Mushrooms, classrooms & Olympic confusion; Thunderous clapping in Hollywood; Spoonerizing “plant placement” Animal numerical mnemonical; Burning the boob-tube at both ends

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Thunderous clapping in Hollywood

Name a native of a country, the people of a second country, and what people of a third country call their country.

(For example, a native of Turkey is a “Turk,” people of the Netherlands are called “Dutch” and the people of Germany call their country “Deutschland.”) 

Rearrange your combined letters to spell
three words associated with Hollywood that are often accompanied by clapping. 

What six words are these?

Hint: The three countries are in Europe.

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Worldplayful Appetizer:

Mushrooms, classrooms & Olympic confusion

Mushrooms in finance

1. 🍄A term used to characterize cash money, bearer bonds, pure gold, and the like begins with five letters that name life forms, such as
mushrooms, that are neither plant nor animal. What is the financial word?

Pre posit ion 

📘2. A fairly common four-syllable preposition is composed of three other words. 

What is the preposition?

University of XX State University

📚3. Many US states have two main state-affiliated universities. Often, one has the law and medical schools and the second specializes in more applied fields. For one such pair, take the respective towns where each is located. 

Remove the first syllable of one town and put it in front of the other town. 

Split the merged word into two words. If you
have the correct pair of towns, you will now have a number, a part of speech, and a word relating to ripoffs. What are these three words?

Confusion at the Olympics? 

🥇🥇4. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, NY, Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein won two gold medals in alpine skiing (woman’s slalom and women’s giant slalom).

 At the medal ceremonies for those events, British athletes and spectators might well have been confused. What could have caused this confusion?

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Divide And Conquer This Slice:

Animal, numerical, mnemonical  

Two tricky spelling words are associated with “division.” 

A mnemonic device for each involves the
same animal. 

What are these tricky spelling words?

What is the animal?

Riffing Off Shortz And McClary Slices:

Spoonerizing “plant placement”

Will Shortz’s July 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Todd McClary, a member of the National Puzzlers’ League, reads:

Think of a place where a plant might grow, in two words. Spoonerize it — that is, switch the initial consonant or consonants of the two words. The result will name another place where a plant might grow, and a plant that might grow in either place.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And McClary Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of the name of a puzzle-maker. Anagram it to form the name of a leader of  “airmen from a lost planet” (using an abbreviated form of his title, or rank) and a three-letter abbreviated adjectival form of the
genre of country, rock and roll, Western swing, rockabilly, jump blues and boogie-woogie purveyed by these “airmen” and their leader.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who is the leader of  “airmen from a lost planet” and the three-letter form of the genre they purveyed? 

ENTREE #2

Think of a nine-letter plant with bright yellow, five-petaled flowers. Think also of a four-letter public recreational area where you might see it. 

Spoonerize these two words — that is, switch their initial consonants. Divide the the nine-letter part into words of six and three letters. 

The resulting three words, in order, are two things seen on a public golf green and a third word heard, not likely when you are walking along a fairway dogleg but more likely any time you are just out walking your dog.

What are this plant and public recreational area?

What are the two things seen on a public golf green and the third word heard anytime you are just walking your dog?

Hint: The third word heard while walking your dog is also something you will see if you walk your dog in the public recreational area.

ENTREE #3

Think of two words — plants, in 4 letters, and a place where those plants might grow, in 5 letters. Spoonerize them — that is, switch the initial consonant sounds of the two words. 

The result will sound like a 4-letter synonym of  “coxcombs” or “dandies” and a 6-letter
word that – when connected to either “well-” or “high-” – forms a hyphenated adjective that may describe the synonym of “coxcombs” or “dandies,” or the shoes he might wear.

What are these plants and a place where they might grow?

What is the synonym of  “coxcombs” or “dandies” and the hyphenated adjectives that may describe this synonym or his shoes?

Hint: The plants are associated with refreshing but intoxicating beverages.

ENTREE #4

Think of two words — a 6-letter place (filled with large shady plants) where 5-letter bloodsucking insects might thrive, and the insects themselves. Spoonerize them — that is, switch the initial consonant sounds of the two words. 

The result will name the proprietor of a place where ornamental plants might grow, and payment for services the proprietor may render.

What is the place filled with shady plants and bloodsucking insects that might thrive there?

