Sunset tents and thirteen cents; “I’ll hafta bone up on my isles!” “Imbibing beer makes me tired!” What happens after huntin’s & trappin’s? Colors, commodities & country; Figure-out-me-nots, posey-posers, poppy-quizzes & other “puzzaleas”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Sunset tents and thirteen cents

“The sun went down, causing Sioux tents called wigwams to become less warm, which, thanks to five words in this sentence, makes this puzzle worth a dime and three pennies.”

What are these five words?

In what way do they make this puzzle worth a dime and three pennies?

Hint: The five words are not “a dime and three pennies.”

Appetizer Menu

A Mixed Bouquet Appetizer: 

Figure-out-me-nots, posey-posers, poppy-quizzes & other “puzzaleas” 

What is this “gee-ar-o-u-pee”?

1. 👨👩👳👵👴Spell out the last letter of a four-letter demographic group. 

Divide the result into two parts to get two
abbreviated items in a series. 

What is next item in this series?

What is the demographic group?

Note: Some examples of spelled-out letters
are: “f” = “ef,” “c” = “cee,” and “h” = “aitch.”)  

Movie morphs into a musical

2. 🍖🥩Place a one-word “survival-thriller” movie title onto a “cutting-board.” 

“Slice” a kind of meat out of it and put it to the side. Also cut out letter-number-2, but throw it away. 

What remains on the board is a five-letter word.

Take the meat you had put to the side. Replace its first letter with a copy of its last
letter.  Place this result, without a space, to the left of the five letter word. The result is the title of a theatrical musical.

What are this movie title and musical titles?

Clearing the “heir”

3. 🕮🍯Take a synonym of “clear.”

Divide it near the middle to get a two-word phrase that may describe either of two people, named Dennis and Martha, who have different surnames beginning with P.

What is this synonym?

What is the phrase?

“Flippin’ flowers downstream”

4. ⚘🥀🎕Name a kind of flower. 

Flip its first letter 180-degrees. Move its second letter “down-river” 16 letters in the “alphabet stream.” 

Tag onto the end of this result a two-letter abbreviation of a Canadian province. 

The result will be the last word in the name of a “one-hit-wonder” garage-rock group from the 1960s.

What are this flower and musical group?

Bonus question: Can you name this “one hit” tune from this “one-hit-wonder”  group?

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Outdoorsy Slice:

What happens after huntin’s & trappin’s? 

Name something a hunter or trapper might use and where he may place it.

Spoonerizing these words results in the possible result of this action.  

What are these four words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices:

“Imbibing beer makes me tired!”

Will Shortz’s October 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty of Newport News, Virginia, reads:

Think a two well-known names, each in eight letters that have the same first six letters in the same order. 

Both brands are of products, one found in a supermarket and one for something used outdoors. And even though the first six letters of the names are the same, they’re not pronounced the same. What products are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of two well-known seven-letter model names – or “name plates” – of a make of an American luxury car that have the same last six letters in the same order. These six letters are also the last six letters in the seven-letter first name of a puzzle-maker.

The first five letters of one of these model names spell the last word in a 1954 cult film set in Africa that starred a famous actor. Place the last letter of this actor’s first name at the end of his last name. Change the first letter of his last name to a letter that appears in the middle of a dictionary pronunciation of his first name. The result is the puzzle-maker’s surname.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the two luxury car models?

Who is the famous actor?

What is the 1954 cult film?

ENTREE #2

Name a video-sharing platform. Add an “r” to the end. 

Remove four consecutive letters that spell what sounds like an athlete based in Salt Lake City. 

The result is the name of a mobility-providing service.

What are this platform, service and athlete?

ENTREE #3

Think of a research company that specializes in audio. 

Move the third letter to the end. Place in that vacated space the letter that would appear there in a dictionary pronunciation of the word. 

Switch the positions of the two vowels. 

The result is the surname of a well-known entrepreneur.

What is this company?

Who is the well-known entrepreneur?

ENTREE #4

Think of a well-known brand name of a two-word food product, in eight letters. 

Remove the seventh letter to form the two-word name of a fast-food restaurant chain during the 1960s-to-1980s.

Hint: The  brand name is associated with aviation, as is the city where the restaurant chain was headquartered.

What are this brand name and restaurant chain?

ENTREE #5

Think of a well-known food brand name in nine letters. Its last four letters spell an oil brand that sounds like the two initials of the oil brand’s parent company. 

Four consecutive letters in the interior of the food brand spell a voracious monster. Its first four letters, in reverse order, spell a generic trail mix. What are the eight-letter food brand name, the oil brand, the voracious monster, and the generic trail mix? 

ENTREE #6

Think of an oral hygeine brand whose last syllable sounds like the first syllable of a beverage brand. 

Four consecutive letters in the beverage brand are a medical term meaning “toward the mouth.”

The oral hygeine brand is sometimes marketed
as a mouth freshener. Replace four consecutive letters in the beverage with an “L” to spell a brand of air freshener.

What are the oral hygeine brand, the beverage brand, the medical term, and the air freshener brand?

ENTREE #7

Name a German multinational corporation that manufactures things people wear. Research and find the first and fourth letters of the founder’s surname. These letters are the second and sixth letters of the corporation’s name. 

Remove them from the name of the corporation. 

The result is the title of an Italian opera.

What are the German multinational corporation and Italian opera?

Who founded the corporation?

Hint #1: People wearing these things share something in common with a nine-year U.S. Army veteran or four-year Navy, Marine or Coast Guard veteran.

Hint #2: The first two letters of the corporation founder’s first name and first three letters of his surname are the first two letters and last three letters of the corporation’s name.

ENTREE #8

Think of the brand name of an edible yellow product. The brand contains five consecutive interior letters that spell a two-word exclamation of resignation a competitor in a contest might make. 

Now think of a word for a light purplish-blue color that contains four consecutive interior letters that spell a two-word exclamation the opposing competitor may make in response to that exclamation.

What are this brand name and purplish blue color?

What are the two exclamations?

ENTREE #9

Think of a Russian composer, a Presley, a financial services corporation, a white wine named after an Italian village, a beer brand, a snack food company and a audio streaming and media services provider. 

Consecutive letters in the first four names spell flowers. 

Consecutive letters in the final three names spell words associated with flowers.

What are these seven “floral words”?

Dessert Menu

Color My World Deliciously Dessert:

Colors, commodities & country

Name a commodity that is also a word for a color. 

Anagram this word to name another color – a color that’s also a word for a person from a country that that produces many of these commodities. 

What are these two words?

Celebrity Daughter Dessert:

“I’ll hafta bone up on my isles!”

Take the first and middle names of the daughter of a celebrity. 

Change the middle name to a different form of that name by changing its last letter to a different vowel. From this result, remove interior consecutive letters that spell an isle in the Philippines. 

Rearrange the remaining letters to spell bones,
in four letters, that are two parts of one body part that is the third word in a nickname of her famous parent.

Who is this daughter?

What are this isle and these bones?

What is the nickname?

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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