I woke up and it was yet another body part puzzle. Is this Groundhog Day?Q: Name a part of the human body in seven letters. Add a B and rearrange the result it to get another part of the human body.
Edit: The groundhog actually has a functioning tail containing bones. Also, hip (from the title) and toe are examples of three-letter parts of the body. Can you name eight more?
A: TOENAIL + B --> TAILBONE
Got it. It’s taking me longer to think of a clue that is not TMI
ReplyDeleteIt gave me great happiness to hear the listener get the on air clues so quickly.
Delete❤️
DeleteIt *is* Groundhog Day!
ReplyDeleteOnly now there are so many different groundhogs, I don't know which one to believe.
A spoonerism of one of the body parts points out the irony of the other.
ReplyDeleteClever!
DeleteWow, yeah, that's good, Lancek!
DeleteClue better than puzzle!
Now *that* is cute!
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DeleteBravo Lancek! We have a genius among us.
DeleteAgreed!
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Delete@Lego, Lancek never said which body part to spoonerize
DeleteThanks for the kind words, everyone! (Including Lego before deletion.)
DeleteMy apologies to Blaine, Lancek and to all, and thanks to John for sounding the alarm on my TMI.
DeleteLegoWhoWouldStillLoveToPostARiffIncorporatingLancek'sIngeniousObservationOnPuzzleria!
I know a song, popular 80+ years ago, with a variant on that spoonerism in its lyrics.
DeleteThanks, Lancek! You confirmed that we have the same answer! (And I agree with the others: Brilliant clue!)
DeleteI think Lancek wins the Internet this week!
DeleteAgreed... that is a clever 'non TMI' clue!
DeleteI've got it, but I'm not sure how to clue it.
ReplyDeleteI'm having a tough time too.
DeleteActually, Scarlett, is a small clue there, but I don’t want to make it too obvious.
DeleteI was being a bit cheeky (no clue there). I look forward to your explanation Thursday.
Delete😉
DeleteI got it after I gave up trying to use wordsmith. I was going back to bed and as soon as I I sat down on the bed the answer came to me.
ReplyDeleteAdd a different letter to the first part and rearrange to get a drink.
ReplyDeleteFor the second body part, the latter portion of the word can stimulate the first portion of the word (at least in certain species).
ReplyDeleteHappy Groundhog Day, the ultimate foreshadower! 😉
ReplyDeleteAnd Happy Birthday to that consummate wordsmith, James Joyce.
DeleteThe puzzle is specific to the "human" body. That ain't necessarily so though.
ReplyDeleteOne rhymes with a popular dog breed, the other rhymes with a well-known city.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell if this is an alternate answer or an alternate definition of "rhymes with."
DeleteNeither.
DeleteOkay; see ya Thursday.
DeleteThe Wind in the Willows
ReplyDeleteCurtailing "the wind in the willows" leaves "the wind in the will" which suggests that one might "inherit the wind". If I had placed my comment under Lancek's ironic hint or Scarlett's biblical reference, it might have showed up as a blip on a lot of TMI scopes and forced Blaine to delete it.
DeleteI'm going cuckoo trying to figure out how to clue this!
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's NEURONS + B -> NOSEBURN ...
ReplyDeleteThe 8-letter body part can be rearranged into a phrase that describes what I am now doing. Move the 2nd and 3rd letters of that phrase 3 letters later in the alphabet, and move the 4th letter of the phrase 1 letter later in the alphabet. You will get the name of a famous lady.
ReplyDelete"Tailbone" is an anagram of "to Blaine". I was posting a clue to Blaine. Change the O to R, B to E, and L to M to get "Tremaine". Lady Tremaine is the stepmother in the Disney Cinderella movie.
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ReplyDeleteYou might want to to check Jaws' comment above.
DeleteOkay, I agree.
DeleteThough I'm sure she has both, Courtney Love is not relevant to this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteThe 7-letter part anagrams to an animal and a drink.
ReplyDeleteIf they call me, I'll have to borrow some neckwear.
ReplyDeleteFraming a proper clue, as oft is the case, is as much of a challenge as the challenge.
ReplyDeleteRepost of this I posted yesterday because you may have missed it.
ReplyDeleteI am beginning to think things may be getting back on a more congenial track. NPR is reporting that even ICE officers are going to church now.
Take a seven letter body part and add a B - rearrange to get a game involving pegs.
ReplyDeleteYou’re such a card?
