Chad do-si-does with Victoria? Terms of uncommon distinction; Last names of past thespians; Carpentry tools create creature; “Utah Salt” yields “hula tats”? Pans-Eared Red Snapper

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Terms of uncommon distinction

Take a two-word term that, for an average human male adult, is between five feet and six feet, or thereabouts, above the ground.

The number of letters in the two words differs. The words do, however, share a more uncommon distinction in common.  

What is this two-word term?

What uncommon distinction do these two words share in common?

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Skydiversionary Appetizer:

Chad do-si-does with Victoria?

1. Think of the name of a country in two syllables. 

Reverse the order of those two syllables and you will name the capital city of another country. 

What are the country and the city?

Indy Spectator vs. State Patrol officer

2. What is the difference between a fan at the Indy 500 and a state patrol officer observing the interstate highway?

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Stage And Screen Hors d’Oeuvre:

Last names of past thespians

Take a past thespian’s surname. 

Move the first two letters to the end, so that they replace the last letter. 

The result is a second past thespian’s surname. 

Who are these thespians?

Woodworking Wordplay Slice:

Carpentry tools create creature

Name two woodworking tools that share a similar function. They also share identical letter-pairs (like SAW and AWL share an AW, for example). 

Remove one of the letter-pairs and rearrange the result to spell an animal. (For example, if you remove one of the “AW” letter-pairs from “SAW” and “AWL,” the letters that remain are “SAWL,” which can be rearranged to spell not an animal but the words “SLAW” or “LAWS.”)

What are these tools and animal?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:

Pans-Eared Red Snapper

Will Shortz’s November 10th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:

Using only the letters of PANDERS, and repeating them as often as desired, spell a certain entrée at a seafood restaurant (3-6 3 7).

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Using only the letters in a nine-letter word that means “the making or adapting of something
to suit a particular purpose,” spell the hometown of a prolific puzzler-maker. What is this nine-letter word? What is the hometown and who is the puzzle-maker?

Note: Entrees #2 was created by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” regularly vivifies Puzzleria!s pages.

ENTREE #2

Using only the letters in the word PANDERS, describe some unusual performers in two words of seven letters each.

Note: Entrees #3 though #8 were penned by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” regularly graces Puzzleria!s pages.

ENTREE #3

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. 

The first word, and the second half of the second word, in order, spell another seafood dish. The first half of the second word is an ingredient in a non-seafood dish often featured at upscale restaurants. 

What are the two seafood dishes and the non-seafood ingredient?

ENTREE #4

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. Rearrange its letters to spell something most people enjoy when dining out, and something most people don’t enjoy seeing when dining out.

ENTREE #5

Think of a seafood dish that is available in two main varieties. 

The last three letters of this dish, read backward and followed by the first four letters in order, spell a two-word phrase that describes one variety of the dish. 

What are the dish, the two-word phrase, and the variety of the dish that the two-word phrase describes?

ENTREE #6

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. 

The last five letters of the first word, in order, are the first five letters of the second word. 

The last four letters of the second word, in
order, spell what patrons of restaurants do after they arrive. 

What is the seafood dish, and what do patrons do?

ENTREE #7

Think of a dish featured at seafood restaurants. The name of the dish comes from a European language. 

Rearrange the letters of the dish to spell another seafood dish and a musical term associated with the same European country. What are the two seafood dishes and the musical term?

ENTREE #8

Think of a two-word dish featured at seafood restaurants. Remove a personal pronoun. 

Rearrange the rest of the letters to spell a one-word seafood dish and something that would be left after eating either dish. 

What are the two dishes and what would be left after eating them?  

ENTREE #9

Using only the letters of WINDSTORM, and repeating them as often as desired, spell what is on display (in words of 5, 5, 6 and 3 letters) in the previous six Entrees, #3 through #8.

What are these words? 

ENTREE #10

Using only the letters of POLYCENTRISM – using some once,  and repeating others over and over as often as necessary – spell a headline (in words of 5, 4, 7 and 6 letters) 
 that might have appeared in the Rolling Stone or Crawdaddy magazine in late 1968 or early 1969.

What is this headline? 

Hint: “...over and over...”

