“A Dwindling” and “Holding their Fates to the Fire”; “Mingle? Schmingle! Where’s the Pringles?!” Did a “Sea Change Change Yew?” One Cool Cat and One Hot Dog! “Take two anagrams, be(d)head, and call me in the morning” Midday menu: frothy fruity eggy veggie medley

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Midday menu: frothy fruity eggy veggie medley

Sal and Peg take a pre-midday break from their jobs to enjoy brunch at a diner.

Sal orders a frothy fruit drink and a “veggie medley.” 

Peg orders an entree with eggs and a blended tea-and-lemonade beverage. 

What historical figure does Sal’s order suggest?

What more recent historical figure does Peg’s order suggest?

This week we proudly present the following two-pronged Appetizer:

Subterfuge & Greek Creature Appetizer:

“A Dwindling” and “Holding their Fates to the Fire”

“A Dwindling”

1. 🎥📖The 4-word (4, 5, 4, 5) title of a not very well known movie, with not very well known cast members, contains 5 different consonants and 1 vowel. 

In the title, three consonants appear 3 times each; two consonants appear once each; and the vowel appears 7 times. 

The phrase formed by the movie title is preceded by a subterfuge – a kind of “misdirection” – in a very well known, very famous, and best selling, novel which has been adapted to stage and screen. 

The novel and adaptations have had various titles. 

The phrase formed by the “not very well known” movie title and the “misdirection” are parts of a mysterious countdown. The countdown ends with the title of the novel.

Identify and describe this “subterfuge/misdirection.”

Extra Credit: Name the title of the not very famous movie, and the best known title of the famous novel. 

“Holding their Fates to the Fire” 

2. 𐦐𐦉 Name a 21st Century Tony winning play which is a reworking of a Greek myth. 

Drop the last letter of the title. Divide the remaining letters unevenly into two groups. Rearrange the letters to form a word out of each group – two new words in all. Placing those two words in the correct order results in a two-word characteristic of a creature in Greek myth. What is the play? 

What is the characteristic and the creature it describes? 

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Predatory Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Take two anagrams, be(d)head, and call me in the morning”

Anagram the letters of a predator to name its possible prey. 

“Be(d)head” (actually, just “behead”) the prey to get a second predator. Anagram the letters of that predator to get a sound made by a second, larger prey that ends with the same two letters as the sound. 

What are these five words?

What are this predator, prey, second predator, sound and second prey?

59-26 Skidoo Slice:

One Cool Cat and One Hot Dog!

(Note: The following puzzle is a collaboration of sorts between LegoLambda and Nodd. Nodd came up with the ingenious “cool cat” portion of the puzzle.)

Take letters associated with 26 followed by letters associated with 59 to get a name
associated with both a cool cat and a hot dog. 

What is this name and its association with a hot dog and cool cat? 

How are its letters associated with 26 and 59?

Riffing Off Shortz Entrees:

Did a “Sea Change Change Yew?”

Will Shortz’s July 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

This is a phonetic challenge in four parts. First, say a letter of the alphabet out loud – like B, C, or L. Then name something you might carry around in your pocket. Say it twice. Finally, name a variety of tree. Say these four things in order, and phonetically they’ll name a nice place in the United States to vacation. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

This is a phonetic challenge in five parts. 

First, say the first syllable of a two-syllable fish whose second syllable is “fish.” (The first syllable is also where in the fish the hook might
embed itself.); 

Second, say the collective term for Aspires, Contours, Couriers, Crestlines, Edges, Elites, Fairmonts, Freestars, Freestyles, Mainlines, Parklanes and Tempos;

Third, say a two-syllable word that sounds like a synonym of “criminal,” like Snidely Whiplash or Boris Badenov, for two examples. 

Fourth, say a letter of the alphabet out loud; and

Fifth, say what sounds like the palindromic name of a prophetess mentioned in the Gospel of Luke.

Say these five things in order, and phonetically they’ll name the hometown and home state of a puzzlemaster!

