A paddler’s prayer for freedom; Loman, London, Nobel Laureate; Unpin the tail from the donkey? University City stumper; Three cons in a fountain (with “nickel”names); Nick-Al-Odie-Ann

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
Loman, London, Nobel Laureate

Take the first name of one of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” characters named Loman, the one-word name of a character in Jack London’s “Call of the the Wild,” and the two-word name of a character in “The Bear” by Nobel laureate William Faulkner. 
What do these four words have in common?

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Jeff Zarkin Puzzle Riffs Appetizer:
Three cons in a fountain (with “nickel”names) 

Think of a ten-letter word, describing certain crimes. 
This ten-letter word, phonetically, consists of three nicknames. 
What is the word? 
What are the nicknames?


Heavenward Ho Slice:
A paddler’s prayer for freedom

The poem below (in anapestic dimeter) is missing its final two words.
Using the sound and sense of the poem as your guide, find them.
Hints: 
1. The words you seek are a pair of nouns; the first one is possessive.
2. The second noun rhymes with the second syllable of “farewell.” 
3. The title of the poem (not provided) consists of the two words you seek.
4. The two words, if an apostrophe is removed as well as the space between them, form a word with a double-digit number of letters.
The poem: 
I am paddling toward heaven,
Earth behind me, farewell.
Lord have mercy, release me
From this _________ ____.

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Chaucer’s Monk(ey)’s Tale Slice:
Unpin the tail from the donkey?

Name an creature. Remove its tail. (That is, remove from the name of the creature the four letters that appear in the word “tail.” 
Add a vowel to the end of this result to name a well-known American citizen. 
Who is it?
Note: The “t” and “i” in “tail” each appear only once in the name of the creature. 
The “a” and “l”, however, each appear twice in the creature; remove from the creature only the second instances of their appearance.

Riffing Off Shortz and Hillson Slices:
Nick-Al-Odie-Ann

Will Shortz’s July 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Harry Hillson of Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, reads:
Think of an eight-letter word for something we all crave now. It consists of three consecutive men’s nicknames. What are they?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Hillson Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Replace the sixth letter in the name with a duplicate of the twelfth letter, and replace the ninth letter in the name with a duplicate of the tenth letter. 
The result is the first and last name of a singer-songwriter who John Lennon and Paul McCartney, in a 1967 Beatles interview, said was their “favorite group.”
The singer-songwriter’s middle name consists a shorter version of the nickname that Wally Cleaver called one of  pals followed by the first name of Wally’s father.
Who are this singer-songwriter and puzzle-maker?
ENTREE #2:
Think of an seven-letter English word that is a synonym of a ten-letter English word that begins with a common two-letter French pronoun, followed by the name of a month (in English), followed by Capone’s nemesis.
The seven-letter word begins with the nickname of a man who married into “American royalty,” followed by the nickname of a woman who married into British royalty, followed by the nickname of a man who was American “baseball royalty.”
What are these seven-letter and ten-letter words?
ENTREE #3:
In the wake of the Wars of the Roses, in which rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet (the House of Lancaster and the House of York) fought for control of the throne of England, many Noble Houses emerged. These included the Houses of Lovat, Sheffield, Dorset, Harborough, Baring, Manners, Sidmouth, Thurlow... 
’Tis the Noble House of Thurlow that pertains to this puzzle.
William Thurlow who lived in the time of Queen Elizabeth, died in 1590, leaving two sons. The younger was father to an enterprising traveller. However, it was through the elder son’s great-great grandson and namesake (born in 1732 and a proud possessor of a prized silk gown by age 29) that the Thurlow family was finally ennobled.
But, now back to the Sixteenth Century: William’s elder son’s first name ended in a synonym, if spelled backward, of  “sketch” or  “stalemate.” William’s younger son’s first name ended in an anagram of “also.” 
Around the house, William and his progeny called one another by short, informal names. String together what the sons called their father and what their father called his younger and elder sons to form an eight-letter word that means “affected by acute, extreme anxiety.”
What is this eight-letter word?
ENTREE #4:
A word that a young poet once equated with “truth” consists of two consecutive men’s nicknames. 
Take homophones of both nicknames and place a space between them. 
The result is a kind of cravat that many men crave. 
What word did the poet equate with truth?
What is the craved cravat?
Who is the poet?
ENTREE #5:
Think of an seven-letter word for a popular Halloween party activity that involves apples. 
It consists of two consecutive men’s nicknames that a pair of singing siblings had.
What is this activity?
Who are the brothers? 
ENTREE #6:
Pitchers Young and Blyleven greet pianist Curie and guitarist Cooder at a convention of aficionados of the song “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” 
Take the first names of the pitchers, followed by the word of greeting they say, followed by the first names of the pianist and guitarist to form an 13-letter word that means “stealing from others using a computer.” 
What is this 13-letter word?
ENTREE #7:
Think of two-word event of six and seven letters that the whole world celebrates during a a pair of months that roar in like a leonine critter and amble out like an ovine critter. 
The first word in the event consists of two consecutive men’s nicknames. 
The second word consists of an adjective for a horse (but with its final letter bobbed), followed by a bovine critter.
What is the event?

