Schpuzzle of the Week:
Paws 'n' Claws 'n' Santa Claus?
Consider the incomplete couplet below:
Can be found ___ _____ flesh-ripping claws!”
The word in the first blank is an anagram of the words in the second and third blanks. What are these three words?
Appetizer Menu
Elements, Names and Dreams
1. 🂡 🂽 🃄 🃅 🃊 🂿 🃂 Think of an atomic element in
seven letters, the British spelling.
Shift each letter a single-digit number of places earlier in the alphabet.
What are this element and this card game?
2. 🏛Think of the name of a U.S. state capital. Shift each letter a single-digit number of places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a female first name that is an anagram of a word that means to “temper” or “harden.”
What are this capital and first name?
Name a two-syllable creature. Move its letters a single-digit number of places later in the alphabet to name an interpreter of dreams (similar to Joseph in Genesis) who may have interpreted dreams involving this creature.
What is this creature?
Who is this interpreter of dreams?
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Brow-furrowing headline
Name a headline you might have seen earlier this week, in 12, 3, 6 and 4 letters.
All three letters in the second word would be UPPERCASE letters, whether the headline was or was not written in all-capital letters.
What is this headline?
Compound (Fracture?) Slice:
“Auto-party” Drinking? No driving!
Name a compound word for a part of a particular vehicle – a part associated with not driving.
Remove the initial letters of the two parts of this compound word.
Remove also the space that remains.
The letters that remain spell what sounds like how a 20th-century president pronounced a word that has a 3-to-1 ratio of vowels to consonants.
What is this compound word that is a beverage as well as a part of a vehicle?
Who is the 20th-century president?
How did this 20th-century president pronounce the word with a 3-to-1 ratio of vowels to consonants, and what is that word?
Riffing Off Shortz And Hartenstein Entrees:
“I love you, Olive! O yu!”
Name a well-known cartoon character in eight letters. Change the last letter to a U and rearrange the result to make a phrase you might see on a Valentine's Day card.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hartenstein Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
* a two-word unfair advantage that a competitor in a track-and-field event ought not
be given, and
* a noun likely eventually given to any competitor who is given such an unfair advantage.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the three words?
Note: Entrees # 2 through #7 were created by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Name a feline cartoon character in nine letters. Change a T to an S.
Rearrange the result to get a two-word phrase
for what you might see on a Valentine’s Day card penned by a cunning would-be paramour.
Who is the character, and what is the phrase?
ENTREE #3
She frequently appeared in a comic strip named after a kind of legume. Her name is a word you might find in a verse on a Valentine's Day card. Who is she?
Name two cartoon characters from a TV show.
Upon seeing them, you would be likely to think of two words that are often found in verses on Valentine’s Day cards.
Who are the characters, and what are the words?
ENTREE #5
Rearrange the letters to spell a three-word
phrase you might see on a Valentine’s Day card.
What are these two phrases?
Name a cartoon character who is known by a three-word description of her name and what she likes to do.
Reverse the two syllables of her name and it will sound like a word you might see on a Valentine’s Day card. Who is the character, and what is the word?
ENTREE #7
Name a two-word cartoon character in eleven letters.
From the second word, remove a two-letter
abbreviation for a health care professional.
Rearrange the rest of the letters of the second word to spell a word often associated with love.
The first and second words together will now name something you might see on a Valentine’s Day card.
Who is the character, and what might you see on a Valentine’s Day card?
Note: Entree #8 was created by Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” appears regularly on Puzzleria!
Rearrange the letters of a well-known comic book character to get a rather blasé Valentine greeting... (or, one might also say “a rather meh” Valentine greeting).
Who is this comic book character?
What is the Valentine greeting?
Hint: The greeting includes a one-letter homophone of its verb.
Entree #9
Name a professional sports team in a dozen letters.
Letters 12 and 10 with an apostrophe between ‘em, and letters 2 and 3 with an apostrophe
between ‘em, are both associated with Valentines (or a breath mint plus a digit).
Letters 4, 5, 1, 8, 2, 7, 6 11, 4, 4, 2, 1, 8, correctly divided, spell the beginning of some well-known Shakespeare.
What is this sports team?
What are the color and the apostrophized two-letter words associated with Valentines?
What is the beginning of some well-known Shakespeare?
Entree #10
Take a three-word greeting (in 2, 2 and 9 letters) on a February 14th greeting card.
