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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Make a buck... or a lot of ’em!
Name a biblical figure and a word describing that figure.
What are these things?
Hint: The biblical figure’s spouse might be described by a four-word phrase Jesus once used to describe worthy and virtuous people. The initial letters of the words in the phrase can be rearranged to spell particular body parts.
Appetizer Menu
A Trio Of Appetizing Word Teasers:
“Literature, Music, TV & Movies”
Replace the object in the character’s name with something that they wear, and you will get another thing that you can wear.
Who is the person, and what are the articles of clothing?
🎶📺2. Take the two-word title of a famous hymn.
Remove the first letter of the second word. You will get the name of a TV show.
What is it?
🎥3. What two-word title of a famous movie is an anagram of a word meaning “pretends to be sick”?
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Chronological Slice:
Our glass, half full of sandy sundials
Its figurative meaning is usually understood to last longer than its literal meaning.
What is this phrase?
Hint: The initial letters of the words in the idiom, in order, spell a first name.
Riffing Off Shortz And Harvey Slices:
Tidbits of “Biliteral” symmetry
Think of a common word in six letters. Write it in lowercase. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the same word. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Harvey Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.
Who is the puzzle-maker?
What may the binge drinker do and what is the container?
ENTREE #2
Think of a proper place-name noun in six letters. Write it in uppercase. Connect the final two letters with a horizontal line.
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the same original uppercase proper noun.
What is it?
ENTREE #3
“Test-takers’ interpretations of the inky Rorschach image revealed much about their personality characteristics and emotional functioning,” the psychologist said.
What are these synonyms?
ENTREE #4
Think of a word for a common salad food in six letters. Write it in uppercase in pencil on a piece of paper.
Add an uppercase N to the end, forming a seven-letter string of letters that don’t spell a word. Now write an uppercase N on a piece of glass with a felt pen, then flip the piece of glass over and look at what you wrote. Erase the N you wrote on the paper and replace it with what you saw on the flip side of the glass.
If you hold up a mirror at the side of this pencil-on-paper result, the reflection will show a phrase which, with proper spacing, consists of an English adverb and article and a French noun.
The bilingual phrase describes the original seven-letter string of letters you wrote in pencil.
Hint: If you restore the original N you added to the end of the salad food and add an A and U to the beginning of that seven-letter string, the result will be a nine-letter synonym of a relatively self-operating mechanism – like a robot, for example.
What is the salad food?
What is the bilingual phrase?
What is the synonym of “robot?”
ENTREE #5
“Vacuum the living room.”
“Mop the kitchen.”
“Vacuum the bedrooms.”
“Mop the bathroom.”
People who own a Roomba vacuum and Braava mop might make such a list. Think of a common word that indicates what a Roomba or Braava essentially is. Write it in lowercase, then erase the first letter.
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will describe, in two words (sometimes hyphenated), what kind of list the one shown above is.
What is the common word that indicates what a Roomba or Braava essentially is?
What kind of list is it?
ENTREE #6
Think of a not-so-common word and a common word, each in four letters.
The common word is what winds do. Write the two words side-by-side in lowercase.
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the same two words.
What are they?
ENTREE #7
Note: The following puzzle is fake news.
A district commissioner of a large city (one that collects no sales tax in a state that collects no income tax) posted a five-word all-uppercase tweet in which he took credit for the tax breaks. The words in his tweet were 1, 4, 3, 2 and 5 letters long.
The 4-letter word beginning with an M means “to impair or make essentially defective or ineffective.”
The 3-letter word begins with a T.
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection of the tweet will show the same 15 letters in the same order (although you will have to allow that two of the four spaces will be in different places.)
What did his tweet read?
ENTREE #8
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show a word for a percussion instrument.
What are this bird and percussion-instrument word?
ENTREE #9
Think of a common word in five letters. Examples of this word are “Be prepared,” “Carpe Diem” or “E Pluribus Unum.”
Write the word in uppercase, putting a space between the first two letters.
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show first name and initial of the surname of a bus driver in an animated TV series.
What is this common word and who is this TV character?
ENTREE #10
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
This “truth universally acknowledged” is the opening sentence in a work of literature. It is also an example of a five-letter word. Write this word in uppercase, putting a space between the second and third letters.
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the equivalent of 1,009 plus either a short synonym of “morning” or a short designation for radio stations that are more conducive to talk formats than music formats.
What is this five-letter word?
What is the equivalent of 1,009?
