Ecoarchitectural Syll-abuses; We're missing the link between Jaguar & Bee; A pain in the nook? “My DEar, thou art so Far away!” Bucky Butter, Toothy Cheeky; Would “living on borrowed time” be called “bromicide”?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

We’re missing the link between Jaguar & Bee

What is the sixth creature in this series? Explain why.

1. Abe (honest emancipatory creature);

2. Babe (cute crib creature); 

3. Boa (serpentine constricting creature); 

4. Bat (nocturnal ecolocating creature); 

5. Bee (buzzy apian creature);

6. 

7. Jag (short for “Jaguar,” a car named for a feline creature)

8. Ape (simian jungle creature)

9. Cob (“swanny” cygnine creature)

Hint: “bay (equine creature)” may be substituted for “Bee (buzzy apian creature)” as the fifth creature in the series. 

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Vowel Movements Appetizer:

Ecoarchitectural Syll-abuses

1. Take the single-word, two-syllable title of a well-known song from the early 1970’s. Change the vowel sound in the first syllable and the result will phonetically be the title of another well-known song released the same year. Change the vowel sound in the second syllable of that song and the result will phonetically be the first two syllables of the title of another well-known song released the year before.

The band for the first song, the lead guitarist/singer of the second, and the singer-songwriter of the third are all in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And the consonant sounds in all three titles are the same.

2. Name a well-known fictional character of books, television, and movies.  

Change one vowel sound in the last name, and the result will be a former candidate for US President, who was also quite the character.  

Who are the two characters?

3. Name another well-known fictional character of books, television, and movies.  

Change both vowel sounds in the first name, and the result will be something they never used in their work. 

Who is the character, and what didn’t they use?

4. Change one vowel sound in the last name of a famous actress of the past and the result will be the last name of another actress.

Both actresses were contemporaries, born 31 days apart, both had their names added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the same day, and one won the “least cooperative actress” award the year after the other won the “most cooperative actress” award.

What are their names?

5. Take the first name of the main character from a famous 1970’s television comedy. Change both vowel sounds in their first name, and the result will be the first name of one of this character’s fictional co-workers.  

Who are the characters, and what is the show?

6. Change one vowel sound in the last name of another famous actor/actress of the past, and the result will be the name of a place in Asia. The first two letters of the person’s name, in reverse, are the last two letters of the place. And the last three letters of the place, in reverse, are the first three letters describing the type of place. Who is the actor/ actress, and what is the place?

7. Name something legal people might do when filing taxes. 

Change the two vowel sounds to name something illegal people might do when filing taxes.

8. Change a vowel sound in a certain animal and phonetically the result will be something people might put on that animal. 

What is the animal and what is that thing? 

9. Name something you might hear at the beginning of a sporting event. Change one vowel sound and the result will be something you might see at the beginning of a non-sporting event.  

What are the two items?

10. A famous sporting event’s name includes its location. Change the two vowel sounds in that location and the result will be a term for things that likely would never participate in that sporting event. What is the event, and what is the term?

11. Name an indigenous people’s tribe.  Change the vowel sound and phonetically the result will be another indigenous people’s tribe. What are the two tribes?

12. Change the vowel sound of a popular brand name found in the grocery store and the result will be another popular brand name of the same product, though a slightly variant pronunciation. What are the two brands? 

13. Name a tennis player from the past, first and last names.  

Change a vowel in the first name to the vowel two places earlier in the alphabet (e.g. “i” becomes “a”), and change a vowel in the last name to the vowel two places later in the alphabet, and the result will describe a healthy body organ. Who is the tennis player and what is the organ?

14. Name an adjective that might describe a tied game.  

Change one vowel sound and the result will be another adjective that might also describe a tied game.  

What are these two adjectives?

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Two Pair Beats One Pair Hors d’Oeuvre:

Would “living on borrowed time” be called “bromicide”? 

Who wrote the bromide  “Living on borrowed time”? The solution to this puzzle is not to answer that question. Instead, your objective is to explain the relationship between two pairs of words in the text of this puzzle. 

What are these two pairs of words and their relationship?

Note: In each word-pair, the two words need not be adjacent in the puzzle text.

Alphabetical Segments Slice:

“My DEar, thou art so Far away!” 

Take three consecutive letters of the alphabet. 

When the first two letters are the first two letters in a word, that word sounds as if it begins with the third letter. 

What are these three consecutive letters?

Riffing Off Shortz And Egan Wright Slices:

Bucky Butter, Toothy Cheeky

Will Shortz’s August 20th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Paula Egan Wright of Cheyenne, Wyoming, reads:

Name part of the human body above the neck
in nine letters. Rearrange them to name another part of the human body found below the neck. Only some people have the first body part. Everyone has the second one. What parts of the human body are these?

