Friday, April 8, 2022

Crime and cell-ebrity punishment; Wedding bells and whistles; Odyssey on a Titian Dawn; Trimming one letter from a tree; Bloody! Blade-Wielding! Veal Oscar! Egg MacGuffin! Aeschylus!

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Odyssey on a Titian Dawn

In the Odyssey and Iliad, “rosy-fingered dawn” is a recurring graphic metaphorical image for “daybreak.” 

Take a three-word, 21-letter phrase describing that metaphor. 

Rearrange those letters to spell the full name of a graphic artist. 

What is this 21-letter phrase, and who is the artist?

Hint: The first five letters of the 21-letter phrase spell the surname of an artist whose life overlapped that of the graphic artist.

Appetizer Menu

Baff-film-ment Appetizer:

Bloody! Blade-Wielding! Veal Oscar! EgMacGuffin! Aeschylus!

Tough-skinned, blade-wielding, heartless! 

1. 🎥 Name two countries that end in the same letter. 

Each contains an odd number of letters. 

The sixth, seventh, and eighth letters of one country followed by the third, fourth, and fifth letters of
the other country, in order, spell the name of a tough-skinned, blade-wielding and heartless character in a classic film. 

What are the countries and the who is the character? 

“One Egg MacGuffin to go, please!”

2. 🍔 Here is a puzzle for “cinematic eggheads.” It uses, for example, phrases and words like “mode of transport,” “infrastructure,” “protagonist” and “MacGuffin.”

Name a classic motion picture with a one-word title. Think of the classic MacGuffin, in three
words, upon which the tale in that motion picture is hung. The letters of those three words can be rearranged to name: 

* a mode of transport associated with the MacGuffin, 

* the name of an item of infrastructure associated with that mode of transport, and 

* an adjective that does not describe the main protagonist of the movie. 

What are the motion picture, the MacGuffin, the mode of transport, the item of infrastructure, and the adjective?

A bloody body-parts movie?

3. ✋👄 Name an award-winning motion picture with a one-word title. The first half of the title can be anagrammed to make a verb. Two body parts appear in the second half of the title, along with what one of them allows you to do. 

What is the motion picture?

Adverbs & Aeschylus

4. 📚 The lead actor in the motion picture that is the solution to Appetizer #3 was also the lead actor in a 2000s film which was based on a 1990s historical non-fiction book. 

The title of the book, but not the film, contains an adverb. That same adverb is the first word in the title of a 1960s novel and a 1970s TV mini-series based on that novel. The title of the novel and mini-series is drawn from a Libyan fable quoted by Aeschylus. 

(A second well-known actor, who often portrayed Western characters, played a major role in the 2000s film and also starred in the TV mini-series.) 

Who are the two actors? 

What is the title of the non-fiction book? 

What is the title of the novel? 

You Must “Re-Veal” Oscar

5. 🥩🎥 Take the three-word, sixteen-letter title of a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Move the last word to the beginning. 

The result could be read as a “synonym” of a two-word, eight-letter title of a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar three years later. 

Both films boasted Oscar winners in other categories. 

What are those films?

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Bridal Display Slice:

Wedding bells and whistles

Think of a particular kind of wedding decoration, display or centerpiece that often graces the reception hall, grounds or church.

Now name – in two words divided by the word “of” – what that display had been before being transformed by an artist.

Then name – in two words divided by the word “a” – what a pastry chef may do prior to a wedding to prepare a different wedding display.

The two words of the first display are the same as the two in the second display, but in reverse order. 

What are these two words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices:

Crime and cell-ebrity punishment 

Will Shortz’s April 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg Van Mechelen of Berkeley, California, reads:

Name two well-known celebrities of the past who had the same six-letter first names and
the same initial in their last names. What follows that initial in one of the last names is a criminal activity. And what follows that initial in the other name is the result of that criminal activity. What celebrities are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

A retired blueblood owns a stately New England gated estate, its grounds lush with greenery – luxuriously manicured lawns, floral gardens, “topiaried” shrubs...

But no trees.

So he seeks to _______ the beauty of his _____ by planting a single stately ___ tree near the entry gate to his estate, in the hope that he would become the ____ of his neighbors and all of New England. 

Name a retired professional golfer who has the same four-letter first name as a not-retired puzzle-maker. The initial letters of their surnames, if said aloud and in order, sound like the noun that belongs on the fourth blank, above.

The combined letters of the words in the first and third blanks can be anagrammed to spell the letters that follow the initial letter in the puzzle-maker’s surname. 

The letters of the word in the second blank can be anagrammed to spell the letters that follow the initial letter in the golfer’s surname.

Who are this puzzle-maker and golfer?

What are the four words in the blanks?

ENTREE #2

Name a writer and a film producer/entrepreneur, both Americans, who had the same four-letter first names. 

Remove the initial letters of their surnames.

What remains of the writer’s surname is a six-letter criminal (who by the nature of his work may employ numerous aliases).

What remains of the film producer’s surname
is a two-letter verb, and three letters that sound like a French word that translates to “formerly known as.”

