF/ON

    GOALPOST > GO/STOP

    Recent solves:
    SWORD MARCHING ON > (NO) CHARMING WORDS
    THE RAMPARTS WE > THE WE RAMPARTS > EWE, RAM

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  8. Here goes:

    Schpuzzle: An Arm And A Leg; (Anagram) Eland; (John) Alden

    Appetizers:
    1. Eaves Dropping and Eavesdropping (I first thought of Rough Housings and Roughhousings. Also I don't want Covid Nineteen around, but I guess that's not a compound word.)
    2. Chloister (spelling found in Colonial Era Clergy records) and Chorister
    3. "Lead" Pencil - Derived from "Black Lead" for graphite.
    4. Jakobe; Jako (Japanese Sardine); Kobe
    5. Casablanca and White House

    Astro. Slice: Missing Piece ! (Pisces and Gemini)

    Entrees:
    1. Ed Pegg (Eggs, Pegged - theme song from "Frasier")
    2. Alfred Noyes
    3. Off-season (remove "seas" - off and on)
    4. Goalpost (remove "al" - rearrange post = go and stop)
    5. Forepaws, Reap and Sow
    6. Day and Night (Hydrating)

    Desserts:
    1. No Charming Words and Charming Words
    2. Ewe and Ram (the we ramparts)

    And compliments to The Chef for another gray cell agitator.

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  9. Schpuzzle: AN ARM AND A LEG => ANAGRAM ELAND => ALDEN

    Econfusions
    #1: EAVES DROPPING, EAVESDROPPING
    Alternate: RADIO ACTIVITY (as from multiple cop cars), RADIOACTIVITY (doesn't fit hint)
    #2: SCRIPTURE – RI + UL => SCULPTURE (looks familiar - has it appeared somewhere else??)
    #3: PLUMBING, LEAD PAINT
    #4: ERNEST => ERNE, NEST
    #5. CASABLANCA => WHITE HOUSE

    Astrological Slice: ARIES, GEMINI => I'M SEEING AIR [post-Fri-hint]

    Entrées
    #1: EGG, PEGGED => ED PEGG
    #2: ALFRED NOYES => NO, YES
    #3: OFF-SEASON – SEAS => OFF, ON
    #4: GOALPOST – AL => GO, POST => GO, STOP
    #5: FOREPAWS => FREPAWSO – F => REPA, WSO => REAP, SOW
    #6: HYDRATING – R => YDATINGH => DAY, NIGHT

    Dessert
    #1: SWORD, MARCHING, ON => NO CHARMING WORDS => CHARMING WORDS [post-Sat-hint]
    #2: THE RAMPARTS WE => EWE, RAM

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    1. Great solving, Paul, GB and geofan.
      GB, I hope ecoachitect, "architect" of the five "Econfusions" Appetizers, weighs in on some of your pretty darn savvy alternative answers for #2, #3 and #4.
      I like geofan's alternative answer to my Astrological slice, and to Econfusion # 1 also.
      Very nice sussing out.

      LegoWhoAsks"Isn'tThatSisterChloeWhoIsDoingTheChloisterWalk?"AndWhoGratefullyAcknowledgesTheComplimentsToTheChef!

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    2. I misunderstood the hint "Solvers in this Slice, however, who are just on the verge of solving their puzzle might instead exclaim something like 'I have lost it!'" to mean (1) that the answer was in the form "I have..." (not possible for zodiacal signs) or "I'm ...-ing (requires Gemini); and (2) that the putative solver could not solve the puzzle. Hence "I'm seeing air (= I have no answer to the puzzle) seemed reasonable.

      Awaiting more future bulb-lit poetry, geofan

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    3. Both roughhousing(s) and radioactivity are clever alternates, the latter especially so in these times.

      Geofan: I may have used scripture → sculpture as a Blainesville Bonus Puzzle, can't remember, too lazy to check. GB: I liked the Chloister → Chorister coincidence, too, even if you had to use your very old dictionary.

      Jakobe? Can't call it a common name, but I have no beef with Kobe or sardines.

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  10. If it's any consolation, geofan, I haven't understood anything clearly since 1968.

