Schpuzzle of the Week:
Faithful groupies erupt in cheers!
At Yellowstone Park you can hike on a mountainside or view a geyser like Old Faithful.
What are these rock groups?
Appetizer Menu:
Just Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Composers, contractions, cars, and crunchiness
Rearrange to name something related to
sound.
🥁2. Name a word with a contraction.
Add a common two-letter pairing to the beginning of the word, and remove the apostrophe, to describe the contraction.
🥁4. Name a smooth thing from before the computer revolution.
Add an R and rearrange to name a crunchy thing associated with hipsters.
MENU
Yelping Slice:
Eat at Joe’s: sparse seating, greasy eating
seats it makes up for in grease for eats – even our macaroni side order was swimming in it.”
What body part do four words in the above twenty-six-word Yelp review hint at?
What are the four hinting words?
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Two companies... and three’s a crowd
I’m looking for the names of two companies. One of them has a two-part name, with five letters in each part. The other has a three-part name, in five, seven and five letters. The last five-letter part of the two names is the same. And the first five-letter part of the first company’s name is something the second company wants. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1
I’m looking for the names, first and last, of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the combined letters to spell:
1. the surname of a “Shark Tank” shark,
3. a capitalized word that precedes “Sales.”
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the surname, conglomerate and capitalized word?
ENTREE #2
I’m looking for the name of one of the top 250 largest companies in the United States by revenue, one that specializes in water treatment, purification, cleaning and hygiene.
Rearrange the letters to form a pair of tennis terms.
What are these two terms?
What is the company?
ENTREE #3
I’m looking for the names of two companies – one involved in technology, the other in household products – that end with the same three letters.
The combined remaining letters of the companies can be rearranged to form the name of a red-lipsticked minor movie character whose home is a bowl, and the first name of a minor literary character surnamed Billups.
What are the two companies?
What are the names of the two minor characters?
Hint: the last three letters in the names of the two companies sound like a synonym of “ice cubes” or “diamonds.”
ENTREE #4
Take the four letters in the name of a Tokyo-based multinational conglomerate corporation, then add six “L’s,” five “I’s,” and one “E.”
Rearrange these sixteen letters to spell the first two words in an Indiana-based pharmaceuticals manufacturing company and the first word in another manufacturing
What is the Tokyo-based corporation?
What are the two companies in the Midwest?
ENTREE #5
I’m looking for the name of an eight-letter Texas-based video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise company.
Rearrange the letters to form a two-word description of “Towards Break of Day” by William Butler Yeats.
What is the company?
What is the two-word description?
ENTREE #6
The six-letter singular form of a California-based insurance company and the four-letter name of a Texas-based technology company are the two nouns in a five-word title of a traditional children’s song that is also a nursery rhyme and singing game.
The longer noun is a word for a person engaged in a certain outdoor profession.
This person’s possible surname, which can be found in a second traditional children’s song, is also the surname of the founder of an Illinois-based food chain.
What are the insurance company, technology company, and food chain?
What are the two children’s songs?
ENTREE #7
I’m looking for the names of two companies. One is a Virginia-based retail company with a two-word name, and the other is a Washington-State-based food services company with a one-word name in two syllables.
Around Christmas-time, you might find the first syllable of the Washington State company name atop the second word of the Virginia company.
What are these companies?
What are the synonyms?
“What may be atop what” around Christmas-time?
ENTREE #8
Convention, February 28, 2021).
Rearrange the 12 letters in the reply to spell the name of a Washington-State-based forest and paper products company.
What is this company?
What is the sarcastic reply?
Hint: The image is a hint to the company.
Hint: The middle word in the reply contains an apostrophe.
Dessert Menu
Light “Latipac” Dessert:
Captain’s Cooking Endeavour
vessel.
What is this capital?
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i.e. I had a summer temp job with this company. I had to grow webbed feet.
ReplyDeleteI meant i.e. number eight.
ReplyDeleteWHERE OH WHERE did the original DESSERT go? I'd been on an unrefreshed page since about midnight, and by the time I got down to the Dessert, which was very easy to solve, and then finally hit "comments', it had DISAPPEARED, and there is now another one in its place. What happened?
