Thursday, March 14, 2024

Navigating two isles, Competitive puzzling, College campus caption; The ‘bloodhound’ leading the blind Our Lady of Lamborghini Church; Eed-nay? Int-pray? Oost-bay? Utton-glay? Umper-stay? Ear hears the arts, affecting the heart; “Workaday world” vs. “wordplay world”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Eed-nay? Int-pray? Oost-bay? Utton-glay? Umper-stay?

A perceived lack of awareness about a particular issue was the impetus for an event that was intended to help remedy, or at least alleviate, that issue. 

Name that event by translating into Pig Latin a synonym of one of the eleven different nouns in the first two sentences of this puzzle. 

Those nouns are: 

1. lack 

2. awareness

3. issue

4. impetus 

5. event 

6. Pig 

7. Latin 

8. synonym 

9. nouns 

10. sentences 

11. puzzle   

What are that word and its synonym that you must translate into Pink Latin? 

What is the event?

Blown-To-Plantsmithereens Appetizer:

College campus caption, Competitive puzzling, Navigating two isles

College Campus Caption
1. 🏫Morehouse College is a private historically Black men’s liberal arts college based in Atlanta, Georgia. 
If you had to write a three-word caption (in 3, 2 and 4 letters) for one of its graduation pictures, what might you write?
In order to see if you have written the caption that we have in mind, drop the fifth letter of your caption, remove the two spaces, and add a vowel at the beginning to get a plural word that denotes the desirable features that provide comfort, convenience and enjoyment, and that promote smoothness and pleasantness in social relationships in dormitories, classrooms and offices on the campus of Morehouse College. What are your caption and your plural word?
Competitive puzzling
2. 🥍What word that is sometimes associated
with puzzles do the images pictured here represent?
Hint: The first two syllables of the word associated with puzzles rhyme with the sport being played. This sport is also the name of a Mississippi River city that is nearer to the “Big Muddy’s true source, Lake Itasca, than to its delta.
Navigating two isles
3. 🏝The altered image pictured below is an aerial view of a section of coastline on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii.
Take:
1. A word for any one of the four objects that alter the image,
2. The name of the geographical feature that is pictured (for example, “isthmus,” “valley,” or “mountain,” etc.), and
3. The Spanish word for the number of objects on either side of the geographical feature.
The three-word result will sound like the name of an island nation.
What is this island nation? 

