Name that Tune, Wondrous Wandrous, Lost in Translation & Anna Graham’s Poetry Corner; Sword, dye, tape & tools you use; Do you grok this gross algorithm? “My body, the house where I live”; Old-school scientific calculation; Assailing 5 of the 7 C’s

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Assailing 5 of the 7 C’s

Take a two-word term that describes a condiment, cookie, creamer, croissant or cup. 

Anagram the two words in this term and remove the space to spell a popular app. 

What is this two-word term?

What is the app?

Extra Credit: Name two possible candidates for the sixth and seventh C’s that begin with a “co” and a “cu”. 

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Name that Tune, Wondrous Wandrous, Lost in Translation, Anna Graham’s Poetry Corner

Name that Tune!

1. 🎜🎝Guess the titles of the following five songs
from the clues provided:

(A) The first word of the song is a hyphenated vernacular term. Its letters can be rearranged to name a non-hyphenated sci-fi character. The song was featured in a film, the name of which is a homophone of an astronomical body. The song title is a brand of skin care products.

(B) The first word of the song is also its title. 

Removing a two-letter abbreviation for a currently hot job sector from the word forms a brand name for a kind of fruit. The fruit is named in the title of the song in (A), above. 

(C) The first word of the song is spelled the same as the first name of a Dallas Mavericks player. Adding three letters at the beginning of the word spells a name for a figure in Norse mythology that was also the name of a now-defunct USAF bomber. The song was featured in a 1960’s film about two characters who spent a lot of time on the road.

(D) The first word of the song is the name of a kind of salad and an animated Disney character. The word, repeated, also makes up the title of the song.

(E) The first word of the song is the name of a school attended by a U.S. president. The word is also the last name of a 1960’s sitcom actress and the nickname of a movie actor of the past. The word is used four times in the first line of the song.

Wondrous adventures with Gloria Wandrous

2.🎄Fill in the blanks with English words that, spoken together, sound like two non-English sayings commonly used by English speakers. 

The first saying might be heard at Christmas. The second one is timeless.  

(A) Gloria Wandrous and her husband Ed needed to get their taxes done. 

Ed’s sister Isabel, a CPA, came over to help. 

Ed showed her a spreadsheet Gloria had created to show their income and expenses for the tax year. 

Isabel asked who had created the spreadsheet, and in what format. Ed responded, “______, __ _____, ___.” (four words)

(B) That Friday, Joseph K., a surveyor Gloria had hired, came to survey some property she had inherited. Suddenly Joe’s equipment stopped working. Gloria asked why Joe had stopped his surveying, and when he could finish the job. Joe responded, “____ _______, ______; ______.” (four words)

Lost in translation

3. 🗣Each word or phrase set forth below suggests another word or phrase that can be anagrammed to spell a language. 

Each parenthetical hint states where the language is or was primarily used. Some of the
languages are not spoken much, or at all, at present. The name of one language consists of two words; the rest have one-word names.

(A) What actors do (worldwide).  

(B) Rodent hides (Asia).  

(C) Birthplace of a king (Europe).  

(D) Braiding (worldwide).  

(E) Mushroom variety (Europe, Africa, Middle East).  

(F) Popular 1954 song (Near East). 

(G) Made a hissing sound (Europe).  

(H) Intrepid (Europe).  

(I) Third person pronoun (Europe).  

Poetry Corner, with Anna Graham

4. 🖋Fill in the blanks with seven-letter words that are anagrams of one another:

The ________ ________ eyed the crowd
below.

“What discontent could so ________ a soul?”

He scorned their cause, but little did he know,

Their thrown ________ would shortly find its goal.

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Do you grok this gross algorithm?

What is the missing number in the following twelve-number sequence?

5, 5, 6, 6,14,15,19,19, 20, 20, 20, (?)

Explain your answer.

Hint: Spelling plays a role in the solution.

Seven-Segment Slice:

Old-school scientific calculation

Enter a number into an old-school basic calculator, one that shows numerals using a seven-segment digital display. Say aloud the letter, or letters, that the number resembles, then say the number itself as if its initial letter were silent. It will sound as if you are spelling a scientific term. What are this number and term?

Riffing Off Shortz One-Week Challenge:

Sword, dye, tape & tools you use 

Puzzleria’s November 17th Friday Riffing Off Shortz puzzle is a one-week creative that is a riff-off of the current NPR two-week creative challenge: 

Name any tool. Then describe it acrostically using the letters in its name. For example, SWORD could be described acrostically as “Swashbuckling Weapon Of Ruthless Destruction,” DYE could be described as “De-whiten Your Eggs,” and TAPE could be described acrostically as “Tacky Adhesive Product ‘Enrolled’ (see Definition #3).” 

The tool can be any kind — carpentry, automotive, gardening, forestry, scientific, surgical, kitchenware, etc. You may post as many “acrostically-correct” tools as you wish.

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Tears In Your Eyes And Ears Dessert:

“My body, the house where I live”

Adding a “t” to the beginning of parts of a body, like “ears,” results in “tears.” People with perforated eardrums have tears in their ears (as well as tears in their eyes, perhaps). 

Similarly, adding a letter to the beginning of certain parts of a house spell what may be in those parts. 

What are these house parts?

What may be in them?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

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