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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Frozen Homophonic Fishin’
Take a pair of homophones, in six and five letters. Remove from each an identical pair of adjacent letters (like the “ri” in “write” and “right,” for example).
What remains after those four letters are removed are seven different consonants. Add three vowels to this mix, then rearrange the result to spell what anglers might catch in a frozen lake and a tool they might use to gain access to the lake so that they can hook and haul in their very-coldwater catch.
What are these homophones, this catch and this tool?
Appetizer Menu:
Eight Brainbreaking “Appeteasers:”
SuperZee’s Imposing Zarkinian Posers!
2. 🙅🙈🙉🙊Rearrange the letters in a term describing a religious period, to get something some might consider sinfully good.
A) a term some might use to describe a current figure, and
B) a affliction feared by cat owners.
4. 📰Take the given name of a person in the news.
Rearrange it to get someone he/she may be spending a lot of time with.
6. 🏈Take the name of a device cherished by some sports fans, rearrange to get how they like to use it.
7. 🐕🐹Imagine you were standing in front of
a collection of mirrors.
experience to get a beloved pet.
8. 🏅Take a term describing an Olympic athlete; rearrange to get how his/her body might feel after competing.
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BoFeVineLine Hors d’Oeuvre:
What cattle do (& a cat’ll do)
2nd: Replace the final letter with a “w” to get what these cattle do – in effect, more or less – when they graze.
3rd: Replace the second letter of that second word with an “e” to get what a cat will do.
4th: If you instead replace not the second letter but rather the first letter of that second word, you will again get something that some cattle do.
What are these four words?
Not-So-Nice Slice:
Scandalized, banned and manhandled!
Those two terms might be yelled, for example, by an exasperated coach: “A ____ ensues if nobody ______!” (although the coach would likely not use the verb “ensue”)
What is the two-word name of this scandalous chapter in sports, and what are these two sports-related terms?
Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Slices:
Who’s Afraid of Virgin Wool?
Will Shortz’s March 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrea Carla Michaels of San Francisco, California, reads:
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Louisa May Alcott, Katherine Anne Porter and Laura Ingalls Wilder are a trio of talented, triply-named female authors.
To spell the second word of the profession,
take the 1st, 6th, 3rd, 4th, 5th letters of her surname, followed by the 2nd letter of her first name, followed by the 2nd and 3rd letters of her surname.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the profession?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are composed and contributed to Puzzleria! by our friend Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time.”
Name a famous 19th-20th century English novelist and poet.
The last two letters of this author’s middle name, followed without a space by the last name, spell a clothing material.
Who is the writer and what is the material?
Take the last name of the writer in the preceding Entree.
Add the first three letters of the first name of a famous 19th-20th century female American author.
Rearrange to name a clothing material.
Who are the writers and what is the material?
Name a famous 18th-19th century writer, first and last names.
Rearrange the letters to name the first name of a former U.S. Poet Laureate and a clothing material.
Who are the writer and poet, and what is the material?
Take the first and last names of the 18th-19th century writer in the preceding Entree and change the fourth letter of the last name to a D.
Rearrange to spell the last name of a famous 20th century poet and an article of clothing.
Who are the writers, and what is the article of clothing?
Think of two famous American writers, both of whom lived during the 19th and 20th centuries. Take the first name of the pen name of one, plus the last name of the other.
There will be a duplicate letter as a result; remove one instance of it.
Rearrange the remaining letters to name a clothing material. Who are the writers, and what is the material?
Take the last name of an award-winning 20th-21st century American author who was known for his writings about the African American experience.
Between the second and third letters, insert a word for a type of poet. The result will name certain clothing materials.
Who is the author, and what are the type of poet and the materials?
Note: Entree #8 is composed and contributed to Puzzleria! by our friend Plantsmith, author of “Garden of Puzzley Delights.”
Name a 20th-Century American-British novelist.
Remove letters 4 and 7 from the first name and the first letter from of the last name. The result is a haberdashery professional who specializes in working with a particular kind of material.
Who is this writer?
Name an author. Place a space within the first name and a question mark after it. Delete the middle name.
Then, in the surname, transpose adjacent vowels, replace the first letter with a “D” and place an exclamation mark at the end.
