I guess it can be considered a word that describes the item.Q: Name something grown in a garden. Change the second letter, and double the third letter, to get an adjective that describes this thing. What is it?
A: RADISH --> REDDISH
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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.
Blaine, is that vegetable cake pic a stock photo, or is it from a family album? (I've seen enough of your Christmas videos to be familiar with your artistry.)
DeleteIt was a cake we made for my mother a few years back.
DeleteI dig it! Stunning cake artistry.
DeleteBeautiful! That's my kind of carrot cake.
DeleteHowlin' Wolf.
ReplyDeleteNice one. Top of the morning to ya as well!
DeleteMove the first 2 letters to the end and append a letter to get something you might find in the kitchen.
ReplyDeletethanks, that confirms my answer. I don't find this one very satisfying! --Margaret G.
DeleteAgreed on both counts. But, at least we're at the finish line.
DeleteI'm with Margaret as well. "Thanks, but no thanks," in a sense.
Deleteyou can also append two letters to the end to get another thing you might find in the kitchen.
DeleteAnswer submitted. This didn't take long. 😎
ReplyDeleteIs it something Wolgang Puck would have cooked?
DeletePuck if I know ;-)
DeleteThe answer pool could be back to four digits this week. I am reminded of a classic quote from Marx.
ReplyDeleteEasy enough...
ReplyDeleteThis adjective sometimes describes me.
ReplyDeleteAfter falling off the wagon and not doing the puzzle for almost 3 months, returned this week to an easy one.
ReplyDeleteYams are yumms :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a lolly lily.
DeleteYou might find the answer in a green glen
DeleteSimilar to some fellow bloggers last week, I only just solved this puzzle after my wife read it to me out loud.
ReplyDeleteThe word pair was used in an on-air puzzle within the past decade.
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ReplyDeleteSometimes the adjective doesn't describe the growing thing at all.
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DeleteThink of something you may have in your closet. Remove an "e". Hope this helps. God bless.
ReplyDeletehad a hard tim submitting this ans.
ReplyDeleteI have never felt so sure that I'm going to win the competition.
ReplyDeleteRADISH, REDDISH
Deletewith Marzipan's radish, we're gonna win the competition!
https://youtu.be/ey1lxyLzpyI
Too bad, suet is close enough to be sweet. Cows grow fat in a garden…right?
ReplyDelete18
ReplyDeleteLooks like it's not ROSET/RUSSET. Also probably not POSY ...
ReplyDeleteLettuce hope not.
DeleteAnd what type of salad do newlyweds order on their honeymoon?
DeleteI'm not sure what type of salad but I'm sure it has very little dressing. :)
DeleteI thought a Honeymoon Salad was Lettuce Alone!
Delete:-)
DeleteI have an interesting WRONG answer. Feet are planted in a garden. Change the first "e" to an "l" double the second, to get fleet, which could describe feet. Unfortunately feet are not "grown" in a garden.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about this all wrong. Think I'll take a different route.
ReplyDeleteYou've been had, sir.
DeleteGood one, Dr. K!
DeleteI'm lost. Why am I "had"?
DeletePatience: a virtue.
DeleteChange one letter in the growing thing and rearrange to get a Harry Potter character (no, not Professor Sprout)!
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of RADISH to RADIGH to HAGRID...this may not be a very Potterish forum! :)
DeleteYes, I got this right away (my children were avid Potter fans), but I thought I'd give someone else the satisfaction of a public solution.
DeleteA change of pace from Tennyson, at any rate!
Delete"Peanuts" is not the answer, though there is a "Charlie Brown" connection.
ReplyDeleteYes. That’s what they are called in Danish.
Delete(Charlie Brown had a hopeless crush on an unseen little red-haired girl.)
DeleteWhat did Jack and the Beans talk about anyway?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of beans and [fee, fie, fo, fum] Englishmen, I learned about beaning during the part of "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" I didn't sleep through.
DeleteA mom and pop grocery got their license suspended for 30 days recently for selling canned beans to a minor and not checking I.D.
