Friday, October 1, 2021

Cities, States and Hemispheres; Flight patterns & floral patterns; Negotiating to “clothes” a deal; The metaphorically mortal meets the metaphysical; Solving this “40-1” puzzle requires “40-2de”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

The metaphorically mortal meets the metaphysical

Take two metaphorically poetic names – one for an earth-dweller and another for the earth. 

Anagram each and you will get a two-word metaphorically 
poetic name for heaven. 

What are these three names?

Hint: The sources of these mundane and celestial poetic names are two of the most-quoted and drawn-from fonts of literature.

Appetizer Menu

“GeoBaffical” Appetizer:

Cities, States and Hemispheres

“And now, a word from our (state) sponsor...”

1. Take an odd number of consecutive ending letters of the name of a state, an odd number of consecutive beginning letters of another state, and the initial letters of two other states that border each other. 
The result is a three-word combination seen prominently in 1960s advertising. 

What are the states and the three words? 

Hint: The state line between the bordering states divides twin cities that share the same name. 

This state line runs along State Street in the
cities’ common downtown district. State Street is seen in current national advertising. 

“Capital, Stately” leads to “lowercase, common” 

2. Write the name of a major U.S. city and its state. 

The letters of this city and state, placed side-by side, form a string of six consecutive uncapitalized words: an adjective, article, verb, verb, adjective and article. 

What are the city, the state, and the six consecutive words? 

“Brats, brews ___ ______, please!”

3. Name two states famous for breweries and bratwursts. 

The capital cities of those states begin with the same letter, and the fourth letter of each capital city is the same. 

Drop those four letters. (But don’t drop the beer or brats!)

Rearrange the remaining nine letters to make two words that one might say to a waiter in one of those cities to obtain a savory dish to go with brats and beer. 

What are the states, the capital cities, and what one might say to order the additional item? 

The meeting of East and West Twains 

4. Name a large port city in the Eastern Hemisphere. The city was founded by and named for a past great world figure. The capital of the country in which that city is located has exactly half the number of letters that the port city has. 

Name a large city in the Western Hemisphere which has the same name as the Eastern Hemisphere port city. 

The capital of the country in which that Western Hemisphere city is located, and which is situated near to it, has exactly the same number of letters as the eastern port city and its western namesake. 

Take the basic currency unit of those two countries. Remove one each of all repeated letters. Rearrange the remaining eight letters to name a piece of body armor. 

What are the four cities, the units of currency, and the piece of body armor? 

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Two-In-A-Trillion...And More! Slice:

Solving this “40-1” puzzle requires “40-2de”

The integers 1 and 40 share a property that none of the other infinite number of integers possess. 

They share this property, however, in somewhat different ways. 

What property is it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices:

Flight patterns & floral patterns

Will Shortz’s September 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dan Pitt of Palo Alto, California, reads:

Take the common abbreviation for a major
American city. Insert it inside an airport code for that city. And you’ll name a flower. 
What flower is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices read:

ENTREE #1

“Old Blood and Guts,” also known as General ______, ____ for slapping a pair of shell-shocked soldiers by being temporarily removed from his battlefield command.

Take a synonym of “medic,” the officer that would have treated these soldiers for shell-shock. Move the letters in this synonym 12 places later in the alphabet (so A would become M, etc.) to form the airport code of the hometown of a puzzle-maker.

Now add this code to the name of the puzzle-maker and rearrange to form the two words that belong in the blanks in the opening sentence of this riff-off puzzle.

Who is this puzzle-maker? What words belong in the blanks? What is the synonym of “medic”? What is the airport code of the hometown of the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Take an airport code for a major American city, one that shares no letters in common with the city. 

Rearrange the combined letters of the code and the city to spell a country that might be the site of a safari and a sound you might hear if you encounter a lion on the safari.

What are this city and airport code?

What are this country and sound?

ENTREE #3

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Rearrange these 12 letters to form two words that often describe the weather conditions at this airport and a third word that describes the sum of the letters in those two words.

