Remove two consecutive letters that are an element, rearrange the remaining letters to name part of another animal.Q: Name an animal. The first five letters of its name spell a place where you may find it. The last four letters of this animal will name another animal -- but one that would ordinarily not be found in this place. What animals are these?
Edit: Remove LI and rearrange to get TALONS
A: STALLION --> STALL, LION
Almost got hung up on a vegetable.
ReplyDeleteI see.
DeleteThe first five letters used to be important in a certain sport.
ReplyDeleteAdd a G to the first animal and rearrange to find what both animals have.
ReplyDeleteVery clever!
DeleteCongrats to Lego on another fine puzzle! It took some time to figure out how to solve this one, but I did eventually.
ReplyDelete753 correct answers last week? Anyway, I have a tentative answer. The trouble is it's not a compound animal name.
ReplyDeleteHi! I think it was 780 correct answers last week! Thank you!
DeleteRearrange the even letters of the first animal. You get a washday occurrence.
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ReplyDeleteI just got it. Clever, lego. Well done.
ReplyDeleteMusical hint: Neil Young?
I feel like Blainesvilleans have an advantage.
ReplyDeleteI agree, if only because we know how clever Lego's puzzles always are. There's an unfortunate, trivial answer that some of us found and rejected, but it might satisfy some listeners.
DeleteWe speak the truth.
ReplyDeleteJoe -
ReplyDeleteGood one! Congrats!
Brilliant, Lego. I had a 50-50 shot at solving this one.
ReplyDeleteClever puzzle Lego - was this a place you were in when you came up with this puzzle? Anyway, the actual answer (with a certain modifier in front of it) brings to mind a certain well-known sports figure, which then has a nifty connection to last week’s challenge.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty roundabout clue, but I like it.
DeleteLike Lancek, I like your clue too, Snipper. Indeed, I am _l__s_ with pride!
DeleteLegoAProudGraduateOfAUniversityInAPlaceCalledCollegeville
My comment referred to a boxing bout consisting of rounds. I thought it might get deleted.
DeleteHow do you pronounce your handle, Lancek? Is it "Lance-kay", or Slavic, like "Lan-tsek", or Czech/Slovak, like "Lan-chek"? Just curious.
Deletejan, Did your forget Spain "Lanthayk"?
DeleteThe first animal’s companion may or may not be in the same place as the first animal.
ReplyDeleteI’d like to leave a hint, but it’s a bit early for that. I’ll drop one later in the week.
ReplyDeleteTake the longer animal name, remove any doubled letters. Now you can add in two more letters and scramble to name an NPR Show.
ReplyDeleteHere I am, ready to solve this puzzle.
ReplyDelete"Here I Am" is a song from the movie "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron".
DeleteMy son's name has a literary connection to the first animal.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Joe! Will Shortz may want you to replace him when the time comes. He certainly likes your work.
ReplyDeletepjbKnowsLegoIsARealPuzzleAnimalForSure!
Musical Clue: The Soul Train Theme
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Lego! Great puzzle, and I'd never noticed that connection before. Now I can sleep well tonight. --Margaret G.
ReplyDeleteAfter a long slog through lists of animals, I think I finally have it! No clue here (yet), just relief.
ReplyDeleteWhile working on it, I did spot a similar puzzle, that I think I will submit.
DeleteThat's always a fun discovery. I found one as well.
Delete178 centimeters
ReplyDeleteAs scary as it seems, I think I get this! Will await your explanation Thursday.
DeleteScarlett, cool. Get thee to a nunnery
DeleteYou have to hand it to Joe for this one.
ReplyDeleteI'm highly allergic to one of these animals. My wife has seen that I turn into the Elephant Man if I hang around these critters for too long. All I can say is that it's neither moose nor squirrel
ReplyDelete13x5+7
ReplyDeleteI've found an answer that works if the second animal is three letters.
ReplyDeleteSame. But not the part about the second animal not normally being found in the first place.