The result is a three-word comment perhaps overheard at a truck stop (perhaps even at the “Cordial Teahouse” truck stop!)
Who is this author?
What is the comment?
Name an author who lived more than a century, was a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine and served many years as one of its editors. He had been dubbed a “Babe Ruth” of sportswriters.
From his first name, delete the first letter, then transpose the last two letters. The result is a horrible, frighteningly monstrous demon.
From the author’s surname, remove the last letter. The result is a compassionate and kindhearted heavenly creature.
Who is this author?
What are the demon and heavenly creature?
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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?
ReplyDeleteIn the Hors d'Oeuvre, is the fourth word supposed to be the same as the first word, or are they two different words for things that some cattle do?
DeleteNodd, Thank you for this post. I made a mistake when composing the riddle!
DeleteMy faulty version:
1st: Name something some cattle do.
2nd: Replace the final letter with a “w” to get what these cattle do – in effect, more or less – when they graze.
3rd: Replace the second letter of that second word with an “e” to get what a cat will do.
4th: If you instead replace not the second letter but rather the THIRD letter of that second word, you will again get something some cattle do.
What are these four words?
My corrected version:
1st: Name something some cattle do.
2nd: Replace the final letter with a “w” to get what these cattle do – in effect, more or less – when they graze.
3rd: Replace the second letter of that second word with an “e” to get what a cat will do.
4th: If you instead replace not the second letter but rather the FIRST letter of that second word, you will again get something some cattle do.
What are these four words?
LegoMeaCircusMaximaCulpa!
Aren't you going to make that correction actually IN the Hors D'O, Lego? Folks may not see the change down here in the Questions, at least for awhile.
DeleteThank you a ton, ViolinTeddy. I thought I had fixed it... but I guess that was just a case of wishful thinking!
DeleteLegabsentmindedly
Go look at my comment down in the "Progress"section, Lego, to see that you have plenty of company this week (i.e. ME) in the forgetting department!
DeleteHINTS!
ReplyDelete“SPRING FORWARD” SUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. Insert a space in the writer’s five-letter middle name to describe a deranged bovine.
3. The American writer lived in a small residence. The material is also a kind of necktie.
4. The largest ski resort in Slovakia is an acronym related to the writer, who also inspired a 2013 comedy-romance film about a fictional theme park.
5. The material typically used to make the article of clothing is not mined, though you could look at it that way.
6. The second writer won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. If you change a letter of her last name to an H, you get the nickname of a character created by the other writer.
7. Kathy Chitty said a man in a suit of the material was involved in espionage.
E8. Not sure about the pic, but guess the hat may be a hint. "There once was a hat that offered a hint. He told me to wear it -but I could not bear it. That hat with an opaque tint.
DeleteBilly idol has something relevant to say here.
Sunday Hints:
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Frozen Homophonic Fishin’
The last letters of one of the homophones spell a critter.
The last letters of another one spell "hanks of hair."
Appetizer Menu
Eight Brainbreaking “Appeteasers:”
SuperZee’s Imposing Zarkinian Posers!
(I shall defer to Jeff regarding hints to his eightsome of great posers.
BoFeVineLine Hors d’Oeuvre
What cattle do (& a cat’ll do)
The four words in the answer contain a dozen letters, but only 5 different letters, 3 of them within a 4-letter alphabetical sequence.
Not-So-Nice Slice:
Scandalized, banned and manhandled!
"Ebony hose"
Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Slices:
Who’s Afraid of Virgin Wool?
ENTREE #1
The profession? Think Tom and Ray, Fonzie, Latka, Puddy, Gomer, Goober...
Entrees #2 through #7
Note: See Nodd's hints for his Entrees #2 through #7 in his March 8, 2026 at 3:00 AM Post.
ENTREE #8
Note: See Plantsmith's hint for his Entree #8 in his March 8, 2026 at 12:57 PM Post.
ENTREE #9
The "doctor" responsible for the lower part of the accompanying illustration (the one with the boy with the one measle on his cheek!) may not have made "house calls," and may well have made "mouse in the house calls." (His imitators sure did!)
ENTREE #10
A centenarian!... as well as a stepson of E.B. White!
Dessert Menu
Pigmentary Dessert:
The "second color" is edible.
