Friday, November 18, 2022

Tonic for illnesses chronic? Walking and waltzing underwater; Dashing past a haberdashery; “True fiction,” “sharp dullard” & other oxymorons; “Numbers that add up to themselves”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“True fiction,” “sharp dullard” & other oxymorons

Find a two-word oxymoron – like, for example, “true fiction” or “civil war.”  
In this oxymoron, however, the two words begin with the same four letters in the same order. 

What is this oxymoron?

Hint: Each word in this oxymoron contains two words for things you can hear. 

A few examples of words that contain two words you can hear are racketeering” and violating.

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Alphanumeric Appetizer:

“Numbers that add up to themselves”

1.>💯Suppose A=1, B=2, C=3, ..., Z=26. 

What numbers add up to themselves if “and” is used in numbers greater than 100? (For example, 121 = one hundred and twenty-one.)

2.💯What numbers add up to themselves if “and” is not used in numbers greater than 100? (For example, 121 = one hundred twenty-one.)

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Amphibious Slice:

Walking and waltzing underwater 

A two-word amphibian is capable of taking steps, according to its three-word nickname.

Take the second word  in this amphibian’s two-word name. Delete its first and final letters. 

Then replace a one-letter English article with a two-letter French article, forming a dance step.

What are this two-word amphibian, three word nickname and this dance step?

Riffing Off Shortz, Baggish And Fogarty Slices:

Dashing past a haberdashery

Will Shortz’s November 13th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created independently by Steve Baggish and Neville Fogarty, reads:

Think of two well-known companies with two-
syllable names starting with J and D, respectively and whose names rhyme. One of these companies was founded in the last 10 years. What companies are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz, Baggish And Fogarty Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of two well-known clothing companies, one containing three letters and the other containing five letters and an apostrophe. Also name a four-letter opening in the lower part of a seam of a denim jacket, jeans or skirt that
these companies manufacture. Anagram these 12 combined letters to  spell the first names of two puzzle-makers.

What companies are these, and what is the four-letter opening in a seam?

Who are the puzzle-makers

Note: Entrees #2 and #3 were created by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Pictured here is the “caterpillaresque” Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. You can visit it in a city smack-dab in the middle of America’s heartland, a two-word city that people sometimes shorten by using just its two initial letters. 

In the foreground is one of 1,700 restaurants in a worldwide chain. Local folks sometimes refer to this restaurant with the initial letters of the city followed by the six-letter name of the chain.

Remove the last letter from how the locals sometimes refer to the restaurant. The result rhymes with a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

How do local folks refer to the restaurant?

What is the American department store chain?

ENTREE #3

Take the brand name of the vehicle pictured here, in six letters and two syllables. 

Then, given the type of race in which the vehicle is competing, give a two-word description of the vehicle that rhymes with its brand name.

What are this brand name and description?

ENTREE #4

Think of two well-known companies – one in healthcare industry, the other in the pharmaceutical industry – with two-syllable names starting with K and P. These two names rhyme. 

What companies are these?

ENTREE #5

Think of a well-known insurance company with a two-syllable name that rhymes with the the two-word name of a Midwestern university.
The first letter of the company and the first letter of the first word in the university are consecutive in the alphabet. What company and university are these?

ENTREE #6

Name an American multinational financial services company in two words. These words rhyme with a verb and noun that describe what American Salvage Liquidators does.

What company are these?

ENTREE #7 

Think of two well-known companies with two-syllable names starting with J and D, and whose names rhyme. 

Choose either word and replace its J or D with a G and place a space between the syllables.
The result will sound like a could-have-been Democratic presidential ticket had the “top of the ticket” chosen the chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee instead of a Democrat who later endorsed John McCain for president at a Republican National Convention.

What companies are these?

What is the could-have-been Democratic presidential ticket?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word American retail company with over 1,400 stores in 47 states. Remove the space to form a seven-letter string. 

The result of this “space removal is not a word found in dictionaries. But, if it were a word, it would mean “people who can speak or write in two languages.”

What are this retail company and the “word that is absent from dictionaries?”

ENTREE #9

Think of a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935. 

Replace one letter with the letter four places later in the alphabet to spell an art of weaponless fighting employing holds, throws, and paralyzing blows to subdue or disable an opponent.

What are this corporation and martial art?

ENTREE #10

Think of the surname of a Wailer named Peter (along with Bunny and Bob) and the surname of a hoops legend named Henry. 

