Landmarketably remarkable!; Golden-State-plated baby booties?; “Fish ‘n’ Frescohos; April Apparel & “AroMays” Two explosions need be chosen; “Double-M’s and Jelly Beans” “Awaken! Faraday, Dickens, Burton, Degas, Kant, ^^/^, ^/ !”; “Merle, Pearl, Earl, Wade & Jade in Palisades; “Part with a part of a part to name a nation” “Musical Chairs”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Double-M’s and Jelly Beans

Ronald Reagan may have had a “Jelly Bean Jones.” 

But Jimmy Carter, with that double-m in his name, might well be nicknamed “Our M&M’s President.” 

During his non-self-centered century-long lifetime of selfless service, beginning with his navigating Navy subs, President Carter was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and was, in his twilight years, a predominant pillar in support of the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity.

Explain, using just two alliterative words with which the former president is associated, why else he might he be named “Our M&M’s President.” 

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Surely Sure! Appetizer:

Landmarketably remarkable!“Fish ‘n’ Frescohos; April Apparel & “AroMays”; Two explosions need be chosen;  Golden-State-plated baby booties? 

April Apparel & “AroMays”

1. 🎕Name a nine-letter item that you might smell in May. Remove the last letter and rearrange the remaining letters to name something you might wear in April. 

Remove the last letter of the clothing item and rearrange the remaining letters. 

You’ll have a musical instrument you’re unlikely to hear in a “March”ing band. Rearrange the letters of the musical instrument and add a letter to the beginning. 

You’ll have something you eat. Rearrange the letters of this something you eat and add a letter to the beginning. You’ll have another musical instrument. What are the things you can smell, wear, hear, eat, and hear?

Two explosions need be chosen

2. 🧪Think of the common name for a chemical compound used as an ingredient for explosives. 

Remove a nickname commonly used for the first name of a man who invented a different
kind of explosive. 

Remove the space caused by the missing letters. Add a period after the second letter, and then a space after that. 

You’ll have the name of someone you might meet after an unfortunate meeting with either explosive. 

What is the chemical compound? Who invented the explosive, and what is the nickname? Who might you meet? 

“Landmarketably” remarkable!

3. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲Name a famous landmark. Rearrange its letters to produce the following items:

* Someone who might visit this landmark (7 letters)

* A body of water surrounding it (3 letters)

* A group of the type of vehicles used to visit it (5 letters)

What is the landmark? Who might visit it? What is the body of water? What is the group of vehicles?

“Fish ‘n’ Frescohos!”

4. 🐠Name a famous painter who is still alive, first and last names. Remove five letters from the painter’s name and rearrange the remaining letters to produce a seven-letter fish. 

Again, start with this same painter’s name. Remove five letters and rearrange to produce a different seven-letter fish.

Who is the painter? What are the two types of fish?

Golden-State-plated baby bootees?

5. 🩰Name some parts that often used with shoes. 

Add a vowel to the beginning. 

You’ll have two things that recently appeared in California.

What are the parts? What are the California things?

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Lessons In Anatomy & Geography Hors d’Oeuvre:

Part with a part of a part to name a nation

Name a slang term for a body part, followed by a non-slang term for a part of that body part.

Remove one of the “solfège syllables” (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti) from the result.

Remove any spaces that may remain.

The result is the name of a nation.

What are these body parts and nation’s name?

19th Century Slice:

“Awaken! Faraday, Dickens, Degas, Burton, Mill,  ^^/^,  ^/ !”

Near the end of the19th Century (in the wake of the 18th-Century “Great Awakening”), a publishing house may well have commissioned a compilation of a variety of cultural and aesthetic disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, literature, abstract science and painting.

A practitioner of each discipline would be commissioned to represent each discipline:

~ John Stuart Mill in philosophy,

~ Sir Richard Francis Burton in linguistics,

~ Charles Dickens in literature,

~ Michael Faraday in science, and

~ Edgar Degas in painting.

The publisher may have also selected a novelist/playwright to compose a closing chapter encapsulating this scholarly compilation – a chapter that would have been entitled “_____ __ ____.”

The combined letters in those three missing words (5, 2 and 4 letters) can be rearranged to spell the name of a 16th-Century astrologer/apothecary/physician.

What is the title of the closing chapter?