Anagram these combined letters to spell an 8-letter adjective modifying a 5-letter noun.
sender and recipient clearly love one another, each occasionally perceives the other as an _____ (the 5-letter noun).
The 8-letter adjective suggests, however, that, even given that sporadic animus or tension, the “positive chemistry” (that is, the “degree of mutual attraction the sender and recipient possess) will obviate that animus or tension.
What is this greeting on the card?
What are the adjective and noun?
Entree #11
Two members of a musical combo – after each played their respective wind instruments a tad too “enthusiastically” and “frenziedly” – were airlifted from the nightclub where they were playing a gig to the emergency room of a hospital.
Both had somehow swallowed their instruments!
However, the second musician, fortunately, pulled though. The attempt to pull the smaller instrument up through his windpipe, along with “(a 2-word anagram of the final five letters of his instrument) or two,” proved successful and kept this musician “out of (the first four letters of his instrument)’s way.”
What are the two instruments?
What was the first man declared?
Dessert Menu
Divinity Dessert
Pinning down a Greco-Roman wrestling puzzle
Name these things and deities.
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QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteIMmediate Schpuzzle question: are the words in the second and third blanks EACH as long as the word in the first blank, or do the letters from the first blank's word SPLIt UP into two words, i.e. the ones in the second and third blanks?
DeleteI just answered my own question, having found the solution. For everyone else, indeed, the second and third words are split, being parts of the first word.
DeleteIndeed, VT, you have clarified my text. Thank you.
DeleteThe word in the first blank (8 letters) is an anagram of the words in the second and third blanks (3 and 5 letters).
LegoAppreciative
Thanks for the clarification. At first, I thought it was like the "Anna Graham's poetry hour"- deal.
DeleteApp2. A single digit could be up to nine-right?
DeleteYes, that seems correct, Plantsmith. I suppose you might start counting by beginning with the single digit zero... but nobody does that. Thus we would count nine fingers/thumbs using digits 1 through 9 (or toes using 1 through 9) and then rely on double-digit numbers (10, 11, 12...20) to count our remaining eleven single digits!
DeleteLegoDigitalicization!
HINTS!
ReplyDeleteE8. Two of the words from last week's NPR puzzle can be spelled from the character name and the remaining letters can spell a kind of bird.
DeleteA picture in E8 is also a clue.
DeleteIv'e just been painfully trying to work out your #8, PLantie. No luck. The trouble with the pictures are that I have NO idea who the last four characters in the line up are.
DeleteNever mind...I dropped each of the last four into Google's picture IDing window, so got their names. Only one gives a PARTIAL answer....so the puzzle still makes no sense to me.
DeleteOK, I've finally come up with a really AWFUL phrase out of the chosen comic book guy, who does match a couple of the hints, at least. And that is all I'm going to do with it!
DeleteCan't wait to hear it.
DeleteThere's a sheep involved!
DeleteEARLY MONDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. This cat has a rocky time of it.
3. Saintpaulia.
4. One character is mole-like. The other has something in common with mentors.
5. Wait, guessers.
6. Boots on the ground investigate monkey business.
7. Inspector Jacques’s beat.
Well, now I'm stuck all over again on #4. NOt to mention having NO idea what some of the other hints mean.
DeleteWhich hints are unclear? I can provide clarification if you wish.
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DeleteI agree with VT. I thought I had #4, but the hint makes me believe I don't (and I have no idea what the hint means, other than "mentors" might be "monster.").
DeleteThe answer I have for #4: one anagrams to a world capital, while the other is a nickname of a famous journalist and author.
I was also confused on #5 and then realized it's an anagram of the phrase on the Valentine's Day card. I was also confused on #2, but now I understand it. So, all appears to be good with those.
Still stuck on #8! There are two sheep words that appear in the character's name, although one lends itself better to a "punny" saying. But I can't get any further than that. Everything I try either doesn't make sense or there's a leftover letter.
#4 -- You are correct, Tortie, mentors = monster, which is the "last name" of one of the characters. The "mole" hint is the anagram of the other character. They both appeared regularly on a TV show named after a food that Aladdin was familiar with.
DeleteMONDAY MORNING HINTS
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Paws & Claws & Santa Claus?
The first blank contains 8 letters and an apostrophe.
The second blank is a number.
The third blank is a 5-letter adjective.
