Normally I'd have something to add here, but today it's the opposite.Q: Name something in 10 letters that's found in a kitchen. Drop its sixth letter to name something on a keyboard. Then drop the new word's fifth letter to name something no one wants to get. What words are these?
Edit: A postscript (P.S.) is something that might be added afterwards, but this time they are the letters to be removed.
A: BACKSPLASH, BACKSLASH, BACKLASH
Puzzle makers often get the third thing.
ReplyDeleteJust over 150 correct entries last week.
ReplyDeleteSo 149 turned out to be a pretty good prediction after all!
DeleteSheer coincidence.
DeleteWas that you, Jan, who predicted 150? I was, like, "Holy COW!" that person has some really good insight into the Sunday AM listeners!
DeleteIt wasn't a prediction, just a red herring and a clue to the emblem of the 149th Fighter Squadron.
DeleteI got the CALL.
DeleteDo well!
DeleteGracias! I just want to meet Will & Ayesha, make it to the END, and get my LAPEL PIN. I intend to KEEP playing but will attach addendum to my entries saying "please don't put my NAME into hopper. Give someone else a CHANCE."!
DeleteI will BREAK A LEG!!!
Have a good time. It will be fun to hear you.
DeleteCongratulations, Uncle John, and good luck!
DeleteCongratulations!
DeleteMuchos graçias, Blaine, and sky---boy, Rob,and jan, for your wishes. I did terribly. I will plead tech issues partly. I was at job site, far from towers (I'm currently working as a laborer). I could read Ayesha-- in the studio, quite clear. When WS joined us on his line it was spotty. I had to keep moving the earpiece of my T9-mobile Star Trek communicator to pull in Will, or to hear Ayesha. Puzzle all about 3 word series of "B" words, such as: Beer-Belly-Button. Think I got that one, prolly due to my predilections and expanding GIRTH. At first I thought they had to be alphabetical, some of that was due to my Verklemptedness. Anyway, Will and Ayesha are the best. They are so KIND and supportive. So, hear me humiliate myslef (sic) Sunday.
DeleteBut now you can sit back smugly knowing you can be the first to solve the weekly challenge. Congrats on the lapel pin win.
DeleteI'm sure you did fine. I look forward to hearing you on Sunday.
DeleteI missed this thread. Congrats, UJ and know that you did what you could under what sounds like difficult circumstances. Much of Blainesville inhabitants are retired and wouldn't have had to face the obstacles that you did. I salute you no matter how it went!
DeleteThis weeks challenge is a nocturnal creature. 2 word name. First part of name sounds creepy. If you take the last letter of first word and attache it to beginning of 2nd word you get something else that sounds scary.
DeleteI don't think this particular species was in the 7 acre wood. AG had a ball w/ part II.
Easy.
DeleteI solved it working both ways, to and fro, from the 9-letter keyboard word.
ReplyDeleteSame. Can’t say I’d heard of the kitchen item before.
DeleteI’ve heard of kitchen item, but I associate it with fancier houses than mine
DeleteTHX! Finally got it. OY! Was trying to work my way backward from HEADACHE!!
DeleteWas that the first time "biblical erotica" has been uttered on NPR?
ReplyDeleteI suspect so. But I’m thinking of checking it out.
DeleteAre we talking Bathsheba? Salome? That rascal King David? Inquiring minds need more info.
Hardly incisive.
DeleteIsn't it just like Michael Pickard to deliver us roses?
ReplyDelete(That's my clue.)
DeleteFrom the third word, remove two letters and rearrange. You get a locale which is musically associated with something you get when you remove three letters from the third word.
ReplyDeleteClever!
DeleteRepeat the removed letters a couple of times. The result is something associated with cats.
ReplyDeleteSince the removed letters are PS, repeating them gives you PSPSPS, which when pronounced like psst psst psst, is a sound people will make to get the attention of a cat.
DeleteMusical Clue: Guns 'n Roses
ReplyDeleteCrito was more subtle.
DeleteIf everything I'm seeing in the clue is intentional, then M5's is plenty subtle!
DeleteBut mine was going in a totally different direction, actually.
The lead guitarist of Guns 'n Roses is literally known as "Slash," which I thought might be TMI. I figured M5 might self-censor after knowing that Crito had posted a subtler version of what I thought was the same clue.
DeleteTrying saying all three words aloud in quick succession. Go ahead...I know you want to.
ReplyDeleteThat was exactly MY thought! After I got the answer, I told my husband “Now try saying them quickly 3 times.” Not as tricky as “toy boat,” but still a kind of tongue twister.
DeleteTry "toy boat hoist"
DeleteRelocate one letter in the third word, and get some flora.
ReplyDeleteGreat!
DeleteThink of an old time movie character.
