Schpuzzle of the Week:
Firs, refrains and a phrase
Rearrange the twelve letters in these three words to spell a phrase you see and hear this time of year.
What is the part of fir trees? What are the last two words in the refrain of a Christmas song?
What is this phrase?
Appetizer Menu
Noddingly Prime Time Appetizer:
Cinematic Hamlet, Roll-calling names, Brain food, Smart talk, Random House at Poetry Corner
Hamlet goes to the movies
To this second phrase, add the last name of an American actor who won an Oscar for his role in a war movie.
What are the two phrases, who is the actor, and what is the movie?
Political name-calling
2. A.😮😮Think of two female former members of Congress.
The first one served in the 1970s and represented a district in New York.
The second one served in the 2010s and 2020s and represented a district in Florida. The second member was also a Cabinet member.
together spell something deadly.
Who are these Congress members, and what is the deadly thing?
B. Combine the last names of a former Cabinet member and a person associated with the Cabinet member’s boss to name a disease. Who are the persons, and what is the disease?
C. Take the first initial and last name of a nationally-known political journalist who was at one time associated with a presidential administration. Change the initial to the preceding letter of the alphabet and say the result aloud. Phonetically, you will name a popular sport. Who is the journalist, and what is the sport?
D. The last name of a well-known presidential advisor sounds like a phrase describing something American combatants did in the 19th Century. Who is the consultant, and what did the combatants do?
E. Take a word for a certain politician. Rearrange its letters to spell an action that might end their political career. What are the politician and the action that might end their career?
Food for thought
3. 📖Think of a famous 20th Century actress.
Rearrange her last name to get two words that describe a category of food those seeking to lose weight should avoid.
Who is the actress, what is the book title, and what should weight-loss seekers avoid?
Academically speaking
4. 🏫Guess the names of the following U.S. colleges and universities from the hints provided. (Some answers are phonetic. Others are heteronyms. Ignore any punctuation.)
1. Dairy item.
2. Kind of highway.
3. Climb sacred tree.
4. Apply something hot to something frozen.
5. King Solomon.
7. Large residence + former GM car model.
8. Money unit + bell sound.
9. (Woolly? Hirsuit? Hairy?) Ruffians.
10. Completely ticked off.
5. 🖆Using the same six letters, insert three words to complete the following verse.
First ______ of May. I open ______ once more,
As I have done on countless days before.
But all too soon, the unrelenting grind,
Weighs heavy, and a ______ claims my mind.
MENU
A 1940s Hors d’Oeuvre
First Noel and Film Noir
both associated with the Christmas season.
A homophone of the Yule-related adjective is
the second word in the prayer.
What are the character’s name, adjective and first two words of the prayer?
Just Another “Phrase-This-Time-Of-Year” Challenge! Slice:
“Often is heard / seldom is heard”
The result, spoken aloud, sounds like something seldom heard (no, never heard!) at any time of the year.
What are this phrase, this payment and this thing never heard?
Riffing Off Shortz And Ezekiel Entrees:
“Grape-upon-grape-upon-grape-(but-not-drupe!)...” is a “group”?
Will Shortz’s December 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle Challenge, created by Dan Ezekiel of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:
left to right and you’ll get a one-word brand name associated with the budget-conscious. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Ezekiel Entrees read:
Take the first names of two NFL quarterbacks:
~ a Green Bay Packer (in four letters) who died in 2019, and
~ a current Minnesota Viking (in more than four letters) who was drafted into the NFL in 2019.
Rearrange these combined 10 letters to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.
Who are these NFL quarterbacks?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is this week’s featured Appetizer on this week’s Menu.
ENTREE #2
Think of an eight-letter brand name that is associated with upscale dining.
Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word
description of guys who probably aren’t particularly interested in upscale dining.
What are the brand name and the two-word description?
Hint: The two-word description starts with a five-letter food item typically associated with the U.S. Southwest.
Think of a seven-letter descriptive word that is associated with upscale dining.
Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word description of what you may get if you overindulge in upscale dining.
What are the descriptive word and the two-word description?
ENTREE #4
Rearrange to spell a five-letter fruit and a seven-letter word for the quality of something, especially a person’s ability.
What are the food item, the fruit, and the seven-letter word?
ENTREE #5
Rearrange to spell a six-letter brand of upscale
liquor and a three-letter brand name for a beverage that was introduced by a major bottling company in 1998. The 1998 beverage was marketed as a lower-calorie alternative to the company’s signature product.
What are the seafood item and the two beverages?
ENTREE #6
Think of an eight-letter word for a person who enjoys eating and drinking but is not particularly associated with upscale dining.
What are the eight-letter word, the two fruits, and the generic word?
Think of an upscale European dessert, in eleven letters. Rearrange to spell a verb thatdescribes what an executive chef at an upscale restaurant does during mealtimes. What are the dessert and the verb?
Note: Entrees #8 and #9 are a couple of clever contributions from a very valued and intensely talented friend of Puzzleria!
ENTREE 8
Remove the last two letters of the first word
and the first letter of the second word.
Read the result from left to right and you’ll get a one-word brand name associated with the budget-conscious.
What are these two brands?
Hint #1: You might slather the obscure-brand product onto the budget-conscious product.
Hint #2: Consecutive letters of the brand name can be rearranged to spell a container for the product.
ENTREE #9
The following is a riff of last week’s Evergreen Dessert: “Name that Tannenbaum title!”
Subject: If the World Served up the Dessert...
1. It would just be another term...
3. “The Conductor” of a certain (uncertain?)
puzzle blog would merely be a mere psychological concept...
4. “The glossy patina of the Holiday Ham, as we behold it” would be a...
5. The Georgia/Washington Puzzler would deal in clothing and not vegetation...
6. The leggy moll in the film noir wouldn’t have to be completely alluring...
ENTREE #10
Think of a two-word American clothing brand name. The first letter of the first word and the second half of the second word spell one of three creatures feared by a trio of fictional characters.
The 9th, 7th, 8th and 3rd letters of the brand spell a medium that featured the three creatures in the late 1930s.
