Friday, September 3, 2021

Names of different types of people; Stax o’ waxing rhapsodic; Silver screen and printed page; Worker, workplace and work; Toss an old word out, coin a new one

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Silver screen and printed page 

A 1947 movie along with its 1949 sequel seem to be related to a 1951 novel. 

Name an actor, actress and fictional character to explain why.


Appetizer Menu

Birthday gift from a “birthday boy” Appetizer:

Names of different types of people

Note: This week’s edition of “Puzzle Fun by Bobby Jacobs” is extra-special. Indeed, you might call it a “celebration.” Bobby is celebrating his 28th birthday today, September 3, with 4 puzzles on Puzzleria!

Think of it as Bobby’s “birthday gift” to US!

Bobby – who is a whiz at algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, number theory, topology, real analysis, and beyond – reminds us that today is a “perfect birthday” because 28 is a “perfect number.” A perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors, excluding the number itself. Thus 28 – with 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 as its divisors – is perfect because 1+2+4+7+14=28. Bobby also celebrated a perfect birthday when he turned 6. He won’t celebrate his next perfect birthday until he turns 496.

Another Note:  The four images in the collage appearing in week’s edition of “Puzzle Fun by Bobby Jacobs” correspond to Bobby’s four puzzles. Bobby says he calls the third image  a “twelfie” because it is a “selfie” with 12 people in it.

Now, let’s open Bobby’s gift to us: 

A capital with character

1.⭐ Take the name of a literary character. Remove the last two letters. Replace the 2nd-to-5th letters with a “t”. You will get a world capital. 

What character and capital are these?

Nominal binomials?

2.👱👦 Take two common English boys’ names and add an “a”. 

You can rearrange the letters into an adjective meaning “related to algebra, geometry, calculus or trigonometry.” 

What adjective is it?

Lights, camera, animation!

3.🎥Take the name of a famous actor. Remove the last three letters of the actor’s first name. 

Switch the second and second-to-last letters of the actor’s last name. Then change the last name’s last letter to “m”. 

You will get the name of a famous cartoon character. 

What are the names of the actor and cartoon character?

Timely prime placement

4.🔢 Take the name of a famous mathematician. 

Rearrange the letters at the prime-number positions in that name to get what the mathematician is known for. 

Who is it?

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“New-mismatism” Slice:

Toss an old word out, coin a new one

Take a word whose seven lowercase letters appear within a seven-letter string in the alphabet, like “outpost,” for example. 

Replace its first letter with two duplicates of its last letter. Invert the new first letter. 

The result is an eight-letter “non-word” that would be a good neologistic candidate to replace the original seven-letter word. 

What are this “non-word” and original word?

Riffing Off Shortz And Carr Slices:

Stax o’ waxing rhapsodic 

Will Shortz’s August 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ari Carr of Madison, Wisconsin, reads:

Name a form of musical composition. If you
say the word quickly, you’ll name something, in two words, that you might buy in a music store. What is it?
 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Carr Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker and their hometown. 

Anagram these combined letters to form three names: the surname of an “amazing” debunker, the first name of a “Wilde” playwright, and the first name of a “sweet” Billy Wilder-directed-movie character.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who are the debunker, Wilde playwright and Wilder character?

ENTREE #2

Name an introductory musical section or movement that begins with a two-consonant blend (like the “bl-” in “blend”) trailed immediately by a long-a sound (like the “a” in “trailed”). 

Replace the two-consonant blend with the consonant that is sandwiched between those two consonants in the alphabet. After this new consonant place a vowel that almost always follows this consonant in the English language. 

The result sounds like a half-century-old pop-culture “time-capsule” also known as a “disco-biscuit.” What is this musical movement?

What is a “disco-biscuit?”

ENTREE #3

You visit a music store. Name something, in one word, that you might see there at the store – something with an beautifully elegant shape and elegantly beautiful tone that you just have to purchase.

Switch the order of two adjacent vowels in this purchase to name a word that literally means “see there.”

What are these two words?

ENTREE #4

Name a form of musical composition that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, for example, is considered one of the most technically difficult works for the violin. It is Pyotr’s concerto but, alas, a concerto is not the form of musical composition you must find to solve this puzzle.

No, we are looking for a musical composition with fewer than three syllables. It is also
Pyotr’s composition but it was also appropriated by a producer to be used 
in a “botanical scene” in his 1940 movie,  So this particular musical composition became this producer’s ____ as well as Pyotr’s ____. 

The musical composition that belongs in either blank is a homophone of the possessive form of the producer’s first name. 

What is this form of musical composition?

