“The Lunatic in My Head...” Affixing a prefix, nixing a word! “Landing in Blanding? Not so outstanding?” Domestic “pound-paring” vs. “pound-packing” “Kissin’ in the Kitchen?” “Intersectimbibility” of Board Games and Booze!; Halloween Treaters invite Vampires that bite!; Weighing-in on the musical scale; Heavenly Puzzley Delights Above... Worldly Delights Below;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“The Lunatic in My Head...”

Name an adjective-and-noun description (in six and three letters) of a kindly dude, benevolent beau or compassionate popinjay. 

Anagram these combined nine letters to spell two words related to a current event. What are these four words and this current event?

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A Flavorful Foursome Of Appetizers:

Affixing a prefix, nixing a word!; “Landing in Blanding? Not so outstanding?”; Domestic “pound-paring” vs. “pound-packing”; “Kissin’ in the Kitchen?”

Affixing a prefix, nixing a word!

1. Name a two-word movie franchise. 

Replace three consecutive interior letters with a 3-letter geometrical prefix. 

The result is a one-word movie franchise. 

What are these franchises and prefix?

“Landing in Blanding? Not so outstanding?”

2. Think of a famous singer – first and last names. Switch the first letters in the names.

Take second and third syllables of this result to, perhaps, describe in two words the town of Blanding in Utah.

Who is this singer?

What is the description?

Domestic “pound-paring” vs. “pound-packing”

3. Take an architectural feature of some houses that, over time, might help you and other residents lose weight.

Move the second letter back eight places earlier in the “circular alphabet stream” (see accompanying graphic). 

Drop the first and third letters. Mix the result to get something that may add some pounds.

What is this “possibly slimming” architectural feature?

What may “pack-on” a few pounds?

“Kissin’ in the Kitchen?”

4.  Name a storage container often found in the kitchen in two words (of two and one syllables). Ignore the second word. Replace first letter of the first word with a copy

of its second syllable’s first letter. Place a hyphen between those syllables.

The result is a sometimes-sign of deep emotional bonding.

Hint: Capitalize the first word of the storage container, but don’t “decapitate” it. Instead, do the opposite – “depedicate” it! The result will be a one-letter-shorter brand name of the container.

What are this storage container and sign of deep emotional bonding?

Extra Credit: Fill in the six missing letters in the Saturday Evening Post magazine cover caption, and explain its significance.

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Do-Re-Mi Hors d’Oeuvre:

Weighing-in on the musical scale

Imagine an infinite stream of notes on the musical scale:

DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO RE etc. ...

Choose a connected trio (which will contain either six or seven letters).

Transpose the first two letters. 

The last three letters of the result spell something you might hear spoken in a church.

Identify two adjacent letters. If you would delete them the result would be a singing voice or family of musical instruments with a particular pitch you might hear at a church service.

But do not delete them. Instead, transpose two adjacent interior letters, then delete the letter that follows them. The result is the surname of a well-known judge who might be present (and perhaps even officiating) when the “something you might hear spoken in a church” is spoken. The last three letters of that surname spell the surname of a second well-known judge who may be present and perhaps officiating.

What three consecutive notes on the scale did you choose?

What is the singing voice or family of musical instruments?

Who are the well-known judges?

“Bored? Games!” Slice:

“Intersectimbibility” of Board Games and Booze!

Name a relatively modern board game adapted from a similar-sounding but two-letter-shorter ancient board game.

Six consecutive letters in the name are an
anagram of a word sometimes heard during drinking.

The remaining letters are an anagram of a “hoppy uppercase adult beverage.”

The first and final two letters of the game are an anagram of an antonym of “guzzle” that drinkers of that beverage would likely not employ.

Six other consecutive letters in the name of the game spell what sounds like an adjective describing some snacks that might complement this adult beverage.

Seven consecutive letters in the board game word, if you replace the last one with the letter preceding it in the alphabet, spell a synonym of “thirsty.” 

What are this board game, three anagrams, adjective and “thirsty” synonym?

Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:

Heavenly Puzzley Delights Above... Worldly Delights Below

Will Shortz’s March 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Challenge puzzle, created by Peter Gordon of Great Neck, New York, reads:

Name some tools used by shoemakers. After this word place part of a shoe. The result will be the subject of a famous painting. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a place that is the first noun in the name of a 5-word famous painting – a noun for place associated with a contrarian lass named Mary.
If you replace the “a” in “Mary” with an “o” the result is “Mory.” 

