eCoNoMiZaTioN, abbrs, weaponry, game show capital, anti-angelic choir, keep quiet! “...And ISLE try not to sing out of KEY!” A battle and an event involving cattle; “Throwing the book” at a crook; 24 hours and 54 flip-flops a day; Potables... Potent Perhaps?

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Potables... Potent Perhaps?

Remove consecutive letters from an appliance, one that makes a specific beverage. These removed letters spell a second beverage. 

The remaining letters are an anagram of a third beverage. 

These three beverages are the same color. 

Name the appliance, three beverages and the color.

Hint: The second and third beverages, if you change one letter, spell the name of a songwriter from Peru.

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WorldplayPennedByKenPratt Appetizer:

eCoNoMiZaTioN, abbrs, game show capital, weaponry, anti-angelic choir, keep quiet!

Vowel economization

1.★ A country’s name and its capital have the same number of letters. 

Each contains a single vowel, twice. 

What are this capital city and country?

Anti-angelic choir?

2. 👼We have all heard of the “angelic choir.” But in the nether regions, a corresponding body of singers has finally reached the culmination of its training. To which national capital does this successful conclusion point?

Game show capital

3.🎲 A national capital reminds one of a clip of a game  show host. What are the capital and game show host?

Keep quiet!

4. 💣Think of a word that includes bombs, artillery shells and the like. Add a vowel near the middle to yield a regulation that could prohibit storage of such items at a given location. What are the two words?

Weaponry

5. ⚔Replace one letter in a weapon to obtain a human body part that indirectly enables one to use this weapon. 

What are the weapon and body part?

Six abbrs

6. 🙈🙉🙊Think of six abbreviations, used without periods, that are associated with each other. Three of them are better-known than the other three. What are these abbreviations, and what do they stand for?

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 “The MalDivas” Hors d’Oeuvre:

“...And ISLE try not to sing out of KEY!”

Think of a singer. Delete the space between the first and last names. 

Delete the fourth and fifth letters and the space they leave. Move the first letter to the end, so that it replaces the last letter.

Put a duplicate of the third letter where that first letter had been. 

The result is an island. 

Who is the singer? 

What is the island?

Bronco Busting Battle Slice:

A battle and an event involving cattle

Name a battle and an event that involves cattle, each in four words. 

Their second words are the same. 

They share a noun, singular in the battle, plural in the event. 

A word in the battle is the first syllable of a word in the event. 

What are this battle and event involving cattle?

Hint: Two of the eight words in the battle and event are the same word. Three of those seven different words appear – in plain sight – in the text of this puzzle!

Riffing Off Shortz And Bricker Slices:

24 hours and 54 flip-flops a day

Will Shortz’s October 29th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Jim Bricker of Wayland, Massachusetts, reads:

This week’s challenge is a little different from the usual. The time 6:29 on a digital clock, ignoring the colon, also reads 6:29 upside down. How many times in a day can a digital clock, ignoring the colon, read the same right side up as upside down? We are not accepting military time.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Bricker Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name three synonyms of “bawdy,” in six, four and four letters. 

Replace one of the four-letter synonyms with a homophone of the word it rhymes with in a traditional verse regarding a bride’s wedding-day wardrobe. 

Anagram the combined letters of this homophone and two other “bawdy synonyms” to spell the surname of a puzzle-maker and the city in which he lives.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the three synonyms of “bawdy”?

ENTREE #2

You rest on your side in the fetal position, as is your nocturnal wont. On your bedside nightstand your digital clock rests, also on its side so that you can read it. (This 90-degree rotation is a nighttime ritual you perform before retiring.) One night, during a pre-dawn hour, your pet kitten named Smitten leaps upon the
bed and begins licking your cheek, waking you. “What time is it?” you wonder in your pre-dawn daze. Your eyes slowly open. Like nightmarish phantoms, the photons of your clock’s light-emitting diode come slowly into focus. What you perceive, however, is not a time. It is a word – a word apropos of your position. 

What is this word?

What is the time?

Why did you see the word, not the time?   

ENTREE #3

Name a commercial product that makes machinery perform better – a product inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Write it in lowercase and turn it upside-down.

