Friday, March 19, 2021

Four more saints go Marching in; “Render unto Caesars... Palace?” Bumper-to-bumper “(guit)cars” Taking temperatures, getting relief; Siege city, (a)&(b), Split opinion, Two woods

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Taking temperatures, getting relief

Take a temperature scale and a reading on that scale. 

Rearrange the combined letters of those two words to spell three new words: 

1: a place providing relief from that
temperature reading, and 

2 and 3: a two-word description of that place. 

What three words are these?

What are the temperature scale and a reading on that scale?

Appetizer Menu

Worldplayfulness Appetizer:

Siege city, (a)&(b), Split opinion, Two woods

Siege city

๐Ÿ”ซ1. Think of an antique gun, in eight letters. Substitute a single L for the last two letters. Duplicate the middle three letters of this result, as a set. Add a U to the start of the result.

Rearrange to give a city in a US state that once might have had such a gun in its arsenal, in a crate marked “obsolete firearms.” What are the the weapon and city?

Hint: When rearranging, preserve the original “block of three letters” and its duplicate as two immutable blocks of three letters. The rearranging is for two blocks of three letters and five “independent” letters. 

(a) and (b) 

⭐๐ŸŸ2. Think of a word that describes either (a) the process by which some animals (such as starfish) grow new limbs for lost ones, or (b) an application of positive feedback in electronics. 

Remove from this word a word related to (a) heredity, or (b) Autry. Split the remainder into (a) an abbreviation for Paris suburban railways, and (b) what sounds like a designation for one of many people. 

What are (a) the original word and (b) its three parts?

Split opinion

๐ŸŒ3. Think of a product of the service economy. Drop the penultimate letter. Remove the second syllable, which sounds like how this product makes some customers feel. 

Merge the remaining letters, in order, to express how others might describe this same product.

Two woods

๐ŸŒณ4. Take the name of a tree and wood known throughout much of the world. 

Rearrange its letters to give the name of another tree and wood, well-known in a particular part of the USA.

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It’s a Limerical Miracle Slice:

Four more saints go Marching in

Today, March 19th, is the the feast day of St. Joseph, carpenter and foster father of Jesus of Nazareth. March 17th was the feast day of St. Patrick.

Four years ago I published on Puzzleria! three “limerick-puzzles”: one for each of those two saints, plus an introductory limerick. (See this link.)

That introductory limerick is reprinted below along with three new limerick-puzzles about other saints who celebrate feast days in March. A new concluding limerick follows these three limericks.

These four new limericks contain seven blanks for you to fill in. The number of letters in each of the seven answers appears in parentheses after each blank. 

As was the case four years ago, perhaps you can improve my verses by filling in the blanks with words different from what I used!

Introductory Verse:

Marching in go the saints all this month

From March 1st through to March 31th.

Were we all, Lord, so numbered –

Holy souls unencumbered

By holes – we’d with grace overrun’th. ...

St. Felicity and St. Perpetua, March 6:

Being martyred won’t warrant a statue o’

You in church, nor will it get you a

Pope’s ____________(12)...

Just trust God’s revelation

As Felicity did, and Perpetua.

St. Gregory, March 12:

If a “Great” man weren’t given to braggary,

And “a servant of servants of God” were he,

Were he pope, monk, historian

And a chanter _________(9),

He could only be christened St. Gregory.

St. Benedict, March 21:

While some abbots make rules “nigh-Gehenna-strict,”

“Work and worship” urged gently St. Benedict.

His Rule, firm yet elastic,

Set the standard ________(8)...

Thus few monks disobeyed, broke or ______(6) __(2).

Saintly Conclusion:

... At month’s end, though, March saints shall march out,

Martyred lambs, lionized yet ______(6).

Life’s parade alas ends,

Yet to heaven it _____(5)...

“Lord, we’ll be in that number!” let’s shout.


Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices:

“Render unto Caesars... Palace?”

