My brooder’s peeper; Addition of words by subtraction of letters; Bunnies gone postal! Karl and Quayle on the campaign trail

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (1110 + 98) SERVED

Welcome to our March 30th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
On our menus this week are:
ONE Addition By Subtraction Appetizer;
ONE  Fake History Slice;
ONE  Toasting With Broodskis Dessert; and
SIX Leverets By Levering Riff Offs.

Think Good, It’s Good Friday. Roll back the rock, rise up, and rejoice in the solving!    

Appetizer Menu

Piece Of Cake Appetizer:
Addition of words by subtraction of letters 

Add a letter to the end of something people celebrate, forming a new word that was also the name of an erstwhile airlines.
Delete the first letter of this new word to form a synonym of the result of “backpaddling”... in a canoe for instance.
Delete the first letter of this result to form the surname of a Trump pal.
Delete the first letter of this result to form a word for a bird that is a homophone of a word in the title of a song with lyrics based on the Bible.
What are these four words and the name for something people celebrate?

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Fake History Slice: 
Karl and Quayle on the campaign trail 

(Note: The following puzzle is based on fake history... that is, fake news from the past.)
Karl Rove was an Austin-based Republican campaign consultant to President George H. W. Bush during Bush’s run for re-election in 1992. 
Bush fired Rove early that year for planting a negative story about his rival, the campaign’s chief fundraiser. Rove’s  political “counsel” included dirty tricks, deceptive talking points and misleading messaging.
In May of 1992, just as the campaign was rounding the corner toward the homestretch, Vice President Dan Quayle chided Murphy Brown, a TV sitcon character portrayed by Candice Bergen, for opting to have a child outside of wedlock. 
Getting less publicity, however, was Quayle’s criticism of a trailer for the 1987 movie “Dragnet,” which portrayed anti-pornography moral crusaders in a negative light. 
To prove his point, Quayle inserted his video cassette of the trailer into his VCR and paused the tape at the lewdest images, then took out his Kodak Land camera and repeatedly took pictures of each of the most explicit freeze-frames. 
The vice president then sent copies of each bawdy image to the editors of  the Huntington Herald Press, Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis News, Arizona Republic and other Central Newspapers, Inc. journals owned by his grandfather Eugene Pulliam. 
Quayle strongly “suggested” that the editors publish his pictures of the risque freeze-frames.  

A newspaper headline on a story documenting Rove’s and Quayle’s activities that year read:
Rove postured; Dan pans Dragnet’s teaser, rephotographs
What does this headline have to do with a particular holiday? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Levering Slices:
Bunnies gone postal!

Will Shortz’s March 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Jim Levering, reads:
Name a small but well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. 
This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells two consecutive words that name distinctive characteristics of bunnies. What city is it?

Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Levering Slices read:
ONE:
Name a small but not-at-all-well-known U.S. town (population greater than 8,000), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Name a smaller and even less-well-known U.S. town (population greater than 200), followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Both towns are in New England.
The larger town is the name of a groundbreaking bunny. The letters in the smaller town, combined with the four letters in the two states’ postal codes, can be rearranged to form a 7-letter word associated with bunnies and a 2-word, 7-letter jocular title that has been associated with a particular bunny.
What are these two towns? What is the name of the groundbreaking bunny? What are the word associated with bunnies and the jocular title? 
TWO:
Name a moderately populous but well-known New England city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, begins with a pair of letters that, when spoken aloud, sound like a part of the writing portion of the SAT test. These two letters are followed by a mathematical term that might be an answer on the vocabulary section of the SAT. 
What city is it?
THREE:
Name a quite populous and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells two consecutive words: a fish and something shaped somewhat like a fish. 
What city is it?
Hints: A song was written about the city. The somewhat fish-shaped something is one half of a symbol.
FOUR:
Name a large suburban U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Change the first letter in the city. 
This string of letters, reading from left to right, forms the former spelling of a token that allows tourists to make tracks all across a particular continent. 
What city is it?
FIVE:
Name a large and well-known U.S. city, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Delete the last two letters of the city. This string of letters, reading from left to right, spells a large and well-known U.S. city. What city is it?
SIX (Bonus Riff-off)
Name a college town in the near geographic middle of a midwestern state, followed by its two-letter state postal abbreviation. Add an “n” somewhere in the middle, but not exactly in the middle. This string of seven letters, reading from left to right, spells... oops, sorry, I forgot what it spells. What city is it?

Dessert Menu

Barflies And Ducklings Dessert:
My brooder’s peeper

Name a 3-word toast a bunch of brooding barflies might make. Add a “y” to the end of the second word and add the words “on ducklings when” between the first and second words to name something you might see in a brooder. 
What is the brooding barflies’ toast? 
What might you see in a brooder?

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.

Starlets of stage and “synonma” Critters and their crooning cries; Zany poker face-off, pick a winner; Colonial cookware, eh?