Who is this astrologer?

Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Entrees:

Sitars, Guitars & Musical Chairs

Will Shortz’s (September 1st NPR) Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Think of a musical instrument. 

Add two letters at the end. and you’ll get the names of two popular automobile models reading left to right. What musical instrument is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Schwartz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last, and a word we suspect may describe his sense of humor.

Rearrange these combined 18 letters to spell the names of two popular makes (not models) of cars (pictured in the illustration) and the name of whatever you might make of the third “car.”

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are the three car names?

(Note: Riffs #2 through #7 come courtesy of our friend and riffmaster Nodd.) 

ENTREE #2

Rearrange the letters of a musical instrument to spell 

(1) the name of a foreign-made car sold in the
U.S. in the 1970s-80s, and 

(2) the first word of the nickname of an early 20th century U.S. car. What are the instrument, the cars, and the nickname?

ENTREE #3

Name a musical instrument. Replace the middle letter with a space and remove two additional letters. 

The result will name a different musical instrument and a classic U.S. car of the past.

What are the instruments and the car?

ENTREE #4

Name certain musical instruments. Remove the first letter. 

Change the last two letters, which are a state
postal abbreviation in reverse, to the postal abbreviation of a different state. The result will name a classic U.S. car of the past. 

What are the instruments and the car?

ENTREE #5

Think of a musical instrument. 

Replace the first three letters with the first two letters of a different instrument. 

The result will name a U.S.-branded foreign-made car of the past. 

What are the instruments and the car?

ENTREE #6

Think of a musical instrument.

Replace three letters with an “I” (pronounced “eye,” not “ell”). Rearrange to spell the name of a car formerly sold in the U.S. 

What are the instrument and the car?

ENTREE #7

Think of a musical instrument. 

Add a letter in the middle to name a classic American car produced from the 1940s to the 1970s. 

What are the instrument and the car?

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“Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back To The Auntie’s” Dessert:

Merle, Pearl, Earl, Wade & Jade in Palisades

Merle, Pearl and their boy Earl would often visit Pearl’s brother-in-law Wade and his wife (who was Pearl’s sister Jade) at their home in the New York State hamlet of Palisades. 

During every visit, little Earl would cower in a corner of a closet trembling after Jade – with jiggly jowls and her “Jaws”-like maw – would try to smooch the lad!

What Earl sought in that closet is an anagram of a two-word description of Jade from Earl’s perspective.

What did Earl seek?  

What is the two-word description?

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.

“The Lunatic in My Head...” Affixing a prefix, nixing a word! “Landing in Blanding? Not so outstanding?” Domestic “pound-paring” vs. “pound-packing” “Kissin’ in the Kitchen?” “Intersectimbibility” of Board Games and Booze!; Halloween Treaters invite Vampires that bite!; Weighing-in on the musical scale; Heavenly Puzzley Delights Above... Worldly Delights Below;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“The Lunatic in My Head...”

Name an adjective-and-noun description (in six and three letters) of a kindly dude, benevolent beau or compassionate popinjay. 

Anagram these combined nine letters to spell two words related to a current event. What are these four words and this current event?

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A Flavorful Foursome Of Appetizers:

Affixing a prefix, nixing a word!; “Landing in Blanding? Not so outstanding?”; Domestic “pound-paring” vs. “pound-packing”; “Kissin’ in the Kitchen?”

Affixing a prefix, nixing a word!

1. Name a two-word movie franchise. 

Replace three consecutive interior letters with a 3-letter geometrical prefix. 

The result is a one-word movie franchise. 

What are these franchises and prefix?

“Landing in Blanding? Not so outstanding?”

2. Think of a famous singer – first and last names. Switch the first letters in the names.

Take second and third syllables of this result to, perhaps, describe in two words the town of Blanding in Utah.

Who is this singer?

What is the description?

Domestic “pound-paring” vs. “pound-packing”

3. Take an architectural feature of some houses that, over time, might help you and other residents lose weight.

Move the second letter back eight places earlier in the “circular alphabet stream” (see accompanying graphic). 

Drop the first and third letters. Mix the result to get something that may add some pounds.

What is this “possibly slimming” architectural feature?

What may “pack-on” a few pounds?

“Kissin’ in the Kitchen?”

