Food
Pyramid
By Brian Tivol
Each of the clued words is six letters
long and has a "pyramid"
pattern: one letter appears once, another twice, and another
thrice.
An armchair for
two :
SETTEE
Cafeterias for soldiers : MESSES
Common black condiment : PEPPER
Considered : DEEMED
First-generation Japanese immigrants : ISSEIS
Gum arabic's source :
ACACIA
The jacket-plum's
genus :
PAPPEA
Married :
WEDDED
Mei and Satsuki's
wondrous neighbor :
TOTORO
An overdue debt :
ARREAR
Part of a baseball
game :
INNING
A Scottish lowland :
LALLAN
A servant in charge of
linens and finger bowls :
EWERER
Severe illnesses caused
by toxin-producing bacteria : SEPSES
Site of museum with Yellow Calf's headdress : ETHETE
Spicy sauces for tortilla chips : SALSAS
Swahili for watermelon : TIKITI
Taste, and its four less important
friends : SENSES
To chew with budding incisors : TEETHE
To venerate and adore : REVERE
Vomiting episodes :
EMESES
What a dog says, or the
manner a snooty dog has :
BOWWOW
Where the Israelites
went after fleeing Egypt :
CANAAN
Wobble
: TEETER
Yoga
positions
: ASANAS
This list creates some triplets of letters
that can be numbered
1-2-3. You must determine which triplet goes with
which
triple-blank, put the
appropriate letters in the numbered blanks,
and spell the following message:
TO REAP THE
ANSWER, PRESENT
SEVERAL SNACK
ITEMS. WE DESIRE
TWO BEARING
THEMED, SPECIAL
NAMES.
(The order is: Totoro, Pappea, teethe,
asanas, ewerer, pepper,
senses,
settee, revere, salsas, canaan, tikiti, messes, wedded,
Isseis, teeter, bowwow, arrear, inning,
Ethete, deemed, sepses,
acacia,
lallan, emeses.)
In
addition to the PEPPER, SALSAS, or TIKITI, I expect to see a lot
of BANANAs and PAPAYAs. Maybe even a PIPPIN or some REESE'S.
Archivist's note: The answer is PLUTONIUM.