Who is the producer?

ENTREE #5

Name a form of musical composition. 

The first four letters spell what sounds like a word for a foolish or stupid person. 

The final five letters spell a synonym of a fraud or impostor.

What is the form of musical composition?

What are the word and synonym?

ENTREE #6

Name a form of stately dance. 

The first five letters spell what sounds like a word for a dusty mass of microspores. 

The final five letters, if you add an “L” to the end, spell what sounds like the adjectival form of the organ negatively affected by the dusty mass of microspores.

What is it?

ENTREE #7

Name a form of musical composition. 

The first three letters spell what sounds like a word for what polite people, like you and I, usually do before opening a door to enter a room. 

The final five letters spell what sounds like what you might do to the doorknob if what you do initially doesn’t elicit any response. 

What is this musical composition? 

Dessert Menu 

Professional Dessert:

Worker, workplace and work

Take a word for a professional person, in three letters, and a synonym of their workplace, in five letters. 

Anagram the combined letters of these two informal words to name another profession. 

What is this profession?

Who is the professional person? 

What is the synonym of their workplace?


Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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83 comments:

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    1. Yes, Paul, that does indeed look like "the genuine music-store article."
      When I was a kid growing up in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, my parents or aunts would take my sister and brother and me to Bill Hoppe's music store downtown. He was an older guy. I don't think he passed his story down to progeny. The store (and perhaps his legacy) died when he did, I believe.
      He sold instruments, but neither I nor my siblings had musical gifts (although my mom played a mean piano).
      But, round about when I reached the age of reason, I became a "discophile"... 45-RPM vinyl platters I purchased from Mr, Hoppe (for 99-cents, I think, using my allowance money stash 50-cents a month).
      I know I bought this one, then, about 4 years later this, this, and that!
      My Aunt Mary, a teacher, had musical tastes more inclined to classical and Broadway musicals... (78-RPMs, maybe LPs?). Mr. Hoppe sold her lots o' wax.
      My musical tastes improved over the years, but not much.

      LegoAlasIsNoViolinTeddy!

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    2. Heh heh, Lego...thanks for the compliment. I don't think I ever went into a music store as a kid....at least, I can't think of one that was anywhere nearby....but early on, even the nearest grocery store was 7 miles away.

      Incidentally, Bobby isn't the only birthday child this week...mine was yesterday. : o )

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    3. I loved all the Entrees this week, of course. However, other than them plus Bobby's 1st Appetizer, I couldn't solve anything else.

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    4. Happy belated birthday, ViolinTeddy! (Are you 28?)

      LegoWhoObservesThatEarlySeptemberIsAPrimeTimeForPuzzlerianBirthdays

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    5. THanks, guys....ha ha, re my being 28!

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  2. A rare breed. I used to go to Atlanta Pro Percussion in Smyrna, GA. Now dead via Amazon creep. Decomposing.

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  3. It is my birthday. I am 28 and I am on Puzzleria!

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    1. Old Blue Eyes. "When i was twenty eight -it was a very good year. It was a very good year..."

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  5. Happy birthday to Bobby and ViolinTeddy!
    I'm actually alone in the house for the first time in a long time! Mom felt she wasn't getting enough use out of the condo what with her being injured earlier this year, and the original plan was for her to go with her friends, but when that fell through, Bryan and Renae and the kids jumped in and took her over there for the Labor Day weekend. But after Hurricane Ida and our dental appointment, I just didn't feel like going myself. So I opted out, and I'm looking after the place while Mom is gone. Wasn't long since we'd been over there last, I'd felt. I just didn't feel like packing up everything and going for another weekend. Don't get me wrong. I like the condo. I just don't want to go every time there are plans to do so. Mom, on the other hand, misses it, so whenever she can with whoever she can, she'll plan on going. It actually snuck up on me, though, and in the end I chose to stay home. No big deal. I've got pizzas to eat for supper, maybe even a chance to use Doordash tomorrow. Plus I'm doing the dishes and the laundry, so I'm keeping busy. Don't worry about me, I'm fine.
    Now for this week's offerings.
    Sadly, Bobby, I was unable to solve any of your puzzles. Real toughies this week! The only ones I could get were the Entrees, and even then I couldn't get #3 or #6. Any hints will be greatly appreciated, of course.
    Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and if you're vaxxed relax, but if you're not, get that shot! And may all who are celebrating birthdays this weekend have many, many more to come! Cranberry out!
    pjbDoingThingsThisWeekendOnHisOwnTimeForOnceThisYear

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    1. Yes, cranberry, glad you are safe at home and doing okay (with pizza on your "home plate!").