Will Shortz’s March 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Robert Render of Skokie, Illinois, reads:

Name a well-known tourist locale that attracts millions of visitors a year. It has a two-word name. The first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the name. What’s the tourist site?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take a homophone of a synonym of “scuttlebutt.” Name two synonyms of this homophone, in seven and six letters. 

Replace the seven-letter synonym with a six-letter homophone. Rearrange the combined letters of the six-letter synonym and six-letter homophone to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the synonym of “scuttlebutt” and its homophone? What are the two synonyms of this homophone, in seven and six letters?

What is the six-letter homophone of that seven-letter synonym?  

ENTREE #2

Take a five-word line from a nursery rhyme found in “Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book,” an anthology published in London in 1744. The first three words in the line form a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the line.

What is this nursery rhyme, and what is the line?

Hint #1: In a later more-familiar version of the nursery rhyme the last two words of the line are replaced with a single compound word.

Hint #2: The origin of the line may be something Sir Toby Belch said.

ENTREE #3

Take a two-word song title. The first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. 

The second word in the title is also a number. And that number equals two-and-a-half times the total number of letters in the title. 

What’s this song title?

Hint: The title refers to a time of day, one that (according to the lyrics) appeared on the face of a broken clock on a church steeple. The hands on the clock form a quite obtuse 165-degree angle.

ENTREE #4

Name a literary work that involves a shipwreck. It has a two-word title. 

The first word is a number, but not a cardinal one. And that number is an adjective that describes the last letter in the title. 
What’s the title?
Hint: “First” and “sixth” are two other non-cardinal numbers that describe this letter in the title.

ENTREE #5

Name a three-word song title. Its first word is a number. 

And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. What’s the title?

Hint #1: The singer of the song was a country
singer who had been a rock ’n’ roll rival of Elvis Presley in the 1950s. 

Hint #2: The name of  the title character in a Broadway musical was a word play on the country singer’s name.

ENTREE #6

Name a six-word song title from the 1970s with a first word that is a number. And that number (when spelled out instead of written as a numeral, as it usually is) equals twice the total number of letters in the title. 

What’s this title?

Hint: The person who wrote and sang the song specializes in the folk-rock musical genre.

ENTREE #7

Name a two-word country song title from the 1970s with a first word that is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. 

What’s the song title?

Hints: The singer is the offspring of a person who is
regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century.

The song was recorded also by Faron Young.


ENTREE #8

Name a well known two-word idiom with which one is said to be blessed after having survived a near encounter with death or disaster. 

The idiom’s first word is a number. 

And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the idiom. 

What’s the idiom?

Hint: The two-word idiom is also the brand name of a food product.


Dessert Menu

Automotive Dessert:

Bumper-to-bumper “(guit)cars”

Write the name of a current car model.

After it, without a space, write the name of a past car model. 

The result spells a musical instrument. 

What is it?


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52 comments:

  1. E#3 "too many heartbreaks for one heart to bear."

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  2. The trick to E#1 is the mental wiring diagram. Lego = the man who put the scheme in schematic.

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  3. Happy Friday(and almost Spring)to all on the blog!
    Just got the Private Eye Crossword solved, the Prize Crossword isn't ready yet, and "Ask Me Another" is a rerun. Overslept a little today. Mom wondered if I was still alive! Was late with lunch, so I might not be quite ready for supper yet. The abbreviated version of "Says You" is on right now, so I'm listening to it as I'm writing this. I also had to get up earlier this morning to let in the delivery man with Mom's dialysis supplies, and since I was up late last night figuring out this week's P!uzzles, I hadn't had much sleep. Here's what I have solved so far:
    Worldplay #2
    The "Limerical Miracle" Slice
    All Entrees except #4
    The Dessert(I immediately knew the musical instrument having found the current car model, and then had to make sure about the old car model's existence, of course.)
    I think we're having some sort of burgers for supper, topped with mozzarella, something like that. Mom also said we're supposed to be getting another box of food this evening, so I'll have to check the front porch a little later. I also plan on taking a shower a little later as well(though one shouldn't conflict with the other, of course! We've got a cold front in AL now, thanks to Wednesday's storms, but they say it shouldn't last too long. Just the same, I still hope to be fully clothed when I bring in the box.).
    As always in closing, I wish y'all good luck in solving, please stay safe, and wherever you must go if you must go, don't forget to wear a mask!
    pjbHopesEveryoneElseIsHavingGoodWeatherThisEvening,NotJustHisHometown!

