Friday, October 28, 2022

Carve a pumpkin into a pump & kin An Exercise In Ousting Unvowels; Telling “A Tale of Two Kitties?” Who “lit” all these figurative fires? “Triangular letters and numbers”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Who lit” all these figurative fires?

Take someone who puts out figurative fires, in two words and four syllables. Delete the second syllable and the space. 

“Squish together” the first two letters of the third syllable to form what resembles a new letter (for example, “r” and “n” would kind of resemble an “m”). 

The result sounds like a vehicle that can help put out literal fires.

Hint: The second syllable that you deleted is a synonym of either “compose” or “enclose.”

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Hall+o+ween Appetizer:

Carve a pumpkin into a pump & kin

Some longish words can be cut into two words, in more than one way.  

For example,  ANTELOPE  can be cut into ANT+ELOPE or  ANTE+LOPE.  

Similarly BROADSWORD  can be cut into  BROAD+SWORD  or  BROADS+WORD.

Find a word that can be cut into two words in three different ways!

All words should be at least three letters long. 

Hint: The undivided word is definitely Halloween-related! 

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Three-Sided Slice:

Triangular letters and numbers

Name a word for “triangular letters” that contains a triangular number of letters.

Riffing Off Shortz And Wei-Hwa Huang Slices:

An Exercise In Ousting Unvowels

Will Shortz’s October 23rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Wei-Hwa Huang of San Jose, California, reads:

It’s unusual for a multi-word movie title to consist entirely of words starting with vowels, none of which are the article “a” or pronoun “I”. Can you name a popular movie with a five-word title — with word lengths 10, 10, 3, 2, 4 — all of which start with vowels?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Wei-Hwa Huang Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take a six-letter three-syllable word that means “a Polynesian woman” or “a female surfer,” and the five-letter surname of father-and-son British writers whose names respectively begin with an “E” and an “A”. The father’s first name was the same as his first wife’s first name.

Anagram these 11 letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who are this puzzle-maker and the father and son?

What is the six-letter word?

Hint: The father-and-son’s surname sounds like the six-letter word’s first syllable.

ENTREE #2

Can you name a late-1970s Italian comedy movie with a three-word title — with word lengths 4, 3, 5 — that start with three different vowels?

Hint: Move the last letter of the first word to the beginning of the third word, then delete the
last letter in the third word. Also delete the entire second word. The result will be two words: an adjective and a noun it describes.

What are the title, adjective and noun?

ENTREE #3

Can you name a 2015 movie with a four-word title — with word lengths 4, 4, 2, 6 — that begin with four different vowels? Rearrange those combined letters to name three words:

* the surnames of two men of letters, one English and one French, whose life spans overlapped eight years.

* a five-letter word that, along with a less-formal form of the Englishman’s first name, is another name for the British flag.

What is the movie title?

Who are the two men of letters?

What is the other name for the British flag?

Hint: The English writer was also a  scholar and soldier who became a cleric in the Church of England. The French writer was also a mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and theologian. 

ENTREE #4

Note: This puzzle has appeared before on Puzzleria!, but it fits the “Acronymical Nature” of this week’s NPR puzzle, so I am including it here as a Riff. And, IMHO, it is one of the better puzzles I have created.  

Take the title of a novel with a multiple-word title in which all the words have the same number of letters. Replace the last word in the title with a synonym. The initial letters of this result spell something you may grow in a garden.

What is the novel?

What is the synonym and what may you grow in a garden?

Note: The following Entrees (except for Entrees #5 and #6, which are my fault!) are a continuation of Ecoarchitect’s riff-offs of the October 16th “Conquer/concur” NPR puzzle:

ENTREE #5

Many people suspect what Emmylou ______ _____ in the the lyrics of her “Heartaches & Highways” album amounted to expressions of psychic pain and emotional __________.

The first two blanks contain words of 6 and 5 letters that are stressed on the first and third syllables. The third word is a three-syllable, ten-letter word that is usually stressed on its second syllable. 

Except for their different stresses, the 11-letters and 10 letters are pronounced the same.

What words belong in the three blanks.

ENTREE #6

Huey Long and Richard Nixon were not at all _______ with the _______ of, respectively, “All the King’s Men” and “All the President’s Men.”

