“A star is born, Bud on a bar?” “Let’s NOT Do Chuck!” “Remember, only you can prevent freezing fingers!” An Anatomical Antonymy; A Coleman Stove in Monet’s Alcove? CapCity BackwardBriefly NickName

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Let’s NOT Do Chuck!”

Insert the surname of either a past poet or a past composer, both European, into “The Name Game,” (the novelty hit song recorded by Shirley Ellis in 1964). 

Almost immediately you will hear a familiar name associated with a political family. 

What is the familiar name? 

Who are the composer and poet?

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Double-Conundrumbling Appetizer:

“A star is born, Bud on a bar?”

“A star is born, a star is cloned?”

1. 🌟🏆🌟Name a famous movie star with a nine-letter first name. 

Change the second letter of that name. 

Rearrange the result so the first five letters spell the first name of another famous star. 

Never mind the rest of the letters. 

Name both stars (first and last names).

Beck Bock Busch Bud on a Bar?

2. 🏪🍻A well-known, seven-letter brand is found on many grocery store shelves and bars. 

When pronounced, it sounds like two common three-letter words spoken consecutively. 

What are the words? 

What’s the brand?

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ANTonym + IntERIOR = ANTERIOR Cruciate Ligament Hors d’Oeuvre?:

An Anatomical Antonymy

Four consecutive interior letters of a body part
are an antonym of its first four letters. 

What is this body part?

“Smokey Brrr!” Slice:

“Remember, only you can prevent freezing fingers!”

Name what people who are inadequately clothed may get during frigid weather. 

A letter appears thrice in this eleven-letter word; remove all three. 

Rearrange the result to name things that may have prevented what these people may have gotten. 

What may they get and what may prevent it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices:

A Coleman Stove in Monet’s Alcove? 

Will Shortz’s July 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Dan Pitt of Palo Alto, California, reads:

Think of something in two words (7,5) that you might take camping. The phrase has seven
consonants, which are all different and appear in alphabetical order through the phrase. What camping item is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of the name of a puzzle-maker in two words (3,4) who might enjoy camping. 

The name has five consonants, which are almost all different and appear in alphabetical order through the name. The two vowels in the name also appear in alphabetical order. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of an eight-letter word for items people often take with them when they go camping. The word has four consonants, which are all different and appear in alphabetical order in
the word. The word is generally pronounced with the accent on the first syllable. If you pronounce it with the accent on the last syllable, it will sound like a second item people might take camping. And if you remove two letters from the word, you will get a word for additional items people might take camping. What are these items?

ENTREE #3

Think of a two-word phrase (4,5) that describes something people may encounter while camping. 

The phrase has five consonants, four of
which are different. The consonants appear in  alphabetical order through the phrase. The phrase describes something that may be hazardous, depending on the season. What is it?

ENTREE #4

Think of a seven-letter word for an item you might take camping. 

The word has four different consonants, in alphabetical order. 

Change the third consonant to a vowel, and change the next letter to a different vowel. 

You will get a word for something the camping item might be used for. What camping item is this, and what might it be used for?

ENTREE #5

Think of an eight-letter word for a place to go camping. 

The word has five different consonants, in alphabetical order. 

What is this place to go camping?

ENTREE #6

Think of an eight-letter word for something you might take camping, depending on the condition of the place you plan to camp. The
word has five different consonants, in alphabetical order. What is this item?

ENTREE #7

Think of a seven-letter word for something you might take camping. The word has five consonants, one of which is used twice, in alphabetical order. 

If you add a letter and change another letter, a vowel, to the next vowel in the alphabet, you will get a word for something else you might take camping. Both of these items are considered important for adventurers or risk-takers.

ENTREE #8

Think of something in two words (6,4) that you might take camping in the woods. Rearrange these ten letters to spell something that may fall from a tree onto the first “something.”

These two “somethings” serve a common life-preserving purpose. But when “somethings collide,” as in this instance, it preferable that
living creatures not be present within either of the “somethings” – as is the case, happily, in this particular make-believe puzzle scenario.

What might you take camping?

What may fall from a tree onto it?

What is the common life-preserving purpose of these two “somethings”?

Hint: Remove a variant spelling of a word meaning “order” or “proper or usual state or condition” from the end of a Beatles song title. Anagram the remaining letters to get the common life-preserving purpose of the two “somethings.”

ENTREE #9

Think of  a nine-letter adjective, with its four vowels in alphabetical order, that describes things that are capable of flight. Now think of some flying nouns it describes that have that same “vowels-in-alphabetical-order” quality:

* a craft piloted by a character whose first
name’s vowels are in reverse-alphabetical-order;

* a craft manufactured by a European aerospace company with the same name as the craft;

* a compound-word avian creature that baseball broadcasters Dizzy Dean and Peewee Reese used, followed by the word “seat,” to describe their press-box vantage point.

** a pair of seven-letter feathered flyers that begin with the same letter, have identical vowels in identical positions, and double consonants in the same position.

What are this adjective and five flyers? 

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Town & Country Dessert:

CapCity BackwardBriefly NickName

Move the first letter of a world capital city one place earlier in the alphabet. 

Switch the fourth and fifth letters. Spell the result backward to get an abbreviation of a nearby country and a word in this country’s nickname.

What is this world capital city?

What is the abbreviation of a nearby country and a word in this country’s nickname?

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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