Pumping Pesos into Palestine? Habiliments for a holy man; "Over the rainbow, up where we belong" Avoid being this “like the plague” ’Tis the time for a "Crypticktocktoberfestive" Crossword!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

"Over the rainbow, up where we belong"

Take the title of an Oscar-nominated song. 

Rearrange the letters in its second word. Change one letter in its third word and change one letter in its last word. 

Add one to its first word. 

The result will be a description of a national
landmark. 

What is this song, and what is the description?

Hint: Take your answer. Replacing the second word with a word for cylindrical vessels will describe the same landmark.

Hint: Changing one letter in the third word is not strictly necessary.

Appetizer Menu

Berry’s Jubilee Appetizer:

’Tis the time for a “Crypticktocktoberfestive”

Crossword!

The Oktoberfest beer festival and funfair – held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany – is not being held this year due to lingering coronavirus pandemic concerns.

But fear not! Master puzzle-maker Patrick J. Berry – using not barley and hops but rather his “gnarly puzzle chops” – has brewed up a
“Crypticktocktoberfestive” Crossword guaranteed to quench any Puzzlerian!s puzzle-thirst. 

This is Patrick’s twenty-second Cryptic Crossword that Puzzleria! has been proud to present to you. Here are links to his 21 previous Cryptic Crossword puzzles on Puzzleria:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 

For those of you who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled a few basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:

The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer.

Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate howletters are distributed in multiple-word answers.

For example, (6) simply indicates a six-letter answer like “jalopy,” (5,3) indicates a five-and-

three-letter answer like “cargo van,” and (5-5) indicates a five-and-five-letter hyphenated answer like “Rolls-Royce.”

For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword. 

The Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!

And so, let’s all set aside our pandemic tribulation for a time... and take a drink from this tall steinful of Cryptic Jubilation!

ACROSS

1. Unpopular old magazine’s future(7)

5. Was chicken or fish having existed?(7)

9. Agent Scully: “Aliens landing...or otherwise?”(7,8)

10. Mischievous child, feeling hurt(6)

11. Cleverness with funny lines–one may see red here!(4,4)

13. Cook fed one grub, some kind of meat(6,4)

14. Responsibility of top star making comeback(4)

16. Were boastful men(4)

17. Current problem: Coup getting worse somehow?(5,5)

20. A purpose in mind that’s sick?(8)

21. Finishes bit of schtick later in skit(4,2)

23. Lost, I can believe, flipping around–lots of channels here(5,10)

24. Terrible allergy, for the most part(7)

25. Plot getting good in end(7)

DOWN

1. Old noggin getting workout nonstop(7)

2. Nasty pub element on her, looking for this?(9,6)

3. They may make one cry, possessing politically incorrect views(8)

4. Man on board for family gathering, initially?(4)

5. Measure of length, keeping life in focus?(10)

6. Frank, we’re in trouble(6)

7. Part of salad bar–is a sin to get all over clothes going through(7,8)

8. Shows up high, using ecstasy(7)

12. Could be “all-out yes” using ultimate adverb!(10)

15. Cousin lost in a new city(8)

16. Right away, Cyril can turn sarcastic(7)

18. Writer in sex farce, key figure(7)

19. He said, “The British are coming!”–heart of patriot, always on horseback(6)

22. Unable to hear fade-out?(4)

MENU

Idiomatically Idiotic Slice:

Avoid being this “like the plague”

Name a three-word idiom for something you do not want to be. 

Rearrange the letters to form three words:

① a contraction that might precede the idiom,
and 

➋&➂ two examples of the last word in the idiom. 

What is this idiom?

Hint: The idiom is a prepositional phrase.

Riffing Off Shortz And Gray Slices:

Pumping Pesos into Palestine?

Will Shortz’s October 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Anthony Gray of Bergen County, New Jersey, reads:

Write down the name of a country and its largest city, one after the other. Hidden in this string, in consecutive letters, is another country’s capital (in six letters). What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Gray Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Write down the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. 

