Ex-Wye-Zee + Ex-Wye-Zee; Confection-collection selection; Arias sung in the Singapore area; Surnames and simians; Aspirations and ambitions; McCartney, Clooney, Lauper & Lady Gaga

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Confection-collection selection

ROT13 the letters of a two-word candy product from the past. 

Move the space and add a hyphen to form a description of this product that also applies to Almond Joy, Milky Way, Baby Ruth, KitKat and Salted Nut Roll but not to Laffy Taffy, Butterfinger, PayDay, Snickers and Oh Henry! 

What are this product and its description?

Note: “ROT13” means to move the letters of a word either 13 places ahead or 13 places backward in the alphabet.

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Doubled Triplets Appetizer:

Ex-Wye-Zee+Ex-Wye-Zee

Some proper names like “Berber” or “Zsazsa” consist of the same three letters repeated. 

There are also such non-proper words, like “murmur” or “pompom”. 

We might call these XYZ+XYZ words.

Find a non-proper six-letter XYZ+XYZ word which is divided 3-3 into two syllables that are spelled the same but pronounced differently.

Extra Bonus!! Find a fairly rare non-proper six-letter XYZ+XYZ word that is divided 2-4 into two different syllables XY+ZXYZ.

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Entertaining Hors d’Oeuvre:

Surnames and simians

Spell out a letter of the alphabet. (For example, “j” would become “jay”.) 

Rearrange its letters to reveal the first name of an acclaimed actress and entertainer. 

As for her surname, anagram the letters of a word in this puzzle and you will arrive at that answer. 

Who is this entertainer? 

What is the word in the puzzle that is an anagram of her surname?

Hint: Her first name sounds like the name of a fictional simian.

Scary Character Slice:

McCartney, Clooney, Lauper & Lady Gaga

Name something, in eight letters, likely owned by Cyndi Lauper, Paul McCartney, George Clooney and Lady Gaga. 

Remove a letter. 

Then remove two spaces (including the one resulting from the letter you removed). 

The final result, spelled backward, is a scary character that you might see seeking treats this Halloween. 

What might these celebrities own? 

Who is the character?

Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:

Arias sung in the Singapore area

Will Shortz’s October 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Oshin of Portland, Oregon, reads:

Name a country. The first syllable spells something that people do. The rest of the name is an anagram of where some people do that. What country is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker whose last name sounds like a body of water west of his hometown. Rearrange the combined letters of his first and last names to spell a two-word
caption for either of the images pictured here. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the body of water?

What is the caption?

Note: Entree #2 is a riff composed by Greg VanMechelen, aka Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

What country is also a phrase that describes the situation when a knitter only has light brown yarn?

ENTREE #3

Name a world capital city that ends  with the initial of the first name of a puzzlemaster. Change that letter to the initial of that puzzlemaker’s surname. 

Place the first half of that capital city after the altered second half. The result is a six-letter word for “an orderly harmonious systematic universe.”

Now place a four-letter abbreviation “associated with seamen, navigation, or ships” between the last two letters of that word to spell a word for astronauts in the space program in that capital city’s country.

What is the capital city?

Who is the puzzlemaster?

What is the word for “an orderly harmonious systematic universe?”

What is the word for astronauts in the space program in that capital city’s country? 

ENTREE #4

Name a ten-letter country.

Letters 1-3 spell a deodorant brand.

Letters 1-4 spell a record label brand that is an anagram of its founders’ surnames.

Letters 4-7 spell a plastic container and bag brand.

Letters 4-8 spell an air freshener brand.

Letters 9, 10, 8, 1, 2, 3 and 4 spell a noun often preceded by “whole” that characterizes the four brands listed above.

What is the country?

What are the four brands and the noun often preceded by “whole”?

ENTREE #5

Name a country. Spell the first three letters backward, then spell the last three letters forward. The result is two words that together mean “a friend made and kept through correspondence.” What are this country and two-word term?

