“The late radio host’s great organization” Anger Rangers, Evil Devils, Slander Islanders, Ruin Bruins! “Salamander Mineo?” Dickens’ Scrooge-Cratchit Stitchcraft; “Does this restaurant serve port?” Exhibitors of uninhibited artistry;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Does this restaurant serve port?”

Name a restaurant chain and a colloquial name of a past service industry – both in two
words, ending with the same word.

 The first two words, together, without a space, spell a port city. 

What are this city, chain and service industry?

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“Collegiate Encouragement Of Youths” Appetizer:

“The late radio host’s great organization”

Take the name of a famous radio personality of the past. 

Change a letter in the last name to get the second word in the two-word name of a nonprofit organization. The radio personality’s first name and the first word in the organization have the same first two letters. 

Who is the person?  What is the organization?

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Hot Cold-War-Era Teen Idols Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Salamander Mineo?”

Name an example of a salamander. Interchange the first two vowels that appear in the name and then change their vowel-sound pronunciations from short-to-long. (For example “ad-libber” would become “I’d labor.”)

The result, if spoken aloud (and if you begin with the other word for a salamander), is how a
particular Cold-War-Era still-living teen idol likely introduced himself. 

What is this example salamander?

How might this teen idol have introduced himself?

Caretakers Of Culture Slice:

Exhibitors of uninhibited artistry

Take a word for hosts, caretakers or custodians of certain cultural or artistic
exhibitions. 

Interchange two adjacent letters and replace one of them with a different vowel to name those who exhibit at these exhibitions. 

Who are these exhibition hosts and the exhibitors?

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:

Angry Rangers, Evil Devils, Slander Islanders, Ruin Bruins!

Will Shortz’s (September 1st NPR) Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Eric Chaikin of Westlake Village, California, reads:

“I turned on the TV and saw anger, evil, slander, and ruin. It was all pleasant news.
What channel was I watching and what specifically was on the screen?”

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names.

Remove and rearrange the first and last three letters to spell the world’s largest supplier of athletic shoes.

The last two letters followed by the first of the remaining letters spell the first word a line of basketball shoes produced by this supplier.

The last two followed by the first two of the remaining letters spell the brand of a producer of jeans that churns out more than half a million articles of clothing every week.

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are the supplier, line of basketball shoes, and jeans producer?

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our friend and puzzle-maker extraordinaire, Nodd.

ENTREE #2

A TV channel’s name, with a punctuation mark added, suggests it would be popular with radio enthusiasts.

What is this TV channel?

ENTREE #3

Switch two letters in the name of a TV channel to get the first name of a popular writer who created three TV shows in the 1960s and
1970s. 

What’s the channel and who’s the writer?

ENTREE #4

Move the last two syllables of the name of a TV channel to the front of the name and add a space to get a two-word description of much of the popular music in the 1970s. 

What are the channel and the description?

ENTREE #5

The name of a former TV network has the same letters in the same order as the last name of a performer who starred with popular comedians in seven films from the 1920s to the 1940s. 

This performer’s most memorable co-star hosted a TV show in the 1950s and 1960s. 

What’s the network and who’s the performer?

ENTREE #6

Rearrange the letters of a popular TV channel and add at the front of the letters the name of a male animal to get something often discussed on the channel. 

What’s the channel and what is often discussed? 

ENTREE #7

Many a host of a TV channel’s programs might be described by the name of that channel.

What is the name of this channel?

ENTREE #8

Teams hailing from states containing double-n’s (like Connecticut or Tennessee, for example) play each another. 

Delete the first letter from one team’s singular-form nickname – like “Whaler”/“haler” (Hartford) – to spell what that team celebrated vis-à-vis the game’s outcome.

Delete the first letter from the other team’s singular-form nickname – Like “Titan”/“itan” (Tennessee). The result is an adjective describing that team’s players vis-à-vis that game’s outcome.

What are the states and the names of the teams?

What did one team celebrate? What is the adjective?

ENTREE #9

When a pair of professional sports teams from Los Angeles and New York square off at Madison Square Garden, the nickname of the visiting team, if not properly maintained, may inflict:

~ a homophone of the short version of the nickname of the home team, 

or...

~ a homophone of the first syllable of the long
version of this nickname, 

or...

~ the first syllable of a word that has thus far appeared thrice in this puzzle.

What are these competing teams and their nicknames?

ENTREE #10

“I turned on the TV and saw An NFL game with a team from Denver, then switched the channel and watched an NBA game with a team from Indiana. I saw John Elway and Floyd Little. I saw Reggie Miller and, more recently, Tyrese Haliburton.

