Friday, November 11, 2022

Fishy platefuls and paintings; Seeking two trees and four folks; What’s this tool of the trade? “Linen Latin Lupe Lu!” Punchin’ punctuation into the ’puter

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Fishy platefuls and paintings

The word “fish” may be respelled phonetically as G-H-O-T-I, “ghoti” (using the sounds of GH from lauGH, O from wOmen, and TI from naTIon). 

Using a similar translation method, a “toloti,” T-O-L-O-T-I, is where you might find paintings of fish, or perhaps platefuls of fish. 

What is a “toloti?”

Appetizer Menu


Lightning Round Appetizer:

Seeking two trees and four folks

Shower & sink... cedar & sycamore?

1. 🌳🌲Look in your bathroom and kitchen.

Chances are good that the names of two trees
can be easily found there. 

What trees are they?

Name’s nearly the same

2. 💃🎖Think of two famous people. 

One is an entertainer with a five-letter last name. 

The other is in the military and has a six-letter last name. 

Remove one of the double letters from the six-letter last name to get the first name of the entertainer. 

Who are these people?

“An Officer and an Eponym”

3. 🎖🛳 An ably armored infantry transporter is named in honor of a well-known military officer. 

Identify the officer (in four and seven letters)
and the transporter. 

Note: An anagram of the officer’s name appears in this puzzle.

One actor, three prime factors

4. 🎥Take the full name (first and last, in seven and five letters) of a well-known 20th century actor. 

This name contains three syllables. 

To find them, unravel the following clues and put them in the correct order:

1. An important tag

2. Something consumed in France

3. A coin

What are the syllables? 

Who is the actor?

MENU

Offputting Inputting Slice:

“Linen Latin Lupe Lu!”

What do the words, “input,” “Latins,” and “linen,” and the name Mel Novak, an actor who is also committed to prison ministry, have in common?

Riffing Off Shortz And Seigel Slices:

Punchin’ punctuation into the ’puter

Will Shortz’s November 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Simeon Seigel of Brooklyn, New York, reads:

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside this insert a word for what this punctuation mark may be part of or what it may represent. The
result will be a 10-letter word associated with painting. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Seigel Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a well-known French river, and a French city that “starts with a car.”

Anagram the combined letters of these names to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

What are the names of this river, city and
puzzle-maker?

Hint: Take the French river. ROT 3 its first letter, reverse the order of its second and third letters, and double its fourth letter to name the river upon which the French city is situated.

Note: The following Riff, Entree  #2, was created and submitted by a friend and “A Fan of Puzzleria!”

ENTREE #2

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside insert a letter which looks like something that when shouted sounds like a command. 

The result will be a sound made by obeying
that command. 

What words and letter are these?

Note: The following Riff, Entree #3, was created and submitted by our friend skydiveboy.

ENTREE #3

Name a keyboard key and then insert a word. 

You will describe what might be a fitting two-word description of several right-wing countries today, beginning with the United States. 

What are this keyboard key, inserted word, and two-word description?

ENTREE #4

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. 

Anagram the first six letters to spell “a shepherd of a human flock.” 

Anagram the remaining letters to spell a virtue the shephard might encourage his flock to adopt.

What are the punctuation mark and two anagrammed words?

Hint: Somewhere inside this punctuation-mark word is a “honer” made of leather.

ENTREE #5

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside this, insert the singular form of the brand name of a flexible stick of red candy, forming a 17-letter string.

After the fifth letter, add an “e” and a space.

Take the 12 letters after the space. Move the second and seventh letters two places to the right, then delete either the fifth or sixth letter.

The result is an eponymous unit of electrical current and the name of a country bordering the homeland of the person after whom the unit was named.

What is this punctuation mark?

What is the brand name of candy?

What are the unit of electical current and the country? 

ENTREE #6

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Its middle two letters are a state postal abbreviation. Replace them with two letters:

A. that sound like what a fellow thespian might do if you forget your lines

B. William F. Buckley’s magazine, for short,
and

C. a New York City-based news agency,

to form:

A. a storied vessel equipped with harpoons,

B. Booth Tarkington’s “Tom Sawyer,” and

C. a clinker-built open double-ended boat used for fishing in Maine.

What is this punctuation mark?

What are the trio of two-letter replacements?

