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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Name-callers take back words,
harmony and pluralism ensue
Spell a common first name backward.
Consecutive letters removed from the interior of this result, in order, spell a plural noun.
The remaining letters, in order, spell a singular synonym of that noun.
What is this first name?
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Time Is Slip-Dripping Away Appetizer:
Wringing out the old...
The answer to each of the seven clues below is four letters long.
Solve for each clue, then shift each of the four letters of your answer a certain number of places later in the circular alphabet; that number of places is indicated in parentheses following each clue.
Finally, rearrange each result to name one common four-letter answer that is timely.
For example, the answer to the clue “First word in a Burns poem (11)” would be “AULD.”
Shifting each of those letters 11 places later in the alphabet results in “LFWO” which, when rearranged, forms “FLOW.”
CLUES:
1. Where someone drops the ball (25)
2. An Ernest nickname (23)
3. Suffix with cigar, pal or Gill (19)
4. Follows the name of a president’s dog in a carol (12)
5. Ex-endangered but now extinct bird (9)
6. Easter candy brand (8)
7. Eyeball modifier, according to Lennon (3)
What is this timely answer?
What are the answers to the seven clues?
Shifting Into Gear & New Year Appetizer:
Conun-drumming in the new
🥁1. Think of a type of health insurance in five letters.
Shift each letter three places later in the alphabet. The result will be a prominent name in psychiatry.
🥁2. Think of a snack food brand in five letters. ROT13 to name a common business practice that the brand name alludes to.
🥁3. Think of a common human activity in five letters.
Shift each letter nine places later in the alphabet. The result will be a type of footwear related to the activity.
🥁4. Think of a code word in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Shift each letter seven places later. The result will be a class of geometric shapes.
🥁5. Think of a measurement device in five letters.
Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to get an adverb meaning “well placed”.
🥁6. Think of a word for eating quickly in five letters.
Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to name a hairstyle.
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Blackpool Milk Rolls & Big Ben...tley Slice:
Silver Shadow, silver spoonerism
Name a non-mechanical part of a Rolls-Royce (or Bentley) and its location on the vehicle.
Spoonerize these two words (that is, switch their first letters) to name what sounds like a beverage.
What is this beverage?
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:
Non-nouns, Indians, Hogs, but no Plowmen
This week’s challenge, created by Eric Chaikin of Thousand Oaks, California, reads:
Name a noted TV journalist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last. Change an I in this name to a W and rearrange the result. You’ll get a two-word phrase for where you might see this journalist. Who is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a noted puzzle-maker – four letters in the first name, seven letters in the last. Change an “i” in this name to a “w” and rearrange the result.
You’ll get two words: one that precedes the word “baskets” in Figure A of the image shown here, the other that precedes the word “baskets” in Figure B of the image.
Who is this puzzle-maker and what are the two words?
ENTREE #2
Name a noted past TV journalist who was born on 9/11 and was associated with Meet the Press – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last. Change an “i” in the name to a “w” and rearrange the result. You’ll get two four-letter nouns and one three-letter non-noun. One noun is a general category; the second noun is a more specific subcategory of the first category; the 3-letter non-noun belongs in both 4-letter categories.
Who is the journalist?
What are the two nouns and one non-noun?
Hint: Within the text of this puzzle there are 13 examples that belong in the second noun’s subcategory, including this hint.
ENTREE #3
Name a noted past TV journalist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last name. Change a W in this name to an O and rearrange the result. You’ll get the name of a flower and a word in a nickname for the flower, a nickname based on the etymology of the flower.
Who is this journalist? What are the flower and its nickname?
Hint: It is fitting that this puzzle involves etymology because this journalist has authored two books on the English language.
ENTREE #4
Name a noted TV journalist – five letters in the first name, seven letters in the last. Change a W in this name to an O and rearrange the result.
You’ll get a possible two-word crossword puzzle clue for “LEIS”. Who is this journalist?
What is this two-word clue for “LEIS”?
ENTREE #5
Name a past American essayist, novelist, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, critic and political activist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last. Rearrange these letters to get an oxymoronic two-word phrase consisting of a 7-letter plural noun and 4-letter verb.
Who is this person? What is the oxymoronic phrase?
Hint: The phrase would not be oxymoronic if its first word were “cantatas.”
