Friday, January 7, 2022

Moving, mixing, cardinals & carols; Finnished off by a swamp shrub; Hooked on a feather-brained feeling; Three blind chipmunks? Chopin’ broccoli, Chopin bacarolle

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Hooked on a feather-brained feeling

Name a bird with a hooked bill. 

Spell it backward. 

Move the first half of the result to the end to spell another bird with a hooked bill. 

What are these birds? 

Appetizer Menu

Delightfully Puzzley Appetizers:

Moving, mixing, cardinals & carols

Over under sideways down

1. Name something, in two words, that moves people vertically. 

Change one
consonant to a different consonant to get something that moves objects horizontally. 

Reverse the last two letters of this word to get something else that moves objects
horizontally.

What is this thing that moves people vertically? What are the two things that move something horizontally?

Hint: The second word in these three things can follow the words “chop,” “chap,” “slap,” “lip” or “dip.”

Elite servant becomes an athlete

2. 🎖👟Take a word for a U.S. government-sponsored enlisted service person. 

Mix up the eight letters in this word to get a plural word for some athletic equipment.

What are this enlisted service person and
athletic equipment?

Hint: The word for the service person is a homophone of the last name of an ensemble character who co-starred in a past variety/sketch comedy television show.

Cardinals & carols 

3. 🐦🐦👪Name a retired United States statesman. 

Drop the last letter of his last name and tack on in its place a cardinal number, spelled-out. The result is a popular Christmas and New Year’s holiday treat.

Now think of the title of a popular three-word Christmas carol. 

The first word is a common article.

The second word is the ordinal form of the
cardinal number that you used, above.

The third word is an anagram of the stateman’s first name.

Who is this statesman?

What is the sweet Christmas and New Year’s treat?

What is the Christmas carol?

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Richly Ritual Slice:

Finnished off by a swamp shrub

Name a swamp shrub, in two words, that you ought to steer clear of. 

Rearrange the combined letters of these two words to form a two-word description of nine pieces of ritual music composed by a Finnish composer in the year that a home run record was set, only to be broken 34 years later by a native of Hibbing, Minnesota. 

What are this shrub and the description of the music?

Riffing Off Shortz And Yanover Slices:

Chopin’ Broccoli, Chopin Bacarolle 

Will Shortz’s January 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Yanover of South Pasadena, California, reads:

Take the name of a certain vegetable. Move the 7th, 5th, and 6th letters – in that order – to
the front of the word. Phonetically you’ll name another vegetable. What vegetables are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Yanover Slices read:

ENTREE #1

One might find a gold bar in a Brink’s truck. In what kind of vehicle – in words of five and three letters beginning with a “d” and a  “v” – might one find a less valuable but more tasty bar beginning with a “D”?

The 12 letters in these three words can be rearranged to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

What is the more tasty bar and where might one find it?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Take the name of a certain vegetable. Move the last, antepenultimate, and penultimate letters – in that order – to the front of the word.
You’ll name a part of a boat. 

What vegetable and boat-part are these?

Hint: A homophone of the vegetable, if it were to exist in this boat-part, might result in an abandoning of the boat. 

ENTREE #3

Take the name of a certain vegetable. Replace the 5th letter with a letter that, when it appears in print, sometimes makes the same sound of the letter it replaces. 

Move the 8th, 7th, and 6th letters – in reverse order – to the front of the result. 

Add two separate spaces somewhere within this result. 

The end result is the three-word answer that Minnesota Timberwolves 22-year-old rookie Ricky Rubio, a native of Spain, gave in 2012 to a St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter who asked him, “How did you manage to set up Kevin Love with that game-winning alley-oop slam dunk?”

What is this vegetable?

What was Ricky Rubio’s answer?

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a certain vegetable, in seven letters. Replace the fifth letter with a two-letter prefix that means “not,” resulting in an eight-letter string.

Form three words of 4, 5 and 3 letters, using:

1. the 8th, 2nd, 7th and 5th letters of the string,

2. the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 8th letters, and

3. the 6th, 7th and 8th letters.

These three words appear at the beginning of seven of the ten “deca-dictates” in the King James Version of the Bible.

What is the vegetable?

What are the three words?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of an certain two-syllable vegetable. Replace the third letter with a duplicate of the second letter. The result is a synonym of “an undeveloped bud” that can be found on a three-syllable vegetable.

