PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Amateurs versus Prose?
The result is the name that two literary characters share in common – one in the works of Shakespeare, the other in the works of Dante.
What are the words on the banner?
What is the common name of the two characters that Shakespeare and Dante wrote about?
Appetizer Menu
Slow But EspeSHELLy Sure Appetizer:
Classic Juvenile Lit I & II; Mangoes and Melons in the Mail? Two-Tool-Toodle-Loo! Animation in an Anemone; Alpaca, Arabian, Bactrian, Guanaco... Vicuna!
Classic Juvenile Lit I
Duplicate three of the letters and rearrange the letters to produce the first and last names of a famous children’s book author.
Who are the character and the author?
Classic Juvenile Lit II
Remove the first two letters of the first name and the last two letters of the last name. 
3. 🍈🍈🥭🥭📬Name a nine-letter fruit name that starts with four consecutive two-letter U.S. postal code abbreviations and also ends with one.
Two-Tool-Toodle-Loo!
Animation in an Anemone
6. ♭♯🎜🎝🐪🐫What classic 1950s song is implied by the first 60% of a relative of a camel?
Name a large 13-letter creature that ends with
letters that spell a much smaller creature.
Name a shapeless substance.
Take the name of a famous person in American politics (6,6). Hidden in this name reading from left to right, but not in consecutive letters, is the name of a well-known place that's very dry, in 4 letters. Remove these letters. The remaining 8 letters in order from left to right will name another well-known, very dry place. What politician is this?
ENTREE #1
Take the first name of a former U.S. government official who became a controversial political figure during the Cold War. 
ENTREE #3
ENTREE #4
The first and last names have four letters in common. 
Take the last name of a former U.S. president. Remove a word meaning dry and a liquid that may be dry. 
ENTREE #7
ENTREE #8
ENTREE #9
Knives slice, forks stab, spoons stir!
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.)
Place what remains of the last name before what remains of the first name. Phonetically, you’ll have things that the book’s title character might use for nourishment.
Who is the writer? Who is the character? What might the character use for nourishment?
Melons, Mangoes in the Mail?
Now name an eight-letter fruit variant that also
consists of four consecutive two-letter U.S. postal code abbreviations.
What are the fruit and fruit variant?
4. 🧰🔨🪚Name two six-letter tools that basically serve the same purpose, although one tends to be larger.
Three letters are in the same position in both words. Two of the other letters share the same position, but differ by one place in the alphabet.
What are the tools?
5. 📽Name the classic animated film
encapsulated by a sea anemone.
Alpaca, Arabian, Bactrian, Guanaco... Vicuna!
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Two Creatures Great And Small Hors d’Oeuvre:
Puzzley, fuzzy, but was he buzzy?
letters that spell a much smaller creature.
Both creatures are a bit fuzzy. What are they?
“Putting A Price on A Puzzle” Slice:
“Hail Morpheus, King of Things Amorphous!”
Replace the first third of that word with a synonym of that first third, followed by a space. The result is worth, roughly, 66 dollars. What are this substance and synonym? Why is the result worth about $66?
Riffing Off Shortz And Shukan Entrees:
Kalamari Hari Kiri Arms Mars
Will Shortz’s November 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dave Shukan of San Marino, California. reads:
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Shukan Entrees read:
Take the name of a puzzle-maker (4,6).
Hidden in this name reading from left to right, but not in consecutive letters, is the name of a piece of furniture where this puzzle-maker may compose his puzzles. The remaining six letters – if you replace one off them with an “a” and then rearrange the result – is the name of a world capital city.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the world capital city?
Note: Riffs #2 through #7 are cryptic creations composed by our friend Nodd.
ENTREE #2
Add to the end of the name the postal
abbreviation of a U.S. state that was dry for 12 years in the 1800s. The result will name a very dry place in the world.
abbreviation of a U.S. state that was dry for 12 years in the 1800s. The result will name a very dry place in the world.
Who is the figure and what are the state and the dry place?
Take the first name of a major American political figure who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. Add to the end of the name a copy of the fifth letter to get something that is often dry. Alternatively, insert a copy of the second letter of the name just before the last letter to name a fictional inhabitant of a dry place.
