Revere, rest, respiration & a recipe; Serving up a couplet of claptrap; “Ward, I’m worried about the Beaver” Rhumbatoid arthritis, herniated disco? LBN? KRN? Sure! But what about NiPeRia?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Serving up a couplet of claptrap

Translate the following “couplet of claptrap” into the initial lines of a somewhat familiar verse:

“A leaf, Lady Fianna fuel,

Ewer, prim Edison, to Shaw: Cloud thy ode?”

What is the verse and who wrote it?

Hint: the first name of the author of the verse is the name of a city in a U.S. state that might call to mind Holly Golightly, Marge Simpson, the Ronettes or the B-52 gals.   

Appetizer Menu

Georgia On Our Minds Appetizer:

Revere, rest, respiration & a recipe

A place of rest, a plague of respiration

1. 🛏Take a place of rest. 

The first three letters plus the final letter of
this place of rest spell a shorthand version of a severe, acute, contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness.

Four consecutive interior letters in the place of rest sound like a symptom of this malady – something you might do if you have it.

Four other consecutive letters in the illness – if you move the fourth one 12 places down in the “circular alphabet stream” (So A = M, B = N, etc.) – spell another possible symptom of this malady.

What is this place of rest?

What is the respiratory illness, and what are two of its symptoms?

“Paul Revere of the South”

2. 🐎Name a historic town in north Georgia with a population of less than 1,000. Replace its fifth letter, a consonant, with a U.S. state postal abbreviation to get what is an informal name for an eponymous blog site associated with a famous puzzle aficionado.

What is this town?

What is the informal name of the blog?

Hint: Before1969, the second letter in the state postal abbreviation was the first letter in the town and the blog site. After 1969, the second letter in the state postal abbreviation was the last letter in the town and the blog site. 

Hint: The Georgia town was named after an American Revolutionary War veteran who was dubbed the “Paul Revere of the South.”

Recipe for “Vehicle Parmesan”

3. ⛟Take a multisyllabic Italian dish. 

Chop off the last letter but don’t throw it away... 

(Instead place it to the side... you’ll need it later.)

Chop what remains into three words. 

“Spatula up” the first word and put it at the end.

Now take the letter you placed to the side. 

Replace it with a homophone that is a body part. 

Take a number associated with that body part.

“Spatula up” that number and place it between the first and second words.

Set these ingredients in a preheated 250-Fahrenheit oven. 

Your finished four-word product will be a descriptive synonym of “an F-250 truck”

What is your finished product?

What is this multisyllabic Italian dish?

“Ailimentery, My Dear Watson” Slice:

Rhumbatoid arthritis, herniated disco?

Remove six consecutive letters from an ailment that is no fun.

Rearrange these six removed letters to spell a
dance that is lots of fun. 

What is this not-so-enjoyable ailment?

What is this quite enjoyable dance?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

LBN, KRN? Sure! But what about NiPeRia?

Will Shortz’s March 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Will Shortz himself, reads:

Name two countries that have “consonyms” that are nationalities of other countries. (“Consonyms” are words that have the same consonants in the same order but with different vowels.) In each case, the consonants in the name of the country are the same consonants in the same order as those in the nationality of another country. No extra consonants can appear in either name. The letter Y isn't used.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a three-syllable country, like Kazakhstan, and a two-syllable nationality, or demonym, of a country, like Cuban. Take five letters each from the country and demonym. Rearrange them to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

The unused seven letters can be rearranged to spell a 3-letter adjective describing a caged Norwegian Blue parrot, according to a pet shopkeeper in a skit, and what such parrots are prone to do “for the fjords.” 

What are the country and demonym? 

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What word descibes the parrot? What are such parrots prone to do vis-a-vis the fjords?

ENTREE #2

Name the basic monetary unit that does not rhyme with “pretzel” but looks like it might. 

Now take the capital letter that is used as the currency sign for this monetary unit. Place this letter in front of a half-century-old brand name that is associated with gaming and the board game “Go.” Lowercase the initial letter of the brand name.

The result is the denonym of a Middle Eastern country.

What is this demonym?

What are the monetary unit and the capital letter used as its currency sign?

What is the brand name?

ENTREE #3

“Hostility. Ridicule. Indifference. It all _____ any thespian who wants to be lauded, applauded and appreciated for one’s talent and craft. 

But it especially anguished _____ ___ who, over the course of her career on stage, stuggled to escape the shadow of her unfortunately mediocre surname. Every ____ from an audience, every ___ from a critic... they are ____ puncturing one’s confidence, ___ smudging one’s hopes.”

The first blank is an anagram of a country.

The second and third blanks form an anagram of a demonym of that country. 

The fourth and fifth blanks form an anagram of a second demonym of that country, as do the sixth and seventh blanks.

Fill in these seven blanks.

What are the country and its two demonyms? 

ENTREE #4

(Remember: “Consonyms” are words that have the same consonants in the same order but with different vowels.)

