Arts & Rec & “Mussy Marceau” “My Voice is my instrument!” “EnChoiring” minds want to know... puzzle answers! Topological bake shop; 3.14-Pi-Day-Puzzle 2.0

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

3.14-Pi-Day-Puzzle 2.0

Note: On March 8, 2020, Will Shortz used a Pi Day puzzle I created as the NPR challenge. 

This week’s Schpuzzle of the Week is a timely “Pi Day sequel” to that NPR puzzle... think of it as a “3.14-Pi-Day-Puzzle 2.0!”

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This week’s Schpuzzle of the Week involves Pi Day, which we celebrate this coming Monday,
March 14, which is commonly written as 3/14. That has been designated Pi Day because 3-1-4 are the first three digits of pi.

But why might Hall-of-Fame ballplayers Brooks Robinson, Mike Schmidt and George Brett wait until October 1 to celebrate Pi Day?

Appetizer Menu

Skydiverting Appetizer:

Arts & Rec & “Mussy Marceau”

1. 🎭 Think of a six-letter word applicable to the arts. 

Insert an “M” in the exact middle and you will have another word that has an opposite meaning. 

What are these two words?

2. 🎳 Think of a place you might go to for recreation in two words. 

Anagram the combined letters of those words to discover why you may not be able to use that place.

What are this place and reason you may not be able to use it?

3. 🙉 Take a common four-word phrase beginning with the article “A” followed by three words of six, two and four letters. 

Spoonerize the second and fourth words to describe a pantomimist in disheveled attire.

What is the original four-word phrase beginning with the article “A”?

What is the four-word description of the pantomimist in disheveled attire?

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Soloist Slice:

“My Voice is my instrument!”

Name a kind of composition that a soloist (like “ViolinTeddy,” for example) might play on an instrument. 

Change the second letter and add a letter near the end to spell the surname of a soloist whose voice is their instrument. 

What is this composition and who is this soloist?

Riffing Off Shortz And Hartenstein Slices:

“EnChoiring” minds want to know... puzzle answers!

Will Shortz’s March 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ward Hartenstein of Rochester, New York, reads:

Words starting with a “kw-” sound usually start with the letters “QU-,” as in question, or “KW-,” as in Kwanzaa. What common, uncapitalized English word starting with a “kw-” sound contains none of the letters Q, U, K, or W?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hartenstein Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first name of a close relative – indeed, the second son – of a noted physicist. The second syllable of the name begins with a vowel, the first of four letters in that syllable. Those four letters spell what sounds  like the first name of a puzzle-maker. 

Who are the puzzle-maker and the son of the physicist?

Hint #1: The first syllable of the physicist’s second son’s first name consists of two consecutive letters of the alphabet, but not in alphabetical order.

Hint #2: The last six letters of the puzzle-maker’s surname are identical to the last six letters in the surname of the physicist and his son.

ENTREE #2

Words starting with a “kw-” sound usually start with the letters “QU-,” as in question, or “KW-,” as in Kwanzaa. Name two common, uncapitalized non-English words (that do appear, however, in English dictionaries) that start with a “kw-” sound but do not start with the letters “QU-,” as in question, or “KW-,” as in Kwanzaa?

Hint: The words are synonyms of “hairdresser” and “food.”

ENTREE #3

Just WHY is English pronunciation so darn tricky!

Take, for example, a four-letter word that means “to set, or to become more solid.”

1. Change the first letter to the letter it sounds like in the subject of a propaganda film starring actresses named Short and Miles. The result is an expression of exasperation oft voiced by a famous past violinist.

2. Next, change the first letter to the letter it sounds like in a word for Tex-Mex cuisine that is
etymologically rooted in “sash” or “belt.” The result is a “pit of pandemonium.” 

3. Finally, change the first letter to the letter it sounds like in a Handel Chorus crooned by a Choir. The result is a hoot, howl or holler.

What is the four-letter word that means “to set or become more solid?”

What are the propaganda film subject and violinist’s expression?

What are the Tex-Mex cuisine and “pit of pandemonium?”

What is the Handel Chorus crooned by a Choir and the hoot, howl or holler?

ENTREE #4

Name a two-syllable nine-letter word that refers to two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable – as in the words
“hay” “boy” “out” and “noise.” 

The word contains seven consonants and two non-adjacent vowels.

What is this word?

ENTREE #5

Racquetball, Guitar, Juice, Vegetable, Wrestle.

Take one letter from each of these five words that, in order, spell an adjective that describes each of those five letters.

What is this five-letter adjective?

ENTREE #6

The first word Scarlett O’Hara speaks in the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind,” based on Margaret Mitchell’s novel, is a 12-letter word that precedes “War, war, war!”

A fable of uncertain origin involves a plural form of an eating utensil, in ten letters. The fable tells of a man who was given the opportunity, before he died, to see what heaven and hell look like. He finds that neither place has fire, brimstone and devils nor harps, clouds and angels. But both do have great banquet halls!

What are these 12-letter and 10-letter words?

What is notable about each of them?

ENTREE #7

Take a five-letter word associated with Moses. 

Now name a two-word caption for the image seen here, nine letters total, that is a homophone of that five-letter word.

Hint: Each word in the caption begins with a vowel.

Dessert Menu

Lip-smackin’ Dessert:

Topological bake shop

Name a four-word idiom that includes a word for
something put between one’s lips. 

Anagram the combined letters of the idiom to spell:

1. a boiled ‘n’ baked edible, 

2. a noun that a geometer might use to characterize that edible’s shape, and 

3. an adjective that geometer might use to describe the shape of a cool lip-smacking pastry. 

What are this idiom and three words?

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.)

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