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    1. A burger caprese. Sound delicicioso.

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    2. Bruschetta, actually, and it was indeed delicious.
      pjbHopesWe'llHaveAnotherBoxOfFoodSoon,OrWe'llHaveToGoThroughADrive-ThruMaybe...OnceOrTwice...MaybeEvenMoreThanThat!

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  4. I know what you mean, GB, about the mental wiring! I had to take a piece of paper and work backwards, since we all know WHO the puzzle creator is meant to be.

    Otherwise, I'm stuck on the Schpuzzle, Appetizers 1 and 3 (and am not really sure about #2's answer), and entrees 4 and 5. Oh, and the fourth and fifth words of the Slice.....have everything else.

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  5. Have solved all the Entrรฉes - they were fun. Also the Worldplays (as I wrote them).

    Have not looked at the Schpuzzle or the Limerick yet.

    Hint for Worldplay #3: The removed syllable sounds more like how people may feel if an E is added to its end (after the removal).

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  6. A4. There is a famous restaurant in Hawaii- that i think is made of one of these woods. In fact is named after one of the woods.

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  7. Sunday Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    What you need is relief from the cold, not from the heat.

    Worldplayfulness Appetizer:
    (All hints are courtesy of geofan, aka Ken Pratt)
    Siege city
    1. Think conquistadors.
    (a) and (b)
    2. [Hint (a)]The Paris suburban railways complement the Paris Mรฉtro. The “one of many” relate to people, and the many are very many. OR [Hint (b)]: Start over. Discard the first two letters.
    Split the remainder into the heredity/Autry word and another one that recalls K.
    Split opinion
    3. How “some” and “others” feel may differ.
    (Also, see geofan's comment, above.)
    Two woods
    4. Trees and woods both have 3 letters.

    It’s a Limerical Miracle Slice:
    (Hints in UPPERCASE):
    St. Felicity and St. Perpetua, March 6:
    Being martyred won’t warrant a statue o’
    You in church, nor will it get you a
    Pope’s (SOUNDS WARLIKE!)(12)...
    Just trust God’s revelation
    As Felicity did, and Perpetua.

    St. Gregory, March 12:
    If a “Great” man weren’t given to braggery,
    And “a servant of servants of God” were he,
    Were he pope, monk, historian
    And a chanter CALENDRICALRIVAL TO THE JULIAN?(9),
    He could only be christened St. Gregory.

    St. Benedict, March 21:
    While some abbots made rules “nigh-Gehenna-strict,”
    “Work amd worship” urged gently St. Benedict.
    His Rule, firm yet elastic,
    Set the standard WORD PRECEDING "LISA"+LETTERS PRECEDING "-KER SHOCK"(8)...
    Thus few monks disobeyed, broke or DESCRIPTION OF A KNEE DURING A GENUFLECTION(6) WORD THAT THE KNIGHTS WHO SAY "NI" CANNOT WITHSTAND HEARING(2).

    Conclusion:
    ... At month’s end, though, March saints shall march out,
    Martyred lambs, lionized yet THE FIRST FOUR LETTERS ARE THE NAME OF THE BAND WITH THE FLOWERPOT HATS(6).
    Life’s parade alas ends,
    Yet to heaven it CHANGE THE FIFTH LETTER TO A "Y" AND YOU'VE GOT A "DARLING"(5)...
    “Lord, we’ll be in that number!” let’s shout.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices:
    “Render unto Caesars... Palace?”

