That cold black magic; Homer's odyssey to the state of Troy; "What hath DOD wrought?"; Getting into game shape; We've been counting beans

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Welcome to Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!, the Fourth of Duodecimber edition.

Okay, now that “Cold Turkey Day,” also known as “Black Friday,” is behind us (both also known as the day after Thanksgiving Day), we will put a cap on Undecimber (also known as November) by posing a puzzle morsel involving the words “COLD” and “BLACK.”

 Rounding out this week’s five-square-meal-menu offerings are a national newsy appetizer, a business newsy entrée slice, a gamy entrée slice, and a dessert hot off the griddle. Please enjoy:

Morsel Menu

 

Hooking Up Morsel:

That cold black magic

The day after Thanksgiving Day is known as both Black Friday and Cold Turkey Day. Solve the following posers involving “Cold” and “Black.” All my intended answers are one syllable long (except for #7 which is two syllables long) and involve “hooking up” other words with “cold” and/or “black.” These other words follow or precede cold or black to form two-word phrases or two-syllable compound words. One of my compound words is a proper noun.

1. Name a word that follows black that rhymes with cold. (I have one answer.)  

2. Name a word that follows cold that rhymes with black. (I have one answer.)

3. Name a word that follows cold and also follows black. (I have one answer.)

4. Name a word that precedes cold and also precedes black. (I have no answer, no clue, nada.)

5. Name a word that follows black but can also precede cold. (I have three answers.)

6. Name a word that follows cold but can also precede black. (I have one answer.)

7. Name a word that follows black or cold to form two song titles. The “Black _____” title was a big hit, released in the 20^th century, for a mainstream pop-rock group. The “Cold _____” title was a “deep cut” on an album by a European singer-songwriter’s debut album, released in the 21^st century. (I have one title for each song.)

Hint: The first name of the group and the first name of the singer begin with the same letter. The second word in the group’s name and the surname of the singer could both be lower-cased and used as common nouns.

  

Appetizer Menu

Bikes And Butts Appetizer:

“What hath DOD wrought”

Name a brand name of cigarettes that is also a brand name of bicycles. Place punctuation marks after the first two letters, capitalize the second letter, and change the third letter to a letter eight times more valuable in the game of Scrabble. Leave a space between the second and third letters to form a movie title (from a decade that is an acronym of an anagram of “Einstein”) which has come to be used sometimes as a slang term for the subject of a national policy story appearing this past week in the news.

Name two other words that comprise the gist of the story, beginning with a W and a C. Name the country, beginning with an N, where essentially this same story was written in newspapers 30 years ago. Rearrange the letters in these two words and country to form a four-word derisive phrase that someone who disagrees with the policy might use to describe an example of what the policy, when enacted, may well shall hath wrought.

What is the movie title/slang term? What are the three words and the four-word phrase that they form?

Hint: The two-syllable surname of a person who might privately utter the “four-word derisive phrase,” if divided into two words, would be an accurate adjective-noun caption for the automobile pictured here. (The adjective describes the color of the auto, a three-letter word.) The four-word derisive phrase might look something like this:
“__ __ __   __   __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __!?”

Hint: The person who might utter the four-word derisive phrase may also utter a two-word defiant phrase that can be formed by removing a letter from the interior of the country that begins with an N, leaving the space where it is,and tacking an exclamation mark onto the end.

MENU

Business News Slice:

We’ve been countin’ beans

“Scorers cry, ‘Addable money!’”

Rearrange the letters the statement above to form four words (two pairs of words) that appeared on the business sections of newspapers this past week.

What are these four words?

Power Of Three Slice:

Getting into game shape

Name a piece of equipment used in a game, in two words. Apply to the end of the first word the consonant sound that begins the second word. The first word now sounds like the shape, not of the second word but, of another piece of gaming equipment that makes contact with a surface similar – in color and texture – to the surface with which the original piece of gaming equipment comes into contact.

What are these two pieces of gaming equipment, and their shapes?

Hint: Compute (raise) each of the following numbers to its third power:

17, 3, 21, 5, 2, 1, 12

Dessert Menu

Grand Slam Dessert:

Homer’s odyssey to the state of Troy

“Grid yards, arm, racer do gore Lions… Rah Rah!”

The above headline may have appeared in “homer” newspapers’ sports pages originating in the upper Midwest this past week. Rearrange the letters to form six words that would have appeared in the news story beneath the homer headline.

The six words consist of five proper nouns and a verb. What are they?  

 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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