Cele"British"? “Chile"brity?... Woodworking, blacksmithing and ? (6x15 or 6x30) degrees of letter rotation;

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Welcome to our August 7th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! 

Our featured puzzle this week comes to us courtesy of Patrick J. Berry (screen name: “cranberry”), who has contributed many excellent puzzles to Puzzleria!, including his ingenious cryptic crossword puzzles. Patrick’s latest contribution is a clever Appetizer about a foreign-born American celebrity whose surname, if you tweak it, is a synonym of the celebrity’s first name. Thank you, Patrick. 

Also on this week’s menus are:

A quartet of WANDA/MAZDA-like Ripping-Off-Shortz And Lipscomb Slices, and 

A Dessert that has professional pretensions. 

Please enjoy our half-dozen puzzles! 

Appetizer Menu

Foreign-Born Appetizer:

Cele“British?” “Chile”brity?...

Name a foreign-born American celebrity who people associate with food. If you replace one letter in the celebrity’s last name with a different letter your will get a synonym for what the first name sounds like.

Who is this celebrity?

Hint: The celebrity’s first name is shared by a musician whose father is a member of a rock group he or she is also a member of. 

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Ripping Off Shortz And Lipscomb Slices:

(6x15 or 6x30) degrees of letter rotation

Will Shortz’s July 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Tyler Lipscomb of Athens, Georgia, reads: 

Think of a common girl’s name. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate one of these letters 90 degrees and another of the letters 180 degrees. The result will name the make of a car. What is it?

Note: For the purposes of the following ROSALS puzzles, here are a few rotation suggestions. (You may come up with other rotations we haven’t listed.):

An N can become a Z, and vice versa;

An M can become a W, and vice versa;

An M can become an E, and vice versa;

An E can become a W, and vice versa;

A C can become a U and vice versa;

Puzzleria’s Riffing/Ripping Off Shortz and Lipscomb Slices read:

ONE:

Think of a common girl’s name. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate one of these letters 90 degrees clockwise and another of the letters 90 degrees anywhichwise. Rearrange the letters in the result to name a European city that is home to a very recognizable work of religious art. What are the girl’s name and the city’s name?

TWO:

 Think of another common girl’s name in ten letters. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate the first and fifth letters 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rearrange the result to form a two-word phrase that describes a scenario in which either: 

1. no one yet knows how the inheritance of the deceased is to be divvied up, or 

2. only the NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle listeners have access the “The Puzzle” by the Puzzlemaster because the online text of the puzzle has not yet been posted on the NPR web site. 

What are the girl’s name and the two-word phrase?

THREE:

Think of a philosopher’s name in four letters. Write it in all capital letters. Rotate three of these letters 90 degrees and interchange the first two. The result will name a philosopher. Who is it?

FOUR:

Think of common items seen around the household, in eight letters. Write this word in all capital letters, eight of them. Rotate every one of these letters: some of them 90 degrees, the others 180 degrees. Interchange the first and second letters. The result will name common items seen around the household. 

What are these household items?

Dessert Menu

Professional Dessert:

Woodworking, blacksmithing and...?

Take a singular compound word associated with the woodworking profession. The second part of that word is the same as the first part of a plural compound word associated with the blacksmithing profession. Merge the two into one three-part word so that their common part appears only once, in the middle. (This new hybrid word, spoken aloud, sounds like a what would be a tedious task on carpenter’s or farrier’s to-do list.)

Delete the seventh letter from this three-part hybrid word, then delete its first two letters. Divide the result into two new words, both plural. The first of these words is a pejorative term for another practicioners of another profession, one that Rudyard Kipling wrote about in a short story. The second word is a shortened slang form of the first term.

What are the two compound words associated with woodworking and blacksmithing?

What are the two plural words for practitioners of the other profession?

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.)

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