“Cape Cod catch” & other clues; Phyllis’s Photobucket etiquette; Have a heylik Hanukka Haiku; “Dondering through the snow...?” Yuletide yen for planes, tomes & automobiles

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Cape Cod catch” and other clues

Solve the following clues: “Cape Cod catch,” “Still-life subject” and “Plea at sea.” Each is a one-word answer.

Rearrange the twelve combined letters of your answers to spell a “word” that describes all three. 

What are the three answers to the clues?

What word describes all three?

Note: Although this “word” does not appear in dictionaries (yet), it is well-known to to puzzle aficionados and purveyors — like Will Shortz, for example.

Appetizer Menu

Percussive Christmas Appetizer:

Yuletide yen for planes, tomes & automobiles

🥁1. Think of a financial firm. Drop the first four letters. 

The result will name an automotive chain.

🥁2. Think of the alma mater of a well-known author. Remove one letter and rearrange. 

The result will name the main character of the author’s best-known work. 

🥁3. Name a condiment. 

Rearrange into two words that might describe the yen. 

🥁4. Name a U.S. city known for its airport. 

Insert a space to name two things you’ll find on a plane.

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Ph-Stop Slice:

Phyllis’s Photobucket etiquette

Phyllis often texts pictures she has taken with her Nikon camera to all her relatives and friends. 

She also posts her pictures on photo-sharing sites such as Photobucket, Flickr, Facebook, Fotki, Instagram and Pinterest.

A few controversial political-rally pictures she once took weren’t so well received, however, so she now texts and posts only non-controversial images of her toddler... 

“No more ___-______ pictures,” Phyllis vowed to herself, “but _ ___ _____ or two ought to be safe and acceptable.”

Rearrange the combined letters of the first two missing words to form the three missing words that follow.

What are the five missing words?

Hint: The five words, in order, contain 3, 6, 1, 3 and 5 words. 

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:

“Dondering through the snow...?”

Will Shortz’s December 13th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:

Using only the letters in the phrase RIDE ON — repeating them as often as
necessary — you can spell 1) the  one-word proper name of a famous fictional animal, and 2) a word for what kind of animal it is. What’s the name of the animal, and what’s the word? 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Using only the letters in the a phrase for what a Vietnam war protester with a megaphone may have been wont to do: BASH GI VET —
repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker. 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Using only the letters in the word HEPCAT — repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell 1) the one-word proper name of a
famous fictional animal, and 2) a word for what kind of animal it is. 

What’s the name of the animal, and what’s the word for it?

ENTREE #3

Using only the letters for you might have done with an unidentified key, TRIED LOCK — repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell 1) the one-word hyphenated proper
name of a famous fictional animal, and 2) a word for what kind of animal it is. 

What is the name of the animal, and what is the word for it?

ENTREE #4

Using only the letters in the first name of Mr. Reynolds (a saxophone player in Stan Kenton’s Orchestra) and what he often played often played: ROY and SAX TUNE —

repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell 1) the one-word proper name of a famous fictional animal, and 2) a word for what kind of animal it is. 

What’s the name of the animal, and what’s the word for it?

ENTREE #5

A mediocre tennis player might boast about “MY LOB.” A newspaper read that the kingpin in the MOB PLED nolo contendre to racketeering. 

Using only the letters in MY LOB — repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell the two-word proper name of a should-be-more-famous fictional character.

Using only the letters in MOB PLED — repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell the two-word proper name of that fictional character’s spouse.

Who are these two fictional characters?

ENTREE #6

According to Ben Weeks, a Colorado-based green building techniques advisor, you can stack sandbags or form a BERM alongside a Quonset HUT, thereby enabling it to be more climate-efficient. 

Another insulation technique is to stack many a hay BALE NIGH the exterior wall of the hut. 

Using only the letters in the words BERM and HUT — repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell the two-word proper name of a fictional character. Now use only the letters in the words BALE and NIGH — repeating them as often as necessary — to spell the two-word proper name of that fictional character’s childhood sweetheart, who died of typhoid in her teens.

What are the the names of the character and childhood sweetheart?

ENTREE #7

On November 18, 2009, Robert Byrd of West Virginia became the longest-serving member in United States national congressional history, with 56 years, 320 days of combined service in the House and Senate. He died as a senator in June 28, 2010, of natural causes. 

SEN. BYRD, WHO began his national Congressional career with his 1952 election to the United States House of Representatives for West Virginia’s 6th congressional district, is the only person ever to serve more than 50 years as U.S. senator, from 1959 to 2010. 

Using only the letters in  SEN. BYRD and WHO — repeating them as often as necessary — you can spell 1) the one-word proper name of a famous fictional sports character, and 2) his nickname for one of his tools of his trade.

What’s the name of the character, and what’s the nickname?

Dessert Menu

Holy (הייליק) Dessert:

Have a heylik Hanukkah Haiku

The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah is observed annually during a “baker’s week” of eight days. It begins on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

The 2020 obsevation began on December 10 and ends this evening, December 18.

In the haiku below, titled “Hanukkah Haiku,” fill in the missing words.

What are they? 

Hanukkah Haiku

Ignite candles eight straight _____,

Festival of _____: 

Ancient rite of __________.

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.

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