Changing the linens, what a relief ! The sorrow of celestial spheres? “Going-Troppo-sites” attract! “Non-synonymous nonprofit businesses” “Grant, genie, my wish: tell what’s next on the list!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Grant, genie, my wish: tell what’s next on the list!”

What's the ninth word in the following sequence?

Oreo, net, worth, free, fir, vise, vexes, genie, _______

Hint: The word has seven letters and is associated with puzzles.

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Real Fun Nonpareil Puzzles Appetizer:

“Non-synonymous nonprofit businesses”

“To profit or not to profit?...”

1. 🏬Take the name of a department store. 

Remove the last letter. 

Rearrange the letters to get an acronym of a nonprofit organization. 

What is it?

“Addin’ on a NON” 

2. ⓸+⓷=💻 Take a four-letter word. 

Add the letters NON. 

Rearrange these seven letters to get a type of that four-letter word. 

What is it?

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“Cosmorose” Slice:

The sorrow of celestial spheres?

Express one of the 365 days of the year (366 in a leap year) using the month and date.  

But instead of using the ordinal form of the date, use the cardinal form. 

(For example, The fifth day of November is usually expressed as “November Fifth,” not
“November Five.” For the purposes of this puzzle, however, the fifth day of November would be “November Five,” not “November Fifth.”

So, choose a date. Switch the inititial sounds of its month and the cardinal number of its date, forming what sounds like a verb and two nouns. 

Pluralize the first noun and move the second noun to the beginning. 

The result, spoken aloud, sounds like how a particular heavenly body, because it is lacking in heavenly bodily fluids, expressed sorrow. What is this date?

Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:

“Going Troppo-sites” attract!

Will Shortz’s October 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Shteyman of Freeland, Maryland, reads:

Think of a popular tourist attraction in two words. The second, fourth, and sixth letters of the second word, in order, spell the first name of a famous author. The last four letters of the first word spell the author's last name. Who is the author, and what is the tourist attraction?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker in two words. Spell it backward. (For example, “Will Shortz” would become “ztrohs lliw”.)

Remove eight letters that can be rearranged to spell two words: 

1. a synonym of “deceiver” or “pretender,” and 

2. an adjective describing such a person.

The remaining letters, in order, spell two words that appear together in the text of this puzzle about this puzzle-maker. Name him.

Name also the two words that appear together in the text of this puzzle. Finally, reveal the synonym of “deceiver” or “pretender” and the adjective describing such a person.

Hint: The adjective that describes the “deceiver” or “pretender” might also describe the puzzle-maker.

ENTREE #2

Think of a popular tourist attraction in two words. The interior letters of the first word, in order, spell a sensory organ. The last three letters of the second word, if rearranged, spell a poetic word for a second sensory organ. 

The first three letters of that second word, followed by the first letter of its first word, in order, spell the instument you will need, besides an organ, to perform Gary Bachlund’s 1994 composition “Jacob’s Ladder.” 

The final four letters of the tourist attraction’s first word, in order, spell the first name of “Eldrick the Tiger’s” father. The final three letters of the tourist attraction’s second word, in reverse order, spell the first name of an actor who played a sitcom son-in-law whose real-life father played the boss of a sitcom character with that same first name. 

What is the tourist attraction?

What are the two sensory organs?

What is “Eldrick the Tiger’s” father’s first name?

What is the first name of both the actor and the sitcom character? 

ENTREE #3

Think of a popular tourist attraction in two words. 

The first word is a homophone of the last name of a journalist who moderated a PBS news program for more than one-third of its
more-than-fifty-year existence. 

Two consecutive interior letters in the tourist attraction’s second word are also two consecutive interior letters in the journalist’s first name.

What is this tourist attraction?

Who is this journalist?

ENTREE #4

Think of a popular tourist attraction in two words. The first and last letters of the tourist attraction spell a pronoun, as do the ninth, second and fifth letters. 

Remove these five letters. The remaining letters, in order, spell two other pronouns that, when separated by a hyphen, name a relationship identified by a Austrian-Jewish-Israeli philosopher.

What is this tourist attraction?

What are these four pronouns?

Who is the philosopher?

Hint: The philosopher’s name is an anagram of “Truman bribe” 

ENTREE #5

Think of a popular tourist attraction in two words. Two consecutive interior letters from the first word appear consecutively, but in reverse order, in the second word. Remove these four letters.

What remains is a word for occurs from time to time at the attraction, most recently in 2013, 2005, 1978, 1958, 1939, 1922, 1903...

What is this attraction?

What occurs from time to time?

ENTREE #6

Think of a popular U.S. tourist attraction/historic neighborhood in two words. 

The name of this attraction might also describe a particular coin – the copper-nickel 25-centime piece minted in Europe and circulated in the first half of the 20th Century. 

What is the tourist attraction?

Hint: This coin (see illustration) is topologically akin to a life saver or doughnut.

ENTREE #7

Think of a popular tourist attraction, in two words, that attracts those who are adventurous. 

Remove four consecutive interior letters that can be rearranged to spell a synonym of “ditty.”

The remaing letters, in order, spell a four-letter verb and its antonym.

What is this tourist attraction for the adventurous?

What is the synonym of “ditty?”

What are the verbal antonyms?

ENTREE #8

Think of a popular tourist attraction in three words. 

Swap the first letter of the first word with the second letter of the third word.

Remove the last letter of the second word as well as the fifth, third and (new) second letter of the third word. Anagram those four letters to form a word that precedes “fixe” to create a two-word synonym of “obsession.”

What remains of the three words are three terms associated with baseball:

1. a mask-wearer,

2. ERA, RBI, ave. or BB, for example, and

3. a slang term for the playing field.

What is the tourist attraction?

What is the synonym of “obsession?”

What are the three terms associated with baseball? 

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Home Of The Braves (And Brewers) Dessert:

Changing the linens, what a relief! 

The Atlanta Braves (formerly based in Boston and Milwaukee) have just won the 2021 World Series. 

A former Braves pitcher might well be in the Hall of Fame were it not for a major league career that was injury-plagued. He participated in four MLB All-Star Games as a Milwaukee Brewer.

The pitcher’s “swan song” came nine years ago after he was signed by the Atlanta Braves and, in mid-July, made his first starting appearance on the mound in two years. 

In that game, he pitched six scoreless innings against the New York Mets, giving up only two hits and striking out five before being lifted for relief pitcher by the Braves manager.

“It was a tough decision to ____ ___, but we have great confidence in our _______,” said the manager in a post-game interview. (This manager is likely the only MLB manager in history whose first name ends with an “i”).

Switch the initial letters in the first two blanks and remove the space to form the word in the third blank.

Who is this pitcher?

What are the words in the three blanks?

Hint #1: If you remove the space in the pitcher’s name and then change the third letter, the result is oblong pieces of cotton or linen cloth associated with slumber.

Hint #2: The word in the third blank has lately been in the news, thanks to PETA.

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