“Botany, Chemistry, and a Dynasty with Energy;” Rocky “Maine”tain High, Colorado; Actors and animals; “Hey! Knock off all the noise!” “We come from the land of the ice and snow”

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Hey! Knock off all the noise!”

Anagram a four-syllable word associated with loud noises to get a three-syllable word associated with loud noises. 

What are these two words?

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Bobby Jacobs Puzzle Fun  Appetizer:

“Botany, Chemistry, and a Dynasty with Energy”

1. 🌹Take the name of a chemical element. 

Remove the fourth letter to get the name of a flower. 

What is the element?

What is the flower?

2. 🚗Take the name of a dynasty. 

Remove the second and third letters. Replace the antepenultmate letter with a V. 

You will get a two-word type of transportation.

What is this dynasty?

What is this type of transportation?

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Anti-tank Slice:

“We come from the land of the ice and snow”

Take an adjective that describes weather in lands where heating oil tanks are commonplace. 

Change the order of the syllables and place the word “to” between them to form a three-word antonym of “tank.” 

What is this adjective?

What is the three-word antonym of “tank?”

Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices:

Actors and animals

Will Shortz’s February 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Alan Hochbaum, of Duluth, Georgia, reads:

Name a famous actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. You’ll be left with an animal and an adjective that describes that animal, respectively. Who is the actor?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Hochbaum Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker — first and last names. 

Remove the last letter of each name. 

You’ll be left with a three-letter abbreviation of a state that borders the puzzle-maker’s state, and seven letters that can be rearranged to form a pair of interjections — one used to express disdain and another used to express sudden pain. 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What is the bordering state?

What are the interjections?

ENTREE #2

Name a past American comedian — first and last names. Remove the last letter of his first name, then add a space somewhere within the name. 

You’ll be left with a seven-letter expression that follows a word for a kind of meat in a dish. 

What is this dish, and who is the actor/comedian? 

Hint: the dish was first served in the 1890s in Brooklyn.

ENTREE #3

Name a famous past British actor — first and last names. 

Remove the last letter of the first name.

Place the surname in front of this result to spell a brand-name alcoholic beverage.

Who is the actor? 

What is the beverage?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous actor — first and last names. Remove the last letter of each name. 

You’ll be left with a generic name for a type of vehicle, followed by a four-letter word that precedes the Italian word for the city of Turin in the name of a Ford model that was introduced in 1972. 

Who is the actor? What are the generic vehicle name and specific name of the model?

Hint: The automobile model featured a large egg-crate grille in an oval opening (see illustration). 

ENTREE #5

Name a famous actor — first and last name, ten letters total. The first three letters spell an animal. 

The remaining seven letters can be rearranged to form two words — a three-letter adjective that modifies a four-letter proper noun — that belong in the blanks of the following  statement: “In Entree #4, above, the name of the model that was introduced in 1972 is a specific name, not just ___ ____.”

Who is the actor?

What is the animal?

What words belong in the blanks?

ENTREE #6

Name an actor who is also a director — first and last names. 

Add a letter to the beginning of the first name and change the last letter of the last name. 

You’ll be left with the plural forms of two animals.

Who is the actor/director?

What are the animals?

ENTREE #7

Name a famous past British actor — first and last names. 

Remove the last letter of each name. In the first name, change an “a” to an “o”. 

Switch the order of the names. You’ll be left with something that might be seeded. 

Who is the actor?

What is the seeded something?

ENTREE #8

Name a famous poet — first and last names.

The first name is also a male animal. 

The second name is a bird.

Who is the poet?

ENTREE #9

Name a famous past actor — first and last names. 

Remove the final two letters of the last name.

The first name is also a male animal. 

The second name is now a female bird.

Who is the actor?

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Doublespoken Dessert:

Rocky “Maine”tain High, Colorado

Name a real Colorado town that is also the name of a fictional town in Maine. 

Change a “c” to an “o”. The result is two names for the same object used in a game. What are the two names for the game object and the name of the towns?

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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