Five first-name’s-the-same fellas; Is YewTwo popUlar on YewTube? Rx this conjunctive eye test; Diviners, Dawdlers, Stockpilers, Publicans and other Mixed Fruits; Donovan Leitch & the Beach Boys wrote rhyming and chart-climbing hits

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Five first-name’s-the-same fellas

Name five fellas who share the same first name: a boxer, fictional character, architect, lead singer and movie actor. 

As for their last names, one is a homophone of a class of vertebrates; the four others are examples of those vertebrates – one of which is a female creature.

Who are these five fellas? 

Appetizer Menu

“Jefferiffic” Appetizers:

Diviners, Dawdlers, Stockpilers, Publicans and other Mixed Fruits

Diviners vs. Dawdlers

1. 🔮Change four letters in a word for one who predicts the future to form a word for one who postpones the future. 

Who are this predictor and this postponer?

Stockpilers & Publicans

2. 🍻Name something commonly stockpiled in modern American homes.

Rearrange its letters to get what you might call someone working in a pub.

Mixed fruits

3. 🍌🍇🍎🍍Take the name of a popular fruit. 

Switch the locations of two letters to get a very different fruit.  

What are these fruits?

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Rhyme Eradication! Slice:

Donovan Leitch & the Beach Boys wrote rhyming and chart-climbing hits 

Take two parts of speech – a verb and noun – that rhyme with one another. 

Connect them to form an eight-letter adjective with three syllables, none of which rhyme with the verb or noun, or with one another.

What are this verb, noun and adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz And Elinson Slices:

Is YewTwo popUlar on YewTube?

Will Shortz’s February 19th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Elaine Elinson of San Francisco, California, reads:

Name a tree. In the very middle of the word insert a homophone of another tree. The result will be a new word describing what everyone wants to be. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Elinson Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names. 

Take the last name. Remove three letters –two of them adjacent – that, in order, form a prefix followed by -bar, -tropic or -metric. Scrunch two of the remaining lowercase letters together to form a new letter. The result is the name of a tree.

Combine the letters you removed from the last name with all the letters of the first name. From this group of letters remove two that appear twice – for instance, “together” would become “togehr.” 

Rearrange the letters that remain to name a creature that is related to a fur seal but is larger and lacks a thick underfur.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the prefix and tree?

What is the creature?

Note: Entree #2 this week was composed by our good friend “Tortitude,” whose “Tortie’s Slow But Sure Puzzles” is featured regularly on Puzzleria! We thank her greatly:

ENTREE #2

Name a part of the body. 

In the very middle of the word insert a homophone of another part of the body. The result will be a new word that might offend a third part of the body.

What are the three parts of the body? What might be offensive?

ENTREE #3

Name a tree. Letters 1, 8, 4, 7 and 1 of the tree spell the surname of one of the two founders of a chain of department stores that opened more than a century ago. 

Letters 7, 6 and 8 spell the beginning of the other founder’s surname, which ends with a four-letter word for what the founders hoped to make – a word usually preceded by a one-letter word.

What is the tree? Who are the two department store chain founders, and what did they hope to make?

ENTREE #4

Name a tree with three vowels, all the same. Replace one of them with a different vowel. The last two syllables of the result are a brand name food product associated with Lorne Greene, Ed McMahon and, during the 1990s, a cartoon “spokes___.” The word in the blank is the first syllable in the tree. 

What is this tree?

What are the word in the blank and the brand name?

ENTREE #5

Name a tree. Near the middle of the word insert another tree. 

The first six letters of the result will be a new word that sometimes describes human sleepers or ____ when they ___. The last
seven letters of the result can be rearranged to spell the words that belong in those two blanks.

What are these two trees?

What word sometimes describes human sleepers?

What words belong in the two blanks?

Hint: The words in the blanks, in order, rhyme with “ice cap.”

ENTREE #6

Insert a non-English word for “friend” within the English word for “fliege.” 