    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices read:
    ENTREE #1
    the synonym of “scuttlebutt” (sand the U) is a popular Fleetwood Mac album.
    ENTREE #2
    A half-dozen Vice President Mikes! Yikes!
    ENTREE #3
    "Young girls are coming to the Canyon..."
    ENTREE #4
    The play where Sir Toby appears... (Burp!)
    ENTREE #5
    "Conrad Birdie"
    ENTREE #6
    "... Just make a new plan, Stan..."
    ENTREE #7
    Traditional Valentine's Day gift, minus one red bloom
    ENTREE #8
    ... A food product

    Dessert Menu
    Automotive Dessert:
    Bumper-to-bumper “(guit)cars”
    Let's Polka!

    LegoWhoNotesThatTheDessertInstrumentWasStanShmenge'sInstrumentOfChoice

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  8. CORRECTION to Worldplay #1:
    As written, the result after duplicating the "middle 3 letters" has one too many U's in it. Here is a corrected rewording:

    Think of an antique gun, in eight letters. Substitute a single L for the last two letters. Duplicate the middle three letters of this result, as a set. Add a U to the start of the result. Rearrange to give a city in a US state that once might have had such a gun in its arsenal, in a crate marked “obsolete firearms.” What are the the weapon and city?

    HINT: When rearranging, preserve the original "block of 3 letters" and its duplicate as two immutable blocks of 3 letters. The rearranging is for two blocks of 3 letters and 5 "independent" letters.

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    1. I solved it, too, now. But why did'nt you just say to skip adding the U at the beginning, and thus go back to replacing only the one last letter with the L?

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    2. VT - Because then the "middle 3" letters would no longer be in the middle (exact center). They would be offset to the left (2 to L, 3 to R).

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  9. Got Worldplay #1, but I think there might be one U too many for the city's name.
    pjbAskingAmICrazyOrIsItU?

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    1. Above rewording corrects the issue. U were correct.

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  10. Further HINT for Wordplay #3: Change the first two letters of the American term, which form a preposition, to a 2-letter adverb or conjunction to obtain the term sometimes used in Britain.

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    1. What American term, geo? I can't find in the App #3 itself or the hint Lego wrote up for you, or the hint you posted yourself, any mention of an 'American term.'

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    2. VT - the British [in some cases] and US terms have differing starting sets of two letters.

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    3. It is additional info to that provided in the original text and hints.

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    4. I finally solved your #3, geo. Whew...

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  11. Now I have Worldplay #4. All I really need now for #3 are a few more details about the "service product".
    pjbNotReallyCaringThatMuchAboutWhat"Some"Or"Others"MayThink,OrWhereTheQuotationMarksAre,ForThatMatter

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  12. App 2 - Putting a little English spin on the local abbreviation helped me solve this one - I think. Pardon my French.

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  13. A1. At first i wanted Derringer to work- Not. 9 letters. Then i wanted Gatling gun - Not. 7 seven letters.
    Man the pollen count is up today 287 - It's Killin me.

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  14. Still haven't got the Schpuzzle or Worldplay #3. 'Tis the eleventh hour, Lego!
    pjbSaysIt'sCrunchTimeEvenThoughHe'sAlreadyEatenSupperAnHourAgo

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  15. Me either. Yea time is heating up. I tried to make sauna work but -no. for the Snapple oh i mean Schpuzzle.

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    1. Later-Than-Eleventh-Hour Hints

      Schpuzzle:
      The temperature scale: Not Centigrade, Celsius, Kelvin or Rankine
      The reading on that scale: Neither -1, -2, -3... nor 1, 2, 3...

      Worldplay #3:
      I apologize, but We will have to rely on geofan for a last-second Hail-Mary-pass hint on this one. I too have not solved it!

      LegoWhoFindsItMuchEasierToSolveThePuzzlesThatHeHimselfAndHim"HasCreated!

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  16. AOC-- All Out of Captain crunch.