A snippet from an official police report might well include, in order, the word for the six-letter criminal, the two-letter verb and a translation of the French word.

Who are this writer and film producer?

What is the three-word snippet?

Hint: The initial letters of their surnames, depending on which order you put them in, are two letters associated with the number 40 or two letters associated with a director named Griffith. 

ENTREE #3

Name an ought-to-be-well-known physicist and mathematician whom Albert Einstein ranked as the near equivalent of Isaac Newton. Also name an actor who physically resembles – but is less famous than – his father, who is also an actor.

These men had the same five-letter first names and the same initial letter in their last names.

What follows that initial letter in the physicist’s last name is something – in a two-letter verb and four-letter adverb – that a former Sunday school teacher from Fall River could apparently do. 

And a rearrangement of what follows that initial letter in the actor’s last name is something – in a three-letter verb and three-letter pronoun – that same former Sunday school teacher apparently did to her father.

Who are this physicist and actor.

What could the Sunday school teacher apparently do?

What, apparently, did she do to her father? 

ENTREE #4

Name a pretty-well-known physicist who made “quantum leaps” in the field of atomic theory. 

Name also a not-so-well-known palaeontologist who was a pioneer in the field of archaeozoology.

The combined letters of their first names are an anagram of “Reason: the Idol!”

These scientists had the same initial letter in their last names. What follows that initial letter in each name is the reverse spelling of a Greek letter.

Who are these scientists? 

What Greek letters are these?

ENTREE #5

Take the surname of a physicist whose research was pivotal to the development of the atomic bomb.

Following the initial letter in that surname are a three-letter verb and four-letter noun describing a property (in the form “They ___ a ____”)  possessed by cartoon bombs of the past – like those favored by Wile E. Coyote, for
example.

Who is this physicist?

What is the property of past cartoon bombs? 

Hint: For the sake of accuracy, a five-letter adjective that rhymes with the four-letter noun ought to precede that noun, so that the description of the cartoon bombs would read: “They ___ a _____ ____.” 

ENTREE #6

Name two Americans – an inventor and an evolutionary biologist/geneticist/embryologist – who had the same six-letter first names.

What follows the initial letter in the inventor’s the last name, if you change an “i” to a “u” and anagram the result, is a word associated with the inventor.

What follows the initial letter in the evolutionary
biologist’s last name is a musical instument that produces the word associated with the inventor.

Who are these two Americans?

What are the word associated with the inventor and the musical instrument that produces it?

ENTREE #7

Name a pretty-well-known singer of the past and the alter ego of a present-day rapper. They have the same four-letter first names. 

What follows the first letter of the singer’s surname is a six-letter word for a type of
criminal. And what follows the alter ego’s surname are four letters that do not form a common English word. But, if they did, plural form of that word would sound like where the criminal will ultimately spend eternity.

Who are this singer and alter ego?

ENTREE #8

Name a not-so-well-known German scientist of the past who made major contributions to agricultural, organic and biological chemistry, and to the fertilizer industry. 

Reverse the syllables in his six-letter surname, which is preceded by the word “von”, to form a two-word phrase that has recently become a popular catchphrase, and that is a euphemism of a synonym of “fertilizer.”

Who is this scientist?

What is the catchphrase that is a euphemism of a synonym of “fertilizer”?

ENTREE #9

Note: We have saved our best riff-off for last. The following puzzle is the brainchild of our good friend Plantsmith, whose always-excellent “Garden of Puzzley Delights” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

Take an actor – first and last names, in four and six letters.

In the first name, insert a duplicate of the first letter between the penultimate and last letters to form a word that is usually a crime.

Say the last name aloud, adding a long vowel sound at the end, resulting in what sounds like a crime.

Who is this actor?

What are the two crimes?

Dessert Menu

Decidedly Deciduous Or Coniferous Dessert?:

Trimming one letter from a tree

Remove one letter from the name of a tree to spell the name of another tree. 

What two trees are these?

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67 comments:

  1. Take the surname of one of the actors involved in Appetizer #4. Divide it in half and reverse the order of the letters in each half; then add a letter at the end of the second half to get the nickname of a character in a different movie in which the other actor had a prominent role.

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    1. (Mel) GIBSON > BIG NOS+E (Kate (portrayed by Joanna Pacula in Tombstone which featured Sam Elliot as Virgil Earp))

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  2. Weekly "report card": after an abysmal start (no Schpuzzle, neither App #1 or 2), things became rosier, i.e. Apps 3, 4 and 5, the Slice, Entrees 1 thru 4, 6, 8 and 9 (i.e. all but #5 & 7), and Dessert all solved (at least, AN answer for the Dessert...it may not be the intended, I just don't know.

    That Entree #5 gave me fits. I literally went through a list of, I kid you not, 561 physicists!! Hardly any had the right-length last name and the few that did, well, it didn't meet the requirements. Very frustrating.

    Thought the Slice was cute.

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    1. Oh, I forgot to mention that I believe I do have the correct first word for the Schpuzzle (given the hint), however the ONLY graphic artist that I could find (again, going through an endless list) with the 21 letters in his/her name, didn't work.

