Happiness is a nifty, fine puzzle; Literary allusion sans inclusion; The ABCs of serving rotisserie food; Volcano, metal, sand & gravel, barren-landscape boulder; “Cars and Coronavirus”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

The ABCs of serving rotisserie food

Write down the five-letter name of a food. 

Move each letter sixteen spots later in the circular alphabet — so A would become Q, B would become R, etc. 

The result will be a word for how the food is often served. 

What are these two words?

Hint: The “spittin’” image of the roasted rotisserie kebabs, pictured here, is a red-hot herring. Our intended answer, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. 

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Jacobian Appetizer:

“Cars and Coronavirus”

1. 🚘Take the name of a car company. 

Add the letters in “I stall.” 

Rearrange the combined letters to get a city in Virginia. 

What are the names of the car and the city in Virginia?

2. 🤒Take a word meaning “sickness.” 

Remove the first two letters to get another
word meaning “sickness.” 

What words are these?

3.🚗What property do the Nissan Rogue, Buick Lacrosse, and Buick Verano have in common?

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Patriotic Slice:

Literary allusion sans inclusion

Name a person associated with American patriotism. 

Change an “S” in the name to an “L”. Rearrange the result to spell a type of literary work the person composed and two images to which its text alludes, but not includes. 

Name this author, literary work and two alluded-to images.

Hint: The literary work the person composed is a synonym of “song.”

Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices:

Happiness is a nifty, fine puzzle

Will Shortz’s June 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle is a riddle created by Greg Van Mechelen, of Berkeley, California. It reads:

How old was Reverend Spooner when he
found happiness?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Van Mechelen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker with two-part surname. Spoonerize the two parts. 

The new first part is what a boy grows up to be.

The new second part starts with a four-letter syllable that sounds like the the surname of a past baseball executive and promoter who was associated with “disco nights,” and a “little person who wore the fraction1/8 on his uniform. 

The surname ends with what sounds like the first two syllables of the first name of the executive’s first wife. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Reverend Spooner was 59 years old when he found happiness. Spoonerize two consecutive words in that sentence. 

The result, if you insert a consonant in the second position of one of the two spoonerized  words, is a critter and a quality this critter’s ears may likely possess.

What is this critter and what is the quality?

ENTREE #3

How old was Reverend Spooner when he finally began managing his finances in a frugal
manner after he inherited an estate of land?

Hint: When Reverend Spooner was this old, he may have found wealth but he had not yet found happiness.

ENTREE #4

Express a two-digit number by pronouncing its digits, in order, then spoonerize the result. 

(For example 23 would be pronounced not as “twenty-three” but as “two-three,” which when spoonerized sounds like “threw-tee,” which is what an angry golfer might have done after hooking his drive into the rough.)

Now spoonerize such a two-digit number that was sported on the uniforms of quarterbacks with the initials J.U. and J.M. The result, when preceded by a color, results in what sounds like a brand-name alcoholic beverage.

What are the number and brand name?

ENTREE #5

Express a two-digit number by pronouncing its digits, in order. (For example 26 would be pronounced not as “twenty-six” but as “two-six” which, when spoonerized, sounds like “Sioux tix,” which is what fans of University of North Dakota football or hockey  might have coveted prior to 2012, when the nickname was changed from “Fighting Sioux” to “Fighting Hawks.”

And now (for something completely different), spoonerize such a two-digit number that is associated with Petrarchan and Shakespearean forms of poetry. 

The result is an oxymoronic phrase that contradicts a quotation attributed to American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.

What are the number and oxymoronic phrase?

What was General Sherman’s quotation?

ENTREE #6

Express a two-digit number by pronouncing its digits, in order. For example 20 would be pronounced not as “twenty” but as “two-zero” or as “two-oh” which when spoonerized sound like “zoo tea-row” or as “Ooh toe!” (which both just so happen to be nonsensical phrases).

Spoonerize a similar such number to form what sounds like either:

1. the Jewish people or their homeland, and the name of a Roman emperor, or

2. the response blurted out by a precocious student, with her hand raised high and waving wildly, because she is sure of the answer to a tough question her teacher posed to the class.

What is this number?

What are the Jewish people or their homeland, and the name of the Roman emperor?

What response does the precocious girl blurt out?

ENTREE #7

Express a two-digit number by pronouncing its digits in order (as in Entrees #4, #5 and #6). Spoonerize a similar such number to form what sounds like what team president Steve Mills, general manager Scott Perry, and other members of an NBA franchise’s brain trust do that is a part of their job.

What is this number? What must this NBA brain trust do that is a part of their job?

Dessert Menu

Star-Spangled Dessert:

Volcano, metal, sand & gravel, barren-landscape boulder 

Rearrange the combined letters of three consecutive words of our national anthem to spell three geological words: a precious metal, a part of a volcano, and a ridge of stratified sand and gravel.

Those same letters can be rearranged to spell a two-word description of a record-breaking boulder and a word for the barren landscape in California where you will find it. 

What are these three words of our national anthem?

What are the six six geographical 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.

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