Just read C D B! by William Steig and you'll probably get the answer. Or if not, he has a second book in the series called C D C!.Q: This week's challenge comes from listener Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco. Take the word baci (Italian for "kisses"). You can rearrange the letters to "I C A B" — which sounds like a sentence, "I see a bee."
Now, think of a unit of measurement. Rearrange its letters and read them out loud to form a sentence complimenting someone on their appearance. What's the word, and what's the sentence?
I'm not sure you can call these "volumes" but that's what I was trying to hint at.
A: QUART --> URAQT (You are a cutie)
Here's my standard reminder... don't post the answer or any hints that could lead directly to the answer (e.g. via a chain of thought, or an internet search) before the deadline of Thursday at 3pm ET. If you know the answer, click the link and submit it to NPR, but don't give it away here.
ReplyDeleteYou may provide indirect hints to the answer to show you know it, but make sure they don't give the answer away. You can openly discuss your hints and the answer after the Thursday deadline. Thank you.
I thought it would be difficult, but I figured this one out in about a minute. Back to bed; I'll think of a hint later.
ReplyDelete2 e-z. Be careful when you compliment a woman, you might lead her on....
ReplyDeleteAnd she (or he, for that matter) might not enjoy this particular compliment as well as others. . .
DeleteI hope I didn't offend, I chose my words as carefully as I could.
DeleteNo worries, eco. I'd use this mostly for pets and babies.
DeleteA piece of cake. ---Rob
ReplyDeleteNo tips today (haha) but a near homophone for a 'place' in the news this week.
ReplyDeleteIsaac Asimov included this puzzle’s concept in one of his short stories.
ReplyDeleteWe got a copy of Steig's book from my wife's friend, Ruth, as a baby gift when our son was born. I wrote a N-Q note, to "DR √", and signed it "LX&R".
ReplyDeleteI went back and forth between a couple of answers, but I'm pretty sure I have the right one.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Guv'nor, it can be tough to choose between latex and acrylic.
DeleteMy English teacher didn't want us to read William Steig, preferring William Shakespeare instead. Though he was very old fashioned and Measure for Measure was not included.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a former master of original punctuation at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, punctuation (at least the period) is going away. Steig shows that most letters are superfluous. Twitter says 140 characters is all you ever need.
DeleteHemingway's shortest novel, updated: For sale, one handbasket, used once.
Was it not: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn?"
Delete...updated...
Delete4sale-hndbskt usedx1
Rearrange its letters? Not me.
ReplyDeleteHow about two units to measure three letters
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I have it. No clues just yet...
ReplyDeleteI have two answers. My hints? 7 and inchworm.
ReplyDeleteDoes one of these also relate to last week's puzzle?
DeleteI know I shouldn't interfere with other people's hints; however, it sometimes seems beyond my power to resist.
DeleteHmm, eco, no. One has to do with geology and the other a fun math problem.
DeleteThen you're in for a pleasant surprise on Thursday.
DeleteI can hardly wait. . .
DeleteI'm not really a PC advocate; however, my previous comment involves a 'dyslexic interpretation' pertaining to one of the hints.
DeleteDefinitely more than one possible answer this week.
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DeleteI bet there are several valid answers to this!
DeleteMy clue: 300.
ReplyDeleteSD B YY 4 me.
ReplyDeleteSMS slangsters will know this one.
ReplyDeleteI put no stock in rumors, but a fascinating one is that long ago one posters make an unexpected, albeit brief, free fall from his seat in a gasthaus after paying the Serveiererin such a compliment while ordering zwei Humpen.
ReplyDeleteBe careful not to be an xsre to a puzzle solver.
ReplyDeleteNaval Academy
ReplyDeleteRosie O'Donnell used to rhyme the longest word in the sentence created by the letters.
ReplyDeleteA tip you can use? may B may B not. I am sure I have seen this on one of those can D hearts on valentine's day.
ReplyDeleteA tip you can use? may B may B not. I am sure I have seen this on one of those can D hearts on valentine's day.
ReplyDeleteI may know a good answer to this, as this is a testament to a good puzzle.
ReplyDeleteAlso, regarding John Campanelli, I agree, I bet there are several valid answers to this.
I wasn't even done with the podcast when the answer came to me. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteI made it through the podcast and got the answer soon after on my run. I did 5.1 miles. Chocolate milk always good after a mid distance run!