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  11. Surprise, y'all! It's pjb, back from my own little "self-quarantine" while I get my own health checked out. Everything is fine. My MRI showed nothing wrong(at least that's what they're telling us!). But I feel well-rested and ready to try next week's puzzles, and then maybe(if y'all are good), I'll send off another(way overdue)cryptic crossword! Lego, make sure you check your inbox real soon! And to all, stay safe!
    ReturnOfTheCranberry(He'sAlive!)ComingSoonToThisTheater

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  12. SCHPUZZLE: AN ARM AND A LEG => ANAGRAM ELAND => (John) ALDEN

    ECO'S APPETIZERS:

    1. FLOOR CREAKING => FLARING COOKER [I know this isn't the intended answer, but it's all I could scrounge up.] Per hint: EAVES [LEAVES] ?????ING

    2. ????

    3. ASBESTOS; "QUICKLIME, WHEN SET AFIRE, CAN NOT BE EXTINGUISHED" [I had no idea what to do with the hobo/prunus clue--BUMPLUM?]

    4. ERNEST => ERNE (sea eagle) & NEST [Pre-hint]

    5. CASA BLANCA => WHITE HOUSE [Pre-hint]

    ASTRO SLICE: JIG SAW PUZZLE PIECE => GEMINI & PISCES = PIECE MISSING; [ I actually had come up with this answer pre-hint, but didn't know it was the correct one, as I never considered a jig saw puzzle!]


    ENTREES, all Pre-hints:

    1. [SCRAMBLED] EGGS [FRASIER] & PEGGED => ED PEGG

    2. ALFRED NO/YES [Hints: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson]

    3. OFF-SEASON => OFF & ON

    4. GOALPOST => remove AL => GO & STOP

    5. FOREPAWS => REPA/WSO => REAP & SOW [My goof was that I kept using FRONT PAWS or CLAWS]

    6. HYDRATING => YDA / TINGH => DAY & NIGHT

    DESSERT:

    1. SWORD, HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON => SWORD /WORDS; MARCHING/CHARMING; NO/ON => NO CHARMING WORDS & CHARMING WORDS

    2. THE RAMPARTS WE => THE WE RAMPARTS => EWE & RAM

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    1. Nice, solid solving, VT, once you hit your stride... especially considering the "pre-hint" nature of most of your solutions.

      I think geofan's "I'm seeing air" is actually pretty ingenious.

      Thanks, eco, for commenting on GB's interesting alternative answers to your puzzles.

      And, finally, it is GREAT news that cranberry is now sufficiently healthy to be back in our midst. We welcome him back with open arms and an openly Lego-gratefulness. I'll be looking forward to your next cryptic-crossword masterpiece, Patrick.

      LegoAndArmoAlasAreLamentablyLessValuableThanAnArmAndALeg

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

    Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
    A pilgrimward progression
    Name a five-word idiom that describes the cost of something pricey. Rearrange its letters to form two words that can be read as instructions, the second word of which is an African creature. Following the instructions will result in last name of a Mayflower pilgrim. What is this idiom? What is the creature? Who is the pilgrim?
    Answer:
    "an arm and a leg"; Eland; (John) Alden
    (an arm and a leg-->anagram eland-->(John) Alden

    Appetizer Menu
    Econfusions Appetizer:
    Houses of the wholly grueling puzzles
    Around the house
    1. Name something in two words (of 5 and 8 letters) that you wouldn’t want to see around your house. Combine the two words to get something that you also wouldn't want in your house. What are the two items?
    Hint: The first thing is something that is literally around your house, and the second involves a sense that is not sight.
    Answer:
    eaves dropping, eavesdropping
    (Potential hint: the second is something you might or might not spy.)
    Houses of Wor(d)ship
    2. Name something you might see in a church in nine letters. Move the third and fourth letters three places later in the alphabet (for example, A becomes D) and the result will be something else you might see in a church.
    Answer:
    scripture --> sculpture [note this is generally for churches only, mosques and synagogues generally disdain sculpture, at least statues.]
    To have or to have not
    3. Name something you can find in your house. The item’s etymology involves something that was once used, is no longer permitted, and that is often removed. What is the item and what is the word origin?
    Answer:
    Plumbing, whose roots derive from the Latin plumbum, meaning lead. Lead was used in early piping, perhaps "lead"ing to the madness in Roman "lead"ers. And hence the Periodic Table uses Pb for lead.
    Boy’s Town
    4. Take a common male first name in six letters. The first four letters name an animal, the last four letters name where you might find that animal. What are the boy’s name, the animal, and the location?
    Answer:
    Ernest -->erne, nest
    Greatest Show on Earth at the Landmark Theatres
    5. Think of a well-known movie with one word in the title. Divide that word and translate to another language and the result will be a well-known landmark. What is the movie and what is the landmark
    Answer:
    Casablanca-->White House