      LegoWhoObservesThatSometimesThereIsNoPlaceLikeHome

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  6. Hi Lego (et al)! My latest response to you (re QUADRILLE / CHOIR DRILL) is disappearing on Blaine's blog for some reason, so I thought I'd post it here. And as a singer, I am looking forward to taking on this week's puzzles.
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    Thank you, Lego, I appreciate that! I'm guessing the tempo for your snail concerto would be lentissimo :). Also, I've just discovered your Puzzleria site and have really been enjoying it...a bright spot in a dark couple of months.

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    1. Welcome, Dr. Awkward (aka Veronica)... may we call you just "Veronica" for short? Glad to have you hop aboard our "loco-motivated" blog!
      I did indeed see your comment (that your reprinted above) over on Blaine's wonderful blog. Here is how I responded to it over there:
      Thank you, Dr. Awkward (aka Veronica)... LOL at your lentissimo-tempo characterization of my "snail conch-erto"!
      Thank you for your very kind words about Puzzleria!

      LegoTempoRarelyLentissimoButTempoUsuallyPrestissimo!

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    2. I didn't see the exchange on Blaine's re snail conch-erto etc, but I LOVE it...so cute!

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    3. As I tell my students, either "Veronica" or "Dr. Awkward" (my favorite palindrome) is fine...as long as you don't call me "Miss Awkward"! Many thanks for the warm welcome.

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    4. Doctor, by any chance have you ever been to the Yreka Bakery(a real place in Yreka, CA)?
      pjbThinksItWouldBeMoreInterestingToDiscoverAPalInRome,Actually

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    5. I have not, the more's the pity! I trust they use Oxo cookware and M&M toppings.

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    6. Does it have FDA approval or still under investigation?

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    7. FDA approval for "Legogel," Plantsmith? You've got to be kidding! The FDA's verdict was swift and definite: This stuff is more toxic than a cocktail of botulinum and plutonium laced with dioxin!

      LegoWhoIsAResidentOf"ToxedoJunction!"

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  7. Welcome Dr. Awkward.Curious about that stage name?

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    1. Thank you! I do have a doctorate (in literature), but mostly I was charmed by the palindrome :).

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  8. E6. Isn't a group of micro spores also called a dust bunny? Good morning you all.

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  9. I trust is would not be inapropos (that could be a non-word), with a palindromic tip of the hat, to note that if one reverses the syllables of the first name of this week's guest contributor (of some real head scratchers, one might add), the Appetizers are indeed By Bob.

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    1. Bugs and dust Bunnies under our beds (!), and "Appetizers by Bob(by)"...
      Excellent observations, Plantsmith and GB.

      LegoWhoNotesThatWhenItComesToPuzzlesBobbyDefininitelyDoesNotServeUsUpBunnies!(SeeDefinitionNumberThree)

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    2. For a real palindromic experience, might I suggest listening to Weird Al's "Bob"? He offers many different palindromes in a Dylanesque sort of tune. The video is a great guideline for the lyrics as well.
      pjbSeesEveMadAtAdamEreDennisSinned

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    3. Thanks PJB. someehow this gem escaped me. "Lisa Bonet ate no basil."

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  10. or turkeys as some are wont to say on the other place. I won't say who.

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  11. Hints:

    1. The answer might remind you of a chemistry table.

    2. The two boys' names start with the same letter. One of the names is a nickname.

    3. The actor goes by his middle name.

    4. The sequence of prime numbers is 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, ...

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    1. Hi, Bobby:
      I know what a prime number is. What I'd really like to know is: are we looking for a full name, or just a surname?

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    2. It is the first and last names of a mathematician. Here are some more hints.

      3. e

      4. You can rearrange the letters at the non-prime positions in the mathematician's name to get a type of road and an abbreviation of that road. Also, e.

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    3. 1. The Periodic Table of Elements sounds like "elementary". Sherlock Holmes said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." Holmium, the 67th element, is named after Stockholm.

      2. Matt and Michael both start with M. Matt is short for Matthew.

      3. Ashton Kutcher's real name is Christopher Ashton Kutcher. He was born on e Day, February 7, 1978.

      4. The OEIS has the sequence of prime numbers and many other sequences. The letters at non-prime positions in Neil Sloane (N, L, L, A, N, E) can be rearranged to spell "lane, ln". Also, ln is the logarithm in base e.

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  12. Sunday hints:
    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    The 1947 movie and its 1949 sequel are each two words long and begin with the same word. That word is an anagram of the R-word in CD-ROM.

