Top-Of-The-Pops Appetizer; CHOCOLATE arCHIPelago? “Holiday 'tis, Holy Day 'tisn't!” In the beginning, Eden or end times? Eli Lillian Range? "Wanna wear wigs bigly? Dollywould!"

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Wear wigs bigly? Dollywould!

Dolly Parton admits to owning a “well-into-three-figures” number of wigs.... reportedly more than 350! 

But at some point in the distant past she might have uttered, in some conversational context, the three-word phrase, “my one wig.” 

How is that three-word phrase related to Internet domain names?

Explain how.

Hint: The answer involves sixes in the one’s places.

Note: For a related image, see the image that accompanies the text in Tortie’s Appetizer #3.

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Top-Of-The-Pops Appetizer:

Best-Drinking-song Grammy? Red Asp of Cali! Country singers, Countryside novel; “ROT”ing the rotating records!

Best-drinking-song Grammy?

1. 🐄🥛Think of a country singer of the past. 

Remove the letters of the last name from the first. The last name, followed by the remaining letters of the first name, spell a two-word description for a beverage.

Now think of the name of a famous rock group. 

Remove from it the letters of the last name of someone who was fired from the group. 

(Note: One of the letters appears more than once in the group. Remove only the first instance of that letter.) 

The last name, followed by the remaining
letters of the group, spell a two-word award that the above beverage might be given. 

Who is the country singer? 

Who is the rock group? 

Who was fired from that group? 

What are the two two-word phrases? 

“The Red Asp of California?”

2. 🌆🏈⚾Think of the largest city in one of the U.S. states. Take the first two letters of that city plus the first letter of the state. You’ll have a word that often describes the city. 

Now take a professional sports team from that city and rearrange its letters. 

You’ll have a word associated with the word that describes that city. 

Used in a different context, that “rearranged-sports-team” word also is associated with a popular singer. That singer had a Top-30 country pop hit whose title was the name of the city. 

What are the city and state? What word describes it? What is the sports team and what is the anagram associated with the city description? Who is the singer? 

Country singers, Countryside novel

3. 𝅘𝅥𝅯🕮Name a country singer of the past who had a Top 30 hit on the pop charts. 

Rearrange the third, fourth, and last letters of the first name to produce the first name of another country singer of the past. Move the fourth letter of the first singer’s last name one
letter earlier in the alphabet (i.e., ROT-25) to get the last name of the second country singer. 

Now think of a famous novel that largely takes place in the countryside. Remove four successive interior letters from the last word of the title. The remaining letters of this altered title will describe the two country singers.  

Who are the singers? 

What is the novel? 

What is the description of the two singers?

“ROT”ing the rotating records!

4. 𝅗𝅥⏺♪Name a singer-songwriter who had a Top 30 hit in 1960. If you ROT-6 the first letter of the first name, you can anagram the results of the modified first name into three relatively common male first names. If you move the fourth letter of the last name one letter earlier in the alphabet (i.e., ROT-25), you can anagram the modified last name into the same three names. 

Take the four letters that are common between the first and last names and anagram them to produce something you might see on a map. The first word of the song title is something else you’d see on a map. The song is probably best known for a Top 10 1964 rendition. The
singer of that rendition has a last name denoting additional things you’d see on a map. A lesser known version of that song was done by someone who went by a nickname, but his real first name was one of the original three anagrams. His first name rhymes with the first name of the 1964 singer. His last name rhymes with the last word in the song title. 

Who is the singer-songwriter? What are the three anagrams? What is the song? Who are the other two singers who covered the song? What are the three things you can see on a map? 

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Ab Ovo Obsolescent Hors d’Oeuvre:

“In the beginning, Eden or end times?”

Name a word associated with beginnings. 

Replace a letter in this word to a letter adjacent to it in the alphabet to spell a word associated with both beginnings and endings. 

What are these two words?

Gracefully Tasteful Slice:

Chocolate Archipelago?

Name sweet treat in two words of six and three letters. 

Remove the space and the three-letters that spell this treat’s likely destination. 

In the middle of the remaining letters add a short ancient Chinese name denoting beauty and grace. 

The result is the name of an archipelago. 

What are this treat and archipelago?

Riffing Off Shortz And Range Entrees:

Eli Lillian Range?

Will Shortz’s August 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Lillian Range of New Orleans, Louisiana, reads:

The word “NoNuNioN” has four N’s and no other consonant. What famous American of the past – first and last names, 8 letters in all – has four instances of the same consonant and no other consonant?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Range Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Write the name of a puzzle-maker in uppercase letters. The first two letters together, the third letter by itself, and the fourth and fifth letters together represent three numerals whose sum is a three-digit number. The three letters that are the alphanumeric counterparts of those three digits can be rearranged to spell the nickname of a U.S. president. 

