“Paging Dr. Gastropodiatrist” Bases ain’t all that’s loaded! Portuguese man o’ wordplay; Shish-kabalphabobets on the griddle; Enigmatic transmissions in a five-car garage

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Portuguese man o’ wordplay  

Complete the following sentence with five additional words: 
“What’s boa for the Portuguese...” 
The final word is a 12-letter plural proper noun. 
What is this noun?
Complete the entire ten-word sentence.

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Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Enigmatic transmissions in a five-car garage

🥁1. Name a popular website in three words. Take the initials of the first and last words, with the second word still in the middle, to name a car manufacturer in one word.

🥁2. Name an explorer whose first name sounds like a car model and whose last name sounds like a telecommunications company.

🥁3. Think of a current car brand in six letters. Change the first letter to an R and rearrange to name a former car brand.

🥁4. Think of a high-end car brand in seven letters. Drop the last letter and rearrange to name a genre of literature.


🥁5. Think of a comedian, first and last names, five and five letters. Drop a vowel from the first name and the last two letters of the last name and rearrange to name a car brand by Hyundai.

Doctor Do Lots Not Little Appetizer:
“Paging the Gastropodiatrist”

Add three letters to the beginning of a singular noun and you’ll name a mollusk. 
Add two letters to the end of the noun’s plural form and you’ll name what some doctors do. 
Form a new five-letter word by reversing the order of those two added letters and placing the three added letters to the left of them. 
This new word is something sometimes heard during the plural noun. 
What are the singular and plural forms of the noun?
What is sometimes heard during the noun’s plural form?

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Shish-kabalphabobets on the griddle

Will Shortz’s October 21st  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Take the 9 letters of BEER MOUTH. Arrange them in a 3x3 array so that the three lines Across, three lines Down, and both diagonals spell common 3-letter words. Can you do it?
Note: For Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices this week, the solver is challenged to fill in each entree’s 3x3  grid with six words – 3 across and 3 down (no diagonal word clues) – and then arrange those nine letters to form either a two-word phrase or single word. 
Clues, in no particular order, will be provided for the six 3-letter words. 
A seventh clue will be given for the 9-letter word formed from all letters in the grid:  
ENTREE #1:
1. Dynamic ___
2. Syllable that follows “Gator” but not “Kool”
3. “Sunny” syllable on the scale
4. They often accompany “oohs!”
5. ___ and cry
6. Slippery critter
7. One of several tiny pests infesting one’s hair (2 words)

ENTREE #2:
1. Itsy-bitsy
2. Saint’s aura, according to a Cockney
3. Norse goddess of the nether regions
4. Hip hop pioneers from L.A.
5. Home of the Lightning, Knights, Flames and Flyers (abbr.)
6. Hoover, Obama or Clinton, according to the stars
7. Harvest holiday when the reaping is grim (1 word)

ENTREE #3:
1. Vladimir Nabokov title
2. “And I Love ___” by the Beatles
3. Skylark or Nightingale verse
4. “Sheepish” exclamation of disgust?
5. “The Christians and the Pagans” singer Williams
6. Physique, for slangy short
7. Wooden bed part (1 word)

ENTREE #4:
1. Blue party (abbr.)
2. Marshy marshy marshy mire
3. “Thriller” follow-up
4. Dame’s leg
5. Mined material
6. Coach Parseghian
7. Go, Risk, Operation, or Battleship, Sorry! (2 words)

ENTREE #5:
1. Sound made by Cockney geese?
2. Game, ___, Match!
3. ___ story, a tale of woe
4. “Music for Airports” composer Brian
5. How the “Thrilla in Manila” ended
6. Word heard in the midst of hisses or hobgoblins 
7. Longest-running author interview program in U.S. broadcast history (1 word)

ENTREE #6:
1. Island chain?
2. Euphemism that sounds like a “podded plant”
3. An “alive” hill, according to Maria von Trapp
4. TED, Dragon Dictation or Candy Crush Saga, for example
5. Something found in a cushion
6. A cygnet’s parent or the enclosure she may be in
7. Inverted-cake ingredient (1 word)

ENTREE #7:
1. Prefix with -colonialism or -classical
2. Drink brewed from malted barley’s common ingredients
3. “The English guys with the big fiddles” 
4. “Bad actor” who might “co-star” with a “good egg”
5. Cow talk
6. One of many layers?
7. Movie title marketed partially with “The Scream” (2 words)

ENTREE #8:
1. Word preceding “Lobos” or “Lonely Boys”
2. Put plates and utensils on a table
3. “Prefix” for a Pacific state that has four sides, kind of
4. What a strong indoor miler does to the field
5. A kitten, for example, or what you might do to it
6. Pirates’ favorite verb?
7. A fresh one costs about 3 cents, according to florists (2 words)

ENTREE #9:
1. “As I ___ Dying”
2. Word before cell or spell
3. A Gershwin
4. Auction action
5. ___ Canto
6.To boot a ball... not a pigskin but a horsehide
7. Sometimes the fish just gets the hook, but the _____ ___ always gets the worm (2 words)

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Inside Boozeball Slanguage Dessert:
Bases ain’t all that’s loaded!