Both contests were interspersed with commercials and infomercials. I saw various kitchen gadgets like the Veg-O-Matic and the Pocket Fisherman; I saw various computers like the Predator Triton 14 Gaming Laptop, Chromebook Enterprise and TravelMate!

What four-letter network was I watching? 

What are the teams from Denver and Indiana?

What two companies were hawking their kitchen hardware and computer hardware?

ENTREE #11

One Minor League Baseball team, based in a North Carolina town in with an arboreal name, is known by two nicknames.

 One nickname ends with a synonym of “papas”; the other nickname begins with a double-consonant (like “ssh,” a synonym of “shush”). Delete the first letter from that nickname and, as an “Ogden” could have told you, a beast becomes a priest!

What are these two team nicknames?

ENTREE #12

Take the two-word nickname of a collegiate team with one of the most successful baseball
programs in the country. Remove its first letter and the space between the two words. The result is not  word. However, if it were a word, it would be a synonym of the nickname of a major league baseball team that is based in a neighboring state.

What are these two teams and their nicknames?

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Tinny Time Dessert:

Dickens’ Scrooge-Cratchit Stitchcraft

"A child sometimes (BLANK) a (BLANK) that (BLANK)."

In the BLANKS, from left to right: (9-letter verb), (4-letter noun), (6-letter verb)

Words 1 and 3 share identical 5-letter strings.

The first 4 letters of Word 1 are a rearrangement of Word 2.

What is the sentence?

Every Thursday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Thursday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Twin Name Games Come First, Then Anna Graham’s Verse! Lessons in optimizing an idiom; Tacky trashy greedy nasty! Palindromic Q-Inclusion; Name, alphabetical rank, cereal number... Erosion of Earth gives birth to description

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Lessons in optimizing an idiom

Name a nine-word idiomatic proverb.

~ Delete a letter from Word #2.

~ Insert a letter in Word #3.

~ Place two letters at the front of Word #7.

~ Move Word #8 to the end.

~ Place two homophones of Word #9 where Word #8 was.

The result is a more optimistic idiom.

What are this idiom and its revision?

Note: One of the nine words in the idiom is a contraction.

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Prime-time Name-time Rhyme-time Appetizer:

Twin Name Games Come First, Then Anna Graham’s Verse!

1. NAME GAMES, PART ONE

Name the food item suggested by combining the last names of the first four performers with the first name of the fifth.

(1) Austrian-German actress, phonetically;

(2) American actor, inspired a game;

(3) American actress in film about WWII veterans;

(4) 1920s American actress married to famous playwright; 

(5) American actor who won three Academy Awards.

2. NAME GAMES, PART TWO

Name the actor or actress whose first and last names phonetically match the descriptive phrases.

(1) Institutional color shade funding

(2) Once-a-week joint

(3) Sketched a Bee Gee again

(4) Searcher for wreath material

(5) Steal black bird

(6) Dental restorations for sweetheart

(7) Underworld and rice wine

(8) Narrow valley wardrobe

(9) Fairy gotten rid of

(10) Account of British open land

(11) Steal defective car

(12) Put on clarinet part

(13) Enclosed carriage for songbird

(14) British truck for Scottish musician

(15) Pricey car reign

3. POETRY CORNER, WITH ANNA GRAHAM

Fill in the blanks with three anagrams to complete the verse.

His critics _____,

So _____ _____.

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Alpha-Beta Battling Hors d’Oeuvre:

Name, alphabetical rank, cereal number...

Take the sum of the alphabetical ranks of two consecutive letters in a 19th-Century battle site. 

Replace those letters with the letter whose alphabetical rank corresponds to that sum. 

The result spells something plentiful at the site. 

What is the battle site and what was plentiful there?

(Note: The Alphabetical ranks are A=1, B=2, C=3, D = 4, E = 5, F = 6, etc.)

Geological Slice:

Erosion of Earth gives birth to description 

Replace the first three letters of a geological formation with the letter “i”. 

The result is an adjective that describes that formation when it is compared to the majority of other such geological formations. 

What are this geological formation and this adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz Entrees:

Palindromic Q-Inclusion

Will Shortz’s challenge somewhat-frightful-yet-delightful fortnightful creative challenge has now come to its conclusion. 

The deadline to submit entries was at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 31st.

The object of the challenge was to write a palindrome that contains the letter Q. 

Entries were to be judged on sense, naturalness of syntax, and overall elegance.

The person who submitted what Will considers to be the best palindrome containing the letter Q will play puzzle on the air with him this Sunday, August 3.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Entrees read:

Entree #1

A palindrome regarding rescinding the purchase and shipment of cotton swabs contains:

4 x d

4 x e

4 x r

2 x i

2 x n

2 x o

2 x p

2 x t

1 x q

and two hyphens.

