“The art & the heart of a puzzle”; Spilling-Over Urban-Sprawl!; Certifiably Sanctioned Cliché!; PauwPaul, LakeWake!; Surnames, first names and worstpelling!; TeeVee Dinnertime!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Surnames! first names! mispelling!

The second and fourth words in a five-word novel title are surnames of a past actor and past first lady. 

The actor’s first name is an anagram of a common misspelling of the first lady’s first
name. 

What are this novel and two first names?

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Synonym of the Idiom!

“The art and the heart of a puzzle...”

The New York Times-Noooze

Thanks to “Shortzles” it prints

 Zzzaps all blahhzzz and all bluezzz...

(All these zzznore-words are hints!)

    And on NPR too...

    You’ll hear more than a few

    Of Will's “Shortzles” to do...

    Don’t nod off, they’re for you! 

Name a two-word idiom for a nocturnal activity. 

A synonym of the second word, preceded by the initial letter of the idiom, spells a synonym
of the idiom. 

What are this two-word idiom, synonym of the second word, and synonym of the idiom?

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Cities Marked By Stars Hors d’Oeuvre:

Spilling-Over Urban-Sprawl!

Delete just a three-letter mixed-up bit of literature from a capital city. Eliminate any spaces that may appear.

The result is the maximum population that the
city can accommodate. 

What are this capital city, mixed-up bit of literature and maximum population that the city can accommodate?

American Capital Welsh River Slice:

Certifiably Sanctioned Cliché!

Name a common four-word expression that has achieved “cliché-status.” 

The initial letters of the four words spell a body part. 

The 12 letters of the expression can be anagrammed to spell:

* a capital city in the Americas, and 

* a 3-letter Welsh tributary that rises in Snowdonia and flows into the Irish Sea, and a 3-letter adjective that describes this river..

What are this “cliché-esque” expression, capital city, river, and adjective?

What is the body part spelled by the initial letters of the four-word expression? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Ellis Slices:

PauwPaul, LakeWake!

Will Shortz’s October 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Robbie Ellis of Chicago, reads:

Name two well-known colleges or universities from the same state. The last letter of one is the first letter of the other. Change each instance of this letter to the same new letter to get the names of two other well-known colleges or universities. What four schools are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Ellis Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker and his hometown, in six, five and seven letters.

Take the last three syllables of the puzzle-maker’s first name, which sound like three letters of the alphabet. Rearrange them, along
with the  the last letter of the puzzle-maker’s hometown O, to spell the a 4-letter word that means “a slovenly or rude person.”

The nine letters that remain can be anagrammed to spell the five-letter surname of a 20th-Century Swedish actress and a four-letter adjective describing the actress that contains a two-word embedded greeting.

Who are this puzzle-maker, his hometown, the three syllables that sound like letters, and the adjective?

(Note: Entrees #2 through # 7 are creations courtesy of our good friend Nodd. His “Nodd ready for prime time” is a staple of Puzzlerian Puzzling.)

ENTREE #2

Name two well-known universities in the Eastern U.S. 

Remove the last letter of each. 

The result will sound like the name of a famous actor. 

What are the universities and who is the actor?

ENTREE #3

The first six letters of a college in Pennsylvania, plus the first two letters of one in Maryland, can be rearranged to name a school in the United Kingdom. 

What are the three schools?

ENTREE #4

Name a private college in New England and a state university in the mid-Atlantic. (The university is known simply by the name of the state.) 

Remove one letter from each. Rearrange the letters that remain to name a college in the Southern United States. What are the three schools?

ENTREE #5

A university in the Mid-Atlantic and a college in the Midwest end in the same four letters. 

Remove those letters from each name to get two words associated with teeth. 

What are the schools and the two words?

ENTREE #6

Name a college in the Mid-Atlantic region and a university in New England. 

Remove one instance of a repeated letter and
rearrange to spell a university in the Midwest. 

What are the three schools?

ENTREE #7

Name a college in the Midwest. 

Add a K. 

Rearrange to name a university in New England and a school in the United Kingdom. 

What are the three schools?

Dessert Menu

Sitcommy Dessert:

TV Dinnertime!

When prototypically traditional American families gather at their dinner table – as do the Bradys’, Taylors’, Cleavers, Andersons’ and Nelsons’ on TV sitcoms, for example – first they say grace, then they dine. Anagram the combined letters of synonyms of “say grace” and “dine” to spell a scroll containing ancient writing.

What two dinnertime things do these families do?

What is this scroll with ancient writing?

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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