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Schpuzzle of the Week:
“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly... or maybe ‘Slopperly’?”
Change the last letter to a different vowel.
The result looks like a synonym of “sloppy.”
What are this world-atlas word and “sloppy synonym?”
Appetizer Menu
Tortitudinal Appetizer:
Five pop “icons” in an eight-decade “purse”
Anagram the singer’s name into the last name of a popular actor of the past and the first word of one of his film titles.
Rearrange the last name of one character to produce the last name of the other character.
Take the last name that appears first alphabetically.
Now take the first name of the first singer, and then add the full name of the second singer after that.
Who are the four singers? Who is the actor? What is his film? Who are the characters he portrayed?
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Anagrammatical Hors d’Oeuvre:
Shakespeare, Isolation & Cyclops!
Who is this character?
What are the isolated spot and two-word phrase?
Hint: The two words of the two-word phrase begin with the same letter, but they do not “alliterate.”
Surnominal Slice:
Baseball, bulls and “belletrism”
Divide the surname of an author into two parts.
👣 a metrical foot,
🟥 a word heard at a bullfight, and
⚾ a word heard at a baseball game.
The second part of the surname is what the first part is more apt to do during high winds or speeds.
Who is this author?
What are its two parts?
What are the metrical foot and two words heard?
Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees:
An “Over-the-top” Cover-up?
Will Shortz’s January 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Sandy Weisz of Chicago, reads:
Move the last letter of the first word to the start of the second word.
The result will be two words that are synonyms. What are they?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Think of a word that means “I love” in a language that is the root of all Romance languages, followed the first name of a puzzle-maker. The result is a two-word expression that Will Shortz – as well as those who follow him on National Public Radio (many who are versed in this root language!) – might exclaim after presenting another of this prolific puzzle-maker’s puzzles on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday “The Puzzle” segment.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the root-language translation of “I love”?
What might Will and his followers exclaim?
What is the long-running American radio show?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the brainchildren of Nodd, of “Nodd ready for prime time” fame.
Think of an adjective that describes a secret mission. Remove the last letter and double the third and fourth letters.
Rearrange to get a pair of antonyms.
What are the adjective and the antonyms?
ENTREE #3
Think of a word that describes the objective of many a secret mission conducted against a foreign adversary.
Remove the third, fourth, and fifth letters.
The remaining letters spell something that may become necessary if the secret mission is discovered by the foreign adversary.
What is the word that describes the objective, and the word for what may become necessary?
Think of a word for damaging an adversary’s asset to gain a political or military advantage.
Remove the last letter. Rearrange the rest of the letters to spell a two-word vehicle that might be useful in damaging the adversary’s asset.
What is the word for damaging an asset, and what is the two-word vehicle?
ENTREE #5
Switch the order of the words in the two-word phrase and you will get an expression of intense scorn or dislike.
What is the hiding place, and what is the expression?
Think of a slang term for an espionage agent who assumes the names of dead persons to create false identities for undercover work.
Add an S. Rearrange to spell a word for a swamp.
What is the word for such an agent, and what is the word for a swamp?
ENTREE #7
A two-word expression consisting of a place to sit, followed by the name of a bird, is also used in that way.
What are the mammals, and what is the expression?
ENTREE #8
Think of a past very gifted artistic genius who had a physical handicap.
You and others who DO NOT share this handicap are privileged to ____ ___ ___ __ ___iculated – in blanks containing 4,3,3 and 2 letters... and the first 3 letters of an 11-letter verb.
The abbreviation “ICU” (Intensive Care Unit, which is associated with “death”) and the word “late,” which means “deceased,” appear consecutively in the 11-letter verb.
You, however, are still alive, and so can answer the following:
Who is this artistic genius?
What are the 5-letter body part and the words in the blanks?
ENTREE #9
In a grassy pasture or meadow (3 letters), an equine creature marked with patches of white and another color (5 letters) frolics and gambols , not “playing the horses,” but “playing
with the other horses.”
The two 4-letter words in the blanks contain the same letters in the same order as the 3-letter and 5-letter words.
What are this meadow and equine creature?
What do these horses do to enter the pond?
ENTREE #10
Some war veterans choose to bring home medals, ribbons, weapons or other mementos of their service.
But some vets also bring home mementos that are impossible for them to leave behind, examples of which are pictured here.
