Sunset tents and thirteen cents; “I’ll hafta bone up on my isles!” “Imbibing beer makes me tired!” What happens after huntin’s & trappin’s? Colors, commodities & country; Figure-out-me-nots, posey-posers, poppy-quizzes & other “puzzaleas”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Sunset tents and thirteen cents

“The sun went down, causing Sioux tents called wigwams to become less warm, which, thanks to five words in this sentence, makes this puzzle worth a dime and three pennies.”

What are these five words?

In what way do they make this puzzle worth a dime and three pennies?

Hint: The five words are not “a dime and three pennies.”

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A Mixed Bouquet Appetizer: 

Figure-out-me-nots, posey-posers, poppy-quizzes & other “puzzaleas” 

What is this “gee-ar-o-u-pee”?

1. 👨👩👳👵👴Spell out the last letter of a four-letter demographic group. 

Divide the result into two parts to get two
abbreviated items in a series. 

What is next item in this series?

What is the demographic group?

Note: Some examples of spelled-out letters
are: “f” = “ef,” “c” = “cee,” and “h” = “aitch.”)  

Movie morphs into a musical

2. 🍖🥩Place a one-word “survival-thriller” movie title onto a “cutting-board.” 

“Slice” a kind of meat out of it and put it to the side. Also cut out letter-number-2, but throw it away. 

What remains on the board is a five-letter word.

Take the meat you had put to the side. Replace its first letter with a copy of its last
letter.  Place this result, without a space, to the left of the five letter word. The result is the title of a theatrical musical.

What are this movie title and musical titles?

Clearing the “heir”

3. 🕮🍯Take a synonym of “clear.”

Divide it near the middle to get a two-word phrase that may describe either of two people, named Dennis and Martha, who have different surnames beginning with P.

What is this synonym?

What is the phrase?

“Flippin’ flowers downstream”

4. ⚘🥀🎕Name a kind of flower. 

Flip its first letter 180-degrees. Move its second letter “down-river” 16 letters in the “alphabet stream.” 

Tag onto the end of this result a two-letter abbreviation of a Canadian province. 

The result will be the last word in the name of a “one-hit-wonder” garage-rock group from the 1960s.

What are this flower and musical group?

Bonus question: Can you name this “one hit” tune from this “one-hit-wonder”  group?

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Outdoorsy Slice:

What happens after huntin’s & trappin’s? 

Name something a hunter or trapper might use and where he may place it.

Spoonerizing these words results in the possible result of this action.  

What are these four words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices:

“Imbibing beer makes me tired!”

Will Shortz’s October 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Neville Fogarty of Newport News, Virginia, reads:

Think a two well-known names, each in eight letters that have the same first six letters in the same order. 

Both brands are of products, one found in a supermarket and one for something used outdoors. And even though the first six letters of the names are the same, they’re not pronounced the same. What products are these?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Fogarty Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of two well-known seven-letter model names – or “name plates” – of a make of an American luxury car that have the same last six letters in the same order. These six letters are also the last six letters in the seven-letter first name of a puzzle-maker.

The first five letters of one of these model names spell the last word in a 1954 cult film set in Africa that starred a famous actor. Place the last letter of this actor’s first name at the end of his last name. Change the first letter of his last name to a letter that appears in the middle of a dictionary pronunciation of his first name. The result is the puzzle-maker’s surname.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the two luxury car models?

Who is the famous actor?

What is the 1954 cult film?

ENTREE #2

Name a video-sharing platform. Add an “r” to the end. 

Remove four consecutive letters that spell what sounds like an athlete based in Salt Lake City. 

The result is the name of a mobility-providing service.

What are this platform, service and athlete?

ENTREE #3

Think of a research company that specializes in audio. 

Move the third letter to the end. Place in that vacated space the letter that would appear there in a dictionary pronunciation of the word. 

Switch the positions of the two vowels. 

The result is the surname of a well-known entrepreneur.

What is this company?

Who is the well-known entrepreneur?

ENTREE #4

Think of a well-known brand name of a two-word food product, in eight letters. 

Remove the seventh letter to form the two-word name of a fast-food restaurant chain during the 1960s-to-1980s.

Hint: The  brand name is associated with aviation, as is the city where the restaurant chain was headquartered.

What are this brand name and restaurant chain?

ENTREE #5

Think of a well-known food brand name in nine letters. Its last four letters spell an oil brand that sounds like the two initials of the oil brand’s parent company. 

Four consecutive letters in the interior of the food brand spell a voracious monster. Its first four letters, in reverse order, spell a generic trail mix. What are the eight-letter food brand name, the oil brand, the voracious monster, and the generic trail mix? 

ENTREE #6

Think of an oral hygeine brand whose last syllable sounds like the first syllable of a beverage brand. 

Four consecutive letters in the beverage brand are a medical term meaning “toward the mouth.”

