Schpuzzle of the Week:
“Paulgrim’s” Intrastate Progress (penned by the Bedfordshire Bunyan)
According to folklore and legend, Paul Bunyan was able to “create geological features” in Minnesota by donning certain distinctive duds.
The two identical vowel sounds in that verb and noun become different identical vowel sounds in the word for the distinctive duds.
What are these duds, synonym of “create,” and synonym of “geological features?”
Appetizer Menu
Tortie’s Slow-Cooked But Surely Challenging Appetizer:
Sole-Role Thespian; Dreamy “Brylcreemy” Thespian?; Fowl-Fish-Fowl; “Associated” but not “The Association”; Rhymin’ ‘n’ Chimin’; Pyramid Frock?; “Go down... Oops!”
1. π₯Think of a movie actor of the past who was mostly known for one particular role.
The first name has four letters and the last name has six.
Take every other letter, starting from the first letter. You’ll have a well-known sequence that’s
familiar even to young children.
Who is the actor?
What is the sequence?
Dreamy “Brylcreemy” Thespian?
2. πThink of an actor who was largely known for playing a certain type of role.
Who is the actor?
Hint: When he was young, this actor’s career got a “shot in the arm” after he grew some facial hair.
3. πππ¦Name a six-letter type of bird.
Change one of the letters to produce a type of
fish. Change another letter to produce another bird.
What are these animals?
“Associated” but not “The Association”
4. ππTake the last name of a famous musician. Change the first letter to the letter that immediately precedes it in the alphabet.
Rearrange the letters to produce the first and last names of another famous musician who is closely associated with the first musician.
5. πΈName an eponymous album by two guitar greats. Both of them went by their nicknames, which don’t rhyme; however, their first names at birth rhyme.
Who are they?
What is the album?
6. π₯⭐Name a singer and musician who was famous in the pre-rock era.
Now think of something the musician used, and place that word between the first and last names.
Remove a space. You’ll have the name of an even earlier movie star.
“Go down... Oops!”
Rearrange the letters to produce two things that you might need to calculate mathematically.
What is the song?
What might you need to calculate?
MENU
Truly Cubical Yet Nearly Spherical Hors d’Oeuvre:
“Six sides” versus “nix sides!”
Slightly alter the consonant sound of the substance to get what sounds like partially
unseen things in a nearly spherical form.
What is this cubical substance?
What are the partially unseen things in a nearly spherical form
Chills two centuries apart
Change one letter in a 2020’s horror movie to spell a historical horror that happened nearly two centuries earlier.
What are this movie and historical horror?
Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Entrees:
“Rasher-a-Roni, the San FranCrisco Treat!”
Name a famous English author. Change the first letter of the last name to an S. Then move the first, second, and final letters of that last name in front of the first name.
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Entrees read:
Entree #1
Think of two surnames – the singular 5-letter surname of a real person and the plural 8-letter surname of a family of fictional characters that is the brainchild of the real person... who often puts words into the mouths of these fictional family members.
What are these two surnames? What is the caption?
(Note: Appetizers #2 through #7 are creations penned by our friend and “Riffmaster General,” Nodd.)
ENTREE #2
Write down the first name of a famous English author, followed without a space by the last name of an American Newberry Medal-winning author.
Replace the first two letters of the American author’s last name with an S.
The resulting string of letters reading from left to right will name a famous American city that was the home of two U.S. presidents.
Who are the two authors and what is the city?
Name a famous English author.
The first name is the first word in the two-word name of a ghost town in the Western U.S.
The last name, minus the second letter, is the first word in the two-word name of another ghost town in the Western U.S., in a different state. A famous American author sometimes claimed to be a resident of the second ghost town.
Who are the authors and what are the ghost towns?
Take the first name of a famous English author. Insert a Y between the second and third letters and delete the last letter.
Follow this with a space and then the first name of the pen name of another famous English author, minus the second letter. The resulting string of letters reading from left to right will name a major tourist destination in the Western U.S.
Who are the two authors and what is the tourist attraction?
Take the first and last names of a famous English author and painter who was also an avid outdoorsman and mystic.
Rearrange these 15 letters to spell a major English city, a town in France near Paris, and a U.S. state abbreviation.
Who is the author and what are the city, town, and abbreviation?
Name a famous English author.
The first name can be rearranged to spell a bodily disorder that is a homophone of a region in Asia.
The last name is a town in Massachusetts.
Who is the author, and what are the disorder, region, and town?
ENTREE #7
Name a famous English poet, short story writer and novelist, first and last names.
The tree name, followed by a space and a homophone of another tree name, is a city in South Carolina.
Who is the author and what are the state and the city?
ENTREE #8
Take two performers – one whose stage name includes a “Richard” and another whose real name includes a “Richards.”
Who are these performers?
What is the state capital and word associated with dice?
What genre of music do they proffer?
Dessert Menu
Dietary Dessert:
“Walk right past a plate of pasta?”
Take the surname and profession of a past performer.
Who is this performer?
What are the type of diet and a performer’s likely response to it?
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