Write a 3-and-5-word caption for that image. Move the space in that two-word description of mementos, forming “two new missing words” of 4 and 4 letters. This is a fitting caption for the second image pictured here.
What are these two captions, in 3 & 5 and in 4 & 4 letters?
Professional carpenters grab their hammers, hit the nail on the head and keep pounding.
Amateur carpenters grab their hammers, hit the nail on their thumb and stop pounding (although the throbbing pain in their thumb keeps pounding!)
Remove the space and punctuation from that “blank-blank” expression to get a color.
What words belong in the blanks?
What is the color?
ENTREE #12
But sometimes, the toreador is gored!
Think of a familiar term for sporting equipment,
in words of 3 and 5 letters, that comes in pairs.
Move the space one place to the right. The result is what happens after the toreador is gored... from that point of the bullfight on, the “mano a toro” spectacle will necessarily ___ ____. (The blanks contain a verb beginning with an “s” and a Spanish exclamation, in its plural form, beginning with an “o”.)
What is the sporting equipment?
What happens when the toreador is gored?
ENTREE #13
Think of a mostly verbal three-word party game requiring two or more players, in 5, 2 and 4 letters.
The third word can be anagrammed to form two words associated with a personal letter in your mailbox.
🐘 The truncated first name of a novelist, and
🪚 A god with a carpenter’s tool.
The novelist and god are both associated with “Holly Golightning (sic).”
What is this party game?
What are the anagrams of the third word?
Who are the novelist and god?
Dessert Menu
Orchestral Dessert:
Remove a letter from a stringed instrument.
Change the first letter to the letter following it in the alphabet, then move it to the end.
The result is a wind instrument.
What are these instruments?
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QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteBTW If my answer to the Dessert is to be correct, you also have to remove the fourth letter of the stringed instrument first.
DeletepjbThinksHeMayHaveLegoDeadToRightsOnThisOne...OrDoesHe?
You may have a perfectly fine alternative answer, cranberry. My stringed instrument, which is less than a century old, began as a brand name. My two instruments do not rhyme, but they come close to doing so.
DeleteLegoAllegro
I'm a bit confused by this discussion. You indeed have to remove one - and only one! - letter, which happens to be the fourth one, but that instruction is already in the puzzle.
DeleteIn any case, shouldn't Entree #13 ask for anagrams of the third word, and not antonyms?
Thanks, Tortitude. Yes, I meant to write "anagrams of the third word," not "antonyms of the third word." 'Tis fixed.
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A1. It seems like some of those folks had strong falsettos. Is it OK to include them?
DeleteHINTS!
ReplyDeleteApp hints: As the first woman elected to both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Country Music Hall of Fame, the first singer was a Giant in her field, but not in her stocking feet! The first two singers both recorded “Around the World” and “Side by Side.” The third singer’s name, if you remove the middle initial, is the same name as a comic strip reporter.
DeleteThank heaven for seven-eleven. Plantsmight thinks Tortie may be experience what he did last week -but in reverse.
DeleteSUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. One of the antonyms anagrams to a four-letter book and movie title about a sandy environment.
3. The removed letters are T, E, and R.
4. Wooden shoe like to know the answer?
5. One of the words in the phrase anagrams to a county in Florida.
6. The slang term seems like it would be more appropriate on Halloween.
7. The mammals were compatriates of Mr. Toad.
Late Sunday/Early Monday Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly... or perhaps ‘Slopperly’?”
In the "collage graphic," try to zoom in on the Tobias S. Buckell book cover, figure out what the ?uestion marks stand for, and rearrange.
Appetizer Menu
Tortitudinal Appetizer
I have no qualms at all about giving Tortitude "free rein" in the hint-giving for her "novel puzzle!"
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Anagrammatical Hors d’Oeuvre:
Shakespeare, Isolation & Cyclops!
"Hey Bro, an 'eye' is also called an 'orb'!"
Surnominal Slice:
Baseball, bulls and “belletristism”
"frumious Bandersnatch!"
Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees:
An “Over-the-top” Cover-up?
A "Famous Cookie-maker and a Mayberry Sheriff!"
Please see Nodd's excellent hints, above, for his Entrees 2-through-7
ENTREE #8
The 5-letter body part, repeated thrice, is a beater, throbber, ticker... beater, throbber, ticker... beater, throbber, ticker...