What are these two vegetables?

What is the is the synonym of “an undeveloped bud?”

Hint: The vegetables begin with the same letter.

ENTREE #6

Take the name of an uncertain vegetable... it might be a fruit.

Replace the last two of its letters with a P and a Z, creating a six-letter string.

Form four words of 6, 5, 4 and 3 letters, using:

1. the 5th, 2nd, 1st, 4th, 1st and 2nd letters of
the string,

2. the 3rd, 4th, 1st, 6th and 2nd letters,

3. the 3rd, 2nd, 1st, and 1st letters, and

4. the 2nd, 4th and 1st letters.

The four words are:

1. a synonym of an anagram of a word that means “to expose the falsity of,” or a synonym of an anagram of another word for “beast.”

2. unleavened Passover bread,

3. the surname in a brand associated with apple-based products (and some based on the six-letter word, above), and

4. cereal grain grown for its seed.

What is this “uncertain vegetable?”

What are the four words of 6, 5, 4 and 3 letters?

Note: The following Riff-off of the NPR puzzle is the brainchild of Ecoarchitect, puzzle-maker supreme.

ENTREE #7

Change the last letter of a vegetable and
phonetically the result will be the name of another plant that is widely used for edibles.  

What is the vegetable and what is the plant?

Dessert Menu

Cultural Artistic Dessert:

Three blind chipmunks?

Name a two-syllable region of the United States known for its culture and arts. 

Insert an apostrophe followed by a space to
form a two-word term that might describe mice and chipmunks. 

What is this region?

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65 comments:

  1. You will probably recognize my spins today.The first is a Riff off of Ed Pegg Jr. with his trampoline- to tramline NPR puzzle. The second one is off Sky Dive Kid- Suriname to U.S. Marine.

    Disclaimer,
    Every effort has been made to guarantee the accuracy of these puzzles. In the unlikely event that a discrepancy is found, please call our customer service line at 1-800-776-1538.

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    1. I spent a long time trying to solve your #2 appetizer, in vain. Got the other two, however. And your Entree 7, I THINK.

      LEGO: could you please answer my question on last week's Schpuzzle, which I put under your Part 1 of last week's answers, but I suspect you never saw....as to WHY the one hint you gave about it, re the two sets of double vowels, didn't apply at all to the answer, meaning we all thought our answers were alternates, but they turned out NOT to be.

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    2. Great trio of puzzles this week, Plantsmith. Puzzles grown in Plantsmith's Garden are always delightful, always devious!

      LegoWhoGreatlyAppreciatesPlantsmithAndAllOthersWhoShareTheirCreativityOnPuzzleria!

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    3. HEY, PLTH....THEY JUST BLEW UP PART OF RESER STADIUM! (This to prepare for improving it.) I missed the sound, am only 2 miles away....the local news was sort of covering it, so that's how I know it happened.

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    4. ViolinTeddy,
      I am not sure what I was thinking when I used the term "double vowels" in my Sunday hint to the Schpuzzle:
      There are two pair of double vowels in the ingredient that show up, intact, in the dish.
      "Double vowels" almost always means "two adjacent vowels that are the same vowel. (bOOk, sEEk, vacUUm). But for some reason, I thought "EA"and"OA" (along with "OI", "AI", "OU", "EI" etc.) might qualify also as "double vowels."
      They really don't.
      That is not what we mean by "double vowels."
      I am pleading temporary insanity...
      Or, it's cold up here in the Land of the Vikings & Packers...
      I musta suffered from a temporary brain freeze!

      LegoatLeambdoaf

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    5. I think the second sentence of appetizer #2 should read:
      Mix up the eight letters in this word to get a plural word for some athletic equipment.

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    6. Ah, thank you for explaining all that. My puzzlement had been ongoing and unforgettable. I guess you could have termed them "different vowels that appear in twosomes' or some such thing?

      Meanwhile, I forgot to point out that in Appetizer #2 the second sentence is missing its end, i.e. the final question mentioned athletic equipment, and nothing like that is referred to in the incomplete sentence. It's hard enough as it is!

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    7. I see that Paul and I typed the same thought at the same time, more or less!

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    8. Merci beaucoup. Paul and ViolinTeddy.
      I have now corrected my omission of "athletic equipment" in Plansmith's Appetizer #2.
      My gratitude to you two, and my apologies to Plantsmith.
      Thou shalt not truncate!

