Friday, June 24, 2022

Hanging arts and (from air)crafts; Saget, Gates and Bilbo Baggins; “Fighting fire with fire... hoses?” Bird is the word, but what are the numbers?” Our house, is a very, very, very “big house”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Hanging arts and (from air)crafts

Name some things you might see hanging from walls, in a double-digit number of letters. 

Add an “o” and rearrange the letters to name what some stunt pilots who hung from their planes did. 

What things hang from walls? 

What did stunt pilots do?

Appetizer Menu

“Terifflelific” Appetizer:

“Bird is the word, but what are the numbers?”

Bird is the Word

🐦Take a word for a bird. Divide it into two parts, each a letter.

Take this same word for a bird. 

Again divide it into two parts to get two other letters.

What “bird word” is this?

What are the four letters?

Name the Numbers

⚾Start with a letter associated with a number. 

Change this letter to the one three places further down in the alphabet and get another
letter associated with a number. 

The two numbers differ by 44. 

What are the letters, numbers, and their association?

Hint: Henry Aaron, who broke the all-time major league home run record in 1974, wore
uniform #44, a number that seems like it might be associated with the man whose record he broke, but is in fact not associated with it. 

The number on the uniform worn by the man whose record Aaron broke is #3, which is also the number of places down the alphabet (in this puzzle) that the first “letter associated with a number” was moved in order to get the second “letter associated with a number.”

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Back On The Chain Gang Slice:

Our House is a very, very, very “big house”

...with two guards in the yard,

The rocks we break are hard,

This prison life ain’t easy to get thru...

(And now I’m feelin’ queasy with the flu!)

Place a conjunction between a synonym of
“prison” and a synonym of “bandit.” 

The letters in the first half of the resulting phrase are identical to, and in the same order as, the letters in the second half. 

What are these two synonyms?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

Saget, Gates and Bilbo Baggins

Will Shortz’s June 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:

Think of two famous people — one from business and one from entertainment — whose last names are anagrams of each other. Now take their first names, drop the last letter of each of them, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get the full first name of a famous fictional character. Who are these people?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker. 

Rearrange the combined letters of the first and last names of this puzzle-maker to spell a two-word caption for the image shown here.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the caption?

ENTREE #2

Think of two fruits. Remove the last letter from one fruit. 

Remove that same letter from the second fruit along with letters that can be rearranged to spell a third edible – one that can be wild, rolled or, in the plural, felt.

Take the remaining letters, in order, and put them together without rearranging, and you’ll get a famous fictional character that is known by a single name. 

What are these fruits, the edible, and the one-named fictional character?

Hint: The name of the famous fictional character is also the name (not of the dog star, which is named “Sirius”) of a “wanderer” similar to Sirius. And, the term “dog star” does indeed also apply to the fictional character.

ENTREE #3

Think of two famous hall-of-famers — one enshrined in Cooperstown, the other in Newport. 

The surname of the “Cooperstowner” is an anagram of the final four letters of the “Newporter’s” first name. 

Now take the first three letters of the Cooperstowner’s first name and first two letters of the Newporter’s first name, and put the result together, without rearranging; you’ll get the name of a famous fictional character. 

Who are these hall-of-famers and fictional
character?

Hint: The last three letters of the Newporter’s last name spell a personal pronoun often used in referring to someone with the Cooperstowner’s first name, whether it is capitalized (as is the case with one particular female member of the World Golf Hall of Fame) or written in lowercase.

ENTREE #4

Think of two somewhat famous actors, female and male, who have both been nominated for Oscars. 

Imagine the man’s name to the left of the woman’s on a theater marquee. 

On the far right, therefore, is the woman’s surname,
which is the “plural form” of the man’s first name. Turn off the electrical current to these names on the extremities, leaving the marquee somewhat darker.

Ten letters remain. Cut the current to three consecutive ones that can be rearranged to form a synonym of “glee.” 

The marquee now displays the name of a very famous fictional character. 

Who are these actors and fictional character?

ENTREE #5

The first name of a famous athete and surname of a famous entertainer are the same.

The first three letters of the athlete’s surname sound the same first four letters of the entertainer’s first name

The remaining three letters of the athlete’s surname spell a common first name. That first name can be formed by rearranging the first three letters in the first name of one who partnered with the entertainer in a 1980’s-singing duo.    

Who are this athlete and entertainer?

Who was the entertainer’s singing partner?

