Across (Not Down), Yet Down (Under)! “Halloween Hallucinatin’” “United States & ‘CalenDates’!” Light, Land... or “Punch an elevator button”; “Dogs led the dogsled!”; Accent the first 'si-lə-bəl or second sə-'la-bəl?

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Stressful Schpuzzle of the Week:

Accent the first 'si-lə-bəl or second sə-'la-bəl?

Stressing the first syllable of a heavenly body sounds like one word related to the number 1. 

Stressing its second syllable sounds like two words related to the number 2. 

What is this heavenly body?

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Cruciverbally Global Appetizer:

Across (Not Down), Yet Down (Under)!

Note: In our August 7th edition of Puzzleria! we treated you to a “Doubly-Sweet” Appetizer, courtesy of the creative cranium of our friend Mathew Huffman, an ingenious composer of word puzzles. 

It featured a pair of mini crosswords and was titled “Great British Bakeoff.”

Mathew – who has contributed literally hundreds of puzzles to Puzzleria! over our 16-plus years... and counting – is providing us this week with a “second helping,” titled “Global Cruciverbalism.”

His puzzle this time appears in the white-text-on-black-background graphic pictured here.

Enjoy!

Note: You may be able to access further  crosswordese courtesy of Mathew by opening the links below:

LINK #1

LINK #2

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“Mountain Peaks & Countin’ Weeks” Hors d’Oeuvre:

“United States & CalenDates!”

Take two words found on a map of the United States, in six and seven letters. 

Remove from the ends of these words three letters in an abbreviation of an organization that promotes amateur sports. The result is two words found on a calendar.

What are these “map words,” “calendar words” and amateur sports promoter?

“Apple-Bobbin’ Bucket” Slice:

“Halloween Hallucinatin’”

Name a peculiar hallucination, in two words, arising particularly from heavy drinking or use of narcotics... like what might occur, perhaps, at a wild, raucous, out-of-control Halloween party bash.

If a partygoer experiencing these hallucinations (the plural form) bobs for apples and takes a bite out of one of ‘em, does this apple then sink to the bottom of the “bobbing-for-apples bucket?” 

And if so, do similarly once-bitten apples also sink bottomward? (a rhetorical question... no need to answer) 

Is “just one bite of the apple” indeed all partygoers get? (another rhetorical question)

But... is this whole Halloween Party Bash perhaps just a part of some subtly insidious weight-reduction routine/procedure (which is also an anagram of the hallucination)? (a speculative question... no need to answer)

But, what might be the name of such a routine/procedure? (answer this one!) 

What is the peculiar two-word hallucination? 

What string of three consecutive words in the puzzle’s second paragraph is an anagram of the plural form of the hallucination? 

What is this subtly insidious weight-reduction routine (which is an anagram of the hallucination)?

Hint: The plural form of the second word of the hallucination, if properly anagrammed, describes a physical feature that applies to that second word in the hallucination. (which is what an elephant has).

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Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Slices:

“Dogs led the dogsled!”

Will Shortz’s September 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Think of a means of transportation in seven letters. Change the fifth letter to a U and read the result backward. You’ll get a common Latin word followed by its English synonym. What words are these?

Puzzleria!’s September 6th “Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz” Slices  read:

ENTREE #1

Take a trio of five-letter words:

~ an onomatopoeic synonym of “smash,” (5 letters)

~ what church bells do, and

~ a Disneyesque-Dizzying” Dance?

Anagram to get the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is it?

What are the three words?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are compositions posed by our friend Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

Name a means of transportation in two words of six and seven letters. 

Consecutive letters in the first word spell a common English word. Non-consecutive letters in the first word, in reverse order, spell the Latin equivalent of the English word. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #3

Name a means of transportation in nine letters. 

Change the first letter to an E and the fifth letter to an R. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #4

Think of a plural word for a means of transportation in ten letters. 

Change the sixth letter to an A. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. What are these words? 

ENTREE #5

Think of a nine-letter type of wagon or trailer. 

Add a five-letter means of transportation. 

Remove the fourth letter of the nine-letter word and change the seventh letter of that word to an A. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. What are these words?  

ENTREE #6

Name two means of transportation in five and three letters. 

Change the first letter of the five-letter word to a D. Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. 

What are these words?

ENTREE #7

Name an iconic U.S. car model in seven letters and a common means of transportation in five letters. 

Remove the first letter of the five-letter word.
Rearrange to spell a common Latin word and its English equivalent. 

What are these words?  