LegoTheBloggerWithoutEvenOneMeasleyMeasleToHisName!
I'm sorry to say that Plantie's Entree 8 hint is no help at all. I have 'mined' it in every way possible: screen captured the hat picture, Googled every possible description and phrase for authors (there are NO good lists of 20th century American-British authors), as well as tried to get categories for haberdashers beyond one obvious (makers of female hats) word. I am completely stuck, and frustrated.
DeleteWouldn't you know, that several minutes after posting above, FINALLY, FINALLY an author appeared in my tortured Google attempts (I kept changing the words in the search bar) whose name had NEVER shown up before (and of course, I'd never heard the name either), so I think I finally have an answer. It seems rather obscure to me, however.
DeleteViolinTeddy,
DeleteI think you likely have the answer to Plantsmith's Great Entree #8... especially if the three letters you removed are Roman numerals whose sum is 1,600.
LegoAFriendOfFriendsRamonds&CountryMen(&Women)WhoHaveComeNotToPraiseButRatherToBuryTheirCaesarSaladsUnderVatsOfSaladDressing!
Yea everyone loves Raymond.
DeleteJust now saw your post above, Lego, and had to go back to look at the 3 removed letters from Raymond Chandler....leave it to you....I had NOT even noticed that they were Roman numerals MDC, thus adding up to 1600! I had just been SO relieved to finally procure an answer to the mysterious haberdasher!
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDelete1st: Name something some cattle do.
Delete2nd: Name something cattle produce as they graze.
3rd: Think of a possible container for a processed form of something else cattle produce.
4th: Rearrange those 12 letters to form the triple-name of a fictional female practitioner of the two-word profession in Entree #1.
Think of something else the "fictional female practitioner" from above probably worked on. Remove those letters from her name. Remove also the last four letters of another triply-named fictional character, leaving the first thing cattle do.
DeleteThanks for those bonus puzzles, Paul. I do appreciate your posting them. Alas, I am stumped!
DeleteYou have written some really clever and excellent puzzles and posted them on P! over the years.
LegoThankfully
MY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteGeez, pathetically, I completely FORGOT yesterday to check for the new P! It has occurred to me only just NOW, so I haven't even seen anything yet. (On Wed, i completely forgot to put out the garage and recycling, but managed to beat the trucks before they arrived late on Thurs. morning.) This is starting to scare me!
DeleteI think I have answers, at long last, for everything except the Appetizers (with the exception of #2, and possibly #3, I'm not sure)....those Appetizers are, to me, impossible without any hints. The hint was CRUCIAL for solving the Schpuzzle and the Slice, as well as Nodd's for all his Entrees.
DeleteI still don't have any of the Apps! I agree that they're close to impossible without hints. I also have what I think is an Alt for PS's Entree. My answer is a famous author, but the haberdashery part doesn't really work. My answer is more generic.
DeleteOther than that, I think I've solved everything else.
No Apps here, either -- "famous American of the past" and "given name of a person in the news" don't really narrow it down much.
DeleteI did come up with a funny/rude/offensive riff when I tried to anagram a certain "given name of a person in the news."
DeleteThanks, Tortie and Nodd, for those comments.
DeletePlease allow me to put forward a few hints for SuperZee’s (Jeff's) Imposing Zarkinian Posers!
1. "Why did we schedule this gathering? What do we hope to accomplish?
Why does someone tune in to NPR on Sunday mornings? Elliot can Tell you!
2. Rearrange the letters in a term describing a religious period, to get something some might consider sinfully good.
The first word of the religious period ends with 5 letters of an adjective that (perhaps fittingly) describes "spirits."
The " something some might consider sinfully good" is a morsel.
3. Rearrange the name of a famous American of the past to get:
A) a term some might use to describe a current figure, and
B) a affliction feared by cat owners…
I would put this "famous American of the past" in my Top Five list.
Jeff's "current figure" may have one thing in common with that "famous American"
The affliction cat owners may fear rhymes with a synonym of "brick" in basketball.
4. The person in the news is from "across the pond". The word for "someone he/she may be spending a lot of time with" begins with what we seem to be in the middle of, lately... and ends with a lair (no, not Bert!).
