Exploring our national parks; Celebrity challenge; The dairy aisle; Add a letter, get a letter; Poetry Corner, with Anna Graham; “Nurse a triple shot of ‘branding’” Flowering, good... overflowing, bad! Eli & Sam visit 1600 Penn. Ave.; “Hubby vacuums the rugby so ruggedly!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Nurse a triple shot of ‘branding’”

Name the brand of a Sport Utility Vehicle model with spark plugs under its hood. 

Removing its second and second-last letters results in a brand of a product that removes clogs from plugged-up pipes. The removed letters, in order, spell what sounds like a fashion brand that manufactures clogs. 

What are these three brands?  

Appetizer Menu

Noddingly-Approved Appetizer:

Exploring our national parks; Celebrity challenge; The dairy aisle; Add a letter, get a letter; Poetry Corner, with Anna Graham

1. 🏞 Exploring our national parks

a. What national park would offer support if you suffer from plantar fasciitis?

b. Switch the eighth and tenth letters and delete the seventh letter of the name of a national park to get a two-word description of the contents of an illustrated version of the Kama Sutra.

c. Rearrange the name of a national park to get a two-word description of a cop show other
than the one with Joe Friday. 

d. Rearrange the name of a national park to get an adjective describing some Christians in ancient Rome.

e. Rearrange the name of a national park to get a two-word phrase describing where you might see airborne primates.

f. Insert a space and a comma in the name of a national park to get a greeting to a person from the Middle East.

g. Rearrange the name of a national park to get a flavorful vegetable and where you might buy it.

2. 🎥Celebrity challenge

What past or present actor’s or actress’s name suggest he or she…

a. would do better after sundown?

b. is generous with decorative rock?

c. might get cold when performing?

d. would be helpful when making pancakes?

e. would support the use of Agent Orange?

f. would not be good to play cards with?

g. often gets angry?

h. is fond of jalapeños and Scotch bonnets?

3. 🥛The dairy aisle

Add one letter to the beginning of the former
(generic) name of a two-word low-fat dairy product to get a non-dairy product found in the dairy section of supermarkets. 

What are the two products?

4. 📏Add a letter, get a letter

Add a letter to a word for a unit of measurement to get another letter.

5. 🖆Poetry Corner, with Anna Graham

Insert five words that are anagrams of one another to complete the verse. (The first and third lines do not rhyme.)

The world _____ against the common petty thieves,

Who steal our hard-earned _____, _____, and dollars,

Yet celebrates the _____ in their _____,

Whose leveraged buyouts bring on ruin and squalor.

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Root Rot Hors d’Oeuvre:

Flowering, good... overflowing, bad!

An anagram of an eight-letter flower is a precautionary measure gardeners use to prevent the flower’s root rot, yellowing leaves
and even death. 

What is this flower? 

What is the precautionary measure gardeners use?

Appliance Science Slice:

“Hubby vacuums the rugby so ruggedly!”

Rearrange the ten letters of a ubiquitous modern appliance to form a two-word term that describes rugby or football. 

What are this appliance and term?

Hint: the first word in the term is hyphenated.

Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Entrees:

Eli & Sam visit 1600 Penn. Ave.

Will Shortz’s October 5th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Mike Reiss (a writer, and producer for “The Simpsons”) reads:

Think of a famous singer. Replace the last three letters of the first name with an E. Also replace the last three letters of the last name with an E. The result will be a world-famous location. What singer is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a prolific puzzle-maker. Replace the last three letters of the first name with an AD. Also replace the last three letters of the last name with an AD. The result will be the name of a magazine and what those who purchase it then do with it.

If you instead replace the last three letters of
the first name with an ED and the last three letters of the last name with an ED, the result will be what active and retired military personnel may be given at a National facility in Washington D.C. and the surname of the U.S. Army physician who is the namesake of the facility.

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What is the magazine and what its purchasers do with it?

