Schpuzzle of the Week:
Boozers Dr. Boo and Mr. Lew
“Dr. Boo ordered rum from the bar.
Mr. Lew though sipped ale from a jar.”
How do the nouns in the second line of the couplet pertain to U.S. geography?
Appetizer Menu
Perfectly Cryptic Appetizer:
Plenty-great Number-28
The number 28 is the sum of its positive divisors, excluding the number itself: 1+2+4+7+14=28.
A number such as that is called a “perfect number...”
And, a Cryptic Crossword such as this #28 by Patrick J. Berry is what we call a “perfect puzzle.”
And so, enjoy Cryptic perfection... compliments of Patrick! If you missed any of Patrick’s previous exercises in “Cryptomystification,” here are links to his previous 27 perfectly puzzling Cryptic Crosswords on Puzzleria!:
Regarding the Across and Down clues and
their format...
The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer.
Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers. For example, (6) simply indicates a six-letter answer like “jalopy,” (5,3) indicates a five-and-three-letter answer like “cargo van,” and (5-5) indicates a five-and-five-letter hyphenated answer like “Rolls-Royce.”
(For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword.
The Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!)
“Perfect may be the enemy of the good,” according to Voltaire, but according to Berry, “Perfect just may be the friend of the Cryptic!”
Enjoy the perfection.
ACROSS
5. Happy to see SNL segment(6)
9. Enthusiasm rare in Birmingham, for example?(8)
12. Cops heard visitors(7)
13. Strange way to describe a cop who’s not
working, perhaps?(7)
22. My bad back—clutching both sides, start to reach back(7)
23. Where to find a lot of losers for miles around? Turn back, meathead!(3,4)
take off and land?(6)
25. Serious problem for band with new sound?(8)
26. Kill crows(6)
27. Man on board taken in by similar con(4,4)
1. A little story to get free with a painting(8)
2. Begins describing extremely likable actresses(8)
4. Fine suit worn by performer(12)
7. Surprised doctors to be supported by British character(6)
8. Property in Northwest—a tenement?(6)
15. Ugly American, personally(2,6)
16. Novel place to sleep used by a noblewoman(4,4)
20. Where one may find monks like hot stuff?(6)
21. One having some dork put on drag(6)
MENU
Unpacking Punches Slice:
Blessed are the peacemakers, not haymakers
The result is a kind of punch often thrown during such violence.
These four consonants appear, along with two vowels, in a surname associated with nonviolence.
What are these words?
What is the surname?
Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices:
Scarf-faces hold up Capital One!
Take the name of a large financial corporation in 10 letters. Drop the fourth and fifth letters. Move the sixth and seventh letters to the front. You’ll name a person associated with financial misdeeds. What is the company, and who is
the person?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the first name of the “The Father of Economics” followed by the surname of a living person who carried out financial misdeeds at the behest of his boss.
The result is the name of a puzzle-maker.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Who are “The Father of Economics” and the living person who carried out financial misdeeds at the behest of his boss?
ENTREE #2
Name a person associated with serious criminal misdeeds. Rearrange the letters of the surname to spell a two-word description of “L’Arlesienne,” “Jeux d’enfants” or “Carmen.”
Who is this criminally associated person?
What is the two-word description?
Who is the Book of Judges judge, and the person’s nickname?
ENTREE #3
Take the name of a large financial corporation in 10 letters. Move the seventh letter to the first position and the original sixth letter to the second-last position. Delete the original fourth and fifth letters.
The first five letters of this result spell the first name of an actor who starred in a TV series about a three-letter organization that gathers intelligence within the U.S.
that gathers intelligence outside the U.S.
What is the financial corporation?
Who is the actor, and what was his TV series?
What is the three-letter organization that gathers intelligence outside the U.S.?
Take the name of a large financial holding company in 12 letters.
Anagram these letters to spell a liquid asset, a fixed asset and a negative consequence of accumulating and operating assets such as heavy industrial equipment and smoke-stacky factories.
What is this holding company?
What are the two assets and negative consequence?
Hint: the two assets are the surname of a country singing legend and a word that appears twice in the title of a song penned by a folk-singing legend.
ENTREE #5
letter surname associated with silents.
What is this company
What are the two names?
ENTREE #6
Take the name of a large financial corporation in nine letters. Rearrange these letters to form two words that belong in the blank spaces in the following fictional sentence:
“The ‘plugged-in’ Beatles ___ blew one Blue _______ right out of Pepperland!”
