Tonic for illnesses chronic? Walking and waltzing underwater; Dashing past a haberdashery; “True fiction,” “sharp dullard” & other oxymorons; “Numbers that add up to themselves”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

“True fiction,” “sharp dullard” & other oxymorons

Find a two-word oxymoron – like, for example, “true fiction” or “civil war.”  

In this oxymoron, however, the two words begin with the same four letters in the same order. 

What is this oxymoron?

Hint: Each word in this oxymoron contains two words for things you can hear. 

A few examples of words that contain two words you can hear are “racketeering” and “violating.”

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Alphanumeric Appetizer:

“Numbers that add up to themselves”

1.＞💯Suppose A=1, B=2, C=3, ..., Z=26. 

What numbers add up to themselves if “and” is used in numbers greater than 100? (For example, 121 = one hundred and twenty-one.)

2.＞💯What numbers add up to themselves if “and” is not used in numbers greater than 100? (For example, 121 = one hundred twenty-one.)

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Amphibious Slice:

Walking and waltzing underwater 

A two-word amphibian is capable of taking steps, according to its three-word nickname.

Take the second word  in this amphibian’s two-word name. Delete its first and final letters. 

Then replace a one-letter English article with a two-letter French article, forming a dance step.

What are this two-word amphibian, three word nickname and this dance step?

Riffing Off Shortz, Baggish And Fogarty Slices:

Dashing past a haberdashery

Will Shortz’s November 13th Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created independently by Steve Baggish and Neville Fogarty, reads:

Think of two well-known companies with two-
syllable names starting with J and D, respectively and whose names rhyme. One of these companies was founded in the last 10 years. What companies are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz, Baggish And Fogarty Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of two well-known clothing companies, one containing three letters and the other containing five letters and an apostrophe. Also name a four-letter opening in the lower part of a seam of a denim jacket, jeans or skirt that
these companies manufacture. Anagram these 12 combined letters to  spell the first names of two puzzle-makers.

What companies are these, and what is the four-letter opening in a seam?

Who are the puzzle-makers

Note: Entrees #2 and #3 were created by our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” is a regular feature on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Pictured here is the “caterpillaresque” Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. You can visit it in a city smack-dab in the middle of America’s heartland, a two-word city that people sometimes shorten by using just its two initial letters. 

In the foreground is one of 1,700 restaurants in a worldwide chain. Local folks sometimes refer to this restaurant with the initial letters of the city followed by the six-letter name of the chain.

Remove the last letter from how the locals sometimes refer to the restaurant. The result rhymes with a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

How do local folks refer to the restaurant?

What is the American department store chain?

ENTREE #3

Take the brand name of the vehicle pictured here, in six letters and two syllables. 

Then, given the type of race in which the vehicle is competing, give a two-word description of the vehicle that rhymes with its brand name.

What are this brand name and description?

ENTREE #4

Think of two well-known companies – one in healthcare industry, the other in the pharmaceutical industry – with two-syllable names starting with K and P. These two names rhyme. 

What companies are these?

ENTREE #5

Think of a well-known insurance company with a two-syllable name that rhymes with the the two-word name of a Midwestern university.
The first letter of the company and the first letter of the first word in the university are consecutive in the alphabet. What company and university are these?

ENTREE #6

Name an American multinational financial services company in two words. These words rhyme with a verb and noun that describe what American Salvage Liquidators does.

What company are these?

ENTREE #7 

Think of two well-known companies with two-syllable names starting with J and D, and whose names rhyme. 

Choose either word and replace its J or D with a G and place a space between the syllables.
The result will sound like a could-have-been Democratic presidential ticket had the “top of the ticket” chosen the chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee instead of a Democrat who later endorsed John McCain for president at a Republican National Convention.

What companies are these?

What is the could-have-been Democratic presidential ticket?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word American retail company with over 1,400 stores in 47 states. Remove the space to form a seven-letter string. 

The result of this “space removal” is not a word found in dictionaries. But, if it were a word, it would mean “people who can speak or write in two languages.”

What are this retail company and the “word that is absent from dictionaries?”

ENTREE #9

Think of a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935. 

Replace one letter with the letter four places later in the alphabet to spell an art of weaponless fighting employing holds, throws, and paralyzing blows to subdue or disable an opponent.

What are this corporation and martial art?