What is it?

(Hint: The three letters at the end of the palindrome are an acronymic instruction that  would rescind the purchase.)

Note: Entries #2 through #12 below (eleven riffs!) were were composed by our friend Nodd, who is also the author of this week’s featured “Nodd ready for prime time” Appetizer, above.

Entree #2

Fill in the blanks with a three-word palindromic phrase to complete what a member of the British royal family might have uttered in the
early 1950s after another member’s vigorous session of mud pie-making: “Oh dear, ____ __ ______!”

Entree #3

Name a place that was prominent in an ancient mythology and place a copy of the second letter at the beginning. 

Insert a space and spell the result backwards to name a deity in a different religious tradition and a substance associated with a deity in a different ancient mythology. 

What place is it? 

Entree #4

Fill in the blanks with a pair of words, one of which is the other spelled backwards, to complete the sentence: 

“When Anna decided to ______ with the pattern, she found she had to ______ the entire garment.”

Entree #5

Think of a two-word phrase for a ground condition that might cause a problem for a skier. 

Spell it backwards to get a two-word phrase describing what a Nordic skier accomplished at three Winter Olympics in the 1960s. 

What are the two phrases?

Entree #6

The last name of an American who rose to prominence in the late 1800s, spelled backwards and with a space inserted, is a two-word phrase for what you’d get if you ordered an a la carte entree. 

Who is it?

Entree #7

The palindromic first name of a European statesman of the late 19th Century is also a homophone (some might say near-homophone) of a manufactured product. 

A brand name for an example of this product is another palindrome. 

Who is the statesman, and what is the brand name?

Entree #8

Think of a word for something that travels in bodies of water. 

Spell it backwards to get a word describing bodies of water it would not travel in.  What are these two words?

Entree #9

Spell the name of a bird backwards and insert a space. 

The result will name an insect and a mammal.

What are these three creatures?

Entree #10

A palindromic phrase describes what a graphic artist might be commissioned to do in preparing an advertisement for a certain showbiz event. What is this palindromic phrase?

Entree #11

What palindromic phrase describes what a student hand-copying a photo of a past U.S. president might need t o do if she made a mistake?

Entree #12

 Think of a word for a kind of circus performer.

Spell it backwards.

Insert a space someplace to describe what an oceanographer studying sea mammals might do.  

Entree #13

Find a 57-letter palindrome about a mentally unsound Nazi official housed in a famous Berlin prison who wants to inform Adam and Eve’s progeny about something, and ending with the end of a prayer, and a wizard, half-baked. 

The palindrome contains:

12 x a

6 x e

6 x l

6 x n

2 x b

2 x c

2 x d

2 x i

2 x m

2 x o

2 x p

2 x r

2 x s

2 x t

2 x u

2 x w

2 x z

1 x q

What is this palindrome?

Entree #14

This 59-letter “palindromic lamentation prayer” (an addendum to Entree #13) suggests that instances of the injustice and torture perpetuated by the Nazi penal facility in Berlin and by the Serbian detention camps in the 1990s continue into the present.

The palindrome contains:

14 x o

10 x n

8 x s

6 x a

4 x d

4 x i

4 x p

2 x b

2 x g

2 x r

2 x u

1 x q

What is this palindrome?

Entree #15

This 50-letter palindrome asks how a Greek maiden – by rejecting a bouquet sent to her by an albeit “more mature” yet in-shape (and “into shapes”) mathematician – precipitated his decision to rescind his subsequent candlelit dinner invitation!

The palindrome contains:

8 x d

6 x a

6 x e

6 x l

6 x t

4 x f

4 x i

4 x o

2 x c

2 x r

2 x u 

(Note: This palindrome does indeed contain a “Q” (a “Q,” that is, that is spelled “c-u-e”.)

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What is this palindrome?

Entree #16

A Cockney tramp surnamed “Ardley” (née Alvarez) breaks and enters into a vacated manor house, bathes, applies deodorant, grabs an ear-dewaxer.

No person of great wealth or prominence  is he. 

Indeed, he is under protection of a court-appointed guardian.

The palindrome contains:

8 x a

6 x b

6 x o

4 x i

4 x n

4 x r

4 x t

2 x d

2 x h

2 x m

2 x p

2 x s

2 x u

2 x w

1 x q

What is this palindrome?

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Scrabbly Dessert:

Tacky trashy greedy nasty!

Delete the second letter of a two-syllable synonym of tacky and trashy. 

Move the last letter into the third position to spell a greedy, vengefully nasty person. 

What are these two words? 

Every Thursday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup,Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Thursday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.