ReplyDeleteYep, Chocolate Milk is the answer! 7 and inchworm..not so much!
ReplyDeleteMy entire morning and afternoon on NPR were pre=empted with the nonstop reporting on Orlando. I repectfully send my thoughts and prayers to everyone involved.
ReplyDeleteI just got back home from attending the vigil downtown that was headed up by the mayor and governor. Lots of people in attendance.
DeleteI have to take exception to what they have been reporting all day on NPR that this was the largest mass shooting in America. If you ignore the Civil War and Gettysburg, since it was a war, then you still have Mountain Meadows, where the Mormons slaughtered 120 or more members of a wagon train.
And all the massacres of indigenous peoples on this land; Wounded Knee being but one (and perhaps the last) of so many.
DeleteThere seems almost no end of miseries that can be recalled in US history.
I agree. I almost mentioned Custer, but he deserved what he got for what he did, and I don't consider the Sioux Indians at all to blame for what they did. But Mountain Meadows is an outrage and all but one Mormon got away with it too, including Brigham Young, who was behind it all. You can probably tell; I just love religion.
DeleteCuster and his men were soldiers, and certainly not innocent in their undoing.
DeleteThe religion of greed on these lands dates back well before the Mormons. I find no one tells the story in a more readable form than Howard Zinn; who points out that Columbus was the first slave master on these shores. And as Charles Mann narrates the African slave trade is largely the fault of those same indigenous people who had the inconvenient tendency to die from European diseases while in captivity.
But on the other hand Columbus was an environmentalist. He was known for getting over ten thousand miles per galleon.
DeleteIn the recesses of my mind is a pithy journal entry, it might have been Emerson, along the lines of "I sailed across the ocean in a ship powered by wind and skilled men working in the sun, and returned with men working in the dark shoveling coal into a fire."
DeleteOr something like that.
I'm totally with ya, sdb, on loathing religion. Am currently reading "God is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens.
DeleteNone of that has anything to do with the fact that I got an answer that works with the pjb's hint above about Rosie O'Donnell. I didn't understand Word Woman's hints.
eco,
DeleteDon't tell Mendo Jim that ship anagrams to hips or he might say, "pish."
VT,
Don't get me wrong; I am not against spirituality, just religion. I always enjoyed Christopher Hitchens's eloquence, but his denial of anything beyond life here taught me that just having a high IQ and a great education doesn't mean you always think logically. In other words, I think he didn't really think it through. But then I am fortunate in having had several para-normal experiences than cannot be denied, at least by me.
I would be MOST interested in hearing about those (paranormal experiences), sdb...are we talking ghosts here?
DeleteWell said, sdb.
Delete...moderation, reason, wonder, respect, responsibility... against such there is no law.
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DeleteI heard that Columbus's ships almost had to turn back because of an outbreak of norovirus. Fortunately he was able to keep going after promising free passes on future trips and upgrading the crew to first-class amenities.
68Charger,
DeleteActually it was No Row Virus. They were complaining there were not enough Oars (sp?) on board. The H you say! Anyway they sailed on, acquiring Frequent Floater Miles as they went, hoping against all reason they would arrive in time for Columbus Day.
VT,
DeleteNo ghosts so far, but my neighbors in the house behind mine had one for many years. I think I may have posted about it here a year or so ago.
Yes, wounded knee, Black Wall Street, all the people that Columbus slaughtered,Higher numbers than Orlando, which does not make it less tragic. Terrorist acts in this country do not always originate with people or groups outside of this country
DeleteIt would be good to know that Columbus never came to what is now our country.
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ReplyDeleteI always like it when these puzzles take me a while so that I have something to think about for the rest of the week, but I think I got this one in about 20 seconds... Good puzzle nonetheless, I love the concept!!!
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: ELP - "From the Beginning"
ReplyDeleteIn 1850, about 15 miles from where I live, soldiers of the US Cavalry, urged on by some of the most ergregious white settler miscreants ever to live, killed over 100 Pomo Indian men, women and children at a place now called Bloody Island.
ReplyDeleteThat may have not been the worst massacre just in Norhwest California.
There were worse, particularly along the Eel River. A grim list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_massacre
DeleteBonus Puzzles: f u r-n 2 b-z; n n-r-g s 2 b c-n. All answers formed from pronounced letters, some liberties taken (a little d-v-s).