What are this city, its nickname and airport code?

What two adjectives often describe the weather conditions at this airport?

What third word describes the sum of letters in those two weather condition adjectives?

ENTREE #4

Take a common nickname for a major American city (with “The...”) and an airport code for that city. 

Rearrange these 11 letters to form a two-word synonym of “hands-on job.”

Hint: The first word is more formal than “hands-on” but the second word is less formal than “job.”

What are this city, nickname and airport code?

What is the synonym of “hands-on job?”

ENTREE #5

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Rearrange these ten letters to form the answer that God gave to his angels (after he visited the first-ever murderer on newly created Earth) when they asked him the murderer’s identity. (God’s answer consisted of a contraction, adjective and proper noun.)
On Earth, God had asked the culprit, “Where is your brother?” The murderer lied and denied knowing his murdered brother’s whereabouts.
What are this city, its nickname and its airport code?
How did God answer his angels?
Hint: A three-letter word in the city’s nickname is a more general term for what the murderer committed.

ENTREE #6

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Replace the third letter in the nickname with a dupicate of the second letter. 

Anagram the resulting 11 letters to spell a redundant term consisting of an adjective and noun.

Hint: The nickname and the answer both contain edibles – edibles albeit different yet roughly the same size. 

What phrase is this?

What are the city and airline code?

ENTREE #7

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Anagram these 14 letters to form synonym of “perfect” or “pure” and, according to the Book of Exodus, the two-word term for the 2.5-by-1.5-cubit pure gold lid placed on the Ark of the Covenant, with two cherubim flanking the space into which Yahweh was said to appear.

What are this synonym and two-word term?

What are the nickname and airport code? 

ENTREE #8

Take the airport code for a major American city and its common nickname. Ignore the word “City” in the nickname. 

Rearrange the remaining eight letters to spell the singular forms of two things young elementary-schoolers learn, other than, for example, “pluses” and “goes-into’s.”

What are this city, nickname and airport code?

What, besides “pluses” and “goes-into’s,” do elementary-schoolers learn? 

Dessert Menu

Diplomatic Impugnity Dessert:

Negotiating to “clothes” a deal

The first three letters of a diplomat’s name spell a synonym of “exclude.” 
So... exclude them, along with a bit of punctuation. 

Switch the order of two of the remaining letters
to spell a certain item of attire worn in the diplomat’s country. 

Who is the diplomat? 

What is the attire?

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67 comments:

  1. Just figured out the Schpuzzle...yippee! Of course, that probably means the Slice won't be solvable, but I haven't seen any of the other puzzles yet.

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    1. Congrats, ViolinTeddy. I think it is a reasonably tough puzzle. But, then again, you are one smart cookie.

      LegoWhoObservesThatIfYouAreOneSmartCookieLikeViolinTeddyThenEvenTheToughestPuzzlesAreAPieceOfCakeAndEasyAsPie!

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    2. Well, I had one of those 'brain lights' that led me to the correct words.

      Just finished all the Entrees except #4, and got Dessert. Am stuck on all the Bafflers, and as predicted, the Slice. [I thought I was making headway on Baffler #1, but can't come up with a first word; I could be all wrong.]

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    3. VT - If you're still looking to identify the third component in A-1, simply reverse your usual method of identification.

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    4. I'm afraid, GB, that I have no idea what you mean.

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    5. Well. . . Alas, they did not advertise VT's

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    6. Ah! Janis and Mark must have gotten it well before I did ... which is actually the way I like it.

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    7. Oh, GB, I get you now. I already HAD reversed my ID....it's the FIRST word I can't come up with....what I thought it should obviously be, doesn't exist at the end of any state's name.

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    8. Joplin and Knopfler sang about color tv's. KC is a conjoined twin city that doesn't have Bristol's interesting feature, but the players on a stage metaphor comes from "As You Like It". Uh-huh, uh-huh.