What are the vessel, Tarkington’s “Tom Sawyer,” and the clinker-built fishing boat? 

ENTREE #7

Take the surnames of living contemporary pop Grammy-winning singer-songwriters named Paul and Paula. 

Anagram the combined letters of their surnames to spell a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard (or anywhere else the written word in printed).

What punctuation mark is this?

Who are the singers?

ENTREE #8

Anagram the letters of a word for a symbol of a key on a computer keyboard to spell two words of 3 and 4 letters that descibe a characteristic of a chess piece.

What is this punctuation mark?

What are the two words and the chess piece?

ENTREE #9

Anagram the letters of a key found on a computer keyboard to name the surname of an iconic science fiction character and the three-letter abbreviation of a U.S. state that was the primary residence of the actor who portrayed the character. 

What words are on this keyboard key?

What are the character’s surname and the primary residence of the actor?

ENTREE #10

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. It is a five-letter word
paired with “burn” in a phrase for a farming method that involves the annihilation of plants in a woodland to create a field called a “swidden.”

Now take a seven-letter synonym of this punctuation mark that etymologically means “little twig.” Anagram this word to spell two cloth coverings — one for the face and another for the floor.

What are the word paired with “burn,” the seven-letter synonym, and the two cloth coverings?

Dessert Menu

Professional Dessert:

What’s this tool of the trade?

Take a word for a professional person. 

Move the fourth letter one place later in the alphabet and the fifth letter five places later.
The result is a tool this person might use.

Who is the professional person? 

What is this tool?

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42 comments:

  1. As so often happens, I found no luck on the Schpuzzle, the Slice OR the Dessert despite having given them all a yeoman's effort. The only Entrees that eluded me were 8 and 9. And I tried everything on those two, particularly for #8! It's way too late to still be up. Sigh...

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  2. Happy Veteran's Day to all!
    Surprised to see I'm only the second person to comment here so far! Looks like VT and I have struck out on the same puzzles this week. Don't worry, Teddy, I'm sure we'll solve them eventually. Lego just has to provide some good enough hints, that's all. Mom and I are fine. She did some grocery shopping earlier today, and for supper we had some Hamburger Helper(Chili Macaroni flavor), which she bought today. She also got the Lasagna flavor Helper as well. Bryan and Renae and the kids left to go to Colorado today(still not really sure why). They travel more than Mom and I ever have in years. We did all take a cruise to Cozumel together, pre-pandemic, of course. It was OK, but due to lack of interest, they cancelled the guided tour we were supposed to take in Cozumel, so what we ended up doing there wasn't as much fun. Oh well. Lately Mom and I spend most weeknights watching "Andy Griffith Show" reruns on MeTV at 7(except Wednesdays when "The Masked Singer" is on FOX, and of course tonight as they've been showing the last episode of "M*A*S*H" in its entirety for Veteran's Day), followed by "Pyramid" on GSN at 8. Haven't got to the Prize Crossword or Wordle yet, but I'll get there. Easiest things are those "Mini" crosswords on the NYT site. Then they put some regular crosswords on from their archives on Sundays. Good stuff. Every bit as challenging at times as the offerings here, if not more.
    Speaking of which, certainly a half-and-half mix with this week's selection. As I said before, I've mirrored VT's progress: Schpuzzle, Slice, Dessert---nothing! I've only solved Chuck's odd Appetizers, not the evens, and the only Entrees I've solved are #1, #4-7, and #10. And #3 was one of SDB's? Big surprise I can't get that one, and there'll be no hints for that one. So I can forget it then. Suit yourself, dude.
    Good luck in solving y'all, please stay safe, and of course, never forget those brave men and women out there who serve in our armed forces and give their lives so that we can be free here on the homefront. May God Bless America, Cranberry Out!
    pjb"ForTheLandOfTheFree/AndTheHomeOfTheBrave"(AndyGriffithWasMentionedEarlier,SoWhyNotMakeAWholeCallbackToLastWeek'sEntree#7WhileWe'reAtIt?)

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    1. Yea there are a lot of clueless people in Seattle; puzzlemakers not withstanding- self included; defunding the police at CHOP, ' our friend socialist Sharma Sawant who always has something clever to say, gas at 5:00, ripping out the viaduct for condos,- I could go on.
      And did you ever notice if you take out the second consonant in friend you get a Haloween moniker? Our fiend.