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (1110 + 98) SERVED
Welcome to our March 23rd edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!


On our menus this week are:
ONE Cookin’ Appetizer;
ONE  Copacetic Slice;
ONE  Leading lady Dessert; and
SEVEN “Whamba bamba thank you mamba” Riff Offs.

Think Good, It’s Friday. Have fun solving!    

Appetizer Menu

World History Appetizer:
Colonial cookware, eh? 


Name a word (often preceded by “eh”) that was Regency-era (early 19th-century British) slang for “You know?” Place after this word, without a space, a term for a versatile cooking utensil. (Ancient versions of this utensil were found in Han Dynasty-era tombs. This particular term, however, was coined much more recently, around the time that Ike took office.) 


Spell this placement of word-plus-term backward to form a synonym of  “fawn” that has Oriental roots.

What is this word? 
What is this term? 
What is the synonym for “fawn” that is formed when you spell the word and term together backward?

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Copacetic Slice: 
Zany poker face-off, pick a winner

Rank the following three sentences in their correct order, from best to third-best:
A: If I’ve been dealt all face cards I put on my poker face, hiding how peaceful and copacetic I really feel.
B: Thanks to social media networking I learned that many Deadheads have outworn their vinyl copies of the “Workingman’s Dead” album with its masterful picking.
C. The magician’s evening sleight-of-hand zaniness often climaxed with him pulling a jackrabbit from a hat, eliciting wholehearted applause.
There are six possible rankings: ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, and CBA. Explain your ranking.

Riffing Off Shortz And Donabedian Slices:
Critters and their crooning cries

Will Shortz’s March 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Haig Donabedian, reads:
Think of a popular two-word song title in 7 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange the letters to name an animal and the sound it makes. What is it? Here’s a hint: The title is in a foreign language.
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Donabedian Slices read:
ONE:
Think of a popular three-word song title from the 1980s, in 9 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange the letters to name a carnivorous marine mammal and a carnivorous mammal that has been associated with Chanel No. 5. 
What are these mammals? What is the song title? 
Here are hints: The title is in a foreign language. One of its three words is an apostrophized contraction. The two mammals alliterate.
TWO:
Think of an mammal in 3 letters, and a word sometimes used to name an interesting and unusual part of its body in 4 letters. If you have the right word, you can rearrange the letters to name a kind of bird and the sound it makes. 
What are this mammal, body part, bird and sound the bird makes?
THREE:
Think of a ruminant mammal in 3 letters and a kind of food it doesn’t eat in four letters. If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters to name a smaller mammal and the sound it makes. 
What is this smaller mammal and the sound it makes?
FOUR:
Think of a popular one-word song title in 9 letters. If you have the right one, you can rearrange the letters to name fragrant things that are worn, in 4 letters, and how they were made, a past-tense verb in 5 letters. 
What are these fragrant things and how were they made? 
Here’s a hint: The title is in a foreign language.
FIVE:
Think of two winged creatures: a bird of prey in 4 letters and a productive insect in 8 letters. 
If you have the right ones, you can rearrange the letters (after replacing a “b” with a “d”) to name an animal, in 6 letters and the sound it makes, in 6 letters split by a hyphen. 
What are the animal and the hyphenated sound it makes?
SIX:
Think of a popular two-word song title in 11 letters. 
If you have the right one, you can rearrange the letters to name the first word in the three-word title of a joyous Christmas carol in four letters, and a word in the lyrics of a joyous Christmas carol with a five-word title. What is the two-word song title? 
Here’s a hint: The two-word song title is in a foreign language. The word in the lyrics of  the carol with the five-word title is one of four words in the song’s chorus, which is in a foreign language.
SEVEN:
Think of a popular three-word song title in 12 letters. 
If you have the right one, you can rearrange the letters to name a plural 4-letter noun for two participants in a same-sex marriage gone wrong, and an 8-letter verb for what the Catholic church might have done to the marriage after the same-sex couple divorced... assuming the church had somehow condoned the marriage in the first place. What is the song title? Here’s a hint: The title is in a foreign language.

Dessert Menu

Lead Lady Lead Dessert:
Starlets of stage and “synonma”

Remove a man’s first name from the end of  a past actress’s first name, forming a word. 
Change the second letter of her last name to an “m” and switch it with the third letter, forming a synonym of the first word. 
Who is this actress and what are these synonyms?

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.

Middlemarch; Crittercal thinking; Handguns and handiwork; Vesture versus verses;

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Welcome to our March 16th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!

On our menus this week are:
ONE Raising the bar...rel Appetizer 🍀;
ONE  Real newsreel Slice 🍀;
ONE  We’re all bozos on this rebus mack-in-tire Dessert 🍀; and
NINE “You wear hits well, oldies but goldies but that’s all right” Riff Offs 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀.

That’s a dozen mind-bending menu items. Have fun solving!    

