“A bunch of five-letter words” Cathy’s Collegiate Culinarity; “Gorgeous George,” Strait outta Poteet! The 20th “Eventieth” Century; The case of the six missing letters; “Spectacular oasis, Mojave mirage”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

The 20th “Eventieth” Century

The Wright Brothers’ flight, Henry Ford’s  Model-T, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression...

Two World Wars, the rise and fall of Hitler, the transistor is invented, wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis... 

Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, segregation is declared illegal, two Kennedys and a King are killed by assassins...

The Vietnam War, Apollo 11, Roe v. Wade, Three Mile Island, glasnost and perestroika, the Cold War ends, the Berlin Wall falls, the AIDS scourge, the World Wide Web is launched...

All were major 20th Century events. 

Using the terms  “Aughts,” “Twenties,” “Thirties,” etc., tell what was the most eventful decade of the 20th Century, and why?

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“Pentiliterate” Appetizer:

“A bunch of 5-letter words”

Changing a “thou” to 500

1. Ⅿ🠞Ⅾ Take a five-letter word starting with M. 

Change the M to a D and rearrange the letters to get a synonym of the original word. 

What are this word and its synonym?

Leapfrogging letter-segments

2. 🐸 Take a five-letter word. 

The first three letters spelled backward form a three-letter word.

Put that three-letter word in front of just the last three letters of the five-letter word.

The result is a six-letter word that is a reason you might do the five-letter word to the three-letter word.

What are these three words?

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“Parapet Hat” Hors d’Oeuvre

 “Spectacular oasis, Mojave mirage”

Take two words that appear next to each other in the text of this puzzle. 

Rearrange the letters in these words to spell what might be a synonym of “spectacular oasis” or “Mojave mirage,” in two words. 

What is this synonym?

What are the two words that appear next to each other?

Three-Fourths Full Or One-fourth MT Slice:

The case of the six missing letters

Fill in the six missing letters in the following sequence of 24 letters:

_ E R _ N T _ H F _ I _ S _ G L Y D A M B Q P C

What are they, in order?

Why are these 24 letters in this order?

Hint: The six missing letters are different from one another, and are also different from the other 18 letters in the list.

Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices:

“Gorgeous George,” Strait outta Poteet!

Will Shortz’s June 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Rawson Scheinberg of Northville, Michigan, reads:

Name a famous singer, in six and six letters, whose last name is a body of water. 

And if you remove a letter from the first name you'll get a landform. 

What singer is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scheinberg Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, in six and ten letters. Rearrange these 16 letters to form three words related to liquids:

1. the name of a strait,

2. water in a crystalline form that you might find near that strait, and

3. a drink that is different from the one you had just been drinking.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the name of the strait, water in crystalline form, and “drink that is different?”

Hint: The letters in the name of the puzzle-maker can also be rearranged to form the first letter of the puzzle-maker’s surname, spelled-out, and a California-based company that produces a drink that is often one of the ones “that is different from the one you had just been drinking.”

ENTREE #2

Name a famous singer, in five and six letters, whose last name is a body of water in its plural form. 

And if you change the first letter of the first name you’ll get the name of a really very large “landform.”

What singer is this?

What is the very large landform?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous singer, in five and five letters, whose last name is a body of water. And if you lowercase the first letter of the first name and remove just the horizontal part at the base of the letter, the result resembles a different lowercase letter. 

As a result, the first name now resembles an adjective that describes many landforms.

What singer is this?

What is the adjective that describes many landforms?

ENTREE #4

Name a European actor, in five and five letters, whose last name is a synonym of a body of water or, more specifically, an estuary.

Now take the first three letters of a Scottish synonym of “estuary.” Spell them in reverse, followed by the first two letters of a third synonym of “estuary.” The result is the first name of the actor.

Who is this actor?

What are the second and third synonyms of “estuary?”

ENTREE #5

Name a 93-year-old two-word term, in four and seven letters, for an apparatus that imparts high velocities to charged particles, such as electrons. 

Anagram the first word to spell a circular (and encircling) body of water. Anagram the second word to spell bodies of water that are shallow wetlands where vegetation grows.

What is this apparatus?

What are the circular body of water and shallow wetlands?

Hint: The circular body of water and shallow wetlands begin with the same letter.

ENTREE #6

Name a conservative political commentator, radio host and entrepreneur, in five and four letters. 

