Take the letters in the longer phrase. Replace the middle letter with a T and rearrange to get something else that can work against weightloss.Q: Name something in 7 letters that's designed to help you lose weight. Insert the letters EP somewhere inside this word to get a two-word phrase naming things that are likely to add weight. What words are these?
Edit: APPETITES
A: PILATES --> PIE PLATES
Add an R to the first word and rearrange. You get an architectural term.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rob. I solved it backwards from this. Personally I never experienced any serious weight loss from the former but certainly weight gain from the latter!
Delete"Back door man."
DeleteI got the answer the same way. But not before first going from "spandrel" to "Splenda", and then going nowhere!
DeleteCongrats, Mr. Schwartz! Unlike last week, I have an answer for this one. I hope it is correct! My brain is still hurting from the previous puzzle. (I see from Rob's clue that I can probably focus my energy elsewhere now. Have a good week!)
ReplyDeleteOnly 70 people submitted correct answers to last week's puzzle, which reflects either the difficulty of the wordplay or the forgettability of Bo Derek. This week's total should be much higher.
DeleteI’m wondering if EP has to be inserted as a unit or whether E and P can be inserted separately.
ReplyDeleteAs a unit
DeleteI wonder if Will should have waited till next month to pose this one.
ReplyDeleteNice hint, Crito!
DeleteYes, that's what confirmed my answer. Thanks.
Delete... or the following month?
DeleteApparently I recently learned that this month works as well!
DeleteTerribly, wonderfully clever, Clark a Pseudonym!
ReplyDeleteYes indeed! I second Word Woman's sentiments. Congrats to "Clark A Psuperman!" Another wonderful puzzle from our friend CAP.
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I have to admit, the best part of getting a puzzle selected is getting your complements. Thanks a lot! So with my real name, that makes three alter egos!!
DeleteNice puzzle Clark. And the most tasteful offering I have seen for a while.
DeleteCongratulations Clark!
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ReplyDeletePi and e are both mathematical constants. If you put pi and e together, then you get pie. This was a good puzzle for the day after e Day.
DeleteSuper Bowl Sunday and the Winter Olympics and we are dealing with diet and exercise? Not a good day to think about such things.
ReplyDeletePass the guacamole and chips and enjoy the wealth of sports on the telly.
Happy viewing everybody. Root for a team or an individual and worry about the diet tomorrow ... after the leftovers are gone!
Yea go Hawks..seeking revenge.
DeleteI'm rooting for the snacks! :-)
DeleteThis is the briefest hint I can think of.
ReplyDeleteBut I have a brief indicator of Bobby's other one.
DeleteYes; congratulations to Bobby for resurrecting the universal hint -- and to Cap for a fine puzzle.
Delete"5"
DeleteI'm a fan of both these things, perhaps that's why my weight is relatively constant? One of them, in fact, comes from the street on which I grew up. I do have an issue with the puzzle, I'll reflect on it Thursday.
ReplyDeleteAlso -- forgot to say -- BIG CONGRATS to Clark!
DeleteRearrange the first word to spell a common congenital condition. (I question whether the two-word phrase actually describes things that are likely to add weight. Something more is needed.)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've never gained weight with just the two-word things...
DeleteCute puzzle CAP - congrats!
ReplyDeleteReplace the 3rd letter of the first word with a different letter (best said aloud) to get an appropriate result!
Movie clue: The Secret of NIMH.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to disagree with the basic premise of the puzzle. The first thing isn't necessarily about weight loss. And, the two-word thing only adds weight if used in a certain way.
ReplyDeleteCurtis, I completely and wholeheartedly agree with both of your statements.
DeleteAnd my clue from last week stands for this week.
Recycling clues here? Must be oceanic crust-based rather than continental crust-based. ;-)
One could say that the 7-letter thing might serve as a way to lose weight, while the two-word phrase might serve as a way to gain weight.
