Across (Not Down), Yet Down (Under)! “Halloween Hallucinatin’” “United States & ‘CalenDates’!” Light, Land... or “Punch an elevator button”; “Dogs led the dogsled!”; Accent the first 'si-lə-bəl or second sə-'la-bəl?

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Stressful Schpuzzle of the Week:

Accent the first 'si-lə-bəl or second sə-'la-bəl?

Stressing the first syllable of a heavenly body sounds like one word related to the number 1. 

Stressing its second syllable sounds like two words related to the number 2. 

What is this heavenly body?

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Cruciverbally Global Appetizer:

Across (Not Down), Yet Down (Under)!

Note: In our August 7th edition of Puzzleria! we treated you to a “Doubly-Sweet” Appetizer, courtesy of the creative cranium of our friend Mathew Huffman, an ingenious composer of word puzzles. 

It featured a pair of mini crosswords and was titled “Great British Bakeoff.”

Mathew – who has contributed literally hundreds of puzzles to Puzzleria! over our 16-plus years... and counting – is providing us this week with a “second helping,” titled “Global Cruciverbalism.”

His puzzle this time appears in the white-text-on-black-background graphic pictured here.

Enjoy!

Note: You may be able to access further  crosswordese courtesy of Mathew by opening the links below:

LINK #1

LINK #2

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“Mountain Peaks & Countin’ Weeks” Hors d’Oeuvre:

“United States & CalenDates!”

Take two words found on a map of the United States, in six and seven letters. 

Remove from the ends of these words three letters in an abbreviation of an organization that promotes amateur sports. The result is two words found on a calendar.

What are these “map words,” “calendar words” and amateur sports promoter?

“Apple-Bobbin’ Bucket” Slice:

“Halloween Hallucinatin’”

Name a peculiar hallucination, in two words, arising particularly from heavy drinking or use of narcotics... like what might occur, perhaps, at a wild, raucous, out-of-control Halloween party bash.

If a partygoer experiencing these hallucinations (the plural form) bobs for apples and takes a bite out of one of ‘em, does this apple then sink to the bottom of the “bobbing-for-apples bucket?” 

And if so, do similarly once-bitten apples also sink bottomward? (a rhetorical question... no need to answer) 

Is “just one bite of the apple” indeed all partygoers get? (another rhetorical question)

But... is this whole Halloween Party Bash perhaps just a part of some subtly insidious weight-reduction routine/procedure (which is also an anagram of the hallucination)? (a speculative question... no need to answer)

But, what might be the name of such a routine/procedure? (answer this one!) 

What is the peculiar two-word hallucination? 

What string of three consecutive words in the puzzle’s second paragraph is an anagram of the plural form of the hallucination? 

What is this subtly insidious weight-reduction routine (which is an anagram of the hallucination)?

Hint: The plural form of the second word of the hallucination, if properly anagrammed, describes a physical feature that applies to that second word in the hallucination. (which is what an elephant has).

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Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Slices:

“Dogs led the dogsled!”

Will Shortz’s September 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Think of a means of transportation in seven letters. Change the fifth letter to a U and read the result backward. You’ll get a common Latin word followed by its English synonym. What words are these?

Puzzleria!’s September 6th “Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz” Slices  read:

ENTREE #1

Take a trio of five-letter words:

~ an onomatopoeic synonym of “smash,” (5 letters)

~ what church bells do, and

~ a Disneyesque-Dizzying” Dance?

Anagram to get the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is it?

What are the three words?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are compositions posed by our friend Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

Name a means of transportation in two words of six and seven letters. 

Consecutive letters in the first word spell a common English word. Non-consecutive letters in the first word, in reverse order, spell the Latin equivalent of the English word. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #3

Name a means of transportation in nine letters. 

Change the first letter to an E and the fifth letter to an R. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #4

Think of a plural word for a means of transportation in ten letters. 

Change the sixth letter to an A. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. What are these words? 

ENTREE #5

Think of a nine-letter type of wagon or trailer. 

Add a five-letter means of transportation. 

Remove the fourth letter of the nine-letter word and change the seventh letter of that word to an A. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. What are these words?  

ENTREE #6

Name two means of transportation in five and three letters. 

Change the first letter of the five-letter word to a D. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #7

Name an iconic U.S. car model in seven letters and a common means of transportation in five letters. 

Remove the first letter of the five-letter word.
Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. 

What are these words?  

(Note: Entree #8 is a cleverly crafted composition posed by our friend Plantsmith, author of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #8

Take a seven-letter Latin word that is not that obscure. 

Double letter number-five. 

Switch letters one and two. 

Replace the new letter-number-two with the first word of a three-word exclamation you might hear from a chef watching a rat running through her
kitchen. 

The first four letters of the result, reading from left-to-right, sound like a synonym of the remaining six letters, reading from right to left (reverso).

What are this Latin word and the two synonyms.

Hint: the Latin word ends with the surname of a past DJ. 

ENTREE #9

Take an eight-letter word that means having, containing, or producing “hissy sounding ‘essy’” words. 

Delete the final two letters and reverse the order of the result to spell a Latin-rooted six-letter word for excuses that involve being “elsewhere” (a word that is only moderately “essy”).

Write that six-letter word in all-lowercase letters. Rotate the fourth letter 180-degrees around its  x-axis. 

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th letters spell body parts that are essential in pronunciation of words.

The 2nd, 5th, 6th & 4th letters spell a speech impediment in which a person misarticulates “essy sounds,” often substituting them with “th” sounds when pronouncing words.

What are this eight-letter and six-letter words?

What are the body parts and the speech impediment?

Dessert Menu 

Utch-Day-Eat-Tray Dessert:

Light, Land... or “Punch an elevator button”

Describe “Rotterdam” or “Amsterdam” using and adjective-and-noun that rhyme with the verb-and-noun-combo “clutch crown.” Spoonerize this description to spell what sounds like a word related to “landing strips”
or “six.”

What are this adjective-noun combo and word related to “landing strips” or “six?”

Hint: An (aptly-nicknamed) inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame inaugural class of 1951 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame inaugural class in 1963 played collegiately and professionally exclusively in a U.S. state that boasts an equally aptly-named Great Lakeshore Port that features a Big Red Lighthouse, a centuries-old windmill, and a “Tulip Time Festival” that recalls the city’s rich European roots.

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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