Thursday, November 24, 2022

Actor, mascot, tater-prepper; From mildly amusing to deadly serious; Duffers know there are no holes in 1! A-Star-Moony lesson; Hot turkey & five delicious "sidely dishes"

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Note: There is no need to delay this special Thanksgiving edition of Puzzleria! It is ready to publish, so here it is! Enjoy nibbling on our puzzles after your meal, before the turkey-induced triptophan kicks in. I give thanks to all who contribute to, participate in, and enjoy our blog. 

— Lego 

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Duffers know there are no holes in 1!

There are three holes in 89. There are two holes in 96. There is one hole in 20. There are no holes in 53. 

Those statements are true. 

Replace 53 with a number that keeps the fourth statement true, but makes the statement sound false if the statement’s two nouns are spoonerized.

What number is this?

Appetizer Menu:

Worldplayful Appetizer

Hot turkey & five delicious sidely dishes

Hot turkey

1. 🦃Think of a word that describes a verbal
attack. 

Double an internal letter and add a space between the two newly-doubled letters. 

The result is a two-word phrase that could describe a roasting step. 

What is this phrase?

A P!uzzle

2. 🐉Think of a word used weekly on Puzzleria!. Move its last letter to the beginning to obtain a mythological creature. 

What is this creature?

Well-known number

3. (1776) On January 5, 1914, an assignment was made using a sequential series, yielding a number that is familiar to almost all Americans. 

What is this number? 

How was it determined?

Improper homophones

4. 🗺The demonyms for an inhabitant of a US state capital and for a European country are spelled identically but (usually) pronounced differently. 

What are these demonyms?

Henanatomical recipe

5. 🐔Write the names of two component countries of an overarching entity. Separate them by a space, in place of their real-life border. Insert an H into each component country: one at position one of country two and
one at position two of country one. 

Add a space and an apostrophe to the result. You now have a possible three-word description of the cetacean homologue of an anatomical feature of a female chicken that produces a familiar product. What is this phrase?

Lamentations

6. 🎱☆💪🏁Many would characterize the current political climate in the USA (and many other countries) with an idiomatic phrase. 

This phrase sounds like a combination of the following, in order:

1. A number

2. A state capital

3. A part of the human anatomy

4. A goal in a certain sport.

What is the phrase?

MENU

Adjectival Slice:

From mildly amusing to deadly serious

Take just the first syllable of a mildly amusing activity. Ignore the rest of the word. 

After this syllable’s first letter insert two letters associated with that activity. 

The result is a deadly serious adjective. 

What are this amusing activity and serious adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz And Picciotto Slices:

An A-Star-Moony lesson

Will Shortz’s November 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Henri Picciotto of Berkeley, California (who coedits the weekly “Out of Left Field” cryptic crossword) reads:

Name a branch of scientific study. Drop the last letter. Then rearrange the remaining letters to name two subjects of that study. What branch of science is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Picciotto Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker and the city in which he lives. Rearrange these letters to name a church-singer, throat-wringer and branch-clinger.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Identify the church-singer, throat-wringer and branch-clinger. 

ENTREE #2

Name a branch of scientific study. 

Drop the last letter. 

Then rearrange the remaining letters to name two subjects of that study. 

What branch of science is it?

Hint: One of the study subjects is a vulgar x-rated word. One less vulgar synonym of that word begins with “ex-”. Another less-vulgar synonym of that word, if you change one vowel, is a word that describes kings, queens and jacks.

ENTREE #3

Name a branch of scientific study. 

Rearrange its seven letters to describe, in two words, a piece of rotten wood half-sunken in a swamp. 

What branch of science is it?

What is the description of the wood in the swamp?

ENTREE #4

Name a two-word branch of scientific study. 

Rearrange the letters in one of its words to form a new word. That new word  along with the other word in the two-word branch of scientific study — form a possible two-word synonym of cardiology.

What is this branch of scientific study?

What is the possible two-word synonym of cardiology?

ENTREE #5

Name a branch of scientific study associated with the body. 

Rearrange its letters to name something in your fridge that would likely be bad for your
body if you ate it. 

What branch of science is it?

What might be in your fridge?

Hint: If you ate massive quantities of the this thing in your fridge you might end up in a clinic that has the same name of what you ate.

ENTREE #6

Name a branch of a branch of astronomy dealing especially with the behavior, physical properties, and dynamic processes of celestial objects and phenomena. 

Rearrange the its letters to spell an alliterative two-word description of a glib, pretend-to-know-it-all talking head on the CNN, Fox News or MSNBC television networks. 

What branch of astronomy is it?

What is the two-word description?

ENTREE #7

Name a science of the mind and of behavior. Rearrange the letters to spell two prefixes – one relating to height or elevation, the other
relating to carbohydrates, especially sugar. 