The result is a kind of tree. 

What are these words for “friend” and “fliege”?

What kind of tree is this?

ENTREE #7

Name a word for particular birds that may perch in a tree. 

Anagram its second, third, fourth and seventh letters to name a kind of tree. ROT13 the remaining letters, in reverse order, to spell a mythical bird.  

What are these birds?

What kind of tree is it?

What is the mythical bird?

ENTREE #8

The people of Samaria couldn’t even afford to buy “doves’ dung,” according to the Hebrew scriptures of the Bible. 

But an alternative reading of the Hebrew text suggests that it is not “doves’ dung” but “seed pods” of a certain tree that the Samarians could not afford. Remove one letter from the name of this tree and switch the order of two others  to spell a word that is paired with the word “apple” to form a compound word that often precedes “tree.”

What is the tree with seed pods?

What is the word with “apple” that often precedes “tree”?

ENTREE #9

Name a lead actor in a past TV sitcom who has lately been in the news. There is a double-letter in his surname (like the “bb” in “gobble”). Remove one of the letters.

Place the name of a tree after this result, without a space. 

Place a space someplace within the tree. 

The result is the name, not of a publisher of fiction but of a fictional publishing company appearing in Network MCI commercials in the mid-1990s.

Who is the actor? 

Name the tree. 

What is the fictional publishing company?

Hint: The “stingray-shaped island” in the image has a homophonic connection to the tree.

ENTREE #10 

Name a tree. Remove its fourth letter. The result sounds like:

⚽ what a mom driving her kids to soccer practice might yell at a driver who just sideswiped her at an intersection, or

🏈 what outside linebackers might yell at pulling guards, before complaining to a referee, or

💇 a compliment that tonsorial or beauty shop patrons might give their hairdresser or barber, or a complaint they might make to one who
overcharged them. 

What is this tree, and what does it sound like after its fourth letter is cut off?

ENTREE #11

Take a name of a tree that is accented on its last syllable. 

Place the accent on the syllable preceding it. 

Replace the vowel sound in that last syllable with the short vowel sound of one of the letters in that syllable. The result sounds like something hungry campers and soldiers may use.

If you instead take the tree name and add to its end a syllable that is nothing but a long vowel sound, the result sounds like a bane that bothers both campers and soldiers.

What is this tree?

What are the “useful boon” and “bothersome bane” to both campers and soldiers?

ENTREE #12

Let a=1, B=2, C=3, etc. 

Name a tree. The first two letters of this tree each correspond to a number that is evenly divisible by 5. Replace these letters with one different letter that corresponds to a number that is also divisible by 5. 

The result is a different tree.

What are these two trees? 

ENTREE #13

Change the second letters of three trees to spell three fictional characters:

1. The surname of a  large, lumbering folk hero,

2. the first name of “Boopadoop-courter,”

3. a butler that Butler Bulldog coach Thad
Matta would likely like to recruit.

Add a letter to a tree to spell:

4. the surname of a fictional elderly amateur sleuth. 

Who are these characters?

What are the trees?

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Linkin’ Logoi at Loggerheads Dessert:

Rx this conjunctive eye test

Place a conjunction between two nouns that are antonyms. The letters in the first half of this phrase, if you switch the order of two adjacent letters, are identical to, and in the same order as, the letters in the second half. 

What are these antonyms?

Hint: The first four letters of your answer form a third noun. If you replace the conjunction with the adverb “up,” that third noun and adverb form a two-word verbal phrase associated with the first of the two nouns that are antonyms.

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.

“Synonymetry," "penmanshifts,” and subtracting from the states; Converting hot pods into hot rods Behavior in Bentleys and Buicks; “We’re U2 on YouTu, Brutus on!” Sitcom in a can;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Sitcom in a can

Name a canned-food brand, in two words. Replace the first word with an anagram of one of the brand’s foods to name a TV sitcom character. What is this brand? What is the character’s name?