Who is this puzzlemaster, his hometown and home state?

What are the answers to the five clues?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were composed and contributed by our good friend Nodd whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!) 

ENTREE #2

Name a letter of the alphabet. 

Then name an interval of time. 

Finally, name a U.S. state. Phonetically, you’ll name a popular two-word vacation destination in the Western U.S. What is it?

ENTREE #3

Name a letter of the alphabet. Then name a kind of throwing weapon. 

Phonetically, you’ll name a Western U.S. national forest offering tourist attractions that include an aerial tramway. 

Which national forest is it? 

ENTREE #4

Name a letter of the alphabet. 

Then name a synonym of “bewilder.” 

Phonetically, you’ll
name a Western U.S. city offering numerous tourist attractions, including one pictured periodically in Puzzleria! What city is it? 

ENTREE #5

Name a letter of the alphabet. 

Then name something you would need in your pocket to go on a vacation, followed by something you would take along if you planned
to go fishing. 

Finally, name another letter of the alphabet. Phonetically, you’ll name a Western U.S. national forest offering numerous recreational opportunities for hikers and mountain bikers. 

Which national forest is it?

ENTREE #6

Name a letter of the alphabet. 

Then name the first two syllables of a furniture brand name. Finally, name the last name of a famous U.S. lawyer. 

Phonetically, you’ll name a waterfront tourist attraction in a major city in the Western U.S. 

What is it?

ENTREE #7

Name a letter of an alphabet. 

Then name something you might want for vacationing at a lake. 

Finally, name an accessory you might want for
taking photographs. 

Phonetically, you’ll name a Southern U.S. city that is considered a nice place to vacation. 

What city is it?

(Note: Entrees #8 and 9 were composed and contributed by our good friend Tortitude whose “Tortie’s Slow But Sure Puzzles” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!) 

ENTREE #8

Name a famous musician of the past. Say the last name followed by the first name quickly. You’ll phonetically have a two-word phrase. 

Now think of the musician’s most famous song.
The title character does the two-word phrase in the title place. 

Who is the musician? What is the phrase? What is the song? 

ENTREE #9

Think of a current American politician. 

The first four letters of the first name sound like
a word associated with beaches. 

The first four letters of the last name spell another word associated with beaches.

Who is this politician, “littorally?”

ENTREE #10

Small oscines seeking solitude,

While singing hymns of gratitude...

Write a caption for this image in two five-letter
words.

Then rearrange those ten letters to name a nice place in the United States to vacation.

What are this caption and U.S. vacation spot?

Dessert Menu

Hungry Hovering Hummingbird Dessert:

“Mingle? Schmingle! Where’s the Pringles?!”

The nattily-attired ______ ____ at the party didn’t even attempt to mingle. Instead, this greedy ____ ______ hovered around the snack table... like
a hungry hummingbird hovers above sweet nasturtium nectar and nummy gnats. 

Those first and fourth missing words are identical except for their second letters. 

The second and third words are identical except for their third letters. What are these four missing words?  

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.

Mixed-up city fathers, Dandy candy and faddy duds, Jesus Christ Supersorcerer, Cars carnivores crave!; Minnie the Moocher, Donald the Driver; Bitchin’ ‘bout a beverage; “Baby it’s warm inside... and outside!” Behemoth becomes a big maker of melody; Golf Cart ‘toons!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Golf Cart ‘toons!

Name a cartoonist.

Rearrange the letters in this cartoonist’s name to get two words: 

⛳🐺 a kind of golf match, and 

🪤🏌something found on a golf course. 

Who are this cartoonist and the two golf-related terms?

Appetizer Menu

Skydiversionary Appetizer:

Mixed-up city fathers, Dandy candy and faddy duds, Jesus Christ Supersorcerer, Cars carnivores crave!

Mixed-up city fathers

1.☆ Name a world capital city that when anagrammed describes its leaders who work there. 

What are the world capital and description of its leaders.