ENTREE #9
In a grassy pasture or meadow is an anagram of a cool brew.
The “horse of two different colors” was once a sporty Ford!
ENTREE #10
Remove the 2nd and 3rd letters from either caption to get statuettes that'll be doled out in about a month or so.
ENTREE #11
... __ __ __ __ __ __ : the color of pus an of pain?
ENTREE #12
If the toreador is gored, he will likely be unable to say __ __ __ ! Sure, he might say "Ouch, that smarts!" But he will almost surely __ __ __ __ over saying the __ __ __!
ENTREE #13
Madonna;
__ __ __ __ is a god; ROTH is an IRA.
Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard
Orchestral Dessert:
Curtis Loew
CurtisLego
Well, Tortie, ONLY thanks to your hints was I able to finally work my way through your Appetizer. (That would have been impossible otherwise, as I never would have come up with the initial singer, or the actor either, probably.). However, near the end when you say that the fourth singer "replaced" the first singer on the charts, Google does not apparently agree. IT says that it is a seasonal battle for top spot.
DeleteLego, it is a good thint that I don't need the Schpuzzle hint, because the attached pictures simply REFUSE to cooperate. When one either tries to click on the Tobias picture, or enlarge the entire set of pics, my computer goes bonkers and starts moving around to all sorts of other pictures on this week's blog, and/or simply freaks out! There is absolutely NO way to see where any question mark might be!
DeleteOn to reading the hint for the Hors D'O.
Nodd, turns out I have an alternate answer for your Entree #3. At least, I HOPE it is properly an alternate answer. I simply can find NOTHING to work with your "TER" hint.
DeleteVT, I looked into it further, and it's a bit complicated. Singer #4 did replace #1, but then #1 replaced #4 again. I'm sure you have the intended answer.
DeleteI also have an alt for Entree #3, with no progress on finding the intended answer as well. And I'm still stuck on Entree #4 - does the word end in an "E" or an "G"? Not sure which part of speech to use. The one that ends in "E" yields an answer that makes more sense.
OK, I think I may have the answer for Entree #3 now.
DeleteMore power to you, Tortie, for being able to find Nodd's intended answer for his #3. Re his #4, if you are still puzzled, the word I chose ends in "E". I wan't sure IT was correct, either, given that the vehicle one ends up with seems rather strange to me. However, when Nodd gave the hint about wooden shoes, and I checked out synonyms, I decided my word (ending in 'e') must be what he intended after all.
DeleteGot Entree #13, but you still have to drop an R in the Dessert for it to work.
DeletepjbAlmostGotCurtisLoewConfusedWithCurtisBlow(TwoVeryDifferentMusicalStyles!)
VT, I'm still not exactly sure of Entree #3, but I have a word that works, so I"m going with that. The second word doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'll go with the "E" ending for Entree #4. Both of my possible words are related to the shoe word, and only have different suffixes.
Deletepjb, you are correct about the Dessert: you need to drop an R for it to work. This is what the first instruction of the Dessert states: "Remove a letter from a stringed instrument." - less specific, but matches what you state. Perhaps that instruction wasn't there when the puzzle was first posted, or you missed it for some reason.
PUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR...)
ReplyDeleteFINALLY...after two weeks (I think) of NOT solving the Schpuzzle...I got this one!
DeleteCongrats, VT... that was quick!
DeleteLegoAPokeySurnameOfARussianNovelist'sCharacterNamedIvanDementevich
Well, let's just say I had a 'certain insight.'
DeleteI finished the puzzles except Entrees #3 and #4. For #3, I have what is likely an alt. For #4, I know the word for damaging an adversary’s asset, although I may have the wrong part of speech. I'm unconvinced by the vehicles I found while anagramming, though.
DeleteI have everything, too, EXCEPT the Hors D'O, and Tortie's Appetizer. On Thursday, I must have spent well over an HOUR on those two puzzles alone, trying every singer I could find who met the time frame mentioned, and anagramming Shakespeare characters. I got nowhere, except finding two singers whose names DID yield interesting past actor surnames....the trouble being that no 'first word in a movie title' accompanied either those names. Sigh...
