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. 

Appetizer Menu

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?

MENU

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

Dessert Menu

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.

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