What is the financial corporation?
What words belong in the two blanks?
ENTREE #7
Henrietta, in order to purchase a KFC franchise, successfully secured a loan from a retail mortgage lending company in 2001.
During this daily dumping ritual, Henrietta flashes back to the day she secured the loan. Why? Because a two-word term for her dumpster debris rhymes with the mortgage lending company.
What is her dumpster debris?
What was the company’s name?
ENTREE #8
Name two female coungry singers: one born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1919, and the other born in “Mayberry,” North Carolina in 1945. Both scored big hits with recordings of different songs with “U.S.A.” in the title.
Place their surnames next to each other to form the name of a bank with offices in all but 13 U.S. states.
Who are these singers?
What is the bank?
ENTREE #9
Name an investment banking company. Use its 13 letters to spell:
★ a 3-letter fuel for the vehicle, and
★ a 4-letter amenity in the vehicle that most smaller vehicles do not offer.
What is the company?
What are the vehicle, fuel and amenity?
Dessert Menu
“Marie Calendar” Dessert:
Desktops filled with date delights!
Anagram the combined letters of these two words to spell the four-word title of a novel.
What are these two words?
What is the four-word novel title?
Hint: The adjective and noun each contain three vowels – the same three vowels.
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Off go I to bed, having solved all the Entrees except #5, and for a change, the DESSERT. But the Schpuzzle and (once again) Slice elude me. [No idea how to approach the former.] I am glad to have a week off from appetizers!
ReplyDeleteVT,
DeleteFor App #5, the illustration is likely helpfully hinty. That's a young poet and a young comedian.
In the Schpuzzle, treat the first of the three nouns in the first line of the couplet (Dr. Boo) as one five-letter word. Then, to determine how "the nouns in the first line of this couplet pertain to a Cape Canaveral countdown," try counting the letters of each of the three nouns in the first line.
LegoAtGroundControl
Thank you, I have your E5 now...actually, I'd written down the correct swan name already! Had never heard of the comedian.
DeleteRe the Schpuzzle, I think I SORT OF have an answer for the first half,although there exists a rather nasty lack of logic in order to call it an answer. But for the second half I'm still clueless.
Happy October Eve, everybody!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. She was trying to fix some vegetable soup for supper, or at least for her supper anyway. She told me she'd get me anything I wanted for supper from anywhere(I suggested Zaxby's because it's the closest), and considering how badly the soup was doing, she got a salad too(they call it a Zalad), and I don't know if she's even going to have the soup now. I had the Signature Sandwich with bacon and cheese, fries and a Coke Zero. In the "chicken sandwich war", which basically involved all the major fast food places putting out their own versions of what is basically Chik-Fil-A's regular sandwich, this was Zaxby's major "salvo", for lack of a better "warlike" word. It was delicious as usual. Then I did the Prize Crossword, this time by Maskarade(the one who usually makes up the jumbo jigsaw-puzzle-type cryptics with the clues listed in alphabetical order, usually on holidays). Luckily it was a normal, "doable" puzzle, which featured the odd names of old counties in the UK, such as ROSSANDCROMARTY(4,3,8), GLOUCESTERSHIRE, PARTSOFKESTEVEN(5,2,8), and CAERNARFONSHIRE(both "shires" are 15 letters long, all appeared in the puzzle not necessarily in the order I've listed them, and for the most part, cluing them required anagrams more than any other wordplay). Tricky, but not unsolvable. The Private Eye Crossword will be brand new next week.
Now for this week's offerings:
First, I hope no one thinks my cryptic crossword is tougher than the one I just solved. I think I would've had much more trouble cluing such geographical names than Maskarade did. I hereby promise never to use such obscure answers in any of my puzzles. Trust me. But do enjoy my latest creation, just the same.
Now as far as my own progress this week, outside of my own puzzle, I've basically solved everything except the Schpuzzle, and with any luck Lego shall provide some hints later on to help figure out whatever that one is about. And I don't understand what he just said a few posts above either, because what, you make BOO a five-letter word, and then the other two are still three letters?! I'm going to need a little more than that hint, or some clarification of it, whatever. Oh well. The week is still young.
Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and I certainly hope the rest of my family make it back safely from their cruise(ill-timed, if you ask me)! Cranberry out!
pjbAlsoHopesSNLHasAGreatShowTomorrowNight,EvenThoughAtLastCountThereAreNowEightCastMembersWhoHaveJumpedShipSinceTheSeasonFinaleEarlierThisYear(ChrisReddNowDatingKenanThompson'sEx?Awkward!)
That was my thought on the Schpuzzle -5 and two threes.? I am still waiting on my Lee's chicken Uber Eats from Alabama.
ReplyDeleteBaseball joy in SEattle. First playoff for Mariners since 2001.This is not a clue. That i know of.
ReplyDeleteYes, Good for the Mariners, Plantsmith. It is always great to see a team that has experienced a playoff drought to make a playoff run. The people of Seattle deserve this. Their first major league franchise, the Seattle Pilots, moved eastward to Milwaukee after just one year in Seatlle, and became the Milwaukee Brewers.
DeleteLegoWhoObservesThatJustAsPilateBetrayedJesusThePilotsBetrayedThePeopleOfSeattle
As did the Sonics BBall team, who became the Oklahoma Something of something.
DeleteOKC Thunder. There is a group in Seattle that keeps the "hope alive" for their return.
DeleteThunder is even noiser than thunder booms , and than the symphony percussion section!
DeleteLegoSuggestsWeRevisitThisSchpuzzle
Hi, everyone! Well, I really haven't made much progress on the puzzles this week! I haven't even tried pjb's cryptic crossword yet. Hopefully, my brain will come back to life soon.
ReplyDeletePl'th (and others), the other day Google on my phone notified me of a funny squirrel story. Look up "Red squirrel shuts down Scottish bakery for two days" on UPI.com. It is also a new month, and therefore a new picture on my squirrel calendar. This one is a squirrel stirring some sort of potion in a cauldron for Halloween.
Pl'th is kind of a abbreviation for Plethora- an old English family name of some distant aunt i believe. There was also a heart warming story on Yahoo of a young woman in Fort Meyers who saved a baby squirrel that was stuck in a passion fruit vine. She could hear it screaming. So she said. What would that sound like?They even have some picts of it. And they named him-Bob.If only we treated our immigrants as well as baby squirrels.
DeleteI imagine GB is feeling good today as somehow the Deacons knocked off #22 Seminoles in what has to be a huge upset. My DIL went to USF also a rival i believe?
DeleteI will look for that squirrel story. I'm glad he was rescued.
DeleteIt seems like Gangnam style should work for the slice.?
DeleteIs that Sinister Squirrel??
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Tortie, on solving the first half of the Schpuzzle. The second half is based on the same idea... but it does involve abbreviations.
DeleteLeg.Lam.
Thanks, Lego. I will try it again. Somehow I was able to solve most of my remaining stumpers last night, so right now I only have to solve the second half of the Schpuzzle, and pjb's cryptic crossword. I am unlikely to make much progress on the latter without hints, though.
DeleteI would defer to cranberry's superior "cryptic crossword expertise" regarding hints to his puzzle. Each clue/answer, of course, is like an individual "mini-puzzle." For me, providing hints to his puzzles would be a real challenge. But, I believe cranberry has provided such hints in the past. So, if he has time, perhaps he may do so also this week.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatInTheSecondCoupletOfTheSchpuzzleThereAreFourNouns(IfYouCount"Mr."And"Lew"AsTwoNouns)AndSixAnswers(TwoWhichAreStatePostalAbbreviationsAndOneWhichIsAnAbbreviationOfACity)
Sunday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
This is admittedly a ROTten puzzle!
Perfectly Cryptic Appetizer:
I shall defer to Patrick regarding any hints to his clues that he may want to impart.
Unpacking Punches Slice:
Martin Luther King's surname is not the "surname associated with nonviolence" in this puzzle, but Dr. King was inspired by the person with that surname. Both peace proponents were assassinated.
Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices:
ENTREE #1
The first name of the “The Father of Economics” is the same name as the name of the supposed “Father of Humanity!”
ENTREE #2
Thomas or Robert Donaldson might be called by this nickname.
ENTREE #3
Add a "pipped cube" to the to the end of the first name of the actor in the accompanying image in this Appetizer, then subtract from the actor's surname the first name of Mary Richards' closest coworker and close friend... Voila! You'll get the name of the large financial corporation in 10 letters!
ENTREE #4
"A precious metal, Dude, Bags (of it)!"