DeleteFor the Hors D'Oeuvre, I had success when I concentrated on the description of the Cyclops, including the hint about both words starting with the same letter (but no alliteration).
DeleteFor the App, I'll be giving out hints on Sunday evening.
How sweet are the moments devoted to puzzling. In the eye of eternity they bring a splendid intermission in time and stand more valuable than time spent in Earth's garden. -Yet here we stand in the garden of the mind,
Deletewhere puzzles grow and bloom.
These endless hours are surely not toil -but ecstasy.
That post is beautifully poetic, Plantsmith! Those are my sentiments, exactly. But I could never have expressed them in writing as perfectly as you have.
DeleteThank you.
LegoWhoConcludesThat"TheGardenOfPlantsmith'sMind"Is "AnEdenOfPuzzleyDelights"
Tortie: thanks re the HOrs D'O advice, but I actually DID try that before spending so much time on the Shakespeare characters. But any phrase (of which there weren't many) for Cyclops didn't meet the hint Lego provided, i.e. re same first letter but different pronunciation. I have just now spent MORE time (Plantie..sorry, I don't find unsuccessful time spent fruitlessly searching to be 'sweet', rather.. intensely frustrating) attempting to pin down the two-word Cyclops phrase, with no luck. I'm going to switch to another attempt at the isolated spot on earth.
DeleteWell I admire your determination and grit. Anyway - I think I was channelling MR. Rogers who sang about, " growing an idea in the garden of your mind."
DeleteI was unfamiliar with the Shakespearean character. I mean, I think I'd heard and/or read the name before, but didn't know who or what it referred to.
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DeleteThe Shakespearean character is also the last name of an actress of the past. Her first name, once you add a punctuation mark, can be anagrammed into the name of a 1950s hit. The second part of that title is last name of the first singer in my puzzle.
DeleteOberon -> Merle Oberon -> Mr. Lee -> Brenda Lee
DeleteGood Friday evening y'all!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. We just ate out at Cracker Barrel a few hours ago, just us two. Mia Kate texted Mom and said they weren't going out, they were planning to fix supper at home. So Mom and I talked it over, and we decided we didn't have to have the rest of the family with us. So we went and had a great meal by ourselves. I had the Southern Fried Chicken(four bone-in pieces), bacon and mac 'n' cheese, country green beans, a house salad with ranch dressing, and a Dr. Pepper. Mom had pot roast(and wanted roast beef, but they didn't have it anymore), carrots, and a Sprite. It was all good. But rest assured, we did NOT do this to spite them. We will eat with Bryan, Renae, and the kids again soon. Just not tonight.
Some toughest this week. Tortie's puzzle reads like a novel, I managed to solve only Entrees(#1, #9, #11, and #12)and the Dessert. And while I'm still certain one letter(R)needs to be removed for my answer, I must admit I still have something else I can't figure out about #1: What is the reaction of Will Shorts "and his followers"? I got the old radio stars easily, but not the two-word expression. It makes no sense once you've solved the rest. Lego, please clarify this. Otherwise, I'll be expecting hints all around in the next few days.
Good luck in solving, and please stay safe, and I still think I'm right about the Dessert. Cranberry out!
pjbIsActuallyTheClosestHeCanComeToARightAnswerForTheDessert
Patrick, I hope this helps to clarify what I was trying to convey:
DeleteThe three-letter word that means “I love” in a language that is the root of all Romance languages is a four-letter noun for "guns and grenades and stuff," but with one of its double-letters removed. This 3-letter word, followed by the first name of the puzzle-maker forms the basis for "the first names of the two title characters in a long-running pioneering American radio show."
LegoKingfish
Haha, yes, my puzzle is kind of like a novel, which is why I only submitted one puzzle this week. A "novel" plus some "short stories" would have been too much!
DeleteI got the "I love" part and the puzzle maker and the radio characters. I just don't understand how this is also Will Shortz's reaction. It only makes sense as "I love", then the
Deletepuzzlemaker, and then the radio characters. As a "reaction", I clearly don't understand it. Clarify that part, if you please.
pjbDaresSayTortieHadANovelIdeaForAPuzzle
BTW I got the two singers, but can't figure out the actor or his(?)films, or his characters therein. Suggest you clarify that as well.
ReplyDeletepjbSays"I'mSorry"AboutNotGettingEverythingInThatPuzzleJustYet
"Giant" was purposely capitalized in the hint, which should give you help on figuring out the actor.
