Mathew Huffman’s “Great British Bakeoff”; Order An Ordinary Nth Ordinal Number; Reduce NO letters in “bicycle” to get “bicycle!”; “Trout, Stout, LOUD!”; “Fight erupts at Puzzle’s end!” Poems & Recreation

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Order An Ordinary Nth Ordinal Number

Name a hyphenated ordinal number that consists of a second ordinal number and a anagram of slang term for “sailor.”

Delete that slang term from your original ordinal number.

The result is a different ordinal number.

What are these two ordinal numbers? 

What is the slang term for “sailor” and the “sailor anagram” that helped you to arrive at your correct answer?

Appetizer Menu

Double-Sweet Parabodiddley Appetizer:

Two 4x4 mini crosswords: “Great British Bakeoff”

(Note: The following two-part Appetizer comes courtesy of a brilliant young multitalented master-puzzle-maker named Mathew Huffman.

 Mathew has contributed literally hundreds of puzzles to Puzzleria! over our 16-plus years... and counting. Enjoy these fruits of his genius!

You can always count on Mathew to come up with challenging, entertaining and fresh challenges. This time, he has composed a pair of mini-crosswords. Enjoy his “gems” and his genius

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“Donny Broke His Nose!” Hors d’Oeuvre

“Fight erupts at Puzzle’s end!”

 Name an eight-letter term or a rapid, continuous plummeting.

Insert a conjunction between the fifth and sixth letters, followed by a hyphen.

The result is a synonym of “donnybrook.”

What are the term for rapid continuous plummeting and the synonym of “donnybrook?”

“Fishy” Slice:

“Trout, Stout, LOUD!”

Name a “fishy” opportunist, in two word, who seeks quick profit at the expense of others. 

Delete first names from the middle of each word, leaving letters that can be rearrnged to spell a beverage and a radio setting.

What are this opportunist, first names, beverage and setting?

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Riffing Off Shortz and Schwartz:

Reduce NO letters in “bicycle” to get “bicycle!”

Will Shortz’s August 2nd Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle Challenge, from Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Think of a type of exercise equipment in four syllables. Remove the two middle letters and you’ll name a means of transportation. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

An premier word-puzzle-maker doubles as a proficient professional medical practitioner. His puzzles have appeared often on Will Shortz’s weekly “The Puzzle” broadcast, Sundays over National Public Radio

For example, he would be patient and never say “_____!...” (5 letters) even to a “difficult patient.

Nor would he ever write a contra-indicated
prescription for a patient with internal-not-exterior medical needs (a two-word astringent packed with healing tannins, for example, that smacks of a past Shirley Booth TV comedy) (5 & 5 letters). 

Those 15 letters can be rearranged to spell the name of our healer/puzzle-maker.

Solve that? Here is a pair Bonus medical Posers for you to solve (All six answers apply somewhat to our expert NPR puzzle-maker. All content in this is intended to allude to the works of this creative NPR puzzle-maker who is also blessed with healing expertise.):

Bonus Poser A:

Take:

A1.  the profession of one who helps you remain healthy (5 letters), followed by...

A2. Five letters that can be anagrammed to spell a small sticky convex slip with instructions on how to help you maintain that health (5) 

A3. a piece of medical exercise equipment (8,4).

Name the exercise equipment, the profession, and “sticky slip” that helps you remain healthy. 

Solve that? Now solve... 

Bonus Poser B:

Rearrange the 22 letters in Poser A to spell the answers in Part B: 

B1. what medical professionals may say to reassure their patients (2 & 4 letters),

B2. a minuscule yet important circular iota that is often used in prescriptions (7), and B3. the type of ink doctors use to write prescriptions (pens, never pencils!) (9).

Who is this medical professional/puzzle-maker/health-helper?

What are the two answers to our introductory puzzle?

What are the six answers to our two Bonus Posers A & B?

Bonus Question: How are Bonus Posers A & B related to one another?

NOTE: Entrees #2 through #7 are conundrums drummed-up/dreamt-up by our friend and riffmeister extraordinaire, Nodd.

ENTREE # 2

Name a kind of exercise you may use equipment to perform. 

Double the first two letters and rearrange to name equipment found on some means of transportation. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 3

Think of a brand of exercise equipment. 

Rearrange its letters to spell a car model name. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 4

Think of a type of exercise equipment, in two words. 

Remove one letter and change another letter to an R. 

Rearrange to spell a one-word plural term for certain means of transportation. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 5

Think of a type of exercise equipment. 

Change the first two letters. The result will spell a means of transportation. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 6

Think of a type of exercise equipment, in two words. 

Rearrange its letters to spell a means of transportation, in two parts. 

The first part is an abbreviation for the item being transported.

The second part is a plural word for vehicles used to transport this and other items. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #7:

Think of a type of exercise equipment. 

Remove the first and last letters and rearrange
to name a truck manufacturer. What are these words?

Dessert Menu

Advanced Spoonerization Dessert:

Poems & Recreation 

Name a two-syllable Italian poet, scholar and humanist.

Interchange the first letter of the first syllable with the first two letters of the second syllable. 

Pronounce these two new syllables as if each rhymes with its corresponding original syllable.

The result is an outdoor recreational area that provides opportunities for recreation, relaxation and shade, in two words.

Who is this Italian poet?

What is the recreational area?

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.)

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