    Birthday gift from a “birthday boy” Appetizer:
    See Bobby's hints in his September 5, 2021 at 11:24 AM Comment, above.
    4. The name of a famous mathematician (that Bobby asks you to find) includes both the first and last name.

    “New-mismatism” Slice:
    The word with the seven lowercase letters is a number between one and a quintillion.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Carr Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    The surname of an “amazing” debunker rhymes with "dandy," the first name of a “sweet” Billy Wilder-directed-movie character rhymes with "Burma," and the “Wilde” playwright lived too long ago to win one.
    ENTREE #2
    The two-consonant blend that the introductory musical section or movement begins with id "PR"
    ENTREE #3
    What you might buy in a music store is a 5-letter stringed instument.
    ENTREE #4
    The movie produder established legacies in California and Frorida.
    ENTREE #5
    The word for a foolish or stupid person is a shortended form of a word that ends in "-leton." The synonym of a fraud or impostor rhymes with the last two syllabled of "baloney."
    ENTREE #6
    The organ negatively affected by the dusty mass of microspores is olfactory.
    ENTREE #7
    When polite people do this before opening a door to enter into a room, Sir Paul said to "Let 'em in." The Byrds sang sang sang about what you might do to the doorknob if what you do doesn’t elicit any response.

    Professional Dessert:
    The professional person sometimes wears a mask for protection and a whisk broom to clean pentagonal plates.

    LegoLegoWhoObservesThatNotAllQuadrangularPipsAreRed(SomeAreThatOtherChristmasColor)

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    1. Thanks so much for those hints...they enabled me to solve everything else except Bobby's #4 [I swear, I applied the puzzle conditions to every possible mathematician...dozens of them, with no luck], and the second half of Dessert...I'm sure I must have the two correct 'informal' words, but they just don't anagram to anything. ????

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    2. I'm in roughly the same boat! This week has definitely played to my interests in literature, music, and names...although I am woefully uninformed about mathematicians and relatively inept at anagrams. Thanks for the clever puzzles.

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    3. Not surprisingly, my Slice wild guess is clearly not the intended solution - if anything is clear these days, that is. However, as usual, I'm sticking to pre-hint territory. Just the same, mine is a not an entirely inappropriate "non-word".

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  13. So far I've only got Entree #3. Can't seem to find the movies, though I think I know the CD-ROM anagram.
    pjbWishesY'allAHappyLaborDayToday!

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  14. Hello, all.
    All the Entrées were rather easy, except #1 where I needed the hint for the movie character; also got Schpuzzle early on. Sun hints gave me Slice and Dessert.

    Still in the dark for Appetizers #3 and #4, though for #4 I have a slightly far-fetched geographical analogy.

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    1. Got App #3 from the cartoon character's name ending in M and a long search. Never heard of the character or actor.

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    2. I hadn't either, geo, and had planned to add that fact to my answer on Wed, but now I won't bother....

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    3. Bobby's hints to App #3 and #4 were inscrutable or (for #4) misleading, at least to me.

      The clue to #3 (e) was inscrutable. even after knowing the answer. It only strikes me that "e" is one of the switched letters in the answer.

      For #4, "e" (along with Lego's picture) strongly suggests
      Leonhard Euler. But as Lego said in the Tue hint that the mathematician is living, it is not he -- Euler died in 1783.

      I tried several living ones (including BOBBY JACOBS) -- no luck so far. Still in the dark.

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    4. Yes, feeling a little nostalgic.

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    5. I tried probably 20 'currently living' mathematicians, and like you, go, still no luck. I've given up.

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    6. The 'go' was supposed to read 'geo'.

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    7. With Bobby's indulgence, here is a "tenth-hour" solid-geometrical/poetic hint for his Appetizer #4:
      A torus, sphere, a cube, a cone...
      Can these be formed from lines alone?

      Now, take two consecutive words from that couplet.
      Anagram all but the last letter of the first word to form the mathematician's first name.
      Anagram the final letter in the first word along with the entire second word to form the mathematician's surname.

      LegoNotSoListlesslyHinting

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    8. Well...thank. you for that #4 hint, Lego...which did finally reveal the mathematician (not that I'd ever heard of him)...however, if I am reading the directions of the puzzle correctly, we are to take the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th (etc) letters and anagram only them, right? Well, I have no idea what they are supposed to become....and the bio of the guy gives me no clue..

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    9. OOps, I take that back...I just now finally saw how it works....hurrah.

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    10. Lego, your last (Wed AM) hint gave it to me also. I had heard of what he is famous for, but had not heard of the mathematician himself. From bobby's bio it is obvious why bobby would have known about him.

