Planes, trains and... hay wains; “Glenderella” story ends unhappily; Drawing Goofy districts; One-stop shopping, open for baseness

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Welcome to our January 26th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! 
Our puzzles this week include a TRIO ⇓⇓⇓ of Riffing-Off-Shortz-Slices;
ONE ⇓ “filet-of-insole” Appetizer;
ONE ⇓ “one-stop-shopping” Slice; and
ONE ⇓ “Goofy” Dessert that is just “Ducky.”


So, have a lot of fun. And TGIF: Think Good, It’s Friday. 

Appetizer Menu

Ugly Stepbrother Appetizer:
“Glenderella” story ends unhappily

“If the shoe fits wear it,” they say. “Shoe shopping? It’s a cinch!” Glen, my pal, said. So he walked three miles to his neighborhood strip mall where he bought a pair of gel insole Earth Shoes – ones that were two sizes too small and one inch too short – and limped home!
This paragragh is about feet, but it is also about three other unmentioned body parts, hidden in the sentence, that share a distinction that feet do not share. 
But beware! There are more than three other “red herring” body parts also hidden within the paragraph that do not share the distinction.
What are these three body parts and what distinction do they share?
Hint: Also within the paragraph are hidden (in the same manner in which the body parts are hidden) three verbs which are clues to what it is that makes these three body parts distinctive.

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Product Placement Slice:
One-stop shopping, open for baseness

Name a trio of products (not brand names) that you can often purchase with just one shopping stop. 
Interchange the beginning consonants of two products and alter slightly how you pronounce the beginning of the third, forming what sounds like three verbs for a trio of base and boorish behaviors that may eventually arise after the products are opened. 
What are these products, and what are these verbs?

Riffing Off Shortz And Arnold Slices:
Planes, trains and... hay wains


Will Shortz’s January 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Tom Arnold, reads:


Take the name of a conveyance in seven letters. Drop the middle letter, and the remaining letters can be rearranged to name the place where such a conveyance is often used. What is it?

Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Arnold Slices read:
ONE:
Take the name of a relatively recent conveyance, a compound word. Its letters can be rearranged to name much more spacious conveyances from the past and what users of such conveyances did while using them. What are these conveyances? What did users of the past conveyances do as they used them?


TWO:
Name a conveyance, in two words. Replace the second word with a word that rhymes with it to form a two-word phrase for what a wrestler experiences during rigorous workouts. 
Rearrange the letters of this new second word to form a two-word phrase describing what a wrestler does during workouts. (This phrase consistes of a noun and verb beginning with an F and T, with the F-word being a synonym for “wrestler.”)
Finally, rearrange the letters of the first word to form a two-word conveyance.
What are the two 2-word conveyances? What are the two 2-word phrases

THREE:
Write captions for the five numbered images (1. through 5.) pictured here in the general vicinity of this text. 
Each caption sounds, more or less, like the name of a conveyance. 
What are these five captions and five conveyances?

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Gerrymeandering Dessert:
Drawing Goofy districts


(Note: This Dessert is not so much a “puzzle” as it is a “goofy” riddle.)
Pennsylvania is the home of perhaps some of the most egregious examples of modern-day gerrymandering. In particular, the border of state’s Seventh Congressional District “gerrymeanders” in a quite “Goofy” manner... literally! (The silhouette of the district, some say, resembles Disney characters: Goofy kicking Donald Duck in the tail feathers.
(Warning: Fake News Ahead!)
A proposed redrawing, however, of the easternmost congressional district in Oregon State (adding a sixth district to the existing five) may be even more egregious than Pennsylvania’s goofy gerrymandering. The border of the proposed new Oregon Congressional District 6 (in bright crimson, in the map below) seems to outline the shape of a critter long associated with the state.
Oregonians, however, are not using the word “gerrymandering” to describe this new border. They don’t say this new border “gerrymanders” – rather, they say it ____________. 
What is the word Oregon residents have coined that belongs in that blank? Here is a hint: The new word is exactly the same as “gerrymanders” except that three of the twelve letters have changed.


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.

Dumpy digs for Felix and Figaro; Andre Romelle Simmons and... What’s in the palm of his sand? Oh, aces!

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (1098 + 76) SERVED


Welcome to our January 19th 2018 edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! 
Our puzzles this week include: A  SEPTET ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩ of Riffing-Off-Shortz-Slices;
ONE ⇩ “Sporty Logo” Appetizer; and
ONE ⇩ “Desert-ed” Dessert.

Think Good, It’s Friday. And, have a lot of fun. 

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Le LogoLambda Appetizer:
Andre Romelle Simmons and...