DeleteLancelot, I agree that the first thing can be useful as part of a weight loss journey, and the second thing can a useful item in gaining weight, even tho’ neither is specifically targeted at those tasks
DeleteYou guys have it all backwards. I have been waiting for thursday to post more about this, but will say a bit that I do not think is tmi now. The first part will NOT cause one to lose weight. In fact it will do just the opposite. More later to clarify after the deadline. So, while the puzzle may have a clever aspect to it, it is very poorly, and incorrectly, worded. Even the last part makes no sense to me. Can't wait to be able to post more about this. If you want to lose weight then change your diet.
DeleteSDB - I think you have good points and I don’t disagree with you
DeleteR.I.P.
ReplyDeleteRoland Huntford, Lore-Debunking Historian of Polar Exploration, Dies at 98
He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912
I finally found the answer, and I'm surprised that it took me so long. I was working with the two-word phrase this morning while listening to the puzzle on air!
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, I like to exercise with my partner. After our workout we porkout!
ReplyDeleteWorkout and porkout somehow managed to not rhyme. Just as waffle doesn’t rhyme with raffle or baffle
DeleteI tripped on a Root with my Foot in a Boot. I was Addled as I Waddled on.
DeleteThanks, Clark, but no thanks. I don't need puzzles like this when there are Super Bowl ads to watch. Eventually I'll just be saying TGIT(Thank God It's Thursday)when the answer is revealed. See y'all then!
ReplyDeletepjbSaysNothingVenturedHere,NothingGainedEither
It's a cute puzzle—though I don't necessarily associate the first thing with weight loss! Clue: Larry Page.
ReplyDeletePageRank, like Pilates, is named after an individual!
DeleteI just saw Night at the Museum (not the first one) on Netflix.
ReplyDeleteI was told there would be cake!
ReplyDeleteThere was carrot cake, carrot soup, and carrot salad at our Bad Bunny party yesterday. Best part of SB 60, by far.
DeleteThought of you, sdb, when Bad Bunny named all the countries in the Americas. Powerful stuff.
Plus, you guys may or may not have noticed but how very sexy is Bad Bunny?!
I do not watch team sports, and despise american football, but did happen to hear, in the background on NPR, what you must be referring to. I am surprised I heard it because I was not following the NPR broadcast, but I did appreciate it, even though I had no idea whose voice I was hearing.
DeleteMy state, New Mexcio, has a geograhical clue.
ReplyDeletePie Town a real place that features oies
Deletepies
DeleteThat's funny, I understand the complaints about the wording, but I don't share them. I think the wording is totally fine.
ReplyDeleteI'll probably chime in about it Thursday.
Okay Nodd, this one's for you.
ReplyDeleteWho is the hottest Persian of all time?
Princess Fatima, always smokin.' Or perhaps Atar, Persian God of fire. There are also some that immolated themselves, but I don't want to go there.
DeleteI was thinking more of Omar Cayenne.
DeleteWhat about the Char of Iran?
DeleteHe made quite a hash of things.
Deleteinteresting that you would Reza that; humorous too.
DeleteI ran out of clever responses.
DeleteI Shah that. But you could always avail yourself of other resources.
DeleteWell, it took a while, but I finally solved it, at 3 a.m.
ReplyDeleteHint (I think Snipper has already posted something similar): Replace the 3rd letter of the 7-letter word, and get a professional sports franchise’s nickname.
I finally solved it, but it took a certain technique.
ReplyDeleteAfter solving the puzzle, I’ve tried ChatGPT a few times to see how close it could get. The following is the best wrong answer it’s come up with:
ReplyDelete7-letter weight-loss word: DEFRIED (as in food that isn’t fried / reduced-fat)
After inserting “EP”: DEEP FRIED — a two-word phrase for things very likely to add weight
So the pair is defried → deep fried
I don’t know how to defry something. Similar to unringing a bell
If you do not know how to DEFRY something, I suggest you attend a relevant class at DEVRY University (www.devry.edu/)
DeleteIt's a technical school (i.e. diploma mill) that offers relevant skill sets in exchange for cold cash money.
In grade school I used to get that junk all over my hands and I hated how it felt which Is probably why I don't bake much.
DeleteI think it's safe to say there will be more entries this week than last.