DeleteIf a poll were taken I believe this would be at the top of the list for best puzzle so far this year.
ReplyDeleteOur Blainesville lapel pins are ahead of schedule and should be here this week. Look for little padded index-card sized mailers in your mailboxes in time to surprise, amuse, and delight all your friends by early April.
ReplyDeleteNow I just need to get some lapels. . .
Enjoy!
I'm on the road so may not see my pin for some time. But I'm excited!!
DeleteHi Word Woman,
DeleteGood news! Your Blaine's Puzzle Blog Lapel Pins have shipped today 3/25/26 via USPS tracking number.
They should get to you within 3 weeks with USPS.
Deletesdb, are you working for usps now? ;)
DeleteBriefly.
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DeleteThe postman delivers letters every morning. Der Briefträger trägt Briefe jeden Morgen aus.
DeletePete and Repeat were in a boat. Pete fell out and who was left?
ReplyDeleteNo, who's on first. Why was left.
DeleteWhy a duck. (No hint here)
DeleteRIP Tracy Kidder.
ReplyDeleteMusic clue: Amy Winehouse.
ReplyDeleteBack to Black (Stallion)
DeleteI admit that I don't have access to all of the information about the LGA Air Canada Express crash, and it certainly appears that the controller messed up big time and bears most of the responsibility. But there's another aspect that I haven't heard anyone mention: Apparently, he cleared the fire truck to cross the active runway 12 seconds before the jet touched down. That's not nothing. If I'm 12 seconds from touchdown and I hear the tower clear someone onto my runway, what you're gonna hear from me in the next split second is, "Going around!" Full power, nose up, gear up, and figure it all out later. I'm sure the NTSB will be examining why the jet crew continued their approach after the controller's screwup, but for now, I'm at a loss.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I have not been observing this as closely as you appear to be; I did not know the jet had not touched down, but I have been wondering if the firetruck had its Xmas lights flashing. I am sure we are not being informed fully, and this always happens when reporters who know little or nothing about flying report on these incidents.
DeleteI also remember back in April 1999, on my return from a month in Europe, and the pilot touched down at SeaTac but then pulled up and did a go around because he told us their was another jet that had not cleared the runway yet. Sitting across the isle from me was a middle aged woman who worked for the FAA, and she was livid.
Two different frequencies. The jet could not hear the controller give the clearance to the truck to cross 4 at delta. Similarly, the truck could not hear that the jet was given clearance to land on 4.
DeleteEven if 2 different freqs were used, it's common to set the audio panel to listen to both tower and ground, while only transmitting on one. Once the cockpit voice recorder is read, we'll know whether the crew heard the truck's clearance.
DeleteMaybe I can sneak this one by now: Sylvester Stallone.
ReplyDeleteOoohh....you rebel. 😉
DeleteHe would rather that you not mention that.
DeleteSTALLION & LION + STALL
ReplyDeleteSTALLION, LION
ReplyDelete“Musical hint: Neil Young?”
—> Neil Young’s backup band, Crazy Horse.
I had consulted with my equestrian wife about whether or not stallions could be considered generally crazy horses, but she replied, ”Any horse.”
Hence, the question mark.
STALLION (STALL, LION)
ReplyDelete> Nailed it!
STALLION anagrams to NAIL LOST. As in the old proverb,
"For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
for want of a horse the rider was lost,"
etc.
Safer to stay in the STALL. There are fewer LIONs in there.
Right. They're usually lion in wait.
DeleteSTALLION, LION
ReplyDeleteI thought the clue that SDB just gave was too obvious -- Stallone.
So instead of my musical clue being ROCKY, I just wanted to hint at Philadelphia.
So my Musical Clue was The Soul Train Theme, which was performed by TSOP, which as we all know, stands for The Sound of Philadelphia!
I also clued:
Take the longer animal name, remove any doubled letters. Now you can add in two more letters and scramble to name an NPR Show
If you do this to STALLION, and add US, you can anagram to LATINO USA
Ben, wouldn’t you have to add 3 letters? L-U-A?