What is the brand? What is one of the creatures that the three characters fear?
What do the characters exclaim?
What is the medium that featured the three creatures?
Think of a two-word regional hamburger restaurant chain with its greatest presence in the Midwest and New York metro area.
Remove four consecutive interior letters and the space they leave, leaving what certain diminutive woodworkers do.
Remove four consecutive interior letters that overlap with the first four, and the space they leave, leaving what these woodworkers might do while doing the first thing.
What is this hamburger chain?
What to things might woodworkers do?
ENTREE #12
Take the multiple-word historical name of a fast food chain. The first three and last three letters of this name spell the name of a 20-year old math-and-logic puzzle.
The 14th-through-17th letters spell a synonym of “hip.”
What is this historical fast food chain name?
What is the math-and-logic puzzle?
What is the word preceded by a homophone of “fryer”?
What is the synonym of “hip”?
Hint: The hip bone's connected to the thigh bone...
Think of a two-syllable American footwear and clothing brand.
Its first three letters and last letter spell a verb for what its footwear begins to do after months of constant use.
The letters that remain spell the first name of an athlete who appeared in TV spots advertising a competitor of this brand.
What is this clothing brand? What is the verb? Who is the athlete?
ENTREE #14Think of an ice cream company with nine letters in its name. The 1st, 5nd, 6th, 7th and 8th letters, in order, spell one of the ingredients (a non-plural word) in some of its flavors. The 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th and 8th letters, in order, spell that same non-plural ingredient.
What are this company and ingredient?
Hint #1: The unused 2nd, 3rd and 4th letters, in order, can be rotated 13 places in the alphabet to spell the word “raw.” The unused 3rd, 4th and 5th letters, in order, can be rotated 11 places ahead in the alphabet to spell the word “yup.”
Hint #2: The name of the ice cream company includes one of those “special characters” you see on an upper row of typewriter keys.
ENTREE #15
A soft drink brand was originally marketed as, and is still commonly referred to, in two words of six and four letters.
The 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th and 10th letters of this brand, in order, spell either:
* the same five-letter word for what you might do if food you swallow goes down the trachea instead of your esophagus.
The remaining 3rd-through-7th letters can be rearranged to spell:
* a five-letter variant spelling of “one who wails,” or
* the surname of an actor who portrayed a character named “Ducky.”
What is this brand? What are the two five-letter words?
ENTREE #16
Think of a two-word 17-letter brand name for a famous piece of sports equipment with a place on the U.S map in its name.
What is this brand name?
Who harvests its raw material?
Hint: The 11 letters you removed can be rearranged to spell the missing words in the following brands:
“The ___ Kiss”
“____lemon”
“____ Strauss”
Dessert Menu
Canton-Cooperstown Dessert:
Christmas carol and gay apparel
ornaments and gift wrap.
Switch the beginning letters of the two syllables.
The result is:
~ an urban shopping area featuring a variety of retail stores that teem with shoppers during the holiday season, and
~ the first word in the lyrics and title of a nearly-three-centuries-old Christmas carol.
What is this American company?
What are the shopping area and the word in the Christmas carol?
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Lego...
QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteEntree 14 – Are the letter counts correct? It seems to me that to spell the five-letter ingredient, you would need to use different letters than the letters specified in the puzzle.
DeleteEntree 15 -- To spell the actor's surname correctly, I think you would first need to add another letter to the 3rd-through-7th letters as specified in the puzzle.
DeleteThanks, Lego, but I think the letter counts are still off by one. The five-letter ingredient needs to include letters 7, 8, and 9 no matter which letters you use to spell it out.
DeleteThank you, Nodd. You are a great editor.
DeleteI will work of cleaning up Entree 15.
I think I have fixed Entree #14, thanks to you.
Lego"Noddedited"
Entree 14 still needs to include the ninth letter when spelling the ingredient. I don't see that in the puzzle as it currently stands.
DeleteHINTS!
ReplyDeleteNodd's puzzles that I've believed I've solved:
DeleteApps:
1. Crazy person from the land of Hamlet; "More cowbell!"; Susan, Tim, and Sean's movie
2. A. The second politician's last name is the name of a Manfred Mann hit (with the spaces removed); The two names are also the name of a Stevie Nicks album.
B. The associated person died while behind something that sounds like the cabinet member's last name in its plural form.
E. Remove the first word from the action, and you'll be left with the capacity of applying logic by drawing valid conclusions.
3. Split the actress' last name in two equal halves, and put the second half first. You'll have what weight-loss seekers should avoid. The actress' nationality is also included in the name of a certain kind of chocolate cake.
Entrees:
2. The brand name is also associated with tires.
4. The first word in the delicacy is also a type of white whale.
5. Strong flavored little fish
6. First fruit is mentioned in a song in "Dr. No." The second fruit sounds like a nickname for the singer of "Sundown."
7. What the executive chef does is usually a word applied to music. If you delete the last two letters of that word, you'll have an instrumental ensemble.
Late Sunday/Early Monday Hints:
Delete(Many of them UNAUTHORIZED!)
Part 1
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Those who solve this Schpuzzle shall experience a sense of "very recent deja vu."
The four-letter part of fir trees that is often used as a Christmas decoration:
Volume(V) = ⅓ πr2h cubic units
Surface Area(SA) = πrl + πr2
The Christmas song is seemingly never-ending!
Noddingly Prime Time Appetizer:
Hamlet goes to the movies
1. The two-word phrase to describe Hamlet’s girlfriend sounds like an "Angry Great Hound."
Political name-calling
2.
A. The surname of the Florida representative sounds like a doowop refrain.
B. One of the surnames is a synonym of "saloon."
C. The surname of the journalist sounds like a Japanese alcoholic beverage of fermented rice.
D. Spoonerize the surname to get what sounds like "Groupies of Comedian Sahl."
E. Harmon Killebrew, before he became a Twin
Food for thought
3. Quiche is for sissies?
Academically speaking
4. Guess the names of the following U.S. colleges and universities from the hints provided. (Some answers are phonetic. Others are heteronyms. Ignore any punctuation.)