ENTREE #10

Think of the surname of a Wailer named Peter (along with Bunny and Bob) and the surname of a hoops legend named Henry. 

These surnames, together, spell the name of a Japanese multinational conglomerate
corporation that was once one of the biggest manufacturers of personal computers, consumer electronics, home appliances, and medical equipment. 

What corporation is this?

Who were the Wailer and hoops legend?

ENTREE #11

Think of an American clothing company, founded about a half-century ago, known for its designer jeans. Divide it in half. 

ROT 21 the first letter of the first half and ROT 9 the remaining letters of the first half to form a word for what you might schedule with a doctor if you are suffering from the second half of the company’s name.

What is this company?

What might you schedule?

What are you suffering from?

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Surgical Dessert:

Tonic for illnesses chronic?

Surgery was made safer thanks to a 19-century medical breakthrough. 

Rearrange its letters to spell the surname of the man responsible for this breakthrough and something he frequently conducted to achieve it. 

Who is this man and what did he conduct?

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.

Fishy platefuls and paintings; Seeking two trees and four folks; What’s this tool of the trade? “Linen Latin Lupe Lu!” Punchin’ punctuation into the ’puter

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Fishy platefuls and paintings

The word “fish” may be respelled phonetically as G-H-O-T-I, “ghoti” (using the sounds of GH from lauGH, O from wOmen, and TI from naTIon). 

Using a similar translation method, a “toloti,” T-O-L-O-T-I, is where you might find paintings of fish, or perhaps platefuls of fish. 

What is a “toloti?”

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Lightning Round Appetizer:

Seeking two trees and four folks

Shower & sink... cedar & sycamore?

1. 🌳🌲Look in your bathroom and kitchen.

Chances are good that the names of two trees
can be easily found there. 

What trees are they?

Name’s nearly the same

2. 💃🎖Think of two famous people. 

One is an entertainer with a five-letter last name. 

The other is in the military and has a six-letter last name. 

Remove one of the double letters from the six-letter last name to get the first name of the entertainer. 

Who are these people?

“An Officer and an Eponym”

3. 🎖🛳 An ably armored infantry transporter is named in honor of a well-known military officer. 

Identify the officer (in four and seven letters)
and the transporter. 

Note: An anagram of the officer’s name appears in this puzzle.

One actor, three prime factors

4. 🎥Take the full name (first and last, in seven and five letters) of a well-known 20th century actor. 

This name contains three syllables. 

To find them, unravel the following clues and put them in the correct order:

1. An important tag

2. Something consumed in France

3. A coin

What are the syllables? 

Who is the actor?

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Offputting Inputting Slice:

“Linen Latin Lupe Lu!”

What do the words, “input,” “Latins,” and “linen,” and the name Mel Novak, an actor who is also committed to prison ministry, have in common?

Riffing Off Shortz And Seigel Slices:

Punchin’ punctuation into the ’puter

Will Shortz’s November 6th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Simeon Seigel of Brooklyn, New York, reads:

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside this insert a word for what this punctuation mark may be part of or what it may represent. The
result will be a 10-letter word associated with painting. What words are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Seigel Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a well-known French river, and a French city that “starts with a car.”

Anagram the combined letters of these names to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.

What are the names of this river, city and
puzzle-maker?

Hint: Take the French river. ROT 3 its first letter, reverse the order of its second and third letters, and double its fourth letter to name the river upon which the French city is situated.

Note: The following Riff, Entree  #2, was created and submitted by a friend and “A Fan of Puzzleria!”

ENTREE #2

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside insert a letter which looks like something that when shouted sounds like a command. 

The result will be a sound made by obeying
that command. 

What words and letter are these?

Note: The following Riff, Entree #3, was created and submitted by our friend skydiveboy.

ENTREE #3

Name a keyboard key and then insert a word. 

You will describe what might be a fitting two-word description of several right-wing countries today, beginning with the United States. 

What are this keyboard key, inserted word, and two-word description?

ENTREE #4

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. 

Anagram the first six letters to spell “a shepherd of a human flock.” 

Anagram the remaining letters to spell a virtue the shephard might encourage his flock to adopt.

What are the punctuation mark and two anagrammed words?

Hint: Somewhere inside this punctuation-mark word is a “honer” made of leather.

ENTREE #5

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Somewhere inside this, insert the singular form of the brand name of a flexible stick of red candy, forming a 17-letter string.

After the fifth letter, add an “e” and a space.