ReplyDeleteThis El Paso thing is totally weird. Unprecedented. If this happened in a movie, at this point you'd know that they'd just made contact with aliens there. (In fact, El Paso is just 150 miles from Roswell.)
ReplyDeleteMusic Clue: One of the most famous folk songs ever. Can't mention the title though.
ReplyDeletePILATES —> PIE PLATES
ReplyDeleteHint: ”Replace the 3rd letter of the 7-letter word, and get a professional sports franchise’s nickname” (with apologies to Snipper).
PILATES —> PIRATES
As I tried to solve the puzzle, I first worked backwards from 2-word phrases but got hung up on “apple pies” as the possible answer, even though it obviously didn’t work for the 7-letter answer. I had thought of Pilates early on, late Sunday or maybe early Monday, but I kept “seeing” the “EP” in the wrong place. It wasn’t until my mind was clear in the early a.m. on Tuesday that I revisited Pilates and saw the correct letter placement. (My neurons seem to fire best when I’m at rest.) As I said, it took a while, but I eventually got there.
Congrats again, Clark!
Exactly my progression of thinking this week, but it took me until Wednesday morning.
DeleteThanks, Dr. K.
DeleteI take issue with this puzzle because the wording is a red herring - Pilates is not Intended to help one lose weight, but rather to build strength and flexibility. Accordingly, I dismissed it as a possibility.
DeletePILATES + EP --> PIE PLATES
ReplyDelete> Movie clue: The Secret of NIMH.
Based on the book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The movie changed the name to Brisby to avoid a legal challenge from Wham-O, who named their Frisbee after the PIE PLATES of the Bridgeport, CT, Frisbie Pie Company, who supplied pies to nearby Yale, whose students discovered their aerodynamic properties.
(Come to think of it, given the exercise you can get playing Frisbee, maybe PIE PLATES are getting a bad rap regarding weight gain.)
>> I wonder if Will should have waited till next month to pose this one.
> ... or the following month?
Pi Day may be in March, but Pontius PILATE'S big day must be Easter, in April this year.
I would count Good Friday as Pontius Pilate's big day...
DeleteI wrote, “Add an R to the first word and rearrange. You get an architectural term.” That’s PILASTER. I am a generous fellow, but I was distressed to learn that my clue might have given anything away. Memo to self: More obscurity! The Blaine crew are too clever! I should have clued, “Take the letter that precedes in the alphabet the last letter of the answer. Add that letter to the seven-letter word and rearrange. You get an architectural term.” That’ll stump ‘em.
ReplyDeletePILATES + PE = PIE PLATES
ReplyDeleteRegardless of how clever the wordplay may be, this puzzle is worded exactly wrong. You cannot spot reduce. You cannot reduce body fat by exercise. You may reduce body fat by diet control, including eating less. Muscle weighs more than fat, so when you work on a body part you would like to reduce by exercising that part with situps or pilates, you will not reduce that area, but increase it. In other words the fat will not reduce, as fat reduces all over the body, not in a particular spot, but the exercise is not going to produce any noticeable amount of fat loss. It will cause the muscles in that area being exercised to increase. Muscles weigh more than fat and take up space, so the outcome of lots of sit ups or pilates will increase the size of that area due to the increase of muscle size. In order for a ripped appearance to become visible after this increase in muscle mass due to exercise the fat will need to go. This will only happen with diet control.
This is not rocket science, but people see and believe what appeals to them, and they tend to ignore the facts. Gimmicks do not work. What is a pie plate? I never heard of one. I sometimes make pies and use salad plates or even dinner plates, and the plates do not have any effect on weight loss or gain. I just googled and forgot pie pan refers to a metal pie plate and a glass pan to make a pie in is a pie plate. In any case, it has no effect on the body weight.
Gee, thanks for the physiology lesson!!
DeleteThat was the intent of my rephrasing of the clue to "...might serve as a way to gain weight." The plate would be a way to serve the pie.
DeleteYou might then extend that logic to include a spatula as a way to gain weight, as it may lift a slice of pie off the pie plate onto the serving dish.
DeleteI totally agree, SDB. Calorie intake is the most important part of weight control.