The result, if read aloud, will sound like a substance that makes people feel better – a substance that is obtained from what sounds like a “fatherly flower.”

What are this product and substance?

ENTREE #4

Take the third line of a well-known Robert Browning poem. Express it in just three characters. Reverse the order of these three characters and remove the colon. 

The result is another name for the main character in a 1965 spy film. When a woman asks this character, “Since you are here, would you mind giving me something to put on?” he hands her a pair of shoes. 

Turn the three-character name of the film’s main character upside down to spell the setting of this film scene.    

What is the Browning Poem and its third line?

What is the name for the main character in a 1965 spy film?

What is the setting of this film scene?

ENTREE #5

If you subtract one-third from one-third the result is zero. Five-sevenths minus five-sevenths also becomes zero.

If you invert one-third it becomes three. Five-
sevenths inverted becomes one-and-two-fifths.

Consider a larger number: 66,335,006.

Regardless of whether you subtract it or invert it, the answer is zero. 

How can this be?

ENTREE #6

A Christmas card sent by Noel Kit to his Uncle Leon Kit in Waretown, New Jersey “got lost in the mail” because young Noel wrote an incorrect fourth Zip Code digit on the envelope (which was really not like this fastidious lad). Indeed, it was an ironic Yuletide plot twist that one might liken to O Henry’s “Gift of the Magi.”

If you would go to the New Jersey dead letter office, sift through the ten-kilo bags of undelivered letters, find Noel’s Christmas card, then gaze upon that envelope upside down, the incorrect Zip Code would appear to be the first name of a title character created by a writer whose surname appears five times, in anagrammatical form, within the text of this puzzle.

What is the incorrect Zip Code that Noel wrote?

Who is the title character?

Who is  the writer who created that character?

Where in this puzzle does the writer’s name appear five times in anagrammatical form? 

ENTREE #7

Take the familiar first two words of the former name of a Houston-based petrochemical manufacturer. Write all but the second of the eight letters in uppercase. Look at the result upside down to see what appears to be two numbers of three and five digits. 

Divide the larger by the smaller, forming a three-digit quotient whose digits to the left of the decimal resemble three letters that can be arranged to spell a prefix, like “petro-”, that can precede “chemical.”

Subtract one from that quotient, then look at this result upside down to see three letters that can be rearranged to spell the second word in the former name of the Houston-based petrochemical manufacturer that we started out with!

What is this former name?

What numbers did you divide, and what quotient did you get?

What prefix, like “petro-”, can precede “chemical”?

After subtracting 1 and inverting, what three letters did you see that are an anagram of the former name of the Houston-based petrochemical manufacturer?

ENTREE #8

Name a pop group formed in 1958 with seven letters in its name. Capitalize all letters except for the middle one, and view the result upside down. You will see a string of seven digits. Four of them are the number of members in the group, one is a multiple of that number, and the sum of the other two digits ends in the
number of members in the group.

What is the name of the group?

What is the string of digits?

How many members are in the group?

ENTREE #9

We have scrawled down on a piece of loose-leaf notebook paper six nouns: five things seen at a certain place, and a sixth one that is heard there. The “certain place” contains four letters. 

We scrawled these six nouns in uppercase (except for any “g’s”, which we pencilled in lowercase) and, as best we could, in “block letters,” as might be seen on a seven-segment digital clock display. 

After that, we placed these six nouns in
alphabetical order.

Then we turned our loose-leaf paper upside down, and noticed that what we had written, when inverted, resembled six strings of numerical digits, ranging in length from four to seven digits. The string of digits furthest to the left was 7105; the string furthest to the right was 5338.

There were 29 digits in the six strings – including three 0’s, two 1’s, seven 3’s, seven 5’s, four 6’s, three 7’s and three 8’s. Curiously, there was nary a 2, 4 or 9 to be seen among the digits!

What is this four-letter place?

What are the five nouns seen there and the sixth noun heard there?

ENTREE #10

In the year 17 AD, the Roman poet Ovid died (not of co-vid) in the port city of Tomis, where he had been exiled by the dictator Emperor Augustus.