What is either a short synonym of morning or a short designation for radio stations that are more conducive to talk formats than music formats?
ENTREE #11
In a crucial hockey match, Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin, winger and captain of the Washington Capitals, is able to fake Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask out of position and score an overtime-period goal. As a result, the Capitals barely scratched out a one-goal victory.
If you hold up a mirror at its topside, the reflection will show a synonym for “scratched (out, as a hard-fought victory)”.
What are these two synonyms?
ENTREE #12
A DOWN crossword puzzle clue reads “Make a choice or selection” in six letters. Write just the first five letters in the grid, in uppercase, leaving the bottom square blank.
What are these six-letter and five-letter crossword puzzle answers?
Dessert Menu
Painterly Dessert:
What is the name of this brusher with fame?
A well-known museum once sponsored an exhibition of a relatively unknown painter’s artwork.
The first two letters of the nickname’s second word and the last two letters of the first word spell the name of the museum, for short.
Who is this artist?
What is the museum?
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ReplyDeleteI have solved everything EXCEPT the Schpuzzle, Appetizer #1 and Entree #2. Spent a long time on those three, to no avail.
I am on Puzzleria! There are 3 of my puzzles this week.
ReplyDeleteHi Bobby. Thanks. I hope to get one of yours this week.
DeleteHappy "weekend eve", everybody!
ReplyDeleteHope you're all staying safe wherever you are. We're safe here in AL. Mom's been decorating our Christmas tree today, and I helped her by vacuuming around the tree. I've already listened to "Ask Me Another" and solved the Prize Crossword on the Guardian website. Learned a few new phrases too, like HELICOPTER PARENT and GREEN WELLY BRIGADE. As cryptic setters go, Paul is one of the Guardian's best. Very challenging, and I'm still not totally sure how to parse the clues out for those answers! For supper, we had pork tacos. They were delicious, but rather messy. Mom joked we'd probably need to shower after eating them!
Now about this week's puzzles: Glad to see for once in the past few weeks Puzzleria! was on time last night! Varying degrees of difficulty in this week's offerings, but I still managed to solve a few right away. Here's what I have so far:
Two of Bobby's puzzles(not #1, but nice work, Bobby!)
The Chronological Slice
Entrees #1, #3, #4, #6-#10
The Dessert
And now for a couple of afterthoughts:
Part of Entree #10 could have just as easily been clued as a synonym for another word, instead of the "equivalent of 1,009".
I have a Riff-Off idea of my own for Bobby's third offering. See what you think:
Take the movie title in #3. Remove one letter and rearrange the rest. You'll get the title of another movie, one released about 20 years prior to the previous movie. What movie is this? The answer will be revealed Wednesday.
Lego, don't be too late with those hints! I don't want to be early Tuesday evening reminding you again! Sometimes doing the detective work on these puzzles, you can hit a dead end really fast!
As usual in closing, I wish y'all good luck and good solving, and please stay safe. Wear those masks!
pjbAdmittingEntree#6RemindsHimOfHarryChapinButHeWon'tExplainHow
Very astute points you make, cranberry, about Entrees #6 and #10.
DeleteIn #6 I initially wanted to use the Harry Chapin song, and likely would have done so if only radio call letters were written in lowercase rather than in uppercase. (Harry Chapin, by the way, was a great folk singer.)
In Entree #10, you are correct that the word might well have clued as a synonym for another word, instead of the "equivalent of 1,009." But I've always been a "numbers guy"!
Actually this "1,009 = an actual word" was the crux of a puzzle I created (that I was very proud of) about an NBA player with the highest-ever number on his jersey. Will Shortz was not impressed, alas, when I sent it to him. I ran it on P!, of course. The player was pretty darn talented, played mainly for the Philadelphia 76'ers.
LeggBeaters
Well i guess it is not Alice Walker for Bobby's no. 1.
DeletePlantsmith,
DeleteNor is it Paranormal/urban fantasy author Laken Cane.
LegoNotesThatThe"PersonInLiterature"WeAreLookingForIsNotAWriterBuA"Writee"
Have everything except the Schpuzzle and Appetizer #1.
ReplyDeleteFor the Schpuzzle, have a decidedly immoral alternate answer.
For Appetizer #1, I considered, but then dropped, Madame Bovary.
If only one could wear a louse...
DeleteNow have a plausible answer to Appetizer #1 (though probably not the intended one) and a rather strained second answer.