To this place do the same: replace the “a” with an “o”... but also the replace the “a” with an “o”!  The result is a name (2-syllables, 6 letters).

Now name a type of moss used in this place to increase moisture retention and promotes healthy root growth. This result sounds like a 1-syllable alternative (4 letters) to a 2-syllable name (5 letters).

This 2-syllable-5-letter name and 2-syllable-6-letter name form the full name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is it?...

But wait! You may not yet have sussed out the name of the painting! That’s also part of the answer!

The fourth word begins with a three-letter crop that is a “hominiphone” of a military officer. This fourth word also begins with where this crop is rooted, in five letters.

The fifth word begins with a four-letter store that may often offer a selection of local and seasonal farm produce, such as the three-letter crop.

So...

Who is this puzzle-maker? What is the type of moss?

What is the name of the painting?

What are the crop and where it is rooted?

What is the store?

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are creations by Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Name a material used to make footwear, in two words. 

Rearrange the first word to name a place depicted in a famous painting of the Spanish Renaissance. 

What are the material and the painting?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous American painter, first and last names. 

Move the last letter of the last name four
places later in the alphabet. 

Rearrange to spell two shoe parts and a word that rhymes with “shoe.” 

Who is the painter and what are the shoe parts and rhyming word?

ENTREE #4

The second half of a compound word for something used with footwear is a word for something of which there are two in a famous Picasso painting. 

What is used with footwear, what is depicted in the painting, and what painting is it?

ENTREE #5

Take the second word in the title of a famous Expressionist painting and change the last letter to an E. 

Rearrange to get a word for something undesirable that shoes do. 

What is the painting, and what do shoes do?

ENTREE #6

Insert a space in the last name of a famous American painter to get a phrase for what a certain type of shoe is designed to do. 

Who is the painter and what is the phrase? 

ENTREE #7

A famous Renaissance painter’s last name is also the name of a high-end shoe brand. 

The title of one of his most famous paintings can be arranged to spell a shoe part, a proprietary shoe technology, and a word that
typically appears in business memoranda. 

His first name, with the last two letters changed to a U.S. state postal abbreviation, is a kind of shoe. 

Who is the painter, and what are the painting, shoe part, shoe technology, memorandum word, and kind of shoe?

ENTREE #8

Your mission is to name each title in the octet of visual artistry described below:

A. Name a painting with a title that contains two desirable playing cards – in games like poker, canasta, bridge and gin rummy, for example.

B. Name a painting with a title that contains
two body parts which might be adorned by pricey “apparel” (in the broad sense of the word), but contain only the singular form of that apparel.

C. Take the last 8 letters of the title of a painting. If you delete the 4th and 6th letters, then transpose the 5th and 7th letters, the result spells the name of a river which is the color of the final word in the painting’s title, according to the title of a waltz composed in the 19th Century.

D. The first 5 letters in the title of a painting spell the name of a trick-taking card game. 

The last 7 letters in the title spell a type of endplay strategy – employed in contract bridge, for example – in which an opponent’s apparent trump trick goes away... (well, we can pray, anyway) 

E. Replace the first word in the 2-word title of a painting from an article to a pronoun. 

The result sounds like a dessert. 

F. The title of a painting contains the name of a planet and a word that rhymes with one of its “neighboring planets.”

G. The final three letters of a painting sound like a one-letter-longer pejorative noun that some insensitive  viewers of the painting might use to describe any of the people who appear
in the painting.

H. The title of a painting begins with a palindrome and ends with a palindrome. Neither palindrome is an English word. 

But the first palindrome is a word a Japanese and Hausa language word, and the second palindrome is a word in French, Latin and Turkish language word.

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Blood-Pump(k)in’ Dessert:

Halloween Treaters invite Vampires that bite!

Take a word associated with blood. 

A pair of interior adjacent letters in the word spell a spelled-out letter (like “ef” or “ex,” for example). 

Replace this pair with a letter that is NOT spelled-out  (like “g” or “y,” for example). Then transpose this new letter with the letter to the right of it. 

Move another interior letter two places later in
the word.

The result is a word associated with Halloween.

What are these two 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.

It’s Paradiddle-Riddle-Time! Colony becomes a composer; “Home, home on the habitat...” “...Like a fish needs a bicycle!” “Lustrous” versus “Rusty”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Experiment (with toy and tool!)