Dandy candy and faddy duds

2.🍬 Think of a candy everyone knows. 

Spoonerize it to name a garment popular with women. 

What are this candy and garment? 

Jesus Christ Supersorcerer

3.🪄 There are many famous and amazing magicians such as David Copperfield who made the Statue of Liberty disappear. 

They are famous because of how very clever and adept they were, but none are so clever and amazing as Jesus Christ whose greatest trick was to “blank blank.” 

Well, what was it? Fill in the blanks. Your answer must be humorous.

Cars carnivores crave!

4.🥗🥩 While some followers of Siddhartha choose to be vegetarian or vegan, others do eat meat. 

There isn’t a universal rule against meat consumption in their religion, but some traditions and schools of thought encourage it more than others. 

With that in mind, please consider those who are carnivores, and see if you can figure out which brand of automobile they prefer. 

Hint: It is a brand in four syllables that should reveal the answer when spoonerized. 

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Instrumental Hors d’Oeuvre:

Behemoth becomes a big maker of melody

Name a relatively large creature. Anagram an interior string of letters to spell a somewhat large musical instrument. The remaining letters can be anagrammed to spell a material from which this instrument is often crafted.

What are this creature, instrument and material?

Homophonic Slice:

Bitchin’ ‘bout a beverage

Replace the second word in a two-word nine-letter beverage with a homophone that has two fewer letters. 

Place this homophone at the beginning, without a space. 

Insert a space someplace else to form a two-word complaint that impatient drinkers might make regarding this beverage's preparation time. 

What are this beverage and complaint?

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:

Minnie the Moocher, Donald the Driver

Will Shortz’s July 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, reads:

Think of a famous movie star (6 letters, 6 letters). The first name, when said out loud, sounds like a brand of a certain object. The last name is someone who uses this object. What movie star is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take:

* the first name of a famous past singer whose surname is a synonym of beach (5 letters, 5 letters);

* the first name of singers Astley and
Springfield; and

* a synonym of “subside” that is a homophone of the first name of a past singer whose surname is sometime preceded by  the word “fig.”

Rearrange the 18 letters in these names to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Who are these singers?

What is the synonym of “subside?”

Note: Riffs #2 through #7 were composed by our friend Nodd, composer of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous movie star (3 letters, 4 letters). 

Add an S to the end of the last name. The result will sound like something a criminal might do at a brand name retailer. 

Who is the star? What might a criminal do?

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous movie star (5 letters, 5 letters). The first name is a colloquial brand name for a certain object. The last name describes what this object is often used for in movies. 

Who is the star? 

What is the object?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous movie star (5 letters, 6 letters). 

Drop the last three letters of the first name and add a B at the beginning of the name, then switch the order of the first and last names. 

The result is something that was once considered a brand name of a certain object but has now become a generic term for the object. 

Who is the star? What is the object?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous movie star (4 letters, 4 letters). 

Swap the second and third letters of the first name. 

The result will be the name of a college, followed by a colloquial name for a university. Who is the star? 

What are the college and university?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous movie star (3 letters, 6
letters). 

The first name is an abbreviation for something found on a certain object. 

The last name is something you might put in the object. Who is the star? What is the object?

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous movie star (8 letters, 4 letters). 

The first name is a former brand name for a certain object. 

The last name is a current brand name for the same kind of object. 

Who is the star? What is the object?

ENTREE #8

Note: Riff #8 was composed by our friend Plantsmith, curator of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!

Thank of a famous movie star. Six and six letters first and last. 

Their first name is part of a famous brand name. If you remove the third and fourth letters of the second name you will get an object associated with the famous brand name’s trademark.

Who is this movie star?

What is the object associated with the famous brand name’s trademark?

ENTREE #9

Take the first and last names of a head football coach at Southeastern Louisiana University, Louisiana Tech University and Ole Miss in the
late 20th Century, compiling a career college football coaching record of 125–94–6.

