"Dadswear" and "toddlerduds"; Animal Enigmagnetism; Oinkomatopinka! A gal of the olden Golden West; Numerator know-how, denominator dominance;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Dadswear” and “toddlerduds”

Name things men wear, in two words. 

Delete the third letter and the space to name
things babies wear. 

What are these two wearables?

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Econfusingly Beastly Appetizer:

Animal Enigmagnetism

BEAST PUZZLES

1. What do the following animals have in common:  bat, bee, dove, elk, plover, and
trout? 

As far as we know these are the only animals with this quality. 

And how is this quality related to the title?

ANIMAL CRACKERS

2. Spoonerize the two words of a well-known movie and the result will be a (not well-known) 3-word phrase that might describe the state of a young animal, which is related to a well-known 4-word phrase. 

What is the movie, and what are the 3-word and 4-word phrases?

IN MY (BEAN) SOUP

3. Remove the 3rd, 4th, and 5th letters (or the 4th, 5th, and 6th letters) from the name of an
animal and the result will be a body part. 

What is the animal, what is the body part?

MONKEYS AND RABBITS

4. The homonym of a certain animal is a common word, and the two words contain only
one letter in common. 

What is the animal and what is the word?

LOOP THE LOOP(Y)

5. Divide the last name of a recently topical European politician’s last name into its two syllables. 

Place the first syllable before 4 letters and the result is the last name of a well-known author.
Place the second syllable before the same 4 letters and the result is an animal with a relationship to the author. 

Who are the politician and the author, and what is the animal?

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Fractious Slice:

Numerator know-how, denominator dominance

Eighth-graders all know that one half of one quarter equals one eighth. 

But do they know that one half of one quarter
also equals one hundred eighths? 

If you were their teacher, how would you explain this paradox to them?

Riffing Off Shortz And Balch Slices:

Oinkomatopinka!

Will Shortz’s April 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jeff Balch of Evanston, Illinois, reads:

Name a sound made by a certain animal.
Change one letter in it to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a color associated with that animal. What’s the sound, and what’s the color?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Balch Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a sound made by a certain animal. The animal begins with an “h”. Change the vowel in the sound to the previous vowel of the alphabet (u becomes o, o becomes i, etc.), and you’ll get a the surname of a puzzle-maker who is the type of animal beginning with an “h”.

Now name an informal word for a very short period of time... like the time it will take most puzzle-solvers to solve this Entree #1. Change the vowel in it to the previous vowel of the alphabet (u becomes o, o becomes i, etc.), and you’ll get a the first name of that same puzzle-maker.

What’s the animal, the sound made by the animal, the informal word for the short period of time, and the name of the puzzle-maker? 

Note: The following NPR riff-off Entree was composed and contributed by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” puzzle feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of a color of an animal and its environment. This animal, as far as we know, does not make any sound. Drop the first letter of the color and move the last letter one place earlier in alphabet stream. Then mix the result to get this supposedly silent animal. 

What is this animal. What color is it and its environment? 

ENTREE #3

Name a sound made by a certain animal. (The sound has thrice as many letters as the animal.)  

Change the first letter in the sound to the letter that is the same distance from the middle of the alphabet (A=Z, B=Y, C=X, etc.). You’ll get a color, but not one that is really associated with the animal. 

However, a color associated with one of these animals (one that became a legend) is a homophone of the word formed from the first, third (or fourth), second and sixth letters of the sound made by the animal.

What is this animal?

What are the sound associated with the animal and the color not associated with the animal?

What’s the color that is associated with the legendary animal, and its homophone? 

ENTREE #4

Write in lowercase a sound made by an animal. Delete its middle letter. 

Invert its first letter by rotating it around either its x or y axis. The result will be spell either
one of two animals, depending on which axis you used. One of the animals makes the sound you started with; the other does not.

What is the sound? What are the two animals?

ENTREE #5

Name a sound (which is also the name of a noisy bird) made by a certain animal (which is another noisy bird). Change the first letter in this sound to the previous letter of the alphabet and add a consonant to the end, and you’ll get a color that animal often is. What’s the sound, what’s the animal and what’s the color?

Hint: The “certain animal” which is also a bird begins with the ending of a “Down Under” critter and ends with the ending of a laboratory critter.

ENTREE #6

Name a sound made by a canine animal. 

