“Who spiked my soft drink?” Boiled stromboli in a storm; Publish... or Robert Parrish? Excalibur & rhetorical excellence; Black & white & riddled all over; Truth or Consonyms?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Excalibur & high-caliber rhetoricians 

Take a word for a writer or speaker who uses language skillfully and creatively. 

Move its middle letter to the front, leaving a space. The result is a word, and a string of letters that sound like a word. Both these words are associated with Excalibur. 

What are these three words?

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Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

Truth or Consonyms?

“Consonymity!”

1. 🏰Name a fictional  kingdom. 

Change its vowels to the next ones later in the alphabet sequence (A becomes E, E becomes I, I becomes O, etc.) to form a “consonym” of that kingdom, but a consonym not found in dictionaries. 

However, if you move the last vowel next to first one you’ll get a compound word for the thing everybody’s working for, according to a guy with the same surname as a former U.S. attorney general. Remove the third vowel in this compound word to get the name of a current popular recording artist and entertainer. 

What is the kingdom? 

What is everybody working for?

Who is the recording artist? 

“The Children’s Hour”

2. 👦👧📖Take a product name you might find in your kitchen. 

Change one consonant to name a character from a children’s book. 

What is the product?

Who is the character?

“The Spovin’ Loonful?”

3. 🥣Take the name of a popular singing group formed in the mid-1970s. 

Spoonerize its two words. Replace the first letter in the second word with the letter nine places earlier in the alphabet stream. 

The result sounds like what might be done several times a day at a Nordstrom’s store.

What is this group?

What might be done several times a day at a Nordstom’s store?

Hint: The words in what is done at Nordstrom’s rhyme with the name of the singing group. 

“Jerseys on an artist’s Canvas”

4. 🐄Name a famous Barbeque Steakhouse in Alabama that is frequented by a famous puzzle-maker. This restaurant – which consists of an abbreviation followed by a possessive surname – displays a jersey worn by a famous athlete, among other Gulf States mementos. 

Take the name on the jersey. Replace its last two letters with a duplicate of the second letter. Then put this name between the two words in the name of the restaurant. The result  could be the name of a spin-off eatery. 

What is the name of the restaurant. What city is it in? Who is the famous puzzle maker? Who is famous athlete and what number is on his jersey? What is the spin-off eatery?

Plantsmithian Note 1: Bonus points for anyone who can identify the artist in the image, an artist whose name (if substituted for “artist”) would make our headline, “Jerseys on an artist’s canvas,” very alliterative indeed!

Plantsmitian Note 2: Appetizer #4 is more of a “reading comprehension test,” like they had on the SATs of the past. But all the answers to this Appetizer (or almost all) appear in the Comments Sections of previous Puzzleria! posts.

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Potable Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Who spiked my soft drink?”

Remove some punctuation from the brand name of a non-alcoholic beverage. 

The result suggests that the beverage may contain alcohol. 

What is this beverage?

Red Rider Slice:

Black & white & riddled all over

What’s black and white and rides all over, in two words? Take the first word. Change one letter in it to get what makes it possible for what’s black and white to ride all over. 

What rides all over? What makes that possible?

Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:

Boiled stromboli in a storm

Will Shortz’s May 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Reiss, who’s a writer/producer for “The Simpsons,” reads:

Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Swap
the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. The result is two words describing what this place famously does.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names, in nine letters. 

Replace the first letter in the first name with the letter following it in the alphabet, forming the name of a Greek goddess. Then remove the last letter of the last name and anagram the remaining letters to form the name of a second Greek goddess. 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Who are these Greek deities?

ENTREE #2

Name a place in Europe in ten letters. Swap the ninth and tenth letters. The result is the first name (as it appears on his birth certificate) of a long-running TV game show host and the first name of a model on that game show.

What is this place in Europe? 

Who are the host and model?

What is the name of the game show?

Hint: The first name of the model is the same as her birth name. The first name the host used on the show differs by one letter from his stage name.

ENTREE #3

Name a European city in eight letters. Divide it in half. 

Swap the third and fourth letters in the first part, then remove a vowel from that first part. 

The result is an adjective that describes the second part, a noun. Swap the third and
fourth letters of that noun. The result is a plural word that might also be described by the adjective – a dog that bites and a cat that claws, for two examples.

