Country Capital Conundrums; Recipe requires just a pinch of “f” Summer soup & shirt size, sir! Bellyaches, forteye lashes & winks; Illinois State Nittany Lions? Number-99 on your scorecard... Number-One-eighth in your heart

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Recipe requires just a pinch of “f”

Add an “f” to an ingredient one might use in making a popular dish that is usually baked. 

Mix up the result to produce the name of the dish. 

What are this ingredient and this dish?

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Global Puzzle Fun Appetizer:

Country Capital Conundrums

1. ⭐ Take the capital of a country. Remove
the first and last letters to get the name of a country. 

What is it?

2. 🔙⭐ Take the capital of a country. Remove the first and last letters and reverse the result to get the name of a country. What is it?

3. ⭐⭐ Take two capitals of neighboring
countries and put them together. Remove five letters to get the name of a state capital. What is it?

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Four-Digit Slice:

Summer soup & shirt size, sir!

What four-digit number do the three sets of clues below lead you to?

1. 👦👱“The _&_ Boys of Summer, 1961,” or...

🥣Letters flanking an apostrophe in a soup jingle.

2. 🦊Hall of Famer Jimmy’s nickname, or...

👕Shirt size for kinda big guys.

3. 🦇Madagascar creature that is the only primate thought to use echolocation to find prey, or...

⛵An affirmative reply to a command issued by a superior officer, which is followed by “...sir!” or... 

🌋The last days of P______? No, the last two letters of P______, or...

🎻 Rad__, Stradivar__ or Hawa__.

Riffing Off Shortz And McKay Slices:

Bellyaches, forteye lashes & winks

Will Shortz’s December 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Brent McKay of Flagstaff, Arizona, reads:

Name a famous singer — first and last names.
Each name has two syllables. Change the first vowel sound in the first name and the last vowel sound in the last name. In each case, phonetically, you’ll name part of the human body. Who’s the singer?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And McKay Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker — first and last names. The last name has two syllables, the first name has just one. 

Change the only vowel sound in the first name and the second vowel sound in the last name.

Phonetically, you’ll name the first syllable of a dinosaur genus and a colorful bird. 

Who’s the puzzle-maker?

What are the genus and bird?

Hint: The dinosaur is associated with Thor.

ENTREE #2

Name a famous fictional character, first and last names, that is also the name of a 53-year-old rock group. The first name has three syllables, the second name has just one.

Change the second vowel sound in the first name and the only vowel sound in the last name. Phonetically, you’ll name a “soluble weakly basic nitrogenous compound that is the chief solid component of mammalian urine” and a body part from a person’s midsection. 

Who’s this fictional character?

What are the basic nitrogenous compound and body part?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous actor/comedian — first and last names. The last name has two syllables, the first name has just one. 

Change the only vowel sound in the first name and both vowel sounds in the last name. Phonetically, you’ll name a slang term for “fist,” an internal body part, and a repeat of the 
slang term for “fist” (albeit formed from a vowel-sound source that differs from that of the comic actor’s first name).

Who’s this famous actor/comedian?

What are the slang term for “fist” and the internal body part?

ENTREE #4

Name a fictional character from a mid-1980s TV sitcom — first and last names. Each name has two syllables. Change the first vowel sound in the first name and the first vowel sound in the last name. 

In the first case, phonetically, you’ll name a slang term for part of the human body. The first syllable in the second case also now sounds like a part of the human body. 

Who’s the fictional character?

What are the body parts?

Hint: Earlier this year (2021, as of this writing), an updated revival of the the sitcom was streamed on the Peacock network.

ENTREE #5

Name a famous singer — first and last names. Each name has two syllables. Change both vowel sounds in the first name and, phonetically, you’ll name a pain that afflicts a particular part of the human body north of the neck. 

Take the second syllable of the last name. Change its vowel sound and, phonetically, you’ll name one of many things the singer composes, sings and plays on his guitar.

Do not touch the first syllable of the last name. It is already a painful affliction described as a “contagious inflammation of the genital mucous membrane caused by the gonococcus.” 

Who’s the singer?

What is the north-of-the-neck pain?

What does the singer compose, sing and play on his guitar?

What is the painful affliction associated with gonococcus?

ENTREE #6

Name a politician who has been lately in the news — first and last names, one and two syllables. 

Change the vowel sound in the first name and the first vowel sound in the last name. 