Fill in the blanks with verb and noun that are pronounced and spelled the same but are accented on their opposite syllables. 

ENTREE #7

As his debt ________, Dennis, in order to keep afloat financially, had to ______ on withdrawing funds from his retirement nest egg. 

Fill in the blanks with words of 8 and 6 letters that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #8

Marijuana opponents often _____ to “______ Madness” to bolster their anti-legalization argument. 

Fill in the blanks with words of 5 and 6 letters that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #9

Maurice _____ knitted together a musical composition that many people mistakenly believed was named after a loose waist-length jacket that might _____ after many years of wear. 

Fill in the blanks with five-letter words that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #10

Although Old MacDonald’s hairline was beginning to ______, he compensated by proceeding to ______ his back-40 so that at least he would have something growing on his farm!

Fill in the blanks with 6-letter words that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #11

My excitement and enthusiam about my upcoming relaxing _______ getaway ________ after I heard weather forecasts about possible hurricane conditions in the Bahamas.

Fill in the blanks with a 7-letter word and 8-letter word that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #12

_____ Laurie Blue Adkins’ amazing success, with sales of over 120 million records and 15 Grammy Awards, tend to _____ the brains of even her staunchest fans.

Fill in the blanks with two 5-letter words that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #13

After watching the Green Bay Packers lose their fourth game in a row on his beloved _______ TV that he won 40 years ago on Let’s Make A Deal (it was behind Door #3), Joe Sixpack was able to lick his emotional wounds and  ______ himself by conjuring his fond past memories of the Lombardi, Starr and Favre glory days. 

Fill in the blanks with two 7-letter words that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #14

People who ______ riots usually lack _______ into the dire consequences of their actions, and lack empathy for those who are victimized.

Fill in the blanks with a 6-letter word and a 7-letter word that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #15

Many people assume, incorrectly, that the _____ gases (a group of odorless, colorless, monatomic gases on the far right of the Periodic Table of Elements) are named after the Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and eponymous Prize bequeather Alfred Bernhard _____. 

But the name of these gases is actually a translation from the German noun Edelgas.

Fill in the blanks with two 5-letter words that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #16

Every time his deodorant lost its effectiveness, causing his body odor to _____, the “offensive ______” who was the star power forward on his basketball team would retreat to the locker room to reapply his Speed Stick.

Fill in the blanks with a 5-letter word and a 6-letter word that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables.

ENTREE #17

“Centerfield,” “Who’ll Stop The Rain,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Unchained Melody,” “Ruby Tuesday,” and even “Hound Dog,” _______ all being _______, also managed, ironically, to be major hit records.

Fill in the blanks with a 7-letter word and a 6-letter hyphenated word that are pronounced the same but are accented on their opposite syllables. 

Hint: Remove the hyphen from the six-letter word and change the first letter with the one immediately preceding it in the alphabet to spell a word that means an utterance made by an actor that is heard by the audience but supposedly not by other characters.

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Anagrammatical Dessert:

Telling “A Tale of Two Kitties?”

Anagram the combined letters of two characters from an ancient tale to form a two-word phrase describing one of them. The phrase consists of an adverb and adjective.
Who are these characters? 
What is the phrase?

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Sunday, October 23, 2022

A waiter in the waiting room? Decide & concur, divide & Conquer; Keyboarding & crime combined; Suriname’s in the news;


Note: My apologies for the tardiness of this week
’s edition of Puzzleria! 

Please post your puzzle solutions on Thursday, October 27 at Noon Pacific Daylight Time instead of at our normal Wednesday time. The next Puzzleria! will be uploaded just after Midnight on Friday, October 28.

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Keyboarding & crime combined

Rearrange the combined letters of two words seen on a keyboard to name a crime and what the criminal might hear after committing it. 

What are these four words?

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Waiting For Godot Or Guffman Slice:

A waiter in the waiting room?

Name two foods a waiter might give to you on a plate. 

Saying one after the other sounds like something a doctor might give you. 

What are these foods? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices:

Decide & concur, divide & conquer

Will Shortz’s October 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Edelheit of Oyster Bay, New York, reads:

Think of a pair of two-syllable words that are pronounced the same, except one is accented on the first syllable while the other is accentedon the second. The word that’s accented on the first syllable is associated with confrontation, while the word that’s accented on the second syllable is associated with cooperation. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Edelheit Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Use five letters to indicate the year that the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great dedicated his Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (in Ravenna) to “Christ the Redeemer.”

