“Birdy words” & “candy brands” Cash & Carry “Pursechases” Reindeer games in the news; “Doctor, Lawyer, Industrialist, Chef” “Better living through chemistry... Shazam!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Doctor, Lawyer, Industrialist, Chef”

 Name a profession consisting of an even number of different letters — like “lawyer” or “chef,” but not like “doctor” or “industrialist.”

Take a compound word that is a synonym of this profession. The two parts of this
compound word are anagrams of one another. 

What are this profession and synonym of this profession?

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Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

“Better living through chemistry... Shazam!”  

“Science, Anyone?”

1. ⚖🧪🥼Take a legal term. 

Drop its first three letters. 

Take the result. Make a copy of the second letter and place it at the beginning, leaving the original second letter where it was. The final result is a term related to chemistry. 

Now rearrange the three letters you dropped
orginally to get another legal term. 

What are these three terms?

Note from Plantsmith:

The following appetizer was inspired by Ecoarchitect’s “Nine Supreme Injustices” in his July 15, 2022 edition of Econfusions.   

“Mercy me!” and “Shazam!” 

2. 📺Take a plural word that often characterizes sound bites of politicians. 

Replace its first two letters with two letters that spell the third word in a common southern exclamation that is synonymous with “Mercy me!” or with “Shazam!” (as exclaimed by Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show.”)  

The result is a word for a list of values that
politicians may or may not live by. 

What are these two words?

Hint: The common 3-word southern exclamation that is synonymous with “Mercy me!” or with “Shazam!” starts with W, I and a letter that is a homophone of a creature.

A Murine movie scene, no dry eyes!

3. 🎭Name a popular singer, first and last names. Reverse the order of these names and pluralize the new second name to get what sounds like what  might be a caption for a famous Disney movie scene. 

Who is this singer? 

What are the movie and movie-scene caption?

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Sensational Seasonal Slice:

Reindeer games in the news

Name a sensationalized, grotesquely dramatized, scandal-mongering over-hyped, and exaggerated form of news reporting, in two words. 

Remove from these words the angry letters in the word “ire” and replace them with the familial letters in the word “son”. 

Rearrange the result to spell a character in a holiday song, and a adjective and noun that describe that character.

Riffing Off Shortz And Bergmann Slices:

Cash & Carry “Pursechases”

Will Shortz’s December 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Warren Bergmann of Neenah, Wisconsin, reads:

Listen carefully: Many people carry _____ (4-letter word) in a _____ (5-letter word) to make
_____ (9-letter word). You can rearrange the letters of the first two words (the 4- and 5-letter ones) to get the last word (the 9-letter one). What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bergman Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Christmas creche scenes usually feature a ______ (6-letter word) in a ____ (4-letter word). Often a dove, representing the Holy Spirit, is present. 

But occasionally a different four-letter bird, a ____ (4-letter word), may make an appearance. 

You can rearrange the
14 letters of these three words to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

What are these 6-letter and 4-letter words, and the 4-letter bird?

ENTREE #2

Name an evergreen, candle-lit Christian tradition, in two words, that symbolizes the passage of four weeks in the liturgical calendar of the Western church. 

Anagram the combined letters to get a two-word caption for the image pictured here.

ENTREE #3

Name: 

1. the site of a famous wedding (4 letters);

2. a structure at the wedding that provided wedding guests relief from the sun (4); and 

3. one of the stone jars used to facilitate a miracle there (4).

Anagram these 12 letters to spell:

4. What was poured into the stone jars, and

5. What wedding guests might have used to transfer the transformed liquid from the stone jars into their wedding-wine-goblets.

What five words are these?

ENTREE #4

Name a cylindrical container that may contain cookies, sugar or flour. 

Remove the second letter and anagram the result to name an underground tank that may
contain rainwater.

What are these two containers?

ENTREE #5

Many shady people carry _____ (4-letter word) in a _____ (4-letter word) to use as an inducement to make ____ ___ (4- and 3-letter
words). 

You can rearrange seven of the letters of the first two words (the 4- and 4-letter ones) to get the last two words (the 4- and 3-letter ones). 

What words are these?

ENTREE #6

If musicians Sarah, Daniel and Oz, also known as the “___ ____,” (3- and 4-letter words) get discovered, make it big, and sell more records than The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Madonna, Led Zeppelin and Queen combined, they will have made recording _______! (7-letter word) 

You can rearrange the letters of the first two words (the 3- and 4-letter ones) to get the last word (the 7-letter one). What words are these?

ENTREE #7

___ _________ (3- and 9-letter words) is the bailiwick of a ____________ (12-letter word), like, for example, Coach Genghis or Wackford Squeers. 

You can rearrange the letters of the first two words (the 3- and 9-letter ones) to get the third word (the 12-letter one). 

What words are these?

ENTREE #8

Describe – in three words of 1, 4 and 5 letters – a person who purchased, in 2011 or later, one particular non-gas-guzzling (and non-gas-sipping!) vehicle.

Anagram these combined ten letters to name something (if we can infer this purchasing person’s political proclivities) that she or he would advocate making  back in the early 1970s, in three words of 4, 3 and 3 letters.

ENTREE #9

“__ ___ goal in life is to make _____,” is a quotation that might have been attributed to John Jacob Astor, John D. Rockefeller, Vladimir Putin, King Solomon, Augustus Caesar or Genghis Kahn. The words in the
blanks are an adjective, adjective and noun. Rearrange the letters in the two adjectives to spell the noun.

What is this quotation? 

ENTREE #10

An entry penned in the diary of “Coco O’Neill, the Cockney Girl”:

“Lothario is one ___ cat. First, ‘_ meets a woman, then proceeds to ___ her. Then they’re makin’ _______!”

 The words in the blanks, in order, contain 3, 1, 3 and 7 letters. The seven letters in the first three words are an anagram of the fourth word.

What are these four words?

ENTREE #11

“__’_ the kind of ___... no, that’s the wrong word. He’s the kind of monster who will never apologize, never make ______,’’ said Waushara County Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden in 1957, whose mother had been murdered by this “monster. said Waushara County Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden in 1957. 

You can rearrange the letters of the first two
words in the blanks (each 3 letters) to get the last word in the blank (6 letters). What words are these?

ENTREE #12

Former President Trump and other election-deniers are of the opinion that former Vice President _____ (5 letters) didn’t have the courage to overturn the election results on January 6, 2021. 

That is an opinion that _______ (7 letters) still to this day among those who want to “stop the steal.’’ Therefore, it would make _______ _____ (7 and 5 letters), alas, that this may be the end of democracy as we know it.  

You can rearrange the letters of the first two words in the blanks to get the third and fourth words in the blanks. What four words are these?

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Slangy Dessert:

“Birdy words” & “candy brands”

Take a redundant two-word avian term that was once a candy brand.

Swap the initial sounds of the singular form in the avian term to spell two slang terms for something that is often abused. 

What phrase is this?

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