4.  Name a storage container often found in the kitchen in two words (of two and one syllables). Ignore the second word. Replace first letter of the first word with a copy

of its second syllable’s first letter. Place a hyphen between those syllables.

The result is a sometimes-sign of deep emotional bonding.

Hint: Capitalize the first word of the storage container, but don’t “decapitate” it. Instead, do the opposite – “depedicate” it! The result will be a one-letter-shorter brand name of the container.

What are this storage container and sign of deep emotional bonding?

Extra Credit: Fill in the six missing letters in the Saturday Evening Post magazine cover caption, and explain its significance.

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Do-Re-Mi Hors d’Oeuvre:

Weighing-in on the musical scale

Imagine an infinite stream of notes on the musical scale:

DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO RE MI FA SOL LA TI DO RE etc. ...

Choose a connected trio (which will contain either six or seven letters).

Transpose the first two letters. 

The last three letters of the result spell something you might hear spoken in a church.

Identify two adjacent letters. If you would delete them the result would be a singing voice or family of musical instruments with a particular pitch you might hear at a church service.

But do not delete them. Instead, transpose two adjacent interior letters, then delete the letter that follows them. The result is the surname of a well-known judge who might be present (and perhaps even officiating) when the “something you might hear spoken in a church” is spoken. The last three letters of that surname spell the surname of a second well-known judge who may be present and perhaps officiating.

What three consecutive notes on the scale did you choose?

What is the singing voice or family of musical instruments?

Who are the well-known judges?

“Bored? Games!” Slice:

“Intersectimbibility” of Board Games and Booze!

Name a relatively modern board game adapted from a similar-sounding but two-letter-shorter ancient board game.

Six consecutive letters in the name are an
anagram of a word sometimes heard during drinking.

The remaining letters are an anagram of a “hoppy uppercase adult beverage.”

The first and final two letters of the game are an anagram of an antonym of “guzzle” that drinkers of that beverage would likely not employ.

Six other consecutive letters in the name of the game spell what sounds like an adjective describing some snacks that might complement this adult beverage.

Seven consecutive letters in the board game word, if you replace the last one with the letter preceding it in the alphabet, spell a synonym of “thirsty.” 

What are this board game, three anagrams, adjective and “thirsty” synonym?

Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices:

Heavenly Puzzley Delights Above... Worldly Delights Below

Will Shortz’s March 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Challenge puzzle, created by Peter Gordon of Great Neck, New York, reads:

Name some tools used by shoemakers. After this word place part of a shoe. The result will be the subject of a famous painting. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Gordon Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a place that is the first noun in the name of a 5-word famous painting – a noun for place associated with a contrarian lass named Mary.
If you replace the “a” in “Mary” with an “o” the result is “Mory.” 

To this place do the same: replace the “a” with an “o”... but also the replace the “a” with an “o”!  The result is a name (2-syllables, 6 letters).

Now name a type of moss used in this place to increase moisture retention and promotes healthy root growth. This result sounds like a 1-syllable alternative (4 letters) to a 2-syllable name (5 letters).

This 2-syllable-5-letter name and 2-syllable-6-letter name form the full name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is it?...

But wait! You may not yet have sussed out the name of the painting! That’s also part of the answer!

The fourth word begins with a three-letter crop that is a “hominiphone” of a military officer. This fourth word also begins with where this crop is rooted, in five letters.

The fifth word begins with a four-letter store that may often offer a selection of local and seasonal farm produce, such as the three-letter crop.

So...

Who is this puzzle-maker? What is the type of moss?

What is the name of the painting?

What are the crop and where it is rooted?

What is the store?

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are creations by Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Name a material used to make footwear, in two words. 

Rearrange the first word to name a place depicted in a famous painting of the Spanish Renaissance. 

What are the material and the painting?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous American painter, first and last names. 

Move the last letter of the last name four
places later in the alphabet. 

Rearrange to spell two shoe parts and a word that rhymes with “shoe.” 

Who is the painter and what are the shoe parts and rhyming word?

ENTREE #4

The second half of a compound word for something used with footwear is a word for something of which there are two in a famous Picasso painting. 

What is used with footwear, what is depicted in the painting, and what painting is it?

ENTREE #5

Take the second word in the title of a famous Expressionist painting and change the last letter to an E. 

Rearrange to get a word for something undesirable that shoes do. 