Who is this figure and what are the dry thing and the fictional inhabitant?
Take the first name of an American political figure who rose to national prominence in the early 21st Century. Double the first and second letters. Rearrange to name one of the driest places on earth and an area of the U.S. that is comparatively dry, especially in its Western portion.
Who is this figure, and what are the two dry places?
ENTREE #5
Take the name of a famous American political figure who was also a prominent general in the Revolutionary War (7,6).
These four letters can be arranged to name a place that’s often in the news and is very dry. Who is the figure and what is the place?
ENTREE #6
The remaining two letters, in reverse order, are the postal abbreviation of a state in which a city once known as the Dry Capital of the World is located.
Who is the president and what are the word, the liquid, and the abbreviation?
Take the middle and last names of a famous person in American politics.
Replace the third letter of the middle name with the letter that is four places earlier in the alphabet.
Replace the fourth letter of the last name with a copy of the second letter of that name.
Rearrange the letters to spell a word meaning dry and the name of a dry place in the U.S.
Who is the politician and what are the word and the place?
Spell the screen name of a riff-master in reverse. (For example “LegoLambda” (who is more of a “riff-gifter”) would become “adbmaLogeL”.)
Divide this reversal into three equal parts:
~ an academic website domain,
~ a fine-feathered tweeter, and
~ decay.
What is the riff-master’s screen name?
Spell the screen name of a riff-master in which a letter appears twice. Remove the duplicate letter that appears first in the name.
Five nearly consecutive letters of the result
spell a suffix that means “formative or formed material (as of a cell or tissue).” The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell an adjective that describes this “formative or formed material” that encapsulates this cell or tissue.
spell a suffix that means “formative or formed material (as of a cell or tissue).” The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell an adjective that describes this “formative or formed material” that encapsulates this cell or tissue.
Who is this riff-master?
What are the suffix and adjective?
ENTREE #10
Take the name of a puzzle-maker (4,6). Read this name in reverse order, from right to left.
Letters 1, 2, 3, 7 and 10 of this reversal, in order, spell an adjective that describes this
puzzle-maker during the first minute (more-or-less) of his life.
puzzle-maker during the first minute (more-or-less) of his life.
Replace Letter #4, a vowel, with a different vowel.
Rearrange these five revised remaining letters to spell a verb for something this puzzle-maker might do, periodically, to retain his newborn appearance.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What adjective describes this puzzle-maker during the first minute of his life?
What might this puzzle-maker might do, periodically, to retain his newborn appearance?
Dessert Menu
Kick-In-The-Pants Dessert:
What beverage, if you stir it with a “spoon,” is likely the most “kick-in-the-pants” drink there is?
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QUESTIONS?
ReplyDeleteAlthough Entree 1 does not say so, I think the remaining six letters need to be rearranged to spell the capital.
DeleteMy thanks to Nodd who is, of course, correct. The remaining six letters do indeed need to be rearranged to spell the capital. I have corrected my text.
DeleteLeGratefulO
My large creature for the Hors d'Oeuvre is two words. I'm assuming this is okay, since the puzzle doesn't say the creature is just one word.
DeleteIs it just me? Because I don't see where Entree #1 has been corrected to indicate that the six letters needs to be re-arranged....I was stuck on that myself, and about to give up, until I scrolled down here to find Nodd having made his comment.
DeleteHINTS!
ReplyDeleteA6. "What she does to me I can't really understand."
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DeleteWhen I was growing up, the title character in App 1 always reminded me of a holiday song by a classical composer.
DeleteAnd the author in App 2 reminded me of a different children's character.
Afternoon App hints:
Delete1. The character was created by someone whose first name is the last name of a character from a stylish 1980s TV show. That creator’s last name is the last name of the actor who played that role. Both authors wrote books whose titles have the format Name and the Adjective Noun.
2. Oh, deer! The writer's first name ends in a number. The last name ends in the same number; however, both names end in different letters.
