Change the last letter of the dinner entree to the letter directly to its right on a standard typewriter keyboard. Rearrange to name something we might fear.Q: Name a U.S. state capital. Then name a world capital. Say these names one after the other and phonetically you'll get an expensive dinner entree. What is it?
Edit: Change the last E to an R and rearrange to get OVERLORDS.
A: DOVER (Delaware) + SEOUL (South Korea) --> DOVER SOLE
Remove two pairs of consecutive letters from the entree. Rearrange. You get something we do here every week.
ReplyDeleteVery clever!
DeleteSimple puzzle. Bring on the 1000 piece puzzles, please.
ReplyDeleteNearly 800 correct entries last week
ReplyDeleteJuneau, that was so easy we really needed a second puzzle this week, Dublin the challenge!
ReplyDeleteTripoli(t), even!
DeleteI guess it's not Philly Mignon
ReplyDeleteI wish it were. Let's go Phillies!
DeleteI would understand Blaine's clue if he'd said "Rearrange to name some things we might fear."
ReplyDeleteHm, so for many you get Blaine's clue, but not for one? Well, come back when you're alone.
Delete(... Ken Jennings might disagree.)
DeleteThe only thing right about this puzzle is that the meal would cost big bucks.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is not really the name of a prepared dish, but of an ingredient.
ReplyDeleteMove the first letter to the end to get (phonetically) a reason why the entree is expensive.
ReplyDeleteThe fish has been OVERSOLD.
DeleteI solved it quickly...
ReplyDeleteI have two answers that seem to meet the criteria of the puzzle, but I don't really like either of them. Still looking.
ReplyDeleteI should clarify, one of the answers would be expensive, but probably not desirable.
DeleteOkay, now I have what I think is the intended answer, as it matches at least one of the clues posted, and I can make it work for Blaine's clue, where I now have multiple anagrams.
DeleteSwitch the first letter of the state capital with the last letter of the world capital. Rearrange each result to get something you might do with a partner.
DeleteDrop 2 letters from one of the city names, rearrange all remaining letters and you get something your Apple Watch may warn you about.
ReplyDeleteOVERLOAD ("Loud Environment Notification")
DeleteNPR's proofreading could use some work.
ReplyDeleteSo strange.
DeletePerhaps they just need to think it over.
DeletePerhaps the most amazing feat achieved by any living thing.
ReplyDeleteAfter getting to bed somewhat late last night, my girlfriend and I were feeling rather flat this morning. It took about a minute to solve this week’s puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI ate this dish on the S.S. United States many (>50) years ago.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from the left coast, where I’ve just begun to adjust to the change in time zones.
ReplyDeletePretty easy puzzle. Given how easy, solved (or else).
What do you need if you're sad because you can't get this?
ReplyDeleteI haven't solved yet, but it occurred to me that in the handful of times we've eaten out the last couple years, ALL entrees are expensive. Now, get off my lawn! 😂
ReplyDeleteI considered asking where NPR is drawing the line for expensive. When I heard the puzzle on the air, I was initially thinking the price would be hundreds of dollars, like diamond encrusted gold nuggets.
DeleteSALEM + MANILA is something you DON'T want in your dinner entree!
ReplyDeleteI was on the precipice before finally solving it.
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DeleteIsn't this much description too much description?
DeleteI'm gonna take the opportunity to shoehorn in an international complaint: entrees are starters, as far as I'm concerned! Is this just a U.S. thing?
ReplyDeleteWell, technically, Canada is a separate country, so no, not just a U.S. thing.
DeleteOne wonders what French Canadians have to say about this! :)
DeleteYeah, this occurred to me -- but it is, after all, a US show, and you dang foreigners should expect Will to be speaking American!
DeleteThere are quite a few potential 'culinary vocabulary' confusions. For instance, in the US we say 'broiler' for what most of the English-speaking world calls a 'grill' (that is, the heat-producer in the oven that cooks by radiation of high heat rather than conduction and convection by warming the air). And we're a lot more narrow in what we count as a 'pumpkin' in the USA too.
Of course there are lots of other cases where there are just distinct terms, but those wouldn't be as likely to confuse a puzzler.
All fair enough! Though I might have humbly suggested the unambiguous "main course," were I being consulted.
DeleteIn the UK, pudding can mean most anything. (I've only visited there once, but that was my experience.)
Delete(with a pun on shoe/sole...)