ReplyDeleteI tried looking for other 10-/9-/8-letter words that met the letter-deletion criteria. (There are several, none of them common, and none with the stated properties.) I was surprised that the 10-letter word doesn't appear on the Moby word list of single words (at least not in the version I downloaded years ago), and that the 9-letter word isn't on its list of common words.
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle, which I enjoyed while eating my gourmet breakfast of cornflakes, hashbrowns, and plaintoast. Then I went over to my piano to tickle the ivorykeys (some ebonykeys as well, like when I used a cminor9th chord).
ReplyDeleteBtw, I didn’t realize what the most common synonym was for the first word.
How did you resolve the 9th?
DeleteUsually with a G major chord, though I play around with different bass notes depending on the progression.
DeleteThe thing is made of latex.
ReplyDeleteThat's a bit of a stretch.
DeleteIn the math language LaTeX, backslashes are used in front of keywords.
DeleteFinally got it. Now, maybe I'll run & fix sangria.
ReplyDelete"Run, fix sangria" is an anagram of "Fraxinus nigra", the scientific name of the Black Ash tree. "Black Ash" is "backlash" with a slightly mobile "l".
DeleteBACKSPLASH\BACKLASH
Chuck Norris would have no problem with this one.
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DeleteDamn- two for one. BOGO.
DeletePhiladelphia, ??
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ReplyDeleteIf you take a different first kitchen item word, remove the 6th letter, then the 5th, then the 4th, you get a synonym for the first word.
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ReplyDeleteI was one of the 150+ last week. And I got the answer by playing around with a bunch of Scrabble tiles. I didn’t know about Virginia’s motto, only that John Wilkes Booth uttered those words as he jumped onto the stage after shooting Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteAnd my clue “Et tu, Brute” was deemed TMI by the blog administrator.
DeleteLet us know if those tiles were useful this week.
DeleteOooh, right, surely useful this week. Or are you one of those people who takes things for granted?
DeleteActually, yes. My problem is that I’m a visual learner—-but I’m also good with anagrams. I can stare at a bunch of letters and then rearrange them to get other words. Doesn’t make me any smarter than the average bear, just someone good with anagrams.
DeleteI got censored by Admin for saying that someone w/ the same 3 initials as myself had famously shouted these words after doing something nefarious.
DeleteAnd in a different post for saying i had a placard w/ this phrase hanging from an effigy head above my driveway, which I removed when the monster came back, cuz I thought it was too dangerous.
I think cooks who spend lots of time in the kitchen can easily get the first word.
ReplyDeleteIf I have it right, the first word is pretty special: it is not on any of my computer word lists ... except Scrabble words!
DeleteIf it’s any consolation, I suck at math.
ReplyDeleteAnybody watch the UFC games today? My stomach couldn’t take it🤮🤮🤮.
ReplyDeleteBlasphemy! The Whitehouse was built by enslaved people. Caligula seems to have no lower-limit to his depravity and disrespect.
DeleteWatching the Knicks win the championship last night and then watching UFC today really would be going from the sublime to the nauseating.
ReplyDeleteBlaine, It appears ZenoCosini's 2 posts have been blogger deleted. AI sucks!
ReplyDeleteToday's contestant writes Biblical er*tica in her free time. "Paradise Lust" wasn't good enough? Or "The Song of Thongs"?
ReplyDelete(The word with the asterisk must set off some sort of alarm because the site kept deleting my posts.)
I was going to reply to your original post that I always find attending formal functions frustrating if I am unsure if it will be black thong or white thong.
DeleteAlways wear black--you can tell your host that you were coming from a funeral.
DeleteWhen I was a wee lass, flip flops were called thongs. Now that I'm an old codger, no type of thong is safe to wear.
DeleteIt’s your thong. Do what you wanna do!
DeleteI thought the thong remains the same!
DeletepjbIsImaginingDaffyDuckOrSylvesterSingingSisqo
A buddy of me was fixing leaks on a mcmansion. They had big Labs, which stole and ate entire tubes of caulk. There were two daughters: one looked like Betty Boop and was, at 15, already workin' the available youths. The younger was plain. One day Chris heard a huge commotion, w/ the harlot screaming bloody murder and cursing little sis'. Then the labs came runnin' round the corner of the house wearing bright red THONGS on their hind-ends.
DeleteSkydiveboy, any thoughts on the crash of that skydiving plane in Missouri yesterday? The plane, a Pacific Aerospace P750, should have been okay with 12 people aboard (its web page says it can carry a pilot and 17 skydivers). The NY Times article said the airport (Butler Memorial, KBUM) has "the capacity to land small jets", though the runway is only about 4000 feet long (plenty for that plane) and they only stock 100LL avgas, not jet fuel. (Of course, the articles also said, "the aircraft was only about 100 feet in the air when it crashed soon after takeoff", as if the ground suddenly hit the plane while it was 100 feet up!) The plane was a turboprop, with a PT6A that can run on 100LL, with restrictions. Doesn't seem that weather was a factor.