What is this science of the mind and of behavior?

What are the two prefixes?

ENTREE #8

Name a branch of science that studies critters that produce a particular food. 

Drop the third letter to name what Bill Clinton delivered in 1998, what Tiger Woods delivered in 2010, what the Catholic church gave the the Jewish community in 1965, and what Canada gave to Indigenous Inuit People in 2019

What branch of science is it?

What did Woods and Clinton deliver, and what did the Catholic Church and Canada give?

ENTREE #9

Name a branch of scientific study. Rearrange the its letters to name two words related to a novel that is associated with this branch of study:

1. a seven-letter noun for a weapon used in the novel, and

2. a five-letter adjective that describes the title character.

What branch of science is it?

What are the noun and adjective?

What is the novel?

ENTREE #10

Many institutions of higher learning _____ the principles of an artistic science, the practice of which results in concrete things. Firms that build these concrete things may _______ graduates of these institutions in hopes of hiring them.

Rearrange the letters in the the twelve-letter word for this “artistic science” to spell the five-letter and seven-letter verbs in the blanks.

What are these verbs?

What is this “artistic science?” 

Dessert Menu

Dialectical Dessert:

Actor, mascot, tater-prepper

The first, seventh and eighth letters in a 12-letter word can be rearranged to spell a dialectical variation of a verb that can mean “to leave immediately.” Have those three letters “leave the word immediately,” leaving a surname of an actor and a first name of a second actor.

The first actor has the same first name as an unofficial mascot of an annual holiday parade. The second actor’s surname is an anagram of a person who prepares potatoes on that holiday.

What is the 12-letter word?

What is the a dialectical variation of the verb that can mean “to leave immediately?”

Who are the actors?

Who is the mascot of the annual holiday parade?

Who prepares the holiday potatoes?

Hint: The actors were both born in the 1950s.

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67 comments:

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    1. Three over par, Paul?

      LegoWhoFantacizesSeeingATrioOfFeatureFilms:"TheMalteseFalcon"AlongWith"TheAfricanQueen"And"Casablanca"AllOnJustASingleMovieMarquee!

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    2. This conversation makes me think of a few appropriate songs:
      "The Stroke", by Billy Squier
      "Green River", by Credence Clearwater Revival
      "Bein' Green", by Kermit the Frog
      "Thirty Days in the Hole", by Humble Pie
      "Fixin' a Hole", by the Beatles
      "Fire in the Hole", by Steely Dan
      "Fly Like an Eagle" and/or "Swingtown", by the Steve Miller Band
      "Day of the Eagle", by Robin Trower
      (Anything by the Eagles)
      "Sultans of Swing", by Dire Straits
      "Rough Boy", by ZZ Top
      "Rough Boys", by Pete Townshend
      "Foreplay/Long Time", by Boston
      "Ma Belle Amie", by Tee-Set
      (Anything by Culture Club)
      "Lies", by the Knickerbockers
      "Lies", by the Thompson Twins
      "Little Lies", by Fleetwood Mac
      pjb,OfCourse!

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    3. Forgot to mention Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen". Funny, since lately, "Alice" has been known to partake in what Paul and Lego have alluded to earlier.
      pjbHopesLegoWillEventuallyHelpHimWithHis"Slice"

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    4. And The Wichita Lineman (Alice's golf buddy) is now a "soul in heaven".

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  2. I'm cruising along, enjoying the puzzles because I can actually solve them! Well, so far, the Schpuzzle, the Slice,and 4 of Geo's Appetizers (NOT #1, and the only answer I have for #6 I'm sure is wrong)....and I'm up to #5 in the Entrees (and haven't read to see how many more there are.) BUT, as so often happens, I have a question about #4. I read it to mean we had to make TWo words out of the FIRST word in the science, but I know that isn't what you meant...you meant make a new first word and leave the second word that same, and that phrase would be a synonym for cardiology, right?

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    1. Thanks for the heads-up on Entree #4, ViolinTeddy. And, thanks to you, I went in and edited it to make the wording more clear. I hope. You are correct about "leaving the second word the same."

      LegoWhoIsGladToHearThatViolinTeddyIs"Puzzerian!Cruising"ButThinksSheDeservesToInsteadBeCaribbeanCruising!

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    2. Don't I wish, Lego! Actually, thought, the Caribbean cruise that my older son and his wife took in late September (which I mentioned at the time re is PJB's brother might be on the same boat) resulted in their both getting Covid! So no Caribbean for me, thanks! Now the fjords of Norway....that would be another matter altogether.

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    3. Oh sure, the Fjords of Norway are just fjine and dandy, VT, but I prefer the Fjerraris and Fjiats of the Mediterranean!