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“You’re Higher-Ed!” Dessert:
University City stumper

Change the second letter of a university city to an “s”, then switch it with the fifth letter. 
These five letters spell a word that is essential to a growth process that is spelled out, in order, by the remaining letters of the city. 
What is the city?

Every Friday 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 Friday.

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.

Houses of the wholly grueling puzzles; Shout “Eureka!” ere solving this puzzle? Warhog, woodhuck & other heartless critters; A pair of patriotic puzzles; A pilgrimward progression;

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Schpuzzle Of TheWeek:
A pilgrimward progression

Name a five-word idiom that describes the cost of something pricey. 
Rearrange its combined letters to form two words that can be read as instructions, the second word of which is an African creature. Following the instructions will result in last name of a Mayflower pilgrim. 
What is this idiom?
What is the creature?
Who is the pilgrim?

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Econfusions Appetizer:
Houses of the wholly grueling puzzles


Around the house 
?1. Name something in two words (of 5 and 8 letters) that you wouldn’t want to see around your house.  Combine the two words to get something that you also wouldn’t want in your house. What are the two items?
Hint: The first thing is something that is literally around your house, and the second involves a sense that is not sight.

Houses of Wor(d)ship  
?2. Name something you might see in a church in nine letters.  Move the third and fourth letters three places later in the alphabet (for example, A becomes D) and the result will be something else you might see in a church.

To have or to have not  
?3. Name something you can find in your house. The item’s etymology involves something that was once used, is no longer permitted, and that is often removed. 
What is the item and what is the word origin?

Boy’s Town  
?4. Take a common male first name in six letters.  The first four letters name an animal, the last four letters name where you might find that animal. What are the boy’s name, the animal, and the location?

Greatest Show on Earth at the Landmark Theatres
?5. Think of a well-known movie with one word in the title. Divide that word and translate to another language and the result will be a well-known landmark. What is the movie and what is the landmark?

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Astrological Slice:
Shout “Eureka!” ere solving this puzzle?

Rearrange the combined letters of two signs of the zodiac to form what solvers might exclaim just as they are about to complete a puzzle. 
What is it?

Riffing Off Shortz and Pegg Slices:
Warhog, woodhuck & other heartless critters

Will Shortz’s June 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ed Pegg Jr. (who runs the website MathPuzzle.com.), reads:
Think of a five-letter animal. Remove the middle letter, and two opposites remain. What animal is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Pegg Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a word in the lyrics of a TV sitcom theme song, a word that follows the word “scrambled.” 
Take another word in the lyrics that is an approximate rhyme of the first word. 
Move the last two letters of this approximate-rhyming word to the beginning of the approximate-rhyming word, leaving a space between. 
The result is the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?

ENTREE #2:
Divide into two parts the surname of a past British poet/playwright, forming two antonyms. 
Who is this poet/playwright?
Hint: The poet/playwright taught English literature at Princeton to two twentieth-century men of letters: 
1. a novelist whose surname is the same as the middle name of a twentieth-century U.S. president, and 
2. a literary critic whose surname is the same as the surname of a twentieth-century U.S. president.
ENTREE #3:
Think of  a nine-letter hyphenated word. Remove a word meaning “bodies of water” from the interior and two antonyms remain.
Hint: The hyphenated word is:
Summer, for Sharks and Jets;
Winter, for Cardinals and Orioles;
Spring, for Titans and Giants.
What is this word?
ENTREE #4:
Name something seen on a football field, in eight letters. 
Remove two consecutive interior letters. Rearrange the letters to the right of the resultant gap, and two antonyms remain. 
What eight-letter word is this?
ENTREE #5:
Think of what puppies use to dig and kittens use to knead. 
Move the second letter to the end and remove the first letter. Divide the result into two parts. 
Rearrange the letters of each part to form a pair of antonyms. 
What do puppies and kittens use?
What are the antonyms?
ENTREE #6:
Take a word that means “supplying with ample fluid or moisture.” 
Remove the fourth letter, and move the first letter to the end. The first three letters and the last five letters of this result can be rearranged to spell a pair of antonyms. 
What are they?