5. Replace the initial letter of the title of this word for a sports personality, to get a word that precedes "State" or follows "Roman."
6. This device (in 4, 6 and 2 letters) might dominate your living-room space! It is measured in diagonal inches, but might well be measured in feet... even yards!
"...How people like to use it" is a 2-word term that begins with a word that, if beheaded, means "came in" and ends with a 5-letter plural word that begins with a Roman numeral that is equal to a half-dozen.
7. How one may describe the experience of "standing in front of a collection of mirrors" contains a pronoun, verb and plural pronoun... andit sounds a bit like "baby-talk."
The "beloved pet" is stereotypically furry and finicky. The word that describes this pet is the name of a breed that may precede the word "twins."
8. The "term describing an Olympic athlete" rhymes with "mice-hater." The rearrangement of its letters yields a "superlative adjective" often associated with "the aging process."
LegoProvivingSomeTuesdayHintingForJeff'sGems!
Thanks, Lego. The additional information in the hints is very helpful.
DeleteNote: In my March 10, 2026 at 9:53 AM post, I thanked Tortitude and Nodd for their comments concerning Jeff's Appetizers, but I failed to also acknowledge and thank ViolinTeddy for her comment. Thank you, ViolinTeddy!
Delete(Incidentally, in my opinion, Jeff Zarkin composes amazingly creative and clever word puzzles.)
LegoForgetfully
Tortie, re Entree 8, I myself was MOST surprised when I finally stumbled on an author (whom like many of the others, I'd never heard of), which when anagrammed gave a 'general answer' and NOT the kind of answer I had been expecting. So perhaps your answer IS the intended one, too?
DeleteThis post is REFUSING TO PUBLISH. If it ever goes, I must question what is going on on the blog?
Last name of a well known comedian/ -talk show host rhymes with the last name of the author.
DeleteI agree with Lego, Jeff's Apps are creative and clever. I just couldn't solve any of them without hints.
DeleteIF YOU HAVE COMMENTS THAT DO NOT PERTAIN TO ANY OF THE FOUR CATEGORIES ABOVE, YOU MAY WRITE THEM BELOW THIS POST. THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday y'all!
ReplyDeleteMom and I are fine. We ate at Rock 'n' Roll Sushi earlier tonight with Mia Kate, Renae, and Bryan. Mia Kate was the only one who actually ordered sushi. She had the Jailhouse Roll(as opposed to the Jailhouse Rock, of course). The rest of us ordered some sort of Hibachi meal, and Renae ordered a Chicken Bowl. Unfortunately, the waitress sort of mixed up a few of them. I ordered the chicken and told her to add shrimp, but she gave Renae my order instead, and Renae then had to give me my shrimp later on. Mom had the steak, and I think Bryan also had the steak. He could've had the chicken as well. The biggest disappointment for me, however, was that they stopped giving out menus with actual albums on the outside. I'll always remember that first time I actually got a copy of the Beatles' Abbey Road as part of my menu, and Bryan got Michael Jackson's Thriller. Tonight they just had their own menus, just like any other restaurant. It was a total letdown. My food was still good, though. Mom said hers wasn't as good as last time, but she still saved part of it to eat tomorrow. Mom and Renae both complained about not feeling good, or feeling cold while the rest of us were feeling warm. Hormonal problems, Mom said. Mia Kate left earlier than the rest of us. She must have known it would be raining a few minutes later. We were surprised to see that it had rained, but we weren't getting rained on at that moment. BTW I would've posted sooner, but I needed to recharge my Kindle first. Tough bunch of puzzles this week. Nothing really jumped out at me like I could solve anything at first glimpse. Will need hints aplenty, I'm sure.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and hopefully no one else will have to put out their garage, like VT said! I believe she meant GARBAGE, with a B. Cranberry out!
pjbHasPutOutThingsInHisGarageBefore(JustSayin'.)
Egads, I'm having some bad days...I didn't even type GARBAGE correctly!
DeleteNot losing memory -just clearing up space in my CPU.
DeleteIncidentally, my apologies for the graphically gruesome image of Pontius Pilate image that I cobbled together to accompany Appetizer #6. I sometimes find it challenging to come up with images that do not offend! (Nodd, who wrote this excellent puzzle riff, bears no responsibility for the image!)