ENTREE #6

Name two fictional places — one created by Samuel Butler, the other by Thomas More. Anagram their 13 combined letters to spell three words: 

(1) a word that rhymes with “bough,” and (2) a liquid in a jug (both words appear in an ancient verse).

The third word (3) is  the type of musical composition created by Canadians Moore and Applebaum about Butler’s fictional place, and the same type of composition composed by Brits Gilbert and Sullivan about More’s fictional place.

What are these fictional places?

What are  the two words in the ancient verse and the type of musical composition?

ENTREE #7

Name a capital city in South America. Name also a word that means a “fortress inside a city” in a large European capital city — a fortress that features citadels, palaces and cathedrals enclosed by a wall with towers. 

Anagram the combined letters of this city and fortress to spell, in two words, something a U.S. Ambassador to Ghana apparently found in her soup before she became ambassador.

What are this South American capital city and European fortress?

What did the future ambassador find in her soup?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word country. Anagram the second word to spell a piece of furniture where one may sleep. Anagram the first word to spell two words: another piece of furniture where one may sleep and the kind of mattress one may sleep upon. 

What country is it?

What are the two pieces of furniture and the kind of mattress?

ENTREE #9

Name a two-word country. Remove consecutive letter-pairs in each word. Rearrange the five remaining letters to spell a kind of bean that can be used to make cocoa or hot chocolate. Rearrange the four letters you removed to spell what you might do to the hot chocolate with a utensil.

What country is it?

What is the bean, and what might you do with a utensil?

ENTREE #10

Name a country. Anagram the last four letters to spell a berry not named Patrick. 

The remaining letters spell something you might make with such berries.

What country is it?

What is the berry? 

What might be made with such berries?

ENTREE #11

Name a country. Four consecutive interior letters spell a form of precipitation. 

Three consecutive interior letters, spelled backward, are what you might want to build if you encounter such precipitation.

What country is it?

What might you want to build?

ENTREE #12

Name a country. Four consecutive interior letters spell the name of a mountain. Remove them, leaving three letters that look like two Roman numerals.

 Take the product of these numerals and divide the result by two to get an approximate elevation, in meters, of the mountain.

What country is it? 

What are the mountain and its approximate elevation?

Hint: The approximate elevation of the mountain is a bit on the low side.

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Blankety-Blank-Blank Dessert:

Aspirations and ambitions

“Those who aspire __ ___ have _____ ambitions.” 

Switch the positions of two letters in the first two blanks. 

Then remove the space. The result is the word in the third blank. 

Name these three missing words.

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Acting School, hot spot, silent strolling, Billboard board game; Choo choos and chew toys? Transatlantic translation toughie; Side-by-side-by-homicide? McMuffins, McGriddles, Synonym Rolls; Dan “the Mandarin Orange” Marino

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

McMuffins, McGriddles, Synonym Rolls

You’re taking a road trip with family or friends. You and your passengers get a bit peckish. 

You stop by at a roadside purveyor of fast food and order entrees and side orders.

Take these two words – the entrees and side orders. Let A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. 

Replace the first two letters of the side orders with the letter that is half their sum to form a new word. 

This word and the entrees are synonyms.

What are these entrees, side orders and synonyms?

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Four Bolts Of Befuddlement Appetizer:

Acting school, hot spot, silent strolling, Billboard board game

“Acting school”

1. 🎥Name a famous actor, first and last names, each with five letters. 

Remove three letters from the first name. Rearrange everything else and you’ll name something many people study in school. 

Who’s the actor? 

What’s the subject?

Hot Spot + Surname = Song

2. 🌍Name a European hot spot in six letters, followed by the first name of an actor whose surname is a legendary creature. 

If you say these words aloud, it will sound like
the title of a famous mid-20th century song that’s an American standard.

What are the hot spot and the surname?

What is the song title?

Hint: The singer who made the song popular had a world capital as a last name.

Walking amidst silence

3. 👢🥾Think of a word for an area where you sometimes walk, consisting mostly of silent letters. 

Rearrange only these silent letters to form a second word. 