ENTREE #5
Replace the last 4 letters of the large financial holding company with a "ce" to get a gal the Beatles sang about.
ENTREE #6
Homophone of a synonym of "bum" + homophone of one of the months = the large financial corporation.
ENTREE #7
The "dumpster fodder" = "fowl osseous matter"
ENTREE #8
"Mayberry" = Mount Airy, the home of Donna, whose surname is in North Dakota.
Kitty had a hit about a "national heartbreak" in 1961.
ENTREE #9
"John Pierpont, pursue that Almighty Dollar!"
“Marie Calendar” Dessert:
The middle name of the novelist is "Cuthbert." It's a kind of "deathbed novel."
LegoCuthbertLambda
Rot ten can go forward or backward in the alphabet stream right?
Delete"ROT 10" (or "ROT any number from 1 to 25") always goes forward, never backward.
DeleteFor example, "cubed ROT 10" can only be "melon"...
and
"melon ROT 16" is "cubed" .
Note that 10 plus 16 equals 26, the number of letters in the alphabet.
So, "ROT" means to "rotate only ahead," downstream in the alphabet, never upstream.
BuweBqcrtq ROT 10
CLUE HINTS(courtesy of the Department for Redundancy Dept.):
ReplyDeleteACROSS
1. For the wordplay in this answer, you need a little knowledge of Espanol(very little).
5. Chevy, Jane, Dan, Bill, Dennis, Kevin, Norm, Jimmy, Tina, Amy, Seth, Cecily, Michael, and TWO Colins!
9. If you know where I'm coming from with this one, it's about an hour's drive, technically.
10. If you pluralize this one, it can follow the adjective "dire" to make a name for a well-known rock group. If not, it's the surname of a well-known country singer.
12. For such "visitors", one usually needs a telephone.
13. Sgt. O'Leary, when he's the bartender at Mr. Cacciatore's down on Sullivan Street?
14. Thanks to this singer, many listeners probably picked up a rather suggestive French query in the mid-70s(or was it Creole?).
17. This term most likely describes a majority of the population shortly before entering kindergarten. We can only hope this would describe most people by now anyway!
22. We'll be right back after this word.
23. Weight, Weight, Don't Tell Me!
24. It's also where the Victoria's Secret Angels walk back and forth(Not that I would know firsthand, of course.)
25. It'll cost you an arm and/or a leg.
26. Hercule Poirot or Jessica Fletcher would surely know this one.
27. As of now, the "man on board" would most likely be called Charles.
DOWN
1. A Monet shot?
2. The actresses mentioned in the clue may not necessarily be as famous as those pictured(not just yet).
3. The surname of the ex-PM in question appears in the title of a Cream album.
4. An anagram of the words "A FACT IS" can be found inside a word meaning something that is(usually)NOT a fact.
6. An adjective used in the title of a song by Ronstadt(by way of Zevon).
7. Sir Paul used this adjective in a song that he released twice: Once live, and once in the studio.
8. May follow "fourth" or "real", or precede "car".
11. The initial occurrence in which the setter noticed the solver?
15. Take a picture, it'll last longer.
16. "A country story full of the breath of cows and scent of hay".
18. Subtract a number to be left without a date.
19. Although it has to do with allergies, subtracting the only letter that appears twice will leave an "eating disorder".
20. Tree+Aries?
21. Radner is to Litella as Dratch is to...?
pjbWouldNeverBeInDisneylandAndChooseRightThenToPointOutHe'sUnableToHaveChildren!
Thank you, pjb.
DeleteVery fine hints. Giving hints is not as easy as it looks. So, our gratitude.
LegoWhoNotesThatLindaInHerVersionOfWarren'sLyricsHadToChange"Girls"To"Boys"(ButNotInATranssexualSense)
I was amazed to see my name among pjb's hints.
ReplyDeleteThe Hebrew judge slew a lot of Philistines (over 1,000 I think, but who's counting), but it wasn't really a criminal act because it was war, right?
Yes, and it was just a little collateral damage too.
