“A bunch of five-letter words” Cathy’s Collegiate Culinarity; “Gorgeous George,” Strait outta Poteet! The 20th “Eventieth” Century; The case of the six missing letters; “Spectacular oasis, Mojave mirage”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

The 20th “Eventieth” Century

The Wright Brothers’ flight, Henry Ford’s  Model-T, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression...

Two World Wars, the rise and fall of Hitler, the transistor is invented, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis... 

Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, segregation is declared illegal, two Kennedys and a King are killed by assassins...

The Vietnam War, Apollo 11, Roe v. Wade, Three Mile Island, glasnost and perestroika, the Cold War ends, the Berlin Wall falls, the AIDS scourge, the World Wide Web is launched...

All were major 20th Century events. 

Using the terms  “Aughts,” “Twenties,” “Thirties,” etc., tell what was the most eventful decade of the 20th Century, and why?

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“Pentiliterate” Appetizer:

“A bunch of 5-letter words”

Changing a “thou” to 500

1. Ⅿ🠞Ⅾ Take a five-letter word starting with M. 

Change the M to a D and rearrange the letters to get a synonym of the original word. 

What are this word and its synonym?

Leapfrogging letter-segments

2. 🐸 Take a five-letter word. 

The first three letters spelled backward form a three-letter word.

Put that three-letter word in front of just the last three letters of the five-letter word.

The result is a six-letter word that is a reason you might do the five-letter word to the three-letter word.

What are these three words?

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“Parapet Hat” Hors d’Oeuvre

 “Spectacular oasis, Mojave mirage”

Take two words that appear next to each other in the text of this puzzle. 

Rearrange the letters in these words to spell what might be a synonym of “spectacular oasis” or “Mojave mirage,” in two words. 

What is this synonym?

What are the two words that appear next to each other?

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The case of the six missing letters

Fill in the six missing letters in the following sequence of 24 letters:

_ E R _ N T _ H F _ I _ S _ G L Y D A M B Q P C

What are they, in order?

Why are these 24 letters in this order?

Hint: The six missing letters are different from one another, and are also different from the other 18 letters in the list.

Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices:

“Gorgeous George,” Strait outta Poteet!

Will Shortz’s June 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Rawson Scheinberg of Northville, Michigan, reads:

Name a famous singer, in six and six letters, whose last name is a body of water. 

And if you remove a letter from the first name you'll get a landform. 

What singer is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, in six and ten letters. Rearrange these 16 letters to form three words related to liquids:

1. the name of a strait,

2. water in a crystalline form that you might find near that strait, and

3. a drink that is different from the one you had just been drinking.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the name of the strait, water in crystalline form, and “drink that is different?”

Hint: The letters in the name of the puzzle-maker can also be rearranged to form the first letter of the puzzle-maker’s surname, spelled-out, and a California-based company that produces a drink that is often one of the ones “that is different from the one you had just been drinking.”

ENTREE #2

Name a famous singer, in five and six letters, whose last name is a body of water in its plural form. 

And if you change the first letter of the first name you’ll get the name of a really very large “landform.”

What singer is this?

What is the very large landform?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous singer, in five and five letters, whose last name is a body of water. And if you lowercase the first letter of the first name and remove just the horizontal part at the base of the letter, the result resembles a different lowercase letter. 

As a result, the first name now resembles an adjective that describes many landforms.

What singer is this?

What is the adjective that describes many landforms?

ENTREE #4

Name a European actor, in five and five letters, whose last name is a synonym of a body of water or, more specifically, an estuary.

Now take the first three letters of a Scottish synonym of “estuary.” Spell them in reverse, followed by the first two letters of a third synonym of “estuary.” The result is the first name of the actor.

Who is this actor?

What are the second and third synonyms of “estuary?”

ENTREE #5

Name a 93-year-old two-word term, in four and seven letters, for an apparatus that imparts high velocities to charged particles, such as electrons. 

Anagram the first word to spell a circular (and encircling) body of water. Anagram the second word to spell bodies of water that are shallow wetlands where vegetation grows.

What is this apparatus?

What are the circular body of water and shallow wetlands?

Hint: The circular body of water and shallow wetlands begin with the same letter.

ENTREE #6

Name a conservative political commentator, radio host and entrepreneur, in five and four letters. 

The second name is a word for a stream that comes from a mountain. If you remove the last letter (or the penultimate letter) from the first name you’ll get a landform that is a secluded narrow valley.

What is the name of this political commentator?  

ENTREE #7

Name a famous singer, in five and six letters. Replace the sixth letter of the surname with a duplicate of the fifth letter, then move the first letter between those identical letters to form a word for a dry creek bed that can temporarily flood after rainfall.

Now replace the fifth letter of the first name with a duplicate of either the second or  fourth letter. 

Rearrange the result to spell one of many conical tents made of skins that were once ubiquitous across the Great Plains of America.

Who is this singer?

What are the dry creek bed and the conical tent?

ENTREE #8

Name a sportswriter, in four and five letters, who became National League president and Commissioner of Major League Baseball. 

Add a “J” someplace in his first name. In his surname, replace the first letter with a duplicate of the fourth letter.

The result is a narrow inlet of ocean between mountainous cliffs, and a dialectical term for a natural stream of water normally smaller than and that is often a tributary to a river.

Who is this Commissioner of Major League Baseball?

What are the narrow inlet and dialectical term for a natural stream of water?

ENTREE #9

Name an area of water surrounded by three sides that is larger than a bay, in four letters. Change the second letter to an “o”. 

Name also a word for the barriers of a river, ocean, or any body of water that has banks and a bed.

The result is an American sports television network owned by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

What are this area of water and the word for the barriers of a body of water with banks and a bed?

What is the American sports television network?

ENTREE #10

Name a famous singer, in three and six letters. If you remove a letter from the second word you’ll get a landform. If you you change the vowel in the first word to a different vowel you’ll get a body of water that is a smaller version of a gulf.

Who is this singer?

What are this “mini-gulf” and landform?

Hint: The singer’s name, at birth, is an anagram of what you get (in two words of 1 and 8 letters) when you transfer data or files from one location (like a large computer or the Cloud) to another location (like a smaller computer, smart phone or storage device).

ENTREE #11

Place a “Maker of Dreams” and a “Producer of Snickers” next to one another.

Place an ampersand or an “and” between them. 

Replace an “s” with a “y”. 

The result is a “Maker of Music.”

Who are this “Maker of Dreams,” “Producer of Snickers” and “Maker of Music”?

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Delicious Dish Dessert:

Cathy’s Collegiate Culinarity

Cathy, a brilliant high school senior is offered an all-expenses-paid scholarship to a university. 

To celebrate, she prepares her favorite dish, in two words. The second word is the name of the university. Spoonerizing the first word sounds like a two-word synonym of “all-expenses-paid.” 

What is the dish Cathy prepares?

What is the synonym of “all-expenses-paid?”

What is the university?

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