Schpuzzle of the Week:
Two chains, two missing links
Place in alphabetical order a pair of two-word service-industry chains.
Appetizer Menu
“The Turtle and the Bunny race through the Country”
1. ⭐🐎 An animal appears in the name of a world capital. Replace the animal with a different animal. Change a letter outside of the animal’s name to the next letter in the alphabet. You will get another world capital.
What are these two world capitals?
What are these world capitals?
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Folk-Heroic Hors d’Oeuvre:
“Copy-Cattle?”
Remove one letter from one and three consecutive letters from the other, leaving two words associated with a folk hero.
What are these four words?
Who is the folk hero?
Unique & Extraordinary Slice:
???? – (one r) = (π + e + s) = pies!
What is the word?
What is the result when you remove one r?
A Red-Herring Hint: The author of “O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _!” is an anagram of “Lilac Wreath.”
Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Entrees:
“We’ve got Ed Pegged as a Puzzle Wiz!”
The onetime country duo “Montgomery Gentry” and the classic song “Go on With the Wedding” have a very unusual wordplay property in common. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Print in lowercase letters the past tense of a Northern-England-dialect verb that means “to sprinkle or moisten.”
Rearrange the result to spell (in lowercase letters, like the poet “e.e. cummings”) the name of a talented puzzle-maker.
What is this verb that means “sprinkled or moistened”? Who is this this puzzle-maker?
(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were composed by our friend Nodd. Our thanks!)
Think of the names of two musical duos.
One was formed in 1997 and the other in 2001.
Take the second word of each name and insert “and” between them to get the title of a 1972 hit song by a well-known rock band formed in 1967.
Who are the duos and what is the song?
Think of the titles of a famous eighteenth century opera and a hit song from 1968.
They each have three words, one of which is in
both titles.
What are the opera and the song and what do they have in common besides the word their titles share?
Think of the first and last names of two well-known female vocalists.
The first came to prominence in the 1960s. The second released her debut album in 1971.
Their last names begin with the same letter and their first and last names have something in common.
Who are the vocalists and what do their names have in common?
Think of the names of a male and a female vocalist.
The male vocalist died young in 1971. The
female vocalist is still performing.
The first two syllables of their three-syllable last names sound the same but are spelled differently.
The nine letters of their first names can be arranged to spell the first names of two singers who died young in 1970 and 2024.
Who are these four singers?
Think of the first and last names of two male singers.
One has been active since 1963 and the other was active from 1967 until his death in 2017.
Both singers went by the same first name.
Their first and last names have something in common. Who are these two singers, and what do their names have in common?
Think of three singers, two females and one male.
The last name of one of the females is the first name of the male. Add to the end of that name the last two letters of the same female’s first name to get the first name of the other female.
Who are these three singers?
ENTREE #8
Name a puzzle-maker who may or may not be an audiophile. But, for the purposes of this puzzle, let us assume that he is.
We might identify this puzzle-maker using the following four-word phrase, in 4, 6, 6 and 4 letters: ____ ______, ______ ____.
This phrase contains a very unusual wordplay property.
Who is the puzzle-maker?
What is the four-word phrase?
What is the wordplay property?
An author’s best-known novel employs gothic elements such as abandoned castles, secret tunnels, and dark, misty moors where many a certain tract of soft, wet land can be found.
The 16 letters that appear in the name of this author (in 4 and 7 letters) and the tract of soft, wet land (in 5 letters) can boast a very unusual wordplay property.
Who is this author?
What is the tract of soft, wet land?
What is the wordplay property?
ENTREE #10
In the less physical sport of ____, however (a pasttime in which he occasionally partook as president), this former gridiron great once hit a spectator in the head with his driver-driven ball!
Michael, Jack, Steven and Susan, who were present in the gallery, whispered among themselves, “Did ___ ___?”
This president’s name contains 6 and 4 letters. The words in the three blanks each contain, respectively, 4, 3 and 3 letters.
Who is this president?
What is the less physical sport?
What are the missing words in “Did ___ ___?”
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An Oasis in a Dessert (sic)?
“Doth ‘heavenly’ do thy body justice?”
Who is this poet?
What are the adjective and body of water?
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