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    11. No, it's not calculus....Newton is long dead!

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    12. Prior to reading this hint, the best I could come up with was:
      THEREFOR = ERGO
      All mathematicians deal in PROOFS
      Roger Penrose is a mathematician
      Therefor, ROGER PENROSE must be known for his ERGOS
      QED

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    13. Should be THEREFORE, therefore above.

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    14. Love that ROGER PENROSE/ERGOS alternative answer, Paul.

      LegoWhoObservesThat"RogerPenrose"AnagramsTo"Nero/PresGore"

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  15. Very-Early Tuesday (CDT) Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    William, Joan, Jerome

    Birthday gift FROM a “birthday boy” Appetizer:
    I will defer to Bobby's judgment regarding hints...
    I will say, however, the the mathetician in Appetizer #4 is living.

    “New-mismatism” Slice:
    The non-word begins with a common prefix. The letters in this prefix appear (but not as a prefix!) at the beginning of a 5-syllable adjective modifying "source" and a different 5-syllable adjective modifying mysterious things in the sky.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Carr Slices:
    The surname of an “amazing” debunker begins with "R," the first name of a “sweet” Billy Wilder-directed-movie character begins with "I," and the “Wilde” playwright begins with "O".
    ENTREE #2
    "Yay, Dude!" if you solve this one.
    ENTREE #3
    A major league pitcher who has the music store item as a surname was nicknamed "Sweet Music."
    ENTREE #4
    Tom Hanks portrayed the movie producer on the silver screen.
    ENTREE #5
    This riff-off is so simple that you could phone each of your ansers in!
    ENTREE #6
    The form of stately dance begins with the last name of a Marco and ends with the end of a condiment (that begins with the name of a clinic).
    ENTREE #7
    The form of musical composition is a short composition of a romantic or dreamy character suggestive of night, typically for piano.

    Professional Dessert:
    The professional person rhymes with the surname of a guy who appeared on a 1990 magazine cover with a young woman named Brandi.

    LegoWhoObservesThatTheGuyOnTheMagazineCoverHadBothHandsBuriedDeepInHisPockets

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  16. Got #6!
    pjbIsDoingWellWithTheEntreesSoFar,ButThat'sIt

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    1. Have you solved any of my puzzles yet? Here are some 11th hour hints.

      1. Take a table used in chemistry. The things in that table should remind you of a quote by the literary character. The 67th thing in the table should remind you of the capital.

      2. The picture for this puzzle has a list of some of the most common boys' names in the U. S. However, two very common names were skipped.

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    2. 1. The Periodic Table of Elements sounds like "elementary". Sherlock Holmes said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." Holmium, the 67th element, is named after Stockholm.

      2. The list of the most common boys' names in the U. S. starts James, Robert, John, Michael, William, David, Richard, Joseph, Thomas, Charles, Christopher, Daniel, Matthew, Anthony, Mark, Donald, Steven, Paul, Andrew, Joshua, Kenneth, Kevin, Brian, George, Edward, Ronald, Timothy, Jason, Jeffrey, Ryan, Jacob, Gary, ... Therefore, the skipped names are Michael and Matthew. Matt is short for Matthew.

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  17. Just figured out the Schpuzzle(all but the name Jerome's connection)!
    pjbSeesAConnectionBetweenThe1951NovelAndPartOfTheDessert,Though

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    1. The connection you see... Bob Uecker?

      LegoWryWhiskingWryWhiskingWryWhiskingHeCries...

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    2. If you still need a hint, pjb, try asking Elaine.

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  18. WILLIAM HOLDEN, JOAN CAULFIELD (Dear Ruth & Dear Wife) / HOLDEN CAULFIELD (The Catcher in the Rye)
    VIOLA / VOILA
    NOCTURNE (knock, turn)
    POLONAISE (pollen, nasal)
    PRELUDE > QUAALUDE
    ARI CARR, MADISON > RANDI, OSCAR, IRMA
    MICHAEL + MATT + A = MATHEMATICAL
    SHERLOCK HOLMES > STOCKHOLM
    NEIL SLOANE > OEIS
    UMP, BLING > PLUMBING

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  19. Schpuzzle: William Holden; Joan Caulfield; Holden Caulfield (Holden and Caulfield starred in the 1947 movie "Dear Ruth" and its 1949 sequel "Dear Wife". Holden Caulfield, a combination of the surnames of the actor and actress, is the iconic fictional character in the 1951 novel "Catcher in the Rye".)