ENTREE #6

Think of two reasonably famous people whose surnames are anagrams of each other. One is a baseball Hall-of-Famer. The other is an actor who has been in the cast of a 62-year-old soap opera for the past two decades.  

Now take their first names, drop the last letter of each of them, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get the full first name of a somewhat memorable villainous fictional character created by Ian Fleming. 

Who are these two people and one fictional character?

ENTREE #7

Place a six-letter synonym of “corpulent” to the left of a six-letter word for a small metallic case that has space you might place a memento.

The first three and last two letters of this 12-letter string, in order, spell a synonym of “swift.” Remove them to reveal the name of a fictional character.

Who is this fictional character?

What are the synonyms of “corpulent” and “swift”?

What is the word for a small metallic case that has space you might place a memento?

ENTREE #8

Think of three famous people: a comedic actress, a Grammy-winning soul singer and a politician who fell prey to one of the first “negative” TV political ads, one that apparently proved to be effective.

The actress and singer have the same surname. Place it before the first part of the politician’s compound surname to name a two-word term for an alloy originally developed to imitate platinum. 

Place it before the second part of the politician’s surname to name a compound word describing a frothy, turbulent form of rafting or canoeing. The first part of the politician’s surname appears in the title of a sitcom in which the actress was featured.

The first two letters of the actress’s first name placed after the first two letters of either the singer’s or politician’s first name spell the name of a fictional bovine creature.

Who are these three famous people?

What are the alloy and the compound word describing a frothy, turbulent form of rafting?

What is the name of the fictional bovine creature?

In what sitcom was the actress featured? 


Note: Mark Scott (also known as “skydiveboy”) inspired Entrees #9 and #10 by suggesting that their solutions might make good fodder for raising riff-offs of this week’s NPR puzzle. We thank Mark, whose “Skydiversions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #9

Name two Oscar-nominated actors with the same first name (one of them won one). Their surnames both end with the same four letters, which can be rearranged to spell a word for “the human body’s largest organ.” Remove those eight “ending letters” and place the remaining parts of their surnames side-by-side in alphabetical order.

The result spells a new surname, one shared by two actors named William and Dennis, and by one artist named Edward.

Who are these Oscar-winning actors?

Who are the other two actors and the artist?

What is the human body’s largest organ?

ENTREE #10

An actor and pop singer who were popular during the 1950s and 1960s have the same surname. The actor’s first name was the same as that of a politican during that era. The name of the politician’s first lady was the same as that of the singer.

The politician was involved in two notable scandals, the first involving a family pet. The surname shared by the singer and actor, followed by the kind of creature that family pet was, sound like the first two syllables in a synonym of “scandal.”

Who are the singer and actor?

Who are the first lady and politician?

What is the synonym of “scandal?”

Hint: The name of the pet is the plural form of the surname of one of the singer’s pop record chart rivals.


Note: The following NPR riff-off was composed and contributed by Greg VanMechelen (screen name, Ecoarchitet), whose Econfusions puzzle feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #11

Think of two famous people — one from business and entertainment, one from politics.

If you remove the last letter from the first person’s surname, their surnames are anagrams of each other.

Now take the first two letters of each of their first names, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get what they might have been called at home. 

Take the first three letters of each of their first names, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get a British brand of recycled plastic outdoor furniture and play products. 

Take the first four letters of each of their first names, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get the name of a convenience store best known on an animated TV show.

Note: You may have to swap the order of the first names. 

Who are these people?

Dessert Menu

“Naming Of Parts” Dessert:

Fighting fire with fire... hoses?

Divide a compound word for a weapon into its two parts. 

Replace the last letter of second part with three new letters to form protection from the weapon, in two words. 

What is the  weapon?

What is the protection from the weapon?

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71 comments:

  1. I'm up to only Entree #3, but in its HINT, found a major goof in need of Tedditing! Namely, that the last three letters spell a "preposition"...they don't, they spell a 'personal pronoun'. Luckily, I tried my hunch, and worked out the answer.

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    1. Thanks for your always-welcome "Tedditoral" assistance, VT. I shall go in and "Teddit!"

      LegoUngrammatically

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  2. If you are making little or no headway with Jeff Zarkin's puzzle #2, you are likely in good company. It is a toughie.
    If it is okay with Jeff, an with his indulgence (and/or blessing) I may be providing a few early hints. Or perhaps Jeff may provide a few.

