Cupid’s stingy “beau”; The second-most-dangerous room...; Evolution via rearrangement; Remixing the Brits; Not “abstemiously” vowel-wise; “Late for dinner” is one word short; Salability and one silly syllable; Ensue, saunter-synonym, scarcely; Titular and Geographical; Most Valuable Player (Screen Star MVP); Crooks and nannies

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Salability and one silly syllable 

Name a popular author whose works appeal especially to one particular literary audience. 

A single syllable in the name is also popular with this audience. 

Who are the author and audience. 

What is the syllable?

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Terrific Riffs From Jeff Appetizer:

Cupid’s  stingy “beau”; Not “abstemiously” vowel-wise; “Late for dinner” is one word short; The second-most-dangerous room...; Evolution via rearrangement; Remixing the Great Brits

Cupid’s  stingy “beau”

1. 💘What three-word phrase (three letters, four letters, five letters) might be used to describe a Valentine’s Day gift from a frugal beau? 

Hint: all three words contain the same three letters.

Not “abstemiously” vowel-wise

2. 💒Name a popular entertainer whose name includes all six vowels (a, e, i, o, u, and y). 

Hint: A vowel may appear in the name more than once.

“Late for dinner” is one word short;

3.  👪A famous American has a name which sounds like four words parents might use to call to their child.

Who is the person, and what are the four words?

The second-most-dangerous room?

4. 🍲Take a seven-letter word, describing an unfortunate kitchen occurrence. 

Add one letter, creating an eight-letter word, for essentially the same thing on a larger scale. 

What are these words?

Evolution via rearrangement

5. 🦖Rearrange the letters in the name of an ancient animal to get the name of an animal it evolved into.

Remixing the Great Brits

6. 💂Take the letters in the name of a famous place in England. 

Rearrange these letters to get someone you would want to avoid at British racecourse.

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Benevolent Hors d’Oeuvre:

Ensue, saunter-synonym, scarcely

Name a four-letter follower of Robert...

followed by a synonym of “saunter” minus its “e”...

followed, finally, by “not a one.”

The result is a synonym of “benevolent.” 

What is this synonym?

What are the follower of Robert, the “e-less” synonym of “saunter,” and “not a one?”

Blankety-Blank Slice:

Crooks and nannies

“The creature was ______ than most, and was thus able to _______ over, under, around and through crannies and nooks.” 

Remove a letter from the second missing word to spell the first missing word. What are these two words? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Entrees:

Most Valuable Player (Screen Star MVP)

Will Shortz’s September 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrea Carla Michaels of San Francisco, reads: 

Name a famous actress (five letters in the first name, six letters in the last name). Change the first and third letters of her first name and the first letter of her last name. The resulting letters in order from left to right will name a place where you might see this actress.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take three consecutive letters of the name of a puzzle-maker. 

Rotate the second letter 180 degrees
clockwise. 

The result is where one might hear the name of this puzzle-maker. 

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

Where might you hear this puzzle-maker’s name?

(Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 are the “handiwordplay” of our friend Nodd.)

ENTREE #2

Name a famous deceased actress (seven letters in the first name, five letters in the last name). Her last name is part of a term for a type of sports and entertainment venue. 

Remove one letter of her first name and rearrange the remaining letters to name a term used in an activity that takes place at the venue. 

Who is the actress, what is the venue, and what is the term?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous actress (five letters in the first name, six letters in the last name). This actress inspired a character on a TV show. Her last name, with a different last letter, is the second word in the name of the show, and also names a place you might see her if you happen to be in one of the three cities in which she owns residences. 

Who is the actress and what is the show?

ENTREE #4

Name two famous actresses. The first has seven-letter first and last names. The second has five letters in her first name and six letters
in her last name. 

The first name of the first actress, followed by the last name of the second, names a place where you might see these actresses in January. 

Who are the actresses and where might you see them?

ENTREE #5

Name two famous actresses. The first, now deceased, had a three-letter first name and a five-letter last name. The second has seven letters in her first name and four in her last name. The first name of the first actress is the name of a female character in a well-known book. 

Add the first letter of the title of the book to the beginning of the first actress’s last name. As modified, the two actresses’ last names are now the first and third words in the name of a place where the female character lived. 

Who are the actresses and the character, and what are the book and the place?

ENTREE #6

Name a famous actress (seven letters in the first name, six letters in the last name). 

The fifth through eleventh letters of her name spell something seen in a famous 1997 film. Remove those letters. 

Change the fourth remaining letter to an S. Rearrange that letter and the other five remaining letters to name a place where you might see this actress or her work. 

Who is the actress, what was seen in the 1997 film, and where might the actress be seen?

ENTREE #7

Take the seven-letter last name of a famous actress. Change the first letter to a copy of the fourth letter. Change the third and fourth letters to copies of the original first letter. The result will name the tenth most populous city in a western state. 

The actress is a part-time resident of the capital city of that state, which holds an annual film festival in March where you might see her.

Who is the actress, what are the two cities, and what is the festival?

(Note: Entree #8 is the “handiwordplay” of our friend Plantsmith.)

ENTREE #8

Take name of a famous actress. Five and six letters, first and last names.

In first name drop last two letters and double
the third.

In last name drop last two letters and replace with a conjunction to get:

1. A place where you don’t want to be

2. A place where the actress could see herself.

Who is this actress?

Where don’t you want to be?

Where could the actress see herself?

ENTREE #9

An actress and actor from the same era, both legendary, never appeared in a movie together. Take the surname of one of them.

Move the last two letters to the beginning and tack the penultimate letter of her first name onto the end of this result to form the surname of the actor. 

Who are these legendary cinematic stars?  

ENTREE #10

An American author was associated with the color purple... but also with an even drabber hue, thanks to his surname. 

Anagram five consecutive letters of his full name to spell a third color... a “monstrous color” associated with an athlete who is also associated with a fourth color, red. 

The nickname of that athlete is spelled with the last, second and first letters of the author’s full name.

What are all four colors and the athlete’s nickname?

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Proper Nominal Dessert:

Titular & Geographical

Divide a six-letter creature in half. Transpose the first two letters of each half to form two rhyming proper nouns – one geographical, the other titular. What are this creature and two proper nouns?

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