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?

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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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