Merrymaking & “Anagramammals!” Do Poles weather Polar climes? French Expressionism Décapité? Doggerel’s metrical paws; Nashville Cats? Werewolves of London?” “Trombone me up a memory” of Tombstone Territory...

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Werewolves of London? Nashville Cats?”

Name a city in a song. 

Let A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. Replace its first two letters with the letter of the alphabet that represents their sum. The result, after inserting a space someplace, is a creature and where it might reside. 

What is this city?

What is the creature? 

Where might it reside?

Appetizer Menu

“Astronominative,” “Politerary” & “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” Appetizer:

Merrymaking & “Anagramammals!”

An Out-of-this-world Singer! 

1.🌙🌠 Think of a well-known British singer. 

Place the first four letters of the first name after “moon” or “star” to form new words. 

Place the last five letters of the last name after
“star” to form a new word. 

Take the first six letters of the last name, plus the last letter of the first name, to form an adjective that one astronaut used to describe
his moon buggy ride. 

Who is the singer?

What are the three new words?

What is the moon buggy ride description?

Merrymaker or Misery Maker?

2.😊 Think of a ten-letter word for a person that makes many other people happy. Delete a letter and anagram to get a two-word phrase for a person that makes other people miserable. 

Who makes people happy? 

Who makes people miserable? 

A Name Full of Names

3. 👶👦👴Think of a common male name that is six letters long. 

Anagram the name into four separate three-letter pairs of relatively common names, including some nicknames. 

No names are repeated among the pairs of names. 

What is the six-letter name? 

What are the four pairs of names? 

“Anagramammals!”

4. 🐄🐈🐫🦌Name a famous living person in two words and a total of eight letters. 

Replace the first name’s last letter with a duplicate of the first name’s first letter. 

Rearrange these eight letters to name two mammals. Now take the original name, and duplicate the last letter of the last name. 

Rearrange these nine letters to name two additional mammals. 

Who is the person? 

What are the four mammals? 

Catchphrase Converts Into Character

5. 📺Think of a three-word catchphrase, sometimes separated by dashes, that was used by a popular TV character from the 1960s. 

Remove the second word, then replace the last letter of the last word with a copy of the first letter of the first word. 

Rearrange the letters to form the two-word informal name of a contemporary popular character. 

What is the catchphrase? 

What is the informal name of the contemporary character? 

A Most Literate Pol?

6. 👍👎👏Name a current American politician. 

When said aloud, the politician’s first and last names sound like letters of the alphabet. 

Insert another letter inside these letters to produce a world capital. 

The politician’s middle name also sounds like letters of the alphabet. 

Say the first, middle, and last names of the politician out loud. Take the letters that the names sound like, add the penultimate letter of the last name, and rearrange. You’ll get a scale. 

Who is the politician? 

What is the world capital? 

What is the scale? 

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Climatological Hors d’Oeuvre:

Do Poles weather Polar climes?

Name a native or inhabitant of a country. 

Change three consonants to three different consonants to spell a word describing the climate of that country. 

What are these words?

Kirschwasser Slice:

Doggerel’s metrical paws

“Yes, my job ________ ______,

Yet I couldn’t ____ ____,”

So said _____ ____.

Complete the three lines of the above doggerel. 

Here are two suggestions for doing so:

1. Anagram the combined thirteen letters of the words in the first and fifth blanks to spell the profession (8 letters) and first name (5 letters) of a woman surnamed Schreiner.

Anagram the four letters of the word in the third blank to spell an issue this woman addressed during her life’s work, along with issues of agnosticism, independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and life on the colonial frontier.

2. The words in the second, fourth and sixth blanks rhyme. Seven of the fourteen letters in those three words are the same letter. The three correct rhyming words – in order, second, fourth and sixth – together spell a word associated with schwas.

What words belong in the six blanks of the doggerel?

Who is the woman surnamed Schreiner and her profession?

What issue did she address?

What is the word associated with schwas?

Hint #1: Remove the space between the words in the third and fourth blanks to spell a synonym of “incautious” or “negligent.”

Hint #2: Add an eighteenth letter to the 17 letters in the odd-numbered blanks – namely add the letter that appears seven times in the even-numbered blanks. Anagram these eighteen letters to spell what you want to do to this puzzle (5 letters) and something Stradivarius was known to do (6 and 7 letters).

Riffing Off Shortz & Schwartz Slices:

“Trombone me up a memory” of Tombstone Territory...

The September 3rd NPR Puzzle challenge, created by Michael Schwartz of Florence, Oregon, reads:

Name certain musical instruments (plural). The first, third, fourth, and fifth letters spell something that holds the things named by the last five letters. What instruments are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing-Off Shortz and Schwartz puzzles read:

ENTREE #1

“The _____ ‘Walla-to-Walla’ pine carpet covering the Great Northwest forest _____ was punctuated only occasionally by a fallen ____.” 

Rearrange the combined 14 letters in those three blanks to spell the hometown and state of a puzzle-maker.

What are the words in the three blanks?

Who is the puzzle-maker and what is his hometown?

ENTREE #2

Rearrange the 15 letters in the name of a puzzle-maker to spell three five-letter words:

1. a ballroom dance,

2. a word associated with a certain place, specifically back in the year 1929 – a place that begins with the first three letters of that
ballroom dance, and

3. a synonym of “ring” – as in when they ring the opening and closing bells at the New York Stock Exchange.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the three words?