Then take only the non-silent letters. Double the last one to form a third word. 

What are these three words?

Board Game becomes Billboard hit!

4. 🎜🎝Name a popular board game in nine letters. 

Drop the last letter. Then push the first letter forward five places in the alphabet (A = F, B = G, etc.) and push the sixth letter forward one place. You’ve named a 1960 Top-40 hit song. 

What’s the game? 

What’s the song?

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Iron Horse Hors d’Oeuvre:

Choo choos and chew toys?

Name a part of a train. 

Switch two consecutive letters with two other consecutive letters. 

The result sounds like a household pet and a noun that often describes it. 

What are this train part, pet and noun?

Organisation Internationale Slice:

Transatlantic translation toughie

Name a two-word international organization. 

The first syllable of its first word is a French noun. The second syllable of the first word sounds like its English translation. 

The second word in the international organization is associated with that translated word. 

What is this organization?

Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:

Dan “the Mandarin Orange” Marino

Will Shortz’s October 15th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Reiss, who’s been a showrunner, writer, and producer for “The Simpsons,” reads:

Name a famous athlete, first and last names.
Interchange the initials of those names. Then add an appliance. The result, reading left to right, will name a fruit. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Rearrange the combined letters to spell two words: an athlete and a vehicle, both which might be going downhill. 

The vehicle is a “big
rig.” If the athlete is an irresponsible stoner he is a “slope dope.” 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the words for the athlete and the vehicle?

ENTREE #2

Note: This riff, Entree #2, was composed by Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

Take the name of a famous athlete whose name contains an appliance. 

Change two consecutive consonants to one
different consonant to get a fruit.

Who is this athlete?

What is the fruit?

Hint: If  you instead change one consonant in the athlete’s surname to an “O”, the result is a two-word oxymoron. But you might argue that the result is also an alternative two-word name for a two-word fruit, the first word of which is the nickname of an athlete surnamed McNally.  

ENTREE #3

The first names of three singers – a crooner, a diva and a slide guitarist – reading left to right, will name a fruit. 

Five of the seven vowels in their collective surnames are the letter “o”. (For the diva, it was a temporary surname.)

Who are these three singers?

What is the fruit? 

ENTREE #4

Name a famous athlete, first and last names, and an adjective that descibes this athlete.

Anagram these combined 13 letters to spell...

* a pronoun for this athlete,

* a sport similar to the athlete’s sport, in which
non-human creatures participate, and

* the position this athlete played.

... or to spell...

* a below-par golf-hole score,

* synonym of “brownball,” and

* slippery substance used at the “Brickyard.”

Who is this athlete and what is  the adjective?

What are the pronoun, similar sport, and athlete’s position?

What are the golf-hole score, synonym of “brownball,” and slippery substance?

ENTREE #5

Take the full name of a famous composer.

Take the first 14 letters of the name. Rearrange them to spell:

* any item of food, especially a tasty dish,

* a corn-snack morsel that resembles a miniature cornucopia, and

* a verb whose object is often the word “appetite,” which means to “sharpen” one’s desire for food.

The 10th-through-13th letters of the composer spell a purple root vegetable eaten by humans.

The 15th-through-18th letters of the composer
spell an appliance.  

Who is this composer?

What are the tasty dish, corn-snack morsel, and verb meaning to “sharpen” one’s desire for food?

What are the purple root vegetable and appliance?

ENTREE #6

Take the surname of a long-serving U.S. senator from a state with the same number of letters in the surname – two of which are vowels that are in the same places as in the state (like Iowa and [Tom] Gola, for example).

Add to this surname the two letters in a pronoun that usually refers to an “inanimate object.” Rearrange the result to spell a fruit.

Add the same two letters to the fruit and rearrange to name an adjective with which all U.S. senators wish to be associated. 

 Who is this senator and what is the state?

What are the pronoun, fruit and adjective?