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  3. Lego may or may not belong on the Offputting Inputting Slice list.
    Perhaps part of the reason I'm getting nowhere with the Schpuzzle is that my mind keeps gravitating to the Dessert.

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    1. Well it is that time of year. Also GMA is have a American Pie regional contest.Today in Boston. But today the Mississippi mud pie won out.

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  4. Hello, all.
    Have solved everything except Entrée #2, and for Entrée #2 believe I may have the associated sound. For Appetizer #1, have found 6 candidates for the kitchen and 2 for the bath.

    Hint for the Slice:
    Bear with me. "In style" is another of this set. But for the honey eater, I could not find any good answer.

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  5. Hi, everyone! My progress for the week so far: Got everything but Schpuzzle, App #1, and Entrees #2, 3, and 8.

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  6. Any hints? I have a possible answer for App #1, and a cute but certainly incorrect answer for Entree #2. I've made no additional progress otherwise.

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    1. Tortie, I suspect your #2 Entree answer might be correct after all.

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    2. I really doubt it! It's a pleasing answer, but I had to jump through too many hoops to get it: 1) It's an abbreviation, and not a full word; 2) Not every keyboard has the word; and 3) It's really stretching it to say the letter looks like the thing. One other cute thing about my answer, though, is that the key does double duty, and the other word on the key sounds like something associated with the sound utterer.

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  7. I had been trying to get to sleep, when suddenly thinking about puzzles led me to mulling over the Slice (which I mistakenly remembered as the Schpuzzle), and got very excited when I realized what the solution was. However, like geo, I can't quite form an answer from the name in the Slice (I don't understand his reference to 'honey eater' tho.) Thus, I simply had to come back downstairs to be sure about it. Hurrah.

    I was also considering Lego's considerable weekly hint burden, and thought that if we each made more clear, succintly, which puzzles were eluding us, it would reduce the necessity for him to throw out hints for everything, thus cutting down his work..Thus, I propose that we each briefly state our "HINT NEEDS" a la, for me this week:

    Schpuzzle, Entrees 8 & 9. Period.

    If we all did that, Lego could take a scan of the necessary hints, and ignore everything else, thus concentrating only on the required ones.

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    1. Good idea. And we can help each other out if Lego isn't available.

      I still need Schpuzzle (came up with a cute answer but has nothing to do with pronunciation), App #1 (to double-check), Entrees #2, 3, and 8.

      For Entree #9, I can give some solving tips. 1) It is not necessarily a punctuation key; 2) think of three letter abbreviations for states. Not every state has those (e..g, NY, NJ, etc. don't); 3) you probably don't know this character's first name unless you are really interested in the franchise/character.

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    2. The device I'm now using does not have the key in question.

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    3. Thanks, Tortie...I must have been just too tired the other night, because I just solved #9 very easily (I'd started with that same approach, to pin down the three-letter abbreviations....but this time, it worked out easily.)

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    4. Additional bit I've forgotten to mention: Tortie, re Entree #2, I'm sure my answer is NOT correct...i.e. what sdb intended, because first of all, it's more of a 'sound like' than actual spelling and secdonly, I just realized that the KEY I used is on Macs but not on PC keyboards! However, I do believe that sdb will approve!

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    5. I think I know what key you're referring to. I suspect the last few letters are either the one on that key or one that can be derived from a few other keys. Can't get anywhere with that, though.

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  8. VT, the "honey eater" does not refer to the result from Mel Novak, but rather to a candidate additional member of the list. But for this candidate additional member, geofan was not able to find a good acronym.

    The reference to "bear" and "honey eater" in the post hints at the word for "bear" (the animal) in the applicable language. Interestingly, "honey eater" is a circumlocution for the original word for "bear", which in proto-Indo-European was something like "rkto", from which Greek άρκτος (arktos) and Latin ursos (hence Spanish oso, French ours and the English constellation names Ursa Major and word "ursine" descend).

    But in the Germanic and Slavic languages, it was taboo to utter the real word for the animal, as it might summon its dangerous presence. Thus the Germanic languages used a word for "brown", while the Slavic languages used the term "honey eater".