1. Dairy item.
"Camembert" kinda sounds like a college...
2. Kind of highway.
"Interstate U..." sounds plausible
3. Climb sacred tree.
Scalerood College?
4. Apply something hot to something frozen.
Pepperpopsicle?
5. King Solomon.
Wisdom University!
6. Inhabitant of an African country.
Liberian College of Library Science?
7. Large residence + former GM car model.
Mansionhummer Junior College?
8. Money unit + bell sound.
Dollarding U?
9. (Woolly? Hirsuit? Hairy?) Ruffians.
WoolyWildmen College?
10. Completely ticked off.
Elapsetime U?
Poetry Corner, with Anna Graham
6. Using the same six letters, insert three words to complete the following verse.
First FLOWER(?) of May. I open REFLOW(?) once more,
As I have done on countless days before.
But all too soon, the unrelenting grind,
Weighs heavy, and a FOWLER(?) claims my mind.
A 1940s Hors d’Oeuvre
The 1940s film noir character's first name is a synonym of "hirsuit," and the surname is a four-letter fruit.
Just Another “Phrase-This-Time-Of-Year” Challenge! Slice:
ALS.... but not "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Lego(ToBeContinued)
DeleteLate Sunday/Early Monday Hints:
(A Few of them UNAUTHORIZED!)
Part 2
Riffing Off Shortz And Ezekiel Entrees:
ENTREE #1
The surname of the Packer QB begins with an edible concession you might buy at Lambeau Field.
The current Minnesota Viking QB has a surname others try "to keep up with."
ENTREE #2
The eight-letter brand name that is associated with upscale dining might be a bit "inflated."
ENTREE #3
Headline in 1999: "VP Al might demand a recount... chads be damned!
ENTREE #4
The fruit ends with Ms. Gardner;
"The Greatest Muhammad" lies within the 7-letter word.
ENTREE #5
The thre-syllable seafood item kind of sounds like:
a small part of a foot... or yard, and
a "round vowel," and
"belonging to teen idol Bobby"
ENTREE #6
The eight-letter word for a person who enjoys eating and drinking contains a common 3-letter pronoun and a common 3-letter conjunction.
ENTREE #7
It sounds as if the executive chef, while doing what he does at an upscale restaurant during mealtimes might be wielding a baton!
Our Friend of Puzzleria! provided the following hints for Entrees #8 and #9:
ENTREE 8
The two-word brand name sounds like a sticky wicket on a water craft, on an aircraft, or in a boxing practice.
The logo of the two-word brand name could almost be a riff of the Evergreen Dessert.
ENTREE 9
Some of the solutions aren't real words, but should be... "descriptively tailored-wise."
ENTREE #10
All fictional characters in this puzzle were conjured up by Baum.
ENTREE #11
Alabaster rook?
ENTREE #12
The 20-year old math-and-logic puzzle: "JenningsJennings"
ENTREE #13
Th e first four letters of the two-syllable American footwear and clothing brand, spelled backward, are a beverage; the remaining letters, spelled forward, are an "all right."w.youtube.com/watch?v=bjpSH8qJ7c4>"Bo Knows" TV spots for Nike footwear)
ENTREE #14
Franklin & Seinfeld ice cream?
ENTREE #15
A 10-letter soft drink brand begins with Sonny's better half.
ENTREE #16
Think of a two-word 17-letter brand name for a famous piece of sports equipment thatsounds like a nickname of a prizefighteR from Kenticky.
Canton-Cooperstown Dessert:
Monte ____, ____ Goodson
LegoWhoHopesHisHintsForTheAppetizerAreNotTooWeird!
Ooh, I finally worked out the Schpuzzle. Had had the correct two last song words, but NOT the correct tree part.....now if only there were not a ZILLION MORE CLUES to read through.
DeleteEgads, were there SIXTEEN Entrees on Thursday? I could swear that when I took a brief peak, there were onlly about two more past Nodd's.
DeleteLego, thanks for the hints. I've made some progress, although I still don't have the last three colleges or Entree #8.
DeleteI don't have Colleges 9 or 10 either, [or 4] Tortie, but #8 was kinda easy for me, because my own cousin went there. Hmm...think of a slang term for our money, plus you need a homonym of the 'bell sound' for the last half of the college.
DeleteNodd's #9 College is a 5-letter word, a prestigious place. The first and fourth letters are the same consonant. Ignoring that fourth letter makes the "ruffian" part more plausible. But all five letters apply to the "hirsute part."
DeleteNodd's #10 is especially ingenious, IMO. It's a two word answer. The first word in the school is a homophone of a synonym of "Completely." The second word (which is an adjective that means "ticked off") is spelled exactly the same as that adjective, but it is a noun.
LegoRuggedlySigningOffInTheNameOf...
Thanks for those two great hints, Lego, on 9 and 10 (colleges). I NEVER would have solved them without said hints, especially #9. C0uld you do likewise for #4, since I'm still stuck on it?
DeleteVT and Lego, thank you for the college clues. I agree that #10 is very clever!
DeleteVT, for #4, think about what a rancher or cowboy might do to a cow to mark that it's their cow. And apply that, not to a cow, but something really cold.
Could be that my answer is an alt, since the "pepper" part of Lego's clue didn't make sense. But the the "popsicle" part helped me figure out my answer.
Now that I have the final three colleges, I still need help with Entree #8.
DeleteRegarding Entree #8:
DeleteThe somewhat obscure brand is a multinational franchise with 13,900 stores in 48 countries, with headquarters in a place that begins with a Cockney's pronunciation of a lab animal. The brand, spelled backward, sounds like what a hip-hop artist does.
LegoVeryLateHinting!
Lego, thanks for those hints. I now have the answer. I had never heard of the brand before.
DeleteThanks so much, Tortie, re College #4. It hit me after I read your clue twice. Hurrah.