Name a two-word brand whose logo many people sport. From one of the words remove a letter, leaving a French word familiar to many English speakers. 
Rearrange the letters in the other word, adding the removed letter into the mix, to form two capitalized words – one associated with Joseph Simmons, the other associated with Andre Romelle Young.


What are the two-word brand, the French word, and the two words associated with the two men?

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Dumpy digs for Felix and Figaro

Will Shortz’s January 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Name a world capital. It’s an older way of spelling the name. Drop three letters, and the remaining letters, in order, will name another world capital. Both cities have more than a million residents. What cities are these?
 Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read... (Note: One of these puzzles was created by faithful Puzzlerian! Paul. He and I came up with it independently of each other last Sunday, soon after the NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle was broadcast. Peculiar minds think alike!)
ONE:
Name a world capital. Drop two letters, and the remaining letters, in order, will name another world capital. Both cities have more than a million residents. 
What cities are these?

TWO:
Take a former name of a U.S. state capital, in two words. Place a “t” between the words. Saying the result aloud will sound like a two-syllable compound synonym for dumpy digs. 
A homophone of the second part of the compound synonym is related to the second word of the former name of the state capital. 
What name is this and what is the capital’s current name? What are the synonym and homophone? 

THREE:
Name a world capital. Move three consecutive letters to the beginning of the name, leaving a space after them. 
The letters of this result, in order, will spell a caption for images A or B, but not for C. 
What capital is this?

FOUR: 
Name a world capital. Replace the third letter with a “d” to spell the nickname of a pioneering Major League pitcher who can also sing and dance. 
Name the same world capital. Replace the fourth letter with a letter that does not change how the capital is pronounced. 
Place an “r” after that replacement letter to spell the nickname of  F.O.C. Darley, Howard Pyle, Robert Montgomery Bird, Thomas Garrett and Annie Jump Cannon. 
What capital is this?

FIVE:
Solve for X in the following seven equations. X always equals a world capital. (Note: The solution for one of the seven X’s is the former name of a capital whose country has subsequently also been renamed):
1. (Hayder and Rocca) + (Elsie or Bossie) = X
2. (synonym of “latot”) + (Felix or Figaro) = X
3. (Rocket or Rascal) – (0.033814 of a U.S. fl. oz.) + (the real surname of “China Girl”) = X
4. (Rock band ____ DeVille or actress ____ Stole) + (Element #16, for short) = X
5. (Overconfident leveret that was vanquished by an underdog reptile) + (Element #18, for short) = X
6. (“flexible”[?] mollusks) – (Lang/Lorre film) + (Element #35, for short) = X
7. (“risible”[?] African critter) – (Element #1, for short) – (Hester’s letter) = X

SIX:
Name a world capital. It’s an older way of spelling the name. Drop three letters, and the remaining letters, in order, will name another world capital... if you add the proper punctuation and capitalization. 
Both cities have more than a half-a-million residents. What cities are these?

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Mirror-Like Mirage Dessert:
What’s in the palm of his sand? Oh, aces!

Divide something seen in the desert into four unequal parts (that is, each part has a different number of letters). 
Interchange the second and fourth parts. 


Replace the last letter in the new fourth part with its mirror image and move it to the beginning of the fourth part to name a character from children’s literature. 
Who is this character?

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.

The incredible red edible candidate; Journalists’ Jumbled Journeys; DACAtylic manipulation; Nightcaps? Snowshoes? Hourglasses?

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Welcome to our January 12th 2018 edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! 
Our featured puzzles this week are a octet of Riffing-Off-Shortz-And-Fogarty-Slices, most which deal with National Public Radio journalists – such as Liane Hansen, Rachel Martin, and Lulu Garcia-Navarro: three recent Weekend Edition Sunday hosts (and occasional ad hoc hinters on Will Shortz’s Puzzle segment).


Also on our menus are:
ONE ⇩ “Don We Whenever Our Gay Apparel” Appetizer;
ONE ⇩ “We make the meats!” Slice; and
ONE ⇩ “Bork meets Mork... Nanu Nanu of the North” Dessert.

Enjoy the riffs, enjoy the rest, then get some rest. And remember to have a lot of fun. 

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Wear, And When Appetizer:
Nightcaps? Snowshoes? Hourglasses?

Replace the final letter of a multi-syllable adjective with a different consonant. Move that new consonant to the beginning of the word. 
Divide the result in half to form two nouns: the second which is worn during the first, and the first which can be described by the original adjective.

