Classic Juvenile Lit I & II; Animation in an Amemone; Mangoes and Melons in the Mail? Two-Tool-Toodle-Loo! Alpaca, Arabian, Bactrian, Guanaco... Vicuna! Amateurs versus Prose; "Puzzley fuzzy but was he buzzy?" "Kalamari Hari Kiri Arms Mars! Knives slice, forks stab, spoons stir! "Hail Morpheus, King of Things Amorphous "

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Amateurs versus Prose?

Remove the space between words perhaps seen on a banner in the bleachers of an American Conference college football game. 

The result is the name that two literary characters share in common – one in the works of Shakespeare, the other in the works of Dante. 

What are the words on the banner? 

What is the common name of the two characters that Shakespeare and Dante wrote about? 

Appetizer Menu

Slow But EspeSHELLy Sure Appetizer:

Classic Juvenile Lit I & II; Mangoes and Melons in the Mail? Two-Tool-Toodle-Loo! Animation in an Anemone; Alpaca, Arabian, Bactrian, Guanaco... Vicuna!

Classic Juvenile Lit I

1. 📖Name a character mentioned in a title of a classic children’s book. 

Duplicate three of the letters and rearrange the letters to produce the first and last names of a famous children’s book author. 

Who are the character and the author?

Classic Juvenile Lit II

2. 🎥Name a writer who wrote a children’s book that was later made into a famous movie.

Remove the first two letters of the first name and the last two letters of the last name. 

Place what remains of the last name before what remains of the first name. Phonetically, you’ll have things that the book’s title character might use for nourishment. 

Who is the writer? Who is the character? What might the character use for nourishment? 

Melons, Mangoes in the Mail?

3. 🍈🍈🥭🥭📬Name a nine-letter fruit name that starts with four consecutive two-letter U.S. postal code abbreviations and also ends with one. 

Now name an eight-letter fruit variant that also
consists of four consecutive two-letter U.S. postal code abbreviations. 

What are the fruit and fruit variant?

Two-Tool-Toodle-Loo!

4. 🧰🔨🪚Name two six-letter tools that basically serve the same purpose, although one tends to be larger. 

Three letters are in the same position in both words. Two of the other letters share the same position, but differ by one place in the alphabet.

What are the tools?

Animation in an Anemone

5. 📽Name the classic animated film
encapsulated by a sea anemone.

Alpaca, Arabian, Bactrian, Guanaco... Vicuna!

6. ♭♯🎜🎝🐪🐫What classic 1950s song is implied by the first 60% of a relative of a camel?

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Two Creatures Great And Small Hors d’Oeuvre:

Puzzley, fuzzy, but was he buzzy?

Name a large 13-letter creature that ends with
letters that spell a much smaller creature.

Both creatures are a bit fuzzy. What are they?

“Putting A Price on A Puzzle” Slice:

“Hail Morpheus, King of Things Amorphous!”

Name a shapeless substance. 

Replace the first third of that word with a synonym of that first third, followed by a space. The result is worth, roughly, 66 dollars. What are this substance and synonym? Why is the result worth about $66?

Riffing Off Shortz And Shukan Entrees:

Kalamari Hari Kiri Arms Mars

Will Shortz’s November 16th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dave Shukan of San Marino, California. reads:

Take the name of a famous person in American politics (6,6). Hidden in this name reading from left to right, but not in consecutive letters, is the name of a well-known place that's very dry, in 4 letters. Remove these letters. The remaining 8 letters in order from left to right will name another well-known, very dry place. What politician is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Shukan Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Take the name of a puzzle-maker (4,6). 

Hidden in this name reading from left to right, but not in consecutive letters, is the name of a piece of furniture where this puzzle-maker may compose his puzzles. The remaining six letters, if you replace one off them with an “a” is the name of a world capital city.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the world capital city?

Note: Riffs #2 through #7 are cryptic creations composed by our friend Nodd.

ENTREE #2

Take the first name of a former U.S. government official who became a controversial political figure during the Cold War. 

Add to the end of the name the postal
abbreviation of a U.S. state that was dry for 12 years in the 1800s. The result will name a very dry place in the world. 

Who is the figure and what are the state and the dry place?

ENTREE #3

Take the first name of a major American political figure who rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. Add to the end of the name a copy of the fifth letter to get something that is often dry. Alternatively, insert a copy of the second letter of the name just before the last letter to name a fictional inhabitant of a dry place. 

Who is this figure and what are the dry thing and the fictional inhabitant?

ENTREE #4

Take the first name of an American political figure who rose to national prominence in the early 21st Century. Double the first and second letters. Rearrange to name one of the driest places on earth and an area of the U.S. that is comparatively dry, especially in its Western portion. 

Who is this figure, and what are the two dry places?

ENTREE #5

Take the name of a famous American political figure who was also a prominent general in the Revolutionary War (7,6). 

The first and last names have four letters in common. 

These four letters can be arranged to name a place that’s often in the news and is very dry. Who is the figure and what is the place?

ENTREE #6

Take the last name of a former U.S. president. Remove a word meaning dry and a liquid that may be dry. 

The remaining two letters, in reverse order, are the postal abbreviation of a state in which a city once known as the Dry Capital of the World is located. 

Who is the president and what are the word, the liquid, and the abbreviation?

ENTREE #7

Take the middle and last names of a famous person in American politics. 

Replace the third letter of the middle name with the letter that is four places earlier in the alphabet. 

Replace the fourth letter of the last name with a copy of the second letter of that name. 

Rearrange the letters to spell a word meaning dry and the name of a dry place in the U.S. 

Who is the politician and what are the word and the place?

ENTREE #8

Spell the screen name of a riff-master in reverse. (For example “LegoLambda” (who is more of a “riff-gifter”) would become “adbmaLogeL”.) 

Divide this reversal into three equal parts: 

~  an academic website domain,

~ a fine-feathered tweeter, and

~ decay.

What is the riff-master’s screen name?

ENTREE #9

Spell the screen name of a riff-master in which a letter appears twice. Remove the duplicate letter that appears first in the name.

Five nearly consecutive letters of the result
spell a suffix that means “formative or formed material (as of a cell or tissue).” The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell an adjective that describes this “formative or formed material” that encapsulates this cell or tissue.

Who is this riff-master?

What are the suffix and adjective?

ENTREE #10

Take the name of a puzzle-maker (4,6). Read this name in reverse order, from right to left.

Letters 1, 2, 3, 7 and 10 of this reversal, in order, spell an adjective that describes this
puzzle-maker during the first minute (more-or-less) of his life. 

Replace Letter #4, a vowel, with a different vowel. 

Rearrange these five revised remaining letters to spell a verb for something this puzzle-maker might do, periodically, to retain his newborn appearance.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What adjective describes this puzzle-maker during the first minute of his life?

What might this puzzle-maker might do, periodically, to retain his newborn appearance?

Dessert Menu

Kick-In-The-Pants Dessert:

Knives slice, forks stab, spoons stir!

What beverage, if you stir it with a “spoon,” is likely the most “kick-in-the-pants” drink there is?

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 Thursday.