Do the math, Pair and re-pair, Green means Stop! & three more; One dickens of a dumbfounder! Candy that’s dandy, but “dawdly” Frowning freely and fraternally; East & West twains meet in Merrie Olde England! “No, no, you can’t do that!” “These puzzles are making me thirsty!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“These puzzles are making me thirsty!”

Name something you might grab during summer to get rid of thirst. 

Add two letters to the beginning and say the result aloud.

It will sound like something you might grab during summer to get rid of something else you don’t want. 

What two things might you grab to get rid of thirst and of something else you don’t want?

Appetizer Menu

“PrimO’clock” Appetizer:

Do the math, Pair and re-pair, Green Means “STOP!” & three more

Finding literary commonality

1. 📚What do these five classic works of literature have in common?

1. Don Quixote; 

2. The Swiss Family Robinson; 

3. Book of Numbers, Old Testament; 

4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream; 

5. Pinocchio 

Green means “STOP!”

2. 𝅘𝅥𝅮Phonetically speaking, what Irish city might a certain American country music singer want to avoid, and who is the singer? 

“Haven’t I heard your name before?”

3. 𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅰𝅘𝅥𝅱The last names of two performers are anagrams of one another.  

One starred in the original Broadway production of a popular musical, and the other one starred in the same role in the film version of the work.  

Who are they, and what role did they play?  

Do the math

4. − +  A. Take the seven-letter surname of a film star of the 20th Century.  

Subtract one letter to get a word for something that may be shot at. 

Subtract a second letter and rearrange to get a
word for what journalists often do. 

Subtract a third letter to get a tree. Subtract a fourth letter to get a food. Subtract a fifth letter to get another letter. 

Finally, subtract one of the remaining  letters to get a word that is a homophone for a body part. 

Who is the film star, and what are the six additional words?  

B. Take a two-word phrase for “man talk.” Add the two words together to get something you would not want to have directed at you.  

C. Take an award and add an animal to get a synonym for the award.  

D.  Take a word for something sweet you might spread on bread and add a word meaning repugnant, to get a word meaning lyrical.  

E.  Take a word for a restraint and add a perennial plant, to get a word for a kind of return.  

Pair and re-pair

5. 🐠Take a word for a kind of aquatic animal.  Add a letter to get a word for a kind of pen.  

Now take a word for a kind of music. Add a letter to get a kind of musical composition.

You now have four words comprising two pairs of homophones. 

What are they?  

Hint: all four words start with the same letter.

Anagrammatically correct verses

6. 🖋Fill in the blanks in the poem below with five words that are anagrams of one another. What are these five words?

The ______ seekers ______ as the sage

Seeks ______ to ______ each mortal soul,

His words, alas, despite his righteous rage,

Are merely ______, empty and unwhole. 

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A Bonus Riff Of Nodd’s App #4 Image:

“No, no, you can’t do that!”

Consider the image of the third-grade girl student in Nodd’s Appetizer #4 image. To what do the words on the chalkboard (ME minus THAT) and the words in her thought-bubble allude? 

Brit Lit Hors d’Oeuvre:

One Dickens of a dumbfounder!

Divide a Dickensian-type character into three equal parts. 

The third, second, first and second parts spell, in two words, where he might sleep. 

Who is this character? 

Where might he sleep?

Killin’ Cap’n Crunch! Slice:

Frowning freely and fraternally

Take an adjective associated with a fraternal organization. Spell it backward. 

The first three letters sound like a word the organization frowns upon. Change the vowel sound in that word. The whole backward word, spoken aloud, now sounds like the nickname of a serial killer – one the organization would also surely frown upon.

What is this adjective?

What word and serial killer would the organization frown upon?

Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Slices:

East & West twains meet in Merrie Olde England!

Will Shortz’s August 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Name something found on a map of England.
Two words. The last two letters of the first word are the same as the first two letters of the last.
If you go to England, you can’t see this place. You can see it only on a map. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name, in two words, “an alcoholic solution of a distillate of the bark of a small tree or shrub used as a soothing and mildly astringent lotion.” Some claim that this solution may make vanish (or “vamoose”) maladies such as psoriasis, eczema, diaper rash, insect bite itches, poison ivy and razor burn .

Rearrange the combined letters of those two words and a synonym of “vamoose” to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Hint: There is a historic neighborhood 178 miles northeast of this puzzle-maker’s residence with the same name as the “solution used as a soothing lotion.” 

This neighborhood is in a city that is an anagram of “shrill boo!”

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the alcoholic solution used as a soothing and mildly astringent lotion?

What is the synonym of “vamoose”?

What is the city that is an anagram of “shrill boo!”?

ENTREE #2

You can see the “Boot of Italy” on a map of Italy, so-called because it is shaped like a boot. It is also known as the Italic Peninsula or by its Italian name, “Lo Stivale.” 

