“Feed my lambs, shear my sheep” “Diu vivere volumine et petram!” Reversal of pain provides comfort; Go postal, give a thumbs-up, take flight; “A Tale of Two Tecies” etc.

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Reversal of pain provides comfort

Name a two-word facial ailment that causes discomfort. 

Remove a three-letter man’s name from the middle. 

Spell the result in reverse order to spell things that provide comfort.

What ailment is this?

What things provide comfort?

Appetizer Menu

Worldplay Appetizer:

Go postal, give a thumbs-up, take flight

ALpha and omeGA

1. An easy one: Which state capitals both begin and end with postal abbreviations of other states? 

Another easy one: Which state names begin
and end with postal abbreviations of other states?

Out the window

2. Some years ago, I flew from Miami to Boston. The flight was not diverted. During this flight, I saw a foreign country. What foreign country did I see?

You win!

3. What fundamental property distinguishes the games of golf and hearts (the card game) from most other sports or games?

Thumbs up, thumbs down

4. Think of a positive verb that can be applied to judge an individual. Switch the third and sixth, and the fourth and seventh, letters. 

The result sounds like a highly negative verb to judge an individual. Change the last letter to the next letter in the alphabet to obtain the exact spelling of the second term. What are these two terms?

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Tonsorial Slice:

“Feed my lambs, shear my sheep”

To honor Jesus’ memory his followers plan a Sunday gathering at his Golgotha tomb. Peter prepares a tribute to deliver to the crowd. 

James, noticing his somewhat shaggy pal Pete could use a haircut, gives his fellow disciple some four-word advice beginning with G, Y, E, and L. 

Come Sunday, the tomb is empty. That, of course, throws a wrench of sorts into Peter’s prepared tribute to Jesus.

Thus, he must ______ his ______ ______. 

The words in those blanks (beginning with R, E and E) contain the same 18 letters contained in James’ four words of advice to Peter regarding his shagginess. 

What must Peter do? 

What was James’ advice? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Campbell Slices:

“A Tale of Two Tecies” etc.

Will Shortz’s November 15th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Bruce Campbell of Kansas City, Missouri, reads:

Name a title character from books and TV (5, 5). You can rearrange the letters to get two words describing what you can hear and do in church. What character is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Campbell Slices read:

ENTREE #1

“A Tale of Two Tecies”

Note: The following riff-off, Entree #1, is the brainchild of ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

Take the first and last names of an actor who portrayed a detective in books and on a pioneering TV legal drama. Rearrange the combined letters to spell the first and last names of a hard-boiled fictional detective in books and movies.

Who are this actor and private eye?

Hint: The actor’s mother was a noted gossip and donner of eye-catching hats.

ENTREE #2

A puzzle-maker is making brunch. His last name is the same as the brand name of what he is preparing. 

His first name sounds like what he does to make the beverage he will have.

Who is this puzzle-maker? What is on his brunch menu?

Hint: The combined letters of the beverage and the brand name food – both which are served hot – can be rearranged to spell two words:

* The French word for an ingredient in the beverage, and

* A word the British and Americans sometimes use for a cup of the beverage.

ENTREE #3

Name a title character from TV, in seven letters, who has a less-than-electric personality. 

You can rearrange the letters to get a word that is a measure of electricity. 

What character is it?

ENTREE #4

Name a character who was the secretary and love interest of a title character from books and TV. 

You can rearrange the five letters of this secretary’s first name and then the six letters of her last name to get a two-word term
describing the role that gadget expert Lisa McManus assumed (in two words beginning with L and T) during her gadget review segment on Season 15 of “America’s Test Kitchen” on PBS. (It was in same the episode that Julia Collin Davison demonstrated how to cook a traditional Portuguese Soup, Caldo Verde.)

What is the name of this fictional secretary?

What role did Lisa McManus assume?

ENTREE #5

Name a title character from TV who was an American pioneer folk hero, in six and five letters. 

You can rearrange the combined letters to get two words:

* a synonym for an “idler” or “layabout,” and

* what time of day he might drag himself out of bed. 

What character is it?

What are the synonym and time of day?

ENTREE #6

Name two title characters’ first names from the same TV show, each in seven letters. You can rearrange the letters to get three words:

* a five-letter synonym of “brash” beginning with N, and

* a two-word metaphorical phrase meaning to “make a noisy disturbance,” as a brash person might do, beginning with R and H.

What are these first names?

What are the synonym and two-word phrase?

ENTREE #7

Name a title character from a TV show, in six and five letters. 

You can rearrange the letters to get the two-
word caption for the image pictured here – a six letter word beginning with S and a five-letter word beginning with A. 

What character is this?

ENTREE #8

Name a title character from a TV show, in two words of six and five letters beginning with M and B. 

You can rearrange the letters to get a three word question of three, four and four letters

beginning with W, B and P that the townspeople of Chamberlain, Maine might have wanted to ask Carrie White about  her reason for incinerating the year-ending high school dance. 

What character is it?

What might the townspeople ask?

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Latin Lovers’ Dessert:

“Diu vivere volumine et petram!”

Name a prolific “adult-contemporary” solo-act singer, first and last names, who is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of a group. 

Delete from the first name the letters of a
preposition that appear somewhere in the word “preposition.” 

If you do it right the result is a common Latin expression used in English. 

Who is this singer?

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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