Schpuzzle of the Week:
Icy idiomatic mixology
Take the last four words of a well-known idiom.
What are this two-word drink and this idiom?
Appetizer Menu
Stylish Strad-Steiff Appetizer:
Homographology 101 Pop Quiz
Instructions: In each of the first 20 problems below, each of the two parts is a synonym for, or clue to, the same word – a word that you must find. Such words are called “homographs,” that is, “words that have the same spelling but differ in origin, meaning, and sometimes pronunciation.”
Problem #21 is for extra credit!
Hint: In only one of the first 20 problems below are there homographs that are pronounced differently.
1. leg vs “baby moo”
2. nasty vs intend
3. slim vs skew
5. west vs went
6. fast vs flesh
7. foot vs only
8. doodle vs pull
9. toys vs jams up
10. brain vs object
11. here vs favor
13. mild expletive vs sew
14. tree vs long
15. rap vs weight
16. wool vs tale
17. near vs shut
18. stand vs Yellowstone animal
19. safe vs leap
20. roster vs stiff encasement vs mold
A note from “school principal” LegoLambda:
“Time’s up! Congratulations to all who completed ViolinTeddy’s homographology test. Please place your test papers face-down on her desk. Class dismissed.”
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American Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre:
Significant geography, insignificant humanity
Write in lowercase letters a significant and prominent two-word American geograpical feature.
Take the mirror image of the sixth letter. Place after it a letter that usually follows that letter.
Replace the third and fourth letters with a duplicate of the first letter. The result is a synonym of a whippersnapper or twerp.
What are this significant geograpical feature and synonym of a whippersnapper or twerp?
Gunplay, Swordplay, Wordplay
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Seychelles seashells by the seashore
Will Shortz’s September 17th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, California, reads:
Name a place where many people go for vacation, in three and ten letters. Change one of the vowels sounds from a long A to a long E, and the result phonetically will be one reason to visit this place. What place is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Take three words:
2. what people who seek forgiveness often do (5 letters), and
3. what people who seek forgiveness often ask for (5 letters).
Take these 19 letters. Replace an “r” with an “h”.
Rearrange the result to spell the surname and hometown of a puzzle-maker.
Who is this puzzle-maker, and what is his hometown?
What are the three words of 9, 5 and 5 letters?
Extra Credit: The hometown of this puzzle-maker is in the same state as La Cañada’s St. Bede Church, a consecrated place where many people go to seek forgiveness. Anagram a 9-letter word for such a place to spell a two-word phrase in 5 and 4 letters, that describes Mrs. Reed (in “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë) or Josephine March (in “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott).
Note: The following fourteen “self-riff-offs” of this week’s NPR puzzle (Entrees #2 through #15, below) were created by Greg VanMechelen, the author of that puzzle. These riffs reflect a global diversity, incorporating geographic locations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Australia/New Zealand. All “corners” of the “spherical” earth are represented.
ENTREE #2
Name an island you might visit for vacation.
Change a vowel sound and the result will sound like a body part.
What are this island and body part?
Name a country illegally attacked in the past by the US. Change a vowel sound and you’ll hear the name of a major big box retailer. What are this country and retailer?
Name a country that is an anagram of a two-word term for what the U.S. won in 1969. Change a vowel sound and the result will be a homonym for the last name of a major filmmaker. What did the US win in 1969, what is the country, and who is the filmmaker?
Name a place where you might have sought your fortune 125 years ago.
Change nothing and phonetically the result will be the popular shorthand name of an educational institution.
What are this place and shorthand institutional name?
Change a vowel sound in a world capital. The result will “give an audience” to a popular sport.
What are this capital and sport?
Change a vowel sound in a world capital.
Aurally, the result will be an historical coin from another country.
What are this capital and coin?
Change a vowel sound in a small but well-known US city.
The result will be an abbreviated term for a not-so-small animal that is not native to the US. What are this city and animal?
Name an island you might visit for vacation.
Change a vowel sound and the result will have an auditory resemblance to a well-known very affirmative phrase from a foreign tongue.
What are this island and phrase?
ENTREE #10
Change a vowel sound in a world capital. The result will verbally describe the fabulous place where a certain animal lived.
What are this capital and fabulous place?
Name a major city in the US.
Change the vowel sound and the result will sound like a major airport in the US.
What are this city and airport?
ENTREE #13
Change a vowel sound in a world capital. You’ll hear an animal associated with that country. What are the capital, country and associated animal?
ENTREE #15
Change a vowel sound from a “short a” to a “short i”. The result phonetically will be two locations: one preceded by east, the other by west.
What are this geographic feature and two locations?
ENTREE #16
Change one of the vowel sounds from a long A to a long O, and the result phonetically
will be a Ghirardelli chocolate and coffee-flavored milkshake that predated the frappuccino.
What are this isle and milkshake?
Name an African archipelago where many people go for vacation, in eight letters.
Replace the last two letters (that are pronounced like the letter “R”) with a rearrangement of the three letters in a synonym of “allow.” The result, more-or-less phonetically, will be a brand of men’s casual trousers that have a wide webbed elastic band sewn into the waist.
What archipelago is this?
What is the brand of trousers?
Note of apology: Entree #17 is kind of a “s-t-r-e-t-c-h.”
ENTREE #18
Name an American rapper, in five and four letters.
