“The boy and the 7-letter word” Nouns & names... not the same; “The Puzzle-Solver’s Motto?” "Quick-as-whip-up-a-quiche!" Disaster: name, rescue, cause! Small & wingless, large & winged

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Nouns & names... not the same

Take a proper noun that has been changed to a new noun – like Bombay to Mumbai, Datsun to Nissan, Constantinople to Istanbul, Saul to Paul, Siam to Thailand, or Persia to Iran. Four letters in the original noun are duplicated in the new noun. 

Remove four letters, just the duplicates. Rearrange the combined remaining letters of both nouns to form a possible new common name for venues in Orlando or Anaheim – a name that might replace the present names.

What are the original noun and new noun?

What is the new two-word name for venues in Orlando, Florida or in Anaheim, California?

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A “Stylish” And “Eventful” Appetizer:

“The boy and the 7-letter word”

“Playing Hangman, Stylishly”

1. 🤵👰Take a seven-letter word where the sixth letter is K. Change the K to an H and reverse the fourth and fifth letters to get the style in which you might make the original word. 

What is the original seven-letter word with a K as its sixth letter?

What is the style in which you might make that original word?

Does “Bobby” eventually become “an Event?”

2. 👦🕺Take a six-letter boy’s name. 

The first three letters followed by SE spell the first word in the name of a two-word event. The last four letters of the boy’s name are the second word in the event. What is the boy’s name? What is the two-word event? 

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Jumbo Jet Hors d’Oeuvre:

Small & wingless, large & winged

Remove the first and final letters from a small wingless creature to spell a large winged creature. What are these creatures

Newsworthy Slice:

Disaster: name, rescue, cause!

Name a two-word term, often abbreviated, that has lately been in the news. Rearrange the letters of its non-abbreviated form to spell:

* a name associated with a disaster,

* What might have rescued some people from the disaster, and 

* what originally produced the cause of the disaster.

What are the two-word term in the news, the name associated with a disaster, what might have rescued people, and what originally produced the cause of the disaster?

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Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices:

“Quick-as-whip-up-a-quiche!”

Will Shortz’s August 11th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Greg VanMechelen of Berkeley, California, reads:

Think of a popular food item in six letters. Change the last two letters to a K to make a common five-letter word in which none of the letters are pronounced the same as in the six-letter food. What food is this?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And VanMechelen Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a popular puzzle-maker in fifteen letters. Rearrange them to name:

* A city by the sea a two-hours’-drive south from his hometown, 

* the three-letter abbreviation of a neighboring state, and

* a creature and what the creature produces.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What are the city by the sea, the neighboring state, the creature and what it produces?

Note: The following puzzle-riff Entree was created and contributed by the author of the current National Public Radio Puzzle Challenge, Greg VanMechelen (aka “Ecoarchitect”). It is a riff on the theme of Will Shortz’s August 11th NPR on-air puzzle segment. 

ENTREE #2

The August 11th NPR on-air puzzle  (with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Weekend Edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe) consisted of six-letter words with one letter used once, another twice, and a third used three times. Name a common ten-letter word that contains a certain letter once, another letter twice, a third letter three times, and a fourth letter four times. There are two answers that might be appropriate for summer. Can you find them?

Note: Entrees #3 through #8 are riffs created and contributed by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” has become a popular Puzzlerian staple.  

ENTREE #3

Think of a popular food item in five letters. Change the last two letters to a two-letter state postal abbreviation. 

The result will be a common five-letter word in which only one of the letters is pronounced the same as in the food item. 

What are the food item and the common word?

ENTREE #4

Think of a word in six letters that describes certain kinds of food items. 

Insert a T between the fifth and sixth letters to make a word meaning brave. 

Although the two words have the same first five letters, only one of those letters is pronounced the same in both words. 

What are the two words?

ENTREE #5

Think of a common food item. 

The item is pronounced as if it has a U, a Y,
and another U, in that order. 

However, it does not contain any of those letters. 

What is the item?

ENTREE #6

Think of a two-syllable food item in five letters. Change the fourth letter to a G and add a T at the end. 

The result will be a word of only one syllable. 

Although the two words have four letters in common, only one of those letters is pronounced the same in both words. 