    The word for "honey eater" (медведь = medved') is also the root for the name Medvedev, who would be in the candidate list if a good acronym were available. Alas, there is none.

    The word from "Mel Novak" is more obscure - geofan had to look for it in Wikipedia to find it.

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    1. Ok, geo, thanks for all that information. I have myself hunted and hunted for who Mel Novak should turn into, and came close, but ultimately had to just 'make up' a name...or rather part of a name with an animal in front!

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    2. Try a different website to turn Mel Novak into something else. It may also help if you got the category and work from there.

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    3. I do know the category, Tortie, or wouldn't have been discussing it with geo at all.....I've tried anagramming this person's name, and just really gotten nowhere.

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    4. 1953, a short reign...

      HeyThereGeorgyGuy...

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    5. THank you....I was finding nothing, until the above hint.

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  9. Tuesday Hints:

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Fame and _______
    Parker or Sanders
    Jeopardy! contestant's response

    Lightning Round Appetizer:
    1. something read; pimento container
    2. A general and Billy Ray's progeny
    3. The anagram of the officer’s name that appears in this puzzle are two consecutive words that begin with the same letter.
    4. The actor is associated with spine-tinglers

    Offputting Inputting Slice:
    The Mel Novak acronym lasted about six months.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Seigel Slices:
    ENTREE #1
    French city “starts with a car that can be 'stretchy' ”
    ENTREE #2
    Guns 'n' Roses
    ENTREE #3
    The answer alludes to"Magalomania!"
    ENTREE #4
    The “honer” made of leather is a shaving aid.
    ENTREE #5
    That's an image not of a Red Vine but of a...
    ENTREE #6
    Punctuation marks just don't get any smaller than this!
    ENTREE #7
    "Simple _____ and Old King ____"
    ENTREE #8
    You mitre might not solve this.
    ENTREE #9
    "I am _____," an autobiography
    ENTREE #10
    Guns 'n' Roses (again); The covering for the floor might also cover a bald head.

    Professional Dessert:
    The 4th and 5th letters in the professional person change from "muy bueno" to "no good" in order to transform into the tool of the trade.

    LegoWhoLikesTheIdeaOfOtherPuzzlerian!sChimingInWithHints

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  10. Current Progress Report:
    Schpuzzle finally solved(I think---not to give away too much, but shouldn't it be spelled T-U-L-O-T-O?).
    Appetizers solved(I have an alternative answer for #1, which popped into my head immediately as, or just after, I read it. Nonetheless, I see exactly what you're going for here, as it was my next guess after looking up brand names of kitchen/bathroom products which would fit the criteria.
    For #2, the Billy Ray hint helped especially, though I had to look up the military person to make sure. Not exactly "famous" in my book.
    Got #3 right off, had more trouble with #4, which I just got and could kick myself for not getting it earlier. Your hint definitely helped, first name that came to mind, fit the clues perfectly.
    Slice: Still don't get the Mel Novak connection, haven't found any mention of an acronym anywhere.
    Entree Progress: Finally got #9, #2 and #3 are still anybody's guess.(Hope SDB got a great laugh out of the latter. I may laugh too, once I see it revealed tomorrow.)
    Finally got the Dessert, due in no small part to the hint.
    pjbKnowsLegoIsAlwaysUpTo"MuyBueno",Never"NoGood"

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    1. For some reason, people have been using the word 'acronym' for Mel Novak. It should be an anagram.

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    2. I was guilty of this in my Tuesday Hints, above. Thanks Tortie.

      LegoLanagrama

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  11. Almost "Blaine's-Blogesque" hint for Appetizer #4:
    Thriller
    pjbIsNeverWithoutTheSoulForGettingDown

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    1. From what I've seen on Blain'e blog, that would be deleted as TMI.

      TortieWhoNotesAnotherHintForApp#4IsTortie

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  12. Thank you for the hints, Lego! I now have the Schpuzzle, Entree #2 (I still kind of like my goofy alternate), and have verified App #1. Only missing Entree #8 now (know what piece it's referring to, but getting nowhere on features/punctuation) and Entree #3 (already figured it was MAGA related, so that hint doesn't really help).

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    1. Tortitude,
      In #3, the keyboard key is where MAGA often appears. The inserted word is a singular synonym of a noun in the puzzle text.
      In #8, the punctuation mark looks like a tic-tac-toe grid...