ENTREE #11

Using only the letters of ARTICLE, and repeating them as often as desired, spell a beverage and a dessert that customers might
order off a menu or list that prices items separately, in words of 6, 6, 1, 2 and 5 letters.

What are these menu items and the kind of menu that prices items separately?

ENTREE #12

Using only the letters of DROUGHTS, and repeating them as often as desired, spell:

* a two-word term (in 4 and 4 letters) for periods of the day when the most people commute to and from work, causing heavy traffic congestion on roads and public transportation;

* a slang term for large, heavy motorcycles, especially Harley Davidsons (4 letters); and

* a term for automobiles rebuilt or modified for high speed and fast acceleration (3 and 4 letters).

What are these three terms?

ENTREE #13

Using only the letters of UMPIRES, and repeating them as often as desired, spell three mathematical terms in 3, 5 and 5 letters.

What are these three terms?

ENTREE #14

Take a seven-letter synonym of “sickness” or “malady.” 

Using only those seven letters, and repeating them as often as desired, spell: 

* synonyms of “consume”(3 letters) and “consumed”(3 letters); 

* a synonym of  “breakfast,” “lunch” or “supper”(4); 

* a “hot drink”(3), a “cold drink”(4), an “alcoholic drink”(3); 

* a “candy”(4), a “fruit”(4);

* a word for “pot roast, steak, hamburger or turkey”(4); and

* a  “kind of bean”(4).

What is this seven-letter synonym of “sickness” or “malady?”

What are the ten other words?

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Lake & State Dessert:

“Utah Salt” yields “hula tats”?

A well-known three-word phrase contains two names. 

Anagram this phrase to spell a name of a lake and a state that lake is in. 

What are this phrase, lake and state?

Hint: Take two names associated with the three-word phrase. One is an anagram of an empire. The other is an anagram of an island.

Every Thursday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every 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.

Compatible Partners, Starry eyes, From Inner to “O”uter, Dumping the “Dupes,” Crawl, Fly, Swim; Above and Below the Belly Button; Did Tesla “zap” TB in his Test lab? “Bored with board games?” Natural-food antepenultimatum; Organic anatomy lesson

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Above and Below the Belly Button

Take a word for things worn above the navel. 

Delete the three-letter end of this word.

The result will be things worn below the navel.

What are these things that are worn above the navel and below the navel?

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Turtle Torte-itude Appetizer:

Compatible Partners, Starry eyes, From Inner to “O”uter, Dumping the “Dupes,” Crawl Fly Swim; 

Compatible Partners

1. 👫Name a well-known entertainment duo of the past. 

Remove the final letter from one of the first names and anagram the remaining letters of that first name. 

You’ll have an item that was often seen with the other partner. 

That partner’s last name describes something that the item does. 

Who are the partners? 

What item is associated with one of them? 

What does that item do? 

Starry eyes

2. ✪👁👁Name a nine-letter word associated with stars or eyes. 

Within this word is another word associated with stars or eyes. 

Remove those letters from the nine-letter word, and anagram what remains to produce another word associated with stars or eyes. 

What are the three words? 

From Inner to “O”uter

3. 📥📤Think of a 13-letter noun describing some professional people who deal with internal matters. 

Add an “O” and rearrange the letters. 

You’ll have a noun describing a professional person who deals with external matters. 

What are these two nouns? 

Dumping the “Dupes”

4. 🎜🎝Name a famous lyricist. 

Consider the different letters of the first and last names; each letter appears exactly twice.

Remove each duplicate and rearrange the
remaining letters to produce a common word. 

There are two possible choices, including a word that is relevant to one of the lyricist’s works. 

Who is the lyricist?

What are the two words?

Why is one relevant to one of the lyricist’s works? 

Crawl, Fly, Swim

5. 🐍🐦🐟Name a famous novel in two words and a total of twelve letters. 

Rearrange its letters to produce three animals:
a type of snake, a type of bird, and a type of fish. 

What is the novel? 

What are the animals?

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Red Sky In Morning Hors d’Oeuvre

“Bored with board games?”

Name a board game. Place before it, spelled in reverse order, what the boards it is played on resemble. The result is a warning you might see online.