ENTREE #6
Name a noted past TV journalist – five letters in the first name, seven letters in the last.
Rearrange these letters to spell a 5-letter noun for an Indian or “Hog” owner and a 7-letter noun for the “wheels” this owner might well have owned as a youngster.
Who is this journalist?
What are the two nouns?
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Produce Section Dessert:
Bland-tasting becomes “brand-tasty”
Name an eight-letter plural variety of relatively bland-tasting produce.
Change the third letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet.
Rearrange the result to spell a brand name of a tasty food product.
What are this produce and brand name?
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.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Kicking the bucket... down the road
Think of a two-word term, in seven and five letters, that drivers in bucket seats and drivers seeking buckets both ought to be aware of.
What is this two-word term?
Hint: The two-word term contains an adjective and plural noun.
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Cosmetic Over-The-Counter Conundrums:
Behind bathroom or boudoir doors
🥁1. Think of a word for a washroom. Change a V to a “UD” to get a word having to do with praise.
🥁2. Think of the brand name for an over-the-counter medication, in seven letters, often taken for a condition that, left untreated, can lead to isolation.
Drop the first letter and reverse the remaining letters to describe something that isolation can lead to.
🥁3. Think of a location in six letters. Drop the first letter, then exchange the first two letters and the second two letters (12345 becomes 21435) to name a makeup often applied at this location.
🥁4. Think of the last name of a well-known musician. Reverse the letters and add a B at the beginning to name a cosmetic product.
🥁5. Think of a slang term for women. Rearrange into a slang term for cute.
Note:
As Megatart Stratagem alertly and astutely pointed out in this week's comments, I, LegoLambda, mistakenly posted a conundrum this week that I had previously posted. Conundrum #2 in this edition of Puzzleria! was, coincidentally, also Conundrum #2 in the October 18, 2019 edition of Puzzleria!
So, I have added a Conundrum #5. Enjoy.
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Sol Slice:
A stargazer for all seasons
An observant ancient stargazer, each year when winter dawned, might have murmured a three-word exclamation beginning with “The...” and ending with a noun and verb of three and five letters. Take just the noun and verb, remove the space between them, then switch the fifth and seventh letters of the result to name what a modern stargazer may observe during all seasons, but only with the aid of a telescope.
What exclamation might the ancient stargazer have murmured?
What may the modern stargazer see through a telescope?
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:
“I was gambling in Havana...”
This week’s challenge, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, California, reads:
Write down eight different letters of the alphabet. Add an apostrophe.
Then write the same eight letters in a different order. With proper spacing, you now have a four-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Anne, Charlotte and Emily invite Ellen Nussey, Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Ann Evans over to the Bronte Parsonage for an evening of parlor game play. They draw straws to choose teams: Ellen, Elizabeth and Mary versus Anne, Charlotte and Emily. When the first parlor game ends Charlotte gleefully exclaims – in words of 3, 3 and 8 letters – the result of the friendly competition.
Rearrange the 14 letters in that exclamation to spell the answer to the question, “Whose puzzles have appeared often on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday’s puzzle segment with Will Shortz?”
What does Charlotte exclaim?
Whose puzzles have appeared often on NPR?
ENTREE #2
“The Serpent was a master of persuasion. He knew how to _____. So the Serpent, in effect, ___ Eve the fruit. And, she ___ of it.”
Write down the letters that belong in those three blanks, in order. Tweak the order of the letters in the middle blank.
With proper spacing (that is, by eliminating one space) you now have a two-word phrase meaning “took a risk.” What is it?
ENTREE #3
Take a three-word, 13-letter phrase (including one apostrophe) meaning “take a risk.”
Rearrange the letters (and remove the apostrophe) to form a two-word phrase for what people who may want to improve their kissing, whistling or blues harp skills might want to take advantage of.
What are these three-word and two-word phrases?
ENTREE #4
Take a three-word, 11-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.”
Replace a D with a letter much further on in the alphabet. Write these eleven letters in a different order to spell two stringed instruments.
What phrase and instruments are these?
ENTREE #5
Take a five-word, 12-letter phrase meaning “take a risk.” Write these twelve letters in a different order to spell two words: the home country of a current world featherweight champion, and what he first competed in as a professional on March 13, 2015, resulting in the first of nine knockouts.