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    2. You're welcome you competent, consistent ,puzzle cracker from Corvallis.

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    3. Did i tell you my Corvallis story when i was in the SAE fraternity where my uncle was who was on the golf team at OSU and later on Oregon State golf amateur champion? When three of us as freshman stole a baby piglet from the OSU agriculture campus and snuck it into our sister sororiety at three in the morning. It made the campus paper. It was not my idea,but i was complicit in the crime. I am in fact a porcine criminal and i have paid many times over for this indisgression.And developed a life long aversion to pork.

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    4. No, you have never told us either of these stories. At least, you aren't contributing to swine annihilation, as your atonement for using an innocent piglet to frighten a bunch of girls. (How did the piglet get OUT of the sorority?)

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    5. P'Smith - old OXE here. (That's a Theta, but my keyboard has no Greek.) And I'm waiting for the statutes of limitations to run before telling all the stories.

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    6. OK, VT, I'll take the bait. Is the parenthetical part a riddle? If so, my reply: "I don't know. How?)

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    7. No, sorry, GB, I'm afraid I don't seem to think in riddles...it was a down-to-earth real question to P'th.

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    8. According to the campus paper, "The Bennie Gazette? the campus police were called at 3 am. They arrived at Delta-Delta Phi to find the little one in the kitchen sipping milk from a saucer with several admiring "sisters." He was returned soon to his mother at the ag
      center building. He had a hard time weaning after that. And to this day if you visit the house you will find a loving picture of little X near the front entrance of the house. The scary part was when we turned on the lights at 2am at the pig place- they all stood up at the same time.There must have been 2 or three hundred -tightly packed and to pick up one of the babes was truly stupid and also dangerous, as the fully growns were like three hundred pounds and could have easily taken one out a little one was threatened not alone taken. No charges were ever filed to this day. I think i will include this in my upcoming memoir- in the chapter: the Corvallis confessions.
      Back to GB.

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    9. Now that i have shared my greatest crime?? It's your turn.
      Movie with a body part in it. Oh yes -Armageddon.

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  3. Happy Week Before My Birthday to all!
    Mom and I are fine. She spent the early part of the day doing the taxes, and it was too cold out or I would've gone for a walk today. We watched the game shows, and then settled on Full Moon BBQ for supper. Then I took a shower, and I just got out and dried off, so here I am. I've also checked Wordle earlier while waiting for Mom to get back, but I still have the Prize Crossword to do next. As for this week's P! offerings, I could only get Apps #2 and #3, I got the Bridal Display Slice, and was lucky enough to get all of the Entrees(thank you very much), but I noticed something strange about the Dessert: If it had said after you drop the letter, you're then supposed to rearrange the remaining letters to get the second tree, then I definitely have AN answer, if not THE answer. I do trust there will be some clarification about this, because otherwise I couldn't find any other trees that don't require rearranging the letters. As usual, any other hints will be greatly appreciated between now and Wednesday.
    Good luck in solving to all(and VT, I'd say you're bound to find everything you're looking for and then some at the rate you're going! Brava!), please stay safe, and remember to keep your vaccinations up-to-date. Cranberry out!
    pjbWouldNeverEvenWantToKnowThereHaveBeen561PhysicistsInExistence,LetAloneHaveToFindThatManyWhileWorkingOnThesePuzzlesInTheFirstPlace

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    1. Yes-- I think i am on physicist 57. How about those German scientists--wow.

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    2. Yea- 561 German physicists- it's criminal. Hey "I lost on jeopardy."

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    3. I find myself wanting to write a parody on the song from "Rent" about 526,600 minutes...i.e. 561 phy-si-ci-ists

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    4. Yes. please do. 561 German scientists is too many. 561 German scientists - to many for me. 561 German scientists to hear from. Who do i choose. Please tell me now.
      561 German scientists-----.these are their names. Johnne Keper and Werner Von Braun, Susan Giesler and James Vad De veer......

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    5. THe problem is, I don't actually know how the song goes past its first line! I looked them up just now, thinking that you yourself have begun a parody, but I don't see your words matching the song's actual lyrics....am I wrong?

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    6. No.You are correct. I was spinning off something in my head.
      Did Weird Al do something with it?

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    7. Well, P'th, I searched just now and didn't find a Weird Al parody, but did find a couple of others...one called "144,00 nerve-wracking minutes" about Trump's first 100 days in office, and another one about 525,600 Pizzas! Both You Tubes....

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    8. Small correction: the pizza parody seems to just be the lyrics, but there is yet another You Tube spinoff by music teachers singing (nicely, of course) about 70,830 minutes in the school year.

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    9. Well- i found a parody of his about one of the puzzle persons based on his song" ." Names escapes me--"What if you had one life to live?"
      The Trump one sounds awesome.

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    10. It's "Couch Potato," a parody of "Lose Yourself." Genius on both levels and labels.

