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Schpuzzle of the Week:
“What we saw on our safari”
Change one vowel to a different vowel and
rearrange the result to spell two creatures you might very well see on the safari.
What are these creatures?
Appetizer Menu
nOt easilY beAtEn conUndrums appetIzer:
A trio of singular conundrums
vowel).
Change the O to a U to get another word.
🥁2.Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel).
Change the O to a double E to get another word.
Change the O to an I to get another word.
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Sequential Slice:
What is the sixth word in the following sequence?
Net, reef, neigh, net, event, ___?
Hint: The word contains three letters.
Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:
Cnsnntsooa frsti, vwlsoe lsta
Think of a person in the news (5,4). The first name and last name each have at least two consonants and two vowels. All the consonants in each name come at the start, and all the vowels come at the end. The letter “y” is not used. Who is this famous person?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Think of the name of a puzzle-maker in the recent National Public Radio news, five letters in the first name, six letters in the surname.
image pictured here.
The six-letter word is a compound word that is also a grass genus.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the caption?
ENTREE #2
Think of the first names of a trio of fictional brothers who are the grand-nephews of Scrooge.
Four are consonants, three of which are the initials of the names.
The other 10 letters are vowels, two of which are the letter “y”.
Who are these brothers?
ENTREE #3
Think of a noun that ends in four vowels.
The eight letters preceding those four vowels alternate vowels and consonants.
4, 3 &1;
8, 7 & 8;
6, 5 & 8;
4, 3, 5 & 2
6, 7, 3 & 6; and
8, 10, 10 & 8.
The six words formed by those strings of letters are all examples of the noun.
What is the noun?
What are the six words?
ENTREE #4
The verb consists of the five different vowels (not including “y”) which are flanked by a two-letter term for an employee of a hospital.
What is this verb?
ENTREE #5
Take a two-word name of the early wormlike stage of pesky pests that may infest your pets.
The name of these early-stage pests contains four and six letters.
Both words end with the same two vowels, but in the reverse order of one another.
What are these early-stage pests?
ENTREE #6
Think of a country an its capital city. Both end with two vowels.
Remove those four vowels.
With the four letters that remain you can spell the contents of a world atlas.
What are this country an its capital city?
What are the contents of a world atlas?
ENTREE #7
“1988 Masters Tournament champion Sandy Lyle, a Scotsman known for his ability to read the greens, kept his caddy in clover and his orange _____ ___ in a caddy.”
Remove those four ending vowels. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a third word that appears in the sentence.
What are the two missing words?
What is the third word from the sentence?
ENTREE #8
Otto, an amateur spelunker spends his day-off seeking the wonder of nature’s sculptures – stalactites and stalagmites.
As he roams deeper down into the darkness he senses a dribbling in his wake.
Otto aims his headlamp downward and sees a trickling of shallow rainwater tickling the sides of his sneakers’ soles.
Eventually, as the seeping water steepens to a near knee-deep flow, he sees a headlamp light at the end of the tunnel. It’s attached to a rescuer named Anna who takes his hand and navigates with him against the teeming stream until, finally, the dark of dank night is washed away by the light of bright day.
Name what Otto has now become, a seven-letter word ending in three vowels.
Remove those three vowels and spell the remaining letters backward to name the “heart of darkness” from which Otto was rescued.
What has Otto become? What is this “heart of darkness.”
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Rearing And Rearranging Dessert:
“Calling Mr. ... Calling Dr. Spock!”
Take a one-word synonym of “child rearing.”
Its first four letters can be rearranged to name what parents often do for children in the early stages of rearing.
What is this synonym?
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Hello all,
ReplyDeleteLooks like a particularly enjoyable set of puzzles this week.
Quickly got the Conundrums and Entrées #3,6,7. It helped that I had been to the #6 in 2005. An interesting place to see.
Also have a good alternate answer to the Schpuzzle, but only if you have to build the shelter that you are staying in on the safari.
Thanks, geofan. It sounds as if you are off to a great start.
DeleteLegoWhoObservesThatPuzzleSolvingEndsUpBeingMoreOfASnapIfOneIsA"geotraveler"Likegeofan!
I think I have the same alternate to the Schpuzzle geo. There's another close one that has a leftover letter. Everything else fell into place fairly quickly. The only thing left is to hammer away at the Schpuzzle.