One letter appears thrice in the puzzle-maker’s name. Remove one of the three. Rearrange the result to spell either:

1. a Hawaiian veranda and what visitors tend to do there, or

2. what a mother duck might do to her ducklings get them all in a row, and an adjective meaning “in a row.”

Who is this puzzle-maker? 

What is the president’s nickname? 

What are a Hawaiian veranda and what visitors tend to do there? 

What might a mother duck do to her ducklings get them all in a row, and what is the adjective meaning “in a row?” 

ENTREE #2

Note: Entree #2 is generously contributed by a longtime friend of Puzzleria! who crafts and shares excellent puzzles on our blog.

Take the first and last names – eight letters in all – of a supporting character in a star-studded action adventure comedy movie relating the sprawling tale of an epic event set in a bygone era. 

These two names contain three instances of the same consonant and no other consonants.  

The character’s first name sounds like a plant. The character’s last name is spelled like a brand name of a product, one perhaps used by performers, that sounds like praise for a performance. 

The last name of the performer who portrayed the supporting character sounds like support of some kind of a sprawling plant that requires support.  What is the name of the supporting character? 

What is the name of the performer who portrayed the character?

Note: The following three riffs are courtesy of “Ecoarchitect” (Greg VanMechelen), whose “Econfusions” is a fixture on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #3

A well-known movie has four instances of the same consonant and no other consonant. 

The name of one if its stars has three instances of the same vowel and only one other vowel. 

(It is, however, a “vowel” that often masquerades as a consonant!).

What is this movie title?

Who is its star?  

ENTREE #4

Name a specific variant of a fruit, eight letters, with four letters the same. The other letters, reading left to right, are in alphabetic order,
though not necessarily adjacent. What is the fruit?

Hint: Delete the last two letters of the fruit and switch the third and fifth letters to get a name lately much in the news.

ENTREE #5

There are six different geographic or geopolitical locations that have seven letters, with the same four letters in each. 

These locations occur in four different continents. 

What are they?

Note: The following six riffs, Entrees #6 through #11, are courtesy of Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #6

The first and last names of a critically-acclaimed American visual artist, eight letters in all, have three instances of the same consonant and no other consonant. 

This artist is based in New York City and is known for working in an unusual artistic medium featuring acrylics, Chinese ink, wax and oil paints on paper. 

The other letters in the name are A, E, and I. 

Who is the artist?

ENTREE #7

Using only one vowel and one consonant, form the complete names of two fictional characters and the last name of a third fictional character. What are the three names? 

ENTREE #8

A song title has four instances of the same consonant and no other consonant, and three instances of the same vowel and one other vowel. 

This song was sung by a pop music group with two instances of the same consonant in its name (a consonant different from the consonant in the song title), and also two instances of the same vowel... kind of like the “SuprEmES,” but without all the “murp!”

What are this song title and pop music group?

Hint: The triplicated vowel in the song title and the duplicated vowel in the group name are the same vowel.

ENTREE #9

Think of two food items you might find listed on an Italian restaurant menu, and one found in supermarkets. 

These three items have thirteen letters in all. 

Each item has the same single consonant. 

Two of the words begin and end with the same vowel. One of those items is often an ingredient in another of them. What are the three items?  

ENTREE #10

The first name of a famous American actor has three instances of the same consonant and no other consonant. 

The last name starts with that same consonant. 

Who is the actor?

ENTREE #11

The first name of a famous American dancer has three instances of the same consonant
and no other consonant. 

The last name starts with that same consonant. 

Who is the dancer?

Note: Entree #12 is a riff created by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” feature is a fan-favorite on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #12

Think of a possible very early nine-letter nickname for a prolific puzzle-maker who often appears on Puzzleria!

It contains four vowels (two of them the same)
and five consonants... all of them the same!

What is this very early nickname?

Who is the puzzle-maker? 

ENTREE #13

Had an advice columnist, using her nom de plume, wed a well-known Ghanaian diplomat early in 1984, her name would have consisted of eight letters, with five instances of the same consonant and no other consonant, and three instances of the same vowel and no other vowel. 

As it turned out, the new married name of the Swedish lawyer and painter that the diplomat did wed later in 1984 consisted of nine letters, with five instances of the same consonant and no other consonant, and three instances of the same vowel, but also a fourth vowel that resembles an inverted schwa.

Who are this advice columnist and Ghanaian diplomat?

Who is the Swedish lawyer and painter

                    Dessert Menu

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like... Dessert:

“Holiday ‘tis, Holy Day ‘tisn’t!” 

Name a holiday and a synonym of one of its two words. Rearrange the combined letters to get three other words:

1. How Jesus sometimes addressed God,

2. How disciples sometimes addressed Jesus, and

3. A noun associated with CHRISTMAS!

What are this holiday, synonym and three other words?

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