“My Mother is my Friend, my Mommy is my Buddy”; Political tactics vs creature comforts; Breakfast with the Bard; Time on your fingers but not on your hands?; “...It’s good to reach the green green ryegrass of Augusta”; “Voiding a ‘Chase’, Avoiding a chase... Voiding banks of all portraits of Salmon P. Chase?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week (“...Back to the Few shooters?”):

“Voiding the ‘Chase’, Avoiding a chase... Voiding banks of all portraits of Salmon P. Chase?”

The DeLorean pulled into the parking lot  of a Chase Manhattan Bank in Manhattan, Kansas.

It did not display Kansas plates.

Two men exited the vehicle, entered the bank, committed a robbery with fingers on triggers, triggered an alarm (that did not disarm them), and exited the bank posthaste!

But before they could flee scot-free, a fleet-responding fleet of police squads greeted them with a symphony of sirens!

The  two hooligans grabbed their gats and hunkered down in prone positions in the DeLorean they had “borrowed” – one across the bucket seats, the other across the floor below him.

Serendipitously for them, “their” DeLorean’s gull wings allowed gunslingers seeking refuge in parked getaway cars to take pot shots at keepers of the peace from prone positions through the cracks between the doors and the floor!

Identify a series of consecutive “wordplayful words” in the previous sentence.

Mother’s Day Appetizer:

“My Mother is my Friend, my Mommy is my Buddy”

(Join us this Mother’s Day in celebrating those wonderful women who gave us the gift of life... and then nurtured it.

And what better way to do so than to enjoy a “Merry-Month Of-‘Mayternal’ Appetizer” from Bobby Jacobs. It is a loving tribute from a loving son, dedicated to his “dedicated mom!”)

1. Parallel Parental Pairings 

🍐What do the following pairs of synonyms have in common?

~ Mother, Mommy;

~ friend, buddy;

~ count, number; 

~ burro, donkey;

~ emulate, imitate;

2. A Duo of Trios

☘ 🎶Find a trio of synonyms with the same alphanumeric property as in #1, “Parallel Parental Pairings,” above.

Extra Credit: Find a second trio of synonyms with this same property.

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Up-On-The-Hill Versus Down-On-The-Farm Hors D’oeuvre:

Political tactics vs creature comforts

A delaying tactic lawmakers sometimes use sounds a bit like a two-word role assumed by a farmhand charged with taming a specific creature. 

A verb that is key to the success of that political tactic doubles as a noun that is key to the creature’s comfort. 

What are this tarrying tactic and the role the farmhand assumes? 

What is the verb that doubles as a noun?

Shakespearean Slice:

Breakfast with the Bard

Transpose consecutive letters in a word associated with William Shakespeare. 

Voicing the result sounds a bit like a three-syllable food. 

What are this Shakespearean word and food?

Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices:

“...It’s good to reach the green green ryegrass of Augusta” 

Will Shortz’s May 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Chad Graham of Philadelphia, Pennsylvavia, reads:

Name a well-known comic actor (4,5) whose name is an anagram of two terms in golf (4 and 5 letters, respectively). Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Fill in the ten blanks

of the image pictured here with:

~ a slang term of the a synonym of the slang term “pin” (3 letters), 

~ a synonym of “possessed” (3 letters), and

~ the catenary structure (4 letters).

Rearrange those combined ten letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

What are these words, and who is the puzzle-maker?

Note: Entress #2 through #7 are contributions from our friend Nodd, author of Nodd ready for prime time on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

The last name of the lead actor in a one-season 1970s TV sitcom, followed by the last name of the lead character in a nine-season 1970s TV sitcom, is a two-word golf term. Name the actor, the character, and the golf term.

ENTREE #3

Take the last name of an actress who began her career with comedic roles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 

Follow this with the last name of an actor whose best-known movie role was in a 1969 satirical comedy. 

Remove the third letter of the actor’s last name. The two last names together will now name a periodic golf event. 

Who are the actress and actor, and what’s the event?

ENTREE #4

The last word in the title of a 1960s musical comedy film, the last name of a mid-20th century TV personality with the third letter removed, and an alternative spelling of a famous film actor’s nickname are three related golf terms. 

