Moving, mixing, cardinals & carols; Finnished off by a swamp shrub; Hooked on a feather-brained feeling; Three blind chipmunks? Chopin’ broccoli, Chopin bacarolle

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Hooked on a feather-brained feeling

Name a bird with a hooked bill. 

Spell it backward. 

Move the first half of the result to the end to spell another bird with a hooked bill. 

What are these birds? 

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Delightfully Puzzley Appetizers:

Moving, mixing, cardinals & carols

Over under sideways down

1. ╬ Name something, in two words, that moves people vertically. 

Change one
consonant to a different consonant to get something that moves objects horizontally. 

Reverse the last two letters of this word to get something else that moves objects
horizontally.

What is this thing that moves people vertically? What are the two things that move something horizontally?

Hint: The second word in these three things can follow the words “chop,” “chap,” “slap,” “lip” or “dip.”

Elite servant becomes an athlete

2. 🎖👟Take a word for a U.S. government-sponsored enlisted service person. 

Mix up the eight letters in this word to get a plural word for some athletic equipment.

What are this enlisted service person and
athletic equipment?

Hint: The word for the service person is a homophone of the last name of an ensemble character who co-starred in a past variety/sketch comedy television show.

Cardinals & carols 

3. 🐦🐦👪Name a retired United States statesman. 

Drop the last letter of his last name and tack on in its place a cardinal number, spelled-out. The result is a popular Christmas and New Year’s holiday treat.

Now think of the title of a popular three-word Christmas carol. 

The first word is a common article.

The second word is the ordinal form of the
cardinal number that you used, above.

The third word is an anagram of the stateman’s first name.

Who is this statesman?

What is the sweet Christmas and New Year’s treat?

What is the Christmas carol?

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Richly Ritual Slice:

Finnished off by a swamp shrub

Name a swamp shrub, in two words, that you ought to steer clear of. 

Rearrange the combined letters of these two words to form a two-word description of nine pieces of ritual music composed by a Finnish composer in the year that a home run record was set, only to be broken 34 years later by a native of Hibbing, Minnesota. 

What are this shrub and the description of the music?

Riffing Off Shortz And Yanover Slices:

Chopin’ Broccoli, Chopin Bacarolle 

Will Shortz’s January 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Yanover of South Pasadena, California, reads:

Take the name of a certain vegetable. Move the 7th, 5th, and 6th letters – in that order – to
the front of the word. Phonetically you’ll name another vegetable. What vegetables are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Yanover Slices read:

ENTREE #1

One might find a gold bar in a Brink’s truck. In what kind of vehicle – in words of five and three letters beginning with a “d” and a  “v” – might one find a less valuable but more tasty bar beginning with a “D”?

The 12 letters in these three words can be rearranged to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

What is the more tasty bar and where might one find it?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Take the name of a certain vegetable. Move the last, antepenultimate, and penultimate letters – in that order – to the front of the word.
You’ll name a part of a boat. 

What vegetable and boat-part are these?

Hint: A homophone of the vegetable, if it were to exist in this boat-part, might result in an abandoning of the boat. 

ENTREE #3

Take the name of a certain vegetable. Replace the 5th letter with a letter that, when it appears in print, sometimes makes the same sound of the letter it replaces. 

Move the 8th, 7th, and 6th letters – in reverse order – to the front of the result. 

Add two separate spaces somewhere within this result. 

The end result is the three-word answer that Minnesota Timberwolves 22-year-old rookie Ricky Rubio, a native of Spain, gave in 2012 to a St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter who asked him, “How did you manage to set up Kevin Love with that game-winning alley-oop slam dunk?”

What is this vegetable?

What was Ricky Rubio’s answer?

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a certain vegetable, in seven letters. Replace the fifth letter with a two-letter prefix that means “not,” resulting in an eight-letter string.

Form three words of 4, 5 and 3 letters, using:

1. the 8th, 2nd, 7th and 5th letters of the string,

2. the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 8th letters, and

3. the 6th, 7th and 8th letters.

These three words appear at the beginning of seven of the ten “deca-dictates” in the King James Version of the Bible.

What is the vegetable?

What are the three words?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of an certain two-syllable vegetable. Replace the third letter with a duplicate of the second letter. The result is a synonym of “an undeveloped bud” that can be found on a three-syllable vegetable.

What are these two vegetables?

What is the is the synonym of “an undeveloped bud?”

Hint: The vegetables begin with the same letter.

ENTREE #6

Take the name of an uncertain vegetable... it might be a fruit.

Replace the last two of its letters with a P and a Z, creating a six-letter string.

Form four words of 6, 5, 4 and 3 letters, using:

1. the 5th, 2nd, 1st, 4th, 1st and 2nd letters of
the string,

2. the 3rd, 4th, 1st, 6th and 2nd letters,

3. the 3rd, 2nd, 1st, and 1st letters, and

4. the 2nd, 4th and 1st letters.

The four words are:

1. a synonym of an anagram of a word that means “to expose the falsity of,” or a synonym of an anagram of another word for “beast.”

2. unleavened Passover bread,

3. the surname in a brand associated with apple-based products (and some based on the six-letter word, above), and

4. cereal grain grown for its seed.

What is this “uncertain vegetable?”

What are the four words of 6, 5, 4 and 3 letters?

Note: The following Riff-off of the NPR puzzle is the brainchild of Ecoarchitect, puzzle-maker supreme.

ENTREE #7

Change the last letter of a vegetable and
phonetically the result will be the name of another plant that is widely used for edibles.  

What is the vegetable and what is the plant?

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Cultural Artistic Dessert:

Three blind chipmunks?

Name a two-syllable region of the United States known for its culture and arts. 

Insert an apostrophe followed by a space to
form a two-word term that might describe mice and chipmunks. 

What is this region?

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.

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