Friday, November 26, 2021

Demonymomania! Pondering wrinkles in a septuagenarian game; “Don’t obey the Golden Rule!” Giving thanks for addictive lipsmack! “He be GB, the crafty Baffler”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Let’s give thanks for addictive lipsmack!

It’s Friday, the day after Thankgiving. Thankfully, there are usually enough cold turkey leftovers in the fridge so that one need not go “cold turkey” on Thursday’s “addictive lipsmack”...

Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day: plates heaping with piping-hot, aromatic, savory, succulent turkey thighs and cauliflower, ripe pineapple and Little Debbie pumpkin spice rolls...

What do the five words “thighs, ripe pineapple, cauliflower” and “Debbie” have in common?

Hint: Speaking of “addictive lipsmack,” the tryptophan in turkey just may be an antidepressant.  

Appetizer Menu

ganGBusters! Appetizers:

“He be GB, the crafty Baffler”

Beginning at the end

1. 🌍Consider the following grouping: 

📌Hemingway, to his pals; 

📌Garb for a soldier, but not a tinker, tailor or
spy; 

📌South Africa Provincial Pair; 

📌“Bean Capital of the world”; 

📌Sound copy; 

📌“Alpha” male Shakespearean title
character; 

📌“Inky” Asian Peninsula nation; 

📌Beginning!

What is significant about this grouping?

A country conumberum

2. 🗺Name a country that has numbers embedded in its name. 

Remove the numbers from the name.
The remaining letters, in order from left to right, spell the name of another country. 

What are the countries and the numbers? 

Ill alter a name to get an isle 

3. 🏝 Name a country. Remove the first letter. 

Replace one of the remaining consonants with another consonant to get an island. 

What is it? 

Fixing freedom

4. 🩰💃Name a word in eight letters that indicates freedom of movement. 

Switch the first and second letters, then advance the new second letter eight places in the alphabet. 

The resulting word indicates a fixed position. 

What are these words? 

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Triple Word Score Slice:

Pondering wrinkles in a septuagenarian game


How are the following quotation and attribution related to the number 120?

“A no tie rule does seem wise, albeit curious.” 

— Gaming mavens together pondering Scrabble “wrinkles”

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

Demonymomania!

Will Shortz’s November 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

Name a country of six or more letters. Change two letters in it to name the resident of another country’s capital.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take a puzzle-maker’s last name, in six or more letters. 

Change the first letter to the next letter in the alphabet. Change the last two letters to the state postal code abbreviation of the state where the puzzle-maker resides.

The result is an adjective that might describe many of the fiendish puzzles this puzzle-maker creates.

Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the adjective? 

ENTREE #2

Name a past ballplayer whose surname is a synonym of “butchery” or “bloodbath.”

Take a six-letter word for his Major League status in 1938. 

Anagram the combined letters of this word and the letters in his first name to spell two different names for a resident of a particular U.S. state (that is, two demonyms).

Who is this ballplayer?

What are the two demonyms?

Hint: The state where the ballplayer played the majority of his career borders the state associated with the two demonyms.   

ENTREE #3

Name a country of five or fewer letters. Add one letter to the front of it to name the resident of another country’s capital.

What are this country and resident of another country’s capital?

Extra credit: How is this puzzle related to Entree #2?

ENTREE #4

Name an empire of six or more letters. 

Change two consecutive letters in it to name a resident of a country’s capital.

What are this empire and resident?

ENTREE #5

Take a word that means consticting, contracting or binding. It begins with “con” and ends with “ent,” with a string of six letters in the middle.

Replace the “con” with a “ham” and the “ent” with an “ing” to get a word that means “making ineffective or powerless.”

What is the “string of six letters?

What are the words beginning with “con” and with “ham”?

ENTREE #6

Name an Asian country of six or more letters.

Within the name appears the “present tense third-person singular” of “be.” Replace it with the first two-thirds of the “present tense second-person singular and present tense plural” of “be.”  

Oh, and then change the first letter of this result.

The final result is the name of any resident of another Asian country’s capital.

What is this country? 

What is the name for a resident of the other country’s capital?  

ENTREE #7

Name a resident of a European country of six or more letters. (The country is not Italy, but knowlege of things Roman may help you solve this puzzle.) 

Divide the first letter by X to get a new letter. Replace the first letter with that new letter.

Multiply a pair of interior letters by XVI, then add III. The result is a pair of letters that, one might argue, may be a less cumbersome alternative to that product. Replace those interior letters with that less cumbersome alternative.

