(Note: This edition of Puzzleria! was up loaded on November 6, not November 2 (as erroneously indicated in the upper-left corner of this week’s blog.)
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Encourage lachrymose yearning?
But what other interior “self-defining” quality do they also share in common?
Appetizer Menu
Intriguing, Sporty, Fun #41 Appetizer:
Lincoln’s “Cryptic-Crossword-Settersburg” Address
CRYPTIC COUPLET:
Patrick’s Cryptic Crossword Puzzle # 41
Is like two-score that came before – intriguing, sporty, fun!
Abe Lincoln’s Berrysburg Address:
Two-score (that is, 40 Cryptic Crossword Puzzles) and nine years ago our Patrick brought forth on this Weblog a new creation, conceived in “LiBerry” and dedicated to the proposition that all Cryptic Crosswords created by Patrick J. Berry are equally unequalled!
Patrick J. Berry... “a Man of Cryptic Crossword Letters” who is shoulders-and-head above all Cryptic Crossword setters!
Patrick is both proficient and prolific. Need proof? Just take a gander, below, at the “clickable” array of Patrick’s two-score crosswords that have previously appeared on Puzzleria! Open any one of them, at random. You will discover that there is nary a clinker nor a clunker in the bunch!
Yes, you can access any of Patrick’s previous 40 cryptic crosswords by opening the links below:
For those who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled the following list of basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions:
Regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:
* Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers. For example, (11) simply indicates an eleven-letter word like “brainteaser,”(7, 4) indicates a seven-letter-plus-four-letter-answer like “gordian knot,” and (4-9) indicates a four-letter-and-nine-letter hyphenated answer like “head-scratcher.”
For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 2017 cryptic crossword.
That Tutorial appears below the filled-in answer-grid in that edition of Puzzleria!
And so... don your stovepipe thinking cap, break out your Lincoln Logs, split a few rails... and just try to emancipate some of the answers that our ingenious but devious friend Patrick has enslaved within his clues!
Enjoy!
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ACROSS
1. Silly, silly chap filled with doubt, initially—it’s easy!(6,4)
6. Couple of times, getting a kiss in cab(4)
9. Homosexual senator, corrupt going in, having done wrong(4,6)
10. Prepares to park, circling block(4)
11. First-class genius, he is rare breed, cleverly captivating “Parrotheads” with song about food(12,2,8)
15. Green turning red? Lame(7)
16. Turned dear tot out?(7)
19. Those going on a fast ride set off(7)
20. Singer of 11 8 simply empty, claiming, “I am what I choose to eat!”(5,7)
23. Dull, hard school subject?(4)
24. Fruit began to go bad in truck(10)
25. Nimble secret agent captures Resistance leader(4)
26. Well-proportioned though not right in height, small—what Jose said(10)
DOWN
2. Is no surprise they’ve been charged?(4)
4. Drug abuser at home, have to turn the boy in(7)
5. Girl stripped to entertain friend, not one to do such a thing professionally(7)
7. Bit of garbage in here, total mess on the whole(10)
8. See 11 Across
13. Outlaw fun, cut stuff in pictures(5,5)
18. Lunatic loses head having to cry about
game(7)
game(7)
19. Bold detective has picked up innocent sort(7)
21. Country air transformed Queen(4)
22. Child of royalty kept inside(4)
MENU
Ford Vehicle Hors d’Oeuvre:
“Not-so-fordable ends up affordable”
Name a not-so-fordable river.
Transpose letters 4 and 5, remove letter 3, and replace a vowel with a consonant.
Ford make to get an affordable kitchen accessory brand. What are this river, Ford, and affordable kitchen brand?
“Buck-&-A-Half-Just-To-See-‘Em Slice”
“Put ‘em in a tree museum...”
The remaining letters, in order, spell what is required to appreciate this content.
What are these three words?
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:
Souvlaki, Soul food fit for a Kia!
Will Shortz’s November 2nd Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco reads:
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
What are Burt’s gal’s first name and the wall-mounted storage unit?
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Entrees #2 through #7 are conundrums drummed-up/dreamt-up by our friend and riffmeister Nodd.
Name a foreign-built car model introduced by a U.S. company in 1970, now discontinued.
Remove the fourth letter. Add, without a space, the model name of a Japanese car with the middle three letters removed. The resulting letters, in order, will name a deli food that originated in Italy.
What are the two car models and the food?
ENTREE #3
Rearrange the letters to spell a dessert that
originated in the country in which the car is made.
originated in the country in which the car is made.
What are the car brand and the dessert?
ENTREE #4
Name a popular automobile import (make and model).