ReplyDeleteI'll need to go solve the new one now (shall we keep the answer to the original dessert ?), but otherwise, have worked way through all the Entrees [#3 was a bear, UNTIL I finally scrolled down enough to read its hint, which finally helped.
Like Plantsmith, I knew the #8 company immediately, having been to WA in the 90s many times. (You can't go without seeing their signs on the back roads.)
I also have answers for Cons #1, 3 and 4, with a possibly very WRONG answer for #2, because I didn't really understand how to 'describe' a contraction.
That, of course, means the dreaded Schpuzzle remains. Because as you all know, I know nothing of rock bands, I spent forever perusing lists, and came up with five names that could be the first band, however, I can NOT match up a second band name with any of them. It's frustrating.
I meant to say, that even tho I deduced the 'red lipped minor character's name, I have NO IDEA who it is. Google revealed not a thing.
DeleteAnd re the Slice, I have a guess at the body part(s), and three of the four words, but have no idea what that fourth word would be.
VT,
DeleteI am confused regarding your comment about the Dessert.
The Dessert that should be on your screen (and which is on my screen) is a picture of a captain and a ship, and the following text:
Light “Latipac” Dessert:
Captain’s Cooking Endeavour
Spell a former world capital backward to form the names of a cooking vessel and a nautical
vessel.
What is this capital?
LegoBaffled
Yea those signs are all over Wash.State and it is not Mcdonalds.
DeleteLego, did I somehow see a Dessert from down below, that we already had HAD, but I simply totally forgot about? It asked for an anagram of an 'apocryphal' book, to be an online car sales site.....I bet I goofed up, but I have NO memory of having ever done that dessert before!
DeleteHappy Spring Break Eve to all!
Delete(VT, that was a few weeks ago and the answer was CARHUB/BARUCH. I don't think it was a Dessert, though.)
Pretty much same old routine here. Just got through with Picaroon's latest Prize Puzzle, which featured LOUISARMSTRONG and ELLAFITZGERALD as answers. Didn't solve them right away, though. The latter had the word "scatter" in the clue, but I didn't get it at first! I was still looking for a "novelist" because that was the last word in the clue. The novelist was, of course, (F. Scott)FITZGERALD, but that was only part of it. The ELLA part was "articles of Spanish"(el and la, get it?). Solved that puzzle and the Private Eye one rather easily. Also listened to "Ask Me Another" and "Says You", watched "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", and had supper, not necessarily in that order. BTW No further health crises to speak of, thank God.
Now about this week's offerings. I did my best with these late last night(I was quite late getting to bed as a result, but I won't discuss it any further than that). Here's what I've got so far:
Mathew's #2 and #4 Conundrums
The Yelping Slice
All Entrees except #3
The Dessert(it hit me right as I was just getting started looking through a long list of former world capitals)
Much like VT, I found a few rock group names that would work as the first one, but couldn't make a second to go with them. BTW If one of them is REM or YES, that's really unfair, because then there'd be quite a long one leftover as a result, and all the work would be trying to figure that one out! I also tried OASIS, GENESIS and GREEN DAY, but of course I still ended up in a corner. And I looked up groups from the 60s on down to the 90s(never really checked any before or after those decades, actually), and outside of the ones I've just mentioned, I never could find any that would work. And I'm at the other end of the spectrum, compared to VT! I know a lot of rock groups, but that still didn't help. Also, unlike the others, I had never heard of the company in #8. Plus, I'm sure I'll have to look it up again Wednesday just to get it spelled right. I certainly hope there'll be some good hints posted between now and then(especially for that Schpuzzle!). As for Entree #3, I believe I have the names of the fictional characters, but that's it. Couldn't even really find the synonym for "ice cubes" or "diamonds"(shouldn't "ice" be a synonym for "diamonds" already?). BTW The word for the neighboring Midwestern company in #4 actually begins at least two company names I could find, so I hope there will be further clarification of that as well.
As always, I'll close by wishing good luck in solving for you all, please stay safe, and wherever you must go, whenever you must go, don't forget to wear a mask!
pjbFoundEntree#6TheAbsoluteEasiestOfThemAll(CallItChild'sPlay,Perhaps?)
I have a two word group name that works but not the leftovers. But i see you have one too. Mine is a little longer. Hint.Hint?