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Container-Containee Hors d’Oeuvre:
“Workaday world” vs. “wordplay world”
In the world of wordplay, a three-letter word is contained intact within a seven-letter word (for example, like “amp” within “example” or “eve” within “seven”). 
However, in the real workaday world of what words actually mean, that three-letter word often contains that seven-letter word. What are this three-letter word and this seven-letter word?
Venerating Vintage Vehicles Slice:
Our Lady of  Lamborghini Church
Name something seen in a church, in two words. 
Replace a charged atom in the first word with a common conjunction. 
The result is something seen on a vintage automobile. 
What are these things – one seen in a church and the other on a vintage automobile?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Ear hears the arts, affecting the heart
Will Shortz’s March 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Take a body part. Add one letter at the beginning and another at the end to get a different body part. Then again add letter at the beginning and another at the end to get something designed to affect that body part.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
Note: Entrees #1 through #5 were composed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!
ENTREE #1
Take an informal name for a body part. 
Add two letters at the beginning and two letters at the end to get a substance produced by another body part. 
What are the body part and the substance?
ENTREE #2 
Take an informal name for a body part. 
Add two letters at the beginning and two letters at the end to get something designed to affect that body part. 
What are the body part and the thing designed to affect it?
ENTREE #3
Take an informal name for a body part. 
Add three letters at the beginning and three letters at the end to get a person whose job is to protect people from certain types of diseases. What is the body part and who is the person?
ENTREE #4
Take a body part. Add a letter at the beginning and one at the end to get a second body part. Now take the first body part once again. Add three letters at the beginning and four letters
at the end to get a word for something associated with the second body part. 
What are the two body parts, and what is associated with the second body part?
ENTREE #5
Take a body part. 
Add four letters at the beginning and two letters at the end to get a word for a
group of people whose job is to protect the safety of the public. Name the body part and the group of people.  
ENTREE #6
Take a word for a bone or other skeletal body part followed by a part of the eye to get an Egyptian god who was husband and brother of an Egyptian nature goddess whose name echos a common verb.
What are these body parts, the Egyptian god, and the Egyptian nature goddess?
ENTREE #7
Take a four-letter body part below the waist. 
Add one letter at the beginning and another at the end to get a slang term for body parts that are also below the waist, but above the first body part. 
Again, take the original four-letter body part. Add a “t” at the beginning and, at the end, the word for a bone or other skeletal body part from Entree #6. Divide the result into two parts and spell the letters of the second part in reverse. 
The result is a body part that comprises the original four-letter body part. 
What are these three body parts?
ENTREE #8
Take a three-letter below-the-belt body part. Add two letters to the end to name the units of volume used to measure a liquid body part.  
Remove those two letters from the end. 
This time, add to the three-letter body part a letter at the beginning and another letter at the end to get a different body part – one that is a synonym of a compound word made up of two words with the same number of letters, and that start with the same letter.
What is the three-letter body part? What are the units of volume? What is the body part that is a synonym of a compound word?
Hint: The three-letter body part is also an object that might rest within a cushion.   
ENTREE #9
Take the singular form of a body part that comes in pairs. Add one letter at the beginning and another at the end to get a different body part – one that often “spans the skin” between the body parts that come in pairs. What are these two body parts? 
ENTREE #10
Take a word for “a buttock with its associated thigh.” This word is also “a cut of meat consisting of a thigh, especially one from a hog.”
Take the French word for this cut of meat. Add an “e” to the end and invert the third letter.
The result is a body part within the head.
What are the cut of meat, its French-word equivalent, and the body part within the head?
ENTREE #11
Take a “midsection body part” in seven letters. Transpose its first two letters and insert a space someplace to form a two-word term for “dark clouds” or  “a black cat” or “thirteen shards of a broken mirror.”
Take a three-letter synonym of this body part, and a four-letter body part that rhymes with that synonym. Place an “L” within, and an “E” and an “S” at the end, of the three-letter rhyming word to get an informal six-letter synonym of the four-letter rhyming word.
What are the “midsection body part,” two-word term for “dark clouds” etc., the three-letter synonym of this body part, the four-letter body part that rhymes with that synonym, and the six-letter synonym of the four-letter rhyming word?
ENTREE #12
Take a body part of a fish that rhymes with the largest organ in the human body. Add a rearranged unit of work to the end of the fish part to get a human body part. 
What are this fish part, the largest organ in the human body, the unit of work, and the human body part?
ENTREE #13
Take a four-letter exterior body part. Insert between its first two letters a two-letter theoretical “psychic part” of the unconscious brain.
Isolate just the final two letters of this result and insert a “y” between them to spell a three-letter body part that is visible, but is mostly interior.
Delete the final letter of this seven-letter result. The final result is an entirely interior body part.
What are this four-letter exterior body part and the two-letter theoretical “psychic part” of the unconscious brain?
What are the three-letter body part (that is visible but mostly interior) and the entirely interior body part?
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Benevolence Breeds Malevolence Dessert:
“The ‘bloodhound’ leading the blind”
Take a five-word idiom suggesting that society’s response to civic contributions is civil retribution... that virtue is penalized along with vice. 
Rearrange the idiom’s letters to name a four-word requirement imposed on a mythological hero who lost his sight after he sought to do the right thing by ending a plague.
Hint: The idiom contains two consecutive words with double-vowels. 

Every Friday 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 Friday.
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.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

“Amazing Actors and Actresses” “Indoor, outdoor, side-by-side” Flower, grape, subtitle, school; Recreational diversions; “Animatopoeia!” Mandela! Malala!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Recreational diversions

The following recreational diversions have something very unusual in common. 

What is it? 

And what eighth diversion could be added to
the list?

Dominoes, Rebuses, Mille Bornes, Faro, Solitaire, Labyrinths, Tiddlywinks, _______?

Appetizer Menu

Academy Award-Winning  Appetizer:

“Amazing Actors and Actresses”

1. 🎥Take the name of a famous actor. Add a letter to the first name to get a profession. 

The actor’s last name is a word relating to what the profession does. Who is it?

2. 🎥Take the name of a famous actress.

Add an S to the end of the first name to get a food company. 

Replace the fifth and sixth letters of the last name with an A to get a way that you might eat some of the foods by the food company. 

Who is it?

3. 🎥What two famous actresses have the same seven-letter first name and four-letter last names with the same consonants?


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Fruity Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Indoor, outdoor, side-by-side?”

Place a fruit, and a variety of fruit side-by-side, without a space. The result is a word that is, at times, preceded by either “indoor” or “outdoor.”

What are this fruit, variety of fruit and word sometimes preceded by either “indoor” or “outdoor?” 