ReplyDeletejan, I had not heard anything of this until I just now read your post above. I am surprised it was not a 2 engine plane that had an engine quit and the pilot did not know how to recover. But this is rather odd for that single engine plane to turn 90 degrees with wings vertical and crash. I would suspect it may have something to do with the skydiving operation and improper maintenance and/or pilot competence. This is just an educated guess from personal experience in the past. Other than that, I have no clue. Keep me posted.
DeleteAccording to the CBS [and I see a lot of BS these days] news piece interview with a witness, the pilot appeared to be trying to turn and land on the road. Also the plane possibly lost power. The pilot should have kept it level and landed in the direction it had taken off in. That turning back low kills lots of 'em.
DeleteThat airport is remote enough that Flightradar24 doesn't have any record of local flights below around 2500 feet. Looks like the accident plane made two earlier flights yesterday morning, taking off the north, climbing over the airport to around 13,000 feet (for drops, presumably), and then descending for landing.
Deletejan, You might enjoy reading the news piece on the left side of this link below:
Deletehttps://www.attorneysmakingitright.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/plane-owner-cited-in-death-of-skydivers.pdf
I was invited by the owner, Jim Baron, to be the chief Tandem instructor at his DZ a year or 2 earlier. I drove back there and took him up on his offer. Right away I was shocked by what I not only saw, but also was informed about by regular jumpers there and also one very observant, and knowledgeable continuing student on the static line program. I soon realized I most likely would die a violent death there due to his refusal to obey FAA rules and laws and much more. I left in a hurry and it cost me financially, but also saved my life, as I would have been on that doomed flight. I am pleased with myself for following my instincts and not wanting to work for evil persons.
Continuing with some Billy Joel references, I just heard one of his song lyrics that used the last four letters of the answer (actually of all three answers).
ReplyDeleteI'll be interested to see which song on Thursday. I can think of a Rolling Stones song ... and perhaps(?) a drunken Monkees song.
DeleteIf you have the puzzle answer, you should be able to do a search to find the song. If not, ofc tomorrow it will be shared.
DeleteThere are lots and lots of Billy Joel songs. I was too lazy to scan through them all looking for LASH. I did find Halston, but I don't think that's what was intended. So, getting back to LASH, and forgetting about Billy for the moment, I thought of Jumpin' Jack Flash. Then I just got silly with Lasht Shtrain to Clarkshville.
DeleteRachel Dratch gives Dartmouth's commencement address. I think I would actually stay awake for this one (unlike most of them, including my own).
ReplyDelete>>>
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Lwkci6e9c&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5tD
Dartmouth admitted women starting in 1976, a mere five decades ago. Ms. Dratch was Dartmouth Class of 1988.
Enjoy!
Which of your regulars predicted 149 correct answers on the Sic Semper Tyrannis. Wow, I think I want horse race tips from THEM!
ReplyDeleteSee above
DeleteOur Leader appears to be having a stream of consciousness..
ReplyDeleteGet to the point! We want to hear about the Ballroom.
DeleteDelusions of competence?
DeleteBACKSPLASH >>> BACKSLASH >>> BACKLASH
ReplyDeleteBACKSPLASH, BACKSLASH, BACKLASH
ReplyDelete“I solved it working both ways, to and fro, from the 9-letter keyboard word.” (I actually did solve it that way.)
“to and fro” —> forward and BACK
“Relocate one letter in the third word, and get some flora.”
backlash —> black ash
backsplash --> backslash --> backlash
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “Think of an old time movie character.” The movie character is Lash LaRue, popular in westerns during the 40s and 50s. “Lash” is the word that’s a constant throughout this puzzle.
BACKSPLASH. BACKSLASH, BACKLASH
ReplyDelete"Rachel Dratch gives Dartmouth's commencement address. I think I would actually stay awake for this one (unlike most of them, including my own).
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Lwkci6e9c&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5tD
Dartmouth admitted women starting in 1976, a mere five decades ago. Ms. Dratch was Dartmouth Class of 1988.
Enjoy!" ✓✓✓ π π π
Ms. Dratch speaks of putting your actual hand on each other's BACK. "I've got your BACK!"
backsplash, backslash, backlash
ReplyDeleteI wrote, “From the third word, remove two letters and rearrange. You get a locale which is musically associated with something you get when you remove three letters from the third word.” “Rock the CASBAH” was a 1982 hit for the CLASH.
ReplyDeleteI got stuck on the idea of a piano keyboard and spent a bunch of time trying to make “black eye” and “black key e” or something similar fit…
ReplyDeleteRobert - I too went down that rabbit hole for a while.
