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.)

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