The smartest puzzle in the room; Seventy-times-seven loafishes; Smurf’s up! (but not roaring) etc.; Dinner jacket optional; Ignore not the “relevant” in the room

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/21 SERVED

Schpuzzle Of The Week:

Seventy-times-seven loafishes

Take the initial letters of an informal phrase associated with multiplication followed by all but one letter of a word associated with measurement. 

The result is a word associated with both multiplication and measurement.

What is the informal phrase associated with multiplication?

What is the word associated with measurement?

What is the word associated with both multiplication and measurement?

Appetizer Menu

Note: This week’s Appetizer Menu features five delicious puzzles baked up by Jeff Zarkin of Burke, Virginia, whose screen name is SuperZee. 

Thanks, Jeff. 
Enjoy!

Puzzarkin! Appetizer

Smurf’s up! (but not roaring) etc.

Golden rules &  goldfish

🏍1. Take a term for the sometimes subtle difference between breaking or keeping a rule. 

Spoonerize it to name a penalty an angler might be subject to for breaking a rule. 

What are this term and penalty?  

Pit bull pitted dates?

🏍2. Take a two word phrase, in 10 letters, for how one might get home from a late date. 

Drop the first letter of the phrase, move the first letter of the second word into its place. 

The resulting 9-letter phrase sounds like what you may need to control an unruly critter.

What are these two phrases? 

Hint: The 10-letter and 9-letter phrases rhyme with one another. 

Radar weather detector

🏍3. Take a two-word phrase that might describe the weather. Spoonerize it to form what sounds like a phrase you might see on a highway sign. 

What are the phrases?

Smurf’s up! (but not roaring)

🏍4. Take a term used to describe a favorite part of the day. Spoonerize it and you have a speechless Smurf.  

What are this term and this “cute mute”?  

“The bestie made me do it!”

🏍5. Take a two-word phrase, in 5 and 3 letters, that describes a friend... a friend who might just get you into trouble. 
Rearrange the letters to get a description of the five puzzles on this Appetizer Menu. 

What are this phrase and description?

MENU

Chain Meal Slice:

Dinner jacket optional

Remove three non-consecutive letters from a restaurant chain. 

Rearrange them to name a kind of jacket. The remaining letters, spelled out in order, name people who traditionally wear such jackets. 

What is this restaurant chain?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:

Ignore not the “relevant” in the room

Will Shortz’s November 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads: 

Think of two five-letter words that are opposites. One of them begins with E, the other ends with E. Drop both E’s. 

The remaining eight letters can be rearranged to spell a new word that is relevant. What are these three words?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:

ENTREE #1:

Think of a phrase consisting of two words of five and six letters – an adjective and noun – that describe what interrupts Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You, Babe” on the radio, according to a review written by a staff writer for a newspaper based in our nation’s capital.

Drop two A’s, one from the interior of each word. The remaining nine letters can be rearranged to spell a new word that is pertinent. What are these three words?

ENTREE #2:

Think of four-letter synonym of “competition” and a five-letter word for a possible venue for such a competition. Drop two A’s, one from each word. The remaining seven letters can be rearranged to spell a new word that is germane. What are these three words?

ENTREE #3:

Think of a two-word phrase consisting of a verb and noun, four letters each, describing what an editor might do after highlighting a word, phrase, sentence or paragraph. 

Drop two consecutive letters. 
You can rearrange the remaining six letters to spell a new word that is x-rated. 

What are these three words?

ENTREE #4:

As a fraternity initiation hazing prank, the Greek brothers challenged pledges to blow up a rival fraternity’s homecoming float using an explosive made of nitroglycerin. Amazingly, one of the pledges actually did it! 

Threatened with losing its charter and good standing on campus, the frat brothers rounded up the usual suspects for interrogation, hoping to identify the culprit and hand him over to campus authorities. 

They realized of course that most pledges would “wash their hands of” the mischief, but held out hope that the perpetrator would eventually “fess up” to the float-explosion.

Name a verb, in nine letters, for what the guilty pledge did. Rearrange these nine letters to spell two other verbs: one, in 4 letters, that means “wash their hands of”; the other, in 5 letters, that means “fess up to.” What are these three verbs?

ENTREE #5:

Think of two five-letter words that are opposites. One describes sparklingly innovative prose and the other describes insipidly trite prose. 

These ten letters can be rearranged to spell a new word that does not describe most Roman Catholic parishes. 

What are these three words?

ENTREE #6:

Remove two consonants from the name of a puzzle-maker. The remaining ten letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word synonym of “pump-and-runners.”

Who is the puzzle-maker? What is the two-word synonym?

Dessert Menu

Technological Dessert:

The smartest puzzle in the room

Name a brand associated with smart technology. 

Move its last letter to a position earlier in the brand. If you spell the result aloud, spelling-bee-style, it will sound like a question you might ask someone who appears to be smarting. 

What are the brand and the question?

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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