What is the painting, and what do shoes do?

ENTREE #6

Insert a space in the last name of a famous American painter to get a phrase for what a certain type of shoe is designed to do. 

Who is the painter and what is the phrase? 

ENTREE #7

A famous Renaissance painter’s last name is also the name of a high-end shoe brand. 

The title of one of his most famous paintings can be arranged to spell a shoe part, a proprietary shoe technology, and a word that
typically appears in business memoranda. 

His first name, with the last two letters changed to a U.S. state postal abbreviation, is a kind of shoe. 

Who is the painter, and what are the painting, shoe part, shoe technology, memorandum word, and kind of shoe?

ENTREE #8

Your mission is to name each title in the octet of visual artistry described below:

A. Name a painting with a title that contains two desirable playing cards – in games like poker, canasta, bridge and gin rummy, for example.

B. Name a painting with a title that contains
two body parts which might be adorned by pricey “apparel” (in the broad sense of the word), but contain only the singular form of that apparel.

C. Take the last 8 letters of the title of a painting. If you delete the 4th and 6th letters, then transpose the 5th and 7th letters, the result spells the name of a river which is the color of the final word in the painting’s title, according to the title of a waltz composed in the 19th Century.

D. The first 5 letters in the title of a painting spell the name of a trick-taking card game. 

The last 7 letters in the title spell a type of endplay strategy – employed in contract bridge, for example – in which an opponent’s apparent trump trick goes away... (well, we can pray, anyway) 

E. Replace the first word in the 2-word title of a painting from an article to a pronoun. 

The result sounds like a dessert. 

F. The title of a painting contains the name of a planet and a word that rhymes with one of its “neighboring planets.”

G. The final three letters of a painting sound like a one-letter-longer pejorative noun that some insensitive  viewers of the painting might use to describe any of the people who appear
in the painting.

H. The title of a painting begins with a palindrome and ends with a palindrome. Neither palindrome is an English word. 

But the first palindrome is a word a Japanese and Hausa language word, and the second palindrome is a word in French, Latin and Turkish language word.

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Blood-Pump(k)in’ Dessert:

Halloween Treaters invite Vampires that bite!

Take a word associated with blood. 

A pair of interior adjacent letters in the word spell a spelled-out letter (like “ef” or “ex,” for example). 

Replace this pair with a letter that is NOT spelled-out  (like “g” or “y,” for example). Then transpose this new letter with the letter to the right of it. 

Move another interior letter two places later in
the word.

The result is a word associated with Halloween.

What are these two words?

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.

It’s Paradiddle-Riddle-Time! Colony becomes a composer; “Home, home on the habitat...” “...Like a fish needs a bicycle!” “Lustrous” versus “Rusty”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Experiment (with toy and tool!)

Rearrange the combined ten letters of two creatures from folklore to spell; 

(1.) a tool, and  

(2.) a toy... 

that were used in an 18th-century scientific experiment... and,

(3.) what the conductor of the experiment did in order to carry out the experiment (in 3, 4 and 3 letters). 

What are these creatures, the tool, toy and what the experiment’s conductor did?

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Tough Huffmanian Appetizer

It’s Paradiddle-Riddle-Time!

1. 

Think of a nine-letter word for a place away from risk. Remove two letters to name a job concerned with risk.

2. 

Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). 

Change the O to a double E to get another word.

3.

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Vowel Shift Hors d’Oeuvre:

Colony becomes a composer

Name a United Kingdom colony. Change a vowel in it to the following vowel in the alphabet. 

Anagram the result to get a surname of a composer and an informal word for the name of that composer’s nationality. 

What are this colony, surname and description?

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Slice:

“... Like a fish needs a bicycle!”

Place a space within the first word of a two-word fish, forming three words. 

Move the first letter of the third word to the beginning of the first word. 

Swap the first letters of the second and third words. Replace a “u” in the third word with an “a” and delete the space between the second and third words. 

The result is two modes of transport. 

What are these modes of transport and this fish?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

“Home, home on the habitat...”

Will Shortz’s March 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:

Name an animal. The first five letters of its name spell a place where you may find it. The last four letters of this animal will name another anaimal — but one that would ordinarily not be found in this place. What animals are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Posters of online material and comments tend to hide behind what is known online as a “Screen name,” “Username,” “Handle,” “Display name,” or “Profile name.”