Who is the ornamental plant purveyor and payment for services rendered ?

ENTREE #5

Think of a place where crops grow and a particular crop that may grow there. Spoonerize these two words — that is, switch their initial consonant sounds. 

The result, if you keep the vowel sounds the same, will sound much like what you may be
trying to achieve by purchasing thick woolen socks or insulated boots.

What are this crop-producing place and crop?

What may you be trying to achieve by purchasing thick woolen socks or insulated boots?

ENTREE #6

Think of a place where a plant might grow, in two words. 

Spoonerize it — that is, switch the initial consonant sounds of the two words. 

The result will sound like a two-word
description of roller skates or inline skates.

What are this place and this description?

ENTREE #7

Think of a five-letter hardy perennial in the lily family that is native to eastern Asia and valued for its conspicuous foliage. Think also of a four-letter public recreational area where you might see this perennial. 

Spoonerize these two words — that is, switch their initial consonants. 

The first, five-letter, part sounds like a word associatied with something celestial beings have on their heads besides haloes. The second, four-letter, part is a word sung by these celestial beings.

What are the perennial public recreational area where you might see it?

What is the word associated with something celestial beings have on their heads?

What is the word sung by these celestial beings?

Entree #8:

Think of the process in a plant that manufactures  wooden doors, sashes and trim. The process is a compound word. 

Spoonerize — that is, switch the consonants at the starts of — the two parts of the word. 

The result, if you retain the vowel sound of the second part, will be the 4-letter first name of a
New York-based table tennis master, and four letters that sound like a word for any one of the entertaining but “foggy” puzzles this master purveys daily in the New York Times and weekly on National Public Radio.

What is the process called?

What is the first name of the New York-based table tennis master, and four letters that sound like a word for any one of the entertaining but “foggy” puzzles this master purveys? 

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Log Without The Rhythm Dessert:

Burning the boob-tube at both ends

Name a long-running TV series title. Remove a total of three letters from the ends. 

The result sounds like an abbreviaton of a mathematical term.

What are this TV series and math term?

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.

Yankee-Doodle-Dandy Picnic Puzzles; Red white-hot and blue; An American history mystery; Tempura, Florida & Nachos, Mississippi; A quick American History quiz;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

An American history mystery

Name a three-part phrase with which most Americans are familiar.

Replace the first letter in the first part with a duplicate of the first letter in the third part. 

Chop off the top half of the first letter in that third part. (In other words, remove the ascending part of the letter.)

The new first part sounds like a word that describes cavemen’s garb. The new third part is a characteristic of such garb. 

What three-part phrase is this?

What word that describes cavemen’s garb? What is a characteristic of such garb.

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Redoubtable Rebuses Appetizer:

Yankee-Doodle-Dandy Picnic Puzzles 

Summertime, and the puzzlin’ is rebusy.

It is time again for another hefty helping of rebus puzzles created by Ecoarchtect... and
this time, a whole picnicbasketful.

This is Ecoarchitect’s fourth collection of rebuses.

Here are links to his first three.

ONE 

TWO 

THREE

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Coins, Battles & A Word Soldiers Learn Slice:

A quick American History quiz

Take a gold U.S. coin in two words, a word on U.S coins, the first word of a famous U.S. battle, and a word U.S. armed-forces recruits quickly learn.

Change one of the 20 letters in these words to an “L” and rearrange the result to spell a five-word phrase in a patriotic song. 

What phrase is it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Lewis Slices:

Tempura, Florida & Nachos, Mississippi

Will Shortz’s June 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Julia Lewis of Fort Collins, Colorado, reads:

Take the name of a major American city.
Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is the name of a Japanese food. Remove that. The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell some Mexican foods. Name the city and the foods.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Lewis Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the name of a puzzle-maker and the city in which that puzzle-maker lives. 

Rearrange these 21 letters to form:

1. A strigine creature.

2. the first name of a first lady, and 

3. the daughter or son of your mother’s
brother.

4. The “A” in “IPA”.

What are this creature and first name?

Who is the relative on your mother’s side of the family?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Note: As is his occasional wont, our friend Ecoarchitect has this week contributed a pair of “Econfusing” puzzles – namely Entree #2 and Entree #3 – that riff off the current National Public Radio “Tac-ramen-os” puzzle created by Sandy Weisz. Thank you Eco...

