Grant & Custer, rant & bluster! Supermarket Sloganeering; Creatures all, great and small; Royalty, Deity and Papacy; Kneecap & nape of the neck; Presidential “Briefings”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Creatures all, great and small

“God made all creatures great and small; God loves each creature, __ __ ____ or ________.”

The four missing words above contain 2, 2, 4 and 8 letters. 

The first eight letters are the same as the second eight letters, and in the same order. 

What are the four words?

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Skydiversionary Appetizer:

Grant & Custer, rant & bluster!

Note: Mark Scott (skydiveboy) notes that these three puzzles he created are didactic, not humorous or based on wordplay.

Grant’s too-migratory too-meandering tours

1. From his early childhood until the grave Ulysses S. Grant loved to travel. 

And so he did throughout his fairly short life.

In fact, after his two-term presidency he and his wife went on a two-plus-year round-the-world tour. 

They visited many foreign countries. 

In Egypt, they visited Alexandria and Cairo, and steamed up the Nile. 

They toured Jerusalem and saw the Western world’s holiest sites. 

Then they moved on — to Greece and Rome, Russia, Austria, and Germany. 

After briefly returning to Britain, the Grants set out for Asia.

They toured Burma, Singapore, and Vietnam. There were many others too, including India.

Can you name a foreign country Grant spent time in, plus a U.S. city of the same name he also spent time in? 

What are this country and city? (And no, it is not Cairo.)

Custer’s Past, and Last Stand

2. Before the end of our Civil War, April 9, 1865, George Armstrong Custer wore on his uniform the rank of major general. 

He is the youngest general in our history. One-hundred-forty-eight years ago, this month, will be marking his demise at the battle of Greasy Grass, a.k.a. Custer’s Last Stand at the battle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. 

At that time his uniform wore the rank of a Lieutenant Colonel. 

This was just a little more than eleven years after the Civil War ended. 

My question to you is, how is it he ended his life three ranks below what he wore eleven years prior?

“General Sidesaddler”

3. See if you can discover who this famous American general was. 

He never wore a uniform, but dressed entirely for comfort. 

He also preferred to ride his horse sidesaddle with both legs and both feet on one side. 

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Presidential “Briefings”

Transpose two adjacent letters in a presidential nickname. 

Move two letters of the result one place later in the alphabet to get a shortened form of his
successor’s name.

What is this president’s nickname?

What is the shortened form of his successor’s name?

Homophonic Synonymous Slice:

Royalty, Deity and Papacy

Transpose two adjacent letters in the name of a mythical king. 

The first three letters of the result might bring to mind a dictionary. In reverse, these three letters spell a word for a deity in an ancient language.

The remaining letters spell a popular papal name that is a homophone of a synonym of “godly.”

Who is this mythical king?

What is the “ancient-language deity”?

What are the papal name and the synonym of “godly”?  

Riffing Off Shortz And Rai Slices:

Kneecap & nape of the neck

Will Shortz’s June 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Shrinidhi Rai of Pleasanton, California, reads:

Think of two parts of the human body that start with the same letter of the alphabet. Drop one instance of this letter. Then rearrange the remaining letters to name a third part of the human body, which isn’t near the first two. What body parts are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Rai Slices read:

ENTREE #1 

Think of three four-letter parts of the canine body, two of which start with the same letter of the alphabet. Rearrange these twelve letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What three canine body parts are these?

Hint: The first, second, fourth and fifth letters of the puzzle-maker’s name, in order, spell a fourth body part. 

Note: One of the two words that start with the same letter of the alphabet sometimes has the name of “two-bit U.S. coins” appended to it.

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Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 were composed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of two parts of the human body that start with the same letter of the alphabet. 

Together, they have ten letters. 

One of the parts sounds the same as the last syllable of the other one. 

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #3

Think of two parts of the human body that are located in close proximity to one another. Together, they have thirteen letters.

Five of these letters can be rearranged to spell another body part located directly below the other two. What are the three body parts?

ENTREE #4

Think of a six-letter part of the human body. Change its last letter to a Roman numeral and rearrange the result to spell another body part that starts with the same letter of the alphabet as the first one. The first body part is located above the second one, in the same general area of the body. What are the two body parts?

ENTREE #5

Think of a seven-letter part of the human body.

Rearrange five of its letters to spell a second body part. Add an R to the remaining three letters of the first body part and rearrange to spell a third body part. The first two body parts are close to each other; the third body part is not near the other two. What are the three body parts?  

ENTREE #6

Think of a ten-letter part of the human body.
Rearrange five of its letters, plus three Roman numerals, to spell another name for the body part. 

What are the body part and its other name?

ENTREE #7

Think of a six-letter part of the human body. Replace its last letter with three letters from an abbreviation for a former country. 

Rearrange the resulting
eight letters to spell a word for a system of the body. 

The word is also an adjective that describes some people. What are the body part and the word?

Note: Entree #8 is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #8

Take two body parts. Mix the letters to get a third body part and a boy’s name.

Place a tool to the left of one of the first two body parts to form a compound word for a deformed version of that body part.

Finally, take 1.) one of the first two body parts, 2.) a symbol for a conjunction, and 3.) the first part of the compound word to form a not-so-obscure three-word brand name. What are the three body parts, boy’s name, compound word, and brand name?

Hint #1: The symbol for the conjunction is associated with the number 7.

Hint #2: The first part of the compound word is a fourth body part that is associated with the third body part.

ENTREE #9

Remove a three-letter body part from a seven-letter body part leaving four letters that, in order, spell a word that means “a body (as of a person) especially in its external appearance or as distinguished from the face.” It is a synonym of “figure.”

What are these seven-letter and three-letter body parts?

What is the four-letter synonym of “figure”?

ENTREE #10

Write down two human-body bones side-by-side in alphabetical order. The first letter and the last three letters can be rearranged to spell a Muslim mystic.

The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell a human body part that sends vibrations to three smaller bones shaped like objects one might see in the shop of a Village Smithy.

What are these two bones, mystic, and human body part.

What are the three smaller bones?

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Departmental Dessert: 

Supermarket Sloganeering

Remove an “s” from a two-word eleven-letter department in a supermarket. 

Anagram the result. 

Place this two-word ten-letter anagram after the eleven-letter department. 

Place the word “thrive” at the end to form a possible five-word slogan on a sign posted in the department. 

What is this slogan?

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