DeleteAt least they open the cans first! In the good ole days we threw eggs. Now I'm gonna be like an egg and beet it. :)
DeleteThe grown thing was actually the first item that came to mind….but, being a notoriously poor speller, I missed an easy solve.
ReplyDeleteI first thought of Soylent Green, but it is not grown in a garden.
ReplyDeleteDoes this week's challenge come from listener Rachel Cole or Rachel Coleslaw?
ReplyDeleteIn case you may have missed my post Friday:
ReplyDeleteUtah police have released the full bodycam recording of Gabby Petito and her fiance, Brian Laundrie being pulled over a month ago. The tape is 1:17:38 long. This is a rare instance of police airing dirty Laundrie in public.
SDB: Surprised the police did not explore further after they left.
DeleteExplore what further?
DeleteMake sure ok. Follow up visit.
DeleteThey just found her body in Grand Teton National Park.
DeleteYeah, a couple of hours ago, but they are not saying anything about how she may have died. I suspect they want to keep this secret. It is ridiculous how the cops keep saying he is not a suspect, but a person of interest. He has been the primary, and only, suspect since the beginning. It will be interesting to find out the cause of death, and if it indicates foul play. It could be lots of scenarios, but I doubt we will find much more out for a while.
DeleteIn that video his face was scratched. He said his fiance did it. But don't know why.
DeleteWell I got it...in spite of how many people early on said it was easy. I'm embarrassed.
ReplyDeleteI once grew this in a garden in grammar school
ReplyDeleteme too, the seed packets said Rarin' to grow w/ pix of bucking horse but the 40 acres we had were such poor soil that when we tried to sell + move to town an old VT farmer came by took on look at the red fescue growing in the fields and left immediately. Needless to say the were no largr than thstms sthygrw on
DeleteWhat happened to your mule?
Deletemy old man was an air traffic controller at BTV who bought a 49 ford pickup and tried to grow potatoes in sandy lake Champlain soil. 30 years later you could still see where rows were plowed. he went back to his main hobby, draining a case of beer on his days off. the radishes we kids grew were 1 mm in diameter
DeleteBlaine, the descriptive adjective is a real word.
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DeleteRight, but is it covering?
DeleteIf I have the right answer, phrasing the words as a question could be the first line of a very bad poem.
ReplyDeleteEric T, I guess that's kinda cool.
DeleteI have no clue this week.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lie.
Delete"This week" is my clue. [Because This Week With George Stephanopoulos is co-anchored by Martha Whatshername.]
My method of solving got me answer in 2 seconds
ReplyDeleteThe two words together would be a great name for a horticultural Super Hero.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Google Image agrees with Blaine.
Take the item grown in a garden. Shift all of the letters to one later in the alphabet (like last week's puzzle). Rearrange to get a nautical command.
ReplyDeleteThe same item?
DeleteYes, the same item.
DeleteCannot wait to see the answer.
Delete[If she gives the answer away before Thursday, Blaine'll spanker...]
DeleteJan: I meant after Thursday. My answer does not work and I am pretty sure I have the designated answer.
DeleteI was just letting JAWS know that I understood their hint.
DeleteJan: So you got her answer? I was one letter too short.
DeleteSet Jib
DeleteThis one took me too long, and I must have not been thinking when I was consulting lists. I wasn't thinking when I was taking the dogs for a walk this evening, but the answer just came to me then. The thing grown in a garden may be connected to a mammal.
ReplyDeleteThe puzzle is Eurocentric. Look up the thing grown in the garden on Wikipedia -- the adjective does not always work.
ReplyDeleteIt may not work in the Far East, but it's more than Eurocentric. We use it here
DeleteThe red radish we are used to seeing in our salads is called the European radish -- at least on wikipedia.
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ReplyDeleteOops
DeleteYesterday's post seems to have disappeared - so I'll try again.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of some pretty popular TV skits.
Movie clue: An old favorite, Medium Cool.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a Bugs Bunny episode.
ReplyDeleteFiguring this out will take some gardening experiences
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle is kind of awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe puzzle is rad-ish.
