The level of difficulty in this week's puzzle is just right.Q: Think of a means of transportation in seven letters. Change the fifth letter to a U and read the result backward. You'll get a common Latin word followed by its English synonym. What words are these?
Edit:"Just right" --> Goldilocks --> Porridge --> "Mush" --> Dogsled.
A: DOGSLED --> DEUS, GOD
This one took some serious thought.
ReplyDeleteSirius, the "dog star."
DeleteNorman Schwarzkopf
ReplyDeleteChange the fifth letter in the transportation to an M and rearrange. You get another form of transportation.
ReplyDeleteHow some of us learned to drive.
DeleteYou’ll also get something you might order on-line.
DeleteA bit of a “stretch” for a hint: “Yankee Doodle Dandy."
ReplyDeleteStretched, but not to the breaking point,
DeletePlease disregard my hint above. I misread the puzzle (slightly, but significantly). Mea culpa.
DeleteThink of an animal in eight letters. Switch positions of the second and third letters, and drop the last letter; then read backwards. Kind of a long way to go, but if you don't get discouraged you might find something of value.
ReplyDelete[DON'T GET DISCOURAGED ➡] ANTELOPE ➡ ATNELOP ➡ POLENTA [➡ MUSH {➡ DOGSLED}]
DeleteI have what I believe is the answer...it certainly works..but I do not get any of the clues offered so far.....but that's just another Sunday
ReplyDeleteExcellent wordplay, Cap. To use a Latin word befitting your pseudonym, super!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lancek
DeleteI get Nodd's clue, but no others.
ReplyDeleteI do ride it, but not often.
You might want to wait until the afternoon to solve this one, Al.
ReplyDeleteIs there, or isn’t there?
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ReplyDeleteGot it! (I hope this isn't TMI.)
ReplyDeleteLOL! --Margaret G.
DeleteWolfgang - that’s funny!
ReplyDeleteDuring my solving process, I found what seemed like a National Enquirer headline.
I also thought I heard the Latin word spoken at a recent event I attended, but not quite (almost a homophone).
ReplyDeleteTractor would turn into "roucart", but most art is not called "rouc".
ReplyDelete"Most art" sounds like "Mozart", as in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A dogsled might be pulled by a wolf gang. Amadeus has Deus in it.
DeleteInterestingly, this puzzle was almost exactly 5 years after the Wolfgang Puck (wolf gang, pack) puzzle on September 5, 2021.
DeleteWow. My scrambled head undulates with this one. Nice Sunday puzzle.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ben
DeleteMy musical training came in handy here.
ReplyDeleteIf You told me where you had your musical training, I'm sure it would be TMI
DeleteQuite a "cleverelegant" puzzle, CAP. Your "Blainesvillian Congrats" are richly deserved.
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(as a chorister, I sing "Deus" quite a bit!)
DeleteBy George, I think I've got it!
ReplyDeleteRight day for a transport puzzle. Left our home at 0 Dark 30, finally read the puzzle between planes in Denver. (Hi Word Woman.) Got lucky. Now boarding next flight.
ReplyDeleteNo clues here. Gotta jet.
I do see a connection though (no pun intended).
DeleteHi Super Zee! Enjoy your vakay.
DeleteI have two authors, who wrote of this transport method, but either name would be TMI. But, while both wrote on the subject, one is best known as an author, the other, for other areas of endeavor.
DeleteI finally figured out the answer.
ReplyDeleteRemove any letters that appear more than once in the form of transportation. Rearrange to get something that is not nice to do to others.
DeleteNot seeing it Jaws. At least, not with my answer, which could be wrong.
DeleteThere seems to be an extra letter.
DeleteThere does seem to be an extra letter, and it looks like two of you have made that point. A third person might see it differently.
DeleteExcellent comeback, Jaws!
DeleteThis quiz leads us, of course, to Cleveland.
ReplyDeleteZeno, I had to look it up. I had no idea
DeleteTBH the same for me.
DeleteGood one, Cap. I have only used this means of transportation once, many years ago.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lorenzo
ReplyDeleteVery cool! There are some who would say that the English equivalent is a synonym for the Latin whichever direction you spell it. I hear this means of transport is getting increasingly difficult due to human interference and indifference.
ReplyDeleteThe Iditarod is becoming impossible, cuz not enough snow, cuz...you know...the hoax about a warming planet causing climate chaos. It's the 1st Law of thermodynamics: conservation of energy. We turn billions of tons of potential energy into KINETIC. We have an energized atmosphere, which will remain thus, until that energy is stored once again in the ground, as potential. Mush-brain says he's gonna steal another trillion from the unborn to bribe you into voting. Are we @ high crimes etc. YET?!!! That original doggle marathon was to deal w/ a typhoid epidemic, wasn''t it. Well now RatF**kJeR-kopf has prevented a repeat of that heroic effort.