His name is the same as two nouns that describe each of four companies named Falls City, Cold Spring, West End and Pearl in the late 1970s.

Who is this football coach?

What is the two-word description of each of the four late-1970s companies?

ENTREE #10

Name a wielder of woods, in four syllables. 

His close friends call him by a name that make
him sound like a grinder of grains.

More formally, he is called by his surname (preceded by “mister”) that makes him sound like a cutter of coifs.

Who is this woods-wielder who at various times sounds like a grains-grinder or coifs-cutter? 

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Consume Some Consommé Dessert?:

“Baby it’s warm inside... and outside!”

Name something you consume that might make you feel “all warm inside.” 

Delete an “a” and “e” and move the first letter
to the end to name something that may make you feel “all warm on the outside.” 

What are these two warming things?

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.

Long-running Radio, Divine Diva? Twice-Played, “Wand” a Washer? American Literature, Pop & Doo-wop, Meet Hannah Graham!; Aquatics and Visual Artistry; Snack on some salads and wraps; A pair of capes and a character; Pedro can’t open six Palm Doors! Backspace! Delete! Transpose!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A pair of capes and a character

Take two words on the map of the Southeastern United States.

Each word follows the word “Cape.” 

Rearrange the combined letters of these two “Cape-following” words to spell the name
of a fictional character, also from a Southeastern U.S. state. 

What are these two Capes? 

Who is the fictional character?

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Slow, Sure, Sticky & Tricky Appetizer:

Long-running Radio, American Literature, Twice-Played, “Wand” a Washer? Divine Diva? Pop & Doo-wop, Meet Hannah Graham!

Long-running Radio

1. 📻Think of a long-running radio show.  The show used to be known by an abbreviated nickname as well. 

If you say the abbreviation out loud, it will sound like two numbers. 

The first number is twice the second one. 

What is the radio show? 

What is the abbreviation? 

What are the two numbers? 

American Literature

2. 🎸Name a popular contemporary musical artist in two words. 

Rearrange the letters of the first word. Change the second word, which is the name of an animal, to the male version of the animal. Swap the order of the words. You’ll have a well-known character from American literature. Who is the musical artist? Who is the character?

Twice-Played

3. ♝♜♘♕Name something that can be played. 

This item is sometimes called by its first five letters. 

Take those five letters, and reverse them to get something else that can be played. 

What can be played? What else can be played?

“Wand” a Washer?

4. 👚🧦🪛Rearrange the brand name of something you’d put into a washing machine to produce something you might use to fix a washing machine.

What’s the brand name? What might you use to fix a washing machine?

Divine Diva?

5. 👼Think of a famous actress. 

Spell her first name backwards, and then replace the last letter of her middle name with a copy of her middle name’s second letter. 

You’ll have a religious song. Her last name also has a religious connection. 

Who is she? 

What is the song?

Pop & Doo-wop

6. 🎜🎝Name a classic rock group from the UK. Add the letter that comes after the second letter of the name in the alphabet. 

Also add the letter that comes before the last letter of the name in the alphabet. 

Rearrange the letters to produce the name of an earlier American doo-wop group. (Ignore the “The” used in the group’s name.)

Both groups had big hits with songs that have a two-word title. The first words belong to the same category. 

The second words each contain the same amount of letters, and all of the letters except one are the same for both words, although in a different order. These common letters in a certain order spell a sound that can be associated with the UK group’s name. 

What are the groups? What are the songs? What sound is associated with the UK group? 

Meet Hannah Graham!

7. 🎩👒🪈Professor Anna Graham’s daughter, Hannah, enjoys her mom’s puzzles. 

She’s decided to write her own about one of her favorite Disney+ classic movies.  

Fill in the blanks to complete the verse.

While Marie ____ cute

____’s horn does toot 

A ____ of cool ____, 

Some wearing hats, 

But nobody plays the flute!

What are the four words? 

What’s the movie?

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 “No, It Is O Perp!” Hors d’Oeuvre

Aquatics and Visual Artistry

Remove a preposition spelled backwards from the name a two-word aquatic creature.