The result of all this computation is the first word in another European county.

What are these two European countries?

What is the less cumbersome pair of letters?

ENTREE #8

Name a resident of an Asian country of six or more letters. Change each of its first two vowels to an “o” and remove its third vowel. 

The result is the name of a resident of a European country.

What are the names of these residents?

ENTREE #9

Divide the name of any resident of a certain European city into three parts. 

The first part is a tide and the third part is
a tint. The second part can be rearranged to spell a tint in a tube.

What is the name of this resident?

What are the tide, tint and tint in a tube?

Hint: Somthing edible that has the same as the name of the resident has white, pink and brown tints.

Dessert Menu

Do Unto Others Dessert:

“Don’t obey the Golden Rule!”

Name a word for people that we don’t want following the Golden Rule: 

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Hint: The word anagrams into two groups of
people – the majority of whom likely do indeed follow the Golden Rule.

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37 comments:

  1. E1. Move the second letter up six in AS and drop letters 4 and six -then add a two letter texting Abbreviation to end to get an adjective that does not apply to this person.

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    1. Benny the Beaver and the Deacs got 5 minutes of Free Basketball last night. VT & P'Smith, looks like Benny was better than advertised and should surprise some folks.

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    2. But I just looked it up, and saw that OSU lost to Univ of OR. I had thought 'we' were doing so much better than U of O, that was an unpleasant surprise...not that I care that much, as I've said.

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  3. That was a thrillah in Auburn. Tide pulled it out in 4th OT, but were behind 10-0 in 4th quarter of regulation. Thought they were going down. Auburn defense was very constricting, confining, strangling?

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    1. Speaking of Rolling Tides, returns are coming in slowly. Not even a report from the Man from Jasper.

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    2. Never fear, GB! The Man from Jasper is here! Sorry to be so late posting a comment here, but we'd been so busy in Helen, GA for the past few days. But we saw the ballgame yesterday, and we're so glad the Tide rolled over the Tigers! Also, the cable system at the place we were staying was quite interesting. Particularly the Pluto TV part. That one had separate channels that would show just reruns of Carol Burnett and Johnny Carson, as well as one channel that would show just Happy Days and its spinoffs, Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy. There was also a game show network(not GSN)called Buzzer, which showed reruns of Match Game and Classic Concentration. Not to mention Spotify and Pandora, both of which I managed to get to play songs and "radio stations" that I like(including "Steely Dan Radio" and "ELO Radio"). We ate out twice, once at Bigg Daddy's and once at Paul's. And just as we were all done at Paul's, Renae's sister LeAnn, her husband Ed, their kids Jackson, Ava, and Casey(as well as Casey's boyfriend Christian)sat down to eat. But even though we enjoyed our supper, they didn't! And the whole town of Helen looks like a German village. They even have a Wendy's that looks like a building in such a village! It's weird! Great Christmas decorations, though! As for Thanksgiving, our Cracker Barrel plans fell through, so Renae's brother Michael volunteered to prepare the turkey dinner for us. I've had better turkey, though. This wasn't anywhere near as good as the Thanksgiving we spent in Gatlinburg, TN, and we ate at the Apple Barn. But it was good enough for us. Now Mom and I are back home here in Jasper, and I've managed to get half of this week's NPR challenge, but that's all. Anyone here who's interested can check Blaine's Blog for further details.
      Now for this week's offerings:
      I got the Schpuzzle(quite easy, that one), all of the Appetizers(except for "South African Provincial Pair" and "Beginning!", but I definitely know what the answers are supposed to be, and all Entrees except #6-8.
      Of course, any hints to help along the way will be greatly appreciated, Lego.(And possibly you too, GB!)
      Here's hoping you all have a great Christmas, Hanukkah, Ramadan, whatever your thing is at this time of year! Here's also hoping that whole supply chain debacle doesn't screw it all up for any of us this year! Good luck in solving, please stay safe, and make sure all your vaccinations are up-to-date, whether for COVID or cold and flu season! Cranberry out, and Roll Tide Roll!
      pjbIsGladToBeBackWhere6:00PMDoesNotMeanIt'sReally7:00PM!WhatItSaysOnMyWatchIsWhatTimeItIsHere!

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    3. Glad you made it back OK. That game was one for the "record books." That time change- Alabama/ FL./Ga. is strange.We passed over on our way to Destin. I have GB's middle two only.

