State subtraction, Work & Play, Two X’s, Add an R and watch out! “Onward Dominican soldiers?” “Chuck’s” Ray Charles wordplay; Sterling stout or crude brew? Shift 2 letters, add 1 syllable; Extending more so from the torso?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Onward Dominican soldiers?”

Women and men “of the cloth” are not normally associated with warfare and the military. 

However, there is a “wordplayful,” or lexical,
link between any Dominican padre – whom one would presume to be peaceful  – and the military display of force known as “shock and awe.”

What is this link?

Appetizer Menu

Worldplay USA  Appetizer: State subtraction, Work & Play, Two X’s, Add an R and watch out! 

State Subtraction One 

1. 🚗Take the names of two U.S. states. Subtract the letters of the second state from the first. Rearrange the result to give a hypothetical unit to rate miniature model cars.

State Subtraction Two

2. 🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳Take the names of two U.S. states. 

Subtract the letters of the second state from the first state. 

Rearrange the result to give what a forest ranger might do to show the trail.

State subtraction Three

3. 🎅🎄Take the names of two U.S. states. 

Subtract the letters of the second state from
the first. 

Rearrange the result to give what Rudolph et al. might perform on Christmas Eve.

Work and play

4. 🦃Name a hobby. 

Drop a letter from the start to obtain a profession. 

Substitute the second letter of the profession
with this dropped letter to obtain a holiday. 

What are these three words?

Add an R and watch out!

5. 💻Name an occurrence that is seen more and more often in today’s technological world.

Add an R in the middle to yield a frequent result of this occurrence. 

What are the two words?

Two X’s

6. 𝓧𝓧 What relatively common word not
derived from a trademark name contains two X’s?

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Hoppy Hors d’Oeuvre:

Sterling stout or crude brew?

Name a premium beer brand that claims to be mid-single-digit centuries old. Its name seems somehow to sound vaguely cultured and elegant. If you delete its middle syllable,
however, the result sounds like a synonym of “vulgar,” “crude” and “tasteless.” What is this beer brand? What is the  synonym of “vulgar,” “crude” and “tasteless”?

Limberer Limbs Slice:

Extending more so from the torso?

Replace a vowel in a body part with the next vowel in the alphabet to spell an object that
might be described as an extension of that body part. What are this body part and object?

 Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Entrees:

“Chuck’s” Ray “Charles” Wordplay

Will Shortz’s April 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Chad Graham of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reads:

Think of a famous male singer of the past with
two A’s in his name. Drop both A’s and the remaining letters can be rearranged to name a popular make of automobile. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker with three identical vowels in his name. Replace these three vowels with one each of the four other vowels in the alphabet, not including “y”. Rearrange these combined letters to spell a phrase consisting of a four-letter adjective and seven-
letter noun that are synonymous with “extreme good taste in conduct and appearance” – a phrase that applies to both this puzzle and its puzzle-maker. 

Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the two word phrase?

Hint: All but one of the letters in the puzzle-maker’s name are found in the first half of the alphabet.  

Note: Entree #2 was authored by a Puzzleria! contributor whose puzzles appear regularly in this space. 

Entree #3 is the handiwork of Ecoarchitect whose “Econfusions” also appear regularly. 

Entrees # 4 through #9 were contributed by Nodd, author of the regular “Nodd ready for prime time” feature on P!

ENTREE #2

"Think of a famous male singer of the past with two A's in his name.  Remove the first and last letters of the name.  Drop both A's and the letters immediately adjacent to the A's.  The remaining letters identify a conveyance.  Who is the singer and what is the identifier of that conveyance?"  

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous male singer of the past. There is a female children's fiction writer (Newbery Award runner-up) who shares the last name of that singer. Drop the letters of the writer's first name from the singer's name and the remaining letters can be rearranged to name a job in a restaurant. Who are the singer and the writer, and what is the job?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous male singer of the past.  Change the first letter of his name to an R. 
Rearrange to name a make and model of automobile that was produced overseas in the last century. Who is the singer and what is the automobile?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous male singer of the past.  Six letters in his name are the same two letters, repeated three times each.  Drop four of these
letters and change another letter to an L.  Rearrange to name a famous make of automobile. Who is the singer and what is the automobile?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous male singer of the past.  

Replace the next-to-last letter of his name with a copy of the third letter.  

Rearrange to name an American sports car model and a car part. 

Who is the singer and what are the car and car part?

ENTREE #7

Take the last name of a famous female singer of the past.  Rearrange to name a past American car model and a word for what is sometimes done with automobiles. Who is the singer, what is the car model, and what is sometimes done with automobiles?

ENTREE #8

Take the name of a famous female singer of the past.  Change the second letter to an E.  Drop three other letters  and rearrange to
name an automobile model. Who is the singer, and what is the automobile?

ENTREE #9

Think of a famous male singer of the past.  Replace an E with a B.  Rearrange to name a vintage American automobile and a famous male contemporary singer. Who is the singer
of the past, what is the automobile, and who is the contemporary singer?

ENTREE #10

Think of a famous male singer of the past with two A’s in his name. Replace both A’s with a single E. The resulting letters can be
rearranged to fill in the blanks in the following statement: The Women’s ___ Movement made many ___ _____. 

Who is this singer? What three words belong in the blanks?

ENTREE #11

Think of a famous still-living male singer with two A’s in his name. Replace both A’s with one O and rearrange the result to get a person who wields  “wrenches” and walks upon links, and
where in his vehicle he might store his  “wrenches.”

Who is this singer? 

Who wields  “wrenches” and walks upon links? 

What is the word for where their wares or “wrenches” are stored?

Where in his vehicle might he store his wrenches?

ENTREE #12

Name a sports venue in a state shaped like a creature. The venue is named after a man with two i’s in his name. But because of an industry the state is known for, “outsiders” may think
the area is named after an American industrial pioneer (with no i’s in his name) whose surname is a homophone of the surname of the man with two i’s in his name.

What is this sports venue?

Who are these two men with sound-alike surnames?

Dessert Menu

Zoological Dessert:

Shift 2 letters, add 1 syllable

Move the first letter of a two-syllable animal two places later in the alphabet (A becomes C, B becomes D, etc.). 

Move its second letter one place later in the alphabet (A becomes B, B becomes C, etc.). 

Move its second letter one place later in the alphabet. 

The result is a one-syllable animal. 

What are these animals?

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!

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