Multifaceted Crossword Diamond; ????? ???’ll soon be ?????; Critters in English and French; Claire Annette Funi Cello; Dy(e)ing in style

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

?????  ???’ll soon be  ?????

Think of a healthful food. 

Spell it backwards.

The first five letters of this result spell a less-healthful food.

The last three letters of the result are an anagram of what a certain type of this less-healthful food started out as. 

What are these three words?

Hint: Two of these three words appear in the puzzle title. The contraction rhymes with a healthful-yet-tasty food. The first word in the title would rhyme with that contraction and tasty food if it had a short rather than long vowel sound. (For example, “code” would rhyme  with “god” and “sod” if it had a short-o instead of a long-o.)

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A Gem Of An Appetizer:

Multifaceted Crossword Diamond

ACROSS

1 Be subject to something bad as a result of one’s actions

6 Isolated spots

8 After the cross-country Greyhound pit stop

10 A “chapter” in the Qur’an

12 Reddish brown

DOWN

1 Type of beam

2 Yes we have bananas

3 Hard-to-find #54

4 Useless less les

5 Another one rides the bus

7 One before surf

9 Gullible one

11 Aloha

13 Your grade on this test

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Proverbial Slice:

Critters in English and French

Name a place that rhymes with a pair of consecutive words in a proverb.

Replace two consecutive letters with a “t” to spell an English word for a critter. If you instead delete the first and third letters and place the second letter in the midst of the remaining letters the result is a French word for another critter.

What are these three words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices:

Claire Annette Funi Cello

Will Shortz’s August 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Rawson Scheinberg of Northville, Michigan, reads:

Think of an eight-letter noun composed phonetically of two consecutive names traditionally given to girls. Remove the sixth letter and rearrange the result. You’ll get an event where you might hear the thing named by the original noun. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the 16-letter name of a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the letters to get:

1. the surname of a German-Swiss author,

2. the surname of a Lebanese-American
author, and

3. a five-letter word that is the name of a publishing group that printed a 1972 paperback edition of the first author’s stories, and which also is the singular form of the missing word in “For even as love ______ you so shall he crucify you...” which appears in the second author’s most well-known work.

Who are these authors and the puzzle-maker?

What is this five-letter word?

ENTREE #2

Place two names traditionally given to girls side-by-side, in three letters and five letters. Insert an “r” in the three-letter word, resulting in a nine-letter noun associated with women.

Replace the first letter of this noun with a “g” and divide the result into two parts, forming the first names of the actor and actress who starred in an early-1990s sitcom with a title that alluded, albeit obliquely, to the nine-letter noun.

What are these two girls’ names?

What is the nine-letter noun associated with women?

What is the sitcom title and who were its stars? 

ENTREE #3

Think of an six-letter European city composed of two consecutive names traditionally given to girls. Remove the fourth letter and ROT-13 the result to get a means of transportation. 

What city is this?

What is the means of transportation?

ENTREE #4

Think of a ten-letter noun composed, somewhat phonetically, of a man’s  first name, a great and mighty wizard’s name and a woman’s first name. 

Remove the sixth letter from the noun and rearrange the result. 

You’ll get a word that describes St. Augustine and where he hailed from. What five words are these?

ENTREE #5

Think of an seven-letter noun that is not associated with clarinets, but is associated with horns. 

This word is composed of the name of a princess, a letter that sounds like the name of any French girl, and the name of a fictional French Madame. 

What noun and three names are these?

ENTREE #6

I. Name a Shore and a Stooge to get what sounds like a fireball, pistol or live wire.

II. Name Don’s brother and Ernie’s buddy to get what sounds like a nut. 

III. Name Kanga’s kid and the first name of a comic book superheroine whose surname, if you ROT-9 it, is Kukla’s creator. 

The result sounds like the kind of a heated dispute or controversy in which baseball managers Earl Weaver, Billy Martin or Don Zimmer were involved

IV. Place side-by-side the first names of two actors who portrayed a Brazil native with the middle name Riddle who served 13 years in prison for bribery and fraud. The result spells a creature that is also a word for a person who serves or collaborates with another especially in the commission of base acts. Name these actors and creature.

V. Name a “Yankee” whose all-star sporting skills were fit for a king, and an “Arkie” whose soul singing skills are still fit for a king. 

Both are “persons of color.” Their surnames are both colors.