DeleteSchpuzzle: 1) Countdown sequence when ROT is applied: ROT-16 DR BOO to get THREE, ROT-2 RUM to get TWO, ROT-13 BAR to get ONE; 2) all are place names (city/state) when ROT is applied: ROT-9 MR to get VA, ROT-15 LEW to get ATL, ROT-19 ALE to get TEX, ROT-4 JAR to get NEV
ReplyDeleteApp (see separately)
Slice: ROUGHHOUSE; ROUNDHOUSE; GANDHI
Entree:
1. ADAM COHEN; ADAM SMITH; MICHAEL COHEN
2. DAVID BERKOWITZ; BIZET WORK; SAMSON; SON OF SAM
3. FREDDIE MAC; EFREM (Zimbalist Jr), THE FBI; CIA (Had difficulties with this one at first since my initial lists didn’t have FREDDIE MAC listed. Thought that EFREM was most likely answer, but still couldn’t get anywhere)
4. GOLDMAN SACHS; CASH, LAND, SMOG
5. PRUDENTIAL; LEDA; TURPIN (have no idea who this is - thank you, Google Lens!)
6. FANNIE MAE; FAN; MEANIE (Got Blue Meanie right away. Had trouble with first word - thought it might be AMP. Same list as #3 helped)
7. CHICKEN BONES; QUICKEN LOANS
8. KITTY WELLS; DONNA FARGO; WELLS FARGO (RIP Loretta Lynn. She was influenced by Kitty Wells.)
9. JPMORGAN CHASE; CAMPER, GAS, JOHN
Dessert:
DAILY SAYING; AS I LAY DYING
App:
DeleteI only got 26 Across before hints. Pjb, thanks for the great hints! After that, I used a mixture of hints, cryptic clues, and intersecting letters to get the answers. Still not sure how some of these fit the original cryptic clues.
Across:
1. SASSIEST
5. UPDATE
9. ALACRITY
10. STRAIT
12. CALLERS
13. OFFBEAT
14. PATTILABELLE
17. POTTYTRAINED
22. SPONSOR
23. FATFARM
24. RUNWAY
25. GANGRENE
26. MURDER
27. SKINGAME
Down
1. SEASCAPE
2. STARLETS
3. ISRAELI
4. SATISFACTORY
6. PITIFUL
7. AMAZED
8. ESTATE
11. ROBERTAFLACK;
15. INCAMERA
16. ADAM BEDE
18. ONSTAGE
19. ANTIGEN (was hoping for MANX tailless cat, but then remembered this was cryptic...)
20. ASHRAM
21. DOWNER
Bravo, Tortitude!!
DeleteLegoImpressedWithTortie'sCrypticCracking!
Wow Tortie. Toriffic.
DeleteBraves make the playoffs!
Sorry, did not have much time to devote to puzzles this week.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: 1st sentence: ROT16(DRBOO) = THREE; ROT2(RUM) = TWO; ROT13(BAR) = ONE
2nd sentence: ROT9(MR) = VA; ROT15(LEW) = ATL; ROT(19) ALE = TEX; ROT(4)JAR = NEV
Appetizers
13A: OFFBEAT
26A: MURDER
3D: ISRAELI
20D: ASHRAM [post-hint]
Slice: ROUGHHOUSE → ROUNDHOUSE; GHND → GANDHI
Entrées
#1: ADAM Smith, (Jared or William) COHEN
#2: BIZET SUITE, IBZAN
#3:
#4:
#5:
#6:
#7:
#8: (Kitty) WELLS, (Donna) FARGO, WELLS FARGO
#9: JP MORGAN CHASE → CAMPER, GAS, JOHN
Dessert: DAILY SAYING → AS I LAY DYING [post-hint]
10/3//22” Canton, Ga. 78.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
In-Flight Slice:
Roughhouse, Roundhouse ,Gandhi /Gangnam stle.Alt
Riffing Off Shortz And Regan Slices:
ENTREE #1
Adam Smith, Michael Cohen. Adam Smith father of modern science of economics
ENTREE #2
ENTREE#3 Freddie Mac, FBI,
Efrem-Cia , Efrem Zimbalist –”The FBI”
ENTREE #4
Goldman sachs- Gold, Gas, smog
Sage Dessert:
Daily advice? . “A day lived-Ic!”
Critics.
1a.Pendejo
5.A. Elated
A, 14.Brand Labele ( Patty laBelle-) Vous le vouz…..still not sure what it means?
7D.Amazed l. Sir Paul
It is what it is.
DeleteSCHPUZZLE: DR.BOO adds up to 54, RUM has 3 letters, BAR adds up to 21 => 54 3 21;
ReplyDeleteROT-ing 10 (in either direction) for the second set of nouns got me nowhere, however.
