Names of different types of people; Stax o’ waxing rhapsodic; Silver screen and printed page; Worker, workplace and work; Toss an old word out, coin a new one

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Silver screen and printed page 

A 1947 movie along with its 1949 sequel seem to be related to a 1951 novel. 

Name an actor, actress and fictional character to explain why.

Appetizer Menu

Birthday gift from a “birthday boy” Appetizer:

Names of different types of people

Note: This week’s edition of “Puzzle Fun by Bobby Jacobs” is extra-special. Indeed, you might call it a “celebration.” Bobby is celebrating his 28th birthday today, September 3, with 4 puzzles on Puzzleria!

Think of it as Bobby’s “birthday gift” to US!

Bobby – who is a whiz at algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, number theory, topology, real analysis, and beyond – reminds us that today is a “perfect birthday” because 28 is a “perfect number.” A perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive divisors, excluding the number itself. Thus 28 – with 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 as its divisors – is perfect because 1+2+4+7+14=28. Bobby also celebrated a perfect birthday when he turned 6. He won’t celebrate his next perfect birthday until he turns 496.

Another Note:  The four images in the collage appearing in week’s edition of “Puzzle Fun by Bobby Jacobs” correspond to Bobby’s four puzzles. Bobby says he calls the third image  a “twelfie” because it is a “selfie” with 12 people in it.

Now, let’s open Bobby’s gift to us: 

A capital with character

1.⭐ Take the name of a literary character. Remove the last two letters. Replace the 2nd-to-5th letters with a “t”. You will get a world capital. 

What character and capital are these?

Nominal binomials?

2.👱👦 Take two common English boys’ names and add an “a”. 

You can rearrange the letters into an adjective meaning “related to algebra, geometry, calculus or trigonometry.” 

What adjective is it?

Lights, camera, animation!

3.🎥Take the name of a famous actor. Remove the last three letters of the actor’s first name. 

Switch the second and second-to-last letters of the actor’s last name. Then change the last name’s last letter to “m”. 

You will get the name of a famous cartoon character. 

What are the names of the actor and cartoon character?

Timely prime placement

4.🔢 Take the name of a famous mathematician. 

Rearrange the letters at the prime-number positions in that name to get what the mathematician is known for. 

Who is it?

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“New-mismatism” Slice:

Toss an old word out, coin a new one

Take a word whose seven lowercase letters appear within a seven-letter string in the alphabet, like “outpost,” for example. 

Replace its first letter with two duplicates of its last letter. Invert the new first letter. 

The result is an eight-letter “non-word” that would be a good neologistic candidate to replace the original seven-letter word. 

What are this “non-word” and original word?

Riffing Off Shortz And Carr Slices:

Stax o’ waxing rhapsodic 

Will Shortz’s August 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ari Carr of Madison, Wisconsin, reads:

Name a form of musical composition. If you
say the word quickly, you’ll name something, in two words, that you might buy in a music store. What is it? 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Carr Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker and their hometown. 

Anagram these combined letters to form three names: the surname of an “amazing” debunker, the first name of a “Wilde” playwright, and the first name of a “sweet” Billy Wilder-directed-movie character.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who are the debunker, Wilde playwright and Wilder character?

ENTREE #2

Name an introductory musical section or movement that begins with a two-consonant blend (like the “bl-” in “blend”) trailed immediately by a long-a sound (like the “a” in “trailed”). 

Replace the two-consonant blend with the consonant that is sandwiched between those two consonants in the alphabet. After this new consonant place a vowel that almost always follows this consonant in the English language. 

The result sounds like a half-century-old pop-culture “time-capsule” also known as a “disco-biscuit.” What is this musical movement?

What is a “disco-biscuit?”

ENTREE #3

You visit a music store. Name something, in one word, that you might see there at the store – something with an beautifully elegant shape and elegantly beautiful tone that you just have to purchase.

Switch the order of two adjacent vowels in this purchase to name a word that literally means “see there.”

What are these two words?

ENTREE #4

Name a form of musical composition that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, for example, is considered one of the most technically difficult works for the violin. It is Pyotr’s concerto but, alas, a concerto is not the form of musical composition you must find to solve this puzzle.

No, we are looking for a musical composition with fewer than three syllables. It is also
Pyotr’s composition but it was also appropriated by a producer to be used in a “botanical scene” in his 1940 movie,  So this particular musical composition became this producer’s ____ as well as Pyotr’s ____. 

The musical composition that belongs in either blank is a homophone of the possessive form of the producer’s first name. 

What is this form of musical composition?

Who is the producer?

ENTREE #5

Name a form of musical composition. 

The first four letters spell what sounds like a word for a foolish or stupid person. 

The final five letters spell a synonym of a fraud or impostor.

What is the form of musical composition?

What are the word and synonym?

ENTREE #6

Name a form of stately dance. 

The first five letters spell what sounds like a word for a dusty mass of microspores. 

The final five letters, if you add an “L” to the end, spell what sounds like the adjectival form of the organ negatively affected by the dusty mass of microspores.

What is it?

ENTREE #7

Name a form of musical composition. 

The first three letters spell what sounds like a word for what polite people, like you and I, usually do before opening a door to enter a room. 

The final five letters spell what sounds like what you might do to the doorknob if what you do initially doesn’t elicit any response. 

What is this musical composition? 

Dessert Menu 

Professional Dessert:

Worker, workplace and work

Take a word for a professional person, in three letters, and a synonym of their workplace, in five letters. 

Anagram the combined letters of these two informal words to name another profession. 

What is this profession?

Who is the professional person? 

What is the synonym of their workplace?

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!

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