Appetizer Menu
Paradiddlley Riddley Appetizer
Elements, Names & Dreams
1. The non-British spelling of the atomic element substitutes an F for a PH.
2. The U.S. state capital has but one syllable but is often mispronounced using 2 syllables.
3. The creature is also an acronym for a federal law that allows eligible workers to keep their health insurance after a qualifying event, such as job loss. .
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Uppercase Hors d’Oeuvre
The three-letter second word, in all caps, is not really a word, but a number.
The three other words are on the map.
Compound (Fracture?) Slice:
“Auto- party” Drinking? No driving!
The "particular vehicle" is a member of the motorcycle family.
The beverage associated with NOT DRIVING is the name of a cocktail.
Riffing Off Shortz And Hartenstein Entrees:
“I love you, Olive! O yu!”
ENTREE #1
the unfair advantage is also "a federally funded preschool program for eligible families."
ENTREE #2
Note: See the hints above that Nodd has provided for hi for Entrees # 2 through #7 and that Plantsmith has provided for his Entree #8. We thank them.
ENTREES #2 through #8
ENTREE #9:
Name a professional sports team in a dozen letters... "Yaz"
ENTREE #10:
The three-word greeting (in 2, 2 and 9 letters) on a February 14th greeting card begins with a B, M and V.
Entree #11 (a "late entree")
Both instruments are wind instruments.
One ends with any one of many body parts.
The other ends with a 3-syllable female name.
Divinity Dessert
Pinning down a Greco-Roman wrestling puzzle
A timely puzzle, considering that is was posted on Valentine's Day Eve.
LegoWishingPatrickJ.BerryTheBest
Thanks, Lego. My answer to the Slice has a 3-2 ratio of vowels to consonants rather than 3-1. Am I wrong?
DeleteThanks for the hints. Looks like I had the Hors d'Oeuvre right all along, although the number in the middle of the other three words doesn't make sense to me as a headline.
DeleteNodd, the word-as-pronounced-by-the-President is 3-2, but the way it should be pronounced is 3-1.
I finally have the intended answer for #4. It appears that those two characters were not part of the cartoon show, hence my confusion.
The two characters were in the film, TMTM. It was an animated film, so I figured it would be accurate to call them cartoon characters.
DeleteOh, OK. When I looked at the TV show info, they didn't show up as any of the characters. But I haven't seen the film.
DeleteRe #4: I have seen the TMTM film, but too long ago to be able to remember anything. I hadn't realized that the character hinted at by "MOLE" was even IN that movie (I just Googled). I had thus chosen a DIFFERENT character, but the problem was, in the movie he was a LIGHTER color than what Nodd is going for...so I knew something had to be wrong.
DeleteI still don't like the first half of my answer for #5.
As for the infamous #8, I didn't even see a SECOND sheep word! And used only the one I had seen. I still say it's an awful phrase, tho. Will be eager to see what it is really supposed to be.
Nodd, I've only just now finally solved the Slice. I think what Lego wrote in the puzzle is confusing, because the correctly pronounced word has the 3-to-1 ratio, but the mispronounced word is the 3- to-2 ratio.
DeleteVT, the initials of the answer I have for #5 sounds like a type of soft drink. It doesn't sound like a phrase anyone would utter and may not even be grammatically correct.
DeleteI looked up the MOLE being part of the movie, and it looks like it was one of his first appearances and wasn't fully developed yet. I got confused by this question because that movie had an actual cartoon part which later became a TV show, but the two characters in the intended answer apparently weren't part of that.
Will spend some more time with #8. I suspect you have the answer - remember it's a "blah" phrase (maybe punny?) so it's not like the phrases in #5 and #10.
Ah, finally got a plausible answer for #8.
DeleteTortie, I finally decided that I must have the same two words for #5 as you do (I just had had them in reverse order.). I agree, they make no sense.
DeleteTortie, you are correct that the phrase meaning “advocates in the sagest manner” in #5 is not grammatically correct. I was obliged to use some literary license to get the anagram to work.
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ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER RIFFS
Delete1. Think of an atomic element in seven letters, the British spelling. Shift each letter eight places earlier in the alphabet. Rearrange the resulting letters to get a two-word phrase describing something that some have contended is improperly influencing the actions of the current U.S. president. What are the element and the phrase? (Hints: The two-word phrase consists of words of four and three letters. The first word in the two-word phrase is the last name of a well-known businessperson.)
2. Think of an informal word for wine and a word for a resident of a Eurasian country. Each word has four letters. Shift each letter six places earlier in the alphabet. Rearrange the resulting letters to get the name of an old card game. What are the two four-letter words and the name of the card game?