Reverse their order to spell the first name of a puzzle-maker.

Now name an alpine perennial that is also the title of a song featured in a late-1950s musical. The last syllable of the title is a German word for a five-letter color. Replace that word with the last four letters of its five-letter English equivalent. Move the last letter of this resultinto the antepenultimate position. 

The result is a three-syllable German word that means “grandeur, grandness, magnificence or majesty.” It is also the surname of the puzzle-maker.

What is the German word for the five-letter color its English equivalent.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What year, in five letters, did Theodoric dedicate his Basilica?

What is the alpine perennial?

Note: The following seven puzzle Entrees are the brainchildren of our friend Greg VanMechelen. We thank him, and will likely publish more of them on this coming week’s edition of Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

______ may be covered with dirt, while Senator ______ uncovered the dirt by releasing the Pentagon Papers.

Fill in the blanks with words that are
pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables — like, for example, “concur” and “conquer.”

ENTREE #3

If you could find his address, you might mail _______ to a former football coach surnamed ________.

Fill in the blanks with words that are
pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.

ENTREE #4

The surname of a missionary and explorer is the name of major Midwestern county that was named in his honor. 

Place his five-letter first name before the six-letter noun for the spiritual overseer role he
performed as a missionary. Replace that six-letter noun with a seven-letter surname that is pronounced the same but is accented on the opposite syllables — like, for example, “concur” and “conquer.” The result is the name of a microbiologist.

Who is the explorer, and what was his overseer role?

Who is the microbiologist? 

ENTREE #5

Think of a pair of two-syllable words that are pronounced the same, except one is accented on the first syllable while the other is accented on the second. 

The word that’s accented on the first syllable is a musical instrument associated with a past world leader leader, while the word that’s accented on the second syllable is the first name of a more recent world leader. What words are these?

Hint: The name of the past world leader who is associated with the musical instrument is also the surname of a still-living American pianist. 

ENTREE #6

Judges at a callipygian beauty contest must be able to ______ _____. 

Fill in the blanks with words that are
pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.

ENTREE #7

The ________ kicked her leg so high in the air that it reminded the audience of the altitude a ______ might attain! Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.

ENTREE #8

Hoops legend Lefty ________ , after he retired and “hit the links,” always carried an umbrella in his golf bag along with his clubs, whether the weather forcast predicted a downpour or just a gentle _______. 

Fill in the blanks with words that are pronounced the same but are accented on the opposite syllables.

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Deletion Dessert:

Suriname’s in the news

Take a five-letter surname in the news. Using the clues below, succesively delete the initial letters to form answers of 4, 3, 2 and 1 letters:

🔆____ roast

🔆A masked man on a diamond

🔆For gold, 1,948 degrees Fahrenheit (abbr.)

🔆Homophone of a small green sphere

Take another five-letter surname in the news. Using the clues below, succesively delete the final letters to form answers of 4, 3, 2 and 1 letters:

🔆____ one’s time

🔆An auction action

🔆Prefix that sounds like a purchase

🔆Homophone of a small buzzer

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Friday, October 14, 2022

Double-Billboards/All aboard the Mystery Train! Baseball, hot dogs, and Mama’s apple pie; Cast your “baited-bread” upon the waters; Spoonerism River Enigmatology; Brickbats and mortarboards; Two fruits of one’s Herculean labors

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Baseball, hot dogs, and Mama’s apple pie

Mike Mussina was a Yankee.

Charlie Hustle wore a Reds uniform.

Victor McLaglen won an Oscar.

Papa Denny Doherty was born in November.

What do eight words in those four sentences have in common?

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Record Tracks & Railroad Tracks Appetizer:

Double-Billboards/All aboard the Mystery Train!

Building a Billboard Top 5 Hit


1. 🏛🏠Name a singer who had a Billboard Top 5 hit in the 1960s. 

The first four letters of the singer’s first name spell the name of a type of building. 

The last four letters of the singer’s last name spell the name of a different type of building. 

Who is the singer? 