DeleteSo do I, PLSH, (a longer rock group name), but none of the possible word combos of the leftovers make any group name that I could find.
DeletePJB, I had the same initial reaction to Lego's diamond/ice cube hint, but there is another simple word that is used for both. Think: a bar order (not that i drink!)
Oh, and the fact that there are several MIdwestern companies, pjb, doesn't matter because he wants only the FIRST word of the name.
DeleteSince it is Lent i am only doing two entrees this week.
ReplyDeleteHello all,
ReplyDeleteHave solved all except Conundrums #1,2,4; the Slice; and Entrée #5.
I solved the Schpuzzle in less time than it even took me to read it. This could even be construed as a HINT for the Schpuzzle.
An idea just hit me, geo: could we all (except you) be MISinterpreting "rock groups" for the Schpuzzle?
DeleteBINGO, I just solved the Schpuzzle! Everybody who hasn't, please pay attention to my hint just above!
DeleteAre we actually talking about certain mineral formations instead of musical formations? I had wondered about that. It won't be Mount Rushmore or Stonehenge, that's for sure.
DeletepjbKnowsInThisCaseIt'sGoodToHaveRocksInYourHead!
PJB, just saw your question post. HOpe you find my answer...think even MORE basic than Mt Rushmore, etc...which is what I first thought about too, after I realized "the truth" about the Schpuzzle!
DeleteWell, you're not going to believe this...but I got it. Thank you so very much, VT. "Basic" is definitely the operative word here.
DeletepjbStillLikesTheMusicOfYesAndGenesisJustTheSame
Just have Conundrums #1 and #3 left. I wonder why I'm always solving every other Conundrum right away, but it takes a while to get the remaining ones?
DeletepjbAskingAnUnanswerableConundrumUntoItself,Perhaps?
I have the opposites.
DeleteYou're welcome, pjb; am glad that I thought of a decent hint for you, that I didn't think gave 'too much' away.
DeleteREO speedwagon?
ReplyDeletePLTH, see my two posts to geo immediately above
DeleteThanks VT. But Iron Maiden was working for me. Where do you find these old capitol lists?
DeleteJust google "former capitals"
DeleteNow have all except Entrée #5.
ReplyDeleteFor #5, have several candidate phrases for the poem, but know nothing about video games, so am snagged.
Geo, just google the description Lego gave for the video company, and it should appear in their info...that's what I did...I'd never heard of it either, not being a video game person.
DeleteVT, thanks for the hint - got it immediately. I had googled other combinations but not Lego's exact one.
DeleteLob is done for the week - need no more hints, unless my Conundrum #2 answers (2 of them) are both alternates.
Job ...
DeleteA Machiavellian hint, geo?
DeleteLego, that Schpuzzle is awfully clever, IMHO. Next Wed, please let us know HOW you ever came up with it? (I've wondered, as you know, often how you do these things, it just leaves me shaking my head in amazement.)
ReplyDeleteRE: Dessert (indeed) for this week: I sure wish I had read the word 'FORMER" earlier than a few minutes ago!! I'd wasted quite a while last night and earlier this morning going thru current capitals lists!
ReplyDeleteWhere is Word woman when you need her?? i.e Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteHaha, Plantsmith, an jolly one for me, too. I also wonder how Lego comes up with these anagrams. He must have Lego's Anagrammer implanted in his head!
DeleteThank God word woman is here.
ReplyDeleteJust got Entree #3! Turned out it was easier than I thought. Wish I could say the same for the Schpuzzle.
ReplyDeletepjbWillBelieveLego'sPuzzleIsCleverWhenHeFinallySolvesIt
A merely decorative vessel contained a piece of meat that had not been cooked.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, the chop in the "show pan" was raw.
DeleteGood one . Sold by Paula Dean.
DeleteStill looking at E#3 and dessert.
ReplyDeleteWe have some interesting new business names in Washington state this last year, Cloud 9, Kush, Goobies Gummies, Green station and Mr. Doobies. I just had to laugh the first time i saw the last name on a huge billboard outside Raymond.
ReplyDeleteIs it Ace hardware for number two?
