Off the field & out to pasture? What clothing’s composed of, D.I.Y. camping equipment; Mathematical OperatiOnOsphere; Love’s labor’s lost in translation? Brands of brandy, perhapsibly? Sentimentally sappy lovey-dovey; Archie Leach on Sin-Sinn-City?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Love’s Labor’s Lost in translation?

The first four letters of a three-syllable English adjective spell a word in a non-English language – a language that is an anagram of the remaining letters of that adjective. Translate that four-letter non-English word into English to get the beginning (and end) of an interrogative snippet of Shakespearean text.

What is this English adjective?

What are the four-letter non-English word, its language, and its English translation?

What is the Shakespearean snippet (in English and in the non-English language)?

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Zarkinesque Arcanesque Appetizer: 

D.I.Y. camping equipment; Composition of clothing; Off the field & out to pasture?

D.I.Y. camping equipment 

1. ⛺Name a two-word piece of camping equipment, in six and five letters, in which both words begin with the same first-and-second letters.

What is this two-word piece of camping equipment?

Hint: This piece of camping equipment (or at least a facsimile thereof) is often homemade.

What clothing’s composed of

2. 👕Rearrange the letters in an article of clothing to get what it is made from.

What is this article of clothing?

From what is it made?

Off the field & out to pasture?  

3. ⚾🏀🏈🎾When professional athletes can no longer play, they often rearrange their lives and take on a new job, but remain in the world of sports. 

Take an athletic position, and rearrange its letters to get a new role for a retired athlete.

What are this athletic position and this new role?

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Seven-Letter Liquid Hors d’Oeuvre:

Brands of brandy, perhapsibly?

Take the brand names of two liquid products that sound somewhat alike. One contains seven letters; the other contains eight letters including a double-consonant in its interior. 

They share the same first, third and last letters, which are consonants, and the vowels e, i and o. 

What are these brand names?

Clueless Slice:

Mathematical OperatiOnOsphere

Apply a mathematical operation to the last four letters of an adjective.

The result is a word associated with that
mathematical operation.

What are the operation, the word associated with it, and the adjective?

Note: Alas, as a result of the mathematical
operation we asked you to apply, we cannot provide you with a clue to solving this puzzle. 

“Why not?” you may ask? 

“Well, here’s why not...” we may answer: “...because those last four letters anagram to something.”

Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices:

Archie Leach on Sin-Sinn-City?

Will Shortz’s July 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Scott of Seattle, Washington, reads:

Take the name of a famous actor of the past. Say it out loud, and phonetically you’ll describe
what a famous general’s horse did. Who is the actor and who is the general?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Scott Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the name of a puzzle-maker of the present, first and last names. Say it out loud, and phonetically you’ll describe, in two words, what a dog perhaps does to a small collapsible bed in his master’s house.

Or...

If you delete the initial letters of this puzzle-maker’s first and last names, you can use the remaining seven letters – using six of them twice and one of them once – to spell:

* equestrian gear (such as saddle and bridle) for use on a saddle horse,

* an oval where horses compete, 

* a moderately fast gait that a horse, after leaving the starting gate, may assume that will likely not result in a win, place or show in the competition that takes place on the oval.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What does a dog perhaps do to his small collapsible bed in his master’s house?

What are the equestrian gear, oval where horses compete, and moderately fast gait? 

ENTREE #2

Note: The following puzzle riff was composed by a friend of Puzzleria! who has contributed an endless array of splendid puzzles to our blog.  

A customer slipped and fell on a wet spot in the produce section of the supermarket. The clerk shouted: “I tried everythin’ to stop ya.  I even _____ __ _____ __ ___ !”  

The last three words in the five blanks of that warning action, when said aloud and quickly, sound like a region of the U.S., the pronunciation of which received national attention quite recently. 

What are the five concluding words of the clerk’s admonition?  

What is the U.S. region, thus correctly pronounced according to its inhabitants and at least one prominent non-inhabitant?

Note: Entrees #3 through #8 were composed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!  

ENTREE #3

Take the name of a famous actor of the past. His first name, followed by the last two letters
of his last name, is a word for a person associated with horses. When that word is placed after a word for a kind of airplane, the result is a term that describes a U.S. general with the same last name as the actor. 

Who is the actor and what is the word associated with horses? 

Who is the U.S. general and what term describes him?

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a famous actor of the past. 