      LegoNotesThoughThat"PoundSign"IsMoreThanSevenLettersLongSoYouGottaCallItSomethingElse

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  13. Schpuzzle: (post hint) CHURCH (T=CH + OLO=UR + TI=CH) (first thought of SCHOOL, which is cute but doesn’t fit pronunciation part of the puzzle)
    App:
    1. PALMOLIVE
    2. MILEY CYRUS, MARK MILLEY
    3. OMAR BRADLEY (ably armored), BRADLEY FIGHTING VEHICLE
    4. PRICE,VIN, CENT = VINCENT PRICE
    Slice: all anagram to Soviet/Russian world leaders (PUTIN, STALIN, LENIN, MALENKOV)
    Entree:
    1. SEINE, LIMOGES, SIMEON SEIGEL (hint: VIENNE)
    2. (Post hint) SLASH; add P (looks like Rho -> ROW); SPLASH (my first idea: BRK (break key) + A (looks like doghouse); shout “doghouse”; dog goes to doghouse; BARK. Cute thing about this answer is that the BREAK key shares its space with PAUSE, which sounds like PAWS)
    3. ???? - just can’t get this one for whatever reason
    4. APOSTROPHE, PASTOR, HOPE (hint: STROP)
    5. AMPERSAND; TWIZZLER; AMPERE, SWITZERLAND
    6. PERIOD; QU (cue you), NR (National Review), AP (Associated Press); PEQUOD, PENROD, PEAPOD
    7. SEMICOLON; PAUL SIMON, PAULA COLE
    8. (Post multiple hints) HASHTAG; GASH, HAT, BISHOP
    9. CAPS LOCK; SPOCK, CAL
    10. SLASH; VIRGULE; VEIL, RUG
    DESSERT: PLUMBER, PLUNGER

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  14. forTune, cOLOnel, quesTIon > CHURCH
    PALM OLIVE
    Mark MILLEY, MILEY Cyrus
    OMAR BRADLEY
    VIN CENT PRICE
    Does OLEG (the Seer) belong on the list?
    SEINE LIMOGES
    SLASH/SPLASH?
    BACKWARD SPACE?
    APOSTROPHE > PASTOR, HOPE/ {STROP}
    AMPERSAND / TWIZZLER / AMPERE / SWITZERLAND
    PERIOD: PEQUOD, PENROD, PEAPOD
    SIMON, COLE > SEMICOLON
    A BISHOP’s HAT has a GASH in it? #tricky
    There’s no CAPS LOCK on my Chromebook keyboard; how can I live long and prosper that way?
    SLASH, VIRGULE, VEIL, RUG
    PLUMBER / PLUNGER [which somehow makes me think of TOLOTI] [and I’m not exactly sure what a plateful of ICHTHUS would be doing in a church]

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  15. Schpuzzle: CHURCH (T in naTure, OLO in cOLOnel, TI in acTIon)

    Appetizers
    1: MAPLE syrup, CACAO powder, CASHEW nuts, COCONUT, BEECH-Nut baby food (kitchen); PINE-Sol (kitchen or bath); GINKGO BILOBA extract (bath)
    2: Genl. Mark MILLEY, MILEY Cyrus
    3: OMAR BRADLEY, Bradley Fighting Vehicle
    4: VINCENT PRICE

    Slice: They are all anagrams of modern Russian/Soviet leaders: PUTIN, STALIN, LENIN, MALENKOV

    Entrées
    #1: SEINE, LIMOGES → SIMEON SEIGEL hint: SEINE → VIENNE, LIMOGES
    #2: BRK (Break) + A (command HEY or STAY) → BARK (PAUSE sounds like PAWS) [specific key from VT Monday hint. Already had the sound, pre-hint.]
    #3: BACKSPACE + WARD → BACKWARD SPACE
    #4: APOSTROPHE → PASTOR, HOPE (hint: STROP)
    #5: AMPERSAND → AMPERE + TWIZZLER → SWITZERLAND
    #6: PERIOD – RI + QU → PEQUOD; + NR → PENROD; +AP → PEAPOD
    #7: Paula COLE, Paul SIMON → SEMICOLON
    #8: HASHTAG → TAG SHAH (any piece that takes a chess king)
    #9: CAPS LOCK → CALifornia, SPOCK
    #10: SLASH and burn, VIRGULE – VEIL, RUG