The result sounds like three one-syllable parts of the human body: one on the head; one on a finger, thumb or toe; and another on the head.

Who’s the politician?

What are the three body parts?

ENTREE #7

Name a man regarded as one of the greatest National Football League head coaches of all time — first and last names, one syllable each. 

Change the vowel sound in each name and, phonetically, you’ll name two parts of the human body. 

Who’s the coach?

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #8

Name a pianist/organist  — first and last names — who performed and recorded with The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who. Each name has two syllables. 

The second part of his first name sounds like something with which the pianist’s finger made contact while he performed. 

Change the vowel sound in his first name’s first syllable. Change both vowel sounds in his last name. 

The first two of these three syllables, phonetically, name two parts of the human body. The third syllable names receptor cells in the retina of the eye. 

Who’s the musician?

With what does his finger make contact?

What are the three body parts?

Note: The five Riff-Off Entrees below were composed by Ecoarchitect. (Entree # 13 is an Eco/Lego collaborative effort.)

ENTREE #9 

Name a well-known athlete of the past, one syllable first name, two syllables last name. 

Change the vowel sound in the first name and one of the vowel sounds in the last name, and the result will be a color and a body part that, when healthy, is that color. 

Who is the athlete, and what are the color and body part?

ENTREE #10 

Name a body part in two syllables. 

Remove one syllable and the result
phonetically will be another body part. 

What are the two body parts?

ENTREE #11 

Name a body part in one syllable. 

Change the vowel sound and the result will be
the plural of another body part. 

What are the two body parts?

ENTREE #12 

Name a part of an animal body, and part of a human body (which some other animals have) that are closely related. 

Combine the two words and the result will be the name of a well-known artist. 

What are the words and the name?

ENTREE #13 

Name a famous person who, after a significant career (including a Nobel Peace Prize), was mostly not in the news until very recently. 

Change the same vowel sound in both
syllables of his last name, and the result is the name of a group who scored a hit single song whose title is the continent with which the person is associated.

Who is this person?

What are the group and the song title?

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Currents In The Sea Dessert:

Illinois State Nittany Lions?

Take a nine-letter word seen on a U.S. map. 

The last six letters in the word – after you eliminate one of any letter that appears twice – can be rearranged to spell of a form of currency, in five letters. (For example, the last six different letters in the word “Illinois” – after removing an “i” – can be rearranged to spell “lions.”) 

The first five letters of the word on the map, in order, spell a European example of this form of currency. What are this form of currency and the example of it?

Digital Jerseys Dessert:

Number-99 on your scorecard...                         Number-One-eighth in your heart

In the history of of professional and collegiate sports, no player has ever worn a negative number on their uniform or jersey. Many great athletes, however, have sported low, single-digit numbers.

For example:

#9: Ted Williams (Major League Baseball); Gordie Howe (National Hockey League)

#8: Kobe Bryant (National Basketball Association); Steve Young (National Football League)

#7: Mickey Mantle (MLB);

#6: Julius Erving (NBA); Stan Musial (MLB)

#5: Joe DiMaggio (MLB); Paul Hornung (NFL) 

#4: Lou Gehrig (MLB); Brett Favre (NFL); Bobby Orr (NHL)

#3: Babe Ruth (MLB); Harmon Killebrew (MLB)

#2: Derek Jeter (MLB); Moses Malone (NBA)

#1: Oscar Robertson (NBA)

Some players have even worn #0 or #00:

#0: Russell Westbrook (NBA)

#00: Jim Otto (NFL); Robert Parish (NBA)

And one MLB player, Eddie Gaedel, actually
wore a fraction on his back, 1/8!

Okay, but what was the highest number ever worn by a professional athlete, and who wore it? 

And, no, the answer is not Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers when he is getting sacked (see illustration). Infinity symbols do not count!

Hint: the answer is loosely related to 2022, the New Year that begins tomorrow.

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

“Let’s sing a long singalong song!” Silver bells? Silver bullion? Spooning out the Econfusions; Rodin, Rothko, Rouault, Roseland... Roget? “Who’s that burglar on my rooftop?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Who’s that burglar on my rooftop?”

Take the three-word name of the warehouse where Santa keeps toys he and his elves load onto his sleigh every Christmas Eve. 

Take rhymes of those three words that – when preceded by the word “the” – summarize a crime involving four individuals: three
occupants of a forest home and one blond burglar who broke-in-and-entered after the first three individuals vacated the premises. 