DeleteChange one of the letters of the food to an A. Rearrange to get two synonyms.
ReplyDeleteChange the S in Dover sole to an A and rearrange to get love, adore.
DeleteSomeone above asked for a better puzzle. Lego ran this one I coined. Here it is again:
ReplyDelete"Revenge is a dish best served cold" Food is often used as a metaphor.
Think of a specific Supreme Court justice, and then if you say the name out loud of a well known suburban city that is located near a major U.S. city everyone knows, you will phonetically describe how this judge might be served.
Who is the justice and what is the city?
Hints until Thursday please.
Literary Clue: King Lear
ReplyDeleteMusical hint: Mantovani
ReplyDeleteI already posted a musical hint. It was dynamite!
DeleteActually, there's a musical connection to last week's puzzle!
DeleteAnother failed attempt to assassinate Trump.
ReplyDeleteIf you post "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!", you gotta expect some blowback.
DeleteOf course.
DeleteSIgh....
DeleteMy wife points out that on Sunday, seven weeks before Election Day, while I was sending hundreds of texts to get people to register to vote in Michigan, and she was making dozens of phone calls to get people to canvass door-to-door in Pennsylvania, Trump was . . . golfing!
DeleteEasy puzzle - just requires good online searching techniques. I actually once paid my respects to the queen of the world capital.
ReplyDeleteI assume you're being funny, or at least phonetic.
DeleteYes, indeed!
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ReplyDeleteFigured it out but never heard of the dish. I'm a low brow. Music clue: SNL
ReplyDeleteThere are inexpensive entrees these days?
ReplyDeleteFlamenco dancers love their craft, but of course they have other interests as well. Some enjoy fishing. So today's burning question is: How do flamenco dancers catch fish?
ReplyDeletePretty much the same way Spider-Man catches villains, I suppose.
DeleteWith fishnet stockings?
DeleteMy answer seems to mesh with Paul's, but I do like HiHoQuicksilver's alternate.
DeleteClose, but no cigar so far.
DeleteI'm pretty sure Paul and I (and Quester below) can state the intended answer more directly, but we're holding off to let others solve it. If you catch my drift.
DeleteI was hoping that might be the case.
DeleteThey castanet.
DeleteSo the answer is a fish dish?
DeleteIf you like red herrings.
DeleteAlso hukilau
ReplyDeleteThey cast-a-net.
ReplyDeleteWhat do they call it when they repair valves on a Sousaphone?
ReplyDeleteI suspect my answer was removed by blogger???
DeleteWell, Denver Omelet just doesn't work on any level
ReplyDeleteI've never eaten this dish myself, but I've definitely heard of it.
ReplyDeletepjbPrefersChicken,Actually
Finally, I figured it out! Well, at least I have an answer and it seems to be recognisable as an entree. Now, here's the clue:
ReplyDeleteFor this music, clap on beats 2 and 4. Or, a Monkees episode where Davy gets schooled by a (then) an up-and-coming composer.
P S. I mean for you to locate and watch the particular episode, if possible. This clarifies the 2 and 4 clue.
DeleteI'm still stumped. Not much of a foodie, I guess.
ReplyDeleteSame here. Can't wait for Thursday's big reveal to put me out of my misery.
DeleteI hate to see people stumped by what should be an easy puzzle. The phonetic part is not that much of a stretch at all. However, I haven't seen this entree on a restaurant menu in decades, so it might well be that some people have never heard of it. If a couple of trips through a list of state capitals doesn't trigger the "aha" moment for you, then waiting for Thursday might be a good idea.
DeleteYeah, I guess I'll wait. If "hand basket" was a world capital, I'd be all set.
DeleteTraversed both lists multiple times and I'm likely old enough to recognize the entree. Just gearing up for a facepalm moment now... :)
DeleteSee my hint immediately below. I meant to add it to this thread but by mistake added it as a separate comment.
DeleteThanks for the encouragement, Dr. K. I would never have got this puzzle. Apparently my modest, Midwest background kept me from ever hearing of Dover sole over the course of six decades...
DeleteMy pleasure, JayB. I'm not much of a foodie either and have never had Dover sole but knew of it. Since I've got a decade on you, I'm wondering if the puzzle may be a decennial thing.
DeleteHaving been there myself (and like a former President), I feel your pain. I can think of another music hint, but Blaine might yank it: it all started with gospel....
