Classics, Malady & remedy, Doing in, doing to, the World’s a stage, Morning delight, Return to sender; Egoist does as egotist dons? Wanted: Sleuth for con-sequence; Edsel Ford Vin Diesel engine; Creature, trees, feast & Indies; Better chemistry, through living... color

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Better chemistry, through living... color

While making a movie, if one of the ______ has no chemistry with his ______, the director
sometimes _______ the role with a new _______.

The words in the first and second blanks are anagrams of each other, as are the words in the third and fourth blanks. 

What are these four words?

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Puzzle-Wizardly-Zarkinesque Appetizer:

Classics, Malady & remedy, Doing in, Doing to, the World’s a stage, Morning delight, Return to sender 

Classic description

1. 📖📚There is a classic piece of English literature with a one word title. 

One letter repeats three times. 

Remove all three occurrences and rearrange to get an apt description of the original work.

MalaDY & RemeDY

2. 😷The common names of a disease, and of a medication used to treat it, end in the same four letters. 

What are they?

Hint: The four common letters spell a Roman poet. 

Remove these eight letters.

The first three letters of the medication are a “peaceful” Latin word. Remove them also. The two remaining letters equal 150.

Doing in, doing to

3. 🏡Take a word for something you do in a house. Pronounce it differently, and it’s something you might do to a house. 

What are the word and its two pronunciation-dependent meanings?

Return to sender?

4. 📦Think of a word describing what one might do to a package. 

Pronounce the word differently to get what the package might then become.

The world, a stage; our life, a play

5. 🙋Take a three-letter word which can refer to a person.

Add two letters to name a stage of a person’s
life.

Add instead a different pair of letters to describe a person in that stage of life.

Morning delight... but not noon or night!

6. ⏰What is something most men appreciate early in the morning, but would rather avoid at all other times?

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“Your Serve” Hors d’Oeuvre:

Wanted: “Sleuth for con-sequence”

What are the two missing letters in the following sequence of twenty-four letters? 

? P Q B M A 

D Y L G X S 

V I U F H W

T N O R E ?

Syllabifiable Slice:

Egoist does as egotist dons?

Think of a one-syllable word for what a conceited, full-of-himself, flamboyant egotist sometimes does. 

Delete the second half of this word, leaving a two-syllable word for something this same egotist perhaps sometimes dons. 

What are these two words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Jacobs Slices:

Edsel Ford Vin Diesel engine

Will Shortz’s February 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by A.J. Jacobs, reads:

Start with the name of a blockbuster movie
star. Remove the first letter of the first name and last two letters of the last name to get the types of movies he almost never stars in. Who is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Jacobs Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Start with the name of a puzzle-maker – one that includes two initials at the beginning, like J.M. Barrie or S.E. Hinton. Two consecutive letters in the name are the same letter. Remove one of them to get the title of the record album pictured here followed by the four-letter word for the food pictured. 

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are the title of the album and the four-letter food pictured here?

Note: The following riff was writted by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Remove from the name of a well-known actress:  

(1) the third letter of her first name, and 

(2) the first and the last two letters of her last name. 

The result will be a pair of synonyms.  

Who is the actress, and what are the synonyms?

ENTREE #3

Start with the 16-letter name of an Italian Renaissance artist with two sets of double letters in the surname. 

Remove one letter from each set, leaving a 14-letter string:

* four letters that precede “al” or follow “George,”

* a seven-letter adjective that describes a
dishwasher or Roomba vacuum cleaner, and

* a three-letter caretaker of Samuel or an inventor associated with gin.

Who is the Italian Renaissance artist?

What are the four-letter, seven-letter and three-letter words?

ENTREE #4

Start with the two-word ten-letter name of a poet of whom a “fellow” poet once wisecracked, “I’d rather flunk my Wassermann test than read a poem by (this poet).” Remove the first three letters of the first name and last two letters of the last name. The result is a verb for what aficionados of the first poet would likely do with the wisecracking “fellow” poet in defense of their guy – and in dispute of her disrespectful slur against him!

Who are these two poets?

What is the verb?

ENTREE #5

Start with the two-word, four-syllable name of an American poet. 

Delete the first three and last three letters, leaving the four-letter first word of the caption of the image pictured here and a four-letter anagram of the second word in the caption. 

Now take the three-word, 17-letter, five-syllable name of a British novelist. Insert an “n” between the seventh and eighth letters. 

The 4th-through-7th letters of the result spell an article of clothing; the 10th-through-6th letters spell another article of clothing.

Who are the poet and novelist?

What is the caption?

What are the other two articles of clothing? 

ENTREE #6

Start with the names of a pair of well-known poets – one British, the other Irish, five words total. Remove eight letters from the beginning and end of the first poet’s name and 14 letters from the beginning and end of the second poet’s name, leaving in each case, four identical consecutive letters that spell a kind of “poetic foot” which – when spelled in lowercase letters but with an initial uppercase letter – appears to spell a four-footed farm animal. 

Who are these poets?

What is the “poetic foot”?

Hint: Both poets have the same first name.

ENTREE #7

Start with the name of an artist who painted ballerinas, not saber-blade wielders. Replace the second letter of the first name with an “n”.
Remove a three-letter fuel from the end. The remaining letters spell something saber-blade wielders often say.

Who is this artist?

What do saber-blade wielders often say?

ENTREE #8

Start with the three-word name of a Brit who was a major Romantic poet. Remove the first eight letters and last four letters of the name.
The result is a pronoun that repeats itself.

Who is this poet?

ENTREE #9

Start with the name of a French impressionist painter. 

Remove the first four letters of the first name and last two letters of the last name to get a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin. 

Who is this painter?

What is the source or agent of evil?

ENTREE #10

Start with the name of an American author, in four and five letters. Remove the last letter from each word – letters that are variables of geometrical axes. Remove also the middle letter of this result. The final result is a three-letter alcoholic beverage, written twice.

Who is this author?

What is the beverage?

ENTREE #11

Start with the name of a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Remove the first five letters of the first name. Also remove the last six letters of the last name – letters that spell a noun for what each reader of this puzzle hopes to become. The six remaining letters spell an autumn chore.

Who is this novelist?

What do readers of this puzzle hope to become?

What is the autumn chore?

Dessert Menu

Anagrammatical Dessert:

Creature, trees, feast & Indies

Name an Eastern Hemisphere creature and a tree where you may well find it.

Anagram these combined fifteen letters to name a tall tropical timber tree in the Eastern Hemisphere, a Hawaiian feast and a  style of music originating in the West Indies.

What are this creature, two trees, feast and West Indies style of music?

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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