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  2. Happy(really)early Friday to all(especially Joe and ViolinTeddy)!
    I don't normally see comments appear this early in the blog, but I guess one more won't hurt. Tough ones so far, though I've definitely solved Entrees #1 and #5 and the Dessert. Will certainly need hints a little later on. BTW I just sent off my latest cryptic crossword to Joe a few hours ago, so hopefully you'll be seeing it here next week. As for this week's Schpuzzle, I sure wish I were as lucky as VT is by solving it this early! Frankly, I'm too tired to even fool with airport code lists at this hour, no offense to Joe or his alter ego Lego(or should that be "alter Lego"?).
    Anyway, I'm going to get ready for bed now, but I'll check in later tonight with everyone else. Good luck to all in solving, please stay safe, "vaxxed, relax, not, shot, etc." You know. Nighty-night! Cranberry out!
    pjbIsUsuallyAboutThisLateGettingToBedAnyway(BadHabit,IKnow)

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  3. E1- Also called perhaps more appropriately " our blood, his guts."

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  4. Hello, all.
    Have answers to except Entrées #3 and #4. My answer to the Schpuzzle is likely an alternate,as the earthly inhabitants are plural. Otherwise it fits.

    BTW, the intended answer to the Dessert is a bit of a misnomer. Rather like considering the Mexican sombrero as a typical item of American (USA) attire. Although I guess that it might have been so denoted during the period of occupation from 1910-1945. Otherwise, the analogous item has had a different name. I would not be surprised if the diplomat has a strong opinion on this matter.

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  5. Sunday Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    The poetic, metaphorical names for an earth-dweller and for the earth come from Shakespeare.
    The two-word poetic, metaphorical name for heaven comes from the Bible.

    “GeoBaffical” Appetizer:
    (I will defer to GB regarding hints for his fine appetizers.)

    Two-In-A-Trillion...And More! Slice:
    40-below-zero is chilly; 40 shares its property with "below" and "chilly"... but not with "zero."

    Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    The surname of "General ______" is the first name of a current comedian/actor whose surname is that same of that of a notorious assassin.
    ENTREE #2
    The major American city is what Frank wanted to be a part of.
    ENTREE #3
    Frank's kind of town.
    ENTREE #4
    The ball that drops ther annually ought to be red, with a stem.
    ENTREE #5
    The firstborn on Earth was ___, like Stallone or a fox!
    ENTREE #6
    Where the Bambino began his career
    ENTREE #7
    The major American city might have some munchkins as citizens!
    ENTREE #8
    The Lovin' Spoonful sang about some Cats from this city.

    Dessert Menu
    The diplomat followed in Boutros' and Kofi's footsteps

    LegoWhoseFootprintsFromFootstepsLineTheInteriorOfHisMouth!

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    1. I must step in here and correct the hint for Entree #1. The comedian/actor spells his surname differently from that of the assassin. Their last letters differ.
      pjbJustThoughtHe'dMentionThatBeforeViolinTedditorProbablyWouldHaveOrdinarily

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    2. Thanks for that correction, cranberry. I wrote that hint too quickly. It ought to have read:
      The surname of "General ______" is the first name of a current comedian/actor whose surname differs by just one letter from that of a notorious assassin.
      or
      The surname of "General ______" is the first name of a current comedian/actor whose surname sounds similar to that of a notorious assassin.
      (Did you receive my CC draft in your email?)

      LegoWhoBelievescranberryDeservesAPatOnTheBackForHisEditorialSkills(VeryViolinTeddyLike!)

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    3. Thanks for the mentions, but I actually hadn't even paid attention to the Entree #1 hint, since I already solved it. I am more focused on the Slice which i can't solve, and GB's Bafflers....

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    4. So far I've solved #6 and #8, and I definitely know the nickname for #4. However, the cities associated with #2, #3, and #4 both have more than one airport code, which makes it harder than it should be getting the anagrams. Also, I only know one nickname for #3, and I don't think it's working in this case.
      pjbFeelsLuckierLatelyJustFindingTheErrorIn#1

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    5. Did you get seven? I have the city and SDB would have an Advantage here. It is about 2600 miles from me in woodstock,Ga. I don't have the term yet.

