Where's the Rest?

Thanks for stepping up on a Gaffneyless Friday! Fun mechanism, and an unfamiliar candy that looks delicious. Maybe I'll have to buy too many of them for Halloween...

My son's favorite as well! Thanks for the puzzle and the sweet theme.

Sweet!

Sweet! :D Thanks, Mikey!

A deliciously inspired choice, Mikey! (And, like me, Pennsylvania-made.)

YUM!! Okay I've not yet tried this particular candy, but what's not to like? I may need to update my shopping list. Thanks for the tasty meta... and a most excellent ear worm to boot!

I totally forgot to say that earlier this year I had the pleasure of hearing Brubeck's sons play a concert for a couple hours with a local choir and local jazz musicians. It was awesome!

Any guesses for candy cigars?

Great Halloween theme - intended or not! I knew all of the candy except the answer. BUT I was very familiar with Dave Brubeck so I got there.

Jazzy. Thanks Mikey

Got BRUBECK without too much trouble. But it took a lot of googling and guessing to find the answer (which I have never heard of!)

Well crap, when you google BRUBECK + CANDY you get "Little Man with a Candy Cigar" which is why I tried all the variations of CANDY CIGAR(S) and CANDY CIGARETTE(S)!

Answer: TAKE FIVE

Explanation: Seven entries in the grid are appended with the oft-dreaded numbers: STAR, BUTTE, MO, TO, CHARL, WHAT, KIT. The prompt can sometimes give us a little nudge, and so candies are likely involved! Some of those, like STAR, BUTTE, AND KIT, should prompt the start of some candies like STARBURST, BUTTERFINGER, and KIT KAT; the number is just indicating the number of letters that are "the rest" of the candy bar, per the title. The seven candies are STARBURST, BUTTERFINGER, MOUNDS, TOBLERONE, CHARLESTON CHEW, WHATCHAMACALLIT, KIT KAT; I think I've had all but the second- and third-to-last on this list!

What about “Blue rondo à la Turk” ish taffy?

I’ve had Dave Brubeck’s Greatest Hits on CD forever, twenty years plus, and always loved Take Five along with Unsquare Dance for their funky time signatures. Almost impossible to tap your foot to! Haven’t heard of the candy bar though (or 3, 5 and 6 for that matter! - although I’m in Charleston SC for the weekend so will have to try the Chew!)

Excellent

GOOD GRIEF! Got BRUBECK and banged my head against the wall for 15 minutes (Not "little man with a candy cigar" or "Utopia Candies") and then finally somewhere in the back of my reptilian brain was a nudge "wasn't there a candy bar called....."

Great puzzle. Never seen that mechanism before and it was a stare-stare-flash

Was stuck on candy cigars for sooooo long. Needed a bit of a course correct from a friendly Muggle. At least I had the right idea! Thanks for the puzzle, Mikey.

Loved the, now almost expected, Mikey twist. Maybe we ought to call you a Twizzler?

Thanks for the puzzle Mike

I swear there must be some google god out there who hates me ("You thought you were so good at boolean controlled index searches? Well, I'll show you! In the 21st century EVERYTHING is going to be free word search and associative ranked browsing! Ha-ha") I could not get any of my first seven google searches to yield any thing (except "Little Man with a Candy Cigar").

Weirdly Google's AI assumed Brubeck was a misspelling of Brach's and suggested Brach's seasonal candies... and then went on with a paragraph about Dave Brubeck. Near the end was a reference to "Take Five" and a little bit in the back of my mind went "oh, yeah...."

Great puzzle! I tried 'candy cigars' first too. It didn't help that there's a candy bar here called 'pesek zman' that translated means 'Time Out', Brubeck's classic album.

Awesome. Took me coming back to it a number of times to figure it out... finally got on track with KIT, and it was smooth sailing from there. Thanks Mikey! I look forward to eating many of all of these this weekend after I steal tons of candy from my kids :-)

Thanks Mikey! Did not know this candy...but love how it fits with your chosen "font" for the title this week.

I would have gotten it on my first try if I had known that this candy existed. Sad to say, it's been far too long since I have trick-or-treated. And this one was not included in the variety bag we got for tonight.

[pedantry]As for the tune, I hope everyone realizes that it was written not by Brubeck but by Paul Desmond (a wordplay guy in his own right) and that the title refers not just to the time signature (5/4) but also to the melody, which is based on a 5-note scale, save for a couple of passing notes. Those five notes are the black keys on the piano. You could play it with one hand holding an orange. [/pedantry}

Thanks for the tip--I'll have to try it!

What's wrong with you people-- I 've been snacking on these since the day they came out!