“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?

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