ReplyDeletelargest number:
person from a certain country:
person from a certain geographical region:
person from another country (moderately loose):
national capital (a little loose):
former First Lady first name:
entertaining job:
first and last name of a well-known entertainer (pretty loose):
ancient mythological hero (slightly loose):
What others will be of the person who solves all these puzzles:
I realize I have to disavow the "entertaining job". But to make up for it, some more:
Deletewater feature:
famous New York landmark:
well-known southern university:
former name of a major US company:
later name of that same company:
Newspaper name in at least 2 major cities (it's not the Times-Picayune):
one of several catchphrases of well-known 1950's TV character:
character's wife:
Simpson's character (a bit loose):
Well, the NY landmark starts with mπr, I mean, duh?
DeleteThat's good!
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DeletePaul, I haven't an Ö of an idea of how get there, it's all ¥ (and Greek) to me.
DeleteThe 'former First Lady' may pertain to some of the 'off-topic' comments in this week's blog.
ReplyDeleteThe one about the mythological hero is tricky, I'll grant you that. (OK, that's a giveaway; I'm sorry (no, not really)
Yeah, if anybody can solve all of these, I will be.
I once saw a yellow-and-black Smart car with license plate "CDB".
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the French chef. As soon as he became successful, he went to the car dealer and ordered up the fastest sports car he could get, with a custom paint job: a big capital S on both sides, and a broad racing stripe composed of strings of S's, so that when he was speeding along on the highway, people would say, "Wow, look at that ... !"
DeleteReminds me of snail mail (snail male?).
DeleteO, IC (maybe). Sorry, jan.
DeleteJinx, WW, you owe me a beer!
DeletePaul, N E thyme!
DeleteOld mother Hubbard's exclamation upon going to the cupboard fits into this category.
ReplyDeleteSorry, loop, I'm not quite CN it.
DeleteO, I C U R M T.
DeleteO, I C U R M T.
DeleteSaid ND to the state west of it. . .
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ReplyDeleteMy little pony
ReplyDeleteI need some help here with a question. When sheep are giving birth, is it called lambinating?
ReplyDeleteEwer probably right but, I've got mutton more to say about this until I check with my staff!
Deletewool you hurry up and get baaak to me please!
DeleteWhen my mother gave birth to me they called it a LegoLambdalivery
DeleteLegoIfIRecallCorrectlyMyBirthTookPlaceInDaliveryStableSurroundedByLowingCattleAssortedShepherdsAndThreeWiseGuys
When cooking mutton, should you lambaste it?
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ReplyDeleteThe anti-anagram part of my brain must be less active when I wake up at 2 AM, so some inadvertent rearranging gave me an answer that works.
ReplyDeleteThe measurement is the punch line by Hammy, the Calvin-like boy in the Baby Blues daily cartoon.
That strip is one of my favorites and that one was several months ago during a shopping trip with his dad for sports equipment.
Tonight around 9:30 CST, the International Space Station will be flying by over the midwest for about 4 minutes. What's unusual is that a resupply ship "may" be very close to it. If you are lucky you will be able to see two spacecraft at once, maybe...
ReplyDeletehttps://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/
Supposed to have rain near me so I probably won't get a view.
I like the Heavens Above site. It includes more details, including the brightness, a sky map, the ground track, and data on other satellites, planets, comets, etc.
DeleteThat is a good website! I need to get used to it, though. Its times are about 30 minutes off from NASA's but that could be my fault. Another handy website is:
Deletehttp://www.isstracker.com/
It's usefulness is limited to about a 3 hour window, though.
That resupply craft is being used for a study on fire safety. Looks like they will set something small inside of it on fire today and study what happens. This is after it has seperated from the ISS.
Speaking of fires in space stations and 2-vehicle sightings, I once caught a Shuttle-Mir pair (no flames showing).
DeleteJan and MJ,
DeleteI used my PC instead of this cell phone to Heavensabove and it sync'd right in!
I had never heard of, much less seen an iridium flare, that would be pretty cool!
I am looking forward to the total eclipse next summer. We are going to be within 20 miles of its totality, so it ought to be good.
Once you get your accurate-as-possible coordinates entered, the information will be spot on.
ReplyDeleteThe site has remembered mine for years.
When you do get the hang of it try for some irridium flares; the timing and location are so precise that you can't really share them with friends even a short distance away.