What is this European city?

What are the adjective and two nouns? 

ENTREE #4

Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Replace the third letter with a duplicate of the fourth letter; then swap the eighth and ninth letters. The result is the first names of two main characters in a classic movie thriller.

What is this place in Europe?

What are the characters’ names, and what is the title of the thriller?

ENTREE #5

Name a place in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. 

The result is two words: a three-letter city in India, and a plural word for wedge-shaped proofreading marks. 

A homophone of those marks is a word used for units of weight of precious gemstones like diamonds, that are mined extensively in India.

What are this place in Europe, city in India and units of weight?

ENTREE #6

Take the common shorthand name of a place in Europe in nine letters. (The formal name of the place contains 17 letters and two hyphens.) 

Swap the third and fourth letters and place a space between the fifth and sixth letters. 

The result is two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do – not with a spur but with a key – when they need to get somewhere.

What are the common and formal names of this European place?

What are the two words describing what owners of Broncos, Mustangs, Pintos and Mavericks do?

ENTREE #7

Name a word for an officious or inquisitive person, in eight letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the seventh and eighth letters.

The result is two words, a verb and proper noun, describing what a person who is
inquisitive about how to get a good night’s sleep possibly does.

What is this eight-letter word?

What are the verb and proper noun?

Hint: The proper noun is a 46-year-old company.

ENTREE #8

Name a place in Europe, in 13 letters, that is famous for its artwork. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the seventh letter and add a space between the fourth and fifth letters. 

The result is three words – in 4, 2 and
6 letters, describing what a visitor to this place does to get a better gander at the artwork (and to give their knees a break).

What is this place? 

What is the three-word description?

ENTREE #9

Name a cathedral city in Europe in nine letters. Swap the third and fourth letters, then delete the seventh and eighth letters. 

The result, if you add a space someplace, is a two-word description for what a yacht does when you watch it from the  shore. 

If you take just the last four letters of the city and delete just the third one, the result is what those in the market for a yacht must do in order for “what a yacht does” to be accomplished. 

What is this European cathedral city?

What does a yacht do?

What must those in the market for a yacht do in order to accomplish what the yacht does?

Hint: Just as one might see “stromboli” on a restaurant menu, one might also see this cathedral city on a restaurant menu.

ENTREE #10

Name a Chicago-based corporation, in 11 letters that maufactured kewpie dolls, slot cars and other toys. 

Swap the third and fourth letters, then insert a space after the fifth letter. Change the seventh letter, a vowel, to the next vowel in the alphabet.

The result is two verbs with the following meanings:

😠 To rage, to exhibit a violent passion, or to rush about or move impetuously, violently, or angrily, and

🥊To engage in a petulant or petty quarrel.

What is this corporation?

What are the two verbs?

ENTREE #11

Name a hyphenated place, in nine letters, that you can find in three European cities – Paris, France; London, England; and Istanbul, Turkey. Swap the third and fourth letters, then the eighth and ninth letters. 

The result is two words that may be related to this place:

😎😅A slang word that means “a good or fair deal” or “to enjoy oneself and have a good time,” and

💰A unit of currency that you might use to book a visit to any of two places in Muscat, Oman that have this same nine-letter name.

What is this hyphenated place?

What is the slang word?

What is the unit of currency?

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X’s and O’s Dessert:

Publish... or Robert Parrish?

Name a defensive basketball strategy in two words.

Let A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. 

Replace two adjacent letters in the first word
with a letter equal to their sum. 

Remove some punctuation. 

The two-word result is the name of a past publishing firm and a word associated with it. What is this strategy?

What is the publishing firm?

What is the associated word?

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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The workaday world, sound of music(als) and triple TV trivia; Man & Manx, Woman & Wombat; Idioms, idiocy & dunces in D.C.; Uncertain about that “certain person?” States with shared letters and shapes; “A puzzle starring Farrah, Sarah & Dolly”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Idioms, idiocy & dunces in D.C.

Take the two verbs in an idiom coined decades ago in Washington, D.C. 

Double a letter and anagram the result to get a currently trendy word among politicians in
Washington D.C. and nationwide. 

What are this word and idiom?

