Yankee-Doodle-Dandy Picnic Puzzles; Red white-hot and blue; An American history mystery; Tempura, Florida & Nachos, Mississippi; A quick American History quiz;

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

An American history mystery

Name a three-part phrase with which most Americans are familiar.

Replace the first letter in the first part with a duplicate of the first letter in the third part. 

Chop off the top half of the first letter in that third part. (In other words, remove the ascending part of the letter.)

The new first part sounds like a word that describes cavemen’s garb. The new third part is a characteristic of such garb. 

What three-part phrase is this?

What word that describes cavemen’s garb? What is a characteristic of such garb.

Appetizer Menu

Redoubtable Rebuses Appetizer:

Yankee-Doodle-Dandy Picnic Puzzles 

Summertime, and the puzzlin’ is rebusy.

It is time again for another hefty helping of rebus puzzles created by Ecoarchtect... and
this time, a whole picnicbasketful.

This is Ecoarchitect’s fourth collection of rebuses.

Here are links to his first three.

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TWO 

THREE

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Coins, Battles & A Word Soldiers Learn Slice:

A quick American History quiz

Take a gold U.S. coin in two words, a word on U.S coins, the first word of a famous U.S. battle, and a word U.S. armed-forces recruits quickly learn.

Change one of the 20 letters in these words to an “L” and rearrange the result to spell a five-word phrase in a patriotic song. 

What phrase is it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Lewis Slices:

Tempura, Florida & Nachos, Mississippi

Will Shortz’s June 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Julia Lewis of Fort Collins, Colorado, reads:

Take the name of a major American city.
Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is the name of a Japanese food. Remove that. The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell some Mexican foods. Name the city and the foods.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Lewis Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the name of a puzzle-maker and the city in which that puzzle-maker lives. 

Rearrange these 21 letters to form:

1. A strigine creature.

2. the first name of a first lady, and 

3. the daughter or son of your mother’s
brother.

4. The “A” in “IPA”.

What are this creature and first name?

Who is the relative on your mother’s side of the family?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Note: As is his occasional wont, our friend Ecoarchitect has this week contributed a pair of “Econfusing” puzzles – namely Entree #2 and Entree #3 – that riff off the current National Public Radio “Tac-ramen-os” puzzle created by Sandy Weisz. Thank you Eco...

And thanks also to Eco for serving up the sumptuous Independence Day Fourth of July picnic of puzzletry in this current edition of Puzzleria! (See his “Econfusions” Appetizer feature, above)

ENTREE #2

Name a place in the U.S. Remove the eighth letter, and the result will be two words, in order, that are antonyms.

What place is this?

ENTREE #3

Take the name of a major American city. 

The first syllable is the name of a Soviet satellite not named Yugoslavia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Romania or Hungary. 

Remove that first syllable and spell what remains backward to spell an Indian deity.

Name the satellite and the deity.

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a major American city. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is the name of an Asian island. Remove that. 

The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell the name of a European island. 

Name the city and the islands.

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a n Asian nation. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is a word for creatures of a certain gender. Remove that word.

The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell a relative you may have, also of a certain gender, and something she or he might wear.

Name the nation, creatures, relative and what the relative might wear.

ENTREE #6

Take the name of an Asian nation. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is a word for Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl and Luciano Pavarotti. Remove that word.

The remaining letters, in order, spell a word for “Lascia ch’io piangaa,” “Ombra mai fu” or
“Nessun dorma (none shall sleep).”

Name the nation, the word for Philippe, Andreas and Luciano, relative and the word for the three titles that appear in quotations.

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a South American nation. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is a word for a creature of a certain gender – like Lucius of Antioch or a certain Christian priest who was his student. This word does NOT apply, however, to Constantine’s sister, an ally of the priest. 

Remove that word from the nation.

The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell a word for a follower of a belief fostered by that priest – Constantine’s sister, for example. That belief deemed heretical in 325 AD by a church council, which tried to quash the heresy by promulgating the Nicene Creed.

Name the nation, creature, relative and follower of the heresy.

ENTREE #8

Take the name of a major American city. Move its first letter to the end (“The first shall be last...”) and divide the result into two parts. 

The second part is a brand of mints. 

The first part is a fortress associated with Jerusalem during the early Christian era.

Transpose the second and third letters of the first part to form a word for a chest or strong box used by early Christians for reserving the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.  

Name the city, the brand of mints, the fortress and the strong box.

Dessert Menu

Desert Dessert:

Red white-hot and blue

Of all U.S. holidays the Fourth of July, Independence Day, with its heat, is the most like the desert. 

Take two words associated with the desert. 

Rearrange their letters to form a two words associated with the Fourth of July and U.S. patriotism. 

What are these four words?

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.

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