The last two words of this summary, when spoonerized, sound like the last two words of the toy warehouse. 

What are this warehouse and this crime summary?

Hint: A spoon was the “weapon” the burglar used in the commission of the crime.

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Der Bingle Jells Appetizer:

Spooning out the Econfusions

1. 🥄Think of a well-known actor, 3 letters first name, 6 letters last.  Spoonerize the first and last name and the result will be 2 common first names.  And both names can be used for
either boys or girls.

2. 🥣Think of a well-known actor, 5 letters in each the first and last name.  Spoonerize the first and last name, and the result will be what you hope the hero/ heroine does to the villain in a movie series that has run for several decades.

3. 🥄Think of a well-known actor, 4 letters first name, 5 letters last.  Spoonerize the first and last name and the result will be a body part and a term for a certain animal, both of which can be synonyms.

4. 🥣Think of a well-known actor, last name (7 letters) first, first name (4 letters) last.  Spoonerize the name and the result will be what you might want on the weekend.

5. 🥄Think of a place where adults might gather for fun.  Spoonerize the words and the result might describe a place where you could imagine small children might gather for fun.

6. 🥣Think of a body part (1 word with 2 syllables).  Spoonerize the words or parts, and the result will be something changed in evolution 20,000,000 years ago to us as a species, and in the first 30 days of gestation to us as individuals.

7. 🥄Name something frequently used in cooking.  The source of that substance is a two word phrase, which when spoonerized yields the name of a hard rock band formed 50 years ago.

8. 🥣Name a well-known song from that hard rock band. Spoonerize the words and the result will be two words that describe how Olympians travel on water, one in the summer, one in the winter.

9. Take the last name of a well-known movie star, two syllables. Spoonerize those syllables, and the result will be the two-word name of an animal that was once featured in a series of children’s stories. Who is the star, and what is the animal?

Hint: In regard to the category of animal, there is an ironic, though distant, return-relation to the star.

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Ringing And Blinging Slice:

Silver bells? Silver bullion?

Name something silver that you see hanging around this time of year. 

Interchange the two vowels in this word and add a different vowel at the beginning to spell something else silver that you see lying around at any time of the year.

These things, respectively, hang from and lie on different objects that each begin with a “t”.

What are these two silver things that you see hanging from and lying on objects beginning with “t”?

Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:

Rodin, Rothko, Rouault, Roseland... Roget?

Will Shortz’s December 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen (a.k.a. “Ecoarchitect”) of Berkeley, California, reads:

Take the name of a well-known artist. The first name can be divided to form two common words that are synonyms. The last name can be anagrammed to form an antonym of those two words. Who is the artist, and what are the words?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker. 

The first four letters of his name are the same as the first four letters of a man who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and the last five letters of his name are the first name of this actor’s wife, a former fashion model.

The remaining letters in the puzzle-maker’s name can be rearranged to spell the two-letter postal codes of three states that border the Atlantic Ocean. 

Who is the puzzle-maker, the actor and his wife and the three Atlantic coastal states?

ENTREE #2

Take the first name of a well-known artist. Change the last letter to an “a” and move it between the fourth and fifth letters to spell a hot holiday beverage – one in which citrus fruit slices, cinnamon sticks and sugarplums often float.

Now remove the fifth-through-eighth letters  of the surname. The remaining letters sound like the five-letter category under which “sugarplums” fall. 

The removed letters anagram to spell a
synonym of “fall” that is also what the fruit slices, cinnamon sticks and sugarplums do not do when placed in the beverage.

Who is the artist and what is the beverage?

What is the category for “sugarplums”?

What is the synonym of “fall”?

ENTREE #3

Take the two-word name of a well-known artist in 15 letters. Add an “o” to the end.

Remove six of these 16 letters, three from each name, and rearrange them to spell a style of art this artist did not practice. 

Remove six other letters from the first name and rearrange them to spell a literary artist who coined a two-word term containing a fruit that, ironically (because it was he who coined it), contains very little iron.

The remaining letters, in order, spell an artsy Big Apple district.

Who is this artist?

What art-style didn’t he practice? 

Who is the literary artist, and what term did he coin?

What is the artsy Big Apple district?  

ENTREE #4

 Novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov once suggested that Salvador Dali was actually another artist’s twin brother who had been kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.

