Wednesday, November 20, 2024

I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE III
Nod to WHEEL OF FORTUNE
GAMES/World of Puzzles
October, 2024
Todd Kreisman
 
Each of the clues below is missing three or more letters which, when filled in correctly, will give both a relevant clue and complete the phrase itself. 

Example:     CAJUN CO_ _ E_Y  ST_PLE
                                       OK   R         A
 OKRA is a  CAJUN COOKERY STAPLE

1. CRU _ _ E  STOPPING  P_ AC _

2. IT'S LI _ TL _ R   THAN  A  M _ L _ ARD

3. ON _  OF  PA'S  PO_ T   C _ TI _ S


QUOTES CCXIX

A spoken word and a thrown stone cannot be recalled.
Author Unknown
 
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know you trust him.
Booker T. Washington
 
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Mass communication, radio, and especially television have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Eugenio Montale
 
We live in a world of seeds. From our morning coffee and bagel to the cotton in our clothes and the cup of cocoa we might drink before bed, seeds surround us all day long. They are  quite literally the staff of life, the basis of diets and lifestyles around the globe.
Thor Hanson from The Triumph of Seeds
 
Make new friends and keep the old. One is silver, the other gold.
Girl Scout Motto
 
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
 
Sometimes good thing fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
 

 

What do the following phrases have in common that has nothing to do with their meanings?

1. SQUARE SHOOTER 

2. GATHER AROUND

3. SUPPOSE I DON'T?

4. SMELL THE ROSES

Answer:

Each phrase conceals the name of a mythological god or goddess:

1. squARE Shooter - ARES
2. gatHER Around - HERA
3. supPOSE I DON't - POSEIDON
4. smell thE ROSes - EROS 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

SYNONYM/ANAGRAM CCLXXI

The two words in each line can be anagrammed into one - beginning with the given letter. The meanings of the anagrams are given below the clues.

1. NET + FAIL = I

2. USED + REAP = P

3. HILT + MOON = M

4. INCH + ROAM = H

5. MADE + YARD = D

6. OMEN + SOUR = E

7. CHEF + RULE = C

8. FERN + STAR = T

9. CASE + IRON = S 

Meanings of the anagrams:

1. Fill with air 
2. Coax
3. Big oil, big pharma, etc.
4. Musically pleasing
5. Reverie
6. Huge
7. Upbeat
8. Move, shift
9. Sequence of events
 
Answers:
 
1. INFLATE
2. PERSUADE
3. MONOLITH
4. HARMONIC
5. DAYDREAM
6. ENORMOUS
7. CHEERFUL
8. TRANSFER
9. SCENARIO 

SHUFFLE 'EM LII

Dell PennyPress Variety Puzzles
Volume 329
 
Two six-letter words, with their letters in correct, but not consecutive order are combined in each row of letters below. To solve the puzzle, separate the two words. There are no extra letters and each letter is used only once. HINT: The two words are opposites.
 
1. F C A O R S M A L U A L 
 
2. T R T I U P D T G E O E 
 
3. D E I F N E V N A D E D
 
4. S M C O A O R O S T H E
 
5. F L S I T R M S O N Y G
 
6. A R N I D S D W E L R E 
 
Answers:
 
1. FORMAL - CASUAL
2. TRUDGE- TIPTOE
3. DEFEND - INVADE
4. SMOOTH - COARSE
5. FLIMSY - STRONG
6. ANSWER - RIDDLE 

COMMON COMBOS XLIX

Find a word that can either precede or follow each of the words in each of the groups.

1. Sit, Tar, Talk, Cry

2. Suit, Out, School, In

3. Joint, Pin, Room, Stick

4. Bill, Ball, Power, Passion

5. Secret, Opera, Elder, Cutter

6. Wedding, Wagon, Width, Wrist

Answers:

1. Baby
2. Law
3. Ball
4. Play
5. Box
6. Band

 

 

Monday, November 18, 2024

OMISSION POSSIBLE III

GAMES Magazine
June, 1997
Stephen Sniderman
 
Drop one letter from each word in the left-hand column and add the remaining letters to the front or back of one of the words in the right-hand column to form a new word - without any re-arrangement of letters. For examples, see OMISSION POSSIBLE I - posted Nov. 1, 2024.

1. SIGN                 BOMB
2. TINT                 SIS
3. SOME               FORE
4. RUM                 ID
5. EAST                RAVENOUS
6. CHAOS            RAN
7. STEREO          MUSE

Answers:

1. FOREIGN
2. INTRAVENOUS
3. RANSOM
4. MUSEUM
5. BOMBAST
6. CHASSIS
7. STEROID