I believe in behavior which is positive and helpful.Q: Name a famous European tourist site in nine letters. Rearrange its last four letters to name something that its first five letters can be planted in.
A: ACROPOLIS, A CROP can be planted in SOIL
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ReplyDeleteThe link to this week's puzzle is just above the question.
DeleteI've met many a friend here.
ReplyDeleteSolved the puzzle, Wordle in 3, perfect Connections. It's gonna be a good day!
ReplyDeleteI was gonna guess Wordle in two but then...
DeleteI was gonna solve the Sunday Puzzle but then...
And when Blaine takes down this clue, I'll know why.
It's TMI, it's TMI, it's TMI.....
Liz - Yes. A relatively easy Sunday morning. The NPR puzzle and Connections came quickly, while Wordle required more thought.
DeleteMy niece Wordled in 1 today. For the third time! (Her previous starting words were PLANT and SMILE). I'm trying to get her to change her starting word to SLATE, so I can share her mojo.
DeleteCoincidentally, the last four letters can also be rearranged to name something related.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the tourist site to get two professions.
I like the uniformity of your comment.
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ReplyDeleteEasy enough even with being half asleep at this early hour. I'm going back to bed
ReplyDeleteThe first four letters anagram to a large mammal.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to say more but I was afraid it would not end well.
DeleteIt might spoil it.
DeleteRearrange five consecutive letters of the site to get a medical term.
ReplyDeleteAlso a generic term.
ReplyDeleteNeat hints, Blaine!
ReplyDeleteThe PROSOCIAL one was nice, but the PARIS one was really COOL.
DeleteEventually, I realized that if you change one of the T's in NEAT HINTS to an A, and rearrange, you can spell ATHENIANS.
Over 1800 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteThe first five letters of the tourist site, rearranged, have a connection to the On-air Challenge.
ReplyDeleteIf you take the first five letters and swap two of them with each other and say the result aloud you phonetically get what some of us may think of this puzzle.
DeleteIt's taking me longer to come up with a clue, than it took to solve the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteRearrange the tourist site to describe a different tourist destination in the fall.
ReplyDeletePretty easy thanks to the letter counts, but it's a clever bit of wordplay.
ReplyDeleteRemove the last letter of the tourist site. If you rearrange the result you'll get a complete sentence that someone who is environmentally conscious might say.
ReplyDeleteNice!
DeleteScarlett, what a great line!
DeleteThanks Lancek and Word Woman.
DeleteThe new submission form was mentioned on the air, so I guess that is what they want people to use, rather than the old form.
ReplyDeleteActually, only four of the first five letters can be planted.
ReplyDeleteSpoiler alert.
DeleteI'd like to rewrite this puzzle so it doesn't give everything away.
ReplyDeleteMusic Clue: Pete Townshend.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone received the reply Gmail yet?
ReplyDeleteI haven't - I submitted my answer roughly an hour ago
DeleteDavos?
ReplyDeleteI was going to bury my hotdog in the turf with Frankfurt but I decided to keep looking.
ReplyDeleteDu meinst den Wienerplatz?
Delete(אדער, בעסער נאָך, איר מיינען די ווינער פּלאַץ)�
This puzzle makes me yawn.
ReplyDeleteYawning is like Yanni, who played a concert Live at the Acropolis.
DeleteNeither the best of puzzles, nor the worst of puzzles
ReplyDeleteIt's gone crazy -- and I've seen the evidence at another famous European tourist site.
ReplyDeleteIf MLB expands or a team moves (Rays?), Nashville is the best destination. It's a fun, growing city and the Music City Baseball Group already has a great plan in place. So long as they keep funding private, I'd be on board. My disdain for country music aside, I'd consider flying the family down when the Red Sox visit.
ReplyDeleteCountry music tradition, call them the Billy Rays.
DeleteNashville is home to an exact-size replica of the Parthenon.
DeleteIn a 1630 sermon, John Winthrop called Boston a "shining city upon a hill," so traveling anywhere from Boston could be considering going 'down.' acro + polis = high city
And I mean it about Nashville getting an MLB team.
DeleteThe second site that came to mind was the answer; I have never been to this site, but I can take its last 5 letters to describe many places I have visited.
ReplyDeleteI still haven't received the confirmation gmail.
ReplyDeleteThat's all folks!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to submit a musical clue but I was worried it might not go well with the prevailing fashion and I'd be expelled from the premises...