    LegoWhoSaysTheTwoLettersSpellATitleThatIsAboutSixPercentOfATitleNot"OfAPopularMusicalFilmButOfATitleThatAppears"In"ThatFilm

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  3. Happy early Friday to all!
    I was going to be the one to start this week, but now since I've checked a second time and VT immediately got the ball rolling, I decided to comment this early as well. Later today we're going to see if I can get a haircut FOR THE THIRD TIME IN TWO WEEKS. We first did this last week, but the woman who cuts my hair was on vacation. So we go back Wednesday afternoon, and she's not there again! Seems she's off on Wednesdays, and the woman working there then only cuts hair for people by appointment only. So third time's the charm(hopefully)!
    Now for this week's offerings.
    I solved the Back In The Chain Gang Slice(are you sure you don't mean On, like in the Pretenders hit?), I got all Entrees except #4 and #6(#9 was actually a Sunday Puzzle challenge, I'm 99% sure, and for the answer to #11 to work it requires adding or subtracting a letter to the last name, otherwise both names are NOT anagrams of each other), and I actually have about THREE different answers for the Dessert, but I know one has to be the intended answer. Basically I came up with two words that work in terms of changing the last letter to three different letters, but one of these words could be changed the same way in two different phrases. BTW Count me in regarding the "little or no headway" with Zarkin's puzzles. Looking forward to seeing any and all subsequent hints for those and all other stumpers I'm already having trouble with in the wee small ones of this Friday. Any clarification will certainly be welcome later on.
    Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and pleasant dreams to all! Cranberry out!
    pjbDidn'tEvenBotherToBringUpThatLegoActuallySaid"Prepostion",Not"Preposition",WhichINowSeeHe'sChangedItAnyway(I'mSurprisedVTDidn'tMentionTheTypoPartOfIt!),SoNeverMindThat

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    1. Three hair cuts in two weeks? Seems like a lot, but it is hot and a shorter cut as i have might be useful.

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    2. Please remember to hydrate well in this oven we are experiencing in the deep south, as opposed to the shallow south which is maybe Oprah as she does seem kind of shallow at times. Shame on me.

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    3. Thanks for the correction on the Pretenders' chain gang song, cranberry.
      As for my missing "i" in preposition, if you're going to use the wrong word you might as well misspell it!

      LegoCorrected

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    4. Finally got my hair cut today. I did not mean to make it sound as though I actually got THREE of them. I was unable to the first two times.
      pjbDidn'tGetAHairCut,HeGotThemAllCut(LOL!)

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    5. LOL. I am getting closer to to just having to get- A hair cut. I think i have about four left.

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    6. Cranberry, on Blaine's Blog you wrote:
      "Now if you actually do find anyone else on social media who would actually be quite helpful with the challenge week in and week out, kindly let me know. I'd love to have some other refuge to turn to when it seems like all is lost for the week."

      I replied that Reddit was my go to when I get stuck on things, but for some reason that was verboten!

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  4. OK, now I have a mystery. In the Dessert, to solve it I had to spell the politician's last name wrong (i.e. with an extra letter). Could you please double-check on this, Lego?

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    1. Oops, I meant in Entree #11 (I haven't read 8, 9 or 10 yet, and got stuck on 4, 5 and 6.)

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    2. VT,
      I already mentioned the spelling error in #11 in my first post. You obviously didn't read it. Not complaining or anything, I just know I did bring it up earlier.
      pjbWondersDoAFewOthersHereNeverNoticeMyFirstPostEveryWeek?ItIsUsuallyTheLongestOneOfAll(SorryIfIAmALittleLong-WindedSometimes)

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  5. Lest it appears that I am picking on you this week, Lego, I'm not....I just like to make sure I am finding things properly. As such, for Entree #9 (I still haven't read #8 yet), the second actor was nominated but never won an Oscar.

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    1. I hope you're correct, as that was my question as well. Both are award winners, and both are Oscar nominees (if I'm right); but, only one won the Oscar.

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    2. Yes, the second one was nominated, but didn't win.

      I am more curious about the extra letter needed in Entree 11. I can't believe that I have it wrong, as it just works out too well, provided the needed letter is added in. Lego?????

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    3. Actually, I just realized that I have completely forgotten to mention that I have a similar difficulty with the Schpuzzle. IF I could add one more letter (besides the required 'O'), then I can get a very nice, appropriate answer. However, I suspect that in the Schpuzzle's case, it will be no such luck.

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    4. As you know, VT, I do really appreciate all the corrections of my many goofs on this blog over the years!
      I probably bit off a bit more than I could chew on this week's edition.
      As for the Schpuzzle, "what some stunt pilots who hung from their planes did" is a past-tense verb. But, you probably are aware of that. Tell me more.

