Money Made of Many Miscellaneou$ Metal$; Tracking down a wintry Wiceconsin where? The good the bad & the middling; Casper the friendly Ghost town;“ I’ll have a Big Mac... hold the paper, hold the plate!” Appliance from the past

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Schpuzzle of the Week: 

Tracking down a wintry Wiceconsin “where?”

Describe present-day Wisconsin in two words, 17 letters total. 

Rearrange the letters to spell three nouns:

❆ A Frozen place in Wisconsin (6 letters),

❅ Eight ways to gain entry into this place (5 letters), and

❄ Something you can’t bring inside this place (6 letters).

What is the two-word description of present-day Wisconsin?

What are the three nouns?

Appetizer Menu

Numismatically Monetary Appetizer:

Money Made of Many Miscellaneou$ Metal$

Monetary Manipulation

1. Take a verb for something you can do to money. 

Insert a type of  money payment. You will get another type of money payment.

What is the verb?

What are the two types of money payment?

“The Sound(s) of Science”

2. What eight-letter word is used in the names of two different concepts in chemistry, but it is pronounced differently in each case?

Anagrammatic Adjectival Hors d’Oeuvre:

The good the bad & the middling

Name a one-syllable adjective that, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, can mean either excellent, or average, or inferior.

Hint: This adjective is rather “anagrammatic.”

Scrunchy Slice:

“I’ll have a Big Mac... hold the paper, hold the plate!”

Scrunch together two consecutive letters of a paper-holder to spell a plate-holder. 

The sum of the alphanumeric values of those scrunched  letters is the alphanumeric value of the letter that replaces them. 

What are this paper-holder and plate-holder?

Riffing Off Shortz And Dickerson Slices:

Casper the friendly Ghost town

Will Shortz’s October 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Dickerson of Tucson, Arizona, reads:

The city UTICA, NEW YORK, when spelled out, contains 12 letters, all of them different. Think of a well-known U.S. city, that when its name is spelled out, contains 13 letters, all of them different. Your answer doesn’t have to match David/Will’s.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Dickerson Slices read:

ENTREE #1

The surname of the Republican candidate for president (TRUMP) and the name of his vice-presidential candidate (J.D. VANCE)  contain 12 letters, all of them different.

Take: 

* The surname of a puzzle-maker (9 letters);

* A portmanteau word, a verb created by an author whose real surname is an anagram of

DOGS NOD; (7 letters); 

* Maker of a Golf, Polo and Beetle (2 letters);

* a synonym of “babe” that sounds like two letters of the alphabet (2 letters);

* a preposition often seen on book covers (2 letters).

These 22 total letters are all different. No repeats.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the portmanteau word, Maker of a Golf, synonym of “babe,” and preposition?

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

ENTREE #2

Think of a well-known Western U.S. city that,
when its name is spelled out (including the state), contains nine letters, all of them different. 

What city is it? 

ENTREE #3

Think of a Western U.S. city that, when its name is spelled out (including the state), contains 11 letters, all of them different. The name of the city is also the  name of an unincorporated area in an adjoining state that, when its name is spelled out (including the state), contains 16 letters, all of them different. What are the city and the unincorporated area? 

ENTREE #4

Think of four towns in an Eastern U.S. state. In each town’s name, the letters are all different.
None of the towns’ names has any letters in common with the name of the state. 

What are the four towns? 

ENTREE #5

A four-letter town in a Western U.S. state has no letters in common with the name of the state in which it is located. 

What town is it?

ENTREE #6

A four-letter town in an Eastern U.S. state has no letters in common with the name of the state in which it is located. 

What town is it?  

ENTREE #7

A six-letter city in a Western U.S. state has no letters in common with the name of the state in which it is located. 

What city is it? 

ENTREE #8

Centuries ago, a future Benedictine abbot was born in a very small village, population 236, in the county Worcestershire, England. 

Take a four-letter noun for this abbot and a ten-letter noun he might have used to describe this small village. Rearrange these 14 different letters to spell the name of the village.

What are the two nouns and the name of this village?

Dessert Menu

Domestic Dessert:

Appliance from the past

Name a two-word domestic appliance invented many years ago. 

The last four letters of the first word can be rearranged to spell a synonym of the second word. 

The first four letters of the first word, if you remove the second letter, spell a second smaller appliance sometimes coupled with the first to provide convection heat.

What are this appliance and the synonym of its second word?

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