Cities, States and Hemispheres; Flight patterns & floral patterns; Negotiating to “clothes” a deal; The metaphorically mortal meets the metaphysical; Solving this “40-1” puzzle requires “40-2de”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

The metaphorically mortal meets the metaphysical

Take two metaphorically poetic names – one for an earth-dweller and another for the earth. 

Anagram each and you will get a two-word metaphorically poetic name for heaven. 

What are these three names?

Hint: The sources of these mundane and celestial poetic names are two of the most-quoted and drawn-from fonts of literature.

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“GeoBaffical” Appetizer:

Cities, States and Hemispheres

“And now, a word from our (state) sponsor...”

1. Take an odd number of consecutive ending letters of the name of a state, an odd number of consecutive beginning letters of another state, and the initial letters of two other states that border each other. 

The result is a three-word combination seen prominently in 1960s advertising. 

What are the states and the three words? 

Hint: The state line between the bordering states divides twin cities that share the same name. 

This state line runs along State Street in the
cities’ common downtown district. State Street is seen in current national advertising. 

“Capital, Stately” leads to “lowercase, common” 

2. Write the name of a major U.S. city and its state. 

The letters of this city and state, placed side-by side, form a string of six consecutive uncapitalized words: an adjective, article, verb, verb, adjective and article. 

What are the city, the state, and the six consecutive words? 

“Brats, brews ___ ______, please!”

3. Name two states famous for breweries and bratwursts. 

The capital cities of those states begin with the same letter, and the fourth letter of each capital city is the same. 

Drop those four letters. (But don’t drop the beer or brats!)

Rearrange the remaining nine letters to make two words that one might say to a waiter in one of those cities to obtain a savory dish to go with brats and beer. 

What are the states, the capital cities, and what one might say to order the additional item? 

The meeting of East and West Twains 

4. Name a large port city in the Eastern Hemisphere. The city was founded by and named for a past great world figure. The capital of the country in which that city is located has exactly half the number of letters that the port city has. 

Name a large city in the Western Hemisphere which has the same name as the Eastern Hemisphere port city. 

The capital of the country in which that Western Hemisphere city is located, and which is situated near to it, has exactly the same number of letters as the eastern port city and its western namesake. 

Take the basic currency unit of those two countries. Remove one each of all repeated letters. Rearrange the remaining eight letters to name a piece of body armor. 

What are the four cities, the units of currency, and the piece of body armor? 

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Two-In-A-Trillion...And More! Slice:

Solving this “40-1” puzzle requires “40-2de”

The integers 1 and 40 share a property that none of the other infinite number of integers possess. 

They share this property, however, in somewhat different ways. 

What property is it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices:

Flight patterns & floral patterns

Will Shortz’s September 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dan Pitt of Palo Alto, California, reads:

Take the common abbreviation for a major
American city. Insert it inside an airport code for that city. And you’ll name a flower. 

What flower is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices read:

ENTREE #1

“Old Blood and Guts,” also known as General ______, ____ for slapping a pair of shell-shocked soldiers by being temporarily removed from his battlefield command.

Take a synonym of “medic,” the officer that would have treated these soldiers for shell-shock. Move the letters in this synonym 12 places later in the alphabet (so A would become M, etc.) to form the airport code of the hometown of a puzzle-maker.

Now add this code to the name of the puzzle-maker and rearrange to form the two words that belong in the blanks in the opening sentence of this riff-off puzzle.

Who is this puzzle-maker? What words belong in the blanks? What is the synonym of “medic”? What is the airport code of the hometown of the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Take an airport code for a major American city, one that shares no letters in common with the city. 

Rearrange the combined letters of the code and the city to spell a country that might be the site of a safari and a sound you might hear if you encounter a lion on the safari.

What are this city and airport code?

What are this country and sound?

ENTREE #3

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Rearrange these 12 letters to form two words that often describe the weather conditions at this airport and a third word that describes the sum of the letters in those two words.

What are this city, its nickname and airport code?

What two adjectives often describe the weather conditions at this airport?

What third word describes the sum of letters in those two weather condition adjectives?

ENTREE #4

Take a common nickname for a major American city (with “The...”) and an airport code for that city. 

Rearrange these 11 letters to form a two-word synonym of “hands-on job.”

Hint: The first word is more formal than “hands-on” but the second word is less formal than “job.”

What are this city, nickname and airport code?

What is the synonym of “hands-on job?”

ENTREE #5

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Rearrange these ten letters to form the answer that God gave to his angels (after he visited the first-ever murderer on newly created Earth) when they asked him the murderer’s identity. (God’s answer consisted of a contraction, adjective and proper noun.)

On Earth, God had asked the culprit, “Where is your brother?” The murderer lied and denied knowing his murdered brother’s whereabouts.

What are this city, its nickname and its airport code?

How did God answer his angels?

Hint: A three-letter word in the city’s nickname is a more general term for what the murderer committed.

ENTREE #6

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Replace the third letter in the nickname with a dupicate of the second letter. 

Anagram the resulting 11 letters to spell a redundant term consisting of an adjective and noun.

Hint: The nickname and the answer both contain edibles – edibles albeit different yet roughly the same size. 

What phrase is this?

What are the city and airline code?

ENTREE #7

Take a common nickname for a major American city and an airport code for that city. 

Anagram these 14 letters to form synonym of “perfect” or “pure” and, according to the Book of Exodus, the two-word term for the 2.5-by-1.5-cubit pure gold lid placed on the Ark of the Covenant, with two cherubim flanking the space into which Yahweh was said to appear.

What are this synonym and two-word term?

What are the nickname and airport code? 

ENTREE #8

Take the airport code for a major American city and its common nickname. Ignore the word “City” in the nickname. 

Rearrange the remaining eight letters to spell the singular forms of two things young elementary-schoolers learn, other than, for example, “pluses” and “goes-into’s.”

What are this city, nickname and airport code?

What, besides “pluses” and “goes-into’s,” do elementary-schoolers learn? 

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Diplomatic Impugnity Dessert:

Negotiating to “clothes” a deal

The first three letters of a diplomat’s name spell a synonym of “exclude.” 

So... exclude them, along with a bit of punctuation. 

Switch the order of two of the remaining letters
to spell a certain item of attire worn in the diplomat’s country. 

Who is the diplomat? 

What is the attire?

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