BBC on the telly, Enshrined in Cleveland, Memento Megacorpi! Just two 4-letter words & a "sixer"; Trawling and casting “aboat”? Hoosier, Sooner, Empire States; Bossie and Bessie down on the farm, roam, roam on the range; Carole King... caroling!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Bossie & Bessie down on the farm, roam, roam  on the range

Take an adjective and noun describing a cowboy on a cattle drive and a noun that may apply to one who is hunting down Bossie, Bessie or some stray calf. 

Rearrange the combined letters of these three words to spell the name of a farm boy who became famous. 

What are the three words? Who is the farm boy?

Hint: Each of the three words contains six letters.

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Testudinata Appetizer:

BBC on the telly, Enshrined in Cleveland, Decades-apart video, Memento Megacorpi!

Decades-apart video

1. 📺Name a popular TV show from the
twenty-first century. 

Now think of a word meaning to “watch a TV show.” Reverse that word, append the results to the end of the TV show, and you’ll have another TV show that aired in the 1960s. 

Note: the official name of the earlier TV show starts with “The”.) 

What are the two TV shows?

BBC on the telly

2. 🌎Think of a two-word phrase that could describe the BBC’s “Planet Earth.” 

Think of a second two-word phrase describing what you may glean from a book review, say, about your favorite novelist’s latest book release.

Each two-word phrase consists of the same set of ten different letters (like “Tuscan lore” and “Lotus crane”).

These ten unique letters (contained in either two-word phrase) can be used to form a set of four interrelated words. (Letters may be repeated among the set of words.) 

Now think of a word used on TV warnings or advisories about programs that may contain violence or other potentially disturbing subject matter. Anagram that word to get a description for the set of four words. 

What are the two two-word phrases? 

What four related words can be formulated with the ten letters in either phrase? 

What word is used in a TV program warning? 

What word describes the set of four words?  

“Memento Megacorpi”

3. 📝Name a five-letter word for what people in a certain profession might have to remember. 

Using only the letters found in that word, name
someone who was a member of that profession. 

The first name has six letters, and the last name has seven. 

What is the five-letter word, and who is the person? 

Enshrined in Cleveland 

4. 🎸Name a one-word item and a two-word item in the image pictured here. 

Rearrange the letters of these three words to produce a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer. 

What are the items? 

Who is the singer? 

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Capital City Hors d’Oeuvre

Hoosier, Sooner, Empire States

What trivial distinction do the capitals of Indiana, Oklahoma and New York share that is shared by none of the other 47 state capitals?

Synonymous Antonymous Slice:

Just two 4-letter words & a “sixer”

Take a six-letter verb. 

Rearrange consecutive letters to spell a four-letter synonym of the verb.

If you instead replace three consecutive
interior letters of the six-letter verb with a single letter, the result is an antonym of those verbs.

What are this verb, synonym and antonym?

Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices:

Carole King... caroling!

Will Shortz’s June 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Chad Graham, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reads:

Name a famous singer in six and four letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right, is a word for some singing. What is it?

Note: Chad Graham, also known by his screen name “Chuck,” appears regularly on Puzzleria! with his “Conundrumbstruck by Chuck!” feature.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a talented puzzle-maker in four and six letters. Move the last letter of the first name into the fourth place in the last name. Remove the first letter of the altered last name. 

From the end of the last name replace a word for “a showy performer” or “a licensed operator
of an amateur radio station” with a letter that appears exactly once in the puzzle-maker’s hometown and once in its home state, followed by a letter that appears exactly once in his home state.

The result is a popular parlor game.

Who is this puzzle-maker? What is the parlor game?

ENTREE #2

Name a singer in five and five letters. If you pronounce the name aloud it sounds as if you are saying a word for a reptile after you’ve imbibed a few too may alcoholic beverages. 

Who is the singer? What is the reptile?

Hint: Name a smart phone activity, in seven letters, and what smart phone users might do, in five letters, if they make a mistake while performing that activity. Rearrange these 12 letters to spell two adjectives that describe the reptile.

ENTREE #3

Name a singer in four and ten letters. Insert an “n” someplace in the second word. 

The result sounds like the possessive form of a political mascot and the first name of a president associated with that mascot. 

Who is the singer?

What is this mascot and who is the president?

ENTREE #4

Name an American country music singer-songwriter in two words containing nine letters. Remove the third, fourth, fifth and sixth letters (which are the same letter). Also remove the second letter (which, when capitalized, sometimes resembles that same letter – the one that appeared four times consecutively in the name before you removed them).

The four letters that remain, in order, spell the surname of a California singer-artist who led a band that recorded a 1995 album with a title that was likely inspired by this 1958 song. The father of this singer-artist portrayed “The Marlboro Man.”

Who is the country music singer-songwriter?

Who is the California singer-artist?

