This is from Games World of Puzzles, February 2024. The puzzle is
"Beginnings and Endings" by Patrick Berry.

The clue is:
Choose a filling for pastries (Hyph.)

and the answer is:
POP-TARTS

The explanation given is:
(opt + parts)

I see how OPT means "choose", and POP-TARTS are "pastries", but I don't
see how "a filling for" can give both PARTS and an anagram or container indicator. "Filling" could be a container indicator, of course, but that
would mean that "for" would have to be used to define PARTS.

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

XPost: rec.puzzles, alt.usage.english

On 3/24/2024 8:02 PM, Joshua Kreitzer wrote:

This is from Games World of Puzzles, February 2024. The puzzle is
"Beginnings and Endings" by Patrick Berry.

The clue is: Choose a filling for pastries (Hyph.)

and the answer is: POP-TARTS

The explanation given is: (opt + parts)

I see how OPT means "choose", and POP-TARTS are "pastries", but I don't
see how "a filling for" can give both PARTS and an anagram or container indicator. "Filling" could be a container indicator, of course, but that would mean that "for" would have to be used to define PARTS.

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

"Beginnings and Endings" -- refers to Switching (internal Spoonerism)


filling is a part of POP-Tart

Opt-Parts --------> Pop-Tarts

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)