“Why not halve an appetizer?” Jumble-aya! Crawfish pie? Head, hair & heel, heart but no sole; Mixing and backmasking oodles of audio; From “man of steal” to “man of the cloth”; All agog for gin and nog;

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 8!/20 SERVED
Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Mixing and backmasking oodles of audio

Name two nouns, in five and seven  letters, each indicating a large amount. 
Mix up the letters of one word and spell the other word backward to form a noun and a 3-word description of that noun. 
What are this noun and its description?

Appetizer Menu

Cartoony Conundrummy Appetizer:
Jumble-aya! Crawfish pie?

🥁1: The Jumble pictured below was conceived and created by multi-talented Mathew Huffman, whose  “Conundrum Set” has been a regular feature on Puzzleria! since September 2018.
In this graphic Conundrum, Mathew instructs the solver to “unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four common words... Now arrange the circles letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the cartoon.”
An automobile driver is pictured in the cartoon saying, “...and my aunt just got out of the hospital...” to which the auto mechanic replies, “I understand, sir...” 
The caption below the cartoon reads, “The Swedish auto mechanic listened to the driver’s ____ _____.”
The words in the blanks contain four and five letters.
Enjoy Mathew’s mastery.

🥁2: Name a food that is subject to fermentation, in six letters. 
Change the first letter to a T and rearrange to name a poor-quality drink that is the result of fermentation.


By-Two-Divisor Appetizer:
“Why not halve an appetizer?”

Slice a appetizer exactly in half. 
Move the second half to the front and insert a space after the first letter. 
The result, in two words, is a natural food you might have placed at the center of the appetizer (perhaps held in place by melted brie, or a toothpick). 
What are this appetizer and natural food?

MENU

Sitcom Sans Class Slice:
From “man of steal” to “man of the cloth”

Spoonerize the name an accomplished “larcenist” who became an accomplished evangelist. 
Saying the result aloud sounds like a five-letter adjective followed by a five-letter proper noun.
The adjective describes a classless past TV situation comedy with a classy theme song. The proper noun is the last name of the dysfunctional family on the sit-com.
Who is this “larcenist”-turned-evangelist? What is the sitcom?  

Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices:
All agog for gin and nog

Will Shortz’s January 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Evan Kalish of Bayside, New York, reads:
Think of an informal term for part of the human body that consists of two alcoholic beverages, one after the other. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Consider the following verse:
“... Thus no longer with stocks and with pillories vexed,
Nor with work, jail, or sheriff perplexed, perplexed,
The mob men shall rule and the great men obey;
The world upon wheels shall be set all agog,
And blockheads and ______ ____ the reign of King Log...” 
The verse is an excerpt from a poem titled “A Song, dedicated to the Lovers of Wit, the Friends to Truth, and Good Government,” printed circa 1786 in the Massachusetts Centinel newspaper.
Take the first five letters in the word in the first blank. Spelling them backward spells the first name plus first letter of the last name of a puzzle maker. The remainder of the puzzle maker’s last name can be spelled by rearranging the sixth letter in the first blank plus the letters in the second blank. 
Who is this puzzle maker?
What words belong in the blank?
ENTREE #2
Think of an informal term for part of the human body that consists a word in the text of this puzzle that is spelled backward. 
In other words, in order to discover the answer one must reverse the order of the letters in the word. 
What is this informal term?
ENTREE #3
Think of an informal term for part of the human body that is also an informal term for a something typically worn on a particular part of the body. 
What is this term?
ENTREE #4
Think of an informal term for part of the human body that consists of two words, one after the other, that are a synonym of the noun “retreat” and a synonym of the verb “retreat.” 
What is this term?
ENTREE #5
Think of an informal hyphenated term for part of the human body. 
Rearrange its letters to form a two-word synonym of “plectra.”
What are this hyphenated term and synonym?
ENTREE #6
Think of an informal term for part of the human body that consists of what one does to one’s horn and, that is, one who is a puffed-up, pompous Trumpet player. 
What is this informal term?
Hint: The answer contains a verb and an abbreviation.
ENTREE #7
Think of a two-word informal term for part of the human body. 
Rearrange the combined letters to form a  two-word term describing an honor bestowed on a civilian war correspondent for his service in Europe. 
The informal term and the honor each contain a possessive five-letter proper noun followed by a five-letter noun.
What are this ten-letter term and ten-letter honor?

Dessert Menu

Veggie Dessert:
Head, hair & heel, heart but no sole  

The following body parts have something in common:
ear, elbow, hair, head, heel, heart.
What is it?
Hint: The something in common is associated with vegetarianism.

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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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