I won't get tonight's ISS pass in California until 11:30, but the double vehicle ones are worth looking for.
I've never tried to spot an Iridium flare. Have you seen one at night or in daylight? How long does it last?
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ReplyDeleteIn some areas you only get one r in your iridium.
jan: I haven't looked for one in years and I was going to answer "daytime" for viewing and seconds for duration.
ReplyDeleteMy chart for the next week, however, shows only nighttime passes.
They are artificial satellites in somewhat higher orbit than the ISS, which means visibility longer before and after sunrise/sunset, but I don't remember seeing them at 23:30 and 03:30.
I'll try and figure out why there are not any of the midday passes I remember.
The site gives when and where to look, details of each pass and details of each Iridiaum satellite.
The two spacecraft must have been real close to each other because I could only see one object. The ISS did look bigger than usual, like they may have been side by side but, I was hoping for two distinct objects! Oh well...
DeleteIn this week's NYT crossword puzzle, there is both a "Gere" and an "Uber" as answers.
ReplyDeleteLate hour Bonus Puzzles:
ReplyDelete1980's Disney character:
fictional detective first name:
another fictional detective first name:
character in famous 1939 movie (so many to choose from):
Woody Allen movie (some stretching):
marketing cow:
address for important people:
The marketing cow shares the name with a member of the Steel Curtain.
DeleteLegoAndWithTheSpuceGooseBuilder'sCanadianCounterpart
Did somebody up north really build a Spruce Loon?
DeleteQUART > U R A Q T = You are a cutie.
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ReplyDeleteQUART >>> U R A QT (You are a cutie.)
Alternate answer QUARTO >>> O, U R A QT. (Oh, you are a cutie.)
My clues?
"7" refers to the hardness of QUARTz on Mohs Hardness Scale.
"Inchworm" refers to the classical math problem where an inchworm eats through a series of books (QUARTO sized ;-)) from page 1 of volume 1 to the last page of the final volume. The trick to solving the problem of how many inches the worm eats through is envisioning where page 1 sits on the shelf.
"Naval Academy" refers to naval oranges which are close to tangerines and are now branded as CUTIES!
With your penchant for children's literature I thought you were referring to Cutie and Inch Worm and their friend Tiffany.
DeleteTsk! And to think I came this close to citing Dan EK
DeleteAh, eco, now I see the delightful connection to last week's puzzle and Richard Tiffany Gere. I'd not heard of "Cutie and Inch Worm" before.
DeleteCubit – I C B U T – I see beauty.
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said my clue was 300. God told Noah to make his ark 300 cubits long.
YY U R
YY U B
I C U R
YY 4 me
That's really good. Never thought of it.
DeleteA very legit alternative answer, Chuck. WIll Shortz should accept it and mention it on-air.
DeleteLegoEnvisionsANewPetFoodProduct:Kibbles&Q-Bits(DogChowThatCanDoubleAsACanineEarSwab)
Amen.
DeleteOhms measure resistance. 'Mohs' is a 'dyslexic interpretation' of 'ohms'. Is that PC? Anyway, 'advocate' is synonymous with 'exponent', which is what designates the 'power' of a number or variable. Your PC (along with it's kinfolk) likes powers of 2, such as 4 (which is what 2 and 2 are), 8 (which is what 4 and 4 are), you get the picture. The 'smart' car (they tell me it's supposed to be written all lower case) apparently comes in two models, 'fortwo' and 'forfour'. Isn't that just darling?* If it's painted yellow and black, it probably does look like a bee, and I didn't know the S-car-go joke was from 'Trading Places', honest, I heard it elsewhere, probably the same place I first heard that melody from 'Sebastian'. In fact, I'm almost sure of it.
ReplyDeleteBeauty!
One could argue that's a sentence. A predicate nominative with implied subject and verb, maybe. Or maybe you just want to call your horse. Whatever.
It sounds like bee-you-tea, which spells 'but', but 'but' is not a 'dyslexic interpretation of 'but', it's just BUT; HOWEVER, a BTU is a unit of 'work' (not 'power', power = work / time). 100,000 BTU = 1 therm, but I don't know what 16 or 32 or 64 BTU are, and there should be names for them, because, after all, they're British!
Thus, we have an alternative answer, and that's the flaw I found in this puzzle. Really, I just wanted an excuse to use 'however' in the middle of an idea.
