I could claim credit for this puzzle based on something I wrote several years back.Q: Name two parts of the human body. Say them out loud one after the other. The result, phonetically, will name something delicious to eat, in 7 letters. What is it?
Edit: I used BROW, KNEE (BROWNIE) as a hint to a previous puzzle involving body parts.
A: BROW, KNEE (BROWNIE)
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.
Great job, Blaine! You've earned your fame.
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DeleteThe girls might have an advantage over the guys this week.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, body parts and something delicious to eat? I hope we are not talking about cannibalism this week.
ReplyDeleteOr even carnivory. Many people like to eat rib-eyes, but that's not much of a puzzle.
DeleteFatback wouldn't be a good answer either.
ReplyDeleteTV clue: Barney Miller
As puzzles go, this one's sort of bush-league.
ReplyDeleteMusical clue: 10,000 Maniacs
DeleteKatrina's Fair is a deep cut from 10,000 Maniacs' days as an upstate-NY college band.
DeleteWarning: parts of tulips are poisonous.
ReplyDeleteIf you are persistent the right internet search can help.
I have 2 other answers besides the intended, one requires a little faith. The other is a holy mackerel.
Canadian earthquake.
ReplyDeleteAnd many happy returns.
Deleteeco, is that a P S ?
DeleteI think you are hinting at something below the surface? I'm obscure, but not that hard. I may have misinterpreted your Canadian earthquake, or I may have out-obscured you in my response. Which would make me very happy.
DeleteThe truth will out on Thursday.
Yes, indeed, eco. I look forward to your out-obscuration on Thursday.
DeleteI think I know what WW is hinting at, but when I Google "earthquake" and the food, I get a hit that points to the United Arab Emirates, rather than Canada.
Deletejan, color me intrigued!
DeleteJan, I went to the same place, thence my response.
DeleteClearly we are on the wrong track, but to borrow from last week it is hard to follow The Scent of a Word Woman.
Technically speaking, does one eat gumballs?
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ReplyDeleteI cannot speak to the taste but I know some people love the smell of "nape palm" in the morning. I also have to thank Jean for help on this one.
ReplyDeleteGot it thanks to my photographic memory.
ReplyDeleteHip eyes - yeah I'm talking 'bout you.
ReplyDeleteMucus?
ReplyDeleteMew cuss
DeleteLegoBelieves'SnotNaughtyToMewBut'SnotNiceToCuss
Eco's comment about this puzzle's possible gender bias didn't give away the answer, but it did lead me to the right general area. I really wanted LASH to work. Mucus is GOOey; that's the best I could do.
DeleteBlaine: Yes you certainly could claim credit!
ReplyDeleteA little tricky.
ReplyDeleteThese aren't high on my list. --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteas in - I don't put MJ in my brownies!
DeleteMargaret, I don't put Mendo Jim in my brownies, either.
DeleteThe delicious food isn't found in an "eyes chest."
ReplyDeleteThe queen might dispute this
DeleteI found an unintended answer when combining a facial part and a woman’s body part (I’m deciding not to print here). Then I got the intended answer.
ReplyDeleteWW - I’m hoping my unintended answer places me high on your list of clues.
DeleteSnipper, I hope so, too. As I don't know your answer yet, though, I'm thinking it may not be suitable for Sunday morning?
DeleteThe woman’s body part (shortened) will be known to Seinfeld fans. If that’s your flavor of sitcom.
DeleteAnd yes, it’s not suitable for Sunday morning.
DeleteSnipper, could your alternate answer also be slang for books that "consist of heroine-centered narratives that focus on the trials and tribulations of their individual protagonists?"
DeleteClose. You got the 2nd part! The first part is the singular of a classic movie.
DeleteAh, got it. The movie is very popular this time of year. Clever. It makes the list.
DeleteThere's also one clue above to the actual answer that is oh so good. More on Thursday (but not Moron Thursday.
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ReplyDeleteI did not intend for my hint to be so "on the nose". Oops! If I gave it away, my bad. :(
DeleteActually, I wondered if you were thinking of palmiers (which if said without a French accent might be a combination of PALM-EARS). --Margaret G.