The oral hygeine brand is sometimes marketed
as a mouth freshener. Replace four consecutive letters in the beverage with an “L” to spell a brand of air freshener.

What are the oral hygeine brand, the beverage brand, the medical term, and the air freshener brand?

ENTREE #7

Name a German multinational corporation that manufactures things people wear. Research and find the first and fourth letters of the founder’s surname. These letters are the second and sixth letters of the corporation’s name. 

Remove them from the name of the corporation. 

The result is the title of an Italian opera.

What are the German multinational corporation and Italian opera?

Who founded the corporation?

Hint #1: People wearing these things share something in common with a nine-year U.S. Army veteran or four-year Navy, Marine or Coast Guard veteran.

Hint #2: The first two letters of the corporation founder’s first name and first three letters of his surname are the first two letters and last three letters of the corporation’s name.

ENTREE #8

Think of the brand name of an edible yellow product. The brand contains five consecutive interior letters that spell a two-word exclamation of resignation a competitor in a contest might make. 

Now think of a word for a light purplish-blue color that contains four consecutive interior letters that spell a two-word exclamation the opposing competitor may make in response to that exclamation.

What are this brand name and purplish blue color?

What are the two exclamations?

ENTREE #9

Think of a Russian composer, a Presley, a financial services corporation, a white wine named after an Italian village, a beer brand, a snack food company and a audio streaming and media services provider. 

Consecutive letters in the first four names spell flowers. 

Consecutive letters in the final three names spell words associated with flowers.

What are these seven “floral words”?

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Color My World Deliciously Dessert:

Colors, commodities & country

Name a commodity that is also a word for a color. 

Anagram this word to name another color – a color that’s also a word for a person from a country that that produces many of these commodities. 

What are these two words?

Celebrity Daughter Dessert:

“I’ll hafta bone up on my isles!”

Take the first and middle names of the daughter of a celebrity. 

Change the middle name to a different form of that name by changing its last letter to a different vowel. From this result, remove interior consecutive letters that spell an isle in the Philippines. 

Rearrange the remaining letters to spell bones,
in four letters, that are two parts of one body part that is the third word in a nickname of her famous parent.

Who is this daughter?

What are this isle and these bones?

What is the nickname?

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.

Boozers Dr. Boo and Mr. Lew; Plenty-great Number-28! Desktops filled with date delights! Scarf-faces hold up Capital One! Blessed are the peacemakers, not haymakers

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Boozers Dr. Boo and Mr. Lew

“Dr. Boo ordered rum from the bar.

Mr. Lew though sipped ale from a jar.”

How do the nouns in the first line of this couplet pertain to a Cape Canaveral countdown? 

How do the nouns in the second line of the couplet pertain to U.S. geography?

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Perfectly Cryptic Appetizer:

Plenty-great Number-28

We are pleased to present Cryptic Crossword #28 by Patrick J. Berry (also known as “cranberry,” his screen name).

The number 28 is the sum of its positive divisors, excluding the number itself: 1+2+4+7+14=28. 

A number such as that is called a “perfect number...”

And, a Cryptic Crossword such as this #28 by Patrick J. Berry is what we call a “perfect puzzle.”

And so, enjoy Cryptic perfection... compliments of Patrick! If you missed any of Patrick’s previous exercises in “Cryptomystification,” here are links to his previous 27 perfectly puzzling Cryptic Crosswords on Puzzleria!:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

For those who may be new to cryptic crossword puzzles, Patrick has compiled the following basic cryptic crossword puzzle instructions to help you get a foothold:

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!)

“Perfect may be the enemy of the good,” according to Voltaire, but according to Berry, “Perfect just may be the friend of the Cryptic!” 

Enjoy the perfection.

ACROSS

1. Most insolent fool interrupting short nap(8)

5. Happy to see SNL segment(6)

9. Enthusiasm rare in Birmingham, for example?(8)

10. Predicament for main sitcom character(6)

12. Cops heard visitors(7)

13. Strange way to describe a cop who’s not
working, perhaps?(7)

14. Singer’s simple hat, tag inside(5,7)

17. Heading off? Step on it, tardy jerk! Should be ready to go!(5-7)

22. My bad back—clutching both sides, start to reach back(7)

23. Where to find a lot of losers for miles around? Turn back, meathead!(3,4)

24. Spooner’s special light where the planes
take off and land?(6)

25. Serious problem for band with new sound?(8)

26. Kill crows(6)

27. Man on board taken in by similar con(4,4)

DOWN

1. A little story to get free with a painting(8)

2. Begins describing extremely likable actresses(8)

3. Middle Easterner has ex-Prime Minister scratching head(7)

4. Fine suit worn by performer(12)

6. Sad, upset over one with terrible flu(7)

7. Surprised doctors to be supported by British character(6)

8. Property in Northwest—a tenement?(6)

11. Singer’s torture involving B or E flat, somehow?(7,5)

15. Ugly American, personally(2,6)

16. Novel place to sleep used by a noblewoman(4,4)

18. Performing makes a gent so nervous(2,5)

19. Girl bringing tailless cat in—it could trigger one’s allergies(7)

20. Where one may find monks like hot stuff?(6)

21. One having some dork put on drag(6)

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Unpacking Punches Slice:

Blessed are the peacemakers, not haymakers 

Replace two adjacent consonants in a compound word for violence with two other consonants. 