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    6. Finally got the terms for seven. I don't have many more. And the solution is not ideal.

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  6. Hey it's National Taco Day, Time for a break.

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    1. Tacos today, AND Nachos with MNF tonight? Health food all round!

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    2. Mom and I just had Captain D's, so it was seafood for us.
      pjbWonderingWhyNationalTacoDayDidn'tFallOnATuesday?

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    3. B#3. If a baseball team has a name associated with a certain beverage item then there must be,"Good eatin in the neighborhood?" But it is still baffling.

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  7. As to hints on the appetizers: See my reply to VT above. Otherwise, if any are needed, say the word.

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  8. These came to me in a vision:

    App 1 - Think of the Geographical spot in Cornwall from a few weeks ago.

    App 1 & 3 were touched on by one of the afternoon NFL games yesterday.

    App 2 - Picture a tractor-trailer stuck on a small hill.

    App 3 - One of the capitals: Home to the headquarters of an automaker initially.

    App 4 - Who's purple and concord (sic) the world?

    These, Sports Fans, are like wills - dead giveaways perhaps.

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    1. Nice hints, GB. Thanks.

      LegoWhoIsAttemptingToPictureATractor-TrailerTruckStuck
      OnASmallHill

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    2. Finally worked out Baff #4; completely stuck on #3, as the ONLY state capitals (I put them in alphabetical order) that have the same first and fourth letters are not really beer/brat states, furthermore, the reduction (of four letters) process leaves letters that anagram to nothing. I'm afraid what I wrote is confusing. Boy, am I frustrated.

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    3. And solved at last Baff #2, although I fail to see what the hint has to do with the answer.

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    4. VT - I'll explain my A2 hint Wednesday. As to A3, perhaps widen the state of your search.

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  9. Lego, just now I emailed you back. Make sure you check your inbox for my reply.
    pjbMayBeAbsent-Minded,ButThatDoesn'tMeanTheMindWasNeverThereToBeginWith!

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  10. i.e. slice" There are 40 spaces on a standard monopoly board."

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  11. On "1" board? You may be onto something there.

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  12. That is my understanding. And one King per side.

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  13. Schpuzzle [Stymied]

    [Appetizers:
    1. pennSYLVANIA COLORado TennesseeVirginia (Some Geico commercials are set on the State Line on State Street in Bristol)
    2. Tallahassee, Florida (tall a has see florid a) {my tractor-trailer on a small hill hint was to picture a "semi knoll", reference to the Seminoles of Florida State University, located in Tallahassee}
    3. Wisconsin & Bavaria; Madison & Munich; "und Nachos"
    4. Alexandria, Egypt & Virginia; Pound & Dollar; Pauldron {a chance to use the third-grade joke about Alexander the Grape as a hint}
    One hopes there was a chuckle somewhere in there for everybody.]

    TIATAM Slice: [guessing temperature related, but otherwise Stymied]

    Entrees:
    1. Dan Pitt; Patton & Paid; Doc; Pao
    2. New York & LGA (La Guardia); Kenya & Growl
    3. Chicago, Windy City, ORD; Wintry & Icy; Odd
    4. New York, Big Apple, LGA; Palpable Gig
    5. Las Vegas, Sin City, LAS; "It's sly Cain."
    6. Sweet Bonbon; Boston (Beantown) & BOS
    7. Ideal & Mercy Seat; Emerald City & SEA
    8. Nashville, Music City, BNA; Minus & ABC

    Dessert: Ban Ki-moon (of South Korea); Kimono

    Tough Schpuzzle and Slice, Lego - at least for me. Onward to Friday!

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    2. GB - "SYLVANIA" has 8 letters, thus is not odd. The puzzle stated that the segments from both states must be odd. So it would seem that SYLVANIA COLOR TV is not a valid answer. And no states end in NBC, RCA, CBS or ABC, so these are not possible answers.