      LegoStrivingForPerfectionButNotQuteGettingThere!

      Lego

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    5. All I know is, there's no O in wingwalked.

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    6. Lego, my Schpuzzle answer that requires another letter is a noun. I guess I'll have to keep hunting to try to figure out your verb answer, tho.

      I will say yet again that I will never understand HOW you can come up with all this stuff each week for P! It is simply beyond my comprehension how you do it...mistakes or no mistakes!

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    7. That is a comment that warms my heart, VT. Thank you, sincerely.

      LegoWhoInHisDefaultModePossessesAColdColdHeart

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    8. For the Shpuz could it be something the might require a cast?

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    9. Probably would if you fell off the wall or out of the plane and cracked something.

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    10. That is kind of where i was going.

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    11. Or it could be like when the movie director hired a bunch of actors that really didn't work out. He decided to replace them and stone the first cast. [A little Third Grade humor there, Sports Fans.]

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  6. I detected a bug in one of the ENTREEs ... I won't say which one.

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    1. Lego, remind me never to invite you to one of my picnics. LOL
      pjbDidHaveASmallInfestationAtOurHouseRecently,ButRaidTookCareOfIt,AndNowEverything'sAllRight

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    2. cranberry,
      Bugs are Yummy!

      LegoTheEuellGibbonsNotOfDendrologyButOfEntomology

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    3. After seeing this week's Sunday Puzzle challenge, I think I'd probably rather be eating bugs. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack.
      pjbMeansEcoarchitectNoDisrespect,ButTheyCan'tAllBeGems

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    4. Here's "bug" I was thinking of:
      https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/september/9/

      I enjoyed watching Dennis in "Easy Rider", and it's always fun to catch William in an old "Perry Mason" rerun, but the omission of (Admiral) (Doctor) Grace is a FATAL ERROR in my opinion.

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  7. Actually, any one who eats peanut butter- me alot is eating lots of bugs all the time.

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  8. https://www.the-sun.com/news/5533366/are-there-bugs-in-peanut-butter/ Average of 238 fragments per jar. YUM.

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    1. Due to inflation, last week they put in only 184 fragments.

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    2. You know i thought that jar looked a little smaller.

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    3. All your comments above make me thrilled that I NEVER eat peanut butter (or peanuts)...loathe the stuff, even the smell of it. Ugh...

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    4. I guess that means you don't subscribe to my philosophy that one can eat anything as long as there's enough peanut butter or ketchup on it?

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    5. I forgot about that. But what about the Tillamook? REminds my of Eli's add "I put that _____ on everything." LOL.

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    6. PL'TH, are you asking me if I like Tillamook? Yes indeed, altho I don't buy it very much because it is always more expensive than when either Fred Meyer or Safeway have their own cheeses on a coupon deal. (And it has to be SHARP, none of this mild or medium.)

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    7. And GB, indeed.....that phrase for me is "you can RUIN anything by putting peanut butter on it." And I have no use for ketchup on French Fries (not that I eat those anymore.)

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    8. I kind of wish i had not seen that article. It is enough to turn someone vegan. You sound healthy VT. Yesterday with my grtr i had french fries and a strawberry frosty. at Wendy's. However; on a serious note, writer Michael Pollan says if we would start eating more insects it would reduce world starvation levels.

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    9. Insects? A step on the road to the Soylent Green New Deal?

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    10. VT i always thought you were pretty sharp.Or a "sharpie." But when it comes to cheeses probably should not mess with someone from Minnesota.

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    11. THanks, PL'TH (I think?) Re cheese from MN: you mean Lego?

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    12. Yes. Wisconsin and then i believe Minnesota.

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  9. Quite a few stumpers for me this week! I've only solved most of the Entrees.

    TortieWhoHasNotSolvedNPRPuzzleEither

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    1. Don't feel too bad, Tort....I have only an alternate answer for the Schpuzzle (and I realize that my first term violates the direction that it should be double-digit amount of letters), and I didn't solve App #2 either. And, worst of all, I still haven't gotten Entrees 4, 5 and 6 (not that I have tried since Sat.)

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    2. I thought double digits for the combined letters of two words? I tried latex paint without success.

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    3. Ah, got Entree #2. Now I'm just down to Entree #4 for the entrees. I think that might be the one with the bug. I know I've spent quite a lot of time on it to no avail. Think I'll work on the Slice next even though I haven't succeeded so far.