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Primo Prime-time Appetizer:

The workaday world, sound of music(als) and triple TV trivia

“Around the workaday world”

1. 🌍🌎

Object:

The object of this puzzle is to fill in the 14 bracketed spaces in the paragraph below with anagrams of various countries from around the world, to complete the narrative. The number in each bracketed space shows the number of letters in the anagram that completes that space. Two countries can be anagrammed to form two words, so there are 12 countries in all.

Narrative:

Making my final [4] delivery of the day, in the [4], I was surprised by a large dog who saw me as his [5], causing me a few seconds of [4] terror. He had a [5], but I still took [5] to avoid him, fearing [6]. As I approached the house, I looked through a glass [5] in the door and saw a woman eating a [5] and [4] some [4] beans. She came to the door but suddenly let out a [4] as she saw the dog, who was now tearing up her flower bed. I had to catch a [5] to attend a conference of religious leaders and [5], so I made the delivery and left quickly.

“The Sound of Music[als]”

2. 🎝🎜Each clue below describes a phrase that, phonetically, names a classic musical of the screen or stage, or both. What are the phrases and the musicals?

1. Economy import for a lefty

2. Taxi driver’s demand of a female customer
who doesn’t want to pay

3. Place to store desert-dwelling animal originally from North America

4. Failed senatorial candidate’s air freshener 

5. Hot vessel in St Tropez

6. Hayward’s phone

7. Ordered arrangement of taxis

8. Larry, deceiving

9. Bit of auditory artistry for coach Bobby

“Decades of [decayed?] TV trivia”

3. 📺Take the last name of a fictional male character in a 1970s TV sitcom, in 10 letters. The first seven letters spell an adjective that is typically associated with a certain animal. The name of the animal is the same as the last name of an actor who starred in a 1980s TV sitcom.  

The last three letters of the 1970s character’s
last name spell a word that is frequently associated with actors generally. Double the last letter of this word to spell the last name of an actor who starred in a TV series that ran in the 2000s and 2010s.

What is the name of the 1970s character, and who are the actors who appeared in the 1980s and 2000s-2010s series? 

Hint: The 1970s series was set in the 1950s and 1960s, and the 2000s-2010s series was set in the 1960s.

“And yet more TV trivia”

 4. 📺📺

Think of a two-word snack item that is often eaten while watching TV. The first three letters of the first word and the first two letters of the second word combine to name an object that is associated with a kind of property crime and with a violent event that occurred at a college campus several years ago. Add a letter at the front of this word to spell the last name of an actor who starred in a 1960s sitcom set in the 1860s.  

What are the snack item and the object, and who is the actor?

“TV series turns menacing, artistic, geographic”

5. 😠🎨🗺Take the last word in the three-word title of a TV series that ran during the 2010s. 

Rearrange its letters to spell, in plural, something that can quickly ruin an outdoor gathering. 

Rearrange again to form a verb that describes the effect this outdoor menace will typically have on such a gathering. 

Rearrange once more to spell the last name of an American painter and sculptor known for depictions of wildlife. Rearrange a final time to spell the name of a German municipality. What is the word and what are the four anagrams?

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A Guy Named Gregory Hors d’Oeuvre

Uncertain about that “certain person?”

Who is a certain person from the past named Gregory? 

The answer to that question contains two
words. 

Rearrange the combined letters in your two-word answer to name an uncertain person. 

What is your answer to the question? 

Who is the uncertain person?

U.S. Geography Slice:

States with shared (sharing) letters and shapes

Name two U.S. states with similar shapes. Take four different letters from one of the states. 

Rearrange them  – using some more than
once – to spell the other state. 

What are these states?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices:

Man & Manx, Woman & Wombat 

Will Shortz’s May 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ed Pegg Jr. (who runs the website mathpuzzle.com.) reads:

Think of an animal in which the singular form of the female and the plural form of the male sound like synonyms. What animal is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And
Pegg Slices read:

ENTREE #1

A.J. Foyt was an auto racing driver. Carl Sagan was an astonomer. Andre Agassi was a tennis player.

Take the surnames of a drummer, psychoanalyst and poet with those first names. Anagram the combined result to spell
the full name of a puzzle-maker, without using abbreviations.

Who are the drummer, psychoanalyst and poet? 

Who is the puzzle-maker? 

ENTREE #2

Name a potential animal in its “pre-chick stage of develpment.” Name also a word for a group of animals related to predators of that potential animal. 