DeleteStill looking for a moral answer to the Schpuzzle.
Were you positing, geo, that Madame Bovary uses her OVARY?
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DeleteYes. She was seduced, after all...
But I later abandoned that angle. However, the principle suggested what I believe may be the principle of the intended solution. It has already led me to one alternate solution and a second, more far-fetched one.
Well, you are obviously very inventive when it comes to all these alternate solutions.
DeleteI specifically enjoyed speculating about your intentions re Mme Bovary, because we had to read that IN FRENCH in high school.
Hints:
ReplyDelete1. The literary character uses the object a lot.
2. This puzzle is very awesome. The second word of the hymn is an example of a 2-word phrase that is an anagram of the movie and the word in #3.
3. You might have seen this puzzle before, but I discovered it independently.
1. Lancelot likes to lance a lot.
Delete2. "Awesome" is a synonym of "amazing". Grace is a girl's name, and "girl's name" is an anagram of "Mean Girls" and "malingers".
3. In 2018, I was waiting for a meeting in my college's theater. I wanted to see if I could make a word puzzle out of any of the movies that were playing at the theater. That is how I discovered that "Mean Girls" is an anagram of "malingers". When Will Shortz did the Mali, Niger->malinger puzzle on June 23, 2019, there was a hint on Blaine's Blog about a Tina Fey movie. The movie was "Mean Girls", which is an anagram of "malingers".
Sunday hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
The word describing the biblical figure was the name of some popes.
“Literature, Music, TV & Movies” Appetizer:
1. Jay Gatsby, who may or may not have used a gat to kill someone during wartime, was himself ultimately killed by a guy with a gat.
Gatsby is not the name of the famous person in literature in this puzzle, but the object that that person used is in the same gory category that we might put a gat in.
2. Finally, a puzzle on Puzzleria! that won't make you retch!
3. The last two syllables of a person who “pretends to be sick” sounds like something a person who is struggling to find the right words might utter.
Chronological Slice:
The last two words in "Our glass, half full of sandy sundials" are a clue to the last word in the phrase.
Riffing Off Shortz And Harvey Slices:
Tidbits of “Biliteral” symmetry
Riffing Off Shortz And Harvey Slices:
ENTREE #1
Oh no, just another puzzle on Puzzleria! that will make you retch!
ENTREE #2
The puzzle states that proper noun is a place name.
ENTREE #3
You can soak up a messy ink spill with a sponge.
ENTREE #4
The word for a common salad food begins with a with the first name of a boy not named George, but a boy named George has a name that shares a extremity similarity with the food.
ENTREE #5
The list is synonymous with a honeydew list.
ENTREE #6
"I am the morning DJ..."
ENTREE #7
The large city is on a peninsula.
ENTREE #8
Bird: word/word
Percussion-instrument: boy's name/boy's name
ENTREE #9
The bus driver is a heavy metal freak and druggie... and buddy of Bart.
ENTREE #10
The five letter word begins with a blend and ends with a pronoun-verb contraction
ENTREE #11
Astronaut Slayton; I saw a mouse, so I _ _ _ _!
ENTREE #12
Are there pips on these tomatoes?
Painterly Dessert:
The well-known museum is in Gotham but it is neither the Metropolitan nor the Guggenheim.
LegoWhoThinksThatTheArtistInTheDessertShouldHaveCreatedMosaics
Well, I finally got AN answer for the Schpuzzle, but I'm not really happy about it....it would require that the in-puzzle hint about the chqracters's wife was tongue-in-cheek.
DeleteAnd turns out I had tried the correct answer for Entree 2, but hadn't done the steps properly.
I have an idea for the First Appetizer, but doubt I can turn it into something to wear, so it's undoubtedly wrong.
Are you sure that's two syllables in Appetizer #3? I did get Entrees #11 and #12, though. And I've got the adjective in the Schpuzzle, but the figure could be practically anyone in the Bible at this point.
ReplyDeleteLego didn't say that Appetizer #3 had only two syllables. REad the hint again.
DeleteSorry, I meant the last two syllables. And after rereading the hint, he said the "person who pretends to be sick". That noun has the last two syllables. I was still thinking of the verb form, which does not.
DeleteViolinTeddy and cranberry,
DeleteThere is a hint to the identity of the Schpuzzle's biblical figure in the subheadline Make a buck... or a lot of ’em!
The first letters in the biblical figure's name and the word describing the figure both begin with a Roman numeral.
