“Ooh Baby, Baby, it’s a Wild Word” “News from around the globe!” Reviewer: Huff & Otto... Alphanumeric Synonymity; Pictures at an Exhibition; Objectionable adjective;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“News from around the globe!”

What do the plausible pair of headlines headlines and the possible feature-story quotation below share in common?

* “Monsoons, Tsunamis Saturate Africa” 

(a possible headline in The Africa Report)

* “Bathurst's Renewed Statues” 

(a possible headline of a photojournalistic feature in Australia’s New South Wales’ Western Advocate newspaper)

* “Friar Arthur’s unsung virtues demonstrate satisfactory hallowedness.” 

(a possible quotation, printed in a Washington Post feature story, spoken by the Dominican prior of Washington DC’s St. Dominic Priory)

Appetizer Menu

Minor “Word-Surgery” Appetizer:

“Ooh Baby, Baby, it’s a Wild Word…”

1. Name something found in many consumer products. Add a letter to the middle of that
word, and the result might explain why that thing is included.

2. Name a compound word for something you might see in a certain room.  

Divide the compound word into its two parts,
add the same noun in front of each of  those parts and the result will be two things you might see in a certain room.

3. Name a well-known author of the past, not an American.  

Replace the first letter of the last name with the first letter of the first name, reverse that and the result will be something you might do frequently.  

Who is the author and what do you do?

4. There are many words with the pattern t-i-t-i in which the letters t and i are pronounced differently: For example, petition, superstitious, etc.  

Can you name a common word with a similar x-y-x-y pattern where letters are pronounced differently? There are at least three common words, two uncommon words, and one fictional character related to well-known folktales.

5. Name a job title in a company or organization. Change the first letter to an adjoining letter on a standard typewriter or computer keyboard, and the result will be
where that person might be found.

6. Name three seven-letter words that share all but the first letter, and none of the words rhyme. What are the three words?

7. Think of something the Supreme Court recently granted.  

Move a letter in that word three places later in the alphabet, and the result describes how unscrupulous persons may try to act.  

What are the two words?

8. Name a symptom of an abnormality in a person’s musculoskeletal system. Change the third letter six places later in the alphabet, and you get a word describing a defect in a person’s speech system. What are the two words?

9. Name something the new president is on the inside, change the first letter and last letter [or change the first letter (p becomes n) and delete the last letter. Rearrange and the resulting word is something the new president wants on the outside.

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Pictures at an Exhibition

An adjective associated with finances often precedes the first syllable of a portrait artist’s surname. 

The adjective consists of the surname of a
French artist followed by an anagram of an American artist’s surname. 

What is this adjective. 

Who are these three artists?

Literary Slice

Objectionable adjective

Anagram the surname of a writer from the past to spell an adjective by which no writer, past or present, wants to be defined. 

Who is this writer? 

What is the adjective?

Hint: Take the combined nine letters of the writer’s first name and the kind of writer he is (novelist, essayist, etc.) Rearrange these letters to spell a nickname for a part of Italy and a word in a nickname of New York City. 

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Entrees:

Reviewer: Huff & Otto...

Will Shortz’s January 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, was created by Joseph Young, who conducts the blog Puzzleria! And it’s a numerical challenge for a change. It reads:

Take the digits 2, 3, 4, and 5. Arrange them in some way using standard arithmetic operations to make 2,025. Can you do it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take a pseudonym that a puzzle-maker uses. Remove the Latin word for the pronoun “I”. Remove also the three letters of the largest professional sports league in the world.

The sum of the four Roman numerals that remain, in Arabic numerals, is a year from the Second Millennium. 

Rearranging the digits 2, 3, 4, and 5 in some way using standard arithmetic operations will yield this Second-Millennium year.

What are this pseudonym, Latin word and world's largest professional sports league?

What is the sum of the four Roman numerals, in Arabic numerals?

Hint: The largest professional sports league in the world might have also been the name of a Swedish pop supergroup had either Björn or Benny never been born.   

Note: Entrees #2 through  #7 were created by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time is featured regularly on Puzzleria!”

ENTREE #2

Think of a seven-letter mathematical term.

Change an E to an A. 