      LegoWhoseFjatherOnceOwnedA"LittleRedFjiat"ButWhoWishesHisFjatherWouldHaveInsteadOwnedARoaringRedFjerrari!"

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    4. Leave it to you, Lego, to run with the FJ's.

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    5. I agree. Fjunny stufjfj, my fjriend!
      pjb'sGladHeDidn'tTryToWorkInAnyDirtyWordsThatStartWith"F"AndInsertA"J"JustToSeeIfHeCouldToTryToGetAwayWithIt!

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  3. OK, entree #10. The phrase has 15 letters, yet the two words we are supposed to find are only 5 and 7 letters. Is that a mistake, or are we meant to eliminate three repetitive letters somewhere along the line?

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    1. Again, you are being quite helpful, "ViolinTedditor!" And again, thanks to you, I have edited my clumsy text in Entree # 10 to make it make sense and be more clear.

      LegoWhoAdmitsThatThisBlogWouldSufferGreatlySansViolinTeddy!

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    2. In all truth, there are now others who find 'goofs', besides me. I just happened to get there first this week!

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    3. And I clearly see that I had misconstrued in Entree 10. But have it now, along with Dessert. Only Entree #7 is unfinished (the elevation prefix simply refuses to cooperate in any way.)

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    4. For the elusive Entree #7 elevation prefix, remove the first three letters of a nymph who holds Odysseus as an "isolated" captive for seven years. Replace those three letters with one letter that does not rhyme with any other letter.

      Legomegalomania

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    5. That does it, thanks.... (I had the right five letters), but I have certainly NEVER heard of that prefix! I'm now going to go look for words that begin with it.

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  4. Happy Day-After-You-Know-What Y'all!
    I would say what holiday we just celebrated yesterday except, without giving anything away, the name of which is in fact located somewhere(I won't say where)on this site as an answer!
    Good time was had by all at Bryan and Renae's yesterday. We had some good fried turkey, and some great rolls(we took some home with us to eat later, too!), and the dressing and the green beans were OK, but I didn't finish mine. They also served mashed potatoes, but they didn't look too good to me, so I didn't have any. Also in attendance were Renae's sister Leann, her husband Ed, their children Ava and Jackson, and Renae's brother Michael, and of course the other children, Morgan, Maddy, and Mia Kate. Morgan recently dyed her hair red, and I must say it looks good on her. Maddy still needs to use crutches to get around, and every one was praising Mia Kate on her performance in the "Nutcracker" production last Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. I thought she did great as one of the flowers, but I couldn't tell which one of the snowflakes she was earlier in the show. To be fair, I've had an off-and-on problem with my glasses lately. One of the lenses keeps popping out, and it's murder trying to get it back in! I think it did happen during the snowflake scene, so that, in part, could explain my missing Mia Kate right then. Great show anyway. Also, yesterday we celebrated two different occasions: The holiday, of course, and Jackson's 12th birthday. He was actually born on the same day(or whatever Thursday it happened to be 12 years ago in the same last week of November)as the holiday! So we had the turkey, etc., and then cake. No ice cream, but they did also have some brownies, one of which I just had to try. Pretty good, even though the inside of the cake was different from how it looked on the outside, which appeared to have chocolate on it. BTW Jackson has done something different with his hair lately. Sort of a Moe Howard/Timothee Chalamet kind of cut. Mia Kate actually corrected my pronunciation of the latter's first name. Apparently, it's not like "Timothy". It''s more like "Tee-Mo-Tay". Whatever. If his name rhymes, so be it. Not the first I've ever heard like that. I also toured their house. They've made a few changes, moved some furniture around, that sort of thing. Also, their dogs met me as I came in, and wouldn't leave me alone for about five or ten minutes! Got a lot of animals over there: About four dogs, two cats, some turtles and tortoises(though I only saw one of them in its cage). I guess Jackson got a few good presents, though I didn't see any. We did give him a card, even though Mom wasn't sure if he was 12 or not. Eventually Mom and I came back home so we wouldn't miss "The Masked Singer" again. It was on twice this week. Comedienne Nikki Glaser(the Snowstorm)was unmasked last night. That leaves only the Harp and the Lambs(pretty sure they're Wilson Phillips)for next week's grand finale. I'll keep y'all posted.
    Now for my progress this week:
    Solved the Schpuzzle(got a good laugh with that one), Appetizers #1, and #4-6(got another good laugh with #6, too), solved Entrees #3-(I think)5, and #7-9, and the Dessert. Once again, not letting on which mentions yesterday's holiday. That's for y'all to figure out. Looking forward to any and every hint provided between now and Hump Day.
    Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and remember the Iron Bowl will be tomorrow about 2:00pm. That's the one between Alabama and Auburn. Hope all of you will be rooting for the Crimson Tide, as I surely will! Roll Tide, and Cranberry out!
    pjbStayedUpReallyLateLastNightWithP!,AndAsAResult,WasQuiteLateGettingUpToday(Won'tSayHowLate,Though,AsIt'sALittleEmbarrassing!)

