Song & Dance & Sustenance, “Music is our religion,” “A-listair Cooke Book,” Monopolyphemus! Colors worn adorn indoors & out; You red a maple, now reed a palm! “This spelling may take a spell...” Pennies from Heaven; “Have you got what it takes to tackle this task?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Colors worn adorn indoors & out

Name certain women’s garments, in ten letters, that are usually colorful and worn indoors. 

Place a space in the middle to form two five-letter words that, together, describe certain six-letter colors “worn” both indoors and outdoors of residences. 

Remove an interior letter from these six-letter colors to spell menswear that women might also sometimes wear.

What are these women’s garments, colors, and menswear?

Hint: Remove a different interior letter from the six-letter colors to get volume measures of the colors that will each cover about 75 square feet.

Appetizer Menu

Lightning Round Appetizer:

Song & Dance & Sustenance, “Music is our religion,” Monopolyphemus! “A-listair Cooke Book”  

Song & Dance & Sustenance

1. 💃🍲A dance (two words, five letters each) was the first of two subjects in an unusual pair of rock songs – unusual because they use the exact same instrumental track. 

The dance song became a national hit in 1959/60. 

It was re-released in 1961 using the same instrumental track but with new lyrics. 

The second version of the song was about a food (two words, six letters each) instead of a dance. 

The food song became an even bigger hit than the dance song. 

What are these two songs?

Monopolyphemus!

2. 🏡Name a Monopoly game property, ignoring the word “Avenue.” 

Change the last letter to “c” and rearrange to name a kind of residence.

What’s the Monopoly property? 

What kind of residence is named after rearranging? 

“A-listair Cooke Book”

3. 💕📕Name a classic 20th-century book – a love story – in two words. 

The first word is the first name of a modern actor. 

The second word is the name of a large, world-class city with an extra letter added in front.

 The book was made into a movie with an A-lister in the title role. 

What’s the book title?

“Music is our religion”

4. 🎸⛪Identify the first names of two associates who were 20th-century world leaders in music. 

These same first names, one followed by the other, also identify two people who shared that “double-name” and who were 20th-century world leaders in religion. 

Name these four people.

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Sisyphean Task Hors d’Oeuvre

“Have you got what it takes to tackle this task?”

Take a two-word term for what it takes to tackle and complete an arduous task. 

Rearrange the combined letters of that term to
form a adjective describing one who is up to that task and a verb meaning to inspire others also to take up the task. 

What are the two-word term, adjective and verb?

Hint: The initial letters of the “two-word term for what it takes to tackle and complete an arduous task” spell a common pronoun.

S-L-U-G-G-I-S-H  Slice:

“This spelling may take a spell...”

Spell “hooray,” “hot dog” or “yippee,” mouthing each letter aloud. 

Take a three-letter synonym of those exclamations. 

This synonym would take longer to spell, mouthing it  aloud, than “hooray,” “hotdog” or “yippee.” 

What is this three-letter synonym?

Riffing Off Shortz And Kane Entrees:

“You red a maple, now reed a palm!” 

Will Shortz’s December 8th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ethan Kane of Albuquerque, New Mexico, reads:

Name a common tree of North America in two words (three letters, five letters). Rearrange its letters to name a well-known plant of Central America, also in two words (four letters, four letters). What tree and plant are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Kane Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

 Name a puzzle-maker in two words (five letters, four letters). Rearrange its letters to
name:

~ a wise Greek Olympian...

and the first name of:

~ a South African marathon Olympian, or

~ a speed-skating American Olympian, or

~ a weight-lifting American Olympian, or

~ an Olympic sprinter from Rice Lake, Wisconsin (if you remove a state postal abbreviation from the end of that first name).

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who is the wise Greek Olympian?

What is the first name of the other Olympians? 

Note: Entree #2 is a riff penned by our friend Plantsmith.

ENTREE #2

Take a common North American tree (3 letters and 3 letters). 

Drop the last letter and mix the remaining letters to get an instrument that could use this tree in its construction.

What is this tree?

What is the instrument?

ENTREE #3 

Note: Entrees #3-through-#8 are riffs penned by our friend Nodd.

Name a common tree of North America in two words (six letters, three letters). 

Rearrange its letters to name a well-known tree of Central and South America and an
adjective that does not accurately describe the wood of the second tree. Rearrange again to spell a place where a certain herb would be grown. 

What are the two trees, the adjective, and the place where the herb would be grown?

ENTREE #4 

Name a common tree that is native to many parts of the world, including North, Central, and South America (eight letters). Rearrange its letters to name a second tree, found in dry tropical areas of Mexico and Central America, and a beverage made from a third tree, found in a wide range of locations across the Northern Hemisphere. What are the three trees and the beverage?

ENTREE #5

Name a common tree of North America in two words (seven letters, three letters). 

Move one letter from the second word to the
first, and drop the two remaining letters of the second word. Add an “L.” 

Rearrange to name a plant in the iris family. 

What tree and plant are these?

ENTREE #6

Name a common tree of North America in two words (four letters, three letters). Remove a two-letter state postal abbreviation for a state to which the tree is not native. Rearrange the rest of the letters to name a second tree, one that grows best in warm subtropical climates. 

What are these two trees?

ENTREE #7

Name a common evergreen shrub (six letters) that grows in the warmer regions of North America. 

Drop the second letter and triple the last letter.
Rearrange these seven letters to spell the two-word name of a common plant of North America. (The second word of this plant name is generic in nature.) 

What are the shrub and the plant?

ENTREE #8

Name a tree (six letters) that grows on five continents but is most common in Asia and South America. Move the first letter to the end of the name. 

The last four letters will now spell a word for a certain type of person. Add three letters to the end of the original six-letter tree name to spell an informal term describing something often done to such persons. 

What are the tree and the two additional words? 

ENTREE #9

Name a tree in two words (five letters, three letters) most commonly found in deep swamps or sometimes in moist, cold forests. Its wood is used for hoops, chair bottoms, and baskets. 

Rearrange its letters to spell the surnames, both beginning with “Jo-,” of a “medical miracle worker” and a “master of the melodious.” 

What tree and two surnames are these?

Hint: Move the second letter of the tree into the space between the two words and remove the space left by the second letter. The result is a word for a “strong public reaction or response against something.” 

ENTREE #10

Name a common tree of North America in eight letters. 

Rearrange its letters to spell:

~ a surname associated with an annual East coast parade, and

~ a word associated with an annual West coast parade that is the surname of a non-Hall-of-Fame ballplayer nicknamed “Charlie...”

What tree, surnames and parades are these?

Dessert Menu

Numismatic Dessert:

“Pennies from Heaven”

Take the combined letters of the first and last names of a past American patriot. Rearrange them to two words that are defined as:

* endurance or “staying power,” and

* expectation of fulfillment or success.

Now take the title of a best-selling publication
this patriot penned. Replace the second word with a homophone that is a plural noun. The result is a caption for the sinister green-bordered image in the illustration above, but not a caption for the red-bordered dexter image.  

Who is this patriot?

What are the two anagrammed words?

What is the publication?

What is the caption?

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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