Peggy is partial to purple and pink; “With a cluck-cluck here & a buck-buck there...” Birds do it, bees don’t, educated fleas? Maybe... Keeping cool in the heat of competition; The cryptic mystery of the cross... word

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“With a cluck-cluck here & a buck-buck there...”

It is Sunday, April 10, 1960 in Mayberry, North Carolina. Andy and Aunt Bee pay a visit a poultry farmer named Aldy MacDonald. 

Bee needs to bake a birthday cake for Opie. And Easter is just a week away!

Aldy and Andy were boyhood pals, and young Andy often bicycled to the MacDonald Family farm to play. Andy, a precocious lad, had made up a nickname for Aldy that consisted of the last three syllables in the refrain of an obvious nursery rhyme/song. 

It is a nickname Andy still occasionally calls Aldy by, as a joke.

The trio visit the henhouse where Bee begins gathering three-dozen Grade-A eggs. 

Aldy helpfully hands Bee a wicker container, but gives her some dubious advice that consists of a common eight-word idiom, minus its initial word. 

When she is done hunting and gathering, Andy gives his aunt a three-word, five-syllable instruction, then they drive home now amply prepared for cake-baking and Easter morning.

Take the seven initial letters of what Aldy said to Bee. The first three spell a word. Say that word and the remaining four letters aloud. The result sounds like what Andy said to his aunt.

What did Aldy say, and then what did Andy say?

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Very Good Friday Appetizer:

The cryptic mystery of the cross... word

It’s Good Friday, a day associated with a cross.

But this particular Friday is particularly Good. 

Why? Because it will also be associated with a cross... specifically, a cryptic crossword puzzle created by our friend Patrick J. Berry (screen name cranberry).

This is the nineteenth cryptic crossword puzzle with which Patrick has graced Puzzleria!

Here are the links to Patrick’s eighteen previous cryptic crosswords on Puzzleria! Each is a masterpiece of crypticism!

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN 

EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN TWELVE THIRTEEN 

FOURTEEN FIFTEEN SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN EIGHTEEN

For those of you who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled a few basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions regarding the Across and Down clues and their format:

The number in parentheses at the end of each clue tells how many letters are in the answer.

Multiple numbers in parentheses indicate how letters are distributed in multiple-word answers.

For example, (6) simply indicates a six-letter answer like “jalopy,” (5,3) indicates a five-and-three-letter answer like “cargo van,” and (5-5) indicates a five-and-five-letter hyphenated answer like “Rolls-Royce.”

For further insight about how to decipher these numbered cryptic clues, see Patrick’s “Cryptic Crossword Tutorial” in this link to his November 17, 2017 cryptic crossword. 

The Tutorial appears below the grid that contains the answers in that edition of Puzzleria!

Have a good time solving. After all, any Friday you get to solve a Patrick J. Berry cryptic crossword puzzle is a Good Friday...

Make that more than "Good"... it's an excellent Friday!

ACROSS

1. Some head off, taking car trip around part of California(9)

6. Picasso’s top pieces are beautiful, lasting originals(5)

9. Foreign correspondent’s report depicts a corrupt organization(7,8)

10. Attractive girl would be good in comic role(6)

11. Go on one to get back in shape(8)

13. Soul? It's in a different city(5,5)

14. A little for a lot, it’s said?(4)

16. Bachelor has wild party(4)

17. Silly to get groove back, “defying the odds” in story about singer?(4,6)

19. Hymn to go with return of spring?(4,4)

20. Unable to sleep during bad weather—almost a blackout!(6)

23. Accident here—sadly, all the miners die!(5,4,6)

24. Fancy a cracker? Yes(5)

25. Turned on radio, initially calm—getting latest from meteorologist, ultimately fear it’s bad weather(9)

DOWN

1. Dance around piano? Cut!(5)

2. Lingerie pervert craves? It’s erotic!(9,6)

3. Game allowed to get in way?(8)

4. Piece of turkey, no bread?(4)

5. Last-minute entertaining, having no budget(10)

6. Murphy Brown’s heart breaking (apt to break?)(6)

7. Operation in bar?(5,10)

8. “Scream”? Put in less recent film(3,6)

12. Note placed inside gift, as rule(10)

13. Journalist lover gets in the sack?(9)

15. Movie with Lemmon and Matthau—not the first duo to turn up on ocean, primarily (in questionable taste)(3,2,3)

18. “Number one” perfect beauty, raised in New York(6)

21. Passenger I had in back, needing first aid(5)

22. Drop in, humiliate a relative?(4)

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Brrr-umal Slice:

Keeping cool in the heat of competition

Name a type of competition, in two words. 

