Barristers, barometrics, Sporty Spice, Sun & other shiny objects; International Battle of the Brands; The miracle of the non-lyrical; “What’s the best ‘antonym’ of ‘synonym’?” Who wrote the book of love (below)?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Who wrote the book of love (above)?

Name a book of the Bible. Rearrange four consecutive letters to spell an acclaimed author, first name. Last name is a rearrangement of the remaining letters of the book. 

Who is this author? 

What is the biblical book?

Hint: The name of a different biblical book is the title of a novel by this author.

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Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

Barristers, barometrics, Sporty Spice, Sun & other shiny objects

Are “cured honey-glazed hams” shiny?

🥩1. Name a three-word cure. Mix an “f” into
this “medicine.” 

Then stir up this mixture even more to form something shiny – and often pliable – that is usually found in the kitchen.

What is this cure? 

What is the shiny thing?

Hint: The shiny thing is also three words long.

Go with the “floe”

🌞2. Name a mass that “floes” – slowly down a slope, for example. 

Double a vowel and mix the result to get two words:

* what this mass is made of, and 

* what you see when the sunlight hits it just right. 

What “floes” slowly downslope?

What are the two words – for what the mass is made of, and for what you see when the sunlight hits it just right?

Sporty Spice

🏅3. Take a spice from your shelf. Place an “e” in front of it and change the last letter to a letter adjacent to it in the alphabet. Reverse the result. 

This reversal will spell, in two words, a somewhat bizarre sporting event which is an annual 48-hour competition held – true its name – at a different venue each year. 

What is the spice?

What is the sporting event?

Hint: The name of the competition is also a two-word term for a community without fixed habitation which regularly moves to and from the same areas.

A fair and sunny verdict

🌄 4. Name a seven-letter meteorological term. Place a duplicate of its first vowel immediately in front of its second vowel to name an eight-letter legal term.

What are these two terms – one associated with barometrics, the other associated with barristers?

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Magnificent Slice:

“What’s the best antonym of synonym?”

Take a six-letter adjective that means “magnificent” or “best.”

Change an “e” to an “a” and rearrange the last four letters. The result is a six-letter antonym
of the adjective that, in a particular context, is instead a synonym of the adjective. 

What is this adjective? 

What is the adjective’s antonym that, in a certain context or situation, can also be the adjective’s synonym?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

International Battle of the Brands

Will Shortz’s July 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Mich., reads:

Think of a country. Embedded in consecutive letters is a well-known brand name. The first, second, eighth and ninth letters of the country, in order, spell a former competitor of that brand. Name the country and the brands.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker and the town in which he lives, in four total words. Embedded in consecutive letters is nothing at all, really. But rearrange the score of letters in the name and the town to spell:

* the kind of care an expectant mother receives...

* care, that is, that ends when the baby is ____,

* the name given to the baby the parents (who met while performing in a production of “Hamlet”) if it is a boy, and

* the name given to the baby the parents (who share a love for the novel titled “In Desert and Wilderness”) if it is a girl.

Who are this puzzle-maker and his home town?

What is the mother’s care, what the baby “is” when that care ends, and the two possible baby names?

ENTREE #2

Think of a country. Embedded in consecutive letters are three letters that (if you double the third letter) spell a loving gesture that often accompanies a farewell. 

The first, second, eighth and ninth letters of the country, in order, spell a hyphenated farewell.

Name the country, the gesture and the farewell.

ENTREE #3

Think of a country. Embedded in consecutive letters are two well-known brand names – of an air-freshener and garbage bags. Generic summer soft drinks are also embedded.

Consecutive letters of the country also spell a deodorant brand and a record label on which the titles “Hang on Sloopy,”  “I Want Candy” and “Brown Eyed Girl” appeared.

Name the country and the brands.

ENTREE #4

Name a country. Embedded in consecutive letters is the first name of a Midwestern housewife who wrote a syndicated newspaper humor column describing suburban home life for more than three decades. Her last name can be broken into two words:

* what this country proceeded to do during a May 10, 1940 raid and invasion of Holland,

and

* the first word of a 3-word village in the Dutch province of Gelderland, not far from Arnhem, that was likely a victim of this invasion.

What is the country?

Who is the columnist? 

What did the country do and what village was a likely victim of it?

ENTREE #5

Name a country. Switch its fifth and ninth letters. The last six letters of this result spell a dish that is popular in the country.

Name the same country. Again switch its fifth
and ninth letters. Change its fourth letter to a “c” and its seventh letter to an “o”.

The result is a garnish one might apply to the dish.

What is the country?

What is the dish popular in the country?

What is the garnish?

ENTREE #6

Name a country. Embedded in consecutive letters is a well-known middle name of an American. Remove it, leaving six letters.  

Take these six letters. Lop the top of the second letter and replace this lopped top with a tittle. Move the fourth letter between the first letter and lopped letter. 

Change the sixth letter to an “n”. The result is the surname of the American with this middle name. 

What is the country?

Who is the American?

ENTREE #7

Take the former, colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific. Its final six letters in order spell what the Israelites Rachel and Mary were in relation to Jacob and Joseph, respectively. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 2nd and 3rd letters of the colonial name spell a
synonym of “Israelite.”

What is the former name of this island group?

What is its current name?

What were Rachel and Mary in relation to Jacob and Joseph.

What is the synonym of “Israelite?”

Hint: The current name for the South Pacific island group shares five of its seven letters in common with the word “Vacuum.”

ENTREE #8

The 6th, 7th and 2nd letters of of a country spell a synonym of the first five letters of the former name of that country.

What are the current and former names of the country?

What are the synonyms?

ENTREE #9

Name a country. Embedded in consecutive letters is a not-so-well-known item you might find in a church. 

Now name a self-governing British Territory. Embedded in consecutive letters at the end is
a more-well-known item you might find in a church.

What are this country and territory?

What are the two church items?

Hint: The church items begin with the same letter.

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Edit-Out-All-The-Words Dessert:

The miracle of the non-lyrical

Take a person, first and last names, who communicates through song lyrics. 

Remove one letter and move the space to a position between the fourth and fifth letters of the result. 

Add to the end of all these letters a five-letter word that can mean either “to measure precisely” or “to estimate,” then switch the order of two consecutive letters in the word.

The result is a form of non-verbal communication.

Who is this lyrical communicator?

What is the form of non-verbal communication? 

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