“What politicians da-doo-ron-ron” Pursuing parallel parking spots; Kaleidoscopic “chamelons”; Chickens in the kitchen? Fred Flintstone meets Boris Godunov; Loop, flicklob and chop! Transporting comestibles across state lines; Chapel choppers; Odium takes the podium;

P! SLICES: OVER e⁴ + pi⁴ + (pi^.e)² + phi¹¹ SERVED

Welcome to our June 3^rd edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! We feature another excellent patjberry puzzle this week, one that manages to marry popular music with politics.

Patrick’s puzzle, titled “Billboard Chart Slice: ‘What politicians da-doo-ron-ron,’ ” appears under our main MENU.

All nine (count ’em, nine) hors d’oeuvres, morsels, appetizers, slices and desserts on this week’s menu are guaranteed to be gluten-free, MSG-free, BHA-free, BHT-free, trans-fat-free, sulfur-dioxide-free, potassium-bromate-free, high-fructose-corn-syrup-free, sucralose/saccharin/aspartame-free and sugar-free (well, except for maybe the dessert, that is).

Oh yes, we almost forgot. All nine of this week’s menu items are also 100% anagram-free!

As always, you may want to take a few of our puzzles with a grain – but only one grain – of sodium chloride.

So, get shakin’… and enjoy a guilt-free puzzling experience:

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

A Night At The Opera Hors d’Oeuvre

Fred Flintstone meets Boris Godunov

A radio announcer – best known for introducing operatic performers – regularly introduced a particular non-operatic performer as one “who starts a fire by rubbing” together, not sticks or flint stones (like Fred Flintstone might), but other, more intangible things. The entertainer’s full name sounds similar to a creature that would probably not make a good household pet.

Who is this entertainer? 
Extra credit: What are the intangible things that might be rubbed together?

Archdioceasy Rider Hors d’Oeuvre:

Chapel choppers

(Note: I’m dedicating this this puzzle to my brother, Michael Peter. No, he’s not dead. He’s just a motorcycle guy.)

Divide into two unequal parts an 8-letter word that appears in the names of many Christian churches. Duplicate the final letter of the first part, take its mirror image, uppercase that mirror image and place it at the beginning of the second part. Change into lowercase the first letter of the first part.

 

The 9-letter result – an adjective and slang noun – names what a motorcycle aficionado may harbor in her, or his, garage.

What is in the garage?   

Morsel Menu

Media Jackal Morsel:

Chickens in the kitchen?

Name a person who works in the television news broadcasting profession. The person’s full name, first and last names, rhymes with a word coined about three centuries ago.

 

The word has become associated with both a common kitchen item and a common barnyard creature.

Who is this person and what is this word? 

Arrayed Radii Morsel:

Pursuing parallel parking spots

In the diagram pictured here, F is a focus of an ellipse, C is the center of an ellipse, and J and D are centers of circles.

Name the line that is parallel to a radius.

Appetizer Menu

Voluntary Guidelines Appetizer:

Odium takes the podium

The following “doggeriddle” was inspired by recent national health and wellness news story:

When there’s ice over-copious, I preserve life.

It is food I preserve, though, when ice is not rife.

Use reserve, though, with me in food, be a custodian

Of your health… overuse me and my name is Odium.

... What am I?

One Of Those “Bevvies” Appetizer

Kaleidoscopic “chamelons”

Name a creature, in nine letters. Duplicate the fifth letter and place it at the end of the word. Change the sixth letter to an E and place a space after it, resulting in a brand name beverage preceded by an adjective that often describes it.

Name the same creature. Change the sixth letter to an E and place a space after it, resulting in two colors.

Duplicate the fifth letter in the first color and place it at the end of the second color. To the end of the second color also add a girl’s name, plus a duplicate of the first letter in the girl’s name. The result is two fruits which are similar in color.

What is the creature? What are the brand name beverage and its color? What are the pair of colors and pair of fruits?

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Billboard Chart Slice:

“What politicians da-doo-ron-ron”

Name the title of a Billboard # 1 hit by a duo, the title of a Billboard # 2 hit by a group, and the title of a song by a “progressive rock” group that did not make it onto the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. All three titles contain exactly two words, and all three titles share the same second word.

The #1 hit title sounds like what some politicians want to do to certain government-run services.

The #2 hit title sounds like what some “political groupies” do to politicians they rally around.

The non-charting song title sounds like what politicians do to budgets, policy packages and peace treaties.

What are these three song titles?

Hint: The name of the group that performed the song that did not chart on Billboard appears intact in the second word of the song’s title.

Ripping Off Shortz Slice:

Loop, flick/lob and chop!

Will Shortz’s May 29^th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

What are the most consecutive points a tennis player can lose and still win a best-of-five-sets match? There’s no trick. It’s a straightforward question. The modern tennis tiebreaker rule does not come into play.

Puzzleria!’s “Ripping Off Shortz Slice reads:

What are the most consecutive points Will Shortz can lose and still win a best-of-five-sets tennis match? 

There is a trick. It’s a crookedbackward question. The modern tennis tiebreaker rule may or may not come into play… but remember, ’tis now June, and no longer May.

Hint: In the 20^th Century, the answer to this puzzle would have been 30 points greater.

Dessert Menu

Eddyble Dessert:

Transporting comestibles across state lines

Name a specialized profession – in two words of twelve total letters – in which an edible product is produced. The first word is the name of the product.

Remove an R from the left side and an L from the right side of the first word. Place this result to the left of and adjacent to the second word, without a space, to form the name of a past U.S. automobile manufacturer.

 

A major appliance manufacturer is situated across the state line, less than 50 miles, from what had been the auto manufacturer’s base of operations. The name of the appliance manufacturer is an English word that translates into the name of the edible product in its language of origin.

What is the specialized profession? What are the neighboring manufacturers?  

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