Did FFL Hillary Clinton really talk to FFL LNR Roosevelt?
Never accept a $50 bill with a picture of ODCS on it. Or a pound note with a likeness of LRE Queen.
REL, the Little Mermaid?
NEL = Annie Hall? I really hope I'm wrong.
LC, aka Mrs. Elmer, for sure.
And I'm envious of anyone who got the rest.
*I see they also make a 'coupe' and a 'cabrio'. Excuuuuse me!
QUART -> U R A Q T ("You are a cutie!")
ReplyDelete> I find something is missing in action videos these days.
The rapper M.I.A. has a song called U.R.A.Q.T..
I wrote, "A piece of cake." I was going to put "Easy as pie," but then I thought that "cutie pie" might be too easy to see, so I went with another dessert, and it has a PIEce in it. ---Rob
ReplyDeleteMy three silly "hints":
ReplyDelete"I think everyone will agree that this is a hard one!" -- Because it is embedded in QUARTZ
"Be careful what you say, Paul; Will Shortz might sue you!" -- Or take you to COURT (sounds like QUART).
"Agreed, Guv'nor, it can be tough to choose between latex and acrylic." -- Latex and acrylic are two paints, which in my Comical Cockney accent sounds like "two pints" = QUART.
"you might lead her (liter) on...." a liter is close to a quart, since we're never going to join those Euro-weenies (and the rest of the world) in a rational measurement system.
ReplyDelete"he was very old fashioned and Measure for Measure was not included" "He" refers to Shakespeare (not my English teacher - a bit deceiving but grammatically correct), and the earliest versions of his plays were "fashioned" in quarto, 4 pages printed on each side of a broadsheet, then double folded and cut. Measure for Measure was a later play, not included in the earliest printings.
My alternate answer is OUNCE / O-U-C-N-E / Oh, you see any?
ReplyDeleteBonus answers (as William Steig rolls in his grave - there are way too many):
ReplyDeletelargest number: A-T (I later realized it's the only number that fits the bill, unless you stretch A-T-N).
person from a certain country: N-D-N
person from a certain geographical region: R-A-B-N I wish I had rephrased with the "C".
person from another country (moderately loose): B-L-R-U-C-N - Olga Korbutt was very loose. Marc Chagall, Irving Berlin, and Isaac Asimov could imagine that working.
national capital (a little loose): V-N-T-N, capital of Laos. Why am I intrigued and frightened that Google street view has covered the entire city?
former First Lady first name: L-N-R (Roosevelt)
entertaining job: M-C (withdrawn after I remembered emcee is merely the shorthand for Master of Ceremonies.
first and last name of a well-known entertainer (pretty loose): L-N D-J-N-R-S - I am simultaneously proud and ashamed of that one. Hard to find 6 syllable names that work.
ancient mythological hero (slightly loose): O-D-C-S, Paul's clue about (Ulysses) "grant" was excellent.
What others will be of the person who solves all these puzzles: N-V-S Take THAT, Steig!
water feature: R-T-Z-N, trusting our resident geologist WW got that one.
famous New York landmark: L-S I-L-N gotta say it with a Jersey accent
well-known southern university: M-R-E
former name of a major US company: S-O
later name of that same company: X-N; now Exxon-Mobile
Newspaper name in at least 2 major cities (it's not the Times-Picayune): X-M-N-R - both San Francisco and DC have that as newspapers.
one of several catchphrases of well-known 1950's TV character: R-D-R-R, one of many gems from Ralph Cramden on The Honeymooners.
character's wife: L-S, no hate mail, I know I used it for Ellis.
Simpson's character (a bit loose): R-T Z-F, Artie Ziff, Marge's prom date and later tech geek billionaire.
1980's Disney character: R-E-L, the Little Mermaid
fictional detective first name: L-R-E Queen
another fictional detective first name: R-Q-L Poirot
character in famous 1939 movie (so many to choose from): N-T M, from Wizard of Oz
Woody Allen movie (some stretching): N-E L, maybe lots of stretching
marketing cow: L-C, you're probably Borden this by now. Elsie was used for dairy products as well as Elmer's glue.
address for important people: X-L-N-C
I thought your First Lady was L-R-E Clinton.
Deletetempting, but I felt better using it for a different queen.
DeleteCUBIT - My clue was "I may 'know a' possible answer" and "a 'testament' to a good puzzle".