ReplyDeletePlantsmith, the company in #2 does indeed contain the letters, A, C and E... but in reverse order, and not all consecutively.
DeleteThe company begins with the three letters of the screen name of one of your fellow P! puzzle-makers.
Here are more hints:
Tuesday PM Hints:
Schpuzzle:
the word "groupies" in the title is a total red herring.
"Rock groups," as you know, has more than one meaning.
Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
1. The "something related to sound" is usually an adjective. It can be prefixed with "stereo-" or "quadra-".
2. Merriam-Webster says the "word with a contraction" is "widely disapproved as nonstandard, and more common in the habitual speech of the less educated, (it) is flourishing in American English."
3.The four-letter synonym is not your (gas) TANK, but it does need to be filled.
4.The "smooth thing from before the computer revolution" is an anagram of an western Africa nation.
Yelping Slice:
The four "hinting words" begin with the consonants in "rum jug."
Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
ENTREE #1
1. The surname of the “Shark Tank” shark is more commonly a first name.
2. The abbreviated version of a multinational conglomerate associated with both Thomas Edison and Ronald Reagan has just two letters.
3. The capitalized word that precedes “Sales” rhymes with "groupie."
ENTREE #2
One of tennis terms is a "fastball," the other is a "slowball."
ENTREE #3
The red-lipsticked minor movie character is a Disney fish, and the literary character surnamed Billups was a "funny man" created by Harper Lee.
ENTREE #4
The Tokyo-based multinational conglomerate corporation is an anagram of a word describing a snoop.
ENTREE #5
The eight-letter Texas-based video game and consumer electronics and gaming merchandise company is an anagram of an interview with the star athlete after a victory.
ENTREE #6
The six-word singular form of a California-based insurance company is a word following "Fannie" in an another company.
The four-word name of a Texas-based technology company was once a comic book publishing giant.
The Illinois-based food chain does not serve food in "crockery.".
ENTREE #7
The Washington State company's name is a Moby Dick character.
The name of the other company seems to belie the adage "Money does not grow on..."
ENTREE #8
The three words in the reply end with letters that, in order, spell a word that precedes "haw."
Light “Latipac” Dessert:
The cooking vessel works well for stir-fry. The nautical vessel contained some Ham.
LegoGonePlumbStirCrazy
Got Conundrum #1, still can't figure out #3!
DeletepjbAlmostCouldn'tFigureOutTheHintForEntree#5!
In Entree #3, the Disney fish in the bowl was Geppetto's pet. The Harper Lee character's first name was one letter long!
DeleteLegoNotLyin'(LikeGeppetto'sBoyWould)
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ReplyDeleteMaybe some alts this week for the Connundrums?
ReplyDeleteI kept trying to make Geofan work for #2 until i though of someone else.
I have one alternate for Conundrum #2, plus the intended answer.
DeleteMOUNTAINSIDE, GEYSER > SEDIMENTARY, IGNEOUS
ReplyDeleteCHOPIN > PHONIC
ANALOG + R > GRANOLA (?)(No ? about it after the ANGOLA hint!)
JOINT, ROOM, GREASE, MACARONI > ELBOW
JOSEPH YOUNG > JOHN, GE, SOUPY
XEROX, CLOROX > X (Billups), CLOE (Bratz (?))(I'd forgotten about CLEO (and Figaro))
GAMESTOP > STAG POEM
DOLLAR TREE / STARBUCKS
YEAH, WE'RE SURE > WEYERHAEUSER
KRAKOW > WOK, ARK
........................
AIN'T > QUAINT
TIRE / EXHAUST
ECOLAB > ACE, LOB
SONY + LLLLLL + IIIII + E > ELI LILLY, ILLINOIS (I'm guessing there might be more than one ILLINOIS manufacturing company)
FARMER in the DELL, MCDONALD'S (EIEIO)
Schpuzzle: MOUNTAINSIDE GEYSER => IGNEOUS, SEDIMENTARY [got it immediately!]