Move the first letter of one word to the beginning of the other to spell what sounds like something cold and a word that describes cold air.

What is this competition?

What is something cold?

What word describes cold air? 

Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:

Birds do it, bees don’t, educated fleas? Maybe...

Will Shortz’s October 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, California, reads:

Name something birds do. Put the last sound of this word at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically you’ll name
something else birds do. What are these things?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

A pair of cinematic legends – a female and a male – with roots in the same European country are not related but share the same surname. Their first names begin with the same vowel.

One of the legends was an actress who in a classic film said, “Richard, I tried to stay away. I thought I would never see you again, that you were out of my life.” As she speaks, the eyes of the viewers are drawn not to her eyes or lips but rather to another facial feature – a feature down which, as the film is rolling, something else is also rolling.

However, spending hours on end on a sofa or in a theater watching classic films is not wise. It might make you sluggish. Health professionals therefore encourage you instead to (1) move more. They also recommend that you (2) get more sleep, (3) reduce stress, (4) avoid smoking, (5) limit alcohol consumption, (6) eat a nutritious diet, (7) avoid added sugar, (8) stay hydrated and (9) be social. If you follow these nine recommendations, say the experts, you will boost your ______ _____.

Rearrange the combined letters in the surname of the two cinematic legends, the actress’s facial feature, and what health professionals say you can boost. The result is the name of a puzzle-maker and his hometown.

Who is this puzzle-maker and his hometown? 

What are the four words you rearranged?

ENTREE #2

“Fastenation”

Name two fasteners, one and two syllables,

(If you’d purchase them, both would be “billables.”)

One is shaped like a U

And the other’s a glue...

Write them down in these  blanks: ______, _____                                                      (...both are “fillables”).

From the first, strike the final two letters

Then switch first and last sounds, like typesetters

Will at times have to do.

The result, when you’re through,

Sounds like Word Number-One, you go-getters!

Okay, okay, enough of that silliness... here’s the prose version of this puzzle:

Name two fasteners, in one and two syllables. The first is shaped like a U, and and the other is a glue. 

Remove the final two letters from the U-shaped fastener. Put the last sound of this result at the start and the first sound at the end, keeping the vowel sound as it was. The final result, phonetically, will sound like the “gluey” fastener... you go-getters!

What are these two “fastenating” fasteners?

ENTREE #3

Take the surname of our most athletic U.S. president, one who once played a game against the Chicago Bears, and who chose law school over an opportunity to play for the Green Bay Packers! He was also a scratch golfer. 

Put the last sound of this name at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically you’ll get the name of a fictional character featured in a series of direct-to-video comedy films focusing on golf, auto racing, fishing, football and baseball.

Who are this president and fictional character?

ENTREE #4

Take a two-word synonym of “initial attempt” in which two identical letters appear consecutively. Remove the second one.

The first word has remained intact after the letter removal. Put the last sound of this word at its the start and the first sound of this word
at its end.

Now move the space between the two-word synonym one place to the left and replace it with a hyphen. The  result is something you prepare in a wok.

What is it?

ENTREE #5 

Name an idiom for an especially irritating, aggravating, or obnoxious person, thing, or situation. 

The fourth and final word in the idiom is a body part.

Take a part of that body part, specifically the back part. 

Put the last sound of this word at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically you’ll name the first word in the idiom. 

What is this idiom?

What is the “back part” of the body part in the idiom

ENTREE #6

A mascot who resembles a miniature version of Peter Pan appears on a cereal box. 

The mascot is associated with a nationality and a holiday.

Take the month associated with the holiday. 

Put the last sound of the month at the start and the first sound at the end to spell the singular form of a word that appears on the cereal box along with the mascot. 

What are this month and mascot?

Hint: The name of the mascot rhymes with “Chuckie.”

ENTREE #7

Take one of the fifty U.S. states. 

Put the last sound of this state at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically
you’ll name a word that appears somewhere in the text of this puzzle. 

What state is this?

What is the word in the puzzle?

ENTREE #8

One of the great players in NBA history was known by a nickname that was an abridgement of his given first name. 

Put the last sound of this nickname at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically you’ll name one of the benefits he reaped for being so talented.

He played on championship teams with two franchises led by Phil Jackson and Pat Riley, who appreciated his capacity to stay calm, steady and focused, even under extreme
pressure – in other words, this player did not _____ under pressure.

Take the word in that blank. Put the last sound of that word at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically you’ll name the title of the role played by Jackson and Riley.

Who is this player?

What benefit did he reap?

What didn’t he do under pressure?