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    4. Sports writers make some great metaphors. In the first quarter one said " They (Alabama) were executing like a giraffe on roller skates." Frank Schawb. This might also might describe my approach to the Schpuzzle.

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  4. Sunday Hints:
    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Alabaman sports fan cranberry had a leg up on this one!
    He's on a roll... and I don't mean Thanksgiving dinner roll.

    ganGBusters! Appetizers:
    (I shall defer to GB regarding hints for his wonderful quartet of puzzles.)

    Triple Word Score Slice:
    Count to 15.

    Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    The adjective rolls in like thunder.
    ENTREE #2
    Removing the first letter from the ballplayer's surname is a riot!
    ENTREE #3
    Adding a different letter to the name of the county results in a female.
    ENTREE #4
    The empire begins palindromically.
    ENTREE #5
    The “string of six letters" is, literally, a string.
    ENTREE #6
    The Asian country ends with Ollie's pal.
    The resident of the other Asian country’s capital contain's Paul's singing partner.
    ENTREE #7
    The second word in the other European county rhymes with a word that describes Puzzlerians!... Witty!
    ENTREE #8
    Both residents begin with an "M".
    ENTREE #9
    The tide is in a pineapple. The tint in the tube might also be acrylic.

    Do Unto Others Dessert:
    The people that we don’t want following the Golden Rule might hurt us!

    LegoWhoFollowsNotTheGoldenRuleButRatherTheYellowBrickRoad!

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    1. RE Entree 7, the only one I hadn't yet solved, the hint makes the resultant country obvious, so working backward, the first country was the only option. However, no matter what I do, I can not make the math work out for the second letter manipulation...could you recheck it please? My product and the result needed are '3' off.

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    2. Sorry, VT. Again you are correct!
      My Roman Numeral math is a bit rusty!
      The section In Entree #7 ought to read:
      Replace the first letter with that new letter.
      Multiply a pair of interior letters by XVI, then add III.

      I'll fix it!
      Thank you, VT. You are the best!

      LegoRomanNumeralNumbskull!

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    3. Eco (if you are there) have you seen these videos by Janine Bonham on U tube. "Learn the sky." Good i think. Still not seeing Cepheus-but almost.

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    4. Its now. "Do unto others before they do unto you." Or Shoot first ask questions later.

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  5. I'll add:

    App #1: I see a direct connection in App#2
    App #2: I see a direct connection in App #1
    App #3 I still think Five Bucks is a Stag Party
    App #4 Jimmy Buffett

    And to pjb's points: One of the pair made a great adventure moving picture. It's not Greek, but they are a member.

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    1. Thanks, GB, for those great hints.

      LegoWhoNotesThatFiveBucksAndSomeDoeMightBeSubjectToSomeKindOfPoliceRaid!

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    2. The Five Bucks would land where they didn't expect to?

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  6. Schpuzzle: Each of the five words has a single I in it's formation. (I don't know what The Tide runs.) Otherwise, I am stumped on this one.

    [Appetizers:
    1. Each item is the definition of a word which also stands for a letter in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. In this case, they spell: Papa Uniform Zulu Zulu Lima Echo Romeo India Alpha !
    2. Indonesia - "ones" = India
    3. Finland - "F" & change first "n" to "s" = island
    4. Latitude & Attitude (Switch "La" to "Al" then advance "l" eight places in the alphabet to become "t"]

    TWS Slice: The individual letters in the quotation & attribution have scrabble tile values of 1,2,3,4 or 5. 1x2x3x4x5 = 120

    Entrees:
    1. (Will) Shortz; Thorny
    2. Enos Slaughter; Okie & Sooner
    3. Oman & Roman
    4. Ottoman & Ottowan
    5. Constringent & Hamstringing
    6. Pakistan & Jakartan
    7. Latvia (Latvian) & Vatican City; IC (for LXXXXIX) [I just dropped the Roman Fraction at the outset]
    8. Maldivian & Maldovan
    9. Neapolitan; Neap, Tan, Oil

    Dessert: Masochists (Stoic & Shams? for the Hint)

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  7. Puzzleria 11/30/21
    Woodstock high of 67-Balmy

    Schpuzzle of the Week - The tides of November
    Thighs/high
    ripe/ rip
    3.pineapple- Tide App.Some kind of App.
    Cauliflower- low
    Debbie- ebb

    GB Appetizer:
    Cronies/ Ones- ? Uniform- Uni = one? Tunic= two?,Echo

    . Indonesia- /Ones
    Aruba-- Drop A- R to c. Cuba

    4.?