These surnames, together, spell the name of a Japanese multinational conglomerate
corporation that was once one of the biggest manufacturers of personal computers, consumer electronics, home appliances, and medical equipment. 

What corporation is this?

Who were the Wailer and hoops legend?

ENTREE #11

Think of an American clothing company, founded about a half-century ago, known for its designer jeans. Divide it in half. 

ROT 21 the first letter of the first half and ROT 9 the remaining letters of the first half to form a word for what you might schedule with a doctor if you are suffering from the second half of the company’s name.

What is this company?

What might you schedule?

What are you suffering from?

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Surgical Dessert:

Tonic for illnesses chronic?

Surgery was made safer thanks to a 19-century medical breakthrough. 

Rearrange its letters to spell the surname of the man responsible for this breakthrough and something he frequently conducted to achieve it. 

Who is this man and what did he conduct?

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50 comments:

  1. I've just been fruitlessly trying to work out the Dessert, which I had thought was going to be easy, but no name I can find is deducible from the medical discovery associated with it. Most frustrating.

    The Entrees were not too difficult, although #11 took me longer than it should have (DUH)....and I had to use a 'google device' to solve #3.

    As usual, I've no idea on the Schpuzzle, but did manage to solve the Slice, for a change!

    Most of my time was spent trying Bobby's Appetizers, literally grinding out sums; but sadly, I have not yet come up with any definitive answers.

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  2. Good Turkey Week's Eve y'all!
    I almost forgot I hadn't posted a comment here! I was waiting for my Kindle to recharge and I listened to a few tunes on my phone, and it just slipped my mind. So here's comment No. 3.
    Mom and I went out with Bryan and Renae and Morgan, Maddy, and Leann and Ed's daughter Ava, to Cracker Barrel. Imagine my surprise to learn Renae's brother David's daughter Katelyn works there now! I almost thought she was joining us for supper, but then I noticed she was actually wearing a Cracker Barrel uniform. I didn't even know she had gotten a job there, or was even planning to get a job there, but there she was. Now, if anyone else here has ever been to a Cracker Barrel, you know you walk right into their store at the entrance. Good thing they have that, because you do have to wait a little before they call your party's name, so it's good to spend a little time browsing at all the stuff they have(toys, candy, clothes, books, records, etc.). Finally they called our name, we went in, were seated, ordered, ate, drank, had a good time. A few things though: Mom ordered chicken and dumplings, but the waitress said they were out, and I ordered a cup of soup, and she said no to that. Mom changed her order to roast beef, and I just had my two sides with what I ordered: "Country Fried(or Chicken Fried)Turkey"! And it was good, too! Bryan's going to fry a turkey next week, so if that isn't any good, at least I had some good turkey tonight. My sides were country green beans and bacon mac 'n' cheese, with Coke Zero Sugar to drink. The turkey was a "Seasonal Favorite", according to their menu(a special menu, not the usual one). Another SF is their Cinnamon Roll Pie, but no one had dessert. Sure looked good, though. I don't remember what everybody had, but I do know Morgan had the "Chicken and French Toast", which sounds like an unusual combination, but if you've ever heard of places where they serve chicken and waffles, it's pretty much in the same vein. Even stranger than that was what little Ava had: A big bowl of(I think)Fruity Pebbles---for SUPPER! I hadn't really even seen the kid's menu as I was ordering, but who knew that could be an actual choice?! Oh, to be that young again! After we were done, Leann met us back at the store and took Ava home. Then we all left.
    BTW Mia Kate couldn't be there because she was at dress rehearsal for a ballet based on "The Nutcracker", which we're going to see tomorrow night at 7:00, possibly until 8:30. It promises to be fun!
    After we got home, Mom caught the end of "Pyramid" on GSN and then watched the news and whatever else afterward until she went to bed. I did my usual puzzles(before my Kindle totally ran out), then played a few tunes as I said before, then remembered to do this, so here I am.
    Now for my progress this week:
    I pretty much had the most luck with the Entrees. Got 'em all. Surprisingly, on "The Chase" this afternoon, one of the questions reminded me of #8. Can't really say more than this, lest it be TMI. And yes, Bobby, you are on Puzzleria!, but I'm not really thrilled you have two math puzzles. No offense, it's just never been my subject. I hope you understand, and that you'll offer hints to help me solve them. The Schpuzzle and Dessert both proved to be harder than I thought. As for the Amphibious Slice, I was never able to find the three-word nickname, but I did manage to get the dance step from the second word, so as far as I'm concerned, I've "solved" that one in the sense that(not to give anything away here)the second word can really stand alone as an amphibian, and if anything, Lego will have to "narrow it down" for me with a hint or two. So it goes without saying at this point that, yes, hints will be necessary.
    Good luck in solving to all, please stay safe, and may we all have a great Thanksgiving next Thursday! Cranberry(not to be confused with the sauce they gave me with my turkey)Out!
    pjbTastedItTwice,AndTheSecondTimeItsAftertasteKickedIn(Ick!)

