Chuck-full of “wonderstruck” “Where do you put a potable?” “The Agony and the Anodyne” Prevention versus Recovery; Namesake and pen name; General Electric vs General Election;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Where do you put a potable?”

Take a word for something penned by a Beatle. It is some indeterminate or unspecified thing. But it is also some person, event or other thing of consequence. It is something that is not a wall fan.

Spell this word backward. Insert an “r” someplace in this backward result. Transpose the second and third letters. Transpose the fourth and fifth letters. Insert a space someplace.

The result is a potable and where you might keep it.

What is this something?

What is this potable? 

Where might you keep this potable?

Appetizer Menu

“AuThor! AuThor!” Appetizer:

Chuck-full of “wonderstruck” 

Flipped flight

1. 🛬Write down the model name of a popular airliner that was introduced and put into widespread use during the last century. 

Rotate the model name upside-down and discover a popular initialism that’s in widespread use today. 

What’s the model name? 

What’s the initialism?

Phonetic affliction

2. 🌄Name a popular US recreational and geological area in seven letters, often preceded by “the”. 

If you do what its name suggests – phonetically – you might hurt someone. 

What’s the area?

“In the beginning...”

3. 🎝🎜B C C D D D P R S V – These letters (although not in this order) are the initials of some internationally-known characters in a popular children’s song familiar to virtually everyone. 

What is it?

Burma Shave?

4. 🚘Think of a common six-letter word found on signs along many roads. 

Replace a vowel with a different vowel and
rearrange the result to name a well-known brand of personal care products. 

What’s the word? What’s the brand?

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Healthcare Hors d’Oeuvre:

Prevention versus Recovery

Take a word that means “recovering from an illness.” 

Take four letters from this word. Rearrange them to spell a word describing the time “recovering from an illness” sometimes takes.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a word for certain preventives against illness.

What are these three words? 

Presidential & Publishing Slice:

Namesake and pen name

Take the surname of a United States president and the substance of his namesake landmark (that is, “the stuff” this landmark consists of).

Rearrange these thirteen letters to spell the
pen name of an author of children’s books.

Who is this president? 

What is the substance of his landmark?

What is the pen name of the author of children’s books?

Hint: The real name of the author of children’s books can be anagrammed to spell the full name of a-guy-named-Alvy’s gal and the first name of the hubby of Harriet who is also father of Eliza and Lizzie.

Riffing Off Shortz And Vespe Slices:

General Electric vs General Election

Will Shortz’s April 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jim Vespe, of Mamaroneck, New York, reads:

Think of a a major American corporation of the past (two words, 15 letters altogether). Change the last three letters in the second word the resulting phrase will name something that will occur later this year. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Vespe Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a one-word name of a character in an iconic science fiction franchise, the surname of the actor who portrayed a superhero in theaters, and a world capital city. 

Rearrange these combined letters to spell the surname and hometown of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this science fiction character, and what are the superhero portrayer’s surname and the world capital city?

Who is the puzzle-maker? 

Note: Entree #2 was composed by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is featured regularly on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #2

Name a now-defunct two-word U.S. Company. 

Cut the first word. 

Cut the suffix from the second word. Still standing is a single, solitary word. 

Name a second also-now-defunct two-word U.S. company. Again, cut the first word. Cut a “t” from the second word and change an “r” to an “n”, forming a second still-standing word.

These two still-standing words, one after the other, form things you may see later this year, especially if you are “outstanding in your field.”

What are these two still-standing things?

What are these two now-defunct U.S. companies?

Note: Entrees #3, #4 and #5 were composed by our friend Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” appears regularly on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #3

Name a well-known American company. 

Remove the last letter and the result will be an
oft-heard sound. 

What are the company and the sound?

ENTREE #4

Name a well-known company, two words, twelve letters total. 

The company’s name has only one vowel, repeated four times, and each time the vowel is pronounced differently. What is the company name?

ENTREE #5

Name two brand names of a certain type of product, in order. 

Remove the last two letters of one name and the resulting phrase will name something that occurred earlier this year. What is it?

Note: Entrees #6 through #11 were composed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is a Puzzleria! staple.

ENTREE #6

Think of a major American retail brand of the past, one word. Change one letter to a different letter, and rearrange to get a two-word
phrase for something that will occur later this year. What is the retail brand, and what will occur later this year?

ENTREE #7

Think of a popular American beverage brand of the past, one word. 

Change the last letter to two new letters to name something that will occur later this year. 

What is the brand, and what will occur later this year?

ENTREE #8

Think of a major American aviation company of the past, two words. 

Remove the last letter of the first word and transfer it to the second word. The first word will now name something that will occur next year. Remove three letters from the second word that, in the proper order, spell a word meaning nothing. Then rearrange the remaining letters of the second word (including the letter you trasferred from the first word) to form a six-letter word that has a connection with the thing that will occur next year. 

What are the company, the thing that will occur next year, the three-letter word, and the six-letter word?

ENTREE #9

Think of a major American financial services company of the past, one word. 

Remove a two-letter abbreviation for one of the divisions of a typical company. 

The remaining letters name a word for something that will change later this year. 

What are the company, the abbreviation, and the thing that will change later this year?

ENTREE #10

Think of the name of an American breakfast cereal of the past, in two words. 

These words name a group of popular public figures who will be seen on national television later this year. Who are these people?

ENTREE #11

Think of a major American automobile brand of the past, one word. 

Replace two letters with two new letters. 

The result will name something that will occur later this year. 

What is the brand, and what will occur later this year?

ENTREE #12

A large and luxurious ocean liner named for a United State was built in 1903. When this ship was commissioned for United States naval service during World War I it assumed a new seven-letter name, one it retained for much of 1917. 

During the Spanish Flu pandemic the ship, under its original name, served in New York as a floating isolation hospital. The ship was scrapped in 1923 after a diversified run of twenty years.

Rearrange the seven letters of this seagoing vessel’s naval name to spell a retailer popular with young parents that in 2018 permanently closed all its locations in the United States, after a run of 70 years.

What is the name of this ship? 

What is the name of this proprietorship?

ENTREE #13

If “video killed the radio star,” did “cyber-cable kill the video star?” 

Think of a former American video retail store chain, in eleven letters. (In the previous sentence, insert an “n” within the word “retail” and remove a vowel to form a new word to use instead of “retail”.)

Divide the name of the video store chain into two words of five and six letters. In the first word, add a copy of the third letter to the end, change the second letter to an R and the fifth letter to an N, then transpose the fourth and fifth letters. The result is the twelve-letter title of a Frederic Remington sculpture.

What is the store chain?

What is the sculpture title?

Dessert Menu

“Ouch That Smarts!” For Smarties Dessert:

“The Agony and the Anodyne”

Take a synonym of “agony” and an acronym of a US “service” that many Americans might characterize as “agonizing.”

Rearrange these combined letters to spell an anodyne that may relieve the synonym of “agony.” What are the synonym of “agony,” acronym of a US “service,” and anodyne?

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