What are the two building types?

British subject, full of tea; British object, full of A,B,C... 

2. 🎸🥁Name a band from the 1960s who had one Billboard #1 hit, as well as some other hits. 

Anagram the second word in the band’s name, put the result before the first word in the band’s name, and eliminate the space. 

You’ll have a certain kind of British object that could contain the item mentioned in the band’s #1 hit. 

Who is the band? 

What is the British object? 

What is the band’s #1 song? 

Coupling the cars on a Mystery Train 

3. 🚅🚆🚄Name a well-known fictional television character in two words. 

#1.Take the second, third, and fifth letters of his last name and reverse the results. You’ll get MYSTERY ITEM #1

#2. Take the last letter of his first name and the first three letters of this last name. Anagram them. You’ll get MYSTERY ITEM #2

#3. Take the first three letters of his last name and anagram them. You’ll find an item that can be placed in MYSTERY ITEM #3

#4. Take the second, fourth, and sixth letters of his last name and anagram them. You’ll get a description of this character’s personality. This description is the opposite of a main property of MYSTERY ITEM #4.  Take the first two letters of the character’s first name and reverse them. You’ll have a common abbreviation for an item that belongs to the same category as MYSTERY ITEM #4.

COUPLING THE MYSTERIES: Think of an uncommon eleven-letter word signifying the act of forcing an asylum seeker to return to a country where he or she may be facing prosecution. Add an “S” and rearrange the letters to form a two-word phrase describing the mystery items. 

Who is the character? What is MYSTERY ITEM #1? What is MYSTERY ITEM #2? What is the anagram of the first three letters of his last name? What is MYSTERY ITEM #3? What is the description of the character’s personality? What is the item that belongs to the same category as MYSTERY ITEM #4? What is MYSTERY ITEM #4? What is the uncommon eleven letter word? What is the two word phrase describing the mystery items?

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Bated-Breadth Slice:

Cast your “baited-bread” upon the waters

Replace four consecutive letters of a seven-letter verb with one letter to form a synonym of that verb. The replacement letter does not appear in the original verb.

Hint: The verbs are related to casting.

Riffing Off Shortz And Newnan Slices:

Brickbats and mortarboards

Will Shortz’s October 9th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Melissa DePaola of Newnan, Georgia, reads: 

Name two things that many houses are built with: “[blank] and [blank].” Drop the first letter of the first thing. Change the last two letters ofthe second thing to a “Y.” And you’ll name a popular TV show, “[blank] and [blank].” What show is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Newnan Slices read:

ENTREE #1

The combined 14 letters in each of the three trios of clues – I, II, and III, below – can be anagrammed to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it?

I. 

A memorable 18th-century Franciscan mission that means “Cottonwood (5 letters),” 

“Yon Italian city that has a lean, but not hungry, look” (4), and

The venue of a live 1970 album – Who was the artist? (5);

II. 

In the United Kingdom, the title given to a woman equivalent to the rank of knight (4), 

A Rough Collie loved by Jeff Miller (6), and

Straightman’s girlfriend on “Miss Stephon” (4);

(“Miss Stephon” is an anagram of the real title.) 

III. 

A fabulous fabulist (5), 

A fictional king tormented by his ambivalent tactile talent (5), and

A title character in a novel penned by Uri (4).

ENTREE #2:

Name two singular nouns that lazy little pigs use to build their houses. Write them in alphabetical order. Write the second noun twice: “[blank] [blank] [blank].” 

Replace the first two letters of the first blank with
two letters that rhyme with each other. Replace the first two letters of the second blank with a Roman numeral. Replace the first two letters of the third blank with two letters that equal 1,100 followed by one letter that equals $1,000. The result will be an anthropomorphic cartoon horse: “[blank] [blank] [blank].”

What two things do lazy little pigs use to build their houses?

Who is the anthropomorphic cartoon horse?

ENTREE #3

Name a seven-letter word for land redevelopment that addresses urban decay. Also name a eight-letter word for a package designed to reinvigorate the economy by boosting employment and spending. 

Put these two words in the following blanks: “[blank] and [blank].” 

Drop the last four letters of the first word. Change the last four letters of the second word to a the first two letters of a word for a serial arsonist. You’ll name a 1990s American animated television series, “[blank] and [blank],” starring a chihuahua dog and manx cat.

