PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER 5πe2 SERVEDSchpuzzle of the Week:
Synonymous Syllabification
Place a pair of two-syllable synonymous nouns, in alphabetical order. Replace a vowel in the first synonym with two
different vowels. The result is a synonym of the first syllable of the second synonym.
What are these two synonymous pairs?
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“Ecompounding” Interest Appetizer:
Compound it!
We weren’t done with the Compounding Puzzles featured on April 3rd. There are many compound words in the language, made from two or more words or stems that combine to make a new word with a distinct meaning. For example: Many will be _________ (9) this puzzle’s ___, __ ____ (3,2,4) cheers at the very least.
ANSWER: Many will be ENDORSING this puzzle’s END, OR SING cheers at the very least. As in this example, letter counts are provided.
1. ⏺🔊🕺We didn’t like old records and found the ____ ___ _____ (4,3,5) grandfather recommended to be ____________ (12).2. 🔮The mystic could not _____________ (13) on what the ___-_______ ___ (3-7,3), since dinner already happened.
3. ⛪For __, _ ____ (2,1,4) _______ (7) of a person’s morality is how they treat those beneath them.
4. 💊The drug addict I ___ ___ ___ (3,3,3) dose of _________ (9) on him.
5. 🚗🚘At the tunnel wash, the claustrophobic man opened his window during the last cycle and was __ ___ _______ (2, 3, 7) because he felt ____________ (12).
[The seven-letter word may not be known to all.]
6. 🦎Upon completing its evolution, the new
land creature said “________ (8) ! That’s the last ___ _ ____ (3,1,4) !
7. 🖻⚖ 🖺 I granted my lawyer the power of attorney; when it comes to important documents she can ____ __ _ ____ (4,2,1,4), which is a ___________ (11) responsibility.
8. 💰💸As an aside, the corrupt MAGA billionaire said “____________ (12), the ___ ____ _ ____ (3,4,1,4) with has given me a lot of money!”MENU
Triangulation & Rotation Hors d’Oeuvre
Geometric Geography
Lop off the triangle-shaped half of a U.S. state. ROT10 a city in the remaining half of the state to spell a word that describes the shape of that remaining half. What are this state, city and descriptive word?
Dangerous Loom & Doom Slice:
Camels’-food-words
Anagram a three-word idiom for a looming danger to form the missing words in the following potentially dangerous phrase: “BLANK from BLANK of BLANK.”
What are the idiom and phrase?
Hint: The initial letters in the three-word idiom spell a word for something that is broken or busted.
Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees:
“...hee’s Jason (Bateman, not Batman)!”
Will Shortz’s June 1st NPR puzzle challenge, from Andrew Chaikin of San Francisco, reads:
Think of a famous current actor. His first name is also the name of a famous movie character. Drop the middle letter of his last name and you'll name another famous movie character.
Each character is a central figure in a dozen or more films. What actor is this? Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Chaikin Entrees read:
ENTREE #1
Lop off the upper half of a lowercase letter in the name of a puzzle-maker to form a different lowercase letter. Rearrange the letters of this altered name to spell:
* the name of place in the Bible,* something that was swallowed in that place,
and
* the generic name of what was swallowed.
Who is this puzzle-maker?
What are the place, what was swallowed, and the generic term for the “swallowable?”
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were composed by Nodd, creator of “Nodd ready for prime time.”
ENTREE #2Take the first name of the central figure in a five-film crime drama franchise. Follow this with the last name of a miserly character in a famous movie from the 1940s. The result will name the central figure in another multiple-film franchise. Who are these three movie characters?
Hint: The first names of the central figure in a five-film crime drama franchise and the miserly character in a famous movie from the 1940s share the same first, fourth and fifth letters.
ENTREE #3
Take the first name of a famous movie actress from the 1930s-40s. Add a preposition to the beginning of the name. Follow this with the last name of a movie actor whose first name is the same as the first four
letters of the actress’s name. The result, phonetically, will name a famous character in a series of popular movies.
Who are the actress, actor, and character?
ENTREE #4Take the first name of a famous movie actor who appeared in films from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Follow this with the first name of a retired actor who was primarily known for a television role as a police officer but also appeared in some movies.
You’ll get the name of a character who has appeared in at least nine popular movies.
Who are the actors and the character?
ENTREE #5
Take the first and last names of a famous maker of numerous films. Replace a T with an L and rearrange to name a character who has appeared in more than ten films.
Who are the filmmaker and the character?
ENTREE # 6Take the first name of a popular singer-songwriter who has also appeared in numerous films.
Change the first letter to the letter three places before it in the alphabet. Follow this with an anagram of the past tense of a verb that describes what movie stars wish film critics would do about their performances. The result will name a central character in a well-known film franchise.
Who are the singer and the character?
ENTREE #7
A movie released in the 1950s was a dramatization of a controversial novel. Take the names of two actresses who starred in the movie. The first name of one of the actresses, followed by the last name of the other actress minus its last letter, spell the name of a recurring character in a TV series the name of which may suggest cramped living conditions. Who are the actresses and the character?
ENTREE #8The middle name of an actor (whose surname, minus its middle letter, is the name of a superhero) is also the surname of a famous movie character who, after he changed into his “superheroic” persona, wore a cape.
The first name of this famous movie character is also the first name of a past famous movie actor known as the “King of Hollywood.”
Who are this actor, movie character and “King of Hollywood”?
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Polite and Popular Dessert:
Child’s play turns violent!
Rearrange the combined letters in a polite and popular children’s game to spell two violent
synonyms. What is this game?
What are the synonyms?
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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