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    11. I'm sure you could find the Trump parody by googling "144,000 nerve-wracking minutes"

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  4. E8. A euphemism of fertilizer." In Seattle at the zoo they make a highly coveted compost from various animal wastes. It sells out every year- costs like 20 dollars for a small bag and is called "Zoo doo." This is not a clue. Only the top gardeners use Zoo Doo. Personally i can't afford. But apparently it has raised some amazing row crops.

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  5. Spuzzle. "On the wings of a snow white dove." Oh nevermind.

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  6. Question: If the malefactor who committed all these crimes were sent up the river and wanted to write a letter, would he have to sign with his Pen Name?

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    1. I'm not sure if your little funny above is meant to also function as a hint for your #1, but somehow I became inspired to take another crack at your #2, and came up with an answer. Not utterly sure it IS correct, but it seems to work.

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    2. Oddly enough, it occurs to me that I have one of the 'infrastructure' items located less than a mile from my house!

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    3. That wasn't intended as a hint. My apologies, Ma'am. Just a little Third Grade wit considering the theme. I should have said so to avoid an unintended herring de red. I do have some hints which will be forthcoming. They may well not be needed. Anyway, glad you revisited and solved A2.

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    4. That's okay, GB. No apologies necessary! The joke was kinda cute.

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  7. Am practically jumping up and down with excitement...I FINALLY hit upon the physicist for Entree 5.....not sure if he was in the list of 561 and I just missed him (no one I'd ever heard of)....but by working backwards (which so often proves the key), and doing some guessing, when I saw this name, I knew I'd found the guy. Whew...

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    1. I'm pretty sure I've found the physicist, too, but I think I'd use a different 4-letter noun in the description of Wile E's bomb.

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    2. I would, too, Paul, but I bet Lego couldn't find anybody with that word for the last syllable of a name.

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  8. Okay, Sports Fans. Since Wednesday approaches, and in the off chance that anyone needs them, here are Appetizer hints. Might as well post them since they're there.

    1. The Pope, a Gypsy, and a Jayhawk walk into a road picture without Bing or Bob.

    2. Everybody may come, but, the MacGuffin brought some of this bunch, and it's the way out.

    3. The first half can be an adjective with no need to anagram.

    4. Consider this "a no elegance" hint: Imagine the surprise when Lego used with A1 a picture of the instructor who at one time ran the Escape and Evasion course at Fort Dix.

    5. The lead actors in both movies played real life Medal of Honor Recipients in other movies. One of those portrayals won a Best Actor Oscar.

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    1. Thanks, GB, for posting those hints.
      I will provive hints for my puzzles soon.

      LegoTardy

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    2. OOh, GB, I just solved your App #1! ALthough the hint didn't help me. It was one of those 'light bulb' moments.

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    1. At least that's a somebody. Hey, I just came in to take a break from clearing brush and found my Agronomic Test Results had arrived. Now to see if I can decipher them - then off to the garden shop.

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    2. I believe the Hickories enjoy a slightly acidic soil.

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    3. pH shows as midway between 5.8 and 6.5, which falls in the Optimum range according to the report. The State College boys at the lab recommend no lime and 5-10-5 fertilizer.

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  10. Tuesday Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    The three-word, 21-letter phrase describing the metaphor contains words of 7, 7 and 7 letters. (As ViolinTeddy has inferred, the first word begins with a synonym of “tater,” “dinger,” “moon shot” or “round tripper.”)
    The artist's name contains 7, 8 and 6 letters.

    Baff-film-ment Appetizer:
    (Please refer to the helpful and clever hints GB posted, above in our Comments Section.

    Bridal Display Slice:
    A sculpture, a layered pastry

    Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    The surname of the puzzle-maker is not also a common first name, but the surname of the golfer is.
    ENTREE #2
    I wonder if a publisher ever compiled a sampler of the author's oeuvre. The producer/entrepreneur also produced an impressive oeuvre.
    ENTREE #3
    The surnames: coffee brand, deodorant brand
    ENTREE #4
    Rho, Eta
    ENTREE #5
    Yes, yes, I know it oughta be "fuse..." but Jeremy's singing partner followed by the word "fuse" does not roll welll off the tongue!
    ENTREE #6
    You know the inventor. The musical instrument can be often found in a church.
    ENTREE #7
    The accompanying illustration is a give-away.
    ENTREE #8
    A recent prez/celeb was known for mouthing the word "bigly" and for mouthing many a two-word near-homophone of "bigly."
    ENTREE #9
    The actor, who is a female, has a cheese for a first name. The 10 letters of her first and last names anagram to "BARREN SOIL."

    Decidedly Deciduous Or Coniferous Dessert?:
    Model airplane material; A tree where an ornamental Christmas Martin may perch.

    LegoWhoNotesThatTheSchpuzzleArtistUsedANonFacetedMirrorBallForASelfPortrait

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    1. Ah, finally put the whole Schpuzzle together! I already had two of the three words correct....but thought the third correct word was the second word, and thus had had an INcorrect third word...no wonder I couldn't turn it into anybody. More explanation tomorrow, not that it really matters.

      On the Entree #7, and then I'll be finished. Hurray.