ReplyDeleteI was worried this might be TMI, but I guess you'd have to share my taste in music. I'd have known the solution from this clue.
DeleteWas anyone else confused by the fact that the 'new' submission page has NO SUBMIT button? At least, it didn't on my imac. Luckily, hitting 'enter' made it go off. But still, disconcerting.
ReplyDeleteOn mine there is a submit bar at the bottom of the page. I had to angle my telephone horizontally to landscape to fill everything in correctly. There are no stations listed to tell which is your local affiliate. I trust it will be permanent. As I said before, no return confirmation email.
DeleteWell, I scrolled all the way to the bottom (on a desktop, not a phone) and there was NO submit button. I noticed the no station thing, too. Maybe everybody was neglecting to choose one, so they did away with it?
DeleteI lkewise have not gotten any acknowledgement of receipt, which used to be automatic and instantaneous. I went back to the Sunday puzzle page, where I found a different submission form that, when you click on it, looks just like the old one. I used that submission form to notify Sunday Edition that I had not gotten any acknowledgement of receipt and to complain that I was not able to download the audio for the segment, but when I pressed submit, nothing happened. Something is rotten, but I don't know exactly what.
DeleteFunding cuts? Now submissions will be un-documented? Egadz!
DeleteI am so happy our president's health report came back with flying colors. However, some reporters are asking why the White House physician's nose appears not only to be longer, but has a brown spot on the end.
ReplyDeleteForget a European Vacation. Let's go skiing!
ReplyDeleteSkiiing, another 9-letter European destination, rearrange the final 4 to name what I want the first 5 to remain to us in the U.S., while, rearrange again, the rest of Europe needs to do to us silly.
DeleteGot it in just under 100 seconds.
ReplyDeleteThat's what she said.
Delete(I'm thinking of a related catchphrase...)
DeleteIn a New York minute?
DeleteBeen there, done that.
ReplyDeleteRe-rearrange the final four letters to get a place where the first five might end up.
ReplyDeleteCheating at billiards?
ReplyDeleteSZ, I hope you saw my last post to you in our string last week? I would hate for one of my children to go totally unrecognized. :-)
ReplyDeleteSBD. I saw it; I just didn’t see the point in continuing.
DeleteI hoped that was it. It was time for it to end, and I was going to, but that idea came to me and so I posted it. I wondered if you might not see it due to it being deadline time shortly. I love this blog, but they all have their shortcomings, such as not being always able to know the reactions of others.
DeleteI like this puzzle as stated.
ReplyDeleteIf you were to combine Trump with Elon Musk you would end up with Mr Unkempt Soul.
ReplyDeleteI’ve not used AI before, but this was the “coherent sentence” it suggested after I offered some words for it:
ReplyDelete“To avoid another phone rant, it's crucial to hasten your communication, as the regional dialect might not be understood.”
AI? I have it on the authority of the Secretary of Education that you're using that term incorrectly.
DeleteOops, my bad. But the Secretary of Miseducation may want to return to the WWE....
DeleteNSSC
ReplyDeleteACROPOLIS >>> A CROP SOIL
ReplyDelete"Scarlett, what a great line!" There are no straight lines in the Parthenon on the ACROPOLIS.
"I like this puzzle as stated." The governor of my state is Jared POLIS.
ACROPOLIS —> SOIL + A CROP
ReplyDeleteHints:
“Coincidentally, the last four letters can also be rearranged to name something related.”
—> silo
“Rearrange the tourist site to get two professions.”
—> sailor, cop
“The first five letters of the tourist site, rearranged, have a connection to the On-air Challenge.”
—> copra (dried coconut flesh that yields coconut oil; one of the On-air Challenge answers was “coconut palm”)
“To avoid another phone rant, it's crucial to hasten your communication, as the regional dialect might not be understood.”
—> This AI-generated sentence included the following anagrams relevant to the puzzle: phone rant —> Parthenon, hasten —> Athens, and dialect —> citadel
Acropolis --> a crop, soil
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “I was going to bury my hotdog in the turf with Frankfurt but I decided to keep looking.” I think I made the right decision.
ACROPOLIS (A CROP, SOIL)
ReplyDelete> Also a generic term.
There are others besides the one in Athens, in Europe and elsewhere.
> Davos?
ACROPOLIS means "high city". Davos, Switzerland, is the highest city in Europe.
It's gone crazy -- and I've seen the evidence at another famous European tourist site.