Remove three letters that can be arranged to form an abbreviation used in the automotive industry. Rearrange the rest of the letters to name a food with an Italian name that is eaten worldwide.
What are the car, the abbreviation, and the food?
ENTREE #5
Change the first letter to a V and remove the
last letter.
last letter.
Add a word for something most cars need.
Rearrange to get an Italian dish.
What are the car, the thing most cars need, and the dish?
ENTREE #6
Rearrange the letters of a Korean car (model name only) to spell a dish typically served cold and a dessert.
What are the model, the dish, and the dessert?
ENTREE #7
Rearrange the letters to spell a mammal and a cereal grain.
The mammal is rarely used as food, but a fish named after it is commonly eaten.
What are the car, the mammal, and the grain?
Entree #8 is a another great riff gifted to us from the gray matter our friend Plantsmith.
Take an ethnic food.
Remove a space, then replace three consecutive letters with a word heard on Halloween.
The result is a music genre you can dance to.
What are this food and music genre?
Take an adjective and noun, in six and four letters, that Eric Blair used in the title of a frivolous bit of verse he composed about what Rudyard Kipling called “the most ancient profession in the world.”
Rearrange these letters to spell how one might describe, in words of four and six letters, a diminutive (yet drivable!) barrel-crafter. What are this poem description and this barrel-crafter description?
ENTREE #10
~1. The angler’s test line was stretched taut as he reeled in his first big brook trout of the morning.
~3. As noon approached and fish dove down deeper to beat the heat, the angler took a bit of a break, retuned to the shore, and began to gut his “glorified guppies.”
Take two words from the first sentence, two from the second sentence, or three from the third sentence. Rearrange the seven letters in any one of those three word groupings to spell an automobile make.
What is this make?
What are the seven words?
ENTREE #11
Rearrange the eight letters in the name of an automobile to spell the name of the flower pictured here.
Rearrange the letters in the name of the flower to spell the names of the two figures pictured to the right of the flower.
What are this automobile, flower and two names?
Dessert Menu
Kaleidoscopic Dessert:
“A hearse of two different colors?”
Insert a vowel somewhere within that new word to spell a less vivid shade of the first color.
What are these three colors?
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ReplyDeleteTo place a comment under this QUESTIONS? subheading (immediately below), or under any of the three subheadings below it (HINTS! PUZZLE RIFFS! and MY PROGRESS SO FAR...), simply left-click on the orange "Reply" to open a dialogue box where you can make a comment. Thank you.
Lego...
QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteI'm confused about Entree 1. Is the puzzle maker Andrew Chaikin, who wrote the "souvlaki" puzzle, or Ed Pegg, Jr. (as seems to be indicated by the caption "Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Entrees")?
DeleteIt looks like "Andrew Chaikin" anagrams to three words that describe the person and the object in the picture, but the instructions refer to an abbreviation in the name and five words total that describe the left and right sides separately, so I am still confused.
DeleteThanks, Nodd. Somehow I mixed up Ed Pegg's and Andrew Chaikin's recent NPR puzzles.
DeleteBut now...
Take the 4-letter first name of the featured performer in his 1952 Grand Ole Opry debut, and a two-word description of this performance in 4 and 3 letters: three vowels, one C, two G's and one P. Anagram these 11 letters to get either:
* this week's NPR puzzle-maker, or
* Burt's gal’s first name and the two-word wall-mounted storage unit pictured in Entree #1.
What are the the 4-letter first name of the featured performer in his 1952 Grand Ole Opry debut, and the two-word description of his performance in 4 and 3 letters?
LegoWithPhrasesRichlyAnangrammatic!
Where do we get two G's and one P? They're not in the name of this week's NPR puzzle-maker!
DeletepjbIsAlsoStillConfused(ClarificationPlease!)
cranberry is correct. I have no idea what I was doing with those G's and P. No clarification is possible because it is a "puzzle" hopelessly mired in mud! My apologies to all. No idea what I was thinking, or where I was going. HANK williams' grand ol' oprey debut may have been an EPIC GIG... but, so what! HANK+EPIC+GIG are neither an anagram of ANDREW CHAIKIN, nor of the Reynolds-Shore wine-pour.
DeleteLegoApologetic
Um, now I"M confused! I had no trouble anagramming the girlfriend of Reynolds and the wall-mounted storage unit into the puzzle maker desired. I don't understand, tho, any of the rest of what is stated above.
DeleteEntree intro. So now we can add Souvlaki to our list of soul foods?
DeletePlantie, I don't 'get' why your entree intro comment is located up here in the Questions section, but are you "hinting" that your ethnic dish is GREEK? Unlike Tortie and Nodd, I have yet to have any luck finding it, spinach or no. I also have been assuming (due to the puzzle's mention of removing a 'space', that your dish is a two-word name?).
