Take the hyphenated term and add the letters M and R. Rearrange to get something you don't want to see in your food.Q: Name two words that are opposites. They share a single letter. Remove that shared letter from each word, put a hyphen between the two resulting words and you'll get a term you sometimes see in food ads. What words are these?
Edit: FLATWORM
A: SLOW, FAST --> LOW-FAT
Change the last two letters of the first word to an internet term, and remove the space between the words. You’ll name a food product described by the ad term.
ReplyDeleteSLOW, FAST => SLIMFAST
DeleteI was surprised how easy this turned out to be.
ReplyDeleteEasy, but it’s the sort of puzzle that makes me say, “Why didn’t I notice that before?” Remove the last letter from each of the two words of the food term. Rearrange what’s left. You get a food that in ordinary versions meets the description.
ReplyDeleteInsert a letter into one of the original words to get another pair of food related opposites.
ReplyDeleteAnd a musical clue: Simon and Garfunkel.
ReplyDeleteGood one!
DeleteI concur! The great thing about using that duo as a musical clue is that their catalog is so huge. The same is true about the Beatles (who also could provide the same clue).
DeleteThe songs were released only two years apart.
DeleteYou were probably waiting for me to add Billy Joel to this list (for one of the words).
DeleteBeach Boys
Deletethis is a cute bit of wordplay, and I'm happy that many, many people will get the satisfaction of discovering it. The correct answer count might even exceed last week's "more than two thousand."
ReplyDeleteEasy puzzle, but https://www.npr.org/2026/07/05/g-s1-131765/sunday-puzzle-five-plus-two-two-plus-five currently significantly misstates it. Annoying.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! good catch. Will and Blaine got it right, but some intern messed up again.
DeleteWill got it right on the air, but the way it's phased on the Web page is "The two starting words." It supposed to be the two remaining words. I know we're not supposed to criticize Will, but being a rebel and iconoclast, he uses the word "start" too much. As in "the start of the second word" "the start of the first word," etc.He should say beginning. It just sounds better.
DeleteHuh.
DeleteIt does to me, too.
I wonder if that's a difference in dialect, though -- Will's a Hoosier, of course.
Lots of style advice tells us to prefer Germanic to Latinate words when they're semantically equivalent, so that would speak in favor of 'start'.
Actually, the first time Will stated the puzzle he said "between the two starting words." In the second summarized version he said "between the two parts. So don't blame the intern this week.
DeleteDid you know baseball is mentioned in the Bible? Yup, right away. In the big inning. ;-)
DeleteThe bible also says men should make the coffee. It’s in He brews.
DeleteLOL!
DeleteAnd I didn't use to think they knew beans about making coffee back then.
Apparently the cars were bigger back then. The Bible says they were all in one Accord.
DeleteTrue enough, but apparently God is a Chrysler guy. I believe it says somewhere that He drove them (whoever them were) out of the valley in his [Plymouth] Fury.
DeleteNot to mention the Ram that Abraham found in the thicket.
DeleteGood observation, Scarlett. This got me to thinking about a suspicion I've entertained for some time now, and that is the ability of some people to foresee the future. I am referring to where Jesus points out that there are none so blind as those who will not see. What I suspect is that he was warning us of the Not Sees who would emerge almost two thousand years later.
DeleteI think you've Hit on something!
DeleteYes, it seems to be my struggle though.
DeleteEven Nebuchadnezzer had Tyre trouble.
DeleteBut no matter their mode of transportation, nor their breakdowns, the Republicans just Babylon.
DeleteAlso, apparently the game of bridge is referred to in the Bible "and the trump 'et shall sound".
DeleteSDB-Of course they knew about coffee beans. When Moses was up on Sinai, they took their gold and made de caf.
DeleteSpeaking of transportation back then, didn't Joseph and Mary have a donkey named Oatey?
DeleteThinking...
ReplyDeleteAn old adage comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteA fable comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteThink of two opposite food tastes. Remove one occurrence of the same letter from each. Rearrange the remainder to find two opposite actions which may be performed on fabric.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have the answer, shout it out. Don't wait.
Sweet/tart sew/tear
DeleteBy working backwards, I was able to figure this one out almost immediately. Fun puzzle!
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of a riddle about a horse.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised it took me this long to figure it out. Why didn't I think of this pair of words earlier? No clue in this, just venting.
ReplyDeleteStart with two different opposite words, remove their only shared letter, and rearrange the remaining two words to make a single familiar word.
ReplyDeleteEAT CARDBOARD!
ReplyDeleteThere are 2 words described by the opposites that can be rearranged into the name of a famous puzzlist.
ReplyDeleteStroll is to walk slow. Whiz is to walk fast. "Stroll, whiz" is an anagram of Will Shortz.
DeleteHad to use my little grey cells for this one
ReplyDeleteI'd rather go hungry.
ReplyDelete... i.e., I'd rather fast
DeleteElsewhere I added "Beach Boys" to a pile of musical clues: (get to Kokomo fast and then take it slow)
Neo
ReplyDeleteOne of the words is in an interesting linguistic category also related to the phrasing of the puzzle.
ReplyDelete@Blaine, did you ever get to open the lapel pins and kyanite package? Are you wearing the pin right now?
ReplyDeleteI got an alternate answer dealing with chickens.
ReplyDeleteSpanky M., when I deal with.chickens, their sharp little beaks get in the way. Clucking hilarious. ;-)
DeleteMovie Clue: Richard Linklater
ReplyDeleteOne of the opposites, and the hyphenated term, can avoid a pair of homonyms.