His first name is the same as the last name of a military commander in World War II who was famous for defeating another military commander in a decisive battle. The last name of the defeated commander rhymes with a word for something associated with horses.
And the first four letters of the actor’s first name, plus a “U”, spell a word for something else associated with horses. 

Who is the actor and who are the two military commanders? 

What are the two words associated with horses?

ENTREE #5

An American actress’s first name is the same as a word for a kind of horse. Her last name can be divided into two words by inserting a space. 

The first word describes the objective of both horse racing and waging war. The second word is a term applied generally to actors that is also the  last name of a retired American general. The first name of the general is also the last name of a former U.S. president. 

Who is the actress? What are the two words contained in her last name? Who is the retired general?

ENTREE #6

Take the name of a famous actor. His first name is the same as the last name of a famous American general who often went by a
three-letter nickname in place of his first name. 

The actor’s breakthrough movie required that he learn horsemanship skills. 

Who is the actor and who is the general? 

What is the movie?

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a famous actor. The first name he goes by is a short form of his actual middle name. The full version of his middle name is also the last name of a famous American general. The actor’s love for horses led him to buy a horse for each of his children. The first name of the general can be rearranged to form a word describing what wild horses typically do. Who are the actor and the general, and what is the word for what horses do?

ENTREE #8

Take the name of a famous actress of the past. Her last name is the same as the last name of a well-known American general who also served as a U.S. president. 

The actress’s breakthrough role came in a movie about horse racing, in which she did many of her own stunts, even becoming injured in the process. 

The general, for his part, was known to ride intrepidly into battle astride his horse, ignoring the bullets flying around him. 

Who are the actress and the general, and what is the actress’s breakthrough movie?

Note: Entree #9 was composed by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #9

Think of a living thespian and a late, great U.S. general.

This thespian’s first and last names,
phonetically, describe what this general’s horse did.

Who is the thespian?

What did the famous general’s horse do?  

ENTREE #10

Name a gray 16-hand creature, in three syllables. The last three letters of this creature, in reverse, are the monogram of the man who is most associated with this creature. 

Two consecutive letters in the creature’s name are the same. Remove one of them. Consecutive letters of this altered name are an anagram of this man’s surname.

Now cut a “meaty” anagram of four consecutive interior letters from the creature’s altered name. Place a name that precedes “Belinsky” or “Derek” between the last two letters in this unaltered name. 

The result, in reverse, is the man’s first name. 

What is the name of this gray creature?

Who is the man most associated with this creature?

What is the “meaty” anagram?

What is the name that precedes “Belinsky” or “Derek”?

Hint: “Belinsky” had a halo on his hat. Derek had a “Dudley” on her trail...  

ENTREE #11

“I bet on the grey mare, I bet on the bay

Had I bet on ol’ ________, I’d be a free man today.”

Take the name of the horse that belongs in the blank. 

Rearrange its letters to spell a two-word, eight-letter lament – a “chorus” of sorts – sung by all those bettors who failed to place that bet.

What is this “chorus” of sorts that is the two-word, eight-letter lament?

What is the name of the horse?

ENTREE #12

Take four words preceded by “a horse” in an informal American idiom that means “something is very different or unrelated to what was expected.”

The 17 letters in those four words can be rearranged to spell:

* the surname of a four-time Academy Award nominated actor whose first name is an anagram of “gory moment” and who was known for his portrayal of “moody, sensitive young men,”

* the misspelled surname (misspelled because, for the purposes of this puzzle, two consecutive consonants have been replaced by a single consonant that keeps the pronunciation intact) of an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker whose first name is an anagram of a color and who is best known for writing and directing romantic comedy films, and

* the name of a niece of Queen Victoria that, if you remove the third letter, is a hat.

The 17 letters in those four words can also be rearranged to spell the missing words of the caption for the image pictured here: “___ ___ on an ______ _____.”

What four words are preceded by “a horse”

Who are the actor, filmmaker and niece?

What is the caption?

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A Term Of Endearment Dessert:

Sentimentally sappy lovey-dovey

Spoonerize a two-word phrase lately in the news to spell a sentimentally sappy noun and a lovey-dovey term of endearment. 

What are this phrase, sentimentally sappy noun and term of endearment? 

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 (s uch as alphabet soup,Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Capital alchemy subtraction history element relative residence; Deep-six the unsuitable fifth! Elmira hosts a merry event; Female self-descriptive creature; From the grocery to the gridiron? Billy + Lucille = Crystal Ball!