DeleteVT, the food is not Greek, but you're right that it is a two-word name. See PS's "second lady" comment below.
DeleteI now 'get' which ethnicity we are talking about, but still can't find a two-word food, containing spinach, which is going to work with the ONLY 3-word Halloween word I can think of. But perhaps I haven't looked hard enough. Sigh
DeleteOkay, I FINALLy came up with your entree #8, Plantie. I had had the right Halloween word all along, of course (what else could it have been), but having NEVER EVER heard of the music/dance genre (or rather, having focused on a similar name), I simply coudln't ever find an ethnic food to work. But the baseball player names hint from Lego finally helped me work backwards. I have beaten the puzzle to death!
DeleteHINTS!
ReplyDeleteE2. The letters you take out in the car model-in order-could also be imbibed. The drink could also be bought at a deli if you were so inclined.
DeleteE8. I imagine our second lady may know this food and perhaps grew up with it. I tried to make it last night. I don't think I will again. However, it is very filling.
DeleteCryptic Hints
Delete1. One could almost consider it a stage production at school.
6. It's the name of a sitcom starring Hirsch, Danza, Henner, and Devito. Could also be the name of a movie starring Fallon and Latifah.
9. Sounds like the surname of another actor in 6A's sitcom(first name Jeff).
10. If you are preparing to park, you may see the traffic sign that has this answer as its name.
11. "I like mine with lettuce and tomato, Heinz 57 and French fried potatoes..."
15. Can precede "City" or "Isle".
16. Could describe how you got the answer based on the last two words of the clue.
17. The city in question is home to the Space Needle.
19. They are happiest when they lose.
20. Like fellow singers Barbara Mandrell and Annie Lennox(neither are "fellows" by definition I know), he was born on Christmas Day. His signature song suggests he has misplaced a salt shaker.
23. 2+2=4, basically.
24. The fruit sounds like it could be a member of my family, with the first name suggesting the keeper of a famous "Run" in 1970s film.
25. Remove the A in a word meaning "aerosol".
26. Starts with a word for a certain type of artwork.
DOWN
1. Surname of an actor in the "National Treasure" film series.
2. Drop the L from a sports team out of Detroit.
3. Precedes "Days" in one of Ex-President Reagan's acting jobs.
4. Mary Jane would know the answer to this one.
5. Type of "hour" hosted by Ted Mack or Maj. Edward Bowes.
7. "In the" before this word means "naked".
12. There is no known cure, as this type of disease "will not be ignored".
13. Musical Clue: Cher.
14. TV Clue: The "Moonlighting" episode where they perform "The Taming of the Shrew".
18. One could look at it as a postal abbreviation inside a hit song for Tears For Fears(1985).
19. "The ______ Ones", a film where two convicts, one white and one black escape from prison.
21. They thought there were WMDs hidden here in the early 90s.
22. Spike's bulldog son, in "Tom and Jerry" cartoons.
pjbMustNowGoBackToTimeWarpWithBillSt.JamesAlreadyInProgress!
SUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. 🎜“Men wearing knee pants, Women in ….”🎝 The Japanese model is a Toyota.
3. “Don’t let those lady fingers touch my expensive Italian car!”
4. The car was part of an NPR puzzle that featured a “Beautiful” movie star. The food is a fungus.
5. Change the first letter of the car to M to get the last name of a slugger who hit 61 in ‘61.
6. Pluralize the car name to get the name of a highly destructive California wildfire that started in January 2025.
7. Two Super Bowls in a row in the 1970s!
Thanks for the hints. Think I have all of the above now. Had to go back and fix Entree #5, as somehow I missed the fact you were supposed to remove the last letter of the car.
DeleteI still don't have the Schpuzzle and maybe the Dessert. The last word of my Dessert answer is not a color, per se.
I'm not sure I have the Schpuzzle, but my proposed solution consists of three words beginning with U, C, and Y, if that helps. I don't have the Dessert.
DeleteHint for my current answer to the Dessert: 😊
DeleteMonday Monday (Can't Trust That Day Can't Trust That Day) Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Look within each of the three words for letters (in order) that spell a smaller one-syllable word that may be related to the two-syllable or three-syllable word that contains it. But what other interior “self-defining” quality do they have i common?
Intriguing, Sporty, Fun #41 Appetizer:
Lincoln’s “Cryptic-Crossword-Settersburg” Address
See "cranberry's "cryptic hints" in his November 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM post.
Ford Vehicle Hors d’Oeuvre
“Not-so-fordable ends up affordable”
I cannot improve on cranberry's great hint in his "Friday evening report" sign -off:
"SailAwaySailAwaySailAway..."
