Suitable, Digital, Mythical, Rangy, Differential, Poetic Puzzles! “Everyday” prime time property; Acts of the Apostle Islands? Jimmy a door, adore a Jenny; Bend, shape and cause curvature; Ah, abandon a habit!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Acts of the Apostle Islands?

Take the first four words of a verse in the King James Version of the Bible’s Book of Acts (of the Apostles, that is). Delete a preposition and a space. The result will be the names of two modern Middle Eastern countries. 

What are these two countries and the verse?

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Suitable, Digital, Mythical, Rangy, Differential, Poetic Puzzles!

SUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS

1. ♠♥♣♦ The same letters can be arranged to spell eight words and one two-word phrase.  

Guess the words and the phrase from the following descriptions:

    1. Weapon

    2. No-frills

    3. Analyze

    4. Trims

    5. Major offenses

    6. Garners

    7. Copycats

    8. European or Asian food items

    9. In line with

DIGITAL FILMS

2. 🎥The title of a 1980’s film sounds like a number.  

Add the digits of the number to get a number that is the first word of the title of another 1980’s film. What films are they?

3. 🥛🦄Guess the names of the following deities from the Greek/Roman, Norse, and Egyptian pantheons of the ancient world, using the hints provided.  In some cases the hints are phonetic.

    1.  What the mother of a certain ancient ruler in the Middle East may have said when he was a child and spilled his milk.

    2.  Slopes from the vertical.  

    3.  What a lot of guys get as they age. 

    4.  Exists twice.

    5.  Five-sixths of a singing group.

    6.  Laid back.

    7.  80% of a sculptor, or 57% of a composer.

    8.  Blue gray color and a communication device.

    9.  Euphemism for an obscenity.

    10.  Fresh musical direction meaning twice.

HOME ON THE RANGE

4. 📖Think of a book for young readers about a young person growing up on the 19th Century American frontier.  The first word in the title names a person associated with a popular sport.  

The second word consists of a piece of equipment used in the sport, followed by a description of a part of the location where the sport is played.  The title is also the name the main character goes by.  Name the book, the piece of equipment, the part of the location, and the sport.

WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN ONE LETTER MAKE?

5. 😈😇An eight-letter adjective describes a kind of attitude. 

Add one letter somewhere in the word to describe how one might end up if he or she were to display such an attitude in dealing with employers or other powerful persons.

POETRY CORNER, by Anna Graham

6. 📕Fill in the blanks with four words that are anagrams of each other to complete the verse.

We _____, envision vast primeval seas,

Across the _____ of endless, leafless plain,

The _____ from which we sprang, and too the
trees,

That bore the _____ and pods with which, in vain,

We seek surcease of mortal earthly pain.

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Scrapping The Chaps Hors d’Oeuvre:

Bend, shape and cause curvature

Take a word associated with the act of bending or causing curvature. 

Remove a number of letters that, in order, spell a synonym of “chaps.” 

Assign a number-value to the remaining letters: A=1, B=2. C=3, etc. 

The values of all ten of the remaining letters are evenly divisible by a single divisor (besides the number 1, of course). 

What is this “bendy-curvy” word? 

What is the synonym of “chaps”? 

What is the single divisor?

Dawn Quiche-Hymny Slice:

Jimmy a door, adore a Jenny

The donkey is a symbol of the Democratic Party. Jimmy Carter is a member of the Democratic Party who was elected president in 1976. 

“Jimmy” kind of sounds like “jenny,” a female donkey. One might say that, in 1976, Carter was “Jenny’s Jimmy” or the “Donkey’s Jimmy.” Alas, there is no famous singer whose name sounds like “Donkey’s Jimmy...” (Don Keeshimmy? Dawn Quiche-Hymny?)

However, can you name a famous singer whose name sounds like a symbol of a political party, in its possessive form, and the first name of that political party’s presidential candidate?

If so, who is the famous singer?

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:

“Ah, abandon a habit!”