Rearrange the letters of 17 AD to spell the surname of a present-day dictator and a four-letter “operatic” noun that some have used to characterize him.

In the year 51 AD, the future Roman “reign-of-terrorist” Emperor Domitian was born.

Rearrange the letters of 51 AD to spell either the surname of a surrealist 20th-Century artist or a synonym of any one of the three faces that appear in perhaps his most persistently memorable painting. 

Who is the dictator and what is the “operatic” noun that some have used to characterize him?

Who is the artist and what is the synonym of a face?

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“All the Buzz” Dessert:

“Throwing the book” at the crook

Name something, in two words, that a man temporarily released from jail might do that could lead to additional criminal charges against him. 

Replace the first word with a synonym. 

Switch the order of these words and spoonerize the result. 

The final result sounds like a natural phenomenon that was all the buzz near the end of the 20th Century.

What might a man do that could result in additional criminal charges?

What is this 20th-Century phenomenon?

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.

Ex-Wye-Zee + Ex-Wye-Zee; Confection-collection selection; Arias sung in the Singapore area; Surnames and simians; Aspirations and ambitions; McCartney, Clooney, Lauper & Lady Gaga

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Confection-collection selection

ROT13 the letters of a two-word candy product from the past. 

Move the space and add a hyphen to form a description of this product that also applies to Almond Joy, Milky Way, Baby Ruth, KitKat and Salted Nut Roll but not to Laffy Taffy, Butterfinger, PayDay, Snickers and Oh Henry! 

What are this product and its description?

Note: “ROT13” means to move the letters of a word either 13 places ahead or 13 places backward in the alphabet.

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Doubled Triplets Appetizer:

Ex-Wye-Zee+Ex-Wye-Zee

Some proper names like “Berber” or “Zsazsa” consist of the same three letters repeated. 

There are also such non-proper words, like “murmur” or “pompom”. 

We might call these XYZ+XYZ words.

Find a non-proper six-letter XYZ+XYZ word which is divided 3-3 into two syllables that are spelled the same but pronounced differently.

Extra Bonus!! Find a fairly rare non-proper six-letter XYZ+XYZ word that is divided 2-4 into two different syllables XY+ZXYZ.

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Entertaining Hors d’Oeuvre:

Surnames and simians

Spell out a letter of the alphabet. (For example, “j” would become “jay”.) 

Rearrange its letters to reveal the first name of an acclaimed actress and entertainer. 

As for her surname, anagram the letters of a word in this puzzle and you will arrive at that answer. 

Who is this entertainer? 

What is the word in the puzzle that is an anagram of her surname?

Hint: Her first name sounds like the name of a fictional simian.

Scary Character Slice:

McCartney, Clooney, Lauper & Lady Gaga

Name something, in eight letters, likely owned by Cyndi Lauper, Paul McCartney, George Clooney and Lady Gaga. 

Remove a letter. 

Then remove two spaces (including the one resulting from the letter you removed). 

The final result, spelled backward, is a scary character that you might see seeking treats this Halloween. 

What might these celebrities own? 

Who is the character?

Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices:

Arias sung in the Singapore area

Will Shortz’s October 22nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mark Oshin of Portland, Oregon, reads:

Name a country. The first syllable spells something that people do. The rest of the name is an anagram of where some people do that. What country is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Oshin Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker whose last name sounds like a body of water west of his hometown. Rearrange the combined letters of his first and last names to spell a two-word
caption for either of the images pictured here. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the body of water?

What is the caption?

Note: Entree #2 is a riff composed by Greg VanMechelen, aka Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” feature appears regularly on Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

What country is also a phrase that describes the situation when a knitter only has light brown yarn?

ENTREE #3

Name a world capital city that ends  with the initial of the first name of a puzzlemaster. Change that letter to the initial of that puzzlemaker’s surname. 

Place the first half of that capital city after the altered second half. The result is a six-letter word for “an orderly harmonious systematic universe.”

Now place a four-letter abbreviation “associated with seamen, navigation, or ships” between the last two letters of that word to spell a word for astronauts in the space program in that capital city’s country.

What is the capital city?

Who is the puzzlemaster?

