“What’s an 11-letter word for...?” Ten-grand/twenty-one twining; Oscar buzz & a Prezzy dozen; Stoking the star-maker fACTORy machinery; What’s the ninth WhiskeyOscarRomeoDelta?

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
What’s the ninth WhiskeyOscarRomeoDelta?

India, Hotel, Mike, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Victor, Yankee
The list above contains words representing eight of 26 letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet. (They would be helpful, however, only if you might ever be trying to convey the phrase “My Irish TV” 
orally: “MikeYankee IndiaRomeoIndiaSierraHotel TangoVictor.”)

But, here is your mission: You must find a ninth word in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet that relates to all eight words in this list. 
Explain how this ninth word you found relates to the other eight words.
Fun fact: The NATO Phonetic Alphabet consists of:
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, Xray, Yankee, Zulu.

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A Number Of Conundrums Appetizer:
Stoking the star-maker fACTORy machinery


🥁1. Think of a ‘90s movie title in six words whose initials make a two-word phrase that a Spanish speaker might say to a woman. 
Hint: the movie stars a former Saturday Night Live cast member and was not critically successful.
🥁2. Name an athlete whose last name is a color. Name an actor whose first name sounds the same as the first name of the athlete but whose last name sounds like an office supply.
🥁3. Name the two characters a particular movie actor is best known for, each in five letters. Place them one after the other. Remove four letters from inside and replace with “SH” to name a children’s game.

🥁4. Think of a punk rock band name in seven letters. The first four letters in reverse are a male first name shared by a famous foreign actor. The actor’s last name, minus one letter, can be rearranged into a foreign language.
Answer:
🥁5. Think of a contemporary actor’s last name. Insert “dbo” somewhere inside to create a slang term for a frequent aspect of this actor’s physical appearance on film.
🥁6. Drop two vowels from the nonsense phrase “THANOS EMOJIS” and rearrange to name a television actor.

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Quizzical Slice:
Ten-grand/twenty-one twining

“Twenty-One” and “The $10,000 Pyramid” are classic quiz/game shows. 
What else do the numbers “twenty-one” and “ten thousand” have in common?
Hint: The answer involves a palindromic three-digit semiprime number.
  

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Oscar buzz & a Prezzy dozen

Will Shortz’s February 17th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
The numbers 1, 12, 80, and million have something in common that only one other number has. 
What is it ... and what’s the other number?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The dozen blanks in the sentences below can be filled in with words that are clues to the identities of twelve presidents. Solve for each blank and then identify each “egg” in this “presidential dozen.”
1. Though not himself much of a ______, he did invite Martha Graham to perform at the White House.
2. The ____ he will most likely be remembered for, alas, is “pardon.”
3. He had egg ___ all over his face for countenancing and perpetuating the antebellum yoke of slavery.
4. He was a kind, courteous and generous (some might say “lukewarm-to-a-fault”) man who viewed slavery as a question of property rather than morality; though not a ______ proponent of slavery, he often criticized those who sought to limit or end it. 
5. His legacy as a president is mixed, but he is generally considered by historians as a _____ as a general.
6. He sported a ___ of facial hair above his upper lip.
7. Although presidential historians have generally dismissed this chief executive, he admittedly had a knack for _______ talent into his Cabinet, including  Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes.
8. His first presidential opponent, besides being four years his junior, was also more photogenic – which seems fitting since the younger candidate and the _____ camera were “born” in the same year!
9. He was not much of a fan of cheeses like _____, but he was fond of fruits, like quinces.
10. He relinquished his ______ as a naval officer (and as a gentleman farmer) to run for president.
11. He was popular in the wake of 9/11, but his star faded a few years later when he chose to ____ us into the the Iraq War, citing phantom weapons of mass destruction. (two answers are possible)
12. It seems his sole presidential asset is a proclivity to _____ his chest.

ENTREE #2:
“Lions and tigers, and no bears, oh why? Oh my!” 
Consider the following list of creatures:
“Lambs,” “Wolves,” “Deer,” “Elephant,” “Bull,” “Lion,” “Tiger,” “Horse,” “Dog” and “Cuckoo”
That “class menagerie” of critters can be found in the titles of movies nominated for an Academy Award Best Picture Oscar: 
“Silence of the Lambs”; “Dances with Wolves”; “The Deer Hunter”; “Elephant Man”; “Raging Bull”; “Lion”; “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”; “War Horse”; “Dog Day Afternoon”; “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.”
What movie with “Bear” or “Bears” in its title could conceivably have been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, thereby providing our “class menagerie” with an ursine presence?


