We 1, 8... go 4th 2 stop 4 a 2nd; Duds that sports fans sport; Crooners and other tune-carriers; Nerds noshin’ on hors d’oeuvres; Buck, barking Breeze & mall munchkins

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Buck, barking Breeze & mall munchkins 

The following three clues hint at a period of time. What is it?

🕮Clue #1. Find the final two words in the three-word title of a non-fiction book (and its film adaptation) that begins with a non-prime integer that represents a collective number of people, some of whom are named: “Chick,” “Happy,” “Swede,” “Buck,” “Lefty” and “Eddie” (and, no, they were not dwarfs!*): 

“(The non-prime integer) ___ ___”

* (although there was indeed a dwarf named Eddie who who actually made a plate appearance in the major leagues – an at-bat likey inspired by James Thurber)

🏈Clue #2. Give the first name of Mr. “Breeze,” and a word he may have barked while in a shotgun formation or under center during the long course of his recently completed career: 

____, and “___!”

👪Clue #3. Name a phrase for what childen shopping in a mall with their parents might call an escalator: 

“___ ______”

What is this period of time?

Hints: In each of the the three clues, the words in the two blanks must be anagrammed to form at least two abbreviations. A total of 22 letters belong in the six blanks.

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Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

Crooners and other tune-carriers

A singer with links to hardball

⚾1. Think of a famous past female rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She had a three-part name, and also a three-part stage name. 

Her stage-name initials are the same as an important medical procedure developed in the
1960s.

Her first and middle names, at birth, (if you add a “z”-sound to the end of the middle name) sound like the name of a Hall of Fame baseball player who was her contemporary. 

Finally, She has a connection to “the King.” 

Who is this singer? 

What medical procedure do her initials stand for?

What Hall of Fame baseball player was her contemporary? 

What is her connection to “the King?”

Brown-eyed girl, blue-eyed guy

🖃👀2. Name a famous singer. 

Mix up his last name to get a word you might use in reference to a skilled jewelry maker or other craftsperson.

His first name is also a lowercase word
associated with sincerity, postage and ballparks.

Who is this singer?

What is the word you might use in reference to a skilled jewelry maker or other craftsperson?

“Goal-den-throated” diva

⏰💰3. Take a famous singer, first and last names, ten letters total. 

Replace the first two letters of the last name with a “t”. 

Anagram the nine letters of this result to get a word that applies to people with a goal – like, for example, winning a Cy Young Award, getting a law degree or donating time or money to a worthy cause.

Who is this singer? What word applies to people with a goal?

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Unswingin’ Slice:

Nerds noshin’ on hors d’oeuvres

Name a two-word part of an hors d’oeuvre, in one and nine letters. Rearrange these letters to spell a three-word phrase meaning “didn’t swing.” 

The “part of the hors d’oeuvre” consists of an article and noun. The three-word phrase meaning “didn’t swing” consists of a verb,

article and noun.

What are this part of a hors d’oeuvre and three-word phrase?

Hint: The part of the hors d’oeuvre, which is not meant to be ingested, somewhat resembles a miniature version of what a person who “didn’t swing” would have swung with.

Riffing Off Shortz And Austin Slices:

We 1, 8... go 4th 2 stop 4 a 2nd 

Will Shortz’s August 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ben Austin of Dobbs Ferry, New York, reads:

Take the name of a major American city. 

Move one of its letters three spaces later in the alphabet. 

Embedded in the resulting string of letters, reading left to right, is a cardinal number. 

Remove that number, and the remaining letters, reading left to right, spell an ordinal number. 

What city is it, and what are the numbers? 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Austin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. Move one of its letters eleven spaces later in the alphabet. 

The first, second, fourth, fifth, seventh and third letters spell a word that a poet, in an ode, equated with “truth.” 

The remaining letters, reading left to right, spell the synonym of a word that is contrasted with “truth” in the King James Version of one of St. Paul’s epistles to the Corinthians.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What word did the odist equate with “truth”?

What is the synonym of the word St. Paul contrasted with “truth” in the KJV?

Note: Entree #2 is the brainchild of our friend GB, whose “GB’s Bafflers” puzzle-package is featured regularly on Puzzleria! Thanks, GB!

ENTREE #2

Take the name of a state capital city. Remove the second letter. Move the first letter four places back in the alphabet (e.g., Z would become V).  

The remaining letters reading left to right, in order, form two words which figure centrally in a well-known 1960s adventure film. What are the city, the two words, and the film?

Hint: The culminating action of that film is set in the state of which the city is the capital.  

ENTREE #3  

Take the name of a major American city. Embedded within it, reading left to right, is the abbreviated form of a U.S. Cabinet position. 

Remove that abbreviation, and the remaining

letters, reading left to right, spell the first word in the title of a 1970s sitcom. 

The fourth word in the title describes 83 of the 85 people who have held that U.S. Cabinet position.  

What city is it?

What is the Cabinet position?

What is the sitcom title?

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a major American city. Embedded in the middle is a string of letters that can be anagrammed to form the color of a furry monster with a falsetto voice and illeism.

Remove that string of letters, and the remaining letters, reading left to right, spell the surname of the creator of this monster.

What city is it?

What color is the monster, and who created it?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a major American city. 

Embedded in the name are five letters that can be anagrammed to spell a two-word phrase for what golfers do after leaving a putt an inch short.

Remove those letters, and the remaining letters, reading left to right, spell the original name of the person who is the eponym of the city. 

What city is this?

What do golfers do after leaving a putt an inch short?

What is the original name of the person who is the eponym of the city?

ENTREE #6

Take the name of a major American city. Move one of its letters eight spaces later in the alphabet (e.g., B would become J). 

Embedded in the resulting string of letters, reading left to right, is a synonym of “loo”. 

Remove that synonym, and the remaining letters can be anagrammed to spell either
something unpleasant within a loo or something you might open to mitigate that unpleasantness. 

What city is it?

What is the synonym of “loo”?

What is unpleasant within a loo, and what might you open to mitigate that unpleasantness?

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a major American city. 

Remove three consecutive interior letters. Spell them backward to name a French word for a large body of water. 

The remaining letters, reading left to right, spell an English word for where you might see a much smaller body of water. 

What city is it?

ENTREE #8

Each of the two images, #1 and #2, in the accompanying composite picture is lacking a caption. You must supply both captions.

Image #1 is trivial. Just transcribe the two words spelled out in neon.

Image #2, also a two-word caption, is just a tad more tricky. It contains words of six and four letters.

Anagram the combined letters of each caption to name two major American cities.

But wait! Although the caption in Image #1 may be trivial, forming the city from that caption is not so trivial. Before you anagram the combined letters of the caption “Neon weasel” you must first replace one of its letters – one that appears more than once (that is, either an “n” or an “e”) – with a letter that appears just once in the Image #2 caption.

What are these cities?

Dessert Menu 

Grandstand Garb  Dessert:

Duds that sports fans sport

Name a position of a player in a team sport. 

Divide it in two to name two articles of clothing that a spectator of the sport might sport. 

What is this position of a player in a team sport?

What are the two articles of clothing?

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