3. Think of an eight-letter two-word phrase describing something that would occur if a football game were played outside during a blizzard. Shift each letter eleven places earlier in the alphabet. Rearrange the result to name a board game that likely dates back thousands of years. The game sounds like a second thing that would occur during such a football game. The letters of the game anagram to two words describing a third thing that would occur. What are the eight-letter phrase, the name of the game, the word that the game sounds like, and the two words describing the third thing that would occur?
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DeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteI have an answer for the Hors d'Oeuvre, but I don't think my second word is correct (pretty sure about the words 1, 3, and 4).Have what is likely an alt for Entree #4. Don't have Entrees #5 and #8 at all. Looks like I solved everything else, although Entree #1 was more difficult than usual.
DeleteFor #5, think of a South American capital, five letters.
DeleteMy "stuck on these puzzles" for this week are: the Hors D'O, the Slice (unusual to not get either of them), and entrees 4, 5, 7 and 8, and Dessert (despite spending a LONG time on it researching names.) Of course, i am always happy to have gotten ANY of Nodd's at all!
DeleteEntree 4 -- Jim Henson & crew invade NYC.
DeleteEntree 5 -- See hint above. The capital city name anagrams to a word meaning to use profanity.
Entree 7 -- Same critter as in the Schpuzzle, but a different color.
Thanks, Nodd. At least, I got your #7 from that. Plus the name of the southern capital for #5, not that I have translated that into an answer (even figuring on a translation from the French.)
DeleteThe hint for #4 refers to a 4-word 1984 film title, the initials of which are TMTM. The two characters appeared in the film in animated form. One is a primary color and the other is a different primary color. The two primary colors are often found on Valentine's day cards, in verse form.
DeleteFor #5, the words in the three-word phrase consist of 5, 2, and 5 letters respectively. The initial letters of the three words, in order, spell a word that a sibling might call his or her female sibling.
Hmm, well, the resultant Valentine phrase for #5 is now clear, except that going backwards, the anagram program doesn't really give what I consider to be an acceptable synonym for "advocates." However, I am going to leave things as the only way I could find them.
DeleteNow to tackle your hint for #4. And I see Plantie put in a hint for his #8, and I haven't tried it yet. So thanks, guys.
Thanks for all of the hints. While I was able to solve #5 pre-second hint, I needed the second hint for #4. Have the right colors, but I'm unsure about the characters. One I think is correct, but the other is a different color in the cartoon vs. "live" version. There is a CGI version that matches the color better. There are two (non-animated) characters from the original property in the franchise that match the colors better, I think.
DeleteIn any case, I figured out the comic book character in #8 thanks to the hint, but I still don't have the original phrase. I'm confused about the homophone hint. So, something like "I C YOU" instead of "I SEE YOU" would be right?
Tortie, see my comments above in the "hints" section re Entree 8. I FINALLY figured out that the in-puzzle hint means that the one-letter homophone STANDS IN for the complete verb, rather than both of them being included in the phrase, which turned out to be completely impossible. As I said above, the phrase I finally concocted is pretty awful, but I don't see what else it could possibly be!
DeleteYou are getting warmer.
DeleteI know I've got Entree #9, wordplay and all. I've got Appetizer #1 and Entree #10, but can't figure out the wordplay for either. Someone please help me out.
DeletepjbWatched[SNL50]AndLovedIt(NotEnough,IfAny,AttentionPaidToTheShowInTheEarly80s,Though...IMean,EddieMurphy,JuliaLouis-Dreyfus,AndBradHallWereThere!)
Happy Valentine's Day to all!
ReplyDeleteTonight Bryan and Renae are dining together, as I'm sure Mia Kate is dining with her new boyfriend Austin. So Mom and I got supper from Freddy's this evening. I got a jalapeno steakburger, Mom got a regular burger, we both had onion rings, she drank a Sprite and I drank a Diet Dr. Pepper. She didn't get any dessert, but I got a Reese's Royale.
