It’s Paradiddle-Riddle-Time! Colony becomes a composer; “Home, home on the habitat...” “...Like a fish needs a bicycle!” “Lustrous” versus “Rusty”

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Experiment (with toy and tool!)

Rearrange the combined ten letters of two creatures from folklore to spell; 

(1.) a tool, and  

(2.) a toy... 

that were used in an 18th-century scientific experiment... and,

(3.) what the conductor of the experiment did in order to carry out the experiment (in 3, 4 and 3 letters). 

What are these creatures, the tool, toy and what the experiment’s conductor did?

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It’s Paradiddle-Riddle-Time!

1. 

Think of a nine-letter word for a place away from risk. Remove two letters to name a job concerned with risk.

2. 

Think of a non-plural six letter word with only one vowel, O (where Y counts as a vowel). 

Change the O to a double E to get another word.

3.

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Vowel Shift Hors d’Oeuvre:

Colony becomes a composer

Name a United Kingdom colony. Change a vowel in it to the following vowel in the alphabet. 

Anagram the result to get a surname of a composer and an informal word for the name of that composer’s nationality. 

What are this colony, surname and description?

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Slice:

“... Like a fish needs a bicycle!”

Place a space within the first word of a two-word fish, forming three words. 

Move the first letter of the third word to the beginning of the first word. 

Swap the first letters of the second and third words. Replace a “u” in the third word with an “a” and delete the space between the second and third words. 

The result is two modes of transport. 

What are these modes of transport and this fish?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:

“Home, home on the habitat...”

Will Shortz’s March 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle challenge, created by Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reads:

Name an animal. The first five letters of its name spell a place where you may find it. The last four letters of this animal will name another anaimal — but one that would ordinarily not be found in this place. What animals are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Posters of online material and comments tend to hide behind what is known online as a “Screen name,” “Username,” “Handle,” “Display name,” or “Profile name.”

A decade-plus-or-so ago, one particular future puzzle-maker (who was-then-and-still-is-now, alas, also often uncertain of what the heck he is doing!) “grabbed” a two-word “handle” from some ghastly combination of the blogosphere and the vacuummy void within his cranium. 

He used this handle to post nonsensical
comments on Blaine’s Blog, and retained it when he signed off on comments he posted on a puzzle blog he launched thanks to invaluable assistance from Word Woman (who had recently launched her own blog, “Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science”

Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science

The “handle” that the “particular future puzzle-maker” picked contains four syllables.

The first syllable is a part of a geometrical figure.

The second syllable is the “fifteenth in a series,”

The third syllable, if you change a vowel, is a part of a tree that is also a general term for the first syllable when it’s a part of a human, rather than geometrical figure.

The fourth syllable is one-half of a past nihilistic and antiesthetic movement in the arts.

What is this “handle?”

(An amusing musing: I hear that “George” is a fine handle... but “Frideric”... Not so much!)

Note: Entrees #2-through-#7 are the brainchildren of our friend and “riffmaster” Nodd, author of his “Nodd ready for prime time,” featured regularly on Puzzleria!...

ENTREE #2

1. Name an animal. The first four letters of its name describe the places where you may find it. The four letters immediately preceding the last letter name other animals you may find in those places. 

What animals are these and what word describes the places they be found in?

ENTREE #3

Name an animal. The first five letters of its name, with the fourth and fifth letters reversed, spell the place in which this animal is believed to have originated. The first three letters of the name, plus the next-to-last letter, can be rearranged to name animals that did not originate in that place. What animals are these and where is the first animal thought to have originated?

ENTREE #4

Name an animal. Move the fourth letter of its name seven places earlier in the alphabet. Now rearrange the last six letters, as modified,
to spell where this animal lives. 

The first three letters of this animal’s name, in reverse order, name another animal, one that generally does not live in such a place. 

What animals are these and where do they live?

ENTREE #5

Take a plural form of the name of an animal. Insert two letters between the second and third
letters. 

The result will describe these animals’ living arrangements in their native environment. 

What are the animals and how do they live?

ENTREE #6

Take the plural form of the name of an animal. Change the first letter to the letter three places
later in the alphabet. Rearrange the result to get an adjective describing these animals and others related to them. 

What are the animals and the adjective?

ENTREE #7

Name an animal. The first four letters of the name, plus one letter, spell a place where you
may find it. 

The last five letters of the name are the first five letters in the name of an animal that would not ordinarily be found in this place. 

What animals are these and what is the place?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word seven-letter animal whose first three letters spell a place where you’ll find it, and whose first four letters spell a second animal found in this place. 

Three consecutive interior letters of this animal, if reversed, spell something sometimes found on the surface of this place. Its 1st, 3rd, 5th and 4th letters spell something else sometimes found on the surface.

What are this animal and place, second animal, and two things sometimes found the place’s surface?

ENTREE #9

Name an animal. Its first five letters spell a place where you may find it. Its last four letters spell a bird of any kind, including many that would ordinarily not be found in this place. 

The final three letters of this animal spell a
chiefly nocturnal bird of prey.

An anagram of the aforementioned “bird of any kind” is a predatory canine creature.

~ Letters #3, 4, 2 & 9 another creature found in the water, a dabbling duck.

~ Letters #6, 9, 4 & 2 spell an insect that feeds on other animals.

~ Letters #5, 2 & 3 spell a rodent.

What are this animal, where you might find it, bird of any kind, bird of prey, canine creature, dabbling duck, insect and rodent?

Extra Credit: ROT-22 the first 4 letters of the original animal to get an anagram naming many animals’ feet. What is this “ambulatorial” anagram?

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“Said The Spider To The Fly” Dessert:

“Lustrous” versus “Rusty”

Rounded lustrous body parts associated with a synonym of “parlor” are spelled the same as pointed rusty fasteners associated with a synonym of “bar.”

However, although the rounded lustrous body parts are spelled identically to the pointed rusty fasteners associated with a synonym of “bar,” these synonyms of “parlor” and “bar” are spelled a tad differently. 

The synonyms would be spelled identically if you doubled an “O” in the shorter synonym.

What are the body parts, fasteners, and two synonyms?

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