DeleteSpeaking of duckboats, I saw several of these duckboats near lakes in northern AR, just south of Branson. (There is a hint in there.)
ReplyDeleteBefore we eat, will we have time for a cocktail?
ReplyDeleteJean,
ReplyDeleteI know you didn't mean this to happen, but as soon as I read your post, the answer popped into my head.
Sorry, Clark!
DeleteOh, finally I got it. Not a bad puzzle. Extract the middle three letters to get another food.
ReplyDeleteSome say it's delicious; I don't know from personal experience.
DeleteI don't know that I've ever tasted BRIE; if I did, I either didn't know what it was or didn't care enough to remember it. So, I have no opinion of my OWN about how delicious it is or isn't.
DeleteNo unused clues in the on air challenge this week.
ReplyDeleteOh, it is something delicious! No clue here, just, mmmmm!
ReplyDeleteAlthough knitting can be tricky.
DeleteSdb:!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder about your last comment. Maybe unaware.
DeleteOn Sunday SDB was very proud of his being nice to WW, and announced he was going back to being naughty. He is entirely aware.
DeleteAnd I strongly suggest you don't look too carefully at the dialog between Snipper and WW above; they make SDB look like a he graduated charm school ....
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ReplyDeleteWell that took longer than needed. I should have tumbled to it much sooner.
ReplyDeleteToo bad I can't play the banjo, come to think of it.
ReplyDeleteSurprised that I remembered something from 4/16/2017. An old chestnut.
ReplyDeleteAs a stretch, I liked a kin to a French baba.
Jim Carrey
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ReplyDeleteThis puzzle reminds me of ancient Chinese proverb:
ReplyDeleteMan with one chopstick go hungry
To paraphrase Warren Zevon: Things to do in Denver with the dead.
ReplyDeleteCranberry’s, “Barney Miller,” clue, which brought to mind Detective Fish, had me headed in the wrong direction for the longest time. It was a heck of a job of misdirection.
ReplyDeleteI did have to come up with the answer "crawfish" for a type of pie on this week's Puzzleria!, and then change it to "raw fish". Neither one I would consider delicious, though.
DeleteThat would depend on whether you are a fan of sashimi, which is the name of one of our Siamese cats.
DeleteNot to wax philosophical or take a potshot at the puzzle creator, but “delicious” is too subjective.
ReplyDeleteI never met anyone that didn't like the answer.
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DeleteI have turned it down too...but not because it wasn't delicious.
DeleteI bet we all know of someone who doesn't like them.
DeleteThe controversy over deliciousness, ironically, usually comes down to whether or not you include body parts.
DeleteAre you saying you don't like nuts in your brownies?
DeleteYup. And cinnamon buns are better without raisins. Chacun a son gout.
DeleteI'm going to guess the deleted comment had something to do with Sara Lee.
DeleteFollowing Seattle's lead, today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will be taking a straw vote on whether to ban plastic straws.
ReplyDeleteAnd on the day when the Giants are in town play the Mariners.
Delete"to" play...
DeleteSDB: I imagine they will use paper straws for the vote too.
DeleteThat would suck!
DeleteAnd a very good game it was. Again this afternoon, but with the only TV in San Francisco on Facebook of all places.
DeleteKatharine Hepburn
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone here have an explanation of why every headline and story about the Duckboat tragedy uses the term "capsize" when there are no witness claims, videos or photos of it's doing so?
ReplyDeleteNo explanation here, from the videos I've seen, I would have described it as being "swamped".
DeleteThe other day, in a news interview with an "expert", the expert pronounced a bilge pump failure as a "billage" pump failure.
NO WORRIES.
DeleteMy cap size is 7. I hope that helps.
DeleteI heard the "billage" comment too, and was amazed until it occurred to me that the Duck Boat franchise owner might have stashed his bills down below by the bilge pump, which caused it to clog up and fail due to billage.
Brow & Knee > Brownie
ReplyDeleteBROW, KNEE >>>BROWNIE
ReplyDelete“Canadian earthquake” refers to the BROWNIES I use to represent the stable craton of Canada in an earthquake; a similar pan of jello represents Haiti. {The kids then eat the experiment after making earthquake-proof structures from mini-marshmallows and toothpicks.} I was talking about P and S waves in earthquakes but I'm not sure what jan and eco were talking about in the discussion that followed.