DeleteSchpuzzle: SLOVENIA, SLOVENLY
ReplyDeleteApp: I have the week off!
Hors d’Oeuvre: OBERON; BORNEO, ONE ORB
Slice: LEWIS CARROLL; CAR, ROLL; IAMB, OLE, OUT (AUTOMOBILE)
Entrees:
1. SANDY WEISZ; AMO; AMO SANDY; AMOS & ANDY
2. UNDERCOVER, COVERED, NUDE
3. ??? INTERCEPTION, INCEPTION (alt: RECONNAISSANCE, RENAISSANCE)
4. SABOTAGE, GAS BOAT (alt: SABOTAGING, SIGNA BOAT)
5. DEAD DROP, DROP DEAD
6. GHOUL, SLOUGH
7. RAT, MOLE, STOOL PIGEON
8. BEETHOVEN; HEART, HEAR THE ART HE ART(ICULATED)
9. LEA, PINTO; LEAP INTO
10. OLD SCARS, OLDS CARS
11. YELL OW; YELLOW
12. SKI POLES; SKIP OLES
13. TRUTH OR DARE; DEAR, READ; TRU (TRUMAN CAPOTE), THOR
Dessert: DOBRO, OBOE
Dolly Parton also a double winner of recent note. Country and Rock.
DeleteYup, hence the word 'first' in my hint.
DeleteSlovenia => slovenly (capital I looks like lower case l)
ReplyDeleteOberon => one orb
Brenda Lee, James Dean, Rebel Without A Cause, East of Eden, Stark, Trask, Kay Starr, Brenda K. Starr .......
SCHPUZZLE: SLOVENIA => SLOVENLY
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER: BRENDA LEE => [James] DEAN, "REBEL Without a Cause”;
STARK [in Rebel] => TRASK [in East of Eden];
STARK => KAY STARR [The Rock and Roll Waltz, in 1955];
BRENDA K. STARR => “I STILL BELIEVE” => MARIAH CAREY song: "All I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU".
Altho Google says that Carey did NOT replace B. Lee on the top of the charts; that the two songs are still battling it out every holiday season (Lee’s song being "Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”)
[Original Appetizer attempts: FATS DOMINO => Henry or Peter FONDA; BOBBY DARIN => BRANDO]
HORS D’O: OBERON => BORNEO or ONE ORB
SLICE: CAR [IMAB, OLE, OUT => AUTOMOBILE]. & ROLL => Lewis CARROLL
ENTREES:
1. AMO SANDY => I LOVE SANDY; AMOS & ANDY
2. UNDERCOVER => UNDDEERCOVE => COVERED, NUDE
3. RECONNAISSANCE => RENAISSANCE
4. SABOTAGE => SABOTAG => GAS BOAT
5. DEAD DROP => DROP DEAD
6. GHOUL => SLOUGH
7. RAT, WEASEL, STOOL PIGEON
8. BEETHOVEN => HEAR THE ART HE ARTICULATED
9. LEA, PINTO => LEAP INTO
10. OLD SCARS => OLDS CARS
11. YELL “OW” => YELLOW
12. SKI POLES => SKIP OLES
13. TRUTH OR DARE => TRU; THOR; DEAR & READ
DESSERT: DOBRO => OBOE
VT, my source for the Billboard replacement is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number_ones_of_2023 Brenda's song was #1 the weeks of December 9 and December 16, then Mariah's song was #1 the rest of the year.
DeleteWhat I didn't realize is that Brenda's song went back to #1 the week of January 6, 2024. I didn't think a Christmas song would be #1 in January. Probably has something to do with dating an issue in advance; can't say for sure. In any case, I don't follow modern charts, but I remember that Brenda getting to #1 made the news since the song was over half a century old and was never #1 before. I'm happy Brenda was still around to see it happen.
I just checked 2024 and 2025. Mariah's song was #1 at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. So, Brenda's song wasn't the only Christmas to be #1 at the beginning of the year.
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteSLOVENIA, SLOVENLY(A capital letter I looks like a lower case L.)
