Sunday Morning Puzzle # 15

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The League of Puzzlers has bought our local supermarket, making shopping somewhat more of a challenge. You see, at the Puzzler’s Grocery Mart the name of each item for sale has been altered. For each word in a product’s name, a synonym has been substituted for the original word. Then, just to add to the confusion, the order of the words in the product title has often been mixed.

Examples:
"Albacore Fryer From A Caspian" is * Chicken of the Sea Tuna*
(Fryer = Chicken; From = of; A = the; Caspian = Sea, Albacore = Tuna)

"Second Trembler Porridge" is Quaker Instant Oatmeal
(Trembler = Quaker; Second = Instant; Porridge = Oatmeal)

"Franklin’s Tio Basmati Toast" is Uncle Ben’s Brown Rice
(Tio =Uncle; Franklin’s = Ben’s; Toast = Brown; Basmati = Rice)

I recently purchased 26 items from this store. They are listed below. Can you figure out what I really bought?

The 32 problems below include the 26 product synonyms mentioned above, as well as six extra problems. The six extra problems are not items I bought from the Puzzler’s Grocery Mart. I didn’t need to buy them because they’re leftovers—and I never like to throw out leftovers.

Last week in Sunday Morning Puzzle #14, six celebrity names were unsolved. They include one actress, one athlete, two authors, one entertainer, and one politician. I have anagrammed a well-known “work” for each of these six people, and inserted these anagrams into the list below. Try not to confuse the 26 synonym puzzles with the 6 anagram puzzles. You can reference Sunday Morning Puzzle #14 here and review the unsolved names. Please help me empty my puzzle fridge so I won’t have this leftover problem next week. Thanks.

Note: It helps to know that the 32 solved answers below are in alphabetical order.

  1. Pop Plus Pound Roasting Weapon
  2. Assist Denudes Clingy Belt
  3. Wipers Report Reward
  4. Yellow Glen’s Brain Bisque
  5. Hey Snaps Fragments
  6. Knave Breaker
  7. Steamy Water Fun Deed
  8. Face Serial
  9. Reduce Snow
  10. Totes Jocular Junk
  11. Colossal Candy Crowders Inexperienced
  12. Spread Adorning Arcane Dell
  13. Attach Brandywine Seek’s
  14. Sap Lodge Journal
  15. Ooze Tiny Temple Lass
  16. Sir Boil
  17. Main Energy Mist Bogwort Martini
  18. Shred Ancient Elite Excitement
  19. Sower’s Balls Combined
  20. Currant Crazy Spaceheads Mail
  21. Foremost Rosy Pie Nobleman
  22. Peewee’s Flatter Valencia Chalices
  23. Brew Sway Tumbling
  24. Chisels Tuber Bristle’s
  25. Cats Rites
  26. Apex Cramming Stir Range
  27. Trier’s Flash Joe Selection
  28. Hail Rail Inn Malt
  29. No Two Thighs
  30. Red Potato Thief Trumps High
  31. Sam Club Not Nice
  32. Awe Money
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I don’t have them all, by any means - but I’ll try to get the ball rolling here.

4. Yellow Glen’s Brain Bisque - Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup
19. Sower’s Balls Combined - Planter’s Mixed Nuts
26. Apex Cramming Stir Range - Stove Top Stuffing Mix

I’m having some trouble with no. 11
11. Colossal Candy Crowders Inexperienced - Green Giant Sweet…?

And Bio, just because the six from last week weren’t solved publicly, you shouldn’t assume they haven’t been solved.
29. No Two Thighs - Tonight Show for Steve Allen.

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Hey aseymayo! I wondered if you had seen last week’s puzzle. It was the first time I felt no one had gotten all the answers and thought that maybe I was making these things too hard/complex.

I assumed this puzzle would be easy to put together, but after a trip to the local store I was surprised just how few products lend themselves to this kind of puzzle treatment. Most grocery product names are too short or have synonymless words or names in them. Grrrr! I kept wishing for products with many many words in their titles-- which would be a lot of fun to encrypt. But most have at most 3 or 4. I suppose they think consumers won’t remember longer titles.

Good luck with the rest of the puzzle… I’m betting that all the answers start coming very quickly now. And, just wondering, last week you did get the name I was surprised no one found, didn’t you?

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I’m gonna be fairly useless here

  1. Sir Boil - Mr. Bubble
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  1. Knave Breaker - Cracker Jack
  2. Sap Lodge Journal - Log Cabin Syrup
  3. Foremost Rosy Pie Nobleman - Red Baron Supreme Pizza
  4. Brew Sway Tumbling - Rolling Rock Beer
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How could I think “Nipper” and not think of his (or her) master’s voice?

  1. Assist Denudes Clingy Belt - Band-Aid Adhesive Strips
  2. Currant Crazy Spaceheads Mail - Post Grape Nuts Flakes