    Slice

    ENTREE #1 Shortz/ Thorny/
    ENTREE #2 Enos Slaughter/ Rookie/ Sooner-Okies
    ENTREE 3 Oman- Roman

    ENTREE #4. Assyrian- Asmarian

    ENTREE #5. Confinement- constringent/Constrict- hamstringing
    ENTREE #6 Pakistan/ Jakartastan- Jakartan
    ENTREE #7

    ENTREE #8 Maldivian -Maldives- Maldovan


    Dangerous/ Dessert:
    Masochist- Host/ Mascot


    Good head scratchers GB- Lego.

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  8. Schpuzzle: Fourth letter in each word is silent. G E L B (which means “yellow” in German).

    Appetizers:
    #1: ERNIE, UNIFORM, ZULU, LIMA, ECHO, ROMEO, INDIA, ALFA = letters in phonetic alphabet.
    #2: INDONESIA – ONE → INDIA
    #3: FINLAND – F → INLAND, chg N to S → ISLAND;
    alt: CHINA – C, chg N to V → HIVA (Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa, two of the Marquesas islands; also Hiva is a mythical Polynesian island)
    alt: POLAND – P, chg O to A → ALAND (islands between Sweden and Finland) [vowel, not consonant is changed]
    #4: ???

    Slice: Sum of all letters is 120? (I didn't dd all up)

    Entrées
    #1: SHORTZ – S + T – TZ + NY → THORNY
    #2: ENOS SLAUGHTER, ROOKIE → OKIE, SOONER
    #3: OMAN + L → LOMAN (Lomé, Togo)
    #4: PERSIAN – RS + ST → PESTIAN (from Pest part of Budapest)
    #5: CONSTRINGENT – CON, ENT + HAM, ING → HAMSTRINGING
    #6: PAKISTAN – IS +AR → JAKARTAN
    #7: LATVIAN → VATICAN [post-hint]
    #8: MALDIVIAN, A,I → O; drop 2nd I → MOLDOVAN
    #9: NEAPOLITAN → NEAP (tide), OLI → OIL, TAN

    Dessert: ???

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    1. Neat Schpuzzle catch, geo, although it might be like my guess and not the official solution. Who knows? And I always learn a little geo-graphy when you post.

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  9. SCHPUZZLE: Other than there being an ‘I’ in each word, I have no idea what Alabama sports have to do with these words.

    APPETIZERS:

    1. PAPA, CAMO, CAPES, QATAR, START: MAIN VOWELS ARE ALL A’s?????

    2. INDONESIA minus “ONES" => INDIA

    3. One can get BALI from MALI, without even changing an interior consonant. ??????

    4. LATITUDE => ATTITUDE

    SLICE: 120 = 8 x 15 15 words total in the two quotes; “WRINKLES” HAS 8 LETTERS AND IS WORTH 15 POINTS IN SCRABBLE, i.e. PRODUCT IS 120 ?????

    ENTREES [all Pre-hint, except #7] :