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Worldplayful Appetizer:

“Synonymetry,” “penmanshifts” and subtracting from the states

State subtraction #2

2. 🌎Take the names of two U.S. states. 

Subtract the letters of the second state from the first. 

Rearrange the remainder to give the plural of a unit of mass, that is also used colloquially to mean “a lot” (of something). 

What are the states and the word?  

State subtraction #3

3. 🌎Take the names of two U.S. states. Subtract the letters of the second state from the first. The result gives the symbol for a noble gas.

Rearrangement yields the name of an Egyptian god, as well as the symbol of a different chemical element. What are the states, Egyptian god, and symbol?

State subtraction #4

4. 🐄Take the names of two U.S. states. 

Subtract the letters of the second state from the first. 

Rearrange the result to give what the squirrels
built when they went into large-scale agribusiness. 

What are the states and the structure?

State subtraction #5

5. 🍐🥚🍿Take the names of two U.S. states. 

Subtract the letters of the second state from the first. 

Rearrange the result to give a filling food. 

What are the states and food?

“Alchemical threefold synonymetry”

6. 🧪Think of three words that relate to self-contradiction. 

The first two words sound a bit like two chemical elements. 

Exchange (switch) two similar-sounding letters in the first to obtain one element. 

The first part of the second word has the same root as the element it (vaguely) sounds like.

The third word sounds like two waterfowl. Its first part is a structural term used in organic chemistry. 

What are these three self-contradictory words?

“Penmanshifts”

7. 🖋🖊I bought a pen in Adelaide, South Australia. 

This pen opened and retracted the tip by turning the lower segment of the pen’s body (in contrast to most such pens, that “click” to open or retract). 

When I started writing with this new pen, the tip kept retracting, and the pen was unusable. The pen was not defective. 

What caused this maddening problem?

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Idiomatic Transmission Slice:

Behavior in Bentleys and Buicks

Take a two-word idiom, in three syllables. 

The last two syllables are two words for what a person might do in an automobile. 

The first syllable is a homophone of what a person might do in an automobile. 

What is this idiom?

Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices:

“We’re U2 on YouTube, Root us on!”

Will Shortz’s February 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Steve Baggish of Arlington, Massachusetts, reads:

Name a popular rock band — one that everyone knows. 

Add a “B” sound at the end, and phonetically you’ll name a place where you might hear this band play. What band is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Baggish Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first name of a popular puzzle-maker — one that NPR listeners know — and his hometown. Rearrange these 14 combined letters to spell two words:

1.👂 an opening in your body, and

2. 🎺 a small hole in a musical instrument that one might block with a finger.

Now double one of these 14 letters. 

Rearrange these 15 combined letters to spell what Emile Zola was and the title of one of his
works.

Rearrange these same 15 letters to spell what Albert DeSalvo was prone to do and a word describing those deeds.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the body opening and the small hole?

What was Emile Zola and what is the title of one of his works?

What was Albert DeSalvo prone to do and what word describes his deeds?

Note: Entree #2, below, is a puzzle riff composed by our good friend ViolinTeddy, a very-valuable-and-valued member of our Puzzleria! community. VT’s puzzle is a “riff-off” of Chuck’s Appetizer #2 that appeared in this past week’s edition of Puzzleria!

Here is ViolinTeddy’s “teriffic” riff:

ENTREE #2

Name a fictional animal character in five letters. Change the third letter to the one before it in the alphabet, and eliminate the second letter altogether. Rearrange the result to find where we first met this character.

Where did we first meet this fictional animal character, and who is it?

ENTREE #3

Name a popular rock band — one that most people know, in two words. 

The first word is a verb that means “to cut a zigzag edge on,” usually with shears or scissors with saw-toothed inner edge on its blades.

The second word in the band is the first name of a TV character who used scissors, but probably not scissors with saw-tooth-edged blades.

What is this band?

