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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.
Appetizer Menu
WorldplayPennedByKenPratt Appetizer:
eCoNoMiZaTioN, abbrs, game show capital, weaponry, anti-angelic choir, keep quiet!
Vowel economization1.★ 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 capital3.🎲 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 #2You 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 #8Name 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?
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