What role did Jackson and Riley play?

ENTREE #9

Name an eight-letter hyphenated word that means “of the highest quality, first-rate.” It is an adjective that many would use to describe four presidents surnamed Roosevelt, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln, for example.

Put the last sound of this word at the start and the first sound at the end, and phonetically

you’ll name counsel that a fifth president’s conscience may have once whispered to him, when he was a lad, during a time of temptation, in two words.

What is the synonym of “first-rate?”

What did the future president’s conscience perhaps whisper to him?

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Filling The Basket Dessert:

Peggy is partial to purple and pink

During the morning hunt, little Peggy puts only the ones with pink and purple shells into her basket. 

What is curious about what Peggy does and what she does it to?

Hint: The curious nature about what Peggy does is related to wordplay.

Every Friday 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 Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

A, E, I, nO U (and somehow Y!); Buzzard, moonbeam, boink! Visigoths and Versifiers; Expressions verbal & non-verbal; Name that tune, watch this space, eat raw meat

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Buzzard, moonbeam, boink!

Take a polysyllabic word associated with words like  “buzz,” “moo,” “meow” and “oink.”

Move its first letter to the end to spell a one-syllable synonym of “high quality.” 

What two words are these?

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Mighty Village Plantsmithy Appetizer:

Name that tune, watch this space, eat raw meat

Name that tune  

🎶1. Think of a 1965 hit song title that contains what sounds like the first name of a famous philosopher. 

The name of the group that recorded the song contains the name of a place probably frequented by this philosopher and his followers. 

The 18-year-old lead singer of the song originally used just his first and middle names as his stage name. But he eventually began using his full name – first, middle and last names. 

That middle name, coincidentally, was the first name of a second famous philosopher. But that was not the reason the singer wanted to use his full name as a stage name; he did so to avoid confusion with an emerging comedic performer. 

What is the hit song, and what group sang it?  

What is the first name of the philosopher in the song. What is the place where this philosopher and his followers probably hung out?

What was the full name of the lead singer? 

And what is the name of the other philosopher whose first name was the middle name of the singer? 

Bonus Question: The emergence of what comedic performer prompted the singer to opt to use his full name (instead of just his first and middle names)?

“Watch this space for news”

📺2. Name a newly appointed official in the 2021 news. Place the official’s first-name initial in front of the last name. 

Add a space. The result sounds like a beloved TV series in the mid-1960s.  

Who is the official?

What is the TV series?    

Raw meat for the critics

🥩3. Take a word used to describe someone who is “under the influence.” 

Replace the first letter with a kind of meat to get a word for what many critics did to quarterback Carson Wentze in the wake of his press conferences during the past NFL season.

What are these two words?

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Roman-Gothic Slice:

Visigoths and Versifiers

Take the full name of a well-known historical person. 

Rearrange the combined letters of the name to form names of a Visigoth and an ancient Roman poet, and the surname of a more recent English poet. 

Who is the historical person?

What are the names of the two poets and the Visigoth?

Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices:

A, E, I, nO U (and somehow Y!)

Will Shortz’s March 21st NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Ed Pegg Jr. of Champaign, Illinois, reads:

Take the phrase ZANY BOX KEPT HIM. Write it in capital letters. Something is special about the 14 letters in this sentence that sets them apart from all the other 12 letters of the
alphabet. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Pegg Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the name of a puzzle-maker and the city where he lives. 

Rearrange these combined 17 letters to spell a three-word caption for the image pictured here. 

Who is the puzzle-maker?

What is the caption?

Hint: In the caption, the vehicle on the left is a short-bed pickup truck manufactured in the early 1960s by a South Bend-based company. The vehicle being towed (on the right) “might give you the Willys!”

ENTREE #2

Take the phrase A HANK & NAZZ FAN, alluding to a eclectic aficionado of both the country music legend Hank Williams and the psychedelic-era rock group fronted by Todd Rundgren. 

Write it in capital letters. 

Something is special about the six different letters in this phrase (ignore the ampersand) that sets them apart from the other twenty letters of the alphabet. 

What is it?

ENTREE #3

A politician in hot water texted a memo to his press secretary regarding an upcoming press conference at which he hoped to avoid embarrassing questions. 

It read tersely: DROP Q&A. Write that memo in capital letters. 

Something is special about the six letters in this memo that sets them apart from the other twenty letters of the alphabet. 

What is it?

ENTREE #4

Take the seven total letters in:

1. The name of a late-Eighteenth Century diplomatic affair that involved the United States and France and led to an undeclared war at sea,

2. a present-day anonymous conspiracy theory, and

3. The first name of a man who is brother and son of two U.S. presidents.

Write them all in capital letters. Something is special about these seven letters that sets them apart from all the other 19 letters of the alphabet. What is it?