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  3. We are also going to a "Nutcracker" rehearsal tonight for Norah our ten year old Granddaughter. Lots of frost this AM. I imagine for you too.

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  4. Hi, everyone. Lots of stumpers for me this week. The Entrees were fine, but I'm not doing well with the rest of it. I thought I was getting somewhere with the Dessert, but apparently not. I came up with an answer for the Slice that I'm not happy with since the first word of the nickname is the first word of the amphibian. I haven't even tried to solve Bobby's Appetizers yet.

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    1. Ah, have it now! Got about halfway there without the trick. Don’t know if that was intentional or not

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    2. Tortie, et al:
      The Dessert is what many might call an "unfair" puzzle. I sent it to NPR last February and it was rejected, likely because it indeed is unfair.
      That is to say, there is a "trick" to solving it.

      LegoWhoSuggestsThatYouSurgicallyRemoveTheFirstSentenceOfThePuzzleText

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  5. That sounds like a syllableectomy.

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  6. It seems these trick puzzles often involve anagrams.

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  7. Hints:

    1. There are two numbers, and one of them is prime. They are very close, but they have different numbers of digits in binary.

    2. You have probably not solved this puzzle yet.

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    1. Thanks for those fine hints, Bobby. I especially like your hint for #2.

      LegoWhoWillBeProvidingHintsAnon(ButNotAnonymously)

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    2. Bobby, thank you for the hints. I was in the middle of solving the Appetizers. I had solved App #1, but #2 was leading nowhere. I now have an answer for App #2 as well.

      Now all I have left to do is the Schpuzzle, and perhaps a better answer for the Slice.

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    3. 1. 251 is prime. In binary, 251=11111011 and 259=100000011.

      2. There are no solutions.

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  8. This just actually happened on a "Family Feud" rerun a few minutes ago:
    Question: When a farmer makes love, what animal does his wife compare him to?
    Actual Answer Given(by Freddie, of the Parker family): Spaghetti.
    Freddie's Actual Reasoning: "Spaghetti is an animal that we know nothing about."
    Rest of the Family: "Good answer! Good answer!"
    I could not make this up if there were a two-week Sunday Puzzle challenge in which we had to do so.
    pjbWon'tEvenBringUpTheOtherQuestionWhereSomeoneGaveTheAnswer"HaveSex",AndItAppearedOnTheBoardAs"LassoTheLizard"!

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  9. Sunday Evening Hints:
    (Note: Bobby Jacobs has provided excellent hints to his "Puzzle Fun" Appetizers in his November 20, 2022 at 11:28 AM post on this Comments page.)
    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    "The same four letters in the same order" (with which the two words begin) also appear in that order in a 5-letter word you might hear on a weather forecast.

    Amphibious Slice:
    The first word of the two-word amphibian contains three tic-tac-toe letters. The first word in the three-word nickname also contains one. The other three words contain no such letters.
    Square dancers do the dance step.

    Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish And Fogarty Slices:
    Dashing past a haberdashery
    ENTREE #1
    The two well-known clothing companies: "The working-guys-and-gals Jordache?"
    ENTREE #2
    The "city smack-dab in the middle of America’s heartland" has "some crazy little women there" supposedly.
    ENTREE #3
    That automobile is a beast! But the race is kind of a downer... or, as the buckinghams might put it, "kind of a..."
    ENTREE #4
    These healthcare and pharmaceutical companies also rhyme with a "royal" beer brand.
    ENTREE #5
    David Letterman
    ENTREE #6
    Stagecoach logo
    ENTREE #7
    "Jorlieberman Jeans?"
    ENTREE #8
    Is a person who conducts a blog a "blogger" or a "blogist"?
    ENTREE #9
    The Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation = a Mount+Mr. Eliot+Mr. Thant.
    ENTREE #10
    "I wore this boa on his boat!"
    ENTREE #11
    The first four letters of an the American clothing company and the second four letters of the company, considered as two words, rhyme with "poured cake."