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Conundrums:
#1: CHOPIN => PHONIC
#2: AIN'T + QU – ' => QUAINT; E'ER + QU – ' => QUEER
#3: EXHAUST, TIRE
#4: ANALOG + R => GRANOLA
Yelping Slice: JOINT, ROOM, GREASE, MACARONI => hint at ELBOW
Entrées
#1: JOSEPH YOUNG => GE, (Daymond)JOHN, SOUPY(Sales)
#2: ECOLAB => ACE, LOB
#3: XEROX, CLOROX – ROX => XECLO => X(Mr X Billups, To Kill a Mockingbird), CLEO the fish
#4: SONY + LLLLLLIIIIIE => ELI LILLY + ILLINOIS (Central Railroad) or ILLINOIS (Tool Works)
#5: GAMESTOP => STAG POEM [post-VT-Sat hint]
#6: FARMER. DELL => THE FARMER IN THE DELL, farmer MACDONALD (MacDonald's)
#7: STARBUCKS, DOLLAR TREE
#8: YEAH, WE'RE SURE => WEYERHAUSER
Dessert: KRAKÓW => WOK, ARK
Observation: “Ain't” is a strange contraction. The n't means “not”, but what does ai mean? Not “I am”, because he, and you ain't. Also unlikely to be the 3-toed sloth of crossword fame.
he, we, you, and they ain't. An invariant verb.
DeleteSchpuzzle: Sedimentary & Igneous (pre-hints but post-post discussions on rocks)
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
1. Chopin/Phonic
2. Ain't + Qu - ' = Quaint
3. Tire & Exhaust
4. Analog & Granola
Y Slice: Elbow; Joint / (Elbow) Room; (Elbow) Grease; (Elbow) Macaroni
Entrees:
1. Joseph Young/ John/ G.E./ Soupy
2. Ace & Lob / Ecolab
3. Xerox & Clorox; Cleo (Pinocchio); X Billups (To Kill a Mockingbird)
4. Sony; Eli Lilly & Illinois Tool Works
5. GameStop / Stag Poem (not poetic maybe, but Occam-esque)
6. Farmers/ Dell/ McDonald's; The Farmer in the Dell & Old McDonald's Had a Farm
7. Dollar Tree & Starbucks; Buck & Dollar; Star atop a tree
8. Weyerhaeuser; Yeah, we're sure (course, the sarcasm could be an insecurity blind)
Dessert: Krakow (Wok & Ark)
SCHPUZZLE: MOUNTAINSIDE GEYSER => IGNEOUS & SEDIMENTARY
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. CHOPIN => PHONIC
2. CAN’T => RECANT?
3. TIRE & EXHAUST
4. ANALOG => GRANOLA
SLICE: JOINT, SIDE SWIMMING, SEATS? => HIPS
ENTREES:
1. JOSEPH YOUNG => JOHN, GE, SOUPY
2. ECOLAB => ACE & LOB
3. CLOROX & XEROX => CLOXE => “X” & COLE. [WHOOO IS THIS?]
4. SONY + LLLLLL + IIIII + E => ELI LILLY & ILLINOIS
5. GAMESTOP => STAG POEM
6. THE ‘FARMER' IN THE ‘DELL’; OLD ‘MCDONALD’ HAD A FARM
7. DOLLAR TREE & STARBUCKS [CUTE!]
8. YEAH WE'RE SURE! => WEYERHAEUSER. [Picture hint: WIRE HOUSE]
DESSERT: KRAKOW => WOK & ARK
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ReplyDelete3/10/21 AM 38 degrees/
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: Sedimentary & Igneous (Iron Maiden at first)
Appetizers:
1. Chopin/Phonic
2. Qu--Ain't = quaint. Can’t--recant
3. tire & exhaust
4. Mali---Mail (mail is smooth?)
Y Slice: Elbow; Joint / Room; Grease; (Macaroni)
Entrees:
1. Joseph Young--John/ G.E./ Soupy
2. Ace and lob - Ecolab, Ace hardware.
3. Xerox & Clorox; Cleo X Billups
4. Sony; Eli Lilly ??
5. GameStop / tag poems?
6. Farmers/ Dell/ McDonald's; The Farmer in the Dell .
7. Dollar Tree & Starbucks; Buck and Dollar; Star atop a tree
8. Weyerhaeuser; Yeah, we're sure . I worked in the “wet lab” testing Pfizer pigments on paper-made from scratch. Water, water everywhere.