ENTREE #5

Take the eight total letters in:

1. The first name of the person who came up with the name “Pink Floyd,”

2. a letter that “marks the spot,” and

3. a word for an “eccentric person” or “a practical joke.”

Write them all in capital letters. 

Something is special about these eight letters that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet. 

What is it?

ENTREE #6

Grateful Dead fans and folks in the Jam and Jelly of the Month Club are FOND OF JAMS. 

Commuters in cars who experience heavy traffic to and from work are not FOND OF JAMS.

There is something special about the eight different letters in the phrase FOND OF JAMS (written in UPPERCASE for a good reason) that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet. 

What is it?

ENTREE #7

In 1958, Major League Baseball began recognizing star players by giving them a Player of the Month Award. The honor was, in essence, a monthly Most Valuable Player Award. 

Some of the JUNE MVP’S over the years have been Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron, Buzz Capra, Gaylord Perry, Mark Fidrych, Kent Hrbek,
Wade Boggs, Kirby Puckett, Prince Fielder and Mike Trout. 

Write JUNE MVP’S in capital letters. Something is special about the eight letters in this term that sets them apart from all the other 18 letters of the alphabet. What is it?

ENTREE #8

Write in uppercase all five letters in the surname of an author who wrote poems titled “Helter Skelter,” “The Beasts’ Confession to the Priest” and “The Puppet Show.” 

Something is special about the four consonants in that surname that sets them apart from 21 of the other letters of the alphabet. 

That “something special” involves a single-digit number of words (with something in common) that each begin with one of those four consonants. 

Take a Somali word that begins with the only vowel in the author’s surname. Translate it into English. 

The first letter in that translated-into-English word (which is a consonant), along with the four other consonants of the surname, all share that same “something special” that sets them apart from all 21 other letters of the alphabet.

Who is the author? 

What is the Somali word that begins with a vowel, and what is its English translation?

What are the five consonants that share that “something special,” and what is it?

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Sweetly Sorrowful Dessert:

Expressions verbal & non-verbal

The initial letters of a verbal parting expression spell a noun associated with a nonverbal
parting expression. 

What is this verbal expression.

What is the noun associated with the nonverbal parting expression?

Every Friday 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 Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.

Four more saints go Marching in; “Render unto Caesars... Palace?” Bumper-to-bumper “(guit)cars” Taking temperatures, getting relief; Siege city, (a)&(b), Split opinion, Two woods

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Taking temperatures, getting relief

Take a temperature scale and a reading on that scale. 

Rearrange the combined letters of those two words to spell three new words: 

1: a place providing relief from that
temperature reading, and 

2 and 3: a two-word description of that place. 

What three words are these?

What are the temperature scale and a reading on that scale?

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Worldplayfulness Appetizer:

Siege city, (a)&(b), Split opinion, Two woods

Siege city

🔫1. Think of an antique gun, in eight letters. Substitute a single L for the last two letters. Duplicate the middle three letters of this result, as a set. Add a U to the start of the result.

Rearrange to give a city in a US state that once might have had such a gun in its arsenal, in a crate marked “obsolete firearms.” What are the the weapon and city?

Hint: When rearranging, preserve the original “block of three letters” and its duplicate as two immutable blocks of three letters. The rearranging is for two blocks of three letters and five “independent” letters. 

(a) and (b) 

⭐🐟2. Think of a word that describes either (a) the process by which some animals (such as starfish) grow new limbs for lost ones, or (b) an application of positive feedback in electronics. 

Remove from this word a word related to (a) heredity, or (b) Autry. Split the remainder into (a) an abbreviation for Paris suburban railways, and (b) what sounds like a designation for one of many people. 

What are (a) the original word and (b) its three parts?

Split opinion

🍌3. Think of a product of the service economy. Drop the penultimate letter. Remove the second syllable, which sounds like how this product makes some customers feel. 

Merge the remaining letters, in order, to express how others might describe this same product.

Two woods

🌳4. Take the name of a tree and wood known throughout much of the world. 

Rearrange its letters to give the name of another tree and wood, well-known in a particular part of the USA.

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It’s a Limerical Miracle Slice:

Four more saints go Marching in

Today, March 19th, is the the feast day of St. Joseph, carpenter and foster father of Jesus of Nazareth. March 17th was the feast day of St. Patrick.

Four years ago I published on Puzzleria! three “limerick-puzzles”: one for each of those two saints, plus an introductory limerick. (See this link.)

