Jazz, Journeys, States, Starlets, Americans & Cats, by Tortitude; Upside-down brand is panned! Speedy creatures, varied features; “There’s a silent ewe in my drawer!” Seeking collaborative creativity; Movie minus monogram makes a motto

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Movie minus monogram makes a motto

Remove just one letter from a well-known classic movie title.

The result is a phrase that could describe – or that could serve as a motto for – a deity whose name is mostly vowels. 

What is this movie title?

What is the deity?

Appetizer Menu

Testudinal Appetizer:

Jazz Journeys States Starlets Americans & Cats

Sitcom... and all that Jazz

1. ♯🎝♭🎜Name a jazz musician and songwriter with a total of eight letters. 

Now think of two three-letter male first names which differ only in their middle letters. 

Add those two names to the name of the jazz musician, and rearrange the letters. You’ll have the name of an actress who was well-known for two sitcoms. 

(Note: One name has an accent mark which you should ignore for this puzzle.)

Who are the jazz musician and actress? What are the two three-letter names that differ only in their middle letters? 

Sentimental ‘50s ‘60s ‘70s Musical Journey

2. 📺Think of a Billboard #1 hit from the 1960s. Add a letter and rearrange the letters to produce a vocal group with four #1 hits in the 1950s. 

Remove the last letter from the group, then remove a duplicate letter and rearrange the letters. You’ll have the last name of a famous musician, one that had a #1 hit in the 1960s and a #1 hit in the 1970s. 

The title of that Billboard #1 hit from the 1960s contains the last two letters of the four-lettered name of a character who made his TV debut in 1969 as half of a famous duo. Replace those
letters in the song title with the first two letters of the character’s name. Rearrange the letters to produce the name of a famous rock group. 

What is the #1 song? 

Who are the vocal group, famous musician, and famous rock group? 

Who is the character from the famous duo? 

“Truncated States and the Starlet”

3. 🌟Name a well-known film actress whose first and last names combined contain an odd number of letters. 

Her name consists of consecutive U.S. postal code abbreviations, although the third abbreviation is backwards. The last two letters of her name also form a U.S. postal code
abbreviation. As an example, “condemn,” a word with an odd number of letters, contains the four U.S. state abbreviations CO, ND, ME (in reverse) and MN: Colorado, North Dakota, Maine & Minnesota. 

Now remove the letters of a U.S. state from the name of this actress. You’ll be left with four letters that can be rearranged to produce two U.S. postal code abbreviations. 

Who is she? What state’s letters can be found
within her name? What are the two U.S. postal codes?

Nominally Intertwined Americans

4. 🧬Name a famous American historical figure. The last three letters of his first name, combined with the first three letters of his last name, spell the last name of someone associated with him. 

If you remove the letters of the associated person’s first name from the first and last names of the historical figure, you’ll be left with six letters. Rearrange those letters to produce something that was heard shortly before the historical figure died. 

Who are these two people?  What was heard shortly before the historical figure died? 

“Canines & Felines & Birds, Oh My!”

5. 🐶😺🐦Name a type of dog in seven letters. 

Change the first letter and rearrange the letters. 

You’ll have a type of bird. Now change the last letter of the type of dog and rearrange the letters. You’ll have a type of cat.  

What is the type of dog, bird, and cat? 

Converting a Cat

6. 🦁🐯Name a type of cat. ROT-1 the first letter and ROT-2 the second letter. 

You’ll have another type of cat. 

What are the cats? 

Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘n’ Roadies Rearrangement

7. 🎸Fill in the following blanks and rearrange the letters to produce a popular 1970s rock band: 

“Hey, man! Our latest ___ ______ just reached ______-1 in the United States!” Their fans would ____ about the band, as their roadies would unpack their ___.

What words fit in the blanks? What is the band? 

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Inverted Hors d’Oeuvre:

Upside-down brand is panned!

Look at a brand name upside-down. Capitalize any non-capital letters. 

The result is an abbreviation that is an unfavorable review of the brand. 

What are this brand name, the abbreviation and what it stands for?

“Double-Letter-Amputation” Slice:

Speedy creatures, varied features 

Remove the fifth and first letters from certain speedy creatures. 

Replace the space with a letter equidistant in
the alphabet from the two removed letters. 

The result is physical features certain other speedy creatures have (but not the original speedy creatures that underwent a “double-letter-amputation” before receiving only a “single-letter-implant”). 

What are these creatures and features? 

Riffing Off Shortz And McIntyre Slices:

“There’s a silent ewe in my drawer!”

Will Shortz’s June 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created listener Patrick McIntyre of Seattle, Washington. It’s a little tricky, and reads:  

What item containing a silent U is commonly found in kitchen drawers?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And McIntyre Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a seven-letter salty snack that can also follow the words “fire” or “nut.” 

Take also a two-word sweet snack manufactured by York, Pearson, Nestle and Russell Stover. Change the short vowel sound in the second word of the sweet snack to a different short vowel sound. Remove one of the letters that appears twice in that second word. That new four-letter second word  means “a sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed, or unhappy.”

Rearrange the combined letters of the salty snack, the first word of the sweet snack, and the altered second word of the sweet snack. The result is the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What are the salty and sweet snacks?

Hint: The seven-letter word for the crisp
snack food might also follow an anagram of the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland or an anagram of a synonym of “outstanding” or “distinguished.”

Note: Entree #2 was created by Plantsmith, creator of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Name two single-syllable words  – one found in a fishing tackle box and the other found on a fishing tackle box. One has a short-a sound, the other a long-a sound. 

What are these words found in and on a fishing tackle box?

Hint: The combined letters of the two words can be rearranged to spell two nouns in a Dr. Seuss book title and a three-letter abbreviation for a sibling of your spouse that sounds like a bird’s beak or a visor on a cap.

What are these two single-syllable words?

Note: Entrees #3-through-#8 were created by Nodd, creator of “Nodd ready for Prime Time”  on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

What two-word item containing a silent “u” and a silent “a” is commonly found in kitchen drawers?

ENTREE #4

What item containing a silent “h” is commonly
found in kitchen drawers?

ENTREE #5

What items containing a silent “h” are
commonly found in kitchen drawers?

ENTREE #6

What item containing a silent “c” is commonly found in kitchen drawers?

ENTREE #7

What item containing a silent “p” and a silent “a” is commonly found in a kitchen?

ENTREE #8

What two-word item containing a silent “a”, a silent “e”, and a silent consonant is commonly
found in kitchen drawers?

ENTREE #9
Our Grandpa, a “Rabbi Emeritus,” has, since his retirement twenty years ago at age 65, become an infrequent bather but a frequent chain-smoker.

What unpleasant and concern-causing things containing a “short O” and a “short A” are commonly found in Grandpa’s drawers?

What are these things?

Hint: The combined letters of those two things can be rearranged to spell holy books that Grandpa still reads every day.

Dessert Menu

Synonymous Dessert:

Seeking collaborative creativity

Take a verb that means “to engage in a collaborative creative effort.” 

The first half of the verb and the last three-fourths of the verb are synonyms.  

What are these three words?

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