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  17. Schpuzzle: ZERO FAHRENHEIT → HEARTH, FIRE ZONE [post-Sun-hint]

    Worldplay Appetizers:
    #1: ARQUEBUS – US + L → ARQUEBL + QUE + U → UARQUEQUEBL → ALBUQUERQUE
    #2: REGENERATION → RER(Rรฉseau Express Rรฉgional) + GENE(Autry) + ATION → ASIAN
    #3: INSURANCE – C – SUR (sounds like SURE) → SURE, INANE
    #4: OAK → KOA(Hawaiian wood)

    Limerical Slices
    (a) DISPENSATION
    (b) GREGORIAN
    (c) MONASTIC, TESTED IT
    (d) DEVOUT, TENDS or SENDS [post-Sun-hint: WENDS]

    Entrรฉes
    #1: SCUTTLEBUTT → RUMOR → ROOMER → BOARDER, RENTER → BORDER, RENTER → ROBERT RENDER
    #2: FOUR AND TWENTY NAUGHTY BOYS (later “blackbirds”)
    #3: TWELVE THIRTY (Mamas and Papas) → 165° angle @ 12:30. Thanks for the geometry lesson :)
    #4: TWELFTH NIGHT (Shakespeare)
    #5: FIFTEEN YEARS AGO (Conway Twitty). Hint was no help; I knew (and liked) the song and artist.
    #6: FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (Paul Simon)
    #7: FIVE-O (Hank Williams Jr). Not a familiar song.
    #8: NINE LIVES (+ cat food)

    Dessert: (Honda)ACCORD + (Saturn)ION → ACCORDION

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  18. ZERO FAHRENHEIT > HEARTH / FIRE ZONE
    MONASTIC, DEVOUT, SENDS
    SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE / FOUR AND TWENTY NAUGHTY BOYS
    FIFTEEN YEARS AGO (Conway Twitty)
    FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER (Paul Simon)
    NINE LIVES
    8:57 AM 3/19/2021
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    REGENERATIONISM (?) > GENE, METRO, RAISIN (?)
    INSURANCE (?) > SURE INANE (?)
    COMMENDATION (?), GREGORIAN, RENDED (?) IT
    TWELVE THIRTY
    1:02 PM 3/19/2021
    ---------------------------------
    SCUTTLEBUTT > RUMOR > ROOMER > BO{A}RDER, RENTER > ROBERT RENDER
    ELEVEN ROSES (never heard of it)
    [ACCORD][ION]
    6:44 AM 3/20/2021


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  19. Schpuzzle: 1. Hearth & Fire Zone 2. & 3. Fahrenheit & Zero

    Appetizers:
    1. Arquebus & Albuquerque
    2. Regeneration; Gene; REA (English version of French RER); Ratio
    3. Insurance - sur(sure) -c = inane
    4. Oak & Koa

    IALM Slice: [all without regard to hints, so a complete wing]

    Consecration
    Gregorian
    Monastic; Defied; It
    Devout; Wends

    Entrees:
    1. Robert Render; Rumor & Roomer; Renter & Boarder; Border
    2. Sing a Song of Sixpence; Four and twenty Naughty Boys
    3. Twelve Thirty
    4. Twelfth Night
    5. Fifteen Years Ago
    6. 50 (Fifty) Ways to Leave Your Lover
    7. Eleven Roses
    8. Nine Lives

    Dessert: Accordion (Honda Accord; Saturn Ion)


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  20. App 2. That should be REN and not REA

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    1. GB: RER was intended [see above]. -ation sounds like ASIAN [see below reply to VT].

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    2. Trapped by a homophone. Excellent puzzle. And, I learned what an arquebus is.

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    3. Somehow i went through the backdoor finding Albuquerque first and then...

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  21. 3/22/21
    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Farenheit
    Heat source,

    Worldplayfulness Appetizer:

    Siege city
    1. Arquebus, Albequerque (never heard of this one)

    2. Regeneration, RER, Nation
    3. How “some” and “others” feel may differ ??

    Two woods
    4. Oak and Koa, “Koa pancake house “is great spot on Oahu. It is on the windward side. The whole interior is KOA and they say it is almost priceless. It may be online.

