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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Statuettes of illimitation?
Name a winner of multiple Oscar statuettes, first and last names.
Replace the first letter of the last name with an “r”. The last 6 letters of the result spell a tool of this multiple Academy Award winner’s trade.
The first 4 letters spell something others do to win Oscars.
Who is this Oscar winner?
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Round Ball? Round Bat? Hit It Squarely! Appetizer:
Swinging far north of Mendoza
Take just the first name of perhaps one of the best hitters in major league baseball history.
Remove one letter.
The result is a prefix pertaining to certain body parts that are vital to superior hitting.
Who is this hitter?
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Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
“Dominicknames!”
Will Shortz’s August 26th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dominick Talvacchio of Chicago, reads:
Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains a body part. The musician has a single-word nickname that anagrams to a different body part. Who is this musician, and what is the nickname?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains the plural form of a body part and whose first name has a syllable that sounds like a second body part. This musician was once a member of a group of youngsters who were associated with the last name’s body part.
The musician has a single-word nickname that, when you remove its last letter, anagrams to a third body part. The musician has another single-word nickname, one that sounds like a slang term for a body part.
Who is this musician? Of what group of youngsters was the musician a member? What are the musician’s two nicknames that have connections to body parts?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a not-so-well-known musician – one who is known to most fans only by the middle name, a middle name that contains a body part. The musician’s last single record that charted (in the early 1970’s) contained a lyric about something that “tasted good.”
Too much of that “good-tasting something,” however, might well have a detrimental effect on the body part contained in the middle name.
Who is this musician and what is the title of the single recording that sold well enough to make the charts?
And just what was it that tasted so good?
ENTREE #3:
Think of a well-known musician whose last name contains a body part.
The musician wrote the song in ENTREE #2 that contained the lyric about something that “tasted good.”
Combine and rearrange the letters in the musician’s first name plus the letters in the non-body-part part of the last name to spell a 4-letter word used in the title of two of the musician’s compilation albums plus a 2-word title (in 5 and 2 letters) of two albums released by other artists in 1970, just as the musician began receiving widespread and worldwide acclaim as a singer-songwriter.
Who is this musician? What is the word in the title of two of the musician’s compilation albums? What is the title of two albums released by other artists in 1970?
ENTREE #4:
Think of a moderately well-known musician with single-word nickname that is also a common 4-letter word for a particular class of warm-blooded vertibrates.
Take the combined letters of the musician’s first and last names and change an “e” to an “h”.
Rearrange the result to form two 4-letter members of that class and one 5-letter word for a sound they make.
Who is this musician, what is the class of vertibrates, what are the two members of the class, and what sound do they make?
ENTREE #5:
Name of a puzzle-maker whose last name contains the middle name of a well-known American and a Greek letter (in its spelled-out form). Replace an “h” in the puzzle-maker’s last name with an “l”. Combine the letters of this result with the letters in the puzzle-maker’s first name. Rearrange these combined letters to form an oxymoronic 3-word phrase consisting of two adjectives and a noun that begin, respectively, with an “i”, “a” and “c”.
Who is this puzzle-maker, and what is the 3-word oxymoronic phrase?
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Libretto’d Dessert:
Operoxymoretta
Take the English translation of an operetta title, in three words.
Put a “d” sound at the end of one of the words to form what sounds like an oxymoronic phrase.
What is this title?
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.
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.
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Hats “Hoff” to an octogenarian!
Note: The content of the following shpuzzle is “embellished.”
April 24, 2009: Mr. Mose hops into his PT Cruiser and motors up Interstate 95 from his home in Weed, California to Tacoma, Washington. Mr. Mose had previously participated in “producers’ auditions” conducted by the reality television show “America’s Got Talent” in Sacramento, and had been chosen to advance to a live audition in Tacoma in front of celebrity judges that is taped for later broadcast over the national airwaves.
If those judges would be wowed by his talent and his act, Mr. Mose would then advance to the quarterfinal, semifinal and final rounds held at Stage 36 of the CBS Television City studios in Los Angeles, the “City of Angels.”