But I can add to it, perhaps, with a "Prater" and a "Popeil!"
“Buck-&-A-Half-Just-To-See-‘Em Slice”
“Put ‘em in a tree museum...”
The single-syllable adjective is sometimes paired with a two-syllable adjective beginning with "n" that, if you "behead it" (remove that "n") is a weapon.
ENTREE #1
Burt Reynolds’ gal's full name (first name and surname) sound like a prehistoric creature.
See Nodd's Hint for his Entrees #2 through #7 in his November 9 at 5:27 PM post.
Entree #8 was composedby Plantsmith. See the hint he posted at November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM. I also have posed a hint to Plantsmith's poser, just below
ENTREE #8
In the illustration, to find the music genre, take a nickname of one of the ballplayers and the surname of the other.
ENTREE #9
A synonym of "diminutive" rhymes not with "outie" but with "innie." A "barrel-crafter" rhymes with "super."
ENTREE #10
~1. The angler’s test line was stretched TAUT as he reeled in his first BIG brook trout of the morning.
~2. He re-impaled fresh , and reeled in his second big “brookie” of the morning.
~3. As noon approached and fish dove down deeper to beat the heat, the angler took his “glorified guppies.”
Two words from the first sentence: TAUT BIG,
Two words from the second sentence: BAIT TUG
Three words from the third sentence: A BIT GUT
ENTREE #11
Something the beautiful Hero (not Nero! not Leda!) may have exclaimed to her beloved beau: "_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ !"
(Indeed, 'tis a flower!)
Kaleidoscopic Dessert:
“A hearse of another and of another color?”
A "cool" color...
becomes a flustery, embarrassed, shameful, modest, confused color...
becomes a "coolish" color.
LegoMondayPostmeridianPosting
Thanks, Lego! Looks like Nodd got the Schpuzzle right, while I had the right answer for the Dessert.
DeleteAppreciate your Dessert emoji hint, Tortie (which set me on the right path.)
DeleteAt last, I have everything except Entree 4 and am too exhausted to keep trying on IT. I suppose this comment OUGHT to be posted under "Progress"...oh well.
DeleteGot the Slice(I think I had it earlier, but didn't include it in my Friday post!), can't get anything out of Nodd's hints, still don't have the ethnic food in #8 but got the music genre, got #9 and #10 and #11. Still don't have the Schpuzzle or the Dessert.
DeletepjbAlsoHas[SDB]'sSundayPuzzleAnswer,[BTW]
Musical clue for Entree #3: "Life's Been Good" 🚗 1️⃣8️⃣5️⃣
DeleteGot #3! Thanks, Tortie!
DeletepjbIsAlsoLuckyHe'sSaneAfterAllHe'sBeenThrough
PUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteThe following post is NOT a PUZZLE RIFF... It is a CORRECTION...
DeleteMy Dessert had faulty wording:
It read:
“Replace the last letter of a vivid color with two other letters to spell a new color.
Remove a vowel from that new word to spell a less vivid shade of the first color.
What are these three colors?”
However, It should read (and has now been corrected to read):
“Replace the last letter of a vivid color with two other letters to spell a new color.
Insert a vowel somewhere within that new word to spell a less vivid shade of the original first color.
What are these three colors?”
Again, my profound apologies. I am having a bad week!
Lego“ColorMeEmbarrassed!”
MY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteI came up with AN answer for the Schpuzzle, but am not sure it is THE answer, since I am always really bad at the "what do these words/things share in common?" type puzzles.
DeleteAlso solved the Hors D'O, the Slice and Entrees 1, 2, 9, 10 and 11. The Dessert eluded me, and as is so often the case, the rest of Nodd's , as well as Plantie's #8. But that's better than last week, when I didn't have time or oomph to solve anything!
Nice to see you back VT. know these sports related puzzles are tough on you.
DeleteThank you, Plantie! I'm not much better at CAR models, either!
DeleteIf you look at my comment on Blaine's last week that will give you a pretty good clue.
DeleteWell, I'm pretty much with ya, PLantie, on liking spinach! And many dishes it would be in (tho it would depend on what OTHER ingredients they might contain.). But i've yet to pin down an ethnic dish that works for your entree this week.
DeleteYou are getting warmer.
DeleteI finally got it. I was working from the wrong music genre. Once I figured that out, I guessed at what the ethnic dish by placing one ingredient in front of the other, and lo and behold, there was a dish with that name. Never heard of it before.
DeleteNot well known except in certain ethnic restaurants-not McDonalds. I also have never had it though am going to try and make it.