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    1. Great Thanksgiving dinner recapitulation, Patrick! One of your best.

      LegoWhoSuggestsThatIfcranberryIsHaving"AnOff-And-OnProblemWith(His)GlassesLately"HeOughtToTryLeavingThemOn!

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  5. Anyone have a good Tiramisu recipe? I had a turkey day fail with mine. It never really Set up and was more like a soup. At this point it is an ice cream cake.

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    1. Perhaps give this Tiramisù recipe a shot (of espresso), Plantsmith.

      LegoWhoNotesThatItIsANewYorkTimesRecipeAndThusIsLikelyEndorsedByWillShortz!

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    2. i have been waiting for the Will Shortz cookbook to come out. Next February? Apparently i did not beat the egg whites long enough. "Just beat it." Or as W.A. would say just eat it.
      I think i have seen Winnie in a Polkadot or Polk a hole tie.

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  6. Hello, all.
    Have solved all except the Slice. Alternative answer to the Schpuzzle:
    TWO PI (2π ≈ 6.28) → POOH TIE (would Winnie wear a tie with a hole in it?)

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    1. Very fine alternative answer to the Schpuzzle, geofan.
      And, as you can see by the image I just added near the Schpuzzle, Winnie the Pooh would indeed wear a tie with a hole in it! He is not what you would call "a fashion plate."

      LegoWhoAddsThatWinnieAlsoWearsAShirtWithOneLongSleeveAndOneShortSleeve(HeDressesLikeLegoDresses!)

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    2. bobby would like the alt answer. 2π is, of course, a (real) number.

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    3. Real, but irrational. Probably like eating 2 (much) pi(e).

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    4. Who said that the number must be rational? Transcendental, even! Still a "number."

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  7. Hi, everyone. Pleased that the Schpuzzle and Dessert weren't too hard this week. I'm stll stumped on Apps #1, 3, 6, the Slice, and Entrees 3 & 6. Like VT, I was also stuck on half of #7 until the hint.

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    1. Even after looking up words with that heretofore unheard-of prefix (as mentioned by me above), I still never heard of it...or any of its words!

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  8. Iron Bowl Final Score ICYMI:
    Alabama=49
    Auburn=27
    ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!
    pjbJustHadToAddressTheElephantInTheRoom(ForgetJeffersonStarship...WeKnowHowTo"RideTheTiger"!)

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    1. Hopefully Alabama will sneak up to number four spot for the playoffs.
      ? When Forrest played for Alabama did he set any rushing records? Do they still stand to this day?

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  9. And the Beaver's and Ben's huge upset of Oregon to spoil Oregon's clinch of Pac-12 championship. Way to go Bennie.

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  10. Early Monday Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    'Tis a one-digit number sans holes.

    Worldplayful Appetizer:
    Note: These six hints come courtesy of our friend geofan, aka Ken. I am merely the messenger...
    1.
    Hint: Agnus dei cooking school
    2.
    Hint: TV game shows
    3.
    Hint: The number assignment indirectly resulted from a Constitutional amendment.
    4.
    Hint: Some incorrectly pronounce the demonym of the US state capital to match the country's.
    5.
    Hint: Cwm again?
    6.
    Hint: The phrase has 5 words in total. The last word is a compound word.

    Adjectival Slice:
    The activity is a game, but it is also "child's play." If "rationally thinking adults" play the game it ought always end in a draw.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Picciotto Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    The church-singer is a male.
    The throat-wringer is a useless article of clothing
    The branch-clinger could be a snake, lizard, etc.
    ENTREE #2
    The branch of scientific study has 5 syllables.
    One of the study subjects is a vulgar x-rated four-letterword.
    The other study subject sounds as if it has a blackbird in its midst.
    ENTREE #3
    "... The elephants are kindly but they're dumb. Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages..."
    ENTREE #4
    "Science" is the second word in the two-word branch of scientific study.
    ENTREE #5
    Salad dressing with a brownish tinge from the fridge? Yecchh!
    ENTREE #6
    The branch of astronomy begins with a Houston ballplayer.
    ENTREE #7
    "Do you subscribe to "__________ Today"?
    ENTREE #8
    The critters produce a particularly sweet food.
    ENTREE #9
    "The Old Man and the O...?"
    ENTREE #10
    F.L.W., I.M.P., Eero...

    Dialectical Dessert:
    "Happy belated Turkey Day!"