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Deep-six the unsuitable fifth!

Which of the following three-word phrases does not belong with the other four? Explain why not.

1. YUMMY SAMOA COOKIES

2. MECCA MOSQUE MOSAIC

3. SQUAMOUS GEICO GECKO

4. BEAUTIFUL BUTTONHOLED PEONY

5. SQUEAKY MICKEY MOUSE

Note: If the answer is #1. Yummy Samoa Cookies, the reason is not because the three initial letters are different. And, if the answer is #2. Mecca Mosque Mosaic, the reason is not because the three initial letters are the same.

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SuPrattemporal Septetudinal Appetizer:

Capital alchemy subtraction history element relative residence

Capital alchemy

1.★★ Drop the final letter from one national capital to obtain what sounds like a second national capital. 

What are the two national capitals? 

Capital history

2.🕮 Exchange the two syllables of a national
capital and add a space between them to obtain a two-word summary of this capital’s history in the 1940s. 

What is this capital and its two-word history?

State and capital subtraction #1

3.📰 Take the name of a U.S. state and its capital. 

Subtract the letters of a second state (without its capital) from this set. 

Rearrange the result to give a description of many contemporary news media.

State and capital subtraction #2

4.★ Take the name of a U.S. state capital. 

Subtract the letters of its state to describe the state capital.

An element of a house

5.🏡 Remove the last letter from a part of a house to obtain what sounds like a chemical
element. 

What are the element and part of a house?

“Err, no”

6.👪 Think of a name for a future relative. 

Add an N to explain why this future relationship may not be realized.

Insert A, space.

7.🤺 Think of an outside part of a residence in
one word. 

Add an A and a space inside this word to yield what can happen when this part is “used.”

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Cocktail & Alcohol Hors d’Oeuvre:

Elmira hosts a merry event

Rearrange the combined thirteen letters in an alcoholic beverage and a cocktail to spell a merry two-word event that took place about a century-and-a-half ago in Elmira, New York. 

What are these alcoholic drinks and this event?

Hint: Alcoholic beverages and a cocktails are often served at such events as this one. 

And, given a fondness for Scotch Whiskey cultivated by one of the two main participants in this event, such beverages were likely served also at this event.

Sixteen Candles Slice:

From the grocery to the gridiron? 

Name something you might purchase at a grocery store before a birthday. 

Spoonerize its two words. 

The result sounds like what some football players and sideline cheerleaders do. 

 What might you purchase? 

What do some sideline cheerleaders and  football players do?

Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices:

Billy + Lucille = Crystal Ball?

Will Shortz’s July 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Sandy Weisz of Chicago, Illinois, reads:

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who co-starred in a classic movie of the past.
The actress’s first name, when reversed, and the actor’s last name, spelled forward, are similar romantic gifts. 

Who are these film stars?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a talented puzzle maker and a bona fide puzzle master. 

The puzzle maker’s first name followed by the puzzle master’s last name (but with its penultimate letter deleted) sounds like the name of a park and vacation destination in the Oceanside, California Area.

Who are this puzzle maker and puzzle master?

What is the name of the Oceanside-area park?

Hint: A fictional city (associated with the “Grand Theft Auto” franchise) is situated in a fictional county whose name is the first name of a talented puzzle blogger.

Note: Entree #2 is brought to you by Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is featured regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Take the surnames of a past celebrity movie couple, male and female.

The consonants in each surname appear in alphabetical order. Remove the second consonant in the surname of the actress.

The actor’s surname and the actress’s altered surname spell a pair of nice anniversary gift ideas – the latter perhaps a bit more practical, the former perhaps a bit more romantic.

Who is this movie couple?

What are the gift ideas?

Note: Entrees #3 through #8 are brought to you by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is regularly featured on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who co-starred in a well-known film of the 1990s. 

Move the first letter of the actress’s first name to the end and read the result backwards. You will get a small-value item. 

Remove the last three letters of the actor’s last name to get an even smaller-value item,
phonetically. Who are these film stars, and what film did they costar in?  What are the small-value and smaller-value items?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who starred together in several well-known movies of the 1990s. 

From the actress’s first name, take the first, third, fourth, and sixth letters. 

Add an “A” and rearrange to form the first word in a two-word phrase naming a romantic gift married couples often give each other to celebrate their union. 

The second word in the two-word phrase is the actor’s last name. Who are the actor and actress? 