Remove two adjacent letters and switch the order of two others to name a popular vacation destination in the United States. What is this destination? Who is the rapper?
ENTREE #19
Name one of the “ABC” Caribbean Dutch islands where many people go for vacation, in five letters. Remove the middle letter.
Dessert Menu
Just Deserts Dessert:
Maritime crime and “punnish-ment”
Place these synonyms side-by-side to spell “a plot to commit a crime.”
What are these three crime-related words?
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Oops, Lego, there are TWO #3's in my Appetizers....if it was that way in the screen captures, I missed it, since they are a bit confusing having duplicates between the shots. Sorry...
ReplyDeleteDouble oops: there is also NO #11.
ReplyDeleteThank you, ViolinTeddy. And I apologize. I did some kind of "eleventh-hour shuffling" that messed up the order and numbers somehow.
ReplyDeleteBut I think it is back to where it should be now.
Incidentally, this is a wonderful Appetizer. My Gratitude to you.
LegoTheFallible
Whew, glad we got that all fixed, Lego. Thanks....
DeleteI should add that in trying to write down the answers for next Wed, I had to look them up, because I couldn't remember the solutions to my own puzzles!
DeleteAt the risk of doing too many comments all at the start, I'm happy to say I managed to solve the Schpuzzle, the Hors D'O, the Slice and the Dessert. Only 3 entrees so far (#1, 17 and 19), but I haven't even read Eco's yet. I can't make the rapper work out for #18m though....at least, the only rapper I know about with 3+4 letters.
ReplyDeleteI like all your comments, ViolinTeddy... or should I say "ViolinTedditor"... Why "ViolinTedditor?" Because the rapper in App #18 has five and four letters in his name, not three and four.
DeleteI have thus edited my text, thanks to you.
LegoWhoIsHavingTroubleWithNumbersThisWeek!
Well, that was certainly an ACCIDENTAL TEDDIT!!
DeleteNice job VT.
DeleteSo much busyness so early in the day! What will the sunrise bring?
ReplyDeleteRIFF-OFF: Take the name of an island vacation spot and change a vowel sound to name a Biblical figure. Name the island and the figure.
Hello all,
ReplyDeleteGood but maybe overambitious mix of puzzles this week.
Unrelated note wrt Entrée #1: geofan believes that the puzzler's name derives from the city where his paternal ancestors lived, as with the Vanderbilts, who came from de Bilt, a city in the Netherlands near Utrecht [the dative case after "van" changes "de" to "der"].
In the puzzler's case, the city is in Belgium between Brussels and Antwerpen.
Like Vandekamps?
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DeleteSee here A kamp originally was a fenced / enclosed piece of land.
DeleteRiffoff to the Entrées: Name an island where geofan spent several days on vacation in 1990. Change a vowel sound to obtain an informal affirmative reply in English.
ReplyDeleteIs it in the Blue Zone?
ReplyDeleteno (had to look up what 'blue zone' meant)
DeleteThere's a big Net Flix deal (series) on them now. But really who wants to have Minestrone 5 days a week?
DeleteI hunted, and think I solved your riff, geo....not sure, but it seems to work. Of course, we all have NO way of knowing where you went on vacation in 1990!!!! : o )
DeleteEntree #10 riff: Change a vowel sound in a nationality and the result will sound like an event that happened to that nation in 1991. Name the nationality and the event.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday to all(while it is still Friday here in AL for the next three minutes)!
ReplyDeleteHad a good MRI earlier today. Then we got lunch at Arby's, came home, I took a nap, Mom went to the beauty shop because otherwise no one else would've shown up there tomorrow morning to get her hair done except my Mom, so now the woman working there doesn't even have to go in to work tomorrow for just one customer(long story on that one which I don't even half understand myself), and then we find out we will be joining Maddy to celebrate her birthday at STIX, which is a Benihana-style restaurant in Birmingham. We rode with Bryan, Renae, Mia Kate, and of course Maddy, which means Mom and I have been to B'ham twice today. Funniest part of it all was when the chef threw a piece of shrimp to Mia Kate for her to catch it in her mouth, and after he told her to back up a little for him to be able to do it, he ended up tossing the shrimp about TEN times or so, and she still didn't catch it! I also didn't catch it, as I had chosen the wrong time to already have food in my mouth at the time. I have caught it before, though. Silly thing for the chef to do during his little "show" there at the table, IMHO, but it is entertaining, especially when the shrimp is caught perfectly in one's mouth. Not easy to do, really. Wonder if anyone else here has ever had the chance to do something like that at that type of restaurant before? Lot of good food there tonight: Chicken, shrimp, vegetables, rice, onion soup, ginger salad, "yum-yum" sauce, and "dan dan" noodles(which Maddy had, but didn't finish, and she let me have the leftovers, so that'll be my supper tomorrow night). We would've got home sooner, but Bryan had to stop by the Home Depot to get grout for their new bathroom. So the rest of us just had to sit there while he was in and out getting it. Then I did my crosswords and Wordle et al., and now here I am.