Name the game, what the boards resemble, and the online warning?

Cinematic Slice:

Organic anatomy lesson

Take the surname of a person associated with cinema that can also be a common noun when written in lower case. 

This lower case noun may form within an organ that is adjacent to a second organ that appears in this person’s first name.

Riffing Off Shortz And Maxwell-Smith Entrees:

Did Tesla “zap” TB in his Test lab? 

Will Shortz’s November 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Maxwell-Smith, a writer and producer known for the game shows Bumper Stumpers (1987), Majority Rules (1996) and Talk About (1988). It reads: 

Name a place where experiments are done (two words). Drop the last letter of each word. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name someone famously associated with experiments. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Maxwell-Smith Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker in three words, the second and third divided by a hyphen. 

Drop the first letter of each word. Insert a space someplace in the second word. 

The remaining letters, reading from left to right, will name: 

~ a vehicle constructed during the last days of antediluvian times,

~ What the builders of this vehicle, in two words, likely had to do to build it, and 

~ a homophone of a word that many people might use to describe the account of this construction.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the vehicle, what its builders likely had to do to build it, and the word that might be used to describe the construction account? 

Hint: The homophone of the word that might be used to describe the construction account is a Scottish variant of the word “might.”

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the handiwork (and “handiwordplay)” of Nodd, “riffmaster extraordiaire.”

ENTREE #2

Name a four-word place in the Eastern U.S. where experiments are done. 

Insert the first letter of the third word between its last two letters. The last four letters of the word will now spell the last name of someone famously associated with experiments in physics. 

What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #3

Name a place in the Western U.S. where experiments were done beginning in the 1940s. Take the first three and last three letters of the state where the place is located. 

Switch the middle two letters to spell the last name of someone famously associated with significant scientific experiments. 

What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #4

Name someone famously associated with culinary experiments done at  a well-known three-word place in the Eastern U.S. Take five letters from this person’s first name and the
first letter from their last name. Rearrange these letters and add an “N” at the end to spell the third word in the place name. Who is the person, and what is the place?

ENTREE #5

Name a place in the world where numerous experiments have been done. 

The first two letters of the name, plus a copy of the second letter, spell the first name of someone  who made a historic visit to this place in the 1990s. 

What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #6

Name a three-word place in which numerous experiments were done in the 1980s. 

The first and last letters of the name are the initials of someone famously associated with the place. What is the place, and who is the person?

ENTREE #7

Name a two-word place where a famous experiment was done in the 1950s. Take five letters from the name and add an “R” at the end to spell the last name of the scientist who was the most responsible for the experiment. 

The first letter of the place is also the first letter of the scientist’s first name. The last nine letters of the place can be arranged to spell a well-known three-word idiom meaning to cause harm to someone or something. The experiment in this case did both, to a significant degree. 

What is the place, who is the scientist, and what is the idiom?

ENTREE #8

Think of a single serving of a hyphenated-brand-name pastry that you can plop into your microwave or toaster. 

Drop the first letter of each word and replace the hyphen with a space. The result is a term for the abstract images pictured here.

What is this hyphenated-brand-name pastry?

What is the term for the abstract images pictured here?

ENTREE #9

Name a superhero in two syllables. Drop the last letter of each syllable. The remaining letters, reading from left to right, spell the nickname of a university.

There is also a two-word nickname for this university’s athletic teams that consists of the first word in a 1968 hit song title and a word that might follow either:

~ an anagram of a word for “a framed sheet of glass in a window or door,” or 

~ the first name of a Washington Irving character.

Who is this superhero?

What is the university’s nickname for its athletic teams?

What is the hit song title?

What is the framed sheet of glass?

Who is the Washington Irving character?

What is the two-word nickname?

ENTREE #10

Write a caption for the image pictured here, in two words of four and three letters. Place the second word in front of the first word. Remove last letter of each, along with the space between them. The result is the surname of a world leader. 

What is your caption?

What is the surname of the world leader?  

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Three-Course Dessert:

Natural-food antepenultimatum

Spell a natural food backward. 

Move the new first letter into either the penultimate or the antepenultimate position. 