    Surgical Dessert:
    Rearrange its letters...

    LegoABlogistWhoHasn'tTheFoggiest

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    1. Am happy to say I had had the correct Dessert person, just could never work backwards to a medical invention.

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    2. And I've finally come up with a Schpuzzle answer which may well be completely wrong....but I think I can talk myself into the two words (which meet all the hints) constituting an oxymoron.

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  10. I watched part of the AMA awards last night. Some of these group i had never heard of- such as "Lil Baby." And who knew an Italian rock group named Maneskin would win best rock album.They wore some bizarre outifts like garter belts for men? Awkward. I was hoping to get some puzzle idea. I think i have one. I did not realize Taylor Swift is such a poised and articulate young lady. I have to say -and please forgive me -that Pink who i dearly love - did not come close to Olive Newton John's rendition of " Devoted to you." Her voice does not have the timbre and sustain and sweet note of Olivia. RIP. But i still love Pink. But i had never heard of half of these new folks.

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  11. Slice: Can a lizard also be an amphibian? Not sure about this.

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  12. Lego, thanks for the hints! I now have the Slice (came up with a good alternate first time around), but Schpuzzle still eludes. I feel like I may know what the first four letters are, but can't get anywhere so far.

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    1. The oxymoron has 7 and 9 letters, adjective and noun. It is an oxymoron I made up... I never heard of it until I came up with it.
      The first three letters of each word spell a word "for a thing you hear."
      The last four letters of the adjective spell a thing you hear.
      The fourth-through-seventh letters of the noun spell a thing you hear.
      "Dull" is a synomym of the adjective.
      "Doozy" is a synonym of ther noun.
      Hope this helps.

      LegoWhoConcludes"ThereforeDullDoozyMustAlsoBeAnOxymoron!

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    2. OOh, I got it.Actually, I had earlier come up with the seven-letter adjective, but not the noun.

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    3. I have the answer now as well. As it turns out, I had the right five-letter weather term, but was using the wrong four letters.

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  13. Current Progress:
    Schpuzzle: "Dull" and "doozy" did it for me. Didn't even need to look them up, the words just came to me.
    Slice: Finally got the first word of the amphibian's name, as well as the three-word nickname.
    Dessert: Found a variant of what the answer must be, but can't find your(assumed)spelling of it anywhere. You may be the one misspelling it.
    pjbHasUsedAProductThatBearsTheDessert'sCreator'sName,ButIt'sCertainlyNotThe"Breakthrough"InQuestion!

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    1. pjb, are you using the trick? There are no misspellings in the answer.

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    2. I can assure you I am not finding anything using the letters "its letters". I've found the name of the man who invented whatever it is, as well as what he would be conducting. But the word itself I cannot seem to find. Is there some site I should be locating that would definitely have this word? What letter does it start with? I assumed it was an S, but I could be(most likely)wrong.
      pjbAlsoFoundOutAboutADoctor'sAppointmentTomorrowAfternoonAt2:00,SoHeDoesn'tNeedToBeBotheredWithStillTryingToGetThisElusiveAnswerRightNow!

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  14. E5. Is Denison University where Denison chili was invented? My favorite winter meal.

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    1. And you can get that at what restaurant? Although nowadays i prefer the Waffle House Brand. I think it is called Bert's chili.
      You have a first edition Tennyson?

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    2. Well, no, Plantsmith. No first-edition Tennyson. That was just a bit of poetic license (which is about to expire). But I do have a First Edition Kenny Rogers!

      LegWhoAddsThatAlasHeAlsoHasA"LastLegsEditionAaronRodgers"

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  15. And you can't get Dennison's here. I had to bring back like 20 cans in my suitcase. I had to explain to TSA what i was doing.

