Friday, May 28, 2021

“We won’t give you the time of day... figure it out for yourself!” Terms of enduring endearment; Less becomes more, more or less; “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful... series” Sea creatures, iron horses, “Pachydermocrats”

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Terms of enduring endearment

Rearrange the first two-thirds of an adjective associated with young couples to spell an informal term for a young woman (especially in the United Kingdom).

Spell the last half of the adjective backward to spell a term for a young man. 

What is this “young-couplesque” adjective?

What are the terms for the young woman and man?

Appetizer Menu

Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

Sea creatures, iron horses, “Pachydermocrats”

1.🍄 Name a predatory creature you see at sea, in two words, whose name contains another sea creature. 

Drop three consecutive middle letters to get a
one-word “fungus among us Gophers in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.”

What is this two-word sea creature, and the creature contained within it?

What is the fungus?

Hint #1: A snorkler at sea who observes the two-word creature might then also observe, punnily, “That’s _ _____!”

Hint #2: The three consecutive middle letters removed from the two-word sea creature spell a seaman’s affirmative response.

2.🚂 Name a famous rock singer from the 1970’s. Drop the last two letters from the first name, and move its third letter 17 “ties” ahead, on-down the “alphabet track,” so to speak (so “A” would become “R,” For example.) 

Finally, “couple” a copy of that third letter to
the “caboose” of the singer’s surname.

The results of all this metallic, clanky, steamy “roundhouse-rail maneuvering” are botanical beauties of a particular genus, in two words.

Who is this singer?

What are these botanical beauties?

3.🌹 Name a world capital. Move its fifth letter up one step down on the “capitol-steps alphabet,” so to speak (so “A” would become “B,” for example.) 

Next, just as a senator might attach a rider to a bill, attach the first and last letters of this result, in order, to the end of the result.

The final result of all this “smoke-filled-room legislation” is a kind of flower.

What is this world capital?

What is the flower?

Hint: The name of the world capital’s nation is a homophone, not of a kind of a kind of flower but rather, of a kind of other rooted, growing and larger natural wonder. 

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Here, There And Everywhere Slice:

Less becomes more, more or less

If you remove a “t” from the adverb “there” you get its antonym “here.”

Can you remove an interior vowel – and the
space it occupies – from an adjective to form what appears to be an antonym of the adjective?

What adjectival antonyms are these?

Riffing Off Shortz And Barkan Slices:

“I think this is the beginning of a beautiful... series”

Will Shortz’s May 23rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Roger Barkan of Savage, Maryland, reads:

Think of an eight-letter word in which the third and sixth letters are “A”. Remove the A’s. The
remaining six letters start a common series. What is it? And what comes next in that series?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Barkan Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first name of a puzzle-maker and his hometown.  

Rearrange the letters to name a kind of motor
and where you might find a mechanic working on it. 

What is this motor and where might it be worked on?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Think of products, in two words of four and nine letters, that you might use to make your team of bovine trained draft animals appear paler. 

Reverse the order of the words. 

Remove an “R” and two “X’s” and rearrange the remaining letters in each word to form the start a common radio or television series. 

What is it? 

And what comes next in that series?

ENTREE #3

Think of a five-letter word for a particular thing that grows. 

The third letter is “r”. Remove the “r”. 

The remaining four letters start a common series you experience at the dinner table or restaurant. 

What comes next in that series is a word that begins with “sw”.

What is the common series, and what comes next?

What is the particular thing that grows?

ENTREE #4

Take the first three words of a familiar series. 

Remove all but the first  two letters of each word, leaving six letters. 

Switch the third and fifth letters. Insert the first letter of the seventeenth word in the series beteen the last two letters. The result is a school subject.

What subject is it?

What is the familiar series?

ENTREE #5

Think of an eight-letter, two-word phrase that the World Wrestling Entertainment network (WWE) uses in promotional “WrestleMania” videos seen on YouTube and elsewhere. 

The two words begin with “L” and “T” and are
approximate rhymes (or “near rhymes”).

The second and seventh letters in this phrase are “i”. Remove the i’s. The remaining six letters start a common series. 