ReplyDeleteLegoApologeticToAll
I never even saw it, and you seem to have removed it.
DeleteI am trying to publish a short post above in the Progress section (in response to one of Tortie's...but it utterly REFUSES to publish. So I'm testing down here to see if a post will go in.
ReplyDeleteMostly post hints this week. Still couldn’t get a lot of the Apps, even with hints.
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle: FLOCKS, PHLOX, FISH, PICKAX
App:
1.
2.
3. A. B.
4. ANDREW, WARDEN
5. UMPIRE, IMPURE
6. WIDE SCREEN TV, CENTRED VIEWS ???
7. ??? (I SEE? I AM?), SIAMESE CAT
8. ICE SKATER, CREAKIEST
Hors d’Oeuvre: MOO, MOW, MEW, LOW
Slice: BLACK SOX, SACK, BLOCKS
Entrees:
1. ANDREA CARLA MICHAELS; CAR MECHANIC
2. FORD MADOX FORD, OXFORD
3. FORD MADOX FORD, LAURA INGALLS WILDER, FOULARD
4. JANE AUSTEN, JUAN FELIPE HERRERA, SATEEN
5. JANE AUSTEN, W. H. AUDEN, JEANS
6. PEARL BUCK, MARK TWAIN, BUCKRAM
7. ERNEST J. GAINES, BARD, GABARDINES
8. RAYMOND CHANDLER (RAYON HANDLER) ???
9. THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL; THE ODOR? DIESEL!
10. ROGER ANGELL; OGRE, ANGEL
Dessert: TANGERINE, TAN, GREEN, ORANGE
Paul riffs:
1. MOO, SALIVA, TIN, MONA LISA VITO
2. ALVIS?, TIAN ??, MOO (also saw VALIANT in her name, as well as TAILS, another fictional mechanic - think he just works on planes, though)
Congratulations on MOO, SALIVA, TIN.
DeleteFor the second part, I was thinking that an "out of work hairdresser" might also have worked on NAILS at some point, and if we remove NA LIS, the only thing standing in the way of MOO is A VIT, which anagrams to TAVI, as in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
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DeleteSCHPUZZLE – FLOCKS, PHLOX; FISH, PICKAXE
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS (After Lego’s hints)
1. ??
2. CATHOLIC EPOCH, CHOCOLATE CHIP
3. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, CON MAN, HAIR BALL
4. ANDREW, WARDEN
5. UMPIRE, IMPURE
6. WIDE SCREEN TV, CENT[E?]RED VIEWS
7. SIAMESE; “I SEE ME’S” ??
8. ICE SKATER, CREAKIEST
HORS D’OEUVRE – MOO, MOW, MEW, LOW
SLICE – BLACK SOX; SACK, BLOCKS
ENTREES
1. ANDREA CARLA MICHAELS, CAR MECHANIC
2. FORD MADOX FORD; OXFORD
3. FORD MADOX FORD, LAURA INGALLS WILDER; FOULARD
4. JANE AUSTEN, JUAN FELIPE HERRERA; SATEEN
5. JANE AUSTEN, W.H. AUDEN; JEANS
6. MARK TWAIN, PEARL S. BUCK; BUCKRAM
7. ERNEST J. GAINES, BARD; GABARDINES
8. RAYMOND CHANDLER (RAYON HANDLER)
9. THEODOR GEISEL; “THE ODOR? DIESEL!”
10. ROGER ANGELL; OGRE, ANGEL
DESSERT – TANGERINE, TAN, GREEN, ORANGE
PAUL RIFFS – ??
SCHPUZZLE: FLOCKS & PHLOX => FCKS & PHX + I, I, A => FISH & PICKAX
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS:
2. FAST => FATS Clearly, the Lego-provided hint shows that the intended answer is something else.]
3. JACK KENNEDY => NJ YANKEE?, CKD (Chronic kidney disease) [Lego’s hint also means this answer is very wrong.]
4. ANDREW => WARDEN. [Per Lego’s hint]
6. WIDE SCREEN TV => CENTRED VIEWS [There weren’t enough ‘E’s to spell the more American “CENTERED”]
7. I SEE ‘MES' => SIAMESE [I can’t figure out how to get an “A” into the three-word phrase, however, unless it should AMS or MAS.]