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JAMES DEAN(TRASK in "East of Eden", STARK in "Rebel Without A Cause")
KAY STARR("Rock and Roll Waltz")BRENDA LEE, OBERON, MERLE OBERON, "Mr. Lee" BRENDA K. STARR(The comic book character has no K in the middle.), MARIAH CAREY(Both Brenda Lee and Mariah have released Christmas songs:
"Rocking' Around the Christmas Tree" and "All I Want for Christmas Is You". Brenda K. Starr released a song called "I Still Believe".)
Anagrammatical Hors d'Oeuvre
OBERON(again), BORNEO, ONE ORB
Surnominal Slice
(Lewis)CARROLL, CAR, ROLL, IAMB+OLE+OUT=AUTOMOBILE
Entrees
1. AMO SANDY(I love Sandy!), "AMOS AND ANDY", SANDY WEISZ
2. UNDERCOVER, COVERED, NUDE
3. RECONNAISSANCE, RENAISSANCE
4. SABOTAGE, GAS BOAT
5. DEAD DROP, DROP DEAD
6. GHOUL, SLOUGH
7. RAT, WEASEL, STOOL PIGEON
8. BEETHOVEN, HEART, HEAR THE ART HE ARTICULATED
9. LEA, PINTO, LEAP INTO
10. OLD SCARS, OLDS CARS
11. YELL "OW!", YELLOW
12. SKI POLES, SKIP OLES
13. TRUTH OR DARE, TRU(man Capote), THOR, DEAR, READ
Dessert
DOBRO, OBOE
Mom's having her sorority group over next Tuesday afternoon, so we've been cleaning up around here this week.-pjb
The intended answer for Entree 3 was INTERVENTION; INVENTION. If a secret mission is discovered, it may be necessary to invent a false story to obscure the existence and objective of the mission.
ReplyDeleteBut don't you think, Nodd, that ReCONnaissance and Renaissance is a pretty good alternate answer? I mean, Renaissance pretty much means re-invention, right?
DeleteYes, VT, I do think it's a good alternate. Reconnaissance fits right in with the secret mission theme, and renaissance, in the sense of re-evaluating one's understanding of the facts based on what is learned through the reconnaissance, does as well.
Delete1-30-25" 29 in Renton.
ReplyDeleteJust having dessert this week: Dobro--oboe.
This week's official answers for the record. part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly... or perhaps ‘Slopperly’?”
Capitalize the second-last letter of a word in a world atlas.
Change the last letter to a different vowel. The result looks like a synonym of “sloppy.” What are this world-atlas word and “sloppy synonym?”
Answer:
Slovenia; Slovenly;
(A capitalized lower case "i", in many fonts, appears "I", which resembles a lowercase "L"; Change "a" to "y".)
Images:
RED PLUM => RUMPLED
NUDITY => UNTIDY
ELVIS? HE DED! => DISHEVELED
TALL SENTRY => SLATTERNLY
DADA RINGERS => DISARRANGED
SLY NOVEL => SLOVENLY
and...
"_ _ _ mongoose, a _ _ _ _ _" => SLY mongoose, a NOVEL
SLY + NOVEL => SLOVENLY
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record. part 2:
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Tortitudinal Appetizer:
Five pop “icons” in a eight-decade “purse”
Name a singer who was mostly popular in the late 1950s and 1960s. Anagram the singer’s name into the last name of a popular actor of the past and the first word of one of his film titles.
The actor starred in two movies that were released in the same year. Rearrange the last name of one character to produce the last name of the other character.
Take the last name that appears first alphabetically. Place the last letter in the beginning, and add a space. Phonetically, you’ll have the name of a singer who had a hit with a song recorded in the same year as when the movies were released. The song reached #1 in the following year.
Now take the first name of the first singer, and then add the full name of the second singer after that. Phonetically, you’ll have the name of another singer. This singer’s biggest hit was later a bigger hit by another singer. That singer replaced the first singer at the top of the Billboard charts with a different song.
Who are the four singers? Who is the actor? What is his film? Who are the characters he portrayed?
Answer:
BRENDA LEE, KAY STARR, BRENDA K. STARR, MARIAH CAREY; JAMES DEAN; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE; JIM STARK, CAL TRASK
INFO
Supporting info: BRENDA LEE anagrams into DEAN and REBEL.
The films “East of Eden” and “Rebel Without A Cause” were both released in 1955. James Dean played characters named, respectively, Caleb Trask and Jim Stark.