What are this phrase, home country and word for a competition?
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“Noel” Is NOT In The Girls’ Repertoire Dessert:
Three cryptic gifts of the iMAGInation
GOLD: Take two names associated with Christmas. One is a performance artist’s first name, but spelled slightly differently; the other describes the artist as a performer.
Who is the artist and what are the two Christmas names?
FRANKINCENSE: Describe, using an adjective and noun, one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Rearrange the letters in these two words to spell two names associated with Christmas. What are this description and these names?
MYRRH: ’Tis the night before Yuletide, all through the wee hours. Mamma in her ’kerchief has already settled her brain for a long winter’s nap. So have the children: Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy.
One creature, however, remains downstairs, stirring... stirring an eggnog latte, that is. It is Pappa, enjoying a nightcap he whipped up using his new espresso gourmet coffee maker he plucked from beneath the tree and unwrapped prematurely earlier that eve.
While his five daughters are still nestled all snug in their beds upstairs, Pappa is busy checking off the four chores on Mamma’s holiday honey-do list.
And so Pappa, after draining his latte:
1. _____ the tree (5 letters)
2. Tends to his daughters’ stockings hung by the chimney with care, stuffing them with Nut Goodies and other goodies... except for the stocking of his youngest daughter, the naughtier-than-nice little Lucy, which Pappa fills with ____ (5 letters)
3. Drives over to an ATM machine to get some ____ (4 letters)
4. Wraps five _____, one each for Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy (5 letters).
The answer to #4 appears in the lyrics to one of the songs with which Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally serenade their neighbors on the eve of Yuletide. (’Tis the sole “unfowl” gift of the first seven gifts enumerated on a gift list in the song’s lyrics.)
Thus, the girls, on the eve of every Yuletide, ____ _________ ______ (4, 9 and 6 letters).
The 19 letters that fill the four blanks on Pappa’s honey-do list can be rearranged to spell the three words for what Loretta, Lois, Lily, Lola and Lucy traditionally do on Yuletide Eve.
What do Pappa’s five daughters do every Yuletide Eve?
What are the words that fill the blanks in the four listed chores that Pappa must perform on Yuletide Eve?
BONUS PUZZLE:
What is the connection between this Yuletide puzzle and the image that contains the caption “Nerd Rhyming ‘Cornflakes’ ”?
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.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Nag about nada, sing no sad song!
The following list is in historical order, from earliest to most recent.
What is the eighth word on the list?
NADA, SONG, EKING, LANDS, NAG, TERM, TONG, ?????
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Ice Creams, Condiments And Conundrums Appetizer:
Rich food for the rich (at a discount)
🥁1. Think of a brand-name condiment in two words. Drop three letters and the space to name a discount website.
🥁2. Name a synonym for “greed” in seven letters. Drop the last letter and rearrange to name a rich person food.
🥁3. Name an eight letter word for something you might find at a barbecue. The seventh letter is a D. Change the D to a T to describe the use of this thing.
🥁4. Name the discount area of some stores, in two words, where the second word is the first word minus some letters in the middle. These unused letters can be rearranged into an ingredient in some ice creams.
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Slanguage Slice:
Happiness is a warm greeting
Name a warm greeting in a non-English language.
Remove two consecutive letters, leaving an object not associated with warm greetings followed by a slang term for that object written backward.
What is this friendly greeting?
Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
Serving up some form-fresh food
This week’s challenge, created by Dominick Talvacchio of Chicago, Illinois, reads:
Name a food in two words – a total of 11 letters. Some of these letters appear more than once. The food has seven different letters in its name. You can rearrange these seven letters to identify the form in which this food is typically served. What food is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name a puzzle-maker in two words – a total of 18 letters. Some of these letters appear more than once. The name of the puzzle-maker contains 12 different letters. You can rearrange these 12 letters to spell four words pertaining to the image pictured here:
1. & 2. a two-word nickname of the mascot for the advertised product,
3. an initialism for the medium on which the product is being advertised, and
4. the product itself (which appears on the image as ???).
Who is the puzzle maker?
What are the mascot nickname, medium initialism and product?
Hint: The product is also the name of a biblical passenger.
ENTREE #2
Name a beefy dish in two words – a total of 11 letters. Some of these letters appear more than once.