      VT, I got Entree #5 right away, mostly thanks to thinking of the duo. Hint (although possibly a bit cryptic): Keanu. Entree #6 was a toughie. The soap opera actor was particularly hard to get. The Bond villain was in one of the classic Sean Connery films.

      TortieWhoLikesPeanutButterAndFrenchFriesWithKetchup

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    4. Thanks for the attempt to help re Ent #5. If I have time, I will try to tackle it again, but I may well not have said time.

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  10. Schpuzzle: Rembrandts; Barnstorming

    Appetizers:
    1. Jay; J, A, V, I (a vertical division to get J & A; a horizontal division to get V & I)
    2. W & Z; W is the first Letter in (and chemical symbol of) Wolfram (Tungsten) whose atomic number is 74. Z is 3 letters further down in the alphabet, is the first letter in Zinc whose atomic number is 30. The difference in atomic numbers in this case is 44.

    BOTCG Slice: Brig (And) Brigand

    Entrees:
    1. Peter Collins; Prone Cellist
    2. Plum, Tomaato, Oat & Pluto (remove m, m, a, t, o)
    3. Babe Ruth, Arthur Ashe & Babar
    4. [stymied]
    5. [stymied]
    6 [stymied]
    7. Shylock; Fleshy & Fleet; Locket
    8. Betty White, Barry White & Barry Goldwater; White Gold & Whitewater; Babe (the Blue Ox); Golden Girls
    9. Anthony Hopkins & Anthony Perkins; William Hopper: Dennis Hopper & Edward Hopper; Skin
    10. Pat Boone & Richard Boone; Pat & Richard Nixon; Boondoggle
    11. Martha Stewart & Maxine Waters (remove t from Stewart) (Mama, Marmax, Maxi-Mart)

    Dessert: Shotgun; Shot Guard (useful to wear if bird hunting with parent of Congresspersun Liz)

    Some toughies this week resulting in a smattering of stymieds and suspected alternates. Nonetheless, a tip of the chapeau to the host of contributors & The Conductor for the gray cell agitation.

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  11. Schpuzzle: ???

    Appetizers
    #1: EMU → E, MU; EMU → EM, U
    #2: ???

    Slice: ???

    Entrées
    #1: PETER COLLINS → PRONE CELLIST
    #2: PLUM, TOMATO – OAT → PLUTO
    #3: ARTHUR ASHE → RUTH, BABE – E + AR → BABAR (hint: SHE)
    #4:
    #5:
    #6:
    #7: FLESHY + LOCKET → FLEET, SHYLOCK
    #8: (Betty, Barry) WHITE, GOLDWATER → WHITE GOLD, WHITE WATER, GOLDEN GIRLS, BABE (Paul Bunyan's ox)
    #9: SKIN → (Anthony) HOPKINS, PERKINS → (William, Dennis) HOPPER [never heard of any of these people, got from SKIN + Wikipedia searches]
    #10: RICHARD BOONE, PAT BOONE, PAT Nixon, Checkers, BOONDOGGLE
    #11: MARILYN Monroe, MAXIM Gorky → MARMAX, MAMA

    Dessert: STARSHIP – P + ELD → STAR SHIELD
    SIDEARM – M + MOR → SIDE ARMOR

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    1. You never saw Easy Rider or Waterworld? First role was as Boo Radley in "To kill a Mockingbird."

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    2. Correction -Boo Radley was Robert Duvall in first feature role.

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  12. I just watched that movie, " Vice." And he apologizes for getting shot by the V.P. " I am sorry i got in the way of your shot."

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  13. Failed miserably at the non-Entrees. I'm very impressed by those who got them right!
    Got GB's answer for Entree #11.
    Did not get Entree #4. For Entree #5, GEORGE MICHAEL, MICHAEL JORDAN, ANDREW RIDGELEY (George's partner in Wham!). Entree #6: These people are so obscure to me this is possible it is wrong! RON SANTO (baseball player), SAM ASTON (actor in Coronation Street, a British soap), and the Bond villain ROSA KLEBB ("From Russia With Love").
    For the Dessert, I was thinking along the lines of HANDGUN/HANDGUARD or SHOTGUN/SHOTGUARD.

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  14. I think one of the sticking points for me in Entree #2 was that I'm used to "rolled oats" and "wild oats." I'm not used to "rolled oat" or "wild oat."

    TortieWhoWouldLikeSomeCluesForEntree4SinceIDon'tThinkAnyOfUsSolvedIt

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  15. 6-29-22// 86 degrees. Slim pickins this week.

