Where the Heck are we? Pearamount Pickedcherries? Continental Kingdom; Humanity taking a stand; A Unicorn golden, A Genie in a silver time capsule; “Car Talk” with Cleek and Cloak;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Pearamount Pickedcherries?

Take an eleven-letter name associated with the film industry. 

Delete a letter. 

The result is a fruit and what is inside of it. 

What are this name, fruit and what is inside of it?

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Location Location Location! Appetizer:

Where the Heck are we? 

1.☕🧃Take the brand name of a beverage. 

Add to that the name of a laundry detergent. 

The result, phonetically, will be a well-known movie based on a location.

What are the two brands and what is the movie?

2.🌆 The names of a well-known US town and a different US city each contain six letters with the same vowel pronounced three different ways. 

What are the town and the city?

3.🌎Name a place in the world in seven letters, with a vowel pronounced three different ways. (The vowel is different than the vowel in puzzle #2, above)  

What is this place?

4.🏙 Name a well-known city that sounds like two words. The first word might be something that follows the second word. And most people would not want either to happen to them. What are the city and the two words?

5. Take the name of a European river in one syllable. 

Move the first letter to the end and the result will be a common word with three syllables. 

What is the river and what is the word?  

6.🏠 Name something found in your house followed by a well-known non-American slang  term for where you might find it.

Combine the two words and the result will be the location of a famous battle.

What is found in your home, where might you find it, and where was the famous battle?  

7.🔔 Take the name of a famous American landmark in two words.  

Remove a duplicated letter from the first word, rearrange, and the result will be the second word.  

What is this landmark?

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Holding Sway Hors d’Oeuvre:

Continental Kingdom

From a state remove letters that someone might string

Together to spell out a continent.

The letters remaining will spell out a king

Holding sway on that mainland and flauntin’ it.

What are the state, continent and king?

Hint: The letters you remove from the state must be rearranged before you string them together.

Channellocking Tom and Ray Slice:

“Car Talk” with Cleek and Cloak

Imagine that vehicles can communicate with one another. 

Spell an automotive brand backward. Say the first three letters of this result aloud, each of which sounds like a word. The remaining letters spell a fourth word. 

These four words form an observation a vehicle might make to a certain vehicle of this brand manufactured before 2003. What brand is this?

Riffing Off Shortz And Berlin Slices:

A Unicorn golden, A Genie in a silver time capsule

Will Shortz’s October 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Eric Berlin of Milford, Connecticut, reads:

Take the word SETS. You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a common phrase: SPARE PARTS. Can you now do this with the word GENIE, add a three-letter word to it twice to get a common phrase? Again, start with GENIE, insert a three-letter word twice, get a common phrase.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Berlin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the word SETS. You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a common phrase: SPARE PARTS. Can you now do this with the surname of a Milford, Connecticut-based puzzle-maker named Eric? 

To do so, you could add a three-letter word to the surname twice to get a word for a rosary-maker about whom a short documentary feature was filmed, followed by a hyphenated word for what this feature was used as, when it once preceded “Mother Angelica Live” on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network).

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What was the feature used as?

Note: The following riff is the brainchild of our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Take a possessive word and remove an apostrophe.  Add a three-letter word to this word twice.  You’ll get two words describing a person and a misfortune that person would be unlikely to suffer. What are the possessive word and the two additional words?

Note: The following riff was created by our friend  Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” puzzle-package is featured in this edition of Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

Take the word “genie.” You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get what California voters might have done to a former governor, or what Tonya Harding might have done if she were a professional golfer in the early 1960’s. 

ENTREE #4

Take a four-letter interjection that is used informally like “well” (as to introduce a remark expressing resignation or disappointment). For example:

“____, that was a bummer! I spent all day
Sunday and half of Monday trying to solve the NPR puzzle before I finally threw in the towel!”

Write, in order, the fourth, first, third and second letters of this interjection. Take the first name of an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Place it between the fourth and first letters of the interjection. Place a copy of it between the first and third letters of the interjection. Place a hyphen between the fourth and fifth letters of this ten-letter result to form a verb meaning “to live or go along cheerfully in spite of minor misfortunes.” 

What is the four-letter interjection?

Who is the Academy Award-winning filmmaker?

What is the hyphenated verb?

ENTREE #5

Take the only city in the world to be surrounded completely by intact Roman walls, the tops of which can be traversed by foot. This four-letter city is in a peninsular country.

Take also the metaphorical four-letter name of a peninsula that is associated with Garo Yepremian, Lou Groza and George Blanda.

Pluck a vowel and consonant from this octet of letters and place them before “something rolled that is associated with serpentine orbs or hoboes’ havens.” Follow this with the remaining six letters (consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant, vowel, vowel), and a repeat of the same “something rolled that is associated with serpentine orbs or hoboes’ havens.”

The final result spells a three-word term for “Georgia on My Mind,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” or “The Loco-Motion.”

