Smoky Incense and mirrors; Abecedarian nation! Invasion of the molar men! A three state solution; Tropic Of Barleycorn;

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Welcome to our March the 3^rd edition Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

It is not Tuesday, March the 3^rd, of course. That happens roughly every seven years, and especially when Tuesday Weld is married to Fredric March’s eponymous grandson.

No, this is Friday, March the 3^rd. This also happens roughly every seven years, but especially when Robinson Crusoe’s man, Friday, is married to Fredric March’s eponymous grandson. So...

 

March into our menus like a labyrinth-loving lion.

Enjoy, please.

LegoLambda… Marching out. 

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

E Tria De Multis Hors d’Oeuvre:

A three state solution

Consider Arizona and Rhode Island. Only one of the remaining 48 United States shares something in common with those two. 

What state is it?

Note: The “something in common” has nothing at all to do with state capitals. (Were that the case, the answer would be South Dakota.) 

However, knowing your U.S. state postal abbreviations should help you to solve this puzzle.

Morsel Menu

Fast As Molarasses In March Morsel:

Invasion of the molar men!

Name two words – a verb and a modifier, in that order – describing what a private collector and a Canadian dentist had to do to take ownership, respectively (if not respectfully), of a presidential assassin’s coffin and a deceased Beatle’s molar.

Put the modifier before the verb and pronounce this result aloud, forming an adjective some people might well use to describe the nature of these two transactions.

What are the verb and modifier, and what is the adjective?

Appetizer Menu

Donnin’ Your Drinkin’ Duds Appetizer:

Tropic Of Barleycorn

Name a place where tropical drinks are served, in two words. Follow this, without a space, with the first three letters of an article of clothing (in two words containing 13 letters), sometimes worn by patrons of this place. 

The result spells the first and last names of a retired professional athlete who still appears on TV.

Hint: The remaining, unused final letters in the article of clothing form a pool of ten letters. From this 10-letter pool you can form any of the following terms:

1. A word that often follows the athlete’s first name (3 letters)

2. Something a patron of the place serving tropical drinks might order (3 letters)

3. A small serving of that something (4 letters)

4. Slang for something foamy a patron might order (4 letters)

5. Something “softer” a patron might order (4 letters)

6. A yellowish/brownish condiment a patron might ask for (7 letters)

7. (If you add a “p” to the 10-letter pool)… A somewhat legalistic, two-word name for the establishment (4 letters, 4 letters)

Who is this athlete?

What are the place that serves tropical drinks and the article of clothing worn sometimes by it patrons?

What are the seven terms formed from the 10-letter pool?

MENU 

 

Ripping Off Shortz And Maravetz Slices:

Abecedarian nation!

Will Shortz’s February 26^th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Mark Maravetz, reads:

Take five consecutive letters of the alphabet. Write them in left-to-right order. Insert five letters at certain spots. These will all go between the first and last given letters. The result will be a famous actor – first and last names. Who is it?

Note: For Puzzleria’s Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz And Maravetz Slices please use Puzzleria’s Closed-Loop Circular Seamless Alphabet (pictured below), if needed. Our puzzle slices read:

ONE:

Take seven consecutive letters of the alphabet. Write them in left-to-right order. Insert eleven letters at certain spots, five of which will go between the first and last of the seven consecutive alphabet letters. The result will be two actors – first and last names (5 letters in each first name and 4 letters in each last name). Who are these actors?

TWO:

Take four consecutive letters of the alphabet. Write them in left-to-right order. Insert seven letters at certain spots, five of which will go between the first and last of the four consecutive alphabet letters. The result will be a famous poet – first and last names (5 letters in the first name and 6 letters in the last name). Who is this poet?

THREE:

Take five consecutive letters of the alphabet. Write them in left-to-right order. Insert five letters at certain spots, four of which will go between the first and last of the five consecutive alphabet letters. The result will be a not-very-famous golf professional – first and last names (each with 5 letters). Who is this golf pro?

Hint: At age 16 this all-league high school golfer lost a match by one stroke to a 5-year-old prodigy who three years earlier had showed off his precocity on the Mike Douglas TV talk show.

FOUR:

Take eight consecutive letters of the alphabet. Write them in left-to-right order. Insert three letters at certain spots. These will all go between the first and last given letters. The result will be two words:

1. What a desirable element releasing heat might do to an aircraft, and

2. What an undesirable element concealing heat might do to an aircraft.

What are these two words?

Dessert Menu

Lowercase Letters Lead To Higher Power Dessert:

Smoky Incense and mirrors

Name a substance considered by many to be a panacea, in two words. Type it in lowercase.

Remove the second word. Spell the first word backward and replace the fourth letter of the result with the letter that is its mirror image. Add to the right of this replacement letter a letter that almost always follows in on the printed page. 

The resulting word is a place of public worship.

What is this substance? What is the place of worship?

  

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 Wednesdays 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.

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 Wednesdays 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.