Rearrange the combined ten letters of two creatures from folklore to spell; 

(1.) a tool, and  

(2.) a toy... 

that were used in an 18th-century scientific experiment... and,

(3.) what the conductor of the experiment did in order to carry out the experiment (in 3, 4 and 3 letters). 

What are these creatures, the tool, toy and what the experiment’s conductor did?

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Tough Huffmanian Appetizer

It’s Paradiddle-Riddle-Time!

1. 

Think of a nine-letter word for a place away from risk. Remove two letters to name a job concerned with risk.

2. 

Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). 

Change the O to a double E to get another word.

3.

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Vowel Shift Hors d’Oeuvre:

Colony becomes a composer

Name a United Kingdom colony. Change a vowel in it to the following vowel in the alphabet. 

Anagram the result to get a surname of a composer and an informal word for the name of that composer’s nationality. 

What are this colony, surname and description?

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Slice:

“... Like a fish needs a bicycle!”

Place a space within the first word of a two-word fish, forming three words. 

Move the first letter of the third word to the beginning of the first word. 

Swap the first letters of the second and third words. Replace a “u” in the third word with an “a” and delete the space between the second and third words. 

The result is two modes of transport. 

What are these modes of transport and this fish?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

“Home, home on the habitat...”

Will Shortz’s March 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:

Name an animal. The first five letters of its name spell a place where you may find it. The last four letters of this animal will name another anaimal — but one that would ordinarily not be found in this place. What animals are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Posters of online material and comments tend to hide behind what is known online as a “Screen name,” “Username,” “Handle,” “Display name,” or “Profile name.”

A decade-plus-or-so ago, one particular future puzzle-maker (who was-then-and-still-is-now, alas, also often uncertain of what the heck he is doing!) “grabbed” a two-word “handle” from some ghastly combination of the blogosphere and the vacuummy void within his cranium. 

He used this handle to post nonsensical
comments on Blaine’s Blog, and retained it when he signed off on comments he posted on a puzzle blog he launched thanks to invaluable assistance from Word Woman (who had recently launched her own blog, “Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science”

Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science

The “handle” that the “particular future puzzle-maker” picked contains four syllables.

The first syllable is a part of a geometrical figure.

The second syllable is the “fifteenth in a series,”

The third syllable, if you change a vowel, is a part of a tree that is also a general term for the first syllable when it’s a part of a human, rather than geometrical figure.

The fourth syllable is one-half of a past nihilistic and antiesthetic movement in the arts.

What is this “handle?”

(An amusing musing: I hear that “George” is a fine handle... but “Frideric”... Not so much!)

Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 are the brainchildren of our friend and “riffmaster” Nodd, author of his “Nodd ready for prime time,” featured regularly on Puzzleria!...

ENTREE #2

1. Name an animal. The first four letters of its name describe the places where you may find it. The four letters immediately preceding the last letter name other animals you may find in those places. 

What animals are these and what word describes the places they be found in?

ENTREE #3

Name an animal. The first five letters of its name, with the fourth and fifth letters reversed, spell the place in which this animal is believed to have originated. The first three letters of the name, plus the next-to-last letter, can be rearranged to name animals that did not originate in that place. What animals are these and where is the first animal thought to have originated?

ENTREE #4

Name an animal. Move the fourth letter of its name seven places earlier in the alphabet. Now rearrange the last six letters, as modified,
to spell where this animal lives. 

The first three letters of this animal’s name, in reverse order, name another animal, one that generally does not live in such a place. 

What animals are these and where do they live?

ENTREE #5

Take a plural form of the name of an animal. Insert two letters between the second and third
letters. 

The result will describe these animals’ living arrangements in their native environment. 

What are the animals and how do they live?

ENTREE #6

Take the plural form of the name of an animal. Change the first letter to the letter three places
later in the alphabet. Rearrange the result to get an adjective describing these animals and others related to them. 

What are the animals and the adjective?

ENTREE #7

Name an animal. The first four letters of the name, plus one letter, spell a place where you
may find it. 

The last five letters of the name are the first five letters in the name of an animal that would not ordinarily be found in this place. 

What animals are these and what is the place?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word seven-letter animal whose first three letters spell a place where you’ll find it, and whose first four letters spell a second animal found in this place. 

Three consecutive interior letters of this animal, if reversed, spell something sometimes found on the surface of this place. Its 1st, 3rd, 5th and 4th letters spell something else sometimes found on the surface.

What are this animal and place, second animal, and two things sometimes found the place’s surface?

