PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVED
Schpuzzle of the Week:
Frozen Homophonic Fishin’
Take a pair of homophones, in six and five letters. Remove from each an identical pair of adjacent letters (like the “ri” in “write” and “right,” for example).
What remains after those four letters are removed are seven different consonants. Add three vowels to this mix, then rearrange the result to spell what anglers might catch in a frozen lake and a tool they might use to gain access to the lake so that they can make their catch.
What are these homophones, this catch and this tool?
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Eight Brainbreaking “Appeteasers:”
SuperZee’s Imposing Zarkinian Posers!
2. 🙅🙈🙉🙊Rearrange the letters in a term describing a religious period, to get something some might consider sinfully good.
A) a term some might use to describe a current figure, and
B) a affliction feared by cat owners.
4. 📰Take the given name of a person in the news.
Rearrange it to get someone he/she may be spending a lot of time with.
6. 🏈Take the name of a device cherished by some sports fans, rearrange to get how they like to use it.
7. 🐕🐹Imagine you were standing in front of
a collection of mirrors.
experience to get a beloved pet.
8. 🏅Take a term describing an Olympic athlete, rearrange to get how his/her body might feel after competing.
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BoFeVineLine Hors d’Oeuvre:
What cattle do (& a cat’ll do)
2nd: Replace the final letter with a “w” to get what these cattle do – in effect, more or less – when they graze.
3rd: Replace the second letter of that second word with an “e” to get what a cat will do.
4th: If you instead replace not the second letter but rather the third letter of that second word, you will again get something that some cattle do.
What are these four words?
Not-So-Nice Slice:
Scandalized, banned and manhandled!
Those two terms might be yelled, for example, by an exasperated coach: “A ____ ensues if nobody ______!” (although the coach would likely not use the verb “ensue”)
What is the two-word name of this scandalous chapter in sports, and what are these two sports-related terms?
Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Slices:
Who’s Afraid of Virgin Wool?
Will Shortz’s March 1st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Andrea Carla Michaels of San Francisco, California, reads:
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Michaels Slices read:
ENTREE #1
Louisa May Alcott, Katherine Anne Porter and Laura Ingalls Wilder are a trio of talented, triply-named female authors.
To spell the second word of the profession,
take the 1st, 6th, 3rd, 4th, 5th letters of her surname, followed by the 2nd letter of her first name, followed by the 2nd and 3rd letters of her surname.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What is the profession?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are composed and contributed to Puzzleria! by our friend Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time.”
Name a famous 19th-20th century English novelist and poet.
The last two letters of this author’s middle name, followed without a space by the last name, spell a clothing material.
Who is the writer and what is the material?
Take the last name of the writer in the preceding Entree.
Add the first three letters of the first name of a famous 19th-20th century female American author.
Rearrange to name a clothing material.
Who are the writers and what is the material?
Name a famous 18th-19th century writer, first and last names.
Rearrange the letters to name the first name of a former U.S. Poet Laureate and a clothing material.
Who are the writer and poet, and what is the material?
Take the first and last names of the 18th-19th century writer in the preceding Entree and change the fourth letter of the last name to a D.
Rearrange to spell the last name of a famous 20th century poet and an article of clothing.
Who are the writers, and what is the article of clothing?
Think of two famous American writers, both of whom lived during the 19th and 20th centuries. Take the first name of the pen name of one, plus the last name of the other.
There will be a duplicate letter as a result; remove one instance of it.
Rearrange the remaining letters to name a clothing material. Who are the writers, and what is the material?
Take the last name of an award-winning 20th-21st century American author who was known for his writings about the African American experience.
Between the second and third letters, insert a word for a type of poet. The result will name certain clothing materials.
Who is the author, and what are the type of poet and the materials?
Note: Entree #8 is composed and contributed to Puzzleria! by our friend Plantsmith, author of “Garden of Puzzley Delights.”
Name a 20th-Century American-British novelist.
Remove letters 4 and 7 from the first name and the first letter from of the last name. The result is a haberdashery professional who specializes in working with a particular kind of material.
Who is this writer?
Name an author. Place a space within the first name and a question mark after it. Delete the middle name.
Then, in the surname, transpose adjacent vowels, replace the first letter with a “D” and place an exclamation mark at the end.
The result is a three-word comment perhaps overheard at a truck stop (perhaps even at the “Cordial Teahouse” truck stop!)
Who is this author?
What is the comment?
Name an author who lived more than a century, was a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine and served many years as one of its editors. He had been dubbed a “Babe Ruth” of sportswriters.
From his first name, delete the first letter, then transpose the last two letters. The result is a horrible, frighteningly monstrous demon.
From the author’s surname, remove the last letter. The result is a compassionate and kindhearted heavenly creature.
Who is this author?
What are the demon and heavenly creature?
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