Last but not lost in translation; Sweets, meats and other eats; Talking turkey in seven words; Mythematics and mathology; Pilgrim's Peckishness; HucKanyee!

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Talking turkey in seven words 

Name four words associated with Turkey Day: its country of origin, in three letters; two things farmers do to put food on the table, in four letters and eight letters; and a word uttered at the table, in six letters. 
Turkey is also associated with three other words – words that can be formed by rearranging those 21 letters. 
What are these seven words?
Hint: The eight-letter thing farmers do to put food on the table goes on throughout the food-growing process. The four-letter thing farmers do to put food on the table happens at the end of the process. 

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Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Mythematics and mathology


🥁1. Name a medication that can be broken into a common French word and an English number.

🥁2. Think of an ancient god in one word whose name when spoken aloud sounds like a two word phrase meaning “subdued.”

🥁3. Think of a word meaning “insignificant”. Insert a Greek letter somewhere inside to name a creature from Greek mythology.

🥁4. Think of a contemporary musician whose first name can be rearranged into an internal organ and whose last name can be rearranged into a number.


🥁5. Think of two words, five letters each, that are related to both water and music. Taken together, these words can twice be rearranged into mathematics terms: in four and six letters, and again in five and five letters.

Please Pass The Buttered Bunyans Appetizer:
Pilgrim's Peckishness

Name a word associated with Thanksgiving Day's origins.
Change two letters and divide the word in two to name a condition the Wampanoag people and pilgrims would likely no longer have suffered from after sitting down to their delectable meal. 
What is this condition?

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West In The West Wing Slice
HucKanyee!

Let’s pretend that after his visit with President Trump in the  Oval Office, Kanye West was hired to replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House Press Secretary.  
About a week ago, West might have held a press conference  in which he name-called a member of the Fourth Estate using a 3-syllable word ending in “r” (but pronounced by West as a hip hop artist might). The new press secretary’s pronunciation is a homophone of the last name of his Fourth Estate target. Who is this target?


Riffing Off Shortz And Moffa Slices:
Last but not lost in translation

Will Shortz’s November 11th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Phil Moffa of Torrance, California, reads:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that means “to be last.” Together the first two words are a synonym for the last word. What phrase is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Moffa Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Name a somewhat obscure three-word phrase that means “be last,” “fail,” or “suffer a defeat,” in four, one and seven letters.
A two-word synonym of “partner with” is “share in.” Place “share” in front of the seven-letter word and “in” in front of the four-letter word to form compound words that belong in the following sentence:
“The in____  of a share_______  is based on his agricultural production.”
What words belong in the blanks, and what is the three-word phrase?
Hint: The three-word phrase is related anagramatically to the image in the above text.

ENTREE #2:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that ends with “finish last.” Rearrange the letters in the first two words to form a two-word description, in three and five letters, of Carpobrotus, Mesembryanthemum,  Conicosia, Delosperma, and the monotypic Disphyma. 
What are this four-word phrase and two-word description?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a two-word phrase that eventually will be synonymous with “the last,” according to a quite quotable book. What phrase is it?

ENTREE #4:
Name a two-word alliterative synonym for “not win.” Reverse the order of the final four letters and add a duplicate of the original final letter to the end. Add to the end of this result the name of a brutish fictional creature encountered by a “Lem”. 
The final result sounds like the nickname and last name of a world leader. 
Who is this leader? What is the two-word alliterative synonym for “not win?”

ENTREE #5:
Think of a familiar four-word phrase that means “to be last.” 
The first two words of the phrase are a synonym for the last word. 
Rearrange the 14 letters in the phrase to form what an irritated person might do, in five letters, if he has an irritation of the esophagus, in nine letters.
What four-word phrase is it? What might an irritated person might do, and what is the irritation of the esophagus?

ENTREE #6:
Think of a somewhat familiar phrase that means “lose” or “fail to achieve or win something,” in three words of four, two and five letters. Rearrange the letters in this three-word phrase to form a two-word phrase of six and five letters. Some say that American citizens will [three-word-phrase] if they [two-word-phrase] again in 2020.  
What are these two phrases?

ENTREE #7:
It is late July, 1975. Michael Corleone has ordered his chief hit man, Al Niri to book a hotel suite in West Bloomfield, a tony Detroit suburb. 
Corleone is about to grant a favor to his niece Anne Marie, one of the twin daughters of Michael’s late brother Sonny. (Anne Marie had to change her name to Kathy when, as an adult, she was forced underground after kidnapping attempts and threats on her life by the Barzini and Tattaglia families. But her Uncle Michael still calls her by her childhood name, Anne.) 
Anne’s boyfriend is blind and needs a corneal transplant, but donors are scarce so he is thus bringing up the rear on a very lengthy waiting list. Michael, however, has observed while watching TV news broadcasts that Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa never wears glasses...
And so, on Tuesday, July 29, Al Niri is in his hotel suite awaiting word from his boss and godfather Don Michael Corleone. 

