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...”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 7!/3 SERVED

  
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.

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