Tipsy Slice:

“Animatopoeia!”

Name a professional person who is often given tips. Insert a duplicate of the last letter between the fourth and fifth letters. Divide the result in half to form two onomatopoeic words for sounds that creatures make.

What is the word for the oft-tipped professional?

What are the two onomatopoeic words for sounds that creatures make?

Riffing Off Shortz And Tripathi Slices:

Mandela! Malala!

Will Shortz’s March 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Anjali Tripathi of Los Angeles, California, reads:

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Remove the middle three letters and duplicate the last two letters to get the first name of a different Nobel Peace Prize winner. What are those two names? Again, take a Nobel Peace Prize winners last name, remove the middle three letters and duplicate the last two letters, get the first name of another Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Tripathi Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the 14 letters to spell a scary pointy-toothed fish, a scary place to visit or reside, and a scary hairy Addams Family character. Who is this puzzle-maker? What are the scary pointy-toothed fish?

Who is the scary hairy Addams Family character? What is the scary place to visit or reside? 

Note: Entrees #2 through #9 were created by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!  

ENTREE #2

Take the last letter of the first name, and the first three letters of the last name, of an American Nobel Literature Prize winner.  

Rearrange to spell the last name of a Nobel Physics Prize winner. Who are these two Nobel winners?

ENTREE #3

Take the first and last names of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Move the first letter of the last name to the end. The first name, followed by the rearranged last name, will now spell a two-word description of something that is often associated with peace. 

In fact, the rearranged last name of the Peace prize winner, followed by a preposition and the word “Peace,” will name a monument in Europe commemorating peace. Who is the Nobel winner, and what are the two-word description and the name of the monument? 

ENTREE #4

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Move the last letter to the front to spell the first name of a person who was considered antithetical to the cause of peace. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #5

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Move the first letter to the end and double it to spell the last name of another Nobel Peace prize winner. 

Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #6

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. 

Remove the second, fifth, sixth and eighth letters to spell the last name of another Nobel Peace prize winner. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #7

Remove the first letter of the first name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Read the remaining letters in reverse to spell the last name of another Nobel Peace prize winner. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #8

Remove the first four letters from the last name of a Nobel Economics prize winner. 

Now add one letter at the beginning of the remaining letters to spell the first name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #9

Remove the first three letters from the name of a major city in South Asia.  

Rearrange the rest of the letters to spell the first and last names of a Nobel Peace prize winner.  

What is the city, and who is the Peace prize winner?

ENTREE #10

Remove the first letter of the surname of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Read the remaining three letters either backward or forward to spell what sounds like the name of a musical group that
recorded a 1984 song whose subject was a second Nobel Peace Prize winner who was two years older than the first one. The surname of the older winner followed by the first three letters of the surname of the younger winner spell a famous person from antiquity.

Who are these two Nobel prize winners and the famous person from antiquity?

ENTREE #11

Name a Nobel Peace Prize winner, first and last names.

Use the 16 letters in this name, using some of them more than once, to spell the surnames of an American evangelist, an English guitarist and songwriter, an English philosopher and physician, a British essayist and poet, and the first names of an American church founder and an English-French physician who was also a eugenicist and writer, and the first and last names of another Nobel Peace Prize winner and the name of a Roman poet.

Who is this peace prize winner?

Who are the American evangelist, English guitarist and songwriter, English philosopher and physician, British essayist and poet, American church founder and the English-French physician-eugenicist and writer, and the Roman poet?   

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Automotive Dessert:

Flower, grape, subtitle, school

A flower, a grape variety, a subtitle, and a school grounds all begin with the same two letters in the same order.

The first three letters spell three-letter words associated with automobiles. These three-letter words end with an “r”, a “b” a “p” and an “m”. 

What are this flower, grape variety, subtitle, and school grounds?

Every Friday 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 Friday.

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.

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Where the Heck are we? Pearamount Pickedcherries? Continental Kingdom; Humanity taking a stand; A Unicorn golden, A Genie in a silver time capsule; “Car Talk” with Cleek and Cloak;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Pearamount Pickedcherries?

Take an eleven-letter name associated with the film industry. 

Delete a letter. 

The result is a fruit and what is inside of it. 

What are this name, fruit and what is inside of it?

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Location Location Location! Appetizer:

Where the Heck are we? 

1.☕🧃Take the brand name of a beverage. 

Add to that the name of a laundry detergent. 

The result, phonetically, will be a well-known movie based on a location.

What are the two brands and what is the movie?