DeleteI managed to guess the Safari article on first try, and also then hit the correct vowel(s) on my first attempt....at least, I think so. My alternate answer doesn't jibe with Geo's, though, and isn't as good as what I assume is the 'real' answer.
ReplyDeleteAm happy to say that I believe I have solved everything, except as is so often the case, the SLICE. Have no idea how to approach it.
ReplyDeleteVT, I am dismayed that you have encountered difficulty in solving the Sequential Slice. As puzzle-blog purveyor I feel accountable... but all I can come up with is this no-count hint!
DeleteLegoLambda
Lego, I've been meaning to answer, saying that I still have no idea about the Slice...other than that I assume from your 'hint' above that it is supposed to be about numbers. But I haven't been able to do anything even with that idea.
DeleteHappy May Eve, everybody!(and, according to this week's bizarre Prize Crossword set by Bogus, tomorrow is also WORLD NAKED GARDENING DAY! Never heard of it myself, certainly wouldn't celebrate it!)
ReplyDeleteBusy evening for us tonight. First time we all went out to eat in a year! We went to Cracker Barrel with Bryan, Renae, Mia Kate, and Maddy, and a good time was had by all(though Mom told me on the way home she didn't really like what she ordered). When we got home, I listened to a new "Ask Me Another" podcast, solved the latest Private Eye Crossword(in which I had to look up the name URSULA VON DER LEYEN, who has something to do with the COVID vaccine distribution in the UK), and the aforementioned Prize Crossword.
Now to this week's P! offerings. Late last night I checked the site, and was able to get all but the conundrum involving replacing the O with a double E, but even then I'm a little unsure about the Schpuzzle. According to the item I've "packed" for this hypothetical safari, my anagrammed pair of animals ends up being one singular and the other plural(that is to say, that S has got to go somewhere!). May even be a THIRD alternate answer for that one, if mine's not the same as that of geofan or VT. I could never even find anything about a safari "shelter", though I do know that would be necessary, too. Hope there will be some good hints this week, though I only need one or two myself. I will explain what I came up with for the Schpuzzle on Wednesday. I guess we'll all compare notes then anyway.
By my clock on my Kindle here in AL, I have only eight minutes until Saturday morning, so I'll end my post here. I wish you all good luck in solving, please stay safe, and don't forget to wear those masks(even if you've been twice vaxxed like I have). Cranberry out!
pjbAddsIfAnyoneHereActuallyParticipatesInNakedGardening,Don'tForgetToTakeTheNecessaryPrecautionsThere,Too!
cranberry,
DeleteFor the Schpuzzle, enter the item you've "packed" for this hypothetical safari into the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Then type it in without the "s" at the end and check out definition #2 of the noun form.
I know I learned something. Helpful links will be posted in Wednesday's official answers.
LegoWhoMuses"HmmmmNakedGardeningYouSay?...TheBawdyJokesWriteThemselves!"
Lego - Off the subject, I know, so my apologies; but one notes that the Vikings took the "other" Surratt brother and that Boogie went one pick before the other GB in Round 2. Would have been nice to see BASHAM on a jersey of any team that begins with Pa and ends with ers.
ReplyDeleteGB, My apologies also. Normally, I have at least a passing interest in the NFL Draft but this year, it has just kinda passed me by.
Delete(The fizzley way the season ended for the Packers left a bitter taste in the mouth of my cheesehead. Then, worse, tuning in to ESPN at the end of Draft Day 1 to get the headlines of how the picks went, the biggest news was that Aaron Rodgers is disgruntled with team management, and there is a good chance he may not be back in Green Bay next season!)
LegoSaysColorMeNotGreenAndGoldJustColorMeBlue
Sunday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
"Change one vowel to a different vowel and rearrange the result to spell two creatures one might very well see on the safari."
nOt easilY beAtEn conUndrums appetIzer:
1. Something a tree might have + a recuperative device that might be made from a tree.
2. On time, like good service + what timely news flashes do to "regular programming"
3. Not easily broken, like a rope + something that may function like a rope, but is more easily broken
Sequential Slice:
As a noun, the word you seek is a doc, as a verb it means to evaluate or appraise.
To find it, seek between words in the sequence. It's a sequence Sesame Streeters know by heart, at least its beginning items. And yet, it's a sequence that never really ends.
Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:
ENTREE #1
The compound word in the caption contains a color.
ENTREE #2
A "Scrooge created not by Dickens but by another guy whose surname starts with a "D".
ENTREE #3
Find a synonym of an anagram of "choice."
ENTREE #4
"My tabby talked!"
ENTREE #5
"FDR loved to DIVULGE the tricks he taught his dog named ????."
Rearrange the combined letters in the dog's name and a synonym of "DIVULGE" to form the early-stage pests.
ENTREE #6
"Tatupu!"
ENTREE #7
"What is your tee time, Sandy?"
ENTREE #8
The Hoover Dam bursting would also necessitate such a rescue, perhaps en masse!
Rearing And Rearranging Dessert:
The synonym of “child rearing” contains 3 syllables and begins with a U.
LegoWhoNotesThatWtattEarp'sMiddleInitialWas"B"
I believe you mean WYATT Earp. He changed it from "WTATT" after people kept having trouble pronouncing it. BTW I had initially used the same o-word for both Conundrums #1 and #3, but your hint for the former has obviously proven me wrong. Did get #2, learned nothing new about the Schpuzzle. Otherwise, I've definitely solved everything else.
DeletepjbMustNoteNotTooManyOfUsSesameStreetersEverLearnedWhat"Tatupu"Means
cranberry, your post on Friday suggests to me that you have my intended answer for the Schpuzzle. One animal "sleeps tonight," the other provides health insurance.
DeleteLegoAdds"AndLet'sFaceItYouMayNeedHealthInsuranceOnASafari"
BTW I just found out Wyatt Earp actually had B.S. in the middle.
ReplyDeletepjbSaysNoThanksToTrump,We'veAllHadB.S.UpToHere!
I somehow overlooked the instruction to change one vowel in the Schpuzzle.
ReplyDeleteSo that my weekend efforts will not be wasted:
Think of a two-word phrase a U.S. politician once used in defense of a stance his opponents objected to. Remove the space between those words to form a new, unrelated word. Now think of a slang, two-syllable synonym for that word. Each of these syllables sounds like a creature you might see on an African safari, and the letters in the names of these creatures can be rearranged to spell something you might take with you on a safari.
What might you take with you, what are the two creatures you might see, what is the slang word that they sound like when spoken together (in the right order), what is the synonym of that word and the two-word phrase resulting from breaking it apart, and who's the politician?
Thank you, Paul. I appreciate your riff-off of the Schpuzzle. I have not solved it yet, but my plan of attack is to try to come up with the two safari creatures that, together, sound like a "slang, two-syllable synonym" of the unrelated word... then work backward and forward from that.
DeleteLegoWhoMay(AtSomePointInTheSolvingProcess)RequireHints
... there do not appear to be many safari critters that have but one syllable.
DeleteLegoWhoKnowsTrumpComplainedOfA"WitchHunt"and"FakeNews"ButAlsoKnowsThat"Witchhunt"and"Fakenews"AreNotWords
One of the critters can be found almost anywhere, not just on safari.
DeleteOkay, Paul. Striking out so far. Trying a new tack...
DeletePlease tell me something "hinty" about the U.S. politician.
LegoResolvingToSolve!
The politician's surname can be represented using chemical symbology.
DeleteI was toying with Gnu & Bee and Newbie as likely suspects. Then your Flying Nun hint provided the rest of the link.
DeleteSchpuzzle: Lion & Scarab (Binoculars, change U to A) My first idea got stopped at the TSA checkpoint: Lion & Gnu (Nail Gun, change A to O) Sounds like geo's first idea for building a shelter.
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
1. Strong to Strung
2. Prompt to Preempt
3. Throng to Thring (a new word for me, but Okayed by M-W); or, Strong to String fits the hint
S Slice: Nee (from the hints, color this alternate) - sequence with Nee is word with short e, word with long e, word with e having sound of a, repeat.
Entrees:
1. Peter Gordon; Redtop Norge
2. Huey, Dewey, & Louie
3. Onomatopoeia; moo, pop, tap, moan, toot, & peep
4. Miaoued (variant of meowed)
5. Flea Larvae
6. Samoa & Apia; Maps
7. Pekoe & Tea; Kept
8. Evacuee & Cave
Dessert: Upbringing (Burp)
GB - wrt TSA being stopped: Some years back (pre-9/11), I wanted to take a caulking gun (w/o caulk tube) onto a plane. I checked in and asked: "Can I take this object onto the flight?" [did not want to call it a "caulking gun"]. The agent said, "Oh, a caulker." I could take in on board.