“Speaking of duckboats, I saw several of these duckboats near lakes in northern AR, just south of Branson. (There is a hint in there.)“ Not only is AR the abbreviation for Arkansas, it is also the initials for Andy Rooney, of famous eyeBROW fame.
My favorite clue is Margaret G's "These are not high on my list" as in pot BROWNIES.
"Jim Carrey" is for the French carré, meaning square, as in BROWNIE squares.
I figured out your P and S waves, hence my "below the surface" reply, which is the third type of seismic wave.
DeleteBut I never took your class, so didn't know about your "treat"ment of seismic events. I thought you were talking about Dairy Queen's Oreo® Brownie Earthquake. If you type Canadian earthquake brownie in Google, that site from the UAE is first, and not far down is a web page about the loss of that yummy treat from Canada. Kind of nauseating.
My "many happy returns" was a reference to DQ's "soft serve" ice cream; for me at least soft serves in tennis/ volleyball/ racquetball yield happy returns, or at least not flubbing it completely.
I also liked Dave's "photographic memory" post.
Deleteeco, that brownie earthquake photo makes my teeth hurt.
DeleteI thought I'd posted about seismic brownies and jello over at PEOTS before. You can now see some photos HERE at the end of the post, just above the first comment.
Slightly familiar, I trust your memory more than mine about previous postings. I'll post over there about the current technology in "earthquake-proof structures"; though there is actually no such thing.
DeleteBROW + KNEE BROWNIE
ReplyDeleteMy comment, regarding, “…a heck of a job of misdirection.” Was a play on George W. Bush’s comment during the Hurricane Katrina cleanup to then FEMA head, Michael Brown, “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
"The girls might have an advantage over the guys this week." Anyone here a Brownie before they were a Girl Scout?
ReplyDelete"If you are persistent the right internet search can help." Not Google or Duckduckgo, but merely searching on this blog for "body part" would have brought up many puzzles, including Dec 28, 2014, which had Blaine's note about brow-knee/ brownie. So technically Blaine's comment was a potential giveaway, but it's not for me to say.
"I have 2 other answers besides the intended, one requires a little faith. The other is a holy mackerel." Qi-toes --> Cheetos (many Asian philosophies and religions believe Qi is part of the body) and boney-toes --> bonitos, part of the mackerel family.
"I bet we all know of someone" (perhaps part of Cult 45) who has used that racist term to describe dark-skinned people.
I misinterpreted. I figured girls would know more about cosmetics and such, which led me to eyelashes and eventually eyebrows.
DeleteSee my comments above.
BROW + KNEE = BROWNIE
ReplyDelete> Great job, Blaine! You've earned your fame.
I couldn’t very well have said, \"You’re doing a heckuva job\", could I? “Fame” is an anagram of FEMA. And “earned” hinted at Brownie points.
I was thinking of an alternate answer. It may be a stretch but how about:
ReplyDeleteRUMP EYES
RUM PIES
It just depends if the final answer has to be singular or plural. Here's an example. There are other flavors, too!
I also came up with rump eyes > rum pies. And I wanted Chin Knees > Chinese to work. I tried Abalone too.
DeleteMy clue was: "To paraphrase Warren Zevon: Things to do in Denver with the dead."
ReplyDeleteOr more accurately, Things to do in Denver with the (Grateful) Dead. As in eating marijuana brownies. Colorado was one of the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. Marijuana Brownies are a favorite consumable.
Colorado was the first.
DeleteIf I remember correctly both Washington and Colorado legalized it at the same time, but WA took longer to implement the law.
DeleteThat's correct. CO implemented the law in January 2014 and WA implemented it 6 months later.
DeleteAt the risk of a pot-ential war between the states: WA legalized recreational use Dec 6, 2012, 4 days before CO. But California legalized medicinal use way back in 1996 by voter referendum.
DeleteNot sure why it took CA so long to legalize recreational use, but I know the police around here hadn't done any enforcement for many, many years. I wish more folks would use brownies, the smell of joints reminds me of my art teacher's office.
