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?

MENU

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.)


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