      Le

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    9. Thanks Paul for excellent edits. VT # 7 i believe is from Mr.Eco. I am sorry to hear about Reser stadium and that it has been blown into "Reser's Pieces." Bad joke.

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    10. PLTH, I hadn't intended to imply that yours was Entree #7. I just failed to use a proper antecedent! Altho I thought #7 was Lego's, forgot it was Eco's.

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    11. VT I am watching the implosion of Reser on U tube. They want to open the seating chart for high end patrons that will have the "Closest view of sporting events -of any stadium in America. Looked to me like half of it was destroyed? Reminds me of that saying about the Mai Tein village during Vietnam" We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

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    12. https://sports.yahoo.com/watch-oregon-state-implodes-part-175313854.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall.

      It's over an hour long. "Where will you be." The next top ten upset."

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    13. Well, PLTH, that section which fell over backwards (apparently, it wasn't expected to do so virtually in one piece!) is the western side, and I'd say only about 1/3 of the circumference (an oval has a circumference, right?)...I am amazed when I remember that when we moved here 16+ years ago now, the south end was completely OPEN, i.e. you could drive by and SEE games that were taking place. Thus, I wondered why anyone ever bought a ticket (if they wanted to sit down, I suppose.) They took care of that, however, some years ago.

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  2. P'Smith, anyone in this country who reads the words "customer" and "service" in conjunction are either laughing, or crying, too hard to make calls.

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  3. Happy Weekend Eve y'all!
    Mom didn't feel like cooking, so she went to Wendy's for some chili. She got me a Baconator and Baconator Fries and a Diet Dr. Pepper. I don't know what she had to drink with hers. Sprite, maybe. She's been drinking that a lot lately. Also, I must say a Happy(Belated)Birthday to her. She turned 79 on the 28th! Next year's her milestone 80th! We also watched our game shows, and I just did the Private Eye Crossword.
    Looked over the latest puzzles late last night, and here's what I have so far:
    The Schpuzzle
    Appetizers #1 and #3(definite feeling of deja vu with #1, and I was going to mention the error in #2, but they beat me to it)
    All Entrees except #3 and #7
    As always, any hints will be greatly appreciated.
    Good luck in solving, please stay safe, and maybe get booster shots if/when necessary. I honestly don't even know what to do about this thing anymore! Cranberry out!
    pjbMovingOnToThePrizeCrosswordFromHere

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  4. Happy BD to your Mom.Stay warm out there.

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    1. Yes, Happy Birthday, L. Berry!

      LegoWhoBelievesThatcranberry'sMomMayBeASaint!

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    3. Thank you so much for the kind words about my mother, Lego!
      RIP Bob Saget. Wonder if he and Betty White's paths will cross in the afterlife. I'm sure they'll have a hilarious conversation.
      pjbSaysSayHiToJohnMaddenTooWhileY'allAreThere!

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    4. P.S. Thank you too, PS.
      pjbDidn'tForgetHisNeighborHereInTheDeepSouth

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    5. BTW Great Sunday Puzzle challenge this week, Lego. I think the PuzzleMaster likes someone here!
      pjbShouldBeSoLucky!

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  5. Am I really the first to solve Appetizer #2 ? How exhilarating!

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    1. Thanks, Plantsmith.
      When it seemed that everyone else was having trouble with this puzzle, I seized the opportunity to craft a hint (and brag, of course).
      The funny thing is, I wasn't thinking of Sir Edmund Hillary being the first to climb Mt. Everest (presumably wearing CRAMPONS).
      I chose "exhilarating" from a list of synonyms for "heady", which sounds like "Hedy" and should not be confused with "Hedley".

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    2. Very nice. I am not sure they had crampons back then?

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    3. Four-point forefoot grappettes developed for basic snow and glacier traction by European hunterslate 19th century — full-foot crampons emerge 1908 —

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  6. Clues:
    1. Has a friend named Albert
    2. The first name of the "sitcom" show, in which also appears sitcom person mentioned,
    by Lego- is also mentioned in the puzzle. Clear as mud?
    3. I tried to make Panini work.

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  7. For #2. I should have said mentioned in App. 3.

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  8. I can't wait for the 18 9 6 6 19 next week. 25 9 11 5 19 !

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    1. Yes, GB. You make an excellent point. Riffing off your own puzzle is a piece of cake.