Will Shortz’s February 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, California, also known as the singer Kid Beyond, reads:

Think of a famous character in American
literature. Change each letter in that character’s name to its position in the alphabet: A=1, B=2, etc., to get a famous year in American history. Who is this person and what is the year?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the two-word stage name of a singer who is also a puzzle-maker. Change each letter in the first word to its position in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, etc. — to get the year an Italian saint, a follower of Francis of Assisi, was born.
This saint founded a monastic religious order that followed a rule of strict poverty.

Similarly, change the first three letters in the second word to its position in the alphabet to get the year in the title of a “one-hit wonder” recorded by singers from Nebraska, a state surrounded by “squarish” states. Converting the final two letters in the second word results in a square number.

What is this stage name?

Who is, and in what year, was the saint born?

What is the square number formed by converting the last two letters of the stage name?

What are the year in the one-hit-wonder and the square number?

Note: The following riff was written by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears above, in this edition of Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous year in American history. Change each digit in the year to the letter that corresponds to the digit when the letters of the alphabet are numbered from 1 to 26. The result will include two letters that are the same, and two that are different.

Now take the letter that corresponds to the two-digit number expressed by the two letters that are different. Insert that letter somewhere in the result. 

The final result will name something that many people needed in that year. 

What is the year, and what did people need?

Note: The following riff was written by our friend ViolinTeddy, whose “Strad-Steiff Subtleties” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE#3

Name a famous opera character. Change each letter in that character’s name to its position in the alphabet to get a famous year in American history. 

Who is the character, and what is the year? 

Note: The following riff was written by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #4

Take the first part of the two-part name of a significant and acclaimed American band. 

Subtract this first part from a significant year in world history. 

The result is a not-as-significant historical year that, when translated via the alphanumeric scale, becomes a word for what is sometimes
an unpleasant  substance.

What are the two historical years? 

What is the significant and acclaimed band? 

What is the substance?

Note: The following riff is a collaboration of sorts between a regular contributor to Puzzleria! and Lego Lambda.

ENTREE #5

Take the first name of the writer and recorder of an early 1960s novelty song. The alphanumerical values of the letters in the name form a five-digit string. 

Delete the last digit. 

The result is a famous year in world history that is associated with a volley of cannon fire and ringing chimes.  

Now reconvert each of the four digits in this year into the letters that are their alphanumerical equivalents. The result is the name of the title character in the novelty song.

Who is the the writer and recorder of an early 1960s novelty song, and what is its title?

What is the famous year in world history, and why is it associated with a volley of cannon fire and ringing chimes?

ENTREE #6

Name a two-word annual celebration. Change each letter in those two words to its numerical value in the alphabet.

The first two and final three letters in the
celebration have values that are square numbers. 

The first two letters of the celebration, when placed side-by-side, also form a square number. The last two letters of the celebration, when placed side-by-side, form a cube number.

 Add together the values of the penultimate and antepenultimate letters to get the square root of one of these six square numbers. The antipenultimate value is the square root of the value of the first letter in the celebration. 

What is this annual celebration?

What, in descending order, are the six square numbers?

What is the cube number?

ENTREE #7

Christmas is usually a joyous day. The most recent Christmas fell on a day that can be written as “12/25/23”.

Write a not-so-joyous day in history in such a form. Indeed, it was a tragic day. 

Delete the sixth digit.

Find three values using these five digits:

1. the value of the sum of the last three digits,

2. the value of the last digit 

3. the value of the two-digit number formed by the first two digits.

Take the three letters of the alphabet that
correspond to these three values to spell the monogram of the victim of the tragedy.

Take two letters — one corresponding to the third digit and another corresponding to the fourth digit — to get a two-letter shot pellet measuring 0.175 inch in diameter that, had it been substituted for the 6.5 millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano rounds, would surely have averted the tragedy.

What is this tragic date in history?

What is the monogram?

What is the shot pellet 0.175 inch in diameter?

ENTREE #8

Think of a famous seven-letter character in American literature. 

Change each letter in that character’s name to its position in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, etc. Ignore the value of the middle letter’s position, a number which is said to be unlucky.

The result is six numbers.  

The fourth, third and sixth numbers form a famous year in French and Russian history.

