Hymns, tablets and tabloids; Seven-segment transportation; The Good “Citizenship” Lollypop; “Clam-happy, yet dog-tired!” Authors, actresses, performers & card-players

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Seven-segment transportation

Enter a number into an old-school basic calculator, one that shows numerals using a seven-segment digital display. Say aloud the letter (or letters) the number resembles, then say the number itself. 

It will sound like you are spelling a word for vehicle. 

What are this number and vehicle?

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Strikingly Brilliant Conundrums Appetizer:

Authors, actresses, performers & card-players

Drawing a pair and discarding a deuce

1. 🂻 🂼 🂽 🂾 🂺 Name a well-known card game. Repeat the first letter and delete the last letter. 

Rearrange and find something you might get at a hospital, in three words. 

What’s the card game? 

What might you get at a hospital?

From A-Lister to B-Lister?

2. 🎥 This Hollywood A-Lister made his name with major actors and actresses. 

Now he could make his name, in 14 letters, with only minor actresses. 

Who is he?

Literary and Media Deities

3. 📚 Think of a legendary deity and rearrange the spelling to produce the last name of a prominent, 20th-century author. 

Then think of the first name of a well-known, living media personality. 

These two names – in order – identify one possible place to put your money. Where?

The long and short of vowel sounds

4. 👀→EE 

Think of a hyphenated, three-syllable word. Change any “i”s to “e”s. Then say the resulting word aloud using only long vowel sounds. 

You will have identified a very famous 20th century performer. 

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Newsstand Slice:

Hymns, tablets and tabloids

Take the title of a hymn. 

Remove three consecutive letters. Anagram them to name a slang term for a newspaper with somewhat sleazy tabloid content that you might pick up at a newsstand. 

Also remove the letter to the right
of those three letters.

Anagram the letters that remain to name something else you might pick up at a newsstand. 

What are this hymn title and two newsstand offerings?

Riffing Off Shortz And Meiches Slices:

“Clam-happy, yet dog-tired!”

Will Shortz’s March 27th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark
Meiches of Dallas, Texas, reads:

Name a state that contains all five vowels — A, E, I, O, and U — once each.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Meiches Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names, and his hometown.

Anagram these combined letters to spell either:

1. three words: a two-word symbol meant to represent the union between agricultural and industrial workers, and a course in a meal that precedes the words “days” or “shooter,” or

2. three other words: a world religion, and two kinds of fish.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is his hometown?

What are the the six words?

ENTREE #2

Name three words that, collectively, contain all five vowels: 

Number 1: a plural noun for certain mates, and,

Numbers 2 and 3: something that these mates, prior to their married states, presumably do on dates (a verb and noun, both four letters, separated by “in”). 

Who are these mates?

What, presumably, do these yet-to-be-married mates do on dates?

ENTREE #3

Name a state, one of “goodwill” or of “normal mental health” that contains all five vowels — A, E, I, O, and U, once each.

Hint: Etymologically, the state is rooted in “beautiful thinking” and “mental health.”

ENTREE #4

Name a word for “states of resiliency” that contain all six vowels — A, E, I, O, U and Y — once each.

Hint: The four consonants in this plural word can be rearranged, using two of them twice, to form two three-letter television networks:

1. one with a logo that is also the mascot of St. Peter’s University, and

2. another whose three-letter logo (which was inspired by images drawn on the barns of Pennsylvania Dutch Shakers) becomes a laugh-provoking remark or act if you ROT2 it, a French word if your ROT4 it, a nearly century-old American media company if you ROT8 it, and a basic cable television channel if you ROT15 it. 

ENTREE #5

Name a state and a country that together contain all five vowels — A, E, I, O, and U — once each. 

Hint: The three consonants in the two words and one of the vowels are an anagram of either a synonym of “shawl” or an antonym of “woof.” 

The three consonants in the two words and another one of the vowels are an anagram of “the front part of a ship.”

ENTREE #6

Name a twelve-letter synonym of “victories” that contains the consonants L, M, N, P, R, S, T and V (and only those eight consonants) once each.

ENTREE #7

Name a bird native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia that contains the letters C, D, F, G, H and I — once each — plus the only three letters in either the first name or last name of a past prime minister who spent the last years of his life in the United States as an exile.

ENTREE #8

Name a state and a city in an adjoining state that, combined, contain four different  vowels — A, E, I and O — twice, once, twice and twice each. 

The three consonants on the state and city are the letters in the radio network where you can hear Will Shortz’s Sunday “The Puzzle” segment if you live in Wausau, La Crosse or Superior.

Hint: The three states involved in this puzzle share borders in common.

ENTREE #9

I. Name a gerund used in typography consisting of the four consonants B, C, D, F and G, once each, and five letters that can be arranged to spell the traditional name of the Queen of the Fairies in Magyar folklore.

II. Name a taboo word that ought not be uttered on an airplane. The word contains H, J and K and the three letters of a governmental agency that may investigate such an utterance.

III. Name a word for a substance used in making incendiary bombs. 

This word consists of L, M, N and P and two of the same vowel.

IV. Name a kind of gun  that may be used by a person attempting do “ the word that is the answer to #II, above.” This kind of gun consists of Q, R, S and T, and two different vowels.

V. Name a phrase consisting of a 3-letter shortened form of “videlicet” and a 3-letter word meaning “hexagonal honeycomb substance.” This phrase contains two vowels and the four consonants V, W, X and Z, once each.

Dessert Menu

Best-Ever Dessert:

The Good “Citizenship” Lollypop

Name an idiom that connotes “the best.” 

Replace a two-letter word in this idiom with a different two-letter word. 

The result is a civic task that our “best” citizens perform. 

What are this idiom and task?

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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