DeleteI wrote, “Rearrange the even letters of the first animal. You get a washday occurrence.” That’s LINT. It took me a while to get the right answer, after disregarding the technically correct but facile BEACH FLEA and WATER BEAR.
ReplyDeleteMy hubby came up with water bear right away. As you say, it was technically correct. But he thinks stallion way better.
DeleteThat was my answer also, and the reason for my comment about "late marks'" ("tardy grade" ==> tardigrade). But I don't think it would be all that unusual to find a bear in water.
DeleteBernard
DeleteMy clue (13x5+7) was alluding to the iconic scene in the original Rocky movie when Rocky Balboa (the Italian Stallion) ran up the 72 steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The steps are divided into five sets of 13, then seven more steps at the top.
ReplyDeleteSTALLION, STALL, LION
ReplyDeleteMy comment about solving in the bathroom got zapped.
50-50 refers to LL in the word.
Other stuff too.
Ahhh, I was wondering if anyone was cluing Sly Stallone!
ReplyDeleteI submit the alternative SHELLFISH - an aquatic invertebrate "animal" often found in a SHELL - & FISH - a different animal not usually found in a shell.
ReplyDeletestallion->stall, lion
ReplyDeleteI expected Lego's puzzle to be exotic, and got hung up on the Komodo Dragon, with the first five letters (Komod) sounding like COMODE and MODO being the first name of the animated Komodo Dragon in the movie GOAT but couldn't make the places fit.
ReplyDeleteScarlett, my 178 cm refers to Megan Thee Stallion's height followed by "Get thee to a nunnery." Did you, indeed, get thee to a nunnery?
ReplyDeleteNope, I was way off! I converted 178 cm into 1.947 yards. I then looked for movies featuring animals from 1947 and sure enough, there are a couple with "Stallion" in the title.
DeleteMy reference to that corny joke about Pete and Repeat was a veiled reference to Megan Thee Stallion's surname at birth: "Pete." Jan then took it to a different level and in a different direction.
DeleteThis week's edition of Puzzleria! features a trio of brain teasers courtesy of the multitalented Mathew Huffman (also known by his handle “Planned Chaos”). including a conundrum he composed (complete with an accompanying cartoon he drew!)
ReplyDeleteWe shall upload P! later today , indeed very soon tis very afternoon.
Also on this week's menu are:
~ a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “Experiment (with toy and tool!)”
~ a Vowel Shift Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Colony becomes a composer,”
~ a Puzzle Slice not-yet-titled(!),
~ a “Said The Spider To The Fly” Dessert titled “Lustrous” versus “Rusty,” and
~ ten-or-so riffs of this week's NPR puzzle by Joseph Young, titled “Home, home on the habitat...” (including a half-dozen from our "riffmaster-general," Nodd).
So please join us soon for a serving of "Jumble-aya!" and more, much more!... courtesy of “Planned Chaos et al.”
Legolaya(WhoThanksAllWhoPostedCommentsThisWeekAboutHis"StallionInAStall&LionINACageOnAPageNPRPuzzle)
I forgot to explain my earlier hints:
ReplyDelete"You have to hand it to Joe for this one." Horses are measured in HANDS.
"If a poll were taken I believe this would be at the top of the list for best puzzle so far this year." I was thinking of the Gallop Poll.
So what’s wrong with polar bear & bear?
ReplyDeletePolar is usually an adjective, describing the region around a geographic pole, but is not actually a place.
DeletePolar as a noun describes the straight line connecting two tangents to a conic section, which is also not really a place.
JAWS, did you put them in their place then, after all?
DeletePlus, actor George and buddy in a conic section sounds kinda place-y. Move them to the comic section and now we're talking definitive place, eh? ;)
Unless it's Comic sans...
DeleteMaybe an iconic section?
DeleteStallion, lion
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said the first animal’s companion may or may not be in the same place as the first animal. The first animal’s companion is a “may or” so to speak.
