“All we need is music, tweet music” Four-score or so years ago; Words on a label? Solve if you’re able! Road trip itinerary? “Why don’t you all hyph-ph-phenate away?”

P! SLICES: OVER (pe)³ – (e⁴ + p³) SERVED

Welcome to our January 13^th edition Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! This is our second P! of 2017.

We offer eight puzzles on our menus this week, including four that Rip Off Shortz. 

Please enjoy.

Hors d’Oeuvre Menu

The Hell Of War Hors d’Oeuvre:

Four-score or so years ago

A person lately in the news did something newsworthy during the dawning of an event that occurred almost 80 years ago – an event that one might have described thusly:

“Lo! Torching, war, hell.”

The person’s connection to the event was secured after he/she witnessed something that might have caused her/him to exclaim: “O, these occupy the front!”

Tragically and unspeakably, the event resulted in “a dying in ovens” and cities “napalm-razed.”

Rearrange the 17 letters in “Lo! Torching, war, hell!” to form the first and last names of the person.

Rearrange the 20 letters in “O, these occupy the front!” to form a 5-word alliterative phrase that has been used to describe what the person accomplished.

Rearrange the 24 letters in “napalm-razed,” and “a dying in ovens” to form a 4-word headline that might have chronicled the dawning of the event.

Who is this person, the alliterative accomplishment, and the possible news headline?

Morsel Menu

Paging Mrs. Malaprop Morsel:

“All we need is music, tweet music”

The opening sentence of this Al-Monitor article reads:

“US President-elect Donald Trump’s tweet in reaction to the speech by outgoing Secretary of State John Kerry, who sharply rebuked Israel, was pleasing music to many Israeli ears.”

Choose two words from that sentence. Keep them in the same order in which they appear in the sentence. Add a letter to the beginning of each word. These two letters are different from each other. The result is the title of an album of music that was inspired by a malapropism about certain two-wheeled vehicles.

What is this album title?

Appetizer Menu:

Adjectival Part Of Speech Appetizer:

“Why don’t you all hyph-ph-phenate away?”

Take the name of a nine-letter college town in a state beginning with “M”. Take the first five letters, spell them backward and place them at the end of the last four letters, separated by a hyphen. 

The result is not an actual word that you can find in dictionaries. But if it were, it would be an adjective that might describe a speech therapist.

What is the college town? What is the adjective that you won't find in dictionaries?

Note: I created the prototype of the “stutter-sign” image above when I was in my 20’s and was on an “art kick.” I had no real artistic talent, so I created graphic crapola like this, mostly in acrylics.

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Ripping Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:

Words on a label? Solve if you’re able!

Will Shortz’s January 8^th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Mike Reiss, reads:

Think of a two-word phrase you might see on a clothing label. Add two letters to the end of the first word, and one letter to the end of the second word. The result is the name of a famous writer. Who is it?

Puzzleria’s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:

ONE: Think of a two-word phrase you might see on a clothing label. Only the first letter of the first word is in uppercase. Scrunch together the first two letters of the second word, forming one new letter. Remove a letter from the second word. Scrunch together the first word and the altered second word, eliminating the space between them and forming the last name of a famous writer best known as a poet.

Who is it?

TWO: Think of a two-word brand name you might see on a clothing label. Interchange the first letters of the words. “Double” one vowel in the second word to create one new consonant. Replace another vowel in the second word with the consonant before it in the alphabet. Remove a “v”.

Rearrange the final four letters to form a word. Keep the first four letters in the order they’re in to form another word. The result is a two-word phrase that might appear on the label.

What are this brand name and phrase?

THREE: Think of a three-word phrase you might see on a clothing label. Remove:

the first letter of the first word,

the space between the first two words,

and the third word.

The result is the last name of a British writer of romances and short stories whose first name is an anagram of “teaser.”

Who id the writer? What does the label say?

FOUR: Think of a 6-letter word you might see on a quilt or dress label. Divide it in half. Add two letters to the front of the first half to form the last name of a writer. Add six letters to the end of the second half to form the last name of another writer. The writers published books in the early1940’s with titles that began with the same five letters in the same order.

Who are these writers and their 1940’s book titles? What is the 6-letter word.

Dessert Menu

Municipal Dessert:

Road trip itinerary?

Name the next city in the following list of cities:

Cleveland,

Brooklyn,

Minneapolis,
Oakland,

San Diego,

St. Louis…

?

Hint #1: The list is in chronological order.

Hint #2: R, D, L, R, C, R…

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

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

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.

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