SLICE: ROUGHNECK ? => ROUND NECK ?; GHANDI [Had his name already, prior to hints]
ENTREES:
1. ADAM {SMITH}, [MICHAEL] COHEN => ADAM COHEN
2. BERKOWITZ => BIZET WORK; SAMSON; SON OF SAM
3. FREDDIEMAC => EFREM ZIMBALIST [THE FBI]; CIA
4. GOLDMAN SACHS => CASH, LAND, SMOG
5. PRUDENTIAL => LEDA & TURPIN
6. FANNIE MAE => FAN, MEANIE
7. QUICKEN LOANS => CHICKEN BONES
8. KITTY WELLS, DONNA FARGO => Wells Fargo
9. JP MORGAN CHASE => CAMPER, GAS, JOHN
DESSERT: DAILY SAYING => AS I LAY DYING [FAULKNER]
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteDRBOO ROT16=THREE
RUM ROT2=TWO
BAR ROT13=ONE
(Blast off!)
MR ROT9=VA(Virginia)
LEW ROT15=ATL(Atlantic Ocean)
ALE ROT19=TEX(Texas)
JAR ROT4=NEV(Nevada)
For all official cryptic answers, check with Lego later.(Tortie, I'm so happy you solved the whole puzzle! At last, there's someone else here who gets what I'm doing! Hope you'll be ready for my next one!)
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Unpacking Punches Slice
ROUGHHOUSE, ROUNDHOUSE
Entrees
1. ADAM COHEN, ADAM SMITH, MICHAEL COHEN(Trump's "fixer")
2. DAVID BERKOWITZ(SON OF SAM), BIZET WORK, SAMSON
3. FREDDIE MAC, EFREM(Zimbalist, Jr., on "The FBI"), (the)CIA(Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency)
4. GOLDMAN SACHS, (Johnny)CASH, LAND("This Land Is My Land", by Woody Guthrie), SMOG
5. PRUDENTIAL, LEDA("Leda and the Swan", by William Butler Yeats), (Ben)TURPIN
6. FANNIE MAE, FAN, MEANIE
7. QUICKEN LOANS, CHICKEN BONES
8. WELLS FARGO, KITTY WELLS("Heartbreak U.S.A.", 1961), DONNA FARGO("The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.", 1972)
I think we've done this one before.
9. JP MORGAN CHASE, CAMPER, GAS, JOHN
Dessert
DAILY SAYING, "AS I LAY DYING"(by William Faulkner)
Masked Singer Results:
MUMMIES=THE BRADY BUNCH BOYS(BARRY WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT, MIKE LOOKINLAND)
FORTUNE TELLER=DAYMOND JOHN(creator of the FUBU brand)
I've heard of the former, not the latter.-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Boozers Dr. Boo & Mr. Lew
“Dr. Boo ordered rum from the bar.
Mr. Lew though sipped ale from a jar.”
How do the nouns in the first line of this couplet pertain to a Cape Canaveral countdown?
How do the nouns in the nouns in the second line pertain to U.S. geography?
Answer:
Line 1:
Dr. Boo ROT 16 = three
rum ROT 2 = two
bar ROT 13 = one;
Line 2:
Mr. ROT 9 = VA (Virginia)
Mr. ROT 22 = IN (Indiana)
Lew ROT 15 = Atl. (Atlanta)
ale ROT 19 = Tex. (Texas)
jar ROT 4 = Nev. (Nevada)
jar ROT 17 = Ari. (Arizona)
or, in plainer English:
Line 1:
Rotating the letters of "Dr. Boo" 16 places later in the alphabet, the letters of "rum" 2 places later in the alphabet, and the letters of "bar" 13 places later in the alphabet, results in the words "Three, two, one."
Line 2:
Rotating the letters of "Mr." 9 places later and 22 places later in the alphabet, the letters of "Lew" 15 places later in the alphabet, the letters of "ale" 19 places later in the alphabet, the letters in "jar" 4 places later and 17 places later in the alphabet results in the abbreviations "VA" (Virginia) and "IN" (Indiana), "Atl." (Atlanta), "Tex." (Texas), "Nev." (Nevada) and "Ari." (Arizona).
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Perfectly Cryptic Appetizer:
Plenty-great Number-28
Note: Look just above this week's Comments Section to see the filled-in grid of Patrick's puzzle.
