Wordy Wednesday 562: Codewords 25 & Wordy Wednesday 563: Anacrossword 35

WORDY WEDNESDAY #560
PENT WORDS 112 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers **
Bart Gold **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tower **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #561
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 5 (hint)

As of this writing, 12 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

LAST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #562
CODEWORDS 25
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In the crossword puzzle above, every letter is represented by an integer from 1 through 26. You must decipher the code to reveal the words.

Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to spell the final answer, an eight-letter word.

WORDY WEDNESDAY #563
ANACROSSWORD 35
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(click here for rules)

This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Cathy Bowen. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!

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• Reservation, as for a flight or a hotel room
• Disregard
• Alice’s cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• It was built to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution: 2 wds.
• Dinner and a movie, perhaps (or, alternatively, making balanced): 2 wds.
• Charles Gounod opera
• “____ is where the heart is”
• Gland that can secrete milk
• The Joe Rogan Experience, for one
• Actor who portrayed Zed in Men in Black: 2 wds.
• Talk back to
• Gastroenterologist’s concern
• George who sang “All My Ex’s Live in Texas”
• Provable mathematical proposition
• Food for ____
• Frugal
• Successfully oppose
• Quiver
• Like many a woven basket or chair

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 5, Episode 4: The Name Game

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 5"): click here

Episode 1 (Veg Out): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 20 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 2 (Baseball Baffler): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 20 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 2 people solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 3 (Musical Arrangement): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 20 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 3100. Thus, the current money pool for the Food Bank for Larimer County is $31.00. Four anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Food Bank for Larimer County will actually receive $155.00. A special thank you to my newest anonymous benefactor for hopping aboard. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points each, possibly with the aid of the hint.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 5, EPISODE 4:

THE NAME GAME

(click here for a PDF version)

Can you help Kevin figure out what these trios of famous people have in common?
Burnett, Channing, Kane
Griffith, Samberg, Warhol
Dreyfuss, Gere, Nixon
Colbert, Hawking, King
de la Hoya, de la Renta, Wilde
Grace, Pelosi, Reagan
Darwin, Dickens, Lindbergh
Rickman, Thicke, Turing
Baio, Bakula, Joplin
Hunt, Keller, Reddy
Attenborough, Bowie, Letterman
Murphy, Van Halen, Vedder
McCartney, Rudd, Simon
Dinklage, Frampton, Jackson

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 4's hint and Episode 5's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 561: Spicy German Sausage 5

WORDY WEDNESDAY #559
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 25 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Cole Kendall **
Derek Allen **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tower *

WORDY WEDNESDAY #560
PENT WORDS 112 (hint)

As of this writing,13 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #561
SPICY GERMAN SAUSAGE 5
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This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron Jeri Feaster. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!
In a German Sausage, a type of puzzle originating from the National Puzzlers League, when you take the indicated pairs of answers to the clues from the first list, combine their letters, and anagram them, you get the answers to the clues from the second list. (For example, if the answers to clues 1 and 2 were ANAGRAM and SEGUES, then the answer to clue 1+2 could be GERMAN SAUSAGE.) However, in this variation, you must add an extra letter to each pair of answers to make the longer answer (for example, you might make GERMAN SAUSAGE from ANAGRAM and GUESS plus an extra E).

Rearrange the added letters in (parentheses) to make a 6-letter word, and rearrange the added letters in [square brackets] to make a 6-letter word. Write these words in the final set of blanks, and rearrange the letters in {curly braces} to make a 6-letter word, the final answer.

1. Trade
2. Former Kansas City Royals outfielder Otis
3. Cut with blows from an ax
4. Jimmy Eat World drummer Zach
5. Digit on a foot
6. Not false
7. Lament
8. ____-only memory
9. Cliché saying
10. Jeweler’s magnifier
11. Timid
12. Blue-haired Fire Emblem character who's playable in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

1+2+(__). Certain heraldic emblem: 3 wds.
2+3+[__]. Jeopardy!, for one: 2 wds.
3+4+(__). India’s capital: 2 wds.
4+5+[__]. What you might hear when picking up the phone: 2 wds.
5+6+(__). Casino game in which you can bet on red or black
6+7+[__]. Top part of a fraction
7+8+(__). Galaxy named after the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia
8+9+[__]. Phrase on the back of a car with tin cans tied to it, perhaps: 2 wds.
9+10+(__). Having several different possible functions
10+11+[__]. Pee-wee’s ____ (children’s television series starring Paul Reubens)
11+12+(__). Alcoholic beverage associated with Tennessee
12+1+[__]. Foodstuff that might be an unwanted Christmas gift

(Parentheses): {__} __ {__} __ __ {__}
[Square brackets]: __ {__} {__} __ {__} __
{Curly braces}: __ __ __ __ __ __

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* A Codewords!
* What was built to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 5, Episode 3: Musical Arrangement

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 5"): click here

Episode 1 (Veg Out): puzzle PDF, hint PDF

* 20 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece; 1 person solved it later for 25 points.