Finally, name a Roman goddess whose Greek counterpart turned Callisto into a
bear.

Rearrange these 12 letters to spell the full name of a puzzle-maker, without using abbreviations.

What are this potential animal, the word for a group of animals related to predators of that animal and the Roman goddess?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #3

Note: Entree #3 is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

Think of a term for a young animal, in three letters, that sounds as if it has been “swallowed up” by a seven-letter animal. (That is, four consecutive letters within the second animal are a homophone of the young animal.) 

The three remaining letters of the second, seven-letter animal, in order, spell the first name of four women, past and present, surnamed Fujita, Noël, Swansea and Twigg.

What are these two animals?

What is the common first name of the four women?

Hint: Anagram a two-word synonym of the seven-letter animal to spell the surnames of a Finnish-American architect and an automobile racer associated with NASCAR (who shares his surname with a singer associated with “learning to fly” but also with “free falling.”)

ENTREE #4

Note: Entrees #4 and #5 are the brainchildren of our friend Tortitude, whose “Tortie’s Slow But Sure Puzzles” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

Think of an animal which is not native to North America. Now think of a famous woman. Her first name is a term that is sometimes used for the female version of that animal. Her husband usually uses a nickname. He was called by another nickname when he was a boy. That nickname is a term for the animal’s baby. The last syllable of the animal’s name sounds like the first letter of their last name. 

Now think of another person associated with the man. Say his name out loud. The second
and third syllables sound like the name of a Nickelodeon cartoon character, who is an example of the animal in question. The character’s rarely seen last name rhymes with the second and third syllables of the associated person’s last name. 

What is the animal? Who is the famous woman? Who is her husband? What is the nickname? Who is the associated person? Who is the cartoon character?

ENTREE #5

Think of a shortstop who was part of a team that won two World Series in the 1970s. Drop the last letter from his first name. You’ll have the name of a male animal of a particular species. Drop the last letter from his last name. You’ll have the name of an underground place where the animal lives. 

Now anagram the more general name for the
animal (that is, not specifically male or female) to produce an item associated with baseball and an acronym associated with baseball. Who is the baseball player, male animal, and animal’s home? What is the animal? What are the two terms associated with baseball? 

ENTREE #6

Take the female word for a farm critter followed by the male word for that critter. Replace one letter with an “a”. 

The result is the surname of a signature writ largest. 

What critters are these?

What is the signature writ largest?

ENTREE #7

Take two different words for the same male animal. 

Change one word to its plural form. Anagram these combined twelve letters to spell, in two words, what law enforcement
officials do during “perp walks.”

What are the two words for the same male animal?

What do law enforcement officials do during “perp walks?”  

ENTREE #8

Name animals that, collectively, approximately rhyme with the word “saddle.” Name the singular forms of the female and male. 

The first two letters of the first word plus the first letter of the second word spell the word for a particular male bird. 

The remaining letters spell a Scottish verb
that, if pronounced so as to rhyme with the singular form of the male animal, sounds like a byproduct gleaned from ovine creatures.

What animals approximately rhyme with “saddle?”

What are the singular forms of the female and male?

What is the male bird?

What is the byproduct gleaned from ovine creatures?

ENTREE #9

Take the female and male names of an animal at home in woodlands, in three and four letters. Remove the last latter of the female and first letter of the male. 

The remaining five letters can be used, some more than once, to spell the names of a three-letter animal and two four-letter animals.

What are the female and male woodland animals?

What are the three other animals?

ENTREE #10

Think of the female and male names of an animal at home in the water, in five and six letters. The names share only two letters in common, including the first letter.

Add three letters to the beginning of the female name to spell a carnivorous mammal. Add five letters to the beginning of the male name to spell a carnivorous mammal whose
habitat is an upper Midwestern U.S. state. These mammals share four letters in common, including the first letter.

What are the female and male names of an animal at home in the water?

What are the two carnivorous mammals?   

ENTREE #11

Switch the initial letters of the male and female names of an animal. The result is a poorly drained tract of land and something that might
be dug in an attempt to drain such an area.

What are these male and female animal  names?

What is a poorly drained tract of land, and what might drain it?

