Overheard words, 1950s critters, a non-monster and a mystery fit; Nuggets, eggs, nuts and Zagnuts! 3 pop-quiz geography que?tions; Dog Day Afternoon Delight; Fictional flappers in flivvers

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

3 pop-quiz geography que?tions:

1. Colombia, Kenya and Kiribati all share a multisyllabic word in common. The word begins with a vowel. What is this word? 

(And no, the word is not “alliteration.”)

2. A country is an anagram of a mid-18th-century European treaty. What is that country’s capital? 

3. What punctuation mark can you spell by anagramming the combined letters of the multisyllabic word in #1 and the capital in #2?

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Lightning-Striking Appetizer:

Overheard words, 1950s critters, a non-monster and a mystery fit

Household words overheard

1. 🏡Name a common household product in four letters and also a common household chore in eight letters. 

Put the two together and rearrange to name a well-known audio electronics company in two words. 

Identify the product, chore, and company.

1950s Fictional Critter

2. 😺🐭In five letters, name a famous fictitious animal character created mid-20th century. Change the first letter of its name to a different letter. Rearrange the result to name a medium where you’ll find the character. The last three letters of the character’s name are – in order – the first three letters of the medium’s name. Who’s the character? What’s the medium?

No Hollywood monster!

3. 🎥👾This famous actress was “no monster.” 

Rearrange the phrase to get her last name at birth. 

What was her full birth name? 

What was her Hollywood name?

A mystery fit for Popeye Doyle?

4. 👁The brand name of a well-known product sold in supermarkets consists of a color and a French word. Print the foreign word in lower-case. Vertically flip the first and fourth letters upside-down and add an “r” in the middle of the word. You will have the first name of a well-known tourist destination that also has a French connection. 

What’s the product? 

What’s the tourist destination?

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Dog Day Afternoon Delight 

Take a word associated with “afternoon.” 

Replace a commonly-used consonant in English with a second commonly-used English consonant. 

Rearrange the result to spell a second word associated with “afternoon.”

What are these two words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

Nuggets, eggs, nuts & Zagnuts!

Will Shortz’s February 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant. The first, second, and last letters together name another food item. Remove those. The remaining letters spelled backward name yet another food item. What foods are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the title of a two-word 20th-century American novel that fittingly, judging from the first word, spawned four sequels. 

That first word in the title is also the second word of a early 20-century two-word fictional character created by by a British author.

Replace the last letter in the second word of the American novel’s title with the letter preceding it in the alphabet to form the first word in a two-word cocktail. 

The first word of the two-word fictional character and the second word of the cocktail spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are the American novel title, fictional character and cocktail?

Note: Entree #2 is a riff created and contributed by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” puzzles are featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Name a fast food item. Its first, second and last letter name “something unwelcome” that
you might get if you consume it. So, remove those letters.

Also remove three consecutive letters whose sum is 151.

Move the first letter of this result to the end to spell in what this food item is prepared.

What are this food item and the “something unwelcome” that its consumers might experience?

In what is the food item prepared?

Hint: The word for where the food is prepared is a variant, yet acceptable, spelling of the word.

ENTREE #3

Name a side dish you might order from a particular restaurant’s menu, in two words. The first three letters of the first word and first letter of a second word spell an entree you might order from a seafood menu. 

Remove these four letters, leaving six. The sum of the alphanumeric values of the first trio of these six letters equals 69; the sum of the second trio of letters equals 10.

What are this side dish and restaurant?

What is the seafood menu entree?

Hint: You might think “Orange Julius” would be available from this restaurant’s beverage menu, but it isn’t. 

ENTREE #4

Name a two-word morsel you can enjoy after ordering a basket of them at any Culver’s restaurant or at Lambeau Field. 

Rearrange these ten letters to name, in two words, what
Prince Charles managed to do this past September 8 after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died.

What is this morsel?

What did Prince Charles manage to do?