ENTREE #3:
What two slangy body parts beginning with F and T are missing from the following list?
Jaws, Bone, Heart, Arms, Foot, ______, ______.
Hint: Again, Oscar is involved in the solving.


ENTREE #4:
Name four words for one body part. Each appears in a title of a movie that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar but did not win. 
One word is not English. Two are slangy. What are these four words? 

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Crosswordwise Palindromania Dessert:
“What’s an 11-letter word for...?”

The palindromic string of letters, OWHWO, represents the initial letters of a crossword-style clue. 
The answer to the clue contains 11 letters and begins with the first 2 letters of the third word of the clue. The clue would look a bit like this:
25.  O_ _ _ _   w_ _  h_ _  w_ _  O_ _ _ _ _.

The words beginning with W contain 3 letters each. The last word, a proper noun, is the plural of the first. 
What are this clue and answer?

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.

Prams, trams and diagrams; Around the world in 43 letters; Central Stratocasting; Rearranging the rockers on the tape deck of the Titanic; More of Mathew’s musical musings;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Prams, trams and diagrams

The direct object of a four-word sentence is a seven-letter vehicle. 
The vehicle is preceded, in order, by a subject, verb and the article “the”. 
The subject and verb are formed by splitting the object into two parts. 
What is this sentence?

Note: The subject and the object of the sentence are both, of course, nouns.

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Tough Conundrums To Beat Appetizer:
More of Mathew’s musical musings


🥁1. Think of a contemporary music genre. Reverse the letters and split in two to get a word for domesticated animals and a term of endearment for one of these animals.
🥁2. Think of the first name of a well-known musician. Move the last letter to the beginning to name an item implicated in a well-known disaster.
🥁3. Think of the plural form of a common Hawaiian phrase, six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get an adjective relating to a music genre.
🥁4. Think of a popular comedy web series in three words. Take the third word, in five letters, and shift each letter four places earlier in the alphabet. The result will be a musical instrument.
🥁5. Think of a music genre in six letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to get a noun used in publishing.
🥁6. Think of the name of a band and the name of a musician/performer, in three and two words respectively. Read the first two words of the band and the last word of the musician one after the other. The result is a phrase associated with infants. 
(Thanks to Bob Greenwade for the puzzle idea in Conundrum #6.)

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Trans-World Ports Of Call Slice:
Around the world in 43 letters

Name a world capital (in 6 letters), a former word capital  (4 letters), an Olympic host city  (6 letters), a Chinese port  (7 letters), three world nations  (4, 5 and 5 letters) and one word in the name of a fourth nation  (6 letters). 
The 43 letters of those eight words consist of six different letters. Use all six letters – and no others than those six letters – to spell an eight-letter form of transport. 
What is it?
Hint: The form of transport is a forerunner to certain vehicles used by participants in the Olympic Games.
  
Riffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices:
Rearranging the rockers on the tape deck of the Titanic

Will Shortz’s February 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Puzzleria! contributor and friend Mathew Huffman of Oregon, reads:
Name a well-known rock band in three words. Change the first and third letters to the first and third letters of the alphabet — that is, A and C. You can rearrange the result to name another famous rock band in three words. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Huffman Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a well-known rock band in three words. 
1. Rearrange the letters in the first word to form a word that in a solo artist’s song title is followed by “I’ve said it again,” and in another band’s two-word song title is repeated twice. 
2. Rearrange the letters in the second word to form a word that in another band’s song title is followed by “shuffled his feet.” 
3. Rearrange the letters in the third word to form a word that in other artists’ song titles has been described as “wild,” “crazy,” “little” and “livin’.”
Name the rock band and the three words formed with rearranged letters. 
ENTREE #2:
Name a not-real-well-known British rock band in three words. Remove the final letters in two of the three words. You can rearrange the result to form a two-word term for an exchange of the shuttlecock following the serve. 
What is the term and what is the name of the band?
ENTREE #3:
Name a reasonably well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 17-letter caption for the image pictured here. What is the caption and what is the name of the band?
Hint: The two words of the caption begin with an S and an E.
ENTREE #4:
Name a somewhat well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange its letters to form three words that crush, grind, chop or pulverize:
1. a synonym of jaws,
2.  a tool wielded by Babe’s master,
3.  a tool wielded by Ooola’s boyfriend.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words?
ENTREE #5:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form a two-word, 14-letter caption for the image pictured here. The words begin with C and T. 
What is the caption and what is the name of the band?
ENTREE #6:
Name a pretty well-known rock band in three words. You can rearrange the letters to form three words:
1. a synonym of tippler,
2. what a liver is, generally, and
3.  what the tippler’s liver might do if the tippler keeps tippling.
What is the name of the band? What are the three words? 

