Chad do-si-does with Victoria? Terms of uncommon distinction; Last names of past thespians; Carpentry tools create creature; “Utah Salt” yields “hula tats”? Pans-Eared Red Snapper

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Terms of uncommon distinction

Take a two-word term that, for an average human male adult, is between five feet and six feet, or thereabouts, above the ground.

The number of letters in the two words differs. The words do, however, share a more uncommon distinction in common.  

What is this two-word term?

What uncommon distinction do these two words share in common?

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Skydiversionary Appetizer:

Chad do-si-does with Victoria?

1. Think of the name of a country in two syllables. 

Reverse the order of those two syllables and you will name the capital city of another country. 

What are the country and the city?

Indy Spectator vs. State Patrol officer

2. What is the difference between a fan at the Indy 500 and a state patrol officer observing the interstate highway?

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Stage And Screen Hors d’Oeuvre:

Last names of past thespians

Take a past thespian’s surname. 

Move the first two letters to the end, so that they replace the last letter. 

The result is a second past thespian’s surname. 

Who are these thespians?

Woodworking Wordplay Slice:

Carpentry tools create creature

Name two woodworking tools that share a similar function. They also share identical letter-pairs (like SAW and AWL share an AW, for example). 

Remove one of the letter-pairs and rearrange the result to spell an animal. (For example, if you remove one of the “AW” letter-pairs from “SAW” and “AWL,” the letters that remain are “SAWL,” which can be rearranged to spell not an animal but the words “SLAW” or “LAWS.”)

What are these tools and animal?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:

Pans-Eared Red Snapper

Will Shortz’s November 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:

Using only the letters of PANDERS, and repeating them as often as desired, spell a certain entrée at a seafood restaurant (3-6 3 7).

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Using only the letters in a nine-letter word that means “the making or adapting of something
to suit a particular purpose,” spell the hometown of a prolific puzzler-maker. What is this nine-letter word? What is the hometown and who is the puzzle-maker?

Note: Entrees #2 was created by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” regularly vivifies Puzzleria!s pages.

ENTREE #2

Using only the letters in the word PANDERS, describe some unusual performers in two words of seven letters each.

Note: Entrees #3 though #8 were penned by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” regularly graces Puzzleria!s pages.

ENTREE #3

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. 

The first word, and the second half of the second word, in order, spell another seafood dish. The first half of the second word is an ingredient in a non-seafood dish often featured at upscale restaurants. 

What are the two seafood dishes and the non-seafood ingredient?

ENTREE #4

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. Rearrange its letters to spell something most people enjoy when dining out, and something most people don’t enjoy seeing when dining out.

ENTREE #5

Think of a seafood dish that is available in two main varieties. 

The last three letters of this dish, read backward and followed by the first four letters in order, spell a two-word phrase that describes one variety of the dish. 

What are the dish, the two-word phrase, and the variety of the dish that the two-word phrase describes?

ENTREE #6

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. 

The last five letters of the first word, in order, are the first five letters of the second word. 

The last four letters of the second word, in
order, spell what patrons of restaurants do after they arrive. 

What is the seafood dish, and what do patrons do?

ENTREE #7

Think of a dish featured at seafood restaurants. The name of the dish comes from a European language. 

Rearrange the letters of the dish to spell another seafood dish and a musical term associated with the same European country. What are the two seafood dishes and the musical term?

ENTREE #8

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. Remove a personal pronoun. 

Rearrange the rest of the letters to spell a one-word seafood dish and something that would be left after eating either dish. 

What are the two dishes and what would be left after eating them?  

ENTREE #9

Using only the letters of WINDSTORM, and repeating them as often as desired, spell what is on display (in words of 5, 5, 6 and 3 letters) in the previous six Entrees, #3 through #8.

What are these words? 

ENTREE #10

Using only the letters of POLYCENTRISM – using some once,  and repeating others over and over as often as necessary – spell a headline (in words of 5, 4, 7 and 6 letters) 
 that might have appeared in the Rolling Stone or Crawdaddy magazine in late 1968 or early 1969.

What is this headline? 

Hint: “...over and over...”

ENTREE #11

Using only the letters of ARTICLE, and repeating them as often as desired, spell a beverage and a dessert that customers might
order off a menu or list that prices items separately, in words of 6, 6, 1, 2 and 5 letters.

What are these menu items and the kind of menu that prices items separately?

ENTREE #12

Using only the letters of DROUGHTS, and repeating them as often as desired, spell:

* a two-word term (in 4 and 4 letters) for periods of the day when the most people commute to and from work, causing heavy traffic congestion on roads and public transportation;

* a slang term for large, heavy motorcycles, especially Harley Davidsons (4 letters); and

* a term for automobiles rebuilt or modified for high speed and fast acceleration (3 and 4 letters).

What are these three terms?

ENTREE #13

Using only the letters of UMPIRES, and repeating them as often as desired, spell three mathematical terms in 3, 5 and 5 letters.

What are these three terms?

ENTREE #14

Take a seven-letter synonym of “sickness” or “malady.” 

Using only those seven letters, and repeating them as often as desired, spell: 

* synonyms of “consume”(3 letters) and “consumed”(3 letters); 

* a synonym of  “breakfast,” “lunch” or “supper”(4); 

* a “hot drink”(3), a “cold drink”(4), an “alcoholic drink”(3); 

* a “candy”(4), a “fruit”(4);

* a word for “pot roast, steak, hamburger or turkey”(4); and

* a  “kind of bean”(4).

What is this seven-letter synonym of “sickness” or “malady?”

What are the ten other words?

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Lake & State Dessert:

“Utah Salt” yields “hula tats”?

A well-known three-word phrase contains two names. 

Anagram this phrase to spell a name of a lake and a state that lake is in. 

What are this phrase, lake and state?

Hint: Take two names associated with the three-word phrase. One is an anagram of an empire. The other is an anagram of an island.

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