Change its first letter to the letter five places earlier in the alphabet and change its last letter
to the letter two places later in the alphabet. 

You’ll get a color associated with that animal. 

What’s the sound, and what’s the color?

ENTREE #7

Name a sound made by a certain animal that begins with the same two letters of that sound. Change one letter in the sound to the letter four places later in the alphabet, and you’ll get a word for the fluffy, downy soft hair, or pile, that covers the round body of this animal.

What’s the sound, and what’s word for the fluffiness that covers the body of the animal?

What is the animal?

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Idiomatic Dessert:

A gal of the olden Golden West

Take three words associated with Nellie Cashman. Also take one word associated with Giacomo Puccini’s opera “The Girl of the Golden West.” 

Rearrange the eighteen letters in these four words to spell two pairs of words that appear together in a common idiom.  

What are these eight words – these “four of a kind” and “two pair”?

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 LegoLambda, 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.

Hot dogs and hot rods; Recreation and crop cultivation; Stalking the Great White Way; Unplug a fryer to prelude a fire; Econ, Pol, Antonym, Aussie, UK, Animal

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Stalking the Great White Way

They say the neon lights  – and the stars – are bright on Broadway.

Take the surname of an actor – one with “star power” –who played a principal role in a famous Broadway production. 

Take also a synonym of “principal role.” 

Anagram the combined letters of these two words to spell a main setting in this play. 

What are this surname, synonym, setting and title of this Broadway play?

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Worldplay Appetizer (Silent L Edition):

Econ, Pol, Antonym, Aussie, UK, Animal

Twice two letters

1. 🗠 A famous living two-word person in 14 letters and a two-word economics term in 18 letters have the same starting letters for the respective words in the name and the phrase.
Who are the person and economics term?

Self-Antonym

2. 📖 A nine-letter word contains one letter four times and another letter twice. This word has two meanings that are antonyms. What is the word?

Political prerequisite

3. 🏛 Think of a characteristic of a politician that makes her or him a stronger candidate. Drop the third letter. Insert into this result two adjacent letters of the alphabet: one in the third-to-last place and one at the end. The result is a holiday. What are the characteristic and holiday?

Aussie appendages?

4. 🦘 Think of an Australian staple. Split it into two halves. Append to the first half a piece of furniture. Append to the second half four letters that suggest a Soviet football (soccer) team or a unit of force. What are the Australian staple and the two words that result?

Sdrawkcab

5. 🧱 Spell an animal backwards to obtain a layer. 

What are the animal and layer?

Cut a word, add a word

6. 🎌 Think of a 9-letter word used in the UK. Drop the first two letters, which form a word. Add two different letters (that form a different word) to the 7-letter remainder to form a synonym for the original word that is used in the USA. What are the two 9-letter words?

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Grilled Cheese Slice:

Hot dogs and hot rods

Name a kind of sandwich, in two words.

Make a duplicate of the first word’s second letter. Place it between the first and third letters of the second word.

Swap the first word’s first letter with second
word’s first letter. 

The result sounds like a dilapidated vehicle and an adjective that describes it. 

What are this sandwich, vehicle and adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

Unplug a fryer to preclude a fire

Will Shortz’s April 17th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young who conducts the blog “Puzzleria!,” reads:

Name a vehicle in two words – 4 letters in the first, 5 letters in the last. Move the second letter of the last word into the second position
of the first word. The result phonetically will name a popular figure from legend. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker in two words – 6 letters in the first, 5 letters in the last. 

Remove the first letter and last three letters in the name. They spell the surname of an analytical psychologist who was a friend of the author of “Steppenwolf” and “Siddhartha.”

Remove the third, second, fourth and sixth of the remaining letters. They spell the surname of a man who, according to Alistair Cooke, regarded the English language as Zsa Zsa Gabor regarded the male of the species: as “a wonderful object to manipulate, to flog, to coax and have a barrel of fun with.”

The letters that remain spell an interjection used to express various emotions – taunting, for example, or amused surprise.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the two surnames and the interjection? 

ENTREE #2

Name an airborne vehicle in two words – 4 letters in the first, 6 letters in the last. Spoonerize the words (that is, interchange their initial letters). The result will be two words:

1. the “thing,” in four letters, that the Sioux and Cheyenne “got on” a popular legendary but historic figure about a week before the U.S. Centennial, and

2. the surname of this legendary figure.