Now for my progress so far:
First of all, I was a little surprised to see the new puzzles already listed early last night, as I was only going to check the official answers for last week, and I certainly wasn't going to be working on the new ones anyway because I had to be going to bed earlier to get up earlier for my MRI. But I still looked over everything while I still had the time, and I have to say right off the bat that ViolinTeddy's Appetizers were hands down the easiest ones of the bunch(though I still haven't got #6, #15, or #21). Great job, VT! I was also able to solve the Hors d'Oeuvre, the Dessert, and Entrees #1(not the Extra Credit part, though), #2, #4, and #16-#19. Really tricky ones this week, Lego and(especially)eco! Looking forward to seeing the hints to come later, of course!
And now, in lieu of my usual sign-off, I will now throw in my own little Riff-Off to help anyone who might still be struggling with the rapper's name in #18. You can also do this with the name:
Switch the first and fourth letters in the first name, and then drop the first and fourth letters of the last name. Remove the space between both, and you'll get the name of a well-known sports team. Who's the rapper, and what's the team?
pjbWillNowSay,"CranberryOut!",AndAlso,IfAnyoneSaysHisRiff-OffSoundsLikeItWould'veMadeAGreatNPRChallengeInItself,He'llBeTheFirstToTellYouHeAlreadyKnows!
I have heard of flying fish but not the flying shrimp. LOL. Next trip to Benihana i hope to try.
DeleteHi, everyone. Haven't made all that much progress this week yet. I haven't gone through VT's Apps thoroughly yet. I still need to solve the Schpuzzle and many of the Entrees (I struggle with phonetic puzzles). Did solve the Hors D'Oeuvre, Slice, and Dessert, however.
ReplyDeleteOh, and don't forget that the rapper changed his name to just the last two characters of his first name.
DeleteExcellent observation, Tortitude. Perhaps publicists who promote this rapper's performances" could use the first line of a popular Christmas carol to invite the rapper's devotees to the venue where he is performing.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatTheChristmasCarolWouldNotLikelyBe"SilentNight..."
OOh, Tortie, thanks...that tells me who it is. I hadn't even considered him.
DeleteEarly Monday Hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
"Rx with...."
Stylish Strad-Steiff Appetizer:
Let ViolinTeddy and/or Lego know which problems are causing you consternation. We may then provide some "cluey-tutoring."
American Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre:
It's a Prominent geographical feature. it ain't Death Valley!
“Weaponizing” Puzzledom Slice:
"Arthur! Arthur!"
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
ENTREE #1
The three words:
1. an adjective that describes St. Bede (9 letters):
There is really only one word...
2. what people who seek forgiveness often do (5 letters):
It's a kind of posture.
3. what people who seek forgiveness often ask for (5 letters).
My baby she may not a-look
Like one of those bunnies out of a Playboy Club
But she got somethin' much greater than gold
Crazy 'bout that girl 'cause she got so much soul
I said she got the kind of lovin'
Kissin' and a-huggin'
Sure is mellow
Glad that I'm her fellow and I know
That she knocks me off my feet...
Note: I'll give Greg VanMechelen, the author of these 14 self-puzzle-riff (Entrees #2 through #15, below) first crack at giving hints. If he is too busy, I'll ask if I can give a few hints.
ENTREE #16
"Didja make a shake for me, mon?"
ENTREE #17
The African archipelago sounds like something you might get from a one of those coin-op vending machines – something like, for example, a Zagnut! After indulging, you'll be glad you're wearing those casual elastic-band slacks of yours!
ENTREE #18
"O come can ye, faithfully to the Oval Office?"
ENTREE #19
"I would give this prime RIB a TRIPLE-A rating!" (Not a mixed review; yet still, in a way, mixed)
Just Deserts Dessert:
There really is only one synonym of “maritime crime.” It has six letters.
LegoWhoIsOpenToFurtherHintRequests
Hints for Eco's #3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, [and I'm not so sure about #10 either]....are what I am waiting for!
DeleteLego, there are two (maybe even more) types of maritime crime. One took place on the Bounty. The other is the answer to the puzzle.
DeleteI have answers to all VT's appetizers except #6. Some may be alternate answers (definitely for the Slice).
Also have answers to all the other puzzles, except the Schpuzzle. Again, some may be alternates. Also two alternates to Entrée #2 and one to #10.
Also do not have VT"s #21.
DeleteLego, thanks for the hints. Still need an additional hint for the Schpuzzle, as well as hints for VT's #6, #10 (have an answer, but I"m not confident), and #21. I also need hints for Eco's #10, as well as most of the ones VT mentioned (the only one I solved out of the ones she mentioned was #9).
DeleteI also can't seem to verify the milkshake in #16, but I think my answer is right.
I always thought that the lyrics to the song that's in the hint for Entree #1 was "My baby she's made out of love." Not the first time I misunderstood a lyric. I won't say the name of the band, but they were from Chicago but they're not Chicago.
Still haven't solved the NPR puzzle yet, either. Sheesh!
TortieWhoThinksIt'sACryan'ShameSheHasSolvedSoFewPuzzlesLately
OK, just got Entree #5.
DeleteEco has generously shared hints for his 14 "self-riffs," below, including one for for #1, which I penned and which is indeed convoluted!
DeleteHoping not to trod on ViolinTeddy's toes, I am offering the following hints to her Appetizers #6, #10 and #21:
6. fast vs flesh
Think of the sensitive flesh situated under an anagram of "slain," for example.
10. brain vs object
"Emily Litella's last word..."
21. Add two letters to the front of a word having to do with movement and pulling to get something else that moves a person or pulls a person.
The "something else that moves a person or pulls a person" might be preceded by the words "main" or "coming."
