Ex-Wye-Zee + Ex-Wye-Zee; Confection-collection selection; Arias sung in the Singapore area; Surnames and simians; Aspirations and ambitions; McCartney, Clooney, Lauper & Lady Gaga

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Confection-collection selection

ROT13 the letters of a two-word candy product from the past. 

Move the space and add a hyphen to form a description of this product that also applies to Almond Joy, Milky Way, Baby Ruth, KitKat and Salted Nut Roll but not to Laffy Taffy, Butterfinger, PayDay, Snickers and Oh Henry! 

What are this product and its description?

Note: “ROT13” means to move the letters of a word either 13 places ahead or 13 places backward in the alphabet.

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Doubled Triplets Appetizer:

Ex-Wye-Zee+Ex-Wye-Zee

Some proper names like “Berber” or “Zsazsa” consist of the same three letters repeated. 

There are also such non-proper words, like “murmur” or “pompom”. 

We might call these XYZ+XYZ words.

Find a non-proper six-letter XYZ+XYZ word which is divided 3-3 into two syllables that are spelled the same but pronounced differently.

Extra Bonus!! Find a fairly rare non-proper six-letter XYZ+XYZ word that is divided 2-4 into two different syllables XY+ZXYZ.

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Entertaining Hors d’Oeuvre:

Surnames and simians

Spell out a letter of the alphabet. (For example, “j” would become “jay”.) 

Rearrange its letters to reveal the first name of an acclaimed actress and entertainer. 

As for her surname, anagram the letters of a word in this puzzle and you will arrive at that answer. 

Who is this entertainer? 

What is the word in the puzzle that is an anagram of her surname?

Hint: Her first name sounds like the name of a fictional simian.

Scary Character Slice:

McCartney, Clooney, Lauper & Lady Gaga

Name something, in eight letters, likely owned by Cyndi Lauper, Paul McCartney, George Clooney and Lady Gaga. 

Remove a letter. 

Then remove two spaces (including the one resulting from the letter you removed). 

The final result, spelled backward, is a scary character that you might see seeking treats this Halloween. 

What might these celebrities own? 

Who is the character?

Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:

Arias sung in the Singapore area

Will Shortz’s October 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Oshin of Portland, Oregon, reads:

Name a country. The first syllable spells something that people do. The rest of the name is an anagram of where some people do that. What country is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker whose last name sounds like a body of water west of his hometown. Rearrange the combined letters of his first and last names to spell a two-word
caption for either of the images pictured here. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the body of water?

What is the caption?

Note: Entree #2 is a riff composed by Greg VanMechelen, aka Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

What country is also a phrase that describes the situation when a knitter only has light brown yarn?

ENTREE #3

Name a world capital city that ends  with the initial of the first name of a puzzlemaster. Change that letter to the initial of that puzzlemaker’s surname. 

Place the first half of that capital city after the altered second half. The result is a six-letter word for “an orderly harmonious systematic universe.”

Now place a four-letter abbreviation “associated with seamen, navigation, or ships” between the last two letters of that word to spell a word for astronauts in the space program in that capital city’s country.

What is the capital city?

Who is the puzzlemaster?

What is the word for “an orderly harmonious systematic universe?”

What is the word for astronauts in the space program in that capital city’s country? 

ENTREE #4

Name a ten-letter country.

Letters 1-3 spell a deodorant brand.

Letters 1-4 spell a record label brand that is an anagram of its founders’ surnames.

Letters 4-7 spell a plastic container and bag brand.

Letters 4-8 spell an air freshener brand.

Letters 9, 10, 8, 1, 2, 3 and 4 spell a noun often preceded by “whole” that characterizes the four brands listed above.

What is the country?

What are the four brands and the noun often preceded by “whole”?

ENTREE #5

Name a country. Spell the first three letters backward, then spell the last three letters forward. The result is two words that together mean “a friend made and kept through correspondence.” What are this country and two-word term?

ENTREE #6

Name two fictional places — one created by Samuel Butler, the other by Thomas More. Anagram their 13 combined letters to spell three words: 

(1) a word that rhymes with “bough,” and (2) a liquid in a jug (both words appear in an ancient verse).

The third word (3) is  the type of musical composition created by Canadians Moore and Applebaum about Butler’s fictional place, and the same type of composition composed by Brits Gilbert and Sullivan about More’s fictional place.

What are these fictional places?

What are  the two words in the ancient verse and the type of musical composition?

ENTREE #7

Name a capital city in South America. Name also a word that means a “fortress inside a city” in a large European capital city — a fortress that features citadels, palaces and cathedrals enclosed by a wall with towers. 

Anagram the combined letters of this city and fortress to spell, in two words, something a U.S. Ambassador to Ghana apparently found in her soup before she became ambassador.

What are this South American capital city and European fortress?

What did the future ambassador find in her soup?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word country. Anagram the second word to spell a piece of furniture where one may sleep. Anagram the first word to spell two words: another piece of furniture where one may sleep and the kind of mattress one may sleep upon. 

What country is it?

What are the two pieces of furniture and the kind of mattress?

ENTREE #9

Name a two-word country. Remove consecutive letter-pairs in each word. Rearrange the five remaining letters to spell a kind of bean that can be used to make cocoa or hot chocolate. Rearrange the four letters you removed to spell what you might do to the hot chocolate with a utensil.

What country is it?

What is the bean, and what might you do with a utensil?

ENTREE #10

Name a country. Anagram the last four letters to spell a berry not named Patrick. 

The remaining letters spell something you might make with such berries.

What country is it?

What is the berry? 

What might be made with such berries?

ENTREE #11

Name a country. Four consecutive interior letters spell a form of precipitation. 

Three consecutive interior letters, spelled backward, are what you might want to build if you encounter such precipitation.

What country is it?

What might you want to build?

ENTREE #12

Name a country. Four consecutive interior letters spell the name of a mountain. Remove them, leaving three letters that look like two Roman numerals.

 Take the product of these numerals and divide the result by two to get an approximate elevation, in meters, of the mountain.

What country is it? 

What are the mountain and its approximate elevation?

Hint: The approximate elevation of the mountain is a bit on the low side.

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Blankety-Blank-Blank Dessert:

Aspirations and ambitions

“Those who aspire __ ___ have _____ ambitions.” 

Switch the positions of two letters in the first two blanks. 

Then remove the space. The result is the word in the third blank. 

Name these three missing words.

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