What do married couples often give each other?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who starred together in several well-known romantic comedies of the 1950s and 1960s. Move the last letter of the actress’s last name to the end of the actor’s first name. Then

rearrange the remaining letters of the actress’s last name, plus two letters of her first name, to spell a word for a path or route. Place this word after the now-modified first name of the actor. The result will be a two-word phrase that is a metaphor for many film romances and many more in real life. Who are the actor and actress? What is the two-word phrase?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who starred together in a well-known film during the 1990s. The first two letters of the abbreviated form of the actor’s first name, plus the first two letters of the actress’s first name, can be rearranged to form a word for something that dramatically affected the outcome of the film. Who are the actor and actress, what is the film, and what affected the film’s outcome? 

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who starred together in a classic romantic film of the late 1960s. 

The actress’s last name, minus one letter, spells a derogatory term for a woman. Remove the last two letters of the actor’s first name and rearrange the remaining
letters to spell a word that might describe such a woman’s probable marital state. Who are the actor and actress? What are the derogatory term for a woman and the word that might describe her probable marital state?

ENTREE #8

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who starred together in a romantic comedy film of the late 1960s. 

Remove the first letter of the actor’s first name and remove a state postal code from the actress’s last name.  Use the
remaining letters of the actor’s first name and the actress’s last name to spell the first word in the title of the film they starred in. Who are the actor and actress, and what is the film?

ENTREE #9

Pronounce aloud the stage-name surname of a famous actor and the first sixty percent of his birth-name surname. What you hear will sound like Civil War history.

What are this actor’s stage-name and birth-name surnames. Why do they sound like Civil War history?

ENTREE #10

“Aniridia” is a term for “___ of an ___.” 

Rearrange the combined letters in the two blanks to spell the first names of two characters in a classic “white house” movie filmed in the 1940s. What are the words in the blanks, the characters’ first names, and the classic “white house” movie? 

ENTREE #11

Think of a famous actor and a famous actress who co-starred in a “summer romance” movie from the 1970s. 

The surname of the actress contains a word for “the unit of force in the meter-kilogram-second system equal to the force required to impart an acceleration of one meter per second per second to a mass of one kilogram” The surname of the actor contains “a unit of electrical potential difference and electromotive force.”

The first names of the characters portrayed by the actress and actor – after you change a vowel in the actor’s character’s name from an “a” to an “e” – spell the first and last names of a British folk-rock singer who is ranked #164 on Rolling Stone's list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Who are this actress and actor and the characters they portrayed in the 1979 “summer romance” movie?

Who is the British folk-rock singer?

ENTREE #12

Two famous actors co-starred in a classic 1960s film. 

The consonants in the first name of the character portrayed by one of the actors, fittingly, are in alphabetical order, as are the vowels. 

The consonants in the first name of the character portrayed by the other actor, also
fittingly, are not in alphabetical order, nor are the vowels.

Who are these actors, first names of their characters, and the film title? 

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Varmint and Variant Dessert:

Female self-descriptive creature

Name a female creature, in two words. 

Change the eighth letter, a vowel, to a different vowel.

Then remove the space to form a word that describes this creature. 

What are this creature and descriptive word?

Note: the first word of the two-word creature is, according to Merriam-Webster, a less-common spelling variant of a shorter word. 

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

“A star is born, Bud on a bar?” “Let’s NOT Do Chuck!” “Remember, only you can prevent freezing fingers!” An Anatomical Antonymy; A Coleman Stove in Monet’s Alcove? CapCity BackwardBriefly NickName

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Let’s NOT Do Chuck!”

Insert the surname of either a past poet or a past composer, both European, into “The Name Game,” (the novelty hit song recorded by Shirley Ellis in 1964). 

Almost immediately you will hear a familiar name associated with a political family. 

What is the familiar name? 

Who are the composer and poet?

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Double-Conundrumbling Appetizer:

“A star is born, Bud on a bar?”

“A star is born, a star is cloned?”

1. 🌟🏆🌟Name a famous movie star with a nine-letter first name. 

Change the second letter of that name. 

Rearrange the result so the first five letters spell the first name of another famous star. 

Never mind the rest of the letters. 

Name both stars (first and last names).

Beck Bock Busch Bud on a Bar?

2. 🏪🍻A well-known, seven-letter brand is found on many grocery store shelves and bars. 

When pronounced, it sounds like two common three-letter words spoken consecutively. 

What are the words? 

What’s the brand?