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteIs it just me, or is this the most puzzles we've had in a week (well, at least since I started participating)? Kind of overwhelming! In any case, I have most of the entrees, although I'm missing #3 and #8. I've barely started on the Apps. I've solved the Hors d'Oeuvre, Slice, and Dessert, although I'm missing the Schpuzzle.
DeleteTrue, Tortie. There is much to munch on this week... it may seem a bit overwhelming:
Delete* Nodd gave us his signature "Nodd ready for prime time" consisting of "five" puzzles with "just-a-tad-more-than-five" answers... This week I count 4+10+3+10+3 =30 individual answers!
* This week's NPR puzzle seemed pretty riffable, so I contributed 8; Nodd provided his usual 6; and our "friend of Puzzleria! chipped in with 2."
Remember, Puzzleria! is like a restaurant... no need to eat everything on the Menu!
LegoWhoNotesThatEatingTheMenuMakesTheMenuMoreDifficultToRead!
I am DEFINITELY overwhelmed, and my standard response to same is to run in the opposite direction. THus, I haven't even read past the first Entree. I did take a stab at the college Appetizers, and managed to workout #s 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8. But other than App 2(A) and Entree 1 (I even had trouble with THAT, which is usually five seconds worth of work), I have come up empty.
DeleteTortie, had I known how many puzzles there would be, I'd have used more restraint re subparts and included some shorter Apps. I can't blame you for remarking as you did; I would have done the same. My solution was going to be posting early hints but unfortunately I fell down during my morning walk and ended up here in the hospital. But I'll post hints as soon as I can.
DeleteFirst off, I know I speak for all of us in wishing our friend Nodd a complete and speedy recovery and release from the hospital. (And, of course, Nodd deserves no blame for the length of this week's P! His "Nodd ready for prime time" was no longer than usual, and his six riffs were , in my opinion, perfect.
DeleteSecond off, I do understand the frustration many of you (and perhaps all of you) must feel about being overwhelmed with a score-or-more puzzles week after week, and I will try to be more sensitive and responsive in that regard. At the root of the problem is my own insecurity about not providing enough quantity and "quality" (a word I tend to equate with "degree of difficulty").
Third off, the year-end holidays can be a hectic time. The last thing I need to do is to pile on additional "Puzzlerian! Pressure!" I'll try to cut back and chill out.
My apologies. I will make an effort...
LEGrinchyScrOOgeWhoStoleChristmasAndTherebyJeopardizedPeaceOnPuzzlerianEarthWithHisBahHumbuggery!
Speedy recovery wishes for Nodd.
DeleteNodd, I'm so sorry to hear about your fall! Also wishing that you have a quick recovery!
DeleteIf you like, I could give hints for your puzzles I solved. I didn't even touch the college puzzles yet, so I can't help on that one.
Thanks, Tortie! Please post hints for anything of mine you believe you've solved. You usually solve them all, so your hints
Deletewill be at least as good as mine!
Adding my wishes for your swift recovery, Nodd. I hope you didn't break something! It was a shock just now to read that you landed in the hospital.
DeleteGot Appetizers #1, #2A, C, and E, #3, got only one of all the colleges in #4(I'll leave you to guess which one came so easily to me, without the lists I consulted that got me nowhere), got the Hors d'Oeuvre, the Slice, Entrees #5, #6, #9(2, 3, maybe 4), #10, #11-16, and the Dessert.
DeletepjbWishesYouAllAHappyAndProsperousNewYear,NoMatterWhichCollegesAnyOfYouGraduatedFrom,UsedInApp#4OrNot
IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS THAT DO NOT PERTAIN TO THE FOUR CATEGORIES ABOVE, YOU MAY WRITE THEM BELOW THIS POST. THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mom's Birthday Eve, y'all!
DeleteWe decided we'd be doing better to eat out tonight because tomorrow is going to be a "Weather Alert Day", as the meteorologists in our area say. So we went to Mr. Bean's(named after wrestler and local celebrity Butterbean). I had a bacon cheeseburger, Mia Kate had a mushroom and Swiss burger(no gravy), and Mom, Bryan, and Renae all had steaks. Lots of great conversation tonight. We discussed how "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" will show the ball dropping next week at 11:00pm our time, not midnight. Mia Kate's boyfriend Austin and his family will go out to see a movie on New Year's Eve, and then comeback to watch the ball drop. We even talked about the music playing in the restaurant. I didn't quite recognize the Red Hot Chili Peppers at first, but I knew the Rolling Stones and Bad Company and Bruce Springsteen. Mia Kate says Austin has a running gag based on his mixing up Creed and Nirvana. He thought Kurt Cobain was a member of the former, not the latter. So he'd go back to that from time to time in conversation. Then Bryan brought up how our late father did the same thing all the time using Rod Stewart and Heart. If the singer was a male, he'd say it was Rod, and if it was female, he'd ask "Is that Heart?". RIP Dad.
What I've solved so far is Appetizer #2E(easiest anagram), App #4(2), which was the easiest college to think of offhand, Entree #6, #9(2, 3, possibly 4), and #15, and the Dessert. Will check for hints here later on.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and may we all have a Happy New Year. Cranberry out!
pjbWouldRatherBeListeningTo"InTheYear2525"ThanHaveToWelcome2025!
I wonder what your dad thought of Bonnie Tyler (female, but sounds more like Rod). In any case, while I think these stories are kind of funny, I have to admit that I'd be no better for genres I don't care for. I'd probably just guess "Drake" for a rapper, since I don't follow rap.
DeleteI don't think he'd recognize Bonnie Tyler, even though her first hit "It's A Heartache"(1978)did get a lot of airplay on country stations. They didn't do the same thing with her follow-up hit, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"(1983), though.
DeletepjbAlsoHopeNoddHasASpeedyRecovery,BTW
Half the little boys my age were secretly in love with Bonnie. The other half made no secret about it.
DeleteEvery now and then I get a little nervous that the best of all the years have gone by."
