Re-engraving the gravestones; Pretty consonants all in a row; Brand x? Boo! Brand y? Bravo! “Now we’re cooking with petroleum byproducts!” Mossi, Newhouser, Lolich, Holtzman...

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Re-engraving the gravestones

Why might the following have been a fitting epitaph for the gravestone of Elvis Presley?
“Fun, great flirty jive! Dates, chicks, queens... Heaven be revvin’!”

Why might the following have been a fitting epitaph for the gravestone of poet and cleric John Donne? 
(Indeed, the epitaph might even have been one the English poet wrote himself!)
“Donne, went he to heaven, he flew.
Flee, hurt! Be done! Dirt be Donne.”

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Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Pretty consonants all in a row

Note: For the purposes of the following conundrums, Y is considered a vowel.
Mathew says he can find only one answer for each of the six conundrums this week.
🥁1. Name a singular ten-letter common word that contains five consecutive consonants and has “I” as its only two vowels.
🥁2. Name a singular eleven-letter common word that contains five consecutive consonants and has “A” as its only two vowels.
🥁3. Name a singular ten-letter word that contains six consecutive consonants and has “A” as its only two vowels.
🥁4. Name a singular eleven-letter common word that contains six consecutive consonants, an “E” at the end, and has “A” as its only other two vowels.
🥁5. Name a singular eleven-letter word that contains six consecutive consonants and has “E” as its only two vowels. The word is of German origin and also contains one of the least-common consonants.
🥁6. Name a ten-letter common word that contains five consecutive consonants and has “U” as its only two vowels.

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Dishes And Coasters Slice:
“Now we’re cooking with petroleum byproducts!”

Name a five-letter style of cooking and a five-letter geographical feature, both associated with the U.S. Gulf Coast. 
Remove two letters – the middle letter of each five-letter word – from a traditional dish associated with the Gulf Coast. 
Rearrange the remaining letters to form the name of a state sometimes associated with the dish. 
What are the style of cooking and the geographical feature? What are the traditional dish and the state associated with the dish?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:
Brand x? Boo! Brand y? Bravo!

Will Shortz’s March 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads: 
Think of a well-known brand name in 8 letters starting with H. Change the H to an M and drop the last letter. You’ll get another well-known brand name in 7 letters. What commercial names are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a well-known variety of a particular fruit in 10 letters starting with H. Change the H to an M and divide the result in two. 
You’ll get something made of paper and a word that often descibes it when it is brand new. 
What is this variety of fruit?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a well-known multinational conglomerate in 6 letters. Change the first letter to the letter following it in the alphabet and change the last letter to an R. You’ll get the last name of a person who served as chairman and CEO of the conglomerate for two decades, and who successfully “reanimated” its vision and fortunes during that time. What is this conglomerate, and who was its CEO?
ENTREE #3: 
Think of  a multi-million-dollar hyphenated brand name headquartered in the United States. 
Divide it at the hyphen into two parts. Switch the first two letters of the first part with the first two letters of the second part. 
Switch the order of the first to letters in the first part to form the last name of a Supreme Court justice. The second part spells a slang verb for what death row inmates will likely do as a result of the justice’s stance on capital punishment.
ENTREE #4:
Think of a well-known big box retailer in two words. Interchange the first letters of the words. Place at the beginning of the second word a duplicate of the last letter of the second word. The first three letters of the second word spell a French beverage; translate  it into English. Switch the order of the two words to name a scandal not called Watergate. What is the retailer? What is the scandal? 
ENTREE #5:
Think of a well-known in brand. 
Spell it backward and divide the result to form a two-word caption for the collage/image pictured here. 
What is the brand? 
What is the caption?
Hint: the caption contains an adjective suggested by the faces in the collage. The faces belong to the same person. The other word in the caption is either the first or last name of the person.
ENTREE #6:
Think of a well-known brand headquartered in Germany. Rearrange the letters. You’ll get an arm or a leg and a digit.What commercial name is this? What are the arm or a leg? What is the digit?
ENTREE #7:
Think of a well-known brand name you might see in your kitchen. 
Change the second-last letter to an H and move it to the end. You’ll get the last name of a puzzle-maker. 
Who is it? 
What is the brand name?

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The second syllable of a term sometimes used in baseball for certain players is an animal’s body part. 
Form rhymes of both syllables to name two other body parts, one of them informal, that are synonyms of one another. 
What is this slang baseball term?
What are the two synonymous body parts?

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.)

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