      Lego

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    2. Or. . . be sure to keep the "customer service" number handy. Har-de-har-har.

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  9. Hello all,
    Have solved everything. Only need the HINT for App 2.

    Bonus to App #1: Take one of the objects that moves things horizontally. Switch the first and last letters of the first word and combine the resulting words to obtain the name for a ferrite rod antenna used in AM transistor radios.

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    1. Got all of App #2 now!
      pjbSuggestsELO's"HoldOnTight"AsAPossibleMusicalClue

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  11. Strange how I found out about Bob Saget. They actually interrupted the very end of "America's Funniest Home Videos", his old show, to report his death. I was only waiting for "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune" to come on, and had it on our ABC affiliate a little early. Wasn't expecting that, I'll say!
    pjbStillDoesn'tKnowWhoWonTheCashPrizeThisWeek!

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    1. White, Poitier, Saget, and. . . . now Dobie Gillis! Criminy!

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    2. Yes Dobie Gillis was the tipping point. The rubicon of 2022.

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  12. E7 -Could beer be considered an edible?

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  13. Looks like an ACC crew officiating the NCAACG tonight.

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  14. My condolences, cranberry.

    LegoSadTidings

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  15. Great game. It's tough to beat a team like that twice in a row. Saban was 14-1 against former assistants.Now 14-2. Iam not sure about the officiating. What did you think VT?

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    1. You're joking, right PLTH? I didn't even know this game was taking place, let alone that I would have watched it. Sorry, guys.

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  16. Betty White said part of her secret was, "Never eat anything green."

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  17. Some tears today in Alabama. Or many tears. Here's a little fun fact about the song, "Midnight Train to Georgia." The song was written by Jim Weatherly. One night while he was writing this song he called his friend Lee Majors in L.A.. As you know Majors was the Six Million Dollar Man and he was dating Farah Fawcett- Charlies Angels etc. So when Jim called Lee -Farah answered and they were chit- chatting and at one point she said she was taking the
    midnight plane to Georgia to see her folks." So Jim thought well this might go with my song-but Midnight Train sounds so much better." The rest is history and now you know that Farrah Fawcett was a co-writer and contributor to the greatest ballad ever to come from Georgia.Home of 2021 National Champions- Georgia Bulldogs.

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    1. Thanks for that bit of trivia, PS. Also, thanks to Lego for his condolences as well. Had trouble sleeping after the loss, but it was unrelated, I assure you.
      pjbRegretsItWasn'tKateJacksonOfBirminghamWho'dBeThe"Angel"ToCo-writeAClassicSongAbout(Ugh!)TheWinningState

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  18. Wednesday 11th-Hour Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    You'll find some of these hook-billed birds shooting hook shots north of the border.

    Delightfully Puzzley Appetizers:
    (Plantsmith has posted some wonderful hints to his three wonderful puzzles in this week's Comments Section.)

    Richly Ritual Slice:
    It has been said that a noble Prize-winning French philosopher-writer has seen this swamp shrub.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Yanover Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    The less valuable but more tasty bar beginning with a “D” costs less than a one-dollar bill. But it does not have a hooked bill!
    ENTREE #2
    "Eek! An eel!"
    ENTREE #3
    Ricky, a native speaker of Spanish, sometimes left articles out of his answers. But he knew American slang terms for a basketball. The term he used in this answer, however, was not "pumpkin."
    ENTREE #4
    The last two letters of the certain vegetable are an abbreviation for where in the KJV of the bible these ten “deca-dictates” appear.
    ENTREE #5
    The “undeveloped bud” that can be found on the three-syllable vegetable is also a 3-letter body part.
    ENTREE #6
    Five of the letters in the six-letter string can be arranged to form either a South American hummingbird or a gem.
    ENTREE #7
    The vegetable rhymes with a word for a bird you might have recently encountered.
    The plant, spelled backward, sounds a bit like the surname of a former president.

    Cultural Artistic Dessert:
    The two-syllable region of the United States is also known for mountains.