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Independence Day Duo Dessert:
A pair of patriotic puzzles

1. Take three of the final six words in the first verse of a patriotic song. Make an anagram for each word. Arrange these anagrams in such an order that they form a three-word phrase describing the lyrical content of most of that verse. 
Now delete the first word of this phrase to describe the content of the chorus that follows. 
What are these phrases?

2. Take three consecutive words from a patriotic song. 
Move the third word between the first two. A string of consecutive letters within the result spells the female and male names of an animal. 
What are these names?
Hint: The three consecutive words are an article, noun and pronoun.

Every Friday 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 Friday.

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.

“...And a raven in a Poe tree?” Pedro, Ivan, Johann and Ruan; Non-mathematical trinomials; Occupations and Operations; “Every book has a spine, right?”

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Pedro, Ivan, Johann and Ruan

What curious distinction do the lives of each of these four men share?
Chinese scholar Ruan Yuan 
Spanish dramatist and poet Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov
German composer Johann Mattheson
Hint: My intended answer does not involve the concept of consecutiveness.

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Conundrumbeat Appetizer:
Occupations and Operations

🥁1. Name someone at the helm of a vehicle. Remove the fourth letter and move the first letter two places forward. The result will name another person in the vehicle.
🥁2. Name a type of person that might be seen at street intersections. Advance the first letter two places forward in the alphabet, then reverse the order of the letters. The result describes how this person often appears.
🥁3. Name an occupation in six letters. Drop the last letter to name a reason the person might be fired.
🥁4. Name a military operation in four words. Take the last word and reverse two of its letters to name a musical instrument used in the military.

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Ornitholyrical Slice:
“...And a raven in a Poe tree?”

A bird is nesting in the following poetry. 
Name it.
(The poem contains alternating lines of anapestic dimeter and trochaic trimeter.)
Onto Earth we are hurled,
Heaven though is pending.
Blest with best of both worlds,
Happy is the ending.

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Non-mathematical trinomials

Will Shortz’s June 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 

The first and last letters of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name plus the first and last letters of the third name, in order, name a city and lake in Europe. 
Who is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 
The first letter of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name plus the first two letters and last letter of the third name, in order, name a tenebrous Greek god. 
Who are the person and the god? 
ENTREE #2:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. The first name anagrams to a word that might be an A, B, C, D, or F (but not an E). 
The first two letters of the second name plus the first two letters of the third name, in order, name something most pooches enjoy. 
Who is this famous person?
What are this anagram and thing that pooches enjoy?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a famous author who was also a lawyer. His name consists of three names. 
The last name is a word that precedes “voice,” “thesis” or “tournament.” 
The first and last letters of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name spell the first name of another famous three-named author was was also a lawyer. 
Who are these two author/attorneys?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 
Identify three letters in the first name that, in order, spell a word in the U.S. national anthem. Replace them with an A, B and I. 
Delete the last letter of the middle name. 
The result is a creature, followed by two places where you might find the creature. Who is this person? 
ENTREE #5:
In lyrics a Badger singer wrote, he admits he picks and grins, loves and sings, smokes and tokes... although he may just be joking. He admits to being called three names by some people. 
The names consist of  one, two and three words. 
Take six letters: the first and last letters of each name. Use these six letters to fill in the two blanks in the following sentence: 
“A smitten suitor proposes on bended knee to his beloved, presenting her with a diamond or other ___ in hopes that she will say ___.” 
What words fill in the two blanks? What are the three names some people call the singer?
ENTREE #6:
Think of a very rich and somewhat famous person whose name consists of three names. 
The first and last letters of the first name plus the first letter of the second name plus the first two letters and last two letters of the third name, in order, name an eeeeeelongated fish. 
Who are the person and the creature?
Hint: The person is associated with two no-longer-living legends. 
ENTREE #7:
Think of a famous jurist who served as a Supreme Court justice during the administrations of six consecutive presidents. 
The jurist’s name consists of three names. The first and last letters of the first name plus the first two letters and last two letters of the second name, in order, spell the last name of the pen name of a British author. 
Who are the jurist and the author? 
ENTREE #8:
Think of a famous person whose name consists of three names. 
Take the first and last letters of the first name plus the first and last letters of the second name plus the first and last letters of the third name, in order. 
Replace the first and fifth letters of the result with the same consonant. The result is the make of an automobile. 
Who is this famous person?

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Bibliology Dessert:

“Every book has a spine, right?”

Name a bookstore section, like architecture or fiction, for example. 