The second, fifth and first numbers form a famous year in a nation where Barbie was born, the music died, and 48 became 50.

Who is this American literature character?

What is the famous year in French and Russian history?

What is the famous year in a nation where Barbie was born, the music died, and 48 became 50?

ENTREE #9

Think of a famous character in American literature. Change each letter in that character’s name to its position in the alphabet
— A=1, B=2, etc. — to get a famous year in American history. Replace the first two digits in that year with their sum and convert these three values back into their letter equivalents, to spell a character in British fantasy literature.

Who is this famous character in American literature?

What is the famous year in American history?

Who is the character in British fantasy literature?

ENTREE #10

Take the first eight numbers in a famous infinite mathematical sequence. Change each number in that sequence to its corresponding letter in the alphabet — A=1, B=2, etc. to get
eight letters. 

The first, seventh and eighth letters, followed by a space, followed by the third, fifth, second, fourth and sixth letters, spell the name of a recently built volleyball complex at a Florida institution of higher learning. That institution is situated in an unincorporated two-word community of about 6,000 population. That community’s initials are the first and seventh letters in the name of the volleyball complex. The name of this community is associated with the works of both Franz Schubert and Walter Scott.  

What are this sequence and name of the volleyball complex?

What is the name of the Shubert-and-Scott-related community where the institution is located?

ENTREE #11

Think of a historic and fateful date in American history in the form 02/23/24. Change each digit in the date to its alphanumeric equivalent: A=1, B=2, etc. Ignore any zeros. This date includes one zero.

Rearrange the five letters you get to spell the last word in the following statement about the date:

“In the wake of this gray day in U.S. history, the hopes and dreams of a recovering nation _____.”

What is this date?

What is the word in the blank?

Hint: The alphanumeric equivalents of the first two digits in the year of this historic date (the “20” in “2024,” for example) are the initials of the first names of the man who was the focus of this fateful day and of the man who would have succeeded him had the fateful date occurred six weeks earlier.    

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More Mundane Dessert:

“Everyday” prime time property

857, 7,027 and 271 are all prime numbers. 

Name another perhaps more interesting “everyday” property they share – one that neither cleaves nor cottons to the conventional entertainment conception of “prime time.” 

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.

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Better chemistry, through living... color

While making a movie, if one of the ______ has no chemistry with his ______, the director
sometimes _______ the role with a new _______.

The words in the first and second blanks are anagrams of each other, as are the words in the third and fourth blanks. 

What are these four words?

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Classics, Malady & remedy, Doing in, Doing to, the World’s a stage, Morning delight, Return to sender 

Classic description

1. 📖📚There is a classic piece of English literature with a one word title. 

One letter repeats three times. 

Remove all three occurrences and rearrange to get an apt description of the original work.

MalaDY & RemeDY

2. 😷The common names of a disease, and of a medication used to treat it, end in the same four letters. 

What are they?

Hint: The four common letters spell a Roman poet. 

Remove these eight letters.

The first three letters of the medication are a “peaceful” Latin word. Remove them also. The two remaining letters equal 150.

Doing in, doing to

3. 🏡Take a word for something you do in a house. Pronounce it differently, and it’s something you might do to a house. 

What are the word and its two pronunciation-dependent meanings?

Return to sender?

4. 📦Think of a word describing what one might do to a package. 

Pronounce the word differently to get what the package might then become.

The world, a stage; our life, a play

5. 🙋Take a three-letter word which can refer to a person.

Add two letters to name a stage of a person’s
life.

Add instead a different pair of letters to describe a person in that stage of life.

Morning delight... but not noon or night!

6. ⏰What is something most men appreciate early in the morning, but would rather avoid at all other times?

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“Your Serve” Hors d’Oeuvre:

Wanted: “Sleuth for con-sequence”

What are the two missing letters in the following sequence of twenty-four letters? 

? P Q B M A 

D Y L G X S 

V I U F H W

T N O R E ?

Syllabifiable Slice:

Egoist does as egotist dons?

Think of a one-syllable word for what a conceited, full-of-himself, flamboyant egotist sometimes does. 