And thanks also to Eco for serving up the sumptuous Independence Day Fourth of July picnic of puzzletry in this current edition of Puzzleria! (See his “Econfusions” Appetizer feature, above)

ENTREE #2

Name a place in the U.S. Remove the eighth letter, and the result will be two words, in order, that are antonyms.

What place is this?

ENTREE #3

Take the name of a major American city. 

The first syllable is the name of a Soviet satellite not named Yugoslavia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Romania or Hungary. 

Remove that first syllable and spell what remains backward to spell an Indian deity.

Name the satellite and the deity.

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a major American city. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is the name of an Asian island. Remove that. 

The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell the name of a European island. 

Name the city and the islands.

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a n Asian nation. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is a word for creatures of a certain gender. Remove that word.

The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell a relative you may have, also of a certain gender, and something she or he might wear.

Name the nation, creatures, relative and what the relative might wear.

ENTREE #6

Take the name of an Asian nation. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is a word for Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl and Luciano Pavarotti. Remove that word.

The remaining letters, in order, spell a word for “Lascia ch’io piangaa,” “Ombra mai fu” or
“Nessun dorma (none shall sleep).”

Name the nation, the word for Philippe, Andreas and Luciano, relative and the word for the three titles that appear in quotations.

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a South American nation. Hidden inside it in consecutive letters is a word for a creature of a certain gender – like Lucius of Antioch or a certain Christian priest who was his student. This word does NOT apply, however, to Constantine’s sister, an ally of the priest. 

Remove that word from the nation.

The remaining letters can be rearranged to to spell a word for a follower of a belief fostered by that priest – Constantine’s sister, for example. That belief deemed heretical in 325 AD by a church council, which tried to quash the heresy by promulgating the Nicene Creed.

Name the nation, creature, relative and follower of the heresy.

ENTREE #8

Take the name of a major American city. Move its first letter to the end (“The first shall be last...”) and divide the result into two parts. 

The second part is a brand of mints. 

The first part is a fortress associated with Jerusalem during the early Christian era.

Transpose the second and third letters of the first part to form a word for a chest or strong box used by early Christians for reserving the consecrated bread of the Eucharist.  

Name the city, the brand of mints, the fortress and the strong box.

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Desert Dessert:

Red white-hot and blue

Of all U.S. holidays the Fourth of July, Independence Day, with its heat, is the most like the desert. 

Take two words associated with the desert. 

Rearrange their letters to form a two words associated with the Fourth of July and U.S. patriotism. 

What are these four 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.

“The Regulars” and the “Ornate”; Why would Wanda want a Honda? A self-breeding bird puzzle; Who wrote the Book of Digitournalism? “We are not amused!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A self-breeding bird puzzle

🐟1. Name an animal breed whose first five letters spell a fish and last five letters spell a bird that might eat that fish.

What are this breed, fish and bird?

or...

🐦2. Name an animal breed whose last five letters spell a bird and first five letters spell where you might see this bird.

What are this breed, bird-location and bird?

Note: The answers to these two puzzles are identical.

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Gorgeous Global Appetizer:

“The Regulars” and the “Ornate”

A useful German word

🍻1. Americans have them, but have no word
for them. 

Germans have them, too, and do have a word for them – a 10-letter German word.

“Them” is “The Regulars,” a gathering that also involves a typically well identified place where you find “The Regulars” who “belong” there. (There is a tacit “understanding” about who belongs, and who doesn’t belong, in “The Regulars.”)

Take that 10-letter German word, remove the first and sixth letters, then rearrange the remaining eight letters to name an English word for something, generally, that doesn’t belong.  

What is this useful German word?  

What is the something that doesn’t belong?

A very verbally versatile word

🌍2. Take a nine-letter word for an ornamental frame. 

Snippets of consecutive letters in that word name:

* a three-letter mode of transport, 

* a four-letter mode of transport, 

* a four-letter interjection, 

* a six-letter interjection, 

* and the familiar name by which a revolutionary physician and author was known.

Take just the first five letters of the nine-letter word. Switch the third and fourth letters and replace a “t” with a vowel. 

