The story of the Torys (sp.?) Restaurants and Food; Philosopher’s Stoneware; Catching fish, creating critters; Two kings & a wild card(iologist?)

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Two kings & a wild card(iologist?)

Rearrange the combined letters of three words associated with a well-known doctor from history to spell the names of two well-known kings, one historical and the other
mythical. 

The mythical king is also associated with the doctor. 

Name these three words, two kings and one doctor. 

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Bands, Global Lands And Viands Appetizer:

Restaurants and Food

 

🍲1. Take the name of a restaurant. 

Add a synonym of restaurant. 

Rearrange the letters to get a band. 

What band is it?

🌍2. Take the name of a country. 

Remove the first two letters and the last letter.

Add the capital of a neighboring country at the beginning of the result. 

You will get a food. 

What are the countries and the food?

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The Compleat Angler Slice:

Catching fish, creating critters

Name something that might help you catch a fish, in one word. 

Spell the letters backward and divide the result into two words to name two different critters. 

What are these critters?

What is the fishing aid?

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:

Philosopher’s Stoneware

Will Shortz’s February 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, California, reads:

Think of a famous philosopher — first and last names. Change one letter in the first name to get a popular dish. Drop two letters from the last name and rearrange the result to get the kind of cuisine of this dish. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker — first and last names. 

Rearrange the letters in the first name to get the profession of the character played by Strother Martin in a 1960s-era movie. 

Drop two consecutive letters from the second name to get the type of “gang” portrayed in the same movie by “ankle-braceleted” actors Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Harry Dean Stanton, Ralph Waite and Paul Newman. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous philosopher — first and last names. 

Change one letter in the first name to get a musical instrument. 

In the last name, replace two letters with an “s” and an “o”. 

Rearrange the result to get two other musical instruments. 

Who is this philosopher?

What are the three musical instruments?

ENTREE #3

Your waitron may serve you a healthy entree — perhaps asparagus, peas, string beans or broccoli — at a sit-down family restaurant. 

Name a two-word, 14-letter term for any one of these entrees.

The 10th-through-14th letters in the two-word term spell a common one-word term for the buffet platform upon which food is placed and kept warm under radiant heat lamps.

You may well see the 8th and 9th letters of the two-word term printed on the heat-lamp bulbs. 

You can rearrange the first seven letters of the two-word term to spell a dish that you would definitely not find on the heat-lamp-lit buffet table.

What is the common term for the buffet platform?

What are the two letters perhaps printed on the heat-lamp bulbs?

What is the dish you would not find on the heat-lamp-lit buffet table?

What is the  two-word, 14-letter term for asparagus, peas, string beans or broccoli?

Hint: The seven-letter dish absent from the heat-lamp-lit table is — like sorbet, gazpacho or Waldorf salad — best served cold.

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous philosopher — first and last names. 

Change one letter in the first name to get a verb for what you do when you fry food lightly, seafood for example, and then stew it slowly in a closed container. 

Replace a letter that appears twice in the last name with a note of the major scale in solfège and rearrange the result to spell seafood, in eight letters, that you might prepare by frying and stewing it.

Who is this philosopher?

What is the verb for frying and stewing food, and what is the seafood that might be prepared in this way?

ENTREE #5

You plan to make a stew consisting of fillets from the European pilchard along with lion, goat and sepent meats culled from a certain monstrous fire-breathing Greek mythological creature. 

You begin by taking the letters in the name of this creature and the letters in a more common name for the European pilchard. 

You mix these 14 letters together to get the
name of a “Dish” quite popular with the men of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea.

What is the name of the “Dish”?

What is the name of the mythological creature?

What is the more common name for the European pilchard

ENTREE #6

Rearrange the combined letters of the first and last names of a famous philosopher to form a possible name, in seven and four letters, of an upstart journalistic rival to the The Orange County Register.

Who is this philosopher?

What is the name for this upstart journal? 

Hint: The new newspaper might use the feeds from the  Associated Press (AP) news service. Why? Because A and P are the initials of its name.

ENTREE #7

Rearrange the combined letters of the first and last names of a famous philosopher and author to spell an alternative (but nonexistant) title of an early song, “Early Morning Rain,” written by Gordon Lightfoot.

Who is the philosopher?

What is the title?