Hint: These same ten letters can also be rearranged to name, in two words, something a guy named Sonny likely managed to do at some point in his life.

ENTREE #5

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant in three words, the first word containing an apostrophe.

Rearrange the 17 letters in this food item to spell:

🥣an alloy manufactured in a foundry  (5 letters),

🧱 a brick that has become deformed, discolored or darkened, (7 letters),

🔥an adjective describing the environment in which the alloy is manufactured and the brick has become deformed (5 letters).

What is this food item?

What are the alloy, deformed brick and adjective?

ENTREE #6

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant in three words, the first containing an apostrophe. Change the last letter of the first word to the letter that follows it in the alphabet. 

Use these 18 letters to spell:

#1.🌳a hazard on a golf course (4 letters),

#2.🏌a scoring system in golf in which the winner is the golfer with the fewest number of strokes (2 words, 5 and 4 letters),

#3.🖉📇a scoring system in golf in which each hole is won, lost or tied, with two golfers competing head-to-head, and the golfer with the most holes won, wins the match. (2 words, 5 and 4 letters).

Note: The 4-letter words in #2 and #3 are identical. Ignore one of them.

What food item might you order at a fast-food restaurant?

What is the golf hazard?

What are the two scoring systems?

ENTREE #7

Name a seven-letter food item you would likely order off the menu at Helena’s Specialty Foods in upstate New York or from Patti’s _______s in Massachusetts.

Take a homophone of this food item to name, not a boat filled with gravy but, a canoe-like boat floating in water.

The first, second, and last letters of this boat,
together name a dessert item. The remaining four letters, in order, if you replace one vowel with a different vowel, spell a word for a hearty, seasoned Italian sauce of meat and tomatoes that is used chiefly in pasta dishes,  typically made with ground beef, tomatoes, and finely chopped onions, celery, and carrots.

Hint: The first three letters of the food item spell the dessert item. The last four letters of the food item, if you replace both vowels with different vowels, spell the hearty sauce.

What is this food item?

What is the boat?

What foods are these?

What are the dessert and the hearty sauce?

ENTREE #8

Name a food item that is a staple of most fast-food restaurants. 

If you anagram its final four letters you can spell a body part. 

If you instead remove the initial letter and replace the last letter with a letter that sounds like a question, the result will be something that sometimes appears on this body part.

What is this staple?

What is the body part and the thing that sometimes appears on it?

ENTREE #9

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant. The first four letters spell the surname of an actor who played an attorney on TV. The remaining letters of the food item spell the surname of a real-life judge.

A real-life lawyer who also served as a U.S. vice president had the same surname as the actor. 

Replace the last letter of this lawyer’s first name with a “w”. Then replace the second letter of his first name with a duplicate of its third letter. 

This altered first name and the first name of the judge both are sharp objects.

What food item is this?

Who are the actor, judge, and vice president?

What are the two sharp objects?

ENTREE #10

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant in three words, the first containing an apostrophe.

Use these 18 letters to spell:

1. 👏 a plural word for applause at a music concert (9 letters),

2. 🥁🎸a word for something seen on the concert stage (3 letters),

3. 𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅱𝅘𝅥𝅲🎻 a word for something heard from the concert stage (6 letters).

What is the food item?

What is the plural word for applause?

What are seen on and heard from the concert stage?

ENTREE #11

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant. Replace the penultimate letter, a vowel, with a different vowel. The first three letters of this result, spelled backward, form a word that follows “top,” “glue,” “smoking” or “staple.” The last three letters spell a slang term for this word.

What is this food item?

What are the word and slang term?

Dessert Menu

A Story Set A Century Ago Dessert:

Fictional flappers in flivvers 

Take the title character, in one word, of a 21st-Century historical novel set in “The Great Gatsby” era. Insert a “t” someplace and a space someplace in this word to form two words that may be seen on an early page in the novel. 

What are the novel and its title character?

What are the two words? 

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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