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  16. Puzzle answers:
    Schpuzzle: (post hints) HUMDRUM HUMDINGER (hint: HUMID; I was trying to come up with words that start with “HUMI”)
    App:
    1. 251, 259
    2. (Post hint) 69 (LXIX in Roman numerals) (don’t know if there are additional answers)
    Slice: (post hint) AXOLOTL SALAMANDER (only have heard of AXOLOTL used by itself before, not with SALAMANDER); MEXICAN WALKING FISH; ALLEMANDE (pre hint: BUMBLEBEE TOAD; BUMBLEBEE WALKING TOAD; OLE)
    Entrees:
    1. LEE, LEVI’S, VENT; STEVE BAGGISH & NEVILLE FOGARTY
    2. K. C. Denny’s; JCPenneys (note: if you look on Google Maps, this Denny’s is no longer there. It’s just a vacant lot now)
    3. JAGUAR, DRAG CAR
    4. KAISER, PFIZER
    5. ALLSTATE, BALL STATE
    6. WELLS FARGO (SELLS CARGO)
    7. JORDACHE & DOORDASH; GORE/(Samuel) DASH
    8. BIG LOTS, BIGLOTS
    9. FUJITSU, JUJITSU
    10. TOSHIBA, PETER TOSH, HENRY IBA
    11. JORDACHE, EXAM, ACHE
    Dessert: (post hint) LISTER, TEST (had LISTER early on, kept trying STERILIZATION or another form of that to no avail.)

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    1. Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate it!

      FYI, I solved Bobby's App 1 by using Excel. First, I printed out all the row numbers in a separate column (not necessary, but I think it kept things cleaner.) Then I used a module I found that wrote out the numbers. I separated each number written out into separate cells. I then copied all of the written out cells and pasted them in as values. I then found all of the blanks in those cells, and replaced them with "@". I then used the following formula for each cell (CODE(CELL)-64). @= ASCII 64, A = ASCII 65, etc. I added all those up, and compared them to the row numbers.

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    2. Very interesting insight into a solving process that is completely Greek to me (well, I actually do know a smattering of Greek, so...) that is completely Swahili to me!
      My compliments to you, Tortitude, on your Excellent solving skills.

      LegoWhoSolvesMathPuzzlesUsing"Medioc"WhichIsShortFor"Mediocre"

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    3. Thanks!

      Now that I think of it, LXIX is really kind of solving a different puzzle. I guess because Roman numerals are letters, I considered them to be "spelled out."

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  17. I actually did find an answer for #2!

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  18. Schpuzzle: HUMDRUM HUMDINGER [post-Tues-hint]. Originally, I made the same error as Tortitude.

    Appetizers
    1: 251 (prime); 259 ( = 7 × 37 ). I had to write a small program to solve this. The progrm was similar to what Tortitude did, but in place of the ASCII values I made a A-Z, 1-26 list and used VLOOKUP to find the appropriate individual letter values and then summed them up.

    2: The program found no positive integers below 500 that conform to the criterion. Integers >300 are all greater than the sum of the letter values, so no checking is necessary. 219 is 218 and 253 is 254 by letter values – closest ones.

    Slice: COMMON MUD PUPPY? (LONG-TOED?) SALAMANDER – S,R; – A + LE → ALLEMANDE dance step
    post-Sun-hint: AXOLOTL SALAMANDER, MEXICAN WALKING FISH – transformation as above.

    Entrées
    #1: STEVE, NEVILLE → LEVI'S, LEE, VENT
    #2: KANSAS CITY, MO; KC DENNY'S→ JCPENNEY
    #3: JAGUAR, DRAG (race) CAR
    #4: KAISER Permanente, PFIZER Pharmaceuticals
    #5: ALLSTATE, BALL STATE
    #6: STATE FARM, RATE HARM
    #7: JORDACHE → Al GORE + Samuel DASH
    #8: BIG LOTS → BIGLOTS (“bi-glots”)
    #9: FUJITSU → JUJITSU
    #10: Peter TOSH, Henry IBA → TOSHIBA
    #11: JORDACHE → EXAM, ACHE

    Dessert: Anagram ITS LETTERS → Joseph LISTER, TEST or STET

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  19. 11/22/22- 65 degrees.
    Schpuzzle?
    Apps.
    Slice -Axotl Salamander, Mexican WAlking Fish, Alamande- Allemande- A-le.

    Entrees:
    1. Lee, Levis, Vent;
    2. K. C.Denny’s, J.C.Penneys
    3. Jaguar, Drag Car
    4. Kaiser, Pfizer
    5, AllState, Ball State

    Dessert: It’s letters – Lister, Tests

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  20. SCHPUZZLE: HUMDRUM HUMDINGER, according to latest hint. [Prior day's idea: LOUDMOUTH'S LOUDSPEAKER [Hint: CLOUD]

    APPETIZER:

    1.