ENTREE #8

In order to ply their chosen profession, Rona Barrett, Hedda Hopper, Dorothy Kilgallen and Louella Parsons often had to frequent nightspots and mingle with seemingly seamy characters over cocktails or less-pricey foamy amber beverages. Their objective, of course, was to “get dirt” on married celebrities who may have been having affairs, or may even have been secretly married to two spouses – one on the West Coast, another on the East, for instance! 

Take an eleven-letter word for such people these columnists may have “outed,” Remove from this word the five letters in a word that describes the foamy amber beverages. Rearrange the result to name of the kind of dish regularly served up by the likes of Rona, Hedda, Dorothy and Louella.

What is the dish?

What is the word for people possibly “outed?”

What word describes foamy amber beverages?

Hint: You can also spell this dish by removing four consonants from the word “nightspots” and rearranging the result.

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Blankety-Blank Dessert:

The story of the Torys (sp.?)

Take a phrase in the form “the (BLANK) of the (BLANK)” in which the first letter of the first word is moved to its end to form the second word. 

A third word, formed by keeping that letter at both ends, is a microcosm – or perhaps, one might say, a “miniature version” – of what the phrase describes. 

What phrase is this?

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Road-tripping and landmarking; Snatching virtue from the jaws of deceit; “She’s got a ticket to ride my seesaw” “Say why we’re famous, then name us!” Let's open to the Book of Thespialonians

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Say why we’re famous, then name us!”

The last name of a reasonably well-known person is also the name of a creature. 

(Note: For purposes of this puzzle, disregard the person’s first name.) 

Remove some consecutive letters from both
ends of the last name. Rearrange these letters to spell a seven-letter word for what the person is known for. 

Take the letters you did not remove, in order. Change one letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet. The result spells a word for what the creature is known to do. 

Who is this person?

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Delightfully Puzzley Triple-Appetizer:

Road-tripping and landmarking

Road Trip

🚗1.  In 1968 an American singer had a hit single about an essential worker in a midwest state who lived the high life. 

This young worker had a girlfriend in a west coast city and, as he had a couple of weeks vacation saved up, he planned a road trip to see her. Coincidentally, there also happened to be a 1968 hit record about the city in which his beloved lady lived. 

The young man mapped out a more-or-less direct route for this “romantic roadtrip.” 

Furthermore, he was also a natural history buff; and so along the way he decided to stop off, “side-trippingly,” at a landmark/tourist site... or two, or three.

Not counting his home state he travelled
through four states in his quest reach his destination and darling. Along the way he visited a famous “fossil-formation” natural history site, a “desolate” geological marvel along the Green River, and a site featuring a half-dozen historic stone ovens that resemble behives (albeit not in the Beehive State... but nearby the Beehive State). 

Serendipitously, as he neared his girlfriend’s state his journey ran parallel to a famous early American travel route – a historical bonus!

Take the postal codes of the four states the young worker traversed (not counting his home state). 

Drop one letter, leaving seven. Scramble these seven letters to spell a common word.

A. Where is this young essential worker from, city and state? 

What does he do for work?

What is the name of the singer and the 1968 hit song?

What was the name of his famous group of recording session musicians that backed the singer on this record?

B. What are the city and state where the worker’s girlfriend lived. 

What was the song about this city and who sang it on the hit record.

C. What are the three natural history sites the young worker visited? 

D. What was the historic  route he paralleled as he got close to his girlfriend’s state?

E. What is the common word that you can form from seven of the eight letters in the postal codes of the four states?

A state landmark and the global state

🌎2. Name a famous U.S. state landmark in two words of five and six letters.  

Drop the penultimate letter. Scramble lightly to get a two-word assessment of world’s current condition.

What are the landmark and the assessment?

An inspired but bizarre landmark

🗽3. Name what some people might call a most bizarre Midwest U.S. landmark, in eight letters. It was inspired by an ancient English landmark as well as by a landmark in the the southern U.S. to which Bruce Springteen paid homage in song. 

Change one letter in this bizarre Midwest landmark and divide the result into two words to name an auto part.

What is this auto part?

What is the “bizarre” Midwest landmark?

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“Synful” Slice:

Snatching virtue from the jaws of deceit

The first one-third of a synonym of “unholy” is also the first two-thirds of a synonym of “holy.”

The last three-fourths of this “unholy” synonym sounds like a different synonym of “holy.” 

What is this synonym of “unholy”?

