Proverbial wisdom meets fashion sense; Celebrations, siblings and other sibilance; Illegibility leads to ineligibility in the field of calligraphy; “All hands on deck?” Historically neighborly baroque eye chart

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Proverbial wisdom meets fashion sense

Take the first four words of a proverb. 

The initial letters of the first three words, in order, form a new word. 

Place this new word after the fourth word to name something you might wear, in two words. 

What might you wear? 

What is the proverb?

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Worldplayful Appetizer:

Historically neighborly baroque eye chart

Neighbors

🌍1. Take the informal name of one country in two words. Insert the demonym (or adjectival form) for a neighboring country between these two words to obtain the full legal name of the neighboring country in three words. What are the two countries?

A historic woman

👩2. Think of a historic woman. Her name consists of the postal abbreviation for a US territory, followed by US postal abbreviations for three states. Who is she?

Third down in B? major

🎸🏈3. A baroque musical instrument in two syllables sounds like a quarterback’s misfortune, followed by a non-vulgar term for what part he might land on as a result thereof. 

What is the musical instrument?

Eye chart

🥩👁4. Think of a term for a capital letter, in nine letters. 

Extract a French word often used in meat dishes. Replace the end to sound like a pirate. The result sounds like the first word in an eye disease. What are the original term, French word, and eye disease?

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Bookish Slice:

Celebrations, siblings and other sibilance

Name a book and a city in the book that was the site of a celebration. 

Remove one letter and rearrange the remaining letters to name two siblings who appear earlier in the book.

What are these four names?

Riffing Off Shortz And Dale Slices:

Illegibility leads to ineligibility in the field of calligraphy

Will Shortz’s May 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jim Dale of Plano, Texas, reads:

Think of a word with six syllables that’s spelled with only 11 letters — and the four middle
syllables have the same vowel. What word is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Dale Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a kind of business, in four letters, where one can buy cooked meats and prepared salads, and a kind of sweet condiment, in three letters, one might might purchase there. 

Rearrange these combined letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Now name brewed beverages, a kind of food fish and what you might use to heat up the fish in words of four, three and three letters. 

Rearrange these combined letters to spell the hometown and state of this puzzle-maker.

What are this business and condiment?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What are the beverages, kind of fish and what might you use to heat up the fish?

What is the puzzle-maker’s hometown?

ENTREE #2

Think of an adjective with four syllables that’s spelled with 10 letters. 

The four syllables have the same vowel. The other letters are six different consonants. 

The adjective is associated with the
philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.

What adjective is it?

Extra credit: An eight-letter culinary dish with “intestinal fortitude” contains the same six consonants and the same two vowels.

What is this dish.  

ENTREE #3

Think of an adverb for how ascetic monks approach nourishment, with five syllables and 12 letters. 

This adverb contains, in alphabetical order, the six vowels, including  “y”, and five different consonants, one used twice.

Rearrange those six consonants and one of the vowels, used twice, to spell an eight-letter verb meaning “assaults violently or attacks verbally.”  

What are this adverb and verb?

ENTREE #4

Think of two 4-syllable 10-letter words that end with the same five letters. These five letters can be arranged to form a two-word phrase (a pronoun and verb) a comedian like Don Rickles might have used to characterize his brand of humor  (which involved pointed, witty ridicule and razor-sharp repartee). 

Both10-letter words contain four of the same vowel, one in each syllable. 

The first five letters of one word can precede “disobedience.”

The first five letters of the other word is either a “four” or a “forefinger.”

What are these two 10-letter words?

What might Don Don Rickles have said?

ENTREE #5

Think of a noun with three syllables that’s spelled with 10 letters — three of the same vowel, four of the same consonant, and three other consonants. 

The noun characterizes: 

1. the oeuvres of Pablo, Paul, Piet and Wassily;.

2. inflated, involved, and often deliberately ambiguous language, or

3. verve, vigor, vim, vinegar and vitality.

Take one of the three vowels, one of the four same consonants and the other three consonants. Add an “o” to the mix and rearrange the result to spell the name of a composer.

What noun is it?

Who is the composer? 

ENTREE #6

Take a six-letter plural noun for Dapple, Rocinante and the sites of a temple and of a sermon. 

Double a consonant, quadruple a vowel and rearrange the result to spell an adjective that describes many sermons. 

The adjective contains the same vowel in each of its four syllables.

What is the plural noun?

What is the adjective?

ENTREE #7

Take a Mexican city and an African country side-by-side. 

Remove the second letter and third-last letter of this result, leaving a string of nineteen letters in which every even-number-positioned letter is the same.

What are this country and city?

ENTREE #8

Name the titles of two annual Billboard Top 100 single records that were recorded twenty years apart. The earlier “45-rpm pearl” placed #7 on the charts and the latter platter placed #9. 

If you ignore the “The” in the #7 single, the rest of its title contains the same vowel in each of its four
syllables.

The latter title contains the same vowel in each of its five syllables.

What are these 45-single record titles?

ENTREE #9

Name something that has locks, in two words.

Every other letter in these words is the same vowel, and there are five of them.

What is this thing with locks?

Dessert Menu

Four-Of-Fifty-Two Dessert:

“All hands on deck?”

Categorize “rollerball,” “fiber” and “nib,” in two words. 

Spoonerize the two words to get what is seen
on each of four particular cards in a standard deck. 

What is seen?

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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