DeleteSchpuzzle: (Post hint: ) CONE; PEAR TREE; PEACE ON EARTH (was stuck on trying to get HAPPY NEW YEAR to work)
ReplyDeleteApp:
1. MAD DANE, DEAD MAN, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, DEAD MAN WALKING
2. A. BELLA ABZUG, DONNA SHALALA, BELLADONNA; B. BILL BARR, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN-BARR; C. (Post hint: ) JEN PSAKI, ICE HOCKEY; D. (Post hint: ) PAUL MANAFORT, MAN A FORT; E. SENATOR, TREASON
3. MARLENE DIETRICH, REAL MEN DON’T EAT QUICHE, RICH DIET
4. (Post hint - ran out of energy to solve these pre hint): 1. COLBY; 2. TULANE; 3. MOUNT HOLYOKE; 4. BRANDEIS; 5. DAVIDSON; 6. KENYON; 7. VILLANOVA; 8. BUCKNELL; 9. TUFTS; 10. HOLY CROSS
5. (Post hint: ) SPROUT, PROUST, STUPOR
Hors d’Oeuvre: HARRY LIME, MERRY, HAIL
Slice: AULD LANG SYNE, WAGE, SIGN LANGUAGE
Entrees:
1. ZEKE BRATKOWSKI, DANIEL JONES; DAN EZEKIEL
2. MICHELIN, CHILI MEN
3. (Post hint: ) GOURMET, MORE GUT (pre hint, was trying stuff like GASTROME / MORE GAS )
4. BELUGA CAVIAR, GUAVA, CALIBER
5. ANCHOVIES, CHIVAS, (PEPSI) ONE
6. GOURMAND, MANGO, GOURD, MAN
7. SACHER TORTE, ORCHESTRATE
8. (Post hint: ) SPAR JAM, SPAM (I guess you could slather jam on Spam, but I don’t think it would taste good!; before the hints, I was trying to make butter/tub work.)
9. 1. WORLD, WORD; 2. LIONS, IONS; 3. LEGO, EGO; 4. GLAZE, GAZE; 5. PLANTS, PANTS; 6. HARLOT, HAROT ???
10. TOMMY HILFIGER; TIGER; “OH MY”; FILM
11. WHITE CASTLE; WHITTLE, WHISTLE
12. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN; KENKEN; TUCK; CHIC
13. REEBOK; REEK; BO JACKSON
14. BEN & JERRY’S, BERRY
15. CHERRY COKE; CHOKE, CRYER
16. LOUISVILLE SLUGGER; LOGGER (Hint: SIS, LULU, LEVI)
Dessert: HALLMARK; MALL, HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
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ENTREE 8
_________
SCHPUZZLE ??
APPETIZERS
1. MAD DANE; DEAD MAN; CHRISTOPHER WALKEN; DEAD MAN WALKING
2. A. BELLA ABZUG; DONNA SHALALA; BELLADONNA
B. BILL BARR; JEFFREY EPSTEIN; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS
C. JEN PSAKI; ICE HOCKEY
D. PAUL MANAFORT; MAN A FORT (THE ALAMO)
E. SENATOR; TREASON
3. MARLENE DIETRICH; REAL MEN DON’T EAT QUICHE; RICH DIET
4. 1. COLBY
2. TULANE
3. MOUNT HOLYOKE
4. BRANDEIS
5. DAVIDSON
6. KENYON
7. VILLANOVA
8. BUCKNELL
9. TUFTS
10. HOLY CROSS
5. SPROUT; PROUST; STUPOR
HORS D’OEUVRE – HARRY LIME; MERRY; HAIL; HAIL MARY
SLICE ??
Take the third and second words of a phrase often heard this time of year, followed by a kind of payment. The result, spoken aloud, sounds like something never heard any time of the year.
ENTREES
1. ZEKE BRATKOWSKI, DANIEL JONES; DAN EZEKIEL
2. MICHELIN; CHILI MEN
3. GOURMET; MORE GUT
4. BELUGA CAVIAR; GUAVA; CALIBER
5. ANCHOVIES; CHIVAS; [PEPSI] ONE
6. GOURMAND; MANGO or GOURD and MAN
7. SACHERTORTE; ORCHESTRATE
8. ??
9. 1. ??
2. IONS
3. EGO
4. GAZE
5. ??
6. ??
10. TOMMY HILFIGER; TIGER; “OH MY!”; FILM
11. WHITE CASTLE; WHITTLE, WHISTLE
12. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN; KENKEN; [FRIAR] TUCK; CHIC
13. REEBOK; REEK; BO JACKSON
14. BEN & JERRY’S; BERRY
15. CHERRY COKE; CRYER; CHOKE; CARREY
16. LOUISVILLE SLUGGER; LOGGER; SIS KISS; LULU LEMON; LEVI STRAUSS
DESSERT – HALLMARK; MALL; HARK
Nodd, glad to see you're back! How are you feeling?
DeleteThanks, Tortie! I'm still dizzy but hoping the rehab staff can help. We just got started today so I'm not sure what to expact
DeleteWe are all wishing, hoping and/or praying for Nodd's complete recovery.
DeleteLegoWhoOpinesThatBeing"Dizzy"IsProbablyPreferableToBeing"Daffy"(AlthoughDaffyWasNoSlouch!)
SCHPUZZLE: CONE & PEAR TREE => PEACE ON EARTH
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
1. MAD DANE => DEAD MAN
2. (A) BELLA ABZUG & DONNA SHALALA => BELLADONNA
(B) BARR & ???
(C)
(D) MORT’s FANS???
(E) SENATOR => TREASON
3. MARLENE DIETRICH => REAL MEN Don’t Eat Quiche; RICH DIET
4. (1) COLBY (2) TULANE (3) MT HOLYOKE [This one somehow is my favorite] (4) BRANDEIS (5) DAVIDSON (6) KENYON (7) VILLA NOVA (8) BUCKNELL (9) TUFTS (Never would have gotten this without Lego’s second hint) (10) HOLY CROSS
5. CROCUS?
HORS D’O: HARRY LIME = > HAIL MERRY. [This was very difficult, impossible without the hint….especially for those of us not that familiar with that genre of movie, OR who are not Catholics]
SLICE: AULD LANG SYNE & GRUDGE => SIGN LANGUAGE
ENTREES:
1. ZEKE [Bratkowski] & DANIEL [Jones] => DAN EZEKIEL
Never had the time or strength to read/tackle the rest of the Entrees. Sorry…...