ENTREE #7

Name a seven-letter fruit. The middle five letters spell a word that appears about 100 times in a book that is often abbreviated using just two letters: the seventh letter of the fruit followed by its first letter. This five-letter word also appears about 170 times in a book that is often abbreviated by using the third letter of the fruit followed by its first letter.

The first four letters of the fruit spell a brand name product in powder-form that becomes a drink when you add water.

The last four letters of the fruit sound like a brand name product in powder-form that becomes a dessert when you add water and put it in the fridge.

The fruit can also be anagrammed into two words related to sports:

* an object toward which players in various games attempt to advance a ball or puck into

which it must go to score points, and

* the fabric that often encloses the sides and back of that object in games (such as soccer or hockey).

What are the fruit and the word that appears about 270 times in two abbreviated book titles?

What are the two brand names?

What are the two words related to sports?

ENTREE #8

The name of a past groundbreaking golfer, in three and five letters, contains four vowels, all “e’s”. 

Place the five-letter surname in front of the first name of a present-day but late-blooming Uber-driving driver-and-putter who played in the 2023 U.S. Open. The result spells a black or red drupe of the honeysuckle family.

Who are these two U.S. Open golfers?

What is the black or red drupe?

ENTREE #9

Say aloud the first and last names of a past Hall of Fame home-run slugger. The result sounds like two things that improper storage, over-aging, or contamination of beer might do.

Who is this slugger?

What might  improper storage, over-aging, or contamination of beer do?

ENTREE #10

A priest (ritualist) raises the chalice (cup) during the sacrament of Eucharist. Anagram the combined letters of the words in parentheses to spell a professional person, in 12 letters, who deals with hives and honey. 

Find a nine-letter synonym of this professional person that contains five “e’s”.

Remove what sounds like a piano part from
the middle of the synonym, leaving a six-letter noun that describes the cartoon Road Runner bird. The first four letters of the synonym sound like a part of that bird. 

What are the professional person and its synonym?

What are the six-letter noun that describes the cartoon Road Runner bird and the part of that bird?

ENTREE #11

Take a four-letter shorter word for a bushy ringed-tailed “black-masked” nocturnal carnivore and a four-letter word for the short erect tail of a hare. Rearrange these eight letters to spell a word for drupaceous fruits that sounds like the title of a Marx Brothers movie.

Replace the first letter of this plural word with an “L” and divide the result in half to form two synonyms of “cuckoo” or “loony.” 

What are this “black-masked” nocturnal carnivore and word for the short erect tail of a hare?

What are the drupaceous fruits?

What are the two synonyms of “cuckoo” or “loony?” 

ENTREE #12

Name a popular past radio personality and political commentator, in 12 letters and three syllables. 

Change an R to a B and an A to an O.

The first four letters spell a “miniature version” of a tree.

The next four letters spell a branch of a tree.

The last five letters spell another word for a branch of a tree. 

Who is this radio personality?

What are the three tree words?

ENTREE #13

Take the eight-letter surname of a past Hall of Fame baseball player from Puerto Rico. 

Insert a common preposition within the name to spell a “darling” nearly seedless citrus fruit.

Who is this Hall of Famer?

What is this citrus fruit?

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Double-Letter-Score Dessert:

Side-by-side-by-homicide?

Place two violently hostile activities side-by-side, forming a double-letter where they meet (like the two “t’s” in “butter”). 

Replace the last letter of the result with a third copy of that double-letter to get a participant in the first activity.

What are these three words?

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Four creatures & a Beer Summit!” “It’s mathemultiplimatics time(s)!” The Night Of the Jackalanttern; “The Renaming of the ‘Shrewd’”; Portraits and house paintings; “Wooden shoe whittle a bit?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Portraits and house paintings

Name a ten-letter word that describes a noun that is an anagram of its first four letters.

This ten-letter word also describes a portrait of a person (who is not the Mona Lisa) painted by Leonardo da Vinci, and a “house painting” by Paul Klee. Replace two vowels in the word with different vowels and add a space to form two major world cities.

 What are this ten-letter word and two world cities?

