Lightfish, calamari, ichtion! Reporters posting, chestnuts roasting; You have a bone to pick; “Nothin’ goin’ on here”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (1110 + 98) SERVED

Welcome to our April 27th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Our featured puzzle this week comes from ViolinTeddy, a regular contributor to and astute commenter on our Puzzleria! web site. (She is known especially for her tactful yet necessary “ViolinTedditing” whenever LegoLambda commits an error in [m]any of his puzzles!)
ViolinTeddy’s crafty puzzle this week combines osteopathy and geography or, if your will, “bones and zones.” You will find it under our Appetizer Menu titled “You have a bone to pick.”

Also on our menus this week are:
ONE Slothful Slice;
ONE “Roasting Chestnuts? Open Fire!” Dessert; and
SIX Fishy, Filmy Riffing-Off-Shortz Slices.

Think Good, It’s Fish Friday. Float your boat and begin baiting, bagging and de-boning our nine “befuddlefish” this week.
And, have fun at sunset pan-frying the mystifying fillets over the campfire.   

Appetizer Menu

My Bony Lies Over The Ocean In “Osteoralia” Appetizer:
You have a bone to pick

Name a country and a bone in the human body. (The bone itself sounds a little like the name, or partial name, of a country.) 
Rearrange the combined letters of the country and bone to form the name of another country.
What are these two countries and one bone? 

MENU

Slug Sloth Slouch Slice: 
“Nothin’ goin’ on here”

Name a not-very-common word for “a period or state of inactivity or stagnation.” 
Move the last three letters of this word to the beginning and replace a letter that appears thrice in the term with an “e.” 
The result is a more common word that also might be defined as “a period or state of inactivity.”
What are these two six-letter words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Ezekiel Slices:
Lightfish, calamari, ichtion! 

Will Shortz’s April 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Dan Ezekiel of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:
Take the name of a famous film director. Drop the first letter of this person’s first name and you’ll name a fish. Read the last name backward and you’ll  name another fish. What film director is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Ezekiel Slices read:
ONE:
Write the name of a famous film director. Below the name, rewrite the last five letters of  the director’s surname backward, substituting a “d” for an “n.” To the right of this, write the first, third, fourth, second, ninth, tenth and eighth letters of his full name, in that order. These 12 letters, given appropriate spacing, name a major world city. 
What is the city? Who is the director?
TWO: 
Take the name of a famous film director. Drop the last two letters of this person’s first name and you’ll name a garment. 
Replace the first letter of the person’s surname with an “e.” Spell the last three letters of this result  forward followed by the first three letters of spelled backward to form another garment. What film director is it? What are the two garments?
Hint: the garments are worn on the same part of the body.
THREE:
Take the name of a famous film director. 
Drop the first letter of this person’s first name and rearrange the remaining letters and you’ll spell a structure used for storage.  
Drop the last letter of this person’s last name and replace the second letter with the fifth letter, and you’ll name where you are likely to find the structure. 
What film director is it? What is this structure and where are you likely to find it?  
FOUR:
Take the name of a famous film director. Interchange two letters in this person’s first name and you’ll name a body part. Remove the first two letters and the final letter from the surname to name another body part.
What film director is it? What are the body parts?

FIVE:
Take the name of a famous film director. Rearrange the letters of this person’s last name and you’ll name the movie genre of one of the most successful movies this director directed. 
Who is this film director? What are the movie genre and, for extra credit, the movie?
SIX:
Take the name of a famous film director. Drop the first letter of this person’s first name and you’ll name a country. 
A piece of athletic equipment appears at the end of this director’s last name. Replace it with a letter that rhymes with the piece of athletic equipment  and you’ll  name another country. 
Who is this film director? What are the two countries?

Dessert Menu

News Is Stranger Than Fiction Dessert:
Reporters posting, chestnuts roasting

Give the full name of a journalist and author from the past, as it appeared in bylines and on dust jackets. 
Replace with a well-known mantra three consecutive letters in the author’s name that can be rearranged to spell “nut.” 
Replace with a dotted letter three consecutive letters in the author’s name that can be rearranged to spell “hot.”
Remove one space and one mark of punctuation. 
The result is the name of a fictional character.
Who are this journalist and this fictional 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.)


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