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    Astrological Slice:
    Shout “Eureka!” ere solving this puzzle
    Rearrange the combined letters of two signs of the zodiac to form what (frustrated) solvers might exclaim just as they are about to complete a puzzle. What is it?
    Answer:
    "Piece missing!" (GEMINI PISCES)

    Lego...

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

    Riffing Off Shortz and Pegg Slices:
    Warhog, woodhuck & other heartless critters
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Pegg Slices read:
    ENTREE #1:
    Think of a word in a TV sitcom theme song lyrics, one that follows the word “scrambled.” Take a second word in the lyrics that is an approximate rhyme of the first word. Move the last two letters of this second word to the beginning of the word, leaving a space between.
    The result is the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?
    Answer:
    Ed Pegg; (pegged)
    ENTREE #2:
    Divide in two the surname of a past British poet/playwright, forming two opposites. Who is this poet/playwright?
    Hint: The poet/playwright taught English literature at Princeton to two men of letters:
    1. a novelist whose surname is the same as the middle name of a twentieth-century U.S. president, and
    2. a literary critic whose surname is the same as the surname of a twentieth-century U.S. president.
    Answer:
    Alfred Noyes;
    Hint: Noyes' students at Princeton were novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) and Literary critic Edmund Wilson (Woodrow Wilson).
    ENTREE #3:
    Think of a nine-letter hyphenated word. Remove a word meaning “bodies of water” from the interior and two antonyms remain.
    The hyphenated word is:
    Summer, for Sharks and Jets;
    Winter, for Cardinals and Orioles;
    Spring, for Titans and Giants.
    What is this word?
    Answer:
    Off-season; Sharks and Jets play in the NHL, Titans and Giants in the NFL, and Cardinals and Orioles play Major League Baseball.)
    ENTREE #4:
    Name something seen on a football field, in eight letters. Remove two interior letters. Rearrange the letters to the right of the resultant gap, and two antonyms remain.
    What eight-letter word is this?
    Answer:
    Goalpost; (Go, Stop)
    ENTREE #5:
    Think of what puppies use to dig and kittens use to knead. Remove the first letter, move the second letter to the end, and divide the result into two parts. Rearrange the letters of each part to form a pair of antonyms.
    What do puppies and kittens use?
    What are the antonyms?
    Answer:
    Forepaws; Reap, sow
    ENTREE #6:
    Take a word that means “supplying with ample fluid or moisture.” Remove the fourth letter, and move the first letter to the end. The first three letters and the last five letters of this result can be rearranged to spell a pair of antonyms. What are they?
    Answer:
    Day, night; Hydrating (HYDRATING-->HYDATING-->YDATINGH-->YDA+TINGH=DAY+NIGHT

    Dessert Menu
    Independence Day Duo Dessert:
    A pair of patriotic puzzles
    1. Make anagrams of three of the final six words in the first verse of a patriotic song. Arrange them to form a a phrase describing the lyical content of most of that verse. Delete the first word of this phrase to describe the content of the chorus that follows. What are these phrases?
    Answer:
    No charming words; Charming words
    The last six words in the first verse of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" are:
    "...sword: His truth is marching on."
    on-->no
    marching-->charming
    sword-->words
    The first verse is full of " trampling," "wrath," "fateful lightning" and a "terrible swift sword."
    The chorus is full of "glories," "hallelujahs!" and "truth."
    2. Take three consecutive words from a patriotic song. Move the third word between the first two. A string of consecutive letters within the result spells the female and male names of an animal. What are these names?
    Answer:
    Ewe, Ram
    (Lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner"-->"o'er the ramparts we watched..."-->
    the we ramparts-->thE WE RAMparts-->EWE+RAM)

    Lego!

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  16. I have an alternate to the Schpuzzle that involves paper money. The only way it does not conform to the hint is that the first two words are used as a set (i.e. each of the 3 characters links to a given banknote).

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