The second name is a word for a stream that comes from a mountain. If you remove the last letter (or the penultimate letter) from the first name you’ll get a landform that is a secluded narrow valley.

What is the name of this political commentator?  

ENTREE #7

Name a famous singer, in five and six letters. Replace the sixth letter of the surname with a duplicate of the fifth letter, then move the first letter between those identical letters to form a word for a dry creek bed that can temporarily flood after rainfall.

Now replace the fifth letter of the first name with a duplicate of either the second or  fourth letter. 

Rearrange the result to spell one of many conical tents made of skins that were once ubiquitous across the Great Plains of America.

Who is this singer?

What are the dry creek bed and the conical tent?

ENTREE #8

Name a sportswriter, in four and five letters, who became National League president and Commissioner of Major League Baseball. 

Add a “J” someplace in his first name. In his surname, replace the first letter with a duplicate of the fourth letter.

The result is a narrow inlet of ocean between mountainous cliffs, and a dialectical term for a natural stream of water normally smaller than and that is often a tributary to a river.

Who is this Commissioner of Major League Baseball?

What are the narrow inlet and dialectical term for a natural stream of water?

ENTREE #9

Name an area of water surrounded by three sides that is larger than a bay, in four letters. Change the second letter to an “o”. 

Name also a word for the barriers of a river, ocean, or any body of water that has banks and a bed.

The result is an American sports television network owned by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

What are this area of water and the word for the barriers of a body of water with banks and a bed?

What is the American sports television network?

ENTREE #10

Name a famous singer, in three and six letters. If you remove a letter from the second word you’ll get a landform. If you you change the vowel in the first word to a different vowel you’ll get a body of water that is a smaller version of a gulf.

Who is this singer?

What are this “mini-gulf” and landform?

Hint: The singer’s name, at birth, is an anagram of what you get (in two words of 1 and 8 letters) when you transfer data or files from one location (like a large computer or the Cloud) to another location (like a smaller computer, smart phone or storage device).

ENTREE #11

Place a “Maker of Dreams” and a “Producer of Snickers” next to one another.

Place an ampersand or an “and” between them. 

Replace an “s” with a “y”. 

The result is a “Maker of Music.”

Who are this “Maker of Dreams,” “Producer of Snickers” and “Maker of Music”?

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Delicious Dish Dessert:

Cathy’s Collegiate Culinarity

Cathy, a brilliant high school senior is offered an all-expenses-paid scholarship to a university. 

To celebrate, she prepares her favorite dish, in two words. The second word is the name of the university. Spoonerizing the first word sounds like a two-word synonym of “all-expenses-paid.” 

What is the dish Cathy prepares?

What is the synonym of “all-expenses-paid?”

What is the university?

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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BBC on the telly, Enshrined in Cleveland, Memento Megacorpi! Just two 4-letter words & a "sixer"; Trawling and casting “aboat”? Hoosier, Sooner, Empire States; Bossie and Bessie down on the farm, roam, roam on the range; Carole King... caroling!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Bossie & Bessie down on the farm, roam, roam  on the range

Take an adjective and noun describing a cowboy on a cattle drive and a noun that may apply to one who is hunting down Bossie, Bessie or some stray calf. 

Rearrange the combined letters of these three words to spell the name of a farm boy who became famous. 

What are the three words? Who is the farm boy?

Hint: Each of the three words contains six letters.

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Testudinata Appetizer:

BBC on the telly, Enshrined in Cleveland, Decades-apart video, Memento Megacorpi!

Decades-apart video

1. 📺Name a popular TV show from the
twenty-first century. 

Now think of a word meaning to “watch a TV show.” Reverse that word, append the results to the end of the TV show, and you’ll have another TV show that aired in the 1960s. 

Note: the official name of the earlier TV show starts with “The”.) 

What are the two TV shows?

BBC on the telly

2. 🌎Think of a two-word phrase that could describe the BBC’s “Planet Earth.” 

Think of a second two-word phrase describing what you may glean from a book review, say, about your favorite novelist’s latest book release.

Each two-word phrase consists of the same set of ten different letters (like “Tuscan lore” and “Lotus crane”).

These ten unique letters (contained in either two-word phrase) can be used to form a set of four interrelated words. (Letters may be repeated among the set of words.) 

Now think of a word used on TV warnings or advisories about programs that may contain violence or other potentially disturbing subject matter. Anagram that word to get a description for the set of four words. 

