Thor’s pitchforks, hammer handles A Tool of the Thespian Trade? Edible inedible credible incredible! “Canon in D” “‘Cannon’ in E”? Corpulent checkers & dominoes; Ten-toe podiatric tepidity

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A Tool of the Thespian Trade?

Name a winner of multiple Oscars, first and last names.

The last six letters of this Oscar-winner’s name, if you change one letter (to an “r”), spell “a tool of the Oscar-winner’s trade.”

The first four letters of the name spell something others do to win Oscars. 

Change one letter in the first name and rearrange the result to spell how many Oscars this winner won. 

Who is this person? 

What's “a tool of their trade?”

What do others do to win Oscars? 

How many Oscars has this winner won?

Appetizer Menu

Thunderstruck Appetizer:

Thor’s Pitchforks & Hammer Handles

An Antonymous Anagram

1.🙌 Last century, a man used his hands to work with celebrities and quickly became a celebrity himself. 

He achieved success by following a vocation completely opposite of what would be predicted by rearranging his name. 

Who was he (5, 7)? 

What was his vocation?

What prediction (6, 6) that is an anagram of his name is the exact opposite of his actual vocation?

The “Effouar” flower?

2.💮 A common plant may be named by spelling out a number, saying each letter. 

What’s the plant? 

What’s the number?

Dilemma: Lose an “L” or snip an “i”?

3.🥀Name a flower (7 letters), remove an “I” and rearrange as needed to find a food. 

Then name a rock formation (5 letters) and
add an “R” to find a second food. 

Say them one after the other to find a third food. 

What are these three foods?

“Merlon Marina”

4.🕮 A world-famous 20th-century author rearranges his/her first and last name and gives the rearranged name to a character in his/her most famous novel. 

The first names of the author and the character begin with the same letter. Name the author, the character and the novel.

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Holy Hors d’Oeuvre

Edible inedible, credible incredible!

The first four letters of something perhaps seen in church are an edible part of certain foods. The last three letters of that something are an inedible part of certain foods. 

What are this churchy thing and the edible and inedible food parts?

Canonical  Slice:

“Canon in D?” or “‘Cannon’ in E”?

Johann Pachelbel composed his “Canon in D” around the turn of the 17th Century. 

Nearly two centuries later, another composer
composed a work that might have been titled “‘Cannon’ in E”? 

Why might it have been titled “‘Cannon’ in E”?

Ripping Off Shortz And Graham Entrees:

Corpulent checkers & dominoes

Will Shortz’s February 23 NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle was created by Chad Graham of Philadelphia (also known as our very own  “Chuck,” a “nom de plume” Chad Graham uses in his “Conundrumstruck by Chuck” feature. (Chuck’s first puzzle on Puzzleria! was published in 2015.)

Chad’s NPR puzzle reads:

Think of two classic music artists with multiple top 40 hits. Their first names are near-synonyms. And their last names are both game pieces. Who are they?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Graham Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a four-letter abbreviation for a book in the Bible, the five-letter “opposite of ‘omega’,” and a seven-letter word for “The Lord’s Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations written in Koine Greek, and dated by modern scholars to the first or second century.”
Rearrange these 16 letters to spell the first name of a puzzle-maker and the city where he lives. 

Name this puzzle-maker and city.

What is the book in the Bible, the five-letter “opposite of ‘omega’,” and the seven-letter word for “The Lord’s Teaching...?”

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are riffs created by Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time.”

ENTREE #2

Think of a Grammy-winning singer. 

The middle four letters of her first name are the
first part of the stage name of another Grammy-winning singer. 

Her last name is a game piece. Who is she?

ENTREE #3

Think of the informal name of a well-known rock group. The name is also the word for the game pieces used in a popular  board game. The name of the game, doubled and hyphenated, is a music genre. What are the group and the game?

ENTREE #4

Think of the two-word stage name of an American singer-songwriter. 

Add a D at the beginning of the first name. 

The first name will now spell game pieces, and the second name will describe what one of these game pieces looks like. Who is he?

ENTREE #5

Think of the first name of a jazz musician from a Caribbean country, in seven letters. His first name is also the name of a board game. 

The word for the playing piece used in the game is the same as the word for something used to store music. Adding one letter at the end of this word spells a popular music genre. 

Who is the musician? 

What is the word for the playing piece? 

ENTREE #6

Think of a Grammy-winning female singer-songwriter. 

Her first name anagrams to a tech company. 

Her last name is a game piece. 

Who is she?

ENTREE #7

Think of the name of a husband-and-wife singing duo from Australia. 

They were active from the 1960s through the 1980s, during which time they released one single. 

Their name is the same as the generic name
for playing pieces that are used in a variety of board games. 

Who are they?

ENTREE #8

Name an actor, (2 letters, 6 letters). Remove four consecutive letters that can be rearranged to spell either “a member of the Quechuan peoples of Peru” or a name in the Bible. 

Remove the space created by the absence of
these letters. The result is a pet food brand. Name this actor, Peruvian person, biblical name, and pet food brand.

ENTREE #9

Take the surname of a singer who weighed “a tad north-of-a-tenth-of-a-ton,” and the surname of an NFL defensive tackle who tipped the scales at 100 pounds more than the singer. 

Delete three consecutive letters from the tackle’s surname and rearrange what remains to spell a pejorative term with which he might have been tarred as a child. The surname of the singer consists of an anagram of a word in “north-of-a-tenth-of-a-ton” followed by another word in that hyphenated string.

Who are this singer and  defensive tackle?

What is the pejorative term with which the tackle may have been tarred as a lad?

What is the  anagram of a word in “north-of-a-tenth-of-a-ton”? 

Hint: This singer and defensive tackle were both born in Alabama. 

ENTREE #10

Name a bebop jazz musician, a British heavy metal band, and an American heavy metal band, each in two words. 

The three “second words” are all titles of Catholic vocations, like “Mother Teresa,” “Friar Tuck” or “Bishop Sheen.” 

The three “first words” are:

* a 4-syllable rhyme of a synonym of “criminal” (as an adjective),

* a 2-syllable synonym of “traitor,” and  

* an anagram of the 2-word opposite of “dry dahs.” 

Who is this jazz musician? What are the pair of heavy metal bands?

What are the 4-syllable rhyme, 2-syllable synonym and the 2-word opposite of “dry dahs.

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Toasty Tootsies Dessert:

Ten-toe podiatric tepidity

Delete the first letter of things that keep your feet warm. 

Move the new first letter to the middle to form other things that keep your feet warm. 

What are these feet-warming things?

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.)

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