What is the film, who are the TV personality and actor, and what are the golf terms?

ENTREE #5

The last names of a British-born actress, a British actor, and an American actor are three related golf terms. 

Who are the performers?

ENTREE #6

Name an American actress best known for her performance in a 1995 camp cult classic film (first and last names, four and seven letters). 

Rearrange to spell the last names of (1) a famous 20th century American golfer and (2) a main character in a 1970s comedy film that won multiple Oscars. 

Who are the actress, the golfer, and the character?

ENTREE #7

Name a well-known comic actress, first and last names, and change the second letter to a copy of the eighth letter. 

Rearrange to get two golf terms (four and six letters). The second term is also the last name of a famous 20th century golfer. 

Who is the actress and what are the terms?

Note: Entrees #8 through #10 are contributions from our friend Greg VanMechelen, author of Econfusions on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #8

Name a well-known comic actor (4,5) whose
name is an anagram of something you might
receive on your computer that might be NSFW (5 and 4 letters, respectively). 

Who is it and what is the term?

ENTREE #9

Name a well-known comic actor (4,3) whose name is an anagram of someone hooked on a legendary creature (3 and 4 letters, respectively). Who is it and what is the term?

ENTREE #10

Name a well-known radio host (4,6) whose name is an anagram of something that person might take for health (4nd 6 letters, respectively). 

Who is it and what is the term?

Note: Entree #11 is contributed by our great friend Plantsmith, author of Garden of Puzzley Delights on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #11

Name a well known actor whose name in part contains a golf-related term. 

Remove first letter of first name and last letter of surname. 

Now reverse the order of the remaining letters

of first name and switch first name with last to get a two-word arcade game.

Who is this actor?

Hint: The first word in the arcade game may describe a duffer who just nine-ironed his approach shot into “the drink” ...(no, not into his cup of Budweiser, but rather into the rearing pond adjacent to the putting surface!)

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Bold & Brassy Dessert:

Time on your fingers but not on your hands?

Rearrange the letters in a two-word-fifteen-letter expression that means “brazen boldness.” 

The result spells two words that describe portable timepieces, made of red brass, that
are “handless,” but not “fingerless”). 

What are this “brazen bold” expression and pair of descriptive words?

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

“A Tale of Two (U.S.) Cities”; Machismo vs. modern amenities; Fun! Games! Gastroenterology! Rabbit, Rabbi, Cabbie, Abbot, Lab Rat!; Ballroom bees? Octopi of a different color?; Muskie scales, music scales, sails on the lake

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Muskie scales, music scales, sails on the lake

🐟Delete a musical-scale syllable from the name of a lake...

🎣squeeze a duplicate of the new first letter into the middle...

♭♯𝅘𝅥𝅯 transpose the second and third last letters...

⛵change the last letter to the letter after it in the alphabet...

to spell a city on that lake. 

What are this lake and city?

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Skydiversionary Appetizer:

“A Tale of Two (U.S.) Cities”

Name a nine-letter U.S. city. 

Its last three letters spell a common noun. Remove those letters. 

The name of a second city is the result. 

This second city is home to none of those “common nouns.” The first city, however, is home to more than just a few of them.

What are these two cities and the common noun?

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Doctor’s Prescriptive Hors d’Oeuvre!:

Fun! Games! Gastroenterology!

An anagram of something medical professionals do is the name of two-word city.  Consecutive letters in this city spell a board game piece, followed by the name of a board game that does not use that piece. 

What do medical professionals do? 

What are the city, the board game piece and the game that does not use it?

“Barbarian vs. Minute-Maid Marian” Slice:

Machismo vs. modern amenities

Describe – using a hyphenated adjective and a noun – football, rugby or power-lifting. 

Rearrange the result to spell a modern convenience. 

What are this adjective, noun and modern convenience?

Riffing Off Shortz And Legge Slices:

Rabbit, Rabbi, Cabbie, Abbot, Lab Rat!

Will Shortz’s April 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Gordon Legge of South Minneapolis, Minnesota, reads:

Name an animal whose first five letters in order spell a religious figure. 

And if you change the animal’s next-to-last letter, its last five letters in order will spell another religious figure. What animal is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Legge Slices read

ENTREE #1

Write captions for both images piggybacked here.