The Parthenon has lost its marbles. I've seen the stolen Elgin marbles at the British Museum, in London.
> NSSC
Over half a century ago, I had a very un-PC organic chemistry prof who referred to nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon as "Greek attack".
While trying to come up with a clue, I saw Liz's comment about other puzzles and started riffing on the classic Afroman lament, 'Until I Got High.' Apparently it wasn't TMI. 🙂
DeleteACROPOLIS>>A CROP, SOIL
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle took me longer than it should have, I kept looking for VASE or POTS, once I thought of SOIL, the light came on.
Because of the (well done!) misdirection, I want to say DIRTY POOL, but was afraid any reference to DIRT would be TMI, so I went with Cheating at billiards.….
I wrote, “Rearrange five consecutive letters of the site to get a medical term.” That’s POLIO.
ReplyDeleteACROPOLIS, A CROP, SOIL. I said that the first four letters anagram to a large mammal – ORCA. My first clue said to follow the first four letters with a flying creature to get a high-flying performer (ACROBAT) but it seemed like maybe TMI so I took it down.
ReplyDeleteAcropolis --> a crop > soil
ReplyDeleteMy hint was switching a and o and getting O' Crap!
Funny. But isn't O, with no h, supposed to be for addressing a deity, whereas "Oh" is for crappy things?
DeleteThat is why I used an apostrophe to indicate the H.
DeleteAcropolis. A crop, soil. No big deal. Good puzzle, though.
ReplyDeleteWe at Puzzleria! are proud and pleased-as-punch to present another stellar edition of "Tortie's Slow But Sure Puzzles" on this week's edition. Our friend Tortitude (aka NPR puzzle-crafter Laura Kozma) has created a "quintet of quizzicals" titled:
ReplyDelete~ “Crittergories!”
~ State becomes a statesman?
~ Sitcommy actresses, seafaring vessels;
~ “Thumb of Pamela, Up or Down?” and
~ Greeting & Eating.
We shall upload Tortie's "espe-shell-y" clever conundrum on Puzzlera! this afternoon, very soon.
Also on our menus this week are:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “Toponym, idiom & synonym”,
* a Malevolent Modifier Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Pointed, painful & perhaps painted,”
* a “Creature Creeping Thru A Calendar” Slice titled “Yearlings? Dog days? March hare? June bug?”
* a Spelled-Alike Sound-Alike Dessert titled “Quizzing a kind of cuisine?” and
* 11 riff-offs of this week's NPR puzzle challenge titled “A crop in soil (along with oil!)” (including six created by Nodd and one created by Plantsmith).
So, we challenge all you puzzle-solving "hares" to pit your quick wits versus puzzle-crafters Tortitude, Nodd, Plantsmith, et al!
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I wrote: "Remove the last letter of the tourist site. If you rearrange the result you'll get a complete sentence that someone who is environmentally conscious might say." Answer: I carpool. (Thank you Word Woman for explaining your comment about a great line!)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Scarlett. I was trying to be not too obvious.
DeleteI wrote "That's all folks!" As others have noted, "Acropolis" means "high city." That led me to the home of the Jetsons, "Orbit City." And Mel Blanc's final performance was as Cosmo Spacely in the film version of "The Jetsons." His tombstone reads "That's All Folks!" https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100/mel-blanc
ReplyDeleteI know this is cryptic to the nth degree; my apologies. But it gives me the opportunity to repeat the greatest Mel Blanc story I know: in 1960 he was in a serious automobile accident, which put him in a coma for more than a week, unresponsive to all attempts to communicate with him. Finally one of his doctors asked him, "How are you feeling today, Bugs Bunny?" After a slight pause, Blanc answered, in a weak voice, "Eh ... just fine, Doc. How are you?" He came out of the coma and lived--and worked--another 28 years.
ACROPOLIS, I clued something about going skiing, instead of to EUROPE, because the Governor of Colorado is Jared POLIS.
ReplyDeleteACROPOLIS - A CROP, SOIL
ReplyDeleteI really did take longer to come up with a clue than it took to solve it. My clue was, "Rearrange the tourist site to describe a different tourist destination in the fall." That yields COOL PARIS
Acropolis (a crop, soil)
ReplyDeleteMy clue: "I've met many a friend here."
ReplyDeleteWell, that shouldn't surprise anyone. Socrates tried to explain his theories to me all over Athens and particularly in the agora, but I never really quite got the hang of it.