DeleteI hadn't heard of it either. Appropriately for this week's puzzle theme, if you replace the last letter of the first word of the dish with the first letter of the word heard on Halloween, you get a car brand.
DeleteYes- very good.
DeleteI should have posted this comment here, rather than up in "Questions", except that discussion about Entree 8 had taken place up there...and since as I've mentioned in the past, the 'delete' buttons have vanished from my view, I can't erase it from up there.
DeleteOkay, I FINALLY came up with your entree #8, Plantie. I had had the right Halloween word all along, of course (what else could it have been), but having NEVER EVER heard of the music/dance genre (or rather, having focused on a similar name), I simply couldn't ever find an ethnic food to work. But the baseball player names hint from Lego finally helped me work backwards. I have beaten the puzzle to death!
Sorry. I tried making it the other night and it is really now worth the trouble in my opinion - unless the only thing in the frig is potatoes and spinach.
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ReplyDeleteGood start of November to all upon this great blog of ours!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. We ate out at Cracker Barrel with Mia Kate earlier this evening. I had a cup of chili(with crackers), the BBQ Smokestack burger, bacon mac 'n' cheese, biscuits, and a Coke Zero with refill. Mom had a half an herb roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots, and apples, with a Sprite. Mia Kate started off with a hot chocolate with whipped cream, candy sprinkles, and a green marshmallow Peep on top. You should've been there to see it. It looked quite different. She ate cinnamon French toast with it, but she and Mom both ended up saving half their meals in Styrofoam containers. I'll finish Mom's chicken tomorrow night, while Alabama plays LSU. We got home, watched "Celebrity Wheel of Fortune", and then I got started on the latest Prize Crossword, set this week by Vlad. Wordplays.com will definitely come in handy for solving this one. My only answer so far is KEIRSTARMER.
I must also ponder how to do the hints for each answer in my latest cryptic crossword. I'll get back to y'all on that later, possibly some time Sunday evening.
Tough puzzles this week, though I was able to solve the Hors d'Oeuvre and Entree #1. Like VT, I also don't have any idea about the property the words share in the Schpuzzle. Hints will follow a little later, I know.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and here's a little musical clue for the HO'D: Enya. Cranberry out!
pjbMustNow"SailAwaySailAwaySailAway..."
SCHPUZZLE–Each contains the letters of a related word in order – Encourage: URGE, Lachrymose: CRY, Yearning: YEN
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZER–ACROSS: 6. TAXI; 11. CHEESEBURGER; 15. EMERALD; 17. SETTLES; 19. DIETERS; 20. JIMMY BUFFETT; 23. MATH; 24. LOGANBERRY; 25. SPRY; 26. STATUESQUE; DOWN: 2. IONS; 3. DEATH VALLEY; 4. POTHEAD; 5. AMATEUR; 7. ALTOGETHER; 12. UNTREATABLE; 13. JESSE JAMES; 14. PENTAMETER; 18. SHUTOUT; 19. DEFIANT; 21. IRAQ; 22. TYKE
HORS D’OEUVRE–ORINOCO, BRONCO, RONCO
SLICE–STRAIGHT, ART, SIGHT
ENTREES
1. DINAH, WINE RACK; ANDREW CHAIKIN
2. (FORD) CAPRI, (TOYOTA) COROLLA; CAPICOLA
3. MASERATI, TIRAMISU
4. MINI COOPER, OEM, PORCINI
5. (TOYOTA) YARIS, OIL, RAVIOLI
6. (HYUNDAI) PALISADE, SALAD, PIE
7. HONDA PILOT, DOLPHIN, OAT
8. SAAG ALOO, BOOGALOO
9. IRONIC POEM, MINI COOPER
10. BUGATTI; TAUT BIG, BAIT TUG, A BIT GUT
11. DELOREAN, OLEANDER, LEDA, NERO
DESSERT–BLUE, BLUSH, BLUISH
Schpuzzle: (Post hint: ) URGE, CRY, YEN
ReplyDeleteApp (about 2/3 post hint):
Across: 1. CHILDSPLAY, 6. TAXI, 9. GONEASTRAY, 10. STOP, 11.CHEESEBURGER, 15, EMERALD, 16. ROTATED, 17. SETTLES, 19. DIETERS, 20. JIMMYBUFFETT, 23, MATH, 24. LOGANBERRY, 25. SPRY, 26. STATUESQUE
Down: 1. CAGE, 2. IONS, 3. DEATHVALLEY, 4. POTHEAD, 5. AMATEUR, 7. ALTOGETHER, 8. INPARADISE, 13. JESSEJAMES, 14. PENTAMETER, 18. SHUTOUT, 19. DEFIANT, 21. IRAQ, 22. TYKE
Hors d’Oeuvre: ORINOCO, BRONCO, RONCO
Slice: STRAIGHT, ART, SIGHT
Entrees:
1. DINAH, WINE RACK; ANDREW CHAIKIN
2. CAPRI, COROLLA, CAPICOLA
3. MASERATI, TIRAMISU
4. (Post hint: )MINI COOPER, OEM, PORCINI
5. (Post hint: ) YARIS, OIL, RAVIOLI (Pre hint alt: MIRA, OIL, RAVIOLI - missed the part about removing the last letter)
6. PALISADE, SALAD, PIE
7. (Post hint: )HONDA PILOT, DOLPHIN, OAT
8. SAAG ALOO, BOOGALOO
9. IRONIC POEM, MINI COOPER
10. BUGATTI; TAUT, BIG, BAIT, TUG, BIT, A, GUT
11. OLEANDER, DELOREAN, LEDA, NERO
Dessert: BLUE, BLUSH, BLUISH
SCHPUZZLE: URGE, CRY, YEN. [I never would have come up with anything remotely like this without the various hints.]