    LegoRubio

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  19. Schpuzzle: Parrot & Raptor

    Appetizers:
    1. Pogo Stick; Polo Stick; Pool Stick
    2. Sergeant & Negaters
    3. Leon Panetta; Panettone; The First Noel

    RR Slice: Poison Sumac & Masonic Opus

    Entrees:
    1. Dove (Bar) & Dairy Van; David Yanover
    2. Leek & Keel
    3. Broccoli; "I lob rock."
    4. Shallot; Thou Shalt Not (replace second "l" with "un")
    5. Pepper & Potato; Peeper (Eye)
    6. Tomato; Potato (rebut or brute / tuber), Matzo, Mott & Oat
    7. Carrot & Carob

    Dessert: Catskills (Cats' Kills)

    More good mental gymnastics this week, P'Smith & Lego. A-2: I know the theory (speaking of exercise), P'Smith; but, I'm not sure I'd heard the term. One learns something here all the time.

    Deacs vs. K for the last time at The Joel tonight. Good setting for an upset.

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    1. When i was in Seattle back in the day and worked at Univ. Washington one of Coach K's assistants became head coach- Bob Bender. It was a big deal when Coach K came to visit him in Seattle. One year they made it to the Sweet 16. Kind of lost track of Him since then.

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  20. Jan 12- 2022. 22 degrees this AM

    Schpuzzle-

    Parrot– Raptor

    Apps

    1.Ed Pegg Riff on Pogo sticks. Name something that moves people mainly vertically. Change one letter and move to end to get something that moves things in many directions.** Or change letter three up 8 in AS and move to end.
    Pogo stick.- G-to L. - Pool stick. Then reverse last two letters to get another item that can move objects in many directions. Polo stick.* Bonus per Geo- Loop stick- a kind of Antenna.

    2. Name a US service person and mix to get some athletic equipment. Corpsman--Crampons.

    3. Name a U.S.Statesman now retired. Drop last letter of surname and tack on a cardinal number to get a popular item at Xmas. Then mix first name to get a Xmassy term.
    Now change cardial number to an ordinal -and add in front of first hame mix to get - preceded by an article- a Xmas song.

    Who is the person,? What is the Xmas food item? Xmassy first name and Xmas song? Leon Panetta. Panetta-A + one = Pannettone -an Italian Xmas bread.
    Leon mix to get Noel. song = “The First Noel.” Change one to first.

    Slice– Jean Sibelius composer of Masoic ritual music. Poison Sumac- Masonic Soup or opus?

    Entree
    David Yanover–Dairy Van
    Leek-Keel
    Ricky Rubio -Broccoli- “I lob Rock”
    Deca Dictates- “Thou shalt not. /Shallot
    ?? Shoot and Shallot?
    Tomato-Potato , Matzo, Mott, Oat

    Carrot– Carob
    Beet–Beer.



    Dessert ??

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  21. Schpuzzle: RAPTOR → ROTPAR → PARROT

    Appetizers:
    #1: POGO STICK → POLO STICK → POOL STICK
    Bonus: POOL → LOOP → LOOPSTICK
    #2: [from Sun hint] Carol Burnett Show → KORMAN → CORPSMAN → CRAMPONS
    #3: THE FIRST NOEL → LEON PANETTA – A + ONE → PANETTONE

    Slice: POISON SUMAC → 1927 homer record (Ruth, 60) → 1961 homer record (Maris, 61)
    POISON SUMAC + → A SPOON MUSIC

    Entrées
    #1: DAVID YANOVER → DAIRY DOVE VAN
    #2: KEEL → LEEK
    #3: BROCCOLI – C + K → BROCKOLI → I LOB ROCK
    #4: SHALLOT – L + UN → SHALUNOT → THOU SHALT NOT
    #5: POTATO, PEPPER → PEEPER = EYE (potato)
    #6: TOMATO → TOMAPZ → POTATO , MATZO, MOTT(s), OAT
    #7: BEET, change T to N → BEEN sounds like BEAN
    alternates:
    PEAS → PEAR (exact, not “sounds like”)
    POI → POT (exact, not “sounds like”; also POI is the dish, not the plant)

    Dessert: CATSKILLS (mountain area in NY) → CATS' KILLS (rodents)

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  22. I had to finally give up on App #2, Entree #2 and Dessert, lest I never get other answers posted.

    SCHPUZZLE: PARROT => TORRAP => RAPTOR [Pre-hint]

    APPETIZERS:

    1. ELEVATOR => POGO STICK => POLO STICK => POOL STICK

    2. CAROL BURNETT SHOW , but could not find required character.

    3. PANETTA => PANETTONE => THE FIRST NOEL => LEON

    SLICE: POISON SUMAC => MASONIC OPUS [Pre-hint, which i don't even understand]

    ENTREES:

    1. DAIRY VAN, DOVE => DAVID YANOVER

    2. ??