ENTREE #9

Name an animal. Its first five letters spell a place where you may find it. Its last four letters spell a bird of any kind, including many that would ordinarily not be found in this place. 

The final three letters of this animal spell a
chiefly nocturnal bird of prey.

An anagram of the aforementioned “bird of any kind” is a predatory canine creature.

~ Letters #3, 4, 2 & 9 another creature found in the water, a dabbling duck.

~ Letters #6, 9, 4 & 2 spell an insect that feeds on other animals.

~ Letters #5, 2 & 3 spell a rodent.

What are this animal, where you might find it, bird of any kind, bird of prey, canine creature, dabbling duck, insect and rodent?

Extra Credit: ROT-22 the first four letters of the original animal to get an anagram naming many animals’ feet. What is this “ambulatorial” anagram?

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“Said The Spider To The Fly” Dessert:

“Lustrous” versus “Rusty”

Rounded lustrous body parts associated with a synonym of “parlor” are spelled the same as pointed rusty fasteners associated with a synonym of “bar.”

However, although the rounded lustrous body parts are spelled identically to the pointed rusty fasteners associated with a synonym of “bar,” these synonyms of “parlor” and “bar” are spelled a tad differently. 

The synonyms would be spelled identically if you doubled an “O” in the shorter synonym.

What are the body parts, fasteners, and two synonyms?

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.

“Don’t know much about geography, What a wonder full world this would be”; Constellatory Creature Clusters; Buzzer beater? Nothing Sweeter! A Critter Created aMIdST Chaos; Checkmating and matrimony; “Beam us up, Shtrekkie!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Buzzer beater? Nothing Sweeter!

You are a power forward on the Puzzleria! Posers, a semiprofessional team in the NCAA (National Conundrum-Ask-it-all Answer-ciation).

You grab a defensive rebound, down by only two points, but with only two seconds left on the game clock. 

Alas, you are out of time-outs! You cannot stop
the clock!

And so, you choose, wisely, to immediately shoot for one option instead of initiating a second less-likely-to-work option. Both options contain two words, and they are anagrams of one another. 

What are these two options?

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Ecoarchitectural Appetizer:

“Don’t know much about geography,

Around the World in 8.0 daze” 

1.    🏈📺Name an athlete recently in the news.  

Rearrange the letters in the last name to get a two-word phrase of where you might have seen this athlete.  

Who is the athlete and what is the place?

2.    🗺Name an ethnic group, rearrange the letters to get a nationality.  

What is the ethnic group and nationality? 

Note, the ethnic group’s global population is more than 20 times the nation’s.  

3.    🏝Name a well-known 11-letter geographic location that contains seven consecutive letters of the alphabet. 

(Note: The letters do not appear consecutively, however, in the geographic location.)

4.    📖Name two geographic features.  

Combine the words and the result is a well-known fictional character as well as an old comic strip.  

Each word (with a duplicated letter in one removed) combines with the same word to make well-known brand names in two words.

What are the two geographic features, the fictional character/comic strip, and two brand names?

5.    🌍What do the African countries of Kenya, Mali, and Rwanda have in common? 

What two other countries share this property?

6.   🞻🗺What does a person from Spokane have in common with people from Peoria and Topeka?

7.    👰★ Insert the letter (O) within the full name of a well-known actress, then remove the first 4 letters and the last letter of her full name, and the result will be the name of a world capital.  

Who is the actress and what is the capital? 

8.    Ⅻ💃What is unusual in the small Upstate New York cities of Rome and Utica?  

And can you name a 1) Western US city, 2) world capital, 3) country, 4) ancient kingdom, 5) sports venue name and 6) sacred site that all share this property?  

And a variant of this might also include 1) a
mountain range, 2) the 4th largest population settlement in a state, 3) a California city, 4) an American university, 5) a sacred site in ancient history, and 6) a term for lands in the United Kingdom. 

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Half-a-Dozen Different Letters Hors d’Oeuvre:

A Critter Created Amidst Chaos

You can spell a seven-letter creature using only the missing letters in the answers to the five hints (in green) below:

Note: Two of the seven letters in the creature are the same (like the E in ELEPHANT or B in RABBIT), and only those six different letters are used to spell the five answers to the clues  below.)  

~ Hawk-like (six letters)

~ Noisy quarrel (three letters)

~ Box (four letters)

~ Something you may also take when you take a bow (five letters)

~ Anti-tank rocket launcher (four letters)

What are the creature and the answers to the five clues above?