2.🌆 The names of a well-known US town and a different US city each contain six letters with the same vowel pronounced three different ways. 

What are the town and the city?

3.🌎Name a place in the world in seven letters, with a vowel pronounced three different ways. (The vowel is different than the vowel in puzzle #2, above)  

What is this place?

4.🏙 Name a well-known city that sounds like two words. The first word might be something that follows the second word. And most people would not want either to happen to them. What are the city and the two words?

5. Take the name of a European river in one syllable. 

Move the first letter to the end and the result will be a common word with three syllables. 

What is the river and what is the word?  

6.🏠 Name something found in your house followed by a well-known non-American slang  term for where you might find it.

Combine the two words and the result will be the location of a famous battle.

What is found in your home, where might you find it, and where was the famous battle?  

7.🔔 Take the name of a famous American landmark in two words.  

Remove a duplicated letter from the first word, rearrange, and the result will be the second word.  

What is this landmark?

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Holding Sway Hors d’Oeuvre:

Continental Kingdom

From a state remove letters that someone might string

Together to spell out a continent.

The letters remaining will spell out a king

Holding sway on that mainland and flauntin’ it.

What are the state, continent and king?

Hint: The letters you remove from the state must be rearranged before you string them together.

Channellocking Tom and Ray Slice:

“Car Talk” with Cleek and Cloak

Imagine that vehicles can communicate with one another. 

Spell an automotive brand backward. Say the first three letters of this result aloud, each of which sounds like a word. The remaining letters spell a fourth word. 

These four words form an observation a vehicle might make to a certain vehicle of this brand manufactured before 2003. What brand is this?

Riffing Off Shortz And Berlin Slices:

A Unicorn golden, A Genie in a silver time capsule

Will Shortz’s October 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Eric Berlin of Milford, Connecticut, reads:

Take the word SETS. You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a common phrase: SPARE PARTS. Can you now do this with the word GENIE, add a three-letter word to it twice to get a common phrase? Again, start with GENIE, insert a three-letter word twice, get a common phrase.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Berlin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the word SETS. You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a common phrase: SPARE PARTS. Can you now do this with the surname of a Milford, Connecticut-based puzzle-maker named Eric? 

To do so, you could add a three-letter word to the surname twice to get a word for a rosary-maker about whom a short documentary feature was filmed, followed by a hyphenated word for what this feature was used as, when it once preceded “Mother Angelica Live” on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network).

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What was the feature used as?

Note: The following riff is the brainchild of our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Take a possessive word and remove an apostrophe.  Add a three-letter word to this word twice.  You’ll get two words describing a person and a misfortune that person would be unlikely to suffer. What are the possessive word and the two additional words?

Note: The following riff was created by our friend  Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” puzzle-package is featured in this edition of Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

Take the word “genie.” You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get what California voters might have done to a former governor, or what Tonya Harding might have done if she were a professional golfer in the early 1960’s. 

ENTREE #4

Take a four-letter interjection that is used informally like “well” (as to introduce a remark expressing resignation or disappointment). For example:

“____, that was a bummer! I spent all day
Sunday and half of Monday trying to solve the NPR puzzle before I finally threw in the towel!”

Write, in order, the fourth, first, third and second letters of this interjection. Take the first name of an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Place it between the fourth and first letters of the interjection. Place a copy of it between the first and third letters of the interjection. Place a hyphen between the fourth and fifth letters of this ten-letter result to form a verb meaning “to live or go along cheerfully in spite of minor misfortunes.” 

What is the four-letter interjection?

Who is the Academy Award-winning filmmaker?

What is the hyphenated verb?

ENTREE #5

Take the only city in the world to be surrounded completely by intact Roman walls, the tops of which can be traversed by foot. This four-letter city is in a peninsular country.

Take also the metaphorical four-letter name of a peninsula that is associated with Garo Yepremian, Lou Groza and George Blanda.

Pluck a vowel and consonant from this octet of letters and place them before “something rolled that is associated with serpentine orbs or hoboes’ havens.” Follow this with the remaining six letters (consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel, vowel), and a repeat of the same “something rolled that is associated with serpentine orbs or hoboes’ havens.”

The final result spells a three-word term for “Georgia on My Mind,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” or “The Loco-Motion.”

What are the four-letter city and four-letter name of a peninsula?

What is “something rolled that is associated with serpentine orbs or hoboes’ havens?”

What is the three-word term for “Georgia on My Mind,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” or “The Loco-Motion”?

