Replacing diVotican stateside; Little white wimples; Sleight of foot-in-mouth; Greek mytheology; Newsprintersection

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Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! – our September 18, 2015 edition. That’s 9/18/15.

9 goes into 18 once, with a remainder of 4.

9 goes into 15 once, with a remainder of 3.

Please explain.

We have a quintet of puzzles on our menu this week: three appetizers, one entrée, and one dessert. Let’s begin with our trio of trending newsmaker appetizers:

Appetizer Menu

Letters In Common Appetizer:

Little white wimples

This past week, a newsmaker was invited to appear at an institution. The home state of the newsmaker and home state of the institution begin with the same letter.

Consider the first name of the institution and the first name of the newsmaker, which each have three consecutive letters in common. Remove those six common letters from the two first names and rearrange the remaining letters to form a two-word phrase for a fib.

Consider the second name of the institution and the surname of the newsmaker, which each have three consecutive letters in common. Remove those six common letters from the two second names and rearrange the remaining letters to form a two-word phrase for a vowed woman’s enthusiasm.

Who is this Timely newsmaker. What is the institution?

Golf Scramble Appetizer:

Replacing diVotican stateside

The three-sentence ersatz-news paragraph, printed below, contains multi-word anagrams of just three of several catchphrases that have recently been speculated about in the wake of an announcement reported recently in popular media stories and entertainment news.

In the first sentence, three consecutive words anagram into a two-word catchphrase, with its first word apostrophized.

In the second sentence, four consecutive words anagram into a four-word catchphrase, with three of its words in Spanish.

In the third sentence, first a string of five consecutive words, and then a string of four consecutive words, each anagram into the same six-word catchphrase, with its first word apostrophized.

When Pope Francis comes to America the bishops will host a golf scramble – a mitered tourney, so to speak – in his honor. We predict that secular news accounts of this tournament will report that a Francis fan on the Tenth Green thrust her infant into the pope’s face, asking him to kiss it, not realizing, perhaps, that few fluids are as offensive as that baby saliva! Later, on the “nineteenth hole,” after Pope Francis bought a round of fluted Prosecco champagne for the house and the bishops imbibed a bit, a bubbly tickle won out upon the prelates’ palates and, before long, some of them experienced a frontal lobe winy blackout, but fortunately all recovered.

What are the three catchphrases, and who might speak them?

Similar First-name Appetizer:

Newsprintersection

Three newsmakers appeared in two different sections of newspapers this past week. All three share the same surname.

(A) = A newsmaker appearing in the entertainment section

(F) = the First newsmaker appearing in another section

(S) = the Second newsmaker appearing in the same other section

The first name of (A) shares five of its letters (three of them in identical positions) with the first name of (F).

The first name of (A) shares six of its letters (one of them in an identical position) with the first name of (S).

To the end of the first name of (S), add a U.S. state postal abbreviation which is also a common prefix. The result is what a person – whose spouse once held the same title as (A) – was once hired to do to (A).

What are the names of (A), (F) and (S)?

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Mt. Holympus Slice:

Greek mytheology

Remove the first three letters from a word for a mythological figure, thereby forming a Greek word. Church-goers worldwide – especially those “of a certain age” – use this Greek word to refer to one god that they do not at all consider mythological.

 What are these two words – the mythological figure and the Greek word?

Hint: Wilhelm Richard Wagner and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, respectively and notably, composed music involving these words.

Hint: Spell the first three letters of the mythological figure backward to form the beginning of a Latin word for a purification ritual performed subsequent to the reciting the Greek word.

Hint: An actor’s first and last name (written without a space between them) share eight of its nine letters with the mythological figure, with the first four and the eighth letters in the same positions. One of this actor’s best portrayals was as a lead singer of a group with a song included in the soundtrack of a movie that also featured the Wagner’s music associated with the mythological figure.

Dessert Menu

Celebrity Dick Hollister And Paula Prentiss Dessert:

Sleight of foot-in-mouth

A controversy arose last week after a newsmaker voiced a superficial slight against another newsmaker, an instance of legerdepied-dans-la-bouche. The slight was published in a magazine profile. Both newsmakers are business-world entrepreneurs with political aspirations.

Embedded homophonically, more or less, in the fake sports article below are the names of both newsmakers and the name of a joint venture one was involved in and the name of a company the other was involved in. These four names may be heard if the paragraph is read aloud – one in the first paragraph, two in the second paragraph, and one in the third paragraph. 

 

DATELINE: CHICAGO, Ill., Monday Night, October 7, 2002:

The Monsters of the Midway are hosting the green-and-gold-helmeted Cheeseheads from Green Bay… But not at Soldier Field, which as being renovated. And not at the deserving-a-Best-Visual-Effects-Oscar leafy arena known as brick-ivy-walled Wrigley Field. No, this clash is being played at Urbana-Champaign’s Memorial Stadium.

In the 13-month wake of 9/11, Alison Krause and Union Station strum plausible, applause-worthy renditions of the “Star Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America.” The Packers are garbed in their normal visitors’ uniforms, but some marketing consultant has convinced the Bears to don old rump pads, throwback jerseys and leather helmets!

On the Bears’ first offensive series, quarterback Jim Miller is sacked. “Boom!” booms the voice of color commentator John Madden. “Who let Packer defensive end Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila have a free shot at Miller?” The booming continues, and the Pack beat the Bears 34-21.

What are these four names?

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.)

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