DeleteTimes change. A couple of lifetimes ago, the "expert" Sneaky Petes advised us to travel with two sets of identification - civilian and military when traveling on a military errand in civilian clothing and to be prepared to hide the military ID if necessary in case of a hijacking. To do that they suggested carrying a box cutter, pin knife, or razor blade to slit the seat in front and slide the ID's inside.
DeleteSorry I did not have as much time for puzzles as usual. I am buying a fancy 2BR condo in N Bethesda MD for $530k in cash. So I need to get all the details right and big amount of cash in the right place at the right time.
ReplyDeleteFrom the roof I can see MD, DC, VA, WV (but not Russia).
geofan
Schpuzzle: GNU, LION – O + A → NAIL GUN (to build the shelter)
LION, ZEBRA – O + A / – E + I → BRAZILIAN (but changes 2 vowels)
Conundrums
#1: STRONG – O + U → STRUNG Alternate: SCOTCH – O + U → SCUTCH
Post-Sun-hint: CROTCH – O + U → CROTCH
#2: PROMPT – O + EE → PREEMPT
#3: STRONG – O + I → STRING
Sequential Slice: ONe tHree f,??n eighT, net, ELevent, WEL vet [vet post-Tue-hint]
Entrées
#1: PETER GORDON → NORGE RED-TOP
#2: HUEY, LOUIE, DEWEY (Duck)
#3: ONOMATOPOEIA → MOO, POP, TAP, MOAN, TOOT, PEEP
#4: M + A,E,I,O,U + D → MIAOUED
#5: FLEA LARVAE
#6: APIA, SAMOA – IA, OA, A → MAPS [I have been there. Interesting place.]
#7: PEKOE, TEA – OE, EA → KEPT
#8: EVACUEE – UEE → CAVE
Dessert: UPBRINGING → BURP
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteBINOCULAR(singular)would give you LION and COBRA, but BINOCULARS(plural)would make LIONS or COBRAS. The singular version is less common, I would think.
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Conundrums
1. Before the clue, I simply assumed it would be STRONG and STRUNG. After the clue, I'm unfamiliar with whatever the term is. Might as well be SCUTCH, for all I know. Never heard of that one, either.
2. PROMPT, PREEMPT
3. STRONG, STRING
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oNETwothREEFour...seveNEIGHtniNETenelEVENTwelVEThirteen
The last word is VET.
Entrees
1. PETER GORDON, NORGE REDTOP
2. HUEY, DEWEY, and LOUIE(Donald Duck's nephews)
3. ONOMATOPOEIA, MOO, POP, TAP, MOAN, TOOT, PEEP
4. MIAOWED(MEOWED)
5. FLEA LARVAE
6. SAMOA, APIA, MAPS
7. PEKOE TEA, KEPT
8. EVACUEE, CAVE
Dessert
UPBRINGING, BURP
Tomorrow night I've been invited to a "Trivia Night" at Tallulah Brewing Company, the restaurant in town where my niece Morgan works. The theme will be "Classic Rock", and Bryan and Renae are sure I'd do very well there. I have won playing a couple of music trivia games on our cruise to Cozumel a while back, so this promises to be fun. Wish me luck, y'all!-pjb
Best of luck, cranberry. My money is on you to clean your opponents' Strawberry Alarm Clocks!
DeleteLegoWhoPredictsThatcranberryStyxItTo'EmAndWindsUpOnZZTopOfTheUriahHeep!
MIAOWED or MIAOUED.
ReplyDeletepjbKnowsSomeDon'tReallyConsider"W"AVowel(MostLikelyThoseWhoDon'tConsider"Y"One)
SCHPUZZLE: BINOCULARS/“U" changed to “A": LION & SCARAB. Also: COBRA & SNAIL
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. STRONG => STRUNG. Per Sunday hint: CROTCH & CRUTCH
2. PROMPT => PREEMPT [Pre -hint]
3. STRONG => STRING. [Pre-hint]; Alternative: SPRONG => SPRING
SLICE: VET? But I still fail to understand why
ENTREES:
1. PETER GORDON => NORGE REDTOP
2. HUEY, DEWEY & LOUIE
3. ONOMATOPOEIA => MOO; POP; TAP; MOAN; TOOT; PEEP.
4. MIAOUED
5. FLEA LARVAE
6. APIA, SAMOA => AP SAM => MAPS
7. PEKOE TEA => KEPT
8. EVACUEE => CAVE
DESSERT: UPBRINGING => BURP
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
“What we saw on our safari”
Take a word for something one might take on an African safari.