    Appetizers:
    1. Sherlock Holmes & Stockholm (Sweden)
    2. [Stymied]
    3. [Stymied]
    4. [Stymied]

    N-m Slice: unonsoom & monsoon (one storm at a time, Sports Fans)

    Entrees:
    1. Ari Carr (Madison, WI); "Amazing" Randi; Oscar (Wilde); Irma (in "Irma la Douce")
    2. Quaalude (Prelude, substitute "q" for "pr" = sounds like kwaylude)
    3. Viola & Voila
    4. Waltz & Walt (Walt's) Disney
    5. Symphony; Simp; Phony
    6. Polonaise (sounds like "Pollen" & "Nasal")
    7. Nocturne (Knock & Turn)

    Dessert: Tried Doc, Vet, and Ump, but. . . [stymied]

    Some toughies this week. Onward to Friday! Set 'em up, Lego.

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  20. I posted a link to Bill Jones Music because Bill is short for William (as in Holden) and Jones sounds like the plural (or possessive) of Joan (as in Caulfield).
    I suggested pjb should consult Elaine for help: not Benes, but Joyce; Salinger had a romantic relationship with Elaine Joyce in the 1980's. And I read somewhere that he had a crush on Joan Caulfield and a friend whose name was Holden. And he used the name in a short story a few years before Dear Ruth came out.

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    1. Oh, J.D. stands for Jerome David, of course.

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    2. Thanks, Paul.
      I was aware that Salinger and Joyce (Elaine, not James) were an item for a time... Jerome was apparently what they call a "player"...("Nudge, nudge, nod, nod, wink, wink, say no more, say no more!")...
      But I was unaware of J.D.'s crush on Ms. Caulfield and of his friend Holden. Thanks.

      LegoWhoObservesThatJ.D.SalingerAndBobbyVanSeemOnTheSurfaceToBeDifferntKindsOfCatsForMsJoyceToBeWinedAndDinedBy(AndAddsThatMsJoyceWasMarriedToNeilSimonForAScoreOfYears)

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    3. Don't take it as Gospel.
      NOTES
      In his unauthorized biography of author J.D. Salinger, Ian Hamilton claims that the name for the hero of "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden Caulfield, was a combination of a childhood friend--Holden--with Joan Caulfield, on whom Salinger had a crush.

      And I'm afraid my clumsy wording above may have made it sound like he had a crush on his friend Holden as well, which Hamilton did not claim ... not that there would have been anything wrong with that!

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  21. 1. Sherlock Holmes->Stockholm, Sweden

    2. Matt, Michael->mathematical

    3. Ashton Kutcher, Ash Ketchum

    4. Neil Sloane (E, I, S, O)->OEIS

    Neil Sloane created the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).

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  23. 9/5/21

    Schpuzzle . 1947 Movie,”Dear Ruth,”
    1951 “Catcher in the Rye”- J.D. Salinger- though he apparently wrote a short story with these names two years before the movie came out.

    Appetizers:
    1.?
    2.Matt,Michael- Mathematics
    3. Aston Kushner, Ash Kesheem?? _never heard of this person.
    4. Mikhail Gronov - geometry?

    N-m Slice: Million and ??

    Entrees:
    1. Ari Carr (Madison, WI);Randi; Oscar, Irma
    2. Entree,??
    3. Viola , Voila ( here it is)
    4. Waltz , Walt’s
    5. Symphony; Simp; Phony
    6. Polonaise, (pollen and nasal)
    7. Nocturne, Knock, Turn

    Dessert: Ump, + green =?





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  24. SCHPUZZLE: DEAR RUTH & DEAR WIFE => Actors WILLIAM HOLDEN & JOAN CAULFIELD => HOLDEN CAULFIELD from "THE CATCHER IN THE RYE"

    BOBBY’S APPETIZERS:

    1. SHERLOCK HOLMES => STOCKHOLM

    2. MATT & MICHAEL + “A" => MATHEMATICAL

    3. ASHTON KUTCHER => ASH KETCHUM. [Never heard of this character]

    4. NEIL SLOANE => EISO => O.E.I.S. [Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences]


    SLICE: MILLION => nnillion. => UNILLION


    ENTREES:

    1. ARI CARR, MADISON => RANDI, OSCAR, IRMA

    2. PRELUDE => Q-LUDE, i.e. QUAALUDE

    3. VIOLA => VOILA [Love it!]

    4. WALTZ [of the Flowers]; WALT DISNEY (FANTASIA)

    5. SYMPHONY => SIMP & PHONY

    6. POLONAISE => POLLEN & NASAL

    7. NOCTURNE => KNOCK & TURN. [My brother and I were huge Chopin fans as kids, due to the movie “A Song to Remember” which was full of his music, so these last two answers were very easy and quick for me. My brother also played a lot of Chopin pieces.]