    LogOozyLambda!

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  11. Hmmm, the Entree #2 hint has thrown me for a loop, because I had had a four-syllable version of the science, but having found a version in five syllables, I can't make it anagram into anything that solves the puzzle.

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  12. At least, I just solved Geo's #1, thanks to the hint and the answer finally 'hitting' me!

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    1. And just finally figured out Appetizer #6. Joy! Loved the state capital...I used to live in that state. : o )

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  13. Finally got Entree #10, but the Slice, Entree #1, and Appetizer #3 will still require additional hints.
    pjbAboutToRunOutOfBatteryPowerIfHe'sNotCareful

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    1. Appetizer #3
      The church-singer and the throat-wringer are both compound words. The four parts of those two words are:
      chuch singers, up in the loft;
      name of the notable character portrayed by Johnny Sheffield;
      early bagpipes had a bladder... banjos have a ____;
      what extra innings usually resolve;

      LegoLambladder

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    2. A Few More Hints:

      Appetizer #3
      The number that is familiar to almost all Americans equals the the number of objects in twenty "Bicycle packs."

      Slice:
      A hard candy mint brand and a digit.

      LegoWhoUsedToTakeHisInvaluableVintageBaseballCardsAndRigThemUpAgainstTheSpokesInHisBicycleWheelsSoThatItWouldSoundAsIfHeWereRidingAMotorcycle!

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  14. Got the Slice with the first hint, but I misunderstood the puzzle, thinking that the answer was the whole word (mildly amusing activity) + the two letters. It is only the first syllable + the two added letters.

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    1. Good point, geofan. For what it's worth, I went in and tweaked the beginning text of the Slice.

      LegoStrivingForMoreClarityAndWorthiness

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  15. I'm still stuck on App #6. Any further hints would be welcomed!

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    1. Hawaii & North Dakota

      LegoWhoAddsButNot"Vermont&Indiana"

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    2. Still stuck! I thought from geo's clue I would use the capital of Montana, even though I couldn't get anywhere with it, but somehow Hawaii & North Dakota are involved as well?

      TortieWhoIsConfused

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    3. Tortie, don't know if you will see this given that it's time to post our answers, but even though I've had the full answer to App #6 since the first (from geo) hint, I don't understand what Lego's "Hawaii & North Dakota" meant either!

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  16. OK, still have to figure out Entrees #2 and #6. In the former, I can't seem to find the anagram of the two words to make the branch of science. In the latter, I have no idea what the alliterative phrase describing talking heads could be, thus making me unsure about just exactly what the branch of science is there, too. Thanks to the earlier hint, I know what prefix it starts with, but that's it. Also, we've been having to watch the local meteorologists all night because there's been a lot of bad weather coming into our state this afternoon-into-evening, including the possibility of tornadoes. Luckily, now it's just raining a lot, so when everybody has to get to work in the morning, there'll just be flooding to contend with on the roads. It should all be cleared up by tomorrow afternoon.
    pjbWillHaveHisPuzzleria!AnswersPrintedHere,AsWellAsTheFinal"MaskedSinger"Results(AfterTheTwo-HourSeasonFinale)

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    1. ENTREE #2
      The branch of scientific study begins with a prefix meaning "two," ends with an "attempt," and in the middle contains a part of Jesus' garment that apparently has healing powers!
      ENTREE #6
      In the middle of the branch of astronomy is a word for the shiny focal point of many posed victorious team photos.

      LegoAddsThatThe"ShinyFocalPoint"MightPrecedeTheWord"Buck"and(Unfortunately)TheWord"Wife"

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    2. Forgot I had to drop the last letter on #2, and I might have already thought of the branch for #6, but as I said before, I had trouble figuring out the phrase as well. Any chance you might help me with that part?
      pjbKnowsFromExperienceThatNotAllAnagramsComeThatEasy

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    3. #6 was a difficult one, and I'm not 100% sure I got it right. It's a good alternate, in any case. The first word is common. The second word is not, but is the beginning part of a word used, along with "Lady", in a song by Duke Ellington.

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    4. The phrase in Entree #6 is alliterative and sibilant.
      Tortie is correct about the second word (a noun) in this alliterative phrase, and about its connection to "Sir Duke.".
      This second word in the phrase is likely etymologically related to a term for a second-year student.
      The first word in the two-word alliterative phrase is an adjective associated with that holiday prior to Turkey Day.

      LegoWhoRecallsThatOneOfTheSpiceGirlsHadAnAlliterativeNicknameRelevantToThisAlliterativePhrase

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  17. Fi' in to rain here big time. You got snow Violetta? My brother in Olympia sent me a snow pic.

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    1. Pl'th, who is Violetta? I ask because that was my mom's name.

