Mathew Huffman’s “Great British Bakeoff”; Order An Ordinary Nth Ordinal Number; Reduce NO letters in “bicycle” to get “bicycle!”; “Trout, Stout, LOUD!”; “Fight erupts at Puzzle’s end!” Poems & Recreation

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Order An Ordinary Nth Ordinal Number

Name a hyphenated ordinal number that consists of a second ordinal number and a anagram of slang term for “sailor.”

Delete that slang term from your original ordinal number.

The result is a different ordinal number.

What are these two ordinal numbers? 

What is the slang term for “sailor” and the “sailor anagram” that helped you to arrive at your correct answer?

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Double-Sweet Parabodiddley Appetizer:

Two 4x4 mini crosswords: “Great British Bakeoff”

(Note: The following two-part Appetizer comes courtesy of a brilliant young multitalented master-puzzle-maker named Mathew Huffman.

 Mathew has contributed literally hundreds of puzzles to Puzzleria! over our 16-plus years... and counting. Enjoy these fruits of his genius!

You can always count on Mathew to come up with challenging, entertaining and fresh challenges. This time, he has composed a pair of mini-crosswords. Enjoy his “gems” and his genius

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“Donny Broke His Nose!” Hors d’Oeuvre

“Fight erupts at Puzzle’s end!”

 Name an eight-letter term or a rapid, continuous plummeting.

Insert a conjunction between the fifth and sixth letters, followed by a hyphen.

The result is a synonym of “donnybrook.”

What are the term for rapid continuous plummeting and the synonym of “donnybrook?”

“Fishy” Slice:

“Trout, Stout, LOUD!”

Name a “fishy” opportunist who seeks quick profit at the expense of others. 

Delete first names from the middle of each word, leaving letters that can spell a beverage and a radio setting.

What are this opportunist, first names, beverage and setting?

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Riffing Off Shortz and Schwartz:

Reduce NO letters in “bicycle” to get “bicycle!”

Will Shortz’s August 2nd Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle Challenge, from Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Think of a type of exercise equipment in four syllables. Remove the two middle letters and you’ll name a means of transportation. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

An premier word-puzzle-maker doubles as a proficient professional medical practitioner. His puzzles have appeared often on Will Shortz’s weekly “The Puzzle” broadcast, Sundays over National Public Radio

For example, he would be patient and never say “_____!...” (5 letters) even to a “difficult patient.

Nor would he ever write a contra-indicated
prescription for a patient with internal-not-exterior medical needs (a two-word astringent packed with healing tannins, for example, that smacks of a past Shirley Booth TV comedy) (5 & 5 letters). 

Those 15 letters can be rearranged to spell the name of our healer/puzzle-maker.

Solve that? Here is a pair Bonus medical Posers for you to solve (All six answers apply somewhat to our expert NPR puzzle-maker. All content in this is intended to allude to the works of this creative NPR puzzle-maker who is also blessed with healing expertise.):

Bonus Poser A:

Take:

A1.  the profession of one who helps you remain healthy (5 letters), followed by...

A2. Five letters that can be anagrammed to spell a small sticky convex slip with instructions on how to help you maintain that health (5) 

A3. a piece of medical exercise equipment (8,4).

Name the exercise equipment, the profession, and “sticky slip” that helps you remain healthy. 

Solve that? Now solve... 

Bonus Poser B:

Rearrange the 22 letters in Poser A to spell the answers in Part B: 

B1. what medical professionals may say to reassure their patients (2 & 4 letters),

B2. a minuscule yet important circular iota that is often used in prescriptions (7), and B3. the type of ink doctors use to write prescriptions (pens, never pencils!) (9).

Who is this medical professional/puzzle-maker/health-helper?

What are the two answers to our introductory puzzle?

What are the six answers to our two Bonus Posers A & B?

Bonus Question: How are Bonus Posers A & B related to one another?

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

ENTREE # 2

Name a kind of exercise you may use equipment to perform. 

Double the first two letters and rearrange to name equipment found on some means of transportation. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 3

Think of a brand of exercise equipment. 

Rearrange its letters to spell a car model
name. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 4

Think of a type of exercise equipment, in two words. 

Remove one letter and change another letter
to an R. 

Rearrange to spell a one-word plural term for certain means of transportation. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 5

Think of a type of exercise equipment. 

Change the first two letters. The result will spell a means of transportation. 

What are these words?

ENTREE # 6

Think of a type of exercise equipment, in two words. 

Rearrange its letters to spell a means of transportation, in two parts. 