You could also perhaps see its boot-shape if you were orbiting the earth in a space capsule. But if you were actually to go and set foot on this peninsula, you will not be able to actually see this boot. You would be too close to the earth to have the proper perspective.

Name, however, another place in Europe, also associated with “footwear,” that you can see on a map of England and can also see if you visit it.

What is this place in England?

ENTREE #3

Name a town found on a map of Texas, and a city found on the map of Ohio. Two words, and one word.

The town’s name is associated with “campanology.”

Now take a second term associated with “campanology,” in one word.

Replace its first and fourth letters with a “C” and a “C”.  Then delete letters 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 16.

The result is the name of the Ohio city.

What are this town and city?

What is the second term associated with “campanology?”

ENTREE #4

Name a suburb of a “Down Under” city, in 13 letters.

The first eight letters spell something you weave and what you might use to weave it.

Letters 7, 8, 9 and 10 spell a novel by Herman Melville.

Letters 8, 9 and 10 spell a bovine synonym of the fourth, third and first letters.

Letters 11, 12 and 13 spell a word for an old card game that is also a British bathroom.

What is this suburb?

What do you weave and what do you use to weave it?

What is the Melville title?

What is the bovine synonym?

What is the card game/British bathroom?

ENTREE #5

Name a Turkish municipality known for its ancient archaeological ruins. The name of this municipality is also the name of a counterpart, and perhaps rival, of a superheroic blog persona adopted by the creator of the August 6th National Public Radio Puzzle. 

What is this Turkish municipality?

What is the blog persona adoped by the puzzle-maker?

Hint: An anagram of the Turkish municipality is a comic book publisher that is a rival to the two-letter publisher that publishes the superheroic exploits of our puzzle-maker’s superheroic persona as well as those of his rival.

ENTREE #6

Name a pair of singular synonyms, in five and four letters, found in one eight-letter city on a map of Minnesota. The last letter of one synonym serves as the first letter of the other.

Some residents of neighboring rival cities
might claim good-naturedly that, if you go to this city, you can’t see either of these synonyms. You can see them only on a map.

What is this city on the Minnesota map?

What are the two synonyms?

ENTREE #7

Name a quite populous city found on a map of Asia, in one word. 

Move the last letter, followed by an apostrophe, to the front. 

Then move the new last letter into the third position.

Then move the new last letter into the fourth position.

Add two spaces in two places.

The result is something Red Skelton might have been telling himself while portraying the character “Freddie the Freeloader.”

What is this Asian city?

What might Red Skelton have been telling himself?

ENTREE #8

Name a quite populous city found on a map of Europe. One word, two different vowels.

Change the vowel that is later in the alphabet to the earlier-in-the-alphabet vowel in the city.

Rearrange the letters. Uppercase half of them.
Add a space.

The result is what you might do if you’re looking to speed up your poky computer. 

What is this city?

What might you do to “de-pokify” your computer?

ENTREE #9

Name a quite populous city found on a map of Asia, in one word. 

Anagram the letters to form a variant spelling (substituting an “s” for a “z”) of a common thrush of Eurasia and northern Africa having an orange bill and black plumage.

Anagram the letters of this bird to spell a small, flat, wingless insect.

What is this city?

What are the common thrush and wingless insect?

ENTREE #10

Name a quite populous city found on a map of North America, in one word. 

Remove the last two letters and reverse their order to form a standard abbreviation of a word seen in this puzzle text.

The remaining letters can be anagrammed to spell an antonym of that word.

What is this city?

What are the abbreviation and the antonym?

ENTREE #11

Rearrange the letters in an abbreviation you could see on past maps of the Eastern Hemisphere for about 35 years, followed by the two-letter postal abbreviation of a U.S. state. The result is a word you can still see on current  maps of the Eastern Hemisphere. (Past maps added an “n” to the end of this word, thereby changing a noun to an adjective.)

What are this former abbreviation and U.S. state postal abbreviation?

What is the word you can still see on current  maps of the Eastern Hemisphere?

ENTREE #12

Name a word found on a map of Outer Space. Place a duplicate of its first letter at the end. 

Reverse the order of the first two letters and place a space after them.

Insert two words within that space:

1. a common article, and 

2. a noun that is used as a synonym for only one of the nine planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, the “dwarfy” planet.

The result is the title of a quite long-running television show.

What is the word found on a map of Outer Space?

What is the title of the quite long-running television show?

Dessert Menu

“No Sugar Tonight In My Coffee” Dessert:

Candy is dandy... but relatively “dawdly”

Slice a piece of candy into two pieces. 

The first piece sounds like a beverage. 

The second piece is something one might add to that beverage. 

What are this candy, beverage, and what one might add to the beverage?

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.)

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