DeleteI believe there is another subtle fact that is frequently overlooked by those attempting to lose weight. While exercise will not remove body fat, it will keep it from forming. It is a delicate balance. You can eat that slice of pie and then exercise more than usual in order to keep those calories from forming fat cells. But if you overeat and let the fat cells to form, you will not be able to remove them with exercise. It will require diet control. Best to keep it off before it builds. If you need to apply tar to your roof it is a good idea to wear protective gloves, but if you do not do this, and allow tar to get on your hands, then you will have a difficult problem to deal with.
DeletePilates, pie plates
ReplyDeleteI clued "I finally solved it, but it took a certain technique." The song 'Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie' was a hit for Jay & The Techniques in 1967.
ReplyDeletePILATES + EP = PIE PLATES
ReplyDelete"Curtis, I completely and wholeheartedly agree with both of your statements.
And my clue from last week stands for this week. >>> I mentioned Pi Day last week.
Recycling clues here? Must be oceanic crust-based rather than continental crust-based. ;-)"
The "briefest" hint I could think of was an anagram of FRISBEE followed by a single letter which could be a reminder of Pontius PILATE'S most infamous sentence... until it occurred to me that there is a homophone related to Blaine's hint on the Mohs scale. I couldn't get the number 5 to remain posted until I put quotation marks around it.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the "What?" is more important than the "Who?"
ReplyDeleteThe most provocative, delightful and glorious gifts are usually those that are anonymous.
Take this week's "Guest-Given-Appetizer" on Puzzleria!, for instance. 'Tis an "unsigned gift" courtesy of a longtime contributor to, and “friend of, Puzzleria!”
His contributions to Puzzleria! always shine!
His trio of "Posed-By-A-Pal-Of-Puzzleria! Appetizer" this week are titled:
~ “Donning padded pants one pin at a time;”
~ “Currency of the Century;” and
~ “Shaggy Belafontone!”
...Very soon, this very afternoon... that's when we shall upload these morsels of mystery, courtesy of this very-valued contributor!
Also on this week's menu:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “Tank & Kat at the Cordial Teahouse,”
* a Confounding Compound Hors d’Oeuvre titled “A Fall Night foreshadows looming winter,”
* an “Oh Barbarian!” Slice titled “Appliance? Apple Pliers?”
* a Just Serving Up A Just Dessert titled, Service with a Simile: “As you like it” or “Like you like it!”
* Eight riffs of this week's NPR puzzle (created by our friend "Clark," a Man-of-Steel-Puzzlemaker!) titled "Pie Plates Negate Pilates!"
LegoWhoBoastsTheBestBastionOfPuzzlemakersInTheHistoryOfTheWorld(WellOkAtLeastInTheHistoryOfTheCyberWorld!)
Y'all, I got the call.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
DeleteCongrats, Iris Corona!
DeleteCongrats, Iris Corona! Let us know how it goes tomorrow.
DeleteExcellent! Looking forward to hearing you on the air!
DeleteCongratulations! And good luck with the puzzle!
DeleteWhat's next after a Jeopardy! championship and a Weekend Edition lapel pin? Olympics or Nobel?
DeleteCongratulations!
DeleteDid the radio thing. Ayesha Rascoe is fun, Puzzlemaster Will Shortz is pleasant. I did well in the game, and was kinda witty.
DeleteLooking forward to hearing you on Sunday!
DeleteCongratulations to Clark, Iris, and all who solved this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteHooray!
ReplyDeleteI had not understood Bobby's "e" clue. Wow, that's a really good one, damn. Two transcendental constants to make the answer!
ReplyDeleteObviously I was cluing Pi Day with my thought about next month's being better. Then in response to Bobby, I said:
"But I have a brief indicator of Bobby's other one."
That is a mnemonic I made up for pi; count the letters in each word.
Crito,
DeleteIt is true that Bobby is a genius... but you are no slouch either!
LegoJealousOfBothBobbyAndCrito
Hey, congrats Iris Corona! We'll look... uh. We'll listen forward to your performance.