Replace the last two letters of this result with the letter that immediately precedes them in the alphabet. 

The result is a second natural food. 

Now take the natural food we started with, but don’t spell it backward.

Replace  the first two letters with a the letter that immediately precedes them in the alphabet, then move that letter to the end.

The result is a third natural food.

What are these three natural foods?

Hint: Five of the six different letters that appear in the three answers to this puzzle form a consecutive alphabetical string, like U V W X Y, for example.

Every Thursday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every 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.

Plantsmith's Hal: “Oh! Wendy!” “Heavenly Evenrude!” “Hens in a tent?” and “Economy of letters” Shifting an "artifactual" synonym; Four such newsy surnames! Lyricists Lewis and D____; November: ‘Tis nearly time to vote; Hounds bay, does Hudson bay?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Four such newsy surnames!

Change a letter of a surname in the news.

Insert a letter within a second such surname. 

In a third such surname, replace two letters with one. 

In a fourth such surname, delete the last letter, delete either the third or fourth letter and change two vowel sounds. 

The result is a category and three nouns that fit it. 

What are the surnames, category and three nouns?

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Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

Hal: “Oh! Wendy!” “Heavenly Evenrude!” “Economy of letters,” “Hens in a tent?”

Hal: “Oh! Wendy!”

1. 👻Young Hal and his siter Wendy have snuck up into the scare-worthy attic of their house to feast on their fresh “Halloween Haul” of Trick-or-Treat candy. In the midst of their munching and crunching, they hear an eerie creaking. It is a creaking they have heard up here before...

“Oh, Wendy, who made that sound?”  Hal asks Wendy. “Is it our ________ ________?”

Take a word for a trouble-making rowdy young ruffian who might steal all your candy on Halloween! That is the word in the first blank.

Change one letter in that word by rotating it
one place back in the alphabet stream (A=>Z,
B=>A, C=>B, etc.) to form the word in the second blank. The result is two rhyming words. The first word appears in dictionaries, but not the second word.

The second word, however, is a homophone of a two-word phrase – a five-letter noun and a five-letter adverb.

What are the dictionary word and the non-dictionary word in the two blanks? 

What are the five-letter noun and five-letter adverb?

“Heavenly Evenrude!” 

2. 🛥Think of a three-word,12-letter caption for this picture. It  contains a preposition, article and a noun that is a compound word.

Mix up the letters in this caption to get a five-word phrase related to “test criteria.” 

Economy of letters

3. 🏖The name of a famous U.S. beach spot contains seven letters. 

But it contains only three different letters of the alphabet – one consonant and two different vowels.

What is this beach spot?

Hint: It is a favorite of an ex-president. 

“Hens in a tent?”

4. 🐔🐔🐔Take a seven-letter camping item. Change its first letter to the letter five places later in the alphabet.

Change its last letter to the letter one place earlier in the alphabet.

The result is other camping items.

What are these two camping items?

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Suffragator Cave Hors d’Oeuvre:

November: ‘Tis nearly time to vote

Translate parts of the following free verse into a three-words-shorter free verse :

‘Tis nearly November, time to vote... 

Your decision is aye, nay.

Vote “either or yea” or “neither or nay”.

(In the second line, focus on sound rather than spelling.)

The following refresher course may help:

A PIG LATIN REFRESHER COURSE:

For Words Beginning With Vowels:

If you want to create a Pig Latin word from an English word starting with a vowel, add the suffix  “-way”, “-aye” “-yay” or “-yea” at the end of the original word. 

For instance:

Oval becomes ovalyea

Ultimate become ultimateyea

Odd becomes oddyea

If you want to translate a Pig Latin word into English, subtract the suffix  “-way”, “-aye” “-yay” or “-yea” from the end of the Pig Latin word. 

For instance:

Ovalyea becomes oval

Ultimateyea become ultimate

Oddyea becomes odd

Instrumental Slice:

Lyricists Lewis and D____

Name musical instruments, in three syllables. 

Change the third letter to one of the two next to it in the alphabet. 

Before the last letter, insert the first name that lyricists surnamed Lewis and D____ share in common. 