Dessert: Krakow (Wok & Ark)
PSTH - You note that you worked in the Weyerhaeuser "wet lab" with pigments.
DeleteAre you perchance familiar with the assay of TiO2 pigment by redox titration with ferric ammonium sulfate (FAS) titrant and prereduction of Ti(IV) to Ti(III), either with Al metal or a Jones reductor?
If so, I have an interesting story to relate to you.
geofan - chemist
Ni i think this was more elementary. We were comparing pigments from Pfizer and two other companies as far as Absorbtion etc.? We made paper sheets and then did a series of tests on the paper. They also burned samples to ascertain carbon content? I don't think we titrated anything. I did take one class in Quantitaive chem. I was a biology major. But that class was a major challenge- quant. PS--not a chemist,
DeletePSTH - Your test sounds like what my sister did at NL Industries in the 1960s for a summer job.
DeleteMy father (Chem Engr) worked at NL Titanox Div 1933-1977 . His first job was the above titration. The FAS was standardized via an NBS (NIST) SRM. In 2000 at NIST, I had to standardize the renewal of that same SRM. I had to adapt that titration to the more exact certification work.
Strange links.
Interesting.
DeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteSEDIMENTARY, IGNEOUS
Appetizer Menu
Conundrums
1. CHOPIN, PHONIC
2. AIN'T, QUAINT
3. TIRE, EXHAUST
4. ANALOG, GRANOLA
Menu
Yelping Slice
ELBOW(ROOM, GREASE, MACARONI, and of course JOINT, which an ELBOW is)
Entrees
1. JOSEPH YOUNG, (Daymond)JOHN, G.E.(General Electric), SOUPY(Sales)
2. ECOLAB, LOB, ACE
3. CLOROX, XEROX, CLEO(from "Pinocchio")and X(from "To Kill a Mockingbird")
4. SONY, ELI LILLY, ILLINOIS(Central Railroad or Tool Works, etc.)
5. GAMESTOP, STAG POEM
6. FARMERS INSURANCE, DELL INC., McDONALD'S("The Farmer in the Dell", "Old MacDonald Had a Farm")
7. DOLLAR TREE, STARBUCKS, a STAR on the Christmas TREE
8. "YEAH, WE'RE SURE", WEYERHAEUSER
Dessert
KRAKOW(Poland), WOK, ARK
And now, on to "The Masked Singer"!-pjb(EIEIO)
I hope you did not miss the berry funny bantering on Blaine's earlier today.In regards to the on air puzzle- three words PB and J? and you were also mentioned as someone who would get this in a jiffy. Mostly by the Unknown. puzzler. The comments that is. PS- turning out the lignt.
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DeleteThis week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Faithful groupies erupt in cheers!
In Yellowstone Park you can hike on a mountainside or view (visit) a geyser like Old Faithful.
Rearrange the combined letters of “mountainside” and “geyser" to” form the names of two rock groups.
What are these rock groups?
Answer:
Sedimentary, Igneous
Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Composers, contractions, cars, and crunchiness
1. Think of the last name of a music composer in six letters.
Rearrange to name something related to sound.
Answer:
CHOPIN, PHONIC
2.Name a word with a contraction.
Add a common two-letter pairing to the beginning of the word, and remove the apostrophe, to describe the contraction.
Answer:
AIN’T, QUAINT
3. Name two common parts of a car in four and seven letters that are also synonyms when used in a different sense.
Answer:
TIRE, EXHAUST
4. Name a smooth thing from before the computer revolution.
Add an R and rearrange to name a crunchy thing associated with hipsters.
Answer:
ANALOG, GRANOLA
Yelping Slice:
Eat at Joe’s: sparse seating, greasy eating
“What Joe’s burger joint lacks in room for seats it makes up for in grease for eats – even our macaroni side order was swimming in it.”
What body part do four words in the above Yelp review hint at?
What are the four hinting words?
Answer:
Elbow; joint, room, grease, macaroni (elbow joint, elbow room, elbow grease, elbow macaroni)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Two companies... and three’s a crowd
Will Shortz’s February 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:
I’m looking for the names of two companies. One of them has a two-part name, with five letters in each part. The other has a three-part name, in five, seven and five letters. The last five-letter part of the two names is the same. And the first five-letter part of the first company’s name is something the second company wants. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
ENTREE #1
I’m looking for the names, first and last, of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the combined letters to spell:
1. the surname of a “Shark Tank” shark,
2. an abbreviated version of a multinational conglomerate associated with both Thomas Edison and Ronald Reagan, and
3. a capitalized word that precedes “Sales.”