Place their first names side-by-side to spell an adjective associated with kings.

Who are these skillful people?

What is the adjective?

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Self-Aware Dessert:

Dy(e)ing in style

Divide an 11-letter word for self-awareness in two, forming a word related to dying and a word related to style. 

What are these 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.)

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.

Moved, musically & automotively; Park, store, stadium sights-seeing; Novels, and Oval Office rivals; “Mentor of the victors” “All God’s creatures got a place in the choir...loft!” A case of mistaken “EponyMENUty” How do you solve a puzzle like Will Shortz’s... and what do you call it, anyway?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A case of mistaken “EponyMENUty”

Remove three letters from the ends of an ingredient in an eponymous menu item, leaving the first two of the last six words attributed to a famous person for whom many wrongly
assume the item was named.

What are this menu item, ingredient and two words?

Hint: The last two letters of the ingredient followed by its first two letters spell the first two-thirds of an ingredient you might find in a salad. 

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GanGBusters Appetizer:

Moved, musically & automotively

Third notes

1.🎜🎝 Take a telephone number made famous in popular music. 

Then take the third letter on each telephone key which corresponds to the dialing sequence of that number. Drop the second and sixth of those letters. 

Rearrange the remaining letters to make a word which describes the marvelous musical telephone number. 

What are the telephone number and the descriptive word? 

Brand begets brand

2.🚗 Name an automobile brand. Switch two vowels in the name. Read the result backward to get the name of an automobile brand. What is it? 

Place setting

3.📺 Name the setting of a long-running 1970’s-80’s prime-time TV show. Remove a conjunction. 

The remaining letters, in order left to right, spell the name of a creature or an island.
Placing a vowel in front of the name of the creature or island will result in a well known commercial brand name. What is the setting? What is the name of the creature or island? What is the brand name?

From “Mail Truck” to “Mali”? Calling Cliff Clavin!

 4.⛟ Name an iconic

mode of transport associated with the 1970’s-80’s prime-time TV show in Appetizer #3. 

A number of the first consecutive letters of that mode of transport can be rearranged to spell the name of a country. What are the mode of transport and the country?

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Unfalse Statement Of Fact Slice:

Park, store, stadium sights-seeing

Name things seen at some stadiums, stores, airports or amusement parks. 

Remove from this noun three letters that are successive in the alphabet. Anagram the result to form three words that form a true statement if placed after this noun. 

What is this statement?

“Sevenly” Noah’s Bark Slice:

“All God’s creatures got a place in the choir...loft!”

Name, in nine letters, something most living creatures have.

Letters 1-4 as well as 7-9 spell two things that most such creatures do.

Letters 1-7 are an anagram of something else creatures do.

Five of the nine letters are an anagram of what
helps them do the 7-9 word.

Eight of the nine letters can be used to spell a five-letter word for something creatures do that may help them stay healthy.

Letters 2-5 are an anagram of something they may shed.

What are these seven words?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

How do you solve a puzzle like Will Shortz’s... and what do you call it, anyway? 

Will Shortz’s August 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

We’re in the middle of a two-week creative challenge. The object is to write a sentence using only the letters of any particular U.S. state. You can pick the state and repeat letters as often as necessary. For example:

OREGON => Roger, go gorge on green eggnog.

NEBRASKA => Sen. Ben Sasse’s sneakers reek. (Note: Ben Sasse is a U.S. senator from Nebraska)

Entries will be judged on originality, sense, naturalness of syntax, humor, and overall elegance.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

This first riff-off puzzle is a bit different. It is a tribute of sorts:

The answer to this first Entree is a yet-to-be-coined word that you won’t find in dictionaries (...that you won’t find in dictionaries just yet, anyway):

This word you must find is an eponymous portmanteau noun for one of those pithy, radio-friendly stumpers heard each Sunday on NPR. 

This noun has nine letters, but repeats only one of them. It has five consonants in a row and only two vowels. 

What is this yet-to-be-coined word?

ENTREE #2

This week’s second riff-off puzzle is another one of those creative challenges that Will Shortz conducts on NPR from time to time.

Your challenge is to come up with a yet-to-be-
coined noun that you won’t find in dictionaries (won’t find yet, anyway). Its definition is: “a succinct, radio-friendly stumper heard each Sunday on NPR.” 

What is your candidate for this word-to-be? Or, what are your candidates?