Hint: The final one-third of the synonym of holy mentioned in the first paragraph is a two-letter male name. 

Riffing Off Shortz And Mace Slices:

Let’s open to the Book of Thespialonians

Will Shortz’s February 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Samuel Mace of Smyrna, Delaware, reads:

Name a famous actor whose first name is a book of the Bible and whose last name is an anagram of another book of the Bible. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Mace Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker whose first name is a book of the Bible. His surname is an anagram of a four-letter synonym of  “a mountain peak or pinnacle,” like the peaks of the biblical mountains of Carmel, Tabor, Zion, Ararat, Sinai and Olivet – each symbolizing
“closeness” to a heavenly God.

The first five letters of the puzzle-maker’s first name and first letter of his surname can be rearranged to spell the destination of a road upon which the disciples  significantly encountered Christ. The remaining letters of the puzzle-maker’s name can be rearranged to spell an initialism of a mainline Protestant organization whom one might learn more about this encounter.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the “mountain peak synonym?”

Where did the disciples significantly encounter Christ?

What is the initialism of the Protestant organization?

ENTREE #2

Name a reasonably well known poet whose first name is a book of the Bible and whose last name is an anagram of another book of the Bible. 

Who is it?

Note: The poet is known by a first, middle and last name. The middle name is the original surname of the poet’s mother, and is also the surname of an Oscar-winning actor.

ENTREE #3

Name an online automobile marketplace that is an anagram of an apocryphal book of the Bible.

What is this marketplace?

What is the biblical book?

Hint: The biblical book is also an anagram of the combined letters of two words: A cheer heard at Wrigley Field, and a likely target of the cheer.

ENTREE #4

A mathematical curve that describes a smooth periodic oscillation resembles the path of an automobile cruising up and down and up and down rolling countryside hills. 

We might therefore say that this automotive path traces a two-word term of four and five letters... a term that rhymes with “wine grape.”

This “rolling hills” two-word term is an anagram of a New Testament biblical book.

What are this book and the term?

ENTREE #5

The New York Mets were born in 1962 when Major League Baseball’s National League expanded from eight to ten teams (The Houston Colt 45s were the other 1962 NL expansion team.)

In each of their first four years “the lovable Mets,” with colorful Casey Stengel at the helm, finished the season standings in the cellar – in tenth place out of ten teams. 

In 1966, however, the Mets finished in ninth place, ahead of the Chicago Cubs. Fans were hopeful.

Alas, in 1967 the Mets slid back into the cellar...

The disheartened and exasperated Mets fans exclaimed a collective “____ _____!”

The combined letters of the words in those two blanks can be rearranged to spell a biblical book.

What is the exclamation? What is the book? 

ENTREE #6

About a dozen years ago, a Nebraska businessman named Terrance Watanabe embarked on a yearlong  gambling binge, placing exorbitant bets while playing blackjack and other games of chance at Caesars Palace and at The Rio in Las Vegas. 

By year’s end, the businessman’s billfold was $127 million lighter.

Take a two-word term for what Mr. Watanabe suffered that year, in six and four letters. The second word in the term appears intact, with its letters in order, within a biblical book. The remaining letters of the book can be rearranged to spell the first word in the two-word term.

What is the two-word term? What is the book?

ENTREE #7

Name a movie title, in three words, that has become a holiday staple.

Rearrange the combined letters of: 

A. the middle word in the title,

B. a four-letter name for the holiday, and

C. The first name of the actor who plays the title character.

If you choose correctly you can spell the name of a biblical book.

What is this book?

What are the movie title, four-letter holiday and title-character actor?

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Elijah’s Chariot of Fire Dessert:

“She’s got a ticket to ride my seesaw”

Name something that takes passengers for a ride, in two words.

This ride-provider, when spoken aloud, sounds like a description of what it is made of. 

What is it that takes passengers for a ride?

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

A quizzical quartet to “Onquer” “Just like Romeo and Juliet” Follow your initial instinct... Mashie, niblick, cleek and spoon(erism); Not the Miller’s... the Mixologist’s Tale

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Mashie, niblick, cleek and spoon(erism)

Name a two-word category for the following: 

“belts, rings, shoes,  caps, hoods, pumps and hose.”

Spoonerize the two words to get two words associated with golf. 

What are these four words?

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Terrapin State Turnpikes Appetizer:

A quizzical quartet to “Onquer”

Name this list 

🏙 1. What is the link between the towns/small cities in the following list? 