3. The fruit sounds like it starts with a part of the body. The variant showed up in last week's Puzzleria!.
4. I hope you dig this puzzle!
5. You may find the main character under the sea, along with a certain Captain of the same name.
6. Look, a plush toy! The song is not by the Edsels, although it sounds like the animal is part of their song title.
Riff hints can be found below.
SUNDAY HINTS FOR ENTREES 2-7:
Delete2. The first name is the last name of an author whose first name was the name of a “Hamlet” character.
3. The figure’s initials are three consecutive letters of the alphabet, in reverse order.
4. Not related to Sir Michael Edward, despite the name.
5. This figure was portrayed on TV by an actor who didn’t want to be called Shirley.
6. Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II.
7. The politician’s first and middle initials are a degree he got in 2013.
Late Sunday-Early Monday Hints
DeleteSchpuzzle of the Week:
Amateurs versus Prose
Was it not Prince Hamlet who said "Get thee to a granary!"?
Lemon Pipers insisted that it was nice!
Slow But EspeSHELLy Sure Appetizer:
See Tortitude's hints in her November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM post.
Two Creatures Great And Small Hors d’Oeuvre
Puzzley, fuzzy, but was he buzzy?
The large 13-letter creature contains two words. Together they three different pairs of double-letters (like the "Ee" in "Eek!") that appear in a skein of four letters of the alphabet (like RSTU, or GHIJ).
“Putting A Price on A Puzzle” Slice:
“Hail Morpheus, King of Things Amorphous!”
The substance is perhaps not actually shapeless... It just conforms to the container in which it may find itself.
A part of the intended answer is a sea creature minus its initial letter (which contains a pair of hairpin turns).
Riffing Off Shortz And Shukan Entrees:
Kalamari Hari Kiri Arms Mars
ENTREE #1
The last four letters of the capital city sounds like a professional letter-turner. the piece of furniture may have a shorthand word for "schedule" on its surface that is an anagram of the piece of furniture.
Note: see Nodd's hints for his Riffs #2 through #7 in his November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM post.
ENTREE #8
My intended synonym of "decay" is an anagram of "crosswordese" for "a high, rocky hill."
ENTREE #9
The suffix that means “formative or formed material (as of a cell or tissue)” is an anagram of "a sacred song or poem used in worship."
ENTREE #10
The puzzle-maker who is the answer to this Entree #10, after creating a wonderful NPR puzzle, deserves TWO riffs that his name is the answer to!
Dessert Menu
Slives Nice, Storks Fab, Stoons Spur!
HegoLinting!
Thank you for the hints. Think I have everything now, although my second place in Entree #4 is only one letter. It's a common abbreviation for a longer word, however.
DeleteMy apologies to Tortie and everyone else, as I only now realize after reading her comment that I screwed up Entree 4. I meant to say "Take the first AND LAST name of an American political figure who rose to national prominence in the early 21st Century. Double the first and second letters. Rearrange to name one of the driest places on earth and an area of the U.S. that is comparatively dry, especially in its Western portion. Who is this figure, and what are the two dry places?
DeleteThe politician's first and last names have five letters each. The last name, with the second and third letters switched, is a synonym for "ordinary." Pluralizing this synonym yields the second dry place.
Once again, my apologies.
Nodd, got it now. Thanks!
DeleteThanks to Lego for the Dessert hint. I didn't understand what stirring with a spoon meant when I tried to solve it pre-hint. And I think I have App 6 now based on Tortie's hint.
DeleteI've only solved the Schpuzzle so far. Only looked at the hints just now, can't make heads or tails of them. Skimmed all the puzzles on Friday night, could only get Entree #8 right away.
DeletepjbHasOtherThingsToThinkAboutThisWeek,AsHeIsSureSoDoesEveryoneElse
On nuts, Nodd, I never even saw your re-write of your Entree 4. With that hint about synonym for ordinary, I would hope that I would have solved it. Oh well....
DeletePUZZLE RIFFS!
ReplyDeleteThe following riff of App #3 isn't exactly fair, as the fruit is obscure. App #3 as written can be solved without any help or at most a list. This fruit isn't likely to even show up in a list. Give it a try, though, if you use a programming techniques to solve the original App.