    DESSERT: UMP & GREEN => ????????

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    1. Lego, I had thought that surely your 'sign off hint' (as you so often do) about the 'other' Christmas color, meant that the Ump's location was a GREEN....was there any hint anywhere about its really being BLING?

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    2. Hi VT,
      As I saw it, other Christmas color = green and pips => diamond => green (baseball) diamond, where UMPs work.
      Rather a roundabout hint, in my book.

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    3. and diamond (jewel) => BLING

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    4. Excellent question, ViolinTeddy. I knew both the puzzle and my hints to it were gonna be convolutedly confusing.
      The "other Christmas color" is indeed green...
      Diamond-suited playing-card pips are red,
      Violets are blue,
      Diamonds are green...
      But they are "bling" too!


      LegoBlingingItAllBackHome

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  25. Schpuzzle: Dear Ruth (1947) – Dear Wife (1949) Joan Caulfield/William Holden → HOLDEN CAULFIELD (The Catcher in the Rye)

    Appetizers:
    1. STOCKHOLM – T + HER + ES → SHERLOCK HOLMES
    2. MICHAEL, MATT + A => MATHEMATICAL
    3. ASHTON KUTCHER – TON → ASH KUTCHER → ASH KETCHUM
    4. DESCARTES → ESAT → EAST (cardinal direction on a map, analogous to Cartesian coordinates.)
    Mon hint was IMHO misleading, as it pointed to EULER.
    Post-Wed-hint: NEIL SLOANE → OEIS (On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences)

    Slice: MILLION + N → NNILLION → UNILLION [post-Sun-hint]

    Entrées
    #1: ARI CARR, MADISON → OSCAR, RANDI, IRMA [IRMA post-Sun-hint; before MARI(lyn) Monroe]
    #2: PRELUDE, QUAALUDE
    #3: VIOLA → VOILÁ
    #4: WALT'S (Disney's), WALTZ
    #5: SYMPHONY (simp, phony)
    #6: POLONAISE (pollen, nasal)
    #7: NOCTURNE (knock, turn)

    Dessert: DOC, SPY, CPA [pre-Sun-hint]; UMP, BLING (diamond) → PLUMBING [post-Sun-hint]

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  26. Schpuzzle
    DEAR RUTH(1947), DEAR WIFE(1949); Both starred William Holden and Joan Caulfield. CATCHER IN THE RYE(1951)featured the character HOLDEN CAULFIELD. This was mere coincidence, as J. D. Salinger had created the character two years before the first movie.
    Appetizer Menu
    1. SHERLOCK HOLMES, STOCKHOLM(Sweden)
    2. MICHAEL+MATT+A=MATHEMATICAL
    3. ASHTON KUTCHER, ASH KETCHUM
    4. NEIL SLOANE, OEIS(On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequence)
    Menu
    "New-mismatism" Slice
    MILLION, UNILLION(?)
    Entrees
    1. ARI CARR, MADISON(WI), RANDI, OSCAR, IRMA
    2. PRELUDE, QUAALUDE
    3. VIOLA, VOILA!
    4. WALT'S(belonging to Disney), WALTZ
    5. SYMPHONY, SIMP, PHONY
    6. POLONAISE, POLLEN, NASAL
    7. NOCTURNE, KNOCK, TURN
    Dessert
    UMP, BLING(synonym for "diamond"), PLUMBING
    Cranberry out!-pjb

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Silver screen and printed page
    A 1947 movie and its 1949 sequel seem to be related to a 1951 novel.
    Name an actor, actress and fictional character to explain why.
    Answer:
    William Holden; Joan Caulfield; Holden Caulfield;
    "Dear Ruth" (1947) and "Dear Wife" (1949) both co-star William Holden and Joan Caulfield;
    "Holden Caulfield" is the main character in J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye."

    Appetizer Menu
    Birthday gift FROM a “birthday boy” Appetizer:
    Names of different types of people

    A capital with character
    1. Take the name of a literary character. Remove the last two letters. Replace the 2nd-to-5th letters with a “t”. You will get a world capital.
    What character and capital are these?
    Answer:
    The literary character is Sherlock Holmes. The capital is Stockholm, Sweden.
    Sherlock Holmes=>Stockholm
    Nominal binomials?