What is the word for “an orderly harmonious systematic universe?”

What is the word for astronauts in the space program in that capital city’s country? 

ENTREE #4

Name a ten-letter country.

Letters 1-3 spell a deodorant brand.

Letters 1-4 spell a record label brand that is an anagram of its founders’ surnames.

Letters 4-7 spell a plastic container and bag brand.

Letters 4-8 spell an air freshener brand.

Letters 9, 10, 8, 1, 2, 3 and 4 spell a noun often preceded by “whole” that characterizes the four brands listed above.

What is the country?

What are the four brands and the noun often preceded by “whole”?

ENTREE #5

Name a country. Spell the first three letters backward, then spell the last three letters forward. The result is two words that together mean “a friend made and kept through correspondence.” What are this country and two-word term?

ENTREE #6

Name two fictional places — one created by Samuel Butler, the other by Thomas More. Anagram their 13 combined letters to spell three words: 

(1) a word that rhymes with “bough,” and (2) a liquid in a jug (both words appear in an ancient verse).

The third word (3) is  the type of musical composition created by Canadians Moore and Applebaum about Butler’s fictional place, and the same type of composition composed by Brits Gilbert and Sullivan about More’s fictional place.

What are these fictional places?

What are  the two words in the ancient verse and the type of musical composition?

ENTREE #7

Name a capital city in South America. Name also a word that means a “fortress inside a city” in a large European capital city — a fortress that features citadels, palaces and cathedrals enclosed by a wall with towers. 

Anagram the combined letters of this city and fortress to spell, in two words, something a U.S. Ambassador to Ghana apparently found in her soup before she became ambassador.

What are this South American capital city and European fortress?

What did the future ambassador find in her soup?

ENTREE #8

Name a two-word country. Anagram the second word to spell a piece of furniture where one may sleep. Anagram the first word to spell two words: another piece of furniture where one may sleep and the kind of mattress one may sleep upon. 

What country is it?

What are the two pieces of furniture and the kind of mattress?

ENTREE #9

Name a two-word country. Remove consecutive letter-pairs in each word. Rearrange the five remaining letters to spell a kind of bean that can be used to make cocoa or hot chocolate. Rearrange the four letters you removed to spell what you might do to the hot chocolate with a utensil.

What country is it?

What is the bean, and what might you do with a utensil?

ENTREE #10

Name a country. Anagram the last four letters to spell a berry not named Patrick. 

The remaining letters spell something you might make with such berries.

What country is it?

What is the berry? 

What might be made with such berries?

ENTREE #11

Name a country. Four consecutive interior letters spell a form of precipitation. 

Three consecutive interior letters, spelled backward, are what you might want to build if you encounter such precipitation.

What country is it?

What might you want to build?

ENTREE #12

Name a country. Four consecutive interior letters spell the name of a mountain. Remove them, leaving three letters that look like two Roman numerals.

 Take the product of these numerals and divide the result by two to get an approximate elevation, in meters, of the mountain.

What country is it? 

What are the mountain and its approximate elevation?

Hint: The approximate elevation of the mountain is a bit on the low side.

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Blankety-Blank-Blank Dessert:

Aspirations and ambitions

“Those who aspire __ ___ have _____ ambitions.” 

Switch the positions of two letters in the first two blanks. 

Then remove the space. The result is the word in the third blank. 

Name these three missing 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.

Acting School, hot spot, silent strolling, Billboard board game; Choo choos and chew toys? Transatlantic translation toughie; Side-by-side-by-homicide? McMuffins, McGriddles, Synonym Rolls; Dan “the Mandarin Orange” Marino

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

McMuffins, McGriddles, Synonym Rolls

You’re taking a road trip with family or friends. You and your passengers get a bit peckish. 

You stop by at a roadside purveyor of fast food and order entrees and side orders.

Take these two words – the entrees and side orders. Let A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. 

Replace the first two letters of the side orders with the letter that is half their sum to form a new word. 

This word and the entrees are synonyms.

What are these entrees, side orders and synonyms?