ReplyDeleteMy original attempt at an answer: They all relate to the ‘HEART’ in some way: ‘ENCOURAGE’ coming from the Latin “COR” which means HEART;
‘LACHRYMOSE’ coming from the Latin “LACYRMA", meaning TEAR, i.e., grief and sadness in ones’ HEART ;
and ‘YEARNING’ being linked to grief or ache in the HEART.
HORS D’O: ORINOCO => ORIONCO => ORONCO => BRONCO => RONCO
SLICE: STRAIGHT => ART, SIGHT
ENTREES:
1. DINAH & WINE RACK => ANDREW CHAIKIN
2. CAPRI => CAPI & CO[ROL]LA => CAPICOLA [I’ve never heard of this Italian deli meat]
3. MASERATI => TIRAMISU
4. PORCINI mushrooms are as close as I could come!
5. YARIS => VARI & OIL => RAVIOLI. [Never heard of this car, so impossible without the hint]
6. PALISADE => SALAD & PIE [Never heard of this car either, so ditto]
7. HONDA PILOT => DOLPHIN & OAT
8. SAAG ALOO => BOOGALOO [I had been desperately trying to make 'Boogie-woogie' work!]
9. IRONIC POEM => MINI COOPER [I have always YEARNED for one of these adorable cars!]
10. TAUT & BIG or BAIT & TUG or BIT & GUT & A => BUGATTI
11. OLEANDER => DE LOREAN => LEDA & NERO
DESSERT: BLUE => BLUSH => BLUISH
Puzzleria-11/12/25” 57 Degrees- cloudy.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle; dipthongs EA in yearning– etc. lachrymose, and encourage.
1.Dinah, Wine rack, Andrew Chaikin
2.Ford Capri, (Toyota ) Corolla -Capicola
3.Maserati -Tiramisu
5.Yaris, oil, ravioli
6. Palisade, salad,pie
7.
8.Saag aloo , Boogaloo
9. Ironic poem, mini cooper
Dessert
Blue,blush, bluish
Schpuzzle
ReplyDeleteURGE, CRY, YEN
For cryptic answers, see Lego's official recap.
Menu
Ford Vehicle Hors d'Oeuvre
ORINOCO, BRONCO, RONCO
"Buck-&-A-Half-Just-To-See-'Em Slice"
STRAIGHT, ART, SIGHT
Entrees
1. DINAH, WINE RACK, ANDREW CHAIKIN
2. FORD CAPRI, TOYOTA COROLLA, CAPICOLA
3. MASERATI, TIRAMISU
4. MINI COOPER, OEM(Original Equipment Manufacturer), PORCINI
5. YARIS, OIL, RAVIOLI
6. PALISADE, SALAD, PIE
7. HONDA PILOT, DOLPHIN, OAT
8. SAAG ALOO, BOOGALOO
9. MINI COOPER(again), IRONIC POEM
10. BUGATTI(taut, big; bait, tug; a bit, gut)
11. DELOREAN, OLEANDER, O, LEANDER!, LEDA, NERO
Kaleidoscopic Dessert
BLUE, BLUSH, BLUISH
Both people representing Alabama on "The Floor" did not succeed. The second one was on tonight's broadcast. We(Mom and I)now no longer have a dog in this race. Oh well.-pjb
This week's official answers for the record, part 1
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Encourage lachrymose yearning?
The words “encourage,” “lachrymose” and “yearning” all have an “e,” an “r” and an “a” in common.
But what other interior “self-defining” quality do they have i common?