VT, I suppose you could classify my hint about the biblical figure's wife as tongue-in-cheek, or at least ironic.
Bobby's first appetizer hint, serendipitously, is also a clue to the Schpuzzle!
LegoWhoSaysItMightBeHelpfulToFindTheSurnameOfAnOMBNamedBertWhoWasBornInATownWithTheSameNameAsTheTownInWhichTomPettyWasBorn(AndThoseTownsAreInBorderingStates)
Coincidentally, the name of the person from literature in Bobby Jacobs' Puzzle #1 is one member of a group of what might be called "_____ ___."
DeleteIf you add an S to the letters in those blanks and rearrange the combined letters of the result you can form either the two-word title of a famous movie or the word meaning “pretends to be sick” in Bobby's Puzzle #3.
LegoWhoCommentsThatThisBlog'TisASillyPlace
Um, in your sign off above, Lego, what is an "OMB"? So far I can't fathom what that town has to do with anything (maybe it's only the surname that does)....
DeleteI do suspect after all these hints, that I do have the right Biblical figure...however the adjective which was kind of obvious from the Pope hint, that I have anyway, doesn't start with a Roman numeral, so now I am confused...what else is new?
From Lego's various hints and associated research, I get the last name of a former (late) director of the OMB who was born in a same-named city to that in a neighboring state, in which a rock musician that I had never heard of was born.
DeleteThis name and an (unrelated) adjective that was also the name of several medieval Popes do both have initial letters that are Roman numerals. That is as far as I get.
It does rule out Adam, Abel, Jacob, Pilate among other Biblical characters, though.
I do not get any link with bobby's Appetizer #1, except that the dropped word in #1 and the last name in the Schpuzzle are both weapons.
Or could a "Biblical figure" be not a person, but rather a number such as 666?
I also appreciate that it is likely that a "buck" is not buck. I considered:
(1) It takes a doe and a buck (or a doe + deer semen) to make [another] buck, which would initially be a fawn.
(2) A buck is a type of cocktail (I had never heard of this either).
(3)It could be a sawbuck. So that one could need lumber and nails to make a buck.
Finally, do not have the intended literary character, but likely do have the intended object.
And once again it is probably not Robert Penn-Warren.
DeleteReconsidering Lego's puzzling signature and taking into account his hint, finally got Appetizer #1. Part of the problem is that I had never heard of the longer "another thing that you can wear".
DeleteAll in all, along with my false "single-letter" assumption above, I went down a lot of rabbit holes to before stumbling upon the rabbit.
Now on to Bible study...
Finally managed to google properly to find the same last name as you found, geo, which happily confirmed that I DO have the correct person for Appetizer #1, However, I still can't come up with the wearables...
DeleteI haven't got the Schpuzzle yet, but the Bert in question led me right to the answer to Appetizer #1(including the article of clothing).
DeletepjbWhoseMotherWasAHamsterAndWhoseFatherSmelledOfElderberries
Now the Schpuzzle just occurred to me. Cute joke about the spouse, Lego.
DeletepjbSaying'TisTheSeasonToBeFolly
That's what I had meant somewhere up above re his having meant the hint "tongue in cheek"
DeleteFinally got the Schpuzzle. It gave me a lot of trouble, but I finally (dis)solved it.
DeleteBut I am keeping my original, immoral alternate, to be revealed Wed.
Can't wait for Wednesday, geofan.
DeleteLegoWhoBelievesThis"Heavenly"BlogCouldUseABitMoreImmorality!
Also the (intended) solution to the Schpuzzle is ionic. Which brings columns to mind. But that is Greek to me.
DeleteCongrats to Lego and Bobby on 2 challenging and fun puzzles (Schpuzzle and Appetizer #1).
DeleteMerci beaucoup, geofan.
DeleteLegoWhoAgreesWithgeofanAboutBobby'sAppetizer#1
Got the biblical figure, got the adjective, can't figure out the anagram to "make a buck". Still need help.
DeleteAlso, still need help with Entrees #2, #5, and #7.
Deletecranberry:
Delete#2: Think birthers and Barack Obama
#5: The starting word in English comes from Czech (think R.U.R.)
#7: A man, a plan. a canal - Panama! Do similar with the set of horizontally-symmetric letters.
Hmm, my initial suspicions, that “making a buck” meant something other than earning money, have indeed proven correct, just as Geo had mentioned in a post somewhere above. I will thus include my alternate answer (which is NOT immoral (!) tomorrow.
