Fully-woolly LambEweRama! Crime and Punishmental cruelty; Tek-circ? Sin-net? Not nim-dab! Everybody’s got something (’cept me & my monkey); Edgar Allan Poetry, Lego Lambda Doggerel; Mad Dog duels Capt’n Jack on the Hill

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Fully-woolly LambEweRama!

Ram, ewe, lamb and sheep are the male, female, young and general names for sheep. 
Take the male, female, young and general names for another animal. Replace two letters in one of the four names, replace one letter in another one, insert one letter in another, and keep one name just as it is. 
The result will be four words associated with expressing affection. 
What are these four animal names, and what are the four words associated with affection?

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Conundrums With Conviction Appetizer:
Crime and Punishmental cruelty

🥁1. Name the garment in the clothing department that is most likely to be shoplifted. [Editor’s note: This is probably the most punishmental of these five conundrums.]
🥁2. Name a crime. Move the first two letters to the end to name a way to detect one’s surroundings.
🥁3. Name a reality TV show in two words. Change the last letter of the first word, then replace the first letter of the last word with a duplicate of the first two letters of the first word. 
The result is something dangerous made by prisoners.
🥁4. Name a way to kill a person. Advance the second letter three places forward in the alphabet to name where the perpetrator will go if caught.
🥁5. Take two words in four and six letters that mean, respectively, deceptions and robbery. Put them one after the other to make a new word that alludes to keeping silent about crimes.

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Public Service Slice:
Mad Dog duels Capt’n Jack on the Hill

Take the surname of a current politician/public servant. Lower an ascender letter and “meld it into” the letter following it to form a single descender letter. 
The result is an informal name for a beverage brand.
Who is this politician and what is the informal brand name?
Hint: In 2019 this politician supported a proposed bill designed to provide an across-the-board benefit increase equivalent to about 2 percent of the average Social Security benefit, and raise the annual cost-of-living adjustment to reflect the fact that older Americans tend to use more of some services like health care.

First (Not Last Alas) Stanza Slice:
Edgar Allan Poetry, Lego Lambda Doggerel
  
Edgar Allan Poe’s last poem, titled “Annabel Lee,” consists of six stanzas, three with six lines, one with seven, and two with eight.
What everybody hopes will be Lego Lambda’s last “poem,” titled “Toll a Bell for Me,” is not yet completed. Only the first stanza exists. It appears below. 
Like Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” Lego’s verse includes at least one six-line stanza. 
Unlike Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” Lego’s verse is doggerel, not poetry!
And, also unlike Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” hidden within Lego Lambda’s doggerelish stanza is a clue to its form.
What is the clue? How and where is it hidden? 
“Toll a Bell for Me” (Unfinished)
In the heat, in the heart of the desert,
That’s the site of the start of my story
And the start of my troubles too, yes sir,
The beginning of endings, lost glory.
My last day broke so rosily, sun-risen light
Which had faded to black by the end of the night.


Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices:
Everybody’s got something (’cept me & my monkey)

Will Shortz’s January 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Tyler Lipscomb of Hamden, Connecticut, reads:
Name something everyone has, starting with H. Add an E, and rearrange the letters. You’ll name two things that every person must do to stay alive.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Name what any one of the the three variously hued images images pictured here are called, in two words. Remove an A, and rearrange the letters. You’ll name a puzzle-maker, first and last names.
What is each image is called?
Who is the puzzlemaker?
ENTREE #2
Name three electrical terms beginning with I, C and O. Delete three consecutive letters from one of the terms. These three letters can be rearranged to form the title of a 20th-century play that added a new noun to the English lexicon. 
Rearrange the the remaining 17 letters to spell the hometown and state of a puzzle maker.
What are these three electrical terms?
What is the play title?
What is the puzzle maker’s hometown?
ENTREE #3
Name a liqueur, in two words. Add an R, and rearrange the letters. You’ll name restraints, in two words, that the authorities may make you wear if, after you drink excessive quantities of this liqueur, they imprison you and deem you to be a flight risk.
What is this liqueur?
What are the restraints?
ENTREE #4
Name something some people believe everyone has, in two words starting with I and S. 
Rearrange the letters combined letters to spell a two-word description, starting with I and L of the degenerate, depraved and wicked ruffians, hooligans, thugs, boors, oafs, hoodlums, and rowdies. Those same aforementioned  “some people who believe” also believe that these “depraved people” will be spending eternity in Brimstone City!
What is it that these “some people” believe everyone has?
How might they describe the depraved eternally damned people?
ENTREE #5
“People in a significant relationship, when they ____ gossip that their significant other has given in to the temptation to _____ on them, often experience _________.”
The third word in this sentence is something painful that people sometimes have. The first 4 letters of the third word, in order, form the first word; The remaining letters of the third word can be rearranged to form the second word. 
What are these three words?
ENTREE #6
Name something most everyone has, starting with “h.” Rearrange its letters to form two verbs. These three words belong in the blanks in the following sentence:
“Every year during what has become a Christmas Eve ritual, Papa dresses up like Santa Claus and _____ the family spruce tree, occasionally reaching low as he _____ an ornament on a lower hard-to-access bough, stretching and sometimes straining his h_________ in the process.”
What are these three words in the blanks?
ENTREE #7
Name what most everyone has, in two words, starting with “A” and “t.” 
Rearrange the combined letters of these words to form two nouns starting with “d” and “l.” 
These four words complete the following sentence when you put them in the correct blanks:
“Olympic d_________ athletes, as they form l____ to compete in the dash and two runs, might be seen bending over to stretch and self-massage their A_______ t______.” 
What are these four words in the blanks?

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Strops Dessert:
Tek-circ? Sinnet? Not nim-dab! 

Name a sport and spell it backward. 
When read aloud, the result sounds like members of a team who play a different sport  professionally. 

What are these sports and the professional team’s nickname?
Hint: The sport you spelled backward originated in Europe and is still quite popular in Great Britain.


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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