“Come Pound Your Feat!” Weaponization and "Pollutions"; Reginald, Lester, Lowell & Harry; Breed of critter, brand of vittles; Blankety-blank-times-three; Jackson & John: Stonewall & Stall(worth)

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Reginald, Lester, Lowell & Harry

Reginald, Lester, Lowell and Harry are the first names on the birth certificates of four future groundbreaking musicians associated with rock ‘n’ roll. 

Two of the four men each retained his “birth-
certificate first name and surname” throughout his career and life. The other two each performed under first names and surnames that differed from that on his birth certificate. Two of these four musicians are still alive. 

Take the surnames that these four musicians used as performers.

What musical group do those four names suggest?

(Hint: Those four surnames appeared on the birth certificates of the members of the musical group in question.)

Appetizer Menu

Greg (or Ian?) Chant Appetizer:

“Come Pound Your Feat!”

There are many compound words in the language, made from two or more words or stems that combine to make a new word with a distinct meaning. Everyone within eyesight cannot bellyache otherwise. Stonewalls overcome cobwebs! 

This puzzle features eight compound words that are made from combinations never imagined by Merriam or Webster. Your task is to break them down and rebuild. Letter counts
are provided.

For example: Many will be _________ (9) this puzzle’s ___, __ ____ (3,2,4) cheers at the very least. 

ANSWER: Many will be ENDORSING this puzzle’s END, OR SING cheers at the very least. 

PUZZLES:

1.

When the out-of-shape man couldn’t find __________ (10) in his church he went to the gym to find an __ ________ (2,8).

2.

The editor acted more like a __________ (10) when she told the poet she needed her _____ ___ __ (5,3,2) she wouldn’t be published.

3.

After the disappointing pastrami sandwich the diner ___________ (11) how could the ____ __ _____ (4,2,5) so highly on Yelp?

4.

When their daughter’s grades started to flag, the parents decided to work ________ (8) __ ___ ___ (2,3,3) to study more.

5.

The pompous _______ (7) said “My ___ __ __ (3,2,2) important element of today’s culture.”

6. 

“Easy come easy go” is a favorite, ____________ (12).  As someone who is ___-____, _ ____ (3-4,1,4) myself with it naturally.

7.

In the privacy of my ___ _ ______ (3,1,6) my teeth after I was ruthlessly __________ (10).

8.

Worried about global climate change, activists try to ____ ___ _______ (4,3,7) in to understand what ______________ (14) of their past patterns will do.

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An Anagramatic Hors d’Oeuvre:

Blankety-blank-times-three

“When you are ____ ____, the head of ____, you ____ to assume a ____ ____!”

Anagram the combined twelve letters in the first three blanks to spell the words in the last
three blanks. 

All six words contain four letters.

Fill in the blanks.

A More Disastrous Slice:

Weaponization & “Pollutions”

Name a weapon and the pollution it produces.

Rearrange these eight letters to spell a more disastrous weapon and pollution it produces.

What are these two weapons and pair of “pollutions?”

Riffing Off Shortz, Picciotto And Kosman Entrees:

Jackson & John: Stonewall & Stall(worth)

Will Shortz’s March  30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Henri Picciotto and Joshua Kosman, the creators of “Out of Left Field” cryptic crosswords, reads:

Think of a word meaning “delay.” Remove one W from it and you’ll be left with another word meaning “delay.” What words are these?

ENTREE #1

Take the first and last names of a pair of puzzle-makers, in 26 letters. 

Remove two consecutive letters from one of puzzle-maker’s names. Rearrange the remaining 24 letters to name two-word caption for Image A and a two-word caption for either Image B or for Image C.

Now rearrange the 14 letters of something they created. 

The result is: 

A. what many athletes did (in two words ending in the word “out”) to Carl Yastrzemski (“Yaz”) in front of “the Green Monster,”  

B. a body part used in a sport that is not
baseball (although the body part can be found at the base of the body), and 

C. an instrument you might see and hear during halftime of that sport.

Who are these puzzle-makers?

What did they create?

What are these two captions?

The word that precedes “out,” the body part, and the instrument all begin with the same letter. What are those three words?

(Entrees # 2 through #7 were written by our friend Nodd. Our thanks to him.)

ENTREE #2

Think of a word meaning “delay.” 

Rearrange its letters to spell a word for a person or thing that does not delay, but does the opposite. 

What words are these?

(Hint: These words can also be rearranged to spell part of a common punishment in British colonies in North America in the late 1700s.)  

ENTREE #3

Think of a word that means “delay.” Change its last letter to a B. 

Rearrange to spell a word for where you might find yourself if you delay too much. 

What words are these?

(Hint: The second word is also a body part.)

ENTREE #4

Think of two two-word phrases meaning “delay” that have the same first word, but have
second words that are the opposites of one another. 

What phrases are these?

(Hint: Remove the first letter from one of the phrases and delete the space to get a word often applied to cheaters.)

ENTREE #5

Think of a word meaning “delay” and divide it into two equal parts. 

Each part can be rearranged to spell a different word you might say if you wanted to delay or impede someone. 

What are these three words?

(Hint: The first half of the word meaning “delay” is what people do on Puzzleria! The second half is baked or fried.)

ENTREE #6

Think of a word for a method of delaying official action. 

Move its third letter to the sixth position and remove what are now the first three letters. You’ll be left with a word for what is frequently heard when this method of delay is used. 

What words are these?

(Hint: In D.C., the second word is also frequently heard even when the method of delay is not being used.)

ENTREE #7

Think of a word meaning “delay.” 

Remove the first and fifth letters and rearrange
to get a verb describing what is often necessary when solving puzzles. 

What words are these?

(Hint: The second word rhymes with a creator of mediocre puzzles.)

ENTREE #8

Remove an X from an adjective that describes people who are extremely uneasy, lacking peace of mind or worried... about satisfying an
obligation, for example. 

The letters that remain spell a plural word for examples of one such debt or obligation for which they may be responsible. 

What are this adjective and examples of such a debt?

ENTREE #9

Remove two C’s from a three-word phrase that means either:

1. an opinion offered on a topic under
discussion, or

2. a sum or object of very small value; practically nothing.

Transpose the first two letters of the result.

The final result is a two-word term that means “the excess of the value of assets over liabilities.”

What is the three-word phrase?

What is the two-word term that means “the excess of the value of assets over liabilities?”

ENTREE #10

Remove two C’s from an informal British term for “carjackings” or the plural form of “the act of breaking into a motor vehicle, taking it without owner’s  consent and driving it away.”

What is the result?

Dessert Menu

Domestic Dessert:

Breed of critter, brand of vittles

Name a two-word breed of domestic creature that is often a pet. 

Remove four letters, in order and nearly consecutive, that spell a brand of food this creature may eat.

Also remove the creature itself, which is the second word of the “two-word breed of domestic creature.”

What remains is a word you can see in the text of this puzzle. 

What are this two-word breed, brand, and word you can see when all else has been removed?

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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