    It’s a Limerical Miracle Slice:
    Christchurch??
    St. Gregory, March 12:
    If a “Great” man weren’t given to braggery,
    Gregorian
    St.Benedict
    Monastic, bended i--it

    Conclusion:
    ... At month’s end, though, March saints shall march out,
    Devout, Ascend
    “Lord, we’ll be in that number!” let’s shout.


    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices read:
    ENTREE #1
    Rumuors-- Robert Render
    ENTREE #2 Pocket full of six pence. “Four and twenty blackbirds.”
    ENTREE #3 “Twelve thirty” Mamas and Papas
    "Young girls are coming to the Canyon..."
    ENTREE #4 12th night

    ENTREE #5
    Conrad Twitty -15 years ago
    ENTREE #6
    50 Ways to leave your Lover--Paul Simon
    ENTREE #7
    11 Roses- Hank Williams Jr.
    ENTREE #8
    .Nine lives

    Dessert Menu
    Automotive Dessert
    Accord- Honda, Ion-Saturn = Accordion ( I wanted vibe to work vibe-raphone.)


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  22. AGain, taking NO PEEKS at answers others have posted above:

    SCHPUZZLE: Word with an “R" & FAHRENHEIT => HEARTH, FIRE & word with an “N"


    WORLDPLAY:

    1. ARQUEBUS [whoever heard of such a thing?] => UARQUEQUEBL. => ALBUQUERQUE

    2. REGENERATION minus ‘GENE' => RERATION => RER & ATION. [I don’t understand why this second word fits the given definition, tho]

    3. INSURANCE => INSURANE => SUR(e) & INANE. [ASSURANCE in Britain]

    4. DOG/WOOD? & GOD/WOOD?


    SLICE: CANONIZATION; GREGORIAN; MONASTIC; BENDED IT; DEVOUT; WENDS


    ENTREES:

    1. RUMOR => ROOMER => BOARDER & RENTER => BORDER & RENTER => ROBERT RENDER

    2. FOUR-AND-TWENTY BLACKBIRDS/NAUGHTY BOYS... [Sing a Song of Sixpence…]

    3. TWELVE THIRTY [The Mamas and the Papas]

    4. TWELFTH NIGHT

    5. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO [Conway Twitty]

    6. FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER [Paul Simon]

    7. ELEVEN ROSES [Hank Williams, Jr]

    8. NINE LIVES

    DESSERT: ACCORD/ION

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    1. DARN...I TRIED 'zero' and thought of 'zone' too as a resultant word, but I somehow always ended up with an extra "R", i.e. R-ZONE, which I actually DID write down in my answers, at one point, and then erased it.

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    2. VT: -ATION sounds like ASIAN. One Asian is one of many [Asians], of whom there are ca. 4.6 billion.

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    3. Yeah I saw that in your answers, geo, after I had posted mine. 'AAH', said I!

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  23. Schpuzzle
    FAHRENHEIT, ZERO, HEARTH, FIRE ZONE
    Appetizer Menu
    1. ARQUEBUS, ALBUQUERQUE(NM)
    2. REGENERATION-GENE=RER, ATION(sounds like ASIAN)
    3. INSURANCE, SURE, INANE
    4. OAK, KOA(Are you sure it's not WYE and YEW?)
    Menu
    It's A Limerical Miracle Slice
    1. CANONIZATION
    2. GREGORIAN
    3. MONASTIC, BENDED IT
    4. DEVOUT, WENDS
    Entrees
    1. ROBERT RENDER, RUMOR(ROOMER), BOARDER(BORDER), RENTER
    2. FOUR AND TWENTY NAUGHTY BOYS(from "Sing a Song of Sixpence", last part later changed to "blackbirds")
    3. "TWELVE THIRTY"(The Mamas and the Papas)
    4. TWELFTH NIGHT(William Shakespeare)
    5. "FIFTEEN YEARS AGO"(Conway Twitty)
    6. "FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER"(Paul Simon)
    7. "ELEVEN ROSES"(Hank Williams, Jr.)
    8. NINE LIVES(cat food)
    Dessert
    ACCORDION(Honda ACCORD, Saturn ION)
    More bad weather for West Alabama tomorrow, including the threat of tornadoes again. Pray for us once more.-pjb