DeleteGot #5, but that's all. Though I know #7 is a palindrome, I haven't a clue what the words are. As for #2, is it the state that created the whole "birther" nonsense? It could be my home state and I wouldn't know!
DeletepjbThoughtHeWasBornInHawaiiAndRaisedInChicagoLikeAnyoneElseInTheirRightMind
cranberry, look at your own SIGNATURE; put it in CAPS.
DeleteWell, there's a lot of good hints here. Happy Hannukah. To quote SDB-"there are no accidents," so your comment about the serendipitous appearance of Bobby's clue may have a deeper meaning.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Plantsmith. Profound post.
DeleteAnd you have inspired me to compose an "inside-out" Hanukkah Haiku (that is, one with 7, 5 and 7 syllables rather than 5, 7 and 5). It shall be a puzzle posted on this Friday's Puzzleria! – the eighth and final day of Hanukkah this year. You will all be challenged to complete the haiku by supplying the final word in each line.
LegoWhoIsNotJewishButWhoAtLeastIsJoeish
Well i hope it is not too sinful.
Deletere the Hanukkah haiku: does it involve Covid-19 vaccines?
DeleteIt is looking more and more as if a Hanukkah-like miracle (e.g., 1 million doses for 80 million people) will be needed, if the population is to be vaccinated in the planned time frame.
very insightful.
DeleteCranberry you probably saw this, but Popeye's is now serving for the first time- wait for it- Bengiets(sp)? The Nooleans traditional treat.
ReplyDeleteThat's the first I've heard of it, PS. But the correct spelling is BEIGNETS. I've had them before in "Nawlins" (spelled closer to the actual pronunciation), and they're delicious. Maybe too much sugar, though, if you're diabetic like me. But we'll have to try some next time we get chicken sandwiches from Popeye's.
DeletepjbSayingWhileWe'reOnTheSubjectOfNawlinsIHopeEllenDegeneresGetsWellSoon
BEIGNETS is an anagram of BEGET SIN.
DeleteGood one. And what is the most sinful dessert in the world?
DeleteI nominate this.
DeleteLego(RiffingOffAPuzzleHePostedAFewYearsAgoSaysThatPavlovaIsAlwaysMouthWatering!
Lego: A candidate, but IMHO it needs more chocolate. The presence of liqueur is good, however.
DeleteNever had a real beignet, but had a real Pavlova once in Sydney.
DeleteHope to get there one day- Nawlins-since i am not that far.
ReplyDeleteHallelujah, I finally came up with the Appetizer wearables!
ReplyDeleteI got MoMA fairly quickly; I'd been to their website not so long ago, not sure what took me there, and left without ever finding out what the letters stood for. I guess you're just supposed to know. I couldn't find any Impressionist from the Canal Zone, so I gave up on "Panama Monet". Lego's "mosaic" clue made me realize it was GRANDMA MOSES. [I guess it's Museum of Modern Art.]
ReplyDeleteI knew LOT's wife became, literally, the Salt Of The Earth, from her head to her TOES, but that wasn't helping me until lego steered me toward popes. I figured lego knew better than to try to slip PIOUS past us, so I focused on URBAN for a while (Sodom being a city and all), but eventually came around to INNOCENT, even though I'm not sure how "innocent" I consider a guy who offers up his daughters to rapists. And are dollar bills made of COTTON and LINEN (flax) shatnez? I guess not, and I guess it doesn't really matter because who wears money?
I have nothing clever or witty to say about AMAZING (G)RACE.
Paul, you make an excellent point regarding Lot's "innocence." Morality seemed to be defined somewhat differently in Old Testament times.
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1. Lancelot-lance+mail=maillot
ReplyDeleteLancelot uses a lance and wears mail.
2. Amazing Grace, Amazing Race
3. Mean Girls, malingers
Great puzzles this week, Bobby. Thank you greatly.
DeleteLegoWhoLovesPuzzlesFuntastic
All pre-hints except as noted. © geofan 2020
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: [post-Mon-hints]: INNOCENT, LOT => COTTON, LINEN; hint: SALT OF THE EARTH => TOES
Alternate: MARY, MOTHER => ARMORY, METH (having lots of guns or selling meth gets you lots of loot)
Two notes regarding my late-Monday posts:
1: In German, the verbs “dissolve” (as salt in water) and “solve” (as a puzzle) are the same: lösen. Hence, “(dis)solve.”
