A nesting turchiduckenkey! Doughboys and Deerstalkers; Awareness of one’s surroundings; A recipe for mobster roles; Granny Smiths, stamps & cinema

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Awareness of one’s surroundings

Complete the somewhat familiar phrase “House of ____” with one word. 

Triple one of the two vowels in the word. Add an “s” to the mix.

Rearrange the result to form a word for what surrounds a house... and not just this house but, really, what surrounds almost any house. 

What word in the blank completes the phrase? 

What surrounds most all houses?

Appetizer Menu

Delightfully Puzzley Appetizer:

Granny Smiths, stamps & cinema

🍏🍎1. Name a 4-word, 17-letter exhortation
that Dr. Anthony Fauci and others who are fighting the Covid-19 pandemic might use as a rallying cry. 

Remove an H and rearrange the remaining letters to form a 4-word phrase for something it would be easy to do in an orchard full of Honeycrisps and Jonathans, but would not at all be easy to do in an orchard full of Granny Smiths and Pippins. 

What are these two phrases?

🍈🐀2. Name a tasty but foul-smelling fruit with a prickly rind. Move its first letter 16 places later in the alphabet and rearrange the result to form the name of a one-word rodent known as a nuissance. 

A two-word synonym of the rodent is an anagram of a two-word caption for the stamp image pictured here.

What are the fruit and the rodent?

What are the synonym of the rodent and two-word caption?

🎥3. Name a two-word fictional city where a cabbie and cop named Ernie and Bert ply their trades. Move the first letter of the first word 16 spaces later in alphabet.

A two-word result is what the actor portraying Sundance does when western lawman Joe LeFors and his posse close in on him and his buddy Butch. (The first word of the result is the actor’s surname.)

A three-word result is also what a cinema-goer with deuteranomaly might perceive during the famous chase scene in “Bullitt,” or what a cinema-goer with deuteranomaly might perceive during the climactic Grand Canyon cliff-jumping scene in “Thelma and Louise.”

In what city do Ernie and Bert ply their trades?

What does a title role actor do to evade capture by Joe LeFors?

What do deuteranomaly-impaired cinema-goers perceive during the chase scene in “Bullitt” and the cliff-jumping scene in “Thelma and Louise?”

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Playing Many (Body) Parts Slice:

A recipe for mobster roles

If you say the name of a past actor’s screen name it will sound like three body parts. 

The actor is associated with mobster roles.

Who is this actor?

Hint: A part of the actor’s pre-acting-career life was portrayed in an award-winning biographical drama-comedy. 

Riffing Off Shortz And Davis Slices:

A nesting turchiduckenkey!

Will Shortz’s November 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Wesley Davis of Black Mountain, North Carolina, reads: 

When you get the answer to this puzzle it will make you smile. Name an animal and spell it
backward. Now name a variety of meat and insert it inside the animal’s name that you’ve spelled backward. A common word will be revealed. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Davis Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first and last names and the hometown of a puzzle-maker. 

Rearrange the letters to form a caption for the image pictured here. The caption contains four words of 4, 4, 8 and 8 letters beginning with N, B, M and S.

What is the caption?

What are the name and hometown of the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Name a variety of meat. Place it within a pair of identical letters. 

A common word will be revealed for
implements one might employ to eat this variety of meat. 

What are this variety of meat and implements for eating it?

ENTREE #3

Name a 4-letter variety of meat and insert it inside a 4-letter suffix meaning “a person or substance that kills” or “an act of killing.” What will be revealed is not a common word; indeed it is not a word at all... but perhaps it should be. 

The word, which might have a hyphen in its center, would describe the locus  of the figures of Mary, Joseph, the Magi and the shepherds in a creche scene.

What is this non-word that perhaps should be a dictionary-worthy word?

What are the variety of meat and suffix associated with killing?

ENTREE #4

Name a four-letter exclamation one may utter while committing a gaffe. 

Spell it backward. 

Now name a variety of meat and insert it inside the exclamation that you’ve spelled backward. 

A common word will be revealed. What is it?

ENTREE #5

Name a variety of meat and insert it inside what Tahiti Monarchs do. 

A seven-letter word will be revealed that means “an act of subjecting someone to
disgrace, humiliation, or disrepute especially by public exposure or criticism.” 

What is this word?

What is the variety of meat, and what do Tahiti Monarchs do?

ENTREE #6

Name an animal and spell it backward. Switch the second and third letters of the result and remove the first letter. 

The final result is the first name of an athlete who is considered by many to be the best ever to play his or her sport.

What is this animal"

Who is the athlete?

ENTREE #7

Name a variety of meat and insert it inside the 4-letter informal name for an 18-wheel trucker in a 1970s convoy. 

A common word for a bedroom or for a part of a firearm will be revealed. 

What are this variety of meat and informal name for a 1970s trucker?

What is the word for a bedroom or part of a firearm?

Hint: The informal name for the 18-wheel trucker usually contains an apostrophe.

ENTREE #8

Name the profession of Jules Leotard or Charles Blondin, in seven letters. 

Spell its first four letters backward to name an mammal. The remaining letters, in order, spell a much smaller mammal. 

What mammals are these?

What is the profession of Jules Leotard or Charles Blondin?

Dessert Menu

Hunter S. Thompson Machine Gun Dessert:

Doughboys and Deerstalkers

Name two four-letter words for things that both soldiers and hunters use.

The words rhyme. 

What are these rhyming words?

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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