Wowed by Powdermilk Biscuits! Apply a formula, find an appliance; “Malchus? Vincent? Can you hear me?” Character development; Seven heavenly puzzles?... Mathew’s define comedy!

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Character development

Place the first name of a young sitcom character in front of the one-word name of a male literary character. 
Remove an “o” and divide the result into two equal parts to name a female literary character, in two words.
Who are these three characters?
Hint: The first name of the young sitcom character is gender-neutral.

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Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Seven heavenly puzzles?... Mathew’s define comedy!

🥁1. Think of a contemporary comedienne, first and last names, in five and five letters. Drop four letters, add an A, and rearrange to name a fictional location featured in a recent movie.

🥁2. Take the name of a television comedy series that aired in the mid-2000s, in three words. Add a stroke to one letter and rearrange to get a two-word economics phrase that is one indicator for quality of life.

🥁3. Think of a common downside to the summer, in seven letters. Drop the first letter and shift the remaining letters nine places earlier in the alphabet to get a common unisex first name shared by a well known comedian/actor.

🥁4. Think of a comedian currently on television, first and last names, whose last name appears in the first name (in order, but not consecutively). Remove all instances of these shared letters and rearrange to name the capital of a country.

🥁5. Name a comic strip in three words. Put together, these words contain the name of a foreign language in five letters.

🥁6. Think of the last name of a stand-up comedian that contains “ND”. Change the “ND” to “MB” to get a word meaning “aimless”.

🥁7. Name a television personality and a comic strip character that share the same first name and whose last names are colors. 

Plug In Values And Solve Appetizer:
Apply a formula, find an appliance

To solve for a particular linear distance you can use a formula with variables that include: 
“frequency,” 
“target cross-section,”
“wavelength,”
“transmit power,” 
and “antenna gain.” 

Take the alliterative two-word term for what it is you are finding when you plug in your variable values into this formula. This term sounds like the name of a forerunner of an appliance – one that is a fixture in most modern kitchens. 
What are you finding when you use this formula, and what is the forerunner of the modern appliance?

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Wowed by Powdermilk Biscuits!

Will Shortz’s November 25th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
Think of a well-known food brand. 
Add the letters W-O-W. Then rearrange the result to name another well-known food brand. 
What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz slices read:
ENTREE #1:
Think of a description of a common food staple, in two words each beginning with the same two letters. 
Subtract the letters W-O-W and replace one of the remaining vowels with a different vowel. 
Rearrange the result to form an adjective describing the choice a buyer of this food supposedly makes. 
What is the two-word description of the staple? What adjective describes the buyer’s choice?

ENTREE #2:
Think of a somewhat well-known food brand in three words. The third word is a creature containing both a W and an O. 
Rearrange the letters in these words to form three other words: 3. The third word is another creature containing both a W and an O.
2. The second word is commonly associated with this creature. 
1. The first word is an adjective indicating that this particular creature is unsophisticated and socially awkward. 
What is the food brand? 
What is the socially awkward creature?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a reasonably well-known snack food brand. 
Bet’cha can’t eat just one. But also bet’cha can rearrange the letters in just one to spell strength and conditioning exercises that people ought to be doing who, alas, can’t eat just one... thousand(!) of these snack food morsels. 
What brand is it? 
What are the exercises?

ENTREE #4:
Name two kinds of one-word kitchen appliances: those used to crush cooked yams and others used to tenderize meats. 
Add the letters W-O-W. 
Rearrange the result to name morsels of  food – consisting of a somewhat redundant adjective and noun – that might be placed atop the yams. 
What are these appliances? 
What might be placed atop the yams?

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Message In A Bott..., No, ...In A Can Dessert
“Malchus, Vincent, can you hear me?”

Take a word for “canned messages” voters may hear during the run-up to elections, in nine letters. 
Rearrange its letters to describe, in three words of 1, 3 and 5 letters, what may happen if an ear falls to the floor. 
What are these canned messages called?
What may happen if an ear falls to the floor?

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.

