A Crayola coat of many colors; Setting LMNs on the table; Cheeseheads and Meatheads; Bam-mobile Alabamalama Bim-Bomb; Arnold and Keith show up; Tablefuls o’ puzzles fit for pilgrims

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A Crayola coat of many colors

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s when the new Ford Thunderbird was popular, so was a nerdy character named Poindexter from the 1959-62 “Felix the Cat” cartoon television series. 
A children’s coloring book at the time might have pictured him cruising down a road, along with the following instructions, on page 16:

“Try coloring Poindexter’s Thunderbird with umber, pink, yellow, peach and blue crayons.”
On the facing page, page 17, the instruction might have read: “Color each tailfin geranium.”
What connection do those instructions have with manual transmissions? 
Hint: It’s a seven-part solution.

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Conundrumsticks:
Tablefuls o’ puzzles fit for pilgrims

🥁1. Think of two words that are types of surfaces—one on an astronomical scale and another on a more local scale, in six and four letters, respectively. Rearrange to get a two word phrase for a type of insurance, in six and four letters respectively.
🥁2. Think of a common household brand name in five letters. ROT13 to name the type of person that might sell you the household item.
🥁3. Think of a word for paradise. Drop the first letter and the last two letters. The result will sound like a contemporary portmanteau of two words that describe a specific mood state.
🥁4. Think of a shoe brand. Rearrange to form a neologism for losing one’s savings from online spending.
🥁5. Take the name of a U.S. state, and the two-letter postal code of another state. Combine and rearrange to create a type of navigation device.

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Name In The News Slice:
Arnold and Keith show up

Take the name of a person lately in the news, first and last names. Remove the first and last letters from the first name. Rearrange the  remaining letters to form a description of this person in two words: a possessive proper noun and a common noun.
What is the name of this person?
Hint: Were it not for this person in the news, Keith, Arnold and others may have been no-shows at an event chaired by Barrack.

Scientific Slice:
Setting LMNs on the table

Name a scientist associated with the periodic table, first and last names. 
If you remove two consecutive letters from the first name and say the result aloud it will sound much like an element on the table. 
Who is this scientist?

Riffing Off Shortz And McDonald Slices:
Bam-mobile Alabamalama Bim-Bomb

Will Shortz’s November 17th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Janet McDonald of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reads: 
The city of Mobile, Alabama has the interesting property that the name of the city has exactly the same consonants as its state (M, B, and L), albeit in a different order. What is the next-largest U.S. city for which this is true?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And McDonald Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Mobile, the third-largest city in Alabama, has the interesting property that the name of the city has exactly the same consonants as its state (M, B, and L), albeit in a different order. 
The largest city in a different  state differs from Mobile in latitude by less than two degrees. The name of this city has exactly the same consonants as the first name of a puzzle-maker. This city is also a synonym of  “Mary Jane from Mexico” which, in turn, is one of many slang terms for an increasingly kosher substance, especially when it is preceded by a 4-syllable 9-letter adjective that has the same consonants as (but not the same number of consonants in) the last name of this same puzzle-maker.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Take three consecutive consonants from the alphabet. 
The first and second letters are the only consonants in the name of a 4-letter world capital. The first and third letters are the only consonants in the name of a 4-letter river. The second and third letters are the only consonants in the name of a 4-letter country. The first and second and third letters are the only consonants in the name of a 6-letter world capital.
Add an earlier-in-the-alphabet consonant to the existing three, creating an alphabetical string of four consecutive consonants. These four, plus a C, are the only consonants in the name of an 8-letter mountain that is the highest in its continent.
Add a second earlier-in-the-alphabet consonant to the existing four, creating an alphabetical string of five consecutive consonants. These five, plus an R, are the only consonants in the name of an 11-letter mountain that is the highest in its continent.
What are this world capital, river, country, world capital, and two high mountains?
ENTREE #3:
Take five consecutive consonants from the alphabet. (Ignore the vowel in their midst.)
These five are the sole consonants in a two-word term, in 2 and 8 letters, for the medium past presidents like Ike and JFK employed to communicate with the U.S. citizenry. They are also the sole consonants in a 12-letter term for the medium the present president employs to communicate with the U.S. citizenry.
Hint #1: The first word in the two-word term for the medium Ike and JFK used is an initialism, kind of like JFK. The second word is plural.
Hint #2: The five consonants are also the only ones in the 4-letter and 5-letter words that fill the two blanks in the following phrase – a phrase that describes a numerical fact about the present president’s family:
He had a ____ of _____.
What are these two media?
ENTREE #4:
Take six consecutive consonants from the alphabet. (Ignore the vowel in their midst.)
These six are the sole consonants in the first and last names (4 and 6 letters) of a famous singer-songwriter and a 4-letter device that helped us hear this artist’s mastery. 
These six consonants are also the sole consonants in a kind of Chinese sailing ship (4 letters) and the handle or rudder pole that steers it (four letters).
Who are the artist and the device?
What are the sailing ship and handle that steers it?
ENTREE #5:
Take three consecutive consonants from the alphabet. (Ignore the vowel in their midst.)
Take a second triplet of consecutive consonants from the alphabet (that have no vowel in their midst).
The middle letter in the first triplet and all three letters in the second triplet are the sole consonants in the 5-letter last name of a radio and TV personality known for interviewing guests. 
The first and third letters in the first triplet and the first and third letters in the second triplet are the sole consonants in the last name of a former TV personality who was interviewed more than two dozen times by the first personality.
Who are these two personalities?

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Delicatessen Dessert:
Cheeseheads and Meatheads

Take the combined letters of meats and a kind of cheese that you ought to eat in moderation. Rearrange these letters to name, in two words, what people may do to you if you overindulge in these foods. 
What foods are they?
Hint: The two words resulting from the rearrangement are often connected with a hyphen to form a compound verb. 

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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