“From happy to hoppin’ mad!” “Pens, Guns, Spoons?” Mike KitKat? “O Sole... Kiss me...!” “Forty Freddy Footpower!” “Search Petty Officer?” “Unleashing Alicia’s Keys!” “Throw a spooner in the works?” “Hey! A herd is both seen and heard!” “Does it ‘smolder’? It may be a ‘holder’!”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Does it ‘smolder’? It may be a ‘holder’!”

Name smoldering emotional dispositions, in two words, that may flare up into all-out rages. 

The final four letters of this word-pair spell containers. 

The remaining letters, rearranged, spell other
containers. 

What are these emotional states and two kinds of containers?

Appetizer Menu

“One Delightfully Puzzley Plantsmithian Appetizer!”

“From happy to hoppin’ mad!” “Pens, Guns, Spoons?” Mike KitKat? “O Sole... Kiss me...!” “Freddy-Forty Footpower!”

“From happy to hoppin’ mad!”

1. Take a word associated with hilarity.

Remove one letter to get a word associated with anger. 

What are these two words?

“Pens, Guns, Spoons?”

2. Spoonerize (that is, exchange first letters of) a piece of apparel to get a Biblical character followed by a non-word that sounds like what
this character might or might not have done. 

What is this apparel? What might (or might not) have the Biblical character done?  

Mike KitKat?

3. Remove first and last letter from a candy name to get an NFL player’s last name. 

What are this candy name and NFL’s last name?

“O Sole... Kiss me...!”

4. Exchange the initial letters in the first and middle names of a person who often appears in the Comments Section of Puzzleria! 

The result spells a “foreign car companion.”

Who are the person and this “foreign car companion?”

“Freddy-Forty Footpower!”

5. Exchange first letters in an animal to get a vehicle you might see in a cartoon. 

What are this critter and this vehicle?

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Hostile Chaotic Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Search Petty Officer?”

A word that precedes “officer” or follows “search” consists of syllables that are words associated with hostility and chaos. 

What are this word and its syllables?

Spooner: Wisconsin Railroad Capital Slice:

“Throw a spooner in the works?”

Spoonerize a natural air filter that humans possess, in two words. 

The second word of this spoonerized result, if applied to this filter, would render it ineffective. 

What are this natural filter? 

What would render it ineffective?

Hint: The first word of the spoonerized result is structurally similar, and also functions somewhat similarly, to the first word of the natural air filter that humans possess. 

Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Entrees:

“Unleashing Alicia’s Keys!”

Will Shortz’s January 26th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Evan Kalish of Bayside, New York, reads:

Name a famous living singer whose first and last names together have four syllables. The second and fourth syllables phonetically sound like things a dog walker would likely carry. What singer is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker whose first and last names together have four syllables. 

The third and second syllables phonetically (and in that order) sound like a hardy leafy cabbage a multipurpose enclosed motor vehicle with a boxlike shape that might carry or transport that cabbage. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are this leafy cabbage and motor vehicle?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are artistry courtesy of Nodd, creator of “Nodd ready for prime time.”)

ENTREE #2

Name a famous living singer, first and last names. 

The first four letters of the first name, plus the last letter of the last name, spell things a dog walker might keep track of. 

What singer is this?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous deceased singer, first and last names. 

The last five letters of the last name, followed by the first syllable of the first name, sound like something a golfer might carry. 

What singer is this?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous living singer whose first and
last names together have four syllables. The second and third syllables sound like a WWII weapon. What singer is this?

ENTREE #5

Name a famous deceased singer whose first and last names together have three syllables.

The first and third syllables sound like an animal formerly kept as a pet but now considered endangered. 

What singer is this?

ENTREE #6

Name a famous living singer whose first and last names together have five syllables. 

The third and fourth syllables together sound like something employees likely would not want to receive. 

What singer is this?

ENTREE #7

 Name two famous living singers with the same first name. 

The last name of one singer, followed by the first syllable of the last name of the other singer, sounds like good news for certain East Coast hoops fans. 

What singers are these?

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Old MacDonald Had A Dessert:

“Hey! A herd is both seen AND heard!”

Move the letters of something seen on a farm eight places later in the alphabet. The result spells something heard on a farm. 

What are seen and heard on a farm?

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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