DESSERT: HALLMARK => MALL, HARK
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteCONE, PINE TREE, PEACE ON EARTH
Appetizer Menu
1. MAD DAME, (Christopher)WALKEN, "DEAD MAN WALKING"
2. A. BELLA(Abzug), DONNA(Shalala), BELLADONNA
B. (Bill), BARR, (Jeffrey)EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN-BARR(virus)
C. (Jen)PSAKI, ICE HOCKEY
D. (Paul)MANAFORT, MAN A FORT(The Alamo)
E. SENATOR, TREASON
3. MARLENE DIETRICH, "REAL MEN DON'T EAT QUICHE", RICH DIET
4. (1.)COLBY
(2.)TULANE(the one I got right away)
(3.)MOUNT HOLYOKE(holy oak)
(4.)BRANDEIS(brand,+ice)
(5.)DAVIDSON(David's son)
(6.)KENYON(Kenyan)
(7.)VILLANOVA(villa+Nova)
(8.)BUCKNELL(buck+knell)
(9.)TUFTS(toughs)
(10.)HOLY CROSS(wholly cross)
5. SPROUT, (Marcel)PROUST, STUPOR
A 40's Hors d'Oeuvre
HARRY LIME("The Third Man"), MERRY, HAIL, HAIL MARY
Just Another "Phrase-This-Time-Of-Year" Challenge! Slice
"AULD LANG SYNE", SYNE+LANG+WAGE=SIGN LANGUAGE
Entrees
1. ZEKE BRATKOWSKI, DANIEL JONES, DAN EZEKIEL
2. MICHELIN, CHILI MEN
3. GOURMET, MORE GUT
4. BELUGA CAVIAR, GUAVA, CALIBER
5. ANCHOVIES, CHIVAS, (Pepsi)ICE
6. GOURMAND, MANGO, GOURD, MAN
7. SACHER TORTE, ORCHESTRATE
8. SPAR JAM, SPAM
9. (1.)WORLD, WORD
(2.)LIONS, IONS
(3.)LEGO, EGO
(4.)GLAZE, GAZE
(5.)PLANTS, PANTS
10. TOMMY HILFIGER, OH MY! FILM("The Wizard of Oz")
11. WHITE CASTLE, WHITTLE, WHISTLE
12. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, (Friar)TUCK, CHIC, KENKEN
13. REEBOK, REEK, BO(Jackson)
14. BEN & JERRY'S, BERRY(twice)
15. CHERRY COKE, CHOKE(cherry), (Jon)CRYER
16. LOUISVILLE SLUGGER, LOGGER, SIS, LULU, LEVI
Canton-Cooperstown Dessert
HALLMARK, MALL, HARK
Whew!-pjb
1/1/25” 46 degrees for the high.
DeleteSchpuzzle: Cone, Pear Tree, Peace on Earth:
1. Mad Dane, Christoper Walken, Dead Man Walking
Slice: Auld Lang Sign, Wage , Sign Language
Entrees:
1. Zeke Bratowski, Daniel Jones; Dan Ezekiel
5. Anchovies, Chivas, Pepsi
6.
14. Ben & Jerry’s, Berry
15. Dessert: Hallmark, Mall, Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
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Firs, refrains and a phrase
Take a four-letter part of fir trees that is often used as a Christmas decoration.
Take also the last two words (each with four letters) in the refrain of a (seemingly never-ending) Christmas song.
Replace an indecisively hesitant “er” with a delightfully joyful “ah!”
Rearrange these twelve letters to spell result to name a phrase you see and hear this time of year.
What phrase is this?
Answer:
Peace on Earth
(pine) CONE + PEAR TREE (the last two words in "The Twelve Days of Christmas") - E - R + A + H=> CONA+PEAH+TREE=> PEACE ON EARTH
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
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Noddingly Prime Time Appetizer:
Cinematic Hamlet, Roll-calling names, Brain food, Smart talk, Random House at Poetry Corner
Hamlet goes to the movies
1. Think of a two-word phrase to describe Hamlet’s girlfriend. Rearrange its letters to get a different two-word phrase to describe Hamlet’s father. To this second phrase, add the last name of an American actor who won an Oscar for his role in a war movie. You’ll have a three-word phrase that sounds like the name of a popular 1990s movie. What are the two phrases, who is the actor, and what is the movie?
Answer:
MAD DANE; DEAD MAN; CHRISTOPHER WALKEN; DEAD MAN WALKING
Political name-calling
2.
A. Think of two female former members of Congress. The first one served in the 1970s and represented a district in New York. The second one served in the 2010s and 2020s and represented a district in Florida. The second member was also a Cabinet member. The first names of these Congress members together spell something deadly. Who are these Congress members, and what is the deadly thing?
Answer:
2A. BELLA ABZUG, DONNA SHALALA; BELLADONNA
B. Combine the last names of a former Cabinet member and a person associated with the Cabinet member’s boss to name a disease. Who are the persons, and what is the disease?
Answer:
2B. BILL BARR; JEFFREY EPSTEIN; EPSTEIN-BARR
C. Take the first initial and last name of a nationally-known political journalist who was at one time associated with a presidential administration. Change the initial to the preceding letter of the alphabet and say the result aloud. Phonetically, you will name a popular sport. Who is the journalist, and what is the sport?
Answer:
JEN PSAKI; ICE HOCKEY
D. The last name of a well-known presidential advisor sounds like a phrase describing something American combatants did in the 19th Century. Who is the consultant, and what did the combatants do?
Answer:
PAUL MANAFORT; MAN A FORT (The Alamo)
E. Take a word for a certain politician. Rearrange its letters to spell an action that might end their political career. What are the politician and the action that might end their career?