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    3. You are quite correct, geo. In fact that was an edit that I didn't catch to correct. False start; five yards; no play on that one. Good eye.

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    4. Yes, GB, I enjoyed the use of the Grape joke...and did chuckle!

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    5. Oh, nuts, re Baff #1....I had so been trying to find RCA, and never thought of Sylvania!

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    6. And it never occurred to me to use one state from the USA (i.e. Madison) and one from Germany (Bavaria/MunicH) though I had tried each of those separately many times with states from their own countries. Phooey!

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  14. I really liked the Bafflers – Good puzzles!

    Schpuzzle: TERRA FIRMA, MEN → RARE FIRMAMENT

    Bafflers:
    1. IA/ID/IL/IN + MONtana + TV (Bristol, TN/VA) → I'M ON TV
    2. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA → TALL, A, HAS, SEE, FLORID, A
    3. MADISON, MUNICH – MMII → UND NACHOS
    4. ALEXANDRIA(Cairo, Egypt; Virginia, USA), DOLLAR, POUND – O,L,D → DOLARPUN → PAULDRON

    Slice: All letters in forward (FORTY) or reverse (ONE) alphabetical order
    [I solved this immediately as I read it, as I knew of this property elsewhere]

    Entrées
    #1: DOC → PAO + DAN PITT → PATTON PAID
    #2: NEW YORK, LGA → KENYA, GROWL
    #3: [post-Mon-hint] WINDYCITY CHI or ORD → WINDY ICY CHIT or DORT. What is “chit” or “dort”?
    #4: [post-Mon-hint] BIG APPLE, LGA → PALPABLE GIG
    #5: SIN CITY (Las Vegas, NV), LAS → SINCITYLAS → IT'S SLY CAIN
    #6: BEANTOWN, BOS → BEENTOWN, BOS → SWEET BONBON
    #7: EMERALD CITY, SEA → MERCY SEAT, IDEAL
    #8: MUSICBNA → MINUS, ABC

    Dessert: BAN KI-MOON – BAN → KIMONO [Japanese, not Korean. The analogous Korean traditional clothing is a hanbok]

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    1. I agree with geofan.
      I loved your Bafflers, GB.

      LegoNotesThat"It'sSlyCain"IsAFineAlternativeTo"'TisSlyCain"

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  15. Thanks, geo. And that's a neat solution to A1.

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  16. Oct 6. Fixin to rain in26 minutes. 76 degrees.


    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Living soul./ Eden
    Promised land?

    “GeoBaffical” Appetizer:
    Good ones GB!
    Kansas/ Missouri- Slogan- “ He likes it. “ from Mikey likes it.??
    2. Mon/tan/a--tan/a.””??

    3. Milwaukie -Minnesota- st. Paul/ Illinois- Spring field.
    Hard rolls?
    Alt: check please.

    4.St. Petersburg, Russia/Florida, Ruble and Dollar= labourer( some people hire them as body armor)

    Two-In-A-Trillion...And More! Slice:
    40-below-is where Celius and Farenheit scales meet. And “one is the loneliest number that you’ll ever hear.”

    Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices:

    ENTREE #1 Dan Pitt-PAO-- Patton paid.
    ENTREE #2 New York, LGA. ---?

    ENTREE #3Chicago- Windy city ORD-- Wintry ,Icy, Odd.

    ENTREE #4 Big Apple- Lga??

    ENTREE #5
    Las Vegas/ Sin city - LAS. It’s sly cain
    ENTREE #6
    Boston--Bean Town/ BOS//- / Sweet Bon bons/
    ENTREE #7
    Seattle/ The Emerald city/ SEA- Mercy seat -Ideal
    ENTREE
    Nashville- BNA/ Music City/ ?? also The Baptist Vatican, also site of Methodist Upper room chapel.

    Dessert Menu
    Ban Ki Moon --Kimono

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    1. Many thanks, P'Smith. Some clever approaches. I sure felt like the loneliest number on the Schpuzzle and Slice this go round.