What is it? 

And what comes next in that series?

What is the two-word phrase?

Hint: The common series is associated with a very long-running soap opera. It is a series of words.

ENTREE #6

Take the first four words in a well-known series, one after the other without spaces.

Replace the 3rd letter with an “i”, the 6th and 7th letters with a space, and the 10th, 11th and 12th letters with a “w”. 

The result is a pair of of a pair of five-letter words:

1. The name of a periodical publication, with “The...” and

2. What an astonished reader might exclaim while reading an article in the publication.

What is the well-known series?

What are the first four words in the series?

What is the name of a periodical publication?

What might an astonished reader of the publication exclaim?

ENTREE #7

Think of a six-letter word for what some people do on professional sporting events, and a five-letter word for a unit of weight. 

Remove two letters from each word, leaving two new words that start a seasonal series.

Rearrange the letters you removed to spell a general word for a team that may participate  in a professional sporting event.

What do some people do on professional
sporting events?

What is the unit of weight?

What is the word for a professional team?

What two words start a seasonal series series?

Dessert Menu

Idiomatic Dessert:

“We won’t give you the time of day... figure it out for yourself!”

Name a two-word idiom associated with a time of day. 

Homophones of the two words are common words that are the same parts of speech. 

What is this time period?

What are the words that are the same parts of speech?

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54 comments:

  1. Ok, starting things off again this week. After nearly four and a half hours, I've gotten everything except Entrees 3 and 5, which I spent a long time on each. I'm NOT sure of my answer to the Slice, since I ended up using an 'obsolete' word. And I'm not completely sure about Dessert, either, but it complies.

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    1. It sounds as if you may have an alternative answer to the Slice, ViolinTeddy. My words are very common.
      There is a kind of "printing trick" involved in my solution.

      LegoWhoBelievesViolinTeddy'sAnswerToTheSliceMayWellBeObsoFactoABetterAnswerThanMyIntendedAnswer!

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  2. Happy Friday(what's left of it anyway)everyone!
    It's after 11:00PM here in Jasper, and I've just now gotten around to commenting on Puzzleria! Mom fixed some paella for supper(I think that's what it was), and it was delicious! We were expecting Bryan to come over and continue working on our bar/island in the kitchen, but he never showed. I did my usual cryptic crosswords and listened to my usual podcasts. Same old same old around here.
    Now about this week's P! offerings. Toughies this week! I could only get the Schpuzzle, the first Appetizer, the first Entree, and the Dessert(actually I got this one just now). Very tricky Entrees, requiring some much needed hints along the way, if you ask me. Is there really a SEVENTEENTH word in the series for #4?! And is the series in #2 really associated with radio or TV, or is it a "radio series" or "TV series"? I'm a little confused by that one. Also, I can't find any "periodical publication" that goes by the name "The -----", or for that matter any five-letter interjection with a W that would go with it, to say nothing of any "seasonal series" that is supposed to be suggested as well. And as for your "printing trick" you've just alluded to with VT, well, let's just say I'll need some good hints for that, too. Just know as you "riff off" this past week's Sunday Puzzle, that I was unable to solve it(and quickly became disinterested in it, as well). At the very least I figured out after the fact that Blaine always uses the answer word in his "STANDARD reminder". On the one hand I'm not proud for pointing it out(though it is in plain sight on the blog), but I'm also not proud for failing to notice it earlier(not that I'd have caught the series right away to begin with, which I obviously did not).
    Well, by now my Kindle clock tells me it's only 11 more minutes until midnight(Saturday morning), so I'll just sign off here by wishing y'all good luck in solving, please stay safe, and if you've been vaccinated, maybe you don't need a mask anymore. Better safe than sorry, though. Cranberry out!
    pjbFeelsWayTooTiredToReallyDoAnyFurtherDetectiveWorkOnTheEntreesWithoutAnySortOfHintsProvidedAnyway(AtLeastNotTonight)

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  3. SATURDAY HINTS:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    The informal term for a young woman seems "Britishy" to me... or "Fidrychy."