A patch of ice might cause your car to lose the "word having to do with movement and pulling."
LegoWhoIsHereTonightToSpeakOutAgainstBusting</emSchoolchildren.BustingSchoolchildrenIsATerribleTerribleThingIHearThisIsGoingOnAllOverTheCountry.MeanPolicemenArrestLittleChildrenAndPutThemInJailInTheWrongNeighborhoodSoSoTheyCan’tEvenPlayWithTheirLittleFriends!...
And what's all this fuss about global farming?
DeleteSome belated hints on the Entrees:
ReplyDelete#1) I don’t have the slightest idea, must be something crazy.
#2) The letters p_t are unusual in working with any vowel except Y - pat, pet, pit, pot and put. The same is true with the body part, and the words in order would spell: a) a high end shoe brand; e) the body part in the puzzle; i) a boy’s nickname; o) an unopened plant pod; u) a blustering person, think #45. The island is spelled differently, but is a homonym for the O word.
#3) Attacking the country sounded like a lousy thing to do by Nixon and Kissinger; as a nation we hit new lows.
#4) Alice Kramden might have won more than a decade earlier, at least she was threatened to reach a very high place. The filmmaker reached a very low place in 2012.
#5) The place in question is very cold in climate. The school is very hot in women’s basketball. And the school’s mascot might be more at home in the place in question.
#6) At the risk of making a racket, I will only offer Ons Jabeur.
#7) Last Tuesday, September 19th, was Talk Like a Pirate Day. The coin would be quite appropriate.
#8) The city is really not that small, it has >250,00 people. The animal is quite large, found in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. And is unfortunately endangered due to poaching.
#9) The island is in the US and had a recent tragedy. The phrase is also a homophone asking for group permission.
#10) A structure of this type was a main location in a famous 1925 film that could have been set in the answer to #5.
#11) When hiring a building contractor make sure they aren’t a pig!
#12) This is almost the dullest question in the group.
#13) The two cities are in different hemispheres, both north-south and east-west. And unless you’ve been there it’s likely you know only two or three cities in the second country.
#14) No hint, you need to peruse this a bit more.
#15) A cup of coffee from any of the three locations might help in solving.
Eco, thank you for those hints! They are both useful and clever. Turns out I had an alt for #2, and my answer for #14 was wrong (I figured it was, but since I wrote down some silly guess, I forgot I didn't have it). Looks like I have all of your Entrees now, so just need additional Schpuzzle and VT hints.
DeleteTortieWhoThinksThisMustHoldTheRecordForTheMost(Post Hint)MentionsSinceI'veStartedHere
In the Schpuzzle, regarding the two-word drink made with an alcoholic beverage and sorbet:
DeleteThe second word is and anagram of a word that means "in the air," and the first word, if you delete the first and last letters, sounds like a synonym of "furious."
LegoMixologizing
Thanks, Lego, for the additional Schpuzzle hint. Based on the first hint, I'd been trying to work with a Disney movie song, and not getting anywhere, though I'd rather have that idiom with my drink (if I drank) than the real answer.
DeleteI've made some more progress on the puzzles, so now I just have VT's #6 and still the Schpuzzle. Finally, though, I did solve the NPR puzzle.
DeleteFinally, success with the Schpuzzle! I tried this idiom days ago, but didn't find the alcoholic beverage in it.
DeleteSince I don't drink either (as I have often mentioned), these alcohol-related puzzles are always a trial for me....I just got lucky this time.
DeleteBut I am still stuck on Entrees 3 and 13, despite the hints.
DeleteFor my #6, Tortie, think of an "old-fashioned" word for the meaning of flesh. And put in Lego's hint re the anagram of "slain"/ or perhaps "snail."
DeleteI had anticipated that ViolinTeddy's Appetizer #6 was going to be a tricky stickler. There is an expression from the movie industry, "Cut to the chase." The word you are seeking can be substituted for "chase."
DeleteBecause we are approaching our "eleventh-hour solving deadline," I shall presume to proffer a few hints for Ecoarchitect's self-riffing Entrees #3 and #13:
#3: The answer is in plain sight (albeit a bit obscured) in the accompanying image (to which I plead guilty to doctoring a tad). The country has one syllable, but it is often mispronounced as if it has two.
#13: A creature associated with the "most populous city" and a food product grown near the "major US city" are both an anagram of an abbreviated form of an online encyclopedia.
LegoCuttingToTheChase!
VT and Lego, thanks for the additional hints. I have #6 now.
DeleteTortieWhoStillHasNightmaresAboutCuttingGuineaPIgClaws
Thanks, Lego...I got Entree 3 (had considered that country, but didn't realized the US had attacked it), but am still trying to figure out #13.
DeleteOk, tho #13 appears to be solved, I can't make any sense out of half of this last hint bout it...namely the food crop near the US city....PLEASE explain that tomorrow in the answers?
DeleteNever mind the above, Lego...it just hit me...duh!
DeleteProgress so far:
ReplyDeleteGot Appetizers #6 and #21(still need #15), the Slice, and Entrees #3, #6, #9, #12, and #14. Have the second word of the Schpuzzle drink(I think), but that's it.
pjbDoesn'tDrinkAlcoholEither,WhichForManyOthersHereMustBeAVerySoberingThoughtIndeed!