ENTREE #5

Name a Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer, in three and seven letters, who was in a band with the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer in Entree #6. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first two letters of the last name. 

The result, reading left to right, is the surname of two Texas-based singer-songwriting brothers, one who had a stint in a band named “Two Hoots and a Holler.” 

Who are this Hall of Famer and two Texas brothers?

ENTREE #6

Name a Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer, in three and five letters, who was in a band with the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer in Entree #5. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. 

The result, reading left to right, is the surname of a record producer associated with the Association, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon and Boston. 

This producer also helped rejuvenate the career of Rick Nelson by producing a comeback hit song for him penned by the three-and-five-letter Hall-of-Famer.

Remove the third letter from this record producer’s surname to spell the surname of a musician who founded and led a Hall-of-Fame rock band named after a specific species of the reptile in Entree #2.

Who is this three-and-five-letter Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer?

Who is the record producer?

Who is the leader of the band named for a reptile species?

ENTREE #7

Name one of the first country music artists to cross over into pop music in five and five letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right, spells two words (the first one a possesive with an apostrophe) that describe “I am neither left wing nor right wing; I am middle-of-the-bird,” “If elected, I will win,” or “I’ve upped my standards; now, up yours” – all spoken by a former U.S. presidential candidate (in two words of three and seven letters) who in the 1996 New Hampshire Democratic Primary finished second to President Bill Clinton, and in 1992 came in second to George Bush in the North Dakota Republican primary.

These same two words also describe Nate Solder, Shaq Mason, Sebastian Vollmer, Joe Thuney, Bryan Stork, David Andrews, Jonathan Cooper, Marcus Cannon and Tre Jackson. But these words also describe Hunter Henry, Trent Brown, Cole Strange, David Andrews, Mike Onwenu and Riley Reiff.

Who is the country music artist?

Who is the presidential candidate?

What two words describe any one of his quotes?

How do those two words also describe the 15 men listed?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous singer in four and six letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name.

Also remove the last two letters of the last name. 

The result, in two words reading left to right, is a container for coffee or tea made of a soft faintly bluish-white lustrous low-melting crystalline metallic element that is malleable and ductile at ordinary temperatures. 

Who is this singer?

What is this container?

Hint: The atomic number of the metallic element consists of three prime factors, two which are the same number.

ENTREE #9

Name a past comedic actor in three and six letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. 

The result, reading left to right, spells, in two words, what sounds like an informal way of
describing most of the Ten Commandments.

Who is this actor?

What is the informal way of describing most of the Ten Commandments?

ENTREE #10

Name a singer/poet in seven and five letters. Remove the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right (and if you shift the space one place to the right), spells two words: 

1. the name of the cartoon king of Bongo Congo (and arch-enemy of Biggie Rat) who starred in one of the first Saturday-morning cartoon programs in the early 1960s,
and

2. the word for cartoon characters named Clara Cluck, Bunty, Chickaletta, Babs, Miss Prissy, Camilla the Chicken, Lady Kluck and Chicken Little

Who is this singer/poet?

Who is the cartoon king?

What is the word for the other eight cartoon characters?

ENTREE #11

Name a famous past folk singer/actor in four and four letters. Double the third letter in his first name. Move the space between the two names one place to the left. The result may have been the headline in the Weehawken, New Jersey newspaper the morning of Thursday, July 12, 1804.

Who is this folk singer?

What may have been the headline? 

ENTREE #12

Name the drummer for a famous rock band, in five and four letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. Move the space one place to the left.
The result, reading left to right, sounds like two words of three and four letters: what rock bands ought to play on and ought to play in.

What is this band?

Who is the drummer?

What ought rock bands play on and play in?

ENTREE #13

Name a famous singer in three and seven letters. Interchange the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. Replace the fifth letter with a duplicate of the new third letter. Move the space one place to the right.

The result is two words that describe what you do when you roll a three and four, a two and five, and a snake eye and a boxcar. 

Who is this singer?

What do you do when you roll a three and four, a two and five, and a snake eye and a boxcar?

ENTREE #14

Note: Elements of the following riff were suggested by a Puzzleria! follower.

Take the familiar first and last names of a very famous singer, in four and six letters. Reverse the order of those names. Remove the last letter of the now-first name and the first letter of the now-last name. Remove the space, creating an eight-letter string. 

Replace the fourth letter with a duplicate of the third letter.

Replace the fifth letter with a duplicate of the seventh letter.

The result, reading left to right, is a word for some singing for which this famous singer is famous.

Who is this famous singer?

What is the singing for which this singer is famous?

Hint: Write a three-word caption for the image pictured here (consisting of an adjective, noun and verb in 5, 6 and 6 letters) then rearrange the letters.

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Hydroproductivity Dessert:

Trawling and casting “aboat”?

Name a food production process associated with water. 

Move the eighth letter to the end and delete the first two letters to name a food you might boil in water. 

What are this process and food?

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