ENTREE #6

Take the acronym ELT: (Extremely Large Telescope) an astronomical observatory featuring an optical telescope with an aperture for its primary mirror from 20 metres up to 100 metres across! “Wrap around” this acronym a
feminine pronoun.

Then wrap around this same acronym a British English/Scottish verb that means “to scour,” according to the Collins English Dictionary.

The result is the title of a song by a British band.

What are the pronoun and the English/Scottish verb that means “to scour?”

What is the song title?

ENTREE #7

Take the surname of an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. You can add a common three-letter word to this twice to get a two-word term for “a minor automobile accident.”

What is the name of this novelist?

What is the “minor automobile accident”?

ENTREE #8

A service a seamstress shop offers is posted on a sign in its window. The sign consists of a two-letter pronoun, a misspelled five-letter verb, and a seven-letter plural noun. 

A word seen on a standard computer
keyboard appears twice on the sign. Remove both of them, leaving the name of the shop – “WEAR HERS” – which is displayed on a neon sign above the shop’s entrance.

What is the word seen on a standard computer keyboard?

What is this misspelled service the seamstress shop offers?

ENTREE #9

Name a four-word, 13-letter idiom associated with crapulence.

Replace the first two letters with the letter that is equidistant from both of them in the alphabet. Move that letter so that it is in-between the original seventh and eighth letters. Remove all spaces.

The result is a pair of adjacent identical three-letter verbs flanked by identical three-letter abbreviations of a university whose athletic teams’ names are an anagram of a Scottish word that means  “frolic, carousal, commotion.”

What is the idiom?

What is the pair of adjacent identical three-letter verbs, and the pair of identical three-letter abbreviations? 

ENTREE #10

Take a three-word term – in 5, 4 and 4 letters – for 1600, 1776 or 1812, to name just three four-digit numbers. 

Remove a pair of identical three-letter parts of the body. The result is the four-letter first name of a Carter-era White House economic adviser and economist at the Federal Reserve, and a three-letter acronym of “the interest rate earned on an investment in one year, including compounding interest.

What are the three-word term, the first name of the economic adviser and the acronym?

ENTREE #11

Name a “Preparation” product, a cola brand, and a brand whose Inside-The-Shell Electric Egg Scrambler won 84th place in Mobile Magazine's Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. Add two identical three-letter anagrams of a synonym of “triumphed” and two identical three-letter strings that are not words but are anagrams of a “masculine curtsy.”

The result is a bovine four-word phrase used in elocution teaching to demonstrate a “rounded” diphthong, followed by a six-letter word that may or may not be a horse of a different color.

What are the three products/brands?

What is the anagram of a synonym of “triumphed” and the three-letter strings that are anagrams of a “masculine curtsy.”

What are the bovine four-word phrase and the six-letter word that may or may not be a horse of a different color?

ENTREE #12

Take the surname of an American novelist who helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature.

You can add a three-letter word to this surname twice to get a three-word phrase that is a comparative characterization of an ancient Chinese bulwark.

Who is this novelist?

What is the three-word phrase? 

ENTREE #13

Take the postal abbreviations of a very populous US state and a sparsely populated US state. 

You can add a three-letter word to this twice to
get a common hyphenated word that means “in a haphazard or spontaneous manner.”

What are these postal abbreviations?

What is the hyphenated word?

ENTREE #14

Take the misspelled name of a Big Apple Fifth Avenue department store that is known for its world-famous holiday window display and theatrical light show. You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a two-word term
for hearty Yuletide “Ho Ho Ho’s.”

What are this deparment store name and its misspelling?

What is the two-word term for hearty Yuletide “Ho Ho Ho’s”?

Hint: The misspelling substitutes a “ch” for a “k”.

ENTREE #15

Take the five-letter prefix that means “of, relating to, or involving computers or computer networks (such as the Internet).” Delete an “e” from this prefix.You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a  two-word term for
Mars, Milky Way or Mounds. 

What is this prefix?

What is the two-word term for Mars, Milky Way or Mounds?

ENTREE #16

Take an American purveyor of baby food and baby products. You can add a common three-letter word to this twice to get a phrase for “a person who dresses and behaves like a
member of the opposite sex.”

What is the name of this purveyor?

What is the “person who dresses and behaves like a member of the opposite sex?” 

Dessert Menu

Darwinian Dessert:

Humanity taking a stand

A caption for the ancient image pictured here might be “Homo Erectus.” 

Write a second possible caption for the image, in two words of eight total letters. Rearrange these combined letters to name something that is timely.

What is your caption, and what is its timely anagram?

Every Friday 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 Friday.

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.