Oman is no island, but No man is... Above the belt? Below the belt? Say it with a song and a spray; Winged and wingless things; Pledge, prime mover, Polynesia, postwomen, plus...

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Say it with a song and a spray 

Name a flower one may give to to another to express loving emotions. 

A number of consecutive letters in the flower, in order, spell a type of song to which people may have an emotional attachment. 

The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell, in two words, what one may call his or her beloved. 

What flower is this?

What is the type of song to which people may have an emotional attachment?

What may one call his or her beloved?

Appetizer Menu

Worldplayful Appetizer:

Pledge, prime mover, Polynesia, postwomen, plus...

The demonymic Euro-Auto shop Service Pledge

1. 🚗🚘We ____ all your Euro-auto needs. Each mechanic’ ____ his/her work. We never ____ to ____to a job, ____ every bolt to factory ____ equivalent spec, and ____ all our work. We ____  joints, put ____ your tires, and ____ your ____ other fluids. We always wax and ____ your ____ to a glossy ____. We even use a patented ____ technique to clean the interior gently! Even _____ pleased with our work! You can say ____; ____ you not. While waiting, have a ____ on us if you are ____ and refer us to your ____!

Note: Each blank is a demonym (or its adjectival form) of a country partially or wholly in Europe, or an autonomous province or territory within Europe. With one exception (used twice), each term appears exactly once (demonyms and adjectival forms are taken as separate, if different). Two countries’ names are used in place of their respective demonyms. Some of the blanks are “groaners” (non-exact puns). 

A Polynesian puzzle

2. 🍍A certain American product has become a staple food in the islands of Polynesia and Micronesia in the Pacific, as a result of its introduction to those regions during World War II. Spell the name of this product backwards to give another place where you may see these same islands.

Postwomen

3. 📭Think of a rather common, historic female name. It consists of the postal abbreviation for a US state, followed by an
article and the postal abbreviations for two other US states. What is the female name?

Prime Mover

4. 🍹Name a prime mover of the 19th century. Drop its first and last letters. Split the result into three words: who most likely operated it, and two beverages they might have consumed: one alcoholic, and one not. What is the prime mover? Who operated it, and what did they drink?

Rx for golfers  

5. 💊🏌Take the European name for a familiar medication. Split to obtain two golf scores, an alternate version of a musical note, and an
abbreviation for a fundamental unit in chemistry. What is the medication?

Long, medium, short 

6.👪 Think of a familiar noun in 13 letters. The first two letters are frequently used to denote the same item. The first six letters are also used to denote this same item in certain settings. What are this word and its two shortened synonyms?

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Anatomic Bombast Slice:

Above the belt? Below the belt?

Name two body parts, one above the belt and one below the belt. 

Rearrange the letters of the lower part. 

Double a letter in the upper part and rearrange. 

You’ll get a pair of synonyms meaning “to cry out.” 

What are these body parts and synonyms?

Hint: An anagram of one body part appears in the puzzle’s text.

Riffing Off Blaine Slices:

Oman is no island, but No man is... 

Blaine’s August 8th puzzle, posted on his puzzle blog in lieu of an NPR puzzle being broadcast, reads:

Take the name of an island. Shift the first letter two later in the alphabet (e.g. A would become C). Read the result backwards and you’ll have the name of another island. What are the two islands?

Note: Two of Puzzleria!s finest puzzle-makers have contributed riff-offs of Blaine’s puzzle: Entree #1 was created by geofan (whose Worldplay feature is this week’s Appetizer). And Entree #2 was created by Plantsmith (whose Garden of Puzzley Delights feature will be Puzzleria!s August 27th Appetizer). 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Blaine Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a country. Move the first letter two places later in the alphabet (e.g. A would become C). The result, read backwards, is a notable geographic point in another country. 

What are the country and notable point?

ENTREE #2

Name an island. Change the second letter to the letter that is 14 places “downstream in the alphabetic flow” (e.g. A would become O). 

Then move this new letter to end of the name to get the name of a second island.

The first island is a territory of a bean-shaped nation. The second island is itself bean-shaped.

What are these two islands?

Hint: Reverse the second and third letters in the second island, add an “s” to the beginning and spell the result backward to get the name of a subject of several Ancient Greek plays and myths. 

ENTREE #3

Take the possessive form of the one-word name of a maker of a recent puzzle about a pair of islands. After it, write a four-letter service he provides weekly. The result is an alliterative two-word term.

Rearrange the 11 letters in this term to form a
two-word term that describes the following phrase:

“Fight Truth-decay; brush up on your Good Book.”

What are these two two-word terms? 

ENTREE #4

Take the name of an island that is also the name of a beverage. Shift the first letter two later in the alphabet (e.g. A would become C). 

Read the result forwards and you’ll have the
name of a substance that many islands, including Hawaii and the Galapagos, are formed from. 

What are this island and this substance?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a landlocked country. 

Shift the first letter two earlier in the alphabet (e.g. C would become A). 

Read the result backwards and you’ll have the
name of a kind of pin. 

What is the landlocked nation? 

What is the kind of pin?

ENTREE #6

Take the third word in the name of a promontory. Change its penultimate letter to a different vowel. 

Rearrange these nine letters to spell an informal two-word term that describes Queen Elizabeth or Prince William or Prince Charles.

What is the promontory?

What is the two-word term?

ENTREE #7

Take the name of an Asian island with a population of almost two million, an island that may not exist in the future; large parts of this island, with a peak elevation of only six feet, have already been inundated by a rise in sea level. 

Shift the first letter one place earlier in the alphabet (e.g. B would become A). 

Read the result backwards and you’ll have a word associated with a United States island. 

This word is a contronym (like “sanction” or “overlook”). 

What are this vanishing island and this contronym?

ENTREE #8

Take the name of a bean-shaped island in eastern Canada. 

Remove the first letter and read the result backwards and you’ll have the name of another island – one associated with a famous person from history and a famous palindrome. 

What are the two islands?

Dessert Menu 

Spoonerific Dessert:

Winged and wingless things

Name a wingless creature in two syllables. 

Spoonerize the two syllables – that is, switch
their beginning sounds – to name two winged creatures. 

What are these three creatures?

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.)

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