    Appetizer Menu

    Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:
    1. Dino would be familiar with the pun in the first hint.
    2. Why not take a break from all this pluzzle-solving and enjoy a snack from a SupermodeL peZ dispenser!
    3. Remove an interior letter from the world capital's country to get a biblical figure some people compared to Trump.

    Here, There And Everywhere Slice:
    The adjective from which you "remove an interior vowel" contains four letters. The antonym of that adjective contains five letters... but it can be represented by using a numeral plus two letters.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Barkan Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    Tom
    ENTREE #2
    The letters form a general 2-word term for the start any radio or television series. It is synonymous with "first installment" or "initial chapter."
    ENTREE #3
    The particular thing that grows is a kind of tree used often for making a watercraft. The common series is vital if you want to stay alive.
    ENTREE #4
    Yes, there really is a 17th word in this series... plus seven more!
    ENTREE #5
    The common series is associated with a particular soap opera... Is our glass half-empty or half-full. Macdonald Carey would know.
    ENTREE #6
    What an astonished reader might exclaim... well, at least the first word, and spelled a bit differently.
    The series is related to the Golden Mean.
    ENTREE #7
    I'll bet you know six-letter word for what some people do on professional sporting events. The abbreviation of the five-letter word for a unit of weight contains a "z".
    The series might contain as few as four elements, or as many as seven.

    Idiomatic Dessert:
    The time if day is when we (usually) upload Puzzleria!

    LegoWhoSaysOneOfTheSevenEntreesIsAllGreekToMe

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    1. Hurrah, I finally figured out Entree #3.....but not immediately even with the hint! On to Entree #5....

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    2. It is utterly impossible to find the Wrestlemania catch phrase...and I can't STAND having to watch their disgusting promos. Needle in a haystack.

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    3. John Cena may change your mind.

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  4. Realtors do the same thing without the same degree of hoopla. (If I'm correct, that is.) Ask geo. He relocated recently.

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    1. Nice hint for Entree #5, GB.
      Here is another:
      The "L word":
      It is a synonym of "series." It is also something a ship may do on stormy high seas.
      The "T word":
      Classy clue: It precedes "...Magic Moment" in song.
      Unclassy Clue: It is an anagram of a vulgar scatalogical word.

      LegoWhoExclaimsExclaimsExclaims:"TheTempestIsRockingOurBoat!WeMayBeSinking!Ship!"

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    2. Thanks, guys...l never would have guessed the "L" word, and it certainly was NOT findable via GOogle, unless one already knew what it was (i.e. I have gone and verified)....

      Now if I can only figure out the series. I 'get' that it's supposed to go with a particular soap, but so far, I haven't been able to ascertain how. Question: do we break up the six letters into three groups, or only two?

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    3. Never mind, I just saw it....and I even had typed out the phrase last night, and it was sitting there next to the letters! Geez...

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  5. I now have everything except Entrees #3 and #4. I still don't understand them.
    pjbWouldDefinitelyNot"StayAlive"IfAnswer#3WereTruly"Vital"!

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    1. Entree #3:
      The common series you experience at the dinner table or restaurant begins with two words that rhyme with "white" and "blue."
      The third word in the series (the one that that begins with “sw”) has two syllables. The letters after "sw" spell a word that is a synonym of the verb "permit."
      Entree #4:
      This is the Entree that is "all Greek to me, you, etc. ..."
      The school subject is "alphanumeric," in a way... students work with both numbers and letters.

      LegoSinging"BearGalWon'tYouComeOutTonight..."

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    2. Got all but the series in #4. What is that supposed to be?
      pjbWasNeverReallyTooCrazyAboutTheSchoolSubjectEither

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    3. It's a series of letters, like:
      cee ar a en bee e ar ar wye, or
      a bee cee dee e eff gee aitch...

      El E Gee O!

