“Get the lead out in the cold” Looking up to, or down upon? Tina and the Tinman, ironically; Pablo, Pound and the North Pole; “I Have A Dream!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Pablo, Pound and the North Pole

Use eleven different letters to spell, in thirteen letters, phenomena found both in the Arctic region and in Wisconsin. These 11 letters are all you need to spell the first names of poets Pound and Alighieri and the surnames of poets Pablo, Wystan, John and (fittingly) Robert. 

What are these phenomena?

Who are these poets?

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“Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Appetizer”:

“I Have A Dream!”

What is interesting about the following two sentences?

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have...” goes for everybody. Dreams can be accomplished.

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Outdoorsy Slice:

“Get the lead out in the cold”

Meld two familiar four-word phrases (like “get the lead out” and “out in the cold”) to form a seven-word phrase (like “get the lead out in the cold”).

Rearrange the letters in one such seven-word phrase to spell three things you might see outdoors: a two-word tree, a part of a ballpark and a farm worker. 

What are this melded phrase and three outdoor sights?

Riffing Off Shortz And Vaillancourt Slices:

Tina and the Tinman, ironically

Will Shortz’s January 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michele Vaillancourt, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, reads: 

Name a famous living person — first and last names. If you drop the last letter of the first name, you get an element on the periodic table. And if you drop the last letter of the last name, you get the chemical symbol of another element. What celebrity is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Vaillancourt Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Rearrange the combined letters of the three words for the images pictured here to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. 

What are these words and who is this puzzle-maker?

Note: 

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

Entrees #3 and #4 were created by Greg VanMechelen (Ecoarchitect) whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria! 

Thank you, Plantsmith and Ecoarchitect.

ENTREE #2

Take an element and remove letters 5 ,6 and 7, then remove the space they leave. You will get a name of a title character in a TV series with a famous person in the lead role. The person is still alive and in another TV series, “having apparently gained a promotion” over their first role as a TV personality.

What is the element?

Who is the TV personality?

What are these two TV series?

Hint: The first series was filmed in a tropical place.

ENTREE #3

Name a famous living person — first and last names. 

If you add a letter at the end of the first name, you get the name of a professional sports
team.
And if you drop the last letter of the last name, you get the postal abbreviation of the state the team is from. 

What celebrity is this?

ENTREE #4

Name a well-known former athlete, add a letter to the front of the first name to get an element, and delete the last letter of the last name to get the the symbol for another element. Who is the athlete? What are the element and symbol? 

Hint: The athlete had a nickname that was both colorful and black-and-white.

ENTREE #5

Name a black or brown mineral which is the chief ore of an element on the periodic table. The chemical symbol of this element is the first letter of that mineral, not the first letter of the element.

The mineral begins with a 4-letter creature, followed by a 3-letter creature, and ends with another 4-letter creature.

If you spell the element backward, the first four letters of the result can be rearranged spell a place where some creatures hang out, followed by another 3-letter creature.

What are this mineral,element and chemical symbol?

What are the four creatures and the place where some creatures hang out?

ENTREE #6

Name a movie character – a cybercriminal who was born with the name “Thomas,” but who was more well-known by two words that are anagrams of one another, one preceded by the article “The”.

Add a letter to the beginning of the chemical symbol of an element on the periodic table to spell the word that follows “The”. 

Remove the last letter of that element to spell the other name by which Thomas was known.

What two names are these?

What are the element and its chemical symbol?

ENTREE #7

Name an element on the periodic table with a chemical symbol that, spelled backward, is seen on book covers and in newspapers. remove the last three letters from the element and spell the remaining letters in reverse.

Remove the last letter of the result to spell the last name of a Hall of Fame third baseman or the first name of a Hall of Fame quarterback.

If you instead remove the second letter of the result you will get the first names of female cartoon characters whose last names rhyme with “stubble” and “stoop.” 

What are this element and its chemical symbol?

Who are these Hall of Famers and cartoon characters

ENTREE #8

Place a chemical symbol, without a space, to the left of the name of its element.

Remove the final three letters of this result. The letters that remain spell the name of a cartoon creature whose mother was killed by a hunter. 

What chemical symbol and element are these?

Who is this cartoon creature?

ENTREE #9

Place the chemical symbol of an element, without a space, to the left of the name of the element.

Remove the final three letters of this result. 

The letters that remain spell the name of a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology who was banished from “paradise” for “adamently” disobeying her husband.

What are this chemical symbol and element?

Who is the female figure?

ENTREE #10

Place a chemical symbol, without a space, to the right of the name of its element.

Rearrange letters in the second half of this result to form a male name that is a homophone of what worshippers sometimes do while praying. The first half of this result spells a male name that sometimes follows the word “Saint.” 

What element and chemical symbol are these?

What are these two male names?

ENTREE #11

Take an idiom (in the form “_____ in the ____”) that means “activities or projects that someone is involved in.” 

The singular form of the word in the first blank is an element, and the first and fourth letters of the word in the second blank form the chemical symbol of that element.

Place the first two letters of the element between the two letters of the chemical symbol to form the second word in a two-word idiom that means “to be doing something very well.” The second half of the element forms the first word in that idiom. 

What are the four-word idiom and two-word idiom? 

What element and chemical symbol are these?

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Upword Downword Dessert:

Looking up to, or down upon?

Name something we tend to look down upon. 

Remove a letter and spell the result backward to name something we tend to look up to. What are these two things?

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