WW, SDB, Eco,
DeleteNow you see why I said one of the first. ;~)
I am pretty sure that Colo. were the first to have shops with recreational pot for sale.
It looks like the pot is calling the kettle brown(ie).
DeleteWho nose why olfactory workers smell?
ReplyDeleteBROW + KNEE → BROWNIE
ReplyDelete“You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie!” Bush's comment about Michael Brown, the Bush Appointee as Director of FEMA. Bush league puzzle!
Snipper's “unintended answer": JAW BUST EARS → JAWBUSTERS?
How about chocolate?
DeleteI was really hoping that was NOT Snipper's answer.
DeleteThen there are books about street chalk art, too, right?
DeleteChalk Lit
My hints:
ReplyDeleteNYT XWD 4/16/17 96 acr: "BROWNIE" clue for "girl scout"
Kin to a French baba(au rhum): RUMP and EYE: RHUM PIE
My unintended answer referenced above (on Sunday) - though it is 9 letters - is my favorite flavor of brownies.
ReplyDeleteHow about toe-footie and tofutti? ("Footie" is a body part to quite a few small children.)
ReplyDeleteCreative answer there Efrem!!
DeleteYes - very cute - I like it! --Margaret G.
DeleteBROW+KNEE=BROWNIE
ReplyDeleteMy "Barney Miller" clue referred to an episode in which Wojo's then-girlfriend made some BROWNIES laced with hashish, which many of the cops at the 12th Precinct had tried with hilarious results(most notably Yemana, who occasionally went up to the others and "whispered" in their ear, "Mweeshy mweeshy!"). Luckily, Barney didn't try any, so he must have figured something was up.
My banjo comment was in reference to the line from "O Susanna": "I come from Alabama with a banjo on my KNEE."
Actually being from Alabama, I just couldn't resist.
Judging from previous posts, I see quite a few of us went for the "heckuva job" line from former President(Dubya)Bush. Great minds think alike. BTW Snipper, I figured out what body parts you put together for your unintended answer, and you should be ashamed of yourself(funny as it was)!
No, I don't see any reason to be ashamed. They are both human body parts (though one is a shortened version of the term.)
DeleteWe entered Brownie too but thought of another alternate answer we do not see here: earhead, like Airhead the candy.
ReplyDeleteAttention Blainesvillians:
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Decided right off that the food was going to end in either:
ReplyDelete1. toes as in tomatoes, potatoes, burritos...
2. knees as in weenies, coneys, brownies...
Canny solving approach, Mort Canard. I'll bet you solve a great majority of Will Shortz's NPR puzzles.
ReplyDeleteLegoWhoSolvesAGreatMinorityOfWillShortz'sPuzzles
Buck Bard,
ReplyDeleteYou make a great and very insightful point. When I am constructing my puzzles over on Puzzleria!, one of my toughest tasks is to determine just the right wording and amount of information to reveal to make the puzzle "not too hard and not too soft, but juuust riiight!"
LeGoldilocksWhoBearsTheWeightOfEnigmatologyOnHisShoulders!
legolamda,
ReplyDeleteI solve more of the puzzles since I joined this blog. Not so much from the clues, although that sometimes points me in the right direction. I find that I am encouraged to keep working on the puzzle rather than wait till next Sunday to fine out what the answer is.
Next week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Mark Oshin of Portland, Ore. Think of a familiar two-word phrase in 8 letters — with 4 letters in each word. The first word starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you'll get a regular 8-letter word, which, amazingly, other than the M, doesn't share any sounds with the original two-word phrase. What phrase is it?
ReplyDeleteOnly 400 correct answers this week. It wasn't that easy.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I want to give this one my stamp of approval.
ReplyDeleteI'm not at all sure, either.
DeleteI wouldn't exactly call it a "regular" 8-letter word. I'm definitely more familiar with the two-word phrase than the word it becomes.
ReplyDeleteJust saw this after being on holidays... Although I agree with the correct answer, I submitted calf+ear = kefir and since kefir is pronounced rightly as ke-FEAR, I thought this was a decent answer.
ReplyDeleteWhoops. I took the 7 letters to be the formation of the word. Never mind!
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