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Joseph Young;
(Daymond) John, GE (General Electric), Soupy (Sales)
ENTREE #2
I’m looking for the name of one of the top 250 largest companies in the United States by revenue, one that specializes in water treatment, purification, cleaning and hygiene.
Rearrange the letters to form a pair of tennis terms.
What are these terms?
What is the company?
Answer:
Ace, lob; Ecolab
ENTREE #3
I’m looking for the names of two companies – one involved in technology, the other in household products – that end with the same three letters.
The combined remaining letters of the companies can be rearranged to form the name of a red-lipsticked minor movie character whose home is a bowl, and the first name of a minor literary character surnamed Billups.
What are the two companies?
What are the names of the two minor characters?
Hint: the last three letters in the names of the two companies sound like a synonym of “ice cubes” or “diamonds.”
Answer:
Xerox, Clorox;
Cleo (the goldfish in the 1940 American animated musical fantasy film "Pinocchio," produced by Walt Disney Productions;
X (Billups), a character in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"
ENTREE #4
Take the four letters in the name of a Tokyo-based multinational conglomerate corporation, six “L’s,” five “I’s,” and one “E.”
Rearrange these sixteen letters to spell the first two words in an Indiana-based pharmaceuticals manufacturing company and the first word in another manufacturing company in a neighboring Midwest state.
What is the Tokyo-based corporation?
What are the two companies in the Midwest?
Answer:
Sony; Eli Lilly (and Company, headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana); Illinois (Tool Works)
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ENTREE #5
I’m looking for the name of an eight-letter Texas-based video game, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise company.
Rearrange the letters to form a two-word desciption of the poem “Towards Break of Day” by William Butler Yeats.
What is the company?
What is the two-word desciption?
Answer:
GameStop; Stag poem
ENTREE #6
The six-word singular form of a California-based insurance company and the four-word name of a Texas-based technology company are the two nouns in a five-word title of a traditional children’s song that is also a nursery rhyme and singing game.
The longer noun is a word for a person engaged in a certain outdoor profession.
This person’s possible surname, which can be found in a second traditional children’s song, is also the surname of the founder of an Illinois-based food chain.
What are the insurance company, technology company, and food chain?
What are the two children’s songs?
Answer:
Farmers, Dell, McDonald's;
"The Farmer in the Dell" and "Old McDonald Had a Farm"
ENTREE #7
I’m looking for the names of two companies. One is a Virginia-based retail company with a two-word name, and the other is a Washington-State-based food services company with a one-word name in two syllables.
The second syllable in the Washington State company name is a plural slang synonym of the first word of the Virginia company.
Around Christmas-time, you might find the first syllable of the Washington State company name atop the second word of the Virginia company.
What are these companies?
What are the synonyms?
“What may be atop what” around Christmas-time?
Answer:
Dollar Tree; Starbucks
Dollar, buck(s)
A "Star" may be atop a (Christmas) Tree.
ENTREE #8
Name a sarcastic reply in three 4-letter words beginning with “Y”, “w” and “s”. The reply might be made by one person on behalf of a larger group in response to hearing a preposterous lie such as this example recently in the news: “We won the election twice. I mean, you know, think about it ...” (spoken by a former president during the CPAC
Convention, February 28, 2021).
Rearrange the 12 letters in the reply to spell the name of a Washington-State-based forest and paper products company.
What is this company?
What is the sarcastic reply?
Hint: The image is a hint to the company?
Answer:
Weyerhauser; "Yeah, we're sure!"
Hint: The "wire house" in the image sounds like the first two syllables in "Weyerhauser."
Light “Latipac” Dessert:
Captain’s Cooking Endeavour
Spell a former world capital backward to form the names of a cooking vessel and a nautical
vessel.
What is this capital?
Answer:
Krakow (capital of Poland from 1038 to 1596)
(Wok, Ark)
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