Roamin’ the High Seas – Empirically Speaking; “Rocketeers... Modern-day Musketeers?” The Blessed Virgin... Renovated Version? “Lions & Bengals & Zebras Oh My!” Trains, Planes & “Rivermo’boats!” Poof!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Rocketeers... Modern-day Musketeers?”

Note: A baker’s-dozen words related to lift-off lurk within the following text. Can you find them? 

After a peacefully successful splashdown landing in the Pacific...

Thanks to Wi-fi verifiability, and the expertise of NASA “rocket-torsi” X-ray specialists...

And after beholding shininess on sides of the moon both near and far, and experiencing zero-gravity...

That’s when the successful earth re-entry of the “crewquartet” of the Artemis II Space Mission around the Moon became history... 

And that’s also when our trustworthy quartet of “Planetary pioneers” helped to heighten hopes of our nation’s eventual colonization of that silvery-sometimes-slivery-sometimes-circular, satellite.

In the wake of the Pacific splashdown that concluded this historic NASA Artemis II lunar mission, the U.S. Navy helped extract these astronauts from their capsule... with the Artemis II Mission Commander Reid Wiseman – himself a “navy gob – last off.

(Note: This week’s Appetizer comes courtesy of a very inventive puzzle-maker and very valued friend of Puzzleria!)

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Knotty Nautical Appetizer:

Roamin’ the High Seas – Empirically Speaking

“Yo ho ho and a case of pelage”

1. 🛳🚢Take a compound word for a maritime officer with a particular responsibility aboard ship. 

One of the component words in the compound word names part of that responsibility.  The final consecutive letters of the compound word are the name of a legendary ship. 

What are the compound word, the component word, and the name of the ship? 

“Kick the Empire down the road” 

2. 📬🖃 Take a U.S. State postal code. 

Insert the postal code of another U.S. State to get the name of a civilization. Insert the name of that civilization into the postal code of a third U.S. State, and divide the result to get a two-word term for a common food container. What are the three postal codes, the civililization, and the container?

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Vanishing Hors d’Oeuvre:

Poof!

A brand name ends with the name of a creature. 

Delete this brand’s last letter. Replace its first letter with a letter near it in the alphabet.

You will be left with nothing at all!

What are this brand name and creature?

Prolific Folk-Rock Slice:

Trains, Planes & “Rivermo’boats!” 

Name a late-yet-prolific country-folk-rock singer-songwriter who penned and performed songs about trains, highways, rivers and Americana. 

This guitar-______ whose first name is ______, is not a member of a century-old institution consisting of a prestigious collection of performing musicians. The name of this institution is an anagram of the missing letters in the blanks.

Reverse the syllables of something that shares the stage with this singer during live performances to reveal the surname.

What are the words in the blanks?

What is this institution?

With what does the singer share the stage during performances?

What is the name of this singer who is not a member of the institution?

Hint: Rearrange the letters in the three-word sign you might see on a drive-by kiosk near a seedy sleazy red-light district of a city to spell the surname of this singer.

Riffing Off Shortz And Rice Slices:

The Blessed Virgin... Renovated Version?

Will Shortz’s April 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Benita Rice of Salem, Oregon, reads:

Name a famous foreign landmark (5,4). Change the eighth letter to a V and rearrange the result to make an adjective that describes this landmark. What landmark is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Rice Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker (6 letters, 4 letters). Delete one pair of consecutive letters that spell a preposition in reverse. Reverse the order of the pair of letters bracketed by spaces (thereby forming a new

preposition!). But then remove the spaces.

The result is the name of Dante’s beloved.

What is the new preposition?

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who was Dante’s beloved?

(Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the creations of our “resident riffmeister” Nodd.)

ENTREE #2

Name a famous foreign landmark in nine letters. 

Remove the first two vowels. Rearrange the remaining letters to spell parts of the body that once figured prominently in activities at this site. 

What are the landmark and bodily features?

ENTREE #3

Name a famous foreign landmark in six letters. 

Rearrange its letters to get a material that
closely resembles a material found in a part of this landmark. 

What are the landmark and the two materials?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous foreign landmark (5,4). Remove the first and third letters and rearrange to spell (1) an adjective describing
this landmark and (2) a concern that led to the building of this landmark. 

What are the landmark and the two words?

ENTREE #5

Name a famous natural foreign landmark in ten letters. 

Change the first vowel to a different vowel. 

Rearrange to get a two-word phrase for something those who spend a night at this landmark probably would wish for. 

What are the landmark and the phrase?

ENTREE #6

Name a famous U.S. landmark in seven letters. 

Change the first vowel to a different vowel and add an S. Rearrange to name an activity that takes place at this landmark. 

What are the landmark and the activity?

ENTREE #7

Name a famous foreign landmark (6,6). 

Rearrange to spell (1) a means of transport
commonly seen there and (2) two substances you would rather not see in the water there. 

What are the landmark, the means of transport, and the two substances?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous foreign landmark, in five and four words. 

Rearrange these nine combined letters to form a high-risk-stakes bet (one often with a big payoff,
but perhaps also a low probability of winning), in four and five letters.

What are this landmark and this high-stakes bet?

ENTREE #9

Name a “town” in India with a 1.3-million population. 

Take the combined letters in the word “town” and in the name of the town, plus a letter you might see on a baseball scorecard. Anagram the result to spell a famous Eastern Hemisphere landmark, in two words. The landmark and “town” are about 1,500 miles apart.

What are the names of this “town” and landmark and the letter on the scorecard?

ENTREE #10

Name an iconic two-word world landmark. It is a landmark that is not “insane,” but is “close to being insane,” both geographically and phonetically. 

Number its letters, 1 through 11. 

Replace the 1st letter, a vowel, with the vowel that precedes it in the alphabet.

Replace the 2nd letter with the letter in the alphabet to its immediate left.

Replace the 9th letter with its inverted form.

The result is an new string of 11 letters. 

Spell three words using letters:

3   1   6  6,

4  11  8  9, and

7   2   5 

Place those three words to the left of the two-word landmark to name a five-word tragic event.

What is this landmark?

What is the new 11-letter string?

What is the five-word tragedy?

What new letters did its 1st, 2nd and 9th letters become?

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Savannas, Pampas & Aerial Mountain Passes Dessert:

“Lions & Bengals & Zebras Oh My!”

“A septet of ________ simultaneously shrilled and echoed across a wide field filled with wildly combative Lions and Bengals and (and even Zebras) that all tangled together in the wake of a heated territorial turf dispute – the kind that ____ all one’s energy! (All this commotion had been precipitated by a controversial ‘____ call of the wild,’ if you will, bellowed by one of the striped creatures.”)

What are the three missing words?

How are the dozen missing letters in just the first two blanks related to a European mountain range?

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.

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 word may describe his sense of humor? 

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.