Note: LegoLamda’s candidate for the radio-friendly stumper is the answer to Entree #1, above.

ENTREE #3

Solve the following clues. There are a total of 35 letters in the answers, but only nine different letters. Some or all of these nine letters can arranged to name:  

1. Name of a title character played by an actor, beginning with “The...” (3 letters)

Hint: The actor’s name is an anagram of the name of a prince, and (in two words) what his dad pulled at least one time (5, 3 4)

2. Surname associated with planets (5)

3. Casual summer attire (1-5, 6)

4. Things people sometimes consult during a quest for an anagram of a “pane pill” (5) 

5. The instigator of the quest mentioned in Clue #4 (4 6) 

What are your five answers?

ENTREE #4

Solve the following clues. There are a total of 35 letters in the answers, but – if you disregard the last three letters in the answer to #5 – only six different letters. These six letters (plus the three used just once in the answer to #5) can arranged to name: 

1. an 8-letter word lately in the news.

2. a 5-letter synonym of money that is associated with that 8-letter word,

3. a 6-letter variant spelling of a 7-letter noun that some people associate with that 8-letter word, 

4. a 6-letter adjective that some other people associate with the owner of the 8-letter word, and

5. an 11-letter obession (that Lego may have just coined) for what the 8-letter-word owner seems to have. (Note: the last three letters of this obsession spell the 3-letter first name of an actress famous for “Fame.”)

ENTREE #5

U.S. states that border an ocean are blessed with beaches, yes, but also with aquatic life and an often robust fishing industry.

Name one such coastal state. Its letters, if you use some of them more than once, can be rearranged to spell:

* two similar decapod crustaceans (5 and 6 letters),

* a fish that cannot tolerate salt water (7), and

* a body of water where you would not find that fish, but where you would find this state (3). 

What is the state?

What are the two crustaceans, fish and body of water?

ENTREE #6

The 18 lines below each contain the conjunction “or” flanked by two “clues.” Solve the clues, then replace them with their “solutions” The result will be nine couplets, each with lines that rhyme, more or less.

The first of the nine couplets, #1, serves as an example:

#1. Shooting star or our cheesy green satellite;

Sunset, sunrise or sun beating down from above;

Replace the four clues, two in each line, with the “SOLUTION-WORDS”: 

METEOR=shooting star, 

MOON=our cheesy green satellite), 

EVE, MORN=sunset, sunrise

NOON=sun beating down from above...

to form the couplet:

METEOR OR MOON

EVE, MORN OR NOON

Good luck with the other eight couplets:

Hint: You may have noticed that in our #1 example couplet, all 25 letters in the couplet formed by your answers are the letters in the state of VERMONT.

The words of the eight couplets you solve, below, will possess a similar quality.

#2.

Snaky-haired sis or Thug

1:00 p.m. or 12:00 p.m.

#3

Viscid stuff or Hard stuff

Dubya or Al

#4

Backtrack or Fast-track

Stagnant or Outta here!

#5

Brian or Yoko

Belinda Carlisle or Hence

#6

Holiday drink or Hot rum drink

A “grabbed-at” breakfast item or The puzzle video game formerly known as GNAH 

#7

Un“wise” pope or Emperor

Gull-to-be or Fish eggs

#8

Witch or Switch...

Flip-side or Kanga’s kid

#9

Polluterlike or Environmentally conscious

Ebert or Siskel

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Literary Dessert:

Novels, and Oval Office rivals

The first names of a pair of presidential rivals form the name of the title character in one of those European novels you probably read in secondary school or in a book club. 

Who are these rivals and the character?

California Dream Dessert:

“Mentor of the victors”

Name a two-word event that took place in California very early in a year that was early in the decade of the 1980’s. 

Swap the initial letters of these two words to form what sounds like a two-word phrase, in three and four letters, that might one might define as “mentor of the victors” of this event. 

What the two-word event? 

What is the two-word phrase that you might define as “mentor of the victors.”

Hints: 

1. The thee-letter word is an apostrophized possessive noun.

2. The two words in the phrase contain the same long-vowel sound.

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.

State-inspired Statements; Ailments, aliments and achoos! Loaves & fishes & sweetoothsome dishes; “Sacré bleu! J'en ai marre!” Superheros, zoos, & singin’ “The Sucre (Bolivian) Blues”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Sacré bleu! J’en ai marre!”