Name a nation with eight consonants that also goes by a single word with four consonants. 

A consonym of that single-word nation is a demonym of that single-word nation. 

A second consonym of that single-word nation is the surname of a fleet centerfielder who, in his first-ever major league game, hit an opening-day game-winning walk-off home run for a team that, over the winter, had been transplanted from the east coast to the midwest.

A second demonym of the nation is a seven-letter adjective that seems at odds with the refined reputation of the sophisticated “upper class” in this nation. 

What are the longer and shorter names the nation goes by? 

What are the two consonyms of the shorter name?

What are the second demonym of this nation and its seven-letter adjectival consonym?

ENTREE #5

Take a demonym of a three-syllable nation. 

Remove the last letter. Replace the first letter with a prefix that means “twice, twofold, double.”

The result is an informal word for excessive fanaticism concerning a certain Princess.

What are the three-syllable nation and its demonym?

What is the informal word?

ENTREE #6

Take an alternative spelling of a demonym of a country in the Western Hemisphere, one that substitutes an “e” for an “i”. Its first three letters are an anagram of a piece of sporting equipment. Unscrew it and pack it back away into its case! 

The first five letters of this truncated result spell what it will take the narrator of a “Marvellous” metaphysical poem four centuries to do to two parts of his mistress.

The final four of these same remaining
letters can be anagrammed to explain just how or where, exactly, “Time's wingèd chariot” at the narrator’s back hurries.

What are this country and its demonym?

What is the piece of unscrewable sporting equipment?

What will it take the narrator of a “Marvellous” metaphysical poem four centuries to do?

How, or where, does “Time's wingèd chariot” hurry?

Hint: The title of the poem can be anagrammed to spell a term from biology associated with bone formation and a second science that complements biology.

ENTREE #7

“Put it on a tray, or bag it up?”

Or, in other words, “For here or __ __?”

Let’s assume that you are a polite person, a polite person in a hurry. You would answer:

“ __ __, ______.”

Remove the fifth and eighth letters from that response, leaving a demonym – that is, what you would call a denizen of a particular Eastern Hemisphere nation with a short coastline.

What is your polite answer to the question you are asked?

What are the Eastern Hemisphere nation and its demonym?

ENTREE #8

Name an island nation. Spell its demonym in reverse and divide the result into two equal parts. 

These parts form a rather affected (or even poetic) exclamation you might make to your mom or dad who is always telling you dress more modestly, your mother, brother or significant other who is always telling you to cut back on your cupcake consumption, or your best buddy who is always telling you to get off your butt and do some exercise!

What are this nation and demonym?

What is the rather affected exclamation?

ENTREE #9

Name any resident of a particular island nation in the Eastern Hemisphere. Take six consecutive letters from the interior, leaving a void. The first three of those six removed letters and the last four of those six letters, in order, spell synonyms of “void.”

What is this island nation demonym?

What are the two synonyms?

ENTREE #10

During the ____, insurrectionists storm the building, trying to ___ open windows. When this proves feckless, a rioter uses a baton to batter and breach the fortified bastion as those around him ___ “Break it down! Break it down!”

The letters in the first blank, in order, are the final four letters of a demonym of an island nation. The letters in the second and third blanks, respectively, consist of the 3rd, 4th and 2nd letters of the demonym, and the 1st, 4th and 2nd letters of the demonym.

What are the island nation and its demonym? 

What are the three words in the blanks?

ENTREE #11

Name a demonym of a European country. Take the sum of the alphanumenric values of its first two letters. Divide it by three.  

Replace the first two with the letter associated alphanumerically with the quotient.

The result is a trusted follower or “right-hand man.” 

What is this demonym?

What is this word for “right-hand man?”

ENTREE #12

Name a country with a demonym that sounds like what a chronic “oral libeler” might admit, in two words.

Take the alphanumeric values of the second and third letters in the demonym. Treble the value of the second, double the value of the third and add them together. Replace these two letters with the letter whose alphanumeric value equals this sum. 

The result is a noun that describes a resident of the country at least as well as its demonym does.

What is this country?

What might a chronic “oral libeler” admit?

What noun describes a resident at least as well as its demonym does? 

ENTREE #13

Name a landlocked country and its demonym. 

Replace the penultimate letter with a different vowel that does not significantly alter the pronunciation of the demonym. 

Place a space between the first two letters and triple the first letter.

The letters to the right of the space spell a product that induces the letters to the left of the space. 

What are this landlocked country and its demonym?

What is the product and what does it induce?

Dessert Menu

Dated Dessert:

“Ward, I’m worried about the Beaver”

“When the Cleavers, Ward and June, first got wind that their son Wally may second his brother Beaver’s decision to join the military and march forth into combat in Vietnam, June was worried.”

But, no need for concern; it was all just a rumor.

What six words in purple italics demonstrate that this puzzle is a bit dated?

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