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  17. SCHPUZZLE: PLAYER STAGE => PEARLY GATES

    GB BAFFLERS:

    1. COLORADO => COLOR; TN and VA => T, V => ??? COLOR TV

    2. TALL/ A/ HAS / SEE FLORID /A

    3. I totally give up! Even capitals of the states in Germany won’t work, if that is what your hint meant to "widen the state of your search"…. ETWAS ANDERES, BITTE!

    4. ALEXANDRIA / CAIRO => ALEXANDRIA (VA) / WASHINGTON => POUND / DOLLAR => PUNDOLAR => PAULDRON. [I kept trying to make St. Petersburg work]

    SLICE: In “FORTY”, the letters are in alphabetical order (as in ‘Chilly’ and “Below”); in “ONE” they are in reverse alphabetical order. [ I ONLY JUST FIGURED THIS OUT while sitting in bed this morning!!]

    ENTREES:

    1. PATTON, PAID; DOC => PAO; DAN PITT & PAO => PATTON PAID

    2. NEW YORK / LGA => KENYA & GROWL

    3. WINDY CITY / ORD => WINTRY, ICY & ODD

    4. BIG APPLE / JFK => PALPABLE GIG

    5. SIN CITY / LAS => IT’S SLY CAIN

    6. BEANTOWN/ LGA => BEENTOWNLGA => SWEET BONBON

    7. EMERALD CITY / SEA [Seattle] => IDEAL & MERCY SEAT

    8. MUSIC / BNA [Nashville] => ABC & MINUS

    DESSERT: BAN KI-MOON, from Korea => KIMOON => KIMONO

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    1. I'm glad you got to chuckle at Alexander and sorry for the time wasted with A1. My failure to catch and correct. I'm happy geo caught it to set the record straight. If you will excuse the vernacular, my outing with that one is akin to the FAA code for the Sioux City, Iowa, Gateway Airport.

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    2. GB - Been there, done that.

      Also, for what it's worth, the airport code for Yap (in Micronesia, home of stone money) is -- guess what -- YAP.

      Been there, done that also.
      geofan

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    3. My guess is that both of those sell a lot of t-shirts and other souvenirs with the code. I read somewhere - I can't vouch for the truth of it, though - that there was a move at one time to change the Sioux Gateway code to something more socially acceptable, but that popular outcry stopped the potential change. Souvenir makers and the gift shop probably led that charge.

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  18. Schpuzzle
    PLAYER, STAGE, PEARLY GATES
    Appetizer Menu
    2. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA(TALL, A, HAS, SEE, FLORID, A)
    3. MADISON(WI), MUNICH(Germany), "UND NACHOS!"
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    Two-In-A-Trillion...Slice
    FORTY: All letters are in alphabetical order.
    ONE: All letters are in reverse alphabetical order.
    Entrees
    1. PATTON PAID, DOC, DAN PITT, PAO(Palo Alto, CA)
    2. NEW YORK, LGA, KENYA, GROWL
    3. WINDY CITY(Chicago),ORD, WINTRY, ICY, ODD
    4. BIG APPLE(NYC), LGA, PALPABLE GIG
    5. SIN CITY(Las Vegas), LAS, "IT'S SLY CAIN!"
    6. BEANTOWN(Boston), BOS, SWEET BONBON
    7. EMERALD CITY(Seattle), SEA, IDEAL, MERCY SEAT
    8. MUSIC(City, Nashville), BNA, ABC, MINUS
    Dessert
    BAN KI-MOON, BAN, KIMONO
    I hope I never have to deal with airport codes in puzzles anymore after this.-pjb

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    1. When someone inflicts a measure of pain on me through something like an Airport code i sometimes find it comforting to try and come up with a little something to give back in kind. So don't be surprised my friend.
      "The attack of the killer airport codes." TBC

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  19. And, my apologies to everyone for the inadvertent misdirection in Appetizer 1.

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    1. Lego - A1 should be eliminated from the Official Solutions as misleading. A thousand pardons.