Change one vowel to a different vowel and rearrange the result to spell two creatures one might very well see on the safari.
What are these creatures?
Answer:
Lion, cobra; (binocular)
BINOCULAR - U + O = COBRA + LION
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nOt easilY beAtEn conUndrums appetIzer:
A trio of singular conundrums
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/singular
1. Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). Change the O to a U to get another word.
Answer:
CROTCH, CRUTCH
2.Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). Change the O to a double E to get another word.
Answer:
PROMPT, PREEMPT
3. Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). Change the O to an I to get another word.
Answer:
STRONG, STRING
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Sequential Slice:
Net, reef, neigh, net, event... next?
What is the sixth word in the following sequence?
Net, reef, neigh, net, event, ___?
Hint: The word contains three letters.
Answer:
Vet
The words in the list are formed by writing the integers from one to thirteen, without spaces, and then determining whether the ending letters of an integer and the beginning letters of the next integer spell a word. For example the REE in thREE and the F in Four spell REEF.
oNETwothREEFourfivesixseveNEIGHtniNETenelEVENTwelVEThirteen...
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:
Cnsnntsooa frsti, vwlsoe lsta
ENTREE #1
Think of a puzzle-maker in the recent National Public Radio news, five letters in the first name, six letters in the surname. Rearrange the combined letters to spell a two-word caption, in five and six letters, for the image pictured here. The six-letter word is a compound word that is also a grass genus.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the caption?
Answer:
Peter Gordon
Norge "Redtop"
ENTREE #2
Think of the first names of a trio of fictional brothers who are the grand-nephews of Scrooge. There are 14 total letters in the names. Four are consonants, three of which are the initials of the names. The other 10 letters are vowels, two of which are the letter “y”.
Who are these brothers?
Answer:
Huey, Dewey & Louie
ENTREE #3
Think of a noun that ends in four vowels. The eight letters preceding those four vowels alternate vowels and consonants.
Take letters numbered:
4, 3 &1;
8, 7 & 8;
6, 5 & 8;
4, 3, 5 & 2
6, 7, 3 & 6; and
8, 10, 10 & 8.
The six words formed by those strings of letters are all examples of the noun.
What is the noun?
What are the six words?
Answer:
Onomatopoeia; moo, pop, tap, moan, toot, peep
ENTREE #4
Think of a seven-letter past-tense verb that is an alternative spelling of a word that is an example of the noun in Entree #3.
The verb consists of the five vowels (not including “y”) which are flanked by a two-letter term for an employee of a hospital.
What is this verb?
Answer:
Miaoued (IAOUE +MD= MIAOUED)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices (continued):
ENTREE #5
Take a two-word name of the early wormlike stage of pesky pests that may infest your pets. You may spot them on “Spot,” your puppy, or witness them on “Kittenness,” your kitten. They resemble c-shaped flecks.
The name of these early-stage pests contains four and six letters. Both words end with the same two vowels, but in a reverse order. What are these early-stage pests?
Answer:
Flea Larvae
ENTREE #6
Think of a country an its capital city. Both end with two vowels. Remove those four vowels. Remove also one of the two letters that appear twice in the remaining five letters. With the four letters that remain you can spell the contents of a world atlas.
What are this country an its capital city?
What are the contents of a world atlas?
Answer:
Apia, Samoa; maps
ENTREE #7
“1988 Masters Tournament champion Sandy Lyle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Lyle), a Scotsman, kept his caddy in clover and his orange _____ ___ in a caddy.”
The missing words in that sentence each end with two vowels. Remove them. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a third word that appears in the sentence.
What are the two missing words?
What is the third word from the sentence?
Answer:
Caddy
ENTREE #8
Otto, an amateur spelunker spends his day-off seeking the wonder nature’s sculptures – stalactites and stalagmites. As he roams deeper down into the darkness he senses a dribbling in his wake. Otto aims his headlamp downward and sees a trickling of shallow rainwater tickling the sides of his sneakers’ soles.
