Mixed-up city fathers, Dandy candy and faddy duds, Jesus Christ Supersorcerer, Cars carnivores crave!; Minnie the Moocher, Donald the Driver; Bitchin’ ‘bout a beverage; “Baby it’s warm inside... and outside!” Behemoth becomes a big maker of melody; Golf Cart ‘toons!

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Golf Cart ‘toons!

Name a cartoonist.

Rearrange the letters in this cartoonist’s name to get two words: 

⛳🐺 a kind of golf match, and 

🪤🏌something found on a golf course. 

Who are this cartoonist and the two golf-related terms?

Appetizer Menu

Skydiversionary Appetizer:

Mixed-up city fathers, Dandy candy and faddy duds, Jesus Christ Supersorcerer, Cars carnivores crave!

Mixed-up city fathers

1.☆ Name a world capital city that when anagrammed describes its leaders who work there. 

What are the world capital and description of its leaders.

Dandy candy and faddy duds

2.🍬 Think of a candy everyone knows. 

Spoonerize it to name a garment popular with women. 

What are this candy and garment? 

Jesus Christ Supersorcerer

3.🪄 There are many famous and amazing magicians such as David Copperfield who made the Statue of Liberty disappear. 

They are famous because of how very clever and adept they were, but none are so clever and amazing as Jesus Christ whose greatest trick was to “blank blank.” 

Well, what was it? Fill in the blanks. Your answer must be humorous.

Cars carnivores crave!

4.🥗🥩 While some followers of Siddhartha choose to be vegetarian or vegan, others do eat meat. 

There isn’t a universal rule against meat consumption in their religion, but some traditions and schools of thought encourage it more than others. 

With that in mind, please consider those who are carnivores, and see if you can figure out which brand of automobile they prefer. 

Hint: It is a brand in four syllables that should reveal the answer when spoonerized. 

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Instrumental Hors d’Oeuvre:

Behemoth becomes a big maker of melody

Name a relatively large creature. Anagram an interior string of letters to spell a somewhat large musical instrument. The remaining letters can be anagrammed to spell a material from which this instrument is often crafted.

What are this creature, instrument and material?

Homophonic Slice:

Bitchin’ ‘bout a beverage

Replace the second word in a two-word nine-letter beverage with a homophone that has two fewer letters. 

Place this homophone at the beginning, without a space. 

Insert a space someplace else to form a two-word complaint that impatient drinkers might make regarding this beverage's preparation time. 

What are this beverage and complaint?

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:

Minnie the Moocher, Donald the Driver

Will Shortz’s July 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, reads:

Think of a famous movie star (6 letters, 6 letters). The first name, when said out loud, sounds like a brand of a certain object. The last name is someone who uses this object. What movie star is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take:

* the first name of a famous past singer whose surname is a synonym of beach (5 letters, 5 letters);

* the first name of singers Astley and
Springfield; and

* a synonym of “subside” that is a homophone of the first name of a past singer whose surname is sometime preceded by  the word “fig.”

Rearrange the 18 letters in these names to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Who are these singers?

What is the synonym of “subside?”

Note: Riffs #2 through #7 were composed by our friend Nodd, composer of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous movie star (3 letters, 4 letters). 

Add an S to the end of the last name. The result will sound like something a criminal might do at a brand name retailer. 

Who is the star? What might a criminal do?

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous movie star (5 letters, 5 letters). The first name is a colloquial brand name for a certain object. The last name describes what this object is often used for in movies. 

Who is the star? 

What is the object?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous movie star (5 letters, 6 letters). 

Drop the last three letters of the first name and add a B at the beginning of the name, then switch the order of the first and last names. 

The result is something that was once considered a brand name of a certain object but has now become a generic term for the object. 

Who is the star? What is the object?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous movie star (4 letters, 4 letters). 

Swap the second and third letters of the first name. 

The result will be the name of a college, followed by a colloquial name for a university. Who is the star? 

What are the college and university?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous movie star (3 letters, 6
letters). 

The first name is an abbreviation for something found on a certain object. 

The last name is something you might put in the object. Who is the star? What is the object?

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous movie star (8 letters, 4 letters). 

The first name is a former brand name for a certain object. 

The last name is a current brand name for the same kind of object. 

Who is the star? What is the object?

ENTREE #8

Note: Riff #8 was composed by our friend Plantsmith, curator of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!

Thank of a famous movie star. Six and six letters first and last. 

Their first name is part of a famous brand name. If you remove the third and fourth letters of the second name you will get an object associated with the famous brand name’s trademark.

Who is this movie star?

What is the object associated with the famous brand name’s trademark?

ENTREE #9

Take the first and last names of a head football coach at Southeastern Louisiana University, Louisiana Tech University and Ole Miss in the
late 20th Century, compiling a career college football coaching record of 125–94–6.

His name is the same as two nouns that describe each of four companies named Falls City, Cold Spring, West End and Pearl in the late 1970s.

Who is this football coach?

What is the two-word description of each of the four late-1970s companies?

ENTREE #10

Name a wielder of woods, in four syllables. 

His close friends call him by a name that make
him sound like a grinder of grains.

More formally, he is called by his surname (preceded by “mister”) that makes him sound like a cutter of coifs.

Who is this woods-wielder who at various times sounds like a grains-grinder or coifs-cutter? 

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Consume Some Consommé Dessert?:

“Baby it’s warm inside... and outside!”

Name something you consume that might make you feel “all warm inside.” 

Delete an “a” and “e” and move the first letter
to the end to name something that may make you feel “all warm on the outside.” 

What are these two warming things?

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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