What is this television series?

What is the word for land redevelopment that addresses urban decay?

What is the word for a package designed to reinvigorate the economy?

Hints: The last four letters of the first word are an anagram of a word for a “sound, healthy, or prosperous state.”

The original last four letters of the second word, spelled in reverse, are: 

1) an anagram of a province of the Philippines, or 2) a garment similar to the lavalava which is worn especially by Melanesians, or 3) Hikaru Kato’s surname.

ENTREE #4

Rearrange the combined letters of a U.S. state and the Portugese spelling of a South American country to spell the name of the best director who never won a Best Director Oscar.

The first three letters of this director’s surname sound like a solid geometic figure. 

An elongated version of this geometric solid is called a “rectangular prism.” The last five letters of the director’s surname spell a concrete version of such a rectangular prism – one that is used in house-building.

What are the state and country?

Who is this director?

What is the solid geometic figure?

ENTREE #5

Name a steel reinforcer of concrete used in house construction, and a tool one might use to transport this steel material from place to place on the construction site. 

Drop the last
letter of the steel reinforcer, but do not touch the tool (unless you are willing to help out on the construction site!). The result will be the first names of two female country music icons.

What are this steel material and the transporting tool?

Who are the two country music icons?

Hint: Anagram the combined letters of the two female country music icon’s surnames to spell two words: 1) a tool used to monitor children’s well-being and behavior while they are alone in their room, 2) and the singular form of who might purchase such a tool.

ENTREE #6

Name words for two seven-letter materials used in house-building. Put them in alphabetical order. The third and fourth letters of each word form the first half of a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women and girls.

The first three letters of one the first material appear at the beginning of the surname of an
English poet. The first three letters of the second material appear at the beginning of the name of a landmark that the poet’s countrymen landed upon about 10 years before he was born.

The last four letters of the first material, followed by its third letter, spell the first name of ballplayers surnamed Moon and Bunker. The last four letters of the second material, followed by its third letter, spell the first name of famous people surnamed Allen and Hayes.

What are these two seven-letter materials?

What is the nonprofit organization?

What are the names of the English poet and landmark?

Who are the ballplayers surnamed Moon and Bunker and the famous people surnamed Allen and Hayes?

ENTREE #7

Name words for two materials that may be applied to houses at the end of the building process.

Insert one “L” somewhere within each word to form 1.) a word for a mournful expression or sorrowful song of regret, and 2.) the surname of a Russian who attended the Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary where he read the “gospel” of Marx rather than of the “Gospel of Mark” and other Scriptures.

What are these two materials applied to houses?

What are the mournful expression and the  Russian surname?

ENTREE #8

Name an adjective that a Scottish native might use to describe either a polychromatic sunset, a prismatically dazzling rainbow, or kaleidoscopic autumnal trees. Then, name a river in Scotland.  

Insert these two words in the following blanks: “[blank] and [blank].” 

The result is the title of a film about two people whose middle names are “Elizabeth” and “Champion.”

What are this adjective and river?

ENTREE #9

Name a six-letter alternative to granite, equally durable, that may be used in building homes or multi-story urban structures. 

Name also a type of steel girder – with a cross-
section that resembles a capital letter – that often forms the framework of the larger urban structures.

Place that capital letter, followed by a hyphen, in front of the 4th, 6th, 2nd and 1st letters of the alternative to granite to form the name of the steel girder.

What are this alternative to granite and the steel girder?

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Our Miss Brooks Robinson Dessert:

Spoonerism River Enigmatology

Take a word related to rivers. 

Put it in front of the name of a particular river. 

Spoonerize these two words – that is, switch their initial sounds – to spell a word for water in a form that is different from liquid river water. 

What is the word related to rivers?

What is the name of the particular river?

What is the word for water in a different form?

Forbidden Fruitcake Dessert:

Two fruits of one’s Herculean labors

Name a profession. 

Divide it in two to spell two words: 

🍎 a fruit, and 

🍍 a word for a variety of a second fruit that is closely related to that first fruit.

What is this profession?

What are the fruit and the variety of closely related fruit?

Hint: Both fruits are classified as an anagram of people who are excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum.

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.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.