Niri is lounging supine on his double bed, watching “Police Story” on Detroit’s NBC affiliate WWD-TV.
Suddenly, at 9:43 PM local time Niri gets a text... oops, we mean telegram, reading:
KILL HOFFA! (STOP) SCORE ANNE’S PAL A CORNEA. (STOP)
The name, home town and home state of what puzzle-maker does that telegram bring to mind?

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Pie Day (But Not In March) Dessert:
Sweets, meats and other eats

Name sweets served after a fancy meal, in five syllables. 
The fifth syllable sounds like a Thanksgiving Day pie that may include meats. 
What are these candies and this pie?  

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.

Testing your metal... acumen; Trains and boats and planes; Making a change of clothes; Beware of Greeks bearing greeting cards; Nickname-calling

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Testing your metal... acumen

Each of the following six phrases begins with the name of a metal.

1. Tin snips
2. Copper currency
3. “Silver Age”
4. Iron fencing
5. Gold autumn leaves
6. “Mercury,” H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast theater site

What else do these six phrases have in common?

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Try Beating These Conundrums Appetizer:
Trains and boats and planes

🥁1. Think of a term that describes mass transportation of items. Drop a letter and rearrange to name an adjustment sometimes made to these items.

🥁2. Think of a word that describes a group of ships. Reverse the first two letters to name a hotel chain.

🥁3. Name a country. Reverse the letters to name a two word phrase that describes an airline snafu.

🥁4. Think of a form of public transportation in two words. 
Change the last two letters to a Y to name something that moves very quickly.


Realty Relocation And Reality Appetizer:
Nickname-calling

Two major league baseball franchises played their home games in stadiums about 40 miles apart during the 1960s. One of the franchises has since relocated to a different city and changed its team nickname. 
Using the current team nicknames, give a shortened form of what any player on the unrelocated team is called, followed by an unshortened form of what any player of the relocated team is now called. 
The result is a word that describes a former TV reality show host’s hair and complexion relative to most other people’s hair and complexions. 
What is this descriptive word? 
Who is the former TV reality show host? 

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Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices:
Making a change of clothes

Will Shortz’s November 4th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Dominick Talvacchio of Chicago, reads:
Think of an article of apparel in eight letters. Drop the last 2 letters. Move what are the now the last 2 letters to the front. You'll get an article of apparel in 6 letters. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Talvacchio Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Think of an article of apparel in 8 letters. Move fifth and sixth letters to the front to form an article of apparel in 6 letters (ignoring the eighth and seventh letters). 

Form a common preposition with the original eighth and seventh letters, translate this preposition into Greek, reverse the order of those translated Greek letters and move them to the front. 

Drop the last 2 letters from the resulting 8 letters to form a 6-letter word for a member of an indigenous people who would likely not wear either of the two articles of apparel in 8 and 6 letters. 
What are these two articles of apparel and the member of the indigenous people?

ENTREE #2:
Think of an article of apparel that provides warmth, in 5 letters. Its second letter can be either an O or a U, depending on which spelling variant you choose. Choose the one with the O. 
Move the first 2 letters of the word to the end and change the new middle letter of this result (which is also a vowel) to a different vowel. 
You’ll get a world capital where you would be hard-pressed to find the article of apparel. 
What are the article of apparel and world capital?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a 2-word article of apparel in 6 letters. 
Change the last letter to an E and move the first 2 letters to the end. 
Add an N to the end of this result.
You'll get a sporty open horse-drawn carriage (named after the son of the Greek sun god) that often was driven by people wearing the article of apparel. 
What are the article of apparel and the name of the carriage?

ENTREE #4:
Think of a kind of hat in 6 letters. 
Change the second letter to the letter preceding it in the alphabet and switch it with the third letter. 
Move the first letter to the end to form a part of speech. 
What is this kind of hat? What is the part of speech


ENTREE #5:

Name a small two-wheeled means of transportation in eight letters. Drop the first and last letters. 
Move what are the now the last 3 letters to the front. 
You’ll get an article of apparel in 6 letters. 
What is it?


ENTREE #6:
Think of the last name of a puzzle-maker. 
Change the first letter to the letter that is the same distance from the middle of the alphabet. (see chart below) 
Drop the second, third and fourth letters of this altered surname. 
Rearrange the remaining letters to name the puzzle-maker’s hometown. 


Who is this puzzle-maker and what is the hometown?

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Letter Exchange Dessert:
Beware of Greeks bearing greeting cards


Change one letter in a word to the letter following it in the alphabet to form a second word. 


The first word is related to greetings. The second word is related to Greeks. 
What are these 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.

Two-times-three’s Company, too; Private eyes in the public eye? Lights shine bright on Broadwax; Whipping up a dish with Martha! Ode on Grecian urdinals

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
Ode on Grecian urdinals

A Greco-Roman-poemin’ riddle in couplet form:
While in Greece I’m fourteenth, when in Rome I’m eleventh.
Lop my lower half off and I'm lower than seventh.
What am I? 
(Explain how your answer  fulfills the three conditions in the couplet: “fourteenth,” “eleventh,” and “lower than seventh.”)