DeleteI took Latin I and II in high school. That didn't help me with this puzzle. What did help was a pen and paper and logic. Nothing but logic, a pen and paper. Somehow, the answer came to me. Like magic.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the instructions of the puzzle, if you also change the last letter to a certain high value scrabble letter, and read the result backwards, you can get a potential variation of this week’s puzzle….i wonder if the creator considered that.
ReplyDeleteShipper is being heretic. Shame.
DeleteBrilliant you blasphemous jokers! Perhaps economist Orman will replace that moron who literally looks like a cartoon jackass when he talks...after orange ghoulius conducts his bamboozle-athon!
DeleteThat's a good one.
DeleteA previous puzzle had Suze Orman =. Roman Zeus. Thank god you can no longer play Scrabble on Facebook. I used to have multiple games going w/ half a dozen people. It was FUN. I knew every 2 letter word to maximize the parallel scoring. Tied-me up every morning.
DeleteA literary hint (better, I hope than my hint above): Aeschylus.
ReplyDeleteWhile in college, my son participated in a race involving this means of transportation, sort of.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle got me very emotional.
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ReplyDeleteClark a pseudonym, brilliant, brilliant puzzle. Elegant in its simplicity, good degree of difficulty, and I learned a new word in another langugage. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThe answer came to me yesterday morning at precisely 10 a.m.
WW, thank you for the best complement especially coming from a WORD WOMAN!!!
ReplyDeleteAfter changing the fifth letter to U, you can read the result forward to get two words that might describe our POTUS.
ReplyDeleteDOG and SUED
DeleteThe four means of transportation in Blaine's picture share a characteristic that the answer doesn't.
ReplyDeleteAlong those lines, perhaps, one can reverse the syllables of the means of transportation to get a unit of propulsion for a means of transportation.
DeleteRemove two consecutive letters from the form of transport and you can anagram a brand name in the transportation industry. Remove two non consecutive letters instead, and you can anagram a term for a common type of destination
ReplyDeleteWhile in London, I saw the Union Jack.
ReplyDeleteCute
Deletedogsled --> deus god
ReplyDeleteLast Sunday I said, “Is there, or isn’t there” a god?
DOGSLED>>DEUS, GOD
ReplyDeleteJack London (Call of the Wild, White Fang) and Raold Amundsen (The South Poke, My Life as an Explorer) both wrote of dog sledding. London from there perspective of an animal rights activist, Amundsen from the perspective of an explorer who had made extensive use of dog sleds.
DOGSLED >>> DEUS & GOD
ReplyDeleteMy Hint: "Norman Schwarzkopf"
After he retired I saw a video clip of him riding a dogsled in Norway or Finland, I think it was. I tried to locate it online, but could not find it. Every time I think of him I think of that video and always wonder why he wanted to do that. I was not particularly interested in Norman Schwarzkopf, but I keep seeing copies of his autobiography which causes me to recall that video clip.
DOGSLED --> DEUS, GOD
ReplyDelete> There's a puzzling coincidence today.
One of the pangrams in Sunday's NY Times Spelling Bee was DOGBANE.
> While in college, my son participated in a race involving this means of transportation, sort of.
Not sure this was his year, but it was close.
> The four means of transportation in Blaine's picture share a characteristic that the answer doesn't.
They're all engine- or motor-powered. You wouldn't expect a deus ex machina.
DOGSLED —> DEUS, GOD
ReplyDelete“literary hint: Aeschylus”
—> Aeschylus was the first dramatist to employ a deus ex machina.
Congrats once again, Cap, this time for a macaronic puzzle! There may have been other, earlier NPR puzzles whose answers involved two languages, but this was the first time I can recall acknowledging one.
Dr. K, Thanks again. BTW I had to look up macaronic. I could have used in a puzzle----------> Remove the last letter and you have a for a foreign food! I'll kee4p it in the back of my head. Put a feather in his cap and called it macaroni .
DeleteMy first hint was “Yankee Doodle Dandy” for that reason. I had misread the puzzle and thought you didn’t stipulate the language of the synonym, so revealing that the answers were two different languages by hinting the word “macaronic” itself would be tmi.
DeleteI wrote, “Change the fifth letter in the transportation to an M and rearrange. You get another form of transportation.” That’s DODGEMS.
ReplyDeleteDogsled (Deus, God)
ReplyDeleteOur friend Mathew Huffman takes center stage on this week's Puzzleria! with another of his ingenious mini-crossword puzzles, titled: "Across (Not Down), Yet Down (Under)!"
ReplyDeleteWe will upload Puzzleria! sometime today, ere the clock strikes Midnight!
