Ten Not-So-Easy Word-Teasy ViolinTeddy-Tailored Appetizers; Civic Duty, Artistic Beauty; Keeping time, weighing in... counting Geigers? We need five more to reach twenty-four; "SlumberJacks"-and-LumberJills; "Little Tramp" Transforms Into "Sino-Sherlock!"

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Schpuzzle Of The Week

Civic, Duty, Artistic Beauty:

Name instructions, in two words, that voters may be given at the polls on election day – either orally or in written form. 

Anagram the combined letters of these two words to name a famous artist. 

Who is this artist?

What are the two words for those instructions?

Appetizer Menu:

Ten Not-So-Easy Word-Teasy ViolinTeddy-Tailored Appetizers:

“Solve All Seventeen!”

Find the seventeen words in the puzzles below:

ONE-WORD SOLUTIONS

Find one-word solutions to:

1. One-word: average vs preside       

2. One word: null vs sick    

3. One word: jump vs safe 

4. One word: Overeat vs fissure         

TWO-WORD SOLUTIONS

Find two-word solutions to:     

5. Two words: A race  vs  a  greeting  

[The second letters, both consonants, differ] 

6.  Two words: Moistening  vs  annoyance   

[The fifth letters, both consonants, differ]      

7. Two words: A type of candle vs  a snouty mammal

[The fourth letters, both vowels, differ]     

8.  Two words: Native of a South Pacific Island  vs  first name of a female model  

[The first letters (both consonants) are adjacent in the alphabet (no letters between them); the fourth letters (also both consonants) are five spots apart in the alphabet (four letters between them)]

9. Two words: Take a word for ‘meeting’; remove the first three letters to get a word for ‘balm’.

THREE-WORD SOLUTION

Find a three-word solution to:

10. Three words: What you might do to stay in shape vs what happens when you let it (or anything) go to pot vs pass or expire.  

[Add one vowel to the end of first word to get a second word]    

[Add one vowel to the beginning of first word to get third word] 

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Clean Sheets But Dirty Sheep Hors d’Oeuvre:

SlumberJacks-and-LumberJills

Remove consecutive interior letters from something in the bedroom that facilitates slumber. 

The removed letters spell a word associated with pain, and therefore contrary to slumber. 

What remains, however, are two words for something (in two words) conducive to sleep and pain relief that “log-sawing slumberers” may keep handy by their bedsides.

What are this slumber-facilitator, painful word, and the thing conducive to pain relief and sleep?

ConSEQUENCEial Slice:

We need five more to reach twenty-four

Fill in the five missing letters in this sequence of 24 letters:

_ E R _ N T W _ F U I V _ X G L Y D _ M B Q P C

What are these missing letters, in order?

Extra Credit: Please share, if you wish, how you you arrived at your solution.

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

Little Tramp Transforms Into Sino-Sherlock

Will Shortz’s May 17th National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:

Name a famous actor of the past, seven letter first name and seven letter last name. 

Remove three consecutive letters from him last name and the remaining letters in order will be the well known lead character from a long running series of films. What actor and character are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Anagram the combined letters of a two-word city associated with a puzzle-maker to form two words that, although not exact antonyms, are a bit “antonymish.” 

A hyphenated synonym of the first word, if you remove the hyphen, replace the first letter with a letter near it in the alphabet, and then spell the result backward, yields two words related to puzzle-making.

The second word is an anagram of pennies, nickels, dimes, etc.

What are this city and its two anagrams?

What is the hyphenated synonym of the first anagram, and the two words related to puzzle-making?

What is the second word and its anagram?

(Note: Entree #2 through #7 were contributed by our brilliant friend Nodd, author of Puzzleria!s “Nodd ready for prime time.”)

ENTREE #2

Name a famous actor of the past (5,7). 

Remove the first two letters of both names and then switch the order of the names to name a comic book character. 

Who are the actor and character?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous actor of the past (8,7). Move the third letter of the first name two places later in the alphabet. The first name will now spell the last name of the title character in a
famous film. 

Now remove the fifth letter of the last name. The last name will now spell the first name of the title character in another famous film. Both films won Oscars for Best Picture. 

Who is the actor and what are the films?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous actor of the past (7,5). Change the fifth letter of the first name to an S. The first name will now spell the title character in a 1980s TV series. The actor’s last name is the last name of the title character in a comic strip and two TV series. Both title characters are in the same profession. 

Who are the actor and characters?

ENTREE #5

Name an Oscar-nominated filmmaker of the past (4,7). 

His first name, followed by the last two letters of the name of a recent Oscar-winning filmmaker, will sound like the name of a famous character from romantic literature whose story was adapted to movies several times. 

Who are the filmmakers and the character?

ENTREE #6

Name a famous living actor (4,9). 

Remove six consecutive letters and the space between the names to spell the last name of the title character in a popular “blaxploitation” film. 

Who is the actor and what is the film?

ENTREE #7

Name a famous actor of the past (5,5). Remove five consecutive letters, and the space between the names, to name a well-known company.

Now go back to the original first and last names. Move the third letter of the last name four places later in the alphabet and
remove the last letter of that name. 

The first and last names will now name the founder of another well-known company in the same industry as the company mentioned earlier. Who is the actor and what are the companies? 

(Note: Entree #8 was contributed by our brilliant friend Plantsmith, author of Puzzleria!s “Garden of Puzzley Delights.”)

ENTREE #8

Take a famous actor from the past –14 letters total in first and last names. 

Replace last six letters of the last name with the initials of famous volunteer  organization to
get a famous “living actor.”

Who are these two actors? What is the volunteer organization?

ENTREE #9

Name an past actor in 11 letters, first and last names. 

Replace the 2nd and 3rd letters with the 7th letter, then move a duplicate of the last letter into the 4th position. 

Remove all spaces.

The result is a word associated with a literary character whose first name is an anagram of a variant spelling of a medical word associated with ulcers.

Who is this actor? 

Who is the literary character, and what is the associated word?

What are the medical word and its variant spelling? 

Dessert Menu

“Open Your Workbooks” Dessert:

Keeping time, weighing in... counting Geigers? 

An “i” and “n” (both which appear within the physical quantity “distance”) form an abbreviation of “inch” (“in.”) which is a unit of distance. 

Name a different measurable quantity – like time, electric current, mass, weight, force, etc. – that contains consecutive letters that spell a unit of that physical quantity... not just the abbreviation of the unit, but the entire word!

What is the word for this measurable physical quantity, and the non-abbreviated unit of measure it “contains?”

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.

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