The dish has seven different letters in its name. You can rearrange these seven letters to form an adjective that describes the beef after a early step in the dish’s recipe, before it is egg-washed and rolled in crumbs.
What beefy dish is this? What is the adjective describing the beef early on in the process.
ENTREE #3
Name a Christmas holiday beverage in two words – a total of 11 letters. Some of these letters appear more than once.
The beverage has seven different letters in its name. You can rearrange these seven letters to spell a fruit, one that a little girl may reach deep down into the toe of her Christmas stocking in order to fish out... just, perhaps, as her parents are similarly “getting to the bottom” of their holiday beverages.
What beverage and fruit are these?
New Hint: The beverage can be concocted using an espresso machine.
ENTREE #4
Name a food in eight letters. Some of these letters appear more than once.
The food has seven different letters in its name. You can rearrange these seven letters to spell a marine mammal species and the name of the female of this species, whose mate is a bull and offspring is a pup.
What food and marine animal are these?
ENTREE #5
Name a food in two words – a total of nine letters. Some of these letters appear more than once. The food has eight different letters in its name. You can rearrange these eight letters to spell an adjective and a kind of meat that you could stuff into the nine-letter food.
The word for the meat also has an informal meaning that would render redundant the phrase pairing the adjective and word for meat.
Hint #1: Ironically, many people find the meat hard to “stomach.”
Hint #2: Remove the final letter from the two-word phrase containing the adjective and kind of meat to form a new two-word phrase that might result from ingesting “magic mushrooms.”
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Magical Mystery Tour Dessert:
A vowel vanishes, then presto-chango rearrango!
Replace a double-vowel in a United States city with one different vowel.
Rearrange the result to form a word used by magicians.
What are this city and magical word?
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.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A couple of eye-catching colors
Take the combined letters of two alliterative words from a familiar sports catchphrase.
Rearrange these letters to form two colors associated with a familiar fantasy movie that caught the imaginations of viewers of all ages.
What are these two sports catchphrase words?
What are the two fantasy movie colors?
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The Wide Worldplay Of Sports, Etcetera Appetizer:
An ape rocking on a monkey’s tail? Rollmops!
Yea or nay?
❓1. A 5-letter verb used in legislative settings can have two diametrically-opposed meanings, depending on where it is used. What is this word?
Sports trivia
❓2. It is well known that soccer (football, futbol) is the most popular spectator sport worldwide. What is the second most popular spectator sport?
What am I?
❓3. In various languages (translated into English), I am often called a rollmops, a dog, an ape’s rocking chair, a duckling, a strudel, or a monkey’s tail. What am I?
It’s all in how you say it
❓4. A two-word phrase, spelled identically but pronounced in two different ways, could describe either the first or the last aircraft in a particular race. What is this phrase?
Hint: the last “aircraft” would probably not even qualify to start the race.
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Multisyllabic Mathematical Slice:
Terms of endearment & induction
Name a mathematical term that is sometimes described by a multi-syllabic adjective.
Switch two consecutive letters in the mathematical term to form a term of endearment.
Replace one letter in the multi-syllabic adjective to form a new adjective that describes this term of endearment, as well as similar terms of endearment.
What are these two terms and two adjectives?
Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices:
Maki, nigiri, sashimi, temaki, temari & urimaki
This week’s challenge, created by Joe Krozel of Creve Coeur, Missouri, reads:
Name something you find in a grocery. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second. Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same grocery item again. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name what a stage actor who forgets his lines can do, in seven letters, if a prompter jogs his memory with a three-letter aid. Rearrange these ten letters to name a two-word city.
After the final curtain goes down the actor and rest of the cast might unwind with a backstage “wrap party” at which cheap wines flow and wash down the veggies and chips immersed in salsa, guacamole and hummus. Take a 5-letter informal synonym of “cheap wines” and a 4-letter synonym of “salsa, guacamole and hummus.” Move these nine letters four places earlier in the alphabet and rearrange the result to name a puzzle-maker who hails from the two-word city.
Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the city?
Hint: The “three-letter aid” is also a piece of game equipment which, if used improperly, could damage the playing surface of the game.
What the “actor who forgets his lines can do” is also what someone will have to do to repair the playing surface.
ENTREE #2
Name a description of a certain major league ballplayer during the 1938 season. This description might have served as an alternative nickname to the nickname he already had, “Subway Sam.” It is a two-word description of three and six letters. Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result is the same description. What is it?
