Words, in a word; Cut!; The Name’s the same; Disorder in the court; Poetry Corner with Anna Graham; Singer-Songwrighteous Brothers; Instrument... or “in-strumpet?” Javelin? Jackknife? Jar of Jam? Fight or Flight? AlphaBeethoven-Baked Puzzle-Poem;

 PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe² SERVED

Schpuzzle of the Week:

Javelin? Jackknife? Jar of Jam?

Rearrange the combined letters of two William Shakespearean play titles to spell a weapon and a synonym of “preserve.”

This weapon and this synonym each appear but once in Shakespeare’s oeuvre (in two histories, both with “Henry” in the title).

What are this weapon and this synonym of “preserve?”

What are these two play titles?

Appetizer Menu

A Much-Better-Than-A-Wink Appetizer:

Words, in a word; Cut!; The Name’s the same; Disorder in the court; Poetry Corner with Anna Graham;

WORDS, IN A WORD

1. 👚🥫👟Think of a word that can be a noun, verb, or adjective. 

The first three letters spell an article of clothing; the first four letters spell a food; the last four letters spell part of a shoe; the middle three letters spell the past tense of a common verb; and the last three letters spell a word that appears in this puzzle. What are these six words?

CUT!

2. 🎥📖 What film title is only half as long as the title of the book it is based on?

THE NAME’S THE SAME

3. ⚾🎾A baseball player won the World Series as both a player and manager for the same team. 

A tennis player of the same first and last names won the NCAA championship as both a player and coach for the same team. 

DISORDER IN THE COURT

4. 🔥🐟🥔What former tennis star...

(1) might not remember to show up for a match?

(2) might like fly fishing in the Shenandoah Valley?

(3) should work for UPS? 

(4) might be a couch potato?

(5) might be dangerous in the water?

(6) might put aromatic blossoms on his fence? 

Hint: Except for the first, they are all in the International Tennis Hall of Fame. 

POETRY CORNER, WITH ANNA GRAHAM

5. 🎕Fill in the blanks with words that are anagrams of one another to complete the verse.

She _____ the _____ she _____ from gardens
lush,

The cheeks upon her _____ frame shyly blush,

Should any _____ seek to _____ this verse,

Let vengeance’s _____ dispatch them for the worse.

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Period Piece Hors d’Oeuvre:

Fight or Flight?

Write a pair of two-word captions for the two illustrations that accompany the text of this puzzle. 

Interchange the initial consonants in either one of the captions to spell the two words in the other caption. One of the words in one of the captions is an abbreviation (as you can tell by the period.)

What are these two captions?

Hint: 17 and 39

National Public Rascoe Slice:

AlphaBeethoven-Baked Puzzle-Poem

Take the Ninth, take the Fifth, the Fifth turned on its head,

Drop a “double-u sound,” like a bug from a bed...

But Beethoven? No! You ’ll get ______ instead!

Fill in the blank. It contains six letters (and three syllables).

Riffing Off Shortz And Dimichele Slices: 

Singer-Songwrighteous Brothers

Will Shortz’s March 8th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Donn Dimichele of Redlands, California, reads:

Name a famous musical duo. Remove four consecutive letters of the duo’s name and phonetically you’ll name a famous nonmusical duo. Who are they?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Dimichele Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a prolific puzzle-maker, first and last names. 

Remove three interior letters that are an anagram of a farm creature that is  provided with a home (actually a “house”). 

The remaining letters are an anagram of either one of the two two-word terms that are correct answers in the “six-circle illustration” at the left:

~ a term (beginning with an “m” and an “i”) that describes the cloud, and

~ a term (beginning with an “m” and a “c”) that describes the quarter.

What is the farm creature?

What are this pair of two-word terms?

Who is the prolific puzzle-maker?

(Note: The next six Entrees, #2 through #7, are creations from Nodd, who notes that the names of the duos in some of the answers are sometimes preceded by “The.” Ignore the “The” in solving.)

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous comedy duo. 

Their last name, minus the first letter, is a synonym of the nickname of another famous comedian. 

Who are the duo and the comedian? 

ENTREE #3

Name a famous musical duo in two words. Remove the last letter from the first word and rearrange the remaining letters of that word. 

The rearranged first word, followed by the second word, is the former name of a major consumer goods company. Who are the duo and what is the company? What is their name?

ENTREE #4

Name a famous musical duo. The last name of one, with a letter removed, is a food. 

The combined last names of both, with two letters removed, can be rearranged to spell another food. 

Who are the duo and what are the foods?

ENTREE #5 

Two comedy duos and a tech duo each had a member with the same last name. 

Who are these three duos?

ENTREE #6

The two-word name of a musical duo anagrams to the first name of an Indian actress and model and the last name of an American actress and singer. The Indian actress is deceased; the American actress is still living. Who are the duo and the two actresses?

ENTREE #7

Take the last names of two co-creators of a famous Broadway show featuring rock music. 

Remove two letters, and rearrange the rest to spell a word that often describes fans of rock musicians. 

Who are the co-creators, and what is the word?

ENTREE #8

“The magician ____ a ____ within his fist. After unclenching, his palm revealed a ____.” 

Each missing word contains four letters. Double the last letter of one of them. Rearrange these 13 combined missing letters to spell the first and last names of a prolific puzzle-maker.

Who is it?

What are the three missing words?

Dessert Menu

Risqué  Dessert:

Instrument... or “In-strumpet?”

Replace a vowel in a musical instrument with the next vowel in the alphabet. 

Remove the fourth letter, leaving a space.
Switch the order of the two resulting words.

The result is a two-word term for risqué remote conversations.

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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