Q: Think of a well-known seven-letter geographical name in a single word that has just two consonants and yet is pronounced in five syllables.I'm seeing a genus of aphids in the anagram.
Edit: First the word "seeing" sounds like the letters CN which are the two consonants. And the word anagrams to ANOECIA, a genus of aphids. Interestingly the reverse, (AICEONA) is also a genus of aphids.
A: OCEANIA
Just 360 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteThat surprised me. How hard is it to search "words that look like they should rhyme but don't"?
DeleteCasablanca isn't close, but it might get you closer.
ReplyDeleteThe place suffered a downgrade.
ReplyDeletePluto? :)
DeleteAny musical clues offered?
DeletePerhaps you missed one.
DeleteThis week I'm afraid to give any clue at all.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the first two and last two letters. You get a word that sounds yummy.
ReplyDeleteWith my answer, which I'm quite certain is correct, I can't come up with a word.
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DeleteI have same answer as Rob.
DeleteIt's not KILAUEA, only 4 syllables, but I have the right answer.
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DeleteI say "ee-oo-rah-see-uh." Some might disagree,
ReplyDeleteIf it is in the dictionary that way, then it has always been said that way.
DeleteAlas, the dictionary goes with your Asia.
DeleteThe location of which is not in dispute.
DeleteOld joke:
DeleteYou are "Russian" into the bathroom.
You come out American.
What are you in the bathroom?
You're - a - peein'
I think this was created on the third day.
ReplyDeleteBy George! I think I've got it!
ReplyDeleteI don't suppose one of my consonants can be a theta...
ReplyDeleteIt's such a beautiful day, I'm going on a long distance hiking and rock climbing adventure carrying my premium bottled water so I don't get dehydrated. Missed the Northern Lights over the weekend, but hope to find something just as magical exploring nature today! Wishing everyone infinite wonderfuls from the universe.
ReplyDelete💧My clue was carrying "premium bottled water"->Fiji (Fiji water is a brand of premium water.💧) Fiji is in Oceania! Also, I inadvertently gave another clue, according to my son Bobby. I mentioned the Northern Lights, and he said the opposite of this would be the Southern Lights or Aurora Australis--and Australia is in Oceania. 🌏🌊
DeleteGreat. I'm gonna be on a regional rail train, a subway, and a city bus, and possibly an escalator. I'm gonna be swallowing my own saliva.
ReplyDeleteThe answer might challenge a unique property of a certain country.
ReplyDeleteAustralia is usually considered the only country that is also a continent. However, when Australia is considered a part of Oceania, Oceania is the continent.
DeleteLandlocked
ReplyDeleteI got an answer that is a solid fit, and I'm sticking with it, but I'm floundering with some of the clues here.
ReplyDeleteChange the last letter to a synonym of the first part of the word to get an airline.
ReplyDeleteWell, sort of.
DeleteThis fits with what I came up with!
DeleteActually, even though your instructions are confus(to vocalise), your clue has (rhymes with a synonym of the last syllable of confus(to vocalise), in plural form).
DeleteI'm Lost.
DeleteI have an answer, and I'm thinking it may be different than what some others have. Mine does not work at all for Rob's clue, unless he's spelling his something yummy in a way that I can't figure out.
ReplyDeleteI can get something yummy with letters 1,2,3, and 5 rearranged.
I think you have the same one. Rob's just *sounds* yummy.
DeleteI'm fairly confident that there aren't any alternative answers this week. I don't get all of the clues, though, so maybe I shouldn't be so confident. Rats.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to Thursday.
DeleteYeah, exactly. That works for my answer, too.
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ReplyDeleteTo be fair and balanced: think of a seven-letter geographical name that has just one vowel.
ReplyDeleteAh, saints preserve us, and here I was thinking it might be Borscht (Belt).
DeleteBorscht is good ... but it only has 4 letters - lessee if this works: Борщ !
DeleteForty years ago.
ReplyDeleteNice!
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DeleteBut different!
DeleteAfter a vigorous session of exercises and shooting baskets—I’ve still got the j—it came to me in the shower.
ReplyDeleteHappy Mother's Day to one and all.
Although I have the answer, I think this is a tough puzzle. (Geography can be a tough category in general.) I do get Rob's clue, but not many of the others -- including, alas, Blaine's. Don't be misled by my two previous comments; they were related to near-misses, not to the actual answer.