During the first day of taping in Tacoma Mr. Mose, an octogenarian, did indeed wow celebrity judges David “the Hoff” Hasselhoff, Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan.
Indeed, after Mr. Mose’s performance, “the Hoff” exclaimed effusively:
“Gee, you are 80! You see L.A.!”
Judging by “the Hoff’s” comment, what are Mr. Mose’s talent and his first name?
Hint: The combined letters in Mr. Mose’s first and last names can be rearranged to form a one-word-named notable person who shared Mr. Mose’s talent.
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Seek Whence Appetizer:
Blanks that flank not “drank” but “8”
What are the two missing numbers in the following sequence?
Explain your answer:
9, 9, 10, 9, 10, 9, 9, 9, _, 8, _, 10, 11, 8, 8, 8, 8,...
Hint: The answer involves an important and useful smaller number with a name that sounds like the former team nickname of a professional sports franchise.
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Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
Golden anaGrahams for breakfast
Will Shortz’s August 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle was created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, who conducts the blog Puzzleria! It reads:
Think of a brand name you might see on your breakfast table. Change one letter to a Y and rearrange the result to get a familiar two-word phrase that names something else you might see on your breakfast table. What phrase is this?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:
(Note: ENTREES #1 and #2 were created by Mathew Huffman, a great friend of Puzzleria!)
ENTREE #1:
Name a breakfast chain. Change a vowel to a different vowel and rearrange the result to name a brand you might find on your breakfast table, in two words.
ENTREE #2:
Name a two-word phrase that describes what a waiter or spouse might do at breakfast. Change the noun in the phrase to a less common synonym, but in its plural form.
Change one letter in this altered two-word phrase to a Y and rearrange the result to name a new two-word phrase that describes a way the noun might be ordered or served.
ENTREE #3:
Think of a hyphenated brand name you might see on your breakfast table. The hyphen is flanked by two foods, neither of which is actually contained in the product. Duplicate one letter in this name and rearrange the result to get another brand name you might see on your breakfast table and the word for a kind of meal at which both brand names would likely not be seen.
What are these two brand names and the word for the kind of meal at which both brand names would likely not be seen?
ENTREE #4:
Think of something you might see in a jar on your breakfast table, in two words. Rearrange the fifteen letters in these two words to get a three-word command that is a shorter way of saying “Rearrange the letters in a two-word term for an inferior lyrical poem.”
Obeying that command would result in a two-word term for a professional person who might be hired to pose for an ad campaign promoting jewelry items – items associated with the last name of a U.S. president if your lowercase its first letter.
What is in the jar on the breakfast table? What is the three-word command? What is the term for the person who is hired to pose?
ENTREE #5:
Think of a brand name you might see on your breakfast table along with the word for the kind of food it is. Rearrange the twelve letters in these two words to form three 4-letter words for foods you are not likely to see on your breakfast table.
Two of these words (which not brand names) might be ingredients in a sandwich. The third (which is a brand name) might be spooned into a bowl which is then placed on the floor.
What food and its brand name might you see on your breakfast table?
What are the three 4-letter words?
ENTREE #6:
Think of the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last names, that you might hear at your breakfast table on a Sunday morning. Change one letter to a B and rearrange the result to get two familiar synonyms for “fraudulent.” What synonyms are these?
Who is the puzzle-maker?
Note: Your answer for one of the synonyms will use a variant unamerican spelling.
Hint: I was not familiar with this puzzle-maker until about five days ago... but that might be a “fraudulent” hint. Fake news!
ENTREE #7:
Think of the name of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Change one letter to an “i” and rearrange the result to get three words: two foods (in 6 and 3 letters) you might eat for breakfast and what you might do to both foods (in 4 letters), using a microwave or conventional oven, to enhance their flavor.
What two foods are these, and what might you do to them? Who is the puzzle-maker?
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Bert Conveyance Dessert:
Quick Draw Magritte
Put two pieces of horse-drawn conveyance in alphabetical order.
Remove four letters: the first half of the second word followed by the second half of the first word. These removed letters form a new word.
