Net, reef, neigh, net, event... next? A trio of singular conundrums; “What we saw on our safari” Cnsnntsooa frsti, vwlsoe lsta; “Calling Mr. ... Calling Dr. Spock!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“What we saw on our safari”

Take a word for something you might take on an African safari. 

Change one vowel to a different vowel and
rearrange the result to spell two creatures you might very well see on the safari. 

What are these creatures?

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nOt easilY beAtEn conUndrums appetIzer:

A trio of singular conundrums

🥁1. Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a
vowel). 

Change the O to a U to get another word.

🥁2.Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). 

Change the O to a double E to get another word.

🥁3. Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). 

Change the O to an I to get another word.

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Sequential Slice:

Net, reef, neigh, net, event... next?

What is the sixth word in the following sequence?

Net, reef, neigh, net, event, ___?

Hint: The word  contains three letters.

Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:

Cnsnntsooa frsti, vwlsoe lsta

Will Shortz’s April 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Gordon of Great Neck, New York, reads:

Think of a person in the news (5,4). The first name and last name each have at least two consonants and two vowels. All the consonants in each name come at the start, and all the vowels come at the end. The letter “y” is not used. Who is this famous person?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of the name of a puzzle-maker in the recent National Public Radio news, five letters in the first name, six letters in the surname. 

Rearrange the combined letters to spell a two-word caption, in five and six letters, for the
image pictured here. 

The six-letter word is a compound word that is also a grass genus.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the caption?

ENTREE #2

Think of the first names of a trio of fictional brothers who are the grand-nephews of Scrooge. 

There are 14 total letters in the names. 

Four are consonants, three of which are the initials of the names. 

The other 10 letters are vowels, two of which are the letter “y”.

Who are these brothers?

ENTREE #3

Think of a noun that ends in four vowels. 

The eight letters preceding those four vowels alternate vowels and consonants.

Take letters numbered:

4, 3 &1;

8, 7 & 8;

6, 5 & 8;

4, 3, 5 & 2

6, 7, 3 & 6; and

8, 10, 10 & 8.

The six words formed by those strings of letters are all examples of the noun.

What is the noun?

What are the six words?

ENTREE #4

Think of a seven-letter past-tense verb that is an alternative spelling of a word that is an example of the noun that is the answer to Entree #3, above. 

The verb consists of the five different vowels (not including “y”) which are flanked by a two-letter term for an employee of a hospital. 

What is this verb?

ENTREE #5

Take a two-word name of the early wormlike stage of pesky pests that may infest your pets. 

You may spot them on “Spot,” your puppy, or witness them on “Kittenness,” your kitten. They resemble c-shaped flecks.

The name of these early-stage pests contains four and six letters. 

Both words end with the same two vowels, but in the reverse order of one another. 

What are these early-stage pests?  

ENTREE #6

Think of a country an its capital city. Both end with two vowels. 

Remove those four vowels. 

Remove also one of the two letters that appear twice in the remaining five letters. 

With the four letters that remain you can spell the contents of a world atlas. 

What are this country an its capital city?

What are the contents of a world atlas?

ENTREE #7

“1988 Masters Tournament champion Sandy Lyle, a Scotsman known for his ability to read the greens, kept his caddy in clover and his orange _____ ___ in a caddy.” 

The missing words in that sentence each end with two vowels. 

Remove those four ending vowels. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a third word that appears in the sentence.

What are the two missing words?

What is the third word from the sentence?

ENTREE #8

Otto, an amateur spelunker spends his day-off seeking the wonder of nature’s sculptures – stalactites and stalagmites. 

As he roams deeper down into the darkness he senses a dribbling in his wake. 

Otto aims his headlamp downward and sees a trickling of shallow rainwater tickling the sides of his sneakers’ soles. 

He thinks to himself, “Otto got to get outta here!” So he attempts to retrace his steps, but takes a wrong turn along the route. He calls out, “Help Otto get outta here! 

Eventually, as the seeping water steepens to a near knee-deep flow, he sees a headlamp light at the end of the tunnel. It’s attached to a rescuer named Anna who takes his hand and navigates with him against the teeming stream until, finally, the dark of dank night is washed away by the light of bright day.

Name what Otto has now become, a seven-letter word ending in three vowels.

Remove those three vowels and spell the remaining letters backward to name the “heart of darkness” from which Otto was rescued.

What has Otto become? What is this “heart of darkness.”

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Rearing And Rearranging Dessert:

“Calling Mr. ... Calling Dr. Spock!”

Take a one-word synonym of “child rearing.”