Midnight Menagerie Slice:

Constellatory Creature Clusters 

Insert a vowel followed by a space within a word from astronomy. 

The result is an adjective associated with an animal, followed by a noun for a creature. 

What are this word, adjective and animal?

Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss:

“Beam us up, Shtrekkie!”

Will Shortz’s March 15th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, written by Mike Reiss (who’s been a showrunner, writer, and producer “The Simpsons”) reads:

Think of a popular movie franchise with many sequels. Hidden in consecutive letters inside its name is a food. Replace that food with a single letter and you’ll get another popular film franchise. What films are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Appetizers read:

ENTREE #1

“Bart Simpson, who presumably engaged in occasional barfing in public, also likely tended to annoy those who may have witnessed it.”

Rearrange the letters in the name of one of Bart’s “producers” and “motivators” to spell synonyms of a 7-letter word and of a 5-letter word that appear in that sentence. 

Who is this “producer-motivator” of Bart Simpson? What are the 7-letter and 5-letter words? What are their synonyms?

(Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 were composed by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is a Puzzlerian staple.)

ENTREE #2

Name the title character in a multi-film franchise. 

Ten consecutive letters in the name spell (1) the given name of the title character in a second film franchise, followed by (2) the last
name of the title character in a third film franchise. 

Who are these three characters?

ENTREE #3

Think of a popular movie franchise with several sequels. Consecutive letters in its name spell the brand name of a food. 

Replace that name with a single letter and you'll get the title of several other films, most notably a 2005 action-comedy. 

What are the franchise, the brand name, and the film title?

ENTREE #4

The name of a popular film franchise is also the last name of the main character in a second franchise that includes radio, TV, and movies. 

What are the two franchises and who is the character?

ENTREE #5

Think of a popular movie franchise with many sequels. 

Consecutive letters in its name can be rearranged to spell another popular film franchise. 

What are these two franchises?

ENTREE #6

Think of a popular two-word movie franchise. Consecutive letters inside its name spell the first name of the main character in a popular one-word movie franchise. 

The first part of the one-word franchise name is an object that typically contains the first part of the two-word franchise name. 

The second part of the one-word name is also the second word in the two-word name. 

What are the two franchises, and who is the character?

ENTREE #7

Name the title character in a popular 21st century movie franchise with many sequels, first and last names. 

The first three, sixth, and last two letters in the
names, in that order, spell the last name of the title character in a 20th century two-film franchise. 

Both franchises were based on novels. What are the two franchises?

ENTREE #8

(Note: Entree #8 is an appetizing riff composed by Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is a Puzzlerian staple.)

ENTREE #8

Take the title a two-word cinematic political action thriller that begins with an article. 

The second word contains a food. Drop the first vowel that appears in that food. As a result, the second word becomes a medical device, transforming the film’s “love over war” theme into “life over death.”

What are the movie title, food, and medical device?

ENTREE #9

Think of a popular three-word movie franchise that spawned a sequel, a prequel, and the third-longest-running musical in Broadway history. Ignore the first word, an article. 

From the remaining two words (each containing 4 letters), remove 4 consecutive letters that are an anagram of sound a barnyard animal makes. The four remaining letters, in order, spell a word for a “hake” or a “burbot.” 

The first and third of those four letters are consecutive even-numbered letters in the alphabet (B, D, F, H, J, etc.). Take the even number-numbered letter that

follows them in the alphabet. Place it in front of the second and fourth letters (in the word for “burbot”) to spell the critter that makes that barnyard sound.

What are this movie franchise, critter and the sound it makes?

ENTREE #10

Name a woman who was born and buried in Kansas – in 1898, then in 1996. Before she wed her future hubby, a politician (a marriage that lasted a “Heinz-Variety” number of years!), she had to wait for him to be first divorced and then widowed. 

Her close friends were aware that this Kansan miss would have to pray long and hard in order to “___ if ___ is her man!”

Replace one of the 14 letters in a film franchise with a 3-letter homophone that is a verb (a verb that is the word in the first blank). The 13 remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the remainder of the quotation:  “... if ___ is her man!”

Who are this wife and husband?

What is the whole the quotation? 

What is “a film franchise?”

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“Loyal” Gambit Dessert:

Checkmating and matrimony

Name a word for a calculated maneuver or ploy that a chess master may employ in an attempt to outwit an opponent. 

One part of that word may remind you of something associated with weddings. The
other part is where it may come from.

What is this calculated maneuver?

What is the thing associated with weddings?

Where may it come from?

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.