Hot dogs and hot rods; Recreation and crop cultivation; Stalking the Great White Way; Unplug a fryer to prelude a fire; Econ, Pol, Antonym, Aussie, UK, Animal

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Stalking the Great White Way

They say the neon lights  – and the stars – are bright on Broadway.

Take the surname of an actor – one with “star power” –who played a principal role in a famous Broadway production. 

Take also a synonym of “principal role.” 

Anagram the combined letters of these two words to spell a main setting in this play. 

What are this surname, synonym, setting and title of this Broadway play?

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Worldplay Appetizer (Silent L Edition):

Econ, Pol, Antonym, Aussie, UK, Animal

Twice two letters

1. 🗠 A famous living two-word person in 14 letters and a two-word economics term in 18 letters have the same starting letters for the respective words in the name and the phrase.
Who are the person and economics term?

Self-Antonym

2. 📖 A nine-letter word contains one letter four times and another letter twice. This word has two meanings that are antonyms. What is the word?

Political prerequisite

3. 🏛 Think of a characteristic of a politician that makes her or him a stronger candidate. Drop the third letter. Insert into this result two adjacent letters of the alphabet: one in the third-to-last place and one at the end. The result is a holiday. What are the characteristic and holiday?

Aussie appendages?

4. 🦘 Think of an Australian staple. Split it into two halves. Append to the first half a piece of furniture. Append to the second half four letters that suggest a Soviet football (soccer) team or a unit of force. What are the Australian staple and the two words that result?

Sdrawkcab

5. 🧱 Spell an animal backwards to obtain a layer. 

What are the animal and layer?

Cut a word, add a word

6. 🎌 Think of a 9-letter word used in the UK. Drop the first two letters, which form a word. Add two different letters (that form a different word) to the 7-letter remainder to form a synonym for the original word that is used in the USA. What are the two 9-letter words?

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Grilled Cheese Slice:

Hot dogs and hot rods

Name a kind of sandwich, in two words.

Make a duplicate of the first word’s second letter. Place it between the first and third letters of the second word.

Swap the first word’s first letter with second
word’s first letter. 

The result sounds like a dilapidated vehicle and an adjective that describes it. 

What are this sandwich, vehicle and adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

Unplug a fryer to preclude a fire

Will Shortz’s April 17th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young who conducts the blog “Puzzleria!,” reads:

Name a vehicle in two words – 4 letters in the first, 5 letters in the last. Move the second letter of the last word into the second position
of the first word. The result phonetically will name a popular figure from legend. Who is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker in two words – 6 letters in the first, 5 letters in the last. 

Remove the first letter and last three letters in the name. They spell the surname of an analytical psychologist who was a friend of the author of “Steppenwolf” and “Siddhartha.”

Remove the third, second, fourth and sixth of the remaining letters. They spell the surname of a man who, according to Alistair Cooke, regarded the English language as Zsa Zsa Gabor regarded the male of the species: as “a wonderful object to manipulate, to flog, to coax and have a barrel of fun with.”

The letters that remain spell an interjection used to express various emotions – taunting, for example, or amused surprise.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the two surnames and the interjection? 

ENTREE #2

Name an airborne vehicle in two words – 4 letters in the first, 6 letters in the last. Spoonerize the words (that is, interchange their initial letters). The result will be two words:

1. the “thing,” in four letters, that the Sioux and Cheyenne “got on” a popular legendary but historic figure about a week before the U.S. Centennial, and

2. the surname of this legendary figure.

What is this vehicle?What “thing” did the Sioux and Cheyenne “get on” the popular legendary but historic figure?

What is this figure’s surname?

ENTREE #3

Name a vehicle in two words – 9 letters in the first, 3 letters in the last. Replace the middle letter of the first word with a duplicate of the first letter in the last word. 

Interchange the second and third letters of the first word, then change the new second letter to an “a” and place a hyphen between the fourth and fifth letters of the first word. 

The result will describe this vehicle which, if you had boarded it in Indianapolis, would have cost you at least $40 for a ticket.  

What is this vehicle?

What is its description?