Form a second new word by spelling the four remaining letters backward.
Place the second new word in front of the first new word to spell a new 2-syllable 8-letter compound word for what type of puzzle this is.
What are the two pieces of horse-drawn conveyance?
What is the compound word that descibes this type of puzzle?
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.
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.
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
White tie and tails vs face-pie and pratfalls?
Name a actor, first and last names, who appeared in stylish, sophisticated and occasionally comedic films.
Change the first letters of both names to different consonants and delete the last letter of the actor’s first name to name an actor who appeared in slapstick, unsophisticated and always comedic films.
Who are these two actors?
Hint: One actor was born a few years before the other, and lived a few years longer.
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Bedeviled Egotist Appetizer:
Morphing Mini-Me into mini-metaphor
Name an egotistical world leader, in two words. Change the first letter of the second name, remove a common preposition from the end, and remove the space between words. The result is a synonym of “mini-metaphor,” the kind that may bedevil a learner of a new language.
Who is this past world leader, and what is the synonym of “mini-metaphor?”
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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Cosmic squawks and smoggy magic
Will Shortz’s August 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle (part 2 of a two-week challenge) reads:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common — something about the letters in them (all the letters). What is it? When you know it, think of a common 7-letter word that shares the unusual properties of both last week’s and this week’s words.
SCARECROW
SCREENSAVER
CAMERAWOMAN
CURVACEOUSNESS
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
These six words have a very interesting and unusual property in common — something about all the letters in them. What is it?
SQUAWK
SMOGGY
MAGIC
QUICK
COSMIC
MOSQUE
ENTREE #2:
The words that are the answers to the clues below have a kind of interesting and somewhat unusual property in common — something about all the letters in them. (The number of parentheses indicate how many letters are in each word).
1. Toffee and chocolate bar (5)
2. Starr, for one (6)
3. Rhyming phrase meaning to stay cool under a blazing sun (4,3,4)
4. Woodworker’s tool (5)
5. Two pairs of consecutive Greek letters (5,4;3,5)
6. Rhyming (well, kind of) instructions to Shane Stant? (3,4,7)
7. Egg whites in a bowl, or the 1962 Mets, for example (8)
8. Modifier of potato, banana, orange or carrot (8)
9. “Cinderella,” “The Sleeping Beauty, ” “Romeo & Juliet” or “Anna Karenina,” for example (6)
10. Part of a jacket familiar to those who (like SuperZee) submit NPR puzzle entrees (5)
11. A kind of judge (9)
12. Word associated with “Tom and Ray” (6)
13. Place that oily paints stick to (7)
14. Place that oily peanut butter sticks to (6)
15. What Gores, Garys and gears have (5)
16. Informal term for a thirty-three-and-a-third r.p.m. platter (5)
17. Tangible, like felt for example (8)
18. Word describing adorable puppies and kitties (8)
19. Achilles’ plea, after Paris “went all Cupid” on him? (4,4)
20. The last word in the title and the first word in a poem by Eliza Cook (4,4)
21. A word for something that contains 28 syllables, and that also contains every letter in the 20 other answers in this ENTREE at least once) (8)
ENTREE #3:
These words in the football-picture caption below (Refs admit Wes’s witty “hel-mitt” wuz a helluv a riot!) have an interesting and somewhat unusual property in common — something about all the letters in them.
Some other words that share this property are:
ARDENT
DESK
HELLO
EXIT
WEEP
AHEM
FLIP
DWELL
AWE
What is this property?
Note: The Oxford English Dictionary was used as a reference in baking up this ENTREE #3.
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Field of Envision Dessert:
Solve this puzzle you will if four blanks you can fill
Fill in the blanks with four rhyming words to complete the following couplet (in anapestic trimeter):
Is the “grail” you seek _____ sweet and ____?
Try envisioning _____ as they ____.
Hint: All four word in the blanks rhyme with one another.
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.
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.
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Great baseballs of fire?
“The pitcher hurls the ball homeward from atop the hill at the heart of the diamond.’’
Consider three nouns in that statement: ball, hill and diamond.