Rearrange to spell two pests you might encounter in your backyard. 

What are the mathematical term and the two pests?

ENTREE #3

Think of a six-letter unit of measurement (with which many scientists are familiar.) Rearrange to name (1) a professional sports franchise, or (2) a plural word for shenanigans, or (3) a verb meaning to erode that can also serve as a noun meaning a dust-up. What are the unit of measurement, the sports franchise, the synonyms for shenanigans and the verb and noun?

ENTREE #4

Think of a six-letter mathematical term. Add two C’s, one E and one N. Rearrange to spell a word for a kind of internal guide. What are these two words?

ENTREE #5

Think of a nine-letter mathematical term.  Remove the first two letters. Add a C and rearrange slightly to spell a term for a kind of projection. What are these two terms?

ENTREE #6

Think of an eleven-letter mathematical term.   Remove the first letter. 

Rearrange the remaining letters to spell a place to work and a part of an eating utensil. 

What are the mathematical term, the place to work, and the part of an eating utensil?

ENTREE #7

Two mathematical terms are anagrams of one another. 

One refers to a procedure for solving a problem. The other term refers to a method of making mathematical calculations easier to
perform. (This method was developed by a mathematician whose last name anagrams to a word meaning pillage or plunder.) 

What are the two mathematical terms, the last name of the mathematician, and the word meaning pillage or plunder?

ENTREE #8

Consider the transcription of Will Shortz’s reading of this week’s NPR Puzzle Challenge:

This week’s challenge (is) a numerical challenge for a change. Take the digits 2, 3, 4, and 5. Arrange them in some way using standard arithmetic operations to make 2,025. Can you do it?

A letter of the alphabet, spelled backwards,
appears in a word in that transcription’s text. (This letter can be spelled with either two or three letters; in this instance it is spelled with three.) Remove those three letters and the space they leave. The result is a second word in the transcription’s text.

What are these two words?

ENTREE #9

You can arrange the digits 2, 3, 4, and 5 in some way using standard arithmetic operations to make 2,025. 

What is the most recent year, and what is the next year, that can be expressed using those four digits in this same way?

ENTREE #10

Name (in two words and 11 letters) a  geographic landform that ranks in the Top-Ten-Tallest on earth, with “tallness” defined by “topographic prominence.” 

Spell, in UPPERCASE, all but the 7th letter of this landform.  

Transpose the 7th and 9th letters.

Remove five consecutive letters that spell a part of a radio.

The result is the surname of German topologist who is associated with “surfaces” and “one-sidedness” – a topologist who might argue that this song has got it all wrong!... That a hill or a valley on the Earth’s surface is like the exterior surface of a waffle cone (think of it as being just one continuous convex surface with no “sides!”), or that a valley is like the continuous concave interior surface of a waffle cone (also with but a single “side!”). In other words, both are merely “bumps” or “divots” that are parts of the Earth’s imperfect surface.

What is the name of this Top-Ten-Tallest landform?

Who is the German topologist who is associated with “surfaces” and “one-sidedness?”

ENTREE #11

Name a North American landform, in two words of 5 and 11 letters, that is named inappropriately, considering its harsh climatic conditions – including blizzards and sub-zero temperatures.

Take the11-letter word in its name. Six interior letters can be rearranged to spell an object in a holy Advent tradition. The five remaining letters can be rearranged to spell an adjective that periodically describes a handful of other
objects in this Advent tradition.

Those 11 letters can also be anagrammed to spell the missing words in the following:

“A.M. _______, the ____ of the man responsible for the publication of Charles Lindbergh’s autobiographical account of his non-stop transatlantic solo flight from New York to Paris, one of the most successful non-fiction titles of all time.”

What are this the Advent object and adjective describing related Advent objects?

What are the missing words in the quotation? Who is the “responsible man” in the quotation?

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Verbal Evaluation Dessert:

Alphanumeric Synonymity

Replace the last two letters of a five-letter verb with the letter whose alphanumeric value  (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.) is the sum of the alphanumeric values of those last two letters. 

The result is a synonym of the verb. 

What are these two verbs?

Hint: The graphic at the right may also prove to be helpful. 

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