Episode 2 (Baseball Baffler): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 20 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 2025. Thus, the current money pool for the Food Bank for Larimer County is $20.25. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Food Bank for Larimer County will actually receive $81.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzles for 25 points each, possibly with the aid of the hint.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 5, EPISODE 3:

MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT

(click here for a PDF version)

Help Kevin arrange the letters in each column to make musical instruments reading across the rows of the music box!

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 3's hint and Episode 4's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 560: Pent Words 112

WORDY WEDNESDAY #557
ANACROSSWORD 34 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tower **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #558
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 12 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Randy Rogers **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Patrick Jordan *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #559
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 25 (hint)

As of this writing, 11 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #560
PENT WORDS 112
(click here for a PDF version)

In this puzzle, you must divide the grid into pentominoes (regions containing five cells each), and write a letter in each cell. The rows, reading from left to right, will contain the words hinted at by the Across clues. The letters in the pentominoes, in reading order (left to right starting with the top row), will form the words hinted at by the Pentominoes clues; these clues are presented in no particular order. (In the example, the rows spell PLANT, SHARE, and BITES, and the pentominoes spell the words PLANS, TREES, and HABIT.) Use the ACROSS answers to determine where the pentominoes are.

ACROSS (two answers per row):
1 “The wheels on the ____ go round and round. . .” / Critical remark aimed at an easy target
2 Sailor’s affirmative response / Either of a dog’s front limbs
3 “____ Brew” (Cream song) / “____ Me to the Moon”
4 Baltimore bird / Woof’s counterpart
5 Impose a penalty on / “____ the front door!”
6 Part of a church, perhaps / ____ Dare (Nickelodeon game show)
7 Gas, in London / Certain marine mammal
8 Foe / Drink made from oranges, perhaps
9 Nissan crossover model / Extraterrestrial being
10 Common stocking material / Judge’s hammer
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* English author Carroll
* English author Carroll’s title character
* Monopoly player’s purchase
* Monopoly player’s purchase
* Russian currency unit
* Underdog’s victory
* Andrews of Mary Poppins
* Merrily We Roll ____
* Aswan’s country
* Fur trader John Jacob
* “Let the ____ beware”
* Quality exhibited by satire
* Unclearly expressed
* Belly button
* ____ of Empires (browser-based strategy game)
* “A leopard cannot change its ____”
* Oddly amusing
* Negatively charged atom or molecule

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What galaxy is named after the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia?

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 5, Episode 2: Baseball Baffler

PREVIOUS EPISODES

Introduction (what these puzzles are and why they're called "Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 5"): click here

Episode 1 (Veg Out): puzzle PDF, hint PDF (new!)

* 20 people solved this within the first week for 50 points apiece.

The total number of points scored is 1000. Thus, the current money pool for the Food Bank for Larimer County is $10.00. Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match this donation, meaning that the Food Bank for Larimer County will actually receive $40.00. If you haven't already, you may solve the above puzzle for 25 points, possibly with the aid of the hint.

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 5, EPISODE 2:

BASEBALL BAFFLER

(click here for a PDF version)

Kevin found this old collection of baseballs and baseball bats, suspiciously arranged as though he had meant to encode some kind of secret message with them when he was younger. Remorsefully, Kevin does not seem to recall what that message was!

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 2's hint and Episode 3's puzzle. Good luck!

Wordy Wednesday 559: Snake Crisscross 25

WORDY WEDNESDAY #556
SECTION SIX 55 (answer)

Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:
Bonnie Veenschoten **
Cathy Bowen **
Cindy Heisler **
Derek Allen **
James Haddad **
Joe Bernard **
Michael Lebowitz **
Tyler Hinman **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **

WORDY WEDNESDAY #557
ANACROSSWORD 34 (hint)

As of this writing, 10 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #558
DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 12 (hint)

As of this writing, 10 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!

WORDY WEDNESDAY #559
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 25
(click here for a PDF version)

This puzzle contains words suggested by patron Cathy Bowen and patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at the Super Fan level ($5/month) and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the Ultra Fan level ($20/month) to suggest one seed word every month!
This puzzle’s crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words”. The grid also needs to be divided into a number of areas which follow a single clear path, called “snakes”. Each of these snakes contains an entry reading from one end of the path to the other; these are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Snake Words”. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes and which entry corresponds to each snake.

Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.

