“Weight, weight, don’t tell me!” There’s vittles in this critter! Objectifying deities, just for fun; “Adam and Eve on a raft!” Uprooting all that racket!

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
“Weight, weight, don’t tell me!”

Rearrange the letters of a famous United States landmark to form three units of measure: one of weight, one of mass and one of volume.  
What is this landmark?
What are the three units of measure?
Hint: One of the three units of measure is an abbreviation.

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Feral Food For Thought Appetizer:
“There’s vittles in this critter!”


The word “deer” contains one set of double letters. 
Name an animal whose name contains two sets of  double letters. 
Drop one letter from each of the sets and rearrange the result to get a favorite food of the animal.
What are this animal? 
What is its favorite food? 

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“That’s rad, Dude!” Slice:
Uprooting all that racket!

Name a product brand designed to eradicate a chest-racking cough. 
Add a letter to the end and divide it in two to name legislation designed to eradicate racketeering. 
What is this brand?
What is this legislation?

Riffing Off Shortz and Crane Slices:
Objectifying deities, just for fun 

Will Shortz’s September 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jeremy Crane of Madison, Wisconsin, reads:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. The first half of the name, phonetically, names a common object. The second half of the name, by spelling, names another object that is often put inside the first one. What is it? 
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Crane Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names. 
A pronoun appears in one of the puzzle-maker’s two names. Remove it.
Take the name you truncated. Move its second letter an even-number of letters later in the circular alphabet. 
Divide that even number by two. Move the remaining letters in the truncated name that divided number of letters later in the circular alphabet. 
Your result (consisting of the altered first name and unaltered last name) should be two creatures that are often mistaken for one another.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the two similar creatures?
ENTREE #2:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. 
The first half of the name, by spelling, is a Latin phrase often used correctly by intelligent people, and often misused by people who just want to sound intelligent. It means “intrinsically.” 
The second half of the name, phonetically, is a synonym of “inauthentic” or “bogus.”
A certain “president a-Tweeting” might write, for example, “My opponent is ___ ___ _____!” misusing and misspelling the Latin phrase (by replacing an “e” with an  “ay”) and ending with the same synonym.
His opponent might respond by writing, “The president is ___ __ _____,” correctly using and correctly spelling the Latin phrase and ending with the same synonym.
Who is this ancient mythological deity?
What is the Latin phrase that means “intrinsically”?
What did the president Tweet? 
How did his opponent respond? 
ENTREE #3:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. 
The first half of the name, phonetically, names a body part. 
The second half of the name sounds very much like a another body part. 
What are these body parts?
What is the mythological deity?
ENTREE #4:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. The second half of the name, if you rearrange its letters, names a one-time teen idol who later had a hit with a song about a civil rights icon, two presidents, and the brother of one of those presidents. 
The first half of the name, spells a word for what the teen idol is striking in either of the images pictured here.
What is the mythological deity?
Who is the teen idol, and what does he strike?
ENTREE #5:
Name a deity in ancient mythology, one associated with the deity in Entree #4.
The second syllable of the name spells a synonym of “song” – like, for example, the 1961 hit song the teen idol in Entree #4 was often asked to sing.   
The first syllable of the name, if spelled backward, becomes a verb for what the teen idol would do, besides singing them, to subsequent songs, including one recorded by Mott the Hoople and another by T.Rex. 
What is the mythological deity?
What is the synonym of “song”?
What would the teen idol do to subsequent songs?
ENTREE #6:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. 
Add a letter to the beginning to spell the surname of a sculptor. 
Add a letter to the beginning of the surname of this sculptor to spell the surname of an actor who once portrayed a movie character whose first and last names both begin with the same double-vowel (like Alley Oop’s gal, Oola Oop).
If you instead add two different letters to the beginning of the surname of the sculptor, the result will spell the surname of a composer of symphonies.
What is this mythical deity?
Who are the sculptor, actor and composer?
ENTREE #7:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. 
The first two syllables of the name, phonetically, name a word associated with Billy Preston, Angela Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Artis Gilmore and the Jackson 5. 
The remaining syllables of the name, phonetically, names two words associated with the word “steep.” 
What deity is this?
What is the word associated with Billy Preston et al.?
What are the two words associated with “steep”?
ENTREE #8:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. 
If you remove the second-last letter of the name and rearrange the remaining letters, you’ll spell things one might guzzle. 
But if you instead remove the first letter of the deity’s name, you’ll spell a kind of puzzle (with no rearrangement of letters necessary). 
What is this deity?
What might one guzzle?
What is the puzzle?
ENTREE #9:
Name a deity in ancient mythology. 
The first half of the name spells the first name of a living singer and the surname of another living singer. 
The second half of the name, if you spell it backward, spells the first name of a daughter of an American writer, one who was used as the basis for the character of Joan of Arc in a novel. 
What is this deity?
Who are the two singers?
What is the name of the writer’s daughter?
Hint: The surname of one of the two singers is a homophone of a deity in ancient mythology.

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“Battle Creek In A Bowl” Dessert:
“Adam and Eve on a raft!”

Name an entree one might order from a family restaurant in two words. 
Switch the second letter of the first word with the second letter of the second word. 
The result is a body of water and what might be floating in it.
What is the entree?
What is the body of water and what might be floating in it?

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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