Coco, Rho-Rho, Do-re-mi; Historical struggles, surnames & synonyms; Some places, Some spaces; Playbills and bedrooms; “Is Genesis Dennis’s biblical book?” Remedy for pains... in the aspirin!

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Historical struggles, surnames & synonyms

A famous historical person is sometimes identified only by a letter of the alphabet that appears, spelled-out, in his or her surname... (for example, if people were to refer to French baker and writer Eric Kayser as just “K”).

Take this person’s surname. Replace the spelled-out letter in it with something this person eventually struggled to do. The result will be two somewhat synonymous nouns. Who is this person?

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Coco, Rho-Rho, Do-re-mi!

Coconuts & Cukes?

1. 🥥🥥 🥒🥒Think of a 10-letter word that names a natural food you would typically find in the produce section of a grocery store. 

Push the fifth letter four spaces down the alphabet (A = E, B = F, etc.), then remove the first and eighth letters. 

The remaining letters – with no rearranging – spell a word that rhymes with the 10-letter word. 

What are these two words?

Rho-Rho-Rhome?

2. 🌍🌎Three consecutive, identical letters phonetically identify a major world city with a population of several million. 

What are the letters? 

What’s the city?

1-2-3? do-re-mi? 

3. 🔢♯🎜Think of three names that rhyme. 

One name identifies a special set of numbers. 

A second name identifies a noted (but now deceased) 20th century musician and performer. 

And the third name identifies a world-famous 19th century musical drama which is still staged today. 

One of the names has eight letters, the other two have nine. All of them have four syllables, the last two of which rhyme. What are these three rhyming names?

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Some places, Some spaces

Take the surname of a past novelist. 

Insert a “d” someplace, an “r” someplace else, and an “a” flanked by two spaces. 

The result will be something this novelist, and others, often did. 

Who is the novelist?

What did he do?

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“Is Genesis Dennis’s biblical book?”

Take a one-syllable word closely associated with a two-syllable name in the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Let A=1, B=2, etc. 

Move the letters of that one-syllable word nine places later in the circular alphabet to spell a second one-syllable word closely associated with a second two-syllable name in Genesis. What are these two words and two names?

Riffing Off Shortz And Bickel Slices:

Remedy for pains... in the aspirin!

Will Shortz’s April 23rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Bob Bickel of Severna Park, Maryland, reads:

Think of a five-letter word for things a lot of people complain about. Add a letter and rearrange the result to get an example of these things. Then add one more letter and rearrange to get a remedy for these things. Five, six, and seven letters, respectively. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bickel Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker in nine letters. Rearrange these letters to spell a word for “coarsely ground grain or meal typically used as animal feed” and a three-letter word for where you might find such grain.

These nine letters can also be anagrammed to
spell the stage name of a performer surnamed Campbell and the first name of a fictional character. This character’s surname starts with a flexible container and ends with colorless alcoholic beverages.

Who is this puzzle-maker? What are the names of the performer and fictional character?

Note: Entree #2 was composed and contributed by our friend “A Fan of Puzzleria!” whose excellent puzzles appear regularly on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #2

Think of a seven-letter word for something a lot of people complain about.  Remove four letters and arrange them to get a word for something that can result from such complaining.  

Arrange the remaining three letters to name something that can be a component of the seven-letter word.  What are these three words?

Note: Entree #3 was composed and contributed by our friend Ecoarchitect whose puzzling “Econfusions” appear regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

#1 Think of a three-letter word for something
many people have. 

#2 Add a letter and rearrange the result to get where you might see that thing. 

#3 Then add one more letter and rearrange to get a former brand of that thing.

#4Then add one more letter and rearrange to get a related thing with that brand name. 

#5 Then add one more letter and rearrange to name something you hope that thing isn’t. 

#6 Then add one more letter and rearrange to name what one should have done to avoid that.

#7 Then add one more letter and rearrange to name who might join you in that thing. 

#8 Then add one more letter and rearrange to name something you and your #7 would not want to see while using your #4 (although you might want to see the descendants of what you would not want to see).

What are the eight things?

Note: Entree #4 is the brainchild of our friend ViolinTeddy, Puzzleria!-Commenter/Solver Extraordinaire! LegoLambda helped a tad with the “packaging,” so we guess you might call it a “joint effort” – a “collaboration” created by “Violimbda!”

