“Snail” becomes a “Hail!”? , Space in a Spice, Weapon word, Jobs Good & Bad, Shortzwave Radio? “Use your wit a bit to solve it!” Swappin’ while stoppin’ ‘n’ sniffin’; “Hosannas!” during Heavenly hurdling; “Where often is heard a disgustfulsome word...” Did Drew Barrymore Brew Dairy More?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Use your wit a bit to solve it!”

The initial letters in an eleven-word proverb are a rearrangement of the letters in HABIT, WIT and BIT. 

The initial letters of the eighth, ninth and tenth
words in the proverb spell a specific creature. The second word in the proverb is a general term for this creature.

What is this proverb?

What are the general word and the specific word for the creature?

Appetizer Menu

Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

“Snail” becomes a “Hail!”? Weapon word, Shortzwave Radio? Jobs Good & Bad, Space in a Spice

“Snail” becomes a “Hail!”?

1. 🐌Delete one letter from a male animal. 

Mix the result to get a salutation. 

What are this animal and salutation?

Weapon word

2. 🎥Take the name of a weapon seen in the 1941 movie “Sergeant York.” 

Add a letter to this “weapon word” (at either end, or somewhere within it) to get, without rearranging, a name that an antagonist calls
one of the main characters in the 1993 movie “Tombstone.” 

What weapon is this and what was the character called?   

Who is the antagonist?

Shortzwave Radio?

3. 📻Take the name of a clever journalist who appears on National Public Radio. 

Replace the final vowel in the surname with copy of a vowel that appears in both the first name and the surname of the journalist.

Mix the result to get a country.

Who is this journalist?

What is the country?

Jobs Good & Bad

4. 🚗Take a word used in an English speaking country to signify a job not done well – that is, a bad job.  

Delete the fifth letter. Change a vowel to a
different vowel. 

The result is a word that could be used to describe your DeLorean after comes back after receiving a good job from the detailing shop. 

What are these two words?

Space in a Spice

5.🧂Put in a space within a spice to get what sounds  like a description of an unfortunate event that occurs in a famous American novel.

What are this spice and this unfortunate event?

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Two-Birds-In-A-Bush Hors d’Oeuvre:

Swappin’ while stoppin’ ‘n’ sniffin’ 

Swap the initial sounds of a two-syllable place where you might “stop and smell the roses.” 

Remove a vowel and the space it leaves, leaving two birds. 

What are this place and two birds?

Psychological Slice:

“Where often is heard a disgustfulsome word...”

Rearrange the letters in the first half of a word from psychology to get a variant spelling of a disgusting word. 

Rearrange the letters of the second half twice to get two different disgusting words. 

What are these four words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Entrees:

Did Drew Barrymore Brew Dairy More?

Will Shortz’s November 9th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Scott of Seattle, Washington, reads:

Think of a famous actress – first and last names. 

Interchange the first and last letters of those names. 

That is, move the first letter of the first name to the start of the last name, and the first letter of the last name to the start of the first name. 

Say the result out loud, and you’ll get some advice on fermenting milk. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

In order to _____ ______ (5, 6 letters) and their progress, a puzzle-maker (after opening his parachute, post-free-fall) made it a practice to monitor and document the ___ __ _____  (3, 2, 5 letters) camera, so as to monitor the path an “extreme weather event” might take.

Delete the fourth and sixth letters of the
second missing word. Rearrange the remaining nine letters in those two words to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. 

The combined letters of the third, fourth and fifth missing words can be rearranged to spell the screen name of this puzzle-maker.  

Who is this puzzle-maker and what is his screen name?

What words belong in the five blanks?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our friend and terrific riffer Nodd.)

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous actress – first and last names. 

Interchange the first letters of those names and insert a space to get three words. 

Interchange the first and second words to get a phrase that might describe a school field trip. 

Who is the actress and what is the phrase? 

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous actress – first and last names. (Use the British pronunciation of the last name.) 

Interchange the first letters of the names and
say the result aloud. You’ll get what sounds like a description of hair styling aids from an island nation. 

Who is the actress and what is the description?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous actress – first and last names. 

Interchange the first letters of those names and say the result aloud to complete this sentence: Kids can acquire knowledge by watching ____ _____ while exploring with her friends on TV. 

Who is the actress and what words complete the blanks?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous actress – first and last names. 

Interchange the first letters of those names. Say the result aloud to get what sounds like a
three-word description of what to do if you have a dirty article of hosiery. 

Who is the actress and what is the description?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous actress – first and last names. 

Interchange the first letter of the first name with
the first two letters of the last name. 

Say the result aloud to get what sounds like a three-word description of what to do if the front of your glass cupboard is dirty. 

Who is the actress and what is the description?

ENTREE #7

Think of a past actress – first and last names. She started her film career in the 1930s, mostly appearing in B movies. 

Interchange the first letters of her first and last
names and say the result aloud to get what sounds like a description of a correctional facility for hit men. 

Who is the actress and what is the description?

(Note: Entrees #8 and #9 were created by our friend and terrific riffer Tortitude.)