Which of those three is greatest, according to the Bible?
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Homeland And Hometown Appetizer:
Emily’s transplanted ancestree
Emily was born, raised and still lives in a United States capital city. She is a native (with a lowercase “n”) American citizen who can trace her family tree back several generations to a homeland across the sea.
Take the word for what one calls a native of that homeland – one of the Emily’s ancestors, for example – and place in front of it the rearranged letters of the name of a tree that is native to that homeland.
The result is the name for what Emily, or any other native of her hometown, is called.
What are these two names?
Lushous Appetizer:
“Squeezing” corporate America ’til it sings
Remove the first letter from the beginning and add three letters to the end of a prominent American company. The result is a singer, first and last names, who appeared in a movie that was nominated for many Oscars. Who is this singer?
Hint: The letter you removed plus the three letters you added, in order, spell a 4-letter synonym of “lush.”
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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Fanfare for the common ground
Will Shortz’s August 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common. What is it?
NEANDERTHAL
EMBARRASS
SATURATION
CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices appear below.
Note: The number in parentheses after each UPPERCASE WORD in the seven Entree Slices may help you solve them.
ENTREE #1:
These four words – and one word pair – have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
TURMERIC CURRY (7)
FLUORIDE (4)
HODGEPODGE (5)
HOLLANDAISE (5)
SKIDMARKS (3)
ENTREE #2:
These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
ADVENTURESOME (5)
TRANSCENDENTALISM (6)
CUSPIDOR (5)
JUNKANOO (4)
DIAGONAL (5)
ENTREE #3:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
HEARTACHE (5)
SOCIAL (4)
ADMIRATION (4)
CLOAKROOM (4)
ENTREE #4:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
METAMORPHOSIS (4)
DUMBFOUNDS (6)
CRYPTOLOGY (4)
TREEHOUSES (6)
ENTREE #5:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
SCATURIENT (6)
UNSPEAKABLE (4)
HEADMASTERLY (5)
DESOLATION (6)
ENTREE #6:
These five words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
SUPERANNUATES (6)
INSTITUTIONALIZE (6)
COLUMBINES (5)
MISTREATMENT (6)
EXPENDABLE (5)
ENTREE #7:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common.
What is it?
PLURALIZATION (5)
LEPIDOPTEROLOGY (5)
DIABOLIC (3)
GLOOMFULLY (5)
Is Today’s Date “August” Or Not? Dessert:
It’s in Anna’s or Hannah’s hands
Today is Friday, August 10th, 2018.
Anna believes a day like today is not so special, especially during this month of August in which there are ten other days similar to today.
Hannah, on the other hand, believes a day like today is quite special; indeed, from her perspective there won’t be another day like it for another thirteen months.
Explain Anna’s and Hannah’s conflicting beliefs about this second Friday in August.
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.
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.
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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Simmernonymous fun in the summertime
Remove 5 letters from what someone sometimes does during summer.
Spell the remaining letters backward to form a synonym of that word.
Hint: Rearrange the removed letters and add an “s” to the end to name what might be an impediment to this summer pastime.
What are these two synonyms?
And, for extra credit, what is the impediment?
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Entrepreneurial Ledger-Domain Appetizer:
Does Penny pocket “citrus and sugar” coin?
Three pennies.
A nickel and three pennies.
A dime and a penny.
These three amounts represent three numerals – 3, 8 and 11 – that 7-year-old lemonade stand entrepreneur Penny Nichols recorded one morning in her ledger book, either as a debit in red at the left of the page or a credit in black at the right.
In no particular order, the amounts represent:
1. an expense, paid to her parents, for three lemons
2. an expense, paid to a neighbor lady, for three-quarters-cup of sugar
3. a profit for selling one cup of lemonade, including a penny tip for Penny's good service
Penny had paid for the lemons and sugar with coins she rattled out from the top slot of her piggy bank. She made her parents and neighbor lady sign homemade receipts, which she promptly tucked away in the back of her ledger book.