Move the last letter of the section into the second position. 

Divide this result in two to name a body part and an adjective relating to that body part. 

What are these words?

Every Friday 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 Friday.

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.

“Your sister wears eskimonos!” Seefood you may sea on menus; The answer is not Au, Ea or Ur; Thinking through puzzles thought-provoking, though not too tough; Time to play ketch-up?

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Seefood you may sea on menus 

Name a word for seafood you might see on a menu. 
Change the first letter of this word and spell the result backward to name a different seafood you might see on the same menu. 
What are these two seafoods?
Hint: The letter that is changed and the letter it is changed to are the initials of a noted filmmaker who directed a movie based on a novel by a noted author with the same initials.

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Skydiverting Appetizer:
“Your sister wears eskimonos!”

⭕1. Imagine, if an Inuit/Eskimo man of North America were to travel to a distant country on the opposite side of the world, what the inhabitants of that country might call him by simply rearranging the letters of their country?

⭕2. Spoonerize a 2-word phrase describing where your sister may live to get a 2-word phrase meaning “There’s something is wrong with you!” What are they?

⭕3. Spoonerize a 2-word dwelling located in America’s heartland, someplace an adventurous person might enjoy spending the night, to phonetically describe a place where you would not enjoy spending the night because it is “Blank Blank.” What are they? 

⭕4. Think of a country in eight letters. Change the first vowel to an A and then switch the positions of the third and fourth letters with each other to get the name of a well known tree. What are they?

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Municipal Slice:
The answer is not Au, Ea or Ur  

What large city is associated with the value of its third letter?
Hint #1: There are six figures in the city’s population, and more than six characters in its name.
(More obscure) Hint #2: Hood’s Honey.
(Perhaps more helpful) Hint # 3: There are just not that many cities that are associated with the “value of one of its letters.” In this puzzle that “value” is a number.

Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:
Thinking through puzzles thought-provoking, though not too tough

Will Shortz’s June 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, Calif, reads:
Think of a five-letter word. Change the first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a new word that doesn’t share any sounds with the first one. Then change its first letter to the next letter of the alphabet, and you’ll get a third word that doesn’t share any sounds with either of the first two. What words are these?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Rearrange the letters of a puzzle-maker to form three words. 
Two of them (a verb and proper noun/name) are what a white plantation landlord and a mob of his neighbors and friends (in a 1935 short story published in Scribner’s Magazine) would do to a black sharecropper had they been “armed” with ropes instead of shotguns. 
The third word is the landlord’s motive for assembling the mob.
What three words are these? 
Who is the puzzle-maker? 
ENTREE #2:
Think of a five-letter word. Move its first letter to the end. 
The first three letters of this result are almost always pronounced as a long “i” as in “pi,” “pie” “pry.” 
Replace those three letters with a single vowel to form a three-letter homophone of the original five-letter word.
What are these two words?
Note to Puzzlerians!: Cana-wedding-like, we are saving the best for last. The following six riff-off puzzles were created by Greg VanMechelen himself. 
He is thus “riffing off” his own NPR puzzle!
ENTREE #3:
Can you name a 4-word sequence of 6-letter words in which you can change the first letter to the next in the alphabet and make the next word in the sequence?
Note: The third word is not very common.
ENTREE #4:
If you change the first two letters of the word “notion” to the next letters in the alphabet you get the word “option.” 
Can you name a 9-letter word that, when you similarly change the first two letters, results in a new word?  
The two words, both adjectives, are near antonyms, and describe what you wouldn’t want and would want in a product or relationship.  
ENTREE #5:
Change the first letter of an 8-letter word to the letter eight places later in the alphabet (for example: a --> i). 
The first five letters of the new word are pronounced completely differently. 
Both are very common words. What are they? 
ENTREE #6:
Can you name three rhyming words that share no letters in common? 
There are at least two answers, one with a total of nine letters and the other with ten total letters.
Hint: The image at the left will be of no help at all to you in solving this puzzle.

ENTREE #7:
Can you name a common English word that contains four alphabetically consecutive letters (for example: __abcd__)? 
ENTREE #8:
A word in a famous musical work by a well-known French composer contains four alphabetically consecutive letters. 
Can you name it?  
Hint: the piece was used in the end credits of a non-musical movie from 1981.  

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Consumers Of Condiments Dessert:
Time to play ketch-up?

Take  a word in a condiment brand. 
Switch its two syllables. 
Change a letter to the one preceding it in the alphabet and add a letter to the end to spell an adjective customarily believed to characterize those who consume this brand. 
What are these words? 

Every Friday 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 Friday.

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.