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Schpuzzle of The Week:

Leap Year, Living Tunesmith, Dead Poet

Write the first and last names of a living lyricist and a dead poet. Transpose the words in the poet’s name.

The last eight letters of each result are identical. Remove them.

Lowercase what remains of the lyricist’s name. Capitalize what remains of the poet’s name.
The capital letters divided by the lowercase letter equal the number of days in a leap year, plus two.

Name this lyricist and poet.

After the removal of the identical letters, what remains of the lyricist’s name and of the poet’s name?

Appetizer Menu

Quintuply Skydiversionary Appetizer:

Bumps in the night; tycoons and typhoons; “IgNobel” Poster? Low-class clods and high-class creatures; “Hi Ho Silverheels?”

Bumps in the night

1. 👢🚪Spoonerize a two-word phrase indicating hearing an ominous kicking on your front door late at night to get another phrase describing what was being delivered. 

What are these two phrases?

Tycoons and typhoons

2. 💵 🌪 What do tycoons and typhoons have in common?

Note: It is true that both “tycoons” and “typhoons” begin with a “ty” and end with an
“oons”... But the answer we seek has to do with the meanings of the two words, not their spellings.

“IgNobel” Poster?

3. 🏆Spoonerize the name of a Nobel Prize winning playwright to phonetically describe a comment poster on a puzzle blog (like Blaine’s Blog or Puzzleria!) whose hints may be TMI (Too Much Information). 

Name the playwright and the description of the comment poster.

Low-class clods & high-class creatures

4.🐎Think of a word that describes humans considered to be of lower social class. 

Now insert the letter H to describe an animal considered to be of an aristocratic class. What are these humans and these animals?

“Hi Ho Silverheels!”

5. 🏇 When the Lone Ranger informed Tonto he had cancer and was enduring treatments
that were causing him much pain, what did Tonto ask? 

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Model-A Model-T Model-O... Hors d’Oeuvre:

Words on a table, solve if you’re able

Double a letter in a word seen on an oft-wall-hung timetable. (This timetable is an anagram of a hyphenated description of models that sometimes appear on it).

Rearrange the letters (including the doubled-
one) in the word found on the timetable to spell an adjective and noun that describe a creature.

What are the timetable and the description of models that may appear on it?

What is the word seen on that timetable?

What are the adjective and noun that describe the creature?

Sandbars & Candy Bars Slice:

Deserts deserted, delicious desserts!

Name a dessert and desert, both with ten letters.

Anagram the dessert to spell two articles of clothing.

Anagram the desert to spell two words
associated with eyes.

What are this dessert, desert, clothing articles and eye-related words?

Hints: The two articles of clothing are worn at opposite ends of the body. One word associated with eyes is a part of an eye, the other is plural and peripheral to the eyes. 

Riffing Off Shortz Entrees:

Blue Bay Backers?

Will Shortz’s October 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

The commercial name “iPhone” starts with a
lowercase “i” and has a capital “P” inside it. Think of two well-known companies whose logos also start with lowercase letters and each contain a capital “B” somewhere inside.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzlemasterful conundrum-creating _______ and ____ who provides us with a week’s _____ of cryptic challenges and enjoyment every Sunday... 

... a puzzlemaker ___ ____ ___ and wisdom ____ us weekly by posing ____ of puzzles  that begin with a “What,” “Why,” “Where,” “When” “___” or “___...”

... puzzles filled with challenging _______,
“mysterious ______” and skillfully-compiled fill-in-the-word lists; puzzles involving square, cube or etymological _____; puzzles consisting of missing-word _____...

... all courtesy of this wordsmith with Hoosier _____ who _____ a weekly nationally radio broadcast!

Bonus Timely Holiday Addendum:

Nestled deep within the All Hallows Eve Wilderness are eerie heard-by-ears, albeit unseen, ___ _____ and _____ hidden deep within forest _______.

Name the 19 different missing words in the above text, including the Bonus Addendum. (One of these 19 words “appears” twice.)

These 19 words contain only 9 different letters of our 26-letter alphabet.

Use these 9 different letters, one of them twice, to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Name these 20 missing words: 

five 3-letter words; four 4-letter words; seven 5-letter words; one 6-letter word; three 7-letter words 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are compostitions by Nodd, creator of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

The surname of a well-known past politician begins with a lowercase letter but also has a
capital letter somewhere in it. 

You can rearrange the letters in the surname to spell a food and a place to get food. (The place doesn’t usually offer this food.) Name the politician, the food, and the place.

ENTREE #3

Name a well-known entertainment company with an internal capital letter. Rearrange the letters to spell a two-word phrase describing
something a company may have if it fails to treat its employees well. 

What are the company and the phrase?

ENTREE #4

A famous former football player and a famous current basketball player have first names that
start with the same two letters and contain internal capital letters. (The footballer’s last name also has an internal capital.) Remove the first letter of one of their first names. Then rearrange seven letters of their combined first names to name a former GM car model. You will be left with none. 

Who are the players and what’s the car model?

ENTREE #5

The first name of a famous actor has an internal capital letter. The last name of another famous actor has the same internal capital. The first actor’s first name spelled backward is the last name of a famous composer. The second actor’s last name anagrams to a sticker you are likely to see around this time. 

Who are the actors and the composer, and what is the sticker?

ENTREE #6

Take a brand name with an internal capital letter. Change the first letter to an ampersand
and add an apostrophe. Rearrange all to get three brand names – a snack, a telecom company, and a past GM car model. 

What are the four brands?

ENTREE #7

A global biopharmaceutical company has two internal capitals in its name. 

A major focus of the company is the development of therapies using a chemical compound known by an abbreviation that consists of one lower case letter and the rest uppercase letters. What are the company and the compound? 

(Hint: If you change the first letter of the company name to a different letter, you can rearrange the letters to spell the last name of a former dictator supported by the U.S.)

ENTREE #8

Name a famous current American singer. 

Replace the last name with a colloquial term for a person from the place where this singer was born and raised. Say the result out loud. Phonetically, you’ll get a form of singing the singer doesn’t usually do. 

Who is this singer?

What is the colloquial term?

What is the form of singing?

Dessert Menu

Sweetly Sorrowful Dessert:

“Departure splits the pleasantry”

Rearrange the letters in a word of departure to spell what the “heavenly hopeful” strive to do. Remove a pair identical letters from a second word of departure. Rearrange the result to spell the name of either a European city or in an East-of-the-Mississippi U.S. city.

What are these two words of departure?

What do the “heavenly hopeful” strive to do?

What is the name of these two cities?

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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