ENTREE #12

Take the 12-letter surname of a Chicago resident who played the on-air National Public Radio Weekend Sunday Edition Puzzle with Will Shortz on May 14 – a Chicagoan who pronounces ther word “gerbil” with a “hard-g,”not a “soft-g.”

Remove all “sleepiness” from the surname, leaving nine letters that can be used to spell a trio of three-letter words:

* the surname of a Catholic foe of Martin Luther,

* Mata Hari or James Bond,

* a cylindrical container.

Who is this on-air NPR player?

What are the “sleepiness,” foe’s surname, Hari or Bond, and cylindrical container?

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Marquee Dessert:

“A puzzle starring Farrah, Sarah & Dolly”

Take a noun associated with Farrah Fawcett, Sarah Jessica Parker and Dolly Parton in the1980s. 

Remove two consecutive letters to form a second noun that all three are known for. 

What are these nouns?

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Fractured fictitious titles; Heavenly geological generation; Let’s coin a minty-fresh new word! 11 puzzles of compound interest; Tales plucked from the pasture; Gallstone operations remove rocks; “Gesundheit!” if you can solve this “goesinta” challenge

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Let’s coin a minty-fresh new word!

Let us coin a seven letter-word that consists of alternating vowels and consonants. We shall define it as “central part” or as “midsection.” 

What is our word?

Hint #1: In a sense, the coined word is a four-letter word.

Hint #2: The word is an anagram of the a word in the title of a 1976 movie and the first name of a co-star in that movie.

Hint #3: “That was _ _   _ _ _ _ _, t’was but a minor scuffle!” (The coined word is an anagram of the letters in the blanks.)

A Puzzle For Solvers With Amnesia (Like Lego!):

“Gesundheit!” if you can solve this “goesinta” challenge

The numbers 580,087 and 72,836,197 are both evenly divisible by 29. 

Name another perhaps more interesting
property they share.

Note: The German word “gesundheit” means “healthy hood,” which is sometimes translated as “good health.”

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Jefferiffelicious Appetizer:

Fractured fictitious titles

Books, movies, plays, and other works of art often are given short catchy titles, many of which have become memorable. 

Listed below are some titles that fortunately were rejected. 

Can you figure out the better-known names of these famous but “fractured” works?

1. “Happiness, fortune and a black suit”

2. “Aaaaaddddddiiiiiooooossssss”

3. “Beasts Raising Crops”

4. “Domesticating a Rodent”

5. “An Abridged Compendium of Weekly News”

6. “Bones of the Mandible?”

7. “Le Liaison Françoise?”

8. “NFL Players Searching Mount Ararat”

9. “A Crazily Redundant Planet”

10. “Diva Fights Diva who Fights Diva”

11. “Ground Wood Fabrication”

12. “Broadcast Between FDR and Ike”

13. “Aquatic Fowl in Hot Water”

14. “Ecologically Sensitive 1.6K Race”

15. “Arsonist Destroys Bicycle Seats”

16. “Sir Elton Visits La Scala”

17. “Aqua, Teal and Navy Siblings”

18. “Twelve NSFW Jokes”

19. “Bovine Goes Postal”

20. “The Isles of Bisevo, Hvar, Pag, Vir, Vis... and 96 More”

21. “Number of innings in a game in which the visiting team has scored fewer runs than the home team and has made 27 outs”

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Idyllic, Bucolic Hors d’Oeuvre

Tales plucked from the pasture

Name a compound word for a pastoral place. 

Switch the last letters of its two parts. 

Pull the parts apart to form two words: an epic poet, and a pastoral tale such a poet may spin. 

What is this compound word?

Astronomical Slice:

Heavenly geological generation

Place a heavenly body, spelled backward, after something that body may generate. 

Remove the first, third and fourth letters of this
result to name another heavenly body. 

What are these heavenly bodies, and what is generated by one of them?

Riffing Off Shortz And Isaak Slices:

Ten Puzzles of compound interest

Will Shortz’s May 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Isaak of Sunnyvale, California, reads:

Think of part of the human body whose name is a compound word (like fingertip or toenail). 

Add an N and rearrange the result to get another part of the body whose name is also a compound word. What body parts are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Isaak Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Weird things tend to happen whenever an animal shows up in a story penned by a past satirist whose initials are H.H.M., and whose pen name is “____.” 