The first part is an abbreviation for the item being transported.

The second part is a plural word for vehicles used to transport this and other items. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #7:

Think of a type of exercise equipment. 

Remove the first and last letters and rearrange
to name a truck manufacturer. 

What are these words?

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Advanced Spoonerization Dessert:

Poems & Recreation 

Name a two-syllable Italian poet, scholar and humanist.

Interchange the first letter of the first syllable with the first two letters of the second syllable. 

Pronounce these two new syllables as if each rhymes with its corresponding original syllable.

The result is an outdoor recreational area that provides opportunities for recreation, relaxation and shade, in two words.

Who is this Italian poet?

What is the recreational area?

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!

Greek To Me (by R. Cane); What’s In A (Sur)name? (parts 1 2, & 3); Animal Instinct; Nobody Does It Better; Poetry Corner, by Anna Graham; Cornball moth-eaten comfy sweetie balderdash!; “Aircrafts & Criminal Courts”; “Creature matures, makes a move!”; “Shapeliness! Synonymy! Assembly!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Shapeliness! Synonymy! Assembly!”

Write a geometrical term in uppercase. 

Remove letters that can spell a synonym of “assembly.” 

What remains perfectly illustrates the geometrical term.

What is this geometrical term?

What is the synonym of “assembly”? 

What remains after it is removed?

Appetizer Menu

Hellenization “Surnominalization” “Instinky Creatures?” “Chitty Chitty” Appetizer:  

Greek To Me (by R. Cane): What’s In A (Sur)name? (parts 1 2, & 3); Animal Instinct; Nobody Does It Better; Poetry Corner, by A nna Graham

GREEK TO ME, by R. Cane

1. 📖📚The three words described below originated in ancient Greece but are found in standard English dictionaries. 

Guess the words from the descriptions provided.

I. Take an eight-letter word for a center or hub that is derived from a word for a body part.  

Remove one letter and rearrange the rest to
spell a word for something used on a different body part.  

What are these two words?

II. Take a seven-letter word for a phantom.  Four consecutive letters of this word, in order, spell a word for an icon. If those four letters are removed, the remaining letters, in order, spell a word for a period of time. What are these three words?   

III.  An ancient Olympic sport that is still around today contains ten letters.  

Put a space between the third and fourth letters, and a hyphen between the fourth and fifth letters.  

You will spell something that is used to prepare food, and a food item that needs no preparation.  

What are the sport, the item used to prepare food, and the food item?

2. WHAT’S IN A (SUR)NAME?, part 1

⚾ What famous American’s surname sounds like a description of the post-season 1963 New York Yankees?

3. WHAT’S IN A (SUR)NAME?, part 2

🎜🎝 Remove one letter from the surname of a classical composer and rearrange the remaining letters to name a bottled item you might find in a grocery store. 

The surname is also a brand of this item. 

Who is the composer and what is the item?

4. WHAT’S IN A (SUR)NAME?, part 3

🎾 What past actor’s surname sounds like part of
a score from a famous 1980 Wimbledon match?

5. ANIMAL INSTINCT

🎸 What might musician Eric Burdon have said to a moldy lasagne ingredient taking up space in his fridge?

6. NOBODY DOES IT BETTER

🔫 Double the fourth letter in the anglicized name of a major Asian city and add a space to get
something James Bond wanted to do and presumably did. 

What is the city, and what did 007 want to do? 

7. POETRY CORNER, by Anna Graham

🖋 Fill in the blanks with four seven-letter words to complete the verse.

She  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , strove, achieved great heights,

But though they _ _ _ _ _ _ _ her flawless art,

 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ now plagues her days and nights,

As _ _ _ _ _ _ _ pile up, sleep departs,

Ah, bittersweet are motherhood’s delights! 

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Anti-Saloon League Hors d’Oeuvre:

“There’s 3 T’s (but no ‘Sousey’ Seas) in ‘Teetotal’”

In the midst of the dawn of the _________ Jazz era in the early 20th Century, Prohibition emerged. The U.S. government ___ ___ ___ and other alcohol sales. This movement, led by groups like the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League, culminated in the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. This nationwide ban made the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic drinks illegal starting in 1920.

Letters in the first blank (each of them used just once) can be rearranged to spell the words in the next three blanks.

What are those four missing words?

“Amphibious  Slice”

“Aircrafts & Criminal Courts”

Name a standard criminal court response – such as guilty, not guilty, or no contest – entered by a defendant who is legally competent and of sound mind, indicating that they are fully aware of their actions and able to assist in their own defense.

