“A hole-in-one-hit-wonder” Making a model into a make; Fashionable warfare! “Duad” minus roughly 42.5% equals “Triplicate!” Crosswords and cross worship; Shankar & Swift, Strayer & Shaw

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Fashionable warfare!

Take the combined letters of a World War II battle site and of a word often associated with the aftermath of such battles. 

Rearrange them to spell a nine-letter word that is currently very much in vogue. 

What three words are these?

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Bobby Jacobs (& Bobby Jones) Appetizer:

“A hole-in-one-hit-wonder”

Dressed to the “nines” 

(or “eighteens”) 

1. 🏌Take two golf words and put the article “a” in between them. 

You will get an article of clothing. 

What is it?

What a diva believes

2. 🎜🎝Take a phrase meaning “more than true belief.” 

Replace the last letter of the first word with the letter before it and the letter after it in the alphabet.

Replace the last three letters of the second word with an “s”. You will get the name of a famous singer. Who is it?

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Indiana To New York Hors d’Oeuvre

Crosswords and cross worship

Find a thirteen-letter compound plural word that applies to three people whose six collective initials are the answers to two crossword clues: “Good cholesterol” and “New York to Indiana direction, briefly.” 

Spoonerize the compound word and add a space to form two words that sound like what some churchgoers accuse secularists of trying to do.

What are the plural word, three people, and crossword-clue answers?

What do some accuse secularists of trying to do?

Cleaving Loaves & Filleting Fishes Slice:

“Duad” minus roughly 42.5% equals “Triplicate!” 

Take a two-syllable word. 

Remove a percentage of its letters – a percentage that is about halfway between 40 percent and 45 percent.

The result is a three-syllable word. 

What are these two words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Maxwell-Smith Slices:

Shankar & Swift, Strayer & Shaw

Will Shortz’s April 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Maxwell-Smith, reads:

Think of an eight-letter word for a certain musician. Switch the order of the second and
fourth letters and you’ll get a word for a certain writer. What words are these? I’m looking for words, not famous people.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Maxwell-Smith Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of four four-letter words that belong in the blanks below:

Cole____

Karl ____

Cow’s ____

Crystal ____

Rearrange their combined 16 letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the four missing words?

ENTREE #2

Less than fourscore years ago, more than a quarter-million Japanese human beings were _____ due to _______ blasts and their subsequent radiation. An Inferno consumed their paradise. As ______ wrote, “Every flower... sad embroidery wears... and daffadillies fill their cups with _____.”

The combined 5 and 7 letters in the first two blanks can be rearranged to spell the first and last names of a pioneering scientist.

The combined 6 and 5 letters in the third and fourth blanks can be rearranged to spell the first and last names of a great, still-living orchestra conductor.

Think of an eight-letter word for the scientist.
Switch the order of the second and fourth letters and you’ll get a word for the orchestra leader.

Name the scientist and orchestra leader. 

What words belong in the four blanks?

What are the two eight-letter words?

ENTREE #3

“Given the current contentious political climate in America, even candidates who _______ their opponents in an election ought not pop those victory champagne corks prematurely. 

The also-rans may contest the vote tally and demand a _______.”

The word in the first blank contains seven
different letters. The word in the second blank contains the same seven letters, but not one of them is  in the same ordinal position in the word (first, second, third, etc.) that it is in the first word (for example, the four-letter words in the phrase “ALES on SALE”).

What are the words in the blanks?

ENTREE #4

Sentence #1: “The Bohm sheath criterion, formulated by _____ Bohm, states that a ______ must flow with at least the speed of sound toward a solid surface.”

Sentence #2: It was King _____ who composed _ _____ that begins “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want...”

The first blanks in both sentences contain words that are identical proper nouns. 

The letters in the second blank of the first sentence are an anagram of the letters in the second and third blanks of the second sentence. 

In the second sentence, switch the order of the words in the second and third blanks. Then switch the second and fourth letters of this result to spell the word that belongs in the second blank of the first sentence.  

What is the proper noun that appears twice?

What are the words that belong in the last blanks of Sentence #1 and Sentence #2?

