“Putting on an act, or...” Impassioned Poetic “Perichoresis” A sextet of similar synonyms; Strength Goeth Before a Fall; “American Woman... Guess Who?” “It’s a beautiful store in this neighborhood...”

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Small Store Big City Schpuzzle Of The Week:

“It’s a beautiful store in this neighborhood...”

Name a word for a small neighborhood convenience store in a big city – one that serves prepared food and other sundries. 

Spell it backwards to get word for a length of time, followed by an abbreviation of what sometimes determines that length of time.

What is this small neighborhood convenience store?

What is the word for a length of time and the abbreviation of what sometimes determines that length of time?

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Econ“fusarole” Appetizer:

“Putting on an act, or...”

Watching the Academy Awards

1. 📻The National Public Radio on-air challenge from July 21st, 2024 asked the
player to name famous people based on the first two letters of their first and last names forming a common four-letter word. 

For example “LINE, Action film star” would yield “Liam Neeson.”  

Can you name a famous actor and actress who have the same first two letters of their first and last names, which then combine to form a common four-letter word? 

Both have won Academy Awards, including one for a film in which they co-starred.

Thinking outside the box office...

2. 🎥Name a well-known actor of the past. 

Change the vowel pronunciation of the first name and the result will sound like something you might see outside. 

The actor’s last name will sound like something that results from that thing.  

Who is the actor, and what is the thing and result?

Two Stars Make a Movie

3. 📺Name a well-known movie title in two words. With a variant spelling of one of those words, they are the surnames of two actors who share the same first name, and who also played a leading role in a classic TV show. 

What is the movie and who are the actors?

“Bears! Bunnies! Show Biz!”

4. 🧸🐇Name two actors who share the same last name. 

Reverse the first name of one of the actors and the result will be a synonym for the second actor’s first name. 

Who are the two actors?

A Pair of Past Pols

5. 🗳Name a famous politician of the past. 

Replace the first letter of their last name, and the result will be a homophone of another politician of the past. 

Both politicians were in their most famous offices at the same time. Who are they?

“Crazy Tragic Story!”

6. 📖Appetizers #1 through #5 involved acting (yes, even Appetizer #5). Sadly, this Appetizer #6 is not an act: 

Name a 10-letter word that might describe a
certain former president. 

Remove the first and last letters, add the letter “n”, and rearrange to make a nine-letter word that might describe a person around him. 

What are the two words?

Movie Rebuses Bonus:

7. 🦅Note: In a classic rebus, symbols or visual elements substitute for words. In addition – in the Example, and in puzzles a, b and c below – cryptic clues are used (for example: anagrams, hidden words, or implied indicators). 

The following (a, b, c and d) are the titles of well-known movies, disguised in rebus form. 

What are these movies?

Example: The answer to “Old Toilet” is  “Doctor Doolittle”. 

(“Doctor” is an indicator of an anagram, and “Old Toilet” can be rearranged, or “doctored,” to spell “Doolittle”.)

a. Mean Dad

b. The Poor Serfs

c. Lose Repave

d. BORN

        Y

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Hors d’Oeuvre En Français Et En Anglais:

Strength Goeth Before a Fall

According to Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goeth before a fall.”

But according to the three puzzles below, “Strength also goeth before a fall.” Is your knowledge of French and of Falling sufficiently strong for you solve them? 

The French Puzzle:

“Ce ____ est trop fort. Je pourrais tomber!”

Placez un mot français de quatre lettres dans l’espace vide. 

Remplacez ce mot par un mot français de trois lettres qui semble très similaire.

Quels sont ces deux mots français?

Its English Translation:

“This ____ is too strong. I might fall!”

Place a four-letter French word in the blank space. 

Replace that word with a three-letter French word that sounds very similar.

What are these two French words?

The French-Free English Version:

“This ____ is too strong. I might fall!”

Place a four-letter English word in the blank space. Replace the last letter of that word with the letter that follows it in the alphabet to from a new English word. What are these two English words?

Tarnish-Sully Slice:

A sextet of similar synonyms

Each of the six pairs of synonyms below share something else in common besides their similar meanings:

buddy, friend

reckon, figure 

elope, run

sully, tarnish

wrathful, furious

loathing, enmity

What else, besides synonymity, do these six word-pairs share in common?

Riffing Off Shortz And Seaman Slices:

“American Woman... Guess Who?”

Will Shortz’s August 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Judy Seaman of Sandy Springs, Georgia, reads:

Think of a famous American woman with a two-syllable last name. 