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    4. E3 for some of us the series might start with a g and a word that rhymes with a kind of West fruit

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    5. I forgot to mention I also don't have the Here, There, and Everywhere Slice. Still don't understand the series in #4.
      pjbGotToday'sSundayPuzzleWhichWasApparentlyMuchEasierThanTheseLastFew

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    6. HINTS:
      Entree #4:
      The first two letters in the first 7 elements in the series are:
      1. Tipper's former better-half's first name
      2. Half of a Rebozo's first name
      3. State postal abbreviation associated with a Plaines-poken prez
      4. State postal abbreviation associated with the current prez
      5. single < ? < LP
      6. pronoun used instead of “he” or “she” to refer to a person of unspecified or nonbinary gender
      7. Alien who phoned home...
      The 17th element in the series is a homophone of a synonym of the verb "paddle."
      Here, There And Everywhere Slice:
      If you remove a “t” from the adverb “there” you get its antonym “here.”
      Can you remove an interior vowel – and the space it occupies – from an adjective to form what appears to be an antonym of the adjective?
      What adjectival antonyms are these?

      The key to solving is probaby the snippet in bold.
      It hearkens back, in a way, to last week's NPR puzzle, where, for instance, "secoND" and "thiRD" could also have been written as "2nd" and "3rd."

      LegoLuko13:30

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    7. Finally got #4, learned a new pronoun along the way, still can't get the Here...Slice.
      pjbSaysTheSliceIsWayMoreGreekToHimThan#4(Greeker?)

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    8. Here, There And Everywhere Slice:
      Hint:
      The adjective from which you remove an interior vowel is a synonym of "final."
      The result appears to be a synonym of "initial."

      LegTyrannthesaurusRex

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    9. Still can't find it.
      pjbIsSadToReportNoVowelMovementAsOfYet

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    10. The puzzle is based on a Trompe l’oeil, (French: “deceive the eye”) that some fonts may generate.
      An 8 may look like a B, for example, or a G may resemble a 6.

      0937(StandOnYourHead!)

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    11. My pre-hint solution (obviously not the intended one) seems as if it might be prophetic and apropos too. I'm sticking with it. A sign of being series'd out mayhaps?

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    12. I only just now caught on to the intended Slice answer...very tricky, if you ask me.

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    13. I'm stomped by this Trompe.
      pjbKnowsYouCan'tAlwaysGetWhatYouFont

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    14. Add a T to TROMPE L'OEIL and rearrange, and you get POOR LITTLE ME.
      pjbIsAnagrammedIfHeDoesAndAnagrammedIfHeDoesn't

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    15. The last shall become first...
      if the "a" is banished (like Eve and Adam) to Nod, then Paridise has been Lost and 'ell is seen as Won.

      LegoWhoCitesMilton'sParadiseLastInOppositionToDante'sInfernoFirst(InWhichSatanChants"'Ell'sNumberOne!'Ell'sNumberOne!"

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    16. Got it(finally)! See y'all tomorrow!
      pjbSaysThatWasOneLOfAPuzzle!

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  6. Yet it is Tromping mis derrier.

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  7. Schpuzzle: Bridal; Bird; Lad

    Appetizers:
    1. Moray Eel & Ray; Morel
    2. David Bowie; Boweia volubilis (not so sure about all those rail connections though)
    3. Nicosia (Cyprus); Nicotiana

    HTAE Slice: [pre-hint first flash; not the intended solution, but I'm sticking with it] WEARY & WARY - opposite poles of alertness (and puzzle solving?)

    Entrees:
    1. Servo & Garage; Roger Barkan of Savage (MD)
    2. Episode One (Oxen Peroxides - x,x,r; Reversed & Rearranged); Episode Two
    3. Bite, Chew & Swallow; Birch
    4. Algebra; The Greek Alphabet (Al Be Ga rearranged - Algeba + inserted R)
    5. Like Sands Through The Hourglass So: Are. . .: List This
    6. [series'd out on this one]
    7. Gamble, Ounce; Club; Game One

    Dessert: Wee Hours; We & Hours (Pronouns)

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  8. And, many thanks to Plantsmith and Lego. Good exercise for the gray cells.

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    1. Thank you, GB.
      Your "WEARY/WARY" alternative answer to my "Here There & Everywhere" Slice is out-and-out excellent... and much more fair! Very nice.

