Breeding creatures, screening crud!; “Spring, Sprank, Sprunk!”; Stumblebums & Humble Pie; Not just a few... A full-staffed raft!; “Complementary Homophonic Antonyms”; “Da Mountain, Da Refusal, Da Nile!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Breeding creatures, screening crud!”

Name a place, in two four-letter words, associated with breeding of livestock. Anagram each word to form two new words.

One of the words is the brand of a product that filters contaminants from motorized livestock machinery. 

The other word is one of the contaminants.

Name this brand name and contaminant name, and also the  two-word breeding place.

Appetizer Menu

“Leaning Tower of Pavyllon-London-Style Pizza” Appetizer:

Stumblebums & Humble Pie

After clearing the main-course dinnerware from our table, our snooty maître d’ at Great Britain’s Pavyllon London restaurant intoned: 

“For dessert, we shall now serve you a generous slice of humble pie. Select a napkin.”

Anagram just four of that maître d’s eight final words ("...generous slice of humble pie. Select a napkin.”) to spell two colors and two creatures that appear in a century-plus-old memoir by an author whose surname is appropriate to the setting of this puzzling scenario.

What are these colors and creatures?

Who is the author of the memoir, and what is its title?

Hint: The four-word title of the memoir is an anagram of and the surname of the combined letters of:

~ Billy Yank’s nemesis in the late 1850s, and

~ the surname of a Spanish poet/playwright/theatre director (whose first name was Frederico).

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Jam-Packed Hors d’Oeuvre:

Not just a few... A full-staffed raft!

A word on a map consists of two names.

The first is associated with an animal... or two or three. The second is associated with a whole raft of animals!

What is this word on the map?

“Mystereophonics” Slice:

“Complementary Homophonic Antonyms”

The three-letter endings of two identically pronounced words are also identical, yet they
share no other letters in common. 

They are antonyms, yet somehow also strangely complementary. 

What are these words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Moren Slices:

“Da Mountain, Da Refusal, Da Nile!

Will Shortz’s September 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dan Moren of Somerville, Massachusetts, reads:

Name a well-known U.S. geographic location in six letters. Move the last letter two places earlier in the name and you'll get a regular English word. Say that word out loud. It will sound like a well-known geographic location abroad. What places are these? 

Here's a hint: Neither place name is a city.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Moren Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names, eight letters. Move the fourth letter one place earlier in the name. Reverse the order of the remaining letters on the right. 

You’ll get what ancient Romans might have cried because their emperor’s rule eventually devolved into a tinderbox of tyranny, corruption, familial murder, and public humiliation – culminating in infernal fiddling on his lyre in the midst of fire.

Who is this puzzle-maker? What might Romans have cried?

(Note:Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our friend Nodd, author of the regularly featured “Not ready for prime time’’ on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

Name a U.S. national park. One of the letters sounds like a common English word. 

Replace that letter with the first letter of the English word. Rearrange to name a well-known foreign city. What places are these?

ENTREE #3

Name a river in the Eastern U.S. One of the letters sounds like an informal name for a mode of transportation. 

Replace that letter with the first two letters of another word for that mode of transportation. 

The result will name a famous foreign location. What places are these?

ENTREE #4

Name a two-word place in the Eastern U.S. 

Double one of its letters and add the copy of that letter to the end of the first word.  The result will name a place in a foreign country and a geographical term describing the place. What places are these?

ENTREE #5

Name a two-word place in the U.S. Change the third letter of the second word to the letter that precedes it in the alphabet. Then switch the third and fourth letters.  Finally, change the next-to-last letter of the second word to a different vowel. Leave the first word as is. 

The result will name a foreign place. What are these places?

ENTREE #6

Name a two-word U.S. city. 

Say the last letter of the first word and then the complete second word. 

It will sound like the name of a foreign country. 

What places are these?

ENTREE #7

A foreign city name sounds like what someone might do to restrain a famous American architect. 

What is the city and what might someone do?

Dessert Menu

Purple Prankery Green Mountain Boys Black Hills Dessert:

“Spring, Sprank, Sprunk!”

Name a word associated with summits of a
certain hue. 

Interior letters of the word spell a prank. 

The remaining letters spell the month after the prank was sprung. What are this word, this prank and the month after it was sprung?

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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