ReplyDeleteI understand Blaine's clue. Now I know I have the answer!
DeleteThree consecutive letters phonetically spell the given name of a famous author.
ReplyDeleteThe AI sites are amusing on this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteChatGPT says:
"Amazon" fits your criteria. It's a well-known geographical name, has just two consonants ('m' and 'z'), and is pronounced in five syllables.
Gemini says:
The word you're looking for is Mississippi.
It has seven letters.
It only has two consonants (s and p).
It's pronounced in five syllables (Miss-is-sip-pi).
The weather outside is beautiful and sunny. Since I can't get this puzzle, sunshine calls me. Have a good week all.
ReplyDeleteChat got answer with some clues. I think wording could have been better in the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteJames a Michener
ReplyDeleteThat should say: James A. Michener, but I cannot type on my cell phone accurately. My fingers keep hitting adjacent letters and other problems, so I use the voice feature, and this nonsense is what I get.
Delete... or a genus of hydrozoan.
ReplyDeleteRemove letters 6 and 7, rearrange, and get a form of conveyance you might think of in the context of the geographical name.
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DeleteAh, thank you Dr. K. I know I have submitted the correct response now.
DeleteYou’re welcome, Vandal in Seattle.
DeleteYou've helped me out a number of times. You've helped a lot of people....wish I could return the aid sometime.
DeleteSpeaking of rhymes (from last week), one of the words within the challenge itself rhymes with a word that describes what the answer is.
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of a sign one might see on the street.
ReplyDeleteMaybe in Virginia Beach.
DeleteMen at Work—who sing "Land Down Under"!
DeleteOceana Blvd. is a major thoroughfare in Virginia Beach.
DeleteThis week's puzzle is a riff off the on-air puzzle, which asked for 6-letter, 4-syllable words with just 2 consonants. One of the definitions given was "keen eyesight", the answer being "acuity". A 7-letter, 5 syllable, 2-consonant word with the same meaning is "oxyopia", which, alas, isn't also a geographical name.
ReplyDeleteI usually read the on-air puzzles on the website before listening to the show. "Acuity" was the only one I didn't get. The first word that came to mind for me was "myopia". Despite being obviously wrong, it took up residence in my brain and blocked further thinking.
DeleteHow could I be so obtuse!?
"Acuity" is a better match for "keenness in general", which Will went with after the player blanked on "keen eyesight", which is not a good definition for "acuity". "Keenness of eyesight" would have been better. I'd never heard of "oxyopia" until I started looking for 7-letter, 2-consonant words.
DeletePaul,
DeleteI usually read them first too, but I was camping in Oregon and listened on my car radio. My experience was the opposite of yours. I got "acuity" right away, but I think it was the ONLY one I got. The guest did really well this week.
Just saw Tommy Emmanuel in Gettysburg Friday night. That guy can play guitar. It was a PBS benefit show.
ReplyDeleteI know the clue and it's a good one
DeleteSo, how do you like Tommy compared to Leo Kottke, or Tuck Andress?
Never saw Leo or Tuck live. Tommy did 2+ hours solo. It was a great show.
DeleteFinally got this in a couple minutes based on a couple of hints above.
ReplyDeleteI know I never posted before today, but truthfully, the second thing that came to mind worked for me. Maybe the whole thing took me all of two minutes. (I hate it when I have to give a Sunday Puzzle more time!)
ReplyDeleteIt took me about ten or 15 minutes. The trouble is, by Thursday I have to remind myself what the puzzle was!
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ReplyDeleteWhat’s in a Name?
ReplyDeleteMy daughter sent this to me. I don’t know where she got it.
Without skipping letters or changing letter order, the name, Frederick, contains 8 additional common names within:
Fred
Red
Ed
Deric
Derick
Eric
Erick
Rick
Can anyone think of a name with more internals?
My name computer says:
Delete11: Evangelina
Angel
Angelina
El
Eli
Ev
Eva
Evan
Ina
Lin
Lina
Van
11: Fredericka
Derick
Ed
Eric
Erick
Ericka
Fred
Frederic
Frederick
Red
Ric
Rick
Chuck,
DeleteDid Ric get missed? And too bad about Dick.