    2. Take two common English boys’ names and add an “a”. You can rearrange the letters into an adjective meaning “related to algebra, geometry, calculus or trigonometry.” What adjective is it?
    Answer:
    Mathematical
    Matt+Michael=>mathematical

    Lights, camera, animation!
    3. Take the name of a famous actor. Remove the last three letters of the actor’s first name.
    Switch the second and second-to-last letters of the actor’s last name. Then change the last name’s last letter to “m”.
    You will get the name of a famous cartoon character.
    What are the names of the actor and cartoon character?
    Answer:
    Ashton Kutcher, Ash Ketchum

    Timely prime placement
    4. Take the name of a famous mathematician. Rearrange the letters at the prime positions in that name to get what the mathematician is known for. Who is it?
    Answer:The mathematician is Neil Sloane, who created the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
    Neil Sloane (E, I, S, O)=>OEIS

    Lego...

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

    MENU
    “New-mismatism” Slice:
    Toss old word out, coin a new one
    Take a word whose seven lowercase letters appear within a seven-letter string in the alphabet, like “outpost,” for example. Replace its first letter with two duplicates of its last letter. Invert the new first letter. The result is an eight-letter “non-word” that would be a good candidate to replace the original seven-letter word.
    What are this “non-word” and original word?
    Answer:
    "unillion"; million
    (million-->nnillion-->unillion
    "uni-(llion)" is a prefix meaning "one", "bi-"(llion) is a prefix meaning "two", "tri-"(llion) is a prefix meaning "three", etc.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Carr Slices:
    Stax o’ waxing rhapsodic
    ENTREE #1
    Name a puzzle-maker and their hometown. Anagram these combined letters to form three names: the surname of an “amazing” debunker, the first name of a “sweet” Billy Wilder-directed-movie character, and a “Wilde” playwright.
    Who is this puzzle-maker?
    Who are the debunker, character and playwright?
    Answer:
    Ari Carr of Madison, Wisonsin;
    (James "The Amazing") Randi, Irma (La Douce); Oscar (Wilde)
    ENTREE #2
    Name an introductory musical section or movement that begins with a two-consonant blend (like the “bl-” in “blend”) trailed immediately by a long-a sound (like the “a” in “trailed”). Replace the two-consonant blend with the letter that is sandwiched between those two consonants in the alphabet.
    The result sounds like a half-century-old pop-culture “time-capsule” also known as a “disco-biscuit.” What is this musical movement?
    What is a “disco-biscuit?”
    Answer:
    Prelude, Quaalude;
    ENTREE #3
    Name something, in one word, that you might buy in a music store, and hear there at the store before you purchase it. Switch the order of two adjacent vowels to name a word that literally means “see there.”
    What are these two words?
    Answer:
    Viola, Voila

    Lego...

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  29. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Carr Slices (continued):

    ENTREE #4
    Name a form of musical composition that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHL0UNCa1Q for example, is considered one of the most technically difficult works for the violin. It is Pyotr’s Concerto but, alas, it is not the form of musical composition you must find.
    No, we are looking for a musical composition with fewer than three syllables. It is Pyotr’s composition but it was also appropriated by a producer to be used in his 1940 movie, in a “botanical scene.” So it also became this this man’s ____ as well as Pyotr’s ____.
    The musical composition that belongs in either blank is a homophone of the possessive form of the producer’s first name.
    What is this form of musical composition?
    Who is the producer?
    Answer:
    Waltz ("of the Flowers"); Walt Disney
    ENTREE #5
    Name a form of musical composition. The first four letters spell what sounds like a word for a foolish or stupid person. The final five letters spell a synonym of “con artist.”
    What is the form of musical composition?
    What are the word and synonym?
    Answer:
    Symphony; Simp; Phony
    ENTREE #6
    Name a form of stately dance. The first five letters spell what sounds like a word for a dusty mass of microspores. The final five letters, if you add an “L” to the end, spell what sounds like the adjectival form of the organ negatively affected by the dusty mass of microspores.
    What is it?
    Answer:
    Polonaise; pollen; nasal
    ENTREE #7
    Name a form of musical composition. The first three letters spell what sounds like a word for what polite people usually do before opening a door to enter a room. The final five letters spell what sounds like what you might do to the doorknob if what you do doesn’t elicit any response.
    What is this musical composition?
    Answer:
    Nocturne; (Knock, turn)

    Dessert Menu
    Professional Dessert:
    Worker, workplace and work
    Take a word for a professional person, in three letters, and a synonym of his workplace, in five letters.
    Anagram the combined letters of these two informal words to name another profession.
    What is this profession?
    Who is the professional person and synonym of his workplace?
    Answer:
    Ump, bling; Plumbing;
    Ump+Bling=>Plumbing
    ("Bling" is an informal term for diamond, which is an ump's workplace.)

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