DeleteI was tempted to comment on a connection to the "misprint" puzzle. Back when I was in school I often found "sp" scribbled in red ink over various words in my papers.
ReplyDeletePuzzleria! Update:
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to upload this week's edition of Puzzleria! later today. I've been experiencing "technical difficulties."
If everything goes well, you will be in for a special treat this week, as we will again be featuring a quintet of stellar posers posed by our friend and master puzzle-creator Tortitude. Everything Tortie produces is thought-provoking, educational.... and yet, amazingly puzzling!
Her Appetizing Display this time is titled:
Mental Conttortions Appetizer:
Rob from the Rich?; Bird Bug “Crawler” Canine Feline; “ROT-10”(or-13?) Fish!; 4 synonyms, 2 rhyming pairs; ROT!; For these 5 letters 5 is the limit!
We will do our darnedest to upload this week's edition of Puzzleria very soon this very afternoon!!!
Also on this week's Menus:
~ a Schpuzzle of the Week titled “It’s the Berries!”
~ a Hard Copy & Soft Drinks Hors d’Oeuvre titled “The Pause (Button) that Refreshes?”
~ a Clean-Up In Aisle-Nine Slice titled "Takin’ a trip to the Piggly Wiggly,"
~ a Midnight Sweet Snack Dessert titled “Our cookie jar lid is ajar!”... and
~ eight riffs of this week's Riffing Off Shortz And Pickard Slices (titled: Splash Slash Lash Ashbackwards!) including 7 "beastly beauties": 6 from Nodd and 1 from Plantsmith.
We shall do our best to deliver a friendly set of puzzles in an "Internettled" and sometimes-unfriendly-to-computer-challenged-puzzle-bloggers World Wide Web!"
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BACKSPLASH, BACKSLASH, BACKLASH
ReplyDelete> This puzzle feels like an afterthought.
"PS" are the letters removed, in order.
> Philadelphia, ??
Philadelphia, MS, is the home of the Geyser Falls Water Theme Park, featuring the BACKSPLASH Water Slide.
> Let us know if those tiles were useful this week.
A kitchen BACKSPLASH is often tiled.
My posts above:
ReplyDelete- first referenced some 9-letter breakfast items and then some 9-letter piano keyboard items, though these were just for fun - no clues.
- The most common synonym for backsplash (in the kitchen) appeared to be “splashback” which I was unfamiliar with.
- My response to Musinglink’s inquiry about how I resolved the Cminor9th chord (ie, using g major with different bass notes) was a reference to a chord that uses a slash, such as G/C (which is a g chord with c note as bass).
- My reference to Billy Joel song lyric was from Big Man on Mulberry Street where he says “why do I lash out?” (In 4th stanza)
This is just to say / I'm overseas and forgot to comment this week!
ReplyDeleteMissed an opportunity to use a back slash instead of a forward slash, I see.... :) Safe travels!
DeleteMy clue was, "Isn't it just like Michael Pickard to deliver us roses?"
ReplyDelete"DELIVER US ROSES" is an anagram of REVERSE SOLIDUS, which is a fancy name for a backslash.
Golly, you were REALLY going in a different direction. I thought you were referring to Guns 'n Roses, whose guitarist is called Slash.
DeleteBACKSPLASH, BACKSLASH, BACKLASH
ReplyDeleteMy clue was deleted by Blaine. But I gave musical clues of the Beatles and GnR, because the Beatles recorded BACK in the USSR and GnR featured the lead guitarist SLASH.
And: take a different first 10-letter kitchen item word, remove the 6th letter, then the 5th, then the 4th, and get a synonym for the first word.
ReplyDeleteZIPTOPBAGS => => => ZIPBAGS
BACKSPLASH, BACKSLASH, BACKLASH
ReplyDeletepjbFiguredOutTheAnswerReallyEarlySundayMorning,ButHeHadToWaitAWhileBeforeListeningToTheOn-AirPuzzleAsWell
Blaine - Blogger is acting strangely. I get email via the “Notify Me,” function, but the underlying posts don’t show up in the app…
ReplyDeleteSo if I reply to your post, you get an email but it doesn't have details of the comment?
DeleteYour message showed up, but a series of messages from Uncle John and SkyDiveBoy seem to be missing.
DeleteOops. I just found the missing posts. They showed up as replies to much older posts, not as new items. Sorry
DeleteThis week's online challenge comes from Evan Kalish, of Bayside, N.Y. Take the name of a nocturnal creature, in two words. The first word is a spooky sound. Move the last letter of the first word to the start of the second word and you'll get another spooky, nocturnal sound. What is the creature and what are the sounds?
ReplyDeleteNot too hard. Waiting for Blaine...
DeleteEven easier than solving the one UJ posted yesterday, but a different answer this time.
DeleteCarbon particles
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