Long-running Radio, Divine Diva? Twice-Played, “Wand” a Washer? American Literature, Pop & Doo-wop, Meet Hannah Graham!; Aquatics and Visual Artistry; Snack on some salads and wraps; A pair of capes and a character; Pedro can’t open six Palm Doors! Backspace! Delete! Transpose!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A pair of capes and a character

Take two words on the map of the Southeastern United States.

Each word follows the word “Cape.” 

Rearrange the combined letters of these two “Cape-following” words to spell the name
of a fictional character, also from a Southeastern U.S. state. 

What are these two Capes? 

Who is the fictional character?

APPETIZER MENU

Slow, Sure, Sticky & Tricky Appetizer:

Long-running Radio, American Literature, Twice-Played, “Wand” a Washer? Divine Diva? Pop & Doo-wop, Meet Hannah Graham!

Long-running Radio

1. 📻Think of a long-running radio show.  The show used to be known by an abbreviated nickname as well. 

If you say the abbreviation out loud, it will sound like two numbers. 

The first number is twice the second one. 

What is the radio show? 

What is the abbreviation? 

What are the two numbers? 

American Literature

2. 🎸Name a popular contemporary musical artist in two words. 

Rearrange the letters of the first word. Change the second word, which is the name of an animal, to the male version of the animal. Swap the order of the words. You’ll have a well-known character from American literature. Who is the musical artist? Who is the character?

Twice-Played

3. ♝♜♘♕Name something that can be played. 

This item is sometimes called by its first five letters. 

Take those five letters, and reverse them to get something else that can be played. 

What can be played? What else can be played?

“Wand” a Washer?

4. 👚🧦🪛Rearrange the brand name of something you’d put into a washing machine to produce something you might use to fix a washing machine.

What’s the brand name? What might you use to fix a washing machine?

Divine Diva?

5. 👼Think of a famous actress. 

Spell her first name backwards, and then replace the last letter of her middle name with a copy of her middle name’s second letter. 

You’ll have a religious song. Her last name also has a religious connection. 

Who is she? 

What is the song?

Pop & Doo-wop

6. 🎜🎝Name a classic rock group from the UK. Add the letter that comes after the second letter of the name in the alphabet. 

Also add the letter that comes before the last letter of the name in the alphabet. 

Rearrange the letters to produce the name of an earlier American doo-wop group. (Ignore the “The” used in the group’s name.)

Both groups had big hits with songs that have a two-word title. The first words belong to the same category. 

The second words each contain the same amount of letters, and all of the letters except one are the same for both words, although in a different order. These common letters in a certain order spell a sound that can be associated with the UK group’s name. 

What are the groups? What are the songs? What sound is associated with the UK group? 

Meet Hannah Graham!

7. 🎩👒🪈Professor Anna Graham’s daughter, Hannah, enjoys her mom’s puzzles. 

She’s decided to write her own about one of her favorite Disney+ classic movies.  

Fill in the blanks to complete the verse.

While Marie ____ cute

____’s horn does toot 

A ____ of cool ____, 

Some wearing hats, 

But nobody plays the flute!

What are the four words? 

What’s the movie?

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 “No, It Is O Perp!” Hors d’Oeuvre

Aquatics and Visual Artistry

Remove a preposition spelled backwards from the name a two-word aquatic creature.

The result is the name of a 20th-century visual
artist. 

What is this creature? 

Who is the  visual artist?

Hint: The two-word aquatic creature is an anagram of a two-word term for ancient Western Hemisphere paintings and architecture.

Roamin’ Numeral Slice:

Snack on some salads and wraps

Name a two-word natural food used in salads or wraps. 

The fifth letter of the first word is a Roman numeral. Move it into the sixth position and
replace it with a different Roman numeral. 

The result is two nouns that are associated with each other. 

What is the two-word natural food?

What are the two associated nouns?

Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees:

Pedro can’t open six Palm Doors!

Will Shortz’s June 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Bob Weisz, reads:

Take the name of a major film director. Drop the last six letters of his name, and rearrange what remains. You’ll get the name of a major film award for which this director has been nominated six times. Who is he and what is the award?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take the eight-letter name of a puzzle maker. Remove the space. 

Replace the 8th letter with the 5th letter and place in the fifth position a consonant that precedes that original 5th letter in the spelling of a common two-letter preposition. 

Finally, replace the 7th letter with the letter that follows it in the alphabet.

The result is a bird.

Who is the puzzle maker and what is the bird?

Note: Entrees #2 and #3 were composed by our friend Tortitude, whose “Tortie’s Slow but Sure Puzzles” this week’s featured Appetizer.

ENTREE #2

Name a director who has won a sweet number of Academy Awards. 

Remove six letters (five of them consecutive) that can be anagrammed to spell a synonym of two consecutive words in the previous sentence. 

The remaining letters in the director’s can be anagrammed to spell a part of a shamrock and a word related to shamrocks.

Who is this director?

What are the synonym, shamrock part and shamrock-related word?

ENTREE #3

Name two directors who won back-to-back Oscars for Best Director. 

One of their first names is a nickname for the other’s first name. Their last names sound the same, except that one contains an additional consonant sound.

Who are they?

Note: Entrees #4 through #9 were composed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a major film director. Rearrange the letters of his name to spell a two-word phrase describing his job, and an additional word that is the nickname of another major film director. 

Who are the two directors and what is the job description?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a major film director. 

Drop all but three letters  of his last name, and
rearrange what remains to spell a two-word phrase that describes what the Oscars and Emmys are in the entertainment industry. 

Who is the director and what is the phrase?

ENTREE #6

Take the name of a major film director. 

Drop three letters of his name that spell a
number, and rearrange what remains. 

You’ll get the name of a major film award won by this director, and a word describing acts often depicted in his films, including the one for which he won the award. 

Who is the director and what are the award and the acts depicted in his films?

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a major film director. 

His first name, and two consecutive letters of his last name, can be arranged to spell the
acronymic name of a film awards organization. 

This director was nominated for an award by the organization, but did not win. 

Who is the director and what is the organization?

ENTREE #8

Take the name of an Oscar-winning film director. 

His first name is the name of an award for best director given annually by a European film organization. 

His last name, minus the first three letters, is part of the names of two other Oscar-winning directors. 

Who are these three directors?

ENTREE #9

Take the names of two major film directors in alphabetical order. 

Drop the first director’s first name and the first
and last letters of his last name. 

Move the new first letter of his last name to the end. What remains, followed by the initials of the second director, spell the name of a major film award. 

Who are the two directors and what is the award?

Note: Entree #10 was composed by our friend Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” is regularly featured on P!

ENTREE #10

Take the first and last names of a major film director. 

Drop the last six letters of the name, and rearrange what remains. 

You’ll get something no director wants.

Dessert Menu

Just One Solver’s Just Dessert:

Backspace! Delete! Transpose!

Spell a puzzle backwards.

(No, it’s not “El Z-zuppa!”)

Delete the first letter of the result. 

Interchange the two vowels to form what one who solves the puzzle deserves. 

What is this puzzle. 

What does its solver deserve?

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!

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