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    2. Sorry, thought it was also yours.

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  18. I found it amusing that this week's answers ranged from Heaven to Hell! Entree #2 still has me stymied (to use geo's favorite word!)

    SCHPUZZLE: NO HOLES IN 7 => NO SOLES/SOULS IN HEAVEN [Pre-hint]

    APPETIZER:

    1. LAMBASTE => LAMB BASTE

    2. RIFFING => GRIFFIN

    3. FORD ANNOUNCED $5 MINIMUM WAGE FOR A DAY’S WORK. i.e. the FIVE DOLLAR DAY.

    4. ALBANIAN, for ALBANY, NY and for ALBANIA

    5. WALES ENGLAND => WHALE’S HEN GLAND

    6. (1) TWO (2) HELENA (3) HAND (4) BASKET => TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET


    SLICE: TICTACTOE => TOXIC [Pre-hint]


    ENTREES:

    1. HENRI PICCIOTTO, BERKELEY => CHOIRBOY, NECKTIE, REPTILE

    2. SCATOLOGICAL => SCATOLOGICA => ???? [In-puzzle hints: EXcrement and FACE/FECES]

    3. ZOOLOGY => OOZY LOG

    4. EARTH SCIENCE => HEART SCIENCE

    5. ANATOMY => TAN MAYO [Alternate idea: BIOLOGY => OILY GOB]

    6. ASTROPHYSICS => SCARY SOPHIST

    7. PSYCHOLOGY => HYPSO & GLYCO

    8. APIOLOGY => APOLOGY

    9. OCEANOGRAPHY => HARPOON, CAGEY

    10. ARCHITECTURE => TEACH & RECRUIT

    DESSERT: THANKSGIVING minus “GIT” => HANKS VING => TOM (TURKEY) HANKS & VING RHAMES [MASHER]

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    1. Like your alternate to Entrée #5, VT. Alternate verb tense for App #1 is fine.

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    2. THanks, geo. Also, I didn't even notice that App 1 was supposed to be in past tense....

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  19. Kind of a strange week. The Schpuzzle and Dessert were fairly easy, but some of the Entrees were tough. Even Entree #1 was fairly difficult, which is usually not the case.
    Schpuzzle: 7 (no holes in 7: true; no souls in heaven: false)
    App:
    1. LAMBASTE; LAMB BASTE
    2. RIFFING -> GRIFFIN
    3. (Post hint) 1040, next available in forms control numbering system (original answer: $5 per day wage from Henry Ford)
    4. ALBANIAN (Albany, NY and Albania)
    5. WALES and ENGLAND; WHALE’S HEN GLAND
    6. ??? Figure HELENA is part of this. Hawaii & North Dakota = HIND, like BEHIND? RUN is the last word?
    Slice: (post hint) TIC TAC TOE; TIC + OX = TOXIC
    Entrees:
    1. HENRI PICCIOTTO, BERKELEY; CHOIRBOY, NECKTIE, REPTILE (got NECKTIE first, then worked on the others)
    2. BIOCHEMISTRY (MICROBE & word that anagrams to THIS)
    3. (Post hint) ZOOLOGY; OOZY LOG (originally my best guess was BIOLOGY -> OILY BOG)
    4. EARTH SCIENCE; HEART SCIENCE
    5. ANATOMY, TAN MAYO (guess ANT MAYO would be even worse!)
    6. ASTROPHYSICS, SCARY SOPHIST
    7. PSYCHOLOGY; HYPSO, GLYCO (needed help with first prefix)
    8. APIOLOGY, APOLOGY
    9. OCEANOGRAPHY, HARPOON & CAGEY; MOBY DICK
    10. TEACH, RECRUIT; ARCHITECTURE
    Dessert: THANKSGIVING; GIT; TOM HANKS and VING RHAMES; TOM TURKEY; MASHER

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  20. Puzzeleria 11/26–

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    No holes in seven. No soles in heaven.
    2 Pi- Alternate.

    Worldplayful Appetizer:
    ...
    1.

    3. 1040 form– Constitutional amendment.
    6. Helena?
    Alt :Three sheets to the wind.

