A dirty dozen D-Day "mis de-eds" The “Brooklyn Brontosauri?" “Christopher Columbus Combs” eTHiCaL LiFe; Midnight snacks made from scratch; Calculator clickin’s, what the Dickens!

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“Christopher Columbus Combs”

Take the second word in the name of a historical European person. Remove six letters – in order but not consecutive – that spell an English verb. (For example, the surname of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus contains the verb “COMBS,” from COluMBuS.) 

The remaining letters, in order, spell a European-language translation of an English noun that is often an object of that English verb. Name this European person, English verb and European noun.

Hint #1:  The “European language” in the translation was the native tongue of this “European person.”

Hint #2: A Midwestern U.S. city is named for the European person.

Hint #3: The European person ultimately lost their “object of the verb.”

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“EcoArch”-De-“tect”-ed Appetizer:

A Dirty Dozen D-Day “Mis de-eds”

June 6th is D-Day, so here are a “Dirty Dozen mis de-eds.”  

The blanks in the following sentences can be filled with a word starting with the prefix “de-” and ending with the suffix “-ed”.  For example, “An alcoholic with cirrhosis may need to be delivered in the hospital,” alluding that part of his liver may need to be removed.

The letters between the prefix and suffix will also spell a word or name with a separate and unrelated definition, providing both an initial reading and a second meaning pun.  For example, “The former priest was not allowed to wear his robes after he was defrocked” is not legitimate as the two words have the same source. 

 Homonyms are also not used, so “On appeal the science guy’s claim to his name was denied”
(de-Nye-ed) would also not be used.  But a different pronunciation may occur, as in “The hesitating actor finally debuted at the local theater,“ with “but” referring to his hesitancy.  Finally, the center word may share the “e” in the suffix “-ed”, as in “devalued.”

    1. Climate change, with more powerful hurricanes hitting the Caribbean, will cause many islands to be further _____, and the loss of large swaths of forest has already _____ the environment.

    2. Historians try to understand how an ancient people of Scotland were _____.

    3. Military cuts in the post-Cold War era caused a lot of soldiers to feel _____, though stories about soldiers not having adequate sleeping quarters were quickly _____. 

    4. The model sat for too long and was eventually _____.

    5. The nearly failing student’s performance
was _____, and the nerd didn’t want to be _____ by his teacher or his classmates.  “They pulled down my underwear,” he said when he was _____.

    6. “No literate monks here” was how the monastery was _____.

    7. The people Trump claims are _____ say their ballots were not tallied!

    8. To sell his house Wilbur had to have it _____.

    9. Sadly, on March 5, 1963 the music world _____.

    10. The shy girl was at first _____ by her boyfriend, and they were _____ when the power went out.  But the girl’s father arranged that she not be _____ and _____ their hold.  So their wants were _____.

    11. Was it because of or in spite of the threat that the handsome knight was _____ by the king?

    12. With his appliances repossessed, the chef became _____.

    13. Bonus Puzzle:  Adding the prefix “de-” often changes a word’s meaning to its opposite; what word remains a synonym when the prefix “de-” is added?

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Scraping UpThe Dough Hors d’Oeuvre:

Midnight snacks made from scratch

Name something in your refrigerator, in two words. 

Move the first letter of the second word into the second place in the first word. 

The result is two words associated with abrasion.

What’s in your fridge?

What are the words associated with abrasion?

iLLiCiT FaiTH Slice:

eTHiCaL LiFe

CL? Yep. 

FL? Surely.  

T? Of course. 

H? Fo’shizzle. 

TH? Nope!

Explain why TH is verboten.

Hint #1: The solution involves hyphens.

Hint #2: Look at the image... sure, you see it, but what do you...?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

The “Brooklyn Brontësauri?”

Will Shortz’s May 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:

Think of a well-known author whose first name is nine letters long, and last name six letters. 

Change the first letter of the last name and anagram those six letters to spell a word. 

Now read everything together — the author’s first name plus the anagram with a letter changed of the last name — and you’ll get a certain professional athlete. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker whose first name is five letters long, and last name seven letters. In the last name, change the first letter to an L, move the last letter two places to the left, and place a space between the fourth and fifth letters.

The result is the name of a biblical character, what that character and two companions do while Jesus prays in a garden, and what infraction those three sleepyheads may have perpetrated – a transgression not of commission but of omission – in the process. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What did the character and companions “do”?

What infraction may they have committed?

Hint: Seventy-five percent of the letters in what “the character and companions do” are the same letter.

ENTREE #2

Think of a professional sports team, lately in the news, with a two-word, nine-letter name. 

