“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?

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