      LegoLeeryOfLarryOlivier'sPortrayalOfLear

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  9. I love boweia volublis. What is it?

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    1. Climbing Onion/Sea Onion houseplant, so says florist Goux-Glay. I know it's not the intended solution since the connections don't add up right; but, the Bowie/Bowiea coincidence was too good to discard outright. A couple of these series deals stymied me. Enjoyed your entries.

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  10. A climbing onion. Grown from a bulb. I want one. Great alternative.

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  11. Very cool. You can grow as a house plant??

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    1. I'm pretty sure I couldn't. I can kill most anything green with not much effort. However, there are some nice pictures of the house variety. (And David had a "v" as the third letter after dropping the last two letters. Oh, well.)

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  12. 6/2/21 Woodstock,Ga. 76 degrees.

    Schpuzzle:: Millennials-- ???, Slain, --Bird, LOL Some of us are slain by love.

    Appetizers:
    1. Moray Eel & Ray; Morel, That’s Amore (Dino)
    2. Robert Plant- Rose Plants
    3. Nicosia (Cyprus); Nicotiana Cypress. Do these grow on Cyprus? Perhaps. Do the Cedars ofLebanon actually grow in Lebanon?

    Slice: Last, First, 1st.

    Entrees:
    1. Servo & Garage; Roger Barkan of Savage (MD) I think there is a servo on the Crank shaft. Crank shaft position sensor??
    2. Season one ???
    3. Gum, Bite, Chew & Swallow; Larch
    4. ????
    5. ???
    6. ???
    7. Gamble, Ounce; Club; Game One

    Dessert: witching hour,

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    1. I love your alternative answer for the Dessert, Plantsmith.
      According to Merriam-Webster (my "Bibliobible"), "which" can be a pronoun... and "which" is close enough to "witch(ing)" in my puzzle book!
      And, of course, the "hour/our" homophone maintains.

      LegoAwaitingTheWarlockingHour!

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    2. I wish i could say it was intentional.

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  13. Schpuzzle
    BRIDAL, BIRD, LAD
    Appetizer Menu
    1. MORAY EEL, MOREL
    2. ROBERT PLANT(Led Zeppelin), ROSE PLANTS
    3. NICOSIA, CYPRUS(Cypress), NICOTIANA
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    LAST(in lower case letters, last), FIRST(1st). My lower case L and my number one are not exactly the same, but I get the trick.
    Entrees
    1. ROGER(Barkan), SAVAGE(Maryland); SERVO, GARAGE
    2. OXEN PEROXIDES, EPISODE ONE(I kept trying to make CLOROXERS work, but it obviously didn't.)
    3. BIRCH, BITE, CHEW, SWALLOW
    4. ALGEBRA, ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA, etc. RHO is No. 17 in the Greek alphabet.
    5. LIST THIS, "Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So(are the Days Of Our Lives")
    6. ONE, ONE, TWO, THREE,(The)ONION, WOWEE!
    7. GAMBLE, OUNCE, CLUB, GAME ONE(baseball season)
    Dessert
    WEE HOURS, WE, OURS(both pronouns)
    Lego, stay close to your email because the next cryptic crossword will be coming soon!-pjb

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    1. Great, cranberry. We are on pins and needles in anticipation!

      LegoWhoBelievescranberry'sCrypticCrosswordPuzzlesAreSewFunAndChallenging!

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  14. SCHPUZZLE: BRIDAL => BIRD & LAD

    APPETIZERS:

    1. MORAY EEL => MOREL

    2. ROBERT PLANT => ROSE PLANTS. [I did this backwards, having never heard of the rocker.]

    3. NICOSIA (Cyprus) => NICOTIANA

    SLICE: FRIENDLY => FIENDLY (I know, it’s obsolete). INTENDED ANSWER: FAST/FST, i.e. 1st!!

    ENTREES:

    1. ROGER & SAVAGE => VERSO & GARAGE

    2. OXEN PEROXIDES => EPISODE ONE Next: EPISODE TWO

    3. BIRCH => BI/CH => BITE, CHEW, SWALLOW

    4. ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA => AL/BE/GA => AL/GE/BA plus ‘R' from RHO => ALGEBRA. [Did this backwards, also]

    5. LIST THIS => LSTTHS followed by ATDOOL: "Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So …... are the days of our lives."