    ONE = 15 + 14 + 5 = 34 ELEVEN = 5 + 12 + 5 + 22 + 5 + 14 = 63.
    TWO = 20 + 23 + 15 = 58. TWELVE = 20 + 23 + 5 + 12 + 22 + 5 = 87.
    THREE = 20 + 8 + 18 + 5 + 5 = 56. THIRTEEN = 20 + 8 + 9 + 18 + 20 + 5 + 5 + 14 = 99.
    FOUR = 6 + 15 + 21 + 18 = 60. FOURTEEN = 60 + 44 = 104.
    FIVE = 6 + 9 + 22 + 5 = 42. FIFTEEN = 6 + 9 + 6 + 44 = 65.
    SIX = 19 + 9 + 24 = 52. SIXTEEN = 52 + 44 = 96.
    SEVEN = 19 + 5 + 22 + 5 + 14 = 65. SEVENTEEN = 65 + 44 = 109.
    EIGHT = 5 + 9 + 7 + 8 + 20 = 49. EIGHTEEN = 49 + 44 = 93.
    NINE = 14 + 9 + 14 + 5 = 42. NINETEEN = 42 + 44 = 86.
    TEN = 20 + 5 + 14 = 39.

    TWENTY= 20 + 2 + 5 + 14 + 29 + 25 = 95.
    THIRTY = 20 + 8 + 9+ 18 + 20 + 25 = 100.
    FORTY = 6 + 15 + 18 + 20 + 26 = 85.
    FIFTY = 6 + 9 + 6 + 20 + 25 = 66.
    SIXTY = 19 + 9 + 24 + 20 + 25 = 97.
    SEVENTY = 19 + 5 + 22 + 5 + 14 + 20 + 25 = 110.
    EIGHTY = 5 + 9 + 7 + 8 + 20 + 25 = 74.
    NINETY = 14 + 9 + 14 + 5 + 20 + 25 = 87.
    HUNDRED = 8 + 21 + 14 + 4 + 18 + 5 + 4 = 74.

    ‘AND’ = 1 + 14 + 4 = 19. Thus, ‘HUNDRED’ & ‘AND' = 74 + 19 = 93.

    Thus, ONE HUNDRED w/ ‘and’ = 34 + 93 = 127, which => ‘180' = 127 + 74 = 201, which is as close as I can find => NO way to reduce the overage.

    200 w/ ‘and’ = 58 + 93 = 151, i.e. 49 short. 215 = 151 + 65 = 216: is the closest I’ve come;
    300 w/ ‘and’ = 56 + 93 = 149, i.e. 151 short. 337 = 149 + 100 + 65 = 314, i.e. hence from here on, there's no way to make up the shortages.
    400 w/ ‘and’ = 60 + 93 = 153, i.e. 247 short.
    500 w/ ‘and’ = 42 + 93 = 135, i.e. 365 short.
    600 w/ ‘and’ = 52 + 93 = 145, i.e. 455 short.
    700 w/ ‘and’ = 65 + 93 = 158, etc….

    SLICE: ALOLOTL SAL(A)MANDER i.e. [MEXICAN WALKING FISH] => AL(LE)MANDE

    ENTREES:

