Scavenging, “Shrimporting,” Snack-noshing, Seafaring, Serpentine! Fops & foam pianos; From terrycloth to cloying! “Singularization” spawns synonyms; An Invitation to a “double-beheading” Less letters = more faces and space;

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Fops and foam pianos

Half of the thirty letters in a six-word sentence are the same letter. 

The other half consists of six E’s and the nine
letters in either “foam piano” or in the statement, “Am I a fop? No!”  

What is this six-word sentence?

Hint: The first two words in the six-word sentence contain 60% of its thirty letters.  

Appetizer Menu

“Enlightning” Appetizers:

Scavenging, “Shrimporting,” Snack-noshing, Seafaring, Serpentine!

Pub Libations and Public Library?

1.📖📚🕮 The first entry on a scavenger hunt list has five letters. Start looking for it at a pub. 

The second entry begins with the first entry’s last three letters and adds on the entire first entry. No rearranging needed. 

Visit a library to find what endures of the second entry. 

Who or what are these entries?

“Shrimporting” files on the Barbie?

2. 🦐 Discover a famous brand name that everybody knows, as follows: 

a.~ Name a friend of Barbie’s. 

b.~ Add the name of a popular computer application. 

c.~ Delete the letter C. 

d.~ Rearrange to get the brand.

Nineteenth-Century Noshing

3.🥘🍲 Name a common food item in two words (five and four letters). 

The first three letters of each word are spelled
the same but pronounced differently. 

This food item was introduced in the 1800s. 

What food item is this?

A canoe crosses creeks, not an ocean!

4. 🛶The title of a 1977 Top-10 hit song includes a five-letter body of water – like ocean, river, creek, swamp, etc. 

Rearrange the body of water to find something that’s found in other bodies of water. 

What’s the hit song? 

What’s the thing found in other bodies of water?

Serpent...?

5.🐍 Think of a label (in seven letters) you might give a pest that lives in your garden. 

Remove the last letter and rearrange the rest to name the gardens in a popular game. 

What’s the label, the name of the gardens, and the game?

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Synonyms Galore Hors d’Oeuvre:

An Invitation to a “double-beheading”

Describe either lightning or winds or drought using a two-word phrase. 

If you remove the initial letter from each of the two words of this description, the result is a pair of synonyms. 

What are these synonyms? 

What is the two-word phrase?

More “Galorious” Synonyms Slice:

“Singularization” spawns synonyms

Take the singular forms of three plural words that appear in an idiom. 

Rearrange their combined letters to spell a pair of synonyms.

What are these synonyms and the idiom?

Riffing Off Shortz Entrees:

From terrycloth to cloying!

Will Shortz’s (September 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Puzzle Challenge reads:

Take the phrase NEW TOWELS. Rearrange its nine letters to get the brand name of a product that you might buy at a supermarket.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take a three-word phrase – an adjective, conjunction and adjective – that means “brief yet still satisfying or to-the-point” (like the clues a talented crossword puzzle editor will always produce). Write it in uppercase letters. 

Abbreviate the conjunction by deleting twoletters. Rotate the remaining letter 90-degrees, either clockwise or counterclockwise. Replace the first letter of the third word with a duplicate of  its last letter.

The first six letters of the result spell the surname of the above-mentioned crossword puzzle editor. 

The remaining letters spell a post made on a certain online message service run by a “Musk(m)elon.”

What is the phrase? Who is the puzzle editor? What if the post?

What is the online message service? Who is the “Musk(m)elon?”

(Note: Entree #2 is the brainchild of Plantsmith, author of  “Garden of Puzzley Delights.”)

ENTREE #2

A satellite music radio channel, in hopes of appealing to a younger demographic, adopted the slogan: “No Oldy Jams!” 

In accordance with that slogan, the channel’s “music rotation” includes no music “more moldy” than one-year-old... nothing but the newest tunes in the mix!

Did somebody say “mix”? Okay. Mix the letters in “No Oldy Jams!” to get the plural form of a brand name. What is it?

(Note: Entrees #3-through-#8 are the brainchildren of Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time.”)

ENTREE #3

Take a word from the title of a popular song of 1969. 

Add two letters and rearrange to get a brand-name product you might buy at the supermarket. 

The singer’s last name is part of another brand-name product you might buy at the supermarket. 

What are these two brand-name products?

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a brand-name supermarket product. 

Add a C and rearrange to spell two foods you might prepare from ingredients you bought at the supermarket. 

One of the foods is an entree, the other a dessert.

ENTREE #5

 Add two letters to the name of a cultural movement of the 1950s and 60s. 

The result is a brand name food product you might buy at the supermarket. 

What is it? 

ENTREE #6

Take the brand name of a beverage you might buy at the supermarket. 

Rotate the middle letter, in lower case, 180 degrees. Rearrange the result to get another brand-name product you might buy at the supermarket. 

These two products may be used together. What are they?

ENTREE #7

Take the name of a brand-name product you might buy at the supermarket. 

Remove the first two letters and rearrange to get a generic food item you might buy at the supermarket. 

What are the brand-name product and the generic item?

ENTREE #8

Take a word for attractions often found in amusement parks. Rearrange the letters to get the generic name of a brand-name product you might buy at the supermarket. What are the attractions and what is the generic product name?

ENTREE #9

Name a more-than-century-old candy brand with a “morsel of punctuation” in its name. Spell out that morsel of punctuation. 

Combine these spelled-out letters with the other letters in the brand name. Rearrange the result to spell the following four words:

~ the surname of a preacher whose first name is an anagram of a first name of a past country singer whose surname is a synonym of “wizened” and “gaunt,”

~ the surname of a pioneering geneticist
whose first name is almost, but not quite, an anagram of “George,” and

~ two-word term for Moxie, Bazooka, Bubble-Up or Brownie.

What is this candy brand?

Who is the country singer?

What are the surname of the preacher, surname of the geneticist and two-word term? 

ENTREE #10

Consider the two-paned image that accompanies this puzzle text. 

The text of a caption of the top pane image is:

“Boy plays with his ___ ____”

The text of a caption of the bottom pane image is:

 “___ poodle sits on its ___”

Rearrange the seven letters in the top-image caption to spell a brand-name food item.

Rearrange the six letters in the bottom-image caption to spell the kind of food the item is.

What are the four missing words?

What are the brand name and the kind of food?

Dessert Menu

A More-Or-Less More-Is-Less Dessert:

Less letters = more faces and space

Remove one s from the interior of the name of the nation.

Remove also the gap resulting from that removal.

The final result is the name of a new nation – one that has fewer letters, of course, but that is more populous and larger in area.

What are these two nations?

Every Thursday 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.

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