My Brooklyn cousin says he wants some more like this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteAs for Dick, there's no skipping letters allowed. The other thing is, what's "common"? I couldn't find a Ric. and several others.
ReplyDeleteWell, fun for those who like a puzzle in between the official puzzles :)
That is why I said, "too bad about Dick." I Googled "Ric" and it came up as a common name in numerous hits.
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ReplyDeleteTest
ReplyDeleteTest Succeeded SDB
ReplyDeleteBen,
DeleteIt did, and it didn't. My PC keeps crashing. I keep getting a red notice that I have no Internet connection on my Yahoo Mail page. It usually goes away, but not this time. I am picking up a new (to me) computer in an hour from now. I got a notification from AVC anti virus yesterday that they are no longer supporting Firefox. So now I have to upgrade my 13 1/2 year old Gateway that is no longer supported either, like my Windows 7. What a wasteful way we are living!
Musical Clue: Rules
ReplyDeleteOCEANIA
ReplyDelete"Landlocked" refers to the IA in OCEANIA which points to landlocked Iowa. It was a purposeful misdirection away from OCEAN.
Oceania
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “Three consecutive letters phonetically spell the given name of a famous author.” “Ean,” pronounced “Ian,” is short for Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books.
1. OCEANIA, (ō′shē-ăn′ē-ə, -ā′nē-ə, -ä′nē-ə)
ReplyDelete2. CAUCAIA, Brazilian Municipality
3. AURELIA, Crater on Venus.
Oceania
ReplyDeleteMy Hint: "James A. Michener"
He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1948 for "Tales of the South Pacific." Later it was made into a musical and also a film version. So, it is also a musical clue.
OCEANIA
ReplyDeleteHint: “the shower”—where I actually did solve it —> water —> ocean —> Oceania
Hint: “Remove letters 6 and 7, rearrange, and get a form of conveyance you might think of in the context of the geographical name.”
Oceania (-ia) —> ocean —> canoe
(Any allusion or reference to "ocean" almost certainly would have been TMI.)
I suspect that Dr. Awkward had a distinct advantage.
And I was surprised there weren’t more Orwellian allusions like Howie Roark’s.
There were!
DeleteE.g., Scarlett's "By George", and my "Rats", and my “This week I'm afraid to give any clue at all.” (As you would be, if you lived in Winston Smith's Oceania.)
Excellent! I missed those.
DeleteThanks Crito for getting my clue. Also Iris Corona wrote "Forty years ago".
DeleteMy hint, that it took two minutes to get the answer, also referred to 1984, as in the Two Minutes Hate.
DeleteI certainly felt I should have gotten it more quickly!
DeleteFret not, Dr. Awkward. You did, after all, get it.
DeleteHowever, in my comment above I meant Iris Corona’s hint, not Howie Roark’s. But of even greater consternation is my having missed Scarlett’s, Crito’s, and Nodd’s Orwellian hints. Mortification doesn't quite cover it. I guess the synapses just weren’t firing.
Dr. K, I feel your pain. Admittedly, I didn't get Crito's or Nodd's hints. Now that they've been pointed out, I see them clearly.
DeleteI wrote, “Rearrange the first two and last two letters. You get a word that sounds yummy.” That’s CIAO which sounds like
ReplyDeleteCHOW.
OCEANIA
ReplyDelete> ... or a genus of hydrozoan.
Oceania armata, another weird fellow earthling
This week's Puzzleria! features our friend Nodd. His "Nodd ready for prime time" puzzle package (“A Nodd Is As Shrewd As A Sphinx” Appetizer) contains puzzles titled "Politics A to Z, Best S[up]porting Actors, Common Usage, Anagrammatic Actresses, Fab Four Frivolities, Poetry Corner by Anna Graham."
ReplyDeleteWe upload P! later today, certainly before Midnight PDT.
Also on our menus this week:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled Punishment for the “punnish?”
* a Tutti Frutti Hors d’Oeuvre titled "Be fruitful and 'Air Supply!'”
* an Idiomatic Slice titled “Wholly Troubling Trinity”
* a “Goes ‘Round A’buttin’” Dessert titled “This is your song...” and
* ten riffs of this week's NPR challenge titled "Sippin’ Schweppes in Oceania" (including one by a friend of Puzzleria! and SIX by Nodd!)
