Prezzes, zoos, Sucre, fruit & film; “Please deep-six one double-u!” DraNo, Troon and Thorn; Describing an overdone verb; Poets, performers and perennials; National Adjeographictive

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Poets, performers and perennials

 A poet and an actor are both associated with the same flower, one with two syllables.

The surname of the poet, also two syllables, rhymes with a word associated with a homophone of the actor’s one-syllable surname. 

Who are the poet and actor? 

What are this flower and the rhyming word associated with the actor’s surname.

Hints: The actor was also a director. The poet was also a cleric.

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Skydiversionary Appetizer:

Prezzes, zoos, Sucre, fruit & film

1. Can you name two U.S. Presidents whose full names are spelled and pronounced differently, but are synonyms?

2. Think of a world capital city in one word. Remove one of the internal letters and rearrange to get a common zoo animal that is not indigenous to that country. What are the capital, country and zoo animal?

3. Imagine you are in a cemetery witnessing a
graveside service. Now imagine you also hear some of those assembled there talking, praying and perhaps singing. Why might this experience bring to your mind Sucre, Bolivia?

4. Think of a well known province in six letters that is most remembered for its WWII involvement.

Replace one of its vowels with a consonant to name a well known mythical super hero. 

Or you could replace a different consonant with another consonant and rearrange to name a popular fruit. 

What are they? 

5. Say the name of this famous film actor out loud and the result will phonetically describe what tourists to Arizona would not find particularly enjoyable. Who is it?

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Horizontal Hors d’Oeuvre:

Describing an overdone verb

Write a one-syllable adjective in capital letters. Attach a horizontal segment someplace on one of the letters. 

The result is a new word, a verb. A person who overdoes this verb might eventually be described by the adjective. (For example, if the verb were “run,” overdoing the verb might mean running two marathons in a row!)

What are this adjective and verb?

Atlanta Not Lima Slice:

National Adjeographictive

Remove one letter from the name of a world nation. The result will be an adjective that describes:

* London not Luanda, 

* Cairo not Caracas, and

* Atlanta not Lima.

What is this nation?

What is this adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices:

DraNo, Troon and Thorn

Will Shortz’s December 31st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Sandy Weisz of Chicago, illinois, reads:

Name a famous movie in four letters. Change one letter and anagram the result to name another movie that came out 20 years later.
Then change one letter in that and anagram to name a third movie that came out 29 years after the second one. What movies are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first word in a four-word romantic comedy movie title, the second word in a two-word adventure fantasy title of a movie that came out 14 years later, and the first word in a two-word American teen romantic comedy drama movie that came out 11 years after the second movie. These three words in the movie titles contain three, four and three letters, respectively.

Rearrange these combined ten letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. 

What three movies are these?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

The following riffing entree was penned by our friend Ecoarchitect whose “Econfusions” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Name a well-known film genre (that had its heyday over a span of two decades). 

Change one letter and rearrange to get another film genre (which has no bounds to its popularity).  

What are the two genres?

ENTREE #3

Take a pair of “echoic” words, like “dodo” and “tutu,” for example. Blend the two words so as to form either of two new composite non-words — “tudo” or “dotu.” 

The pair of  “echoic” words you need to take are a toy, but not a toy jet, and a 1950s-era musical romantic comedy movie title. Remove the hyphen in the toy. Blend these “echoic” words by taking the first half of the toy and the second half of the movie title. The result is a bear, a Berra or a markedly reflective or mystical person.

* Replace the last letter of this bear etc. with a different vowel to get a Hindu theistic philosophy that is also a system of physical postures, breathing techniques;

* Replace the first letter of this philosophy to get the painter of the image pictured here;

* Replace the third letter of the painter to get to get either a Georgetown athlete or a climbing

or sprawling evergreen shrub with ornamental foliage and waxy flowers; 

* Replace the third letter of the athlete to get a south-of-the-border “Howdy!”

* Replace the second letter of the south-of-the-border “Howdy!” to get a sinuous Polynesian dance;

* Replace the fourth letter of the Polynesian dance to get a subscription streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company;

* Replace the first letter of the subscription streaming service to get a 1960s-era British epic war film depicting a 19th-Century battle.

What are the “echoic-word” toy and rom-com movie title?

What is 1960s-era British epic war film?

What was the chain of words that began with a bear and ended with the British epic war film?

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Subtracting A Syllable Dessert:

“Please deep-six one doubleyou” 

Remove just one “w” from a two-syllable word
to form a one-syllable synonym of that word. 

What are this word and its synonym?

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