ENTREE #8

Name a famous actress, first and last names. Swap the first letter of each name. Phonetically, you’ll get a flavor, followed by the brand name of a fermented milk product. Visually, you’ll have a color followed by the
brand name.

While the brand name doesn't sell this flavored product, some recipes call for mixing them together; however, the brand doesn’t sell products with the color.

Who is she? What is the phonetic spoonerism? What is the visual one?

ENTREE #9

Name a famous actress whose first name is a fermented milk product. She won a Best Actress Oscar for a certain movie with an average 8.1 IMDb rating. 

Add a definite article in front of the movie. You’ll have an infamously bad movie, with an average 3.6 IMDb rating.

A certain adjective describes the actress’s first
name, as well as the bad movie.

Who’s the actress? What are the two movies? What adjective describes the name and the bad movie?

ENTREE #10

On Easter Monday Morn, while roaming the South Lawn of the White House, “if you see an ___, ____ __!”

Treat the first blank as a single word, and the
second and third blanks as a single word. Spoonerize these “single words” to spell what sounds like the name of a long-serving American governor.

What are the words in the blanks?

Who is the governor?

Note: When you are asked to spoonerize two words or two syllables in which one of the two does not begin with a consonant or a consonant sound, simply move the single consonant sound to the beginning of the other word  or syllable. For example, “peal out” (as a church bell) would become “eelpout.”

ENTREE #11

Take a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback, first and last names, who played nearly 20 years for the same team, and yet  was rarely “Missing In Action.” 

Swap the first and fourth letters of his name. Move the space five places to the right. Add the word “range” to the end. The result is a two-word fruit associated with the state where he plied his professional trade.

Who is this quarterback?

What is the two-word fruit?

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Track & Elysian Fields Dessert:

“Hosannas!” during Heavenly hurdling

Remove a letter from a hurdle in the heavens to spell what a hurdler may have exclaimed while hurdling it. Name this hurdler, this hurdle and this exclamation!

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Lincoln’s “Cryptic-Crossword-Settersburg” Address; “A hearse of two different colors?” "Encourage lachrymose yearning?' Souvlaki, Soul food fit for a Kia! “Not-so-fordable ends up affordable” “Put ‘em in a tree museum...”

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(Note: This edition of Puzzleria! was up loaded on November 6, not November 2 (as erroneously indicated in the upper-left corner of this week’s blog.)

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Encourage lachrymose yearning?

The words “encourage,” “lachrymose” and “yearning” all have an “e,” an “r” and an “a” in common. 

But what other interior “self-defining” quality do they also share in common?

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Intriguing, Sporty, Fun #41 Appetizer:

Lincoln’s “Cryptic-Crossword-Settersburg” Address

CRYPTIC COUPLET:

Patrick’s Cryptic Crossword Puzzle # 41

Is like two-score that came before – intriguing, sporty, fun!

Abe Lincoln’s Berrysburg Address:

Two-score (that is, 40 Cryptic Crossword Puzzles) and nine years ago our Patrick brought forth on this Weblog a new creation, conceived in “LiBerry” and dedicated to the proposition that all Cryptic Crosswords created by Patrick J. Berry are equally unequalled!

Patrick J. Berry... “a Man of Cryptic Crossword Letters” who is shoulders-and-head above all Cryptic Crossword setters! 

Patrick is both proficient and prolific. Need proof? Just take a gander, below, at the “clickable” array of Patrick’s two-score crosswords that have previously appeared on Puzzleria! Open any one of them, at random. You will discover that there is nary a clinker nor a clunker in the bunch!

Yes, you can access any of Patrick’s previous 40 cryptic crosswords by opening the links below:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 

28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

For those who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled the following list of basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions:

Regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:

* The number, or numbers, that appear in parentheses at the end of each clue indicate how many letters are in the answer. 

* Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers.  For example, (11) simply indicates an eleven-letter word like “brainteaser,”(7, 4) indicates a seven-letter-plus-four-letter-answer like “gordian knot,” and (4-9) indicates a four-letter-and-nine-letter hyphenated answer like “head-scratcher.”

For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 2017 cryptic crossword. 

That Tutorial appears below the filled-in answer-grid in that edition of Puzzleria!

And so... don your stovepipe thinking cap, break out your Lincoln Logs, split a few rails... and just try to emancipate some of the answers that our ingenious but devious friend Patrick has enslaved within his clues! 

Enjoy!

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ACROSS

1. Silly, silly chap filled with doubt, initially—it’s easy!(6,4)

6. Couple of times, getting a kiss in cab(4)

9. Homosexual senator, corrupt going in, having done wrong(4,6)

10. Prepares to park, circling block(4)

11. First-class genius, he is rare breed, cleverly captivating “Parrotheads” with song about food(12,2,8)

15. Green turning red? Lame(7)

16. Turned dear tot out?(7)

17. Makes one’s home in city without a Starbucks, ultimately(7)

19. Those going on a fast ride set off(7)

20. Singer of 11 8 simply empty, claiming, “I am what I choose to eat!”(5,7)

23. Dull, hard school subject?(4)

24. Fruit began to go bad in truck(10)

25. Nimble secret agent captures Resistance leader(4)

26. Well-proportioned though not right in height, small—what Jose said(10)

DOWN

1. Notes from prison(4)

2. Is no surprise they’ve been charged?(4)

3. Let heavy lad work out where it’s very hot?(5,6)

4. Drug abuser at home, have to turn the boy in(7)

5. Girl stripped to entertain friend, not one to do such a thing professionally(7)

7. Bit of garbage in here, total mess on the whole(10)

8. See 11 Across

12. “Fatal Attraction”: Close enters, real beaut—crazy, getting tense(11)