DeleteReminds me of an old joke about fidelity.
DeleteDo tell Dr. K -
DeleteAs it turns out the law of "an eye for an eye" has nothing to do with this first body part.
ReplyDeleteThe first word + b anagrams to something some here might feel great reading while others might feel terrible.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between most of our vehicle gasoline and Donald Trump?
ReplyDeleteMost gasoline has lead in it, the red one is just pain gas
DeleteWoops I forgot the L in Plain gas. However he is also pain gas as well whereas, real gas is fortified.
DeleteOne is a fossil fuel, and the other is a fossil fool.
DeleteMost gasoline works with any make of car, but Trump is only good for a Rambler.
DeletepjbSaysItMayNotBeTheBestAlternativeAnswer,ButOurLeader(AndWe'reStuckWithHim)DoesSeemToRambleOnWhenHeSpeaks,So...
Very good moniker PJB. There is a song for that.
DeleteI spent a good bit of yesterday trying to force areola into earlobe but it just doesn't work.
ReplyDeleteDid you try neck-stretching exercises?
DeleteWhy? Areola and earlobe have 6 and 7 letters, respectively. The words Will is looking for have 7 and 8.
DeleteCrito, thanks for the laugh! I needed it today.
DeleteTa da!! I got it. After only 28 hours and 18 minutes. I can honestly say this one drove me outta my head. Good puzzle, Linds.
ReplyDeleteI got it today, too. I have a lifelong injury in one of the areas.
ReplyDeleteTake the two middle letters of the medical term for the body part. You get the initials of the two-word name for a simple device that helps.
DeleteWell at least my tequila and Canadian whiskey can cross the borders free of tariffs for at least 30 more days.
ReplyDeleteWorks both ways, of course. Here's what the Premier of Ontario posted.
DeleteNo crown royal, darn. Maybe we won't gave to see the commercials anymore.
DeleteIn his last hours as President, Joe Biden commuted the sentence of (wrongly) convicted Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge shootout in 1975. Peltier never asked for a pardon, believing that a pardon was an imputation of guilt (Burdick, 1915). Instead, he asked only for a commutation for his "crime," which he has finally received after 50 years. Now, Donald Trump has pardoned Silk Road founder and drug kingpin Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life, who has probably killed more people than Peltier was convicted of.
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting post because I just now happened to notice it on my screen as I walked back to what I was doing, and what I was doing as I was walking back was thinking, for no particular reason, that perhaps Trump should be concerned about his vice president, an unusually ambitious creep, and that he might have designs on an early demise of his chief. Mob bosses do have to worry about such things, you know, or they should anyway. The CIA killed JFK and perhaps they may be considering an encore.
DeleteAnd that in turn is a coincidence, because I was just thinking of commening in the thread above under your "what's the difference...?" question:
DeleteMost gasoline today is not a career criminal.
(Although I thought Cranberry's was pretty good and didn't want to "step on it.")
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
ReplyDeleteAmericans Start Stockpiling Moose Ahead Of Tariffs
I think I found the news source to replace my cancelled Washington Posr subscription....
Some things even The Onion can't make up. This is from Trump's new hire as acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department.
Deletejan,
DeleteSpeaking of the price of moose meat, I can no longer afford the sky high price of eggs, and have had to gather wild eggs in the area. On the bright side, I have to say Bald Eagle eggs taste pretty good.
You have plebeian taste. I prefer those of the Northern spotted owl. With Grey Poupon, of course.
DeleteI've been doing that for many years now, however I use the Dijon I discussed recently here that is actually from France, and I also add just a spot of aged Aceto Balsamico Di Modena.
DeleteBaby seal steaks are quite tender.
DeleteJan, the key word in that quote, if one ignores it’s blatant racism and sexism, is COMPETENT. An attribute sorely lacking in tRump and the, “First Buddy.”
DeleteScarlett, I will take that as your personal seal of approval and give them a try. What do you suggest as a side dish?
DeleteSDB, I'm from the deep south, so I would recommend coleslaw and hush puppies, of course. Maybe some blackeyed peas cooked with ham hocks. I suppose you could add a bit of Dijon to the coleslaw to fancy it up like city folk.
DeleteAnd I am from the shallow north, so was thinking more along the line of skunk cabbage and toad stools, but I will consider your suggestions.
DeleteYum! Yum! Reminds me of the "Hey Grandpa! What's for supper?" segment on Hee Haw.
