“Ground rule double-redundancy” “It’s deja vu all over again!” “Athletics: Title Cash!” “Cincinnati Reps“ Blonde in the bleachers; “King Roy? Prince Al?” (G)Ladys of the (K)Night; Genuine master of novel arts? Streetcars, stages, trains & rafts; Pale hose, pale haze: The ‘choose’ of the Fisherman” “What Is This Question?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Pale hose, pale haze: The ‘choose’ of the Fisherman”

Rearrange the combined letters in an adjective and noun associated with a papal election to get another adjective and noun that some might use to describe Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual philosophy. 

What adjective and noun are associated with a papal election?

What adjective and noun might be used to describe Pope Leo XIV’s spiritual philosophy?

Appetizer Menu

Sextuple Play Appetizer 

(Use your tools of intelligence, not your tools of ignorance)

It’s deja vu all over again! Blonde in the bleachers; “Athletics: Title Cash!”; 

Cincinnati Reps?; 

“King Roy? Prince Al?”;  

“Ground rule double-redundancy”

The results, all in a summery sporting vein, follow:

“It’s deja vu all over again!”

1. ⚾Think of someone you might see at a baseball game.

Then rearrange to create a sense of deja vu.

Blonde in the bleachers

2. 🏟 Name someone else who might be at the ballpark.

Rearrange to get how someone in the bleachers might describe the day.

“Athletics: Title Cash!”

3. 🏙  Name a major league team. 

Rearrange its letters to get why a municipality might want to build them a stadium.

Cincinnati Reps?

4. 🚆🚄Name a major league team.

Change one letter in that team name to get a training method.

“King Roy? Prince Al?”

5.  ♔♚♕♛A major league team’s name has been much in the news lately, but not on the sports page. What is this team’s name and why has it been in the news?

“Ground rule double-redundancy”

6. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league currently composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League and the American League, with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. 

One team’s name, however, is doubly redundant. 

Which team is it, and why is it redundant?

Vehicular Hors d’Oeuvre:

Streetcars, stages, trains & rafts

Name a writer who wrote about streetcars, stages, trains and rafts. Remove the initial letters of this writer’s first and last names to spell two other vehicles. 

Who is this writer?

What are the two other vehicles?

Jane “Austentatious” Slice:

Genuine master of novel arts?

Jane Austen is widely regarded as a _______ ______ of _____ ____. 

The first and third missing words, as well as the second and fourth missing words, would be pronounced identically had the vowel sounds in the first two words not been shortened in the last two words. 

What are these four missing words?

Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Entrees:

(G)Ladys of the (K)Night  

Will Shortz’s May 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, California, reads:

Name a famous singer, past or present. Remove the first and last letter from the first name and the result will be a potential partner of the last name. What singer is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take the 15-letter name of an “architect of puzzles.”

Replace the 14th letter with a different vowel.

Replace the 7th letter with a duplicate of the 13th letter.

Remove the first, fifth and eighth letters, then remove the space between the third and fourth letters.

The result is an adjective and noun: 

a synonym of “magnificent” or “kingly” followed by a synonym of “status” or “rank.”

Who is this “architect of puzzles” with a “kingly status?”

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our friend Nodd, master riff-maker.  

ENTREE #2:

Name a famous singer. Remove the last letter from the singer’s last

name and the result will name the subject of another famous singer’s hit song. 

What singers are these and what is the song?

ENTREE #3:

Name a famous singer. Rearrange the letters of the singer’s first name to spell the first name of another famous singer. 

Who are these two singers?

ENTREE #4:

Take the professional name of a famous singer. 

Remove the first and last letters of the first
name to get what the singer might say about themselves. 

Who is this singer and what might they say?

ENTREE #5:

Name a famous singer. 

Replace the first letter of the singer’s first name with the letter that follows it in the alphabet. 

Replace the last two letters of the first name with two Roman numerals. 

The result will be the title of a popular song. 

Who is this singer and what is the song?

ENTREE #6:

Name a famous singer. 

Remove the first and last letters of the singer’s first name and insert an apostrophe somewhere in the remaining letters to spell
what the singer might say about themselves. 

Who is this singer and what might they say?

ENTREE #7:

Name a famous singer. Remove the first and last letters of the singer’s first name to spell the first name of another famous singer. 

Remove the last two letters of the singer’s last name to spell the first name of someone who has been the subject of numerous popular songs. 

Who are these two singers and who is the subject of the songs?

Note: Entree #8 was created by our friend and master riff-maker Plantsmith.  

ENTREE #8:

Take the first name of a singer – living or possibly not. 

Drop the first letter. Replace the last letter with the first vowel in the name to get a West Coast brand name. 

Take the last name and replace a vowel with
the first vowel in the first name to get a collective term for some creatures.

Who is this singer? What are the brand name and the creatures?

Note: Entree #9 was created by our friend Thomas Rymsza, who appeared on NPR with Will Shortz on May 11, scored an NPR lapel pin to pin on his lapel, and who has contributed a number of excellent puzzles to Puzzleria!

ENTREE #9

Think of a world capital past or present. 

Rearrange the letters to name another world capital, past or present.

What are these world capitals?

ENTREE #10

Name a 50-year-old thespian who, in three consecutive years, received one supporting-actor and two leading-actor Oscar nominations. 

Place the first name to the right of the surname. 

Transpose the initial letters of the result. 

Delete four consecutive letters to form the name of a movie character portrayed by the young actor pictured here.

Who is this thespian?

What is the name of the character portrayed by the young actor pictured above?

Dessert Menu

Interrogative Dessert:

“What Is This Question?”

Think of a question that consists of a conjunction flanked by a fruit in the left and a variety of beet on the right.

The fruit and variety of beet both are often red. Remove the space between the conjunction and third word to name where you can find the fruit. What is this question?

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.)

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