    Dessert: PLUMBER – M,B + N,G → PLUNGER

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  16. SCHPUZZLE: FOR[T]UNE, C[OLO]NEL => CH/UR/CH [Altho I don’t get how to turn “TI” into “CH”]

    APPETIZERS:

    1. OLIVE OIL, ALMOND EXTRACT, EXTRACT, LEMON JUICE or EXTRACT, ORANGE EXTRACT, PINE (SOL)

    2. MILEY CYRUS; GEN MARK MILLEY

    3. OMAR BRADLEY [M2]

    4. VIN/CENT PRICE

    SLICE: SOVIET TYRANTS: PUTIN, STALIN, LENIN; MELNOVAK = MALENKOV [Never ever heard of this guy] And Geo’s clever notice of IN STYLE => YELTSIN

    ENTREES:

    1. SEINE & LIMOGES => SIMEON SEIGEL [Hint: Vinna River]

    2. SLASH + P => SPLASH

    3. OPTION => OP/SIENNA/TION => OBSCENE NATION?

    4. APOSTROPHE => PASTOR; HOPE [Hint: STROP]

    5. AMPERSAND & TWIZZLER => AMPERS/TWIZZLER/AND => AMPERE & STWIZZLERAND => SWITZERLAND => AMPERE & SWITZERLAND

    6. PERIOD => PEQUOD, PENROD, PEAPOD [CUE = QU, NATIONAL REVIEW = NR, NY NEWS AGENCY = A.P.]

    7. SIMON & COLE => SEMICOLON

    8. HASHTAG => HAT GASH => BISHOP [I actually HAD this symbol picked out, pre-hint, but got stuck on “HAS HAT” not using the “G”.]

    9. CAPSLOCK => SPOCK & CAL

    10. SLASH BURN; VIRGULE => VEIL & RUG

    DESSERT: PLUMBER => PLUNGER

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  17. Schpuzzle
    CHURCH(T in FORTUNE+OLO in COLONEL+TI in QUESTION)
    Appetizer Menu
    1. PALMOLIVE(My first thought was PINE SOL.)
    2. MILEY CYRUS, GEN. MARK MILLEY(Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
    3. OMAR BRADLEY, BRADLEY FIGHTING VEHICLE
    4.
    (1.)PRICE
    (2.)VIN
    (3.)CENT
    VINCENT PRICE
    Menu
    Offputting Inputting Slice
    Anagrams of Soviet Leaders:
    INPUT=(Vladimir)PUTIN
    LATINS=(Joseph)STALIN
    LINEN=(Vladimir)LENIN
    MEL NOVAK=(Georgy)MALENKOV
    Entrees
    1. SEINE+LIMOGES=SIMEON SEIGEL, VIENNE
    2. We are not of one mind on this one, and I'm not sure about either ideas suggested. So I have nothing here. Same goes for whatever SDB had in mind for #3.
    4. APOSTROPHE, PASTOR, HOPE
    5. AMPERSAND, (Andre-Marie)AMPERE, TWIZZLER, SWITZERLAND(bordering France)
    6. PERIOD
    A1. QU(cue)
    B1. NR(National Review)
    C1. AP(Associated Press)
    A2. PEQUOD("Moby Dick")
    B2. PENROD
    C2. PEAPOD
    7. SIMON+COLE=SEMICOLON
    8. HASHTAG, HAT GASH, BISHOP, STROP
    9. CAPS LOCK, SPOCK(Star Trek), CAL.(California, where Leonard Nimoy lived)
    10. SLASH(and burn), VIRGULE, VEIL, RUG
    Dessert
    PLUMBER, PLUNGER
    Masked Singer Results:
    DINOSAUR BRIDE=CHRIS JERICHO(pro-wrestler)
    AVOCADO=ADAM CAROLLA
    SNOWSTORM goes on through to next week.
    Stop me if you've heard this: Tonight's theme was "Comedy Roast Night".
    pjbOnceKnewAManWhoHadAllCaps,ButNoHats(SomewhatFittingComputerKeyboardJoke,Y'AllMayNowGroan)