Appetizer Menu

Raising A Few Issues Appetizer:
Handguns and handiwork 

Name a job-related standard, in two words, that left-leaning lawmakers generally want to raise.  
Remove a letter from the second word to name a gun control-related standard that left-leaning lawmakers generally want to raise. 
What are these two two-word standards that relate to jobs and gun control? 

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Unfake News Slice:
Crittercal thinking 

Think of certain critters, in a descriptive two-word plural term, the singular form of which has been lately in the news. 
Remove the first letter of each word, and replace one of the interior letters in the second word with an “l” to form a two-word phrase that, when placed after the the two-word term, forms a true four-word statement. 
What is this statement?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Vesture versus verses


Will Shortz’s March 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Name a common article of apparel in 3 letters and another in 4 letters. Rearrange all 7 letters to name a well-known three-word song title. What is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ONE:
Name an adjective in 6 letters and noun in 5 letters that together form a redundant phrase. Rearrange all 11 letters to name a well-known three-word song title recorded by a band whose name was inspired by William Blake. What is this song title?
TWO:
Name a vegetable in 4 letters and a mineral in 4 letters. Rearrange all 8 letters to name a well-known four-word song title sung by a duo who as teens signed a recording contract under the names of a cartoon cat and mouse. What is the song title?
Hint: If you add the word “in” in the middle of the four-word song title, it would be a perfect number for the mineral to sing.
THREE:
Name two words you might see on a newspaper’s sports page web site, in 6 and 5 letters, and a third word in 3 letters you might see on card game web site. Remove the first letter of the 6-letter word. 
Rearrange the remaining 13 letters to name a well-known three-syllable song title recorded by a singer who had just left a group named after a sci-fi horror film that had a pronoun for a title. 
What is it?
Hint: The 6 and 5-letter words are also articles of apparel worn on the same part of the body. The 3-letter word is also a beverage.  
FOUR:
Name three things that flicker and/or glow in the dark in 7, 4 letters and 4 letters. 
Rearrange all 15 letters to name a well-known five-word song title recorded by an artist who also recorded (and wrote) what the Obamas chose as their wedding song. 
What is the five-word song?
FIVE:
Name a decorative article of apparel consisting of a 4-letter noun taking the place of an adjective followed by a 6-letter noun. 
Rearrange all 10 letters to name a somewhat well-known five-syllable and three-hyphen title of a rockabilly song recorded by singer who reportedly co-wrote it after being inspired by a comic book character. 
What is the song title?
SIX:
Name three creatures: human, mammalian and piscine, all in their plural form, in 5 letters, 4 letters and 4 letters. 
Rearrange all 13 letters to name a pretty well-known 2-word song title penned by a songwriter who wrote another 2-word song that both James Taylor and the Byrds recorded. 
Who is this songwriter and what are these two 2-word songs?
SEVEN:
Name a measure of force in 6 letters and a measure of length in 5 letters. 
Name the term for a “German art song” in 4 letters. Rearrange all 15 letters to name a well-known four-word title (the first word of which is an apostrophized contraction) of a song that might be called a “California art song.” 
What is this title?
EIGHT:
Sister Mary Bede slouches in a maplewood pew fingertipping her final skein of enchained ten rosary beads while mouthing Hail Marys silently. She finishes up just as Father O’Malley concludes the Gospel reading by intoning “praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,” then begins his prepared elucidation of it.
Name what Sister Bede’s profession is, in 3 letters; the skein of ten rosary beads she prays, in 6 letters; and the word for Father Father O’Malley’s prepared elucidation of the Gospel reading in 6 letters. 
Rearrange all 15 letters to name a somewhat well-known two-word song title recorded by a duo.  
What is the song title?
Hint: The 6 letters of the second word of the song title, if you change an “o” to an “e”, can be rearranged to spell the last name of one of the singers in the duo.
NINE: 
Give the last name of a Southwest Conference head football coach, in 5 letters; and something perhaps worn by one of his sidelined-by-injury players, in 5 letters. Rearrange all 10 letters to name a somewhat well-known two-word title of a song recorded and co-written by a bloke who dabbled in football... but football, that is, played with a spherical, not an ovoid, ball.
What is this song title?
Hint: Replace the dotted middle letter of the coach’s last name with a 3-letter internet abbreviation that might mean “you can’t buy this product at present, but you ought to be able to do so in the future.” The result will be something, in 7 letters, that this coach, or any coach, often wears during practice.  

Dessert Menu

Reba’s Mack-In-Tire Dessert:
Middlemarch

The solution to the calendar-themed rebus pictured here is the first name of a person who has a sibling who hasn’t used a last name in recent years. If it were customary for this sibling to use a last name, the full name would probably appear in the form: ____ ______ton, D. of C.
Who is the person that the rebus depicts, first and last names?
What is the name of the sibling?

Hint: The sibling does not live near the Potomac... but the sibling does live near a pond.

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.