ReplyDeleteWe've had some spectacular events involving the moon this year, including last night's harvest supermoon.
ReplyDeleteHmm, there's been a lot of interest in the lunar south pole lately -- Indian, Chinese, and U.S. probes and plans for crewed landings, e.g. If I expose my bare bottom, that's mooning. If the moon's bare south pole is exposed -- and there's no clouds or ice cap, so it's always bare -- is that a supermoon?
DeleteYes, jan, you've cracked it!
DeleteDOVER SOLE from DOVER, DELAWARE, and SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
ReplyDelete"We've had some spectacular events involving the moon this year, including last night's harvest supermoon." This evokes a method of preparing DOVER SOLE as in DOVER SOLE MEUNIÈRE (which sounds a bit like moon year).
DOVER SEOUL → DOVER SOLE.
ReplyDeleteDOVER SOLE (<— DOVER + SEOUL)
ReplyDeleteHint #1: “Greetings from the left coast, where I’ve just begun to adjust to the change in time zones.
Pretty easy puzzle. Solved (or else).”
SOLVED OR E… is an anagram of DOVER SOLE
(with apologies to Crito, who reminded me of this device a couple of weeks ago but who, frankly, did a better, seamless job of it with “unsaid or” —> “dinosaur”).
Hint #2: “Musical hint: Mantovani”
Mantovani and His Orchestra backed Vera Lynn on the highly popular UK World War II song “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of DOVER.” (A “Vera Lynn” musical hint would almost have certainly been TMI.)
Hint #3: “[I]t all started with gospel….”
—> that is, soul (music) —> SEOUL/SOLE
Vera Lynn made it to 103, and about a year earlier her likeness was projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover.
DeleteAnd, of course, sdb, Dover sole is named after that Dover.
DeleteDOVER SOLE
ReplyDelete> I would understand Blaine's clue if he'd said "Rearrange to name some things we might fear."
I assume he was going for "overlords".
> (... Ken Jennings might disagree.)
He welcomes them.
> What do you need if you're sad because you can't get this?
Now when you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite,
You need a little bit o' sole to put you right.
> I already posted a musical hint. It was dynamite!
"Little Bit O' Soul" was the only hit for The Music Explosion.
> Actually, there's a musical connection to last week's puzzle!
"🎶 'O SOLE mio! 🎶"
In reply to one of Jan's clues, about whether Blaine meant his clue to be plural, I said,
Delete"Hm, so for many you get Blaine's clue, but not for one?"
Because of "I, for one, welcome our ___ overlords" in the infamous meme.
Dover (Delaware) + Seoul (Korea) >>>Dover Sole
ReplyDeleteDover Sole anagrams to Doe Lovers, ergo my comment, Big Bucks.
I wrote, “Remove two pairs of consecutive letters from the entree. Rearrange. You get something we do here every week.” That’s SOLVE.
ReplyDeleteI interpreted you clue to mean two pairs of letters consecutive in the alphabet so I removed de and rs to get o love, which didn't scan very well. Ain't language a strange and wondrous thing ?!
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Dover sole, after Dover, Delaware and Seoul, South Korea. My clue was: For this kind of music, clap on beats 2 and 4." The music is for those who don't know, especially you stodgy elitists, "Soul" music. It was easier to base a clue on Seoul (sole, soul) the world capital than on Dover. To further instruct you, I refer to an easy to find video from a Monkees episode from March of 1968 wherein Davy Jones has a lively conversation with then up-and-coming composer Charlie Smalls about the differences between "White" soul and "Black" soul by emphasising the accents in a 4/4 meter. It's worth watching. Charlie Smalls went on to write the music for The Wiz.
ReplyDeleteNope! Never heard of it. Now I don't feel so bad. No facepalm for me!
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of it either!
DeleteDitto. (Saved face? :)
DeleteSame here! (See my comment below.)
DeleteDover, Seoul->Dover sole
ReplyDeleteDover Seoul >> Dover Sole
ReplyDeleteI almost forgot to post.
Not at all familiar with Dover sole. No wonder I didn't make the connection. 🤷♂️
ReplyDelete"The most expensive tamale in the world is the "Golden Tamal" from Ambar Restaurant + Bar in El Paso, Texas, which costs $150. "
ReplyDeleteIs that an august tamale, or what?