2: Salt (NaCl) is an ionic compound (Na+ and Cl– ions), Some Greek columns are Ionic (unless they are Dorian or Corinthian). End of pun.
Bobby Jacobs' Appetizers:
1. [post-Mon-hint]: LANCELOT – LANCE => LOT + (chain)MAIL => MAILLOT [post-Lego-Mon-hints]
Alternates:
(a) (William) TELL – ELL + SHIRT => T-SHIRT (did Tell ever use a Swiss ell in measuring? See here.)
(b) SMIKE (Nicholas Nickleby) – MIKE + ASH (“worn” on Ash Wednesday) => SASH [only applies for modern adaptations, in which Smike could use a microphone]
2. AMAZING GRACE – G => AMAZING RACE
3. MALINGERS => MEAN GIRLS(never heard of it); pjb bonus: MEAN GIRLS – A => GREMLINS
Chronological Slice: A MONTH OF SUNDAYS / AMOS
Entrées
#1: JARED HARVEY => JAR, DRY-HEAVE
#2: HAWAII => IIAWAH
#3: blot, told => BLOT, TOLD
#4: TOMATO => NOT A MOT; AUTOMATON(hint)
#5: ROBOT – R => obot => TO-DO(list)
#6: WOLD – BLOW (in lowercase)
#7: I MAIM TAX AT MIAMI
#8: TOMTOM(drum) => MOTMOT(bird)
#9: MOTTO => OTTO M
#10: MAXIM => MIX AM
#11: DEKE => EKED
#12: DECIDE – E => DICED
Dessert: GrandMA MOses => MOMA
I must admit that your MARY, MOTHER => ARMORY, METH alternative answer for the Schpuzzle is a good one.
DeleteLegoWhoAlwaysSuspectedThatTheMadonnaWasACrankCookerWhoPackedHeat
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteLOT, INNOCENT, COTTON, LINEN, SALT OF THE EARTH(SOTE=TOES)
Appetizer Menu
Bobby's Puzzles
1. (Sir)LANCELOT, MAILLOT
2. AMAZING GRACE, AMAZING RACE
3. MALINGERS, MEAN GIRLS(2004; Drop the A and rearrange to get GREMLINS from 1984.)
Menu
Chronological Slice
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS(AMOS)
Entrees
1. JARED HARVEY, JAR, DRY-HEAVE
3. BLOT, TOLD(blot, told)
4. TOMATO, NOT A MOT, AUTOMATON
5. ROBOT, TO-DO
6. WOLD, BLOW(wold, blow)
8. MOTMOT, TOMTOM
9. MOTTO, OTTO M.(Mann)
10. MAXIM, MIX+AM
11. DEKE, EKED
12. DECIDE, DICED
Dessert
GRANDMA MOSES, MOMA(Museum of Modern Art; Pablo Picasso was the other artist.)
pjbFeelingAllOfForty-Five(PlusFive)GoingOnFifteen
Thanks for the addition of Picasso as the artist who was featured a MONA when "MAMO" got her break, cranberry.
DeleteLegoWhoSaysThat"GoingOnFifteen"IsAGoodThingToFeel,Yes?
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteLOT, Married, Toil ??
Appetizer Menu
Bobby's Puzzles
1. ????
2. AMAZING GRACE, AMAZING RACE
3. MALINGERS, MEAN GIRLS
Menu
Slice
Once in a blue moon.
Entrees
1. JARED HARVEY, JAR, DRY-HEAVE
3. BLOT, TOLD(blot, told)
4. TOMATO, NOT A MOT, AUTOMATON
5. ROBOT, TO-DO
6. WOLD, BLOW(wold, blow)
7. I maim in ????
8. MOTMOT, TOMTOM
9. MOTTO, OTTO M.(Mann)
10. MAXIM, MIX--AM
11. DEKE, EKED
12. DECIDE, DICED
Dessert
MOMA ???? Peter Max
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Delete"Once in a blue moon" is an interesting alternative for the Slice, Plantsmith. It is an answer looking for a puzzle.
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SCHPUZZLE: Salt of the Earth [TOES]: LOT’S WIFE => INNOCENT LOT => COTTON & LINEN. Original idea: the POPE name was PIUS, thus PIOUS & LOT => TOIL & OPUS (i.e. WORK)
ReplyDeleteTEASERS:
1. LANCELOT => (MAIL)LOT
2. AMAZING GRACE => AMAZING RACE
3. MALINGERS => MEAN GIRLS
CHRONO SLICE: A MONTH OF SUNDAYS [AMOS];
But here were some other 15-letter time idioms: TWENTY FOUR SEVEN; TILL KINGDOM COME. ONCE IN A BLUE MOON; THE BLINK OF AN EYE; SPUR OF THE MOMENT.