A few Tuesday PM hints:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle
"Madria Madria _______ "
App #15:
"rap vs weight"
"Rap" is the trickier word in this pair. Think of it in connection to an anagram of "odor.
LegoThinksYouPuzzlerians!MightGetCrossAndItWouldBeRoodIfWeDidNotGiveAtLeastAFewHints
Totally got the Schpuzzle! #15 still tricky, though.
ReplyDeletepjbShouldJustTakeAllThePuzzlesHeHasn'tSolvedWith...What'sMentionedInTheSchpuzzle,Basically
Schpuzzle: (Post hints) SANGRIA FLOAT, A GRAIN OF SALT (kept trying something with Sgroppino with no luck)
ReplyDeleteApp: 1. CALF, 2. MEAN, 3. LEAN, 4. SMART, 5. LEFT, 6. (Post hint) QUICK, 7. SOLE, 8. DRAW, 9. BLOCKS, 10. (Post hint) MIND (Pre hint: MATTER), 11. PRESENT, 12. PEN, 13. DARN, 14. PINE, 15. POUND, 16. YARN, 17. CLOSE, 18. BEAR, 19. VAULT, 20. CAST, 21. (Post hint) TRACTION, ATTRACTION
Hors d’Oeuvre: Pike’s peak. pipsqueak
Slice: EXCALIBUR; CALIBER (Hint: AX)
Entrees:
1. GREG VAN MECHELEN, BERKELEY; VENERABLE, KNEEL, MERCY (extra credit: SANCTUARY, SCARY AUNT)
2. (Post hint) BALI, BELLY; (Pre hint) ELBA, ELBOW
3. (Post hint) LAOS, LOWE’S
4. MOON RACE, CAMEROON, (James) CAMERON
5. YUKON, UCONN
6. (Post hint) TUNISIA, TENNIS
7. (Post hint) DUBLIN, DOUBLOON
8. RENO, RHINO
9. MAUI, MAIS OUI
10. (Post hint) CABIN, CUBAN
11. (Post hint) STOCKHOLM, STICK HOME
12. DALLAS, DULLES
13. (Post hint) OAKLAND, AUCKLAND
14. (Post hint) LIMA, PERU, LLAMA (Pre hint try: RABAT, MOROCCO, RABBIT)
15. ANDES, EAST INDIES, WEST INDIES
16. JAMAICA, JAMOCHA (??? - can’t find any Ghirardelli coffee and chocolate milkshakes)
17. ZANZIBAR, (-AR + LET) SANSABELT
18. KANYE WEST, KEY WEST
19. ARUBA, ARABIA
Dessert: CONS, PIRACY, CONSPIRACY
That's what I had initially done, too, Tortie...try the Sgroppino...but it never looked too promising!
DeleteSCHPUZZLE – SANGRIA FLOAT; A GRAIN OF SALT
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. CALF
2. MEAN
3. LEAN
4. SMART
5. LEFT
6. QUICK
7. SOLE
8. DRAW
9. BLOCKS
10. MIND
11. PRESENT
12. PEN
13. DARN
14. PINE
15. POUND
16. YARN
17. CLOSE
18. BEAR
19. VAULT
20. CAST
21. TRACTION; ATTRACTION
HORS D’OEUVRE – PIKE’S PEAK; PIPSQUEAK
SLICE – EXCALIBUR; CALIBER
ENTREES
1. GREG VAN MECHELEN, BERKELEY; VENERABLE, KNEEL, MERCY; Extra Credit: SANCTUARY, SCARY AUNT
2. BALI; BELLY
3. LAOS; LOWE’S
4. MOON RACE; CAMEROON; CAMERON
5. YUKON; U. CONN
6. TUNIS; TENNIS
7. DUBLIN; DOUBLOON
8. RENO; RHINO
9. MAUI; MAIS OUI
10. CUBAN; CABIN
11. Not sure. I thought the animal might be Puff the Magic Dragon
from the hint about a pig as a building contractor (two of the Three Little Pigs’ houses were “puffed” down by the wolf) but couldn’t find a capital that sounded like Honah Lee, where Puff lived.
12. DALLAS; DULLES
13. OAKLAND; AUCKLAND
14. LIMA, PERU; LLAMA
15. ANDES; EAST INDIES; WEST INDIES
16. JAMAICA; JAMOCHA
17. ZANZIBAR; SANSABELT
18. KEY WEST; KANYE WEST
19. ARUBA; ARABIA
DESSERT – CONS; PIRACY; CONSPIRACY
NODD RIFFS:
1. Take the name of an island vacation spot and change a vowel sound to name a Biblical figure. Name the island and the figure. MOLOKAI; MALACHI
2. Change a vowel sound in a nationality and the result will sound like an event that happened to that nation in 1991. Name the nationality and the event.
CROATIAN; CREATION
Nice riffs, Nodd... better than mine, and on a par with Eco's.
DeleteLegoWhoNotesThatNoddIsOneTalentedRiff"Croator!"
Thanks, Lego, but I don't agree they're better, just different.
Delete9/25/23-” Puzzeleria 61/84” Pool closed this week?
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week: —-Rx-take in the morning. / Orange-mint-tea?