    6. ONEONETWOTHREE (Fibonacci) => ONION & WOWEE

    7. GAM(BL)E & O(U)N(C)E => GAME ONE; BLUC => CLUB

    DESSERT: Alternate answer, given that it doesn’t match the hint: TEA TIME => TEE, THYME

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    1. ViolinTeddy,
      You have presented us with TWO wonderful alternative answers!
      1. For the Slice, FRIENDLY => FIENDLY (or FRIEND => FIEND), and
      2. TEA TIME => TEE, THYME for the Dessert.

      LegoWhoIsNowOnHisWayToScarboroughFair...

      Lego

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    2. OOps, I jus tnoticed that somehow I typed "F" instead of "L" for the Slice intended answer. Egads.

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Terms of enduring endearment
    Rearrange the first two-thirds of an adjective associated with young couples to spell an informal term for a young woman.
    Spell the last half of the adjective backward to spell a term for a young man.
    What is this young-couplesque adjective?
    What are the terms for the young woman and man?
    Answer;
    Bridal; Bird, lad

    Appetizer Menu

    Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:
    Sea creatures, iron horses, “Pachydermocrats”
    1. Name a predatory creature you see at sea, in two words, whose name contains another sea creature.
    Drop three consecutive middle letters to get a one-word “fungus among us Gophers in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.”
    What is this two-word sea creature, and the creature contained within it?
    What is the fungus?
    Hint #1: A snorkler at sea who observes the two-word creature might then also observe, punnily, “That’s _ _____!”
    Hint #2: The three consecutive middle letters removed from the two-word sea creature spell a seaman’s affirmative response.
    Answer:
    Moray eel (A "ray" ia also a sea creature.)
    Morel
    Hint #1: “That’s a moray!” ( “That’s amore!”)
    Hint #2: A seaman’s affirmative response is "Aye."
    2. Name a famous rock singer from the 1970’s. Drop the last two letters from the first name, and move its third letter 17 “ties” ahead, on-down the “alphabet track,” so to speak (so “A” would become “R,” For example.)
    Finally, “couple” a copy of that third letter to the “caboose” of the singer’s surname.
    The results of all this metallic, clanky, steamy “roundhouse-rail maneuvering” are botanical beauties of a particular genus, in two words.
    Who is this singer?
    What are these botanical beauties?
    Answer:
    Robert Plant; Rose Plants
    3. Name a world capital. Move its fifth letter up one step down on the “capitol-steps alphabet,” so to speak (so “A” would become “B,” for example.)
    Next, just as a senator might attach a rider to a bill, attach the first and last letters of this result, in order, to the end of the result.
    The final result of all this “smoke-filled-room legislation” is a kind of flower.
    What is this world capital?
    What is the flower?
    Hint: The name of the world capital’s NATION is a homophone, not of a kind of a kind of flower but rather, of a kind of other rooted, growing and larger natural wonder.
    Answer:
    Nicosia (capital city of Cyprus)
    Nicotiana. (Tobacco plants; These are also good pollinator attractants.)
    NICOSIA=>NICOTIA=>NICOTIANA
    Hint: "Cyprus" is a homophone of "cypress" (tree).

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    Here, There And Everywhere Slice:
    Less becomes more, more or less
    If you remove a “t” from the adverb “there” you get its antonym “here.”
    Can you remove an interior vowel – and the space it occupies – from an adjective to form what appears to be an antonym of the adjective?
    What adjectival antonyms are these?
    Answer:
    last; lst (first)

    Lego...