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Four Bolts Of Befuddlement Appetizer:

Acting school, hot spot, silent strolling, Billboard board game

“Acting school”

1. 🎥Name a famous actor, first and last names, each with five letters. 

Remove three letters from the first name. Rearrange everything else and you’ll name something many people study in school. 

Who’s the actor? 

What’s the subject?

Hot Spot + Surname = Song

2. 🌍Name a European hot spot in six letters, followed by the first name of an actor whose surname is a legendary creature. 

If you say these words aloud, it will sound like
the title of a famous mid-20th century song that’s an American standard.

What are the hot spot and the surname?

What is the song title?

Hint: The singer who made the song popular had a world capital as a last name.

Walking amidst silence

3. 👢🥾Think of a word for an area where you sometimes walk, consisting mostly of silent letters. 

Rearrange only these silent letters to form a second word. 

Then take only the non-silent letters. Double the last one to form a third word. 

What are these three words?

Board Game becomes Billboard hit!

4. 🎜🎝Name a popular board game in nine letters. 

Drop the last letter. Then push the first letter forward five places in the alphabet (A = F, B = G, etc.) and push the sixth letter forward one place. You’ve named a 1960 Top-40 hit song. 

What’s the game? 

What’s the song?

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Iron Horse Hors d’Oeuvre:

Choo choos and chew toys?

Name a part of a train. 

Switch two consecutive letters with two other consecutive letters. 

The result sounds like a household pet and a noun that often describes it. 

What are this train part, pet and noun?

Organisation Internationale Slice:

Transatlantic translation toughie

Name a two-word international organization. 

The first syllable of its first word is a French noun. The second syllable of the first word sounds like its English translation. 

The second word in the international organization is associated with that translated word. 

What is this organization?

Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices:

Dan “the Mandarin Orange” Marino

Will Shortz’s October 15th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Mike Reiss, who’s been a showrunner, writer, and producer for “The Simpsons,” reads:

Name a famous athlete, first and last names.
Interchange the initials of those names. Then add an appliance. The result, reading left to right, will name a fruit. What is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Reiss Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker, first and last names. Rearrange the combined letters to spell two words: an athlete and a vehicle, both which might be going downhill. 

The vehicle is a “big
rig.” If the athlete is an irresponsible stoner he is a “slope dope.” 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the words for the athlete and the vehicle?

ENTREE #2

Note: This riff, Entree #2, was composed by Plantsmith, whose “Garden of Puzzley Delights” appears regularly on Puzzleria!

Take the name of a famous athlete whose name contains an appliance. 

Change two consecutive consonants to one
different consonant to get a fruit.

Who is this athlete?

What is the fruit?

Hint: If  you instead change one consonant in the athlete’s surname to an “O”, the result is a two-word oxymoron. But you might argue that the result is also an alternative two-word name for a two-word fruit, the first word of which is the nickname of an athlete surnamed McNally.  

ENTREE #3

The first names of three singers – a crooner, a diva and a slide guitarist – reading left to right, will name a fruit. 

Five of the seven vowels in their collective surnames are the letter “o”. (For the diva, it was a temporary surname.)

Who are these three singers?

What is the fruit? 

ENTREE #4

Name a famous athlete, first and last names, and an adjective that descibes this athlete.

Anagram these combined 13 letters to spell...

* a pronoun for this athlete,

* a sport similar to the athlete’s sport, in which
non-human creatures participate, and

* the position this athlete played.

... or to spell...

* a below-par golf-hole score,

* synonym of “brownball,” and

* slippery substance used at the “Brickyard.”

Who is this athlete and what is  the adjective?

What are the pronoun, similar sport, and athlete’s position?

What are the golf-hole score, synonym of “brownball,” and slippery substance?

ENTREE #5

Take the full name of a famous composer.

Take the first 14 letters of the name. Rearrange them to spell:

* any item of food, especially a tasty dish,

* a corn-snack morsel that resembles a miniature cornucopia, and

* a verb whose object is often the word “appetite,” which means to “sharpen” one’s desire for food.

The 10th-through-13th letters of the composer spell a purple root vegetable eaten by humans.

The 15th-through-18th letters of the composer
spell an appliance.  

Who is this composer?