Its last two syllables rhyme with one another. 

Its first four letters can be rearranged to name what parents often do for children in the early stages of rearing. 

What is this synonym?

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.

Take me to the Nicknameolodeon! Barnyard creatures barnstorming; A “cinenym” of an antonym of “remove...ie” How to tweak a talkie; “Oh I’d love to be an Oscar (Why her!) winner”

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“Schbuzzle” of the Week:

“Oh I’d love to be an Oscar (Why her!) winner...”

“... that is what I’d truly like to be,

’cause if I were an Oscar (Why her!) winner

everyone would be in love with me!”

Take the last word in a buzz phrase from a popular movie that won multiple Oscars. 

Replace its last letter with the two letters that flank
it in the alphabet to name a popular entertainer who has won many Grammys but no Oscars. 

Who is this entertainer?

What is the buzz phrase?

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Note: We are proud to unveil this week the debut of “GB’s Bafflers” on Puzzleria! The new feature is the brainchild of our friend GB. 

His inaugural puzzle, serendipitously and cinematipitously, dovetails beautifully with this week’s Oscar theme. 

Cinematic Sci-Fi Appetizer:

A “cinenym” of an antonym of “remove...ie”

🎥Take the title of a classic Science Fiction film in two words, fifteen letters. That film is
universally considered to be groundbreaking; a pioneer; and culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. 

The title includes a repeated vowel and a repeated consonant. Remove the second instance of each of those. 

Then remove from the beginning and end of the result four letters in order that spell a noun
that is a synonym of an antonym of “remove”.  

The remaining letters, in order, form a nine-letter two-word term for what we all are now experiencing.  

What is the film title?  

What are we now experiencing? 

Hint: The film’s visual effects team was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards.  

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“Nick Is Just A Four-Letter Word” Slice:

Take me to the Nicknameolodeon

Two main characters in movie nominated for a best-picture Oscar each had a nickname that included a four-letter word. 

Switch the positions of two letters in one four-letter word to spell the other four-letter word. 

Who are these characters?

Riffing Off Shortz And Regan Slices:

Barnyard creatures barnstorming

Will Shortz’s April 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Theodore Regan of Scituate, Massachusetts, reads:

Name a famous actor — 4 letters in the first name, 7 letters in the last. You can change the first letter of the actor’s first name to name a bird. And you can change the first letter of the actor’s last name to name a mammal. Who’s
the actor?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Regan Slices read:

ENTREE #1 (ROAD HOG ENTREE... for those eating Greecy Turkey off of fine China)

Name a puzzle-maker — 8 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. You can rearrange these 13 letters to spell three words:

1. a nymph, beginning with a vowel, one might have found on on the forested hills of the Areopagus in Greece,

2. the dwelling place of a dryad (a nymph related to the Areopagus nymph), and

3. a commercial establishment or house of foreign trade in China.

Who’s the puzzle-maker?

What are the nymph, dwelling place and commercial establishment?

ENTREE #2

Oscar Hammerstein II is the only person named Oscar who has won an Oscar. He did it twice, for Best Original Song.

Name a playwright named Oscar who never won an Oscar. 

Add an “r” to the end of his surname to spell a new 6-letter surname shared by two male members of the Academy who between them have either won or been nominated for more than 20 Oscars. 

The first names of those two men sound like the two names in the title of a 1980’s Grammy-winning song (but that are spelled differently).

Who is the playwright named Oscar?

Who are the two men who between them either won or were nominated for more than 20 Oscars?

What is the Grammy-winning song?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous singer — 5 letters in the first name, 6 letters in the last. 

You can remove the first letter of the singer’s
first name to name a university town in the Midwest. 

And you can change the first letter of the singer’s last name to name a university that has lately been in the news. 

Who’s the singer?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous past entertainer and actress — 7 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last. 

The second syllable of the entertainer’s first name sounds like the name of a trained mammal. 

And the entertainer’s last name is an object often associated with such a mammal. 

Who’s the entertainer?

ENTREE #5

Name an actress — 4 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. The actress’s first name is a bird. And you can rearrange the eight letters of the actress’s last name to name a five-letter mammal and a three-letter prefix associated with birds. 

But you can also rearrange the eight letters of her last name to name a Eastern
U.S. state postal abbreviation and something the mammal has four of.

Who’s the actress?

What are the prefix and the mammal?

What are the postal abbreviation and what that certain mammal has four of?

Hint: The last name of a character the the actress portrayed on TV is a reptile.

ENTREE #6

Name a stately and plump literary character — 4 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. You can change the first letter of the character’s first name to name a bird. 

