Pastimes, music, sports & shoes; Diana dances o’er the rosy dawn; Slicing juliennes at the Juilliard; Racehorses and roundhouses; Agricultivacation!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Racehorses and roundhouses

Racehorses are athletes that gallop and snort. They carry human cargo.

Take a human athlete and something he does, in two words. 

Take two other words that form a plural noun
associated with carrying non-human cargo.

The first words in each two-word pair are anagrams of one another. The second words are homonyms that are spelled and pronounced alike.  

What two words describe the human athlete and something he does?

What two-word plural noun is associated with cargo?

Hint: The human athlete and the two-word plural noun are both associated with roundhouses.

Appetizer Menu

Chuck’s Challenging Appetizers:

Pastimes, music, sports & shoes

Coastlines & pastimes

1. 🌎Name a well-known North American coastal region in ten letters. Rearrange the
letters and you’ll find a word for some pastimes. 

What is the place? 

What are the pastimes?

Identifying an instrument

2. 🎷🎺Name an ID that’s worn or carried, in five letters. Add a duplicate of one of the letters. 

The result has special applicability to a popular musical instrument. 

What’s the instrument and how is the result applicable?

Sport’s drink

3. ⚽🏉🏀In seven letters, name those who play a particular sport. 

Rearrange to name a well-known brand of beverage. 

Identify the players and the brand.

Organizing your shoe closet

4. 👟Think of two well-known brands of athletic shoes. 

Put the brands together and rearrange to name – phonetically – a word for organs found in many animals, including humans. 

What are the brands and what are the organs? 

Hint: the brand names have the same number of letters.

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Field Of Creams Of The Crop Slice:

Agricultivacation!

Take two words: and agricultural worker and an agricultural season. 

Anagram the combined letters in these words to spell a two-word place on the map with an agricultural field in its name. 

What is this place?

What are the agricultural worker and season?

Hint: The place on the map is associated with vacationing.

Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices:

Slicing juliennes at the Juilliard

Will Shortz’s November 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty of Newport News, Virgina, reads:

Name a variety of song and a genre of music. Switch the initial consonant sounds of these two words, and, phonetically, you’ll name an object found in the kitchen. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker. Remove from the surname the first name of a “Peachy Tiger.” Switch the initial consonant sounds of the two syllables that remain in that surname to form a two-word idiom meaning “to achieve much success.”

If you rearrange the combined letters of the full name you can form a two-word oxymoronic phrase containing a 7-letter adverb beginning with an “o” and a 7-letter verb beginning with an “f”.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What is the two-word idiom meaning “to achieve much success?”

What is the two-word oxymoronic phrase?

ENTREE #2

(Note: Entree #2 was composed by our friend Plantsmith whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!) 

Take the brand name of one piece of candy, in two words containing a total of seven letters. 

Each word is the name of a music genre. 

Both genre names are shortened forms of longer names totaling 18 letters – a one-word name and a three-word name.

What is the piece of brand-name candy called?

What are the short and long forms of the two music genres? 

Hint: Rearrange the 11 letters that don’t appear in the short-form names to spell a two-word synonym of “money on the moon.” 

ENTREE #3

Name an implement, in two words, you can use to flip over a piece of barbecued beef or chicken before it burns. 

Switch the initial consonant sounds of these two words, and, phonetically, you’ll name a chirping, fluttery sound a flute might make, in eight letters (or perhaps five letters), and disk-shaped percussion instruments.

What is this implement?

What are the flute sound and the percussion instruments?

ENTREE #4

Name an object found in the kitchen, in two words. Switch the initial consonant sounds of these two words and move the last two letters of the second word to the end of the first word. 

The result, phonetically, will be the first person you often encounter when entering a Walmart or similar store and the subject of a phrase coined by Arthur Fletcher.

What is the kitchen object?

Who is the person you encounter first at Walmart?

What is the subject of the phrase?

ENTREE #5

Name an object found in the kitchen, an eight-letter compound word. Switch the initial consonant sounds of the two parts of the word, and, phonetically, you’ll name a piece of furniture that is rarely found in the kitchen and the brand name of a candy. 

The piece of furniture is bigger than the kitchen object, and a box of the candy is smaller than the kitchen object.

What is this object?

What are the piece of furniture and the candy brand?

ENTREE #6

Name an object found in the kitchen, in two words. 

Switch the initial consonant sounds of these two words, and, phonetically, you’ll name a hircine activity and a word for 128 cubic feet of firewood.

What is this kitchen object?

What are the hircine activity and the word for 128 cubic feet of firewood?

ENTREE #7

Motorists occasionally get a gander of a gander and her brood crossing the road in front of them. Why the gander does this is anyone’s guess. 

But there is no question about what courteous motorists do when they get a gander of such a gander.

Take the word for what courteous motorists do and a synonym of the gander’s brood. 

Switch the initial consonant sounds of these two words, and you’ll spell a compound word for an object found in the kitchen or a restaurant.

What is this object?

What do courteous motorists do, and what is the synonym of the gander’s brood?

ENTREE #8

Name an object found in the kitchen, a compound word. Divide the word into its two parts and switch their first letters. 

The result is something a child might make in
the days before Christmas and the name of a creature that helps to make materialize what the child might make.

What is the object found in the kitchen?

What does the child make?

What is the name of the creature that helps to make materialize what the child might make?

ENTREE #9

(Note: We might define a “half-spoonerism” as a transposition of initial sounds of two words – one begining with a vowel, the other beginning with a consonant or consonant blend. For example, “oil spill” would become “spoil ill.”)

Name an object found in the kitchen in two words, the second of which begins with a
vowel sound. Move the initial consonant sound of the first word to the beginning of the second word. 

The result, phonetically, is what sort of sounds like why the kitchen object may be malfunctioning.

What is this object?

Why may the kitchen object be malfunctioning?

ENTREE #10

Name objects found in the kitchen or pantry, in two words, that are associated with canning. 

Switch the initial letters of these two words, and you’ll spell the names of a Greek hero and Roman god. 

What are these objects?

Who are the Greek hero and Roman god?

Hint: The Greek hero shares something in common with both Ryan Dinwiddie and Pinball Clemons. The Roman god had a “ruddy wanderer” named after him. 

Dessert Menu

Camouflaged Dessert:

Diana dances o’er the rosy dawn

What four related things are hidden in the following paragraph?

I don’t often, but whenever I do color a portrait of the moon goddess, I select a florid and golden palette using Photoshop. Then I cut,
connect and paste the hues to produce Diana in her cerulean blue cape dancing o’er heaven’s rosy dawn.

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