A decade-plus-or-so ago, one particular future puzzle-maker (who was-then-and-still-is-now, alas, also often uncertain of what the heck he is doing!) “grabbed” a two-word “handle” from some ghastly combination of the blogosphere and the vacuummy void within his cranium. 

He used this handle to post nonsensical
comments on Blaine’s Blog, and retained it when he signed off on comments he posted on a puzzle blog he launched thanks to invaluable assistance from Word Woman (who had recently launched her own blog, “Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science”

Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science

The “handle” that the “particular future puzzle-maker” picked contains four syllables.

The first syllable is a part of a geometrical figure.

The second syllable is the “fifteenth in a series,”

The third syllable, if you change a vowel, is a part of a tree that is also a general term for the first syllable when it’s a part of a human, rather than geometrical figure.

The fourth syllable is one-half of a past nihilistic and antiesthetic movement in the arts.

What is this “handle?”

(An amusing musing: I hear that “George” is a fine handle... but “Frideric”... Not so much!)

Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 are the brainchildren of our friend and “riffmaster” Nodd, author of his “Nodd ready for prime time,” featured regularly on Puzzleria!...

ENTREE #2

1. Name an animal. The first four letters of its name describe the places where you may find it. The four letters immediately preceding the last letter name other animals you may find in those places. 

What animals are these and what word describes the places they be found in?

ENTREE #3

Name an animal. The first five letters of its name, with the fourth and fifth letters reversed, spell the place in which this animal is believed to have originated. The first three letters of the name, plus the next-to-last letter, can be rearranged to name animals that did not originate in that place. What animals are these and where is the first animal thought to have originated?

ENTREE #4

Name an animal. Move the fourth letter of its name seven places earlier in the alphabet. Now rearrange the last six letters, as modified,
to spell where this animal lives. 

The first three letters of this animal’s name, in reverse order, name another animal, one that generally does not live in such a place. 

What animals are these and where do they live?

ENTREE #5

Take a plural form of the name of an animal. Insert two letters between the second and third
letters. 

The result will describe these animals’ living arrangements in their native environment. 

What are the animals and how do they live?

ENTREE #6

Take the plural form of the name of an animal. Change the first letter to the letter three places
later in the alphabet. Rearrange the result to get an adjective describing these animals and others related to them. 

What are the animals and the adjective?

ENTREE #7

Name an animal. The first four letters of the name, plus one letter, spell a place where you
may find it. 

The last five letters of the name are the first five letters in the name of an animal that would not ordinarily be found in this place. 

What animals are these and what is the place?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word seven-letter animal whose first three letters spell a place where you’ll find it, and whose first four letters spell a second animal found in this place. 

Three consecutive interior letters of this animal, if reversed, spell something sometimes found on the surface of this place. Its 1st, 3rd, 5th and 4th letters spell something else sometimes found on the surface.

What are this animal and place, second animal, and two things sometimes found the place’s surface?

ENTREE #9

Name an animal. Its first five letters spell a place where you may find it. Its last four letters spell a bird of any kind, including many that would ordinarily not be found in this place. 

The final three letters of this animal spell a
chiefly nocturnal bird of prey.

An anagram of the aforementioned “bird of any kind” is a predatory canine creature.

~ Letters #3, 4, 2 & 9 another creature found in the water, a dabbling duck.

~ Letters #6, 9, 4 & 2 spell an insect that feeds on other animals.

~ Letters #5, 2 & 3 spell a rodent.

What are this animal, where you might find it, bird of any kind, bird of prey, canine creature, dabbling duck, insect and rodent?

Extra Credit: ROT-22 the first four letters of the original animal to get an anagram naming many animals’ feet. What is this “ambulatorial” anagram?

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“Said The Spider To The Fly” Dessert:

“Lustrous” versus “Rusty”

Rounded lustrous body parts associated with a synonym of “parlor” are spelled the same as pointed rusty fasteners associated with a synonym of “bar.”

However, although the rounded lustrous body parts are spelled identically to the pointed rusty fasteners associated with a synonym of “bar,” these synonyms of “parlor” and “bar” are spelled a tad differently. 

The synonyms would be spelled identically if you doubled an “O” in the shorter synonym.

What are the body parts, fasteners, and two synonyms?

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.