Four creatures & a Beer Summit!” “It’s mathemultiplimatics time(s)!” The Night Of the Jackalanttern; “The Renaming of the ‘Shrewd’”; Portraits and house paintings; “Wooden shoe whittle a bit?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Portraits and house paintings

Name a ten-letter word that describes a noun that is an anagram of its first four letters.

This ten-letter word also describes a portrait of a person (who is not the Mona Lisa) painted by Leonardo da Vinci, and a “house painting” by Paul Klee. Replace two vowels in the word with different vowels and add a space to form two major world cities.

 What are this ten-letter word and two world cities?

Appetizer Menu

Note: This week’s Appetizer was composed by a valued Puzzleria! contributor and “occasional correspondent,” and inspired by and assembled from bits and pieces encountered here and there. Our thanks.

Bits & Pieces Appetizer:

Four creatures & a Beer Summit! 

Turning Minerals into Menaces

1. 🐻🦁Take the name of a soft primordial metal. Add to it the name of a human body part to make a compound word. Then take the name of a hard gemstone. Add to it the name of another body part to make another compound word. 

The two compound words are the names of creatures that most people would not likely want to meet in the wild by surprise. 

What are these creatures?

“Creature Chopping”

2. 🪓Take a legendary “Old World” surname/title in nine letters. It contains a legendary creature. 

Draw a handy chopper and hack the creature into three parts. 

Take the first half and last third of the creature, add the first letter of the surname, and arrange all those letters to identify a word much in the news currently and which will likely be prominent in the news in the coming months. 

What are the surname, creature, and word? 

Transported from Century to Century

3.💮🎕Take the one-word title of a first-half-of-the 20th-Century-foot-mode-of-transport song named for a flowering plant. 

Change the second letter of the title to a letter that sounds like one of the creatures mentioned in the song. Change a vowel in the title to another vowel. The result is an increasingly popular 21st Century mode of transport. 

What is that mode of transport?

What is the song named for a flowering plant? 

“Summit Beer Beer Summit?”

4. 🍻Take the name of a well known legendary locale which does not appear on conventional maps but which is described in literature and on screen and which was once claimed by a U.S. President to be the site of a secret base. 

Remove two consonants, the first and second initials of the “presidential pal participant” in the “Beer Summit.” 

The remaining letters, in order from left to right, spell a probably tasty beverage, though its etymology might sound vaguely distasteful.

What are the locale and the beverage?

MENU

Operational Hors d’Oeuvre:

“It’s mathemultiplimatics time(s)!”

Six times forty-three equals 258. But six times forty-three also equals 258 when you apply to it a mathematical operation other than multiplication. 

What is that operation, and how does six times forty-three equal 258 when it is applied?

Scrunchy Slice:

“The Renaming of the ‘Shrewd’”

Take a synonym of “more shrewd” or “more in the know.” 

Scrunch two letters together to form one new letter. Replace the next letter with the only letter in the alphabet that rhymes with it. 

The result is the surname of a fictional character that this synonym describes. 

What is this synonym? 

Who is the character? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices:

The Night Of the Jackalanttern

Will Shortz’s October 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Californian Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, reads:

Think of a mammal, an insect, and a bird, in that order — six, three, and four letters, respectively. Say them out loud and you’ll
name something often seen around this time of year. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of three words for three birds, in three, four and six letters. Rearrange their combined letters and you’ll name a puzzle-maker. What are these three words?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Hint: The six-letter word is a French word for a bird. In English, it means  a false or unfounded report or story, or a groundless rumor or belief.  But if you replace the last letter of this French word with a “y”, the result is an English word for a bird.

Note: Our Entree #2 riff-off was created and contributed by Ecoarchitect whose “Econfusions” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

Entree #3 is the brainchild of Rudolfo, whose “Puzzles Rudolfo” also appears on Puzzleria!

Entree #4 was authored by Plantsmith whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is also a Puzzlerian mainstay.

ENTREE #2

Think of a mammal, an insect, and a bird, in that order, in  six, three, and four letters, respectively. Say them aloud and you’ll name three kinds of balls often seen around this time of year during a series of sparkling ballpark-diamond events culminating in The Fall Classic. 

What are this mammal, insect and bird?

ENTREE #3

Think of a mammal, an insect, and a bird, in that order, in  six, three, and four letters, respectively. 