Name a non-English expression that will likely make you feel uncomfortable and agitated. 

Adding a long vowel sound to the end sounds
like something that will likely make you feel comfortable... but still agitated. 

What are this uncomfortable expression and comforting agitator?

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Skydiversionary Tactical Topological Appetizer:

Superheros, zoos, & singin’ “The Sucre (Bolivian) Blues” 

1.🍉🍋🍎🍑 Think of a well known province in six letters that is most remembered for its WWII involvement. 

Replace one of its vowels with a consonant to name a well known mythical superhero. 

Or you could replace a different consonant with another consonant and rearrange to name a popular fruit. 

What are the province, superhero and fruit?

2.🕆 Imagine you are in a cemetery witnessing a graveside service. 

Now imagine you also hear some of those assembled there talking, praying and perhaps singing. 

Why might this experience bring to your mind Sucre, Bolivia?

3. 🐅🐎🐘 Think of a world capital city in one word. 

Remove one of the internal letters and rearrange to get a common zoo animal that is not indigenous to that country. 

What are this capital city and zoo animal?

4.🗺Think of a well known world capital city. 

Now rearrange the letters to describe an arrangement that some say applies to this city. 

What are this city and the arrangement that may apply to it?

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“Let’s Play Pepper!” Slice:

Ailments, aliments & achoos!

The first three letters of a department store chain, if you interchange two of them, spell an acronym of an ailment that is associated with a verb that is associated with “pepper.” 

The remaining letters spell what sounds like
the noun in an idiom that contains that verb. 

What are this store chain and idiom?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

State-inspired Statements

Will Shortz’s August 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

This is the start of a two-week creative challenge. The object is to write a sentence using only the letters of any particular U.S. state. You can pick the state and repeat letters as often as necessary. For example:

NEW YORK: No one knew we were ornery.

WASHINGTON: Sighting a ghost tonight was astonishing.

Entries will be judged on originality, sense, naturalness of syntax, humor, and overall elegance.

Puzzleria!s first Riffing Off Shortz’s Slice reads:

ENTREE #1 

This a one-week creative challenge. The object is to write a sentence using only the letters of any one of the suggested literary figures below:

SYLVIA PLATH

DYLAN THOMAS

WILLIAM BLAKE

EZRA POUND

EMILY DICKENSON

SHAKESPEARE

W.H. AUDEN (or,  AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH, if that is what you want to do)

JANE AUSTEN

JORGE LUIS BORGES

LEO TOLSTOY

GEORGE ORWELL

ALICE WALKER

WALKER PERCY

JAMES JOYCE

EMILY BRONTE

WILLIAM FAULKNER

EUDORA WELTY

JOHN STEINBECK

MARK TWAIN 

TONI MORRISON

Of course, if you want to play the maverick, you can instead pen a sentence using a literary figure of your own choosing.

And so, you can pick any literary figure you wish and repeat letters as often as necessary. For example, the first and last names of one Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author can be used to create the sentence:

“ ‘Tis Joe’s intention to inject the hokiest, jokiest content into this site!” 

And the name of an author who was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres can be used to create the sentence:

“Lego’s (or Joe’s) blog is bogus bilge... or lousier!”

Each of those two sentences uses one of the names listed above. See the answer to Entree #2, below, to see two answers to the two sentences LegoLambda came up with.

ENTREE #2:

Who is the author whose name contains all the letters, and only those letters, in:

“ ‘Tis Joe’s intention to inject the hokiest, jokiest content into this site!”?

Who is the author whose name contains all the letters, and only those letters, in:

“Lego’s (or Joe’s) blog is bogus bilge... or lousier!”?

ENTREE #3

Answer as many of the nine clues below as you can. Using only the letters that appear in each of your nine clue answers, you can spell a name of something. (Letters may be used more than once.) These nine “somethings” share some connection in common. The letter-count of each word in each clue answer appears in parentheses after the clue. (The number in the second set of parentheses indictates the number of total letters in the name of the “something.”) 

1. Two services that are offered at a Hollywood spa, and to whom? (6 5 5)(6)

2. Human baby cradlers (5 4)(4)

Hint: The 4-letter word in “(5 4)” is the last word of a novel title that seems to allude to a stationary non-orbiting Venus.