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Note: This week’s Appetizer was composed by a valued Puzzleria! contributor and “occasional correspondent,” and inspired by and assembled from bits and pieces encountered here and there. Our thanks.

Bits & Pieces Appetizer:

Four creatures & a Beer Summit! 

Turning Minerals into Menaces

1. 🐻🦁Take the name of a soft primordial metal. Add to it the name of a human body part to make a compound word. Then take the name of a hard gemstone. Add to it the name of another body part to make another compound word. 

The two compound words are the names of creatures that most people would not likely want to meet in the wild by surprise. 

What are these creatures?

“Creature Chopping”

2. 🪓Take a legendary “Old World” surname/title in nine letters. It contains a legendary creature. 

Draw a handy chopper and hack the creature into three parts. 

Take the first half and last third of the creature, add the first letter of the surname, and arrange all those letters to identify a word much in the news currently and which will likely be prominent in the news in the coming months. 

What are the surname, creature, and word? 

Transported from Century to Century

3.💮🎕Take the one-word title of a first-half-of-the 20th-Century-foot-mode-of-transport song named for a flowering plant. 

Change the second letter of the title to a letter that sounds like one of the creatures mentioned in the song. Change a vowel in the title to another vowel. The result is an increasingly popular 21st Century mode of transport. 

What is that mode of transport?

What is the song named for a flowering plant? 

“Summit Beer Beer Summit?”

4. 🍻Take the name of a well known legendary locale which does not appear on conventional maps but which is described in literature and on screen and which was once claimed by a U.S. President to be the site of a secret base. 

Remove two consonants, the first and second initials of the “presidential pal participant” in the “Beer Summit.” 

The remaining letters, in order from left to right, spell a probably tasty beverage, though its etymology might sound vaguely distasteful.

What are the locale and the beverage?

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Operational Hors d’Oeuvre:

“It’s mathemultiplimatics time(s)!”

Six times forty-three equals 258. But six times forty-three also equals 258 when you apply to it a mathematical operation other than multiplication. 

What is that operation, and how does six times forty-three equal 258 when it is applied?

Scrunchy Slice:

“The Renaming of the ‘Shrewd’”

Take a synonym of “more shrewd” or “more in the know.” 

Scrunch two letters together to form one new letter. Replace the next letter with the only letter in the alphabet that rhymes with it. 

The result is the surname of a fictional character that this synonym describes. 

What is this synonym? 

Who is the character? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:

The Night Of the Jackalanttern

Will Shortz’s October 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Californian Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, reads:

Think of a mammal, an insect, and a bird, in that order — six, three, and four letters, respectively. Say them out loud and you’ll
name something often seen around this time of year. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of three words for three birds, in three, four and six letters. Rearrange their combined letters and you’ll name a puzzle-maker. What are these three words?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Hint: The six-letter word is a French word for a bird. In English, it means  a false or unfounded report or story, or a groundless rumor or belief.  But if you replace the last letter of this French word with a “y”, the result is an English word for a bird.

Note: Our Entree #2 riff-off was created and contributed by Ecoarchitect whose “Econfusions” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

Entree #3 is the brainchild of Rudolfo, whose “Puzzles Rudolfo” also appears on Puzzleria!

Entree #4 was authored by Plantsmith whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is also a Puzzlerian mainstay.

ENTREE #2

Think of a mammal, an insect, and a bird, in that order, in  six, three, and four letters, respectively. Say them aloud and you’ll name three kinds of balls often seen around this time of year during a series of sparkling ballpark-diamond events culminating in The Fall Classic. 

What are this mammal, insect and bird?

ENTREE #3

Think of a mammal, an insect, and a bird, in that order, in  six, three, and four letters, respectively. 

Say them out loud and it will sound as if you are repeating the name of the mammal.

What are these three creatures?

ENTREE #4

Place two animals – a fish and bird, in three and four letters – one after the other to name what sounds like something you might do during the cold and flu season.

What are this fish and bird?

What might you do during the cold and flu season?