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  11. Schpuzzle: Homeric Scarlet Sunrise & Maurits Cornelis Escher

    [Appetizers:
    1. Argentina & Romania; Tin Man (from "The Wizard of Oz"
    2. Casablanca; Letters of Transit; Train, Trestle & Soft
    3. Braveheart
    4. Mel Gibson & Sam Elliot; "We Were Soldiers Once. . .and Young; "Once an Eagle"
    5. "Twelve O'Clock High" & "High Noon"]

    BD Slice: Cake of Ice & Ice a Cake

    Entrees:
    1. Greg Van Mechelen & Greg Norman; Enhance, Manor, Elm, Envy
    2. Walt Whitman & Walt Disney; ". . .Hitman is AKA. . ."
    3. James Clerk Maxwell & James Mitchum; Ax Well; Cut Him
    4. Neils Bohr & Dorothea Bate; Rho & Eta
    5. James Chadwick; Had a Wick
    6. Thomas Edison & Thomas Morgan; Sound & Organ
    7. Slim Whitman & Slim Shady (Hitman & Hades)
    8. Justus von Liebig; Big Lie
    9. Brie Larson; Bribe & Larceny

    Dessert: Teak & Tea (from the hint, I'm guessing Balsam and Balsa is the intended solution; but, I'm sticking with my original wild guess.)

    Good ones P'Smith and Lego. The Schpuzzle must have taken some real work. On to Friday.

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    1. Great Bafflers too, GB. The Appetizers are ALWAYS the best puzzles on our blog.

      LegoWhoThanksAllWhoContributePuzzlesAndCommentsToOurBlog

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  12. Schpuzzle: MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER → HOMERIC SCARLET SUNRISE [post-hint]

    Appetizers
    #1: post-hint: Wizard of Oz??
    #2: LETTERS OF TRANSIT (Casablanca), TRAIN, TRESTLE, SOFT
    #3: BRAVEHEART → A VERB, HEART, EAR, HEAR
    #4: MEL GIBSON → WE WERE SOLDIERS – ONCE → ONCE AN EAGLE → SAM ELLIOTT
    #5: TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH (1949) → HIGH TWELVE O'CLOCK → HIGH NOON (1952)
    Alt: THE IMITATION GAME (2014) → GAME THE INVITATION → LADY BIRD (2017)

    Slice: CAKE of ICE (for ice sculpture) → ICE a CAKE

    Entrées
    #1: ENHANCE, GARDEN, ELM, ENVY
    #2: D W Griffith → WALT DISNEY, WALT WHITMAN
    #3: JAMES Clerk MAXWELL – M → AX WELL; JAMES MITCHUM – M → CUT HIM
    #4: NIELS BOHR, DOROTHEA BATE
    #5: James CHADWICK → HAD a WICK
    #6: THOMAS EDISON/MORGAN → SOUND, ORGAN
    #7: SLIM WHITMAN, SLIM SHADE + S → HITMAN, HADES
    #8: von LIEBIG → BIG LIE
    #9: BRIE LARSON + B, EE → BRIBE, LARSONEE → LARCENY

    Dessert: MAPLE – P → MALE (of trees that are sexed, e.g. holly, ginkgo); TEAK – K → TEA
    post-hint: BALSAM – M → BALSA

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  13. 4/13/22 - Cloudy - 62-80.degrees.

    Schpuzzle of the Week: Pinkish dawning sunrise

    Girolamo Franco Mazzola,

    App 1
    App2- “Troy” the Trojan Horse, horse,oars
    App-3. Brave Heart, a verb-,heart-ear, hear
    App4. Mel Gibson- “Soldiers story” Book “We were soliders once-”Harold Moore
    “Once an Eagle_ Anton Myre- Sam Elliot starred in the mini-series.

    App5- Tom Hanks - “Saving Private Ryan” 1998 Capt. John Miller,
    “ Patriot Games” - Ryan saving private. Heath Ledger

    Slice: Table of Flowers/ Flour a table

    ENTREE #1 Greg Van Mechelen- Greg Norman
    Enhance 2 home, orman-manor, 3.shade elm, 4.Envy- inv
    Entree #2
    ENTREE #3
    ENTREE #4
    Entree #5-
    Entree #6 Thomas Edison- Duson- sound,
    Thomas-Morgan- organ
    Entree #7 -Eminem- Slmi Shady-Marshall Mathers
    Slim Whitman– Hitman
    Entree 8 -Dr. Von Trump

    Entree 9- Brie Larson- Bribe- Larson-Y, Larceny

    Dessert Menu
    Balsam fir tree- Balsa (used in models) Post hint
    *Alternate Pear tree -Pea tree ( an ornamental Asian small tree growing to about ten feet only)
    Good ones GB, Lego.


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    1. Lots of very clever alternative answers this week, from all of you. TEA/TEAK, for example works well as the Dessert answer.