8. ICE SKATER => CREAKIEST
HORS D’O: MOO => MOW => MEW; LOW
SLICE: BLACK SOX [game fixing] => SACK BLOCKS [i.e. from football]
ENTREES:
1. ANDREA CARLA MICHAELS => CAR MECHANIC
2. FORD MADOX FORD [Never heard of him] => OXFORD [I also never heard of this as a clothing material, only as a type of shoe]
3. FORD + LAU [from Laura Ingalls Wilder] => FOULARD [Sure as heck never heard of THIS word either, in any capacity]
4. JANE AUSTEN => JUAN [Herrara] & SATEEN
5. JANE AUSTEN => JANE AUSDEN => AUDEN & JEANS
6. MARK TWAIN & PEARL S. BUCK => MARK BUCK => MARKBUC => BUCKRAM. [Never heard of this material either]
7. Ernest J. GAINES => GA[BARD]INES
8. RAYMOND CHANDLER => RAYON HANDLER. [I had thought the Billy Idol “hint" line referred to Frosty the Snowman’s silk top hat]
9. THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL => THE ODOR? DIESEL!
10. ROGER ANGELL => OGRE; ANGEL
DESSERT: TANGERINE => TAN; GREEN; O + ANGER => ORANGE
Billy Idol had a song line from " White wedding Day," _"Hey little sister ""
ReplyDeletewhich is almost the name of a Chandler work.
" The little sister" Novel -1949.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the attempted explanation, PLantie...I never actually even heard of Billy Idol [along with so many others in this week's Entrees], so I had Googled him and found the Frosty the Snowman reference.
DeleteWell had never heard of the Frosty the snowman reference.lol. I actually have never read any of his stuff.
DeleteRaymond Chandler that is. Rhymes with Chelsea Handler.
DeleteHaving actually already found Chandler by that time, I knew the comedienne you meant when you gave that hint.
DeletePuzzleria 3-11-26” 52 degrees -stormy weather .
ReplyDeleteSCHPUZZLE – Flocks, phlox, fish, pickaxe
APPETIZERS
1.
8 ice skater, creakiest.
2. ENTREES
1. Andrea Carla Michaels, car mechanic
8. Raymond Chandler, rayon handler. Writer of noir crime novels.
Dessert – Tangerine, Tan,Green, orange
This week's official answers for the record, part 1:
ReplyDeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Frozen Homophonic Fishin’
Take a pair of homophones, in six and five letters. Remove from each an identical pair of adjacent letters (like the “ri” in “write” and “right,” for example).
What remains after those four letters are removed are seven different consonants.
Add three vowels to this mix, then rearrange the result to spell what anglers might catch in a frozen lake and a tool they might use to gain access to their catch.
What are these homophones, this catch and this tool?
Answer:
phlox, flocks; fish, pickax
PHLOX+FLOCKS – (LO+LO) = PHX+FCKS;
phx+fcks+iia = fish + pickax
Lego...
This week's official answers for the record, part 2:
ReplyDeleteAppetizer Menu
Eight Brainbreaking “Appeteasers:”
SuperZee’s Imposing Zarkinian Posers!
1. Start with a two word phrase (7/3) one might see on the agenda for a business gathering.
Then, rearrange its letters for when and why one tunes in to NPR on Sunday morning.
Answer:
Meeting Aim….Enigma Time.
2. Rearrange the letters in a term describing a religious period, to get something some might consider sinfully good.
Answer:
Catholic epoch……chocolate chip!
3. Rearrange the name of a famous American of the past to get:
A) a term some might use to describe a current figure, and
B) a affliction feared by cat owners…
Answer:
Abraham Lincoln >>> conman / hairball.
4. Take the given name of a person in the news. Rearrange it to get someone he/she may be spending a lot of time with.
Answer:
Andrew…Warden.
5. Rearrange the title of a sports personality, to get what some fans think of his/her acts.
Answer:
Umpire/impure.
6. Take the name of a device cherished by some sports fans, rearrange to get how they like to use it.
Answer:
Wide screen TV…centered views.
7. Imagine you were standing in front of a collection of mirrors. Rearrange how you might describe the experience to get a beloved pet.