13. Outlaw fun, cut stuff in pictures(5,5)

14. Chap has meant to rewrite verse(10)

18. Lunatic loses head having to cry about
game(7)

19. Bold detective has picked up innocent sort(7)

21. Country air transformed Queen(4)

22. Child of royalty kept inside(4) 

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Ford Vehicle Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Not-so-fordable ends up affordable” 

Name a not-so-fordable river. 

Transpose letters 4 and 5, remove letter 3, and replace a vowel with a consonant. 

The result is a the make name of a Ford vehicle. Remove the initial letter of that 

Ford make to get an affordable kitchen accessory brand. What are this river, Ford, and affordable kitchen brand?

“Buck-&-A-Half-Just-To-See-‘Em Slice”

“Put ‘em in a tree museum...”

Three consecutive letters within a single-syllable adjective, in reverse, spell museum content. 

The remaining letters, in order, spell what is required to appreciate this content. 

What are these three words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:

Souvlaki, Soul food fit for a Kia!

Will Shortz’s November 2nd Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco reads:

Name a popular automobile import, make + model. Add the letter V and anagram the result. You’ll name a popular ethnic food. What names are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Burt Reynolds’ gal “shore” liked to entertain guests at their Beverly Hills mansion. Rearrange the combined letters of this gal’s first name and the two-word wall-mounted storage unit pictured here to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. 

What are Burt’s gal’s first name and the wall-mounted storage unit?

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Entrees #2 through #7 are conundrums drummed-up/dreamt-up by our friend and riffmeister Nodd. 

ENTREE #2

Name a foreign-built car model introduced by a U.S. company in 1970, now discontinued. 

Remove the fourth letter. Add, without a space, the model name of a Japanese car with the middle three letters removed. The resulting letters, in order, will name a deli food that originated in Italy. 

What are the two car models and the food?

ENTREE #3

Think of a foreign car brand and change two vowels to different vowels. 

Rearrange the letters to spell a dessert that
originated in the country in which the car is made. 

What are the car brand and the dessert?

ENTREE #4

Name a popular automobile import (make and model). 

Remove three letters that can be arranged to form an abbreviation used in the automotive industry. Rearrange the rest of the letters to name a food with an Italian name that is eaten worldwide. 

What are the car, the abbreviation, and the food?

ENTREE #5

Take the model name of a Japanese car. 

Change the first letter to a V and remove the
last letter. 

Add a word for something most cars need. 

Rearrange to get an Italian dish. 

What are the car, the thing most cars need, and the dish?

ENTREE #6

Rearrange the letters of a Korean car (model name only) to spell a dish typically served cold and a dessert. 

What are the model, the dish, and the dessert?

ENTREE #7

Name a popular import car (make and model). 

Rearrange the letters to spell a mammal and a cereal grain.

The mammal is rarely used as food, but a fish named after it is commonly eaten. 

What are the car, the mammal, and the grain?

Entree #8 is a another great riff gifted to us from the gray matter our friend Plantsmith.

ENTREE #8

Take an ethnic food. 

Remove a space, then replace three consecutive letters with a word heard on Halloween. 

The result is a music genre you can dance to.

What are this food and music genre?

ENTREE #9

Take an adjective and noun, in six and four letters, that Eric Blair used in the title of a frivolous bit of verse he composed about what Rudyard Kipling called “the most ancient profession in the world.” 

Rearrange these letters to spell how one might describe, in words of four and six letters, a diminutive (yet drivable!) barrel-crafter. What are this poem description and this barrel-crafter description?

ENTREE #10

~1. The angler’s test line was stretched taut as he reeled in his first big brook trout of the morning. 

~2. The angler re-impaled fresh bait on his hook (old school!), cast it past the water lilies, sensed a nibble, gave a tug, and reeled in his second big “brookie” of the morning.

~3. As noon approached and fish dove down deeper to beat the heat, the angler took a bit of a break, retuned to the shore, and began to gut his “glorified guppies.”

Take two words from the first sentence, two from the second sentence, or three from the third sentence. Rearrange the seven letters in any one of those three word groupings to spell an automobile make.

What is this make?

What are the seven words?

ENTREE #11

Rearrange the eight letters in the name of an automobile to spell the name of the flower pictured here.

Rearrange the letters in the name of the flower to spell the names of the two figures pictured to the right of the flower.

What are this automobile, flower and two names?

Dessert Menu

Kaleidoscopic Dessert:

“A hearse of two different colors?”

Replace the last letter of a vivid color with two other letters to spell a new color. 

Insert a vowel somewhere within that new word to spell a less vivid shade of the first color. 

What are these three colors?

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.