Puzzleria’s! Riffing Off Shortz And Egan Wright Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the full name of a puzzle-maker and that puzzle-maker’s hometown and its state. Rearrange the letters to spell four words found in the bible:

1. a synonym of “gaping” that appears in
Jeremiah and Psalms;

2. a word that is paired with, and rhymes with, “light” in a Gospel simile;

3. The singular form of a plural word for merchants who incurred the wrath of Jesus that appears in the Gospels of Matthew and John; and

4. a Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) word associated with leprosy and frogs.

What are these four words?

ENTREE #2

Name parts of human bodies above the neck in ten letters. Rearrange these letters to name another part of the human body found below the neck and a verb for what the human who
has this other body part might do to it if he is itchin’ for a fight. 

Only some people have the body parts above the neck. Everyone has the other one, but not all the time.

What parts of the human body are these?

ENTREE #3

Name part of the human body above the neck, in nine letters, that only some people have. Remove and anagram five consecutive interior letters to spell a verb for what this body part (unlike “stubble,” for instance) would not do were it to come into contact with soft, delicate skin.

The four remaining letters, in order, spell a synonym of “ridd,” “enig,” or “conund.”

What is this part of the body?

What would it not do were it to come into contact with soft, delicate skin?

What is the synonym of “ridd,” “enig,” or “conund”?

ENTREE #4

Name part of the human body, in ten letters, that is neither above nor below the neck. Rearrange them to name something a magician or card sharp might do using a body part below the neck. 

What parts of the human body are these – one neither above nor below the neck, the other below the neck?

What might a magician or card sharp do?

ENTREE #5

Name part of the human body above the neck, in eight letters, that might get a real workout if its owner were, for example, to ____ on ____ (especially if the word in the second blank is a
“chewing challenge”). The letters in the blanks are a rearrangement of the eight letters in the human body part.

What is this body part?

What are the words in the blanks?

ENTREE #6

Name part of the human body above the neck in ten letters. Only some people have this body part.

Anagram the letters to describe in a hyphenated term (of 5-letters-and-5 letters) a steamer ship headed for San Antonio.

These letters can also be anagrammed to spell 

1. a word for repetition that is heard, and 

2. a global capital city that sounds like a synonym of “carbon-copying” or “duplicating.”

What is this part of the human body?

What is the hyphenated description of a steamer ship headed for San Antonio?

What are the word for repetition that is heard and the capital city?

ENTREE #7

Name a large tubular and muscular part of the human body above the neck and below the neck, in nine letters. Rearrange them to name another large part of the human body – this one that is only below the neck, not also above the neck – and a synonym of “large.” 

Everyone has both body parts. 

What parts of the human body are these?

What is the synonym of “large”?

ENTREE #8

Name parts of human bodies below the neck, in eleven letters and three words. Rearrange these eleven letters to spell a noun defined as “a number of warships under a single command” and an adverb followed by an adjective that may describe this noun.

What are this adverb, adjective and noun?

What are the body parts?

Hint: Some fans of “Seinfeld” suggested that the character Elaine Benes possessed these body parts during one of the episodes.

ENTREE #9

Name part of the human body above the neck, in nine letters, that only some people have.

Rearrange the letters to form two words:

1. Essential, functional features of that body part, and

2. a slang term for a body part below the neck. 

What is this part of the human body that only some people have?

What are its essential functional features?

What is the slang term for the below-the-neck body part? 

ENTREE #10

Name parts of the human body above the neck that only some people have.

Rearrange these nine letters to spell:

1. the first name of a jazz singer and bandleader associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem,

2. an adjective associated with four Liverpudlian lads, and

3. a band regarded as progressive rock pioneers.

What are these body parts?

Who is the jazz singer?

What are the Liverpudlian adjective and progressive rock band?

Hint: Change one letter in the “parts of the human body” to name something that inevitably appears more than a bit below the neck of the “some people...” often settling in an anagram of the word “repaid.”

ENTREE #11

Name parts of the human body below the neck that everyone has, in nine letters. 

Rearrange those letters to name a royal trio who two millennia ago, according to some, touched those body parts to rural Bethlehem soil in genuflection.   

What parts of the human body are these?

Who is the royal trio?

ENTREE #12

Name parts of the human body above the neck, in nine letters, that most but not not all people have. Rearrange these letters to name:

* a discoloration of the skin in a somewhat lower part of the human body, but still above
the neck, and

* the surname of a pugilist who had inflicted his share of these discolorations during his lifetime. 

What parts of the human body are these?

What are the discolorations and the surname?

ENTREE #13

Name part of the human body below the neck, in two words and nine letters, that the great majority of people have.

Now take a kind of precipitation, in four letters, whose first and third letters are the first two letters of the first word in the body part. Replace those two letters with the second and fourth letters of the precipitation. Rearrange these nine letters (the seven original ones and two new ones) to spell two singular and similar words that are found above the neck, in the mouth – one in humans, the other in creatures.

What is the below-the-neck human body part?

What are the above-the-neck body parts?

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“House of pain” Dessert:

A pain In the nook?

Name two places in a house.

The first is a general term for a place.

The second is a specific place.

When spoken together, these places sound like a word associated with pain in the body. 

What three words are these?

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