When pigs swim; Log roll call; Whopper-concocting Cockney; Trick 'n' treat..... 'n' toil 'n' trouble; The incredible edible legend; Swapping baseball cars

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER e^{5 +} pi⁴ SERVED

Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

Lots o’ tricky treats for you to solve this week. Oh yes, kids, lots of very scary stuff!

We’ve got birling, incredible edible legends, Cockneys, the inscrutable Orient, two World Series Series stars, and – as a special Halloween treat – a world-class world capital puzzle served up for dessert by skydiveboy, aka Mark Scott from Seattle:

Morsel Menu

Forest Morsel:

Log roll call

Consider the following list of trees: plum, oak, apple, palm, lemon, pine, willow,…

Examples of trees that do not belong on that list are:

One whose wood is used to fashion model airplanes,

One that is a homophone of a common pronoun,

One that is a homophone of a Mediterranean isle,

One that Larry Bird called himself before becoming a Celtic,

One that is a part of a president’s nickname and is also a word in a nursery rhyme

One that is a part of a Donovan song title

One that is a fruit-bearing tree that traditionally also occasionally bears a particular game bird.

Name one other tree that belongs on the list and one other tree that does not belong. Explain your choices.

Extra credit: Name all seven trees on the list of trees that do not belong on the list.

Hint: Those of you who have been following the National Puzzle Rumblings this past week may well have an advantage in solving this puzzle.

Hint: One of the trees on the original list is often associated with certain islands. Those islands are at the crux of knowing which trees do and don’t belong on the list.

Sx/Appetizer Menu

Who’s In The News Appetizer:

The incredible edible legend

Name a newsmaker from this past week. Replace the first letter on the person’s surname with something edible, in three letters, to name a legendary figure.

Who are the newsmaker and legendary figure?

Hint: Replace the second half of the first name with the first half of the surname and reverse the middle two letters of the result, forming a word. Place the second half of the second name after the second half of the first name, forming a word.

The first word formed is sometimes followed by “tell.” 

The second word formed is almost always followed by “Bator,” or else by “-Ude.”

Sports Page Appetizer:

Whopper-concocting Cockney

A sports-page story this past week contained two essential words, both uppercase. Rearrange the letters in those words to form a two-word description that pertains to both of the images pictured here. 

In the case of one image, the description is spelled as if it were spoken by a speaker of Cockney who is either lying or has no idea of what he is talking about.

What are the sports story words? What is the description of the images?

Hallow Eastern News Appetizer:

Trick ‘n’ treat…‘n’ toil ‘n’ trouble!

The gist of an Eastern Hemisphere news story this past week could be summarized in a four-word headline of 5, 6, 3 and 8 letters. The first word is a nation and the last word is plural, but without an S.

Add an S and U to the 22 letters and rearrange these 24 letters to form the following four words you might see and/or hear as you go out Halloween trick-or-treating Saturday evening:

1.) Shadowy figures cackling out in a moonlit cornfield (7 letters)

2.) A container which they are stirring (8 letters)

3.) A small mollusk they are dropping into the container (5 letters)

4.) The plaintive cry of a distant werewolf (4 letters) {Best alliterative lyric ever: “...Little old lady got multilated late last night...”}

What is the four-word headline? What are the four Halloween words?

MENU

Fall Classic Auto Part Slice:

Swapping baseball cars

Name two former Major League Baseball players who between them have played on eight World Series Championship teams.

Put their surnames together, older player first. Remove the letter from the exact center along with the newly formed space. The resulting word is standard equipment on most cars and trucks.

Who are these star Fall Classic ballplayers and what is the car part?

 Dessert Menu

Piece Of Napoleon-cake Dessert:

When pigs swim

(Puzzle courtesy of Mark Scott (skydiveboy) of Seattle, Washington):

Think of a word that describes a body of water. Now think of a word you might use to describe what pigs sometimes do. 

Put these two words together, in order, and phonetically you will name a capital city of a well-known country. What are these three?

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 Tuesdays 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.