ENTREE #4

Name a thespian, first and last names.
Replace a verb with a creature, add a letter that sounds like a creature, and remove a creature. The result is a two-word non-food product seen on supermarket shelves. Who is this thespian? What is the product?

ENTREE #5

Think of a two-syllable word for an anti-social curmudgeon who seems to have no love in his heart for anyone – one who is always complaining about others. 

Add a letter someplace to get what you might complain about when you are sitting in your living room wearing three sweaters and a stocking cap. Then add one more letter and rearrange to get a third word for what everybody always complains about!

What three words are these?

Hint: A word in the first sentence is an anagram of the two-syllable first word. 

ENTREE #6

Think of a ten-letter word for something a lot of people complain about. 

Remove the first two and sixth and seventh letters and rearrange these four letters to form a word Australians use for a dog interbred from diverse breeds. 

The remaining six letters are an anagram of a word for a loud complainer.

What do a lot of people complain about? 

What are the Australian word and the word for a loud complainer?

Hint: Take an apostrophized word describing anything belonging to Red Sox Hall-of-Famer Carl. Remove the apostrophe and move each letter 14 places later in the circular alphabet to spell the Aussie word for a dog interbred from diverse breeds.

ENTREE #7

Think of a five-letter word for things that a gourmet food critic having lunch at a hash-house truck stop diner might complain about. 

Add a letter and rearrange the result to get what a wife or husband, after the honeymoon’s over, might complain about. Then add one more letter and rearrange to get affected or insincere individuals who pretend to be what they are not... exactly the kind of people who deserve to be complained about!

What three words are these?

ENTREE #8

Take a word for two things that Goldilocks complained about – things unrelated to porridge and chairs. 

Add a letter and rearrange the result to get, back in the day, what many hi-fi fans who bought a 45-rpm recording of a song that they really loved nevertheless complained about!

Change one letter to an “n” and rearrange the result to get the surname of someone many Americans complain about.

What things did Goldilocks complain about?

About what did hi-fi fans complain?

About whom do many Americans complain? 

ENTREE #9

Name someone about whom baseball fans in the stands often complain. 

Add a letter to get a body part that figure skaters who have just experienced a painful pratfall complain about. Then add one more letter to get the surname of someone many Americans complain about. 

About whom do baseball fans in the stands often complain?

About what do pratfallen figure skaters complain?

About whom do many Americans complain?

ENTREE #10

Take whom folk singer Tom Rush complained about in a 1972 song, in three words. Remove the last two letters in the second word. 

Rearrange the result to spell what may have been the three-word title of an photograph that Alfred Eisenstaedt might have taken five years into World War II and two years before it ended – when Americans perhaps celebrated in the streets after getting news of the successful Normandy invasion –instead of the famously iconic photo he snapped two years later when victory over Japan was finally declared.

About whom did Tom Rush complain?

What might have been the title of the photograph?

Hint: The second word in the title of the would-be photo is hyphenated.

ENTREE #11

People have been known to complain about bores who talk long and idly without saying much. Add a letter to a five-letter verb meaning “to talk long and idly” and rearrange the result to name a second verb for what these bores also usually do in the course of their endlessly idle monologues. 

Finally, add a letter to this second verb and rearrange to get a colorful two-word term for something bureaucratic that most everyone complains about. 

What are these two words and this two-word term?

ENTREE #12

Think of a four-syllable, seven-letter word for something a lot of people complain about. Subtract a letter and rearrange the result to get a hyphenated word for something else some people might complain about – like an advertising promotion that intends to entice or allure unsuspecting members of the public.

What are these words?

ENTREE #13

Think of a ten-letter word for living things that lots of people complain about. Subtract the fourth letter and rearrange the result to get a two-word term for a topic that is debatable or open to discussion. 

If you instead subtract the third and third last letters from the ten-letter word and rearrange you can get a two-syllable word for what people who are interviewed by reporters might complain about seeing in the newspaper the following day.

What are the ten-letter word, two-word term and two-syllable word?

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“An If, An And, And An  Abut” About It Dessert:

Playbills and bedrooms

Describe something, in two words, that you might see next to a bed – a bed that abuts a wall. If you replace the space with a hyphen and insert a space someplace else, you will name a singular “don’t miss” play or concert performance that will not be repeated. 

What are this something seen next to the bed and the singular performance?  

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