Deletepuzz rlatd to riddl and 2, 269 (that's a prime)
ReplyDelete538= 2* 269 538.com Riddler was how to bake a radish pie
Deletebird: New keyboards are really cheap
ReplyDeleteso is my sense of humor
Deletehttp://davesainsbury.com/hit-any-key-to-continue/
pulling the keyboard out of laptop sms difficult. Wireless auxiliary keyboard would probably work
Deleteeither that or use the rubber mallet
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ReplyDeleteI suddenly feel full of whimsy.
ReplyDeleteFry, Clyde, Bun & Gun
ReplyDeleteLegoWhoObservesThat"IncapableOfBeingSeen"IsWhat_________ _____
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ReplyDeleteI’m embarrassed that I didn’t even try to solve this until today
ReplyDeleteI have been known to roast this garden product. Yeah, I know, right?
ReplyDeleteThe name of the thing grown could also be a term for someone who’s almost good enough to compete in the X Games
ReplyDeleteRADISH, REDDISH
ReplyDelete"18" >>> Radish is a diploid species having 18 chromosomes.
"Agreed on both counts. But, at least we're at the finish line." >>> as in RACE ME to the finish. A radish will grow in a cluster known as a RACEME.
"Eric T, I guess that's kinda cool." KINDA COOL = RAD-ISH
RADISH —> REDDISH
ReplyDeleteMy hint: “Howlin’ Wolf.” Chester Burnett, better known as Howlin’ Wolf, recorded “Oh, Red!!” in 1952 and in 1961 recorded the first version of Willie Dixon’s blues standard, “The Red Rooster.”
My reply to Word Whisker, “You’ve been had, sir,” included in its final 2 words an anagram of “radish.”
Now I get it ..very clever! My comment about taking a different route was supposed to be for people who pronounce "route" as "root". Radish is root. (O-true)
DeleteRADISH → REDDISH
ReplyDeleteReddish Radishes are certainly appealing...
RADISH, REDDISH
ReplyDelete> I'm guessing 625–740 this week.
Light with a wavelength of 625-740 nm is REDDISH
> The word pair was used in an on-air puzzle within the past decade.
On September 29, 2013:
WILL SHORTZ: Every answer today is a made-up two-word phrase in which the first word has two or more syllables. The first vowel sound in the first word is a short E. Change that short E to a short A and phonetically you'll get the second word of the phrase. For example, if I said energetic backwoods father, you would say peppy pappy. . . .
. . .
SHORTZ: Hot tasting salad ingredient with a slightly crimson hue. . . .
CARLA FINK: REDDISH RADISH.
> Movie clue: An old favorite, Medium Cool.
Or, as we might say now, RAD-ISH.
RADISH (AtoE+D) = REDDISH
ReplyDeleteRADISH, which is sometimes REDDISH
ReplyDeleteIf you take all of the letters and advance them one further in the alphabet, RADISH becomes SBEJTI, which can be rearranged to SET JIB.
Someone who is almost rad enough to compete is rad-ish
ReplyDeleteRadish - Reddish
The Marxian quote that I referenced is from the movie Horsefeathers.
ReplyDeleteConnie (Thelma Todd): Oh, Professor, you're so full of whimsy.
Professor Wagstaff (Groucho): Can you notice it from there? I'm always that way after I eat radishes.
Not only is it funny, but it avoids the facile scapegoating of legumes.
Sorry for stepping on your line--when you hinted at Marx I started thinking of opiates, poppies and other items, none of which fit. By the time I came up with radish and quoted "Horsefeathers" to hint at it I had forgotten your reference to Marx. You got there first and did it better.
DeleteNo problemo, Italo Svevo!
DeleterpRADISH….REDDISH
ReplyDeleteI’d have solved faster if I hadn’t initially spelled RADISH…..RADDISH. Ooops
RADISH — REDDISH
ReplyDeleteMy clue: This didn't take long.
Radishes can be ready for harvesting in as little time as 18 days.
I wrote, “The thing grown in a garden may be connected to a mammal.” That horseradish.
