Mushrooms, classrooms & Olympic confusion; Thunderous clapping in Hollywood; Spoonerizing “plant placement” Animal numerical mnemonical; Burning the boob-tube at both ends

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Thunderous clapping in Hollywood

Name a native of a country, the people of a second country, and what people of a third country call their country.

(For example, a native of Turkey is a “Turk,” people of the Netherlands are called “Dutch” and the people of Germany call their country “Deutschland.”) 

Rearrange your combined letters to spell
three words associated with Hollywood that are often accompanied by clapping. 

What six words are these?

Hint: The three countries are in Europe.

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Worldplayful Appetizer:

Mushrooms, classrooms & Olympic confusion

Mushrooms in finance

1. 🍄A term used to characterize cash money, bearer bonds, pure gold, and the like begins with five letters that name life forms, such as
mushrooms, that are neither plant nor animal. What is the financial word?

Pre posit ion 

📘2. A fairly common four-syllable preposition is composed of three other words. 

What is the preposition?

University of XX State University

📚3. Many US states have two main state-affiliated universities. Often, one has the law and medical schools and the second specializes in more applied fields. For one such pair, take the respective towns where each is located. 

Remove the first syllable of one town and put it in front of the other town. 

Split the merged word into two words. If you
have the correct pair of towns, you will now have a number, a part of speech, and a word relating to ripoffs. What are these three words?

Confusion at the Olympics? 

🥇🥇4. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY, Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein won two gold medals in alpine skiing (woman’s slalom and women’s giant slalom).

 At the medal ceremonies for those events, British athletes and spectators might well have been confused. What could have caused this confusion?

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Divide And Conquer This Slice:

Animal, numerical, mnemonical  

Two tricky spelling words are associated with “division.” 

A mnemonic device for each involves the
same animal. 

What are these tricky spelling words?

What is the animal?

Riffing Off Shortz And McClary Slices:

Spoonerizing “plant placement”

Will Shortz’s July 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Todd McClary, a member of the National Puzzlers’ League, reads:

Think of a place where a plant might grow, in two words. Spoonerize it — that is, switch the initial consonant or consonants of the two words. The result will name another place where a plant might grow, and a plant that might grow in either place.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And McClary Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of the name of a puzzle-maker. Anagram it to form the name of a leader of  “airmen from a lost planet” (using an abbreviated form of his title, or rank) and a three-letter abbreviated adjectival form of the
genre of country, rock and roll, Western swing, rockabilly, jump blues and boogie-woogie purveyed by these “airmen” and their leader.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who is the leader of  “airmen from a lost planet” and the three-letter form of the genre they purveyed? 

ENTREE #2

Think of a nine-letter plant with bright yellow, five-petaled flowers. Think also of a four-letter public recreational area where you might see it. 

Spoonerize these two words — that is, switch their initial consonants. Divide the the nine-letter part into words of six and three letters. 

The resulting three words, in order, are two things seen on a public golf green and a third word heard, not likely when you are walking along a fairway dogleg but more likely any time you are just out walking your dog.

What are this plant and public recreational area?

What are the two things seen on a public golf green and the third word heard anytime you are just walking your dog?

Hint: The third word heard while walking your dog is also something you will see if you walk your dog in the public recreational area.

ENTREE #3

Think of two words — plants, in 4 letters, and a place where those plants might grow, in 5 letters. Spoonerize them — that is, switch the initial consonant sounds of the two words. 

The result will sound like a 4-letter synonym of  “coxcombs” or “dandies” and a 6-letter
word that – when connected to either “well-” or “high-” – forms a hyphenated adjective that may describe the synonym of “coxcombs” or “dandies,” or the shoes he might wear.

What are these plants and a place where they might grow?

What is the synonym of  “coxcombs” or “dandies” and the hyphenated adjectives that may describe this synonym or his shoes?

Hint: The plants are associated with refreshing but intoxicating beverages.

ENTREE #4

Think of two words — a 6-letter place (filled with large shady plants) where 5-letter bloodsucking insects might thrive, and the insects themselves. Spoonerize them — that is, switch the initial consonant sounds of the two words. 

The result will name the proprietor of a place where ornamental plants might grow, and payment for services the proprietor may render.

What is the place filled with shady plants and bloodsucking insects that might thrive there?

Who is the ornamental plant purveyor and payment for services rendered ?

ENTREE #5

Think of a place where crops grow and a particular crop that may grow there. Spoonerize these two words — that is, switch their initial consonant sounds. 

The result, if you keep the vowel sounds the same, will sound much like what you may be
trying to achieve by purchasing thick woolen socks or insulated boots.

What are this crop-producing place and crop?

What may you be trying to achieve by purchasing thick woolen socks or insulated boots?

ENTREE #6

Think of a place where a plant might grow, in two words. 

Spoonerize it — that is, switch the initial consonant sounds of the two words. 

The result will sound like a two-word
description of roller skates or inline skates.

What are this place and this description?

ENTREE #7

Think of a five-letter hardy perennial in the lily family that is native to eastern Asia and valued for its conspicuous foliage. Think also of a four-letter public recreational area where you might see this perennial. 

Spoonerize these two words — that is, switch their initial consonants. 

The first, five-letter, part sounds like a word associatied with something celestial beings have on their heads besides haloes. The second, four-letter, part is a word sung by these celestial beings.

What are the perennial public recreational area where you might see it?

What is the word associated with something celestial beings have on their heads?

What is the word sung by these celestial beings?

Entree #8:

Think of the process in a plant that manufactures  wooden doors, sashes and trim. The process is a compound word. 

Spoonerize — that is, switch the consonants at the starts of — the two parts of the word. 

The result, if you retain the vowel sound of the second part, will be the 4-letter first name of a
New York-based table tennis master, and four letters that sound like a word for any one of the entertaining but “foggy” puzzles this master purveys daily in the New York Times and weekly on National Public Radio.

What is the process called?

What is the first name of the New York-based table tennis master, and four letters that sound like a word for any one of the entertaining but “foggy” puzzles this master purveys? 

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Log Without The Rhythm Dessert:

Burning the boob-tube at both ends

Name a long-running TV series title. Remove a total of three letters from the ends. 

The result sounds like an abbreviaton of a mathematical term.

What are this TV series and math term?

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