    3. BROCCOLI => BROCKOLI => I LOB ROCK [This quote was nowhere to be found on Google]

    4. SHALLOT => SHALUNOT => THOU SHALT NOT

    5. PEPPER => PEEPER; POTATO [EYE]

    6. TOMATO => TOMAPZ => (1) POTATO [rebut/tuber/brute] (2) MATZO (3) MOTT (4) OAT

    7. CARROT => CARROB/CAROB

    DESSERT: SMOKIES WESTERN ROCKIES NORTHWEST CASCADES ????????????????

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  23. Schpuzzle
    PARROT, RAPTOR
    Appetizer Menu
    1. POGO STICK, POLO STICK, POOL STICK
    2. CORPSMAN, CRAMPONS
    3. LEON PANETTA, PANETTONE, THE FIRST NOEL
    Menu
    POISON SUMAC, MASONIC OPUS
    Entrees
    1. DAVID YANOVER, DOVE, DAIRY VAN
    2. LEEK, KEEL
    3. BROCCOLI, I LOB ROCK(?)
    4. SHALLOT, "THOU SHALT NOT"
    5. PEPPER, PEEPER(EYE of a potato)
    6. TOMATO, POTATO(TUBER, REBUT, and BRUTE), MATZO, MOTT, OAT
    7. CARROT, CAROB
    Dessert
    (The)CATSKILLS, CAT'S KILLS
    "I'm so glad we had this time together(won't pull my earlobe to signal my late grandmothers, though)..."-pjb

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Name a bird with a hooked bill.
    Spell it backward.
    Move the first half of the result to the end to spell another bird with a hooked bill.
    What are these birds?
    Answer:
    Raptor, Parrot (or Parrot, Raptor)
    RAPTOR=>ROTPAR=>PAR+ROT=>PARROT
    (or PARROT=>TORRAP=>RAP+TOR=>RAPTOR)

    Appetizer Menu
    Delightfully Puzzley Appetizers:
    Moving & mixing, cardinals & carols

    Over under sideways down
    1. Name something, in two words, that moves people vertically. Change one consonant to a different consonant to get something that moves objects (horizontally). Reverse the last two letters of this word to get something else that moves objects (horizontally).
    What is this thing that moves people vertically?
    What are the two things that move something horizontally?
    Hint: The second word in these three things can follow the words “chop,” “chap,” “slap,” “lip” or “dip.”
    Answer:
    Pogo stick; polo stick; pool stick

    Elite servant becomes an athlete
    2. Take a word for a U.S. government-sponsored enlisted service person. Mix up the eight letters in this word to get a plural word for some athletic equipment.
    What are this enlisted service person and athletic equipment?
    Hint: The word for the service person is a homophone of the last name of an ensemble character who co-starred in a past variety/sketch comedy television show.
    Answer:
    Corpsman; Crampons
    Hint: Harvey Korman was a regular performer on "The Carol Burnett Show."

    Cardinals & carols
    3. Name a retired United States statesman.
    Drop the last letter of his last name and tack on in its place a cardinal number, spelled-out. The result is a popular Christmas and New Year’s holiday treat.
    Now think of the title of a popular three-word Christmas carol.
    The first word is a common article.
    The second word is the ordinal form of the cardinal number that you used, above.
    The third word is an anagram of the stateman’s first name.
    Who is this statesman?
    What is the sweet Christmas and New Year’s treat?
    What is the Christmas carol?
    Answer:
    Leon Panetta; Panettone (a sweet Italian holiday pastry/bread); "The First Noel"

    Lego...

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

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    Richly Ritual Slice:
    Finnished off by a swamp shrub

    Name a swamp shrub you ought to steer clear of.
    Anagram it to form a two-word description of nine pieces of ritual music composed by a Finnish composer in 1927.
    What are this shrub and the description of the music?
    Answer:
    Poison Sumac; "Masonic Opus"
    (In 1927, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) wrote a set of nine pieces (Opus 113) for his Masonic Lodge.)