Delete1. Name a more obscure ten-letter fruit that consists of the same letter pattern, with five consecutive two-letter U.S. postal code abbreviations.
The following riff was written a year or so ago. It is kind of a sister riff to Apps #5 and #6 in that it's quirky.
2. Name a two-word well-known island. Anagram to produce a three-word phrase whimsically describing what you might need to do so you can pay to get there.
What is the island? What might you need to do to get there?
Wow, a pair of bonus riffs of Tortitude's "Slow But Sureness!" Thanks, Tortie!
DeleteLegoWhoOpinesThat"APlentitudeOfTortitudeIsAlways Welcome!"
I think I have Riff 1. The fruit is citrus.
DeleteI thought I might have Riff 2, but my answer only works if one letter is removed from the name of the island.
Sounds like you have Riff 1! Have you ever heard of the fruit before?
DeleteFor Riff 2, don't forget that the answer is three words. In any case, hints will be forthcoming tomorrow evening.
No, I hadn't heard of it, but it showed up on a list. My Riff 2 answer started with an 8-letter island. It was three words, but the three words only had 7 letters.
DeleteRiff hints:
Delete1. It is believed to a hybrid of kumquat and the fruit variant in App #3. The first two letters and last two letters make up a character in the Bible. If you delete those letters and then swap the now first two letters, you'll have a nut found in Hershey bars. (That nut also fits the postal code logic!)
2. The phrase is a whimsical term for a legal form of bank “theft.” Normally, you'd be stealing from a female animal, but in this case, it's male.
I had the right island and the "theft" part but didn't make the connection with the "animal." I thought the theft referred to a different kind of establishment, but as I said that only works if a letter is removed.
DeleteI like your answer!
DeleteExcept it's not legal like yours!
DeleteMY PROGRESS SO FAR...
ReplyDeleteI've managed only the Hors D'O, plus Entrees 1, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10. There's not much hope for me on the Schpuzzle, given that I would have NO idea what might be on a banner at such a football game. (I know, names of colleges, but I looked with no luck.)
DeleteThe name I am working with in the Schpuzzle, has for its first two letters the same two letters seen in a very famous
DeleteShakespeare character quote.
"Just roll with it baby."
DeleteThe two words on the Schpuzzle banner sound like a recipe direction to stir a grain vigorously.
DeleteWell you know Oregon Ducks are still Pac12? And wash. Huskies are now Big ten-but it is confusing.
DeleteI think I've solved all but App 6, Dessert, and Tortie's Riff 2.
DeleteI've solved everything but Entrees 4, 6, and the Dessert.
Delete🚨 App 6 is silly. Riff 2 is sillier! 🚨
I think I misread the Schpuzzle as I thought the sign had four words and not only two.
DeleteOOh, thanks to your hint, NOdd, I have the Schpuzzle now. It was way simpler than I had expected...but in my defense, when I had tried to look up characters common to Shakespeare and Dante, the correct character name had NOT appeared! [Four other names had appeared.]
DeleteI probably have an alt. for A6. But it does remind me of a Ryan Gosling movie. Yes thanks Nodd for the Schpuzzle hint.
DeleteWell, The Ducks waddled all over USC.
DeletePS, I looked over Ryan Gosling's filmography, and I don't see a movie with the App 6 title listed. Maybe there's another connection I'm not aware of.
DeleteHowever, I did see two consecutive movies on the Wikipedia page for Ryan's filmography that made me of think of another song: this one is from the early 1970s.
Also a classic -unforgetable- one hit wonder-song by the "Grass roots" perhaps?
DeleteThis was their only big hit, although they did better in their hometown.
DeleteIF YOU HAVE COMMENTS THAT DO NOT PERTAIN TO ANY OF THE FOUR CATEGORIES ABOVE, YOU MAY WRITE THEM BELOW THIS POST. THANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteEntree 8 has nice wordplay, but instead of "decay" for the final third, I'd go with "an abbreviation familiar to word puzzlers." Decay isn't something I'd ever associate with the person with that screen name!