    1. LEE & LEVI’S & VENT => STEVE & NEVILLE

    2. K.C. DENNYS => KC DENNY => JC PENNEY

    3. JAGUAR => DRAG CAR

    4. KAISER & PFIZER

    5. BALL STATE & ALLSTATE

    6. WELLS FARGO => SELLS CARGO

    7. JORDACHE DOORDASH => GORE-DASH [Instead it was LIEBERMAN]

    8. BIGLOTS

    9. FUJITSU => JUJITSU

    10. [Peter] TOSH & Henry IBA => TOSHIBA

    11. JORD/ACHE => EXAM & ACHE

    DESSERT: ITS LETTERS => LISTER, TEST

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  21. Before I start, I just quickly glanced at what everyone else got for the Dessert, and no one's done any better than I have with it. Is it even supposed to be one word?
    Schpuzzle
    "HUMDRUM HUMDINGER"
    Sorry, Bobby. Couldn't figure out either one of yours.
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    Amphibious Slice
    AXOLOTL SALAMANDER, "MEXICAN WALKING FISH", ALLEMANDE
    Entrees
    1. LEE+LEVI'S+VENT=STEVE, NEVILLE(Baggish, Fogarty)
    2. KANSAS CITY(MO), K. C. DENNY'S, J. C. PENNEY
    3. JAGUAR, DRAG CAR
    4. KAISER(Permanente), PFIZER
    5. ALLSTATE, BALL STATE
    6. WELLS FARGO, SELLS CARGO
    7. JORDACHE, DOORDASH, GORE-DASH(Albert, Samuel)
    8. BIG LOTS, "BIGLOTS"
    9. FUJITSU, JU-JITSU
    10. TOSHIBA(Peter Tosh, Henry Iba)
    11. JORDACHE, EXAM, ACHE
    Dessert
    (Joseph)LISTER, TEST(We've all pretty much established this part. The closest thing I found with these letters, but minus one T, is the word STERILETS, which is the plural form for a contraceptive device used by women, also known as an IUD, or intrauterine device. But I know this has nothing, probably, to do with making surgery safer. Or that it has nothing to do with Joseph Lister either. Let's all hope Lego can explain it all later. Right now, just be thankful we no longer have to fool with it anymore.)
    Masked Singer Results:
    SCARECROW=LINDA BLAIR(actually bowed out of the contest just before the "Battle Royale")
    SIR BUG A BOO=RAY PARKER, JR.
    Happy Thanksgiving to all, and here's hoping no one becomes possessed by the Devil or finds ghosts in their home that need busting! BTW I'm just as surprised as you may be as to why they decided to do their "Fright Night" episode almost an entire month after Halloween. There will also be another episode tomorrow night at the same time(7:00pm CST).-pjb

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    1. pjb, as I mentioned earlier, you didn't have to mention the breakthrough: Who is this man and what did he conduct? The name of the breakthrough doesn't matter, just as long as you figure out Lister and Test from "its letters."

      TortieWhoMustEchoLego'sDescriptionThatThisIsAn"Unfair"Puzzle

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

    Schpuzzle of the Week:
    “True fiction,” “sharp dullard” & other oxymorons
    Find an oxymoron – like “true fiction” or “civil war” – whose two words begin with the same four letters in the same order. What is this oxymoron?
    Optional hint: Each word contains two words for things you hear.
    Answer:
    1. Humdrum humdinger;
    Hint: "Hum," "drum" and "ding" are things you hear.

    Appetizer Menu
    Alphanumeric Appetizer:
    “Numbers that add up to themselves”
    1. Suppose A=1, B=2, C=3, ..., Z=26. What numbers add up to themselves if “and” is used in numbers greater than 100?
    2. What numbers add up to themselves if “and” is not used in numbers greater than 100?
    Answers:
    1. 251 (two hundred and fifty-one), 259 (two hundred and fifty-nine)
    T+W+O+H+U+N+D+R+E+D+A+N+D+F+I+F+T+Y+O+N+E=20+23+15+8+21+14+4+18+5+4+1+14+4+6+9+6+20+25+15+14+5=251
    T+W+O+H+U+N+D+R+E+D+A+N+D+F+I+F+T+Y+N+I+N+E=20+23+15+8+21+14+4+18+5+4+1+14+4+6+9+6+20+25+14+9+14+5=259
    2. None.

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    Amphibious Slice:
    Walking and waltzing underwater
    A two-word amphibian is capable of taking steps, according to its three-word nickname.
    Take the second word in this amphibian's two-word name. Delete its first and final letters. Then replace a one-letter English article with a two-letter French article, forming a dance step.
    What are this two-word amphibian, three word nickname and this dance step?
    Answer:
    Axolotl Salamander; "Mexican walking fish," Allemande
    SALAMANDER=>ALAMANDE=>ALLEMANDE

    Lego...