ANSWERS
ACROSS
1. Most insolent fool interrupting short nap(8)
SASSIEST
ASS inside SIESTA-A
5. Happy to see SNL segment(6)
UPDATE
UP+DATE
9. Enthusiasm rare in Birmingham, for example?(8)
ALACRITY
R inside ALA.(Alabama)CITY
10. Predicament for main sitcom character(6)
STRAIT
S+TRAIT
12. Cops heard visitors(7)
CALLERS
sounds like COLLARS
13. Strange way to describe a cop who’s not working, perhaps?(7)
OFFBEAT
"OFF BEAT"
14. Singer’s simple hat, tag inside(5,7)
PATTI LABELLE
PAT+TILE containing LABEL
17. Heading off? Step on it, tardy jerk! Should be ready to go!(5-7)
POTTY TRAINED
STEPONITTARDY anagram minus S
22. My bad back—clutching both sides, start to reach back(7)
SPONSOR
OOPS reversed containing N(orth)and S(outh)plus R
23. Where to find a lot of losers for miles around? Turn back, meathead!(3,4)
FAT FARM
FAR containing AFT reversed plus M
24. Spooner’s special light where the planes take off and land?(6)
RUNWAY
spoonerism of ONE RAY
25. Serious problem for band with new sound?(8)
GANGRENE
GANG plus sounds like GREEN
26. Kill crows(6)
MURDER
double definition
27. Man on board taken in by similar con(4,4)
SKIN GAME
SAME containing KING(a "man" on a chess or checkerboard)
DOWN
1. A little story to get free with a painting(8)
SEASCAPE
S+ESCAPE containing A
2. Begins describing extremely likable actresses(8)
STARLETS
STARTS containing LE
3. Middle Easterner has ex-Prime Minister scratching head(7)
ISRAELI
(Benjamin)DISRAELI-D
4. Fine suit worn by performer(12)
SATISFACTORY
ACTOR inside SATISFY
6. Sad, upset over one with terrible flu(7)
PITIFUL
TIP reversed plus I plus FLU anagram
7. Surprised doctors to be supported by British character(6)
AMAZED
AMA(American Medical Association)+ZED(British word for the letter Z)
8. Property in Northwest—a tenement?(6)
ESTATE
hidden inside northwESTATEnement
11. Singer’s torture involving B or E flat, somehow?(7,5)
ROBERTA FLACK
RACK containing BOREFLAT anagram
15. Ugly American, personally(2,6)
IN CAMERA
AMERICAN anagram
16. Novel place to sleep used by a noblewoman(4,4)
ADAM BEDE
A DAME containing BED
18. Performing makes a gent so nervous(2,5)
ON STAGE
AGENTSO anagram
19. Girl bringing tailless cat in—it could trigger one’s allergies(7)
ANTIGEN
ANN(girl's name)containing TIGER-R
20. Where one may find monks like hot stuff?(6)
ASHRAM
AS+H+RAM
21. One having some dork put on drag(6)
DOWNER
D+OWNER
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
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Unpacking Punches Slice:
Blessed are the peace (not hay) makers https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/haymaker
Replace two adjacent consonants in a word for violence with two other consonants. The result is a kind of punch often thrown during such violence.
These four letters appear, along with two vowels, in a surname associated with nonviolence. What are these words? What is the name?
Answer:
Roughhouse, Roundhouse; (Mahatma) Gandhi
Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices:
Will Shortz’s September 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Adam Cohen of Brooklyn, New York, reads:
Take the name of a large financial corporation in 10 letters. Drop the fourth and fifth letters. Move the sixth and seventh letters to the front. You’ll name a person associated with financial misdeeds. What is the company, and who is the person?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take the first name of the “The Father of Economics” followed by the surname of a living person who carried out financial misdeeds at the behest of his boss.
The result is the name of a puzzle-maker.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Who are “The Father of Economics” and the living person who carried out financial misdeeds at the behest of his boss?
Answer:
Adam Cohen; Adam Smith, Michael Cohen
ENTREE #2
Name a person associated with serious criminal misdeeds. Rearrange the letters of the surname to spell a two-word description of “L’Arlesienne,” “Jeux d’enfants” or “Carmen.”
Place the third word in this person’s nickname in front of the first word in the nickname – eliminating the second word – to spell a judge from the Book of Judges.