That introductory limerick is reprinted below along with three new limerick-puzzles about other saints who celebrate feast days in March. A new concluding limerick follows these three limericks.

These four new limericks contain seven blanks for you to fill in. The number of letters in each of the seven answers appears in parentheses after each blank. 

As was the case four years ago, perhaps you can improve my verses by filling in the blanks with words different from what I used!

Introductory Verse:

Marching in go the saints all this month

From March 1st through to March 31th.

Were we all, Lord, so numbered –

Holy souls unencumbered

By holes – we’d with grace overrun’th. ...

St. Felicity and St. Perpetua, March 6:

Being martyred won’t warrant a statue o’

You in church, nor will it get you a

Pope’s ____________(12)...

Just trust God’s revelation

As Felicity did, and Perpetua.

St. Gregory, March 12:

If a “Great” man weren’t given to “braggary,”

And “a servant of servants of God” were he,

Were he pope, monk, historian

And a chanter _________(9),

He could only be christened St. Gregory.

St. Benedict, March 21:

While some abbots make rules “nigh-Gehenna-strict,”

“Work and worship” urged gently St. Benedict.

His Rule, firm yet elastic,

Set the standard ________(8)...

Thus few monks disobeyed, broke or ______(6) __(2).

Saintly Conclusion:

... At month’s end, though, March saints shall march out,

Martyred lambs, lionized yet ______(6).

Life’s parade alas ends,

Yet to heaven it _____(5)...

“Lord, we’ll be in that number!” let’s shout.

Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices:

“Render unto Caesars... Palace?”

Will Shortz’s March 14th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Robert Render of Skokie, Illinois, reads:

Name a well-known tourist locale that attracts millions of visitors a year. It has a two-word name. The first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the name. What’s the tourist site?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Render Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take a homophone of a synonym of “scuttlebutt.” Name two synonyms of this homophone, in seven and six letters. 

Replace the seven-letter synonym with a six-letter homophone. Rearrange the combined letters of the six-letter synonym and six-letter homophone to spell the first and last names of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the synonym of “scuttlebutt” and its homophone? What are the two synonyms of this homophone, in seven and six letters?

What is the six-letter homophone of that seven-letter synonym?  

ENTREE #2

Take a five-word line from a nursery rhyme found in “Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book,” an anthology published in London in 1744. The first three words in the line form a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the line.

What is this nursery rhyme, and what is the line?

Hint #1: In a later more-familiar version of the nursery rhyme the last two words of the line are replaced with a single compound word.

Hint #2: The origin of the line may be something Sir Toby Belch said.

ENTREE #3

Take a two-word song title. The first word is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. 

The second word in the title is also a number. And that number equals two-and-a-half times the total number of letters in the title. 

What’s this song title?

Hint: The title refers to a time of day, one that (according to the lyrics) appeared on the face of a broken clock on a church steeple. The hands on the clock form a quite obtuse 165-degree angle.

ENTREE #4

Name a literary work that involves a shipwreck. It has a two-word title. 

The first word is a number, but not a cardinal one. And that number is an adjective that describes the last letter in the title. 

What’s the title?

Hint: “First” and “sixth” are two other non-cardinal numbers that describe this letter in the title.

ENTREE #5

Name a three-word song title. Its first word is a number. 

And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. What’s the title?

Hint #1: The singer of the song was a country
singer who had been a rock ’n’ roll rival of Elvis Presley in the 1950s. 

Hint #2: The name of  the title character in a Broadway musical was a word play on the country singer’s name.

ENTREE #6

Name a six-word song title from the 1970s with a first word that is a number. And that number (when spelled out instead of written as a numeral, as it usually is) equals twice the total number of letters in the title. 

What’s this title?

Hint: The person who wrote and sang the song specializes in the folk-rock musical genre.

ENTREE #7

Name a two-word country song title from the 1970s with a first word that is a number. And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the title. 

What’s the song title?

Hints: The singer is the offspring of a person who is
regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century.

The song was recorded also by Faron Young.

ENTREE #8

Name a well known two-word idiom with which one is said to be blessed after having survived a near encounter with death or disaster. 

The idiom’s first word is a number. 

And that number is the same as the total number of letters in the idiom. 

What’s the idiom?

Hint: The two-word idiom is also the brand name of a food product.

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Automotive Dessert:

Bumper-to-bumper “(guit)cars”

Write the name of a current car model.

After it, without a space, write the name of a past car model. 

The result spells a musical instrument. 

What is it?

Every Friday 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 Friday.

We invite you to make it a habit to “Meet at Joe’s!” If you enjoy our weekly puzzle party, please tell your friends about Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! Thank you.