DeleteI never saw that show, but knew of the name. What I do remember is Robert Mitchum saying, "Beef! It's what's for dinner" to strains of Gershwin. I am sure he must have earned an Academy Award for that.
DeleteThat was Copland, not Gershwin.
DeleteOf course. Brain fart on my part.
DeleteMy favorite gay all-American communist Jewish atheist patriot composer.
DeleteWell you have a great many to choose from.
DeleteOn SDB's last comment, Copland's greatest follower was, of course, Leonard Bernstein, who made his name as a conductor and composer for both the ballet ("Fancy Free"), the symphony ("Chichester Psalms") the opera house ("Candide"), Broadway ("West Side Story") and the movies ("On The Waterfront"), not to mention as a teacher, which is how I first heard of him.
DeleteAt any rate the story goes that two dowagers were talking about him in the lobby of Lincoln Center after one of his performances when one said "Did you know he is gay?" To which the other replied "Is there anything that man can't do?"
Elon Musk not been confirmed by Congress, yet. Thank God.
ReplyDeleteStop this by calling your local rep:
(202) 221-3121. Our system is not supposed to be efficient. It is supposed to be a slow system of checks and balances.
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Delete202-224-3121. That's it, sorry
DeleteAnyone else enjoying Drew Goin's run on Jeopardy!?
ReplyDelete^^^ Drew Goins
DeleteOff to Oz?
ReplyDelete(that is, Down Under)
DeleteNPR just reported Trump is now suggesting we take over the Gaza Strip. I thought we already had.
ReplyDeletePre-sale of timeshares at the DT Gaza Plaza should begin shortly. Dial 800-Riviera
DeleteLOL.And the Scot's links course too?
DeleteAs a conservative with Libertarian leanings—but not a Trumpster—I sometimes feel as outnumbered here as I do as a Chiefs fan on social media.
ReplyDeleteI happen to be a Conservative, but libertarian to the extent that I don't care what people do, gay marriage, recreational marijuana, etc. However, I do believe strongly in an ordered society that recognizes the rights of the minority. I believe in the common good. I believe in a strong centralised government with strict regulations on things that affect everyone, such as fracking, foods and drugs, especially business, education, etc.
DeleteAlso, I'm a Chiefs fan living in Philadelphia.
DeleteThat could be quite serious. Good luck this weekend.
DeleteIt does sound a lot more dangerous than being an Eagles fan in Kansas City.
DeleteI’m a slightly left of center independent, who believes in letting anyone live the life that makes them happy. I can truly respect anyone across the political spectrum as long as they have integrity and believe in principles and data rather than dogma, party, and the cult of personality
DeleteThanks, Ben. But the thing is, I don't entirely know which to root for. Kansas City, my old hometown, or Philadelphia, where I have lived for many years now. Oh, the pain Will Robinson, the pain!
DeleteMy wife and I recently started watching The Pitt, basically an ER remake, starring Noah Wyle from that show. In the first episode, a doctor treats an injury to an analogous body part, but not using my favorite technique.
ReplyDeleteNot to turn this into a political forum, but I would say to Americans AND Israelis (And I am Jewish), here’s what Thomas Jefferson said “The government you elect is the government you deserve.” So if both countries have blundered in their choice of leadership, then they will need to learn to live with their choices—and perhaps think twice next time they head to the ballot box.
ReplyDeleteIf there are still free elections in our future.
DeleteTOENAIL, TAILBONE
ReplyDelete"Bravo Lancek! We have a genius among us." As in "We have a fungus among us" in TOENAILS. My mom says that whenever the topic of fungus comes up, even with mushrooms.
toenail, tailbone
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “One rhymes with a popular dog breed, the other rhymes with a well-known city.” Then someone posted, “I can't tell if this is an alternate answer or an alternate definition of ‘rhymes with.’" I responded “Neither.” Here’s why.
Definitions of rhyme from Dictionary.com:
-- identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
-- a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: is a rhyme for and .
First rhyme:
Google shows Toenail as tow·nayl
Google shows Airedale as ehr·dayl
Second rhyme:
Google shows Tailbone as tayl·bown
Google shows Bayonne as bay·own
I feel good about the puzzle solution as well as the rhymed clues. And my congrats to Lindsay Terrien for the puzzle. Recalling all the body part puzzles Will has used over the years, I think this is the first to use a toenail or a tailbone.
