Folklore Creature, Feat & Feature... “One creature great and two small” Analgesic, Anesthetic, “Algiacide?” Feathered phoenix? Growling griffin? Self-defining geology; Pyrotechnics galore and s’mores; Beachcombed seashells & bombshells in the breech

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Feathered phoenix? Growling griffin?

Place a body of water in front of the surname of a literary character. 

The first seven letters of this eleven-letter result spell a kind of bird. 

The last five letters spell a body part. 

The second, third, fourth, sixth and tenth
letters spell a second bird, one associated with a Greek mythological character... but not in a good way. 

Name these two characters, two birds, and body part.

Valued Gifted Appetizer:

Folklore Creature, Feat & Feature...

Note: The six puzzles in this our featured Appetizer this week come courtesy of a very valued and greatly gifted Puzzleria! contributor.

Double-Duty Adjective

1. 👿Take the name of a well-known creature from folklore and an adjective often used for that creature. There are nine letters total in those two words. 

The second letter in the name of the creature and the last letter of the adjective are the same. Change one of those letters to an “h”. Arrange the resulting letters to name a unit of distance to which the adjective could also apply. What are the three words? 

Features physical and “filmy”

2. ✋👣 Take a term for a body part. Take a general term for a vacation destination. 

Combine those two terms to name a locale of many a physical feat as well as the setting of a cinematic fete and feature. What is the cinematic fete? 

Minnesota Delaware Hawaii Houston

3. ⅭⅭⅭⅩⅬⅥ Delaware Hawaii Minnesota is
346. 

So is Houston, Texas. 

Explain it. 

Describing “the nondescript”

4. 🏈🏀🏒 Take nothing that looks like something that’s certainly not nothing in college sports at the moment. 

Add the postal abbreviation of a U.S. State at the beginning and the postal abbreviation of a different U.S. State at the end. 

The result is a word that can describe “the nondescript.” What is it? 

Capistrano Degrees of Difficulty

5. 🐦Take something that’s impossible to
swallow. 

Insert an element symbolically to get something that’s hard to swallow. 

What are they? 

“‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy!’’

6. 👂🙉👂In puzzling, there’s “phonetically,” “sounds like,” and even “sounds somewhat like.” 

Then there’s a word for a lyric heard but neither sung nor spoken. Take that word. Remove a letter. The remainder, if spoken aloud, sounds like when a certain person may go or where a certain person called by that same term aims to go as efficiently as possible. What is that common term for such persons?

🌙🌕Bonus Appetizer #6 Riff by Lego (Joe Young):

As this week’s Appetizers author so eloquently put it in his #6 puzzle above, examples of “a lyric heard but neither sung nor spoken” occur in Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” (“‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy!”) and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” (“There’s a bathroom on the right!”).

But why do my ears (my ears, in particular) perk up when I hear a 1973 hit-single Southern Gothic murder ballad written by a guy whose wife recorded it?

What is this song title? 

At what exact point in the song do my ears experience this up-perk? 

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Earth Studies Hors d’Oeuvre:

Self-defining geology

Name a two-syllable singular noun for any one of many geological masses on the earth’s surface. 

Rearrange the first three plus last two letters of this noun to get a word that describes these masses. 

Rearrange three consecutive interior letters to get a what these masses are made up of. 

What are these three words?

Heriotic Slice:

“One creature great, two small”

Remove a vowel from a large creature. 

Move the resultant space two places to the right. 

The final result is a small creature preceded by what sounds like another small creature. What are these three creatures?

Bonus Independence Day Slice:

Pyrotechnics galore and s’mores

“After we witnessed the _________ display that painted, Pollock-like, the midnight-blue canvas above us, we sat around a bonfire, armed with graham crackers, chocolate bars, and marshmallows that we impaled onto extended ____ _____ before caramelizing them as near the flames as we dared.”

Spoonerize the syllables of the compound word in the first blank to produce the two words in the second and third blanks.

What words belong in the three blanks?

Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices:

Beachcombed seashells & bombshells in the breech

Will Shortz’s June 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Evan Kalish of Bayside, New York, reads:

Name a state capital. Remove its first two letters, and you can rearrange the rest to name something in two words that you might find while beachcombing in that state. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kalish Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take an adjective and noun, each five letters, that describe a man who during the Korean War commanded the most powerful assemblage of air power ever employed at sea. 

This man’s nickname is the five-letter noun. A word describing the air power is the five-letter adjective.

Rearrange those ten letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who is the Korean War man? What is the two-word adjective describing him?

Note: Entree #2 is the brainchild of our friend who is the author of this week’s “Baker’s-Half-Dozen Appetizer: Folklore creature, Feat & Feature.”

ENTREE #2

Take two capitals in the United States in alphabetical order. 

Add the postal abbreviation of a U.S. state. 

The result is the name of a national capital. 

What is the national capital?  

Note: Entree #3 is the brainchild of our friend Tortitude, whose “Tortie’s Slow But Sure Puzzles appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #3

Name an inland U.S. state capital within a coastal state. Remove its first two letters. 

You can rearrange the remaining letters to spell a beach city on the opposite coast.

What is the capital? 

What is the beach city?

Note: Entrees #4 through #9 are the brainchildren of our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #4

Name a state capital. You can rearrange its letters to name something beachgoers are often trying to get. 

What is the capital, and what are the beachgoers trying to get?

ENTREE #5

Name a state capital. 

Remove its last two letters, and you can rearrange the rest to name something most people are likely to have at the beach. 

What is the capital, and what are people likely to have at the beach?

ENTREE #6

Name a state capital. 

Change its first vowel to a different vowel and rearrange the letters to name someone you might see while at the beach. 

What is the capital, and whom might you see at the beach?

ENTREE #7

Name a state capital. 

Rearrange six of its letters to name a European city that is well-known for its beaches. 

The first three of those six letters name something some people do at the beach.  

What are the capital and the European city? 

What do some people do at the beach?

ENTREE #8

Name a state capital and remove its last letter. 

Rearrange the rest of its letters to get a word that may describe piers and similar structures
you might see at a beach. 

What are the capital and the descriptive word?

ENTREE #9

Name a state capital. 

Rearrange its letters to name something people typically take with them for a day at the beach. 

Rearrange again to describe many of the people you are likely to see at the beach. 

What is the capital? 

What do people typically take with them? 

What word describes many of the people you are likely to see?

ENTREE #10

Name something, in five letters, that you might see fishers using on a beach, followed by a three-letter synonym of that something. Replace the vowel in the three-letter synonym with a vowel that appears only once in what the fishers on the beach use.

Rearrange these eight letters to spell the surname of someone you might see on the beach... at least according to a guy whose surname is something you see on the beach that might be good (and filled with refreshment!) if it is not broken, but bad if it is broken.

What is it that fishers use, and its synonym?

Whom might you see on the beach, according to that guy with the surname, and just who is that guy, anyway!?

Hint: The five-letter something fishers use is also the name of a well-known river.

Dessert Menu

Kill The Pain Scratch The Itch Dessert:

Analgesic? Anesthetic? “Algiacide?”

Rearrange the letters in a synonym of “pain killers” to spell a synonym of “itch” and an apostrophized word preceding “Pills” in a brand-name pain-killer. 

What are these two synonyms and apostrophized word?

Hint: The letters in the synonym of “itch” appear consecutively, but not in order, within the synonym of “pain killers.”

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