Pawsing to ponder under palms; Idol worship in the Book of Joel? Pineapple rightside-left cake? Gripped by the metatarsals of time (or perhaps metacarpals?) Common cures, characters and computers

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER  6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Pineapple rightside-left cake? 

Name dishes you might serve for dinner. 

Double the middle letter and spell the result backward. 

The final result will name what you might serve for dessert. 

What are these dishes and desserts?

Appetizer Menu

Bolts Of Enlightenment Appetizer:

Common cures, characters and computers

1. 💊🍹Name a common kind of medicine. 

Add an “a” and rearrange the result to name a popular brand of liquid refreshment. 

What are this medicine and brand of liquid refreshment?

2. 📚Name a famous European literary character in one syllable. 

The name is also used in a famous North American brand name. 

Identify the character and brand name.

3. 🐁🐟🐖💻Name a device many outdoorsmen use to attract animals, in two words. 

Rearrange the letters to name two well-known brands of computers. 

Name the device and the computer brands.

MENU

To-marrow Always Comes Slice:

Gripped by the metatarsals of time (or perhaps metacarpals?)

Name two consecutive periods of time, like Wednesday and Thursday, for example.

Rearrange the combined letters of these two time periods to spell two words: 

1. a name of a bone, and 

2. an antonym of an adjective that describes that bone. 

What are the two consecutive periods of time?

What are the bone and the antonym of the word describing it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Parker Slices:

Idol worship in the Book of Joel? 

Will Shortz’s September 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Charley Parker of Exton, Pennsylvania, reads:

Think of two famous singers with the same five-letter first name. Take the last name of one of these singers. Switch the second and third letters. Then advance the resulting first and third letters each to the next letter in the alphabet. The result will be the last name of the other singer. What singers are these? 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Parker Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Delete the first name’s last letter. Three words can be formed from the remaining letters:

* Three consecutive letters spell a “crate” of pairs;

* Four consecutive letters anagram to the shape of the colors above the “crate,” and

* The remaining letters, in order, spell one of many who were healed by Jesus. 

What are these three words?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous singer and a fictional character who have the same five-letter first name. 

Take the last name of the singer. Advance the first letter to the next letter in the alphabet and place a space and a “p” between the third and fourth letters to spell something you might find in a pasture. 

The last syllable of the fictional character’s last name is a synonym of “pasture.” 

The first, second, third and sixth letters of the last name spell a prefix associated with what you might find in the pasture.

Who are this singer and fictional character?

What might you find in the pasture? What is the prefix?

ENTREE #3

Think of two famous singers. 

Take the last name of the first singer. 

Switch the second and third letters. Then advance the fourth letter seven places later on in the alphabet (so A would become H, for
example). 

The result will be the last name of the second singer.

Now take the first name of the first singer. Switch the fourth and fifth letters. 

Then move the first letter one place earlier in the alphabet (so B would become A, for example); advance the second letter one place later in the alphabet; and move the third letter eleven places earlier in the alphabet. Place these new-letter results, respectively, in the second, third and first positions (in front of the switched fourth and fifth letters).

The result will be the first name of the second singer.

Who are these two singers?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous singer with a five-letter first name and four-letter surname. 

ROT13 the letters in the first name to spell a piece of fishing equipment. 

ROT10 the letters of the surname and place an “a” between the third and fourth letters. 

The result, if you insert a space someplace, is the title of a signature song by one of the singer’s professional peers. 

Who are the singer and his professional peer?

What are the piece of fishing equipment and the signature song title?

ENTREE #5

Name an ought-to-be-more-famous singer/songwriter with a five-letter first name and four-letter surname. 

ROT22 her surname to spell a word no one would use to describe her excellent songs and her own versions of them.

Now switch the third and fourth letters in her
surname and ROT24 the result to get what sounds like the title of an early 1980s hit song penned by a singer/songwriter who was greatly influenced by the more-talented yet less-appreciated artist.

Who are these two songwriters?

What word does not describe the output of the less-appreciated artist?

What is the early 1980s hit song title?

ENTREE #6

Name a famous singer with a five-letter first name and four-letter surname. 

Take the surname. Advance the first and third letters each to the next letter in the alphabet, and move the fourth letter nine places back in the alphabet.

Uppercase the resulting four letters to name a band that has been around for more than half a century, and which has been called “a stellar and wildly unpredictable live act.”

Who is this singer?  

What is the band?

ENTREE #7

Name a famous singer with a five-letter first name and four-letter surname. 

Take the first name. ROT3 all but its middle letter to name a low multi-stemmed woody
plant.

Take the surname. ROT14 its letters. Invert and take the mirror image of the resulting first letter. Place the third and fourth letters (and a virgule) in front of the first two letters and uppercase the result to form the name of a band that has sold more than a fifth-of-a-billion records worldwide.

Who is this singer? 

What is the band?

Dessert Menu 

Palm Desert Dessert:

Pawsing to ponder under palms

Name something associated with palms. 

Remove the first two letters and a space to name something associated with paws. 

What are these two things – one associated with palms, the other associated with paws?

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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