Giving thanks & politics, lower case & caps; Burger ‘n’ Fries? Ham ‘n’ Eggs? Mac ‘n’ Cheese?... Seven-letter life-saver; “I gotta have more cowbell, less cello!” Holy word and two birds! “253 equals 254 equals 258?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Ham ‘n’ Eggs, Mac ‘n’ Cheese, Burger and Fries...?

Take the plural forms of two somewhat similar often-paired foods. 

Anagram each food individually to get two alliterative words that are unlikely to be paired. 

Indeed, they are antonymous. 

One is an adjective; the other can be  either a noun or a verb. 

What are these four words?

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Ecoarchitectural Appetizer:

Giving thanks & politics, lower case & caps

Thanksgiving Oxen?

1. 🐂🐂Name something you might see one or more of on the Thanksgiving dinner table that is an oxymoronic word.

Phenomenanimal!

2. 🗲Write the name of a weather phenomenon in all caps; merge two letters together to form one letter. 

The result will be an animal. 

What is the phenomenon?

What is the animal?

Newsworthy words 

3. 📰🗞Write a common four-letter word in lower case. 

Rotate the first letter 180 degrees, and move the second letter to the end to create a second
word. Place the two words side-by-side. The result will be a two-word phrase in the news lately. What are the words? 

A movement backwards

4. 🐘🎠 Change the fifth letter in the name of a country to the letter two places earlier in the alphabet. 

The result when read backwards will be the name of a recent political movement in the US. What are the country and the movement?

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Heavenly Hors d’Oeuvre:

Holy word and two birds!

Take a multi-syllabic word for a holy person often associated with a bird. Removing a consonant from the word will  sound like a different bird. 

What are this word and two birds?

Savory Slice:

Seven-letter life-saver

Anagram the seven letters of a life-saver to spell something that you will see on it right after it saves your life.

What is this life-saver? 

What will you see on it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

“I gotta have more cowbell, less cello!”

Will Shortz’s November 24th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

You know, some listeners have asked for a harder challenge. So here you go. It comes from Joseph Young, who conducts the blog Puzzleria! 

Name a musical instrument, plus part of that instrument. Drop the last letter of the instrument. Then rearrange all the remaining letters to name another musical instrument. What is it? So again, a musical instrument, plus part of that instrument. Drop the last letter of the instrument and then rearrange all the remaining letters to name another musical instrument. What is it?

(Note: The “part of the instrument” might also be described as a piece of equipment that accompanies the instrument.)

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Write a two-word caption for the image pictured here, in nine letters. 

Rearrange those letters to spell the name of a blog.

What is your caption?

What is the blog?

Note: Entrees #2 and #3 were composed, respectively, by Plantsmith whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” and Ecoarchitect whose  “Econfusions” are longtime featured staples on Puzzleria! (“Econfusions” runs this week. “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is scheduled for next week.)

ENTREE #2

Take a musical instrument. 

Drop its last letter. 

Duplicate a different letter. 

Mix the result to get a ___ personality trait.

Note: A part of the instrument will fit in the blank.

Hint: Even  though everyone possesses this personality trait to some degree, most people would consider it to be a negative trait. However, this same noun can also apply to the person herself or himself. And in that context, most people would consider it to be positive and laudable. 

ENTREE #3

Name a musical instrument plus part of that instrument. 

Drop the last letter of the instrument then rearrange all the remaining letters to name a typically unnamed person appearing in a movie or TV show.  

What are this musical instrument and the part of it?

ENTREE #4

Rearrange the eight letters of a musical instrument to spell a second musical instrument and a light-colored beverage with a
higher than average alcohol and hop content. 

What are these two instruments and beverage?

ENTREE #5

Name a world capital that begins with a Roman numeral. 

Replace that Roman numeral with a different Roman numeral to spell a musical instrument.

What are the capital and instrument? 

ENTREE #6

Take the plural form of a musical instrument. 

Change a Roman numeral to a different Roman numeral. 

Rearrange the result to spell the title of a
black-and-white romantic comedy film.

What is the instrument?

What is the film title? 

ENTREE #7

Name a long-lived car model followed by a short-lived car model. 

The result is a musical instrument.

What are these car models?

What is the musical instrument?

ENTREE #8

Name a ten-letter musical instrument. Rearrange the letters to name:

1. Another musical instrument and fratricidal biblical character;

2. Or a French seaport and a singer who, after the rabbi, is the most important figure in a Jewish
worship service;

3. Or the surname of a fellow named Jerry and the city in which he is enshrined.

What are these two musical instruments, biblical character, French seaport, singer, fellow named Jerry and the city?

ENTREE #9

Name the plural form of a musical instrument, in nine letters. The first four letters, in reverse, spell a note sounded on a hunting horn when a deer is killed. 

The last five letters in order spell body parts associated with dying. 

Six of the nine letters are an anagram of a synonym of “bury,” and six of the nine letters are an adjective describing the mood at a burial.

What are this musical instrument, note sounded when a deer is killed, body parts associated with dying, synonym of  “bury,” and adjective? 

ENTREE #10

Take the surname of someone who phoned Volodymyr and Brad followed by the name of someone who phoned home.

The result is a musical instrument.

What is this instrument?

ENTREE #11

A ten-letter musical instrument contains two L’s, one G and one E. Add a third L, two additional G’s and one additional E. Rearrange these 14 letters to form a 7-letter hyphenated adjective that accurately describes a 7-letter creature.

Now take that same ten-letter instrument. Replace an O with a U. Rearrange these ten letters to spell a six-letter synonym of a craving for food and a four-letter adjective describing the satisfaction of that craving.

What is this musical instrument?

What is the 7-letter hyphenated adjective that
accurately describes a 7-letter creature?

What is the six-letter synonym of a craving for food and a four-letter adjective describing the satisfaction of that craving?

ENTREE #12

Spell the last six letters of a two-word, nine-letter percussion instrument backward to spell a crime that Jack Torrance tried to commit with an axe. Anagram all nine letters to spell body parts where a brand-name product named Axe might be applied.

What is this percussion instrument? 

What crime did Jack Torrance try to commit with an axe?

To what body parts might Axe be applied?

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Paradoxymoronic Dessert:

“253 equals 254 equals 258?”

I say, “253 equals 254.”

You say, “How can that be? One of them is one more!”

I say, “Do not subtract. Do addition. But wait...

For then 254 equals 258!”

Explain how it is that 253 equals 254, and how it is that 254 equals 258.

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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