“Femi-name-ity!”; “Flighty” actress?; “An Alternating Alphabetical Order”; “That adder holds an herb in its piehole!”; “Storks come home to roost?”; Confounded by boundlessness?; “Surname’s the Same, Sir”; “Spatulalia Bacchanalia!” ; Frightful Tigerfish! Freightful Chevron Ships!; “Pilot-lit litanies”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Frightful Tigerfish! Freightful Chevron Ships!

“Defiantly fresh tigerfish regret and denounce their loss of ‘reef rights’ due to oil freighters docking near their shore.”

Four strings of consecutive letters in that sentence share something wordplayful in common. 

What are these four consecutive letter-strings and what do they share?

VERY OPTIONAL HINT: The answer also involves two consecutive “alphabetical” strings of letters.

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Stellar Tortoiseshell Dwellers Appetizer:

“Femi-name-ity!”; “Flighty” actress?; “An Alternating Alphabetical Order”; “That adder holds an herb in its piehole!”; “Storks come home to roost?” 

“Femi-name-ity!”

1. 🎸 Name an actress. 

Her first and last names combined can be rearranged into two female first names. Her last name contains another female first name in consecutive letters. These three first names also belong to the only three women elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in a specific year. 

Who is the actress? What are the first names? Who were the three women elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in that specific year? 

“Flighty” actress?

2. 🪁Name a television and film actress
whose first and last names both relate to flying.

Who is she?

“An Alternating Alphabetical Order”

3. 🐘🐈🦛 Name an eight-letter animal where every other letter, starting from the second letter, are consecutive letters of the alphabet in order.

What is the animal?

“That adder holds an herb in its piehole!”

4.  🐍Name a famous person from the world of sports. The last five letters of the last name spell a type of animal. The first name is something that the animal has.

If you replace the third letter of the animal with a copy of the second letter of the last name, you’ll have a synonym of the first name.

Who is the person? What is the animal? What are the synonyms?

“Storks come home to roost?”

5. 🦆Think of something a certain living thing has, in five letters. Rearrange the letters to produce something that a different living thing has.

Take a five-letter synonym of that word. It’s something that the first living thing also has.

What are these three words? What are the two living things?

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Flambée Hors d’Oeuvre

“Pilot-lit litanies” 

Name a world capital city.

Move one of its letters to a spot later on in the name.

Insert a space near the middle of the result. 

The final result, in two words, is what people who check their pilot light are looking at.

What is this world capital city? What do pilot-light checkers see. 

“Plated Pastries Slice”

“Spatulalia Bacchanalia!”

Pat used a pastry spatula to serve a ____ of _____ ___ from the ___ onto a plate. 

The combined letters in the first and fourth blank are an anagram of the letters in the second and third blanks. 

What are these four missing words?

Riffing Off Shortz Entrees

Confounded by boundlessness?

“Pondering Infinity makes my brain number!”

Will Shortz’s August 23rd Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:

Spell out the numbers from 13 to 20 –  THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN, FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN, SEVENTEEN, EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN, TWENTY. Select one letter from each word, in order, to name another number. No anagramming is necessary. What number is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Spell out the ten numbers in the following ten-letter sequence:

2, 5, 11, 12, 6, 3, 4, 13, 14, 0:

TWO FIVE ELEVEN TWELVE SIX THREE FOUR THIRTEEN FOURTEEN ZERO

Pluck one letter from each of the ten words to
spell the name of a puzzle-maker. Who is it? 

Here is a clue for finding the answer that involves ordinal (rather than cardinal) numbers:

2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 1st

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are riffy conundrums drummed-up/dreamt-up by our friend and riffmeister extraordinaire, Nodd. 

ENTREE #2

Anagram a math term to spell a word that
applies to the world’s top mathematicians.

ENTREE #3

What math term has one meaning in geometry, a different meaning in algebra, andna third meaning in number theory?

ENTREE #4

Think of a math term in 11 letters. 

The first part of this term is a common abbreviation for a type of organization. 

The rest of the term is something those associated with such an organization typically try to make it be. What term is it?

ENTREE #5

What do these math terms have in common:
EXPONENT, HYPOTENUSE, DENOMINATOR, SCALENE TRIANGLE?

ENTREE #6

Anagram the last name of a word leader to get
a math term.

ENTREE #7

Using the letters in a spelled-out number between and one hundred as often as needed, spell 13 other numbers. 

ENTREE #8

Spell out the numbers from 94 to 100:

ninety-four, ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred. Select one letter from each word, in order, to spell a word for another number. No anagramming is necessary. What number is it?

Now spell out the numbers from 90 to 84:

ninety, eighty-nine, eighty-eight, eighty-seven,
eighty-six, eighty-five, eighty-four. Select one letter from each word, in order, to spell the same number as the one in the paragraph above. Again, no anagramming is necessary. What number is it?

The answer is the same for each part of this two-part puzzle..

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Stunning Dessert:

“Surname’s the Same, Sir”

Name a synonym of “gobsmacked.” 

Delete the fifth letter, leaving a space, Rotate the fourth letter 180-degrees around its x-axis. The result is a two-word vehicle.

Spoonerize the words of this vehicle to get two
different one-syllable surnames  – one belonging to a fellow with a ___-tail hairstyle, the other belonging to a cartoon character whose surname is the missing word in that blank space. This fellow and cartoon character share the same first name.

What is this synonym of “stunned,” etc.?

What is this two-word vehicle? 

What are the two one-syllable surnames?

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.

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