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

    Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish And Fogarty Slices:
    Dashing past a haberdashery
    ENTREE #1
    Think of two well-known clothing companies, one containing three letters and the other containing five letters and an apostrophe. Also name a four-letter opening in the lower part of a seam of a denim jacket, jeans or skirt that these companies manufacture. Anagram these 12 combined letters to spell the first names of two puzzle-makers.
    What companies are these, and what is the four-letter opening in a seam?
    Who are the puzzle-makers
    Answer:
    Lee, Levi's, Vent; Steve Baggish, Neville Fogarty
    Note: Entrees #2 and #3 were created by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!
    ENTREE #2
    Pictured here is the “caterpillaresque” Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. You can visit it in a city smack-dab in the middle of America’s heartland, a two-word city that people sometimes shorten by using just its two initial letters. In the foreground is one of 1,700 restaurants in a worldwide chain. Locals sometimes refer to this restaurant with the initial letters of the city followed by the six-letter name of the chain.
    Remove the last letter of how how the locals sometimes refer to the restaurant. The result rhymes with a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.
    How to locals refer to the restaurant?
    What is the American department store chain?
    Answer:
    The KC Denny's (Kansas City); JCPenney
    ENTREE #3
    Take the brand name of the vehicle pictured here, in six letters and two syllables. Then, given the type of race in which the vehicle is competing, give a two-word description of the vehicle that rhymes with its brand name.
    What are this brand name and description?
    Answer:
    Jaguar; Drag car
    ENTREE #4
    Think of two well-known companies – one in healthcare industry, the other in the pharmaceutical industry – with two-syllable names starting with K and P whose names rhyme. What companies are these?
    Answer:
    Kaiser, Pfizer
    ENTREE #5
    Think of a well-known insurance company with a two-syllable name that rhymes with the the two-word name of a Midwestern university. The first letter of the company and the first letter of the first word in the university are consecutive in the alphabet. What company and university are these?
    Answer:
    Allstate; Ball State
    ENTREE #6
    Name an American multinational financial services company in two words. These words rhyme with a verb and noun that describe what American Salvage Liquidators does.
    https://americansalvageliquidators.com/
    What company are these?
    Answer:
    Wells Fargo; Sells Cargo

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  24. This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
    Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish And Fogarty Slices, continued:
    ENTREE #7
    Think of two well-known companies with two-syllable names starting with J and D, and whose names rhyme. Choose either word and replace its J or D with a G and place a space between the syllables. The result will sound like a could-have-been Democratic presidential ticket had the “top of the ticket” chosen the chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee instead of a Democrat who later endorsed John McCain for president at a Republican National Convention.
    What companies are these?
    What is the could-have-been Democratic presidential ticket?
    Answer:
    Door-Dash, Jor-dache; (Al) Gore (2000 Democratic presidential candidate); (Samuel) Dash
    ENTREE #8
    Name a two-word American retail company with over 1,400 stores in 47 states. Remove the space to form a seven-letter string. This is not a word, but if it were a word it would mean “people who can speak or write in two languages.”
    What are this retail company and the “word that is absent from dictionaries?”
    Answer:
    Big Lots; "biglots" (which is similar to "polyglots" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polyglot )
    ENTREE #9
    Think of a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935. Replace one letter with the letter four places later in the alphabet to spell an art of weaponless fighting employing holds, throws, and paralyzing blows to subdue or disable an opponent.
    What are this corporation and martial art?
    Answer:
    Fujitsu; jujitsu
    ENTREE #10
    Think of the surname of a Wailer named Peter (along with Bunny and Bob) and the surname of a hoops legend named Henry. These surnames, together, spell the name of a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation that was once one of the biggest manufacturers of personal computers, consumer electronics, home appliances, and medical equipment.
    What corporation is this?
    Who were the Wailer and hoops legend?
    Answer:
    Toshiba; (Peter) Tosh, (Henry) Iba
    ENTREE #11
    Think of an American clothing company, founded about a half-century ago, known for its designer jeans. Divide it in half. ROT 21 the first letter of the first half and ROT 9 the remaining letters of the first half to form a word for what you might schedule with a doctor if you are suffering from the second half of the company’s name.
    What is this company?
    What might you schedule?
    What are you suffering from?
    Answer:
    Jordache; (medical) exam, ache

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    Surgical Dessert:
    Tonic for illnesses chronic?
    Surgery was made safer thanks to a 19-century medical breakthrough. Rearrange its letters to spell the surname of the man responsible for this breakthrough and something he frequently performed to achieve it. Who is this man and what did he perform?
    Answer:
    Rearrange "its letters" to get "Lister" and "test."
    (Joseph) Lister, test; (ITS+LETTERS=>LISTER+TEST)
    The breakthrough Lister pioneered was surgical antisepsis.

    Lego!

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  25. Do they serve Dennisons at the Puerto Rican Dennys?
    (No but they have tortas)

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