5 – 4 = 1-iron, 12 – 55 = twee! Franco-Italiano Mysterioso; Don’t forget to go to church; Buy One, Get Used Singles! PBS’s This Old Host?

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
PBS’s This Old Host?

Take the first word in the title of a PBS TV show. 
Replace its first letter. 
Rearrange the first four letters of the result and move them to the end. 
If you did it correctly, you will have formed a word that often precedes the first name of the host of this PBS show. 
What is the title of this PBS show?

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Unbeatable Énigmes Et Enigmi Appetizer:
Franco-Italiano Mysterioso


🥁1. Think of a common French word. 
Rearrange to name a type of offense.
🥁2. Think of a common Italian word. 
Rearrange into a word that, when used in headlines, is often associated with scandal.
🥁3. Think of an Italian town in eight letters whose name is a concatenation of four US state postal codes. 
Remove one letter to name a US state.
🥁4. Name a place to put a vehicle. 
The word contains two Rs. 
Remove the Rs to get a French word for an article of clothing. 
Add a vowel to the end to get the last name of a famous author.

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Steeped In Holy Water And Wine Slice:
Don’t forget to go to church

Two consecutive letters of the alphabet appear in alphabetical order (either consecutively or non-consecutively) a total of five times in four particular words:
⛪ within a word describing a type of spirit that defiles a church;
⛪ at the end of a word naming something that often fills a church;
❓ within, and also consecutively at the beginning of, a word describing an antidote for forgetfulness.
❓ and within a synonym of forgetfulness;
What are these two letters?
What are the four words?
Hint: 
The first and third words share the same six last letters in the same order.


Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices:
5 – 4 = 1-iron, 12 – 55 = twee!

Will Shortz’s August 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Tyler Lipscomb of Hamden, Connecticut, reads: 
If five = four, six = nine, and seven = five, what does twelve equal?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
If two = six, five = eight, and seven = ten, what does twelve equal?
ENTREE #2:
If five = seven, six = nine, and seven = thirteen, what does twelve equal? 
ENTREE #3:
What is the missing number in the following sequence?
1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 1, 1, ?, 2 ... 
ENTREE #4:
What are the three missing numbers – represented by x, y, and z – in the following thirteen-number sequence?
16 
11.33... 
19.33... 
11.2 
15 
x 
17.33... 
13 
9.8 
y 
13 
z 
14.5
Hint: x, y and z have something in common... besides being missing, of course, and also besides there being no ellipses “in their wake,” as there are after the second, third and seventh numbers in the numerical sequence.
ENTREE #5:
Replace the phrase “cunning puzzle” with a synonymous phrase consisting of a 3-letter word beginning with S and a 7-letter word beginning with P. 
Name a 3-letter word for a facial “spasm” or “twitching” a solver might experience while trying to solve such a “cunning puzzle.”
Rearrange the 13 letters in these three words to form the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.
Who is this puzzle-maker?

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Bogus Vinyl  45 RPM Dessert:
Buy One, Get Used Singles! 

Think of a music genre, in two words.
Say it aloud.
The result will sound like two words, each associated with “bogus”?
What is this music genre?


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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