ENTREE #4

Name a vehicle – an 8-letter compound word. Divide the word into its two parts, then interchange them. Then interchange their vowel sounds. The result phonetically will name what you do when you sink your teeth into a baguette. 

What is the vehicle?

What do you do with the baguette?

ENTREE #5

Name a vehicle in two words – 7 letters in the first, 8 letters in the last – that transported pioneers. Spoonerize these words – that is, interchange their initial sounds. 

The result phonetically will describe a Frenchman named Pierre Riviére who lived in Normandy during the 19th Century.

What is this pioneer vehicle?

What is the description of Pierre Riviére?

ENTREE #6

Name a vehicle – a compound word with 4 letters in the first part, 7 letters in the last. Divide the word into its two parts. Replace the first letter of the first part with duplicates of the first two letters of the last part. In the last part, replace the second letter with an “h” and delete the final two letters.

The result is two types of animals found on a farm.

What is this vehicle?

What are the two types of animals?

Hint: The vehicle is a warship, but one with a raison d’etre that is truly defensive rather than offensive.   

ENTREE #7

Name a vehicle in two words – 6 letters in the first, 3 letters in the last. 

Interchange the middle letter of the last word with the fourth and fifth letters of the first word. 

Double the last letter of the first word and replace its second and third letters with one letter that makes their identical sound.

The result will something often seen and things often heard on Halloween.

What is this vehicle?

What are seen and heard on Halloween?

ENTREE #8

Name a popular figure from legend in two words – 3 letters in the first, 4 letters in the last. Switch the first two letters of the last word with the first two letters of the first. 

The result will spell a person in a Trinity and something artists and other illustrators often place in the vicinity of his head. 

Who is this figure from legend?

Who is this person in a trinity, and what is often placed near his head in illustrations? 

ENTREE #9

Name a popular figure from legend in two words separated by a hyphen – 6 letters in the first, 3 letters in the last. The first three letters and last letter in the name, in order, spell a verb associated with the figure. The remaining five letters can be rearranged to spell a second verb. These two verbs belong in the blanks in the following sentences:

“One ability this popular figure from legend didn’t originally receive from his past radioactive bite-from-a-pest was the power to ____ webs. But he knew he couldn’t truly be a legendary figure without webs, so he  _____ himself with web-shooters he made.”

Who is this figure from legend?

What are the two verbs in the blanks?

Hint: The initials of this legendary figure’s alter ego are P and P.)

ENTREE #10

Name a popular legendary fictional figure – 6 letters in the first name, 5 letters in the last. Take the first three letters of the last name followed by the second half of the first name to name a second popular legendary fictional
figure.

Anagram the five letters that remain in the first figure’s name to spell a noun you are not likely to hear in movie theaters that screen movies featuring either of these two legendary figures.

Who are these two legendary figures?

What don’t you hear in movie theaters featuring these figures?

ENTREE #11

Name a popular legendary female fictional character – first and last names, 13 total letters.

Swap the sixth and ninth letters. Move the tenth letter to the third position.

Nine consecutive letters within the result, in order, spell the name of a legendary female fictional title character. Remove them. 

The four remaining letters, in order, spell a female name that is the title of different songs (by two different rock groups) that acheved double-digit rankings on the US Top Pop (Billboard) Singles Charts in the 1980s.

Who are these two fictional characters?

What is the song title?

ENTREE #12 

Name a popular legendary fictional figure – 7 letters in the first name, 4 letters in the last.

Anagram the combined letters in the name to form an adjective and noun, also in 7 and 4 letters, that appear at the end of an apothegm attributed to a 19th American poet. In the apothegm, the these two words are contrasted to the words “heavenly minded.”

That poet also wrote a four-couplet poem in praise of his maternal great-grandmother in which her first name appears twice. That first name is the same as that of the legendary fictional figure. 

Who is the legendary fictional figure?

What is the apothegm?

Hint: The poet’s 3-letter monogram can be anagrammed to spell two words with which news reporters begin questions.

Dessert Menu

Great Outdoors Dessert:

Recreation and crop cultivation

Divide a word for a competitive outdoor activity into two unequal parts. 

The result will be a pair of plural nouns – two aids farmers might use in crop cultivation.

What is this outdoor game?

What are the two farmers’ aids.

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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