The result is a kind of punch often thrown during such violence. 

These four consonants appear, along with two vowels, in a surname associated with nonviolence. 

What are these words? 

What is the surname?

Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices:

Scarf-faces hold up Capital One!

Will Shortz’s September 25th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Adam Cohen of Brooklyn, New York, reads:

Take the name of a large financial corporation in 10 letters. Drop the fourth and fifth letters. Move the sixth and seventh letters to the front. You’ll name a person associated with financial misdeeds. What is the company, and who is
the person?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Cohen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Take the first name of the “The Father of Economics” followed by the surname of a living person who carried out financial misdeeds at the behest of his boss.

The result is the name of a puzzle-maker.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

Who are “The Father of Economics” and the living person who carried out financial misdeeds at the behest of his boss?

ENTREE #2

Name a person associated with serious criminal misdeeds. Rearrange the letters of the surname to spell a two-word description of “L’Arlesienne,” “Jeux d’enfants” or “Carmen.”

Place the third word in this person’s nickname in front of the first word in the nickname –eliminating the second word – to spell a judge from the Book of Judges.

Who is this criminally associated person?

What is the two-word description?

Who is the Book of Judges judge, and the person’s nickname?

ENTREE #3

Take the name of a large financial corporation in 10 letters. Move the seventh letter to the first position and the original sixth letter to the second-last position. Delete the original fourth and fifth letters.

The first five letters of this result spell the first name of an actor who starred in a TV series about a three-letter organization that gathers intelligence within the U.S.

The last three letters of this result, spelled backwards, name a three-letter organization
that gathers intelligence outside the U.S.

What is the financial corporation?

Who is the actor, and what was his TV series?

What is the three-letter organization that gathers intelligence outside the U.S.?

ENTREE #4

Take the name of a large financial holding company in 12 letters. 

Anagram these letters to spell a liquid asset, a fixed asset and a negative consequence of accumulating and operating assets such as heavy industrial equipment and smoke-stacky factories. 

What is this holding company?

What are the two assets and negative consequence?

Hint: the two assets are the surname of a country singing legend and a word that appears twice in the title of a song penned by a folk-singing legend.

ENTREE #5

Anagram the combined letters in the name of a large financial holding company to form a four-letter name associated with a swan and a six-
letter surname associated with silents.

What is this company

What are the two names?

ENTREE #6

Take the name of a large financial corporation in nine letters. Rearrange these letters to form two words that belong in the blank spaces in the following fictional sentence:

“The ‘plugged-in’ Beatles ___ blew one Blue _______ right out of Pepperland!”

What is the financial corporation? 

What words belong in the two blanks? 

ENTREE #7

Henrietta, in order to purchase a KFC franchise, successfully secured a loan from a retail mortgage lending company in 2001. 

Two decades later, every evening at closing time, the hands-on Henrietta hoists bags plump-full of picked-over-finger-lickin’ wings, thighs, drumsticks and breasts into her dumpster at the edge of the parking lot.

During this daily dumping ritual, Henrietta flashes back to the day she secured the loan. Why? Because a two-word term for her dumpster debris rhymes with the mortgage lending company.

What is her dumpster debris?

What was the company’s name?  

ENTREE #8

Name two female coungry singers: one born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1919, and the other born in “Mayberry,” North Carolina in 1945. Both scored big hits with recordings of different songs with “U.S.A.” in the title.

Place their surnames next to each other to form the name of a bank with offices in all but 13 U.S. states.

Who are these singers?

What is the bank?

ENTREE #9

Name an investment banking company. Use its 13 letters to spell:

★ a large 6-letter recreational vehicle that the  company might help finance, 

★ a 3-letter fuel for the vehicle, and 

★ a 4-letter amenity in the vehicle that most smaller vehicles do not offer.

What is the company?

What are the vehicle, fuel and amenity? 

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“Marie Calendar” Dessert:

Desktops filled with date delights!

Describe – using an adjective and noun in five and six letters – the often inspirational printed words you might see on a desktop calendar when you flip to its new page each morning.

Anagram the combined letters of these two words to spell the four-word title of a novel.

What are these two words?

What is the four-word novel title?

Hint: The adjective and noun each contain three vowels – the same three vowels.

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.