ReplyDeleteRADISH>>>>REDDISH
ReplyDeleteradish, reddish
ReplyDeleteradish --> reddish
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “Reminds me of some pretty popular TV skits.” Anybody else remember Red Skelton and Red Buttons?
Circa 1996, when my child was 12, I had an accident at home one night (something not too dire, but requiring stitches) and took him with me to the ER. Another patient, in the next cubicle was a young man who'd been struck by something thrown from a car. He was giving a statement to a policeman, and described the passenger in the car as "A reddish white man, like a Mexican." My child looked at me and asked "Is he saying 'radish'?"
ReplyDeleteTalking about the puzzle Sunday, my now-adult child recalled the occasion and said that at that time, he'd never heard a person described as "reddish", in addition to not being used to different vernaculars.
Interesting story because I do not understand how this cop could possibly perceive Mexicans as being at all of a red tint. That being said, I do know several Mexicans who are well read.
DeleteNOTE: I was camping in Eastern Oregon and did not even try to come up with a hint this week. Wonderful sunny, blue sky weather and no smoke.
It was not the cop who said it, it was the injured young man, who was African-American. It seemed that he was working with the vocabulary he had.
DeleteAnother nearby patient was learning, in the presence of his mother, that he had an STI. It was an educational evening for my child.
On Tuesday I posted this hint:
ReplyDeleteFry, Clyde, Bun & Gun
LegoWhoObservesThat"IncapableOfBeingSeen"IsWhat_________ ____
The group French Frith Kaiser Thompson's second album was entitled "Invisible Means," which are the two words that belong in the blanks in my sign off...
French Fry,
Frith (sic) of Clyde,
Kaiser Bun,
Thompson (submachine) Gun
LegoWhoSays"NowWeAllKnowWhatInvisibleMeans"
This week's Puzzleria! features three beautiful conundrums created by our multitalented friend Mathew Huffman:
ReplyDelete1 one involving a noun is associated with relaxation and as a verb is associated with tension,
2 a second featuring a European artist and ‘80s sitcom, and
3 a third puzzle that ponders a female member of royalty.
Also on our menu:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week about an effortless coupet,
* a "Camelotical" Slice,
* a "mendacious" Dessert, and
* seven riff-offs, titled "Radiant reddish radishes in red dishes," of NPR's Sunday Puzzle.
Come for the mendacity, stay for the puzzles!
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RADISH, REDDISH, whatevs.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I clued this one, can't remember.
Why do vegetarians take baths?
ReplyDeleteTo get their Shortz wet?
DeleteTo avoid meteor showers.
DeleteThat's actually not too bad - more of a grinner than a groaner.
DeleteAgreed. Verily, skydiveboy hath spun bounteous amounts of such Web-worthy wordplay on this blog over the years.
DeleteLegoCobwebbily
While I am most grateful for the kind words I want you to know I am still holding out for a Pulitzer Prize.
DeleteNot worthy of Will.
ReplyDeleteRadish/Reddish. Some are also greenish, whitish, and purplish.
ReplyDeleteMy clue - “….after my wife read it to me”. Read = Red
ReplyDeleteAn Amtrak passenger train derailing on a flat and straight part of Montana raises numerous questions, not least of which is, will I get my penny back?
ReplyDeleteA little macabre, sdb, but maybe the first chuckle I've gotten from one of your jokes
DeleteThis week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Dan Pitt of Palo Alto, Calif. Take the common abbreviation for a major American city. Insert it inside an airport code for that city. And you'll name a flower. What flower is it?
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ReplyDeleteAnother one where it will take me longer to come up with a decent clue than it did to solve.
ReplyDeleteHere's a separate "puzzle," with about 16 minutes left to solve it: What is the on-air challenge?
ReplyDeleteThey inadvertently put next week's challenge again, instead of explaining the on-air challenge. So is each Spanish word supposed to anagram to the name of something botanical in English?
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/26/1040699335/sunday-puzzle-spanish-anagrams
DeleteI think the Spanish word just anagrams to a common English word.
DeleteRight you are. I am feeling like a "SOLER" already. 😉
DeleteA recent "news" event is relevant.
ReplyDelete260 correct responses this week.
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