Name also any fixed-wing powered aircraft that can take off and land on water. It is an anagram of the criminal court response word.

What is this criminal court response?

What is the fixed-wing aircraft?

Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Entrees:

Cornball moth-eaten comfy sweetie balderdash! 

Will Shortz’s July 26th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, from Evan Kalish of Bayside, New York, reads:

There is a set of five five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter. If the middle is any letter from K through O, it makes a common word. However, no other letter can go in the middle to complete a word. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, in ten letters. 

Rearrange these letters to spell:

~ a Hindu god of destruction and regeneration, and

~ a below-the-belt body part. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who is the god? What is the body part?

Note: Nodd (our friend and riffmeister extraordinaire) notes that Entrees #2 through #7 are conundrums based on the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Other dictionaries may include words not found in that dictionary. Proper nouns are excluded.

ENTREE #2

Find a set of five five-letter words that vary by
just their middle letter, using the consecutive letters V-Z as the middle letter.

ENTREE #3

Using the same first, second, fourth and fifth letters as in the previous Entree, find a set of three five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter, using the consecutive letters N, O &
P as the middle letter.

ENTREE #4

Find a set of three five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter. In alphabetical order, the three words are nautical, culinary, and botanical terms, respectively. 

The three middle letters can be arranged to spell a kind of animal kept as a pet. 

(Hint: No other letter, other than those five, can go in the middle to complete a word.)

ENTREE #5

Find a set of five five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter. 

In alphabetical order, the five words are academic, medical, botanical, carpentry, and jewelry terms, respectively. 

The four common letters can be arranged to
form two words, both of which sound like letters of the alphabet. No other letter can go in the middle to complete a word.

ENTREE #6

Find a set of eight five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter. 

The words begin and end with the same letter. 

The middle letters are L, M, P, S, T, W, X and Z. 

ENTREE #7

Find a set of seven five-letter words that vary by just their middle letter, using D, G, K-N, and R as the middle letters. 

No other letter can go in the middle to complete a word.

ENTREE #8

Fill in the missing letters in the nineteen empty blank spaces pictured at the left (one one the 19 spaces. (Note: One of these 19 “spaces” is  represented by a non-underlined “que?tion mark” instead of a horizontal blank line.)  

Also replace the word in the lower-right-hand-most image with a four-letter synonym. What six words do you come up with?

(Note: One of the four-letter words in my answer to Entree #8 is not really a legitimate Merriam-Webster-approved word.)

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Non-Repetitive Dessert:

“Creature matures, makes a move!”

Name a young creature spelled with letters that do not repeat.

Repeat the second letter. 

Rearrange this letter-longer result to spell this same
creature after a few years have passed, and a movement it may then make. 

What are these two creatures and this movement?

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 sometimesquestionable) 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.

Rearranging the office assets?; “Here, have a new venue!”; “‘Anagranimal’ New Kingdom?” “Bonbon” alas is a “No-no”; An Anagrammatic Quartet; Featured Creatures! “Maybe Octopi “Occupi” the Ocean Floor; May-born Baby?” A Doc prescribes some peRXinate!” “A recording... that is a TYPE of recording” Minty-Fresh Verbal Numismatics

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Minty-Fresh Verbal Numismatics

Let’s coin a freshly minted six-letter verb! 

It shall replace the clunky four-word term “execute an elbow stand...” 

A gymnast normally performs this feat, which requires both balance and poise, upon a mat. 

A circus acrobat may do so in a ring. 

The proper posture requires that the body be inverted, with one’s body weight balanced on the forearms, and with legs held above (as depicted on the “plate image,” above). 

What is this newly minted verb?

Hint #1: The verb is an anagram of a novelist’s surname. 

Hint #2: The verb (which you will not yet find in dictionaries!) is analogous to an existing five-letter verb involving a different body part... but one whose past tense also consists of five letters. 

(The past tense of our new verb, however, will likely contain eight letters!) 

Appetizer Menu

Jefferific Appetizer:

Rearranging the office assets?; “Here, have a new venue!”; “‘Anagranimal’ New Kingdom?” An Anagrammatic Quartet; “Bonbon” alas is a “No-no”; Featured Creatures! 

Rearranging the office assets?

1. 🏢The letters of a five-letter word can be rearranged into five other ordinary English words. Two of these six words (and perhaps even three, and nearly four!) can relate to office work. 

What are these six anagrammatic words? 

“Here, have a new venue!”

2. 🎮 A game, ordinarily played on a large field, can also be played in an alternate venue, at which time its name becomes a two-word game. The field game and the alternate venue are anagrams. 