    Schpuzzle:
    Pictures framed- Impose fractured


    Apps
    Coo Coo bird. Co/CO

    Entrees
    Peter Collins- prone cellist
    9. Skin/ Anthony Hopkins, Tony Perkins- Dennis Hopper- Edward Hopper

    Dessert
    Cross bow- Board (Alt?)

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  16. Menu
    Back On The Chain Gang Slice
    BRIG AND BRIGAND
    Entrees
    1. PETER COLLINS, PRONE CELLIST
    2. PLUM, TOMATO, OAT, PLUTO(Mickey Mouse's dog)
    3. BABE RUTH, ARTHUR ASHE, BABAR(The Elephant)
    5. GEORGE MICHAEL, MICHAEL JORDAN, ANDREW RIDGELY("the other guy from Wham!")
    7. FLESHY, LOCKET, SHYLOCK(Shakespearean character)
    8. BETTY WHITE, BARRY WHITE, BARRY GOLDWATER, WHITE GOLD, WHITEWATER, BABE(Paul Bunyan's blue ox), "THE GOLDEN GIRLS"
    9. ANTHONY PERKINS, ANTHONY HOPKINS, SKIN, HOPPER
    10. RICHARD BOONE, PAT BOONE, RICHARD NIXON, PAT NIXON, THE "CHECKERS" SCANDAL(Checkers was their dog), BOONDOGGLE
    11. MARTHA STEWART, MAXINE WATERS, MAMA, MARMAX, MAXIMART(where Beavis and Butthead liked to go)
    Dessert
    FIREARM, FIRE ARMOR or SHOTGUN, SHOT GUARD or HANDGUN, HAND GUARD(The right answer must be in there somewhere!)
    Never really did get hints for these, did we, Lego? BTW I'll soon be sending another cryptic crossword to run here in the future, most likely next week. Stay tuned, I will keep you posted!-pjb

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  17. SCHPUZZLE: BASIC ART + O and C => ACROBATICS

    APPETIZERS:

    1. EMU => E & MU; EM (M)& U

    2. 6 [VI], 50 [L] ????????

    SLICE: BRIG/AND BRIGAND

    ENTREES:

    1. PETER COLLINS => PRONE CELLIST

    2. PLUM & TOMATO => remove “M”s & OAT => PLUTO

    3. BABE RUTH & ARTHUR ASHE => BABAR

    4.
    5.
    6.

    7. FLESHY/LOCKET => FLEET; SHYLOCK

    8. BETTY WHITE & BARRY WHITE; BARRY GOLDWATER => WHITE GOLD; WHITEWATER; GOLDEN GIRLS; BABE the BLUE OX.

    9. SKIN; ANTHONY HOPKINS & ANTHONY PERKINS => HOPPER

    10. RICHARD BOONE; PAT BOONE; RICHARD NIXON/ PAT NIXON; CHECKERS THE DOG => BOONDOGGLE

    11. MARTHA STEWART & MAXINE WAT(T)ERS => MAMA; MARMAX; MAXI-MART

    DESSERT: FIRE/ARM => ARMOR; Or perhaps: CROSS/BOW => BOARD;

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    1. I like basic art/ acrobatics. and vote for an honorable mention.

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Hanging (from) arts and aircrafts
    Name some things that hang from walls, in ten letters.
    Add an “o” and rearrange the letters to name what some stunt pilots who hung from their planes did.
    What things hang from walls?
    What did stunt pilots do?
    Answer:
    Rembrandts; Barnstormed

    Appetizer Menu
    “Terifflelific” Appetizer:
    “Bird is the word, but what are the numbers?”
    Bird is the Word
    Take a word for a bird. Divide it into two parts, each a letter.
    Take this same word for a bird. Again divide it into two parts to get two other letters.
    What “bird word” is this?
    What are the four letters?
    Emu; em + u; e + mu

    Name the Numbers
    Start with a letter associated with a number. Change this letter to the one three places further down in the alphabet and get another letter associated with a number. The two numbers differ by 44.
    What are the letters, numbers, and their association?
    Hint: Henry Aaron, who broke the all-time major league home run record in 1974, wore uniform #44, a number that seems like it might be associated with the man whose record he broke, but is in fact not associated with it. The number on the uniform worn by the man whose record Aaron broke is 3, which is also the number of places down the alphabet the first “letter associated with a number” was moved (in this puzzle) to get the second “letter associated with a number.”
    Answer:
    F, I, 9, 44;
    F and I are three letters apart in the alphabet.
    F (Fluorine) is atomic number 9 on the Periodic Table of Elements and I (Iodine) is atomic number 53. 9 and 53 differ by 44.
    Hint, Atomic Number 44 on the Periodic Table stands for the element Ruthenium (which is named in honor of Russia, not Babe Ruth (who wore uniform #3), nor anyone else named "Ruth")