CRISSCROSS WORDS
3 LETTERS
Certain limb
What a beaver builds
Make a mistake
Actress Longoria
Confederate general Robert E. ____
Body of agua
Notorious cryptocurrency entrepreneur Bankman-Fried
4 LETTERS
Prayer-ending word
Do last-minute studying for a test
Reverberate
Genesis paradise
Jane ____ (Charlotte Brontë novel)
Certain apple variety
Game show host Monty
False god
Disembark
Socially awkward person
The Secret Life of ____ (2016 animated movie)
Two cups
Sulk
Mexican foodstuff in a crunchy shell
5 LETTERS
Walk with an easy gait
Harsh
Deck often used in fortune-telling
The human trunk
6 LETTERS
Creed played by Carl Weathers in the Rocky movies
“I ____ allegiance to the flag. . .”
Smooth transitions
7 LETTERS
Boo from Baldur’s Gate III is this type of rodent
City near Galveston Bay
Shrimp, lobster, and oysters, say
____ glass window
11 LETTERS
Idiot (or someone addicted to clammy soup?)
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
God’s name in Islam
Right, as a wrong
Fall bloomer
Group of singers in a church
Suspicious
Month before April
Crow relative
6 LETTERS
Mint that excites felines
Distributed ____ of service attack
Spoonful, as of sour cream
Play roulette or craps, say
Book of accounting records
7 LETTERS
Skilled speakers
Colorfully-named tree
Leave for a short while: 2 wds.
8 LETTERS
Unable to differentiate musical pitches: hyph.
9 LETTERS
City in which the Museum Van Loon is located
10 LETTERS
Visitor to one’s abode

COMING NEXT WEEK. . .

* What's a 5-letter word for "Andrews of Mary Poppins"?
* Patron Puzzle #112, which will be delivered on September 8, 2023, exclusively to Patreon supporters at the Super Fan level and up ($5 or more per month), is a Mini-Puzzle Fun Pack.

Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, happy solving!

Kevin's Puzzles at Home Season 5, Episode 1: Veg Out

INTRODUCTION

This series is inspired by the website Kevin's Puzzles, on which Kevin Orfield posts an instructionless puzzle-hunt-style puzzle every Monday. Kevin Orfield's puzzles usually lean towards the easy side of this genre in order to target a less experienced and/or younger audience. Kevin's Puzzles at Home is my knockoff of Kevin's Puzzles, so called because of the "we have X at home" meme:

The puzzles in Kevin's Puzzles at Home are intended to be easier than my Wordy Wednesday posts, and hopefully at least 80% as entertaining as the real Kevin's Puzzles. Kevin's Puzzles at Home will be presented by my "we have X at home" version of Kevin, a prodigious and colorful wolf named Kevin Edmund Kepler:

(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of any puzzle. Any resemblance between this Kevin and the real Kevin, or any real Kevin, is entirely coincidental.)

 

Every Monday during September and October 2023, a new episode will be posted at 12:01 AM (Central); as with the real Kevin's Puzzles, as is the standard with other puzzle hunts, the final answer will be a word or phrase. Email me (at glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com) the correct solution to this puzzle within the next week to score 50 points. Each puzzle will also have a hint posted for it one week later; solving the puzzle while the hint is up will be worth 25 points. Episode 9, which will be posted on October 30, is a meta puzzle which requires the answers to all of the previous puzzles in order to be solved; this puzzle will be worth double (100 points before the hint, 50 points after). The highest possible score a solver can attain will thus be 500 points, by solving each puzzle during its first week. In an effort to aid people who don't have food at home, for every point scored by my readers by 11:59 PM (Central) on November 12, I will donate 1¢ to the Food Bank for Larimer County, up to a maximum of $100. (Thus, each solver can contribute a maximum of $5 to this pool.) Three anonymous benefactors have agreed to match my donation as well, making the maximum possible donation $400 (and thus the maximum contribution to this donation by a single solver $20). To date, the Kevin's Puzzles at Home series has raised $1,332 for various food banks! A huge thank you to the solvers and anonymous benefactors who have made this impact possible!

Unlike the real Kevin's Puzzles, which posts each puzzle's solution one week after its hint is posted, all puzzle solutions will be posted simultaneously on November 13, one week after the final hint is posted. This will make the meta slightly harder, since you can't just look up the solutions to the previous puzzles to start solving it, but will also permit latecomers to score more points (and thus raise more money) than otherwise possible.

Astute readers will notice that the words "Season 5" appear in the title. Links to the previous seasons follow:

Season 1 (May-June 2022): Puzzles and hints, solutions.

Season 2 (September-October 2022): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 3 (January-February 2023): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Season 4 (May-June 2023): Puzzles and hints, solutions

Have fun, and remember to check out the real Kevin's creations (which go up at noon Central time every Monday) if these fake ones are up your alley!

KEVIN’S PUZZLES AT HOME

SEASON 5, EPISODE 1:

VEG OUT

(click here for a PDF version)

As a wolf, Kevin is quite an avid meat eater – but all he has in his kitchen right now are vegetables!

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(This illustration by Tintinabar is not part of the puzzle.)

Submit your answer to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com for 50 points, and stay tuned next week for Episode 1's hint and Episode 2's puzzle. Good luck!