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ANTonym + IntERIOR = ANTERIOR Cruciate Ligament Hors d’Oeuvre?:

An Anatomical Antonymy

Four consecutive interior letters of a body part
are an antonym of its first four letters. 

What is this body part?

“Smokey Brrr!” Slice:

“Remember, only you can prevent freezing fingers!”

Name what people who are inadequately clothed may get during frigid weather. 

A letter appears thrice in this eleven-letter word; remove all three. 

Rearrange the result to name things that may have prevented what these people may have gotten. 

What may they get and what may prevent it?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices:

A Coleman Stove in Monet’s Alcove? 

Will Shortz’s July 7th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Dan Pitt of Palo Alto, California, reads:

Think of something in two words (7,5) that you might take camping. The phrase has seven
consonants, which are all different and appear in alphabetical order through the phrase. What camping item is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pitt Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of the name of a puzzle-maker in two words (3,4) who might enjoy camping. 

The name has five consonants, which are almost all different and appear in alphabetical order through the name. The two vowels in the name also appear in alphabetical order. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

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

ENTREE #2

Think of an eight-letter word for items people often take with them when they go camping. The word has four consonants, which are all different and appear in alphabetical order in
the word. The word is generally pronounced with the accent on the first syllable. If you pronounce it with the accent on the last syllable, it will sound like a second item people might take camping. And if you remove two letters from the word, you will get a word for additional items people might take camping. What are these items?

ENTREE #3

Think of a two-word phrase (4,5) that describes something people may encounter while camping. 

The phrase has five consonants, four of
which are different. The consonants appear in  alphabetical order through the phrase. The phrase describes something that may be hazardous, depending on the season. What is it?

ENTREE #4

Think of a seven-letter word for an item you might take camping. 

The word has four different consonants, in alphabetical order. 

Change the third consonant to a vowel, and change the next letter to a different vowel. 

You will get a word for something the camping item might be used for. What camping item is this, and what might it be used for?

ENTREE #5

Think of an eight-letter word for a place to go camping. 

The word has five different consonants, in alphabetical order. 

What is this place to go camping?

ENTREE #6

Think of an eight-letter word for something you might take camping, depending on the condition of the place you plan to camp. The
word has five different consonants, in alphabetical order. What is this item?

ENTREE #7

Think of a seven-letter word for something you might take camping. The word has five consonants, one of which is used twice, in alphabetical order. 

If you add a letter and change another letter, a vowel, to the next vowel in the alphabet, you will get a word for something else you might take camping. Both of these items are considered important for adventurers or risk-takers.

ENTREE #8

Think of something in two words (6,4) that you might take camping in the woods. Rearrange these ten letters to spell something that may fall from a tree onto the first “something.”

These two “somethings” serve a common life-preserving purpose. But when “somethings collide,” as in this instance, it preferable that
living creatures not be present within either of the “somethings” – as is the case, happily, in this particular make-believe puzzle scenario.

What might you take camping?

What may fall from a tree onto it?

What is the common life-preserving purpose of these two “somethings”?

Hint: Remove a variant spelling of a word meaning “order” or “proper or usual state or condition” from the end of a Beatles song title. Anagram the remaining letters to get the common life-preserving purpose of the two “somethings.”

ENTREE #9

Think of  a nine-letter adjective, with its four vowels in alphabetical order, that describes things that are capable of flight. Now think of some flying nouns it describes that have that same “vowels-in-alphabetical-order” quality:

* a craft piloted by a character whose first
name’s vowels are in reverse-alphabetical-order;

* a craft manufactured by a European aerospace company with the same name as the craft;

* a compound-word avian creature that baseball broadcasters Dizzy Dean and Peewee Reese used, followed by the word “seat,” to describe their press-box vantage point.

** a pair of seven-letter feathered flyers that begin with the same letter, have identical vowels in identical positions, and double consonants in the same position.

What are this adjective and five flyers? 

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Town & Country Dessert:

CapCity BackwardBriefly NickName

Move the first letter of a world capital city one place earlier in the alphabet. 

Switch the fourth and fifth letters. Spell the result backward to get an abbreviation of a nearby country and a word in this country’s nickname.

What is this world capital city?

What is the abbreviation of a nearby country and a word in this country’s nickname?

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.)

Please post your comments below. Feel free also to post clever and subtle hints that do not give the puzzle answers away. Please wait until after 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesdays to post your answers and explain your hints about the puzzles. We serve up at least one fresh puzzle every Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.