    Adjectival Slice:
    Tic- tac- toe Toxic- O’s and X’s are part of the game

    Riffing Off Shortz And Picciotto Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    Tenor, neck Tie,

    .
    ENTREE #2 Biochemistry– Sh*T, microbe–” uvo nella merda


    ENTREE #3 Zoology, oozy -log
    "... ENTREE #4
    "ENTREE #5 Biology, oily,gob
    !
    ENTREE #6 Astrology–?
    ENTREE #7 Psychology- , hypso, facto
    ENTREE #8 Apiology- Study of bees. Apology

    Dessert–

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  21. Schpuzzle
    TRUE: THERE ARE NO HOLES IN SEVEN.
    FALSE: THERE ARE NO SOULS IN HEAVEN.
    Appetizer Menu
    1. LAMBASTE, LAMB BASTE
    2. RIFFING, GRIFFIN
    3. 1040(the four-page form, including instructions, for the then new income tax)
    4. ALBANIAN(pronounced like ALL, Albany, New York), ALBANIAN(pronounced like Al, Albania)
    5. WALES, ENGLAND, WHALE'S HEN GLAND
    6. TWO+HELENA+HAND+BASKET=TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET
    (Those last two are funny, IMHO.)
    Menu
    Adjectival Slice
    TIC-TAC-TOE, TOXIC(O and X are the opponents in the game.)
    Entrees
    1. HENRI PICCIOTTO, BERKELEY(CA), CHOIRBOY, NECKTIE, REPTILE
    2. BIOCHEMISTRY, SHIT, MICROBE
    3. ZOOLOGY, OOZY LOG
    4. EARTH SCIENCE, HEART SCIENCE
    5. ANATOMY, TAN MAYO
    6. ASTROPHYSICS, SCARY SOPHIST
    7. PSYCHOLOGY, HYPSO-, GLYCO-
    8. APIOLOGY, APOLOGY
    9. OCEANOGRAPHY, HARPOON, CAGEY("Moby Dick", by Herman Melville)
    10. ARCHITECTURE, TEACH, RECRUIT
    Dessert Menu
    Dialectical Dessert
    THANKSGIVING-GIT=(Tom)HANKS, VING(Rhames), TOM THE TURKEY, MASHER
    Final Masked Singer Results:
    The HARP(Amber Riley)beat out the LAMBS(Wilson Phillips).
    RIP Irene Cara.-pjb

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  22. I meant AL, not Al, for the second ALBANIAN.
    pjbLikesToThinkHisOwnIntelligenceIsAnythingButArtificial

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  23. RIP Christine McVie as well.
    pjbThinksADuetBetweenBothWomenWouldHaveBeenGoodToHear(WouldProbablySoundGoodInHeavenNow,Too)

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Duffers know there are no holes in 1!
    There are three holes in 89. There are two holes in 96. There is one hole in 20. There are no holes in 53.
    Those statements are true.
    Replace 53 with a number that keeps the fourth statement true, but makes the statement sound false if its two nouns are spoonerized.
    What number is this?
    Answer:
    7; "There are no holes in 7" is true, but "There are no souls in heaven" sounds false.

    Appetizer Menu
    Worldplayful Appetizer
    Hot turkey & five delicious side dishes

    Hot turkey
    1. Think of a word that describes a verbal attack. Double an internal letter and add a space between the two newly-doubled letters. The result is a two-word phrase that could describe a roasting step. What is this phrase?
    Answer:
    LAMBASTED => LAMB BASTED

    A P!uzzle
    2. Think of a word used weekly on Puzzleria!. Move its last letter to the beginning to obtain a mythological creature.
    What is this creature?
    Answer:
    Griffin

    Well-known number
    3. On January 5, 1914, an assignment was made using a sequential series, yielding a number that is familiar to almost all Americans. What is this number? How was it determined?
    Answer:
    The Bureau of Internal Revenue published the first Form 1040 on January 5, 1914. The form was numbered 1040 in the ordinary stream of numbering forms in sequential order (as pages in a book).

    Improper homophones
    4. The demonyms for an inhabitant of a US state capital and for a European country are spelled identically but (usually) pronounced differently. What are these demonyms?
    Answer:
    Albanian (Albany, New York; Albania

    Henanatomical recipe
    5. Write the names of two component countries of an overarching entity. Separate them by a space, in place of their real-life border. Insert an H into each component country: one at position one of country two and one at position two of country one. Add a space and an apostrophe to the result. You now have a possible three-word description of the cetacean homologue of an anatomical feature of a female chicken that produces a familiar product. What is this phrase?
    Answer:
    WALWS, ENGLND ? WHALE'S HEN GLAND

    Lamentations
    6. Many would characterize the current political climate in the USA (and many other countries) with an idiomatic phrase. This phrase sounds like a combination of the following, in order:
    1. A number
    2. A state capital
    3. A part of the human anatomy
    4. A goal in a certain sport.
    What is the phrase?
    Answer:
    TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET (2, Helena, hand, basket)

    Lego...