What is this vehicle?What “thing” did the Sioux and Cheyenne “get on” the popular legendary but historic figure?

What is this figure’s surname?

ENTREE #3

Name a vehicle in two words – 9 letters in the first, 3 letters in the last. Replace the middle letter of the first word with a duplicate of the first letter in the last word. 

Interchange the second and third letters of the first word, then change the new second letter to an “a” and place a hyphen between the fourth and fifth letters of the first word. 

The result will describe this vehicle which, if you had boarded it in Indianapolis, would have cost you at least $40 for a ticket.  

What is this vehicle?

What is its description?

ENTREE #4

Name a vehicle – an 8-letter compound word. Divide the word into its two parts, then interchange them. Then interchange their vowel sounds. The result phonetically will name what you do when you sink your teeth into a baguette. 

What is the vehicle?

What do you do with the baguette?

ENTREE #5

Name a vehicle in two words – 7 letters in the first, 8 letters in the last – that transported pioneers. Spoonerize these words – that is, interchange their initial sounds. 

The result phonetically will describe a Frenchman named Pierre Riviére who lived in Normandy during the 19th Century.

What is this pioneer vehicle?

What is the description of Pierre Riviére?

ENTREE #6

Name a vehicle – a compound word with 4 letters in the first part, 7 letters in the last. Divide the word into its two parts. Replace the first letter of the first part with duplicates of the first two letters of the last part. In the last part, replace the second letter with an “h” and delete the final two letters.

The result is two types of animals found on a farm.

What is this vehicle?

What are the two types of animals?

Hint: The vehicle is a warship, but one with a raison d’etre that is truly defensive rather than offensive.   

ENTREE #7

Name a vehicle in two words – 6 letters in the first, 3 letters in the last. 

Interchange the middle letter of the last word with the fourth and fifth letters of the first word. 

Double the last letter of the first word and replace its second and third letters with one letter that makes their identical sound.

The result will something often seen and things often heard on Halloween.

What is this vehicle?

What are seen and heard on Halloween?

ENTREE #8

Name a popular figure from legend in two words – 3 letters in the first, 4 letters in the last. Switch the first two letters of the last word with the first two letters of the first. 

The result will spell a person in a Trinity and something artists and other illustrators often place in the vicinity of his head. 

Who is this figure from legend?

Who is this person in a trinity, and what is often placed near his head in illustrations? 

ENTREE #9

Name a popular figure from legend in two words separated by a hyphen – 6 letters in the first, 3 letters in the last. The first three letters and last letter in the name, in order, spell a verb associated with the figure. The remaining five letters can be rearranged to spell a second verb. These two verbs belong in the blanks in the following sentences:

“One ability this popular figure from legend didn’t originally receive from his past radioactive bite-from-a-pest was the power to ____ webs. But he knew he couldn’t truly be a legendary figure without webs, so he  _____ himself with web-shooters he made.”

Who is this figure from legend?

What are the two verbs in the blanks?

Hint: The initials of this legendary figure’s alter ego are P and P.)

ENTREE #10

Name a popular legendary fictional figure – 6 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Take the first three letters of the last name followed by the second half of the first name to name a second popular legendary fictional
figure.

Anagram the five letters that remain in the first figure’s name to spell a noun you are not likely to hear in movie theaters that screen movies featuring either of these two legendary figures.

Who are these two legendary figures?

What don’t you hear in movie theaters featuring these figures?

ENTREE #11

Name a popular legendary female fictional character – first and last names, 13 total letters.

Swap the sixth and ninth letters. Move the tenth letter to the third position.

Nine consecutive letters within the result, in order, spell the name of a legendary female fictional title character. Remove them. 

The four remaining letters, in order, spell a female name that is the title of different songs (by two different rock groups) that acheved double-digit rankings on the US Top Pop (Billboard) Singles Charts in the 1980s.

Who are these two fictional characters?

What is the song title?

ENTREE #12 

Name a popular legendary fictional figure – 7 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last.

Anagram the combined letters in the name to form an adjective and noun, also in 7 and 4 letters, that appear at the end of an apothegm attributed to a 19th American poet. In the apothegm, the these two words are contrasted to the words “heavenly minded.”

That poet also wrote a four-couplet poem in praise of his maternal great-grandmother in which her first name appears twice. That first name is the same as that of the legendary fictional figure. 

Who is the legendary fictional figure?

What is the apothegm?