Been a kinda strange week for me this week. I had an MRI scheduled for Wednesday morning at Kirkland Clinic, and then an appointment to see a doctor. For some reason, I was nervous about the MRI, so much so that I found myself second-guessing myself as I was cleaning myself in the shower. Took a longer time than usual as a result, and Mom didn't notice because she fell asleep. So I didn't tell her. Cut to Wednesday morning, I come into the bathroom, am about to use the toilet, when somehow I fell asleep standing up and the shower door fell on top of me. I don't understand either, but Mom said when she came in and picked it up off of me, I had a look of sheer panic in my eyes, like I didn't know what happened(she was definitely right about that because it all had happened so fast, whatever it was!). Somehow because of this, Mom talked to Renae a few minutes later on the phone and Renae suggested we instead take me out to an emergency hospital in Fultondale to have me examined. Seems I've been having a few episodes in which I've fallen asleep and have literally fallen as a result. Sunday afternoon I recall waking up actually falling out of bed! We don't know if it's nodding off or having a seizure or what, and that Wednesday afternoon in Fultondale, what with their hooking me up to an IV and constantly checking my blood pressure and all, they found nothing wrong! Everything checked out all right, so Mom is now even more worried. But I was getting quite hangry, considering I had to fast before what would have been an MRI(you have to do that, you know), and they even informed me that my IV wasn't unloading fast enough, so I couldn't leave without this being fixed in some way(I actually realized it was dripping faster with my holding my arm still). We then had lunch at a nearby Olive Garden, and I enjoyed every bite of it---salad, breadsticks, spaghetti---everything! In closing I will say the only puzzle here that I know I definitely solved was Entree #3(not that many "legume" named comic strips out there). I expect hints for everything else, from the same old P! gang as always.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and here's hoping nothing more happens to me like this(knock on wood!).
Cranberry out!
pjbAnxiouslyAwaitingThe[SNL50]SpecialOnSundayNight(AfterWhichHeMustGoSeeHisNormalDoctorLarissaMondayAfternoon!)
Gosh, Patrick. Glad that you and your mom are OK. Get some rest. Try to take it easy.
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Gosh, PJB, that all sounds rather gruesome. HOW could the shower door have FALLEN on you? DId it come off its hinges?
DeletePJB, I hope that your condition can be diagnosed swiftly and addressed as soon as possible. I have had similar episodes from time to time, and it is the scariest feeling in the world when it happens. Take care and be well.
DeleteDitto to that. Hopefully something easy like low blood pressure when you stand up? Forget what they call that.
DeletePJB, that sounds really scary! I hope this sort of incident doesn't happen again.
DeleteOrthostatic hypotension -- a condition where blood pressure drops significantly when a person stands up from sitting or lying down. That's what the people in the hospital said I had, and they said to concentrate on standing up slowly and using a walker when needed.
DeleteSchpuzzle: PANTHER’S, TEN, SHARP
ReplyDeleteApp:
1. SULPHUR, PRIMERO
2. PIERRE, LEANNA (anagram of ANNEAL)
3. COBRA, FREUD
Hors d’Oeuvre: PHILADELPHIA LIX KANSAS CITY
Slice: SIDECAR, JFK, IDEAR
Entrees:
1. WARD HARTENSTEIN; HEAD START, WINNER
2. SYLVESTER, SLY VERSES
3. VIOLET (from PEANUTS)
4. (Post hint: ) (intended answer) ELMO, COOKIE MONSTER (alt: GROVER), RED, BLUE (original post hint answer: Muppet Babies who (somewhat) qualify: (BABY) ANIMAL (seems to be more orange/pink in the cartoon), (BABY) GONZO) (original pre hint answer: BUTTERCUP and BLOSSOM from The Powerpuff Girls; BUBBLES isn’t as likely)
5. (Post hint: ) ARGUES WISEST, SUGAR IS SWEET
6. DORA THE EXPLORER, ADORE
7. PINK PANTHER, PINK HEART
8. (Post hint: ) WOLVERINE; EWE R LOVIN’ ???? (Struggled with this one, partially because LOVIN doesn’t show up in anagram solvers)
9. BOSTON RED SOX; RED, X’S; O’S; TO BE OR NOT TO BE
10. BE MY VALENTINE; BIVALENT ENEMY
Dessert: ARROWS, CUPID, EROS
Todd riffs:
1. CAESIUM, MUSK AWE
2. VINO, TURK, PINOCHLE
3. ?????
SCHPUZZLE - PANTHER’S; TEN, SHARP
DeleteAPPETIZERS
1. SULPHUR; PRIMERO
2. PIERRE; LEANNA
3. COBRA; FREUD
HORS D’OEUVRE ??