ENTREE #5

When an autographed baseball signed by all the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates  ____ __ ___ _______ at Sotheby’s, “Bucophile” Ace Frumpo threw _______ __ ___ ____ and opened the bidding at $10,000! 

That World Series Championship roster, Ace reasoned, was rife with noted stars, like Hall-of-Famers Roberto Clemente and Bill Mazeroski.

Two consecutive non-blank words in this puzzle text are an anagram of the first three blank words in the italicized puzzle text.

Two different consecutive non-blank words in the puzzle text are an anagram of the last three blank words in the italicized puzzle text.

The fourth and fifth blank words are anagrams of one another, with their last four letters identical but with their first three letters in different orders. 

What words belong in the eight blanks?

What are the two pairs of consecutive non-blank words in the text that are anagrams of the first three and last three words in the blanks?

ENTREE #6

Take a seven-letter word for one ______ (see illustration) in a braking mechanism of a particular vehicle. 

A complementary _______ of that braking component (that is, the word in the first blank) works together with that component to stop the vehicle.

What words belong in these blanks?

Hint: The two words in the blanks are
anagrams. However, as in the six-letter anagrams “marine” and “remain,” none of the identical letters in these seven-letter anagrams appear in the same positions in their respective words (as, for example, the “r” does in “aiRmen” and “maRine,” or as the “n” does in “airmeN” and  “remaiN.”

ENTREE #7

Colin, a two-year-old thoroughbred, was the 1908 Belmont Stakes winner but was forced to retire after pulling a muscle and was put out to pasture as a three-year-old. 

Aldaniti won the 1981 British Grand National in Liverpool, just two years after sustaining a serious leg injury. 

Take an eight-letter noun for what ended, and what interrupted, the careers of these horses named Colin and Aldaniti. Switch the order of the first and fifth letters and you’ll get an adjective that describes a horse who traversed a desert filled with plants and birds and rocks and things.

What are these eight-letter words?

ENTREE #8

As the preacher droned on and on about brimstone and fire from the pulpit, little Pepe, his body “empewed,” allowed his imagination to waft heavenward, his face imbued by the hues of prismatic sunlight refracted through _______ yet _______ glass.

Take the word in the first blank. Move its second letter so that it becomes the antepenultimate letter. The result is the word in the second blank.

What are these two words?

ENTREE #9

“____ ______, which were produced, fittingly, during a decade when a ____ served as U.S. president, featured four cylindrical chambers, each designed to accommodate a ______, and thus also four plugs and four ______.”

That sentence contains five blanks. The words in the second, fourth and fifth blanks are anagrams of one another. The words in the first and third blanks are identical.

What are these four words?

ENTREE #10

Name, in two words, what a state criminal court sometimes does in cases of assault.
Reverse the order of the words. Anagram each of them to get what people might carry either in their trunks or on their trunks.

What does a court sometimes do?

What might people carry in or on their trunks?

ENTREE #11

“_____’_ no ____ near your ____.”

The sentence above, after you properly fill in the three blanks, in 6, 4 and 4 letters, will sound like a biology lesson geared toward elementary school students.

It will read as that biology lesson if you replace a word in one of the blanks with its homophone. 

The word in the second blank is an anagram of a synonym of “simoleons.”

The word in the first blank is an anagram of the third-last word in an idiom that newlyweds on their honeymoon may utter to the lingering and overly chatty valet who is moving them into their hotel room suite. The original word in the third blank is an anagram of the first word in that idiom.

What are the words in the blanks?

What is the synonym of “simoleons?”

What is the idiom newlyweds may utter?

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“Vogueswagen” Dessert:

Making a model into a make

Switch the fourth and seventh letters of an automobile model. 

Remove the two “easternmost” consonants of this result. Your final result will be an automobile make. 

What are this model and make?

Note: Ford, Honda, Cadillac, Toyota and Chevrolet are examples of automobile makes. Mustang, Civic, Escalade, Sienna and Corvette are examples of automobile models. 

Hint: The make and model in the answer to this puzzle are not otherwise related to one another, like “Volkswagen” and “Jetta” are, for instance.

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