The result is the name of a 20th-century visual
artist. 

What is this creature? 

Who is the  visual artist?

Hint: The two-word aquatic creature is an anagram of a two-word term for ancient Western Hemisphere paintings and architecture.

Roamin’ Numeral Slice:

Snack on some salads and wraps

Name a two-word natural food used in salads or wraps. 

The fifth letter of the first word is a Roman numeral. Move it into the sixth position and
replace it with a different Roman numeral. 

The result is two nouns that are associated with each other. 

What is the two-word natural food?

What are the two associated nouns?

Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees:

Pedro can’t open six Palm Doors!

Will Shortz’s June 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Bob Weisz, reads:

Take the name of a major film director. Drop the last six letters of his name, and rearrange what remains. You’ll get the name of a major film award for which this director has been nominated six times. Who is he and what is the award?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take the eight-letter name of a puzzle maker. Remove the space. 

Replace the 8th letter with the 5th letter and place in the fifth position a consonant that precedes that original 5th letter in the spelling of a common two-letter preposition. 

Finally, replace the 7th letter with the letter that follows it in the alphabet.

The result is a bird.

Who is the puzzle maker and what is the bird?

Note: Entrees #2 and #3 were composed by our friend Tortitude, whose “Tortie’s Slow but Sure Puzzles” this week’s featured Appetizer.

ENTREE #2

Name a director who has won a sweet number of Academy Awards. 

Remove six letters (five of them consecutive) that can be anagrammed to spell a synonym of two consecutive words in the previous sentence. 

The remaining letters in the director’s can be anagrammed to spell a part of a shamrock and a word related to shamrocks.

Who is this director?

What are the synonym, shamrock part and shamrock-related word?

ENTREE #3

Name two directors who won back-to-back Oscars for Best Director. 

One of their first names is a nickname for the other’s first name. Their last names sound the same, except that one contains an additional consonant sound.

Who are they?

Note: Entrees #4 through #9 were composed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a major film director. Rearrange the letters of his name to spell a two-word phrase describing his job, and an additional word that is the nickname of another major film director. 

Who are the two directors and what is the job description?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a major film director. 

Drop all but three letters  of his last name, and
rearrange what remains to spell a two-word phrase that describes what the Oscars and Emmys are in the entertainment industry. 

Who is the director and what is the phrase?

ENTREE #6

Take the name of a major film director. 

Drop three letters of his name that spell a
number, and rearrange what remains. 

You’ll get the name of a major film award won by this director, and a word describing acts often depicted in his films, including the one for which he won the award. 

Who is the director and what are the award and the acts depicted in his films?

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a major film director. 

His first name, and two consecutive letters of his last name, can be arranged to spell the
acronymic name of a film awards organization. 

This director was nominated for an award by the organization, but did not win. 

Who is the director and what is the organization?

ENTREE #8

Take the name of an Oscar-winning film director. 

His first name is the name of an award for best director given annually by a European film organization. 

His last name, minus the first three letters, is part of the names of two other Oscar-winning directors. 

Who are these three directors?

ENTREE #9

Take the names of two major film directors in alphabetical order. 

Drop the first director’s first name and the first
and last letters of his last name. 

Move the new first letter of his last name to the end. What remains, followed by the initials of the second director, spell the name of a major film award. 

Who are the two directors and what is the award?

Note: Entree #10 was composed by our friend Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” is regularly featured on P!

ENTREE #10

Take the first and last names of a major film director. 

Drop the last six letters of the name, and rearrange what remains. 

You’ll get something no director wants.

Dessert Menu

Just One Solver’s Just Dessert:

Backspace! Delete! Transpose!

Spell a puzzle backwards.

(No, it’s not “El Z-zuppa!”)

Delete the first letter of the result. 

Interchange the two vowels to form what one who solves the puzzle deserves. 

What is this puzzle. 

What does its solver deserve?

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.