DeleteI don't know, sometimes that person deserves a good poke in the eye!
DeleteTommy---.
Delete#8 is probably the only one of these puzzles that I have solved just now as I'm looking at everything for the first time tonight. Easily the easiest one in the bunch.
DeleteHappy week before Thanksgiving everybody! Mom and I have just had supper from Whataburger. She decided to get onion rings and a cinnamon roll to go with her sandwich she got from Arby's a couple of nights ago. I had the Buffalo chicken sandwich, onion rings, a Diet Dr. Pepper, and a cinnamon roll. She also got some gas while she was out. I never saw these puzzles before, certainly not last night at this same time. We didn't eat out because Mia Kate was grounded for doing something wrong as a young driver. She's also a little under the weather right now, or so I've been told. She should be here Sunday to clean house, though.
Good luck in solving to all, and please stay safe, and bon appetit to anyone else on the blog who also maybe eating at this moment. Cranberry out!
pjbAlsoSawThemRerunningTonight's"CelebrityWheelOfFortune"AnHourAgo,WithThreeRegularsFrom"DancingWithTheStars"PlayingForCharity
Did I mention I hope there will be good hints for all these puzzles later on? Now I have.
DeletepjbWillTalkToY'AllLater
Schpuzzle: BEAT RICE, BEATRICE
ReplyDeleteApp: I have the week off!
Hors d’Oeuvre: WOOLLY MAMMOTH, MOTH
Slice: LIQUID, 51, 51 QUID = around 66 dollars
Entrees:
1 DAVE SHUKAN;
2. ALGER HISS, IA, ALGERIA
3. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR; MARTINI, MARTIAN
4. (Post hint: ) SARAH PALIN, SAHARA, PLAINS
5. FRANCIS MARION, IRAN
6. (Post hint: ) EISENHOWER, SERE, WINE, OH (somehow I first skipped over Eisenhower when looking for HO presidents)
7. JD (JAMES DAVID) VANCE, ARID, NEVADA
8. TORTITUDE (EDU/TIT/ROT)
9. PLANTSMITH; PLANSMITH, PLASM, THIN
10. DAVE SHUKAN, NAKED, SHAVE
Dessert: (Post hint: ) ROOT BEER, BOOT REAR
Riff 1: CALAMONDIN
Riff 2: BORA BORA, ROB A BOAR (break open the piggy bank!)
SCHPUZZLE–”BEAT RICE”, BEATRICE
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS
1. HAROLD, ROALD DAHL
2. FELIX SALTEN, BAMBI, SALT LICKS
3. NECTARINE, MANDARIN
4. SHOVEL, TROWEL
5. “FINDING NEMO”
6. “ALL SHOOK UP”
HORS D’OEUVRE–WOOLLY MAMMOTH, MOTH
SLICE–LIQUID, 51, 51 QUID IS ABOUT $66
ENTREES
1. DAVE SHUKAN, DESK, HAVANA
2. ALGER HISS, IOWA, ALGERIA
3. MARTIN LUTHER KING, MARTINI, MARTIAN
4. SARAH PALIN, SAHARA, PLAINS
5. FRANCIS MARION, IRAN
6. EISENHOWER, SERE, WINE, OH
7. J.D. (DAVID) VANCE, ARID, NEVADA
8. TORTITUDE, EDU, TIT, ROT
9. PLANTSMITH, PLASM, THIN
10. DAVE SHUKAN, NAKED, SHAVE
DESSERT–ROOT BEER (“BOOT REAR”)
TORTITUDE RIFF 1 – CALAMONDIN
TORTITUDE RIFF 2 – BORA BORA, ROB A BOAR (ALT – remove an O and ROB A BAR)
Puzzleria
ReplyDelete11-26-25” 51 degrees and rain
Schpuzzle -Beatrice- Beat Rice not Be a tri Ce- for pledge week.
App1.???