Exeter, Lancaster, New Castle, New Bern, Milledgeville, Windsor, Murfreesboro, Chillicothe, Cahaba, Corydon, Natchez, Vandalia, Saint Charles, Iowa City, Vallejo, Wheeling, Guthrie.

“I see Maryland, I see... ?”

🗺 2. In what way do most road maps of the state of Maryland, even official ones, differ from those of any other US state?

Basic training

🚙 3. Think of a military vehicle. Drop the middle letter. The remaining two sets of letters are two words that name a fitness product. 

What are the vehicle and the fitness product?

William the “Onquerer”

⚖ 4.  Think of a phrase from (Anglo-Norman) French used in the USA and other countries with legal systems based on English common law. 

To honour William, keep the U in honour, but change two letters in the phrase to a single C. Rearrange the result to obtain a type of case processed in court.

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Lovey-Dovey Valentiny Slice:

“Just like Romeo and Juliet”

Romeo and Juliet, Lucy and Desi, Lois and Clark... 

Remove the first three letters from the name of one of the sweethearts in a fourth romantic couple. 

Replace one of the remaining letters of the result to spell the name of the other sweetheart. 

What couple is this?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices:

Follow your initial instinct...

Will Shortz’s February 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ed Pegg Jr., who runs mathpuzzle.com., reads:

Think of someone who has been in the news this year in a positive way. 

Say this person’s first initial and last name out loud. 

It will sound like an important person in U.S. history. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Move the first name of a puzzle-maker to the end of his last name to form a word for what the center fielder did with the fly ball after he snagged it in order to nail the runner at home plate who had tagged up at third base.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the word for what the center fielder did with the baseball?

Hint: The word for what the center fielder did is a word in the theme song of a multiple-Emmy-winning sitcom. The word is an approximate rhyme of a breakfast food in the song.

ENTREE #2

Think of an actress who portrayed a gregarious storekeeper in what is considered one of the greatest films of all time. 

Say this person’s first initial and last name out loud. 

It will sound like like the name of an Emmy winning actress who was also nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. 

Who are these actresses?

ENTREE #3

Think of a 1960s British pop idol, first and last names. 

Replace the first syllable of his name (which sounds like a letter) with two letters that spell a different letter in the alphabet. 

The result sounds like a time of day.

Who is the pop star?

What is the time of day?

ENTREE #4

Name a Pulitzer Prize-winner who shares something in common with a Hall of Fame slugger. The first two letters of the Prize-winner’s first name sound like a letter of the alphabet. 

Remove those two letters, leaving what sounds a lot like a a comparative adjective (but one not found in dictionaries) that sounds a lot like a three-syllable description of certain
undergarments that are better able to trap and retain body heat than other undergarments.

Who are this Prize-winner and slugger. What do they share in common?

What is the “adjective” that won’t be found in dictionaries?

ENTREE #5

Take the nickname of an dancer/singer who also acts. 

Insert a consonant (spelled with two letters) between the second and third letters of the nickname. 

The result sounds like the first and last names of a comedian.

Who are this dancer/singer and comedian?

ENTREE #6

Take the surname of a British novelist. Remove two consecutive letters from its interior that spell a letter of the alphabet, leaving a word for a casual or brief love affair. 

A featured character in the novels had several such affairs.

The first name of the novelist, spoken aloud, sounds like two letters of the alphabet. 

Take those two letters, plus the letter you spelled using the two interior letters from the surname. Rearrange them to spell the three-letter word that belongs in the blank in the following sentence:

“Since 1954, eight different ___ have portrayed the novelist’s featured character on the silver screen.”

Who is the novelist?

What is the word for the casual or brief love affair?

What is the word that belongs in the blank?

ENTREE #7

Think of a leader of one of the many rock bands from the 1960s-70s. 

If you say this person’s first-name initial and last name out loud it will sound like a leader of one of those many 1960s-70s rock bands. 

Who is it?

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Muddlers And Shakers Dessert:

Not the Miller’s... the Mixologist’s Tale

Imagine a holiday party in which the host’s          

party-time paraphernalia includes a corkscrew, muddler, shaker, strainer, jigger and shot glass.

What three-word question might the host
ask his guests after employing those paraphernalia? 

When spoken aloud the three words sound like a well-known book title. 

What are these options?

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.