A wedding of romance languages; Home for the Hollandaise? Numbers lying doormant; Synonym flavored candies; ShortZ but not SweeT

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
A wedding of romance languages

Selena from Barcelona and Marcel from Marseille marry and build a bistro in Bayonne. 
An English adjective pertaining to marriage, when you spell it backward, describes and explains – in  a two-word phrase, the first in French and the second in English – the clever French/Spanish name Selena and Marcel chose for their bistro: “Café Olé.” 
What is this English adjective that pertains to marriage? 
What is the two-word phrase that describes and explains their bistro’s two-word French/Spanish name? 

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Tough To Beat Conundrums Appetizer:
Home for the Hollandaise?

🥁1. Think of a five letter word. Shift each letter seven places later in the alphabet to get a synonym. The words are often used to describe feelings around the holiday season.

🥁2. Think of a religious holiday. Drop the last letter to name a hotel chain.

🥁3. Name a fictional holiday character in seven letters. Rearrange to name what many retailers engage in just prior to this holiday.

🥁4. Name a spice in eight letters, in which the last three letters are a type of relative and the first four letters are something one might give to this relative on a special occasion.

🥁5. Name a fictional location featured in a recent movie in seven letters. 
Change one letter and rearrange to name a holiday culturally related to the fictional location.

Not Ready For Prime Time On-Air-Challenge Appetizer:
ShortZ but not SweeT

Every Sunday morning on his NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle segment, puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays an original “on-air challenge” with a lucky listener chosen at random from a pool of NPR Puzzle aficionados who have correctly answered the previous Sunday’s “end-of-the-segment” challenge. 
The puzzle below is Puzzleria!s attempt to emulate this weekly NPR ritual. You might call it a “pseudo-on-air challenge,” or “on-blogosphair challenge.”
So, here is is. Enjoy!
Every answer is a word, name or phrase that begins with the letter S and ends with the letter Z. 
Example: Puzzlemaster Will --> SHORTZ
1. A nose, especially a prominent one
2. A canal
3. Hulu or Netflix competitor
4. Russian spacecraft
5. A red wine
6. Peanuts producer Charles
7. Corny sentimentality 
8. Non-standard word preceding “who?” or “me!” in a cartoon bubble
9. Medal-winning Mark eclipsed by Olympian Michael Phelps
10. To spray in quick short bursts
11. Common Spanish surname that rhymes with an English word for “large cattle farms”
12. Poet Delmore
13. Malcolm X’s activist wife Betty
14. Plum brandy
NOTE: The following answers contain two words:
15. Defensive tactic that may lead to a sack or bad pass
16. Short, quick physics or chemistry exam
17. Two-time Swiss Olympic host
18. California city that means “Holy Cross”
19. Kind of kids in a Steely Dan title
20. Title of a classical music piece often heard at ice shows
21. Title and surname of a recent Beto beater

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Numbers lying doormant

Will Shortz’s November 18th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
In my trip to Europe two weeks ago I visited a friend in Amsterdam, Peter Ritmeester, who literally has a puzzle on his doormat. 
Before you walk into his apartment, there’s an original puzzle for you to solve. 
I was able to do it. 
See if you can. 
What number comes next in this series: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 23, 28?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz slices read:
ENTREE #1:
In my trip to Europe 30 years ago I visited a friend in Switzerland, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on her doormat. Before you walked into her apartment, there was an original puzzle for you to solve. 
I was able to do it. See if you can. What number comes next in this series: 1, 4, 13, 15, 15, 18?

ENTREE #2:
In a trip to California 30 years ago I visited a friend stationed at Fort Ord, a United States Army post on Monterey Bay, who literally (and numerically) had a puzzle on his doormat. Before you walked into his barracks, there was an original puzzle for you to solve. I was able to do it. See if you can. 
What number comes next in this series: 6, 5, 9, 18?
   
ENTREE #3:
In my trip to Mexico two years ago I visited a friend in Chihuahua, a  “purse-dog aficionado” who literally has a puzzle (and a pooch named Pepe) on his doormat. 
Before you walk into his casa, there’s an original puzzle for you to solve (and a pooch for you to pet). 
I was able to do both – solve the puzzle and pet the pooch. 
See if you can solve the puzzle (and at least pretend to pet the pet pooch Pepe). 
What number comes next in this series: 16, 5, 18, 18?