At noon, Penny takes a break after a morn’s-worth of “toiling” at these “citrus and sugar mines.” While sipping on a splash of her inventory, she proceeds to pool the morning’s cash and receipts, checking to ensure they jibe with her ledger entries. They do.
What is the price of a cup of lemonade at Penny’s stand?
Of the three numerals Penny entered, which two are “in the red” and which one is “in the black”?
Did Penny finish the morning in the red, in the black, or did she break even?
Essential Hint: There is one word in the text of this puzzle that is the sole key to solving it. A word in the puzzle’s title – “Penny pockets ‘citrus and sugar’ coin” – hints at this key word.
Blank Verse Appetizer:
Filling a cuplet five-sixths full
If you ____ someone off they may send you to ____.
You may pay and get sprung though... until you ____ ____.
Spoonerize the missing words in the first line of this couplet (in anapestic tetrameter) to produce the missing words in the second line, thereby completing the couplet.
What are these four words?
Note: For the purposes of this puzzle, to “spoonerize” means to switch the beginning sounds of the two missing words in the first line to produce the two missing words in the second line.)
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Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:
“Those amazin’ metatheses!”
Will Shortz’s July 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Oshin of Portland, Oregon, reads:
Think of a familiar two-word phrase in 8 letters – with 4 letters in each word. The first word starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word, which, amazingly, other than the M, doesn’t share any sounds with the original two-word phrase. What phrase is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a somewhat familiar 8-letter noun. Move the fifth letter to the end and you’ll get, amazingly, a synonym of the 8-letter noun. What synonyms are these?
ENTREE #2:
Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase – with 4 letters in each word – that might characterize an angry mob’s motivation. The first word starts with M, the second with an R. Move the R to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter word which, not-so-amazingly, is a noun naming the subtly manipulative role a mob’s ringleader might play in stirring up of the mob’s emotions.
What phrase is it? What noun is it?
ENTREE #3:
“We ____ ____ make it our personal responsibility.”
“You ____ ____ decide in your heart how much to give.”
“We have never preached violence, except the violence of love ... that we ____ ____ do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us.”
Think of a not-so-familiar two-word phrase with 4 letters in each word that fills in the two blanks in each of the three quotations above – which were, in no particular order, spoken by Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador in a homily, spoken by President Ronald Reagan in a radio address, and written by St. Paul (or perhaps his trusted sidekick Timothy), in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians (New Living Translation).
The first word in the phrase starts with M. Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter noun, which, not-so-amazingly, was sported by neither Romero nor Reagan but was likely sported by Paul according to iconography (the jury is still out on Timothy).
What phrase is it?
What did Reagan and Romero not sport that Paul did and Timothy might have sported?
ENTREE #4:
Think of two 4-letter words:
1. A feature of a horse that judges consider during showmanship events at horse shows, and
2. What judges do regarding that feature.
The first word starts with an M, the second with an R.
Move the first letter of the second word to the end and you’ll get a regular 8-letter singular noun which, not-at-all-amazingly, does not pertain to horses but does sometimes pertain to “lions and tigers and bears, oh...!” (oh well, you know how it ends... and it doesn’t end well!).
What 8-letter noun is this?
ENTREE #5:
Take the letters in the first and last names of a puzzlemaker who is an apparent fan of the Tour de France (or perhaps of the ballet or gymkhana) who hails from the Great Northwest.
(My thanks to ron for the Tour de France insight.)
Rearrange these letters to form a 2-word phrase that indicates something that largely doesn’t exist (at least where tonsure is practiced – as it was at Erfurt, Germany during the early 16th century).
Who is this Great Northwesterner?
Hint: I just became aware of this puzzlemaker less than a week ago.
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.
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.
Replace the first letter of the last name with an “r”. The last 6 letters of the result spell a tool of this multiple Academy Award winner’s trade. 
Remove one letter. 
The musician has a single-word nickname that, when you remove its last letter, anagrams to a third body part. The musician has another single-word nickname, one that sounds like a slang term for a body part. 
The musician wrote the song in ENTREE #2 that contained the lyric about something that “tasted good.” 
Take the combined letters of the musician’s first and last names and change an “e” to an “h”.