The first syllable is spelled like a body part, but isn’t pronounced like one. 

The second syllable is pronounced like a body part, but isn’t spelled like one. Who is this famous woman?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Seaman Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of an American woman puzzle-maker with a two-syllable last name. Insert a letter that is a homophone of a body part somewhere in this name. The first syllable of this result is spelled and pronounced like a
body of water.

The second syllable is a word for the open part of an ocean, especially outside territorial waters. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What letter did you insert, of what part of the body is it a homophone, and where did you insert it?

What syllable is spelled and pronounced like a body of water, and what syllable is a word for the open part of an ocean?

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

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous American female author with a two-syllable first name. 

Each syllable is pronounced like a body part, but neither is spelled like one. 

Who is the author? 

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous American actress with a two-syllable first name. 

The first syllable is pronounced like a body part, but is not spelled like one. 

Who is the actress, and what is the body part?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous woman in American history with a two-syllable first name. 

Add an “S” to the end of the name. 

The result sounds like an affliction of certain
body parts, but is spelled differently. 

Who is this famous woman? 

What is the affliction?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous American female politician. Her first and last names both have two syllables. 

Change the second letter of her first name from an “A” to a “U,” and the first letter of her last name from a “D” to a “T.” 

The first three syllables of the result are a two-word term for an operation that is sometimes performed on a body part. 

Who is the politician, and what is the operation?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous American female singer with a two-syllable first name and a one-syllable last name. 

The second syllable of her first name is pronounced like a body part, but is not spelled like one. Her last name, minus the first two letters, spells two body parts. 

Who is this famous singer? 

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous American female author with a three-syllable first name. 

The first syllable is pronounced like a body
part, but is not spelled like one. 

Her last name, minus the first letter, is pronounced like a body part, but is not spelled like one. 

Who is the author? 

What are the body parts?

Note: Entrees #8 and #9 are contributed by Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” is featured regularly on Puzzleria! (including in this edition).

ENTREE #8

Name a famous American woman. 

Adding the letter “e” somewhere in her lastname yields  a bug and what it’s attracted to.

Who is this woman?

What is the bug and what it’s attracted to?

Hint: What the bug is attracted to is produced by a different bug.

ENTREE #9

Take the name a famous American family. 

Their name sounds like what a chair might do in the deep south.

What is this family?

ENTREE #10

Think of a famous American woman with five syllables in her three-word name. 

The letters in the first two names can be rearranged to spell the missing words in the following sentence:

“Aaron ____ is responsible for the _____ of a
Treasurer.”

The first three letters of the third name spell a juniper-flavored distilled spirit. The last four letters of the third name, spelled backward, form a synonym of “chow.”

Who is this American woman?

What are the words in the two blanks?

What are the distilled spirit and synonym of “chow”?

ENTREE #11

Think of a famous living American woman with a two-syllable first name and a two-syllable surname. The first three letters of the surname spell a word associated with a four-letter, two-syllable shoe brand. The last three letters of the first name spell a response to that word associated with the shoe brand. 

Take the two remaining letters in the first name followed by a space and the four remaining
letters in the surname. 

Switch the second and third letters. 

The result, if you place the word “birds” at the beginning, forms a three-word phrase that describes hawks, eagles, vultures, and falcons.

Who is this famous woman?

What are the word associated with a shoe brand and the response to that word?

What is the three-word phrase that describes hawks, eagles, vultures, and falcons?

ENTREE #12

Think of a should-be-more-famous American female social reformer with a four-syllable first name. 

Her surname is a French number with a value
that is 499 less than the Roman numeral that it also is. Switch the third and fourth letters of her first name. The first three letters of the result spell a Scottish word for a dove, symbol of peace. The remaining letters in her first name can be rearranged to spell either a place she made better place, or an “anatomical symbol of compassion” that she possessed.    

Who is this social reformer?

What are the Scottish word for a dove, the place she made better place, and the “anatomical symbol of compassion” that she possessed. 

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Idiomatic Dessert:

Impassioned Poetic “Perichoresis”

Take a four-word idiom that means to relax completely, have fun and ignore any inhibitions or reservations. 

Replace an R with an H. Rearrange the combined letters of the result to spell a poet’s short-form name and a somewhat slangy two-word synonym of a religious concept (in 4 and 4 letters) to which the poet alludes in a poem that includes the word “perichoresis.”

What is this idiom?

What are the poet’s short-form name and the somewhat slangy two-word synonym of the religious concept to which the poet alludes? 

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