Landmarketably remarkable!; Golden-State-plated baby booties?; “Fish ‘n’ Frescohos; April Apparel & “AroMays” Two explosions need be chosen; “Double-M’s and Jelly Beans” “Awaken! Faraday, Dickens, Burton, Degas, Kant, ^^/^, ^/ !”; “Merle, Pearl, Earl, Wade & Jade in Palisades; “Part with a part of a part to name a nation” “Musical Chairs”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Double-M’s and Jelly Beans

Ronald Reagan may have had a “Jelly Bean Jones.” 

But Jimmy Carter, with that double-m in his name, might well be nicknamed “Our M&M’s President.” 

During his non-self-centered century-long lifetime of selfless service, beginning with his navigating Navy subs, President Carter was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and was, in his twilight years, a predominant pillar in support of the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity.

Explain, using just two alliterative words with which the former president is associated, why else he might he be named “Our M&M’s President.” 

Appetizer Menu

Surely Sure! Appetizer:

Landmarketably remarkable!“Fish ‘n’ Frescohos; April Apparel & “AroMays”; Two explosions need be chosen;  Golden-State-plated baby booties? 

April Apparel & “AroMays”

1. 🎕Name a nine-letter item that you might smell in May. Remove the last letter and rearrange the remaining letters to name something you might wear in April. 

Remove the last letter of the clothing item and rearrange the remaining letters. 

You’ll have a musical instrument you’re unlikely to hear in a “March”ing band. Rearrange the letters of the musical instrument and add a letter to the beginning. 

You’ll have something you eat. Rearrange the letters of this something you eat and add a letter to the beginning. You’ll have another musical instrument. What are the things you can smell, wear, hear, eat, and hear?

Two explosions need be chosen

2. 🧪Think of the common name for a chemical compound used as an ingredient for explosives. 

Remove a nickname commonly used for the first name of a man who invented a different
kind of explosive. 

Remove the space caused by the missing letters. Add a period after the second letter, and then a space after that. 

You’ll have the name of someone you might meet after an unfortunate meeting with either explosive. 

What is the chemical compound? Who invented the explosive, and what is the nickname? Who might you meet? 

“Landmarketably” remarkable!

3. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲Name a famous landmark. Rearrange its letters to produce the following items:

* Someone who might visit this landmark (7 letters)

* A body of water surrounding it (3 letters)

* A group of the type of vehicles used to visit it (5 letters)

What is the landmark? Who might visit it? What is the body of water? What is the group of vehicles?

“Fish ‘n’ Frescohos!”

4. 🐠Name a famous painter who is still alive, first and last names. Remove five letters from the painter’s name and rearrange the remaining letters to produce a seven-letter fish. 

Again, start with this same painter’s name. Remove five letters and rearrange to produce a different seven-letter fish.

Who is the painter? What are the two types of fish?

Golden-State-plated baby bootees?

5. 🩰Name some parts that often used with shoes. 

Add a vowel to the beginning. 

You’ll have two things that recently appeared in California.

What are the parts? What are the California things?

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Lessons In Anatomy & Geography Hors d’Oeuvre:

Part with a part of a part to name a nation

Name a slang term for a body part, followed by a non-slang term for a part of that body part.

Remove one of the “solfège syllables” (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti) from the result.

Remove any spaces that may remain.

The result is the name of a nation.

What are these body parts and nation’s name?

19th Century Slice:

“Awaken! Faraday, Dickens, Degas, Burton, Mill,  ^^/^,  ^/ !”

Near the end of the19th Century (in the wake of the 18th-Century “Great Awakening”), a publishing house may well have commissioned a compilation of a variety of cultural and aesthetic disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, literature, abstract science and painting.

A practitioner of each discipline would be commissioned to represent each discipline:

~ John Stuart Mill in philosophy,

~ Sir Richard Francis Burton in linguistics,

~ Charles Dickens in literature,

~ Michael Faraday in science, and

~ Edgar Degas in painting.

The publisher may have also selected a novelist/playwright to compose a closing chapter encapsulating this scholarly compilation – a chapter that would have been entitled “_____ __ ____.”

The combined letters in those three missing words (5, 2 and 4 letters) can be rearranged to spell the name of a 16th-Century astrologer/apothecary/physician.

What is the title of the closing chapter?

Who is this astrologer?

Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Entrees:

Sitars, Guitars & Musical Chairs

Will Shortz’s (September 1st NPR) Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Think of a musical instrument. 

Add two letters at the end. and you’ll get the names of two popular automobile models reading left to right. What musical instrument is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last, and a word we suspect may describe his sense of humor.

Rearrange these combined 18 letters to spell the names of two popular makes (not models) of cars (pictured in the illustration) and the name of whatever you might make of the third “car.”

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are the three car names?

(Note: Riffs #2 through #7 come courtesy of our friend and riffmaster Nodd.) 

ENTREE #2

Rearrange the letters of a musical instrument to spell 

(1) the name of a foreign-made car sold in the
U.S. in the 1970s-80s, and 

(2) the first word of the nickname of an early 20th century U.S. car. What are the instrument, the cars, and the nickname?

ENTREE #3

Name a musical instrument. Replace the middle letter with a space and remove two additional letters. 

The result will name a different musical instrument and a classic U.S. car of the past.

What are the instruments and the car?

ENTREE #4

Name certain musical instruments. Remove the first letter. 

Change the last two letters, which are a state
postal abbreviation in reverse, to the postal abbreviation of a different state. The result will name a classic U.S. car of the past. 

What are the instruments and the car?

ENTREE #5

Think of a musical instrument. 

Replace the first three letters with the first two letters of a different instrument. 

The result will name a U.S.-branded foreign-made car of the past. 

What are the instruments and the car?

ENTREE #6

Think of a musical instrument.

Replace three letters with an “I” (pronounced “eye,” not “ell”). Rearrange to spell the name of a car formerly sold in the U.S. 

What are the instrument and the car?

ENTREE #7

Think of a musical instrument. 

Add a letter in the middle to name a classic American car produced from the 1940s to the 1970s. 

What are the instrument and the car?

Dessert Menu

“Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To The Auntie’s” Dessert:

Merle, Pearl, Earl, Wade & Jade in Palisades

Merle, Pearl and their boy Earl would often visit Pearl’s brother-in-law Wade and his wife (who was Pearl’s sister Jade) at their home in the New York State hamlet of Palisades. 

During every visit, little Earl would cower in a corner of a closet trembling after Jade – with jiggly jowls and her “Jaws”-like maw – would try to smooch the lad!

What Earl sought in that closet is an anagram of a two-word description of Jade from Earl’s perspective.

What did Earl seek?  

What is the two-word description?

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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