SLICE - SIDECAR; GEORGE W. BUSH(?), DONALD TRUMP(?); IDEAR; IDEA
ENTREES
1. WARD HARTENSTINE; HEAD START, WINNER
2. SYLVESTER; SLY VERSES
3. VIOLET (FROM “PEANUTS”)
4. ELMO, COOKIE MONSTER (FROM “SESAME STREET”); RED, BLUE
(Elmo appears in a sing-along during “The Muppets Take Manhattan”; Cookie Monster appears in the movie as well.)
5. ARGUES WISEST; “SUGAR IS SWEET”
6. DORA THE EXPLORER; ADORE
7. PINK PANTHER; PINK HEART
8. ??
9. BOSTON RED SOX; RED, X’S, O’S; “TO BE OR NOT TO BE”
10. “BE MY VALENTINE”; BIVALENT ENEMY
11. TROMBONE, HARMONICA; MORT (Not sure when this Entree showed up. I only noticed it this morning.)
DESSERT – ARROWS (“EROS”); CUPID, EROS
NODD RIFFS:
1. CAESIUM; MUSK AWE
2. VINO, TURK; PINOCHLE
3. COLD REFS; DRAUGHTS; DRAFTS; HARD GUST
I missed #11 completely!
DeleteI did come across DRAUGHTS in my research, but I thought it was pronounced like DROUGHTS for some reason.
One reason I was confused about the Muppets question is that I read that The Muppets Take Manhattan had an animated portion that led to the Muppet Babies, and Elmo and Cookie Monster weren’t in Muppet Babies.
Puzzleria–`2/19/25
ReplyDeleteApp2- Pierre, Leanna- from Anneal a anagram of.
E1. Ward Hartenstein, head start, winner
E2. Sylvester, sly verses
E.3- Violet
E7. Pink Panther, pink heart
E8. Wolverine, We R in love ,or anything else for that matter
Like Tortie's E8 also. Now I get the Sheep reference.
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE: PANTHER => TEN SHARP
ReplyDeleteCONUNDRUMS:
1. SULPHUR => PRIMERO
2. PIERRE => LEANNA => ANNEAL
3. COBRA => FREUD
HORS D’O: "CHAMPIONSHIP LIX: CHIEFS LOSE” [I know that Lego’s actual answer is: PHILADELPHIA LIX KANSAS CITY, but I actually like my alternate better….sorry, Lego]
SLICE: SIDECAR => IDEAR (IDEA) ; JFK; I kept thinking that the word HAD to be "NUCULAR/Nuclear”, actually mispronounced by several presidents., including Ike, Carter and G.W Bush.
ENTREES:
1. WARD HARTENSTEIN => HEAD START & WINNER
2. SYLVESTER => SLY VERSES
3. VIOLET (from Peanuts)
4. MUPPET BABY COOKIE MONSTER (BLUE) & MUPPET BABY ELMO [Roses are RED, violets are BLUE, etc]
5. AUGERS(?) WISEST => SUGAR IS SWEET [South American capital: SUCRE]
6. DORA THE EXPLORER => ADORE
7. PINK PANTHER => HEART => PINK HEART
8. WOLVERINE => EWE 'R LOVIN' [The hint: I LOVE, WREN ]
9. BOSTON RED SOX => X’S & O’S; TO BE OR NOT TO BE
10. BE MY VALENTINE => BIVALENT ENEMY
11. (Who knew this entree was even there, only because I read Lego’s Mon night hints): MORT, i.e. DEAD & HARM's => TROMBONE & HARMONICA; Lego, what were you drinking when you came up with a man swallowing his TROMBONE? ; o )
DESSERT: CUPID => ARROWS => EROS
VT,
DeleteWhat was I drinking?
Bone broth!
LegoPerhapsItWasATinyTrombone
Heh heh....
DeleteEwe R lovin is much better than We R in love.
DeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeletePANTHER'S TEN SHARP
Appetizer Menu
1. SULPHUR, PRIMERO
2. PIERRE(SD), LEANNA
3. COBRA, (SIGMUND)FREUD
Menu
Uppercase Hors d'Oeuvre
PHILADELPHIA LIX KANSAS CITY
Compound(Fracture?)Slice
SIDECAR, JFK, IDEAR(IDEA)
Entrees
1. WARD HARTENSTEIN, HEADSTART, WINNER
2. SYLVESTER, SLY VERSES
3. VIOLET from "Peanuts"
4. ELMO, GROVER or COOKIE MONSTER, RED(roses), BLUE(violets)
5. ARGUES WISEST, SUGAR IS SWEET
6. DORA THE EXPLORER, ADORE
7. PINK PANTHER-PN(practical nurse)=PINK HEART
8. WOLVERINE, WE R IN LOVE
9. BOSTON RED SOX, X'S AND O'S, TO BE OR NOT TO BE
10. BE MY VALENTINE, BIVALENT ENEMY
Divinity Dessert
ARROWS, CUPID, EROS
Masked Singer Results
Shrek Week
FUZZY PEAS=OSCAR De La HOYA(a championship boxer Mom and I have both heard of)
CORAL, PAPARAZZO, and ANT will go on to next week's Rat Pack Week.
This week's official answers for the record, part 1
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Paws & Claws & Santa Claus?
Consider the incomplete couplet below:
“On a black PANTHER'S pair of front paws
Can be found TEN SHARP flesh-ripping claws!”
The word in the first blank is an anagram of the words in the second and third blanks.
What are these words?
Answer:
Panther's; ten sharp
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Elements, Names & Dreams
1. Think of an atomic element in seven letters, the British spelling.
Shift each letter a single-digit number of places earlier in the alphabet.
The result will be a six-centuries-old gambling card game.
What are this element and this card game?
Answer:
SULPHUR, PRIMERO
2. Think of the name of a U.S. state capital. Shift each letter a single-digit number of places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a female first name that is an anagram of a word that means to “temper” or “harden.”
What are this capital and first name?
Answer
PIERRE, LEANNA (an anagram of ANNEAL)
3. Joseph in the biblical Book of Genesis interpreted the dreams of Pharoah – dreams of creatures like fat cows and thin cows, for example.
Name a two-syllable creature. Move its letters a single-digit number of places later in the alphabet to name an interpreter of dreams (similar to Joseph in Genesis) who may have interpreted dreams involving this creature.
What is this creature?
Who is this interpreter of dreams?
Answer:
COBRA, FREUD
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This week's official answers for the record, part 2
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Uppercase Hors d’Oeuvre
Brow-furrowing headline
Name a headline you might have seen earlier this week, in 12, 3, 6 and 4 letters.
All three letters in the second word would be UPPERCASE letters, whether or not the headline was or was not in all-caps.
What is this headline?
Answer:
"Philadelphia LIX Kansas City" (Philadelphia (LICKS) Kansas City" (lick\
Compound (Fracture?) Slice:
“Auto- party” Drinking? No driving!
Name a compound word for a part of a particular vehicle – a part associated with NOT DRIVING.
This compound word is also a beverage associated with NOT DRIVING.
Remove the initial letters of the two parts of this compound word.
Remove also the space that remains.
The LETTERS that remain spell what sounds like how a 20th-century president pronounced a word with a 3-to-1 ratio of vowels to consonants.
What is this compound word that is a beverage as well as a part of a vehicle?
Who is the 20th-century president?
How did this 20th-century president pronounce the word with a 3-to-1 ratio of vowels to consonants, and what is that word?
Answer:
Sidecar; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; "Idear" ("idea")
A "sidecar" is "a car attached to the side of a motorcycle for a passenger (who is NOT a driver) to ride in."
A "sidecar" is also a cocktail consisting of a liqueur with lemon juice and brandy. Those who drink sidecars ought not be driving.
SIDECAR => IDE AR => "IDEAR" => (how JFK pronounced) IDEA
Riffing Off Shortz And Hartenstein Entrees:
“I love you, Olive! O yu!”
Will Shortz’s February 9th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ward Hartenstein, of Rochester, New York, reads:
Name a well-known cartoon character in eight letters. Change the last letter to a U and rearrange the result to make a phrase you might see on a Valentine's Day card.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hartenstein Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker in 15 letters. Rearrange these letters to form three words:
* a two-word unfair advantage that a competitor in a track-and-field event ought not be given, and
* a noun likely eventually given to any competitor who is given such an unfair advantage.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the three words?
Answer:
Ward Hartenstein; Head Start, Winner
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3
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ENTREE #2
Name a feline cartoon character in nine letters. Change a T to an S. Rearrange the result to get a two-word phrase for what you might see on a Valentine's Day card penned by a cunning would-be paramour. Who is the character, and what is the phrase?
