A Pair of Puzzles, Oceangoing and Orchestral; “Global brainstorming” “Do do that voodoo, Doll, that you do so well” Retail, rental & records; Hash browns and Has#tags;

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Global brainstorming”

Name two large cities – one in Asia, the other in Africa. 

Their combined letters can be anagrammed to spell either of two other geographical pairs:

🌎 a country and a capital, both in South America, or

🌍 two European languages.

What are these large cities, South American county and capital, and European languages? 

Hint: The two large cities, if uncapitalized (and, in one case, also if pronounced differently), spell English language adjectives. 

Appetizer Menu:

Note: The two puzzles in this week’s Appetizer were composed by our friend, “A Fan of Puzzleria!” Our deepest gratitude to our friend and fan. Enjoy!

Fantabulously Fantastic Appetizer:

A Pair of Puzzles, Oceangoing and Orchestral

Grub or Garb at Sea

1.🚢 Think of the names of two famous oceangoing vessels of the 20th Century. One was rigged for sail, the other not. 

Take the combined letters of the two names and remove two each of all duplicate consonants and all of the duplicate vowels. The remaining letters can be arranged to spell an article of apparel or can be differently arranged to spell a food item.

Choose either the article of apparel or the food item. 

If you choose the article of apparel, change its last letter to the preceding letter in the alphabet. 

If you choose the food item, change its first letter to the preceding letter in the alphabet.

In either case, add to the resulting letters another word for a layer. 

After that addition, the resulting letters can be arranged to spell the name of a third famous oceangoing vessel of the 20th Century. 

What are the names of the vessels, the article of apparel, and the food item?

Hint: The three vessels all have the same number of letters in their respective names. 

“The World’s Most Dangerous... Orchestra!”

2.🎷🎻 Before a European concert trip, in order that performances be family-friendly, a slightly eccentric orchestra conductor took out all the sax and violins.

However, the conductor left all other woodwinds and strings in his orchestra, a decision he would perhaps later second-guess.

Why? Well, the conductor failed to notice that among the rearranged letters of two remaining woodwinds and one string lurked the identification of a heretofore unheard of group whose very title suggested termination of low-ranking nobility. 

What are those three instruments? 

What is the title of the (hopefully fictional) lethal group?

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Grabbing Megabytes Of Breakfast Slice:

Hash browns and Has#tags

Name a two-word item you might select from a breakfast menu. 

Delete the last letter of the first word. Move the middle two letters of this result to the end of the first word. The result is a two-word item you might select from a computer menu. 

What are these two menu items?

Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:

“Do do that voodoo, Doll, that you do so well”

Will Shortz’s March 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by the screenwriter and comedian Mike Reiss, reads: 

Name something scary in two words. Five of the letters are vowels, which are all the same. And the consonants are all Roman numerals. What scary thing is this? 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker in two words. Four of the letters are two pairs of vowels. There are five consonants, two of them the same. 

One of those vowels, along with the four different consonants in the name, are all you need to spell a five-letter word for “a smug, conceited, or silly smile” – a word one might associate with this puzzle-maker. 

Or, you can use these four consonants (one of them, twice), the other vowel in the name, and a pair of “a’s” to spell an eight-letter word for “provisions in Congressional legislation that allocate a specified amount of money for a specific project, program or organization.”

Now, take just this puzzle-maker’s surname. Double the second letter and anagram the result to spell the missing word in: 

This puzzlemaker “served as executive producer, head writer, script editor and story editor of the longest-running American sitcom, and the longest-running American scripted primetime television ______.” 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the word in the blank?

What are the five-letter and eight-letter words?

ENTREE #2

Name somebody scary, in two words, a cartoon character that appeared first in a periodical and later appeared on TV and the movies. 

Five of the letters in the character’s name are vowels, which are all the same. Six of the ten consonants are Roman numerals; the first three consonants and final consonant are not Roman numerals. 

The first four letters of the character’s name are an anagram of the second word in a catchphrase spoken by a somewhat inarticulate scary character in the same cartoon.

An anagram of the name of that somewhat inarticulate scary character is a noun that describes him.

Who are these two scary characters?

What is the catchphrase? What noun describes the somewhat inarticulate character?