What are the two two-word phrases? 

What four related words can be formulated with the ten letters in either phrase? 

What word is used in a TV program warning? 

What word describes the set of four words?  

“Memento Megacorpi”

3. 📝Name a five-letter word for what people in a certain profession might have to remember. 

Using only the letters found in that word, name
someone who was a member of that profession. 

The first name has six letters, and the last name has seven. 

What is the five-letter word, and who is the person? 

Enshrined in Cleveland 

4. 🎸Name a one-word item and a two-word item in the image pictured here. 

Rearrange the letters of these three words to produce a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer. 

What are the items? 

Who is the singer? 

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Capital City Hors d’Oeuvre

Hoosier, Sooner, Empire States

What trivial distinction do the capitals of Indiana, Oklahoma and New York share that is shared by none of the other 47 state capitals?

Synonymous Antonymous Slice:

Just two 4-letter words & a “sixer”

Take a six-letter verb. 

Rearrange consecutive letters to spell a four-letter synonym of the verb.

If you instead replace three consecutive
interior letters of the six-letter verb with a single letter, the result is an antonym of those verbs.

What are this verb, synonym and antonym?

Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices:

Carole King... caroling!

Will Shortz’s June 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Chad Graham, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reads:

Name a famous singer in six and four letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right, is a word for some singing. What is it?

Note: Chad Graham, also known by his screen name “Chuck,” appears regularly on Puzzleria! with his “Conundrumbstruck by Chuck!” feature.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a talented puzzle-maker in four and six letters. Move the last letter of the first name into the fourth place in the last name. Remove the first letter of the altered last name. 

From the end of the last name replace a word for “a showy performer” or “a licensed operator
of an amateur radio station” with a letter that appears exactly once in the puzzle-maker’s hometown and once in its home state, followed by a letter that appears exactly once in his home state.

The result is a popular parlor game.

Who is this puzzle-maker? What is the parlor game?

ENTREE #2

Name a singer in five and five letters. If you pronounce the name aloud it sounds as if you are saying a word for a reptile after you’ve imbibed a few too may alcoholic beverages. 

Who is the singer? What is the reptile?

Hint: Name a smart phone activity, in seven letters, and what smart phone users might do, in five letters, if they make a mistake while performing that activity. Rearrange these 12 letters to spell two adjectives that describe the reptile.

ENTREE #3

Name a singer in four and ten letters. Insert an “n” someplace in the second word. 

The result sounds like the possessive form of a political mascot and the first name of a president associated with that mascot. 

Who is the singer?

What is this mascot and who is the president?

ENTREE #4

Name an American country music singer-songwriter in two words containing nine letters. Remove the third, fourth, fifth and sixth letters (which are the same letter). Also remove the second letter (which, when capitalized, sometimes resembles that same letter – the one that appeared four times consecutively in the name before you removed them).

The four letters that remain, in order, spell the surname of a California singer-artist who led a band that recorded a 1995 album with a title that was likely inspired by this 1958 song. The father of this singer-artist portrayed “The Marlboro Man.”

Who is the country music singer-songwriter?

Who is the California singer-artist?

ENTREE #5

Name a Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer, in three and seven letters, who was in a band with the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer in Entree #6. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first two letters of the last name. 

The result, reading left to right, is the surname of two Texas-based singer-songwriting brothers, one who had a stint in a band named “Two Hoots and a Holler.” 

Who are this Hall of Famer and two Texas brothers?

ENTREE #6

Name a Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer, in three and five letters, who was in a band with the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer in Entree #5. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. 

The result, reading left to right, is the surname of a record producer associated with the Association, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon and Boston. 

This producer also helped rejuvenate the career of Rick Nelson by producing a comeback hit song for him penned by the three-and-five-letter Hall-of-Famer.

Remove the third letter from this record producer’s surname to spell the surname of a musician who founded and led a Hall-of-Fame rock band named after a specific species of the reptile in Entree #2.

Who is this three-and-five-letter Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer?

Who is the record producer?

Who is the leader of the band named for a reptile species?

ENTREE #7

Name one of the first country music artists to cross over into pop music in five and five letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right, spells two words (the first one a possesive with an apostrophe) that describe “I am neither left wing nor right wing; I am middle-of-the-bird,” “If elected, I will win,” or “I’ve upped my standards; now, up yours” – all spoken by a former U.S. presidential candidate (in two words of three and seven letters) who in the 1996 New Hampshire Democratic Primary finished second to President Bill Clinton, and in 1992 came in second to George Bush in the North Dakota Republican primary.