Take the 12 letters after the space. Move the second and seventh letters two places to the right, then delete either the fifth or sixth letter.

The result is an eponymous unit of electrical current and the name of a country bordering the homeland of the person after whom the unit was named.

What is this punctuation mark?

What is the brand name of candy?

What are the unit of electical current and the country? 

ENTREE #6

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. Its middle two letters are a state postal abbreviation. Replace them with two letters:

A. that sound like what a fellow thespian might do if you forget your lines

B. William F. Buckley’s magazine, for short,
and

C. a New York City-based news agency,

to form:

A. a storied vessel equipped with harpoons,

B. Booth Tarkington’s “Tom Sawyer,” and

C. a clinker-built open double-ended boat used for fishing in Maine.

What is this punctuation mark?

What are the trio of two-letter replacements?

What are the vessel, Tarkington’s “Tom Sawyer,” and the clinker-built fishing boat? 

ENTREE #7

Take the surnames of living contemporary pop Grammy-winning singer-songwriters named Paul and Paula. 

Anagram the combined letters of their surnames to spell a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard (or anywhere else the written word in printed).

What punctuation mark is this?

Who are the singers?

ENTREE #8

Anagram the letters of a word for a symbol of a key on a computer keyboard to spell two words of 3 and 4 letters that descibe a characteristic of a chess piece.

What is this punctuation mark?

What are the two words and the chess piece?

ENTREE #9

Anagram the letters of a key found on a computer keyboard to name the surname of an iconic science fiction character and the three-letter abbreviation of a U.S. state that was the primary residence of the actor who portrayed the character. 

What words are on this keyboard key?

What are the character’s surname and the primary residence of the actor?

ENTREE #10

Name a punctuation mark found on a computer keyboard. It is a five-letter word
paired with “burn” in a phrase for a farming method that involves the annihilation of plants in a woodland to create a field called a “swidden.”

Now take a seven-letter synonym of this punctuation mark that etymologically means “little twig.” Anagram this word to spell two cloth coverings — one for the face and another for the floor.

What are the word paired with “burn,” the seven-letter synonym, and the two cloth coverings?

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Professional Dessert:

What’s this tool of the trade?

Take a word for a professional person. 

Move the fourth letter one place later in the alphabet and the fifth letter five places later.
The result is a tool this person might use.

Who is the professional person? 

What is this tool?

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.

Municipersonalities, Spoon-tunes & Pristine sin-onyms; A Portrait of the Poultry Artist as a Young Man; “Meet the Beatles’... Kinfolk!” “You are the Apple of my iPaddleball!” A light you might sight in the night

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

A Portrait of the Poultry Artist as a Young Man

Describe, in two words, Colonel Harland Sanders as an older gentleman. Drop one syllable and get what sounds like a possible two-word description of Colonel Harland Sanders as a younger gentleman. 

What are these two two-word descriptions?

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Skydiversionary Tactical Appetizer:

Municipersonalities, Spoon-tunes & Pristine sin-onyms

Municipersonalities

1. 💁🏙🧖Cities have their own distinct personalities. Their names may or may not reveal information regarding their personalities. However, there is one world capital city that is rather up-front about revealing its personality. Can you name it?

“Sit, ripen!” is an anagram of “Pristine”

2. 🗺Think of a country and its capital. 

Anagram the result to indicate pristine letters. What are these four words?

Spoon-tunes

3. 🏝Think of a well known island that begins with a pronoun, followed by a cooking
implement. 

Add a “V” and the remainder is a musical instrument. 

What is this island?

 “...Where seldom is heard any word that means ‘turd’...” 

4. 🐱🐘⛪Think of a mammal in six letters. Place a space after the initial letter and then change the last letter to an “o”. 

Now add “you not!” to the end to form a
humorous four-word phrase spoofing a common four-word phrase seldom heard in church. What is it?

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Astronomical Slice:

A light you might sight in the night

Rearrange the letters of a light one might sight in the night sky to form an adjective describing it. 

What are this light and its adjective?

Riffing Off Shortz And Wagner Slices:

“You are the Apple of my iPaddleball!”

Will Shortz’s October 30th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by David Wagner of Atlanta, Georgia, reads:

Think of a common phrase in the form “___ of my ___.” The word that goes in the first blank is the name of a well-known company.

And the word that goes in the second blank sounds like part of the names of many of that company’s products. 