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Barkan Slices:
    “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful... series”
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Barkan Slices read:
    ENTREE #1
    Take the first name of a puzzle-maker and his hometown. Rearrange the letters to name a kind of motor and where you might find a mechanic working on it.
    What is this motor and where might it be worked on?
    Who is the puzzle-maker?
    Answer:
    Servo motor; Garage
    Roger Barkan of Savage, Maryland
    ENTREE #2
    Think of products, in two words of four and nine letters, that you might use to make your team of bovine trained draft animals appear paler. Reverse the order of the words. Remove an “R” and two “X’s” and rearrange the remaining letters in each word to form the start a common radio or television series.
    What is it?
    And what comes next in that series?
    Answer:
    Episode One; Episode Two
    (OXEN PEROXIDES=>PEROXIDES OXEN=>PEOIDES OEN=>EPISODE ONE)
    ENTREE #3
    Think of a five-letter word for a particular thing that grows.
    The third letter is “r”. Remove the “r”.
    The remaining four letters start a common series you experience at the dinner table or restaurant. What comes next in that series is a word that begins with “sw”.
    What is the common series, and what comes next?
    What is the particular thing that grows?
    Answer:
    BIte, CHew and "what comes next," which is SWallow
    ENTREE #4
    Take the first three words of a familiar series. Remove all but the first two letters of each word, leaving six letters. Switch the third and fifth letters. Insert the first letter of the seventeenth word in the series beteen the last two letters. The result is a school subject.
    What subject is it?
    What is the familiar series?
    Answer:
    Algebra; The Greek alphabet, spelled out: Alpha, Beta, Gamma...Rho...
    ALBEGA=>ALGEBA=>ALGEBRA=>
    ENTREE #5
    Think of an eight-letter, two-word phrase that the World Wrestling Entertainment network (WWE) uses in promotional “WrestleMania” videos seen on YouTube and elsewhere. The two words begin with “L” and “T” and are (https://study.com/academy/lesson/approximate-rhyme-definition-examples.html) approximate rhymes (or “near rhymes”).
    The second and seventh letters in this phrase are “i”. Remove the i’s. The remaining six letters start a common series.
    What is it?
    And what comes next in that series?
    What is the two-word phrase?
    Answer:
    The series of words in "Like Sands Through The Hourglass, So )are the days of our lives," the opening of the soap opera, "Days of Our Lives."
    The word "Are" comes next in the series in the sentence.
    "List This!" is used by the World Wrestling Entertainment network (WWE)

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Barkan Slices (continued):
    ENTREE #6
    Take the first four words in a well-known series, one after the other without spaces.
    Replace the 3rd letter with an “i”, the 6th and 7th letters with a space, and the 10th, 11th and 12th letters with a “w”.
    The result is a pair of of a pair of five-letter words:
    1. The name of a periodical publication, with “The...” and
    2. What an astonished reader might exclaim while reading an article in the publication.
    What is the well-known series?
    What are the first four words in the series?
    What is the name of a periodical publication?
    What might an astonished reader of the publication exclaim?
    Answer:
    The Fibonacci Series;
    ONE ONE TWO THREE
    "(The) Onion"; "Wowee!"
    ONE ONE TWO THREE=>ONEONETWOTHREE=>ONiON WOwEE=>"(The)Onion," "Wowee!"
    ENTREE #7
    Think of a six-letter word for what some people do on professional sporting events, and a five-letter word for a unit of weight.
    Remove two letters from each word, leaving two new words that start a seasonal series.
    Rearrange the letters you removed to spell a general word for a team that may participate in a professional sporting event.
    What do some people do on professional sporting events?
    What is the unit of weight?
    What is the word for a professional team?
    What two words start a seasonal series series?
    Answer:
    Gamble, Ounce, Club;
    Game One (of the World Series)
    GAMblE OuNcE

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    Idiomatic Dessert:
    “We won’t give you the time of day... you figure it out!”
    Name a two-word idiom associated with a time of day.
    Homophones of the two words are common words that are the same parts of speech.
    What is this time period?
    What are the words that are the same parts of speech?
    Answer:
    Wee hours ("We" and "ours" are pronouns.)

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  18. Anyway you slice it, that was fun Lego. And the degree of difficulty was at least a seven? Thanks.

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    1. Thank you, Plantsmith.

      LegoWhoObservesThatFunIsOurRai·​sonD'êtreHereAtPuzzleria!

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