Saying aloud the words of two alcoholic beverages one after the other will sound like a slang term for a particular baseball player at a certain position. 
What is this slang term?

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.

A cranberry Saucerful of Secrets; Femail comprising seven letters; Remarkably clever rodents; Finnegan wakes under Finian’s Rainbow; A procession of fruits

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Remarkably clever rodents 

Name an 8-letter expression for an insanely clever off-the-cuff remark (the kind of quip most of us would think of only as we are driving home from a party or social gathering of witty wordsmiths). 
When you reverse the order of the 8 letters and pronounce the result phonetically it sounds like something certain rodents might do. 
What is this 8-letter expression?

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Trials From The Crypt Appetizer:
A cranberry Saucerful of Secrets

Note: We are serving up an Appetizer of Cryptic proportions this week – another ingenious Cryptic Crossword Puzzle baked up by Patrick J. Berry (screen name: “cranberry”).
This is the sixth cryptic crossword Patrick has composed for our blog. We are very grateful to Patrick for sharing them with us.  
Here are Patrick’s instructions for solving:
The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer. Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers.
For example, (6) indicates a six-letter answer like “jalopy,” (7, 5) indicates a seven-and-five-letter answer like “station wagon,” and (5-5) indicates a five-and-five-letter hyphenated answer like “Rolls-Royce.”
(For insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword. The Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!)

ACROSS

1. Priest, er, uh, “transformed” insecure nun (6,8)
9. Dance beat with energy (5)
10. Insignia with eagle-star combination? (5,4)
11. Fruit, round variety (6)
12. Game Irishman played with niece (8)
14. Pole position (4)
16. Go looking for new land (10)
18. On the radio, usual attempt to have a discussion (10)
19. Where some things may be held in perpetuity? (4)
21. What soldiers wear in our country, the usual, provided going in (8) 
22. Majority taking over, ends in chaos (6)
25. Inflammation, disorder of intestine – not nervous at first, keeping doctor close (9)
26. Virgin has heart full of innocence, primarily (5)
27. Genre using alien – nice fit, concise (7,7)

DOWN

1. Flicks computer on – is it off? (6,8)
2. State of confusion for 9? (5)
3. One hug may be sufficient (6)
4. Long time after short season? (4)
5. Frenchman has to see apartment (4-1-5)
6. It’s real strange, rare in some cases (8)
7. Acting close in public (9)
8. Using Internet, is able to become genius? (6,8)
13. Crime that I mistook for numbers racket? (10)
15. Agreeing half my life in Nashville’s over? (9)
17. Extremely risque author’s cleverness (8)
20. Top customer is invited up for drink (6)
23. Excuse for captain of industry to support bailout (5)
24. Starting to get into algebra so far? (2,2)

Legendary Listenable Leprechauny Appetizer:
Finnegan wakes under Finian’s Rainbow

Legend has it that tricky leprechauns guard something of value at rainbow’s end. 
Experience tells us that Irish folks greet those they meet – or anyone within earshot – early each day by chirping, in a lilting brogue, a particular expression. 
Find three letters that appear in the same order and form two prefixes. These three letters in the same order also appear in the first half of a six-letter word. 
Each of the prefixes and the six-letter word have separate meanings and etymologies.
But all three apply to three concepts alluded to in the text in green italics above.
What are these two prefixes and the six letter word?   

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Femail comprising seven letters

Will Shortz’s October 14th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Take the 7-letter last name of a famous woman. Drop the letter “e”. Add an “i” and an “f”. You can rearrange the result to get a word that famously describes this woman. 
Who’s the woman, and what’s the word?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Take the 7-letter last name of a famous woman. 
Drop the two letters of the masculine pronoun “he” from this name. 
Add three letters: an “f” (the first letter in “female”); a “c” (the first letter in the name “Canary”); and an “i” (the first letter in “Iowa,” the state where she purchased the “Canary”). 
You can rearrange the result to get a word famously associated with this woman. (This word also denotes what the “Canary” is.) Who’s the woman, and what’s the word?

ENTREE #2:
Take the 7-letter last name of a reasonably famous woman. Replace a consonant with two other consonants to produce an alternative spelling that does not affect the pronunciation.  
You can rearrange the result to get a word that somewhat describes this woman (although she is famously known more as an anagram of “reigns” or “avid”). Who’s the woman, and what’s the word?

ENTREE #3:
Take the 6-letter last name of a reasonably famous male entertainer. You can rearrange the letters to get a noun that pertains to this entertainer. Who is he, and what is the noun?