ENTREE #4:
During my trip to London two weeks ago I visited Sherlock, a deerstalker, case-cracker and puzzle-solver, and his flatmate, John. I buzzed their bell but there was no response, so I lifted the corner of their doormat and found the key to the door. The doormat, curiously, had a series of fifteen blue numbers printed upon it.
Besides the key to the door, also under the mat was a scrap of paper on which was scribbled a one-word key to unlocking the significance of the “doormatted” blue numerical sequence – a word that Sherlock was wont to employ whilst discussing murder cases with John. 
Using this key as a clue, I was able to solve the puzzle. See if you can deduce the clue and solve the puzzle too: 
What number comes next in this series: 10, 13, 18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 31, 42, 49, 57, 60, 91, 101, 109?
What is the one-word key scribbled on the scrap of paper under the doormat?
Hint: Were I not a citizen of the good old United States I may not have been able to crack this Merrie Olde English case. 

ENTREE #5:
a decade from now the Summer Olympics will be hosted by Los Angeles. In a trip I made to Los Angeles two weeks ago I visited Stijn, a friend of mine from Amsterdam, who has been hired by the Los Angeles Olympic Committee as a consultant in the creation of bicycling event venues for the 2028 Olympic Games.
At Stijn’s urging, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed Los Angeles to build an open-air velodrome with a banked two-kilometer-long oval asphalt track that is, in effect, a circular suburban residential “loop” thoroughfare in Pasadena’s Los Angeles County. 
The track is roughly the length of a Kentucky Derby lap at Churchill Downs. Spectators at this venue will sit not outside of the oval course but on the infield in specially designed seats that swivel 360 degrees and come equipped with binoculars so that bicyclists can be tracked at every instant as they pedal their merry way around the perimeter of the asphalt oval. Indeed, Stijn has proposed that the track be named “Perimeter Street.” 
A trial-run race at the new venue (after a false start by a too-eager cylist necessitated a timer-reset and restart) went off without a hitch or glitch, much to Stijn’s delight.
Rearrange the letters in “timer-reset” to form the last name of a puzzle-making friend of Stijn back in Amsterdam, a friend who apparently also knows Will Shortz. 
Rearrange the letters in “Perimeter Street” to form the full name of Stijn’s friend. 
Who is Stijn’s (and Will Shortz’s) friend?

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Candy Shoppe Lollipop Gumdrop Dessert:
Synonym flavored candies

Name a popular generic candy in two words. 
Rearrange the combined letters to form two synonyms containing five total syllables.
What is this candy?

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.

Last but not lost in translation; Sweets, meats and other eats; Talking turkey in seven words; Mythematics and mathology; Pilgrim's Peckishness; HucKanyee!

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Talking turkey in seven words 

Name four words associated with Turkey Day: its country of origin, in three letters; two things farmers do to put food on the table, in four letters and eight letters; and a word uttered at the table, in six letters. 
Turkey is also associated with three other words – words that can be formed by rearranging those 21 letters. 
What are these seven words?
Hint: The eight-letter thing farmers do to put food on the table goes on throughout the food-growing process. The four-letter thing farmers do to put food on the table happens at the end of the process. 

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Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Mythematics and mathology


🥁1. Name a medication that can be broken into a common French word and an English number.

🥁2. Think of an ancient god in one word whose name when spoken aloud sounds like a two word phrase meaning “subdued.”

🥁3. Think of a word meaning “insignificant”. Insert a Greek letter somewhere inside to name a creature from Greek mythology.

🥁4. Think of a contemporary musician whose first name can be rearranged into an internal organ and whose last name can be rearranged into a number.


🥁5. Think of two words, five letters each, that are related to both water and music. Taken together, these words can twice be rearranged into mathematics terms: in four and six letters, and again in five and five letters.

Please Pass The Buttered Bunyans Appetizer:
Pilgrim's Peckishness

Name a word associated with Thanksgiving Day's origins.
Change two letters and divide the word in two to name a condition the Wampanoag people and pilgrims would likely no longer have suffered from after sitting down to their delectable meal. 
What is this condition?