Note: Our Entree #3 riff-off this week is the brilliant handiwork of our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” appeared on last week’s Puzzleria!... and appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

Name a certain musical instrument. 

Move the second letter back four places in the alphabet stream (E becomes A, F becomes B, G becomes C, etc.) 

Drop the first letter. 

Switch the order of two adjacent letters.

The result is a personal care item.

The final three letters in this personal care item spell something that holds what is named by its first four letters (kinda like how a tomb holds bones).

What is this personal care item?

What is the musical instrument?

ENTREE #4

Name a 12-letter musical instrument. The first five letters spell a very popular brand of polymer-framed, short recoil-operated, locked-breech semi-automatic pistols.

The instrument’s 8th, 9th, 11th, 4th, 10th and 12th letters (if you insert an “a” between the 10th and 12th letters) spell the second, “alphabetical” part (the part expressed in letters) of an alphanumeric name of a “rimmed centerfire revolver cartridge designed by Smith & Wesson.” The numeric part of the name (which precedes the alphabetical part) is the eighth prime number, doubled.

What is this musical instrument?

What is the name of the brand of the semi-automatic pistols?

What is the name of the revolver cartridge designed by Smith & Wesson?

Hint: “One” may be the loneliest number, but it is definitely not a prime number.

ENTREE #5

Name an eight-letter musical instrument. The first, third and fifth letters spell a bluish-white lustrous low-melting crystalline metallic material that is sometimes combined with copper to form an alloy used in the
manufacture of these instruments. Remove these three letters.

The remaining letters, in reverse, spell the surname of a composer who sometimes incorporated this instrument in his compositions.

What is this musical instrument?

What is the metallic material used in forming the alloy?

Who is the composer?

ENTREE #6

Name certain musical instruments, in seven letters. Change the third letter to the next letter in the alphabet, followed by a space.

Place a space also after the sixth letter, followed by a two-letter first name and the seventh letter. These three letters sound like a
five-letter word for a narrow lane flanked by gutters.

The two words formed by the first six letters (including the new third letter), followed by this five-letter word, form a three-word term for a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the leading composers and lyricists in this collection was a fellow surnamed Sherman who went by the two-letter first name mentioned earlier.

What are these musical instruments?

What is the three-word term for the New York City collection of music publishers and songwriters?

Hint: The two-letter first name plus the seventh letter spell the first name of a fictional character associated with “Open, Sesame!”

ENTREE #7

Name a three-syllable musical instrument. None of its letters repeat. Use these non-repetitive letters to spell:

* a brass instrument (four letters),

* a brass instrument that uses one of the non-repetitive letters twice (eight-letters),

* a part of a device that will allow you to listen
to recordings of these instruments (seven letters),

* a word describing the vocal range of a singer like Johnny Cash or Bing Crosby (eight-letters),

* the quality of tone distinctive of a particular singing voice or musical instrument (six letters),

* any of three notes on the “do re mi fa sol la ti do” tonal scale (two letters, two letters, two letters).

What are this three-syllable musical instrument and the eight words formed from it? 

ENTREE #8

Name a single-reed woodwind instrument. Its second, third, and last letters spell a slang term for a string instrument.

Its second and third letters spell the surname of an American (but Ukrainian-born of Polish parents) virtuoso on a much larger string
instrument.

The first, fourth, first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth letters of the woodwind instrument – if you invert a copy of the eighth letter and insert it into the third position in this string of seven letters – spell a large brass instrument.

What is this single-reed woodwind instrument?

What is the large brass instrument?

What is the slang term for a string instrument?

What is the surname of the American virtuoso on a much larger string instrument?

ENTREE #9

Name a certain musical instrument. 

Remove a common preposition and the space its absence leaves. The result is a red Bordeaux wine. Take the same musical instrument. Move the last letter into the fourth position and remove the first letter to spell a place you might “seek out to go into” if you consume too much of that wine.

What is this red Bordeaux wine?

What place might you seek out after overconsumption of this wine?

ENTREE #10

Name a musical instrument named after a patriotic composer and conductor whose surname ends in a national abbreviation with which he is associated.

Remove this abbreviation from the instrument. The seven letters that remain can be rearranged to spell a two-word term (consisting of a possessive proper noun and a synonym of “sweetie”) that described Virginia Eliza Clemm, the likely inspiration for Annabel Lee.

What is this instument?

Who is its namesake?

What is the national abbreviation?

What is the two-word term for “sweetie” that described Virginia Eliza Clemm?

ENTREE #11

Name a musical instrument. The fifth, third and sixth letters spell a word that, when followed by the instrument, is a form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play an imaginary version of this instrument which often is coupled with loud singing or lip-synching.

The first, second and fourth letters of the instrument spell a shortened version (after abandoning a feline) of a six-letter word for a material often used as the strings for the acoustic version of the instrument that is the answer to this puzzle.

What is this instrument?

What is the form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play an imaginary version of this instrument?

What is the shortened version of the material used as the strings for the acoustic version of the instrument?

ENTREE #12

Name a musical instrument. Its first two-thirds spells a model of an automobile made by Honda. Its last one-third spells a model of an automobile made by the Saturn division of General Motors. 

What musical instrument is this?

What are the Honda and GM-Saturn automobile models?

Dessert Menu

“Bore of Babbel on” Dessert:

French Expressionism Décapité?

Remove the first letter from either one of two somewhat familiar two-word non-English expressions. 

Change three vowels to three different vowels and remove the space to form an English antonym of the expression. 

What are these expressions?

What is the English antonym?

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