What is this adjective and what are the two nouns?
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Missing Links Making Sausage Slice:
DACAtylic manipulation

In a meeting with lawmakers January 9, President Donald Trump encouraged Congress to pass something, in two words (adjective and noun). 
On January 12, the president was scheduled to meet with someone one-on-one, hoping to pass something else, also in two words. If that passage would occur, President Trump would be given a four-word idiom that has positive connotations.
The first two words of this idiom are the same as what he urged Congress to pass. These two words’ initial letters were once (and in some circles still are) associated with the number 41. The initial letters of the third and fourth words in the idiom are two-letter postal code of a state that a state highway named Route 41 runs through.

Hint: The 19 letters in the two-word something President Trump was hoping to pass on January 12 can be rearranged to form a four-word “fake” phrase (in words of 1, 5, 8 and 5 letters) for what the chiropractors feel when they manipulate and adjust the backbones of James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. 
The second, third and fourth words of this phrase begin, respectively, with an S, A and H.
What did the president encourage Congress to pass on January 9?
What did he hope to pass on January 12 and, as a result, what did he expect to be given?

Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices:
Journalists’ Jumbled Journeys

Will Shortz’s January 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty, reads:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell two modes of transport. And here’s a hint: The modes of transport have the same number of wheels. Who is the journalist, and what are the modes of transport?

Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices read:
ONE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word caption for the image pictured here. Who is the journalist, and what is this caption? 
TWO:
(Note: the following riff-off puzzle slice is based on fiction... and not merely science fiction... in other words, it is fake news.)
Take the first and last names of a humorous personality well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first letter of the first name. 
(Warning: Fake news immediately ahead!) The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the 4-word, 11-letter working title (alluding to a slothful automaton) of an early collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov. 
Who is the humorous personality, and what is the fictitious, fake working title of Asimov’s collection of short stories?
THREE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell “critters” you can see on the gridiron in a Lone Star State showdown between teams from Dallas and Waco. Who is the journalist, and what are the critters? 
FOUR: 
A: Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. 
Spell it as Elmer Fudd would pronounce it by changing the first letter of the last name. Remove the first and last letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something the journalist likes to do as an avocation. And here’s a hint: The avocation is associated with the journalist’s “day job.” Who is the journalist, and what does the journalist like to do as an avocation?
B: Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the first letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a mode of transport, and certain musical instruments. 
And here’s a hint: The mode of transport has the same number of wheels as each of the musical instuments has main parts (that can be disassembled for transport). And here’s another hint: The mode of transport rhymes with, and begins with the same letter as, who is usually using it. 
Who is the journalist, and what are the mode of transport and musical instruments?
C: Take the first and last names of the same journalist. Remove the last letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase for news articles written relatively recently about Pat DiNizio and Tommy Keene, but not about Pat Benatar and Tommy James. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase for these articles.
FIVE:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove the first and third letters of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell something that contributing NPR listeners grip in their hands, in two words totaling seven letters, and something Santa Claus grips in his hands, in one word of four letters. Who is the journalist, and what do NPR contributors and Santa grip in their hands?
SIX:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NPR listeners. Remove no letters from either name. The “remaining” letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word phrase (consisting of a comparative adjective and noun) that describes King Kong. Who is the journalist, and what is the phrase?
SEVEN:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to NBC watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a the name of  a critter that “eats shoots and leaves” (without wounding anyone and leaving the scene of the crime... thanks to the lack of a comma after the word “eats”), and where this critter hangs out.
EIGHT:
Take the first and last names of a journalist well-known to PBS watchers. Remove the first letter of the first name. 
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two missing words in the following three-word phrase that a NPR listener might say to Dr. Shortz after solving one of his Sunday puzzles:
“____ puzzle, ____!”
Those same remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the two missing words in the following five-word phrase for what an NPR listener might do to celebrate solving one of Dr. Shortz’s Sunday puzzles:
“____  a glass with ____ ”
What is the name of this journalist? What are the missing words in the two phrases?

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Bork From Ork Dessert:
The incredible red edible candidate

Write in lowercase letters a compound word for something red and edible. Change the first letter to a different letter so that the pronunciation of the word does not change (but is just spelled wrong). Place a mirror image of the middle letter to the left of the middle letter. Divide the result exactly in half. 
Interchange the initial letters of these two equal parts to form a two-word phrase (consisting of a verb and proper noun) that characterizes what opponents of a past presidential candidate did to try to swing the election their way.
What is this red edible? What is the two-word phrase?

Hint: A compound verb (which is sometimes hyphenated) was coined as a result of what some of the candidate’s past acquaintances publicly said about the candidate. This coinage was somewhat similar to the coinage of the word “bork.”
The first part of the verb is the surname of an author who wrote about a character whose main mode of transport is the second part of the verb.   
If you remove one letter from each part of the verb, the result could be a caption for the image of the woman pictured at the right.

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.