Answer:
SENATOR; TREASON
Food for thought
3. Think of a famous 20th Century actress. Rearrange her first name to get the first two words of a book title from the 1980s. (The book asserted that certain people should avoid a certain food.) Rearrange her last name to get two words that describe a category of food those seeking to lose weight should avoid.
Who is the actress, what is the book title, and what should weight-loss seekers avoid?
Answer:
MARLENE DIETRICH; REAL MEN DON’T EAT QUICHE; RICH DIET
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3:
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4. Guess the names of the following U.S. colleges and universities from the hints provided. (Some answers are phonetic. Others are heteronyms. Ignore any punctuation.)
1. Dairy item.
Answer: COLBY
2. Kind of highway.
Answer: TULANE
3. Climb sacred tree.
Answer: MOUNT HOLYOKE
4. Apply something hot to something frozen.
Answer: BRANDEIS
5. King Solomon.
Answer: DAVIDSON
6. Inhabitant of an African country.
Answer: KENYON
7. Large residence + former GM car model.
Answer: VILLANOVA
8. Money unit + bell sound.
Answer: BUCKNELL
9. (Woolly? Hirsuit? Hairy?) Ruffians.
Answer: TUFTS
10. Completely ticked off.
Answer: HOLY CROSS
Poetry Corner, with Anna Graham
5. Using the same six letters, insert three words to complete the following verse.
First ______ of May. I open ______ once more,
As I have done on countless days before.
But all too soon, the unrelenting grind,
Weighs heavy, and a ______ claims my mind.
Answer:
SPROUT; PROUST; STUPOR:
First SPROUT of May. I open PROUST once more,
As I have done on countless days before.
But all too soon, the unrelenting grind,
Weighs heavy, and a STUPOR claims my mind.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
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A 1940s Hors d’Oeuvre
Noel and Film Noir
Rearrange the letters of a 1940s film noir character to spell an adjective and the first word of a prayer. The adjective and prayer are both associated with the Christmas season.
A homophone of the Yule-related adjective is the second word in the prayer.
What are the character’s name, adjective and first two words of the prayer?
Answer:
Harry Lime; "Merry (Christmas)" "Hail Mary"
Just Another “Phrase-This-Time-Of-Year” Challenge! Slice:
“Often is heard, seldom is heard”
Take the third and second words of a phrase often heard this time of year, followed by a kind of payment.
The result, spoken aloud, sounds like something never heard any time of the year.
What are this phrase, this payment and this thing never heard?
Answer:
"Auld Lang Syne"; wage; Sign language
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Ezekiel Entrees:
“Grape-upon-grape-upon-grape-(but-not-drupe!)” is a “group”?
Will Shortz’s December 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle Challenge, created by Dan Ezekiel of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:
This week’s challenge comes from Dan Ezekiel, of Ann Arbor, Mich.
Think of a two-word brand name for a food item that is marketed as upscale. Remove the last two letters of the first word and the first letter of the second word. Read the result from left to right and you’ll get a one-word brand name associated with the budget-conscious. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Ezekiel Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Take the first names of two NFL quarterbacks:
~ a Green Bay Packer (in four letters) who died in 2019, and
~ a current Minnesota Viking (in six letters) who was drafted into the NFL in 2019.
Rearrange these combined 10 letters to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.
Who are these NFL quarterbacks?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Zeke Bratkowski, Daniel Jones; Dan Ezekiel
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 6:
ReplyDeleteNote: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is this week’s featured Appetizer on this week’s menu.
ENTREE #2
Think of an eight-letter brand name that is associated with upscale dining. Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word description of guys who probably aren’t particularly interested in upscale dining.
What are the brand name and the two-word description?
Hint: The two-word description starts with a five-letter food item typically associated with the U.S. Southwest.
Answer:
MICHELIN; CHILI MEN
ENTREE #3
Think of a seven-letter descriptive word that is associated with upscale dining. Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word description of what you may get if you overindulge in upscale dining. What are the descriptive word and the two-word description?
Answer:
GOURMET; MORE GUT
ENTREE #4
Think of a two-word, twelve-letter food item that is considered by many to be a great delicacy. Rearrange to spell a five-letter fruit and a seven-letter word for the quality of something, especially a person's ability. What are the food item, the fruit, and the seven-letter word?
Answer:
BELUGA CAVIAR; GUAVA, CALIBER
ENTREE #5
Think of a nine-letter seafood item that many prize but others vehemently reject. Rearrange to spell a six-letter brand of upscale liquor and a three-letter brand name for a beverage that was introduced by a major bottling company in 1998. The 1998 beverage was marketed as a lower-calorie alternative to the company’s signature product. What are the seafood item and the two beverages?
Answer:
ANCHOVIES; CHIVAS, ONE
ENTREE #6
Think of an eight-letter word for a person who enjoys eating and drinking but is not particularly associated with upscale dining. Remove the third, fourth, and eighth letters and rearrange to spell a fruit that is much-prized for its delicate texture and flavor. (Or alternatively, rearrange all eight letters to spell a different fruit, one that is produced by some flowering plant species, and a generic word for a person.) What are the eight-letter word, the two fruits, and the generic word?
Answer:
GOURMAND; MANGO, GOURD; MAN
ENTREE #7
Think of an upscale European dessert, in eleven letters. Rearrange to spell a verb that describes what an executive chef at an upscale restaurant does during mealtimes. What are the dessert and the verb?
Answer:
SACHERTORTE; ORCHESTRATE
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This week's official answers for the record, part 7:
ReplyDeleteNote: Entrees #8 and #9 are clever contributions from a very valued and intensely talented friend of Puzzleria!
ENTREE 8
Think of a two-word brand name for a food item that is somewhat obscure. Remove the last two letters of the first word and the first letter of the second word. Read the result from left to right and you’ll get a one-word brand name associated with the budget-conscious. What are these two brands?
Hint #1: You might slather the obscure-brand product onto the budget-conscious product.
Hint #2: Consecutive letters of the brand name can be rearranged to spell a container for the product.