These same two words also describe Nate Solder, Shaq Mason, Sebastian Vollmer, Joe Thuney, Bryan Stork, David Andrews, Jonathan Cooper, Marcus Cannon and Tre Jackson. But these words also describe Hunter Henry, Trent Brown, Cole Strange, David Andrews, Mike Onwenu and Riley Reiff.

Who is the country music artist?

Who is the presidential candidate?

What two words describe any one of his quotes?

How do those two words also describe the 15 men listed?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous singer in four and six letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name.

Also remove the last two letters of the last name. 

The result, in two words reading left to right, is a container for coffee or tea made of a soft faintly bluish-white lustrous low-melting crystalline metallic element that is malleable and ductile at ordinary temperatures. 

Who is this singer?

What is this container?

Hint: The atomic number of the metallic element consists of three prime factors, two which are the same number.

ENTREE #9

Name a past comedic actor in three and six letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. 

The result, reading left to right, spells, in two words, what sounds like an informal way of
describing most of the Ten Commandments.

Who is this actor?

What is the informal way of describing most of the Ten Commandments?

ENTREE #10

Name a singer/poet in seven and five letters. Remove the first letter of the last name. The result, reading left to right (and if you shift the space one place to the right), spells two words: 

1. the name of the cartoon king of Bongo Congo (and arch-enemy of Biggie Rat) who starred in one of the first Saturday-morning cartoon programs in the early 1960s,
and

2. the word for cartoon characters named Clara Cluck, Bunty, Chickaletta, Babs, Miss Prissy, Camilla the Chicken, Lady Kluck and Chicken Little

Who is this singer/poet?

Who is the cartoon king?

What is the word for the other eight cartoon characters?

ENTREE #11

Name a famous past folk singer/actor in four and four letters. Double the third letter in his first name. Move the space between the two names one place to the left. The result may have been the headline in the Weehawken, New Jersey newspaper the morning of Thursday, July 12, 1804.

Who is this folk singer?

What may have been the headline? 

ENTREE #12

Name the drummer for a famous rock band, in five and four letters. Remove the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. Move the space one place to the left.
The result, reading left to right, sounds like two words of three and four letters: what rock bands ought to play on and ought to play in.

What is this band?

Who is the drummer?

What ought rock bands play on and play in?

ENTREE #13

Name a famous singer in three and seven letters. Interchange the last letter of the first name and the first letter of the last name. Replace the fifth letter with a duplicate of the new third letter. Move the space one place to the right.

The result is two words that describe what you do when you roll a three and four, a two and five, and a snake eye and a boxcar. 

Who is this singer?

What do you do when you roll a three and four, a two and five, and a snake eye and a boxcar?

ENTREE #14

Note: Elements of the following riff were suggested by a Puzzleria! follower.

Take the familiar first and last names of a very famous singer, in four and six letters. Reverse the order of those names. Remove the last letter of the now-first name and the first letter of the now-last name. Remove the space, creating an eight-letter string. 

Replace the fourth letter with a duplicate of the third letter.

Replace the fifth letter with a duplicate of the seventh letter.

The result, reading left to right, is a word for some singing for which this famous singer is famous.

Who is this famous singer?

What is the singing for which this singer is famous?

Hint: Write a three-word caption for the image pictured here (consisting of an adjective, noun and verb in 5, 6 and 6 letters) then rearrange the letters.

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Hydroproductivity Dessert:

Trawling and casting “aboat”?

Name a food production process associated with water. 

Move the eighth letter to the end and delete the first two letters to name a food you might boil in water. 

What are this process and food?

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 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 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.

A dirty dozen D-Day "mis de-eds" The “Brooklyn Brontosauri?" “Christopher Columbus Combs” eTHiCaL LiFe; Midnight snacks made from scratch; Calculator clickin’s, what the Dickens!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Christopher Columbus Combs”

Take the second word in the name of a historical European person. Remove six letters – in order but not consecutive – that spell an English verb. (For example, the surname of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus contains the verb “COMBS,” from COluMBuS.) 

The remaining letters, in order, spell a European-language translation of an English noun that is often an object of that English verb. Name this European person, English verb and European noun.