1. Take the name of this other artist, in 14 letters (six in the first name, eight in the surname).

2. Switch letter-11 and letter-1. 

3. Bracket the new letter-11 with spaces and single quotation marks (‘ ’). 

4. Replace letter-12 with duplicates of letter-7 and letter-8.

5. Delete letter-3.

6. Move the word formed by the first five letters to the end.

The result is the title of a 1967 song sung by a group whose name contains the name of an animal that was also contained in the name of an award that was bestowed upon the artist in 1939 by the Boy Scouts of America.

Who is this artist?

What is the song title?   

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a well-known artist. Replace the first consonant of the first name with a different consonant that sometimes makes the same sound as the consonant it replaces. The result is a plural word for a general category.

The first five letters of the surname spell a word that belongs in that category.

Replace the last two letters in the entire surname with an “a” and “f” and rearrange the result to spell the two-word title of a parody perpetrated by a Canadian comedy troupe. This title also belongs in the category.

Who is the artist?

What are the category and the two members of the category?

ENTREE #6

The twelve letters in the name of a well-known artist can be anagrammed to form two words related to his paintings (1. and 2.) and the first half of a word in the title of one of his paintings (3.): 

1. the four-letter focal point of many paintings by the artist, including two with titles that could be paraphrased as: “The Snack on the Lawn” and “former Pacific Northwest beer brand”;

2. the word missing from: “The first person mentioned in the Old Testament was not
painted by this artist; but the artist often depicted the first person mentioned in the New Testament, who was known as the ‘Second ____’ ”; and

3. the four letters missing from the title of the artist’s painting: “Dead ____ador” 

Who is the artist?

What are the two words and first half of the third word?

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a well-known artist. 

The last 25 percent of the name spells something you might need in order to to get a Christmas tree. 

The first 75 percent of the name can be anagrammed to spell what manufacturers of this “something” might
do to its business end to make it more effective and durable, by reheating and cooling it in oil. 

Who is the artist? 

What might you need to get a Christmas tree?

What might manufactures do to its business end?

ENTREE #8

Take the name of a well-known artist in 11 letters. Nine of the letters can be anagrammed to spell a two-word term for a large farm, especially in the western U.S., where people on vacation can ride horses and do other activities that cowboys typically do. 

The remaining two letters are the initials of a two-word island in the eastern U.S. where no such large cowboy farms exist.

Who is the artist?

What are the cowboy farm and the island?

ENTREE #9

Take the name of a well-known French artist in seven and four letters. Switch the penultimate letter of his first name with the penultimate letter of his surname. 

The first part can be anagrammed to spell a two-word term that consists of a slang term for a firearm and a 4-letter noun. 

The second part spells either a small wild pigeon or a peaceful person to whom the two-word term would likely not pertain.

Who is the artist?

What are the two-word term and peaceful person?

Hint: The 4-letter noun can be anagrammed to spell either a synonym of “yes” or a wily subterfuge.

ENTREE #10

Take the name of a well-known artist in six and five letters. A fellow artist one descibed him as “just an eye, but God, what an eye.”

The middle letter of his surname followed by the last three letters of his first name spell a word for a genre of artwork the artist did not explore.

The remaining letters can be anagrammed to spell what is depicted in one of the illustrations the artist in Entree #9 painted to help give visual impact to Tennyson’s poetic “Idylls of the King.”

Who is the artist?

What artistic genre did he not explore?

What is depicted in the illustration by Entree #9’s artist?

ENTREE #11

Take the name of a well-known French Dadaist sculptor, painter, and poet who was one of the leaders of the European avant-garde a century ago. 

Anagram the name of this artist to create an appropriate caption for the illustration pictured here.

Who is the artist, and what is the caption?

Hint: Your caption should consist of three words containing one, three and three letters.

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Sing Along With Mitch Dessert:

“Let’s sing a long singalong song!”

Name a long singalong song. 

Take the final two words in this long song. 

The combined letters in those two words are an anagram of a word for what a singer of the song becomes in the process of singing it.

What are the final two words in the song? 

What does the singer become? 

What is the song?

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

A Chain Gang Challenge; Christmas Carols & Looney Tunes; Gold, Frankincense & Myrrhacles! Santa and his fey elfin toysmiths; Old World marriage generates a New World municipality

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Christmas Carols & Looney Tunes

Name a holiday food, in two words. 

Switch their initial letters and remove two letters from the end of one and three letters from the end of the other. What remains are the second words in the names of two Looney Tunes characters. What are this food and these characters?