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

    MENU

    Adjectival Slice:
    From mildly amusing to deadly serious
    Take the first syllable of an amusing activity.
    After the first letter, insert two other letters associated with that activity.
    The result is a deadly serious adjective.
    What are this amusing activity and serious adjective?
    Answer:
    tic-tac-toe; toxic

    Riffing Off Shortz And Picciotto Slices:
    An A-Star-Moony lesson
    ENTREE #1
    Name a puzzle-maker and the city in which he lives. Rearrange these letters to name a church-singer, throat-wringer and branch-clinger.
    Who is this puzzle-maker?
    Identify the church-singer, throat-wringer and branch-clinger.
    Answer:
    Henri Picciotto of Berkeley, California; choirboy, necktie, reptile
    ENTREE #2
    Name a branch of scientific study.
    Drop the last letter.
    Then rearrange the remaining letters to name two subjects of that study.
    What branch of science is it?
    Hint: One of the study subjects is a vulgar x-rated word. One less vulgar synonym of that word begins with “ex-”. Another less-vulgar synonym of that word, if you change one vowel, is a word that describes kings, queens and jacks.
    Answer:
    Biochemistry; Microbe, Shit;
    Hint: Ex-crement; Feces (Faces)
    ENTREE #3
    Name a branch of scientific study. Rearrange its seven letters to describe, in two words, a piece of rotten wood half-sunken in a swamp.
    What branch of science is it?
    What is the description of the wood in the swamp?
    Answer:
    Zoology; Oozy log
    ENTREE #4
    Name a two-word branch of scientific study. Rearrange the letters in one of its words to name a possible two-word synonym of cardiology.
    What is this branch of scientific study?
    What is the possible two-word synonym of cardiology?
    Answer:
    Earth science; Heart Science
    ENTREE #5
    Name a branch of scientific study associated with the body. Rearrange its letters to name something in your fridge that would likely be bad for your body if you ate it.
    What branch of science is it?
    What might be in your fridge?
    Hint: If you ate massive quantities of the this thing in your fridge you might end up in a clinic that has the same name of what you ate.
    Answer:
    Anatomy; Tan mayo (mayonnaise);
    Hint: You may end up in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
    ENTREE #6
    Name a branch of astronomy dealing especially with the behavior, physical properties, and dynamic processes of celestial objects and phenomena. Rearrange the its letters to spell an alliterative two-word description of a glib, pretend-to-know-it-all talking head on the CNN, Fox News or MSNBC television networks.
    What branch of astronomy is it?
    What is the two-word description?
    Answer:
    Astrophysics; Scary sophist
    Lego...

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  26. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Picciotto Slices, continued:
    ENTREE #7
    Name a science of mind and behavior. Rearrange the letters to spell two prefixes – one relating to height or elevation, the other relating to carbohydrates, especially sugar. What is this science of mind and behavior?
    What are the two prefixes?
    Answer:
    Psychology; hypso-, glyco-
    ENTREE #8
    Name a branch of science that studies critters that produce a particular food. Drop the third letter to name what Bill Clinton delivered in 1998, what Tiger Woods delivered in 2010, what the Catholic church gave the the Jewish community in 1965, and what Canada gave to Indigenous Inuit People in 2019
    What branch of science is it?
    What did Woods and Clinton deliver, and what did the Catholic Church and Canada give?
    Answer:
    Apiology; apology
    ENTREE #9
    Name a branch of scientific study. Rearrange the its letters to name two words related to a novel that is associated with this branch of study:
    1. a seven-letter noun for a weapon used in the novel, and
    2. a five-letter adjective that describes the title character.
    What branch of science is it?
    What are the noun and adjective?
    What is the novel?
    Answer:
    Oceanography; Harpoon, cagey; "Moby Dick"
    ENTREE #10
    Institutions of higher learning _____ an artistic scientific mathematical subject that results in concrete things. Firms that build these concrete things may _______ graduates of these institutions, hoping perhaps to hire them.
    Rearrange the letters in the artistic science to spell the five-letter and seven-letter verbs in the blanks.
    What are these verbs?
    What is the artistic mathematical subject?
    Answer:
    Teach, recruit; Architecture

    Dessert Menu

    Dialectical Dessert:
    Actor, mascot, tater-prepper

    Three letters in a 12-letter word can be rearranged to spell a dialectical variant of a verb that means “to leave immediately.” Have those three letters “leave the word immediately,” leaving a surname of an actor and a first name of a second actor.
    The first actor has the same first name as an unofficial mascot of an annual holiday parade. The second actor’s surname is an anagram of a person who prepares potatoes on that holiday.
    What is the 12-letter word?
    What is the a dialectical variant of a verb that means “to leave immediately?”
    Who are the actors?
    Who is the mascot of the annual holiday parade?
    Who prepares the holiday potatoes?
    Hint: The actors were both born in the 1950s.
    Answer:
    Thanksgiving; Git!; Tom Hanks, Ving Rhames; Tom Turkey (Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade); Masher;

    Lego!

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