Stylish Strad-Steiff Appetizer:
1.calf 12. pen
2.mean 13.parse
3.slant 14.pine
4.Smart 15.wrap
5. Go 16.yarn
6.Carnal 17close
7.sole 18.stand
8.draw 19.safe
9.duped 20.tow
10.organ 21.? reposition/ oppose
11.present
American Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre:
Half dome/ Half wit
“Weaponizing” Puzzledom Slice:
Ex Calibur—Caliber
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
ENTREE #1
Venerable, kneel, mercy -
E# 2. I raq/ The Rack (Nordstroms)Post hint : Laos –Lowes
Entree#3. Ryder cup
Greg vanMechelen, Berkeley
Just Deserts Dessert:
Clandestine mutiny; post hint: cons,piracy- conspiracy
SCHPUZZLE: “A GRAIN OF SALT” => SANGRIA FLOAT
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS: 1. CALF; 2. MEAN; 3. LEAN; 4. SMART; 5. LEFT; 6. QUICK; 7. SOLE; 8. DRAW; 9. BLOCKS; 10. MIND; 11. PRESENT; 12. PEN; 13. DARN; 14. PINE; 15. POUND; 16. YARN; 17. CLOSE; 18. BEAR; 19. VAULT; 20. CAST; 21. TRACTION & ATTRACTION.
HORS D’O: pikespeak => PIPSQUEAK
SLICE: EXCALIBUR => CALIBER; EX => AX
ENTREES:
1. VENERABLE, KNEEL, MERCY => VANMECHELEN & BERKELEY
2. BALI => BELLY
3. LAOS => LOWES
4. MOON RACE => CAMEROON => JIM CAMERON
5. YUKON => UCONN
6. TUNIS => TENNIS
7. DUBLIN => DOUBLOON [From The Mickey Mouse Club’s Hardy Boys: “Gold doubloons and pieces of eight, handed down to Applegate, from buccaneers who fought for years….”]
8. RENO => RHINO
9. MAUI => MUY BIEN?
10. CUBAN => CABIN [This was my answer pre-hint, but seems to be the same, from the Chaplin 1925 movie “The Gold Rush.”]
11. STOCKHOLM => STICK HOME
12. DALLAS => DULLES
13. OAKLAND => AUCKLAND
14. LIMA => LLAMA
15. ANDES => INDES (EAST and WEST)
16. JAMAICA => JAMOCHA
17. ZANZIBAR => SANSABELT
18. KANYE WEST => KEY WEST
19. ARUBA => ARBA + AI => ARABIA
DESSERT: CONS & PIRACY => CONSPIRACY
GEO: YAP Islands => YUP
VT, thanks for this week's Appetizers. They were clever and fun, and it was interesting to see how the same words can have unrelated meanings depending on context. Nice job!
DeleteThank YOU, Nodd, for the compliment! It indeed all started out because I tend to become quite annoyed at how our language has made the exact same word (sometimes with a pronunciation difference) mean things that have absolutely NO relationship to each other.
DeleteI already have started on another list. Now I just need to make sure I don't begin repeating myself!
Schpuzzle: [post-Mon-hint] some kind of FLOAT
ReplyDeleteAppetizers:
1. CALF
2. MEAN
3. LEAN
4. SMART
5. LEFT
6.
7. SOLE
8. DRAW
9. BLOCKS
10. MIND
11. PRESENT
12. PEN
13. DARN
14. PINE
15. POUND
16. SPUN
17. CLOSE (pronounced differently)
18. BEAR
19. VAULT
20. FORM
21. CADENCE, DECADENCE; TIRE, RETIRE
Hors d'oeuvre: PIKES PEAK → PIPSQUEAK
Slice: FULLER – FUL = LER → gun LORE or LIAR; FUL → FOIL (hint)
post-Sun-hint: EXCALIBUR (sword) – EX = CALIBUR → CALIBER (of a gun); AX (hint)
Entrées:
#1: VENERABLE, MERCY, KNEEL; chg R to H → VAN MECHELEN, BERKELEY
#2: BALI → BELLY (prob. intended answer)
alternates; (a) EIRE (Ireland) → EAR; (b) LONG (island in NY or Bahamas ) → LUNG
#3: LAOS → LOWE'S
#4: MOON RACE → CAMEROON; (James) CAMERON
#5: YUKON (Klondike), U CONN (Univ of Connecticut)
#6: MONTEVIDEO, chg O to OU → MONTE (card game) VIDEO
#7: DUBLIN → DOUBLOON
#8: RENO → RHINO
#9: HAWAII → HA! OUI, OUI
#10: CUBAN → CABIN
alt: DUTCH → DACH(A) [Russians use the word дача which is the source of the English word]
#11: HONIARA (Solomon Is.) → HONEY ERA (?)
#12: DALLAS – A + U → (Washington) DULLES
#13: LIMA (Ohio) → LIMA (Perú); CAIRO (Illinois) → Cairo (Egypt)
#14: LIMA (Perú) → LLAMA
#15: ANDES → (East, West) INDIES
#16: JAMAICA – A + O → JAMOCHA
#17: ZANZIBAR – AR + ELT → SANSABELT
#18: KANYE WEST – A,N; switch E,Y → KEY WEST
#19: ARUBA – U = ARBA + A,I (artificial intelligence) → ARABIA
Dessert: CONS + PIRACY = CONSPIRACY
geofan riffoff: YAP (Micronesia) – A + U → YUP
Oh, goodie, I got yours right! Never ever heard of "Yap", tho!
DeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDelete(Take it with)A GRAIN OF SALT, SANGRIA FLOAT
Appetizer Menu
1. CALF
2. MEAN
3. SLIGHT
4. SMART
5. LEFT
6. QUICK
7. SOLE
8. DRAW
9. BLOCKS
10. MIND
11. PRESENT
12. PEN
13. DARN
14. PINE
15. POUND
16. YARN
17. CLOSE(pronounced two ways)
18. BEAR
19. VAULT
20. CAST
21. TRACTION, ATTRACTION
Menu
American Atlas Hors d'Oeuvre
PIKE'S PEAK, PIPSQUEAK
"Weaponizing" Puzzledom Slice
EXCALIBUR, CALIBER, AX(or AXE)
Entrees
1.
(1.)VENERABLE
(2.)KNEEL
(3.)MERCY
GREG VANMECHELEN, BERKELEY(CA), SANCTUARY, SCARY AUNT
2. BALI, BELLY
3. LAOS(Vietnam), LOWE'S
4. CAMEROON, MOON RACE, (James)CAMERON
5. YUKON, UCONN(University of Connecticut)
6. TUNIS(Tunisia), TENNIS
7. DUBLIN(Ireland), DOUBLOON
8. RENO(NV), RHINO
9. MAUI, MAIS OUI
10. CUBAN, CABIN
11. STOCKHOLM(Sweden), STICK HOME("The Three Little Pigs")
12. DALLAS(TX), DULLES
13. OAKLAND(CA), AUCKLAND(NZ)
14. LIMA(Peru), LLAMA
15. ANDES, (East or West)INDIES
16. JAMAICA, JAMOCHA
17. ZANZIBAR, SANSABELT
18. KANYE WEST, KEY WEST(FL), YANKEES(answer to my Riff-Off)
19. ARUBA, ARABIA
Dessert Menu
Just Deserts Dessert
CONS+PIRACY=CONSPIRACY
Masked Singer Results:
RUBBER DUCKY=ANTHONY ANDERSON
BTW About halfway through "Snake Oil", we switched over to "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune".-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Icily idiomatic mixology
Take the last four words of a well-known idiom.
Mix their combined letters to form a two-word drink made with an alcoholic beverage and sorbet.
It is a drink you might garnish with those four words of the idiom.
What are this two-word drink and this idiom?
Answer:
Sangria float; (to take with) a grain of salt
Appetizer Menu
Stylish Strad-Steiff Appetizer:
Homographology 101 Pop Quiz
Stylish Strad-Steiff Appetizer:
1. leg vs baby moo
Answer
CALF
2. nasty vs intend
Answer
MEAN
3. slim vs skew
Answer
LEAN
4. hurt vs clever
Answer
SMART:
5. west vs went
Answer
LEFT
6. fast vs flesh
Answer
QUICK
7. foot vs only
Answer
SOLE
8. doodle vs pull
Answer
DRAW
9. toys vs jams up
Answer
BLOCKS
10. brain vs object
Answer
MIND
11. here vs favor
Answer
PRESENT
12. cage vs sign
Answer
PEN
13 mild expletive vs sew
Answer
DARN
14. tree vs long
Answer
PINE
15. rap vs weight
Answer
POUND
16 wool vs tale
Answer
YARN
17.near vs shut
Answer
CLOSE
18. stand vs Yellowstone animal
Answer
BEAR
19. safe vs leap
Answer
VAULT
20. roster vs stiff encasement vs mold
Answer
CAST
21. Add two letters to the front of a word having to do with movement and pulling to get something else that moves a person or pulls a person.
Answer:
TRACTION, ATTRACTION:
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
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American Atlas Hors d’Oeuvre:
Prominent geography, insignificant humanity
Write in lowercase letters a significant and prominent two-word American geograpical feature.
Remove the space between words.
Take the mirror image of the sixth letter. Place after it a letter that usually follows that letter.
Replace the third and fourth letters with a duplicate of the first letter.
The result is a synonym of a whippersnapper.
What are this significant geograpical feature and synonym of whippersnapper?
Answer:
Pikes Peak;
pipsqueak
(Pikes Peak=>pikespeak=>pikesqueak=>pipsqueak)
“Weaponizing” Puzzledom Slice:
Gunplay, Swordplay, Wordplay
Remove the first syllable of a word associated with a sword.
Change a vowel to a different vowel.
The result is a word associated with guns.
What words are these?
Hint: Change the vowel sound of the removed syllable to form a word that functions similar to a sword.
Answer:
Excalibur; caliber (EXCALIBUR=>CALIBUR=>CALIBER)
Hint: Change the "e" in "ex" to an "a" to form "ax," which cuts like a sword.
Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Seychelles sea shells by the sea shore
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #1
Take three words:
1. an adjective that describes St. Bede (9 letters),
2. what people who seek forgiveness often do (5 letters), and
3. what people who seek forgiveness often ask for (5 letters).
Take these 19 letters. Replace an “r” with an “h”.
Rearrange the result to spell the surname and hometown of a puzzle-maker.
Who is this puzzle-maker, and what is his hometown?
What are the three words of 9, 5 and 5 letters?
Extra Credit: The hometown of this puzzle-maker is in the same state as La Cañada’s St. Bede Church, a consecrated place where many people go to seek forgiveness. Anagram a 9-letter word for such a place to spell a two-word phrase in 5 and 4 letters, that describes Mrs. Reed (in “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë) or Josephine March (in “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott).