Answer:
Spar Jam; Spam
Hint #1: You might slather the Spar Jam onto Spam.
Hint #2: spaR JAm: RJA => JAR
ENTREE #9
The following is a riff of last week’s Evergreen Dessert: “Name that Tannenbaum title!”
Subject: If the World Served up the Dessert...
1. It would just be another term...
2. The Detroit NFLers would be mere charged particles...
3. “The Conductor” of a certain (uncertain?) puzzle blog would merely be a psychological concept...
4. “The glossy patina of the Holiday Ham, as we behold it” would be a...
5. The Georgia/Washington Puzzler would deal in clothing and not vegetation
6. The leggy moll in the film noir wouldn’t have to be completely glamorous
Answer:
1. World with "No el" = Word
2. Lions with "No el" = ions
3. Lego (the “The Conductor” of Puzzleria!) = ego
4. "Glaze Gaze"
5. Plantsmith (screen name of a great guy who contributes much to P!... including great puzzles) = "Pantsmith"
6. Glamorous becomes "Gam-orous"
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 8:
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Think of a two-word American clothing brand name. The first letter of the first word and the second half of the second word spell one of three creatures feared by a trio of fictional characters. The 2nd and 6th letters and the 4th and 5th letters of the brand spell two words the characters exclaim as they ponder an encounter with these creatures. The 9th, 7th, 8th and 3rd letters of the brand spell a medium that featured the three creatures in the late 1930s.
What is the brand? What is one of the creatures the three characters fear?
What do the characters exclaim?
What is the medium that featured the three creatures?
Answer:
Tommy Hilfiger; Tiger (feared, along with lions and bears, by Dorothy Gale, Scarecrow and Tinman); ("Lions and tigers and bears,) Oh my!"; Film (the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz")
ENTREE #11
Think of a two-word regional hamburger restaurant chain with its greatest presence in the Midwest and New York metro area.
Remove four consecutive interior letters and the space they leave, leaving what certain diminutive woodworkers do.
Remove four consecutive interior letters that overlap with the first four, and the space they leave, leaving what these woodworkers might do while doing the first thing.
What is this hamburger chain?
What to things might woodworkers do?
Answer:
White Castle; whittle; whistle (Snow White's Seven diminutive Dwarves did indeed WHISTLE while they worked.);
ENTREE #12
Take the multiple-word historical name of a fast food chain. The first three and last three letters of this name spell the name of a 20-year old math-and-logic puzzle.
The 4th-through-7th letters spell a word preceded by a homophone of “fryer.”
The 14th-through-17th letters spell a synonym of “hip.”
What is this historical fast food chain name?
What is the math-and-logic puzzle?
What is the word preceded by a homophone of “fryer”?
What is the synonym of “hip”?
Hint: The hip bone's connected to the thigh bone...
Answer:
KenKen; Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as "KFC") ; (Friar) Tuck; Chic
ENTREE #13
Think of a two-syllable American footwear and clothing brand. Its first three letters and last letter spell a verb for what its footwear begins to do after months of constant use.
The letters that remain spell the first name of an athlete who appeared in TV spots advertising a competitor of this brand.
What is this clothing brand? What is the verb? Who is the athlete?
Answer:
Reebok; Reek; Bo (Jackson, who appeared in "Bo Knows" TV spots for Nike footwear)
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 9:
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Think of an ice cream company with ten letters in its name. The 1st, 5nd, 6th, 7th and 8th letters, in order, spell an ingredient in some of its flavors. The 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th letters, in order, spell that same ingredient.
What are this company and ingredient?
Hint #1: The unused 2nd, 3rd and 4th letters, in order, can be rotated 13 places in the alphabet to spell the word “raw.” The unused 3rd, 4th and 5th letters, in order, can be rotated 11 places ahead in the alphabet 13 places to spell the word “yup.”
Hint #2: The name of the ice cream company includes one of those “special characters” you see on an upper row of typewriter keys.
Answer:
Ben & Jerry's; Berry
https://www.benjerry.com/flavors/berry-berry-extraordinary-sorbet
ENTREE #15
A 10-letter soft drink brand was originally marketed as, and is still commonly referred to, in two words of six and four letters. The 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th and 10th letters of this brand, in order, spell either:
* a five-letter word that is the first half of an 11-letter compound word for Prunus virginiana, or
* the same five-letter word for what you might do if food you swallow goes down the trachea instead of your esophagus.
The remaining 3rd-through-7th letters can be rearranged to spell:
* a five-letter variant spelling of “one who wails,” or
* the surname of an actor who portrayed a character named “Ducky.”
What is this brand? What are the two five-letter words?
Answer:
Cherry Coke; (Prunus virginiana is also called "Chokecherry."; You might "choke" if food goes down your trachea.; Jon Cryer (who played "Ducky Dale" in "Pretty in Pink."; "Cryer" is a alternate spelling of "crier")
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 10:
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Think of a two-word 17-letter brand name for a famous piece of sports equipment with place of the U.S map in its name. Remove 11 consecutive interior letters.
The remaining letters spell the profession of a worker who harvests the raw material to manufacture this sports equipment.
What is this brand name?
Who harvests its raw material?
Hint: The 11 letters you removed can be rearranged to spell the missing words in these brands:
"The ___ Kiss"
"____lemon"
"____ Strauss"
Answer:
Louisville Slugger; Logger
Hint:
"The SIS Kiss"
"LULUlemon"
"LEVI Strauss"
Dessert Menu
Canton-Cooperstown Dessert:
Christmas carol, gay apparel
Name a two-syllable compound-word American company associated with holiday gifts, greeting cards, Christmas-themed ornaments and gift wrap. Switch the beginning letters of the two syllables.
The result is:
~ an urban shopping area featuring a variety of retail stores that teem with shoppers during the holiday season, and
~ the first word in the lyrics and title of a nearly-three-centuries-old Christmas carol.
What is this American company?
What are the shopping area and the word in the Christmas carol?
Answer:
Hallmark; Mall, "Hark"
Lego!