Gumshoe, reptile, food & drink; Mixing vocals, drums and guitar; Get into “shape”! This puzzle requires stamina & “paish”-ence; “Tumbling downhill on a level playing field” “Ich bin ein ‘Limburger’” (Berghlind Airlift)

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 6!π SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Mixing vocals, drums and guitar...

Take: 

the first name of a Kinks singer, the first name of a Dave Matthews Band guitarist, and the last name of a Three Dog Night drummer. 

Rearrange the combined letters to spell the name of a another rock group. 

Who are the singer, guitarist and drummer? 

What is this rock group?

 Appetizer Menu

Dumbstruck By Conundrums Appetizer:

Gumshoe, reptile, food & drink

“Claustromania!”

1. 🍹Think of how you might get through a crowd, an eight-letter word. 

Remove the next-to-last letter and rearrange the rest to name a popular brand of beverage you might find in a supermarket. 

How did you get through the crowd? 

What are the brand and beverage?

Bug, grub, gambling, troubador

2. 🐦Name a kind of infection in ten letters. 

The first part of the name spells a popular food. The last part of the name spells the first name of a well-known singer. 

No rearranging
of letters is necessary. 

What kind of infection is it? 

What’s the food? 

Who’s the singer?

Repetitive-letter reptile 

3. 🐢🐍🦎There’s a reptile found in North America whose common, one-word name has two relatively unusual properties. 

First, two different letters are used more than
two times each. 

Second, all letters are odd-numbered (i.e., A = 1 odd, B = 2 even, C = 3 odd, etc.). 

What’s the reptile?

Gaming and gumshoe

4. 🂡 🂷 🃚 🂱 🂤  Think of a job that’s familiar in popular gambling cities. Then think of a common kind of employer there that might need this job filled. 

Put the two together – the job and the employer. Rearrange all the letters and you’ll name a famous fictional detective. Who is it?

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“Reverberating Slice”:

“Tumbling downhill on a level playing field”

“Teams usually ___ their games when enough of their players run ____ around the playing field after they _____”

The words in those blanks – a verb, adverb and verb – spell the name of an artist. 

Who is it?

Hint: The number of letters in the second blank is one greater than the number of letters in the first blank; the number of letters in the third blank is one greater than the number of letters in the second blank.

Riffing Off Shortz And Regan Slices:

“Ich bin ein ‘Limburger’” (Berghlind Airlift)

Will Shortz’s October 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Theodore
Regan of Scituate, Massachusetts, reads:

Take the last name of a famous 20th-century American. The 5th, 6th, 7th, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd letters, in that order, name a European capital. Who is the person, and what capital is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Regan Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first and last names and hometown of a 21st-century puzzle-maker. 

Rearrage these 21 combined letters to name three wetland creatures (one amphibian and two avian waders) and two words associated with playing cards.

Who are this puzzle-maker and hometown?

What are the three wetland creatures and word associated with playing cards?

ENTREE #2

Take two European capitals, each containing six letters. Move the fourth letter of one capital one place earlier in the alphabet (so B becomes A, C becomes B, etc.).

The first four letters of the other capital plus the first four letters of the altered capital spell the title of a famous 16th-century work of art.

What are these European capitals? 

What is the title of the work of art?

ENTREE #3

Take two European capitals, each containing six letters.

The 4th, 5th and 1st letters of the southernmost capital, the 3rd letter of the northernmost, the 2nd letter of the southernmost, and the 2nd and 1st letters of the northernmost, in order, spell the last name – not of “an Italian poet from the 13th century,” but of a French poet from the 19th-century.

What capitals are these?

Who are the two poets?

ENTREE #4

Take a six-letter European capital. Its 4th, 5th, 3rd, 1st, 2nd and 3rd letters, in order, spell a word that encompasses this capital, all other capitals and, indeed, everything in the universe, both observed and postulated.

What is this capital?

What is the word for everything in the universe?

Hint: The word for everything in the universe, minus its last letter, is the first name of a character on a early 1950s dramedy and of a character in a 1990s sitcom.

ENTREE #5

Name a European capital, in six letters.

The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th letters, in that order, phonetically, sound like a seven-letter mythical creature mentioned in the Bible.  

What are this capital and creature?

Note: The following five NPR Puzzle riffs were created and contributed by Greg VanMechelen, whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria! We thank Greg (also known as “Ecoarchitect”).

ENTREE #6

Name something you often see in a European
capital city. The 4th, 5th, 1st, and 2nd letters, in that order, name a European capital city. 

What is the thing and what capital is it?

ENTREE #7

Name something people in a government might create. The 4th, 6th, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
letters, in that order, name a European capital city. 

What is the thing and what capital is it?

ENTREE #8

Name a drug. The 3rd, 4th, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd letters, in that order, name an African capital city. 

What is the drug and what capital is it?

ENTREE #9

Name a country. The 3rd, 4th, 1st and 2nd letters, in that order, name a South American capital city. 

What is the thing and what capital is it? 

ENTREE #10

Name things most large companies have. 

The 4th, 5th, 1st and 2nd letters, in that order, name a European capital city. 

What are those things and what capital is it?

Dessert Menu

“Put The Heart Before The Course” Dessert:

Get into “shape!” This puzzle requires stamina & “paish”-ence

Take a five-letter verb associated with “shape.” 

Put the last sound of this word at the start and the first sound at the end. 

The result sounds like a four-letter synonym of shape. 

What are this word and synonym?

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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