Surf and Sand and Swimsuits; More Matthew Huffmania! “It’s a Singapore Sling Sing-Sing Thing”; “Competitor Deo Omnipotenti!” Lose a letter, gain a syllable; Welcome All Whizzes of Pop-Quizzes

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Surf ‘n’ Sand ‘n’ Swimsuits

Name a two-word synonym of “tiny” used in a song to describe certain beachwear. 

This same synonym is used also in a second song to describe an arthropod – an
arthropod that sounds like two words that mean “eyed a female...” which is exactly what beachgoers in the first song did! 

What are this two-word synonym of “tiny,” the two things described by that synonym in the songs, and the two words that mean “eyed a female?”

Hints: The two-word synonym seldom, but sometimes, contains a hyphen.

The song has reached “retirement age.” 

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Conundrum Set Appetizer:

More Matthew Huffmania!

1. Name a type of cheese that can be broken into a mythical Greek monster and the last name of a well known playwright.

2. Think of a linguistic word used by puzzle constructors in eleven letters.

Drop two vowels and rearrange the remaining vowels, leaving the consonants in the same order, to make a synonym for a kind of “unit.” 

3. Think of an historical figure, first and last names. 

Remove five letters to name a type of puppet (that is, a type of anthropomorphic toy you might find beneath a Christmas tree).

4. Think of a food in seven letters that features a repeating three-letter pattern. 

Change one letter to an E and rearrange to name another food.

5. Name a type of punctuation that can be split into three descriptors for people (one an abbreviation).

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Decade-In-Rear-View Hors d’Oeuvre:

Welcome All Whizzes of Pop-Quizzes

Rearrange the letters on a word that often pops up in word puzzles to spell something that happened thrice during the past decade. What are this word and the thing that occurred thrice?

Syllabic Synonymatic Slice:

“Competitor Deo Omnipotenti!”

Replace the first syllable of a lowercase synonym of “competitors” with a one-letter-longer synonym of that syllable. 

The result is a more  specific uppercase synonym of “competitors.” 

What are these two synonyms of “competitors?”

Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Entrees:

It’s Singapore Sling Sing-Sing Thing

Will Shortz’s October 19th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Dan Pitt, of Palo Alto, California, reads: 

Think of something to drink in two words. Rearrange the letters to spell a famous prison and a means of getting out of prison. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Rearrange the letters in the name of a puzzle-maker and the city where he lives to spell th enames of a philosopher, a painter and a general. 

What are these four names?

Note:The following riffs, Entree #2 through #7, were created by our good friend Nodd, author of Puzzleria!s “Nodd ready for prime time.”

ENTREE #2

Think of something to drink and add a two-letter US state abbreviation. 

Rearrange the letters to spell the county in which a famous prison is located and something a prisoner does to get out of prison. What words are these?

ENTREE #3

Think of a brand of something to drink. 

Change the last letter and rearrange the letters
to spell a famous prison. 

What words are these?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous prison. 

Rearrange the letters to spell a synonym for
beverages and a homophone of something used to make certain beverages. What words are these?

ENTREE #5

Think of a brand of something to drink. 

Change the last letter and rearrange the letters to spell a famous prison and the initials of an organization that reported earlier this year on a news story involving the prison. 

What words and initials are these?

ENTREE #6

Think of something to drink, in seven letters. 

Using four of its letters and repeating them as needed, spell the name of a famous prison. 

Arrange the remaining three letters to spell the initials of an organization that has published extensively on both drinking and prisons. 

What words and initials are these?

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous prison. 

Arrange its letters to spell something that may cause one to go to prison, and something that may get one out of prison. 

The second thing is also the second word in a soft drink created for a restaurant chain. 

What words are these?

Note: The following riff was created by our good friend Plantsmith, author of Puzzleria!s “Garden of Puzzley Delights.”

ENTREE #8

Take a popular aperitif. Move its first letter eight places forward in the alphabet stream;
then mix the result to get a well known landmark. 

What are this aperitif and landmark?

Note: The following riff was created and by good friend of and contributor to Puzzleria!

ENTREE #9

Think of the commonly used name of a famous prison.  

Rearrange the letters in the name to spell a
place where one might find something to drink and the postal code of a U.S. state whose history is intertwined with such drinking places.   

ENTREE #10

In 1937, a young woman became the very first motion picture actress to be featured on the cover of Life magazine. We might call that a ______ _____.

In 1962 a young man had a solo exhibition of his Pop Art at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, where he created iconic works like his Marilyn Monroe portraits and Campbell's Soup Cans. We might call that a ______ _____.

The penultimate words of those two paragraphs are six-letter surnames.  The final five-letter words are the same word, a synonym of “party,” “reception” or “shindig.”

The eleven letters in either of these pairs of adjacent missing words can be arranged to spell a prison facility.

The eleven letters in either of these pairs of adjacent missing words can be arranged to spell a prison facility.

What are these words in the blanks? 

What is the prison facility?

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Zigzaggy Slalomy Dessert:

“Lose a letter, gain a syllable”

Delete the first letter of a one-syllable synonym of "zigzagged, slithered, slalomed." 

The result is a two-syllable adjective. What are this synonym and adjective?

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Thursday.

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