Hint: The nickname hints at the ballplayer’s political and professional franchise affiliations.
ENTREE #3:
Name creatures you find on the ocean floor that trap food with their scores of arms – “Venus flytraps of the deep,” so to speak.
Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name those same creatures.
What are they?
ENTREE #4:
Name something that “those who think young” were encouraged to do in the early 1960’s, perhaps from a straw. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same two-word encouragement. What is it?
ENTREE #5:
Describe youngsters who get away with mischief behind their teacher’s back. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward.
The result will be that same description of such mischief-makers. What is it?
ENTREE #6:
Name something most people can do, and the body parts that help them do it. Three letters in what people do, six letters in the body parts.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name, again, what most people can do and the body parts that help them do it.
What can people do, and what helps them do it?
ENTREE #7:
Name something you calculate and what may help you calculate it. Two words. Three letters in the first, six letters in the second.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward.
The result will name that same something you calculate and what may help you calculate it.
What is it and what may help you?
ENTREE #8:
Name an abbreviation and proper noun that might be written within parentheses after “Seward’s Icebox” or “Seward’s Folly” – three letters in the abbreviation, six letters in the proper noun.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same abbreviation and proper noun.
What are this abbreviation and noun?
ENTREE #9:
Name an abbreviation followed by a number, spelled-out, indicating where dietary rules pertaining to non-vegetarians are spelled out. Three letters in the abbreviation, six letters in the number.
Switch the first and ninth letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same abbreviation and number.
What are they?
ENTREE #10:
Name, according to Hindu mythology, the incarnation of the deity Vishnu that immediately predated Krishna. Place after this name the word used for any incarnation of a Hindu deity.
There are three letters in the name of the incarnation of Vishnu, and six letters in the word for any incarnation of a deity.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same incarnation and word for the incarnation. What words are these?
ENTREE #11:
Give the first name of a 1960 TV series character surnamed Tucker, followed by a word describing Tucker and every character in the series. Three letters in the first name, six letters in the description.
Switch the third and seventh letters, and read the result backward. The result will name that same first name and the description of Tucker.
What are these words?
ENTREE #12:
The title of these “Riffing Off Shortz And Krozel Slices” is “Maki, nigiri, sashimi, temaki, temari & irimaki.”
How does that title pertain to the puzzle theme in ENTREES 2 through 11?
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Folding Money And Nickel-names Dessert:
Nick and Bill’s excellent adventure
Spoonerize a former nickname of any athlete at a certain major East Coast university. The nickname is a compound word formed from one-syllable word and a two-syllable word. For example, the nickname Cornhuskers (Nebraska) would become “Horncuskers.”
The post-spoonerism result is two new words, each a receptacle for bills:
1. Bills of the capital variety;
2. Bills waiting to be considered at the U.S. Capitol
What are these two receptacles? What is the former nickname?
Hint: The current nickname of the major East Coast university begins with the same letter as the former nickname. An anagram of the current nickname is a word associated with Alexander Graham Bell.
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.
We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.
The answer to each of the seven clues below is four letters long. 
Finally, rearrange each result to name one common four-letter answer that is timely. 
CLUES:
🥁1. Think of a type of health insurance in five letters. 
🥁4. Think of a code word in the NATO phonetic alphabet. 
🥁6. Think of a word for eating quickly in five letters. 
Name a noted TV journalist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last. Change an I in this name to a W and rearrange the result. You’ll get a two-word phrase for where you might see this journalist. Who is it?
You’ll get two words: one that precedes the word “baskets” in Figure A of the image shown here, the other that precedes the word “baskets” in Figure B of the image.
Name a noted past TV journalist – five letters in the first name, six letters in the last name. Change a W in this name to an O and rearrange the result. You’ll get the name of a flower and a word in a nickname for the flower, a nickname based on the etymology of the flower.
Name a noted TV journalist – five letters in the first name, seven letters in the last. Change a W in this name to an O and rearrange the result. 
Who is this person? What is the oxymoronic phrase?
Rearrange these letters to spell a 5-letter noun for an Indian or “Hog” owner and a 7-letter noun for the “wheels” this owner might well have owned as a youngster.
Change the third letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet. 