Hint: The poet’s 3-letter monogram can be anagrammed to spell two words with which news reporters begin questions.

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Great Outdoors Dessert:

Recreation and crop cultivation

Divide a word for a competitive outdoor activity into two unequal parts. 

The result will be a pair of plural nouns – two aids farmers might use in crop cultivation.

What is this outdoor game?

What are the two farmers’ aids.

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 Super PUZeeZeeLE from SuperZee! “Si ence is Go den” Y’all try to recall a prez and a pol; The Secret ain’t outta the bag; Cuddling, contentment and containment;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Y’all try to recall a prez and a pol

Name a U.S. president, first and last names. 

Remove from this name all six letters in a two-syllable synonym of “noise.” 

Rearrange what remains to to spell the first name of a politician with whom the president was closely associated. 

If you instead remove two four-letter strings from the president’s name, what remains is the surname of this politician. 

Who are this president and politician?

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Jeffrey Riffery Appetizer:

A Super PUZeeZeeLE from SuperZee!

(Note: Our good friend Jeff Zarkin, whose screen name is “SuperZee,” has created a beautiful riff-off of this week’s National Public Radio “Weekend Edition Sunday” Puzzle. We are proud to feature it in this edition of his “Jeff Zarkin Puzzle Riffs.”)

Take a five-letter word with a vocalized “L”. 

Add one letter to create a word with a silent “L”.  

Remove one letter and add two of another.

Rearrange the result to get a famous name with a vocalized “L”.

What are these two words and one name?

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Synonymous Slice:

Cuddling, contentment and containment

Take a synonym of “cuddles.” 

Double its third letter. 

Then divide the result between these double letters to spell two words: a kind of container, and what that container might contain. 

(For example, if the synonym were “carouses,” you would double the “r” to get “carrouses,” then divide that between the two “r’s” to get “car + rouses.”)  

What are this synonym and two new words? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Ofsevit Slices:

“Si ence is Go den”

Will Shortz’s April 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ari Ofsevit, of Boston, Massachusetts, reads:

Think of a 5-letter word with an “L” that is pronounced. Add a letter at the start to get a 6-letter word in which the “L” is silent. Then add a new letter in the fifth position to get a 7-letter word in which the “L” is pronounced again. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Ofsevit Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a two-word caption for the illustration shown here, in four and six letters. 

Rearrange those ten letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is it, and what is the caption?

ENTREE #2

Think of a 4-letter word with an “L” that is pronounced. 

Add a consonant at the start and a new vowel to the immediate left of the “L” to get a 6-letter word in which the “L” is silent. 

Then add a vowel and a consonant to the end of the 6-letter word to get an 8-letter word in which the “L” is pronounced again. What words are these?

ENTREE #3

Think of a 6-letter word with an “B” that is pronounced. Add a letter at the start to get a 7-letter word in which the “B” is silent. 

Then replace the last two letters with a homophone of “8” to get a 8-letter word in which the “B” is again pronounced. What words are these?

Hint: The 8-letter word describes a type of American pottery with a lustrous metallic surface typically the color of lead but sometimes grayish-green or orange.

ENTREE #4

Think of a 6-letter word with an “L” that is silent. Rearrange these letters to get a 6-letter word in which the “L” is pronounced. This new word is a collective term for literary characters named Biff, Willy and Happy (but not Doc, Dopey, Marty, Sneezy, Sleepy or Grumpy!). What two words are these?

ENTREE #5

Think of a 10-letter word with an “L” that is pronounced. It is a synonym of “drivel.”

Remove the fourth letter to get a 9-letter word with an “L” that is pronounced. It is a particular kind of “deliverance.” Replace the final five letters with one vowel to get a 5-letter noun for a remedial or soothing influence – a noun in which the “L” is silent. What three words are these?

ENTREE #6

Think of a 4-letter word for a person on a talk show with an “H” that is pronounced. Add a letter at the start to get a 5-letter word in which the “H” is silent. Then rearrange those  five letters to get the first five letters in a 7-letter firearm – a word in which the “H” is pronounced again. What three words are these?

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Found-On-The-Floor Dessert:

The Secret ain’t outta the bag

Spoonerize the two words of something you might have on the floor of your car to get what sounds like something, in two words, that you
might find on the floor beneath your Christmas tree in a Victoria’s Secret bag or box. 

What are these four 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.)

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.