He thinks to himself, “Otto got to get outta here!” So he attempts to retrace his steps, but takes a wrong turn along the route. He calls out, “Help Otto get outta here!
Eventually, as the seeping water steepens to a knee-deep flow, he sees a headlight at the end of the tunnel. It’s a rescuer named Anna who takes his hand and navigates with him against the teeming stream until, finally, the dark of dank night is washed away by the light of bright day.
Name what Otto has now become, a seven-letter word ending in three vowels.
Remove those three vowels and spell the remaining letters backward to name the “heart of darkness” from which Otto was rescued.
Name this “heart of darkness.”
Answer:
Evacuee;
Cave
Dessert Menu
Rearing And Rearranging Dessert:
“Calling Mr. ... No, Calling Dr. Spock!”
Take a synonym of “child rearing.”
Its last two syllables rhyme.
Its first four letters can be rearranged to name what parents often do for children in the early stages of rearing.
What is this synonym?
Answer:
Upbringing; (UPBR=>BURP)
Lego!
I believe the answer to #7 is PEKOE TEA, KEPT.
DeletepjbPrettySureThisIsTheFirstTimeAnyone'sEverHadToCorrectTheOfficialAnswers(WTF?!)
You are, as usual, correct, cranberry. My answer should have read:
DeleteENTREE #7
“1988 Masters Tournament champion Sandy Lyle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Lyle), a Scotsman, kept his caddy in clover and his orange _____ ___ in a caddy.”
The missing words in that sentence each end with two vowels. Remove them. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a third word that appears in the sentence.
What are the two missing words?
What is the third word from the sentence?
Answer:
(Orange) Pekoe Tea; kept
PEKOE+TEA-(OE+EA)=PEK+T=>KEPT
(A Caddy is a receptacle where tea is kept.)
LegoPurveyorOfOffishyAnswers
I had noticed that too, and checked everyone else's answers to make sure mine wasn't completely nuts. However, I figured it wasn't worth mentioning, at this point.
DeleteI have not yet solved Paul's riff-off of the Schpuzzle. He has provided some helpful hints but I am still in the "safari dark!"
ReplyDeleteHas anyone else made any progress?
LegoWhoThinksOneOfTheTwo"Critters"IsEitherACatOrADog
The politician had the same first name as a Copacabana singer.
DeleteThe two-word phrase could mean unemployment for Crockett and Tubbs, and I believe the word formed by joining them together is applicable to Sr. Bertrille.
The slang term may have existed prior to the internet era, I'm not sure.
One of the creatures has been mentioned above, and I've verified that the other one does inhabit Africa. (In fact, a hybrid of the African and European varieties of this critter gained some notoriety a few years back.)
It could be argued that the anagram of the two creatures requires an accompanying word to correctly identify the object of safari apparatus, but numerous sources seem to be in accord with my usage.
Thank you, Paul. Those are far better hints than I dole out weekly (and weakly) to the fine denizens of this blog!
DeleteBecause I am scrambling to get tonight's Puzzleria! completed, I will let your hints simmer in my subconscious in hopes that I shall be able to solve your "safari riff" sometime before the weekend ends.
LegoWhoIsAHugeFanOfDaveyCrockettAndErnestTubbs
Lego - See my inside-out approach posted above under Paul's original post. I think I had two pieces, but didn't get anywhere until the TV character reference. That link takes one to the item to pack and back to the chemicalized pol - I think.
DeletePaul - I kept trying to link back to Reagan through tenderfoot, but no dice, as it were. Good one.
Thanks, GB. That should help me solve Paul's swingin' safari riff.
DeleteLegoWhoWishesHeGnuPaul'sIntendedAnswer
For the record:
DeleteBarry Goldwater (AuH2O) claimed that "extremism in the defense of liberty is NO VICE." A NOVICE is a NEWBIE. A GNU and a BEE might be seen on safari, and a BUNGEE (cord) is a handy gadget to have along on any venture into the wild.
Thanks, Paul. Great Riff-Off of the Schpuzzle of the Week... we might call it the "Riff-Off of the Week!"
DeleteLegoWhoBelievesPaulRiffOffIsAGreatBonus"Pauzzle