Who is this criminally associated person?
What is the two-word description?
Who is the Book of Judges judge, and the person’s nickname?
Answer:
David Berkowitz; (French music composer George) Bizet work; Samson, "Son of Sam")
ENTREE #3
Take the name of a large financial corporation in 10 letters. Move the seventh letter to the first position and the sixth letter to the second-last position. Delete the fourth and fifth letters.
The first five letters of this result spell the first name of an actor who starred in a TV series about a three-letter organization that gathers intelligence within the U.S.
The last three letters of this result, spelled backwards, name a three-letter organization that gathers intelligence outside the U.S.
What is the financial corporation?
Who is the actor, and was was his TV series?
What is the three-letter organization that gathers intelligence outside the U.S.?
Answer:
Freddie Mac; Efrem (Zimbalist Jr.), "The F.B.I."; The C.I.A.
Freddie Mac=>eFreddMaic=>eFreMaic=>Efrem+CIA
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This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
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ENTREE #4
Take the name of a large financial holding company in 12 letters. Anagram these letters to spell a liquid asset, a fixed asset and a negative consequence of operating assets such as heavy industrial equipment and smoke-stacky factories.
What is this holding company?
What are the two assets and negative consequence?
Hint: the two assets are the surname of a country singing legend and a word that appears twice in the title of a song penned by a folk-singing legend.
Answer:
Goldman Sachs; Cash, Land, Smog
Hint: (Johnny) Cash; "This Land is Your Land," (by Woody Guthrie)
ENTREE #5
Anagram the combined letters in the name of a large financial holding company to form a four-letter name associated with a swan and a six-letter surname associated with silents.
What is this company
What are the two names?
Answer:
Prudential; Leda (and the Swan, a poem by W.B. Yeats); (Ben) Turpin, silent film star
ENTREE #6
Take the name of a large financial corporation in nine letters. Rearrange these letters to form two words that belong in the blank spaces in the following fictional sentence:
“The ‘plugged-in’ Beatles ___ blew the Blue _______ right out of Pepperland!”
What is the financial corporation?
What words belong in the two blanks?
Answer:
Fannie Mae; ("plugged-in" Beatles) fan; (Blue) Meanie:
"The plugged-in Beatles FAN blew the Blue MEANIES right out of Pepperland!"
ENTREE #7
Henrietta, in order to purchase a KFC franchise, successfully secured a loan from a retail mortgage lending company in 2001. Two decades later, every evening at closing time, the hands-on Henrietta hoists bags plump-full of picked-over-finger-lickin’ wings, thighs, legs and breasts into her dumpster out back near the parking lot.
Every time she does so, Henrietta flashes back to the day she secured the loan. Why? Because the two-word term for her dumpster fodder rhymes with that mortgage lending company.
What is her dumpster fodder?
What was the company’s name?
Answer:
Chicken bones; QuickenLoans
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This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices, continued:
ENTREE #8
Name two female coungry singers: one born in in 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee, and the other born in “Mayberry,” North Carolina in 1945. Both scored big hits with recordings of different songs with “U.S.A.” in the title.
Place their surnames next to each other to form the name of a bank with offices in all but 13 U.S. states.
Who are these singers?
What is the bank?
Answer:
Kitty Wells ("Heartbreak U.S.A," 1961)
Donna Fargo ("The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.," 1972. Fargo was born in Mount Airy, N.C., the town that Mayberry, the town on which "Mayberry" in "The Andy Griffith Show" was based.)
Wells Fargo (Bank)
ENTREE #9
Name an investment banking company. Use its 13 letters to spell:
* a large 6-letter recreational vehicle that the company might help finance,
* a 3-letter fuel for the vehicle, and
* a 4-letter amenity that in the vehicle that smaller vehicles do not offer.
What is the company?
What are the vehicle, fuel and amenity?
Answer:
JPMorgan Chase; Camper, gas, john
Dessert Menu
“Marie Calendar” Dessert:
Date delights on the desktop
Describe – using an adjective and noun in five and six letters – the often inspirational printed words you might see on a desktop calendar when you flip to its new page each morning.
Anagram the combined letters of these two words to spell the four-word title of a novel.
What are these two words?
What is the four-word novel title?
Hint: The adjective and noun each contain one “a”, one “i” and one “y”.
Answer:
Daily saying; "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner
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