Answer:
SYLVESTER; SLY VERSES
ENTREE #3
Name a female cartoon character in six letters. She frequently appeared in a comic strip named after a kind of legume. Her name is a word you might find in a verse on a Valentine's Day card. Who is she?
Answer:
VIOLET (PEANUTS)
ENTREE #4
Name two cartoon characters from a TV show. Upon seeing them, you would be likely to think of two words that are often found in verses on Valentine's Day cards. Who are the characters, and what are the words?
Answer:
ELMO, COOKIE MONSTER; RED, BLUE
ENTREE #5
Take a two-word phrase meaning “advocates in the sagest manner.” Rearrange the letters to spell a three-word phrase you might see on a Valentine's Day card. What are these two phrases?
Answer:
ARGUES WISEST; “SUGAR IS SWEET”
ENTREE #6
Name a cartoon character who is known by a three-word description of her name and what she likes to do. Reverse the two syllables of her name and it will sound like a word you might see on a Valentine's Day card. Who is the character, and what is the word?
Answer:
DORA THE EXPLORER; ADORE
ENTREE #7
Name a two-word cartoon character in eleven letters. From the second word, remove a two-letter abbreviation for a health care professional. Rearrange the rest of the letters of the second word to spell a word often associated with love. The first and second words together will now name something you might see on a Valentine's Day card. Who is the character, and what might you see on a Valentine's Day card?
Answer:
PINK PANTHER; PINK HEART
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ENTREE #8
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Rearrange the letters of a well-known comic book character to get a rather blasé Valentine greeting... (or, one might also say “a rather meh” Valentine greeting).
Who is this comic book character?
What is the Valentine greeting?
Hint: The greeting includes a one-letter homophone of its verb.
Answer:
We R in love, (which is an anagram of) "Wolverine")
Entree #9:
Name a professional sports team in a dozen letters.
Three consecutive letters spell a color associated with Valentines.
Letters 12 and 10 with an apostrophe between ‘em, and letters 2 and 3 with an apostrophe between ‘em, are both associated with Valentines (or a breath mint plus a digit).
Letters 4, 5, 1, 8, 2, 7, 6 11, 4, 4, 2, 1, 8, correctly divided, spell the beginning of some well-known Shakespeare.
What is this sports team?
What are the color and the apostrophized two-letter words associated with Valentines?
What is the beginning of some well-known Shakespeare?
Answer:
Boston Red Sox; Red; x's & o's;
"To be or not to be..." (On Valentine's Day, "X's and O's" stand for "hugs and kisses," with the "X" representing a kiss and the "O" representing a hug.
Entree #10:
Take a three-word greeting (in 2, 2 and 9 letters) on a February 14th greeting card.
Anagram these combined letters to spell an 8-letter adjective modifying a 5-letter noun.
These two words suggest that even though the sender and recipient clearly love one another, each occasionally perceives the other as an _____ (the 5-letter noun).
The 8-letter adjective suggests, however, that, even given that sporadic animus or tension, the “positive chemistry” (that is, the “degree of mutual attraction the sender and recipient possess) will obviate that animus or tension.
What is this greeting on the card?
What are the adjective and noun?
Answer:
Be My Valentine; Bivalent enemy;
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This week's official answers for the record, part 5
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Two members of a musical combo – after each played their respective wind instruments a tad too “enthusiastically” and “frenziedly” – were airlifted from the nightclub where they were playing a gig to the emergency room of a hospital.
Both had somehow swallowed their instruments!
The doctors tried in vain to remove the larger instrument of the first player. After an abortive attempt to fish it up though his windpipe, they next tried to extract it by cracking open his sternum (last syllable of the instrument). Alas the man was soon thereafter declared (“first syllable of the instrument, spelled in reverse”).
However, the second musician, fortunately, pulled though. The attempt to pull the smaller instrument up through his windpipe, along with “(a 2-word anagram of the final five letters of his instrument) or two,” proved successful and kept this musician “out of (the first four letters of his instrument)’s way.”
What are the two instruments?
What was the first man declared?
Answer:
Trombone, Harmonica;
The first man was declared MORT.
The (2-word anagram of the final five letters of the second man's instrument) or two is “A COIN” or two. The second musician was kept out of HARM's way.
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Divinity Dessert
Pinning down a Greco-Roman wrestling puzzle
Name objects with which a Roman deity is associated that sound similar to the name of its Greek counterpart.
Name these things and deities.
Answer:
Arrows; Cupid (Roman love god), Eros (Greek love god)
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