And you can change the first of the first four letters of the literary character’s last name to name a second bird. You can rearrange the remaining four letters in the last name to spell (no, not a third bird, but rather) the name of a character played by Teri Garr (who was also an Oscar nominee for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in the movie “Tootsie”... it was a “Tootsie role”).

Who’s the literary character?

What are the pair of birds and the character played by Teri Garr?

ENTREE #7

Name a famous author — 7 letters in the first name, 7 letters in the last. 

Remove six consecutive letters, the first five of which are the name of a French city. 

The result is certain birds.

Who’s the author?

What are the birds?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous past radio personality — 4 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. 

Add two letters to the beginning of the first name to spell a bird. 

Remove four letters from the end of the last name to spell where this bird may perch. 

Who’s the personality? 

What are the bird and the perch.

ENTREE #9

Name a famous author — in 7 letters and with a bit of punctuation in the name. 

Duplicate the first three letters and place these trios of letters side-by-side to name a type of insect. 

Replace the last letter of the remaining four letters with an “n” to spell a mammal.

Who is the author?

What are the insect and the mammal?

ENTREE #10

Name an American cultural icon associated with “dropping balls” and “pyramids,” 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. 

You can replace the first letter of the icon’s first name with two letters to name a young bird. 

Or, you can change the second letter of the icon’s first name with one letter to name a different bird. 

And you can remove the first letter of the actor’s last name to name a third bird. 

Who’s the icon?

What are the three birds?

ENTREE #11

Name a late European author, first and last names, and a living three-time Oscar nominated actress, first and last names. 

Two of those four names are “George” and “Laurie.” 

The other two names can be put next to each
other to spell a bird. 

Change one letter in the name of the bird to form something abrasive. 

Who are the author and actress?

What is the bird?

What is the abrasive thing?

ENTREE #12

Name a trusted journalist — 6 letters in the first name, 8 letters in the last. The journalist, while a student at the University of Texas at Austin, appeared in a play with fellow student Eli Wallach (who at the age of 94 received an Honorary Oscar  for his contribution to the film industry from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).

Remove the first letter from the journalist’s first name, leaving a synonym of “change.” Put that first letter in place the fourth letter of his last name, thereby “changing” the last name so that it spells a pair of four-letter birds. 

Who’s the journalist?

What are the pair of birds?

ENTREE #13

Name an actor, screenwriter and director who was nominated for two Oscars — 4 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. 

The Oscar nomination he received for a screenplay involved a movie which climaxed
at a church wedding. 

You can change the first letter of this person’s first name to name a bird. 

The first three letters of this person’s surname spell a second bird. 

Place the 4-letter site of a well-known wedding in front of the remaining two letters in the surname to name a third bird.

Who’s this actor/screenwriter/director?

What are the three birds?

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Working To Perk Up A Screenplay Dessert:

How to tweak a talkie

Take a memorable ten-word quote from the script of a classic Oscar-winning film. Insert a “t” somewhere in the last word. 

The result arguably improves the quote by adding more information. 

What are the original last word and the word it becomes?

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.

Deletion and change begets depletion of change; Enhancement means “even more handsome!” “Paging Doctor Frankenstein...” When you draw blanks fill them in! An improbable blend;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

When you draw blanks fill them in!

The four letters in the first half of the “blanked-out” verb in this sentence ________ in the second half of the verb. 

What is the verb that belongs in that blank?

Hint: Take the first half of the eight-letter verb that belongs in the blank. 

It spells a four-letter verb for what can be done to the second half of the eight-letter verb. 

That second half is a four-letter noun.

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Global Brand Appetizer:

An improbable blend

Think of two religious words that are opposites – four and seven letters, respectively. 

Put them together and rearrange to get a well-known, international brand name. 

What are the opposites and what’s the brand?

Here’s a hint: the brand has a well-known nickname that rhymes with one of the opposites.

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Dance The Light “Fundango” Slice:

Deletion & change begets depletion of change 

Name a popular type of fundraiser in two words. 

Delete a letter from the second word and change a letter in the first word to form two
new words associated with an activity that might deplete one’s funds. 

What are these four words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:

“Paging Doctor Frankenstein...”

Will Shortz’s April 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:

Think of part of the body in seven letters. Add an “N” and rearrange all the letters to name two more parts of the body (none related to the original word). What body parts are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name three articles of clothing that may be worn (at least for a while) by an ecdysiast, in 4, 5 and 7 letters. (The 7-letter clothing article is hyphenated.) 