ReplyDeleteFor those of you who don't know what a pie plate is: it's not the plate you eat off, or serve on. It's what you cook the pie in.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I don't see why the serving dish couldn't be called a 'pie plate', come to think of it.
How often has the puzzle, like this one, been an all-Blaine event, a Blaine composer and Blaine winner? Does anyone know?
ReplyDeletePILATES + EP = PIE PLATES
ReplyDeleteI said that I'm a fan of both these things, perhaps that's why my weight is relatively constant? One of them, in fact, comes from the street on which I grew up. I do have an issue with the puzzle, I'll reflect on it Thursday.
It is indeed true that I grew up on 8th Ave. in NYC's Chelsea, long ago. And the first PILATES studio in the USA was at 939 8th Ave. (in Hell's Kitchen) established by a German Émigré Joseph Pilates in 1926.
My issue with the Puzzle is that Pilates really isn't used for weight loss at all. I've been doing Pilates for one year and can assure you it is focused on core strength and flexibility.
I bake a LOT of pies, though.
Ben, looks like we were near neighbors. I lived in Stuyvesant Town in the 50’s, moving to Queens in ‘57, but I was back into Manhattan for college (CCNY’69).
DeleteNice to know that! I grew up in Chelsea and lived there until age 18, when I moved to California for college. And then I've bounced between California and New York like some "typical coastal elite" since then."
DeleteCity College must have been amazing at that time. What did you study?
Chemical Enginerring at CCNY followed by a MSMgmt from RPI.
DeleteAm I allowed to ask Elementary and High Schools? I think my dad taught English at the Elementary School for Stuy town, perhaps PS 40 or PS 20? And did you go to Stuy High?
DeleteI started at PS40, then switched to PS115Q after we moved to Queens for 5th and 6th grades, then JHS172 and Martin VanBuren HS (‘64). FYI if you’d like to continue via email, you can contact me via my Blogger profile.
DeleteWhat about you?
Hm, I don't get the complaints about pilates.
ReplyDeleteLike all exercise, pilates burns calories. It doesn't burn them as fast as cardio exercise but it sure as hell burns off calories compared to spending the 25 minutes posting comments to Blaine's blog.
When you burn more calories than you take in, you lose fat, by lipolysis . Where else would those calories come from?
Maybe Jan can enlighten us further.
Thanks ,Crito, the longwinded posts about Pilates just about put me to sleep; yes and annoyed me. Obviously I agree with you.
DeleteCrito, If you are referring to me, I want to make it very clear I am not complaining about pilates. I am only pointing out that pilates, also sit-ups, do not provide weight loss or reduction, but actually make the body weight more due to increasing the size of the muscles in that area that is being exercised.
DeleteThe puzzle is 100% inaccurately worded.
Okay, but I'm saying doing pilates has to burn calories, and weight loss comes from burning more calories than you consume. (You can lose weight by losing water, or cutting your hair, but the one and only way to lose fat is by burning more calories than you consume.)
DeleteCrito, Of course pilates burns calories. So what? The puzzle says nothing about burning calories. It states this thing is designed to cause weight loss. Pilates was not designed to cause weight loss. And it doesn't cause weight loss. Sleeping burns calories. Sleeping does not cause weight loss. In order to lose weight you must control your diet. You can be overweight and work out for 3 hours a day, but if you do not change your diet you will not lose weight.
DeleteYou can be overweight and work out for 3 hours a day, but if you do not change your diet you will not lose weight.
DeleteNo, that's not true. If you keep your diet the same -- you consume the same number of Calories -- but burn more calories, you will lose weight. You lose fat by using up more calories than you consume.
In training, Michael Phelps ate (and drank) between 7000 and 10,000 Calories a day. If he ate that much when he wasn't training, he would gain... a lot of weight.
You just do not seem to understand the difference between keeping fat off and removing fat. Phelps was not fat to begin with. Arnold S. used to say he enjoyed indulging on donuts, but would compensate by working out more when he did in order to keep fat cells from forming. People sure want to believe false information when it suits them. Oh, and did you know Donald Trump won the election Biden stole? I realize you don't, but it is the same failure to pay attention to actual facts.
