Compatible Partners, Starry eyes, From Inner to “O”uter, Dumping the “Dupes,” Crawl, Fly, Swim; Above and Below the Belly Button; Did Tesla “zap” TB in his Test lab? “Bored with board games?” Natural-food antepenultimatum; Organic anatomy lesson

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Above and Below the Belly Button

Take a word for things worn above the navel. 

Delete the three-letter end of this word.

The result will be things worn below the navel.

What are these things that are worn above the navel and below the navel?

Appetizer Menu

Turtle Torte-itude Appetizer:

Compatible Partners, Starry eyes, From Inner to “O”uter, Dumping the “Dupes,” Crawl Fly Swim; 

Compatible Partners

1. 👫Name a well-known entertainment duo of the past. 

Remove the final letter from one of the first names and anagram the remaining letters of that first name. 

You’ll have an item that was often seen with the other partner. 

That partner’s last name describes something that the item does. 

Who are the partners? 

What item is associated with one of them? 

What does that item do? 

Starry eyes

2. ✪👁👁Name a nine-letter word associated with stars or eyes. 

Within this word is another word associated with stars or eyes. 

Remove those letters from the nine-letter word, and anagram what remains to produce another word associated with stars or eyes. 

What are the three words? 

From Inner to “O”uter

3. 📥📤Think of a 13-letter noun describing some professional people who deal with internal matters. 

Add an “O” and rearrange the letters. 

You’ll have a noun describing a professional person who deals with external matters. 

What are these two nouns? 

Dumping the “Dupes”

4. 🎜🎝Name a famous lyricist. 

Consider the different letters of the first and last names; each letter appears exactly twice.

Remove each duplicate and rearrange the
remaining letters to produce a common word. 

There are two possible choices, including a word that is relevant to one of the lyricist’s works. 

Who is the lyricist?

What are the two words?

Why is one relevant to one of the lyricist’s works? 

Crawl, Fly, Swim

5. 🐍🐦🐟Name a famous novel in two words and a total of twelve letters. 

Rearrange its letters to produce three animals:
a type of snake, a type of bird, and a type of fish. 

What is the novel? 

What are the animals?

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Red Sky In Morning Hors d’Oeuvre

“Bored with board games?”

Name a board game. Place before it, spelled in reverse order, what the boards it is played on resemble. The result is a warning you might see online.

Name the game, what the boards resemble, and the online warning?

Cinematic Slice:

Organic anatomy lesson

Take the surname of a person associated with cinema that can also be a common noun when written in lower case. 

This lower case noun may form within an organ that is adjacent to a second organ that appears in this person’s first name.

Riffing Off Shortz And Maxwell-Smith Entrees:

Did Tesla “zap” TB in his Test lab? 

Will Shortz’s November 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Maxwell-Smith, a writer and producer known for the game shows Bumper Stumpers (1987), Majority Rules (1996) and Talk About (1988). It reads: 

Name a place where experiments are done (two words). Drop the last letter of each word. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name someone famously associated with experiments. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Maxwell-Smith Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker in three words, the second and third divided by a hyphen. 

Drop the first letter of each word. Insert a space someplace in the second word. 

The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name: 

~ a vehicle constructed during the last days of antediluvian times,

~ What the builders of this vehicle, in two words, likely had to do to build it, and 

~ a homophone of a word that many people might use to describe the account of this construction.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the vehicle, what its builders likely had to do to build it, and the word that might be used to describe the construction account? 

Hint: The homophone of the word that might be used to describe the construction account is a Scottish variant of the word “might.”

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the handiwork (and “handiwordplay)” of Nodd, “riffmaster extraordiaire.”

ENTREE #2

Name a four-word place in the Eastern U.S. where experiments are done. 

Insert the first letter of the third word between its last two letters. The last four letters of the word will now spell the last name of someone famously associated with experiments in physics. 

What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #3

Name a place in the Western U.S. where experiments were done beginning in the 1940s. Take the first three and last three letters of the state where the place is located. 

Switch the middle two letters to spell the last name of someone famously associated with significant scientific experiments. 

What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #4

Name someone famously associated with culinary experiments done at  a well-known three-word place in the Eastern U.S. Take five letters from this person’s first name and the
first letter from their last name. Rearrange these letters and add an “N” at the end to spell the third word in the place name. Who is the person, and what is the place?

ENTREE #5

Name a place in the world where numerous experiments have been done. 

The first two letters of the name, plus a copy of the second letter, spell the first name of someone  who made a historic visit to this place in the 1990s. 

What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #6

Name a three-word place in which numerous experiments were done in the 1980s. 

The first and last letters of the name are the initials of someone famously associated with the place. What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #7

Name a two-word place where a famous experiment was done in the 1950s. Take five letters from the name and add an “R” at the end to spell the last name of the scientist who was the most responsible for the experiment. 

The first letter of the place is also the first letter of the scientist’s first name. The last nine letters of the place can be arranged to spell a well-known three-word idiom meaning to cause harm to someone or something. The experiment in this case did both, to a significant degree. 

What is the place, who is the scientist, and what is the idiom?

ENTREE #8

Think of a single serving of a hyphenated-brand-name pastry that you can plop into your microwave or toaster. 

Drop the first letter of each word and replace the hyphen with a space. The result is a term for the abstract images pictured here.

What is this hyphenated-brand-name pastry?

What is the term for the abstract images pictured here?

ENTREE #9

Name a superhero in two syllables. Drop the last letter of each syllable. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, spell the nickname of a university.

There is also a two-word nickname for this university’s athletic teams that consists of the first word in a 1968 hit song title and a word that might follow either:

~ an anagram of a word for “a framed sheet of glass in a window or door,” or 

~ the first name of a Washington Irving character.

Who is this superhero?

What is the university’s nickname for its athletic teams?

What is the hit song title?

What is the framed sheet of glass?

Who is the Washington Irving character?

What is the two-word nickname?

ENTREE #10

Write a caption for the image pictured here, in two words of four and three letters. Place the second word in front of the first word. Remove last letter of each, along with the space between them. The result is the surname of a world leader. 

What is your caption?

What is the surname of the world leader?  

Dessert Menu

Three-Course Dessert:

Natural-food antepenultimatum

Spell a natural food backward. 

Move the new first letter into either the penultimate or the antepenultimate position. 

Replace the last two letters of this result with the letter that immediately precedes them in the alphabet. 

The result is a second natural food. 

Now take the natural food we started with, but don’t spell it backward.

Replace  the first two letters with a the letter that immediately precedes them in the alphabet, then move that letter to the end.

The result is a third natural food.

What are these three natural foods?

Hint: Five of the six different letters that appear in the three answers to this puzzle form a consecutive alphabetical string, like U V W X Y, for example.

Every Thursday 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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