Related to a different matter entirely, I also said, “The first word + b anagrams to something that some here might feel great reading while others might feel terrible.” I was referring to “Elan obit.”
The second definition of rhyme got screwed up. It should read:
Delete-- a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.
TOENAIL → TAILBONE
ReplyDeleteOur friend Mark Scott (aka "skydiveboy") has been sharing his puzzling wizardry with us on Puzzleria since 2014, the year Puzzleria! was launched. This week he shares a puzzle from a somewhat personal perspective that involves his family's love of camping. It is an "enlightening skydiversion" titled "My Friend Flicker! (Skydive Version)." ("Flicker" is not the name of a horse, but of a camping lantern.) It may be my favorite puzzle Mark has created for Puzzleria!, even rivaling his legendary "all thumbs poker game" puzzle from 2014.
ReplyDeleteWe will upload Puzzleria! soon, just a bit later this afternoon.
Also on this week's menus are:
~ A Schpuzzle of the Week titled "Going from Goldsmith to Greek myth,"
~ A Freeloading Hors d’Oeuvre titled "Fumbles! Blunders! Bobbles!"
~ A Naive Newcomer Slice titled "Science fiction & Superheroes,"
~ An Anagram Hall Of Fame Dessert titled "Nightingale and Guitarist," and
~ 13 Riff-offs of this week's NPR puzzle challenge titled (with a tip of our cap to Lancek) “Toenail, tailbone but No Tail!” Our riffmasterful friends Nodd and Plantsmith contributed six and two riffs respectively.
So, stop by for some ham-on-wry from skydiveboy, and terrific riffs from Nodd and Plantsmith.
LegoWhoNotesThatIt'sAboutTimePuzzleria!ServedUpA"Campy"Puzzle!
Toenail + B>>Tail Bone
ReplyDeleteMy comment regarding the difficulty of, Framing a comment…,” was an allusion to the technique of framing a wall by toenailing studs to headers and footers. (Toenailing is when nails are driven diagonally through one piece of wood into another.)
TOENAIL -> TAILBONE
ReplyDelete> I'm going cuckoo trying to figure out how to clue this!
"Coccyx" is from the Greek for "cuckoo", because of its supposed resemblance to a cuckoo's beak.
>> I got it today, too. I have a lifelong injury in one of the areas.
> Take the two middle letters of the medical term for the body part. You get the initials of the two-word name for a simple device that helps.
I've got a coccyx cushion in my car, too.
> My wife and I recently started watching The Pitt, basically an ER remake, starring Noah Wyle from that show. In the first episode, a doctor treats an injury to an analogous body part, but not using my favorite technique.
She treats a subungual hematoma, a painful collection of blood under a fingernail, by drilling a hole through the nail with a needle. But the pressure of drilling can cause pain, and you have to be careful when you break through not to injure the nail bed, I prefer to use a paper clip, unbent and held in a hemostat (clamp), heated in the flame of a lighter borrowed from one of the techs who still smokes. When it's red hot, lightly touch the tip of the wire to the middle of the nail. It'll melt right through and cool as soon as it hits the blood underneath, resulting in a little fountain of blood and instant pain relief. I love how disturbingly medieval it seems!
TOENAIL +B >>> TAILBONE
ReplyDeleteTOENAIL — TAILBONE
ReplyDeleteCouldn't think of a clue (especially after Lancek's spot-on spoonerism clue).
TOENAIL + B —> TAILBONE
ReplyDelete“I’ve got it, but I’m not sure how to clue it.”
I expected to see lots of “buts.” Too subtle perhaps…
For TomR: The “old joke about fidelity” has as its punchline that Eve was counting Adam’s ribs to see if he’d been unfaithful. I had at first considered an allusion to the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn film Adam’s Rib, but regardless of how I worded it, it seemed to me to be TMI. In any case, a nice spinoff puzzle.
Clever, Dr. K. When I replied "I'm having a tough time too" that was a reference to the old saying "tough toenails".
DeleteScarlett, I thought that “cheeky (no clue there)” proved that both of us were adept at apophasis.
DeleteI won't mention how pleased I am that you think so 😉
DeleteAt the risk of repeating myself:
Delete😉
TOENAIL; TAILBONE. My clue: The 7-letter part anagrams to an animal and a drink. (Lion, Tea)
ReplyDeletetoenail, tailbone
ReplyDeleteToe nail, tailbone. As I said, this one really drove outta my head! It took me till Monday.