The image atop depicts a rugged canyon passageway along the River Kverna from Skógar in the Southern Region of Iceland.

The image below depicts the “bottom of the trash barrel” in late January.

Anagram the combined letters in either caption to spell the name of a puzzlemaker.

Who is it, and what are the captions?

ENTREE #2

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are creations from our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!)

Name an animal and change the third letter. 

The first five letters in order will now spell a religious figure. 

Now change the fifth letter. The last four letters in order will now spell another religious figure. 

What are the animal and the religious figures?

ENTREE #3

A certain religion includes two titles within its hierarchy, one of which is also a word for an animal and the other of which is also a word
for a category of animal. 

What are the religion and the animals?

ENTREE #4

Name a large mammal and replace the last letter with a pronoun to spell a religious figure. Name a bird and replace the last letter with a state postal abbreviation to spell another figure in the same religion. 

What are the mammal and bird and the two religious figures?

ENTREE #5

Name an animal in two words. 

Change the fourth letter in the first word and rearrange the letters of that word to spell a religious figure. 

Remove the last two letters in the second word and that word will now spell another religious figure. 

What are the animal and the religious figures?

ENTREE #6

Name a fish. 

The first four letters can be rearranged to spell
the geographic center of a major world religion. The remaining letters, in order, spell the supreme deity in a different religion. 

What are the fish, the religious center, and the deity?

ENTREE #7

Name an animal whose first three letters in order spell the proper name of a religious figure. 

The last four letters in order, followed without a space by a preposition, will spell something this religious figure has the authority to do. 

What are the animal and the name of the religious figure, and what does this figure have the authority to do?

(Note: Entree #8 is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!)

Entree #8:

The first five letters of the name of an animal spell a place associated with a well-known important religious figure. 

If you take just the final four letters of this animal’s name, and change the third letter, you will spell the name of an earlier religious figure, in four letters. 

Who are these two religious figures and the place associated with the first one. 

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“Heard It Through The Grapevine” Dessert:

Ballroom bees? Octopi of a different color?

Some critters communicate creatively...

Bees dance, gorillas hum, octopi change colors, mole-rats head-bang, chimps scratch and play footsie...

Name two different yet similar means of communication employed by human creatures, in nine and five letters. 

Anagram their combined letters to spell two creatures, in eight and six letters. What are these two means of communication and two non-human creatures?

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 Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

“...Clothed in celestial vestments”; “Franklin Vetoes? Teddy Svelto?”; “If at first name you fail, try, try a second, ‘Sir’!”; “Could this just be the Perfect Word?”; Ursine arson? “Shiny Happy People Laughing...” “Leafing through the Lexicon of Loud!” “The Gift of the ‘Ma-jerk?’” “Three, two, one, Exhale!”; Gerald versus Geraldine!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Shiny Happy People Laughing...”

Name a parlor game. Remove its first letter. 

Write down the first four letters of this newly “beheaded” game. 

Leave a space, followed by the final five letters of the game. Invert two adjacent letters of these final five. 

As a result of these meddlesome lexical
manipulations, the game has now been rendered edible... like a Christmas goose or Thanksgiving turkey! (Has this parlor game perhaps indeed become an entirely different kind of game!?) 

What are this game and this grub?

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Five “Enlight’ning” Appetizers:

“...Clothed in celestial vestments”; “Franklin Vetoes? Teddy Svelto?”; “Could this just be the Perfect Word?”; “If at first name you fail, try, try a second, ‘Sir’!”; Ursine arson?

“...Clothed in celestial vestments”

(Note: The following puzzle is an attempt to address the eternal question: “Do a celestial bodies need clothing?”)

1. 🪐Name a familiar celestial body. 

Add on a common name for its location from which you have deleted an “s.” Rearrange to identify a  brand of clothing that was well-known in the past. 

Name the celestial body, its location and the brand (9 letters).

“Franklin Vetoes? Teddy Svelto?”

2. 🚗Think of a renowned  president’s last name. Then think of a former make of car. Delete each letter in the  car’s name from the president’s name. 

Rearrange the resulting presidential name to see what occasionally happens to cars. 