(Note: Entree #8 is a cleverly crafted composition posed by our friend Plantsmith, author of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #8

Take a seven-letter Latin word that is not that obscure. 

Double letter number-five. 

Switch letters one and two. 

Replace the new letter-number-two with the first word of a three-word exclamation you might hear from a chef watching a rat running through her
kitchen. 

The first four letters of the result, reading from left-to-right, sound like a synonym of the remaining six letters, reading from right to left (reverso).

What are this Latin word and the two synonyms.

Hint: the Latin word ends with the surname of a past DJ. 

ENTREE #9

Take an eight-letter word that means having, containing, or producing “hissy sounding ‘essy’” words. 

Delete the final two letters and reverse the order of the result to spell a Latin-rooted six-letter word for excuses that involve being “elsewhere” (a word that is only moderately “essy”).

Write that six-letter word in all-lowercase letters. Rotate the fourth letter 180-degrees around its  x-axis. 

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 6th letters spell body parts that are essential in pronunciation of words.

The 2nd, 5th, 6th & 4th letters spell a speech impediment in which a person misarticulates “essy sounds,” often substituting them with “th” sounds when pronouncing words.

What are this eight-letter and six-letter words?

What are the body parts and the speech impediment?

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Utch-Day-Eat-Tray Dessert:

Light, Land... or “Punch an elevator button”

Describe “Rotterdam” or “Amsterdam” using and adjective-and-noun that rhyme with the verb-and-noun-combo “clutch crown.” Spoonerize this description to spell what sounds like a word related to “landing strips”
or “six.”

What are this adjective-noun combo and word related to “landing strips” or “six?”

Hint: An (aptly-nicknamed) inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame inaugural class of 1951 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame inaugural class in 1963 played collegiately and professionally exclusively in a U.S. state that boasts an equally aptly-named Great Lakeshore Port that features a Big Red Lighthouse, a centuries-old windmill, and a “Tulip Time Festival” that recalls the city’s rich European roots.

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 Thursday.

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.

“Powderpuff MiddLe-Lineback(Lett)er-shift!”; “Beheading” + “Befooting” Becomes “Big-Brotherly?;” “Name-Tagalong Triple Roulette!”; “Boy Meets Girl”; “Bide my time... I’ll get to Phonics!”; A Two-Couplet-Four-Car Hellbound Quatrain; “Picking-up After a Piggy Neighbor”; Subtract letters, add syllable; “Library-Book ‘Em Danno!”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Subtract letters, add syllable

Delete adjacent letters from a novel title. 

The one-syllable-longer result is a name that appears on world maps followed by an adjective describing what is named. 

What are this novel title, name on the map and adjective?

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Bobby’s 33rd “Puzzle Fun” On His 33rd Birthday Appetizer:

“Powderpuff MiddLe-Lineback(Lett)er-shift!”; “Boy Meets Girl”; Beheading” + “Befooting” Becomes “Big-Brotherly?”

“Name-Tagalong Triple Roulette!”

Note: Break out the bubbly (or beverage of your choice)! Thanks to our great friend Bobby, we at Puzzleria! are observing a “Doubly Signifcant Celebration”:

~ The 33rd edition of the ever-popular-and-always-challenging “Puzzle Fun by Bobby Jacobs,” and...

~ Bobby’s 33rd Birthday!

We all wish this talented young man the happiest of birthdays and gifts galore.... In the meantime Bobby has showered us with gifts!... a foursome of his always-fantastically-fun puzzles! Enjoy!

“Powderpuff MiddLe-Lineback(Lett)er-shift!”

1. 🏌🏃Take the name of a famous athlete. Change the first letter of the last name to L. 

Rearrange the letters to get the name of another famous athlete. Who is it?

“Boy Meets Girl” 

2. ⚤Take a 5-letter boy's name.  Move the middle 3 letters 4 places back in the alphabet.  You will get a girl's name. 

What are these two names?

“Beheading” Plus “Befooting” Becomes “Big-Brotherly?”

3.👦Take a 6-letter boy’s name. Remove the first and last letters to get a shortened form of a department of the United States Government. 

What is it?

“Name-Tagalong Triple Roulette!”

4. 📛The name Patrick consists of two nicknames put together (Pat, Rick). 

What are three nicknames such that the first and second nicknames put together are a full first name, the second and third names put together are a first name, and the third and first names put together are a first name?

Here are Links to Bobby’s previous 32 “Puzzle Fun...” appearances on Puzzleria!:

1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12  13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20    21   22  23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32

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Overdue Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Library-Book ‘Em Danno!”