Who is the TV character?

ENTREE #4

Name a popular rock band — one that many people knew, in two words. Spoonerize the two words (that is, switch their initial sounds). 

The result sounds like two words:

1.🤵an abbreviated, informal word for certain muscles above the belt, and 

2.💓 rhythmically recurrent contractions – contractions of an organ above the belt, for example.

What is this rock band?

What are the muscles above the belt and the rhythmically recurrent above-the-belt contractions? 

ENTREE #5

A mid-1980s American science fiction comedy-horror film used as its soundtrack an album by a hard rock band based in the Eastern Hemisphere.

The second word in this 3-word album title is a 4-letter verb that is a homophone of an unmarried young woman. 

The first and third words are identical, and are the second word in the name of a 2-word British band containing 6-letters.

The album title is ungrammatical. Add an “m”
somewhere to correct its grammar.

What are this soundtrack album title and science fiction film title?

What is the British band?

What is the hard rock band based in the Eastern Hemisphere?

ENTREE #6

Name a pretty popular rock artist — one that many people know. 

Take just his surname. Interchange its syllables and add a “d” to the end. 

The result is a word for any one of many instruments played by using the mouth.

Who is this rock artist?  

What is the word for an instrument played by using the mouth?

Hint: This artist was in a group with a bandmate whose surname was the same as the second syllable in the artist’s surname. This bandmate played saxophone, flute and other such instruments. 

ENTREE #7

Take the three-word name of the front man in a punk-rock-power-pop band. Ignore the compound third word, which consists of a noun and adjective.

Let A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. Take the sum of the numbers corresponding to initials of the first and middle names of this front man. Take the letter corresponding to that sum and place it at the end of the middle name. Change the two letters at the end of the first name to a “y”. The result is the name of a more mainstream and well-known rock star.

Who is the front man and what is his band?

Who is the more well-known rock star?

ENTREE #8

Name an enduring blues and boogie rock band
— one that many people know. Move its first two letters to the end, and replace the first of the two with the letter succeeding it in the circular alphabet.  The result is a gem you might see in a wedding band — not the kind of band that plays at a wedding reception but rather the kind of band worn around a finger.

What are this band and this gem?

ENTREE #9

Name a popular rock band — one that most everyone knows. Remove the first letter and divide what remains in half. 

The first half spells the name of a Greek god. 

Change a letter in the second half to the only letter in the alphabet that rhymes with it; the result is a word associated with any Greek god.

What rock band is this?

Who is the Greek god and what is the word associated with any such god?

ENTREE #10

Name a rock singer  — one that not everyone knows — who led an influential 1960s avant-garde band. The singer’s three-letter first name has a homophone, also a first name, that shares only one letter with the singer’s first name.

The first two letters of the singer’s name and the third letter of the homophone can be rearranged to spell a woodland creature. 

The singer’s surname, spelled backward, spells a second woodland creature. 

Who are this singer and band?

What are the two woodland creatures?

ENTREE #11

Take the first and last names of a popular rock singer who once fronted a band of Jersey boys.

Remove consecutive letters from that full name that spell a world capital. The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell an eight-letter compound  meteorological word for something that is measured in that capital — during at least some of the four seasons — averaging about 13.5 inches annually.

Who is this singer and what is the band of Jersey boys?

What are the world capital and compound meteorological word? 

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Not-A-Hot-Pocket Dessert:

Converting hot pods into hot rods

Name a food that might not be called a “Hot Pocket,” but that may well be called a “hot pod.”  Switch the fourth and eighth letters. Replace the last three letters of this result with a single  letter in the alphabet that sounds as if it might be in the word for the food, but is not. 

The result is a vehicle that might be converted into a “hot rod.” 

What are this food and vehicle?

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.