2. Felix Salton, Salt lix (licks) *Pretty brilliant Tort.
3. Nectarine, Mandarin
4. Hammer, mallet
5. Finding “Nemo” Hid in Anemone- Cryptic like.
6. LLa, from llama. “La,la, la, la song from Roddie Joy- or the Grass Roots, “Live for today.” Sha,la,la,la “Live for today”
E1. Dave Shukan, Desk , Havana
E2. Alger Hiss, Iowa, Algeria
Tort Riff 1. Calamondin (never heard of this or tasted)
Riff 2. ???
Thanks for the compliment on App 2, PS! I was inspired by going down a wrong path on a recent Puzzleria! puzzle, where the answer was Beatrix Potter. I had thought of Felix Salten first, probably because there were a few Felix puzzles recently, but that was wrong but got this puzzle out of it (also like the "X" = "ten" coincidence).
DeleteSchpuzzle
ReplyDeleteBEAT RICE, BEATRICE
Appetizer Menu
1. HAROLD, ROALD DAHL
2. FELIX SALTON, SALT LIX(LICKS)
3. NECTARINE, MANDARIN
4. HAMMER, MALLET
5. FINDING NEMO(hidden in ANEMONE)
6. LLA from LLAMA, RAMA LAMA DING DONG
Menu
Two Creatures Great And Small Hors d'Oeuvre
WOOLLY MAMMOTH, MOTH
"Putting A Price on A Puzzle" Slice
LIQUID, 51 QUID=$66
Entrees
1. DAVE SHUKAN, DESK, HAVANA
2. ALGER HISS, IOWA, ALGERIA
3. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., MARTINI, MARTIAN
4. SARAH PALIN, SAHARA, PLAINS
5. FRANCIS MARION, IRAN
6. (Dwight)EISENHOWER, SERE, WINE, OH
7. JD(James David)VANCE, ARID, NEVADA
8. TORTITUDE, EDU, TIT, ROT
9. PLANTSMITH, PLASM, THIN
10. DAVE SHUKAN(again), NAKED, SHAVE
Kick-In-The-Pants Dessert
ROOT BEER, BOOT REAR
Happy Turkey Day, y'all!-pjb
SCHPUZZLE: BEAT RICE => BEATRICE
ReplyDeleteAPPETIZERS [And I swear, Lego, I did NOT look at any of these answers before solving them!]:
1. HAROLD (and the Purple Crayon) => ROALD DAHL. [James and the Giant Peach]
2. FELIX SALTEN (BAMBI) => LIX SALT => SALT LICKS
3. NECTARINE; MANDARIN
4. SHOVEL & TROWEL
5. FINDING NEMO
6. LLAMA [Rama Lama Ding Dong]. => LA BAMBA? LA VIE EN ROSE? [I see that this answer is wrong although I do NOT know why.]
HORS D’O: WOOLLY MAMMOTH, MOTH
SLICE: LIQUID => 51 QUID
ENTREES:
1. DAVE SHUKAN => DESK; AVHUAN => HAVANA
2. ALGER HISS => ALGERIA
3. MARTIN (Luther King) => MARTINI; MARTIAN. [Managed to get it without having seen the hint]
4.
5. FRANCIS MARION => RANI => IRAN [It also spells a NOT DRY thing, of course: RAIN]
6. EISENHOWER minus SERE => EINHOW minus WINE => HO => OH
7. JD VANCE => DAVID VANCE => DARID VANAE => ARID & NEVADA
8. TORTITUDE => EDU, TIT, ROT
9. PLANTSMITH => PLANSMITH. PLASM; NITH => THIN
10. DAVE SHUKAN => NAKUHSEVAD => NAKED; UHSVA => SHAVE
DESSERT: MOONSHINE?
Hopefully, Lego will be posting the answers soon, but the song is "All Shook Up." The letters of of "All" get "shook up" into "lla." (Hint: "Look A Plush" anagrams into "All Shook Up.")
DeleteI like your addendum to Entree 5. I also thought of (but forgot to mention) adding a number to the leftover letters to Entree 8 yields "H2O.."
I also forgot to post what song Ryan Gosling's filmography reminded me of. When I saw Drive followed by The Ides of March, I thought of "Vehicle."
I was going for "la,la, land"
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