Write the first three letters, followed by a space, followed by the sixth, eighth, first and fourth letters. The result is the name of a well-known athlete who is a two-time Olympic gold medalist.

What is this sports team?

Who is the athlete?

ENTREE #3

Add a Y and E to the name of a 30-year-old professional sports team. Anagram these 14 letters to spell three words:

* a natural weather-related attraction that is a selling point for other professional sports franchises who may want to relocate to that home team’s city, and

* two words you might see on a roadside sign as you approach the city.   

What is this team?

What’s the attraction?

What’s on the sign?

ENTREE #4

Name a certain professional athlete in two words of 15 letters. The second word flies. ROT-4 the sixth, seventh and fourth letters to spell the color of that second word. The first three letters and the 11th letter spell the climate in which the team plays their home games. 

The eight remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the first word of a team this athlete may play against — a team that, given both team nicknames, would seem to have an advantage!

Who is this athlete?

What is the color of the second word?

What is the climate in which the team plays their home games?

What team with a “seeming nickname advantage” does this athlete play against? 

ENTREE #5

Take the first 71.4% of the title of a song recorded by Santana, Nona Hendryx and Keith Urban, followed by a title recorded by Steely Dan, followed by a title recorded by Paul McCartney.

The result is the name of a certain professional athlete (in two words of 11 letters) on a sports franchise that “flew” southward from a northern city and changed its nickname in 1996. (In 2011 a different franchise “thrashed northward” into that “abandoned” northern city and adopted the nickname of the team that had left 15 years earlier.)

What are these three song titles?

What is the name of the professional athlete?

ENTREE #6

Think of a well-known author whose first name and surname are each seven letters long. 

Move the first two letters of the first name so that they replace the first letter of the surname. The result is a French city and a plural English word associated with the industrie de la volaille.

The French city is the base of an entrepreneur named Cyril Meckes, who is involved in the industrie de la volaille. The plural word is at the heart of his profession.

Who is this author?

What are the French city and the plural English word associated with the industrie de la volaille?

ENTREE #7

Think of a well-known author whose first name is eight letters long, and last name five letters. 

The first name is an iron mining community in a northern U.S. state that was once more of a logging community. Replace that name with the name of the state.

Remove a letter from the last name. Place to the left of this altered surname, without a space, an interjection sometimes heard in the forests of this northern state.

The result is the name of a certain professional athlete.

Who is the author?

What is the name of the professional athlete?

ENTREE #8

Think of a well-known Russian-born American author. Two consecutive letters (divided by a space) spell a Western U.S. state postal abbreviation; replace them with the postal abbreviation of a U.S. Midwestern state. Anagram each of the two altered names  to form a two-word description
of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Children of Heaven” and “Ran.”

Who is this author?

What are the two states?

What is the two-word description?

Hint: The letters in the two states can be used to spell: Alaska, Africa, Brasilia, Berlin, Lisbon, Ankara, France, Korea, Bosnia, Israel, Kerala, Arabia and Fresno.

ENTREE #9

Take the surname of a woman named Arlyn. Then take a homophone of a word for what two actors “are to her.” The result, in two words, is certain professional athletes. 

Who are these athletes?

What is Arlyn’s  surname?

Who are the two actors? 

Hint: The two actors’ first names begin with R and J.  

ENTREE #10

Think of a reasonably well-known actor who was in the cast of “Bonnie and Clyde” and appeared recurringly on the “The Andy Griffith Show.” His surname is a homophone of the second word in a caption for the image pictured here – a caption in the form: “A ____
of _______.”

The first name of the actor followed by the fourth word in the caption results in the name of a professional sports team.

Who is the actor?

What is the caption?

What is the name of a professional sports team?

Hint: Two characters on “The Andy Griffith Show” shared this actor’s surname. 

ENTREE #11

Think of an author whose name is 21 letters long. Number the letters, 1 through 21. 

Form four new words of three, seven, four and five letters using those numbered letters: 

10-11-13 

1-2-3-4-6-5-4

10-18-17-20

14-15-16-11-10

The first three words name a certain
professional athlete.

The fourth word names where that athlete plays home games.

Who is the author?

Who is the professional athlete?

Where does this athlete play home games?

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A Dickens Of A Dessert:

Calculator clickin’s, what the Dickens!

Enter a number into an old-school basic calculator, one that shows numerals using a seven-segment digital display. 

Copy what you see onto a piece of paper. 

To the right of this, write down the two letters that the first and last syllables sound like when you say the number aloud. 

Write this result in reverse order to form the first name of a Dickens character. 

What are this number and name?

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