What phrase is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Wagner Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a phrase in the form “a ___ of my ___.” The 7-letter word in the first blank is something you might see in art class, or at a charity event. The 4-letter word in the second blank is a one-syllable male name that is a short form of a 5-letter, 2-syllable version of that name.

Rearrange those 11 letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker. The 5-word phrase is how this puzzle-maker’s mother, wife or girlfriend might describe a work of art on her wall that she commissioned an artist to create. 

What phrase is it?

Who is the puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Think of a common phrase in the form “___ of my ___,” in 5 and 3 letters. Rearrange the 12 letters in the phrase to form: 

1. a slang 4-letter verb associated with the 3-letter word,

2. a 5-letter Gillette brand introduced in 1953, and

3. a 3-letter Red Crown or Red Devil product that might help unclog your bathroom sink.

What phrase is it?

What are the slang verb, Gillette brand and unclogging product?

ENTREE #3

Think of a common phrase in the form “the ___ of my ___,” that is also the title of a comedy movie from the 1980s. The word in the first blank is the name of Procter & Gamble product launched in the 1950s. Rot 6 the word in the second blank. 

Remove a pair of “i’s” and replace one of the “y’s” with the title character in a 1980s science fiction movie.

The result is the first word in a pop novelty instrumental tune associated with Boots Randolph and Benny Hill.

What phrase is it?

What is the Procter & Gamble product?

What is the pop novelty instrumental tune?

ENTREE #4

Think of a common phrase in the form “the ___ of my ___.” The word that goes in the first blank followed by the word that goes in the second blank is the name of a well-known company. 

Anagram each of these words to name a computer extension that indicates to
your device which app you can use to gain access to data. The 5-word phase is the title of an Oscar-winning song.

What phrase is it?

What is the company?

What is the computer extension?

Hint: The word in the second blank followed, without a space, by the word in the first blank is the name of an American basic cable channel.

ENTREE #5

Think of a not-so-common nautical phrase in the form “I like the ___ of your ___.” It means  “I like how you look” or “I like how you think.” The word in the first blank is a three-letter synonym of “carve” or “cleave.” ROT 15 the second and third letters of this synonym, then ROT 25 its first letter and place this result after your ROT 15 result to spell the word in the second blank.

What is this phrase?

ENTREE #6

Arachibutyrophobia? I have it. It’s the fear of peanut butter sticking to “the ___ of my ___.” Anagram the combined letters in those two missing words to spell a two-word phrase that describes the following jokes:

How does a frog feel when he breaks a toe? 

What is a ghost with a broken toe called? 

What do you call a cow without toes?

(Answers: Unhoppy; A hoblin goblin; Lack-toes intolerant.)

What words go in the blanks?

What is the two-word phase?

ENTREE #7

Think of a common phrase in the form “...____ of the ____ and the ____ of the _____,” in 4, 4, 4 and 5 letters.

In the plot of a past sitcom, a father and his young son attend to the medical needs of a matronly aunt with whom they live. When the father takes her temperature on Saturday the reading is 101.4 degrees. Happily, on Sunday the reading is 98.6 degrees. In the script the father reassures his son regarding her health:

“Your Aunt ___ ___ a _____ yesterday, son, but today she is back to ______,” in 3, 3, 5 and
6 letters.

The 17 letters in the four blanks of the common phrase that opens this puzzle are the same as the 17 letters in the second four blanks, albeit rearranged.

What are the eight words in the blanks?

Hint: The words in the first four blanks are normally sung.

ENTREE #8:

Think of a song title and 1933 movie title in the form “___ o’ My _____.” The song was featured in the 1913 musical “Ziegfeld Follies.” The cast of the movie included actors named Tyrell, Onslow and Marion (...no, that’s not Marion Morrison!). 

The word that goes in the first blank is a hard throw from an outfielder or a Steely Dan song title.

Rearrange the combined letters of the two words in the blanks to spell a hyphenated theorem that is also known as the Steinhaus conjecture. 

What song/movie title is this?

What is the hyphenated theorem?

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Spoon-Fed Edible Dessert:

“Meet the Beatles’... Kinfolk!”

Separate the two syllables of an edible market commodity. 

Switch their initial letters. 

The result spells a pair of consecutive nouns a Beatle might have used in introducing one of his relatives to a friend. 

What is this commodity?

What are the two words?

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.