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    Our house, is a very, very, very “big house”
    ...with two guards in the yard,
    the rocks we break are hard,
    This prison life ain’t easy to get thru...
    And now I’m feelin’ queasy with the flu!
    Place a conjunction between a synonym of “prison” and a synonym of “bandit.”
    The letters in the first half of the resulting phrase are identical to, and in the same order as, the letters in the second half.
    What are these two synonyms?
    Answer:
    Brig and brigand

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
    Saget, Gates and Bilbo Baggins
    ENTREE #1
    Take a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the combined letters of his first and last names to spell a two-word caption for the image shown here.
    Who is this puzzle-maker?
    What is the caption?
    Answer:
    Peter Collins; "Prone Cellist"
    ENTREE #2
    Think of two fruits. Remove the last letter from one fruit. Remove that same letter from the second fruit along with letters that can be rearranged to spell a third edible – one that can be wild, rolled or, in the plural, felt.
    Take the remaining letters, in order, and put them together without rearranging, and you’ll get a famous fictional character that is known by a single name.
    What are these fruits, the edible, and the one-named fictional character?
    Hint: The name of the famous fictional character is also the name (not of the dog star, which is named “Sirius”) of an orbiter similar to Sirius. And, the term “dog star” does indeed also apply to the fictional character.
    Answer:
    Plum, Tomato; Oat; Pluto;
    Hint: The planet Pluto may not be the dog star Sirius but, like Sirius, it resides in outer space. And the Disney character Pluto is indeed a “dog star.”
    ENTREE #3
    Think of two famous hall-of-famers — one enshrined in Cooperstown, the other in Newport. The surname of the “Cooperstowner” is an anagram of the last four letters of the “Newporter’s” first name.
    Now take the first three letters of the Cooperstowner’s and first two letters of the Newporter’s first name, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get the name of a famous fictional character.
    Who are these hall-of-famers and fictional character?
    Hint: The last three letters of the Newporter’s last name spell a prepostion often used in referring to someone with the Cooperstowner’s first name, whether it is capitalized (as is the case with a female one particular member of the World Golf Hall of Fame) or in lowercase.
    Answer:
    Babe Ruth, Arthur Ashe; Babar (the elephant)
    Hint: The preosition "she" can refer to either Babe (as in another hall-of-famer, Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias) or just any woman who is considered to be a "babe."
    ENTREE #4
    Think of two somewhat famous actors, female and male, who have both been nominated for Oscars. Imagine the man’s name to the left of the woman’s on a theater marquee. On the far right, therefore, is the woman’s surname, which is the “plural form” of the man’s first name. Turn off the electrical current to these names on the extremities, leaving the marquee somewhat darker.
    Ten letters remain. Cut the current to three consecutive ones that can be rearranged to form a synonym of “glee.”
    The marquee now displays the name of a very famous fictional character.
    Who are these actors and fictional character?
    Answer:
    William Macy, JoBeth Williams; MacBeth

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  20. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices,continued:

