“…Everything but the ethnic kinks” Nonhuman Homophonia; Monomials in motion; “Ta" plus "bus” e(quals) plural “bus” unum; Olive branches soreheads?

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Welcome to our March 31^st edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

Our spotlight puzzle this week is our Hors d’Oeurve – a tasty tricky stickler of a treat created by Patrick J. Berry, also known in comments sections by his screen name “cranberry.”

Patrick’s very clever challenge is titled “Entertaining Concerts Hors d’Oeuvre: Monomials in motion.” It asks you to find the names of a pair of one-named entertainers who may well “move” you with their performances.

Also:

* Under our MENU, we offer seven puzzles that shamelessly Rip-Off a clever puzzle that longtime Puzzlerian! ron recently posted over on Blaine’s Blog.

* Also under our MENU, we serve up three Ripping-Off Shortz puzzles.

* Our Appetizer this week is a rebussy critter-caption challenge.

* And, our Dessert is an after-dinner “mint.”

March may have roared in like an alpha-male lion on March 1^st, but it is now “baa-wing out” like a wobble-legged lambda. (Omega, March 31^st, had a little lambda, its fleece as white as thawing snow…).

Please enjoy our puzzles… and, tomorrow when you rise and shine, don’t get fooled again.

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

Entertaining Concerts Hors d’Oeuvre:

Monomials in motion

Think of two entertainers, each who goes by just one name. Write those names down one after the other. 

Remove the last three letters of the first name and the first two letters of the second name. Put the remaining letters together.

If you have the correct names, they will spell a seven-letter word that means “in motion.”

Now take the five letters you removed, and place the last three before the first two. You will spell a five-letter word that means “in motion.”

Who are these entertainers, and what two words are formed that mean “in motion”?

Hint: One of the entertainers is definitely known for being “in motion” when performing in concert.

Appetizer Menu

 

Captious Appetizer:

Nonhuman Homophonia

Write a two-word caption for each of the twelve images pictured here.

The second word in each caption will name a kind of critter. The first word in each caption is a homophone.

 

What are these twelve captions?

MENU 

Ripping Off ron On Blaine’s Blog Slices:

“Ta” plus “bus” e(quals) plural “bus” unum

Longtime Puzzlerian! ron’s recent post on Blaine’s Blog (Wednesday, March 29, 09:55:00 PM PDT) included the following puzzle that he created:

The meaning of a common English word becomes plural when an A is added at its start.

What is the word?

Puzzleria’s Ripping Off ron On Blaine’s Blog Slices read:

1. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “g” is added to its beginning. What are these words?

2. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “ti” is added to its beginning. What are these words?

3. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “si” is added to its beginning. What are these words?

4. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “t” is added to its beginning. What are these words?

5. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “o” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?

6. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “n” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?

7. A common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when an “s” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?

9. A somewhat common English singular noun becomes a plural noun when a “pu” is subtracted from its beginning. What are these words?

Ripping Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:

“…Everything but the ethnic kinks”

Will Shortz’s March 26^th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Mike Shteyman reads:

Name two things found in a kitchen — one starting with G, the other starting with K. If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things, one of them found in the kitchen starting with F, the other one probably found elsewhere in the house starting with K. What things are these?

Puzzleria’s Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz Slices read:

ONE:

Name two things found in a kitchen — one starting with T, the other starting with K. 
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things, one of them found in the kitchen starting with T, the other one probably found in the closet (in a proverbial sense), starting with S. What things are these?

TWO:

Name two things that might be found in a kitchen — a type of sweet treat starting with S that might be served on something starting with P. 
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name two other things found in the kitchen – complementary implements used in food preparation starting with P and M.

What things are these?

THREE:

Name five things found in a kitchen:

two words starting with an M and a C that you might see on a spice rack;

a small pastry, starting with T;

a “redible” root, starting with B; and

a wine that might be the choice of liberals, starting with P.
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange these 22 letters to name three other things found in the kitchen:

a two-word term for items one wears, starting with O and M;

a container starting with P; and

a viscous mixture that food is dipped into, starting with B. 

What things are these?

Hint #1: Three of the four words comprising the three other things found in the kitchen can also be found in a battery.

Hint #2: The M-word on the spice rack has a connection with this week's Dessert.
The C-word on the spice rack is a plural word.

Dessert Menu

Numismatic Dessert

Olive branches soreheads?

 

Displayed here are the obverse and reverse sides of a purseful of coins, mostly quarters from the United States.

 

We have, however, also included a Canadian one-cent piece, a French 20-franc piece, a Bahamian a 10-dollar piece, an Albanian 5-frangia piece, an Italian 100-lire piece, an Isle of Man silver proof bullion coin, and a South African krugerrand,

Notice that some of the obverse/inverse images bear a green circle, while others bear a red circle. 

All green-circled coins share something in common that the red-circled coins do not share. In other words, there is something all of the green-circled coins have that the red-circled coins lack.

 

What do the red-circled coins lack that the green-circled coins do not lack?

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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