Overheard words, 1950s critters, a non-monster and a mystery fit; Nuggets, eggs, nuts and Zagnuts! 3 pop-quiz geography que?tions; Dog Day Afternoon Delight; Fictional flappers in flivvers

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

3 pop-quiz geography que?tions:

1. Colombia, Kenya and Kiribati all share a multisyllabic word in common. The word begins with a vowel. What is this word? 

(And no, the word is not “alliteration.”)

2. A country is an anagram of a mid-18th-century European treaty. What is that country’s capital? 

3. What punctuation mark can you spell by anagramming the combined letters of the multisyllabic word in #1 and the capital in #2?

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Lightning-Striking Appetizer:

Overheard words, 1950s critters, a non-monster and a mystery fit

Household words overheard

1. 🏡Name a common household product in four letters and also a common household chore in eight letters. 

Put the two together and rearrange to name a well-known audio electronics company in two words. 

Identify the product, chore, and company.

1950s Fictional Critter

2. 😺🐭In five letters, name a famous fictitious animal character created mid-20th century. Change the first letter of its name to a different letter. Rearrange the result to name a medium where you’ll find the character. The last three letters of the character’s name are – in order – the first three letters of the medium’s name. Who’s the character? What’s the medium?

No Hollywood monster!

3. 🎥👾This famous actress was “no monster.” 

Rearrange the phrase to get her last name at birth. 

What was her full birth name? 

What was her Hollywood name?

A mystery fit for Popeye Doyle?

4. 👁The brand name of a well-known product sold in supermarkets consists of a color and a French word. Print the foreign word in lower-case. Vertically flip the first and fourth letters upside-down and add an “r” in the middle of the word. You will have the first name of a well-known tourist destination that also has a French connection. 

What’s the product? 

What’s the tourist destination?

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Post Meridian Slice:

Dog Day Afternoon Delight 

Take a word associated with “afternoon.” 

Replace a commonly-used consonant in English with a second commonly-used English consonant. 

Rearrange the result to spell a second word associated with “afternoon.”

What are these two words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:

Nuggets, eggs, nuts & Zagnuts!

Will Shortz’s February 5th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant. The first, second, and last letters together name another food item. Remove those. The remaining letters spelled backward name yet another food item. What foods are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the title of a two-word 20th-century American novel that fittingly, judging from the first word, spawned four sequels. 

That first word in the title is also the second word of a early 20-century two-word fictional character created by by a British author.

Replace the last letter in the second word of the American novel’s title with the letter preceding it in the alphabet to form the first word in a two-word cocktail. 

The first word of the two-word fictional character and the second word of the cocktail spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What are the American novel title, fictional character and cocktail?

Note: Entree #2 is a riff created and contributed by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” puzzles are featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Name a fast food item. Its first, second and last letter name “something unwelcome” that
you might get if you consume it. So, remove those letters.

Also remove three consecutive letters whose sum is 151.

Move the first letter of this result to the end to spell in what this food item is prepared.

What are this food item and the “something unwelcome” that its consumers might experience?

In what is the food item prepared?

Hint: The word for where the food is prepared is a variant, yet acceptable, spelling of the word.

ENTREE #3

Name a side dish you might order from a particular restaurant’s menu, in two words. The first three letters of the first word and first letter of a second word spell an entree you might order from a seafood menu. 

Remove these four letters, leaving six. The sum of the alphanumeric values of the first trio of these six letters equals 69; the sum of the second trio of letters equals 10.

What are this side dish and restaurant?

What is the seafood menu entree?

Hint: You might think “Orange Julius” would be available from this restaurant’s beverage menu, but it isn’t. 

ENTREE #4

Name a two-word morsel you can enjoy after ordering a basket of them at any Culver’s restaurant or at Lambeau Field. 

Rearrange these ten letters to name, in two words, what
Prince Charles managed to do this past September 8 after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died.

What is this morsel?

What did Prince Charles manage to do?

Hint: These same ten letters can also be rearranged to name, in two words, something a guy named Sonny likely managed to do at some point in his life.