Dover Seoul --> Dover Sole
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “After getting to bed somewhat late last night, my girlfriend and I were feeling rather flat this morning. It took about a minute to solve this week’s puzzle.” For fish, flat is like a sole swims – on its side. For people, flat is low on energy, like my girlfriend and I were this morning.
DOVER SOLE,
ReplyDeleteI wrote perhaps the most amazing feat achieved by any living thing because -- I kid you not -- Sole are one of a series of flat fish that do something incredible.
The are born with two eyes on either side of their head. And then as young fishies, they somehow move one eye to the other side of their head. This way, then can swim as "flat fish" along the bottom with both eyes pointed towards the water's surface. And they are then faster swimmers and also camouflaged against the bottom.
It's rather amazing, methinks.
Methinks so too! Pretty cool!
DeleteI submitted the following to NPR:
ReplyDeleteDOVER, SEOUL (Dover Sole)
Alternatively, SANTA FE, MOSCOW (Santa famous cow)
I can hear you saying, "Santa famous cow, that's ridiculous!" However, the correct term for a female reindeer is, of course, cow. Furthermore, according to many sources on the internet, most of Santa's reindeer are female (not Rudolph). Considering that millions of people know their names, and sing about them, they are clearly famous. Finally, to merely obtain and butcher one of them would be very expensive, and, arguably, put you on the naughty list for life. However, the puzzle did not state that it needed to be a dinner entree that is desired by most people. Reindeer are edible, and so could be an expensive dinner entree.
That's the end of what I submitted to NPR. You could also argue that SANTA FE, MUSCAT, leading to Santa Famous Cat, would also be an expensive entree, but I don't think Santa has a famous cat, so that was not worth submitting.
Will my alternative answer, with explanation, be mentioned on air? Probably not, but it was a fun exercise.
DOVER(DE)+SEOUL(KOREA)=DOVER SOLE
ReplyDeletepjbDoesn'tEatMuchFish,IfGivenTheChance
Have any of you eaten this dish?
ReplyDeleteNo, I haven’t. (See my 4:41 p.m. comment above). But I knew of it. A friend I correspond with also solved the puzzle and informed me that “Harrods in London has a seafood bar where you can order as much as you want (priced by the gram) along with boiled potatoes and spinach. Yummy.”
DeleteI found the Dover sole to be very tough (which they seem to think is a selling point!). The uppers weren't all that tender, either. For an expensive entree, it tasted like shoe leather!
DeleteInteresting, Dr. K. As it turns out, I have been to Harrods but that was in the 80s and that might have been before the seafood bar showed up. My loss, I guess. (I was in London in my role as a Bell Labs engineer, something I have in common with jan, I believe.)
DeleteYes, JayB -- I was at Murray Hill from 1977 - 2000. You?
DeleteNaperville, then Columbus. 1985 - 2007 (including an OYOC year, if you remember that little acronym. :) I interviewed in NJ and IL and I thought the projects in NJ were fascinating but I was more comfortable staying in the Midwest.
DeleteThis makes me wonder how many of us "Blainesvillians" are Engineers or in the sciences. I'm a retired Chemical Engineer, worked in the nuclear business.
DeleteMy cousin was at Bell Labs. I think scientist.
DeleteThought for the day: You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
ReplyDeletePeople can tuna, salmon, and sardines, but they don't can Steinways, Baldwins, or Yamahas.
DeleteI was desperately searching for some state capital that could phonetically sound like beef.
ReplyDeleteI SO wanted this to be something tasty like Beef Wellington.
I considered posting Frankfort Wellington as a kind of posh hot dog.
DeleteOr Frankfort Vienna (those tiny sausages in a can).
DeleteMy clues - “just requires good online searching techniques” was referring to “Seoul searching”. And “my having paid my respects to the queen of the world capital” was referring to the Queen of “Seoul”, as in Soul - Aretha Franklin, and her hit song “RESPECT”.
ReplyDeleteAnybody have today's puzzle?
ReplyDeleteNearly 1300 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteTake the phrase "new towels". Rearrange the 9 letters to get the brand name of a product you might buy at a supermarket.
ReplyDeleteToo easy, again.
DeletePretty easy. Lisa, the on-air contestant, was terrific!
DeleteI have an answer - but it's a discontinued product.
ReplyDeleteThen we have different answers.
DeleteMine is a current product.
DeleteYeah, mine is current... but when I saw SuperZee's comment I did have to double-check!
DeleteSolved this as fast as last week.
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