What may military personnel be given at the D.C. facility, and the surname of the U.S. Army physician who is the namesake of the facility?

Note: The following Entrees, #2 through #7, were composed by our good friend Nodd.

ENTREE #2

Think of the stage name of a famous singer. 

Replace the last two letters of the first name with an S. 

Also replace the last two letters of the last name with an S. 

Then add two letters associated with WWII to the beginning of the last name. 

The result will be a world-famous city in the western U.S. Who is the singer and what is the city?

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous three-word singing group and discard the “The” at the beginning. 

Reverse the two remaining words. Remove from what is now the first word all but the third and fourth letters and follow those two letters with a period. 

The result will be a world-famous location in the world of sports. 

What are the singing group and the location?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous singer. 

Remove the space between the first and last names. 

Replace an E with an S and rearrange the letters to name a world-famous religious location in Europe. 

Who is the singer and what is the location?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous singer. 

Remove the last four letters of the first name and the first letter of the last name. 

Then remove the space between the first and last names. 

The result will be a colloquial term for a kind of location that is not particularly famous. 

Who is the singer and what is the term?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous singer. 

Replace the first two letters of the last name with a T and remove the space between the first and last names. The result will be a famous historical location in the U.S. 

Who is the singer and what is the location?

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous singer.

Remove the first letter of the first name and replace the last three letters of the first name with an O. 

The result will be a U.S. location that has been the site of numerous controversial events in recent years. Who is the singer and what is the location?

Note: The following Entree #8 riff was composed by our good friend Plantsmith.

ENTREE #8

Take a famous singer. 

Drop the last two letters of first name
and of the surname. 

Do no more modifying of the first name. 

Add to the end of the altered surname, however, the remaining letters after you drop the first two letters of a common breakfast item. The result is a beautiful place on a large continent. 

Who is this singer.

What is the breakfast item?

What is the beautiful place?

ENTREE #9

The 1st, 2nd, 8th, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 9th letters in the name of a singer spell an automobile with an open body that seats two and has a folding, retractable, or removable top and often a luggage compartment or rumble seat in the rear.

What is this automobile?

Who is this singer?

ENTREE #10

Remove five consecutive palindromic letters from the name of a singer, leaving the name of a bovine mammal.

Who is this singer? 

What is the mammal?

ENTREE #11 

Remove three consecutive letters from the first name of a singer.

The result is a five-letter venue of a sport, and a word you might hear shouted at that venue.

What is this venue? 

Who is the singer?

ENTREE #12

Remove five consecutive letters from the name of a singer, leaving a word for a “Biff Tannen type.”

Who is the singer? 

What is the word for a “Biff Tannen type?”

ENTREE #13

Name a singer, first and last names. 

Remove the last letter from the first name and the last three letters from the last name. Rearrange these deleted letters to spell what sunk the  Titanic. The remaining letters, in order, spell a brand name of sound-system speakers.

Who is this singer? What sunk the Titanic? What is the speaker brand?

ENTREE #14

Name a singer, first and last names, in ten letters. Take:

~ Letters 5, 6, 3 & 10 (noun)

~ Letters 6 & 10 (preposition)

~ Letter 8 (article)

~ Letters 5, 6 & 7 (noun)

They spell a four-word delicious dish.

Who is this singer?

What is the dish?

Hint: A three-letter article is often substituted for the one-letter article. 

ENTREE #15

Name a singer, first and last names, in nine letters.

Move the third letter into the sixth position.

Letters 1, 2 & 6 spell a young member of a family. The remaining letters, in order, spell a game piece that this family member may enjoy collecting, trading and playing with.

Who is this singer?

Who is the family member?

What is the game piece?

Dessert Menu

Constant Consonants Dessert (& Yet...):

Identical different vowels!

Two large US cities share the same consonants in the same order. Each city contains two identical vowels.

The identical vowels in one city do not appear in the other city. What cities are these?

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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