“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?

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