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  20. This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Metaphorically mortal meets metaphysical
    Take poetic, metaphorical names for an earth-dweller and for the earth.
    Anagram each to get a two-word poetic, metaphorical name for heaven.
    What are these three names?
    Answer:
    Player, stage; Pearly Gates
    (Shakespeare wrote: "All the world’s a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players")

    Appetizer Menu
    “GeoBaffical” Appetizer:
    Cities, States and Hemispheres
    “And now, a word from our (state) sponsor...”
    1. Take an odd number of consecutive ending letters of the name of a state, an odd number of consecutive beginning letters of another state, and the initial letters of two other states that border each other to form a three-word combination seen prominently in 1960s advertising.
    What are the states and the three words?
    Hint: The state line between the bordering states divides twin cities that share the same name. This state line runs along State Street in the cities’ common downtown district. State Street is seen in current national advertising.
    Answer:
    Pennsylvania, Colorado; Tennessee, Virginia; Sylvania Color TV
    pennSYLVANIA COLORado Tennessee Virginia.
    Hint: State Street (which is shared by Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia) is a setting of some current GEICO commercials.)
    “Capital, Stately” leads to “lowercase, common”
    2. Write the name of a major U.S. city and its state.
    The letters of this city and state, placed side-by side, form a string of six consecutive uncapitalized words: an adjective, article, verb, verb, adjective and article.
    What are the city, the state, and the six consecutive words?
    Answer:
    Tallahassee, Florida; tall, a, has, see, florid, a
    “Brats, brews ___ ______, please!”
    3. Name two states famous for breweries and bratwursts.
    The capital cities of those states begin with the same letter, and the fourth letter of each capital city is the same.
    Drop those four letters. Rearrange the remaining nine letters to make two words that one might say to a waiter in one of those cities to obtain a savory dish to go with brats and beer.
    What are the states, the capital cities, and what one might say to order the additional item?
    Answer:
    Wisconsin & Bavaria; Madison & Munich; "...und nachos"
    (madison+munich) – (m+m+i+i) = adson+unch=>und nachos
    The meeting of East and West Twains
    4. Name a large port city in the Eastern Hemisphere. The city was founded by and named for a past great world figure. The capital of the country in which that city is located has exactly half the number of letters that the port city has.
    Name a large city in the Western Hemisphere which has the same name as the port city. The capital of the country in which that Western Hemisphere city is located, and which is situated near to it, has exactly the same number of letters as the port city and its namesake.
    Take the basic currency unit of those two countries. Remove one each of all repeated letters. Rearrange the remaining eight letters to name a piece of body armor.
    What are the four cities, the units of currency, and the piece of body armor?
    Answer:
    Alexandria (Egypt), Cairo;
    Alexandria (VA, USA); Washington (DC, USA);
    Dollar, Pound; Pauldron
    DOLLAR+POUND – LOD = DOLARPUN=>PAULDRON

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  21. This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
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    Two-In-A-Trillion...And More! Slice:
    Solving a “40-1” puzzle takes “40-2de”
    The integers 1 and 40 share a property that none of the other infinite number of integers possess. They share this property, however, in somewhat different ways.
    What property is it?
    Answer:
    The letters in FORTY are in alphabetical order. The letters in ONE are in alphabetical order also, but in REVERSE alphabetical order.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices:
    Flight patterns & floral patterns
    ENTREE #1
    “Old Blood and Guts,” also known as General ______, ____ for slapping a pair of shell-shocked soldiers by being temporarily removed from his battlefield command.
    Take a synonym of “medic,” the officer that would have treated these soldiers for shell-shock. Move the letters in this synonym 12 places later in the alphabet (so A would become M, etc.) to form the airport code of the hometown of a puzzle-maker.
    Now add this code to the name of the puzzle-maker and rearrange to form the two words that belong in the blanks in the opening sentence of this riff-off puzzle.
    Who is this puzzle-maker? What words belong in the blanks? What is the synonym of “medic”? What is the airport code of the hometown of the puzzle-maker?
    Answer:
    Dan Pitt; (George) Patton paid; Doc; PAO (PAO is the airport code of Palo Alto, California.)
    ENTREE #2
    Take an airport code for a major American city, one that shares no letters in common with the city. Rearrange the combined letters of the code and the city to spell a country that might be the site of a safari and a sound you might hear if you encounter a lion on the safari.
    What are this city and airport code?
    What are this country and sound?
    Answer:
    New York (City), LGA (La Guardia Airport); Kenya, growl
    ENTREE #3
    Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. Rearrange these 12 letters to form two words that often describe the weather conditions at this airport and a third word that describes the sum of the letters in those two words.
    What are this city, its nickname and airport code?
    What two adjectives often describe the weather conditions at this airport?
    What third word describes the sum of letters in those two weather condition adjectives?
    Answer:
    Windy City, ORD; Wintry, icy, odd

