Changing the tone of leadership; Pound o’ prevention = Ton o’ cure; Try solving these Triclops posers; Mere mortals emerge from mythological mix; Spoon River Anthropomorphology

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:

Spoon River Anthropomorphology

🥄1. Write down the surnames of two well-known living people in alphabetical order. Spoonerize the result  – that is, switch the initial consonant sounds.

The first part of the result sounds like the surname of a classical composer.

The second part of the result spells the surname of a person associated with an instrument heard in symphony orchestras.  

Who are these four people?

🥄2. Write down the surnames of two well-known living people in reverse-alphabetical order. Spoonerize the result  – that is, switch the initial consonant sounds. 

The first part of the result is another word for one’s heart.

 

The letters of the second part of the result can be rearranged to form a synonym of “heart.” 

Who are these two people?

What are the two words associated with “heart”?

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Econfusions Appetizer:

Changing the tone of leadership

(Exactly what we need right now!)

1. Think of a recent event, in six letters.

Change the fifth letter to the one previous in the alphabet (for example, “b” becomes “a”) and the result will be an verb that characterizes what that event did to everyone.  

Note: For Econfusions #2 through #7, the following example may be helpful:

If you add an “e” to the word “on,” the first letter changes pronunciation in the resulting

word “one.”  This is not rare in words of 2 to 3 letters (for example, “at” becomes “ate”).

2.  Can you find a common, uncapitalized 3-letter word which, when you add a letter onto
the end, results in a 4-letter word with the first letter pronounced differently?

3.  Can you find a common, uncapitalized 4-letter word which, when you add a letter onto

the end, results in a 5-letter word with the first letter pronounced differently?

4. Take a common, uncapitalized 5-letter word.  Change the last letter to the next letter in the alphabet (for example, “a” becomes “b”), and the result will be another common word, with the first two letters pronounced differently.

5.  Take a common, uncapitalized 5-letter word.  Move the last letter eight places later in the alphabet (for example, “a” becomes “i”). 

The result will be another common word, with the first four letters pronounced
differently... and of course the last letter too.

6.  Take the last name of members of a well-known singing group.  Move the last letter three places later in the alphabet (for example, “a” becomes “d”), and the result is a common word with the first two letters pronounced differently.

What is this common word?

7.  Take the last name of a well-known actor.  Move the last letter six places later in the alphabet (for example, “a” becomes “g”), and the result is a common word whose first two letters are pronounced differently from the first two letters of the actor’s last name.

Who is this actor and what is the common word?

Bonus Econfusion Puzzle:

8. In an answer to one of the seven Econfusions above, change the third letter to a letter adjoining it on a standard keyboard.

The pronunciation of all the letters in the word will change (except for one letter that remains silent).  

What are the words?

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Greek and Roman Goddesses Slice:

Mere mortals emerge from mythological mix

Rearrange the fourteen combined letters in Venus and Aphrodite, the Roman and Greek

goddesses of love, to spell the names of two non-gods from Rome and a 5-letter noun.

The names and noun, taken together, are associated with the years 68 AD and 1572 AD. 

What are these names and noun?

Riffing Off Shortz And Margolies Slices:

Try solving these “Triclops” posers   

Will Shortz’s October 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Micah Margolies of Lenexa, Kansas, reads:

Think of an 8-letter word with three syllables that contains the letter “i”  in each syllable — but, strangely, doesn’t contain a single “i” sound, either long or short. The answer is not a plural. What word is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Margolies Slices read:

ENTREE #1:

Take the surname of a recently deceased writer who penned a short poem titled “Odysseus.” Change the fourth letter to an “L” to name a legendary figure featured in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry. 

Now take a 4-syllable noun associated with the feats of Odysseus and a 3-syllable

adjective associated with the legendary figure. Rearrange their combined letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. 

Who is  this puzzle-maker?

Who are the writer and legendary figure?

What are the noun associated with the feats of Odysseus and the adjective associated with the legendary figure?

ENTREE #2:

Think of an 9-letter noun with three syllables that contains the letter “i”  in each syllable — but, strangely, doesn’t contain a single “i” sound, either long or short. The noun can be either singular or plural, and is something edible. 

What word is it?

ENTREE #3:

Think of an 9-letter adjective with three syllables that contains the letter “u”  in each syllable — but, strangely, doesn’t contain a single “u” sound, either long or short. 

The adjective is not a plural but it does end with an “s.” And it begins with an “m.” 

Its first two syllables are identical. 

What adjective is it?

ENTREE #4:

Think of an 8-letter word with three syllables that contains the letter “a”  in each syllable — but, strangely, doesn’t contain a single “a” sound, either long or short. 

The answer is not a plural word. 

The word begins with a “b” and is a card game played by gamblers.

What word is it?

ENTREE #5:

Think of an 8-letter word with four syllables that contains the letter “o” in all but the final syllable — but, strangely, doesn’t contain a single “o” sound, either long or short. 

The answer is not a plural. 

The word is associated with the fruit of the vine. 

What word is it?

ENTREE #6:

Think of an 7-letter word with two syllables that contains the letter “e”  twice in the first syllable and once in the second syllable.

But, strangely, the word doesn’t contain a single “e” sound, either long or short. 

Glasses and goggles are two examples of this word. 

What word is it?

Note: Entree #7 is a bonus riff-off puzzle created by ecoarchitect,  author of our recurrent “Econfusions” feature. (See the “Changing the tone of leadership” Appetizer, above).

ENTREE #7:

Think of the surname (in 4 syllables and 8 letters) of a well-known person in the news. 

Three of the four syllables contain the letter “i”, but the surname doesn’t contain a single “i” sound, either long or short.  

Who is this person?

Dessert Menu

Measure For Measure Dessert:

Pound o’ prevention = Ton o’ cure

A two-word preventive measure may keep your face from becoming two things: 

1. the first five letters of the measure, and 

2. the last three letters of the measure.  

What preventive measure is this?

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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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