DeleteOkay.
DeleteWell, if someone burns more calories than they consume, can you please tell me where you think that energy comes from?
I think it comes from lipolysis. But apparently you deny this, so I'd like to know where you think it comes from.
Now you are getting into a slightly different argument. It is perhaps a bit over my pay grade too, so let's stick to the puzzle saying pilates will cause weight loss. It will not. It will increase weight gain.
DeleteI recently finished reading "Captain's Dinner." True story just out about 3 yacht sinking disasters and the 4 survivors who catabolized one the captain murdered. They were losing weight, but not from exercising, but from no food, and so their bodies would consume themselves.
Your example of Phelps is not about losing weight, but of maintaining balance and not gaining weight.
Yeah but you aren't giving an argument. You're just asserting that pilates will increase weight gain. I gave an argument.
DeleteAll kinds of exercise will burn calories. Weight loss (meaning losing fat, not, say, water) comes from burning more calories than you consume. So if you consume the same calories, but add exercise, you'll lose weight. (If you exercise the same amount and reduce your calorie intake, you'll also lose weight.)
Since you do not believe the conclusion, I am wondering which premise you deny. I think you deny that people lose weight by burning more calories than they consume. So that now seems to be the point of contention.
So, I gave my main reason for thinking that when someone burns more calories than they consume they lose fat, namely, that the way they get the energy is by lipolysis.
This may be wrong. Plants get energy by photosynthesis, but humans don't. We get it by glycolysis and lipolysis. As far as I know! So when all that nice glycolysis doesn't provide me with as many calories as I'm using because I've burned all the sugars I ate today, my body breaks down the lipids in my fat cells. That's lipolysis.
But I'm ready to be enlightened by an alternative energy source! (I'm not going to be partial to coal, unlike our President.)
Experts on exercise and weight loss frequently inform us that pilates & situps will not work to lose fat around the gut and that it will in fact increase the size of that area because it will build the muscles. You cannot spot reduce, and you must control diet to lose excess fat, but it only comes off all over, and not in one place.
DeleteMy posts:
ReplyDelete- “Replace the 3rd letter in the first word with a different letter (best said aloud) to get an appropriate result!” - this was referring to replacing the L in PILATES with R (appropriately pronounced “Arrr”) to get PIRATES. [And Dr K - no worries for great minds thinking alike!]
- On Monday, in the thread from Crito about using this puzzle next month (for Pi Day), I posted “Apparently I recently learned that this month works as well” - Monday was National Pizza Day.
My hint was, "Rearrange the first word to spell a common congenital condition." The medical term for clubfoot is talipes equinovarus.
ReplyDeleteI had mentioned that I was surprised it took me so long to figure out the answer. On Sunday morning, I was in the middle of making an apple pie when the puzzle came on the radio. It was later in the afternoon that I spotted the pilates/pie plates connection.
ReplyDeleteMy comment "I think it's safe to say there will be more entries this week than last" was a reference to a place you would find pie plates: a pie safe.
ReplyDeleteThis week's challenge comes from Tom Streit, of Crozet, Va. A man said to a friend: "I'm thinking of a 9-letter word that contains my name, Ian ("I-A-N"), embedded somewhere inside it. If you replace my 3-letter name with your 4-letter name, you'll get a familiar word in 10 letters." What are the two words, and what is the name of Ian's friend?
ReplyDeleteI think I've got it.
DeleteMe too.
DeleteOne of my names (uh, not one of my names, but one of the names I use in my answer) is not exactly common, but it is quite recognizable.
I'll come up with a hint when the puzzle gets its own thread.
I have multiple answers. --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteonly 128 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteGood job Iris! The on-air puzzle was trickier than usual, I thought.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Ayesha is a delight, and the Puzzlemaster is a pleasant fellow. The part where I guess “Brees” was edited, making it less clear that I meant “Brees”, not “breeze”.
DeleteThere was one question left off. “A china cabinet, college football, a toilet.” It was “bowls”, but I needed hints.
It was a pleasure hearing you on the air, Shyra!
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