DES-PISA-BLE or BLE-S-SED?; HorseSense & Sleighbells; POTUS name repetition on the Potomac?; Boundless... except for beginning & end!; Does-The-Nepal-Rain-Stay-Mainly-On-The-Plane? & Chain-Gang-Of-Four; Pour Sangria Pour

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

POTUS name-repetition on the Potomac? 

Rearrange the combined letters of a presidential monogram and a synonym of “verity” to spell a “repetitive word” that is a synonym of highly-skilled “gurus” or “wizards”?

What are the monogram and synonym of
“verity”? 

What is the synonym of “gurus” or “wizards”? 

How does it qualify as “repetitive?”

Appetizer Menu

Leaning Tower of Puzzleria! ApPetISer:

DES-PISA-BLE or BLE-S-SED?

We are introducing on this week’s edition of Puzzleria! a new “to-be-occasionally-featured” Appetizer, titled “Leaning Tower of Puzzleria!”

Consider the four-pane collage pictured here. 

Fill in the 23 blanks with letters that spell the five words that belong in the four captions.

Rearrange the result to spell something new, in 23 letters.

What are your four captions?

What is the “something new?”

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“Parlez-Vous Franglais?” Hors d’Oeuvre:

Boundless... except for  beginning & end!

The four middle letters of an eight-letter English noun that means “boundlessness” is a French adjective that means “ended.”

The first four letters of that English noun are a rearrangement of that French adjective.

The last four letters of that English noun are an anagram of an English adjective that means “very small.” 

What are this eight-letter noun, four-letter French adjective and four-letter English adjective?

“What The Maven Found” Slice:

“Pour Sangria Pour...”

The first name of a long-past math maven is a homophone of a synonym of “conflagration.” He and other “number-nutty” colleagues and buddies visited a bistro one evening to do some after-work-unwinding.

After a few rounds of refreshment, the maven, suddenly, out-of-the-blue, blurted:

“J’ai trouvé! Applaudissons! Sangria pour tout le monde, Patron!”

But, because many of his colleagues spoke only English, he then immediately translated,
re-blurting:

“Eureka!” (or perhaps he instead said “I have
found it!”)... “Let’s clap! Sangria for all, Barkeep!” 

Three of the six words in the maven’s English translation are an anagram of what the maven had found.

What are those three words.

What had the maven found?

Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices:

Does-The-Nepal-Rain-Stay-Mainly-On-The-Plane? & Chain-Gang-Of-Four

Will Shortz’s September 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Alan Hochbaum of Duluth, Georgia, reads: 

There are two neighboring countries whose names have anagrams that rhyme with each other. What are the countries and their anagrams?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Rearrange the 12 letters in the name of a puzzle-maker to spell:

~ entertainment enjoyed by those at a Hawaiian luau,

~ A pineapple-glazed holiday meat that, although not normally served at an authentic
Hawaiian luau – where kalua pig (or kalua pork) is king – may sometime appear on the menus of mainland “Hawaiian-luau-themed” parties.

~ A “culinary cousin” of that pineapple-glazed holiday meat that may be served at luaus as a garnish served wth Lomi Lomi Salmon, or as a “wrap-around” for appetizers like pineapple or water chestnuts glazed in teriyaki.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the entertainment, holiday meat, and its “culinary cousin”?

(Note:The following six riffs, Entrees #2-thru #7, were composed by our friend Nodd, creator and composer of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

Name an Asian country and remove the last letter. 

The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word that rhymes with an anagram of the name of an adjoining country. What are the countries and the anagrams?

ENTREE #3

Name a country in Europe and two countries that border it, in alphabetical order. 

Remove the first letter of the first country and rearrange to spell a word that rhymes with the third country. Change the last letter of the name of the second country, without rearranging, to spell another word that rhymes with the third country. 

What are the countries and the rhyming words?

ENTREE #4

Remove two letters from an African country and rearrange to spell a word that rhymes with an anagram of the name of an adjoining country. What are the countries and the rhyming words?

ENTREE #5

Name two adjoining African countries. 

Remove one letter from one and two letters from the other. The remaining letters of the first country can now be rearranged to spell a word
that rhymes with an anagram of the remaining letters of the second country. 

What are the countries and the rhyming words?

ENTREE #6

Remove one letter from a European country and rearrange to name the monetary units used by this country and a country that borders it. 

What are the two countries and the currency?

ENTREE #7

Change the last letter of a European country and rearrange to get a word that rhymes with the name of an adjoining country. 

What are the two countries and the rhyming word?

(Note: Entree #8 was composed by our friend Plantsmith, creator of the popular “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #8

Anagram two country names to spell an adjective and noun. Put them one after the other to get something you would not like to have anytime soon. 

What are these two names? What would you not like to get?

Hint: Anagram either the two country names or the adjective and noun. The result is a different adjective and noun describing the graphic on the mug pictured above.

ENTREE #9

Name a six-word statistic regarding the U.S military that begins with four words, in 13 letters, that use only the five different letters in the name of a Southeast Asian nation. 

What is this nation?

What are the first four words of the statistic?

Hint #1: The remainder of the statistic that begins with those four words reads:

“... is enlisted. The ratio of enlisted soldiers to officers is roughly four-to-one.”

Hint #2: The seven missing letters in the graphic are an anagram of the Southeast Asian nation.

Dessert Menu

“Tri-Media” Dessert:

HorseSense & Sleighbells

Name the three-word title of:

~ a 1977 album and song, or

~ a1988 film, or

~ a 2012 book subtitled “You’re Not Lazy, You’re Burnt Out:...”

All three bear the same title. The 14 combined letters of these three words can be rearranged to spell the three words missing from the purple-framed section of the image pictured here. 

What is this three-word album/song, film and book title?

What are the three missing words in the image?

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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