The Philosopher’s Meat Company; Name’s-the-same all-star-game; “Twerking”: a working (it) definition; HorizontAL VerticAL CapitAL; Proverbial phraseology

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Proverbial phraseology

An author’s title character commits a sin which, according to the Book of Proverbs, leads to destruction. 

Remove a letter from the end of the author’s surname. The result is a verb. 

That verb immediately follows the name of the sin within the the text of Proverbs. 

Who is the author? 

What is the verb?

What is the pertinent Proverbs text.

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Meaty Yet Metaphysical Appetizer:

The Philosopher’s Meat Company

🏭1. Take the name of a nine-letter company. 

Remove the second and seventh letters and replace them with a single T. 

Rearrange these eight letters to get a product of that company. 

What is it?

🥩2. Take the last name of a famous philosopher. 

Change the last letter to L. 

Rearrange these letters to get a type of meat. 

What are the philosopher and the meat?

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Name’s-the-same all-star-game

An author’s surname is the same as a composer’s first name. 

The author’s first name and composer’s
surname are both world capitals. 

Who are the author and composer?

Riffing Off Shortz And Engler Slices:

HorizontAL VerticAL CapitAL

Will Shortz’s April 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Engler of Wayland, Massachusetts, reads:

Write in capital letters the name of a popular vehicle brand. Move two vertical lines closer
together. Add a horizontal line. The result will
be another popular vehicle brand. What names are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Engler Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take a six-letter word for a positive spiritual force that flowed through a group of guys from the Bible, the number of people in the group and the singular form of their footwear. 

Rearrange the combined letters of these three words to spell the name of a puzzle-maker and his hometown.

Now take a two-word description, in six and five letters, that describes each of the three passages below:

“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me... and you will find rest for your souls. For my
yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

 “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.”

Rearrange those 11 letters to form the name of the puzzle-maker, but not his hometown.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What are the positive spiritual force that flowed through the group from the Bible, the number of guys in the group and the singular form of their footwear?

What is the two-word description that describes each of the three biblical passages?

ENTREE #2

Write in capital letters the name of an island country in the South Pacific. Move two vertical lines closer together. Add a horizontal line. 

The result will be a suffix that can follow eye-, cup-, use-, woe-, bash-, play-, soul-, wake or meaning-. 

Move the horizontal line you added to a different spot. 

The result is the beginning of a Spanish word for a  sport that ends in -bol.

What country is this?

What is the suffix? What is the beginning of the Spanish word?

ENTREE #3

Write in capital letters the name of a freshwater crustacean that resembes the lobster but is usually much smaller, in eight letters. 

Move two vertical lines closer together. Add a horizontal line. 

The result will be “what an  ember becomes” and the color of that “future ember.” 

What crustacean is this?

What are the “future ember” and its color?

ENTREE #4

“The bronco ______ was bucked furiously by the wild stallion. But, despite the _______ that formed on his calloused hand, his grip on the rein remained tight.”

Write in capital letters the seven-letter word
that belongs in the second blank. Move two vertical lines closer together. The result will be the six-letter word that belongs in the first blank.

What words are these?

ENTREE #5

Write in capital letters an adjective meaning “ornamented with intricate gold and/or silver wire metalwork.” 

Move two vertical lines closer together, then do the same to two other vertical lines, thereby decreasing to number of letters from nine to seven.

Remove the second letter of this result to form a verb meaning “saw eye to eye.”

Now take the same seven letters. Switch the second and fourth letters and remove the sixth to form a verb meaning “locked horns.”

What is the adjective associated with metalwork?

What are the two verbs?

ENTREE #6

Write in capital letters the first name of a character on a long-running TV sit-com – a “know-it-all” who spouts trivia and “nonsensical talk that has no meaning and conveys no intelligible ideas.” 

Move two vertical lines closer together. Add a horizontal line. 

The result will be a word for “nonsensical talk that has no meaning and conveys no intelligible ideas.”

Who is this sit-com character?

What is the word for nonsensical talk?

ENTREE #7

Write in capital letters the name of a stereotypical Revolutionary War instrument that is not a drum or bugle. 

Add three horizontal lines, one each to the first three letters. 

The result will be the final 40-percent of the
name of a Civil War figure.

What is the instrument?

Who is the war figure?

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Def Dessert:

“Twerking”: a working (it) definition

Separate the three syllables of a word to form a possible dictionary definition for “twerking.” 

What is the word?

Hint: The definition contains three words containing nine total letters.

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