Municipersonalities, Spoon-tunes & Pristine sin-onyms; A Portrait of the Poultry Artist as a Young Man; “Meet the Beatles’... Kinfolk!” “You are the Apple of my iPaddleball!” A light you might sight in the night

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A Portrait of the Poultry Artist as a Young Man

Describe, in two words, Colonel Harland Sanders as an older gentleman. Drop one syllable and get what sounds like a possible two-word description of Colonel Harland Sanders as a younger gentleman. 

What are these two two-word descriptions?

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Skydiversionary Tactical Appetizer:

Municipersonalities, Spoon-tunes & Pristine sin-onyms

Municipersonalities

1. 💁🏙🧖Cities have their own distinct personalities. Their names may or may not reveal information regarding their personalities. However, there is one world capital city that is rather up-front about revealing its personality. Can you name it?

“Sit, ripen!” is an anagram of “Pristine”

2. 🗺Think of a country and its capital. 

Anagram the result to indicate pristine letters. What are these four words?

Spoon-tunes

3. 🏝Think of a well known island that begins with a pronoun, followed by a cooking
implement. 

Add a “V” and the remainder is a musical instrument. 

What is this island?

 “...Where seldom is heard any word that means ‘turd’...” 

4. 🐱🐘⛪Think of a mammal in six letters. Place a space after the initial letter and then change the last letter to an “o”. 

Now add “you not!” to the end to form a
humorous four-word phrase spoofing a common four-word phrase seldom heard in church. What is it?

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Astronomical Slice:

A light you might sight in the night

Rearrange the letters of a light one might sight in the night sky to form an adjective describing it. 

What are this light and its adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz And Wagner Slices:

“You are the Apple of my iPaddleball!”

Will Shortz’s October 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Wagner of Atlanta, Georgia, reads:

Think of a common phrase in the form “___ of my ___.” The word that goes in the first blank is the name of a well-known company.

And the word that goes in the second blank sounds like part of the names of many of that company’s products. 

What phrase is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Wagner Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a phrase in the form “a ___ of my ___.” The 7-letter word in the first blank is something you might see in art class, or at a charity event. The 4-letter word in the second blank is a one-syllable male name that is a short form of a 5-letter, 2-syllable version of that name.

Rearrange those 11 letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. The 5-word phrase is how this puzzle-maker’s mother, wife or girlfriend might describe a work of art on her wall that she commissioned an artist to create. 

What phrase is it?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Think of a common phrase in the form “___ of my ___,” in 5 and 3 letters. Rearrange the 12 letters in the phrase to form: 

1. a slang 4-letter verb associated with the 3-letter word,

2. a 5-letter Gillette brand introduced in 1953, and

3. a 3-letter Red Crown or Red Devil product that might help unclog your bathroom sink.

What phrase is it?

What are the slang verb, Gillette brand and unclogging product?

ENTREE #3

Think of a common phrase in the form “the ___ of my ___,” that is also the title of a comedy movie from the 1980s. The word in the first blank is the name of Procter & Gamble product launched in the 1950s. Rot 6 the word in the second blank. 

Remove a pair of “i’s” and replace one of the “y’s” with the title character in a 1980s science fiction movie.

The result is the first word in a pop novelty instrumental tune associated with Boots Randolph and Benny Hill.

What phrase is it?

What is the Procter & Gamble product?

What is the pop novelty instrumental tune?

ENTREE #4

Think of a common phrase in the form “the ___ of my ___.” The word that goes in the first blank followed by the word that goes in the second blank is the name of a well-known company. 

Anagram each of these words to name a computer extension that indicates to
your device which app you can use to gain access to data. The 5-word phase is the title of an Oscar-winning song.

What phrase is it?

What is the company?

What is the computer extension?

Hint: The word in the second blank followed, without a space, by the word in the first blank is the name of an American basic cable channel.

ENTREE #5

Think of a not-so-common nautical phrase in the form “I like the ___ of your ___.” It means  “I like how you look” or “I like how you think.” The word in the first blank is a three-letter synonym of “carve” or “cleave.” ROT 15 the second and third letters of this synonym, then ROT 25 its first letter and place this result after your ROT 15 result to spell the word in the second blank.

What is this phrase?

ENTREE #6

Arachibutyrophobia? I have it. It’s the fear of peanut butter sticking to “the ___ of my ___.” Anagram the combined letters in those two missing words to spell a two-word phrase that describes the following jokes:

How does a frog feel when he breaks a toe? 

What is a ghost with a broken toe called? 

What do you call a cow without toes?

(Answers: Unhoppy; A hoblin goblin; Lack-toes intolerant.)

What words go in the blanks?

What is the two-word phase?

ENTREE #7

Think of a common phrase in the form “...____ of the ____ and the ____ of the _____,” in 4, 4, 4 and 5 letters.

In the plot of a past sitcom, a father and his young son attend to the medical needs of a matronly aunt with whom they live. When the father takes her temperature on Saturday the reading is 101.4 degrees. Happily, on Sunday the reading is 98.6 degrees. In the script the father reassures his son regarding her health:

“Your Aunt ___ ___ a _____ yesterday, son, but today she is back to ______,” in 3, 3, 5 and
6 letters.

The 17 letters in the four blanks of the common phrase that opens this puzzle are the same as the 17 letters in the second four blanks, albeit rearranged.

What are the eight words in the blanks?

Hint: The words in the first four blanks are normally sung.

ENTREE #8:

Think of a song title and 1933 movie title in the form “___ o’ My _____.” The song was featured in the 1913 musical “Ziegfeld Follies.” The cast of the movie included actors named Tyrell, Onslow and Marion (...no, that’s not Marion Morrison!). 

The word that goes in the first blank is a hard throw from an outfielder or a Steely Dan song title.

Rearrange the combined letters of the two words in the blanks to spell a hyphenated theorem that is also known as the Steinhaus conjecture. 

What song/movie title is this?

What is the hyphenated theorem?

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Spoon-Fed Edible Dessert:

“Meet the Beatles’... Kinfolk!”

Separate the two syllables of an edible market commodity. 

Switch their initial letters. 

The result spells a pair of consecutive nouns a Beatle might have used in introducing one of his relatives to a friend. 

What is this commodity?

What are the two words?

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