St. Nims Edna? Pope is toot? Zep? A tale of three titletowns; Bring these fuzzy puzzles into high resolution; What did Quixote don, crypto-lodge-ically? Mincemeat, Cardigans and the Buddha;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
What did Quixote don, crypto-lodge-ically?

A number of consecutive letters at the beginning of the name of a fictional character spell something the character might wear. 
Interchange two consecutive letters of the character’s last name to spell something that might get lodged in what the character might wear.
Who is this character, and what might the character wear? 
What might get lodged in what the character might wear, and where might it come from?

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Unbeatable TV Conundrums Appetizer:
Bring these fuzzy puzzles into high resolution

📺1. Think of a television actress, first and last names, whose first name starts with an S and ends with an H and whose last name contains SH. Take her last name, add another SH, and rearrange to name a type of drug.
📺2. Think of a modern device for watching movies and television. Reverse the order of its letters and shift one letter one place to the right on a computer keyboard to get a shorthand phrase for a kind of news article.
📺3. Think of a TV personality known for collecting and repairing cars, first and last names. Remove the middle two letters of the last name, add a P and rearrange to name a type of car in need of repair.
📺4. Name an iconic symbol of a contemporary television show in three words, in which the third word can be constructed by dropping the first letter of the second word and placing the remainder of the second word inside the first word.
📺5. Think of something that people might do on a trashy daytime talk show. Drop a vowel and reverse the first two letters to name the inciting emotion.
📺6. Think of the first name of an actress in a current TV sitcom. Remove a vowel to name a piece of furniture that might be used while watching the sitcom.

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Damn Easy Slice:
Mincemeat, Cardigans and the Buddha

Give answers to the following clues:
1. Tree that sounds like a sleek or silky coat
2. Letters in an ancient alphabet that don’t sound so ancient
3. Home of saunas, and home of sweaters... Cardigans, for example
4.  A discourse of the Buddha
5. Mincemeat pie ingredient that is also for the birds (but not for the blackbirds that may be baked in the pie!)
6. Parisian name
7. Smarts
What do your answers suggest?
Why might the hint below help you solve the puzzle?
Hint: This puzzle is damn easy! 

Riffing Off Shortz And Burg Slices:
A tale of three titletowns

Will Shortz’s May 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Erik Burg of San Francisco, reads: 
Name a popular movie of 2018. Add an R. You can rearrange the result to get three different titles for people. What are they?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Burg Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a dramatic biographical movie of 2018.
You can rearrange the letters in the movie to form a one-word soap brand and, in two words, where someone might use it. 
What are this brand and two-word location?

ENTREE #2:
Name a limited-theater-release and video-on-demand movie of  early 2018.  
Add an R and S. You can rearrange the result to get a two-word term for the Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War or the Iraq War. What are this movie and two-word term?
ENTREE #3: 
Name a cult comedy movie of 1992. Add an R. 
You can rearrange the result to get three different titles for people. 
What are they?
Hint: Two of the titles, if you double a letter in one of them, will be first names of two family members who live in a house with a flower shop, carpenter’s shop, and a dentist’s office in its basement. 
ENTREE #4:
Name a cult comedy movie that spawned a sequel in 2018. 
You can rearrange the letters in the movie’s title to get a two-word shorthand term for proponents of a landmark Supreme Court ruling. 
What is this shorthand term?
Hint: A person whose name appears in the ruling (but not in this “shorthand term”) prosecuted Jack Ruby. 

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Dnar By Dnac Dessert:
St. Nims Edna? Pope is toot? Zep?

Spell each word in the brand name of a candy backward.
Do not change the order of the words. 
The result, read aloud, sounds like another candy brand. 
What are these candy brands?


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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