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While My Guitar Gently Sheds Fake Tears Dessert:
Central Stratocasting

A legendary actress and a legendary guy guitarist share a last name. 
Saying their first names together, his after hers, sounds like a synonym for “getting a F,” as Natasha or Boris Badenov or anyone else from Pottslyvania might pronounce it. 
Who are this actress and guitarist?

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.

Jumpin’ outta the gym! Gilligan’s Isle with a new cast of castaways; A half-dozen enigmas to crack; Land lubber vs. whale blubber; Hugs and kiss-offs

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Gilligan’s Isle with a new cast of castaways

Consider this text sent from a marooned castaway:
Olivia,  
Al dives. Al, I or Dan ran. Wanda ran inland. Wanda had pain, man! Ah, rain, hail and pain. 
Love, Nia (e-pal)
What unusual property does the text possess?

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Grade AA Appetizer:
A half-dozen enigmas to crack

🥁1. Name a modern business, and an action one might have taken with this service, each in six letters. Reverse the first four letters of the business name and change one letter in the action to get the first and last names of a contemporary British actor in five and seven letters.
🥁2. Think of someone who was in the news late in 2018, first and last names. Read these names backward. The result will sound like two different types of animals.
🥁3. Think of a species of snake in five letters. Shift each letter one place later in the alphabet. The result will describe types of quarrels.
🥁4. Think of a word in twelve letters that means “glowing.” 
This word can be split into two words pertaining to an ancient empire and genealogy.
🥁5. Name a type of soldier in twelve letters. Replace the first two letters with an “i” and two other consecutive letters with an “i”. Switch this second “i” with the letter preceding it to get a word that means “one who asks”.
🥁6. Think of the stage name of a contemporary female rapper, in two words. Put the second word first and place a vowel in between to name a manufacturer of spirits.

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Leapin’ Wizards Slice:
Jumpin’ outta the gym! 

Name a three-word expression of optimism. 
Remove the last letter of the first word and move the last letter of the second word into its place. 
The result will be two new first and second words: a somewhat slangy 4-letter word for a quality that high-leaping basketball players possess and a 6-letter word for a quality they have in their legs. 
Change an “n” in the third word of the expression to an “h” and rearrange the result, transforming the third word into a 2-word nickname of any player on a particular basketball team in the eastern United States. 
Although the nickname implies the player does not possess either of the two high-leaping qualities, chances are that the player does indeed possess both qualities.
What are the two qualities and the basketball player’s team nickname?
What is the expression of optimism?
  
Riffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices:
Land lubber vs. whale blubber

Will Shortz’s February 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by listener David Edelheit of Oyster Bay, New York, reads:
Think of a word meaning “a particular body of water.” Change one letter in it to get a new word meaning “a particular body of land.” What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of two words: one meaning “a small body of water,” in four letters, and the other meaning “marshy body of water,” in three letters. Change one letter in each word to get new words, each naming a place  where a bear may make its lair. What words are these?
ENTREE #2:
Name an alliterative lagoon situated on the Atlantic coast of the United States, in two words. The second word is a three-letter “body of water.” 
The first word is a eight-letter proper noun identified with St. Francis Xavier. It is also a Chevrolet model popular during Pat Boone’s heyday. 
Change the first letter in the three-letter word to get a new word meaning “a particular body of land” that might be found in the midst of the alliterative lagoon. The three-letter word itself appears in midst of the eight-letter proper noun.
What is this alliterative lagoon?
What is the “particular body of land?”
ENTREE #3:
Think of a word for “a small flowing body of water,” in four letters, and a word for “a large body of water,” in five letters, Change the first letter in each word to get two new words – synonyms of each other meaning “bodies of land.” What words are these?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a word meaning “a particular body of water.” Change all but its first and final letters to get a new word meaning “a particular body of land.” What words are these?
Hint #1: Place a hyphen between the letters you change and the final two letters that you change them into. The result is the full name of a character portrayed by Marlon Brando.
Hint #2: The second letter in the body of water and the second letter in the body of land are both a bit “dotty.”
ENTREE #5:
Think of a word meaning “a particular body of water.” Change one letter in it to get a new word meaning “a particular body of land.” When you place the words side-by-side, an amphibious mammal appears at the beginning of the result. Take a homophone of the three letters that appear at the end of this result. Spell this homophone backward to reveal a fish. What words are these?

