Draw a bridge over a moat; “Parsery,” artistry and royalty; Reversing a second amendment; Radiant reddish radishes in red dishes; A couple o’ witnesses, both to growth

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 Schpuzzle of the Week:

 A couple o’ witnesses, both to growth 

Name four ways the following couplet relates to effortlessness and ease:

“I, raising hens, flora, both

Bear witness to unfailing growth.”

Your answer will include:

Ⅰ. a five-word idiom; 

Ⅱ. two-word idiom;

Ⅲ. a one-word synonym of “leisure” or “relaxation”; and 

Ⅳ. a two-word idiom (which includes a hyphenated word).

Hint: Ignore two letters that appear in two consecutive words in the couplet (one letter in each word). These letters spell a prefix associated with “two” and “both.”

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Conundrunbeatable Appetizer:

“Parsery,” artistry and royalty

Parsing opposites

1. 😌😆Name a seven-letter word that as a noun is associated with relaxation and as a verb is associated with tension.

The art of sitcomedy

2. 🤣Think of the last name of a European artist in six letters. 

Rearrange to name an ‘80s sitcom.

Reversal and rearrangement result in royalty

3. ♚Think of a male first name in five letters that, when reversed, is a female first name and that, when rearranged, is another female first name notably held by a member of royalty.

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Just Hangin’ Round The Castle Slice:

Draw a bridge over a moat

Name what you might see near a castle. 

Remove two letters and reverse the order of two others to name what else you might see
near a castle.

Name these two things.

Riffing Off Shortz And Cole Slices:

Radiant reddish radishes in red dishes 

Will Shortz’s September 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Rachel Cole of Oakland, California, reads:

Name something grown in a garden. Change
the second letter, and double the third letter, to get an adjective that describes this thing. What is it? 

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz and Cole Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name two things a scuba diver might see. One is reddish-pinkish-hued. The other is something that Charlie Allnut loathed. 

Rearrange the combined letters of these words to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.

Now rearrange the combined letters of the puzzle-maker’s name to form something a mountaineer might hear and who might be the source of what the mountaineer heard.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What things might a scuba diver see?

What might a mountaineer hear and what might be its source?

ENTREE #2

Name something that grows in a garden. 

Replace the first letter with two letters whose numerical positions in the alphabet sum to 40 (A=1, B=2, C=3...). 

The result is something green... (oops, I mean
grown) in bays. 

What are these things that grow in gardens and bays?

ENTREE #3

Name an edible grown in a garden, in two words totaling ten letters. 

Move the ninth letter and tenth letter one place later in the alphabet (so A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.). 

Change the eighth letter, a vowel, to a different vowel and double it. The result is an edible “grown” in a vat.

What are these two edibles grown in a garden and in a vat?

ENTREE #4

Name a place where you can pick anything “from fruit to nuts.” 

Change the fifth letter, and delete the sixth
letter, to name something grown in a garden. 

What are this place and thing grown in a garden?

ENTREE #5

Name a legume grown on a tree. 

Change the fifth letter, and double the third
letter, to get a root vegetable. 

What are these two edibles that grow?

ENTREE #6

Name a flower grown in a garden. Write it in lowercase letters.

Replace the third letter with  the letter that follows it in the alphabet. 

Now replace that letter with two letters that, if kerned too closely together, resemble the letter they replaced. The result will be an edible
grown in a garden.

What are this flower and edible?

ENTREE #7

Name an edible grown in a garden. 

Within this word is a three-letter word for what a golf ball may knock into while producing a birdie, or perhaps eagle or even double-eagle.

Replace that three-letter word with a three-letter word for a male turkey. 

The result is a likely destination for this edible. 

What are this edible and this destination?

Dessert Menu 

Professional Dessert:

Reversing a second amendment

Name a person whose profession is mending. Spell it backward to form a word that means to mend something you mended before. 

What are these two 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.)

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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