Answer:
(Greg) VanMechelen; Berkeley, (California); Venerable, kneel, mercy
Extra Credit Answer: Sanctuary; Scary aunt; (Jo March's Aunt Josephine March is crabby, temperamental and judgmental old woman who serves as a constant source of consternation for Jo and her sisters.) Mrs. Reed is Jane’s cruel aunt.)
Note: The following fourteen “self-riff-offs” of this week’s NPR puzzle (Entrees #2 through #15, below) were created by Greg VanMechelen, the author of that puzzle. These riffs reflect a global diversity, with geographic locations in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Australia/New Zealand all represented.
ENTREE #2
Name an island you might visit for vacation, change a vowel sound and the result will be a body part. What are this island and body part?
Answer:
BALI, BELLY
ENTREE #3
Name a country illegally attacked in the past by the US. Change a vowel sound and the result will be a major big box retailer. What are this country and retailer?
Answer:
LAOS, LOWE'S
ENTREE #4
Name a country that is an anagram of a two-word term for what the U.S. won in 1969. Change a vowel sound and the result will be the last name of a major filmmaker. What did the US win in 1969, what is the country, and who is the filmmaker?
Answer:
MOON RACE, CAMEROON, (James) CAMERON
ENTREE #5
Name a place where you might have sought your fortune 125 years ago.
Change nothing and phonetically the result will be the popular name of an educational institution.
What is this popular institutional name?
Answer:
YUKON, UCONN
ENTREE #6
Change a vowel sound in a world capital. The result will “give an audience” to a popular sport. What are this capital and sport?
Answer:
TUNIS, TENNIS
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Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices, continued:
ENTREE #7
Change a vowel sound in a world capital. The result will be an historical coin from another country. What are this capital and coin?
Answer:
DUBLIN, DOUBLOON
ENTREE #8
Change a vowel sound in a small but well-known US city. The result will be an abbreviated term for a not-so-small animal that is not native to the US. What are this city and animal?
Answer:
RENO (the self-proclaimed "Biggest Little City in the World"), RHINO
ENTREE #9
Name an island you might visit for vacation. Change a vowel sound and the result will be a very affirmative phrase from a foreign language. What are this island and phrase?
Answer:
MAUI, MAIS OUI
ENTREE #10
Change a vowel sound in a nationality and the result is a structure where you might live, though the people of that nationality generally don't use that term for this structure. What are this nationality and structure?
Answer:
CUBAN CABIN
ENTREE #11
Change a vowel sound in a world capital and the result will describe the fabulous place where a certain animal lived. What are this capital and fabulous place?
Answer:
STOCKHOLM, STICK HOME. (In this case "fabulous" means "from a fable.")
ENTREE #12
Name a major city in the US.
Change the vowel sound and the result will be a major airport in the US.
What are this city and airport?
Answer:
DALLAS, DULLES
ENTREE #13
Change a vowel sound in a major US city. The result will be the most populous city in another country nearly one quarter the way around the world. What are these two cities?
Answer:
Oakland; Auckland
ENTREE #14
Change a vowel sound in a world capital. The result will be an animal associated with that country. What are the capital, country and associated animal?
Answer:
Lima, llama
ENTREE #15
Name a continental-sized geographic feature in five letters that generally runs north-south.
Change a vowel sound from a short A to a short I. The result phonetically will be one of two locations: one preceded by east, the other by west. What are the three locations?
ANSWER: Andes (mountains), East and West Indies.
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This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices, continued:
ENTREE #16
Name a tropical isle where many people go for vacation, in seven letters.
Change one of the vowels sounds from a long A to a long O, and the result phonetically will be a Ghirardelli chocolate and coffee-flavored milkshake that predated the frappuccino.
What are this isle and milkshake?
Answer:
Jamaica; Jamocha (shake)
ENTREE #17
Name an African archipelago where many people go for vacation, in eight letters.
Replace the last two letters (that are pronounced like the letter “R”) with a rearrangement of the three letters in a synonym of “allow.” The result, more-or-less phonetically, will be a brand of men’s casual trousers that have a wide webbed elastic band sewn into the waist.
What archipelago is this?
What is the brand of trousers?
Answer:
Zanzibar (located in the Indian Ocean 15 miles off the coast of Tanzania); Sansabelt
ENTREE #18
Name an American rapper and record producer, in three and four letters.
Remove two adjacent letters and switch the order of two others to name a popular vacation destination In the United States.
What is this destination?
Who is the rapper?
Answer:
Key West, Kanye West
ENTREE #19
Name one of the “ABC” Caribbean Dutch islands where many people go for vacation, in five letters. Remove the middle letter.
Take the two vowels in a trendy, much-in-the-news acronym. Place the first where the middle letter was, Place the second in front of the last letter. The result is a large peninsula flanked by two large continents. What are this island and peninsula?
Answer:
Aruba; Arabia (ai (AI) stands for "Artificial Intelligence")
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Just Deserts Dessert:
Maritime crime and “punnish-ment”
Take a synonym of “criminals” and a synonym of “maritime crime.”
Place these synonyms side-by-side to spell “a plot to commit a crime.”
What are these three crime-related words?
Answer:
Cons, piracy; Conspiracy
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