Remove three letters that spell a negative word that is a homophone of a sound a
contented and calm horse makes. 

Rearrange the remaining letters to spell two anyonyms of contented and calm. 

What is are this negative word and homophone and the two antonyms of contented?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Write down the name of a country and its largest city (which is also its capital), one after the other. Hidden in this string, in consecutive letters, are the first names of two sports figures who shared the surname of the same famous general:

1. a Wolverine, Clipper, Knick and Blazer, and

2. a Laker, Eagle and Blue Bomber. 

Rearrange the remaining letters to spell:

1. a part of the neck, and 

2. a slang term for “buttocks.”

What are this country and city?

Who are the two sports figures?

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #3

Write down the name of a country and its largest city (which is also its capital), one after the other. 

Hidden in this string, in consecutive letters, is a six-letter word that means “covering with a hardened layer, with dried mud, for example.”

The remaining letters, in order, spell a pair of
French words that translate to “never your...”

What are this country and city?

What is the six-letter word?

What are the two French words? 

ENTREE #4

Write down the name of a country and its largest city (which is also its capital), one after the other. 

Hidden in this string, in six consecutive letters, is the first name of a candidate who, as onepublication reported erroneously, defeated a “nincompoop” who was serving as the incumbent U.S. president in an election.

The four letters preceding that string of six letters anagram to what this electoral challenger managed to do at the polls. 

The three letters following the string of six letters anagram to what he likely would do in the wake of such a defeat.

What are this county and capital?

What is the candidate’s first name? What did he manage to do at the polls, and what would he do as a result?

ENTREE #5

Write down the name of a country and its largest city (which is also its capital), one after the other.

Hidden in this string, in consecutive letters, is a five-letter word for table tennis, archery, baseball, basketball, bowling or billiards – all
which require excellent hand-___ coordination.

The remaining 13 letters can be rearranged to form three words that relate to the word in the blank above: 

1. a diacritical mark (¨) placed over a vowel that resembles a pair of ___s;

2. a part of the ___; and

3. a positive French word which, like its Spanish counterpart, ends with a homophone of ___. 

What are this country and city?

What are the five-letter word and the word in the blank?

What three words relate to the word in the blank?

ENTREE #6

Write down the name of two countries – one in Central America, the other in Europe – each followed by their capital. 

Hidden in each of these two strings of letters, in consecutive letters, are:

A. a U.S. territory in the Pacific, and

B. the former name of a Southeast Asian country.

What are these two country/capital pairs, the U.S. territory and the former name? 

ENTREE #7

Write down the name of an African country and its capital city, one after the other. 

The third, fourth, fifth, ninth, eighth, sixth and eleventh letters of this result spell a European
country. 

What are the African country and capital, and the European country?

ENTREE #8

Write down the name of a European country and its capital city, one after the other. 

Hidden in this string, in six consecutive letters,
are two of three words from the title of a classic Russian novel.

What are this country, capital and novel title?

ENTREE #9

Write down the name of two countries – one in the Balkans, the other in Southeast Asia – each followed by their capital. 

Hidden in each of these two strings of letters, in consecutive letters, are:

A. a Old Testament figure, one who was
“second-born,” and

B. a New Testament figure, one who was “immaculately born.”

What are these two country/capital pairs 

Who are the Old and New Testament figures?

ENTREE #10

Write down the name of a country and its capital city, one after the other. 

Hidden in this string, in six consecutive letters,

is a word that describes Buckminster Fuller, Joyce Carol Oates, Geena Davis and Adrian Cronauer. 

What is this word?

What are the  country and its capital city?

Dessert Menu

Ukrainian Dessert:

Habiliments for a holy man

Take a heritage, in seven-letters, that a holy man from the Ukraine might have. 

Switch its two vowels to name something that
holy man might wear. 

What are these words?

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