ENTREE #3

Name a strange scary storied Scandinavian
giant-squid-like sea monster, in one six-letter word, about which a 19th-century English poet wrote, noting that it possessed “enormous polypi!”

ROT13 the first half of the monster to spell a prefix meaning “stranger.” This prefix, followed by an “o,” is often paired with a root that means “of, relating to, or affected by fear.”

What is this scary sea monster?

What are the prefix meaning “stranger” and the root that means “of, relating to, or affected by fear?”

Hint: The first half of the monster, spelled backward, is a seafaring vessel.

ENTREE #4

Name a scary agrarian figure, in two words. Rearrange the combined letters in the words to spell two other scary things – one a biological weapon, the other a more conventional weapon. 

Who is this scary agrarian figure?

What are the biological weapon and more conventional weapon?

ENTREE #5

Name a scary creature associated with Hades, in one word. ROT10 the first six letters of this word. 

The first three of these six letters spell a scary group.

The final four of these six letters spell the second word in a scary carnivorous amoeboidal alien motion picture starring a youthful Steve McQueen.

What scary creature is this?

What are the scary group and the scary movie?

ENTREE #6

Name something scary that you might experience after ingesting mass quantities of candy bars, ice cream, cheeses, booze, spicy hot sauce, chips, pasta and soda pop.

Rearrange the letters to spell a five-letter noun that might describe a certain scary 380-pound, 7-foot-six-inch fictional household patriarch (as seen on TV), and what his friends might call him for short.

What scary thing might you experience?

What word describes the head-of-household patriarch?

What might his friends call him?

ENTREE #7

Take the surname of a scary authoritarian East Asian dictator who used the forces of torture and fatal violence to bring forth his authority and who ordered police to “socially cleanse” the streets of citizens who were sent to camps where they were subjected to forced labour, torture and rape. 

Take also the first and last words in the title of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a Middle Eastern leader who was less scary.

Anagram the combined letters of these creatures to spell two very scary sea creatures. 

What is the scary dictator’s surname?

What is Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s title?

What are the scary sea creatures?

ENTREE #8

Think of a scary monster, associated with electricity, whose name consists of a feminine first name, a masculine first name, and an anagram of a surname of an author known as “the Stephen King of children’s literature.” 

Now take a unit measure associated with electricity (like, for example, “watt”). Interchange its third and fourth letters. ROT11 the result to spell the surname of a “human monster” who was arguably even more scary.

What are the scary monster and the unit measure associated with electricity?

Who was the “human monster?”

Hint: The human monster died, shockingly, not in the electric chair but of natural causes.

ENTREE #9

Name something scary in three syllables, two of which rhyme. 

Rearrange the letters to spell the one-syllable surname of a historical captain who, in a 1962
film, was portrayed as “scary crazy,” and the two-syllable stage name of a “scary talented” and “scary rich” singer/songwriter in a rock band.

What is the “something scary?”

What are the surname and stage name?

ENTREE #10

Name a five-syllable 16-letter adjective that, in the late 1980s, describes what George H.W. Bush said the national debt would become if his main rival for the presidency were elected and instituted his proposed economic policy. 

From this 16-letter adjective remove six letters that can be arranged to spell a scary two-syllable 6-letter adjective that candidate Bush used to describe these economics of his opponent.

The 10 remaining letters can be anagrammed to spell:

1. a two-word term for a Xerox or Canon employee who is showing you options for making hard copies, or

2. the name of a domestic creature whose image became one of the world’s best-known trademarks, and the first four letters of the seven-letter breed of this creature.

What is the adjective George Bush used to describe the national debt if his opponent were elected?

What is the scary adjective Bush used to describe the economics of his opponent?

What is the two-word term for a Xerox or Canon employee?

What is the name of the creature on the trademark and its breed?

Hint: The five-syllable 16-letter adjective is really just a “five-dollar word” for “scary rich”

Dessert Menu

Grammophone Dessert:

Retail, rental & records

Take a rental company and a retail company. 

Both are headquartered in the Northeast Region of the United States. 

Lowercase one letter. 

Add an M someplace to name a Grammy-winning recording artist. 

Who is this Grammy-winner?

What are the rental and retail companies.

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

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