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Unbeatable Conundrums Appetizer:
Two-times-three’s Company, too

🥁1. Name a transportation company in two words. Insert an O in the middle of the first word to get a two word phrase that describes what their drivers will have to start doing once self-driving cars become a reality.

🥁2. Think of a male first name and a company, each in four letters. Reverse the company name and insert somewhere inside the male first name to get a term from typography.

🥁3. Name a fast food chain in two words, seven letters. Drop the last two letters to name a different company in one word.

🥁4. Think of a company in six letters. Reverse the letters to get a two-word phrase that explains why a chef might not be able to prepare a meal.

🥁5. Think of a slang term for someone who is physically fit, in five letters. Rearrange twice into two different companies, one of which is defunct.

🥁6. Think of an actress, first and last names. Taken together, the first five letters are a musical instrument and the last four letters are a company.

Share And Share Alike Appetizer:
Private eyes in the public eye?

Name a long word for something public that people share. 
Change the last letter to a D and remove two consecutive interior letters to name two things sometimes used by people sharing something private. 
What is this long word?

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Riffing Off Shortz And Ezersky Slices:
Lights shine bright on Broadwax

Will Shortz’s October 28th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Sam Ezersky of Jersey City, New Jersey, reads:
Think of a famous Broadway musical in two words. Change one letter in it to the preceding letter of the alphabet – so B would become A, C would become B, etc. Remove the space so you have a solid word. The result will name something that all of us are part of. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Ezersky Slices read:
ENTREE #1: 
Think of a famous Broadway musical in two words. Change one letter in it to the letter after it in the alphabet – so B would become C, C would become D, etc. 
Remove the space so you have a solid word.  The result will name the possible title of a Broadway musical chronicling the life and times of movie-maker Russ Meyer. What is this title?

ENTREE #2:
Think of a famous Broadway musical in four words. Place in front of the final letter in the title the preceding letter of the alphabet – so B would become AB, C would become BC, etc. Place a D between the sixth and seventh letters. Move one space and remove another space to form the 3-word title of a possible musical chronicling the life of an well-known and revered Indian. What is this possible title?

ENTREE #3:
Think of a famous mid-to-late-1970s Broadway musical in two words. Change one letter in it to the preceding letter of the alphabet – so B would become A, C would become B, etc. 
Place a B between the fourth and fifth letter of the title. 
Move the space that separated the two words of the title.
The result will name the title of a possible musical chronicling the life of a beloved television variety show host who is remembered for his quirky pronunciation of a certain word, and for having the savvy, instincts and business sense to unveil lads from Liverpool, introducing them to his national Sunday evening audience. 
What is this possible musical title?

ENTREE #4:
Think of a famous opera and Broadway musical in three words. Change the fourth letter in the first word and the second letter in the third word to form the title of a possible musical production chronicling the exploits of a crime-fighting duo – a Pig from Loony Tunes and a Hogg from Hazzard County. What is this possible musical title?

ENTREE #5:
Think of a famous Broadway musical in three words. (It didn’t do little box office business – it did lots.) Change the third letter in  to the third word to the letter preceding it in the alphabet – so B would become A, C would become B, etc. Change the first letter of the second word to a P. The result is a possible alternative title of a musical with a 2-word alliterative title that played on Broadway in the mid-1950s. What is this alternative title?

ENTREE #6:
Think of a famous Broadway musical in one word. Change one letter in it to the preceding letter of the alphabet – so B would become A, C would become B, etc. 
Change another letter in the musical to the letter following it in the alphabet – so A would become B, B would become C, etc. The result will name something that all performers in the musical are part of. What is it?

ENTREE #7:
Take the last name of a puzzle-maker. Change the first vowel to the preceding vowel of the alphabet – so E would become A, I would become E, O would become I, etc. 
Change the second vowel to the third vowel ahead of it in the alphabet – so A would become O, E would become U, O would become Y, etc. Divide the result in two parts and place an E at the end of the first part. The two parts will name something you see while lying supine in a grassy field on a gorgeous summer’s day. What is it?

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The Art Of The Stew Dessert:
Whipping up a dish with Martha!

Martha Stewart has invited you and other special guests over to her winter home in Bedford, New York to help her prepare a meal and then enjoy a  special dining experience. But first she must take inventory of her pantry and refrigerator, checking to see if she has ingredients for the recipe for this dish delish, one of her favorites.
Her ingredient list (Montblanc-fountain-penned in impeccable penmanship but reproduced here in Courier font print) reads: 
Shallots, need; 
Tenderloin, need;
Cognac, got;
Parsley, got;
Saffron, got;
Tarragon, need;
Pasta, got;
Olive oil, got;
Mustard, got;
Creme fraiche, need;
Heavy cream, need;
Pear tomatoes, need;
Mushrooms, need;
Onions, got...
After a trip to the supermarket to fetch what she needs, what delicious dish will you and Martha be cooking up in her kitchen?
Hint: Ms. Stewart’s recipe makes a meat dish, in two words. One of the line items in her inventory can lead you to the second word in the dish. 


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.