Hint: The holiday food appears in the lyrics of a Christmas carol.

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Abraham-“Linkin’”-Chafee Appetizer:

A Chain Gang Challenge:

We can chain together the names of people when one person’s last name is the same as the next person’s first name.  

For example: 

Rich Little -

Little Richard - 

Richard Benjamin - 

Benjamin Franklin - 

Franklin Pierce - 

Pierce Brosnan.  

Can you find such a chain using the names of 10 different well-known persons?  

Hint: Jack Daniel, Daniel Pearl, and Taylor Swift.

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Global Slice:

Old World marriage generates a New World municipality

An Asian country “wedded” to what some big-city Europeans call their city, followed by a single letter, results in a New World city. 

What are this county, name that Europeans call their city, and New World city?

Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices:

Santa and his fey elfin toysmiths

Will Shortz’s December 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Shteyman of Freeland, Maryland, reads:

Think of a major U.S. city in two words. Insert an L in the exact middle of the second word. Now read the first word forward and the second word backward, and you’ll name two things associated with this time of year. What are they?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Shteyman Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Remove two different vowels from the name of a puzzle-maker. 

Rearrange the remaining letters to spell a person who steers a sailing ship and what kind of ship it might be. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are this sailing ship and sailor?

ENTREE #2

A number of royal Roman camel riders visited a Bethlehem manger at the dawn of the first millennium A.D. Using Roman numerals, double that number and place it before the five-letter word for those royal riders. 

The result is a seven-letter plural word for seafaring Scandinavian people who – at the dawn of the second millennium A.D. – raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe. 

About 40 years before the dawn of the third millennium A.D., that plural word became the name of a professional sports team in a state with a rich Scandinavian heritage.

Now think of a major U.S. city in two words. Place an L at the beginning the second word, then delete the middle letter of the result. Now read the first word forward and the second word backward, and you’ll name a synonym of “millennium” and a rallying cry shouted and sung by fans of the sports team.

What are the name of the sports team, the synonym of “millennium” and the rallying cry shouted and sung by fans of the sports team?

ENTREE #3

Think of a major U.S. city in one 10-letter word. Remove its last letter. Spell the result backward. ROT-2 the eighth letter. Interchange the seventh and ninth letters and ROT-11 both of them.

The result is defined as “supplies or funds furnished to a mining prospector on promise of a share in his discoveries” – a miner, for example, based in the above-mentioned major U.S. city. 

What city is this? 

What is the word for supplies or funds a miner might get?

ENTREE #4

Think of a major U.S. city in two words. Interchange the middle two letters of the second word. 

Remove the space and read the 11-letter result backward, and you’ll name a 5-letter creature that would not make a good ___ because it would be hard to ___. (The same 3-letter word belongs in both blanks.) 

Finally, ROT-7 the last three letters to spell the end of what the creature is loosely classified as: a shelled gastro___.

What city is this? 

What are the creature, the 3-letter word in the first two blanks, and the three-letter ending of the word that begins with “gastro-”?

ENTREE #5

Think of a major U.S. city in one word. Interchange the second and third letters. Replace the new third letter with an L. 

Now read the last three letters backward and the first four letters forward to name an energy drink brand. 

What are this city and energy drink brand?

ENTREE #6

Write a major one-word U.S. city in uppercase. 

Switch the order of the two letters in the exact middle. 

Rotate the  third letter in the result 90 degrees clockwise.

The result is a title of a 1970s disco ditty sung by people wearing costumes. 

What are the this city and disco title?

ENTREE #7

Think of a major U.S. city in two words. 

Place the last three letters of the first word after the first three letters of the second word to spell any one of four members of a rock group whose “Little Drummer Boy’s” surname sounds like what the Magi followed to reach Bethlehem. 

Take the remaining five letters, and replace the fourth letter with a duplicate of the third letter to spell one of the gifts of the Magi. 

What are this city, the member of the rock group, the surname of the drummer boy, and the gift of the Magi?

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Evergreen Dessert:

Gold, Frankincense & Myrrhacles!

Name something – in seven letters beginning with a P – that a young child finds beneath the evergreen tree on Christmas. Then name someone – in five letters beginning with an S –who places it there.  

Place the S-word before the P-word and anagram each to spell – in words of five and seven letters beginning with S and R –what would have to be described as a Christmas miracle!

What does the child find under the tree, and who puts it there?

What is the Christmas miracle?

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle
every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.