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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    Fishy platefuls and paintings
    The word “fish” may be respelled phonetically as G-H-O-T-I, “ghoti” (using the sounds of GH from lauGH, O from wOmen, and TI from naTIon).
    Using a similar translation method, a “toloti,” T-O-L-O-T-I, is where you might find paintings of fish or platefuls of fish.
    What is a “toloti?”
    Answer:
    CHURCH (which serves platefuls of fish during Lenten fish fries, and displays symbolic paintings of fish in the worship space)
    forTune+cOLOnel+quesTIon = T+OLO+TI = TOLOTI = CHURCH
    Answer:
    CHURCH (which often displays symbolic paintings of fish in its worship space)
    Explanation: "forTune+cOLOnel+quesTIon" = T+OLO+TI = TOLOTI = CHURCH

    Appetizer Menu

    Lightning Round Appetizer:
    Seeking two trees and four folks
    Shower & sink... cedar & sycamore?
    1. Look in your bathroom and kitchen. Chances are good that the names of two trees can be easily found. What trees are they?
    Answer:
    Palm, Olive
    Note: The company name, Colgate-Palmolive, is found on its numerous cleaning and personal care products for the home.
    Name’s nearly the same
    2. Think of two famous people. One is an entertainer with a five-letter last name. The other is in the military and has a six-letter last name. Remove one of the double letters from the six-letter last name to get the FIRST name of the entertainer. Who are these people?
    Answer:
    Gen. Mark Milley (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff); Miley Cyrus
    “An Officer and an Eponym”
    An ably armored infantry transporter is named in honor of a well-known military officer. Identify the officer (4, 7) and the transporter. An anagram of the officer’s name appears in this puzzle.
    3. An ably armored infantry transporter is named in honor of a well-known military officer. Identify the officer (in four and seven letters) and the transporter.
    Note: An anagram of the officer’s name appears in this puzzle.
    Answer:
    Omar Bradley, Bradley Fighting Vehicle
    Note: "Ably armored" is an anagram of Omar Bradley.
    One actor, three prime factors
    4. Take the full name (first and last, in seven and five letters) of a well-known 20th century actor. This name contains three syllables. To find them, unravel the following clues and put them in the correct order.
    1. An important tag
    2. A French consumable (Something consumed in France)
    3. A coin
    What are the syllables? Who is the actor?
    Answer:
    Price (tag), Vin (French word for "wine), cent (as in, penny)

    MENU
    Offputting Inputting Slice:
    “Linen Latin Lupe Lu!”
    What do the words, “input,” “Latins,” and “linen,” and the name Mel Novak (an actor) have in common?
    Answer:
    2. Each is an anagram of a Russian leader's surname:
    INPUT=> Vladimir PUTIN (May 7, 2012 – Present)
    LATINS=> Joseph STALIN (January 21, 1924 — March 5, 1953)
    LINEN=> Vladimir LENIN (November 8, 1917 — January 21, 1924)
    MEL NOVAK=> Georgy MALENKOV (March 5, 1953 — September 7, 1953)
    What do the words, "input," "Latins," and "linen," and the name Mel Novak, an actor, have in common?
    Answer:
    Each is an anagram of a Russian leader:
    INPUT=> Vladimir PUTIN (May 7, 2012 – Present)
    LATINS=> Joseph STALIN (January 21, 1924 — March 5, 1953)
    LINEN=> Vladimir LENIN (November 8, 1917 — January 21, 1924)
    MEL NOVAK=> Georgy MALENKOV (March 5, 1953 — September 7, 1953)

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Seigel Slices:
    Punchin’ punctuation into the ’puter

