Political, professional & performing animals; “The unbearable lightness of Beijing” Keeping the hotel-owner happy; Pair of producers past and present; Women’s Wear Dai... Doubly Described

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Producers past and present

A producer produced something in the distant past.
A producer today is producing something else with the same name as what the person in the past produced. 
Both producers’ names begin with the same two letters in the same order.
Their third letters are adjacent in the alphabet, as are their fourth letters. 
Who are these two producers?
What did and do they produce?

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Just Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Political, performing & professional animals

🥁1. Think of an animal associated with a political stance. Reverse its letters and the result when spoken aloud will sound like a French 101 word that has no letters in common. Next, think of an animal associated with an opposing political stance. Drop the last letter and reverse what remains to get an acronym for a type of media service.
🥁2. Name a professional medical title in three letters, all consonants. Distribute three of the same vowel amongst these letters to name an animal.

🥁3. Name something you might see at a carnival, in two words, four and four letters. The two words share three letters which can form either the name of a carnival performance or a performing animal, and the two unique letters can form where a performer might have to go if they work without a net.
🥁4. Think of a word for “eats quickly” in five letters. Shift each letter six places later in the alphabet to name a hairstyle.

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Don’t Worry Be Happy Slice:
Keeping the hotel-owner happy 

Name something homeowners are not happy to see. It’s a two-syllable compound word. Split the word and then spoonerize its two parts. 
The result is what hotel-owner President Donald Trump might be happy to see as the role of Congressman Devin Nunes.
What are homeowners not happy to see?
What might Donald Trump be happy to see as Devin Nunes’s role?



Riffing Off Shortz And Nardo Slices:
“The unbearable lightness of Beijing”

Will Shortz’s March 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Raymond Nardo of Mineola, New York, reads:
Here’s an April Foolish puzzle. Think of a world capital. Drop the third and fourth letters, and keeping the remaining letters in order you’ll name a state. What state is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Nardo Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Remove the first letter from a region in France to form the surname of a conductor and violinist associated with Philadelphia. 
Rearrange the letters in this surname to form the first name of a puzzle-maker. The letters in a pair of conjunctions that are often separated by a forward/slash can be rearranged  to form the puzzle-maker’s surname.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the region in France and the surname of conductor and violinist associated with Philadelphia?
What are the two conjunctions?
Hint: The puzzle-maker’s screen name followed by his surname forms the first name of a “Renaissance Man” who actually lived up to the title.
ENTREE #2
Think of a world capital. Delete the third and fourth letters, keep the remaining letters in order and add two spaces. 
As a result you’ll have three words that follow the word “blind...” in a common idiomatic phrase. 
What is the world capital?
What is the idiomatic phrase?
ENTREE #3
Think of a noun that might be used as a category heading for lever, pulley, screw or wedge, for four examples. 
Drop the third and fourth letters and, keeping the remaining letters in order, you’ll name a state. 
What state is it?
ENTREE #4
Think of a word John Donne used in a poem about islands and tolling bells. 
Drop three consecutive interior letters and, keeping the remaining letters in order, you’ll name a state. 
What state is it?
ENTREE #5 
Name a word for blasphemy or desecration, for example, or for any transgression against religion. 
Drop four letters, and keeping the remaining letters in order you’ll name a state. 
The four letters you drop can be arranged to form the first name of people surnamed Hubbell and Sagan. 
What state is it?
What is the word for blasphemy or desecration?
ENTREE #6
Think of a synonym of “bewilder.” 
Drop three consecutive letters that can be rearranged to form a word for someone celebrated in May, and keeping the remaining letters in order you’ll name a state. 
What state is it?
ENTREE #7
Think of a sonnet by John Milton whose eight-word title is also the first line of the sonnet. But the sonnet is also popularly known by a three-word title that does not appear in the sonnet at all (although the second word does make an appearance). 
The third of those three title words is a nine-letter noun to which Milton alludes (but does not mention) in the sonnet. 
Drop four consecutive letters from the interior of this third word and, keeping the remaining letters in order, you’ll name a state. 
What state is it?

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Fashion Plate Dessert:
Women’s Wear Dai... Doubly Described 


Name something usually worn by women, in six letters. 
Two shorter words, that are spelled the same except for their final letter, often function as adjectives that describe this thing. 
What are these three words?
Note: One of the adjectives is a “less common spelling” of a one-letter-shorter adjective, according to Merriam-Webster.
Hint: An anagram of what is usually worn by women is an antonym of a word for pages of a book with numbers that are evenly divisible by two.

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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