Answer:
I see me’s. Siamese.
8. Take a term describing an Olympic athlete, rearrange to get how his/her body might feel after complecting.
Answer:
Ice skater…..creakiest.
Lego...
Okay, someone please explain to me why EApp #7 indeed has an "a" in Siamese that does NOT appear in "I see me's", just as I indicated, and others basically did too. I didn't see any statement that we had to add a letter that was NOT in the 'mirror sentence.'
DeleteI should have added: "OR that we were supposed to turn one of the 'e's' into an 'a'.
DeleteNeither App 6 nor App 7 works. "Wide screen TV" only has three e's, so "centered views" won't work. And as VT points out, "Siamese" needs an a, which isn't found in "I see me's."
DeleteYeah, Nodd (not sure if you will actually SEE this post), I appreciate your pointing this out, re both apps. I guess since the hints for them came so late, none of us had TIME to ask questions about the mistakes, except to do so in our answers, and now here. I think several of us had written that the App 6 answer had to be 'centred', i.e. the BRITISH version, since we were missing an 'e'.
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BoFeVineLine Hors d’Oeuvre
What cattle do (& a cat’ll do)
1st: Name something some cattle do. MOO
2nd: Replace the final letter with a “w” to get what these cattle do – in effect, more or less – when they graze. MOW
3rd: Replace the second letter of that second word with an “e” to get what a cat will do. MEW
4th: If you instead replace not the SECOND letter but rather the THIRD letter of that second word, you will again get something some cattle do. LOW
What are these four words?
ANSWER:
Moo, Mow, Mew, Low
Not-So-Nice Slice:
Scandalized, banned and manhandled!
Spoonerize the two-word name of a scandalous chapter in the annals of a professional sport to get what sounds like two terms from a different sport. Those two terms might be yelled, for example, by an exasperated coach: “A ____ results if nobody ______!”
What are this two-word name and the two sports terms?
Answer:
Black Sox (Scandal, professional baseball); Sack, Blocks: "A SACK results if nobody BLOCKS!" (football)
(Note: The Black Sox Scandal was a game-fixing scandal in Major League Baseball in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.)
Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Slices:
Who’s Afraid of Virgin Wool?
Will Shortz’s March 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrea Carla Michaels of San Francisco, California, reads:
Name a famous 20th century writer. Remove the last two letters of the first name and the last letter of the last name. The result will name a clothing material. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Louisa May Alcott, Katherine Anne Porter and Laura Ingalls Wilder are three-triply-named woman authors. Take a triply-named female puzzle-maker. The first three letters of her middle name spell the first word of a two-word profession. To spell the second word of the profession, take the 1st, 6th, 3rd, 4th, 5th letters of her surname, followed by the 2nd letter of her first name, followed by the 2nd and 3rd letters of her surname.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the profession?
Answer:
Andrea Carla Michaels; Car Mechanic
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This week's official answers for the record, part 4:
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ENTREE #2
Name a famous 19th-20th century English novelist and poet. The last two letters of the middle name, followed without a space by the last name, spell a clothing material. Who is the writer and what is the material?
Answer:
FORD MADOX FORD; OXFORD
ENTREE #3
Take the last name of the writer in the preceding Entree. Add the first three letters of the first name of a famous 19th-20th century female American author. Rearrange to name a clothing material. Who are the writers and what is the material?
Answer:
FORD MADOX FORD, LAURA INGALLS WILDER; FOULARD
ENTREE #4
Name a famous 18th-19th century writer, first and last names. Rearrange the letters to name the first name of a former U.S. Poet Laureate and a clothing material. Who are the writer and poet, and what is the material?
Answer:
JANE AUSTEN, JUAN FELIPE HERRERA; SATEEN
ENTREE #5
Take the first and last names of the 18th-19th century writer in the preceding Entree and change the fourth letter of the last name to a D. Rearrange to spell the last name of a famous 20th century poet and an article of clothing. Who are the writers, and what is the article of clothing?
Answer:
JANE AUSTEN, W.H. AUDEN; JEANS
ENTREE #6
Think of two famous American writers who lived during the 19th and 20th centuries. Take the first name of the pen name of one, plus the last name of the other. There will be a duplicate letter; remove one instance of it. Rearrange the remaining letters to name a clothing material. Who are the writers, and what is the material?
