{"id":94477,"date":"2016-02-16T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=94477"},"modified":"2016-02-16T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T21:23:53","slug":"solve-these-thirty-word-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/solve-these-thirty-word-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve These Thirty Word Puzzles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div id=\"attachment_94482\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94482\" class=\"wp-image-94482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bernhard_sprute_bienenbild_2010-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"Bernhard_Sprute_Bienenbild_2010\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bernhard_sprute_bienenbild_2010-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bernhard_sprute_bienenbild_2010-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bernhard_sprute_bienenbild_2010-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-94482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernhard Sprute,<em> Painting Bienenbild<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>2010.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: The response to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/sixty-hink-pinks\/\" target=\"_blank\">last round of word puzzles<\/a> was so overwhelming that puzzle correspondent Dylan Hicks has brought you thirty more! This time, we\u2019re demanding total accuracy: <strong>the first three correct lists<\/strong> will win a year\u2019s subscription to<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review. <em><strong>You must solve all thirty riddles correctly. Send an e-mail with your\u00a0answers to contests@theparisreview.org.\u00a0<\/strong>The deadline is\u00a0<strong>Thursday, February 18,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>at noon EST,\u00a0<\/strong>when we\u2019ll post the answers. Good luck!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a boy, I wasn\u2019t alone in believing there to be a wonderful blue-eyed soul duo out of Philadelphia called Haulin\u2019 Oats. Their music, we hoped, would provide solace during our imminent and futile battles against killer bees. Some of us grew up to be small-batch granolatiers and had to fend of lawsuits from Daryl and John themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The answers to the following thirty puzzles are in a similar spirit\u2014of word-bending, that is, not litigation. They employ antanaclasis, homophony, homonymy, rhyme, assonance, and other devices toward paronomasia\u2014okay, they\u2019re puns. The form, I realize, has a mixed reputation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a few further words of explanation are required. The answers tweak, reframe, or link a variety of sources: titles of books, movies, and other artworks; proper names; famous lines of poetry or political rhetoric; clich\u00e9s and other well-traveled terms. Many are paragrams\u2014plays built on the alteration of a letter or letters, not always in service to rhyme. To foster challenge and competition, a few of the clues are oblique, but never deliberately obfuscatory, though anachronism and other breaches of logic have been tolerated or encouraged. Mostly the clues try to cover the bases without too much bold-face. For instance, \u201cUrsine Frisco bandleader trucks off to buy bings and maraschinos\u201d might cue \u201cCherry Garcia.\u201d That one was judged to be off-limits, but the standard for innovation wasn\u2019t set fussily high. Though none of the answers were wittingly plagiarized, a half hour on the leading search engine revealed, to little surprise, that I wasn\u2019t the first or, in some cases, the fourth to arrive at several of these (ingenious) puns. My apologies, then, for that, and for everything.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Federal Reserve stocks up massively on Stouffer\u2019s.<\/li>\n<li>Boundless w\/r\/t Yeezy.<\/li>\n<li>And as in uffish thought he stood,<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0 At peroration of his rap<br \/>With mimsy smile he cocked his head<br \/> \u00a0\u00a0 And cued the crowd, \u201cPlease clap.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sellout Marxist pitches for OxiClean.<\/li>\n<li>MacDougal Street corner spot where Peter Pastmaster, Paul Pennyfeather, and Lady Mary Lygon might have blown in the wind.<\/li>\n<li>Khakis coax truth.<\/li>\n<li>The Sun now rose upon the right,<br \/>And parched the sloping mast<br \/> The Mariner raised his skinny hand,<br \/> And spake the long forecast<\/li>\n<li>Melvillian scrivener conditionally favors Russian pop duo.<\/li>\n<li>Thatcher refuses butter-making shift.<\/li>\n<li>Shazam, Sergeant Carter, here you are managin\u2019 a Bally Fitness while I\u2019m right next door teachin\u2019 Zumba at Snap. 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