In his story about a “she-wolf,” for instance, an creature endowed with supernatural consciousness succeeds in delivering a dose of _____ in the form of payback to humans daring to put their faith in the random quality of fate.

Rearrange the nine letters in these two blanks to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the words in the blanks?

ENTREE #2

Think of an idiom for an especially irritating, aggravating, or obnoxious person, thing, or situation, in the form: “____ in the ____.”

Now think of part of the human body whose name is a compound word (like fingertip or toenail). Add an N and rearrange the result to get another part of the body and the posterior of that part of the body. That “another part of the body” is the word in the second blank, above. Anagram the letters of the “posterior of that part” to form a “transparent” homophone of the word in the first blank. 

What is the compound-word body part?

What are the body part and its posterior?

What are the words in the two blank spaces?

ENTREE #3

Take a compound word (like fingertips or toenails) for parts of the human body. Add a T and rearrange the result to get two other parts of the body: the anterior
section of the torso, and the posterior section of the lowest portion of the torso, moreso or less-so. What three body parts are these?

ENTREE #4

Think of part of the human body whose name is a compound word (like fingertip or toenail). Double the middle letter and rearrange the result to get an ovine creature and a part of a bovine creature. 

What body part is this?

What are the ovine creature and the part of the bovine creature?

ENTREE #5

Think of part of the human body whose name is a compound word (like fingertip or toenail). 

Add an N and rearrange the result to get a two-word, eight-letter caption for the image pictured here. 

What body part is this?

What is your caption?

ENTREE #6

Think of part of an automobile body whose name is a compound word (like “dashboard” or “sunroof”). Rearrange its eight letters to get a two-word caption for the image on the left. You can also rearrange those eight letters to spell a two-word caption for the image on the right (if you replace the five-letter second word in the caption with a homophone of that word). 

What is this compound-word body part?

What are the two captions?

ENTREE #7

Take the plural form of a compound word coined in 1907 that is defined as the surface of a certain heavenly body as seen or as depicted. 

Add a T and rearrange the result to get two words: 1.) literary compositions, in five letters, about heaven, hell and purgatory that a Florentine philosopher penned, and 2.) the name for the divisions of those compositions, in six letters.

What is this compound word?

Who is the Florentine philosopher?

What are the literary compositions and the divisions of those compositions?

ENTREE #8

Think of a compound seven-letter word (coined in 1939) for something that shelters automobiles from the elements. Divide it into its two parts and replace a vowel in the second part with a different letter to form a two-word description of an engine, hood, wheel, dashboard or glove box.

If you instead take what shelters automobiles from the the elements and duplicate its fifth and sixth letters, you can rearrange the nine-letter result to spell a word for a bird of prey and the name of one such bird from mythology.

What is the compound word for what shelters automobiles?

What is the two-word description of the engine, hood, wheel, dashboard or glove box?

What is the word for a bird of prey and the name of one such mythological bird?

ENTREE #9

Think of a two-word nine-letter noun for a car part (coined in 1903) that, when you remove the space, is a compound transitive verb that means “to initiate or give impetus to an undertaking” or “to lead, inspire, or animate something or someone.”

Replace the L in this verb with an A. Rearrange the result to spell a five-letter hyphenated verb for what you should do if your fuel gauge reads “EMPTY” and a four-letter verb for what you will likely have to do if you did not notice that your fuel gauge read “EMPTY.”

What are the nine-letter car part and compound transitive verb? 

What is the five-letter hyphenated verb for what you should do if your fuel gauge reads “EMPTY”? 

What is the four-letter verb for what you will likely have to do if you did not notice that your fuel gauge read “EMPTY.”

ENTREE #10

Think of part of the human body whose name is an eight-letter compound word. 

Add to this mix two letters often found at the end of adverbs. Rearrange the result to spell two names for the same color.

What is this body part?

What are the two names for the same color?

ENTREE #11

Think of a compound word for parts of an automobile that are usually more flashy than functional. 

Anagram the letters to spell a word for a watering hole on the British Isles and a word for the preferred form of payment there.

What are these auto parts?

What are the watering-hole word and preferred form of payment?

Dessert Menu

Rolling Rocks From One’s Bladder Dessert:

Gallstone operations remove rocks

The name of a rock group followed by the name of its lead singer form a kind of operation. 

What operation is this?

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