    ENTREE #5
    The first name of a famous athete and surname of a famous entertainer are the same.
    The first three letters of the athlete’s surname sound the same first four letters of the entertainer’s first name
    The remaining three letters of the athlete’s surname spell a common first name. That first name can be formed by rearranging the first three letters in the first name of one who partnered with the entertainer in a 1980’s-singing duo.
    Who are this athlete and entertainer?
    Who was the entertainer’s singing partner?
    Answer:
    Michael Jordan, George Michael; Andrew Ridgeley ("Wham!" was the name of the duo.)
    ENTREE #6
    Think of two reasonably famous people whose surnames are anagrams of each other. One is a baseball Hall-of-Famer. The other is an actor who has been in the cast of a 62-year-old soap opera for the past two decades.
    Now take their first names, drop the last letter of each of them, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get the full first name of a somewhat memorable villainous fictional character created by Ian Fleming.
    Who are these two people and one fictional character?
    Answer:
    Ron Santo, Sam Aston; Rosa Klebb
    ENTREE #7
    Place a six-letter synonym of “corpulent” to the left of a six-letter word for a small metallic case that has space you might place a memento.
    The first three and last two letters of this 12-letter string, in order, spell a synonym of “swift.” Remove them to reveal the name of a fictional character.
    Who is this fictional character?
    What are the synonyms of “corpulent” and “swift”?
    What is the word for a small metallic case that has space you might place a memento?
    Answer:
    Shylock; Fleshy, Fleet, Locket
    (Fleshy+locket=>Shylock+Fleet)
    ENTREE #8
    Think of three famous people: a comedic actress, a Grammy-winning soul singer and a politician who fell prey to one of the first “negative” TV political ads, one that apparently proved to be effective.
    The actress and singer have the same surname. Place it before the first part of the politician’s compound surname to name a two-word term for an alloy originally developed to imitate platinum. Place it before the second part of the politician’s surname to name a compound word describing a frothy, turbulent form of rafting or canoeing.
    The first part of the politician’s surname appears in the title of a sitcom in which the actress was featured.
    The first two letters of the actress’s first name placed after the first two letters of either the singer’s or politician’s first name spell the name of a fictional bovine creature.
    Who are these three famous people?
    What are the alloy and the compound word describing a frothy, turbulent form of rafting?
    What is the name of the fictional bovine creature?
    In what sitcom was the actress featured?
    Answer:
    Betty White; Barry White; Barry Goldwater; Babe (the Blue Ox); "The Golden Girls"

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  21. This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices, continued:

    Note: Mark Scott (also known as “skydiveboy”) suggested to me that the names that are solutions to Entrees #9 and #10 might be good fodder for raising riff-offs of this week’s NPR puzzle. We thank Mark, whose “Skydiversions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!
    ENTREE #9
    Name two Oscar-winning actors with the same first name. Their surnames both end with the same four letters, which can be rearranged to spell a synonym of “the human body’s largest organ.” Remove those eight “ending letters” and place the remaining parts of their surnames side-by-side in alphabetical order.
    The result spells a new surname, one shared by two actors named William and Dennis, and by one artist named Edward.
    Who are these Oscar-winning actors?
    Who are the other two actors and the artist?
    What is the human body’s largest organ?
    Answer:
    Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins; William Hopper, Dennis Hopper, Edward Hopper; Skin
    ENTREE #10
    An actor and pop singer who were popular during the 1950s and 1960s have the same surname. The actor’s first name was the same as that of a politican during that era. The name of the politician’s first lady was the same as that of the singer.
    The politician was involved in two notable scandals, the first involving a family pet. The surname shared by the singer and actor followed by the kind of creature the pet was sound like the first two syllables in a synonym of “scandal.”
    Who are the singer and actor?
    Who are the first lady and politician?
    What is the synonym of “scandal?”
    Hint: The name of the pet is the plural form of the surname of one of the singer’s pop record chart rivals.
    Answer:
    Pat Boone, Richard Boone; Pat and Richard Nixon; Boondoggle;
    Hint: Chubby Checker was a rival of Pat Boone on the pop charts; Nixon's dog was named "Checkers."

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  22. This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices, continued:

    Note: The following NPR riff-off was composed and contributed by Greg VanMechelen (screen name, Ecoarchitet), whose Econfusions puzzle feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!
    ENTREE #11
    Think of two famous people — one from business and entertainment, one from politics. If you remove the last letter of the first person’s surname, the surnames are anagrams of each other.
    Now take the first two letters of each of their first names, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get what they might have been called at home.
    Take the first three letters of each of their first names, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get a British brand of recycled plastic outdoor furniture and play products.
    Take the first four letters of each of their first names, and put the result together, without rearranging, and you’ll get the name of a convenience store best known on an animated TV show.
    Note: You may have to swap the order of the first names.
    Who are these people?
    Answer:
    Martha Stewart, Maxine Waters; Mama, Marmax, Maxi Mart (apparently from Beavis and Butthead, I never saw it).

    Dessert Menu

    “Naming Of Parts” Dessert:
    Fighting fires with fire... hoses?

    Divide a compound word for a weapon into its two parts.
    Replace the last letter with three new letters to form protection from the weapon, in two words.
    What is this protection?
    Answer:
    Bomb shelter; (bombshell)
    Sorry for not providing a hint for this puzzle (and others). I coul have written that the weapon is sometimes "blond."

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  23. I see where I went wrong with Entree #4. I assumed that both actors were nominated for Best Actor/Actress or Best Supporting Actor/Actress. JoBeth Williams was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film.

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    1. My apologies, Tortitude. That was an error on my part.

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