ENTREE #5

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant in three words, the first word containing an apostrophe.

Rearrange the 17 letters in this food item to spell:

🥣an alloy manufactured in a foundry  (5 letters),

🧱 a brick that has become deformed, discolored or darkened, (7 letters),

🔥an adjective describing the environment in which the alloy is manufactured and the brick has become deformed (5 letters).

What is this food item?

What are the alloy, deformed brick and adjective?

ENTREE #6

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant in three words, the first containing an apostrophe. Change the last letter of the first word to the letter that follows it in the alphabet. 

Use these 18 letters to spell:

#1.🌳a hazard on a golf course (4 letters),

#2.🏌a scoring system in golf in which the winner is the golfer with the fewest number of strokes (2 words, 5 and 4 letters),

#3.🖉📇a scoring system in golf in which each hole is won, lost or tied, with two golfers competing head-to-head, and the golfer with the most holes won, wins the match. (2 words, 5 and 4 letters).

Note: The 4-letter words in #2 and #3 are identical. Ignore one of them.

What food item might you order at a fast-food restaurant?

What is the golf hazard?

What are the two scoring systems?

ENTREE #7

Name a seven-letter food item you would likely order off the menu at Helena’s Specialty Foods in upstate New York or from Patti’s _______s in Massachusetts.

Take a homophone of this food item to name, not a boat filled with gravy but, a canoe-like boat floating in water.

The first, second, and last letters of this boat,
together name a dessert item. The remaining four letters, in order, if you replace one vowel with a different vowel, spell a word for a hearty, seasoned Italian sauce of meat and tomatoes that is used chiefly in pasta dishes,  typically made with ground beef, tomatoes, and finely chopped onions, celery, and carrots.

Hint: The first three letters of the food item spell the dessert item. The last four letters of the food item, if you replace both vowels with different vowels, spell the hearty sauce.

What is this food item?

What is the boat?

What foods are these?

What are the dessert and the hearty sauce?

ENTREE #8

Name a food item that is a staple of most fast-food restaurants. 

If you anagram its final four letters you can spell a body part. 

If you instead remove the initial letter and replace the last letter with a letter that sounds like a question, the result will be something that sometimes appears on this body part.

What is this staple?

What is the body part and the thing that sometimes appears on it?

ENTREE #9

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant. The first four letters spell the surname of an actor who played an attorney on TV. The remaining letters of the food item spell the surname of a real-life judge.

A real-life lawyer who also served as a U.S. vice president had the same surname as the actor. 

Replace the last letter of this lawyer’s first name with a “w”. Then replace the second letter of his first name with a duplicate of its third letter. 

This altered first name and the first name of the judge both are sharp objects.

What food item is this?

Who are the actor, judge, and vice president?

What are the two sharp objects?

ENTREE #10

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant in three words, the first containing an apostrophe.

Use these 18 letters to spell:

1. 👏 a plural word for applause at a music concert (9 letters),

2. 🥁🎸a word for something seen on the concert stage (3 letters),

3. 𝅘𝅥𝅯𝅘𝅥𝅱𝅘𝅥𝅲🎻 a word for something heard from the concert stage (6 letters).

What is the food item?

What is the plural word for applause?

What are seen on and heard from the concert stage?

ENTREE #11

Name a food item you might order at a fast-food restaurant. Replace the penultimate letter, a vowel, with a different vowel. The first three letters of this result, spelled backward, form a word that follows “top,” “glue,” “smoking” or “staple.” The last three letters spell a slang term for this word.

What is this food item?

What are the word and slang term?

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A Story Set A Century Ago Dessert:

Fictional flappers in flivvers 

Take the title character, in one word, of a 21st-Century historical novel set in “The Great Gatsby” era. Insert a “t” someplace and a space someplace in this word to form two words that may be seen on an early page in the novel. 

What are the novel and its title character?

What are the two words? 

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.