Kay Starr released “(The) Rock and Roll Waltz” in 1955 which became a #1 song in 1956.
Brenda K. Starr’s biggest hit was “I Still Believe,” which was later remade by Mariah Carey.
Mariah’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” replaced Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” at the top of the charts (the Billboard Hot 100) in 2023.
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record. part 3:
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Anagrammatical Hors d’Oeuvre:
Shakespeare, Isolation & Cyclops!
Anagram the letters of a Shakespearean character to spell either the name of some isolated spot on earth or a two-word phrase associated with Cyclops.
Who is this character?
What are the isolated spot and two-word phrase?
Hint: The two words of the two-word phrase begin with the same letter, but they do not “alliterate.”
Answer:
Oberon; Borneo, "one orb"
Surnominal Slice:
Baseball, bulls and “belletristism”
Divide the surname of an author into two parts.
The first part of the surname is a short synonym of a rearrangement of the combined ten letters of:
* a metrical foot,
* a word heard at a bullfight, and
* a word heard at a baseball game.
The second part of the surname is what the first part is more apt to do during high winds or speeds.
Who is this author?
What are its two parts?
What are the metrical foot and two words heard?
ANSWER:
Lewis Carroll; car, roll; iamb, "Ole!" and "Out!" (which are an anagram of "automobile")
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This week's official answers for the record. part 4:
ReplyDeleteRiffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees:
An “Over-the-top” Cover-up?
“Give us OVERT ops, not ‘COVER’-ups!”
Will Shortz’s January 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Sandy Weisz of Chicago, reads:
Think of a familiar two-word phrase that means “a secret mission.”
Move the last letter of the first word to the start of the second word.
The result will be two words that are synonyms. What are they?
cover top (covert op)
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Think of a word that means “I love” in a language that is the root of all Romance languages, followed the first name of a puzzle-maker. The result is a two-word expression that Will Shortz – as well as those who follow him on National Public Radio (many who are versed in this root language!) – might exclaim after presenting another of this prolific puzzle-maker’s puzzles on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday “The Puzzle” segment.
Move the space between that “root-language word” and the puzzle-maker’s first name one place to the right, resulting in the first names of the two title characters in a long-running pioneering American radio show.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the root-language translation of “I love”?
What might Will and his followers exclaim?
What is the long-running American radio show?
Answer:
Sandy Weisz; "Amo Sandy!" ("I love Sandy!"); "Amos & Andy"
(AMO SANDY =>AMOS ANDY)
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This week's official answers for the record. part 5:
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the brainchildren of Nodd, of “Nodd ready for prime time” fame.
ENTREE #2
Think of an adjective that describes a secret mission. Remove the last letter and double the third and fourth letters. Rearrange to get a pair of antonyms. What are the adjective and the antonyms?
Answer:
UNDERCOVER; COVERED, NUDE
ENTREE #3
Think of a word that describes the objective of many a secret mission conducted against a foreign adversary. Remove the third, fourth, and fifth letters. The remaining letters spell something that may become necessary if the secret mission is discovered by the foreign adversary. What is the word that describes the objective, and the word for what may become necessary?
Answer:
INTERVENTION; INVENTION
ENTREE #4
Think of a word for damaging an adversary’s asset to gain a political or military advantage. Remove the last letter. Rearrange the rest of the letters to spell a two-word vehicle that might be useful in damaging the adversary’s asset. What is the word for damaging an asset, and what is the two-word vehicle?
Answer:
SABOTAGE; GAS BOAT
ENTREE #5
Think of a two-word phrase meaning a prearranged hiding place for the deposit and pickup of information obtained through espionage. Switch the order of the words in the two-word phrase and you will get an expression of intense scorn or dislike. What is the hiding place, and what is the expression?
Answer:
DEAD DROP; “DROP DEAD”
ENTREE #6
Think of a slang term for an espionage agent who assumes the names of dead persons to create false identities for undercover work. Add an S. Rearrange to spell a word for a swamp. What is the word for such an agent, and what is the word for a swamp?
Answer:
GHOUL; SLOUGH
ENTREE #7
The names of two mammals are often used to describe persons who incriminate others. A two-word expression consisting of a place to sit, followed by the name of a bird, is also used in that way. What are the mammals, and what is the expression?