ENTREES:
1. JARED HARVEY => DRY-HEAVE & JAR
2. HAWAII => I I A W A H. [I had thought of this, but somehow didn’t do the changes properly, so abandoned it.]
3. BLOT TOLD
4. TOMATO & backwards N => NOT A MOT; AUTOMATON
5. ROBOT minus “r” => "TO DO" List
6. WOLD & BLOW
7. I MAIM TAX AT MIAMI
8. MOTMOT => TOMTOM
9. M /OTTO => OTTO M in THE SIMPSONS
10. MA / XIM => MIX & AM
11. DEKE => EKED
12. DECID(E) => DICED
DESSERT: MOMA & GRANDMA MOSES
Excellent alternative Schpuzzle answer, VT! Lot probably was more pious than innocent (see Paul's commnet).
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Thanks, Lego. Perhaps you can swipe some of those 15-letter time idioms to use in another puzzle down the road.....
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Make a buck, or lots of ’em!
Rearrange the combined letters of a biblical figure and a word describing that figure to name two things it takes to make a buck.
What are these things?
Hint: The biblical figure’s spouse might be described by a four-word phrase Jesus once used to describe worthy and virtuous people. The initial letters of the words in the phrase can be rearranged to spell body parts.
Answer:
Cotton, linen; (Lot, innocent)
Hint: Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt after disobeying the angels' command not to look back at Sodom while fleeing the burning city. Jesus characterized the worthy and virtuous as the "Salt Of The Earth" during his Sermon on the Mount. S, O, T and E can be rearranged to spell TOES.
Appetizer Menu
A Trio Of Appetizing Word Teasers:
“Literature, Music, TV & Movies”
1. The name of a famous person in literature contains the name of an object that they use. Replace the object in the character’s name with something that they wear, and you will get another thing that you can wear. Who is the person, and what are the articles of clothing?
Answer: The person is Lancelot. He uses a lance and wears mail. The other article of clothing is a maillot.
Lancelot-lance+mail=maillot
2. Take the two-word title of a famous hymn. Remove the first letter of the second word. You will get the name of a TV show. What is it?
Answer: “Amazing Grace”, “Amazing Race”
3. What two-word title of a famous movie is an anagram of a word meaning “pretends to be sick”?
Answer: “Mean Girls”, malingers
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Chronological Slice:
Our glass, half full of sandy sundials
Name an idiom for a length of time.
Its figurative meaning is usually understood to last longer than its literal meaning.
Its initial letters spell a first name.
What is this phrase?
Answer:
"A Month Of Sundays" (AMOS=Amos)
Lego...
And what was the gun gat connection in the clue for lancelot.? Oh -second and last letter??
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Tidbits of “Biliteral” symmetry
ENTREE #1
Take the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange their combined letters to spell a hyphenated eight-letter word for what a binge drinker of Ole Smoky Moonshine may do during the morning-after hangover and a three-letter word for the container that the drinker perhaps drank from.
Who is the puzzle-maker?
What may the binge drinker do and what is the container?
Answer:
Jared Harvey; Dry-heave; jar
ENTREE #2
Think of a proper noun in six letters. Write it in uppercase. Connect the final two letters with a horizontal line. Remove a horizontal line from the first letter. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the same original uppercase proper noun, What is it?
Answer:
HAWAII
ENTREE #3
“Test-takers’ interpretations of the inky Rorschach image revealed much about their personality characteristics and emotional functioning, the psychologist said.”
Think of two common words of four letters each that are synonymous with “inky Rorschach image” and “revealed.” Write these synonyms next to each other in lowercase. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the same two words in the same order.
What are these synonyms?
Answer:
blot told;
ENTREE #4
Think of a word for a common salad food in six letters. Write it in uppercase. Add an uppercase N to the end, forming a seven-letter string of letters that don’t spell a word. Invert the N you added. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show phrase consisting of an English adverb and article and a French noun. The bilingual phrase describes the seven-letter string of letters.
Hint: If you restore the N you added to its right-side-up state and add an A and U to the beginning of the seven-letter string, the result will be a nine-letter synonym of a relatively self-operating mechanism – like a robot, for example.