Also on our menus this week:
~ A Schpuzzle of the Week titled "Accent the first 'si-l?-b?l or second s?-'la-b?l ?" (substitute schwas for all but the final "?")
~ a “Mountain Peaks & Countin’ Weeks” Hors d’Oeuvre titled “United States & ‘CalenDates’!”
~ an “Apple-Bobbin’ Bucket” Slice titled “Halloween Hallucinatin’,”
~ an Utch-Day-Eat-Tray Dessert titled Light, Land... or “Punch an elevator button,” and
~ nine riffs of Michael Schwartz's excellent NPR puzzle, titled “Dogs led the dogsled!”...
Mathew, Michael, and More!... (incuding six riffs from Nodd and one from Plantsmith).
It just does not get any better than that! Join us!
Lego!
SuperZee wrote that there was no clue in his comment about his flight schedule, which included Denver. My reply was "I see a connection though (no pun intended)." John Denver co-starred in "Oh God!".
ReplyDeleteGood one! Especially as we were on our way to Maui, which we consider, “Heavenly.”
DeleteEnjoy Paradise!
DeleteDOGSLED, DEUS, GOD
ReplyDeleteMy hint was My scrambled head undulates with this one.
My scrambled head undulates spells MSHU, which anagrams/scrambles to MUSH.
That's the DOGSLED word that I know.
Reminds me of John Prine's song "Pretty Good".
ReplyDeleteDOGSLED — DEUS, GOD
ReplyDeleteMy clue: "Got it! (I hope this isn't TMI.)"
(With "got" being phonetically somewhat similar to "god.")
I thought your clue being TMI referred to your name being Wolfgang, and a dog sled might be pulled by a wolf gang. It is like what happened with the Wolfgang Puck puzzle 5 years ago.
DeleteHmm ... I thought we were going down the AMADEUS trail.
DeleteMy hint was to change the fifth letter to an s, and rearrange to get (goddess) a hyponym of the Latin.
ReplyDeleteDOGSLED, DEUS, GOD
ReplyDeleteI had clued: Remove any letters that appear more than once in the form of transportation. Rearrange to get something that is not nice to do to others.
Removing the two D's leaves OGSLE, which anagrams to OGLES. I didn't want to specify that the not nice something was in the third person. However, when two people had commented that it didn't quite seem right, I had the perfect opportunity to mention that a third person might see it differently!
DOGSLED; DEUS, GOD
ReplyDelete"Clark a pseudonym, brilliant, brilliant puzzle. Elegant in its simplicity, good degree of difficulty, and I learned a new word in another langugage. Thank you!
The answer came to me yesterday morning at precisely 10 a.m."
We switched to a 10 a.m. church service this Sunday so I was thinking of GOD and looking at the dais in front of the church which sounds quite like DEUS.
My posts:
ReplyDelete“During my solving process, I found what seemed like a National Enquirer headline”……before reading backwards, you get “Dog Sued”!
“I also thought I heard the Latin word spoken at a recent event I attended, but not quite (almost a homophone).” ……”Deus” sounds a lot like Deuce, such as what I heard an ump say often at the US Open (tennis).
“In addition to the instructions of the puzzle, if you also change the last letter to a certain high value scrabble letter, and read the result backwards, you can get a potential variation of this week’s puzzle….i wonder if the creator considered that.”…..replacing the last letter with a Z would yield the backward result “Zeus god”
My comment "This puzzle got me very emotional" was a hint about being "mush"y, as well as literal, as the puzzle got me thinking about my childhood pet, a husky. God, did she shed a lot!
ReplyDeleteThe most famous sled dog of all time is probably Balto, the lead dog on the team that went the last 50 or so miles in the race to bring diphtheria antitoxins to Nome in 1925. (Jack London's Buck would be the most famous fictional husky.) Balto was sold to a circus operator and was living in squalid conditions until the good people of Cleveland raised enough money to buy him and bring him to their town, where he lived out his days. After his death he was stuffed and put on display at the Cleveland Zoo; he is now at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
ReplyDeleteThere is a dispute even today whether Togo, the lead dog on the 200 miles before the final leg, deserves the credit Balto got. Togo's stuffed remains are at Wasilla. I did not mention that town, which would have been a giveaway.
Well, since you posted that interesting information, I am breaking the rules and posting something I am supposed to not disclose. It has to do with the eventual death of D. J. Trump. Arrangements have already been made for when this event occurs. His body is to be stuffed and then put on permanent display at the Smithsonian.
DeleteDOGSLED, DEUS, GOD
ReplyDeleteDue to Wi-Fi difficulties here at our condo in FL, I've been unable to comment here or on Puzzleria!, but now my brother Bryan has fixed the problem, so here I am! BTW How could Blaine get the next challenge this fast? I just now saw it here, and it's still Saturday afternoon!?!
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