Two creatures great and small; Confectioner-in-chief; Poetically proverbial breakfast fare; The Gift of the “Zane (Grey) Magi” “Instrumental journeys & chronophobia”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Confectioner-in-chief

Write the two original varieties of one candy brand as plural words (like, for example, Hershey’s Kisses Cherry Cordials and White Chocolate Hugs).

The singular form of the candy brand appears – in consecutive letters – within the name of a United States president with whom both plural words are associated. 

Name this candy brand, plural words and president.

Appetizer Menu

Note: This week’s Appetizer is contributed by a fan of Puzzleria! who has contributed an Entree and an alternate solution in recent weeks. This fan is using no screen name as there are mysteries afoot for the future...

“Fan”tastic Appetizer:

“Instrumental journeys & chronophobia”

“Gonna take an instrumental journey”

1. 🎷🎸📯🥁Think of a fantasy journey in two words, ten letters, taken by characters called George, Taylor, Jim, Marty, J, and Mrs. Kelcher’s daughter. 

Remove from those two words a letter that is also a number. Rearrange the remaining letters to name a device which is instrumental in journeys which once were considered fantasy but have since become the height of commonplace. 

What are the fantasy journey and the now common device?

“Chronophobia”

2. ⏰Take a word for a division of time and a word associated with a division of color. 

Arrange the combined eight letters of those
two words to get a word for what is proverbially the fear of all time. 

What are these three words?

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Twenty-Six-Letter Slice:

Poetically proverbial breakfast fare

Name a kind of cuisine, a two-word breakfast food, a one-word breakfast food, a coffee container and a muffin container. Anagam these 26 letters to spell a five-word proverbial phrase attributed to a poet. 

What are these six words and this proverb?

Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices:

The Gift of the “(Zane Grey) Magi”

Will Shortz’s November 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Alan Hochbaum of Duluth, Georgia, reads:

What common eight-letter noun can be shortened in two ways — using either its first three letters or its last four letters? The answer is a familiar item.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a biblical patriarch, David’s nemesis, what the bible says Hegai was, and the surname of a paleontologist who campaigned against creationism and proposed that science and religion should be considered two distinct fields — in 7, 7, 6 and 5 letters.

Rearrage these 25 letters to name a puzzle-maker (first and last names), and the city and state of his residence.

Who is this puzzle-maker? Where does he live?

Who are the patriarch, nemesis and paleontologist. What was Hegai?

Note: Entree #2 was created by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #2

Take a common food name in eight letters. You can use the first three letters and the last five letters to spell essential parts of two other food names — one of them fast, the other one hyphenated.

What is this eight-letter food name and the pair of fast and hyphenated “side dishes”?

Hint: Mantle, Maris, Jeter or Judge + an aimless, casual scribble + foppish

ENTREE #3

Name a common two-word term, in nine and six letters, for something broadcast on television. The first three letters from each word, in order, form a shortened six-letter word
for the two-word term.

Delete the first four letters of the nine-letter word and the first two letters of the six-letter word, leaving nine letters that are different from one another. 

Rearrage these letters, using three of them more than once, to form the five-word title of an example of the original two-word term. 

What are the original two-word term, its shortened form, and the five-word title?

ENTREE #4

What popular and proper eight-letter noun can be shortened in two ways — using either its first three letters or its last six letters? 

Hint: The noun is a common yet “noble” name.
Its letters can be rearranged to spell five-letter and three-letter words that belong in this geographical sentence:

“The city of _____ sits at one extreme ___ of this ‘string-beany’ nation.”

ENTREE #5

A compound word for a common seven-letter vehicle can be shortened in two ways — using either its first four-letter part or its second three-letter part. 

The first part of the word ends with “eleven.”
The second part of the word begins with “one hundred.”

What is this vehicle?

ENTREE #6

Take five consecutive interior letters from a ten-letter lower-case producer of spirits. These five letters spell a shortened form of  this ten-letter word. 

Take the five letters that remain, in order. Transpose the two consecutive vowels, and change one of them to an “a”. The result is a producer of a “less spirited” beverage.

What are this 10-letter producer of spirits and its five-letter shortened form?

What is the producer of the “less spirited” beverage?

ENTREE #7

Take  a word for a unit of electric current that ends with a three-letter preposition that means “before.” 

Retain the letters in this word that appear “before” this preposition but remove the preposition itself. 

The result is a shortened form of the unit of electric current.

What are this unit of electric current and its shortened form? 

ENTREE #8

Take a nine-letter noun for a common article of clothing. Create a shortened form of this noun by deleting its final six letters. Those six letters can be rearranged to spell a word that follows “World,” “television” or “geometric.”

What is this article of clothing?

What word follows “World,” “television” or “geometric?”

Dessert Menu

James Herriot Dessert:

Two creatures great and small

Name a tiny creature, in two words and ten letters. 

Replace the first word with a two-letter synonym and remove the space to spell a huge creature, in one word. 

What are these two creatures?

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