“Could this just be the Perfect Word?”

3. 📖Many cities, large and small, have one. It has 8 letters. Letters 2 through 5 – in order – spell what it is. 

The remaining letters – in left to right order – spell its abbreviation. 

What is it that many cities have?

“If at first name you fail, try, try a second, ‘Sir’!”

4. 🃏🂡Name a famous fictitious character. 

The first name plus an added word suggests
failure. 

The last name plus the same added word suggests success. Who’s the character? What are the two phrases?

Ursine arson?

5. 🧸🔥A famous fictional character’s first and last names total 10 letters. 

Rearrange the name to make a short sentence which expresses a view different than the character’s original outlook. 

Who’s the character? 

What’s the sentence?

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Soda Fountain Hors d’Oeuvre?:

“The Gift of the ‘Ma-jerk’”

Replace an article in the title of a work of art with a pronoun to get what sounds like something a jerk might give you. 

What are this work-of-art title, what a the jerk gives you, and the pronoun?

“Respiratorial” Slice:

“Three, two, one, Exhale!” 

Take a deep breath. 

Make a exhaustive exhalation, releasing every last molecule of carbon monoxide from your lungs.

That exhalation is a two-word anagram of the
combined letters that appear in three consecutive integers. (...–3, –2, –1, 0, 1, 2, 3...).

What are this anagram and the integers?

Riffing Off Shortz And Ellison Slices:

Gerald versus Geraldine!

Will Shortz’s April 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by James Ellison of Jefferson City, Missouri, reads:

Think of a popular movie of the past decade. Change the last letter in its title. The result will suggest a lawsuit between two politicians of
the late 20th century — one Republican and one Democrat. What’s the movie and who are the people?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Ellison Slices read:

ENTREE #1

In the following rhyming couplet with anapestic meter, the missing words contain seven and five letters.

Jars that _______ and jams find their place in

Are embossed oft with “Ball” or with “_____”.

Rearrange these combined dozen letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

What are the missing words and the name of the puzzle’s author?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are creations from our friend Nodd, purveyor of “Nodd ready for prime time.”) 

ENTREE #2

Think of a popular movie of the 2010s. 

The title of this movie contains the last names of two U.S. politicians, one a former state governor and the other a former mayor of the same state’s largest city. 

What is the movie and who are the pair of politicians?

ENTREE #3 

Think of a popular movie of the 1970s. 

The title of this movie contains the first names of two well-known U.S. politicians who once ran against one other. 

What is the movie and who are the politicians?

ENTREE #4 

Think of a famous 1930s movie. 

The title of this movie contains the last names of two U.S. politicians, one who served as president and the other who served in the House and Senate. What is the movie and who are the politicians?

ENTREE #5 

Think of a popular 1950s fantasy-adventure movie. 

The title of this movie is the first name of a former U.S. president. 

The last name of the star of this movie is also the last name of a famous but unsuccessful U.S. presidential candidate who ran eight years before the election of the former president. 

What is the movie and who are the politicians?

ENTREE #6 

The titles of two horror movies from 1999 and 2009 contain the first and last names of a politician who rose to international prominence in 1997. What are the movies and who is the politician?

ENTREE #7 

The title of a 2010s comedy movie is the last name of a former U.S. president. 

Replace the last letter of the first name of the star of this movie with a word for something found in movie theaters to get the first name of the president. What is the movie and who are the star and the president?

(Note: Entree #8 is a gift from our friend Plantsmith, producer & purveyor of Garden of Puzzley Delights on Puzzleria!”)

ENTREE #8

Name a famous movie from around four decades back. 

Make the first word plural and change the last letter in the title.  The result will sound like a famous brand of confectionary.

What are this movie title and candy brand?

Hint #1: Some contents of the confectionary package are inedible... and yet desirable. 

HInt #2: Consumers of this confectionary, we hope, are not like the “kids these days” in a song that Tom Rush wrote and performed.

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Turn Up the Volume Dessert:

“Leafing through the ‘Lexicon of LOUD’!”

Delete one letter from loud things and rearrange the result to get two other loud
things. 

What are these three loud things?

Hint: The answer consists of four words that contain a total of 25 letters.

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 Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.