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?

Dessert Menu

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? 

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