Nov 212007
Today’s Winston Breen puzzle has the solver “stuffing” one word into another in order to make a food or drink. I had a food on my list of possible answers that I wound up dropping — I thought it was too obscure for the WB audience. It’s a six-letter baseball term stuffed into a six-letter word meaning “sticks.” Can you name it?
Update: And the answer so far would seem to be… No. How about if I told you that “sticks,” in this case, is a verb? Let’s also add some word lengths in here…
No.
I have an answer I like, but one of the partwords fits the definition obliquely at best. Is one of the words also a type of plant?
A plant…? I don’t think so, no. E-mail me your answer, I’m curious.
Pinningastes, of course.
Yes.
Finally got it, but I had to cheat like crazy. Definitely not for the kiddies, even in the format you used with the short words given.
OK, having also cheated like crazy (I had the right outer word, but wasn’t coming up with the inner word)–not going to be obvious for WB-aged folks. Plus, it’s got like four letters too many in it…
Well, yeah, that’s why I stuck you guys with it.
Time to give the answer: C(hitter)lings.
Very nice. But I’d still rather eat sinningpears.
Well, since the real answer has been revealed, I’ll go ahead and post my false guess here: p(out)ine. Of course, “sticks” as a clue for “pine” is so oblique that it wouldn’t even fly in a USA Today puzzle. I wonder if there’s a way to clue it so that both “chitterlings” and “poutine” are valid answers. Of course, my answer is tastier, at least to my palate.
“Of course, “sticks” as a clue for “pine” is so oblique that it wouldn’t even fly in a USA Today puzzle.”
You had to put that out there, didn’t you? I can already hear Ty Treadway’s “consolation” voice.