If there were such a profession as “library policeman” (or “library policewoman”), talking ___ ____ would not be _______! And, _____ would be _____ to those who commit this breach of library etiquette by engaging in such inappropriate, insensitive and disruptive __________!

The word in the third blank echoes the words in the first two blanks. The words in the fourth and fifth blanks are an anagram of the word in the sixth blank.

What are these six missing words?

“Clumpy” Slice:

“Picking-up After a Piggy Neighbor”

Name a two-word term for an ugly clump of garbage in your yard.

Translate the first word into Pig Latin to name a relatively small garbage receptacle.

Translate the second word into Pig Latin to name what your generous and neighborly
next-door neighbor may say to you regarding the removal of the ugly clump of garbage in your backyard across the fence from him.

What is this ugly clump of garbage?

What is the relatively small garbage receptacle?

What may the next-door neighbor say?

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Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices:

“Bide my time... I’ll get to Phonics!”

Will Shortz’s August 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Ben Bass of Chicago, Illinois, reads:

Think of a state capital and say it out loud.
Change one vowel sound in it to name something many schoolkids study. What things are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bass Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Battery Energy Storage Systems face primary risks centered around thermal runaway, where damaged or overheated lithium-ion cells spark hard-to-extinguish fires, release toxic gases like hydrogen fluoride, and carry a potential for delayed reignition. As a result, a number of environmentalists seek to  _ _ _  _ _ _ _.

Transpose the two vowels in the words in the blanks to name a puzzle-maker.

What are the words in the blanks?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are clever creations created by our friend Nodd, composer of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #2

Anagram a state capital to spell a word for something kids may be provided with at school.

What is this state capital? With what may kids be provided?

ENTREE #3

Name a state capital. The name contains two letters that are consecutive in the alphabet, though not in the name. 

Replace those with two other consecutive letters of the alphabet. 

Rearrange to spell a subject kids typically study in school.

ENTREE #4

Think of a state capital that ends in the two-letter abbreviation for a different state.  

Replace the abbreviation with a single letter.

Insert a space somewhere to name what a kid at an exclusive prep school might have.

ENTREE #5

Think of a state capital and move one letter one place earlier in the alphabet. 

Rearrange to spell something that may interfere with kids’ learning in school. 

ENTREE #6

The name of a state capital contains five consecutive letters that can be rearranged to spell a word for something used extensively
for teaching in schools. 

What are the capital and word?

ENTREE #7

Remove one letter from a state capital to spell a subject that may be studied in school, but
usually only in very advanced science classes. 

What are the capital and subject?

(Note: Entree #8 is is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith, masterful composer of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!)

ENTREE #8:

Take a U.S. state name.

Replace its last letter with the postal abbreviation of a second state.

Replace a perfectly symmetrical lowercase letter with an “a”. Replace the third letter with a “tittled” letter. The result spells an art form.

What are this state, second state, perfectly symmetrical lowercase letter, “tittled” letter and art form?

ENTREE #9

Think of a state capital and say it aloud. Change one vowel sound in it to name a subject that prospective physicians study as post-graduates.

What is this state capital?

What do prospective physicians study?

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Befuddlingly Muddled “Blank-Verse” Dessert:

A Two-Couplet-Four-Car Hellbound Quatrain

A poem I composed about clear and clean _ _ _ _

From ethereal heights fell to depths more _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

There, it mingled with me, where its sense I could _ _ _ _ _ _

And render its ending profound as a _ _ _ _ _ _!

Fill in the blanks with whatever words seem to work for you.

The words that seemed to work for me contain
4,7,6 and 6 letters. If you find them, fine...

But I would prefer to see your words. They need not rhyme.

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.

“Femi-name-ity!”; “Flighty” actress?; “An Alternating Alphabetical Order”; “That adder holds an herb in its piehole!”; “Storks come home to roost?”; Confounded by boundlessness?; “Surname’s the Same, Sir”; “Spatulalia Bacchanalia!” ; Frightful Tigerfish! Freightful Chevron Ships!; “Pilot-lit litanies”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Frightful Tigerfish! Freightful Chevron Ships!

“Defiantly fresh tigerfish regret and denounce their loss of ‘reef rights’ due to oil freighters docking near their shore.”

Four strings of consecutive letters in that sentence share something wordplayful in common. 

What are these four consecutive letter-strings and what do they share?

VERY OPTIONAL HINT: The answer also involves two consecutive “alphabetical” strings of letters.

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Stellar Tortoiseshell Dwellers Appetizer:

“Femi-name-ity!”; “Flighty” actress?; “An Alternating Alphabetical Order”; “That adder holds an herb in its piehole!”; “Storks come home to roost?” 