Answer:
Each word contains letters in order (albeit not quite consecutive) that spell a shorter word closely related to it:
encoURaGE; laChRYmose; YEarNing; URGE, CRY, YEN
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This week's official answers for the record, part 2
ReplyDeleteIntriguing, Sporty, Fun #41 Appetizer:
Lincoln’s “Cryptic-Crossword-Settersburg” Address
Note: The filled-in grid can be found just above this week's Comments Section.
ACROSS
1. Silly, silly chap filled with doubt, initially—it’s easy!(6,4)
CHILD’S PLAY
SILLYCHAP anagram containing D
6. Couple of times, getting a kiss in cab(4)
TAXI
TI containing A+X
9. Homosexual senator, corrupt going in, having done wrong(4,6)
GONE ASTRAY
GAY containing SENATOR anagram
10. Prepares to park, circling block(4)
STOP
hidden inside prepareSTOPark
11. First-class genius, he is rare breed, cleverly captivating “Parrotheads” with song about food(12,2,8)
CHEESEBURGER
C+GENIUSHEISRAREBREED containing PA
15. Green turning red? Lame(7)
EMERALD
REDLAME anagram
16. Turned dear tot out?(7)
ROTATED
DEARTOT anagram
17. Makes one’s home in city without a Starbucks, ultimately(7)
SETTLES
SEATTLE-A+S
19. Those going on a fast ride set off(7)
DIETERS
RIDESET anagram
20. Singer of 11 8 simply empty, claiming, “I am what I choose to eat!”(5,7)
JIMMY BUFFETT
JUST-US containing “I’M MY BUFFET”
23. Dull, hard school subject?(4)
MATH
MAT+H
24. Fruit began to go bad in truck(10)
LOGANBERRY
BEGAN anagram inside LORRY
25. Nimble secret agent captures Resistance leader(4)
SPRY
SPY containing R
26. Well-proportioned though not right in height, small—what Jose said(10)
STATUESQUE
STATURE-R+S+QUE(Spanish for what)
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This week's official answers for the record, part 3
ReplyDeleteDOWN
1. Notes from prison(4)
CAGE
C, A, G, and E are all musical notes
2. Is no surprise they’ve been charged?(4)
IONS
ISNO anagram
3. Let heavy lad work out where it’s very hot?(5,6)
DEATH VALLEY
LETHEAVYLAD anagram
4. Drug abuser at home, have to turn the boy in(7)
PORHEAD
PAD containing TO reversed+HE
5. Girl stripped to entertain friend, not one to do such a thing professionally(7)
AMATEUR
LAURA(girl’s name)-LA containing MATE
7. Bit of garbage in here, total mess on the whole(10)
ALTOGETHER
G inside HERETOTAL anagram
8. See 11 Across
IN PARADISE
12. “Fatal Attraction”: Close enters, real beaut—crazy, getting tense(11)
UNTREATABLE
N inside REALBEAUT anagram containing T
13. Outlaw fun, cut stuff in pictures(5,5)
JESSE JAMES
JEST-T+SEES containing JAM
14. Chap has meant to rewrite verse(10)
PENTAMETER
PETER(boy’s name)containing MEANT anagram
18. Lunatic loses head having to cry about game(7)
SHUTOUT
NUT-N inside SHOUT
19. Bold detective has picked up innocent sort(7)
DEFIANT
DET. containing NAIF reversed
21. Country air transformed Queen(4)
IRAQ
AIR anagram+Q
22. Child of royalty kept inside(4)
TYKE
hidden inside royalTYKEpt
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This week's official answers for the record, part 4
ReplyDeleteMENU:
Ford Vehicle Hors d’Oeuvre
“Not-so-fordable ends up affordable”
Name a not-so-fordable river. Transpose letters 4 and 5, remove letter 3, and replace a vowel with a consonant. The result is a the name of a Ford vehicle. Remove the initial letter to get an affordable kitchen accessory brand. What are this river, Ford, and affordable kitchen brand?
Answer:
Orinoco; Bronco; Ronco
“Buck-&-A-Half-Just-To-See-‘Em Slice”
“Put ‘em in a tree museum...”
Three consecutive letters within a single-syllable adjective, in reverse, spell museum content. The remaining letters, in order, spell what is required to appreciate this content. What are these three words?
Answer:
straight; art; sight
STRAIGHT => TRA (ART) + SIGHT
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:
Souvlaki, soul food fit for a Kia!
Will Shortz’s November 2nd Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, from Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco reads:
Name a popular automobile import: make + model. Add the letter V and anagram the result. You’ll name a popular ethnic food. What names are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Burt Reynolds’ gal “shore” liked to entertain guests at their Beverly Hills mansion. Rearrange the combined letters of this gal’s first name and the two-word wall-mounted storage unit pictured here to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.