    Riffing Off Shortz And Yanover Slices:
    Chopin’ Broccoli, Chopin Bacarolle
    Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Yanover Slices read:
    ENTREE #1
    One might find a gold bar in a Brink’s truck. In what kind of vehicle – in words of five and three letters beginning with a “d” and a “v” – might one find a less valuable but more tasty bar beginning with a “D”?
    The 12 letters in these three words can be rearranged to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.
    What is the more tasty bar and where might one find it?
    Who is the puzzle-maker?
    Answer:
    Dove (Bar), Dairy van; David Yanover
    ENTREE #2
    Take the name of a certain vegetable. Move the last, antepenultimate, and penultimate letters – in that order – to the front of the word. You’ll name a part of a boat.
    What vegetable and boat-part are these?
    Hint: A homophone of the vegetable in the part of the boat might result in an abandoning of the boat.
    Answer:
    Leek; Keel
    Hint: A leak in the boat might prompt an abandoning of the boat.
    ENTREE #3
    Take the name of a certain vegetable. Replace the 5th letter with a letter that, when it appears in print, sometimes makes the same sound of the letter it replaces.
    Move the 8th, 7th, and 6th letters – in reverse order – to the front of the result.
    Add two spaces to this result.
    The final result is the three-word answer that Minnesota Timberwolf 22-year-old rookie Ricky Rubio, a native of Spain, gave in 2012 to a St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter who asked him, “How did you manage to set up Kevin Love with that game-winning alley-oop slam dunk?”
    What is this vegetable?
    What was Ricky Rubio’s answer?
    Answer:
    Broccoli; "I lob rock."
    BROCCOLI=>BROCKOLI=>ILOBROCK=>I LOB ROCK

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

    ENTREE #4
    Take the name of a certain vegetable, in seven letters. Replace the fifth letter with a two-letter prefix that means “not,” resulting in an eight-letter string.
    Form three words of 4, 5 and 3 letters, using:
    1. the 8th, 2nd, 7th and 5th letters of the string,
    2. the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 8th letters, and
    3. the 6th, 7th and 8th letters.
    These three words appear at the beginning of seven of ten “deca-dictates” in the King James Version of the Bible.
    What is the vegetable?
    What are the three words?
    Answer:
    Shallot; "Thou shalt not..."
    SHALLOT=>SHALUNOT=>THOU+SHALT+NOT
    ENTREE #5
    Take the name of an certain two-syllable vegetable. Replace the third letter with a duplicate of the second letter. The result is a synonym of “an undeveloped bud” that can be found on a three-syllable vegetable.
    What are these two vegetables?
    What is the is the synonym of “an undeveloped bud?”
    Hint: The vegetables begin with the same letter.
    Answer:
    Pepper; peeper; eye (Undeveloped buds on potatoes are called “eyes.”
    ENTREE #6
    Take the name of an uncertain vegetable... it might be a fruit.
    Replace the last two of its letters with a P and a Z, creating a six-letter string.
    Form four words of 6, 5, 4 and 3 letters, using:
    1. the 5th, 2nd, 1st, 4th, 1st and 2nd letters of the string,
    2. the 3rd, 4th, 1st, 6th and 2nd letters,
    3. the 3rd, 2nd, 1st, and 1st letters, and
    4. the 2nd, 4th and 1st letters.
    T O M A P Z
    The four words are:
    1. a synonym of an anagram of a word that means “to expose the falsity of,” or a synonym of an anagram of another word for “beast.”
    2. unleavened Passover bread,
    3. the surname in a brand associated with apple-based products (and some based on the six-letter word, above), and
    4. cereal grain grown for its seed.
    What is this “uncertain vegetable?”
    What are the four words of 6, 5, 4 and 3 letters?
    Answer:
    Tomato;
    1. Potato, which is a synonym of "tuber," which is an anagram of "rebut" and "brute"
    2. Matzo
    3. Mott
    4. Oat
    Note: The following Riff-off is the brainchild of Ecoarchitect
    ENTREE #7
    Change the last letter of a vegetable and PHONEtically the result will be the name of another plant that is widely used for edibles.
    What is the vegetable and what is the plant?
    Answer:
    Carrot; Carob

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    Cultural Artistic Dessert:
    Three blind chipmunks?
    Name a two-syllable region of the United States known for its culture and arts.
    Insert an apostrophe followed by a space to form a two-word term that might describe mice and chipmunks.
    What is this region?
    Answer:
    Catskills (the Catskill Mountains); (Mice and chipmunks are cats' kills.)

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