    1. SHORTZ => THORNY

    2. ENOS SLAUGHTER; ROOKIE => OKIE & SOONER

    3. OMAN => ROMAN [SLAUGHTER’S NICKNAME WAS “COUNTRY”?]

    4. OTTOMAN => OTTAWAN

    5. CONSTRINGENT => HAMSTRINGING

    6. PAKISTAN => PAKARTAN => JAKARTAN

    7. LAT/VI/AN L ( 50) / X (10) = V (5) ; VI (6) x XVI (16) = XCVI (96) => VAT/IC/AN CITY

    8. MALDAVIAN => MOLDOVAN

    9. NEAP/OLI/TAN => NEAP, OIL, TAN

    DESSERT: MASOCHISTS => HAMS & STOICS

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  10. Schpuzzle
    All five words contain words that can describe the tides.
    THIGHS(HIGH)
    RIPE(RIP)
    PINEAPPLE(NEAP)
    CAULIFLOWER(LOW)
    DEBBIE(EBB)
    Appetizer Menu
    1.
    PAPA
    UNIFORM
    ZULU
    ZULU
    LIMA
    ECHO
    ROMEO
    INDIA
    ALPHA
    =PUZZLERIA(spelled out using the NATO alphabet)
    2. INDONESIA-ONES=INDIA
    3. FINLAND, INLAND, ISLAND
    4. LATITUDE, ALTITUDE, ATTITUDE
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    Triple Word Score Slice
    It has to do with the numerical values of all the letters in the quotation/attribution being added(?)together to make 120.
    Entrees
    1. (Will)SHORTZ, who resides in New York(NY), THORNY
    2. ENOS SLAUGHTER(ROOKIE player for the St. Louis Cardinals, in 1938), OKIE, SOONER(one from Oklahoma)
    3. OMAN, ROMAN
    4. OTTOMAN, OTTOWAN
    5. CONSTRINGENT, HAMSTRINGING
    6. PAKISTAN, IS changed to ARE-E, JAKARTAN
    7. LATVIAN, VATICAN CITY
    8. MALDAVIAN, MOLDOVAN
    9. NEAPOLITAN, NEAP, OIL, TAN
    Dessert
    MASOCHISTS, HAMS, STOICS
    Let the countdown to Christmas begin!-pjb

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  11. Definitely an Alabama week. I am supposed to root for the Dogs tomorrow , but....

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Let’s give thanks for addictive lipsmack
    It’s Friday, the day after Thankgiving: thankfully, there are usually enough cold turkey leftovers in the fridge so that one need not go “cold turkey” on Thursday’s “addictive lipsmack”...
    Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day: plates heaping with piping-hot, aromatic, savory, succulent turkey thighs and cauliflower, ripe pineapple and Little Debbie pumpkin spice rolls...
    What do the words “thighs, ripe pineapple, cauliflower” and “Debbie” have in common?
    Hint: Speaking of “addictive lipsmack,” the tryptophan in turkey just may be an antidepressant.
    Answer:
    Consecutive letters in tHIGHs, RIPe piNEAPple, caulifLOWer and dEBBie spell kinds of tides.
    Hint: "anTIDEpressant" contains the word "tide."

    Appetizer Menu
    ganGBusters! Appetizers:
    “He be GB, the crafty Baffler”
    Beginning at the end
    1. Consider the following grouping:
    Hemingway, to his pals;
    Garb for a soldier, but not a tinker, tailor or spy;
    South Africa Provincial Pair;
    “Bean Capital of the world”;
    Sound copy;
    “Alpha” male Shakespearean title character;
    “Inky” Asian Peninsula nation;
    Beginning!
    What is significant about this grouping?
    Answer:
    The members of the group are definitions of words that stand for letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, and which, in this instance, spell Puzzleria!: PapaUniformZuluZuluLimaEchoRomeoIndiaAlpha! (PUZZLERIA!)
    The NATO Phonetic Alphabet:
    A: Alpha
    B: Bravo
    C: Charlie
    D: Delta
    E: Echo
    F: Foxtrot
    G: Golf
    H: Hotel
    I: India
    J: Juliet
    K: Kilo
    L: Lima
    M: Mike
    N: November
    O: Oscar
    P: Papa
    Q: Quebec
    R: Romeo
    S: Sierra
    T: Tango
    U: Uniform
    V: Victor
    W: Whiskey
    X: X-Ray
    Y: Yankee
    Z: Zulu

    A country "conumberum"
    2. Name a country that has numbers embedded in its name.
    Remove the numbers from the name.
    The remaining letters, in order from left to right, spell the name of another country.
    What are the countries and the numbers?
    Answer:
    Indonesia; India; Ones.

    "I'll alter a name to get an isle"
    3. Name a country.
    Remove the first letter.
    Replace one of the remaining consonants with another consonant to get an island. What is it?
    Answer:
    Finland; remove F and replace first "n" with "s" to get an "island".

    Fixing freedom
    4. Name a word in eight letters that indicates freedom of movement.
    Switch the first and second letters, then advance the new second letter eight places in the alphabet.
    The resulting word indicates a fixed position.
    What are these words?
    Answer:
    Latitude & Attitude (Switch "L" and "a", then advance "L" eight places to get "t")

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    Triple Word Score Slice:
    Pondering wrinkles in a septuagenarian game
    How are the following quote and attribution related to the number 120?
    “A no tie rule does seem wise, albeit curious.” — Gaming mavens together pondering Scrabble “wrinkles”
    Answer:
    The 15 words have Scrabble values of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15, which sums to 120.
    How is the following quote and attribution related to the number 120?
    "A ‘no tie’ rule does seem wise, albeit curious." — Gaming mavens together pondering Scrabble wrinkles
    Answer:
    The 15 words have Scrabble values of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15, which sums to 120.

