Glowing glowing gone, crowing crowing come; Triple Helix; Pionearing Armageddon? Slight, ace arm, anagram!

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (987 + 65) SERVED

Welcome to our November 10th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

Note: Next Friday, November 17th, we will be publishing our fourth excellent Cryptic Crossword Puzzle composed by Puzzleria!’s own Patrick J. Berry (aka “cranberry”). 


In this edition of Puzzleria!, we are offering nine Will Shortz film-director Riff-offs, including a John Cagesque poser created by ecoarchitect, and a full-bodied puzzle composed simultaneously but independently by Word Woman and ViolinTeddy. Both riff-offs were posted on Blaine’s blog this past week.

Also on our Puzzleria! menus this week are:
One ⇓ Appetizer moored by cables and anchors;
One glowing ⇓ ember of a Slice we hope to end up crowing about; and
One very weird ⇓ Dessert .

We now “direct” your attention to our silv..., that is, rather... our golden screen. The curtains are about to part, like Cecil B. DeMille’s Red Sea. Please enjoy our dozen-puzzle show.

Appetizer Menu

Weighty Anchors Appetizer:
Pionearing Armageddon?

Name a pair of one-syllable words with ominous overtones – one associated with deadly pursuit using trigger-equipped tools, the other associated with the possible triggering of global catastophe. 

Now name a pioneering TV anchorperson at a cable network. Add his last name to the end of both one-syllable words. You will form the last names of two legendary anchorpeople at a pioneering pre-cable-TV network. 
Who are these three anchors?

MENU

Deli Slice:
Glowing glowing gone, crowing crowing come

The word “deli” appears in the interior of a word for something that glows. 

Replace the “d” with a “t” and “c” and rearrange those five letters to transform the “something that glows” into “a creature that crows.”

What are these glowing and crowing words?



Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
Slight, ace arm, anagram!  

Will Shortz’s November 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins, reads:
Think of the last name of a famous film director. The first two letters and last two letters in order spell a word. And the remaining letters, rearranged, spell a synonym of that word. What film director is it?
ONE:
Word Woman’s and ViolinTeddy’s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices reads:
Think of the last name of a famous film director. You can anagram it into other words. The first two letters and last two letters in order spell a body part. And the remaining letters, rearranged, spell another body part. What film director is it?

TWO:
ecoarchitect’s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices reads:
Think of the last name of a famous film director. The first two letters and last two letters in order spell a word. What remains represents the synonymous epitome of that word. Or, as eco put it, what remains “is about as [film director’s last name] as you can get.” What film director is it?

Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:
THREE:
Think of the last name of a famous film director. You can anagram it into other words. The first three letters and last two letters, all five rearranged, spell a noun. And the remaining letters, rearranged, spell an adjective. 
The adjective and noun form a caption for the image of a pickable fruit pictured here. 
What film director is it?
FOUR:
Think of the last name of a famous film director. The first two letters and last two letters in order spell a word. The sole remaining letter is not an antonym of this word, but the digit it resembles does convey the opposite sense of what the spelled-out 4-letter word denotes. What film director is it?
FIVE:
Think of the last name of a not-so-famous film director. (Indeed this person directed only one film, but it appears on Top 100 lists, Top 500 lists and similar “best-of” and “all-time” movie lists.)  
You can anagram the director’s last name into other words. One way to do that is to divide it into two unequal parts of  5 and 3 letters and spell the second part backward. 
The two-word phrase formed decribes  what most viewers of the film do (or, rather, do not do, while viewing it, even though one critic noted this film noir had “peculiar overtones of humor.” The critic added, however, that it was also “one of the most frightening movies ever made”
What film director is it?
SIX:
Think of the last name of a not-so-famous film director. You can anagram it into other words. The first two letters and last two letters, rearranged, spell a word for a cylindical object. And the remaining letters, in order, might have been seen on some of those objects around the turn of a millennium... might have been, that is, if the Arabic way of counting and numbering had not prevailed over the Roman way centuries earlier.
Hint:  The letters that might have been (but were not) seen on some of those cylindrical objects around the turn of a millennium specify the number of “Arabian Nights.” 
What film director is it?
SEVEN:
Think of the last name of a not very well known film director. You can anagram it into various pairs of other words. Two of those pairs (four words total) appear in the following sentence:
“The vivid mirage George beheld from a desert oasis seemed like the surreal image he had once seen at an art gallery.” 
(The four words are 2, 3, 5 and 6 letters long.) 
What film director is it?
EIGHT:
Think of the last name of a somewhat well known film director. You can anagram it into other words, but don’t do that. Just take the first two letters and last two letters in order to spell a synonym of a plural word that appears in song titles by Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper and Love – a synonym that is also a homophone of the director’s last name. 
What film director is it?
NINE:
Think of the last name of a famous film director. You can anagram it into other words. The last two letters and first two letters in order spell a unit of measurement. And the remaining letters, rearranged, spell any mountain in a particular range, the tallest of which is 189,372 of these particular “units-of-measurement” above sea level. What film director is it?

Dessert Menu

Song Remains The Same Dessert:
Triple Helix


Can you make any sense of the following three stanzas? If so, explain what they mean.

Twin- B black -kle E any star
H sir won- K three you P
One a- S and-one so V
And-one-for-the diamond Y down-the sky...

A baa twin- D have-you -tle G
Yes I J sir what NO full
Up R master world U dame
Like-a X who-lives the Z...

Baa -kle C sheep lit- F wool
How I yes -der LM bags are
Q for-the -bove-the T for-the high
W little-boy in and lane...

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