Delete the second half of this word, leaving a two-syllable word for something this same egotist perhaps sometimes dons. 

What are these two words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Jacobs Slices:

Edsel Ford Vin Diesel engine

Will Shortz’s February 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by A.J. Jacobs, reads:

Start with the name of a blockbuster movie
star. Remove the first letter of the first name and last two letters of the last name to get the types of movies he almost never stars in. Who is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Jacobs Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Start with the name of a puzzle-maker – one that includes two initials at the beginning, like J.M. Barrie or S.E. Hinton. Two consecutive letters in the name are the same letter. Remove one of them to get the title of the record album pictured here followed by the four-letter word for the food pictured. 

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are the title of the album and the four-letter food pictured here?

Note: The following riff was writted by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Remove from the name of a well-known actress:  

(1) the third letter of her first name, and 

(2) the first and the last two letters of her last name. 

The result will be a pair of synonyms.  

Who is the actress, and what are the synonyms?

ENTREE #3

Start with the 16-letter name of an Italian Renaissance artist with two sets of double letters in the surname. 

Remove one letter from each set, leaving a 14-letter string:

* four letters that precede “al” or follow “George,”

* a seven-letter adjective that describes a
dishwasher or Roomba vacuum cleaner, and

* a three-letter caretaker of Samuel or an inventor associated with gin.

Who is the Italian Renaissance artist?

What are the four-letter, seven-letter and three-letter words?

ENTREE #4

Start with the two-word ten-letter name of a poet of whom a “fellow” poet once wisecracked, “I’d rather flunk my Wassermann test than read a poem by (this poet).” Remove the first three letters of the first name and last two letters of the last name. The result is a verb for what aficionados of the first poet would likely do with the wisecracking “fellow” poet in defense of their guy – and in dispute of her disrespectful slur against him!

Who are these two poets?

What is the verb?

ENTREE #5

Start with the two-word, four-syllable name of an American poet. 

Delete the first three and last three letters, leaving the four-letter first word of the caption of the image pictured here and a four-letter anagram of the second word in the caption. 

Now take the three-word, 17-letter, five-syllable name of a British novelist. Insert an “n” between the seventh and eighth letters. 

The 4th-through-7th letters of the result spell an article of clothing; the 10th-through-6th letters spell another article of clothing.

Who are the poet and novelist?

What is the caption?

What are the other two articles of clothing? 

ENTREE #6

Start with the names of a pair of well-known poets – one British, the other Irish, five words total. Remove eight letters from the beginning and end of the first poet’s name and 14 letters from the beginning and end of the second poet’s name, leaving in each case, four identical consecutive letters that spell a kind of “poetic foot” which – when spelled in lowercase letters but with an initial uppercase letter – appears to spell a four-footed farm animal. 

Who are these poets?

What is the “poetic foot”?

Hint: Both poets have the same first name.

ENTREE #7

Start with the name of an artist who painted ballerinas, not saber-blade wielders. Replace the second letter of the first name with an “n”.
Remove a three-letter fuel from the end. The remaining letters spell something saber-blade wielders often say.

Who is this artist?

What do saber-blade wielders often say?

ENTREE #8

Start with the three-word name of a Brit who was a major Romantic poet. Remove the first eight letters and last four letters of the name.
The result is a pronoun that repeats itself.

Who is this poet?

ENTREE #9

Start with the name of a French impressionist painter. 

Remove the first four letters of the first name and last two letters of the last name to get a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin. 

Who is this painter?

What is the source or agent of evil?

ENTREE #10

Start with the name of an American author, in four and five letters. Remove the last letter from each word – letters that are variables of geometrical axes. Remove also the middle letter of this result. The final result is a three-letter alcoholic beverage, written twice.

Who is this author?

What is the beverage?

ENTREE #11

Start with the name of a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Remove the first five letters of the first name. Also remove the last six letters of the last name – letters that spell a noun for what each reader of this puzzle hopes to become. The six remaining letters spell an autumn chore.

Who is this novelist?

What do readers of this puzzle hope to become?

What is the autumn chore?