      LegoWhoAlsoNotesThatTheAnswerToOneOfGB'sBafflersWasABitClairvoyant

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  14. Schpuzzle
    HOMERIC SCARLET SUNRISE, MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER
    Appetizer Menu
    1. ARGENTINA, ROMANIA, TIN MAN("The Wizard of Oz")
    2. LETTERS OF TRANSIT("Casablanca"), TRAIN, TRESTLE, SOFT
    3. BRAVEHEART, A VERB, EAR, HEAR, HEART
    4. MEL GIBSON, SAM ELLIOTT, "WE WERE SOLDIERS(ONCE)", "ONCE AN EAGLE"
    5. "TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH", "HIGH NOON"
    Menu
    Bridal Display Slice
    CAKE OF ICE, ICE A CAKE
    Entrees
    1. GREG VAN MECHELEN, GREG NORMAN, ENHANCE, MANOR, ELM, ENVY(NV)
    2. WALT WHITMAN, WALT DISNEY, HITMAN, IS, NEE
    3. JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, JAMES MITCHUM, AX WELL, CUT HIM(Lizzie Borden)
    4. NIELS BOHR, RHO, DOROTHEA BATE, ETA
    5. SIR JAMES CHADWICK, HAD(a)WICK(QUICK WICK)
    6. THOMAS ALVA EDISON, THOMAS HUNT MORGAN, SOUND, ORGAN
    7. SLIM WHITMAN, SLIM SHADY(Eminem), HITMAN, HADES
    8. JUSTUS FRIEHERR VON LIEBIG, BIG LIE
    9. BRIE LARSON, BRIBE, LARCENY
    Dessert
    BALSAM, BALSA(alternative answer: MAPLE, PALM)
    Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Walker County until 11:00PM, Severe Wind Advisory for Walker County until 1:00AM. Please pray for us.-pjb

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  15. Egads, I completely forgot (again!) And then it took me five minutes just trying to FIND the comments icon (the slider keeps disappearing from the right side of my screen on this P! site, for some reason.)

    SCHPUZZLE: HOMERIC SCARLET SUNRISE => MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER [Pre-hint, I had the Homeric and Sunrise words, but thought third word was ‘EPITHET.' Then Leg’s last day Hint’s 'sign-off' gave me the artist’s name, thence working backwards.]

    APPETIZERS:

    1. ARGENTINA & ROMANIA => TINMAN!!!! [Please explain the Pope/Gypsy portion of GB’s hint, though.]

    2. CASABLANCA; LETTERS OF TRANSIT => TRAIN, TRESTLE, SOFT

    3. BRAVEHEART => HEART, EAR, HEAR

    4. MEL GIBSON & SAM ELLIOTT; Novel: ONCE AN EAGLE Non-fiction book: WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE…AND YOUNG

    5. TWELVE O-CLOCK HIGH => HIGH NOON

    SLICE: CAKE OF ICE => ICE A CAKE

    ENTREES:

    1. GREG NORMAN & GREG VAN MECHELEN => ENVY; ENHANCE; ELM; MANOR

    2. WALT WHITMAN => HITMAN; WALT DISNEY => ‘IS' & ‘NEE'; “HITMAN IS AKA”

    3. JAMES MAXWELL => AX WELL; JAMES MITCHUM => CUT HIM

    4. NIELS BOHR => RHO; DOROTHEA BATE => ETA

    5. JAMES CHADWICK => HAD A WICK

    6. THOMAS EDISON => SOUND; THOMAS MORGAN => ORGAN

    7. SLIM WHITMAN & SLIM SHADY => HITMAN & HADES

    8. JUSTUS FREIHER VON LIEBIG => BIG LIE

    9. BRIE LARSON => BRIBE & LARCENY

    DESSERT: BALSAM => BALSA

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    1. VT - The App 1 hint: The current Pope is from Argentina. Gypsies are also, and perhaps more correctly, known as Romani.

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Odyssey on a Titian Dawn
    In the Odyssey and Iliad, “rosy-fingered dawn” is a recurring graphic metaphorical image for “daybreak.”
    Take a three-word, 21-letter phrase describing that metaphor.
    Rearrange those letters to spell the full name of a graphic artist.
    What is this 21-letter phrase, and who is the artist?
    Hint: The first five letters of the 21-letter phrase spell the surname of an artist whose life overlapped that of the graphic artist.
    Answer:
    "Homeric scarlet sunrise" (which describes "rosy-fingered dawn"); Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)
    Hint: Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

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

    Appetizer Menu
    Baff-film-ment Appetizer:
    Bloody! Blade-Wielding! Veal! Egg MacGuffin! Aeschylus!
    Tough-skinned! Blade-wielding! Heartless!
    1. Name two countries that end in the same letter. Each contains an odd number of letters.
    The sixth, seventh, and eighth letters of one country followed by the third, fourth, and fifth letters of the other country, in order, spell the name of a tough-skinned, blade-wielding and heartless character in a classic film. What are the countries and the who is the character?
    Answer:
    Argentina, Romania; Tin Man (from "The Wizard of Oz")

    “One Egg MacGuffin to go, please!”
    2. Here is a puzzle for “cinematic eggheads.” It uses phrases and words like “mode of transport,” “infrastructure,” “protagonist” and “MacGuffin.”
    Name a classic motion picture with a one-word title. Think of the classic MacGuffin, in three words, upon which the tale in that motion picture is hung. The letters of those three words can be rearranged to name:
    * a mode of transport associated with the MacGuffin,
    * the name of an item of infrastructure associated with that mode of transport, and
    * an adjective that does not describe the main protagonist of the movie.
    What are the motion picture, the MacGuffin, the mode of transport, the item of infrastructure, and the adjective?
    Answer:
    Casablanca; Letters of Transit; Train; Trestle; Soft [Reference: The Letters of Transit, only glimpsed and never really seen, were originally stolen from murdered German officer couriers on a train according to a radio broadcast early in the film.]