Say them out loud and it will sound as if you are repeating the name of the mammal.

What are these three creatures?

ENTREE #4

Place two animals – a fish and bird, in three and four letters – one after the other to name what sounds like something you might do during the cold and flu season.

What are this fish and bird?

What might you do during the cold and flu season?

Extra Credit: Now, insert into this cold-and-flu-season practice a Yiddish interjection used especially to express exasperation or dismay. The result is a spout on a building in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure that “vomits” rainwater from its mouth. What is this spout?

ENTREE #5

Think of three words: 

* a bird (6 letters); 

* the color of Eastern Phoebes, Townsend’s Solitaires Mourning Doves and Canada Geese (4 letters); 

* and a formation in which Canada Geese oft fly (3 letters). 

Say them aloud and you’ll name something
often seen around this time of year. 

What are this bird, color and formation?

What is often seen around this time of year?

ENTREE #6

Think of a six-letter insect and the five-letter nickname of one particular living human mammal (with “The...”), in that order. 

The result is the title of a 35-year-old “Halloweenish” horror movie that is scheduled to spawn a sequel a year from now.

What are this insect and nickname?

What is the  “Halloweenish” horror movie title? 

ENTREE #7

Name an insect to which Hotspur refers twice in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” – once as a three-letter common term and and once as an seven-letter archaic term. 

Rearrange the letters of the plural form of the
three-letter term. 

Place a character in “Othello” after the result to spell a world capital city. 

What are these terms for the same insect?

What is the capital city?

ENTREE #8

Place the name of a game animal in front of an invasive bird species that poses a threat to biodiversity, both in four letters. 

Add to the end of this result the first and last letters of a word for “a medical doctor who treats non-human animals,” forming a 10-letter string.

Take the last eight letters and place a hyphen in the middle to spell the name of a traditional annual more-than-century-old rivalry game.

If you instead remove the middle-six letters from the 10-letter string, the result is a collective noun for a group of game birds.

What are the game animal and invasive bird species?

What is the medical doctor who treats non-human animals?

What is the traditional rivalry game?

ENTREE #9

Take the surname of the writer who is known for “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me!” followed by the writer known for “There is no there there” to spell someone often seen around this time of year. 

Who are these two writers and timely someone?

Hint: A writer whose surname is a homophone the second writer’s surname is known as “the Stephen King of children’s literature.”

ENTREE #10

Place next to one another two fruits with similar shapes but with different colors, in three words, four syllables and 12 letters. 

The second and third syllables spell a
mammal.

Invert the 11th letter. The 6th, 10th, inverted 11th and the 10th letters spell a third fruit with a shape similar to the two other fruits but, again, with a color that is different.

 What are the three fruits with similar shapes?

What is the mammal?

ENTREE #11

Name a mammal, a heathful food for that mammal, and a beverage – in six, three and three letters. 

Say these three words aloud and you’ll name a fictional character whose “everyman sidekick” and squire uses this mammal as his mode of transport. 

What are this mammal, food and beverage?

Who are this character and his sidekick?

ENTREE #12

Name a black-and-white 1950’s science fiction monster film, in four letters followed by a punctuation mark. 

Place after it a word for a taste sensation that has a rich flavor characteristic of cheese, cooked meat, mushrooms, soy, and ripe tomatoes. Remove that word’s middle letter.

Remove the film’s punctuation mark, which resembles an inverted version of the last letter in the word for the taste sensation. Replace this last letter with the only letter in the alphabet that rhymes with it.

The result is a black-and-white 1930’s action-adventure horror film starring Boris Karloff.

What are these two horror films?

What is the word for the taste sensation?

ENTREE #13

Take the first third of a six-letter cheeky rodent. Place a space after this, followed by a three-letter insect and a four-letter bird. Place a very short word between the words for the insect and the bird. The result is something someone may have said to Ben Franklin one June afternoon in 1752. 

What are this mammal, insect and bird?

What may someone have said to Ben Franklin?

Dessert Menu

Pinocchio Dessert:

“Wooden shoe whittle a bit?”

Anagram the letters of a two-word title character from a popular work of fiction to get a two-word synonym of “wooden shavings” that might have been a byproduct of the book’s creation. What is this synonym of “wooden shavings?” 

Who is the title character?       

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