The result is the name of a major world city where such ornamental frames can be seen adorning architecture. Jewelry shops in this city sell small personalized versions of the frames as souvenirs or gifts (using hieroglyphs for the recipient’s name) that can be worn as necklaces or bracelets. 

What are the nine-letter word for the ornate frame, the two modes of transport, the two interjections, the name of the physician/author, and the name of the city?

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I Wonder Wonder Who-oo Who... Slice:

Who wrote the Book of “Digitournalism?”

Take the two-word name of a journalist who expressed opinions digitally. 

Double the last letter and add an “s” at the end. 

The result, in order, spells two different words (each with an odd number of letters) that complete the phrase “Book of ______.” 

Who is this journalist?

Riffing Off Shortz And Allen Slices:

Why would Wanda want a Honda?

Will Shortz’s June 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Iva Allen in
Canada, reads:

Name a make of car. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate one of the letters 90 degrees and another letter 180 degrees to make a woman’s name. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Allen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a pair of four-letter things that flow – one uncapitalized and extremely hot, the other capitalized and not quite so hot. 

Rearrange these eight letters to make a puzzle-maker’s first and last names. 

Who is it?

ENTREE #2

Name a make of car in eight letters. Write it normally, capitalizing only the first letter. 

Rotate the second and last letters 180 degrees. 

Move the new second letter to make it the fourth letter. 

Change what is now the third letter to an “o” and insert a “d” between the fifth and sixth letters.

Finally, add two spaces to form an English translation of “Eureka!”

What are this make of car and translation?

ENTREE #3

Name a make of car in six letters. 

Write it in all capital letters. 

Rotate three consecutive letters 90 degrees clockwise and replace another letter with the only letter in the alphabet with which it rhymes. 

Divide the result into “two-letter chunks,” (like “al”, “ph”,  “ab” and “et,” for example). 

The result is a series of postal codes of “Southern States.” 

What car and states are these?

ENTREE #4

Name a make of car in six letters. Write it in all capital letters. 

Rotate one of the letters 180 degrees and remove what appears to be the letter “V” from the result, leaving a letter-fragment.

Replace the first letter with with a different letter that sometimes sounds like it when pronounced in words (like G sounds like a J in “Georgia,” for example).

Rotate that replacement letter 90 degrees counterclockwise.

The final result is a driving maneuver in which a driver of a car (like the car in this puzzle, for example) performs an180-degree rotation to reverse its direction of travel. 

What make of car is this?

What is the maneuver?

ENTREE #5

Name a make of car in five letters. Write it in all capital letters. 

Rotate one of the letters 90 degrees clockwise. 

The result is a world capital city. 

What is it?

What are the names of the car and city?

ENTREE #6

Name a make of car in eight letters. 

Write it somewhat normally, capitalizing the first letter, but also the second. 

Rotate the final letter 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Form two 4-letters words using letters in positions 1, 7, 5 and 6 and  2, 8, 3 and 4. 

Say those two words to someone. 

She or he will then dial (or more likely enter into their cell phone) the digits  1-800-822-2834.

What is this make of car?

What are you telling people to do when you instruct them to dial 1-800-822-2834?

ENTREE #7

Name a make of car. Write it in all lowercase letters. 

Rotate the last letter 180 degrees. 

Spell the result backward to form a word for your physics, history or French instructor, or any other faculty member. 

What is the make of car?

What is the word for any of these faculty members?

ENTREE #8

Name a make of car in seven letters. Write it in all lowercase letters. 

Rotate the third letter 90 degrees clockwise and the fifth letter 180 degrees.

Rearrange the result to form a facial body part and a slang term for a body part just above it.

What is the make of car?

What are the two body parts?

ENTREE #9

Name a make of car in seven letters. Write it in all lowercase letters. 

Rotate the first letter 180 degrees and the fifth letter 90 degrees counterclockwise. 

Rearrange the letters to form a two-word
description of a bricklayer. 

What is the make of car?

What is the two-word description of a bricklayer?

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Tricky, Deceptive, Gimmicky Dessert:

“We are not amused!”

Remove the first letter from an amusing public event, in seven letters, to get a word that describes a not-so-amusing word puzzle. 

What words are these?

Hint: The reason a puzzle-solver might  deem
the puzzle “not-so-amusing” is that it may use a “trick,” “deception” or “gimmick” that may cause the solver to cry “Foul!”

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.