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“Missing You, My Valentitle” Dessert:
Hugs and kiss-offs


The 4-letter title of the poem below is a synonym of a word within the poem. 
What is the title and why is it fitting?
’Tis the end of our trail
Since your heart of stone, friend,
Sank romance in mid-river,
The beginning of our end.

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 sitcom in high definition; Reverse-spin tricolor trickery; Worldplay; A Penny Social makes fundraising cents; Ticket-to-riders become paperback writers

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Reverse-spin tricolor trickery

Switch the places of the second and fourth letters in the name of a color. 
Spell the result backward to form a second color and a word that often precedes a third color. 
What are these three colors?

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Cosmopolitan Conundrums Appetizer:
Worldplay

🥁1. Think of a city in Mexico. Drop the fourth through sixth letters and reverse the remaining letters to get the first name of the current head of a U.S. government agency. The reverse of this person’s last name is an acronym related to the agency's oversight powers.
🥁2. Think of a six-letter word that some might use to describe the border between neighboring countries. 
Remove the fourth letter and shift the remaining letters twelve places later in the alphabet. The result will be a form of identification.
🥁3. Think of a female first name and a Greek letter. Place one after the other to name a musical genre.
🥁4. Think of a geographic area that is home to a few million people, in six letters. Add an A and rearrange to name an area that is home to several hundred million people.
🥁5. Name a two-word location in Africa where the second word consists of two consecutive items from a teaching method containing seven elements. What is the location and what is the teaching method?

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Fortune And Fame Slice:
A Penny Social makes fundraising cents

A penny social is a charity auction that involves a raffle. 
Rearrange the letters of PENNY SOCIAL to name a famous person (first and last names).
Who is this person?

  
Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices:
Ticket-to-riders become paperback writers

Will Shortz’s January 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by listener Joe Krozel of Creve Coeur, Missouri, reads:

Name a vehicle in two words, each with the same number of letters. Subtract a letter from each word, and the remaining letters in order will spell the first and last names of a famous writer. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Take the first and last names of a famous writer. Move the last letter of one name to the end of the other name and change it to a different letter to spell, in two words, what Super Bowl fans are likely to see on television later in the day this Sunday, February 3, 2019.
Hint: The two words could be a caption for the image pictured here, taken almost eight years ago.
Who is the famous writer? What are Super Bowl fans likely to see on television this Sunday?
ENTREE #2:
Take what certain security devices are called (for short), in four letters, and what they do, in five letters, to help prevent crime. Add one letter to each word to form, in order, the last and first names of a famous writer. Who is it?
ENTREE #3:
Name a vehicle in two words of seven and four letters. 
Move the first letter of the first word to the end of the second word, but first change this letter to the letter to the left of it on a standard keyboard. 
The result will be two words: 
1. the first name of a famous nineteenth-century writer who wrote a semi-autobiographical narrative beginning with a 4-letter word containing a consonant and three of the same vowel, and
2. a poem form. 
What is the vehicle?
ENTREE #4:
Name two vehicles in three and four letters. Adding one letter to the beginning of each word will spell the first and last names of a famous writer. Who is it?
Hint: Both vehicles are large and heavy.
ENTREE #5:
Take the first and last names of a famous writer. Switch the last letter of the first name with the first letter of the last name. 
Replace two adjacent letters in the last name with a different double letter. The result is the name of an artist in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 
Who are this writer and artist?
ENTREE #6:
Take the first and last names of a famous writer, each with the same number of letters. Replace the last letter of the first name with a P and the last two letters of the last name with a body part to form words for two alcoholic drinks. 
Who is the writer and what are the drinks?
ENTREE #7:
Take the first and last names of a famous writer. Replace the first letter of the last name with duplicates of the first two letters of the first name. If you rearrange the letters of the first name correctly the result will be two words: kinds of trees and kinds of critters. 
Who is this writer?
ENTREE #8:
Name a famous writer in three words. 
Each word is one letter longer than the word preceding it. 

In no particular order, the name consists of:
1. two consecutive feminine pronouns (that are the same pronoun)
2. a mixed-up synonym of “mole”
3. a “mynonys” of “touhs”
4.  a mixed-up prefix relating to “computers”
Who is this writer?
ENTREE #9:
A notable shepherd resides within the last name of a famous writer. 
A notable but mixed-up farmer resides within the writer’s first name. 
The shepherd and farmer are brothers. 
Who is this writer? 

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Comedy Of Situational Errors Dessert:
A sitcom in high definition

Change the first letter the title of a three-word TV sitcom from the past. 
Place  a “was” before the second word and make the last word singular. 
The result is a verb followed by its three-word definition. 
What is this TV title?

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.