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  22. is week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices (continued):

    ENTREE #4
    Take a common nickname for a major American city (with “The...”) and an airport code for that city. Rearrange these 11 letters to form a two-word synonym of “hands-on job.”
    Hint: The first word is more formal than “hands-on” but the second word is less formal than “job.”
    What are this city, nickname and airport code?
    What is the synonym of “hands-on job?”
    Answer:
    New York City, "Big Apple," LGA (La Guardia Airport); "Palpable gig"
    ENTREE #5
    Take a common nickname of a major American city and an airport code of that city.
    Rearrange these ten letters to form the answer that God gave to his angels (after visiting the first-ever murderer on newly created Earth) when they asked God who the murderer was. (God’s answer consisted of a contraction, adjective and proper noun.)
    On Earth, God had asked the culprit, “Where is your brother?” The murderer lied and denied knowing his murdered brother’s whereabouts.
    What are this city, its nickname and its airport code?
    How did God answer his angels?
    Hint: A three-letter word in the city’s nickname is a more general term for what the murderer committed.
    Answer:
    Las Vegas; "Sin City"; LAS (Las Vegas McCarran International Airport); " 'Tis sly Cain!"
    ENTREE #6
    Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. Replace the third letter in the nickname with a dupicate of the second letter. Anagram the resulting 11 letters to spell a redundant term consisting of an adjective and noun.
    Hint: The nickname and the answer both contain edibles, albeit different.
    What phrase is this?
    What are the city and airline code?
    Answer:
    Sweet bonbon; "Beantown" (Boston); BOS
    ENTREE #7
    Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. Anagram these 14 letters to form synonym of “perfect” or “pure” and, according to the Book of Exodus, the two-word term for the 2.5-by-1.5-cubit pure gold lid placed on the Ark of the Covenant, with two cherubim beaten out of the ends to cover and create the space into which Yahweh was said to appear.
    What are this synonym and two-word term?
    What are the nickname and airport code?
    Answer:
    Ideal, Mercy Seat; Emerald City (Seattle), SEA
    ENTREE #8
    Take the airport code for a major American city and its common nickname. Ignore the word “City” in the nickname.
    Rearrange the remaining eight letters to spell the singular forms of two things young elementary-schoolers learn, other than, for example, “pluses” and “goes-into’s.”
    What are this city, nickname and airport code?
    What do elementary-schoolers learn other than “pluses” and “goes-into’s.”
    Answer: Nashville, Music (City), BNA; ABC(s), minus(es)

    Dessert Menu
    Diplomatic Impugnity Dessert:
    Negotiating to “clothes” a deal
    The first three letters of a diplomat’s name spell a synonym of “exclude.” So, exclude them, along with a bit of punctuation. Switch the order of two of the remaining letters to spell a certain item of attire worn in the diplomat’s country. Who is the diplomat? What is the attire?
    Answer:
    Ban Ki-moon; Kimono
    The first three letters of a diplomat's name are a synonym of "exclude." So, exclude them along with some punctuation. Switch the order of two of the remaining letters to spell attire worn in the diplomat's country. Who is the diplomat?
    Answer:
    Ban Ki-moon

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