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West In The West Wing Slice
HucKanyee!

Let’s pretend that after his visit with President Trump in the  Oval Office, Kanye West was hired to replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House Press Secretary.  
About a week ago, West might have held a press conference  in which he name-called a member of the Fourth Estate using a 3-syllable word ending in “r” (but pronounced by West as a hip hop artist might). The new press secretary’s pronunciation is a homophone of the last name of his Fourth Estate target. Who is this target?


Riffing Off Shortz And Moffa Slices:
Last but not lost in translation

Will Shortz’s November 11th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Phil Moffa of Torrance, California, reads:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that means “to be last.” Together the first two words are a synonym for the last word. What phrase is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Moffa Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Name a somewhat obscure three-word phrase that means “be last,” “fail,” or “suffer a defeat,” in four, one and seven letters.
A two-word synonym of “partner with” is “share in.” Place “share” in front of the seven-letter word and “in” in front of the four-letter word to form compound words that belong in the following sentence:
“The in____  of a share_______  is based on his agricultural production.”
What words belong in the blanks, and what is the three-word phrase?
Hint: The three-word phrase is related anagramatically to the image in the above text.

ENTREE #2:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that ends with “finish last.” Rearrange the letters in the first two words to form a two-word description, in three and five letters, of Carpobrotus, Mesembryanthemum,  Conicosia, Delosperma, and the monotypic Disphyma. 
What are this four-word phrase and two-word description?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a two-word phrase that eventually will be synonymous with “the last,” according to a quite quotable book. What phrase is it?

ENTREE #4:
Name a two-word alliterative synonym for “not win.” Reverse the order of the final four letters and add a duplicate of the original final letter to the end. Add to the end of this result the name of a brutish fictional creature encountered by a “Lem”. 
The final result sounds like the nickname and last name of a world leader. 
Who is this leader? What is the two-word alliterative synonym for “not win?”

ENTREE #5:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that means “to be last.” 
The first two words of the phrase are a synonym for the last word. 
Rearrange the 14 letters in the phrase to form what an irritated person might do, in five letters, if he has an irritation of the esophagus, in nine letters.
What four-word phrase is it? What might an irritated person might do, and what is the irritation of the esophagus?

ENTREE #6:
Think of a somewhat familiar phrase that means “lose” or “fail to achieve or win something,” in three words of four, two and five letters. Rearrange the letters in this three-word phrase to form a two-word phrase of six and five letters. Some say that American citizens will [three-word-phrase] if they [two-word-phrase] again in 2020.  
What are these two phrases?

ENTREE #7:
It is late July, 1975. Michael Corleone has ordered his chief hit man, Al Niri to book a hotel suite in West Bloomfield, a tony Detroit suburb. 
Corleone is about to grant a favor to his niece Anne Marie, one of the twin daughters of Michael’s late brother Sonny. (Anne Marie had to change her name to Kathy when, as an adult, she was forced underground after kidnapping attempts and threats on her life by the Barzini and Tattaglia families. But her Uncle Michael still calls her by her childhood name, Anne.) 
Anne’s boyfriend is blind and needs a corneal transplant, but donors are scarce so he is thus bringing up the rear on a very lengthy waiting list. Michael, however, has observed while watching TV news broadcasts that Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa never wears glasses...
And so, on Tuesday, July 29, Al Niri is in his hotel suite awaiting word from his boss and godfather Don Michael Corleone. 

Niri is lounging supine on his double bed, watching “Police Story” on Detroit’s NBC affiliate WWD-TV.
Suddenly, at 9:43 PM local time Niri gets a text... oops, we mean telegram, reading:
KILL HOFFA! (STOP) SCORE ANNE’S PAL A CORNEA. (STOP)
The name, home town and home state of what puzzle-maker does that telegram bring to mind?

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Pie Day (But Not In March) Dessert:
Sweets, meats and other eats

Name sweets served after a fancy meal, in five syllables. 
The fifth syllable sounds like a Thanksgiving Day pie that may include meats. 
What are these candies and this pie?  

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.