3. The _____ is a hybrid fruit with a very juicy ____ (5 4)(5)

4. What Chi Chi Rodriguez would conventionally do with what what brandished after sinking a birdie, what weapon he pretended what be brandished to be, and then what he signed autographs with as he wended his way through the appreciative gallery  (4 4 3)(7) 

5. Delicious sweet liqueur (5 5 3)(7)

6. Convent residents in the process of
converting to Islam, and what they study daily in preparation (4 5)(6)

7. “ ‘Motorized-horse’ whisperer” on the battlefield (4 3-7)(7)

8. An integer preceded by an adjective that
describes it (6 5)(5)

9. Popcorn, Red Vines or Raisinettes (7 5)(5), or John Wilkes Booth (7 6)(5)

ENTREE #4

Answer as many of the nine clues below as you can. Using only the letters that appear in each of your nine clue answers, you can spell a surname of somebody.  (Letters may be used more than once.) These nine “somebodies” share some connection in common. The letter-count of each word in each answer appears in parentheses after the clue. (The number in the second set of parentheses indictates the number of total letters in the surname of the “somebody.”) 

1. What the Large Hadron Collider in Europe can do quite well (5 5)(6)

2. a Greek letter, and a word meaning to share of distribute that sounds like a two-word 
antonym of that Greek letter (4 5)(5)

3.  A fruit (and its leaves) with medicinal properties and the Hawaiian medicine man who might prescribe it (5 6)(9)

4a. Pigpen stench (3 5)(9)

or,

4b. Greenhouse ambience (4 4 5)(9)

5. Lady, Paul, and James, all music-makers (4 4 4)(5)

6. Something that you can color with, and what you might color with a dark red one (6 4)(12)

7. “During summer vacations as a teen, I would ____ at a ___ where I had to ____ grocery items all day!” (4, 3, 4)(12)

8. Those who cheer on their team (but who, if you insert a hyphen, perhaps also “jeer on” the opposing team) (8)(7)

9a.  Another redundant way of saying “cranky
curmudgeon” (4 6)(7)

or...

9b. What “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “She Loves You,” or “Can't Buy Me Love” (sung in unison by Lennon and his mates) each is an example of, and the first name of Marx (6 7)(7)

ENTREE #5

Put the four different letters of a seven-letter state in alphabetical order. 

Switch the order of the first two letters to spell something soothing. What are the state and the soothing thing?

ENTREE #6

Rearrange the five different letters of an eight-letter state to spell a word for an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and
sarcasm.

What are this state and mocking, irreverent attitude?

ENTREE #7

Rearrange the eight different letters of an ten-letter state to spell two words for things you might see while scuba-swimming in shallow
waters.

What are this state and these things seen in the shallows?

ENTREE #8

Add an “e” to the six different letters of a nine-letter state to spell two words for things you might see in that state, especially in wintertime.

ENTREE #9

Rearrange the six different letters of an eight-letter state to spell a two-word phrase that describes a  Tucker, Avanti, Reo, Rambler Packard, Pontiac, DeSoto, Studebaker, Edsel,
Duesenberg, DeLorean, Oldsmobile or Mercury.

What are this state and phrase?

ENTREE #10

Rearrange the seven different letters of a state to spell a two-word description of either of the pets pictured here.

What are this state and description?

ENTREE #11

Rearrange the five different letters of a state to spell a name of a professional team from “the state across the lake.”

What are this team name and state?

ENTREE #12

Rearrange the four different letters of state to spell a word for where a Northern Mockingbird hangs out.

The Northern Mockingbird supposedly also
hangs out in a state that (after doubling its first letter) is an anagram of two-word phrase that means to “observe Mack, ‘the King of Comedy’ ”

What are this word, phrase and state?

ENTREE #13

Take a U.S. state. Its middle two letters, if the second one is doubled, spell a natural food. The first and fifth letters of the state approximate the shape of this food. The first
three letters of the state are an anagram of a plural form of the food.

What are this state, natural food and plural form of the food?

ENTREE #14

Arrange the four different letters of a seven-letter state into alphabetical order to spell a two-word, four-letter phrase that describes the “edge” enjoyed by a tennis player who has just scored a point when the score had been “deuce.”

What are this state and phrase?

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Recipe Book Dessert:

Loaves & fishes & sweetoothsome dishes

Slice a fruit in two. 

Move the first part to the end, then cut a consonant out of it. 

The result is a dessert. 

What are this fruit and dessert?

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.