What is the salad food?
What is the bilingual phrase?
What is the synonym of “robot?”
Answer:
TOMATO;
"NOT A MOT"
AUTOMATON
ENTREE #5
“Vacuum the living room.”
“Mop the kitchen.”
“Vacuum the bedrooms.”
“Mop the bathroom.”
People who own a Roomba vacuum and Braava mop might make such a list. Think of a common word that indicates what a Roomba or Braava essentially is. Write it in lowercase, then erase the first letter. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will describe, in two words (sometimes hyphenated), what kind of list the one shown above is.
What is the common word that indicates what a Roomba or Braava essentially is?
What kind of list is it?
Answer:
robot; to do (list)
ENTREE #6
Think of a not-so-common word and a common word, each in four letters. The not-so-common word is “an area of open country,” one where winds are unfetterd by trees. The common word is what winds do. Write the two words side-by-side in lowercase. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the same two words. What are they?
Answer:
wold, blow
ENTREE #7
Note: The following puzzle is fake news.
A district commissioner of a large city (one that collects no sales tax in a state that collects no income tax) posted a five-word all-uppercase tweet in which he took credit for the tax breaks. The words in his tweet were 1, 4, 3, 2 and 5 letters long. The 4-letter word beginning with an M that means “to impair or make essentially defective or ineffective.” The 3-letter word begins with a T.
If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection of the tweet will show the same 15 letters in the same order, although two of the four spaces will be in different places.
What did his tweet read?
Answer:
I MAIM TAX AT MIAMI and IMAIM TA XAT MIAM I
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ENTREE #8
Think of an not-so-common bird in six letters. Write it in uppercase. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show a word for a percussion instrument.
What are this bird and percussion-instrument word?
Answer:
MOTMOT, TOMTOM
ENTREE #9
Think of a common word in five letters. Examples of this word are “Be prepared,” “Carpe Diem” or “E Pluribus Unum.” Write the word in uppercase, putting a space between the first two letters. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show first name and initial of the surname of a bus driver in an animated TV series.
What is this common word and who is this TV character?
Answer:
MOTTO; OTTO M(ann)
ENTREE #10
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
This “truth universally acknowledged” is the opening sentence in a work of literature. It is also an example of a five-letter word. Write this word in uppercase, putting a space between the second and third letters. If you hold up a mirror at its side, the reflection will show the equivalent of 1,009 plus either a short synonym of “morning” or a short synonym of radio stations that are more conducive to talk formats than music formats.
What is this five-letter word?
What is the equivalent of 1,009?
What is either a short synonym of morning or a short synonym of radio stations that are more conducive to talk formats than music formats?
Answer:
MAXIM; MIX (which is 1,009 in ancient Rome); AM (which is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase “ante meridiem” meaning “before midday,” or an abbreviation of Amplitude Modulation (AM) transmission, as opposed to Frequency Modulation (FM) transmissions.
ENTREE #11
Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin, winger and captain of the Washington Capitals is able to fake goalie Tuukka Rask, of the Boston Bruins out of position to score an overtime period goal; so the Caps barely scratched out a one-goal victory.
Write a 4-letter synonym for “fake (an opponent) out of position.” Write it in uppercase letters as if you were filling out a DOWN clue in a crossword puzzle. If you hold up a mirror at its topside, the reflection will show a synonym for “scratched (out, as a hard-fought victory)”.
What are these two synonyms?
Answer:
DEKE, EKED
ENTREE #12
A DOWN crossword puzzle clue reads “Make a choice or selection” in six letters. Write just the first five letters in the grid, in uppercase, leaving the bottom square blank. If you hold up a mirror at its topside, the reflection will show a five-letter answer to another clue in the puzzle: “Canned tomato choice, other than stewed, crused and pureed.”
What are these six-letter and five-letter crossword puzzle answers?
Answer:
DECIDE, DICED
Dessert Menu
Painterly Dessert:
What is the name of this brusher with fame?
A well-known museum once sponsored an exhibition of a relatively unknown painter’s artwork. The exhibition coincided with a retrospective of a renowned artist’s works, which drew crowds to the museum, making the two-word nickname of the more obscure painter famous. The first two letters of the nickname’s second word and the last two letters of the first word spell the name of the museum, for short.
Who is this artist?
What is the museum?
Answer:
Grandma Moses (MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City)
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