A dozen roses, a dozen dates; Ovine, feline, feminine thespian; Onomatopoeia and Gridirony; “Trekfones” and Klingon lingo, or (toy’wI’ tlhInganpu’); Lima, koala, albacore, Cairo, Burma; Cupid, comedy, cozy warm feelings

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

A dozen roses, a dozen dates

Valentine’s Day shares a particular distinction
with only eleven other dates of the year.

What are these other eleven dates?

What distinction do these dozen dates share?

Hint: Aileron atilt

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Heartbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:

Cupid, comedy, cozy warm feelings

“Kudos, Cupid!”

1.💘 Think of a six letter word related to something Cupid does with his arrows. 

Reverse the first three letters and the next two (123456 becomes 321546).

The result is a term of appreciation

you might hear on Valentine’s Day.

Social “comedia”

2. 🤣Think of something you might have done on social media. 

Double the first letter, then reverse the first four letters. 

The result is something a comedian might have done during a good set.

Warm all over

3. 🔥Think of an emotion that makes you feel warm inside, in seven letters. 

Move the first letter to the end to name something that makes you feel warm on the outside.

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Super Bowlful Slice:

Onomatopoeia and Gridirony

Name a somewhat obscure slang onomatopoeic word associated with a piece of football equipment, in five letters. 

Remove its first letter to form a second onomatopoeic word associated with that same piece of football equipment. 

What are these two words and piece of equipment?

Hint: The first onomatopoeic word that is associated with the piece of football equipment begins with a “d”, and might have been coined by John Madden.

Riffing Off Shortz Slices:

“Trekfones” and Klingon lingo, or (toy’wI’ tlhInganpu’)

Will Shortz’s February 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

What language in seven letters can be spelled using the letters on three consecutive keys on a telephone? It’s a language you would probably recognize, but not one that many
people can speak.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

What puzzle-maker, in ten letters, can be spelled using the letters on six consecutive keys on a telephone? 

It’s a puzzle-maker you would probably recognize.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Hint: The puzzle-maker’s name can be
anagrammed to form a four-letter noun for “a very clever or skillful person” (which this puzzle-maker is) and a six-letter verb meaning “sings loudly and celebrates in song” (a musical celebration of which this puzzle-maker is deserving).

ENTREE #2

What language in eight letters can be spelled using the letters on keys numbered 4, 6 and 7 on a telephone? 

It’s a language you would probably recognize, and is spoken by approximately 1,000 Native Americans today who live largely in Nevada and Wyoming. Idaho State University offers classes that teach this language.

What is this language? 

ENTREE #3

What 135-year-old language in nine letters can be spelled using the letters on keys numbered 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 on a telephone? 

It’s a language you would probably recognize, one that many people (indeed, a tenth of a million) can speak.

What is this language?

Hint: An anagram of the language is a synonym of “to represent” or “to assume some character or capacity without authority and with fraudulent intent.”

ENTREE #4

Translate a word for well-known six-letter language into Pig Latin. 

The first two syllables of this three-syllable translation sound like a kind of weasel. 

The third syllable spells an Old World bird of the crow family.

What are this language, kind of weasel, and bird?

ENTREE #5

Take a noun for a gathering of people for a specific purpose – like making quilts for example. Translate it into Pig Latin. 

The result sounds like a virtual gathering of people for the purpose of buying and selling.

What are this noun and virtual gathering of buyers and sellers?

ENTREE #6

What eight-letter noun for a psychedelic drug user can be spelled using the letters on three consecutive keys on a telephone

ENTREE #7

What three-syllable synonym of “viscid” can be spelled by using the letters on three consecutive keys on a telephone?

ENTREE #8

What ten-letter language can be spelled using the letters on the 2, 3, 4 and 6 keys on a telephone? 

This South Slavic language was declared its
namesake nation’s official language in 1945. The language is written using the Cyrillic alphabet.

ENTREE #9

What six-letter language can be spelled using the letters on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 keys on a telephone? 

It’s a language you would probably recognize.

ENTREE #10

What five-letter language can be spelled using the letters on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 keys on a telephone? 

Hint: It’s a object-oriented programming language that was developed at the University of Washington.

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LVI Dessert:

Ovine, feline, feminine thespian

Take the plural forms of two creatures – one ovine in four letters, the other feline in seven letters.

Anagram the combined letters to spell a two-word description of a legendary past actress – a description that applies especially during the 1930s when she was making movies in her native county.

Who are these creatures and the description of the actress?

Blankety-Blank Dessert:

Lima, koala, albacore, Cairo, Burma

Each pair of blanks in each of the six sentences below contains the same word.

1. You can find Lima, Peru on a ___, but you can also find a ___ in Lima, Peru.

2. You could find a polar bear, koala and grizzly on the ___, but you can also find the ___ in a polar bear, koala and grizzly.

3. You can find a porpoise, albacore and jellyfish in a ___, but you can also find a ___ in a porpoise, albacore and jellyfish.

4. You can find Rabat, Las Vegas and Cairo in an _____, but you can also find an _____ in
Rabat, Las Vegas and Cairo.

5. You can find Persia, Siam and Burma on an old map of ____, but you can also find ____ in Persia, Siam and Burma.

6. You can find a 365-day year, thirty-percent land-surface and seven continents on _____, but you can also find _____ in a 365-day year, thirty-percent land-surface and seven continents.

Hint: If you solve just one of the six sentences the five others will topple like dominoes.

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, soup, “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 onWednesdays 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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