    A bloody body-parts movie?
    3. Name an award-winning motion picture with a one-word title. The first half of the title can be anagrammed to make a verb. The second half of the title contains two body parts, and what one of them allows you to do.
    What is the motion picture?
    Answer:
    Braveheart [BRAVE is an anagram of A VERB; HEART contains HEART, EAR and HEAR, which is what an ear allows you to do.]

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  18. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Baff-film-ment Appetizer, continued:

    Adverbs & Aeschylus
    4. The lead actor in the motion picture which is the solution to Appetizer #3 was also the lead actor in a 2000s film which was based on a 1990s historical non-fiction book.
    The title of the book, but not the film, contains an adverb. That same adverb is the first word in the title of a 1960s novel and a 1970s TV mini-series based on that novel. The title of the novel and mini-series is drawn from a Libyan fable quoted by Aeschylus.
    (A second well-known actor, who often portrayed Western characters, played a major role in the 2000s film and also starred in the TV mini-series.)
    Who are the two actors?
    What is the title of the non-fiction book?
    What is the title of the novel?
    Answer:
    Mel Gibson & Sam Elliott; "We Were Soldiers Once. . . And Young"; "Once an Eagle". [The film was simply titled "We Were Soldiers".]

    You Must “Re-Veal” Oscar
    5. Take the three-word, sixteen-letter title of a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Move the last word to the beginning.
    The result could be read as a “synonym” of a two-word, eight-letter title of a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar three years later.
    Both films boasted Oscar winners in other categories.
    What are those films?
    Answer:
    Twelve O'Clock High, High Noon.

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    Bridal Display Slice:
    Wedding bells and whistles

    Think of a particular kind of wedding display that often graces the reception hall or grounds.
    Now name – in two words divided by the word “of” – what that display had been before being transformed by an artist.
    Then name – in two words divided by the word “a” – what a pastry chef may do prior to a wedding to prepare a different wedding display.
    The two words of the first display are the same as the two in the second display, but in reverse order. What are these words?
    Answer:
    Cake, Ice: Cake (of) Ice (which becomes an ice sculpture); Ice (a) Cake

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  19. This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices:
    Crime and cell-ebrity punishment
    ENTREE #1
    A retired BLUEblood owns a stately New England gated estate, its grounds lush with greenery – luxuriously manicured lawns, floral gardens, “topiaried” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/topiary shrubs...
    But no trees.
    So he seeks to _______ the beauty of his _____ by planting a single stately ___ tree near the entry gate to his estate, in the hope that he would become the ____ of his neighbors and all of New England.
    Name a retired professional golfer who has the same four-letter first name as a not-retired puzzle-maker. The initial letters of their surnames, if said aloud and in order, sound like the noun that belongs on the fourth blank, above.
    The combined letters of the words in the first and third blanks can be anagrammed to spell the letters that follow the initial letter in the puzzle-maker’s surname.
    The letters of the word in the second blank can be anagrammed to spell the letters that follow the initial letter in the golfer’s surname.
    Who are this puzzle-maker and golfer?
    What are the four words in the blanks?
    Answer:
    Greg Van Mechelen; Greg Norman
    Enhance, Manor, Elm, Envy (NV)
    ENTREE #2
    Name a writer and a film producer/entrepreneur, both Americans, who had the same four-letter first names.
    Remove the initial letters of their surnames.
    What remains of the writer’s surname is a six-letter criminal (who by the nature of his work may employ numerous aliases).
    What remains of the film producer’s surname is a two-letter verb, and three letters that sound like a French word that translates to “formerly known as.”
    A snippet from an official police report might well include, in order, the word for the six-letter criminal, the two-letter verb and a translation of the French word.
    Who are this writer and film producer?
    What is the three-word snippet?
    Hint: The initial letters of their surnames, depending on which order you put them in, are two letters associated with the number 40 or two letters associated with a director named Griffith.
    Answer:
    Walt Whitman, Walt Disney; "...hitman is formerly known as..."
    (Hitman, "isney," which sound like "is née," which translates to "formerly known as")
    Hint: WD-40; D. W. Griffith