My posts:
ReplyDelete- “Clever puzzle Lego - was this a place you were in when you came up with this puzzle?” - referred to coming up with a puzzle in a stall such as a toilet stall (not that any of us use our phones or do our best thinking on a toilet!)
- “Anyway, the actual answer (with a certain modifier in front of it) brings to mind a certain well-known sports figure, which then has a nifty connection to last week’s challenge.” - referred to the “Italian Stallion” aka boxer Rocky Balboa, the star of the Rocky film franchise.
And that was a very clever clue, Snipper (one that I actually "got" immediately... which is unusual for me!)
DeleteLegoWhoIsNotHoweverAProponentOfStallTacticsOn"TheHardwoodFloor!"
STALLION is good and clearly intended, but I didn’t come up with it. Instead, I submitted WATERFOWL, which does seem to, maybe, satisfy the constraints.
ReplyDeleteI think "waterfowl" is a fine alternative answer, Joshua.
DeleteLegoWhoWondersIfDuckBilledCreaturesAre"FowlMouthed!"
"President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar."
ReplyDeleteNow I wonder how much longer it will be before we will see a black Sharpie signature on our Declaration Of Independence.
Speaking of associates of Jeffrey Epstein, Larry Summers was president of Harvard when we were there for our son's Freshman Parents' Weekend many years ago. He addressed the group and noted that, as a former Treasury Secretary, his signature was likely on some of the bills in our wallets, and suggested that it would be only appropriate for us to return them to his institution when it was time to make charitable donations.
DeleteLOL
DeleteSTALLION, STALL, LION
ReplyDeleteHere's a cryptic clue I just came up with for STALLION:
Boy riding high on one?!(8)
SON containing TALL+I(one)& lit.
pjbWillHaveAnotherOneOfHisCrypticPuzzlesPremieringOnPuzzleria!Eventually
Nice one, cranberry (Patrick J. Berry)!
DeletePatrick's next "Cryptic Crossword Masterpiece" to appear on Puzzleria! will be his 43rd!
Here is his most recent one.
LegoWhoSaysToTakeTheFirstNameOfACrosswordPuzzleMasterAndReplaceTwoOfItsLetters(ThatAreAPostalAbbreviationOfAStateAssociatedWithASquareNumberConsistingOfDigitsThatAreAlsoSquaresWhew!)WithTheLettersInTheFirstNameOfAHallOfFameHurlerAndThenToAnagramTheResultToSpellAWordAssociatedWithThisWonderfulCrosswordPuzzlemaster
This week's challenge comes from Peter Gordon, of Great Neck, N.Y. Name some tools used by shoemakers. After this word place part of a shoe. The result will be the subject of a famous painting. What is it?
ReplyDeleteA new candidate for the easiest puzzle ever.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Quite easy. Waiting for Blaine.
ReplyDeleteVery easy. If I say any more, I’d risk putting my foot in it.
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ReplyDeleteMy holiday is Passover!
ReplyDeleteChag Kasher v’Sameach
DeleteEasy, but it's a cute one!
ReplyDeleteI'll think of a clue for the new thread.
Yes, easy, but pretty clever.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Nice puzzle. Important to read it carefully (every letter). What makes it "easy" is that there are just not that many shoe tools and parts!
ReplyDeleteLegoSaysLotsaFamousPaintingsHowever!
I prefer my answer: "CHILEAN SEA BASS" --> "CHILE" and "BASS". The Chilean seabass is not a bass at all, but rather a toothfish. A clever marketing campaign in the 1970s or '80s rebranded the "Patagonian toothfish" as the "Chilean seabass", and sales took off. To this day, it has remained one of the world's most popular and pricey types of seafood. But no true bass species live in Chile. Surprised nobody else posted this alternative. The intended answer isn't great. After all, did not the Coliseum in Rome have stalls for lions under the main arena floor?
ReplyDeleteYes, but the Romans did not have the Bass-O-Matic.
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