ReplyDeleteBlaine, 8 more? I’ve got 7: arm, leg, lip, gum, jaw, eye, ear…? Ah, of course, rib!
ReplyDeleteZit? Nip? Fat? Pus? Tit? Pit? Ova? Egg? Lid? Gut?
DeleteAs long as you mentioned "tit," there's another not far from the tailbone...
DeleteTOENAIL, TAILBONE.
ReplyDeleteI clued TV Clue: The Prisoner and Musical Clue: Grand Theft Autumn because:
- Grand Theft Autumn has a hit song called Fall Out.
- And the last Episode of The Prisoner was called Fall Out, and contains a rousing rendition of the spiritual song Dem Bones, complete with anarchy, automatic weapons, and demonic clown outfits, whereby our hero #6 escapes from The Village.
Interestingly, Dem Bones NEVER MENTIONS the TAILBONE, though it does many of the others:
"Toe bone connected to the foot bone, foot bone connected to the heel bone
Heel bone connected to the ankle bone, ankle bone connected to the leg bone
Leg bone connected to the knee bone, knee bone connected to the thigh bone...."
(but not the TAILBONE)
I thought "...a clue that is not TMI" was a reference to TMJ (temporomandibular joint).
ReplyDeleteI wrote "As it turns out the law of 'an eye for an eye' has nothing to do with this first body part."
ReplyDeleteFor years I had thought that the fancy phrase for the principle of "an eye for an eye" was "lex talonis," the "law of the claw" as it were, and planned to use this to make a veiled reference to talons, which evolved into toenails in humans. But it's "talionis," meaning "retaliation," not "talonis," so instead I built a clue around my own ignorance. I hope that wasn't TMM (too much misinformation).
As for the song lyric, there was a song popular among sailors serving in the Pacific in the last century called "The Monkeys Have No Tails In Zamboanga." You can hear Ward Bond and others sing it in "They Were Expendable," John Ford's movie about PT boat crews set in the Philippines in December 1941 and the months that followed.
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine has suggested that the reference to monkeys with no tails was a racist insult directed at Filipinos. That may be; Zamboanga was in that part of Mindanao where US troops fought Moro rebels for years in the early 20th century. Which is a shame, because I had always enjoyed the song, which I took for an innocent ditty.
SNAIL TOE would be a good name for an emo band.
ReplyDeleteTOENAIL+B=TAILBONE
ReplyDeletepjbGotLuckyWithThisOne!
There is no luck, cranberry, nor are there random coincidences. It is all an illusion, but has its own reality.
DeleteMy clue - “ For the second body part, the latter portion of the word can stimulate the first portion of the word (at least in certain species).” - this referred to giving a dog a “bone” which stimulates its ‘tail” to wag.
ReplyDeleteHere's the answer from the Latest AI of the Day, Llama Tülu 3 405B:
ReplyDeleteThe initial part of the human body with seven letters is "stomach." When you add a "B" and rearrange the letters, you get "abdomens," which is another part of the human body.
My clue: "Add a different letter to the first part and rearrange to get a drink." Add a V to get Ovaltine.
ReplyDeleteAfter working on a clue for a while, I finally posted, "It gave me great happiness to hear the listener get the on air clues so quickly." Great happiness is the definition of elation, an anagram of toenail.
ReplyDeleteI had considered posting a comment using the word elation, but I couldn't think of phrasing that would not make it obvious that elation was the key word. With my comment being up top, I figured it had to be more subtle. So, I pivoted to referring to it by definition.
Solving the puzzle was rather easy, by working backwards. A quick search for body parts with 8 letters, and then scanning the list for parts that included a B. It took only a minute or two to find TAILBONE.
This week's challenge: It comes from listener Ward Hartenstein, of Rochester, N.Y. Name a well-known cartoon character in eight letters. Change the last letter to a U and rearrange the result to make a phrase you might see on a Valentine's Day card.
ReplyDeletePerhaps my fastest ever solve!
DeleteHappy Valentine’s Day all.
Now, on to the Super Bowl.
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DeleteYeah, easy.
DeleteBut not that easy to clue. And... if you say why it's easier, you'll make it easier, so don't!
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DeleteAgreed. Waiting for Blaine...
DeleteNot sure why my comment was removed. It didn't add anything that wasn't already in the puzzle...in fact, it made the puzzle more difficult.
DeleteThe character is older than the strip in which it most famously appears.
ReplyDeleteAre these toons still in rotation? I haven't seen them in years.
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