That means you get treated to a dozen Nodd puzzles!
LegoAnOceaniac
OCEANIA
ReplyDeleteI posted Musical Clue: Rules hinting at the ubiquitous phrase from my teen years: Led Zep Rules.
But I didn't dare post Led Zeppelin in plaintext, since The Ocean is such a great song.
OCEANIA
ReplyDeleteOceania
ReplyDeleteMy clue was "By George! I think I've got it!" Oceania was one of the superstates in George Orwell's 1984.
ReplyDeleteIf theta can be one of the consonants, then Ethiopia.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was going to submit, that or Nigeria, or Illyria. Nothing seemed to fit perfectly, but place names in Africa or overseas seemed ripe. Congratulations on the ones that solved it. But it's not a familiar term in my vocabulary, outside of high school literature classes in Or rwell. I's Oceania in the UN? Do people from Australia, Hawaii, the Philippines, Marshall Islands, Indonesia or any other Asian or Pacific Islander,etc ever refer to themselves generically or jocularly as"Oceanian?". It seems a term dripping with colonialism and occidental supremacy.
DeleteRelax, it's just a term of convenience. You want to really ignite a civil war, try pinning down the exact border of North and South Jersey, the precise point where pork roll gives way to Taylor ham.
DeleteYeah, it's not a nation, it doesn't have official borders, etc. But 'oceania' is definitely the name of a place!
DeleteJan, I once lived in Central NJ, in the borderlands...
Ah, pork roll! The perfect combination of salt, fat, and meat!
DeleteYou can start the same civil war if you ask whether such a thing as Central Jersey even exists.
DeleteSure. But the question is: pork roll or Taylor Ham? Gotta choose sides.
DeleteTomR's reference to Tommy Emmanuel was a timely nod to Australia, where TE is from, and, which is also considered to be in Oceania, the answer to the puzzle. My inquiry about Leo and Tuck was purely out of interest.
ReplyDeleteChatgpt solved Blaine's clue in 2 seconds. Answer: Anoecia.
ReplyDeleteOCEANIA
ReplyDeleteMy clues:
Replying to a comment by Lancek:
If it [Eurasia] is in the dictionary that way, then it has always been said that way.
Alluding to the notion that, in George Orwell’s “1984,” if Oceania is at war with Eurasia, then it has always been at war with Eurasia.
The location of which is not in dispute.
Alluding to the fact that the real-world Oceania and Orwell’s fictional Oceania encompass completely different territories.
Similarly, replying to a comment by Iris Corona:
But different!
Again, real-world vs. fictional Oceania.
Maybe the whole thing took me all of two minutes. (I hate it when I have to give a Sunday Puzzle more time!)
A reference to the “two-minute hate,” a recurring propaganda tool in Orwell’s “1984.” (Also, in the sentence before that, I said “truthfully.” I was thinking about the Ministry of Truth there.)
I also thought about posting:
Literary reference: Huxley? Bradbury? Or…? Well, never mind.
But that would probably have been TMI.
Oceania 🌏
ReplyDeleteOceania
ReplyDeleteSorry to be late. Just got home.
Re my, “Casablanca,” comment. Australia is the biggest country in Oceania, and Sydney its largest city. Sydney Greenstreet, at over 350 pounds, was the largest actor/costsr in Casablanca.
"I can get something yummy with letters 1,2,3, and 5 rearranged." That, of course, is CONE, as in ice cream cone!
ReplyDeleteNo one mentioned Ualapue on Molokai. It's quite prominent when you scroll over the Hawaiian Islands on Google Earth (which I did when I got stuck). Admittedly, the population is only 393, so "well known" would be a stretch.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBUalapu%CA%BBe,_Hawaii
This week's challenge comes from the noted crossword constructor and editor Peter Gordon. Think of a famous film with a three-word title (six letters in the first word, three letters in the second, and four letters in the last), in which the first and last words are rhymes for consecutive numbers. What movie is it?
ReplyDeleteActually, two films, 35 years apart.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to find a website that provides the answer directly.
ReplyDeletetwo easy
ReplyDeleteAlso a sitcom.
ReplyDelete870 correct entries last week.
ReplyDelete870 correct entries for the Oceania puzzle.
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