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Anagrammatical Dessert:

Creature, trees, feast & Indies

Name an Eastern Hemisphere creature and a tree where you may well find it.

Anagram these combined fifteen letters to name a tall tropical timber tree in the Eastern Hemisphere, a Hawaiian feast and a  style of music originating in the West Indies.

What are this creature, two trees, feast and West Indies style of music?

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.

“Oh, the zoology!” & Slaughterhouse-Three? & What’s an “alogous?” & Something is “Rot-ting” in Denmark? & Dog whistle? & “Coppy” oxymoron; “Canon-pickled” bell peppers; Alphabetically awfully unlawful; Capital City Synonomy; KanFrancis vs SayCee; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & a “flower grows” in Nebraska

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Capital City Synonomy

Switch the order of the last two letters of a capital city. 

The first three letters and the last four letters of
the result spell a pair of synonyms. 

What is this city?

What are the synonyms?

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Brave New Worldplay Appetizer:

“Oh, the zoology!” & Slaughterhouse-Three? & What’s an “alogous?” & Something is “Rot-ting” in Denmark? & Dog whistle? & “Coppy” oxymoron

Slaughterhouse of generals

1. A state capital and counties in at least 14 states are named after a general who died invading a foreign country. 

The fifth and sixth letters of his last name form a word. Drop them. Substitute, in order, three letters that could follow this dropped word at an athletic contest in Berkeley, Davis, or Irvine. 

Finally, drop the final three letters. The result is the name of an arguably better-known general, who died less than a mile away, 16 years earlier. Who were these two generals? Where did they die?

Oh, the zoology!

2. Take the name of a territory in three syllables. Change the fourth letter to a copy of the third letter. Read the three syllables in order, but each syllable backwards. You have just described a plausible companion of Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. What are the territory and companion?

Country to capital

3. Think of a country. 

ROT23 one of its letters and ROT6 another of its letters. 

Rearrange the result to give the national capital of this same country.

Music and dogs

4. The English name of a musical instrument derives from a second language. 

Split off the name of a famous dog from the end of this name. Insert a copy of the middle letter of the dog’s name into the middle of the remaining first part of the name of the musical instrument and add an R to the end. You now have the name of the dog and a verb from a third language that might describe what a folk group might do when the instrument is played. What are the instrument, dog’s name, and verb?

Add an N

5. The definite article “a” usually adds an “n” if followed by a word starting with a vowel. What two words similarly add an “n” sound in analogous situations?

Police keep me in the dark!

6. A well-known oxymoron is “Military intelligence.”

Think of a similar oxymoronic two-word phrase, in 10 + 9 letters, that might apply to the police. The second word differs from the

first only by the omission of a single letter. What is this “police oxymoron”?

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Temptingly Evil Hors d’Oeuvre:

Alphabetically awfully unlawful 

Remove the “alpha” letter and the “omega” letter from a word for a kind of crime. The result sounds like a different kind of crime. 

What are these two crimes?

Super Sunday “Spoony” Slice

KanFrancis vs SayCee

“As of this Sunday, how many _____ _____?” (5,5)

“As for half the fans, how many ____ ___ ____?” (4,3,4)

* Each of the five blanks contains one word. 

* The five words are, in order, an adjective,
plural noun, plural noun, preposition and singular noun.

* Four words contain one syllable; the first word contains two syllables.

* The second and fifth words would rhyme were they to be either both singular or both plural.

* The first two letters of the first word rhyme with the first three letters of the third word.

* The second syllable of the first word is the same as the fourth word.

* The answer to the first question is 58.

* The answer to the second question is a number that depends on how the fans’ team is performing, the calls the referees are making and how much homophone-of-the-third-word each fan has been enjoying.

After you fill in the five blanks, what are the two completed questions?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:

“Canon-pickled” bell peppers

Will Shortz’s February 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish, of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:

Name a famous classical composer in three syllables.  Change the vowel sounds in the first and third syllables, and phonetically you’ll name a sport. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker in three syllables, first and last names. The last two-thirds of the first name that may appear on his birth certificate sometimes precede the word “par.” 