ReplyDeleteActually, I wonder what the intended answer was supposed to be? Too many possible answers on this one.
When irrepressible Hammie of the Baby Blues comic strip was shopping with his dad for Little League supplies, the next item on the list was a cup.
ReplyDelete"What do I need a cup for?" asks Hammie.
"Uh, well. It is to protect a very important part of you."
"Well, in that case, maybe we should get a quart."
Iridium flares are seen late at night and early in the morning at northern latitudes near the Summer Solstice.
I agree, MJ, Baby Blues is a great comic strip; I read it almost every day.
DeleteI don't recall the episode you cite.
Hammie clearly knows what to think with.
I was checking out upcoming Iridium flares in my area on the Heavens Above site, looking at the short ground tracks, and wondered: has anyone ever photographed a flare from space, showing a bright dot moving fast over the earth's surface (or cloud cover) from above?
DeleteI just got in from running my errands, but wanted to add my two cents.
ReplyDeleteI agree with QUART – U R A Q T (You are a cutie.)
My comment regarding Isaac Asimov is a reference to his 1941 short story “Reason.” In it, Asimov had a model QT-1 robot, which was nicknamed, “Cutie.”
I grew up reading Asimov's robot stories. What shocked me was to realize that this one was published seven years before I was born. For any Blainiacs who haven't sampled them, I highly recommend Asimov's robot stories. They were way ahead of their time and great fun. The three laws of robotics, and how he worked around them would make any puzzle master proud.
The Robin Williams movie, "I Robot", though fun, did not do justice to the original stories.
ENJOY THEM!
CUBIT (about 18 inches)>>>>ICBUT = I see beauty. Or BUTIC = Beauty, I see.
ReplyDeleteUNIT CUBE>>>ICBUTENU = I see beauty in you.
I have been out of town this last week on holiday.
And thinking outside the hypercube, as usual.
DeleteQUART, U R A Q T
ReplyDeleteMy clue was about Rosie O'Donnell using a made-up rhyme of the longest word in the sentence. Rosie used to use the phrase(and possibly even coined it)"cutie patootie".
I was at a jewelry store once and some guy asked to see a cubit zirconia and they brought one out in a wheel barrel!
ReplyDeleteIf you can wait till early tomorrow (Friday) morning, Puzzleria! will serve up eight puzzles!
ReplyDeleteOur featured “entrée” is an anagram-free offering from skydiveboy – a “topographical” puzzle that involves sly wordplay and requires a sky-high supply of wits.
Also on our menus are three puzzles that “Rip Off Shortz’s” cutie/beauty puzzle. In one of them a young LegoLambda misspells an easy word in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Plus, four more fun puzzles!
LegoAimsToSupplyYourRequiredDailyAmountsOfIronyProteansNuttyRantsButWithMinimalAnagramsOfFatCaloriesOdium
That's right; another of my puzzle creations this week over at Puzzleria! I seriously doubt anyone will be able to top this one.
DeleteMy clue - No tips today (haha) but a near homophone for a 'place' in the news this week - tips was referring to Q-tips and the place in the news this week is a basketball "court" for Lebron and Steph.
ReplyDeleteHere are the titles of the eight puzzles served up on this week's "Joseph Young's Puzzleria!" (see Blaine's "PUZZLE LINKS"):
ReplyDeletePeak-a-Boom! (skydiveboy's puzzle)
The honeydew of victory, the bee-sting of defeat;
Measure for measure, chit for chat;
Wolves shooting off their traps;
Parable of the prodigal pupil;
Winnie the pooh-pooher;
Little emerald men from the crimson planet?
Vinyl B-siding and LP gas'
LegoPleaseisitOurPuzzlers'Paradise
In grade school - I N V U 4 U R A Q T was a way to flirt in code.
ReplyDeleteNext week's challenge from listener Mark Isaak of Sunnyvale, Calif.: Think of a word that means "unfinished." Add one letter at the start and one letter at the end, and you'll get a new word that means the opposite of the first. What words are these?
ReplyDeleteIronically, this one's kind of difficult.
ReplyDeleteDo I have to call the police?
ReplyDeleteI don't think my comment telegraphs the answer.
DeleteDon't let them fence me in!
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ReplyDeleteMusical Clue: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
ReplyDeleteBS2DT as opposed to HC2BS
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