ENTREE #4:
An man who was pals with a president with whom he shared a birth name was a pioneer in bringing something, in five letters, to soldiers via a three-letter organization. You can rearrange those eight letters to get a noun that describes this man. 
What is the noun, what did the man bring to soldiers, what is the organization, and what is the man’s name?

ENTREE #5:
Take the 3-letter short-form first name and 4-letter last name of a not-so-famous WWII bomber pilot and Royal Canadian Air Force officer associated with NORAD. 
Rearrange these letters to get a word that appears to the right of the hyphen in this officer’s title. 
Who is this officer and what is his title?

ENTREE #6:
Take the first and last names of a woman, in nine letters, whose father directed three movies that won best-actress-in-a-leading-role Oscars, and whose husband directed a movie enshrined in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” 
There is a “double-n” in the woman’s name; drop one of them. You can rearrange the result to get a word that describes this woman’s nationality. 
Who is the woman, and what is the word?

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Be Fruitful And Do Long Division Dessert:
A procession of fruits

Name a 9-letter verb for what food producers might do to fruits. 
Rearrange the middle three letters to form a word describing the fruits after this process is done. 
Rearrange the remaining six letters to form a word for what the food producers might have done to the fruits during the process. 
What are these three words?

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.

A Fortune: 500 pieces of silver; Creepy crawly buggy stumper; Franny Farmer and Zooey; Throw in the tile/vowel (not towel!) for this title search; “Now, for your listening enjoyment, the vocal stylings of...”

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Creepy crawly buggy stumper  

If you ask, “What is the focus of your study?” entomologists might reply in two words, one a contraction. 
Rearrange the letters in those words to name a more general term for entomologists. 
What might the entomologists answer?

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Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer: 
Franny Farmer and Zooey

🥁1. Name a confectionary in six letters with a repeating three-letter pattern. Exchange the fourth and fifth letters, and change the last letter, to name a type of animal.

🥁2. Name a type of animal in seven letters that features a double letter. Change these letters to “on” and rearrange to get a brand name for a topical medication.


🥁3. Think of a word in nine letters used to describe what something is named after. Move the first letter to the end to name two types of animals.

🥁4. Name a country. Advance the first letter two places in the alphabet. The result read backwards is a type of animal.

🥁5. Name a movie cartoon character in six letters where the first four letters are the name of a fictional dog and the last four letters are the name of a gardening company.

Rolling Line Of Credit Appetizer:
A Fortune: 500 pieces of silver

Name a somewhat prominent Fortune 500 company in two words. 
Replace a vowel with a different vowel to spell words you might see on the silver screen as the closing credits roll. 
What is this company?

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Throw in the tile/vowel (not towel!) for this title search

Will Shortz’s October 7th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a title for a particular person – two words, 15 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “I”. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Think of a title of a particular person – three words, 16 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “O”. 
There are only five different consonants in the title. Who is this person?
Hint: The person was a swindler who used a pseudonym.

ENTREE #2:
Think of the alliterative title and first name, and the nationality of, a person in an international hall of fame – three words, 18 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “I”. Who is this person?

ENTREE #3:
Think of an abbreviated title and last name of an elected official and the state the official represents  – multiple words, 20 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “E” (except for one superfluous “occasional vowel” among the 20 letters. 
Who is this official?

ENTREE #4:
Think of an abbreviated title for an elected person, not including a first name – two words, 10 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “O”. 
Think of an abbreviated title for a another elected person, including the first and last name – three words, 10 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “O”. 
Who are these two elected persons?

ENTREE #5:
Think of a title for a particular person, not including a last name – two words, 9 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “I”. Who is this person?
Hint: The person experienced “15 minutes of fame” in the late 1960s, after which (legally) the title was no longer valid.
Hint: Although there seems to be some confusion over the person’s surname, if you believe one of the two versions of the surname, the first two letters of the person’s first name and the person’s surname are the same as those of a Hall of Fame NFL coach.

ENTREE #6:
Think of a particular brand name of a beverage – two words, 9 letters in total – in which the only vowel is “I”. The second word in the brand name is a 4-letter title. The entire brand name is the title of a movie by a comedy duo in which one member of the duo plays a tuba while the other member sings. 
What is this brand?

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The Artist Formally Known As Prince? Dessert:
“Now, for your listening enjoyment, the vocal stylings of...”


Insert a consonant inside the last name a well-known stylish musician to form an article of formal attire. 
Change an “o” in the musician’s real last name to a different vowel and rearrange the result to form an article of informal attire. 
Who is this musician and what are the two articles of clothing?

BONUS DESSERT SERVING!
Consider the first names “Nathanael” and “Jonathan,” the country “Kenya,” and the cities “Troy” and “L.A.”  What two people who made political news this past week do these names, cities and country bring to mind?

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.