Answer:
MARK TWAIN, PEARL S. BUCK; BUCKRAM
ENTREE #7
Take the last name of an award-winning 20th-21st century American author who was known for his writings about the African American experience. Between the second and third letters, insert a word for a type of poet. The result will name certain clothing materials. Who is the author, and what are the type of poet and the materials?
Answer:
ERNEST J. GAINES, BARD; GABARDINE
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This week's official answers for the record, part 5:
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ENTREE #8
Name a 20th-Century American-British novelist. Remove letters 4 and 7 from the first name and the first letter from of the last name.
The result is a haberdashery professional who specializes in working with a particular kind of material.
Who is this writer?
Raymond Chandler; Rayon handler.
ENTREE #9
Name an author. Place a space within the first name and a question mark after it.
Delete the middle name.
Then, in the surname, transpose adjacent vowels, replace the first letter with a “D” and place an exclamation mark at the end.
The result is a three-word comment perhaps overheard at a truck stop (perhaps even at the “Cordial Teahouse” truck stop).
Who is this author?
What is the comment?
Answer:
Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Seuss Geisel); "The odor? Diesel!" (Diesel fuel has a pungent, earthy smell that is often described as being similar to rubber or asphalt."
ENTREE #10
Name an author who lived more than a century, was a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine and served many years as its chief fiction editor. He had been dubbed a “Babe Ruth” of sportswriters.Delete the first letter from his first name, then transpose the last two letters, to spell a horrible and frightening monstrous demon.
Delete the last letter from his last name to spell a compassionate and kindhearted heavenly creature.
Who is this author?
What are the demon and heavenly creature?
Answer:
Roger Angell; Ogre, Angel
Dessert Menu
Pigmentary Dessert:
Drawn and Quartered?
Remove consecutive letters that spell a color from a longer word for a second color.
Remove a letter from what remains and rearrange to spell a third color.
Add an “o” to a noun that appears intact within the original color and rearrange the result slightly to spell a fourth color.
What are these four colors?
ANSWER:
Tan, Tangerine; Green, Orange
TANGERINE => TAN + GERINE – I => TAN + GREEN; ANGER + O => ORANGE
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Sorry I'm so late. We had bad weather coming through our state earlier, and I also have to have a colonoscopy this afternoon. I showered, and then I forgot all about this.
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PHLOX, FLOCKS, FISH, PICKAX
Appetizer Menu
1. MEETING AIM, ENIGMA TIME
2. CATHOLIC EPOCH, CHOCOLATE CHIP
3. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (A.)CONMAN, (B.)HAIRBALL
4. ANDREW, WARDEN
5. UMPIRE, IMPURE
6. WIDE SCREEN TV, CENTERED VIEWS
7. I SEE "ME"S, SIAMESE
8. ICE SKATER, CREAKIEST
Menu
BoFeVineLine Hors d'Oeuvre
MOO, MOW, MEW, LOW
Not-So-Nice Slice
BLACK SOX, SACK, BLOCKS
Entrees
1. ANDREA CARLA MICHAELS, CAR MECHANIC
2. FORD MADOX FORD, OXFORD
3. FORD(again), LAURA INGALLS WILDER, FOULARD
4. JANE AUSTEN, JUAN(Felipe Herrera), SATEEN
5. AUSTEN(again), W.H. AUDEN, JEANS
6. MARK TWAIN, PEARL S. BUCK, BUCKRAM
7. ERNEST J. GAINES, BARD, GABARDINES
8. RAYMOND CHANDLER, RAYON HANDLER
9. DR. SEUSS(Theodore Geisel), THE ODOR? DIESEL!
10. ROGER ANGELL, OGRE, ANGEL
Pigmentary Dessert
TAN, TANGERINE, GREEN, ORANGE
Masked Singer Results:
HIGH VOLTAGE=ALEXI LALAS(an American soccer legend that neither I nor Mom had heard of)
Ken Jeong came the closest by guessing it was Travis Kelce. At least it was a famous athlete.-pjb
And he had a soccer ball on his head the whole time. Go figure. Also never heard of him.
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