“Femi-name-ity!”

1. 🎸 Name an actress. 

Her first and last names combined can be rearranged into two female first names. Her last name contains another female first name in consecutive letters. These three first names also belong to the only three women elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in a specific year. 

Who is the actress? What are the first names? Who were the three women elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in that specific year? 

“Flighty” actress?

2. 🪁Name a television and film actress
whose first and last names both relate to flying.

Who is she?

“An Alternating Alphabetical Order”

3. 🐘🐈🦛 Name an eight-letter animal where every other letter, starting from the second letter, are consecutive letters of the alphabet in order.

What is the animal?

“That adder holds an herb in its piehole!”

4.  🐍Name a famous person from the world of sports. The last five letters of the last name spell a type of animal. The first name is something that the animal has.

If you replace the third letter of the animal with a copy of the second letter of the last name, you’ll have a synonym of the first name.

Who is the person? What is the animal? What are the synonyms?

“Storks come home to roost?”

5. 🦆Think of something a certain living thing has, in five letters. Rearrange the letters to produce something that a different living thing has.

Take a five-letter synonym of that word. It’s something that the first living thing also has.

What are these three words? What are the two living things?

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Flambée Hors d’Oeuvre

“Pilot-lit litanies” 

Name a world capital city.

Move one of its letters to a spot later on in the name.

Insert a space near the middle of the result. 

The final result, in two words, is what people who check their pilot light are looking at.

What is this world capital city? What do pilot-light checkers see. 

“Plated Pastries Slice”

“Spatulalia Bacchanalia!”

Pat used a pastry spatula to serve a ____ of _____ ___ from the ___ onto a plate. 

The combined letters in the first and fourth blank are an anagram of the letters in the second and third blanks. 

What are these four missing words?

Riffing Off Shortz Entrees

Confounded by boundlessness?

“Pondering Infinity makes my brain number!”

Will Shortz’s August 23rd Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

Spell out the numbers from 13 to 20 –  THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN, SEVENTEEN, EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN, TWENTY. Select one letter from each word, in order, to name another number. No anagramming is necessary. What number is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Spell out the ten numbers in the following ten-letter sequence:

2, 5, 11, 12, 6, 3, 4, 13, 14, 0:

TWO FIVE ELEVEN TWELVE SIX THREE FOUR THIRTEEN FOURTEEN ZERO

Pluck one letter from each of the ten words to
spell the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it? 

Here is a clue for finding the answer that involves ordinal (rather than cardinal) numbers:

2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 1st

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are riffy conundrums drummed-up/dreamt-up by our friend and riffmeister extraordinaire, Nodd. 

ENTREE #2

Anagram a math term to spell a word that
applies to the world’s top mathematicians.

ENTREE #3

What math term has one meaning in geometry, a different meaning in algebra, andna third meaning in number theory?

ENTREE #4

Think of a math term in 11 letters. 

The first part of this term is a common abbreviation for a type of organization. 

The rest of the term is something those associated with such an organization typically try to make it be. What term is it?

ENTREE #5

What do these math terms have in common:
EXPONENT, HYPOTENUSE, DENOMINATOR, SCALENE TRIANGLE?

ENTREE #6

Anagram the last name of a word leader to get
a math term.

ENTREE #7

Using the letters in a spelled-out number between and one hundred as often as needed, spell 13 other numbers. 

ENTREE #8

Spell out the numbers from 94 to 100:

ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred. Select one letter from each word, in order, to spell a word for another number. No anagramming is necessary. What number is it?

Now spell out the numbers from 90 to 84:

ninety, eighty-nine, eighty-eight, eighty-seven,
eighty-six, eighty-five, eighty-four. Select one letter from each word, in order, to spell the same number as the one in the paragraph above. Again, no anagramming is necessary. What number is it?

The answer is the same for each part of this two-part puzzle..

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Stunning Dessert:

“Surname’s the Same, Sir”

Name a synonym of “gobsmacked.” 

Delete the fifth letter, leaving a space, Rotate the fourth letter 180-degrees around its x-axis. The result is a two-word vehicle.

Spoonerize the words of this vehicle to get two
different one-syllable surnames  – one belonging to a fellow with a ___-tail hairstyle, the other belonging to a cartoon character whose surname is the missing word in that blank space. This fellow and cartoon character share the same first name.

What is this synonym of “stunned,” etc.?

What is this two-word vehicle? 

What are the two one-syllable surnames?

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 Thursday.

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.