The first three letters of the surname spell a receptacle for spoons, mashies, niblicks, cleeks, jiggers and baffies. The remaining letters of the surname are the surname of an actress named Annabeth who starred in a movie whose title is the first word in a two-word rhyming receptacle – but not for spoons, mashies, niblicks, cleeks, jiggers and baffies... No, this is a recepticle for Titleists, Callaways, Slagenzers, Volviks and Srixons.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What precedes the word “par”?

What is the receptacle for spoons, mashies, niblicks, etc.?

What is the name of the actress and the two-word rhyming recepticle for Titleists, Callaways, Slagenzers, Volviks and Srixons?

The following riff was composed by Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Take the three-syllable mononym of a composer, like Eminem, Madonna or Donovan. Remove four consecutive letters to get a popular brand name of a product once sported by Jeff Spicoli on the big screen. The brand was NOT sported – but might well have been – by Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell and Lord Andrew Lindsay who competed on the big screen while an iconic soundtrack, created by
this composer played.

Who is the composer? 

What is the apparel brand? 

What are the movies in which Jeff Spicoli and in which Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell and Lord Andrew Lindsay appeared?

The following riff was composed by ViolinTeddy, whose “Strad-Steiff Subtleties” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

Take the surname of a composer in three
syllables.

Change the first and third vowel sounds, to get the surname of an actor.

Who are this composer and actor? 

Entree #4 was written by a Puzzlerian who was inspired by a riddle appearing on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #4

A young man from Nuremberg was inspired to pursue a career in composing rather than in the army after he got an almost failing grade from his dyslexic Field Artillery instructor. 

In the grade report, the instructor had
misspelled a word by substituting a conjunction for a pronoun, left out half of the double letters in another word, and scrambled the words in the report entry.  

What was the grade, and what was the resulting inspiration?

The following two riffs, #5 and #6, were composed by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #5

Name a famous classical composer in three syllables. 

Change the vowel sounds in the first and third syllables, and phonetically you’ll describe what certain animals do for shelter.  

Who is the composer, and what do these animals do?

ENTREE #6

Name a famous classical composer in three syllables. Change all three vowel sounds and you’ll
describe phonetically and figuratively what the Democrats hope to do in November. 

Who is the composer, and what do the Democrats hope to do?

Entree #7 is Lego Lambda’s riff of Nodd’s Entree #6 riff.

ENTREE #7

Name a musical instrument in two syllables. 

Change no vowel sounds and you’ll describe phonetically and figuratively what the Republcans hope to do in November. 

What is the instrument, and what do the Republcans hope to do?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous classical composer in three syllables. 

The first syllable is a homophone of a synonym of “raked” ... but not with a rake. The second and third syllables, phonetically, name a sport. 

The second and third syllables, if you change the third letter to a “w,” spell that same sport. 

Who is this composer?

What is the sport?

ENTREE #9

Name a sound a creature makes, in five letters, and a five-letter adjective that means “of, relating to, or resembling that creature.” 

Delete the second letter of the result, then change the vowel sounds in the first and third syllables. The result, phonetically, is the name of a famous classical composer. 

What are the sound a creature makes and adjective that means “of, relating to, or resembling that creature?”

Who is the composer?

ENTREE #10

Name a puzzle-maker in three syllables. Ignore the first syllable. Change the vowel sound in the second syllable. Keep the third syllable as it is. 

The result, phonetically, is a likely-non-existent uppercase adjective that describes an Oriole of Baltimorean lore, a “Homeric Hero, so to speak.” 

Replace the double letters at the end of this Oriole’s surname with an “r” to form an adjective (followed by the word “hitter”) that describes him.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the adjective that describes the Oriole of Baltimorean lore?

Hint: Replace the double-letters in the non-existent uppercase adjective with an apostrophe to form the word that follows “Oshkosh” in a brand name.

Dessert Menu

Flowering Spray Dessert:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn & a “Flower Grows” in Nebraska

Double one letter in the name of a flower part. 

Rearrange the result to form the name of a “flower” associated with the state of Nebraska.

What is this flower part?

What is the “flower” associated with the state of Nebraska?

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.)

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