“E.T. homophone home!” plus “Whinnies & Counterclockwisdom!” “Our compliments to the Shift!” Breakfast & brunch, boiled & baked; An inclined plane is a slope up; “Stumped? Implore Metis, Greek Goddess of Wisdom!” Lightsaber Blaster Weaponizes Weisz!

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

“Our compliments to the Shift!”

Shift the order of the fourth and fifth letters of a  complimentary adjective. 

The first and second halves of the result are
complementary items found in the household. (household items). 

What is this adjective?

What are the household items?

Appetizer Menu

Skydiversionary Appetizer:

“E.T. homophone home!” plus

“Whinnies & Counterclockwisdom!”

“E.T. homophone home!”

1. 🕾Think of a two-syllable word for a common occurrence in nature. 

Break the syllables apart and swap their beginning letters and you’ll now have two new words. 

One is a celestial body.

The other is a homophone of a different celestial body. 

What are these three words? 

“Whinnies & Counterclockwisdom!”

2. 🏇All horse races since 1921, when the Belmont Stakes changed to running counterclockwise, are now run in that direction, with the major exception of the Royal Ascot racecourse and some other courses in the UK. 

However there is still one other very well known European horse race that is still run clockwise. 

Can you name it? 

Hint: This race is not viewed from bleachers or grandstands.

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“Paging Myth Metis!” Hors d’Oeuvre:

“Stumped? Implore Metis, Wisdom Goddess!”

Describe Metis, Greek Goddess of Wisdom, in two words. 

Rearrange these combined letters  to spell two-word flashes of sudden realization, insight or comprehension. 

What are this description and two-word flashes?

“Missed it by that much!” Slice:

Breakfast & brunch, boiled & baked
Name a boiled and baked breakfast or brunch, its shape, and the shape of an uppercase Bugle.

Rearrange these combined letters spell an idiom that indicates a near-but-not-enough effort.  

What are these three words and this idiom? 

Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees:

Lightsaber Blaster Weaponizes Weisz!

Will Shortz’s September 14th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Bob Weisz, reads: 

In a certain classic film, the protagonist uses two weapons. The name of one of these has 10 letters. If you take its first letter and last six letters, you can rearrange them all to name the other weapon this protagonist uses, in seven letters. What weapons are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Weisz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a two-word, eight-letter puzzle-maker. 

Double the second and fourth letters. 

Rearrange these ten letters to spell the surnames of a businessman and a past singer whose first names begin with a J and a D respectively. 

Who are this puzzle-maker, businessman and singer?

The following riff  is contributed by a very valued Puzzleria!n.

ENTREE #2

Name a weapon in 10 letters used by many a
protagonist in a genre of many a classic film.  Remove from those 10 letters, letters that spell a transport powerplant seen in many of those films.  

After you remove it, the remaining letters can be arranged to spell typical modes of transport seen in such films.  

What is film genre, the weapon, the powerplant, and the mode of transport?  

The following six riffs are contributed by master-riffspinner Nodd.

ENTREE #3

A 1970s Western film title includes the name of a weapon invented in the 19th Century. 

The second, third, and fourth letters of the name of the weapon, when repeated, name a six-letter weapon invented much earlier. 

What are the two weapons?

ENTREE #4

 A 1980s dystopian film features a nine-letter weapon. 

The first four letters of the weapon and the first letter followed by the last three letters spell two sounds made by weapons other than this one. 

What is this weapon and what are the sounds?

ENTREE #5

A classic 1980s film features a two-word firearm, 13 letters. 

Replace the sixth and seventh letters with one different letter and delete the second word of the name of the firearm. 

The result will name
a much larger weapon. 

The letter that replaces the sixth and seventh letters of the first weapon is the first letter in the title of a 1950s film that features the second weapon. 

What are these two weapons?

ENTREE #6

Name a five-letter weapon used by a heroic film, television, and comic book character. 

The weapon may also be known by a second term that starts with the same letter but is one letter longer. Remove the first letter of this second term and rearrange the remaining letters to spell another item this character uses that can also serve as a weapon. 

Who is the character and what are the weapons?

ENTREE #7

 A 1970s crime drama film features as the first word in its title a word denoting a kind of weapon used by the film’s protagonist. 

Add one vowel to this word and rearrange the letters to spell a common term for the weapon to which this word pertains, and a common shorthand term for something needed to use that weapon. 

What are the film, the kind of weapon, and the two common terms?

ENTREE #8

Name a classic film about the use of nuclear weapons, 13 letters. Five letters can be arranged to spell a weapon used to deliver bombs and other weapons. 

The remaining letters, with one letter changed to the letter that is eight places earlier in the alphabet, can be arranged to spell a verb that describes the purpose of another weapon. That weapon can be spelled using letters 8, 6, 2, 5, 11, 4, and 9 of the film title, in that order. What are the film, the two weapons, and the verb?   

ENTREE #9

Take the name of a legendary low-tech weapon that has appeared in many classic films. Rearrange its letters to spell:

~ a pair of low-tech weapons, in two and four letters, and

~ an  intense and usually openly displayed anger that wielders of these weapons may display.

What is this legendary weapon, two other low-tech weapons, and intense anger?

Dessert Menu

Druggy Dessert:

An inclined plane is a slow pup

Name the two-word site of a national landmark. Delete consecutive letters that are an anagram of a slow creature. 

What remains sounds like a drug. 

What are this site, creature and drug?

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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