Answer:
RAT; MOLE; STOOL PIGEON
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This week's official answers for the record. part 6:
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Think of a past very gifted artistic genius who had a physical handicap. You and others who DO NOT share this handicap are privileged to ____ ___ ___ __ ___iculated – in blanks containing 4,3,3 and 2 letters... and the first 3 letters of an 11-letter verb. These blanks contain the consecutive letters of a 5-letter body part, repeated thrice.
The abbreviation “ICU” (Intensive Care Unit, which is associated with “death”) and the word “late,” which means “deceased,” appear consecutively in the 11-letter verb.
You, however, are still alive, and so can answer the following:
Who is this artistic genius?
What are the 5-letter body part and the words in the blanks?
Answer:
Ludwig van Beethoven; Heart; "Hear the art he art(iculated)."
ENTREE #9
In a grassy pasture or meadow (3 letters), an equine creature marked with patches of white and another color (5 letters) frolics and gambols , not “playing the horses,” but “playing WITH the other horses.” In order to beat the heat, this “horse of two different colors,” along with a few of its “gambol-mates,” ____ ____ a nearby pond.
The two 4-letter words in the blanks contain the same letters in the same order as the 3-letter and 5-letter words.
What are this meadow and equine creature?
What do these horses do to enter the pond?
Answer:
Lea, Pinto; the horses LEAP INTO the pond
ENTREE #10
Some war veterans choose to bring home medals, ribbons, weapons or other mementos of their service.
But some vets also bring home mementos that are impossible for them to leave behind, examples of which are pictured here.
Write a 3-and-5-word caption for that image. Move the space in that two-word description of mementos, forming “two new missing words” of 4 and 4 letters. This is a fitting caption for the second image pictured here.
What are these two captions, in 3 & 5 and in 4 & 4 letters?
Answer:
Old scars; Olds cars (Oldsmobile) Cars
olds cars old scars
ENTREE #11
Professional carpenters grab their hammers, hit the nail on the head and keep pounding.
Amateur carpenters grab their hammers, hit the nail on their thumb and stop pounding (although the throbbing pain in their thumb keeps pounding!)
And after the amateur carpenter hits his thumb, he will usually ____ “__!” Those blanks contain a 4-letter verb and 2-letter exclamation!
Remove the space and punctuation from that “blank-blank” expression to get a color.
Amateur carpenters grab their hammers, hit the nails on their thumbs and stop pounding (although the pain in their thumbs keeps pounding!)
Oh yes, and the amateur carpenters also ____ “__!”
Remove the space and punctuation from that “blank-blank” expression to get a color.
What words belong in the blanks?
What is the color?
Answer:
yell "ow"; yellow
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This week's official answers for the record. part 7:
ReplyDeleteENTREE #12
Often, a bull is slain by a toreador’s sword.
But sometimes, the toreador is gored!
Think of a familiar term for sporting equipment, in words of 3 and 5 letters, that comes in pairs.
Move the space one place to the right. The result is what happens after the toreador is gored.
What is the sporting equipment?
What happens when the toreador is gored?
Answer:
Ski poles; "Skip "Oles!" (if toreador is gored)
ENTREE #13
Think of a mostly verbal three-word party game requiring two or more players, in 5, 2 and 4 letters.
The third word has two anagrams associated with a personal letter in your mailbox.
Move the space between the first two words two paces to the left. forming words of 3 and 4 letters:
* The truncated first name of a novelist, and
* A god with a carpenter’s tool.
The novelist and god are both associated with “Holly Golightning (sic).”
What is this party game?
What are the antonyms of the third word?
Who are the novelist and god?
Answer:
"Truth or Dare"; "Dear..." and "Read"; Tru (as Truman Capote's close friends called him), Thor;
Capote is associated with “Holly Golightning” because he created a character named "Holly Golightly" ("Breakfast at Tiffany's")
Thor is associated with “Holly Golightning” because he is the Norse hammer-wielding god associated with lightning and thunder.
Hint: The party game is associated with Madonna (who was the focus of a movie with that title)
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Orchestral Dessert:
Pulling strings brings lulling winds
Remove a letter from a stringed instrument. Change the first letter to the letter following it in the alphabet, then move it to the end. The result is a wind instrument. What are these instruments?
ANSWER:
DOBRO, OBOE
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