“Bowlfuls of Herbal Verbal Blurts!” Setting Sons of the Pioneers; Creature, clown, comedian; Cinematic Stonemasonry! “Takin’ makin’ prose o’er makin’ the pros!” Folkie Flyover Rockies?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Takin’ makin’ prose o’er makin’ the pros!”

Name a novelist who, for his life’s work, chose makin’ prose o’er makin’ it the pros (even though baseball has been called the most literary of sports). 

Consecutive letters in this novelist’s name are an anagram of the color of an outfield wall in a beloved major league ballpark. 

The remaining letters, in reverse, spell the nickname of a Hall-of-Famer who snagged scads of swatted flies in front of that wall. 

Name this novelist, outfield-wall color, ballpark, Hall-of-Famer, and his nickname.

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Plantsmithian Appetizer:

“Bowlfuls of Herbal Verbal Blurts!”

“Verbal gymnastics”

1. 💸💰Write a two-word caption – nouns of five and four letters – for either of the two images seen below.

Switch the initial letters of the two words, forming two new words. 

Then copy the first letter of the new first word after the first letter of the second new word.

The result is a two-word term for a preliminary version of a piece of writing, one that may require revision or rewriting (“revision and rewriting” not unlike the “verbal gymnastics exercise” you just performed!).

What are this caption and preliminary version of a piece of writing?

Two-Word Caption Hint: It begins with homophone of a “Homerism,” followed by George’s surname.

Below-belt-bone + boy = bowlful

2. 🦴🥗Drop one vowel from a bone below the belt. Add a boy’s name and mix to get a common variant spelling of something delicious that is also healthy.

Hint #1: Rearrange the combined letters in two biblical words – the name of a tower and a pronoun preceding an anagram of “halts” – to spell Merriam-Webster’s non-variant spelling of this salad entree.

Hint #2: The boy’s name occurs in a nursery rhyme/song about what kids sometimes do on a playground.

An “across the pond” entree

3.  🏰🏤Think of a popular food entree from “across the pond.” 

A main ingredient in this entree is also known by a certain plural word. 

Replace the last two letters in that word with a consonant that rhymes with a vowel that appears thrice in the entree. 

The result is an adjective associated with dish’s country of origin.

What is this food entree?

What is its main ingredient and the plural word it is known as? 

What is the adjective associated with entree’s country of origin?

“Daili? Yes, Sydo!”

4. 📖📺Take the initial  letters of a classic novella. 

Spell them in reverse order to get an exclamation oft-blurted by a popular TV sitcom character.

What is this novella?

Who is this sitcom character and what does he blurt?

Gordon Ramsay’s World Food Tour

5. Think of a popular Asian food. 

Replace each of its last two vowels with a different vowel. Insert a space someplace.

The result is two girls’ names – the first one popular, the second one not so much.

What is this Asian food?

What are the girls’ names?

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Band In Boston Hors d’Oeuvre:

Folkie Flyover Rockies?

Transpose the second and third letters in a folk-rock singer’s surname. 

The first three letters of the result, followed by a flyover state’s postal abbreviation, spell the first word in the name of a rock band from a second flyover state. 

The next four letters in the folk-rock singer’s surname spell the second word in the band’s name. 

Who are this singer and what is this rock band?

Chevy Equinoxymoronic Slice:

Setting Sons of the Pioneers

Rearrange the letters in a pioneer's oxymoronic vehicle to spell a mythological
singer, a group of singers, and a drama featuring singers. 

What is this pioneer's vehicle?

What are the three song-related words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

Cinematic Stonemasonry!

Will Shortz’s August 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michigan. reads:

Think of a famous movie star – first and last names, nine letters in all. The third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth letters, in order, name a profession. The star’s last name is something that this profession uses. Who is the movie star and what is the profession? Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a prolific puzzle-maker – first and last names, twelve letters in all. The third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and twelfth letters, if rearranged, spell a place of business. The puzzle-maker’s last name – if you remove a double-consonant from the interior (like the “zz” in “puzzle,” for instance) – spells things this place of business may use. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are this place of business and the things it may use? 

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are riffs composed by our friend Nodd, who also authors “Nodd ready for prime time,” a recurrent feature on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous movie star – first and last names, thirteen letters in all. 

The last name is a profession. Five letters of
the first name, plus the last letter of the last name, can be arranged to name something that this profession makes. 

Who is this star, and what does the profession make?

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous movie star – first and last names, nine letters in all. 

The last name is a profession. The last four letters of the first name spell a U.S. city that is the location of an institution that employs people in this profession. 

Who is the star, and what is the city?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous movie star – first and last names, fifteen letters in all. 

The last name is a profession. Six letters of the first name and two letters of the last name can be arranged to name items that someone in this profession might produce, and what these items might be made from. 

Who is the star, and what are the items and what they might be made from?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous movie star – first and last names, seven letters in all. 

The last name is a profession. The first and third letters of the first name are a degree that a person entering this profession would usually obtain. 

If one letter is added to the first name, it will spell a person who is connected with the profession. 

Who is the star, and what are the degree and the person connected with the profession?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous movie star – first and last names, twelve letters in all. 