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Taking a temperature, getting relief
    Name a temperature scale and a reading on that scale.
    Rearrange the combined letters of those two words to spell three new words:
    1: a place providing relief from that temperature reading, and
    2 and 3: a two-word description of that place.
    What three words are these?
    What are the temperature scale and a reading on that scale?
    Answer:
    Hearth, fire zone; Fahrenheit, zero

    Appetizer Menu
    Worldplayfulness Appetizer:
    Siege city, (a)&(b), Split opinion, Two woods
    Siege city
    1. Think of an antique gun, in eight letters. Change the last letter to a L. Add a U at the start. Duplicate the middle three letters of this result, as a set. Rearrange to give a city in a US state that once might have had such a gun in its arsenal, in a crate marked “obsolete firearms.” What are the the weapon and city?
    Answer:
    ARQUEBUS – US + L ? ARQUEBL + QUE + U ? UARQUEQUEBL ? ALBUQUERQUE

    (a) and (b)
    2. Think of a word that describes either (a) the process by which some animals (such as starfish) grow new limbs for lost ones, or (b) an application of positive feedback in electronics. Remove from this word a word related to (a) heredity, or (b) Autry. Split the remainder into (a) an abbreviation for Paris suburban railways, and (b) what sounds like a designation for one of many people. What are (a) the original word and (b) its three parts?
    Answer:
    REGENERATION ? RER(Rรฉseau Express Rรฉgional) + GENE(Autry) + ATION ? ASIAN

    Split opinion
    3. Think of a product of the service economy. Drop the penultimate letter. Remove the second syllable, which sounds like how this product makes some customers feel. Merge the remaining letters, in order, to express how others might describe this same product.
    Answer:
    INSURANCE – C – SUR (sounds like SURE) ? SURE, INANE

    Two woods
    4. Take the name of a tree and wood known throughout much of the world. Rearrange its letters to give the name of another tree and wood, well-known in a particular part of the USA.
    Puzzle #O7 Eventual Hint: Trees and woods both have 3 letters.
    Answer:
    OAK ? KOA(Hawaiian wood)

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

    MENU

    It’s a Limerical Miracle Slice:
    Four more saints go Marching in

    Answers (In UPPERCASE):
    St. Felicity and St. Perpetua, March 6:
    Being martyred won’t warrant a statue o’
    You in church, nor will it get you a
    Pope’s CANONIZATION(12)...
    Just trust God’s revelation
    As Felicity did, and Perpetua.

    St. Gregory, March 12:
    If a “Great” man weren’t given to braggery,
    And “a servant of servants of God” were he,
    Were he pope, monk, historian
    And a chanter GREGORIAN(9),
    He could only be christened St. Gregory.

    St. Benedict, March 21:
    While some abbots made rules “nigh-Gehenna-strict,”
    “Work amd worship” urged gently St. Benedict.
    His Rule, firm yet elastic,
    Set the standard MONASTIC(8)...
    Thus few monks disobeyed, broke or BENDED(6) IT(2).

    Conclusion:
    ... At month’s end, though, March saints shall march out,
    Martyred lambs, lionized yet DEVOUT(6).
    Life’s parade alas ends,
    Yet to heaven it WENDS(5)...
    “Lord, we’ll be in that number!” let’s shout.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices:
    “Render unto Caesars... Palace?”

