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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Punishment for the “punnish”
Name a form of capital punishment.
Remove from it the letters in the first name of a man executed in a more modern form of capital punishment. The remaining letters, in order, sound like an adjective describing the man.
What are these two forms of capital punishment?
Who is the man? What is the adjective?
Appetizer Menu
“A Nodd Is As Shrewd As A Sphinx...” Appetizer:
Politics A to Z, Best S[up]porting Actors, Common Usage, Anagrammatic Actresses, Fab Four Frivolities, Poetry Corner by Anna Graham
Politics, A to Z
1. 🫏🐘Rearrange the letters of a word for a
person of a certain political persuasion to spell the name of an alphabet.
Now rearrange the letters of a word for a person of a different political persuasion to spell a two-word term for people who are
breaking at least a few of the Ten Commandments.
Finally, rearrange the letters of a word for a person of a third political persuasion to spell a two-word bit of advice one might give to a friend who is seeking to improve their love life.
What are these three political persuasions and their anagrams?
Best S[up]porting Actors
2. ⚾🏈🎳Two actors, one American and one British, have five-letter last names that name items used in a sport. Their first names start with the same letter and have two other letters in common. Who are the actors? What is the sport?Common Usage
3. 🍽Guess the following everyday words from the hints:1. Synonym for food.
2. Sticker.
3. Emphatic communication.
4. Hearty dish.
What are the words, and what do they have in common?
Anagrammatic Actresses
4. 🎥Each two-word answer is an anagram of the letters in the first and last names of a well-known actress. Guess the actresses and the words from the hints.
1. Resident of an isolated part of one of the Scandinavian countries. (Her dad is also an actor.)2. Sports participant; race participant. (Before rearranging the letters, remove the first letter of the actress’s first name. In one of her most successful roles, she played a character named after a popular 1950s song.)
3. Southwestern geographical feature after a rain. (The name of the actress is also a popular name for an item used in aviation.)
4. Tool for gripping; schedule of items. (One of the actress’s first box office hits was the 1986 remake of a 1958 film.)
5. Undermine an item of equipment used in pairs by parade participants or circus performers. (The actress achieved global stardom after she played a character inspired by an American artist. The first name of the character was the name of a flower; the last name of the artist was a word associated with trees. For extra credit, identify the artist.)
Fab Four Frivolities
5. 🪲🐞🪲🐞Guess the Beatles songs suggested by the hints:
1. Filmmakers Arthur, May.
2. Former Attorney General, former Raiders coach. (Say their last names rapidly one after
the other.)
3. Titles of novels by Wells and Ellison
4. Another answer for No. 3.
5. Diet guru who promoted low carbs.
6. Kind of donut, plus a laundry product brand name.
7. Many a Congress member.
8. Pro athlete Stadler.
9. Vlad’s dream come true.
10. No. 5’s plan didn’t work.
11. Pro athlete Richards dozes off on the bench?
12. Child TV star.
13. 910.
14. Former Attorney General John’s spousal salutation.
15. NPR’s lament to listeners.
16. Puzzlerians to Lego.
17. Hopefully NOT Lego’s response to No. 16.
Poetry Corner, by Anna Graham
6. 📚Fill in the five blanks with five anagramatic words or phrases to complete the verse. Two of the blanks contain single words; the other three contain two-word phrases.
The _____ _____ to resurrect
The _____ _____ long forgot.
His heirs, he feared, would yet reject
__________, and, his work for nought,
________ __ a disrespect,
___________ breached, a doomed fool’s plot.
MENU
Tutti Frutti Hors d’Oeuvre:
Be fruitful and “Air Supply!”
Take the first names of three singers to name a two-word fruit. Who are these three singers?
What is the fruit?
“Bother, Sin & Helly Ghost” Slice:
“Wholly Troubling Trinity”
Take a four-word idiom for a small part of something troubling – a problem, for example – that is obvious, although there is a much larger part of that “something” that is not obvious at all.Rearrange its letters to spell three types of troublesome, problematic people.
What are this idiom and three types of people?
Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Sippin’ Schweppes in Oceania
Will Shortz’s May 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:Think of a well-known seven-letter geographical name in a single word that has just two consonants and yet is pronounced in five syllables.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
There are two vowels in a puzzle-maker’s name, one in each of the name’s two syllables. Rearrange the name’s combined letters to spell the surname of the personpictured in the image and the singular word for any one of the six objects pictured in the image.
Who is this puzzle maker?
What are the surname and singular word?
Note: Entree #2 was composed by an excellent puzzle-maker and friend of Puzzleria!
ENTREE #2Think of an actual well-known seven-letter geographical unit that is also the name of a well-known fictional geographical unit. It is a single word that has just two consonants. If the second and fifth letters are removed, the remaining letters can be rearranged to describe what those units are.
What is it and what is the description?
Note: Entrees #3 through #8 were composed by Nodd, whose excellent “Nodd ready for prime time” appears in this edition of Puzzleria!
ENTREE #3
A small town and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them nine letters, two consonants, and seven syllables.
What are the city and state?ENTREE #4
A small city and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them ten letters, three consonants, and seven syllables.
What are the city and state?
ENTREE #5
A two-word phrase with eight letters, two consonants, and five syllables describes an
event you might go to if you were visiting an island in the western U.S. What is this event?
A midsize city and the U.S. state in which it is located have between them thirteen letters, five consonants, and eight syllables.
What are the city and state?
ENTREE #7
A western U.S. census-designated place and the name of the body of land in which it is located have between them eight letters, one consonant, and six syllables.What are they?
ENTREE #8
An island in the Pacific and a city in an island nation that is also in the Pacific have between them eight letters, zero vowels, and five syllables. What are the island and the city?
ENTREE #9
Name an eight-letter beverage that contains only one vowel, an “a”. Add an “e”, “i”, “o” and “u” to those eight letters.
Rearrange the result to spell a synonym of “sea,” something seen on the sea and a three-letter multinational Fortune 500 company whose business is to ____ products (with the missing word being the verb form of the “something seen on the sea”).Rearrange the letters of the synonym of “sea” to spell something much more likely seen on a river or lake than on the sea.
What are this beverage, synonym of “sea,” thing seen on the sea and the Fortune 500 company?
What is much more likely seen on a river?
Dessert Menu
“Goes ‘Round A’buttin’” Dessert:
“This is your song...”
Write a kind of song in lowercase letters.
Remove two adjacent interior letters and the space they leave.Rotate the second letter 90 degrees counterclockwise and let the first letter abut it.
The result is one to whom the song is often sung. What are the song and who hears it?
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!
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