What are the four-letter city and four-letter name of a peninsula?

What is “something rolled that is associated with serpentine orbs or hoboes’ havens?”

What is the three-word term for “Georgia on My Mind,” “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” or “The Loco-Motion”?

ENTREE #6

Take the acronym ELT: (Extremely Large Telescope) an astronomical observatory featuring an optical telescope with an aperture for its primary mirror from 20 metres up to 100 metres across! “Wrap around” this acronym a
feminine pronoun.

Then wrap around this same acronym a British English/Scottish verb that means “to scour,” according to the Collins English Dictionary.

The result is the title of a song by a British band.

What are the pronoun and the English/Scottish verb that means “to scour?”

What is the song title?

ENTREE #7

Take the surname of an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. You can add a common three-letter word to this twice to get a two-word term for “a minor automobile accident.”

What is the name of this novelist?

What is the “minor automobile accident”?

ENTREE #8

A service a seamstress shop offers is posted on a sign in its window. The sign consists of a two-letter pronoun, a misspelled five-letter verb, and a seven-letter plural noun. 

A word seen on a standard computer
keyboard appears twice on the sign. Remove both of them, leaving the name of the shop – “WEAR HERS” – which is displayed on a neon sign above the shop’s entrance.

What is the word seen on a standard computer keyboard?

What is this misspelled service the seamstress shop offers?

ENTREE #9

Name a four-word, 13-letter idiom associated with crapulence.

Replace the first two letters with the letter that is equidistant from both of them in the alphabet. Move that letter so that it is in-between the original seventh and eighth letters. Remove all spaces.

The result is a pair of adjacent identical three-letter verbs flanked by identical three-letter abbreviations of a university whose athletic teams’ names are an anagram of a Scottish word that means  “frolic, carousal, commotion.”

What is the idiom?

What is the pair of adjacent identical three-letter verbs, and the pair of identical three-letter abbreviations? 

ENTREE #10

Take a three-word term – in 5, 4 and 4 letters – for 1600, 1776 or 1812, to name just three four-digit numbers. 

Remove a pair of identical three-letter parts of the body. The result is the four-letter first name of a Carter-era White House economic adviser and economist at the Federal Reserve, and a three-letter acronym of “the interest rate earned on an investment in one year, including compounding interest.”

What are the three-word term, the first name of the economic adviser and the acronym?

ENTREE #11

Name a “Preparation” product, a cola brand, and a brand whose Inside-The-Shell Electric Egg Scrambler won 84th place in Mobile Magazine's Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. Add two identical three-letter anagrams of a synonym of “triumphed” and two identical three-letter strings that are not words but are anagrams of a “masculine curtsy.”

The result is a bovine four-word phrase used in elocution teaching to demonstrate a “rounded” diphthong, followed by a six-letter word that may or may not be a horse of a different color.

What are the three products/brands?

What is the anagram of a synonym of “triumphed” and the three-letter strings that are anagrams of a “masculine curtsy.”

What are the bovine four-word phrase and the six-letter word that may or may not be a horse of a different color?

ENTREE #12

Take the surname of an American novelist who helped establish the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and the western as a legitimate genre of literature.

You can add a three-letter word to this surname twice to get a three-word phrase that is a comparative characterization of an ancient Chinese bulwark.

Who is this novelist?

What is the three-word phrase? 

ENTREE #13

Take the postal abbreviations of a very populous US state and a sparsely populated US state. 

You can add a three-letter word to this twice to
get a common hyphenated word that means “in a haphazard or spontaneous manner.”

What are these postal abbreviations?

What is the hyphenated word?

ENTREE #14

Take the misspelled name of a Big Apple Fifth Avenue department store that is known for its world-famous holiday window display and theatrical light show. You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a two-word term
for hearty Yuletide “Ho Ho Ho’s.”

What are this deparment store name and its misspelling?

What is the two-word term for hearty Yuletide “Ho Ho Ho’s”?

Hint: The misspelling substitutes a “ch” for a “k”.

ENTREE #15

Take the five-letter prefix that means “of, relating to, or involving computers or computer networks (such as the Internet).” Delete an “e” from this prefix.You can add a three-letter word to this twice to get a  two-word term for
Mars, Milky Way or Mounds. 

What is this prefix?

What is the two-word term for Mars, Milky Way or Mounds?

ENTREE #16

Take an American purveyor of baby food and baby products. You can add a common three-letter word to this twice to get a phrase for “a person who dresses and behaves like a
member of the opposite sex.”

What is the name of this purveyor?

What is the “person who dresses and behaves like a member of the opposite sex?” 

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Darwinian Dessert:

Humanity taking a stand

A caption for the ancient image pictured here might be “Homo Erectus.” 

Write a second possible caption for the image, in two words of eight total letters. Rearrange these combined letters to name something that is timely.

What is your caption, and what is its timely anagram?

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