The last name is a profession. The last three
letters of the first name can be arranged to spell an animal someone in the profession would attend to. 

Who is the star, and what is the animal?

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous movie star – first and last names, ten letters in all. 

Insert an E somewhere the last name to spell a profession. Replace an A in the first name with an O to spell a popular term for something a person in this profession might take care of. 

Who is the star, what is the profession, and what might a person in this profession take care of?

Note: Entree #8 is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is featured, above, in this edition of Puzzleria!

ENTREE #8

The surname of a talented gone-too-soon-via-violence soap opera television star is, minus its first letter, a quite fitting word.

The first name of this star is shared by a famous film star who costarred with an even more famous and legendary film star in 1995
and 1997 films. 

ROT20 the first letter in this gone-too-soon actor’s full name (first and last names). Remove six consecutive letters from the result to get a profession relevant to the soap opera in which this gone-too-soon star starred. 

The surname of the “even more famous and legendary film star” is the first name of the character the gone-to-soon star portrayed on the soap opera. And the first name of an actor in the cast of “Ryan’s Hope” and “L.A. Law” is the surname of the character the late star played on the soap.

Who is this gone-too-soon star.

What is the “quite fitting word?”

Who is the famous film star who costarred with an even more famous and legendary film star in 1995 and 1997 films, and who is that more famous and legendary film star?

What is the profession relevant to the soap opera in which this gone-too-soon star starred?

What is the name of the character that the gone-to-soon star portrayed on the soap opera?

Note: Entree #9 is the brainchild of our friend EcoArchitect, whose “Econfusions” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #9

Changing one letter in a well-known movie might yield the following cinematic synopsis:

Lewis (or Murphy) stars in a movie documenting HAL’s condition after descent into
madness.

What is the name of this movie? 

ENTREE #10

Think of a famous blond actor popular during the 1950s and 1960s – first and last names, nine letters in all – whose surname is a person engaged in a profession that some might call a sport. The last two letters in both names can be rearranged to spell a four-letter word that a person engaged in this “sport” might bring home from “play?”

Who is the actor?

What might someone who is engaged in the “sport” bring home from “play?”

ENTREE #11

Think of a famous Irish author – first and last names, ten letters in all. Remove the last two letters of the first name and the first two letters of the last name, leaving a broken-in-two word for “a person who buys and sells goods or assets for others.”

The four letters you removed can be rearranged to spell an acronym for devices that might help people buy some goods. 

Who is this author?

Who buys and sells goods or assets for others?

What are the helpful devices? 

ENTREE #12

A playwright and a U.S. president share a first name, although the playwright insisted (albeit not so successfully) that he be known only by his middle name and surname. The playwright’s surname is an anagram of the first syllable of the president’s surname.

Who are this playwright and president?

ENTREE #13

Take the first name of a movie actor whose father and brother also act. Either remove the first letter or replace it with an “L” and an apostrophe. The result is a French word for what may flow below the surname.

Who is this actor?

Who are his father and brother?

ENTREE #14

Think of a singer/songwriter (associated with “The Dark Side...”) whose first name, if you double the middle letter and delete either the first or last letter, can be rearranged to spell where his surname (a plural word) often flow.

Who is this singer/songwriter, and where does his surname flow? 

HINT: The singer/songwriter is also associated with: “tickled ____” , and “Pretty Boy _____.”

ENTREE #15

Think of a past movie star – first and last names, ten letters in all. His surname is the last word in a six-word slang restaurant phrase (“____  and ___ on a ____ ”) for a breakfast order. 

The first and third words in the phrase are the names of a biblical couple, each which represents the same food item. 

The last word in the phrase, the star’s last name, represents
a piece of toast.

The 6th, 5th and 1st letters of the star’s first name spell the food item represented by each member of the couple. (The 4th, 3rd and 2nd letters of that first name spell a synonym of that food item.)

Who is this star?

What is the slang phrase?

What are the food item and its synonym?

ENTREE #16

Think of an extremely talented past “recreational mathematician.” His first and last names contain thirteen letters total. 

His first name contains the first three letters of
“math,” in order. The 7th, 8th, 1st and 12th
letters of his name spell “game.”

His surname becomes a person in a profession if you insert an insert an “e” within it.

Who is this “fun-with-numbers” mathematician?

What is the person in a profession?

ENTREE #17

Think of an extremely talented “cryptic crossword puzzle constructor” (a constructor known as a “setter” in the United Kingdom). His first and last names contain twelve letters in all, not counting the middle initial. The
cryptic constructions he creates are all works of visual and lexicographical ___.

The surname of this constructor spells something edible. 

The first letter and last three letters of his first name spell what people (but not birds and similar creatures) usually do to the “edible thing” ere eating it. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the three-letter word that was left blank in the third sentence, above.

Who is this talented cryptic crossword puzzle constructor?

What must people do to the “edible thing” ere eating it?

What word belongs in the blank?

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Wobbly Bouncy Dessert:

Creature, clown, comedian

A barking creature playing with a spherical toy is distracted by a redheaded clown. 

The toy wobbles, rolls off, and bounces downward, eventually resting upon the turf within a tent. 

What entertainer does this scene remind you of?

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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