Extra Credit: Now, insert into this cold-and-flu-season practice a Yiddish interjection used especially to express exasperation or dismay. The result is a spout on a building in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure that “vomits” rainwater from its mouth. What is this spout?

ENTREE #5

Think of three words: 

* a bird (6 letters); 

* the color of Eastern Phoebes, Townsend’s Solitaires Mourning Doves and Canada Geese (4 letters); 

* and a formation in which Canada Geese oft fly (3 letters). 

Say them aloud and you’ll name something
often seen around this time of year. 

What are this bird, color and formation?

What is often seen around this time of year?

ENTREE #6

Think of a six-letter insect and the five-letter nickname of one particular living human mammal (with “The...”), in that order. 

The result is the title of a 35-year-old “Halloweenish” horror movie that is scheduled to spawn a sequel a year from now.

What are this insect and nickname?

What is the  “Halloweenish” horror movie title? 

ENTREE #7

Name an insect to which Hotspur refers twice in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” – once as a three-letter common term and and once as an seven-letter archaic term. 

Rearrange the letters of the plural form of the
three-letter term. 

Place a character in “Othello” after the result to spell a world capital city. 

What are these terms for the same insect?

What is the capital city?

ENTREE #8

Place the name of a game animal in front of an invasive bird species that poses a threat to biodiversity, both in four letters. 

Add to the end of this result the first and last letters of a word for “a medical doctor who treats non-human animals,” forming a 10-letter string.

Take the last eight letters and place a hyphen in the middle to spell the name of a traditional annual more-than-century-old rivalry game.

If you instead remove the middle-six letters from the 10-letter string, the result is a collective noun for a group of game birds.

What are the game animal and invasive bird species?

What is the medical doctor who treats non-human animals?

What is the traditional rivalry game?

ENTREE #9

Take the surname of the writer who is known for “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me!” followed by the writer known for “There is no there there” to spell someone often seen around this time of year. 

Who are these two writers and timely someone?

Hint: A writer whose surname is a homophone the second writer’s surname is known as “the Stephen King of children’s literature.”

ENTREE #10

Place next to one another two fruits with similar shapes but with different colors, in three words, four syllables and 12 letters. 

The second and third syllables spell a
mammal.

Invert the 11th letter. The 6th, 10th, inverted 11th and the 10th letters spell a third fruit with a shape similar to the two other fruits but, again, with a color that is different.

 What are the three fruits with similar shapes?

What is the mammal?

ENTREE #11

Name a mammal, a heathful food for that mammal, and a beverage – in six, three and three letters. 

Say these three words aloud and you’ll name a fictional character whose “everyman sidekick” and squire uses this mammal as his mode of transport. 

What are this mammal, food and beverage?

Who are this character and his sidekick?

ENTREE #12

Name a black-and-white 1950’s science fiction monster film, in four letters followed by a punctuation mark. 

Place after it a word for a taste sensation that has a rich flavor characteristic of cheese, cooked meat, mushrooms, soy, and ripe tomatoes. Remove that word’s middle letter.

Remove the film’s punctuation mark, which resembles an inverted version of the last letter in the word for the taste sensation. Replace this last letter with the only letter in the alphabet that rhymes with it.

The result is a black-and-white 1930’s action-adventure horror film starring Boris Karloff.

What are these two horror films?

What is the word for the taste sensation?

ENTREE #13

Take the first third of a six-letter cheeky rodent. Place a space after this, followed by a three-letter insect and a four-letter bird. Place a very short word between the words for the insect and the bird. The result is something someone may have said to Ben Franklin one June afternoon in 1752. 

What are this mammal, insect and bird?

What may someone have said to Ben Franklin?

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Pinocchio Dessert:

“Wooden shoe whittle a bit?”

Anagram the letters of a two-word title character from a popular work of fiction to get a two-word synonym of “wooden shavings” that might have been a byproduct of the book’s creation. What is this synonym of “wooden shavings?” 

Who is the title character?       

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

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