“Amazing Actors and Actresses” “Indoor, outdoor, side-by-side” Flower, grape, subtitle, school; Recreational diversions; “Animatopoeia!” Mandela! Malala!

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Recreational diversions

The following recreational diversions have something very unusual in common. 

What is it? 

And what eighth diversion could be added to
the list?

Dominoes, Rebuses, Mille Bornes, Faro, Solitaire, Labyrinths, Tiddlywinks, _______?

Appetizer Menu

Academy Award-Winning  Appetizer:

“Amazing Actors and Actresses”

1. 🎥Take the name of a famous actor. Add a letter to the first name to get a profession. 

The actor’s last name is a word relating to what the profession does. Who is it?

2. 🎥Take the name of a famous actress.

Add an S to the end of the first name to get a food company. 

Replace the fifth and sixth letters of the last name with an A to get a way that you might eat some of the foods by the food company. 

Who is it?

3. 🎥What two famous actresses have the same seven-letter first name and four-letter last names with the same consonants?

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Fruity Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Indoor, outdoor, side-by-side?”

Place a fruit, and a variety of fruit side-by-side, without a space. The result is a word that is, at times, preceded by either “indoor” or “outdoor.”

What are this fruit, variety of fruit and word sometimes preceded by either “indoor” or “outdoor?” 

Tipsy Slice:

“Animatopoeia!”

Name a professional person who is often given tips. Insert a duplicate of the last letter between the fourth and fifth letters. Divide the result in half to form two onomatopoeic words for sounds that creatures make.

What is the word for the oft-tipped professional?

What are the two onomatopoeic words for sounds that creatures make?

Riffing Off Shortz And Tripathi Slices:

Mandela! Malala!

Will Shortz’s March 3rd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Anjali Tripathi of Los Angeles, California, reads:

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Remove the middle three letters and duplicate the last two letters to get the first name of a different Nobel Peace Prize winner. What are those two names? Again, take a Nobel Peace Prize winners last name, remove the middle three letters and duplicate the last two letters, get the first name of another Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Tripathi Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker. Rearrange the 14 letters to spell a scary pointy-toothed fish, a scary place to visit or reside, and a scary hairy Addams Family character. Who is this puzzle-maker? What are the scary pointy-toothed fish?

Who is the scary hairy Addams Family character? What is the scary place to visit or reside? 

Note: Entrees #2 through #9 were created by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!  

ENTREE #2

Take the last letter of the first name, and the first three letters of the last name, of an American Nobel Literature Prize winner.  

Rearrange to spell the last name of a Nobel Physics Prize winner. Who are these two Nobel winners?

ENTREE #3

Take the first and last names of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Move the first letter of the last name to the end. The first name, followed by the rearranged last name, will now spell a two-word description of something that is often associated with peace. 

In fact, the rearranged last name of the Peace prize winner, followed by a preposition and the word “Peace,” will name a monument in Europe commemorating peace. Who is the Nobel winner, and what are the two-word description and the name of the monument? 

ENTREE #4

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Move the last letter to the front to spell the first name of a person who was considered antithetical to the cause of peace. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #5

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Move the first letter to the end and double it to spell the last name of another Nobel Peace prize winner. 

Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #6

Take the last name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. 

Remove the second, fifth, sixth and eighth letters to spell the last name of another Nobel Peace prize winner. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #7

Remove the first letter of the first name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Read the remaining letters in reverse to spell the last name of another Nobel Peace prize winner. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #8

Remove the first four letters from the last name of a Nobel Economics prize winner. 

Now add one letter at the beginning of the remaining letters to spell the first name of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Who are these two persons?

ENTREE #9

Remove the first three letters from the name of a major city in South Asia.  

Rearrange the rest of the letters to spell the first and last names of a Nobel Peace prize winner.  

What is the city, and who is the Peace prize winner?

ENTREE #10

Remove the first letter of the surname of a Nobel Peace prize winner. Read the remaining three letters either backward or forward to spell what sounds like the name of a musical group that
recorded a 1984 song whose subject was a second Nobel Peace Prize winner who was two years older than the first one. The surname of the older winner followed by the first three letters of the surname of the younger winner spell a famous person from antiquity.

Who are these two Nobel prize winners and the famous person from antiquity?

ENTREE #11

Name a Nobel Peace Prize winner, first and last names.

Use the 16 letters in this name, using some of them more than once, to spell the surnames of an American evangelist, an English guitarist and songwriter, an English philosopher and physician, a British essayist and poet, and the first names of an American church founder and an English-French physician who was also a eugenicist and writer, and the first and last names of another Nobel Peace Prize winner and the name of a Roman poet.

Who is this peace prize winner?

Who are the American evangelist, English guitarist and songwriter, English philosopher and physician, British essayist and poet, American church founder and the English-French physician-eugenicist and writer, and the Roman poet?   

Dessert Menu

Automotive Dessert:

Flower, grape, subtitle, school

A flower, a grape variety, a subtitle, and a school grounds all begin with the same two letters in the same order.

The first three letters spell three-letter words associated with automobiles. These three-letter words end with an “r”, a “b” a “p” and an “m”. 

What are this flower, grape variety, subtitle, and school grounds?

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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