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  20. This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices, continued:
    ENTREE #3
    Name an ought-to-be-well-known physicist and mathematician whom Albert Einstein ranked as the near equivalent of Isaac Newton. Also name an actor who physically resembles – but is less famous than – his father, who is also an actor.
    These men had the same five-letter first names and the same initial letter in their last names.
    What follows that initial in the physicist’s last name is something – in a two-letter verb and four-letter adverb – that a former Sunday school teacher from Fall River could apparently do.
    And a rearrangement of what follows that initial in the actor’s last name is something – in a three-letter verb and three-letter pronoun – that same former Sunday school teacher apparently did to her father.
    Who are this physicist and actor.
    What could the Sunday school teacher apparently do?
    What, apparently, did she do to her father?
    Answer:
    James Maxwell; James Mitchum; ax well; cut him
    ENTREE #4
    Name a pretty-well-known physicist who made “quantum leaps” in the field of atomic theory. Name also a not-so-well-known palaeontologist who was a pioneer in the field of archaeozoology.
    The combined letters of their first names are an anagram of “Reason: the Idol!”
    These scientists had the same initial letter in their last names. What follows that initial letter in each name is the reverse spelling of a Greek letter.
    Who are these scientists?
    What Greek letters are these?
    Answer:
    Neils Bohr, Dorothea Bate; Rho, Eta
    ENTREE #5
    Take the surname of a physicist whose research was pivotal to the development of the atomic bomb.
    Following the initial letter in that surname are a three-letter verb and four-letter noun describing a property (in the form “They ___ a ____”) possessed by cartoon bombs of the past – like those favored by Wile E. Coyote, for example.
    Who is this physicist?
    What is the property of past cartoon bombs?
    Hint: For the sake of accuracy, a five-letter adjective that rhymes with the four-letter noun ought to precede it.
    Answer:
    James Chadwick; "(They) had (a) wick";
    Hint: "(They) had (a quick) wick..." also known as a "fuse"
    ENTREE #6
    Name two Americans – an inventor and an evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist – who had the same six-letter first names.
    What follows the initial letter in the inventor’s the last name, if you change an “i” to a “u” and anagram the result, is a word associated with the inventor.
    What follows the initial letter in the evolutionary biologist’s last name is a musical instument that produces the word associated with the inventor.
    Who are these two Americans?
    What are the word associated with the inventor and the musical instrument that produces it?
    Answer:
    Thomas Edison, Thomas Morgan; Sound (Edison-E-i+u=duson=>sound), organ

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  21. This week's official answers for the record, part 6:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices, continued:
    ENTREE #7
    Name a pretty-well-known singer of the past and the alter ego of a present-day rapper. They have the same four-letter first names.
    What follows the first letter of the singer’s surname is a six-letter word for a type of criminal. And what follows the alter ego’s surname are four letters that do not form a common English word. But, if they did, plural form of that word would sound like where the criminal will ultimately spend eternity.
    Who are this singer and alter ego?
    Answer:
    Slim Whitman, Slim Shady (an alter ego of Eminem);
    (The plural of "hady" would be "hadies," which sounds like "Hades")
    ENTREE #8
    Name a not-so-well-known German scientist of the past who made major contributions to agricultural, organic and biological chemistry, and to the fertilizer industry. Reverse the syllables in his six-letter surname, which is preceded by the word “von”, to form a two-word phrase that has recently become a popular catchphrase, and that is a euphemism of a synonym of “fertilizer.”
    Who is this scientist?
    What is the catchphrase that is a euphemism of a synonym of “fertilizer”?
    Answer:
    Justus Freiherr von Liebig; Big lie, a synonym of Bullsh*t
    ENTREE #9
    Note: We have saved the best riff-off for last. The following puzzle is the brainchild of our good friend Plantsmith, whose always-excellent “Garden of Puzzley Delights” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!
    Take an actor – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/actor first and last names, in four and six letters.
    In the first name, insert a duplicate of the first letter between the penultimate and last letters to form a word that is usually a crime.
    Say the last name aloud, adding a long vowel sound at the end, resulting in what sounds like a crime.
    Who is this actor?
    What are the two crimes?
    Answer:
    Brie Larson; Bribe, Larceny
    Brie=>BriBe=>Bribe; Larson+(long-e-sound) sounds like Larceny

    Dessert Menu
    Decidedly Deciduous Or Coniferous Dessert?:
    Trimming one letter from a tree
    Remove one letter from the name of a tree to spell the name of another tree.
    What two trees are these?
    Answer:
    Balsam, balsa

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  22. Birthday Greetings to our friend and cryptic expert, Patrick J. Berry!

    LegoWhoPhilosophizesThatTheDayYouAddOneYearToYourAgeShouldBeACelebrationRatherThanADreadedOrdeal...IndeedItShouldBeAPieceOfCake!

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    1. Many thanks to you, Lego, for your kind words about my upcoming(not exactly a)milestone tomorrow! In my honor, my family and I shall be dining at Jim and Nick's tomorrow night at 7:30. Just found out. Looking forward to examining the next edition of Puzzleria! later tonight. Saw the description of it on Blaine's Blog earlier. Hope it's not too difficult!
      pjbWouldRatherJustHaveADeliciousMealAt52ThanAnythingElseAtAll(NoOffenseAboutThePuzzlesToCome!)

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