Divide the result into three equal parts to get what sounds like a collection of music publishers and songwriters, including two who are surnamed Lewis and D____.

What are these instruments and the collection of music publishers and songwriters?

What are the names of the lyricists?

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

Hounds bay, but does Hudson bay?

Will Shortz’s October 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words. Rearrange the letters of the first word to name some animals. The second word in the place name is something those animals sometimes do. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker – first and last names. Rearrange the first five letters of the last name to form a apostrophized possessive proper noun. 

Place the first name after this proper noun. 

The result is a two word phrase that, according to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is defined by “to protect his people, the Asgardians, and relocate them to Earth.”

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the two-word phrase?

Note: Entree #2 was submitted by a fan of Puzzleria!... as well as a fan of ghosts, goblins, and werewolves.

ENTREE #2

There are valedictions in tongues from Arabic to Zuni. Working in the lab late one night, Mad Scientist beheld that carbolic acid can mean “goodbye” in any language. 

Take the letters of carbolic acid, liquidate one of them, and arrange the undead letters to formulate a two-word description of a Stephen King novel title character. 

The letter that was “taken for a ride” is the same letter that begins the title of the novel and the name of the title character. 

What is the name of the title character? 

What is the two-word description? 

Note: Entrees #3 through #8 were submitted by Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

Name a historically important place in the Eastern U.S., in two words. 

The first word names an animal. 

The second word is something those animals sometimes do. 

What place is it?

ENTREE #4

Name a place in the Western U.S., in two words. 

The first word describes dogs who often accompany humans out in the country. 

The second word is something the dogs sometimes do. 

What place is it?

ENTREE #5

Name a place somewhere in South America, in two words. 

The first word names an animal. 

Rearrange its letters to name something these animals usually do. 

Then take the name of the country in which the place is located and advance its first letter two places forward in the alphabet. 

Read the result backward and you will name an animal in the same classification as the one named by the first word. 

What place is this? 

What does the first animal usually do, and what is the related animal?

ENTREE #6

Name an oft-visited place in Europe, in two
words. 

The first word names some animals.  

The second word is something these animals usually do. 

What place is it?

ENTREE #7

A mountain range in Australia and a tavern in the Eastern U.S that is known for its beer selection have the same eight-letter name. 

The first four letters name some animals. 

The first three letters name something these animals often do. 

The last four letters name something the animal uses when it does this. 

What is the place name? 

Hint: The third and eighth letters spell the postal abbreviation of the state in which the tavern is located.

ENTREE #8

Two places in the same U.S. state name some animals. 

One of the animals, and the female of the other one, are parts of a well-known idiom describing a situation in which someone is put  in charge of something he or she cannot be trusted to do. 

What are the two places, and what is the idiom?

ENTREE #9

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words. 

Rearrange the letters of the first word to spell a term for “a cell of indoctrinated leaders active in promoting the interests of a revolutionary party.” 

The new two-word result is what happens
when such a “revolutionary indoctrinated leader cell” suffers ruin, defeat or failure and loses its power.

What is this place on the globe?

What happens when the “revolutionary indoctrinated leader cell” loses its power.   

ENTREE #10

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words. 

Replace the fourth letter of the first word with a “u” to name some game. 

Add two consecutive letters of the alphabet to the end of the second word to name some that pursue this game. 

What is the place on the globe?

What are “some game” and “some that pursue this game?”

ENTREE #11

Name a place somewhere on the globe – in two words.

Rearrange the letters of the first word to name a mythological monster associated with a peacock. 

That same rearrangement of letters also precedes the word “pheasant” to name a large, brilliantly patterned bird native to East
India.

The second word in the place name is something that peacocks and pheasants sometimes do.

What is this place on the globe?

Who is the mythological monster?

What is the word that precedes “pheasant”?

What do peacocks and pheasants sometimes do?

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“Not-This-Sentence” Dessert:

Shifting an “artifactual” synonym

What do you get if you change the first letter in a synonym of “artifacts” to an “o”, move letters 3 and 4 to the end, then move letters 1 and 2 to the end? 

Well, what you get is not this sentence. 

What is the synonym of “artifacts”? 

What is the word it becomes?

Every Thursday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every 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.