Hint #1:  The “European language” in the translation was the native tongue of this “European person.”

Hint #2: A Midwestern U.S. city is named for the European person.

Hint #3: The European person ultimately lost their “object of the verb.”

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“EcoArch”-De-“tect”-ed Appetizer:

A Dirty Dozen D-Day “Mis de-eds”

June 6th is D-Day, so here are a “Dirty Dozen mis de-eds.”  

The blanks in the following sentences can be filled with a word starting with the prefix “de-” and ending with the suffix “-ed”.  For example, “An alcoholic with cirrhosis may need to be delivered in the hospital,” alluding that part of his liver may need to be removed.

The letters between the prefix and suffix will also spell a word or name with a separate and unrelated definition, providing both an initial reading and a second meaning pun.  For example, “The former priest was not allowed to wear his robes after he was defrocked” is not legitimate as the two words have the same source. 

 Homonyms are also not used, so “On appeal the science guy’s claim to his name was denied”
(de-Nye-ed) would also not be used.  But a different pronunciation may occur, as in “The hesitating actor finally debuted at the local theater,“ with “but” referring to his hesitancy.  Finally, the center word may share the “e” in the suffix “-ed”, as in “devalued.”

    1. Climate change, with more powerful hurricanes hitting the Caribbean, will cause many islands to be further _____, and the loss of large swaths of forest has already _____ the environment.

    2. Historians try to understand how an ancient people of Scotland were _____.

    3. Military cuts in the post-Cold War era caused a lot of soldiers to feel _____, though stories about soldiers not having adequate sleeping quarters were quickly _____. 

    4. The model sat for too long and was eventually _____.

    5. The nearly failing student’s performance
was _____, and the nerd didn’t want to be _____ by his teacher or his classmates.  “They pulled down my underwear,” he said when he was _____.

    6. “No literate monks here” was how the monastery was _____.

    7. The people Trump claims are _____ say their ballots were not tallied!

    8. To sell his house Wilbur had to have it _____.

    9. Sadly, on March 5, 1963 the music world _____.

    10. The shy girl was at first _____ by her boyfriend, and they were _____ when the power went out.  But the girl’s father arranged that she not be _____ and _____ their hold.  So their wants were _____.

    11. Was it because of or in spite of the threat that the handsome knight was _____ by the king?

    12. With his appliances repossessed, the chef became _____.

    13. Bonus Puzzle:  Adding the prefix “de-” often changes a word’s meaning to its opposite; what word remains a synonym when the prefix “de-” is added?

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Scraping UpThe Dough Hors d’Oeuvre:

Midnight snacks made from scratch

Name something in your refrigerator, in two words. 

Move the first letter of the second word into the second place in the first word. 

The result is two words associated with abrasion.

What’s in your fridge?

What are the words associated with abrasion?

iLLiCiT FaiTH Slice:

eTHiCaL LiFe

CL? Yep. 

FL? Surely.  

T? Of course. 

H? Fo’shizzle. 

TH? Nope!

Explain why TH is verboten.

Hint #1: The solution involves hyphens.

Hint #2: Look at the image... sure, you see it, but what do you...?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

The “Brooklyn Brontësauri?”

Will Shortz’s May 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:

Think of a well-known author whose first name is nine letters long, and last name six letters. 

Change the first letter of the last name and anagram those six letters to spell a word. 

Now read everything together — the author’s first name plus the anagram with a letter changed of the last name — and you’ll get a certain professional athlete. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker whose first name is five letters long, and last name seven letters. In the last name, change the first letter to an L, move the last letter two places to the left, and place a space between the fourth and fifth letters.

The result is the name of a biblical character, what that character and two companions do while Jesus prays in a garden, and what infraction those three sleepyheads may have perpetrated – a transgression not of commission but of omission – in the process. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What did the character and companions “do”?

What infraction may they have committed?

Hint: Seventy-five percent of the letters in what “the character and companions do” are the same letter.

ENTREE #2

Think of a professional sports team, lately in the news, with a two-word, nine-letter name. 

Write the first three letters, followed by a space, followed by the sixth, eighth, first and fourth letters. The result is the name of a well-known athlete who is a two-time Olympic gold medalist.

What is this sports team?

Who is the athlete?