What are the tasty dish, corn-snack morsel, and verb meaning to “sharpen” one’s desire for food?

What are the purple root vegetable and appliance?

ENTREE #6

Take the surname of a long-serving U.S. senator from a state with the same number of letters in the surname – two of which are vowels that are in the same places as in the state (like Iowa and [Tom] Gola, for example).

Add to this surname the two letters in a pronoun that usually refers to an “inanimate object.” Rearrange the result to spell a fruit.

Add the same two letters to the fruit and rearrange to name an adjective with which all U.S. senators wish to be associated. 

 Who is this senator and what is the state?

What are the pronoun, fruit and adjective?

ENTREE #7

Name a seven-letter fruit. The middle five letters spell a word that appears about 100 times in a book that is often abbreviated using just two letters: the seventh letter of the fruit followed by its first letter. This five-letter word also appears about 170 times in a book that is often abbreviated by using the third letter of the fruit followed by its first letter.

The first four letters of the fruit spell a brand name product in powder-form that becomes a drink when you add water.

The last four letters of the fruit sound like a brand name product in powder-form that becomes a dessert when you add water and put it in the fridge.

The fruit can also be anagrammed into two words related to sports:

* an object toward which players in various games attempt to advance a ball or puck into

which it must go to score points, and

* the fabric that often encloses the sides and back of that object in games (such as soccer or hockey).

What are the fruit and the word that appears about 270 times in two abbreviated book titles?

What are the two brand names?

What are the two words related to sports?

ENTREE #8

The name of a past groundbreaking golfer, in three and five letters, contains four vowels, all “e’s”. 

Place the five-letter surname in front of the first name of a present-day but late-blooming Uber-driving driver-and-putter who played in the 2023 U.S. Open. The result spells a black or red drupe of the honeysuckle family.

Who are these two U.S. Open golfers?

What is the black or red drupe?

ENTREE #9

Say aloud the first and last names of a past Hall of Fame home-run slugger. The result sounds like two things that improper storage, over-aging, or contamination of beer might do.

Who is this slugger?

What might  improper storage, over-aging, or contamination of beer do?

ENTREE #10

A priest (ritualist) raises the chalice (cup) during the sacrament of Eucharist. Anagram the combined letters of the words in parentheses to spell a professional person, in 12 letters, who deals with hives and honey. 

Find a nine-letter synonym of this professional person that contains five “e’s”.

Remove what sounds like a piano part from
the middle of the synonym, leaving a six-letter noun that describes the cartoon Road Runner bird. The first four letters of the synonym sound like a part of that bird. 

What are the professional person and its synonym?

What are the six-letter noun that describes the cartoon Road Runner bird and the part of that bird?

ENTREE #11

Take a four-letter shorter word for a bushy ringed-tailed “black-masked” nocturnal carnivore and a four-letter word for the short erect tail of a hare. Rearrange these eight letters to spell a word for drupaceous fruits that sounds like the title of a Marx Brothers movie.

Replace the first letter of this plural word with an “L” and divide the result in half to form two synonyms of “cuckoo” or “loony.” 

What are this “black-masked” nocturnal carnivore and word for the short erect tail of a hare?

What are the drupaceous fruits?

What are the two synonyms of “cuckoo” or “loony?” 

ENTREE #12

Name a popular past radio personality and political commentator, in 12 letters and three syllables. 

Change an R to a B and an A to an O.

The first four letters spell a “miniature version” of a tree.

The next four letters spell a branch of a tree.

The last five letters spell another word for a branch of a tree. 

Who is this radio personality?

What are the three tree words?

ENTREE #13

Take the eight-letter surname of a past Hall of Fame baseball player from Puerto Rico. 

Insert a common preposition within the name to spell a “darling” nearly seedless citrus fruit.

Who is this Hall of Famer?

What is this citrus fruit?

Dessert Menu

Double-Letter-Score Dessert:

Side-by-side-by-homicide?

Place two violently hostile activities side-by-side, forming a double-letter where they meet (like the two “t’s” in “butter”). 

Replace the last letter of the result with a third copy of that double-letter to get a participant in the first activity.

What are these three 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.