Now take a 5-letter word for what some people might say spectators of ecdysiasts do to themselves while witnessing these “dances,” or what the ecdysiasts themselves do to themselves while performing such “dancing.”

Rearrange all these 21 total letters to name a puzzle-maker (first and last names) and his hometown. 

What three articles of clothing are these?

What do the dancers and spectators do to themselves?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

No body’s perfect. People whose ears don’t work may be “____.” Those with bad legs may “____.” Others with faulty tongues or palates may “____.”

Take the twelve letters in those three four-letter words that belong in the blanks. Add a new 13th letter, a “t”,  to the mix. 

Rearrange this “baker’s-dozen” of letters to form three new “occasional” body parts:

1. one that vanishes when you arise from your chair,

2. another which is one of two that appear when you flash a broad smile, and

3. a third that comes and goes while you’re engaged in a game of roshambo.

What are the three words that belong in the blanks?

What are these “occasional” body parts?

ENTREE #3

Think of two common parts of the body that together total six letters. 

Add a “B” and rearrange all the letters to name a word for a “lopsided” roof (but not the kind of roof you find in your mouth). 

What body parts are these?

What is the “lopsided roof” word?

ENTREE #4

Think of parts of the body in eleven letters. Subtract an “n” and rearrange the remaining ten letters to name:

1. another part of the body, and 

2. a plural seven-letter word for the eleven-letter body part in the form of disembodied powdery keratin residue. 

What body parts are these?

ENTREE #5

Backers of the recently defeated and disgraced president are willing to spend their bucks to tour, for example, Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. 

Rearrange the sixteen letters in “Trump backers tour” to name three synonymous (and apt, given the president) names for parts of the body. 

What body parts are these?

ENTREE #6

It was late-morning. I was fly-fishing along the banks of the Flathead River in Montana’s Glacier National Park. 

Just as I was lowering my whiskered catch into my wicker creel, a park ranger approached me, pointing to the timepiece on his raised left arm.

“Piscatory game harvesting,” he blurted, “is verboten on the Flathead before noon!”

Quick as a flash in a frying pan, I snatched my catch from my creel and tossed it back into the cool crystal-clear current.

Rearrange the combined letters of the creature I briefly caught (7 letters) and profession of the ranger (6), to spell three body parts: What the ranger’s timepiece encircled (5) and two human body parts that are also parts of the timepiece’s body (4 and 4).

What are the creature and profession?

What are the three body parts?

ENTREE #7

Think of a “hollow” part of the body, above the neck, in two words of five and six letters. Write it twice. Rearrange all 22 letters to spell four words:

1. a European country (5 letters),

2. a “holy headquarters” in that country (7), 

3. what Michelangelo used the Sistine Chapel ceiling as (6), and 

4. a verb for how an artist like Michelangelo applies paint to a ceiling or a more conventional surface... or what a hen does to eggs. (4).

What are the country, the “holy headquarters,” what Michelangelo used the Sistine Chapel ceiling as, and the verb.

What is the body part?

Hint #1: Dristan, Claritin and other decongestant products sometimes show diagrams that include this body part in their advertisments.

Hint #2: “What Michelangelo used the Sistine Chapel ceiling as” is the next thing boxers hit after they get hit really hard.

ENTREE #8

Think of three singular body parts: of a lion, of a rooster, and of a kitten. 

Rearrange the combined seventeen letters in these body parts to spell three words: the first and last names of a poet associated with free verse, and a word for Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger or Bruce Woodley.

What are these three body parts?

Who is the poet?

What is the word for Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger or Bruce Woodley?

ENTREE #9

Note: The two puzzles in this entree were posted this past Sunday on Blaine’s Puzzle Blog.

A. Think of the seven-letter body part that is the answer to Steve Baggish’s NPR puzzle. Add the ROT14 of an “n” and rearrange all eight letters to name a second body part and a part of a dining room set. 

Spell a slang term for a third body part backward and place it after the second body part and dining-room-set part to form a pair of compound words. 

What three body parts, dining-room-set part and pair of compound words are these?

B. Think of the seven-letter body part that is the answer to Steve Baggish’s NPR puzzle. Add a letter other than an "n" and rearrange all eight letters to name two words, each which form a new compound word if you place a word for a common oviparous creature in front of  them. What is this body part is this? What are the two new compound words you can form?

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Keeping Up Appearances Dessert:

Enhancement means “even more handsome!”

Name a two-syllable place patronized by those seeking to enhance their physical appearance. 

Change a vowel to a different vowel and
rearrange the result to name specifically what may be enhanced. 

What is this place and what may be enhanced?

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.