What are Burt’s gal’s first name and the wall-mounted storage unit?
Who is this puzzle-maker?
Answer:
Dinah (Shore), Wine Rack; Andrew Chaikin
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This week's official answers for the record, part 5
ReplyDeleteEntrees #2 through #7 are conundrums drummed-up/dreamt-up by our friend and riffmeister extraordinaire, Nodd.
ENTREE #2
Name a foreign-built car model introduced by a U.S. company in 1970, now discontinued. Remove the fourth letter. Add, without a space, the model name of a Japanese car with the middle three letters removed. The resulting letters, in order, will name a deli food that originated in Italy. What are the two car models and the food?
Answer:
(FORD) CAPRI, (TOYOTA) COROLLA; CAPICOLA
ENTREE #3
Think of a foreign car brand and change two vowels to different vowels. Rearrange the letters to spell a dessert that originated in the country in which the car is made. What are the car brand and the dessert?
Answer:
MASERATI, TIRAMISU
ENTREE #4
Name a popular automobile import (make and model). Remove three letters that can be arranged to form an abbreviation used in the automotive industry. Rearrange the rest of the letters to name a food with an Italian name that is eaten worldwide. What are the car, the abbreviation, and the food?
Answer:
MINI COOPER, OEM; PORCINI
ENTREE #5
Take the model name of a Japanese car. Change the first letter to a V and remove the last letter. Add a word for something most cars need. Rearrange to get an Italian dish. What are the car, the thing most cars need, and the dish?
Answer:
(TOYOTA) YARIS, OIL; RAVIOLI
ENTREE #6
Rearrange the letters of a Korean car (model name only) to spell a dish typically served cold and a dessert. What are the model, the dish, and the dessert?
Answer:
(HYUNDAI) PALISADE; SALAD, PIE
ENTREE #7
Name a popular import car (make and model). Rearrange the letters to spell a mammal and a cereal grain. The mammal is rarely used as food, but a fish named after it is commonly eaten. What are the car, the mammal, and the grain?
Answer:
HONDA PILOT; DOLPHIN, OAT
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This week's official answers for the record, part 6
ReplyDeleteEntree #8 is the ingenious brainchild of our friend and prolific riff-crafter Plantsmith.
ENTREE #8
Take an ethnic food. Remove a space, then replace three consecutive letters with a word heard on Halloween. The result is a a music genre you can dance to.
What are this food and music genre?
Answer:
Saag aloo; Boogaloo
Note: Saag aloo is a classic, comforting North Indian vegetarian dish made with potatoes (aloo) and leafy greens (saag), typically spinach, cooked with fragrant spices. It is a naturally vegan and gluten-free dish that can be served as a side or a main course.
Boogaloo is a genre of Latino popular music of especially New York in the 1960s influenced by soul and rhythm and blues.
ENTREE #9
Take an adjective and noun, in six and four letters, that Eric Blair used in the title of a frivolous bit of verse he composed about what Rudyard Kipling called “the most ancient profession in the world.” Rearrange these letters to spell how one might describe, in words of four and six letters, a diminutive (yet drivable!) barrel-crafter.
What are this poem description and this barrel-crafter description?
Answer:
Ironic Poem; Mini Cooper
ENTREE #10
~1. The angler’s test line was stretched TAUT as he reeled in his first BIG brook trout of the morning.
~2. He re-impaled fresh BAIT on his hook (old school!), cast it past the water lilies, sensed a nibble, gave a TUG, and reeled in his second big “brookie” of the morning.
~3. As noon approached and fish dove down deeper to beat the heat, the angler took A BIT of a break, retuned to the shore, and began to GUT his “glorified guppies.”
Take two words from the first sentence, two from the second sentence, or three from the third sentence. Rearrange the seven letters in any one of those three word groupings to spell an automobile make.
What is this make?
What are the seven words?
Answer:
Bugatti; 1. TAUT, BIG; 2. BAIT, TUG; 3. A BIT, GUT
ENTREE #11
Rearrange the eight letters in the name of an automobile to spell the name of the flower pictured here.
Rearrange the letters in the name of the flower to spell the names of the two figures pictured to the right of the flower.
What are this automobile, flower and two names?
Answer:
DeLorean; Oleander; Leda, Nero
Dessert Menu
Kaleidoscopic Dessert:
“A hearse of another and of another color?”
Replace the last letter of a vivid color with two other letters to spell a new color.
Insert a vowel somewhere within that new word to spell a less vivid shade of the first color.
What are these three colors?
Answer:
Blue, Blush, Bluish
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