ENTREE #3

Add a Y and E to the name of a 30-year-old professional sports team. Anagram these 14 letters to spell three words:

* a natural weather-related attraction that is a selling point for other professional sports franchises who may want to relocate to that home team’s city, and

* two words you might see on a roadside sign as you approach the city.   

What is this team?

What’s the attraction?

What’s on the sign?

ENTREE #4

Name a certain professional athlete in two words of 15 letters. The second word flies. ROT-4 the sixth, seventh and fourth letters to spell the color of that second word. The first three letters and the 11th letter spell the climate in which the team plays their home games. 

The eight remaining letters can be rearranged to spell the first word of a team this athlete may play against — a team that, given both team nicknames, would seem to have an advantage!

Who is this athlete?

What is the color of the second word?

What is the climate in which the team plays their home games?

What team with a “seeming nickname advantage” does this athlete play against? 

ENTREE #5

Take the first 71.4% of the title of a song recorded by Santana, Nona Hendryx and Keith Urban, followed by a title recorded by Steely Dan, followed by a title recorded by Paul McCartney.

The result is the name of a certain professional athlete (in two words of 11 letters) on a sports franchise that “flew” southward from a northern city and changed its nickname in 1996. (In 2011 a different franchise “thrashed northward” into that “abandoned” northern city and adopted the nickname of the team that had left 15 years earlier.)

What are these three song titles?

What is the name of the professional athlete?

ENTREE #6

Think of a well-known author whose first name and surname are each seven letters long. 

Move the first two letters of the first name so that they replace the first letter of the surname. The result is a French city and a plural English word associated with the industrie de la volaille.

The French city is the base of an entrepreneur named Cyril Meckes, who is involved in the industrie de la volaille. The plural word is at the heart of his profession.

Who is this author?

What are the French city and the plural English word associated with the industrie de la volaille?

ENTREE #7

Think of a well-known author whose first name is eight letters long, and last name five letters. 

The first name is an iron mining community in a northern U.S. state that was once more of a logging community. Replace that name with the name of the state.

Remove a letter from the last name. Place to the left of this altered surname, without a space, an interjection sometimes heard in the forests of this northern state.

The result is the name of a certain professional athlete.

Who is the author?

What is the name of the professional athlete?

ENTREE #8

Think of a well-known Russian-born American author. Two consecutive letters (divided by a space) spell a Western U.S. state postal abbreviation; replace them with the postal abbreviation of a U.S. Midwestern state. Anagram each of the two altered names  to form a two-word description
of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Children of Heaven” and “Ran.”

Who is this author?

What are the two states?

What is the two-word description?

Hint: The letters in the two states can be used to spell: Alaska, Africa, Brasilia, Berlin, Lisbon, Ankara, France, Korea, Bosnia, Israel, Kerala, Arabia and Fresno.

ENTREE #9

Take the surname of a woman named Arlyn. Then take a homophone of a word for what two actors “are to her.” The result, in two words, is certain professional athletes. 

Who are these athletes?

What is Arlyn’s  surname?

Who are the two actors? 

Hint: The two actors’ first names begin with R and J.  

ENTREE #10

Think of a reasonably well-known actor who was in the cast of “Bonnie and Clyde” and appeared recurringly on the “The Andy Griffith Show.” His surname is a homophone of the second word in a caption for the image pictured here – a caption in the form: “A ____
of _______.”

The first name of the actor followed by the fourth word in the caption results in the name of a professional sports team.

Who is the actor?

What is the caption?

What is the name of a professional sports team?

Hint: Two characters on “The Andy Griffith Show” shared this actor’s surname. 

ENTREE #11

Think of an author whose name is 21 letters long. Number the letters, 1 through 21. 

Form four new words of three, seven, four and five letters using those numbered letters: 

10-11-13 

1-2-3-4-6-5-4

10-18-17-20

14-15-16-11-10

The first three words name a certain
professional athlete.

The fourth word names where that athlete plays home games.

Who is the author?

Who is the professional athlete?

Where does this athlete play home games?

Dessert Menu

A Dickens Of A Dessert:

Calculator clickin’s, what the Dickens!

Enter a number into an old-school basic calculator, one that shows numerals using a seven-segment digital display. 

Copy what you see onto a piece of paper. 

To the right of this, write down the two letters that the first and last syllables sound like when you say the number aloud. 

Write this result in reverse order to form the first name of a Dickens character. 

What are this number and name?

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