    ENTREE #1
    Name a well-known French river, and a French city that “starts with a car.”
    Anagram the combined letters of these names to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.
    What are the names of this river, city and puzzle-maker?
    Hint: Take the French river. ROT 3 its first letter, reverse the order of its second and third letters, and double its fourth letter to name the river upon which the French city is situated.
    Answer:
    Seine Limoges, Simeon Seigel;
    Hint: Limoges is situated on the Vienne River
    Note: The following Riff, Entree #2, was created and submitted by a friend and “A Fan of Puzzleria!”
    ENTREE #2
    Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside insert a letter which looks like something that when shouted sounds like a command. The result will be a sound made by obeying that command. What words and letter are these?
    Answer:
    SLASH; Insert P which looks like the Greek letter RHO and which when shouted sounds like ROW!; the result will be the sound SPLASH
    Note: The following Riff, Entree #2, was created and submitted by our friend skydiveboy.
    ENTREE #3
    Name a keyboard key and then insert a word. You will describe what might be a fitting two-word description of several right-wing countries today, beginning with the United States.
    What are this keyboard key, inserted word, and two-word description?
    Answer:
    CAPS, NATION, "CAP NATIONS"
    ENTREE #4
    Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Anagram the first six letters to spell “a shepherd of a human flock.” Anagram the remaining letters to spell a virtue the shephard might encourage his flock to adopt.
    What are the punctuation mark and two anagrammed words?
    Hint: Somewhere inside this punctuation-mark word is a “honer” made of leather.
    Answer:
    apostrophe, pastor, hope
    Hint: "Strop" is a leather "honer."
    ENTREE #5
    Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside this, insert the brand name of a flexible stick of red candy, forming a 17-letter string.
    After the fifth letter, add an “e” and a space.
    Take the 12 letters after the space. Move the second and seventh letters two places to the right, then delete either the fifth or sixth letter.
    The result is an eponymous unit of electrical current and the name of a country bordering the homeland of the person after whom the unit was named.
    What is this punctuation mark?
    What is the brand name of candy?
    What are the unit of electical current and the country?
    Answer:
    Ampersand; Twizzler; Ampere; Switzerland
    Ampersand=>AmpersTwizzlerand=>Ampere sTwizzlerand=>Ampere Switzerland
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  20. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Seigel Slices, continued:
    ENTREE #6
    Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Its middle two letters are a state postal abbreviation. Replace them with two letters:
    A. that sound like what a fellow thespian might do if you forget your lines
    B. William F. Buckley’s magazine, for short, and
    C. a New York City-based news agency,
    to form:
    A. a storied vessel equipped with harpoons,
    B. Booth Tarkington’s “Tom Sawyer,” and
    C. a clinker-built open double-ended boat used for fishing in Maine.
    What is this punctuation mark?
    What are the trio of two-letter replacements?
    What are the vessel, Tarkington’s “Tom Sawyer,” and the clinker-built fishing boat?
    Answer:
    Period; QU ("cue you"), NR (National Review), AP (Associated Press);
    Pequod, "Penrod," Peapod
    ENTREE #7
    Take the surnames of living contemporary pop Grammy-winning singer-songwriters named Paul and Paula. Anagram the combined letters of their surnames to spell a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard (or anywhere else the written word in printed).
    What punctuation mark is this?
    Who are the singers?
    Answer:
    Semicolon; Paul Simon, Paula Cole
    ENTREE #8
    Anagram the letters of a word for a symbol of a key on a computer keyboard to spell two words of 3 and 4 letters that descibe a characteristic of a chess piece.
    What is this punctuation mark?
    What are the two words and the chess piece?
    Answer:
    Hashtag; hat gash; bishop (the gash in the bishop chess piece is reminiscent of a church bishop's mitered hat)
    ENTREE #9
    Anagram the letters of a key found on a computer keyboard to name the surname of an iconic science fiction character and the three-letter abbreviation of a U.S. state that was the primary residence of the actor who portrayed the character.
    What words are on this keyboard key?
    What are the character’s surname and the primary residence of the actor?
    Answer:
    CAPS LOCK; Spock, Cal. (The primary residence of Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed Mr. Spock, was California)
    ENTREE #10
    Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. It is a five-letter word paired with “burn” in a phrase for a farming method that involves the annihilation of plants in a woodland to create a field called a “swidden.”
    Now take a seven-letter synonym of this punctuation mark that etymologically means “little twig.” Anagram this word to spell two cloth coverings — one for the face and another for the floor.
    What are the word paired with “burn,” the seven-letter synonym, and the two cloth coverings?
    Answer:
    Slash, Virgule; Veil, Rug

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  21. This week's official answers for the record, part 4:

    Dessert Menu

    Professional Dessert:
    What’s this tool of the trade?
    Take a word for a professional person.
    Move the fouth letter one place later in the alphabet and the fifth letter five places later. The result is a tool this person might use.
    Who is the professional person?
    What is this tool?
    Answer:
    Plunger, (Plumber)

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