    Lego...

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

    Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
    Demonymomania!
    ENTREE #1
    Take a puzzle-maker’s last name, in six or more letters. Change the first letter to the next letter in the alphabet. Change the last two letters to the state postal code abbreviation of the state where the puzzle-maker resides.
    The result is an adjective that might describe many of the fiendish puzzles this puzzle-maker creates.
    Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the adjective?
    Answer:
    Will Shortz; thorny thorny (Will Shortz lives in New York)
    ENTREE #2
    Name a past ballplayer whose surname is a synonym of “butchery” or “bloodbath.”
    Take a six-letter word for his Major League status in 1938. Anagram the combined letters of this word and the letters in his first name to spell two different names for a resident in a U.S. state (that is, two demonyms).
    Who is this ballplayer?
    What are the two demonyms?
    Hint: The state where the ballplayer played the majority of his career borders the state associated with the two demonyms.
    Answer:
    Enos Slaughter; Sooner, Okie (Oklahoma)
    Hint: Slaughter played the majority of his 19-year career with The St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Athletics in the state of Missouri which barely borders Oklahoma.
    ENTREE #3
    Name a country of five or less letters. Add one letter to the front of it to name the resident of another country’s capital.
    What are this country and resident of another country’s capital?
    Extra credit: How is this puzzle related to Entree #2?
    Answer:
    Oman, Roman
    ENTREE #4
    Name an empire of six or more letters. Change two consecutive letters in it to name a resident of a country’s capital.
    What are this empire and resident?
    Answer:
    Ottoman; Ottawan
    ENTREE #5
    Take a word that means consticting, contracting or binding than begins with “con” and ends with “ent,” with a string of six letters in the middle.
    Replace the “con” with a “ham” and the “ent” with an “ing” to get a word that means “making ineffective or powerless.”
    What is the “string of six letters?
    What are the words beginning with “con” and with “ham”?
    Answer:
    String; Constringent; Hamstringing

    Lego...

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

    ENTREE #6
    Name an Asian country of six or more letters.
    Within the name appears the “present tense third-person singular” of “be.” Repace it with the first two-thirds of the “present tense second-person singular and present tense plural” of “be.”
    Oh, and then change the first letter of this result.
    The final result is the name of any resident of another Asian country’s capital.
    What is this country?
    What is the name for a resident of the other country’s capital?
    Answer:
    Pakistan; Jakartan (resident of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia)
    ENTREE #7
    Name a resident of a European country of six or more letters. (The country is not Italy, but knowlege of things Roman may help you solve this puzzle.)
    Divide the first letter by X to get a new letter. Replace the first letter with that new letter.
    Multiply a pair of interior letters by XVI, then add III. The result is a pair of letters that, one might argue, may be a less cumbersome alternative to that product. Replace those interior letters with that less cumbersome alternative.
    The result of all this computation is the first word in another European county.
    What are these two European countries?
    What is the less cumbersome pair of letters?
    Answer:
    Latvia (Latvian); Vatican City; IC (which may be less cumbersome than XCIX, or 99 in Roman numerals)
    (LatVIan=>VatICan)
    ENTREE #8
    Name a resident of an Asian country of six or more letters. Change each of its first two vowels to an “o” and remove its third vowel.
    The result is the name of a resident of a European country.
    What are the names of these residents?
    Answer:
    Maldivian (resident of Maldives); Moldovan (resident of Moldovia)
    ENTREE #9
    Divide the name of any resident of a certain European city into three parts. The first part is a tide and the third part is a tint. The second part can be rearranged to spell a tint in a tube.
    What is the name of this resident?
    What are the tide, tint and tint in a tube?
    Hint: Somthing edible that has the same as the name of the resident has white, pink and brown tints.
    Answer:
    Neapolitan (resident of Naples, Italy); Neap (tide), Tan, oil (paint)
    Hint: Neapolitan ice cream is a type of ice cream composed of three separate flavors ( vanilla, strawberry and chocolate) arranged side by side.

    Dessert Menu

    Do Unto Others Dessert:
    “Please don’t obey the Golden Rule!”
    Name a word for people that we don’t want following the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
    Hint: The word anagrams into two groups of people – the majority of whom likely do indeed follow the Golden Rule.
    Answer:
    Masochists
    Hint: MASOCHISTS=>SCOTS+AMISH

    Lego!

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      pjbKnowsTheAmishWillNeverHearAboutThis,Either!

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