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices:
    “Render unto Caesars... Palace?”
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices read:
    ENTREE #1
    Take a homophone of a synonym of “scuttlebutt.” Name two synonyms of this homophone, in seven and six letters. Replace the seven-letter synonym with a six-letter homophone. Rearrange the combined letters of the six-letter synonym and six-letter homophone to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.
    Who is this puzzle-maker?
    What are the synonym of “scuttlebutt” and its homophone? What are the two synonyms of this homophone, in seven and six letters?
    What is the six-letter homophone of that seven-letter synomym?
    Answer:
    Robert Render;
    Rumor; Roomer; Renter, Boarder (Border)
    Border
    ENTREE #2
    Take a line from a five-word line from a nursey rhyme found in “Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book,” an anthology published in London in 1744. The first three words form one number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the line.
    What is this nursery rhyme, and what is the line?
    Hint #1: In a later more-familiar version of the nursery rhyme the last two words of the line are replaced with a single compound word.
    Hint #2: The origin of the line may be something Sir Toby Belch said in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
    Answer:
    "Sing a Song of Sixpence"; "...Four and twenty naughty boys..."
    "Sing a Song of Sixpence,
    A bag full of Rye,
    Four and twenty Naughty Boys,
    Baked in a Pye."
    Hint #1: A common modern version of the nursery rhyme begins:
    "Sing a song of sixpence,
    A pocket full of rye.
    Four and twenty blackbirds,
    Baked in a pie..."
    Hint #2: In “Twelfth Night,” Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: "Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song."

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  27. This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices (continued):

    ENTREE #3
    Take a two-word song title. The first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title.
    The second word in the title is also a number. And that number equals two-and-a-half times the total number of letters in the title.
    What’s this song title?
    Hint: The title refers to a time of day, one that (according to the lyrics) appeared on the face of a broken clock on a church steeple. The hands on the clock form a
    quite obtuse 165-degree angle.
    Answer:
    "Twelve Thirty" by the Mamas and the Papas (1967)
    Hint: The hands of a clock reading 12:30 form a 165-degree angle.
    ENTREE #4
    Name a literary work that involves a shipwreck. It has a two-word title. The first word is a number, but not a cardinal one. And that number is an adjective describing the last letter in the title (which, coincidentally, also happens to be the first letter in the title). What’s the title?
    Answer:
    "Twelfth Night" bt William Shakespeare ("Twelfth," an ordinal number, describes the last letter in "Twelfth Night."
    ENTREE #5
    Name a three-word song title. Its first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. What’s the title?
    Hint: The singer of the song was a country singer who had been a rock ’n’ roll rival of Elvis Presley in the 1950s. The name of the title character in a Broadway musical was a word play on the counrty singer’s name.
    Answer:
    "Fifteen Years Ago," by Conway Twitty
    Hint: The character Conrad Birdie in "Bye Bye Birdie" was a word play on Conway Twitty.
    ENTREE #6
    Name a six-word song title from the 1970s with a first word that is a number. And that number (when spelled out instead of written as a numeral, as it usually is) equals twice the total number of letters in the title. What’s this title?
    Hint: The person who wrote and sang the song specializes in the folk-rock musical genre.
    Answer:
    "50 (Fifty) Ways to Leave Your Lover," by Paul Simon;
    ENTREE #7
    Name a two-word country song title from the 1970s with a first word that is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. What’s the song title?
    Hints: The singer is the offspring of a man regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century.
    The song was recorded also by Faron Young.
    Answer:
    "Eleven Roses," by Hank Williams, Jr.
    ENTREE #8
    Name a well-known two-word idiom for what one is said to have after having survived despite a near encounter with death or disaster. The idiom’s first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the idiom. What’s the idiom?
    Hint: The two-word idiom is also the brand name of a food product.
    Answer:
    "Nine Lives"
    Hint: Nine Lives cat food

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    Automotive Dessert:
    Bumper-to-bumper “(guit)cars”
    Write the name of a current car model.
    After it, without a space, write the name of a past car model.
    The result spells a musical instrument.
    What is it?
    Answer:
    Accordion; (Honda) Accord + (Saturn) Ion

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