ReplyDeletejan, your comment reminds me that naiad and dryad are synonymphs.
DeleteRIP Louise Lasser, Louise Lasser.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Penelope Keith?
DeleteWell done Jan, well done!
DeleteWho's Weldon? Who's Weldon?
DeleteSDB, we're bummed about Penelope Keith. We love watching her programs on English villages. My husband had recently googled to see if she was alive after watching an episode. At the time, she hadn't yet died. 😥
DeleteWell it feels like a loss, but I think of it in a different way. We all who enjoyed her benefited from her life, and now she has graduated from this incarnation and gone back home, but will continue on and we are left with fond memories. So I am happy for her.
DeleteThat's a great way to look at it!
DeleteSLOW & FAST >>> LOW-FAT
ReplyDeleteSLOW, FAST (—> LOW-FAT)
ReplyDelete“I was surprised how easy this turned out to be.”
—> that is, how “fast” I solved it
“Simon and Garfunkel”
—> “Slow down, you move too fast,” the opening lyric in their “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”
I liked the Beatles and Beach Boys hints from Lancek and Paul (“Slow Down” and “Kokomo”).
Slow/Fast, remove the S’s >>> Low-Fat
ReplyDeleteTo fast can also mean to refrain from eating. If you add an “e” to fast, you get feast, with feast and fast being a pair of food related opposites..
My clue was "I'm reminded of a riddle about a horse." How do you make a slow horse fast? Don't feed him!
ReplyDelete"Even fast horses finish at the knacker's yard. That slow horses get there first was one of life's little ironies." -- Mick Herron, Real Tigers
DeleteI wrote, “Remove the last letter from each of the two words of the food term. Rearrange what’s left. You get a food that in ordinary versions meets the description.” That’s LOAF.
ReplyDeleteMy clue was:
ReplyDelete"Thinking..."
Alluding to one of my favorite books, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.
We at Puzzleria! are proud to present this week another "episode" of "Condundrumstuck by Chuck" (courtesy of master-puzzle-producer Chad Graham).
ReplyDeleteThis tricky trio or word teasers is an "EnLightning Electric Eclectic Appetizer" titled:
~ Mixing Meals “Pictures”-Perfectly;
~ A Bird Nests in the Rocks; and
~ A Whale of a Romantic Tale
We promise to upload this week's edition very soon this very afternoon!
Also on our menus this week:
* a Schpuzzle of the Week titled Three 5’s follow 3, 3... Is it “alphibonacci?”
* a A “Labour-not-Balfour-Brit” Hors d’Oeuvre titled “Our Legendary Labour Leader”
* a “Seemingly Synonymous Slice” titled “Similar-sounding sidereal sidewinding snake-species”
* “A Horse of a Different Collar” Dessert titled “Collard greens are green, right?” and
* NINE riffs of this week's NPR puzzle challenge, titled “Seeking low-fat? Run not slow, fast!”
And so, later today, run not slow but fast later on over to "our Puzzleria!" to get your fill of "Lightning from a free-flowing Bottle of Bafflers!, courtesy of Chad."
Lego!
Slow, fast->low-fat
ReplyDeleteRemove the S from "slow, fast" to get "low-fat".
I was reminded of that line from "The Sun Also Rises": in which a character describes how he went bankrupt: "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
ReplyDeleteSLOW, FAST, LOW-FAT
ReplyDelete> The original words can also describe food.
FAST food is a thing. So's SLOW food.
> One of the opposites, and the hyphenated term, can avoid a pair of homonyms.
If you're FAST, you avoid a wait. If you FAST, or eat LOW-FAT, you avoid weight.
SLOW, FAST; LOW-FAT
ReplyDeleteI thought I left an official clue but I guess not.
Just pithy slow and fast comments and questions, I guess. @Blaine?
Start with two different opposite words, remove their only shared letter, and rearrange the remaining two words to make a single familiar word.
ReplyDeleteFORE + AFT - FF = ORATE
My post, within the musical artists thread above - “You were probably waiting for me to add Billy Joel to this list (for one of the words).” - referred to his song Vienna (“Vienna waits for you”), which opens with “SLOW down, you crazy child…”.
ReplyDeleteSLOW, FAST, LOW-FAT
ReplyDeletepjbHimselfShouldBeEatingMoreLow-FatFoodsAsWell
my clue "eat Cardboard" had to do with my attempt to lower my cholesterol. I ate everything low fat but for cardboard. I finally used a statin
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm late to the party. My clue, "A fable comes to mind," was a reference to The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop, where the (slow) tortoise "outruns" the (fast) hare just by keeping going with consistency. It can be taken as a case for the saying "Slow but steady wins the race." I wonder if that's what Chuck was getting at with his "old adage" clue.
ReplyDeleteChuck: The puzzle you put out on Sunday....is this the answer? Sweet/tart sew/tear
ReplyDeleteGood work,, Scarlett --> You're the winner!
DeleteYaaaaa! I've never won anything! Well, there was that spelling bee in grade school, and a geography bee in jr high, but I don't like to brag. 🤓
DeleteMy clue was "Neo." Neo's the opposite of paleo, and paleo diets are NOT low-fat.
ReplyDeleteThis week's online challenge comes from Steve Baggish, of Arlington, Mass. Take the 10-letter name of a popular TV series for which most of its seasons have been filmed in a foreign country. Remove the first and last letters, and the remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the name of a country. What are the two names?
ReplyDeleteMore than 900 correct entries last week.
ReplyDelete