What are the game and the venue?

“‘Anagranimal’ New Kingdom?                           3. 🎪🐘The name of a place, and an animal associated with that place, can be rearranged to get the name of a different place. What are this animal and pair of places? 

An Anagrammatic Quartet                   4. 📖The letters of a four-letter word can be rearranged to spell four additional ordinary English words. What are these five words?

“Bonbon” alas is a “No-no” 

5. There are two six-letter words which each consist of repeating groups of the same three letters (i.e. “abcabc”). What are they? Note: For example: The candy “bonbon” fulfills the “abcabc” requirement. And, it would be an acceptable solution... if only “bnobno,” “onbonb,” “obnobn,” “nobnob” or “nbonbo” were actual English words. But, alas, they are not! 

Featured Creatures!

6. What six-letter creatures are suggested by the accompanying image?

Hint: Think “geometrical figure” and “Greek-Alphabet.” (You may have to remove three letters that spell can be rearranged to spell “Old Gray Mare” from the word for the shape of the crosswalk sign.)

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Redundant Hors d’Oeuvre: 

“A recording... that is a TYPE of recording” 

Take a synonym of “adherent.” Transpose Letters 6 & 7. Move them to the end. Insert two spaces. 

The result is a recording, an abbreviation for “that is,” and the type of recording. 

What are this synonym, recording, abbreviation and type of recording?

“Disorienting Slice”

A Doc prescribes some “peRXinate?!”

Daisy visited her doctor, complaining of unsteadiness and disorientation. The doctor’s terse and unhelpful three-word prescription contained all the letters of his diagnosis, two of them twice. What were his diagnosis and prescription?

Riffing Off Shortz And Ezersky Entrees:

Octopi “Occupi” the Ocean Floor

Will Shortz’s July 19th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, from Will’s New York Times colleague Sam Ezersky, reads:

Take the name of a popular 21st-century film with animals, in eight letters. 

 Remove the first and last letters, then change one of the remaining six letters to a C, to spell a plural word for certain animals. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Ezersky Entrees read:

ENTREE #1:

Name a puzzle-maker who is associated with a “Gray Lady.” 

The first five letters of his name are an anagram of something that is “grayish.” The last three letters, in order, spell where one might see this “something.” The remaining letters, in order, spell where one who is exposed to this “grayish something” may wind up!

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are this “grayish something,” where one might see it, and where one might wind up?

Who is the “Gray Lady?”

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

ENTREE #2

Take the title of a 21st-century film about an animal, in seven letters. Remove the next-to-last letter and change one of the remaining letters to a U. Rearrange to spell a plural word for certain other animals. 

What are the film and the plural word?

ENTREE #3             Take the title of a 21st-century film about an animal, in six letters. Remove the next-to-last letter and rearrange to spell a plural word for certain otheranimals. 

What are the film and the plural word?

ENTREE #4

Take the title of a 21st-century film about animal agriculture, in 10 letters. Change one of the letters to an N to spell a plural word for certain animals. What are the film title and the plural word?  

ENTREE #5                             Take the title of an award-winning 21st-century animated short film about an animal, in five letters. Rotate one letter (in lowercase) 180 degrees clockwise and rearrange to spell a plural word for certain other animals. What are the film and the plural word?

ENTREE #6                                Take the title of a 21st-century film about a fictional humanoid creature, in two words of nine letters. Disregard the first word. Replace the last two letters of the second word with a D to spell a plural word for certain non-fictional animals. What are the film and the plural word?

ENTREE #7

Take the title of a 21st-century film featuring animal characters, in 16 letters. 

The first six letters spell a title applied to a famous person of the past. Replace those
letters with the first letter of a title applied to the person’s father. You’ll be left with two animals. 

What are the film title, the titles applied to the famous person and father, and the animals?

Entree #8 is the ingenious brainchild of our friend and prolific riff-crafter Plantsmith. 

ENTREE #8

Take the two-word title of a 21st century film that features some animals. Remove a possessive pronoun and mix remaining the letters to get a 7-letter adjective that describes an animal with a prominent role in the film (but that does not describe a great number of other animals).

Hint: Three consecutive letters in the “some featured animals” spell a word associated with a variety of animals.

Dessert Menu

April? May? June? Dessert:

“Maybe a May-born Baby?”

Take a one-syllable word you might assume would appear on a birth certificate and a specific four-letter name that sometimes actually does. 

Switch the initial letters and delete the space to name a legume. What are this word, name and legume?

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!