What are the food item and the one-syllable word?

ENTREE #7

Think of a popular food item in five letters. Replace the last letter with the name of a popular magazine. 

The result will be a second food item. The two food items have the same first four letters but only one of those letters is pronounced the same in both items. 

What are these two food items?

ENTREE #8

Think of a five-letter word that describes a kind of cooking. It is pronounced the same as a
three-letter food item, but the two words have only one letter in common. What are these two words? 

(Hint: The three-letter item would not normally be considered an example of the kind of cooking.)

ENTREE #9

Think of a popular food item in seven letters. Change the last three letters to a K to make a common five-letter word in which none of the
letters are pronounced the same as in the seven-letter food. 

What food is this?

What is the five-letter word?

Hint: Were it beheaded, the food item would be a palindrome.

ENTREE #10

Take two three-letter words that share the same first letter and the same last letter. 

The first word is associated with “hot under the collar.” The second word is associated with “cold within the cooler.”

Place, without a space, the common surname of American comedians named Margaret and Henry in front of each word. Add a “d” to the end of the “hot under the collar” word. The result is a synonym of “sang.” Add nothing at all to the end of the “cold within the cooler” word. The result is a synonym of “option.”

These two results share no vowel or consonant sounds in common (the same as PUZZLE and ENIGMA, for example).

What are these two three-letter words?

Who are these two comedians?

What are the synonyms of “sang” and “option?”

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Dendrological Dessert:

“The Puzzle-Solver’s Motto?”

Take two three-letter trees. Write one of them twice. Place the other tree between the original tree and its copy. 

Replace the copy on the right with a one of its possible homophones. (You can add an “r” to the end of this homophone to form an object oft seen in still-life paintings.)

The result, read aloud, sounds like two words that precede the words “...it out” in what might be a puzzle solver’s motto. What is this motto?

What are the two three-letter trees?

What is the homophone of one of them?

Hint: The motto is something the puzzle-solver might say to himself as a kind of an encouragement. 

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.

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“Putting on an act, or...” Impassioned Poetic “Perichoresis” A sextet of similar synonyms; Strength Goeth Before a Fall; “American Woman... Guess Who?” “It’s a beautiful store in this neighborhood...”

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Small Store Big City Schpuzzle Of The Week:

“It’s a beautiful store in this neighborhood...”

Name a word for a small neighborhood convenience store in a big city – one that serves prepared food and other sundries. 

Spell it backwards to get word for a length of time, followed by an abbreviation of what sometimes determines that length of time.

What is this small neighborhood convenience store?

What is the word for a length of time and the abbreviation of what sometimes determines that length of time?

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Econ“fusarole” Appetizer:

“Putting on an act, or...”

Watching the Academy Awards

1. 📻The National Public Radio on-air challenge from July 21st, 2024 asked the
player to name famous people based on the first two letters of their first and last names forming a common four-letter word. 

For example “LINE, Action film star” would yield “Liam Neeson.”  

Can you name a famous actor and actress who have the same first two letters of their first and last names, which then combine to form a common four-letter word? 

Both have won Academy Awards, including one for a film in which they co-starred.

Thinking outside the box office...

2. 🎥Name a well-known actor of the past. 

Change the vowel pronunciation of the first name and the result will sound like something you might see outside. 

The actor’s last name will sound like something that results from that thing.  

Who is the actor, and what is the thing and result?

Two Stars Make a Movie

3. 📺Name a well-known movie title in two words. With a variant spelling of one of those words, they are the surnames of two actors who share the same first name, and who also played a leading role in a classic TV show. 

What is the movie and who are the actors?

“Bears! Bunnies! Show Biz!”

4. 🧸🐇Name two actors who share the same last name. 

Reverse the first name of one of the actors and the result will be a synonym for the second actor’s first name. 

Who are the two actors?

A Pair of Past Pols

5. 🗳Name a famous politician of the past. 

Replace the first letter of their last name, and the result will be a homophone of another politician of the past. 

Both politicians were in their most famous offices at the same time. Who are they?

“Crazy Tragic Story!”

6. 📖Appetizers #1 through #5 involved acting (yes, even Appetizer #5). Sadly, this Appetizer #6 is not an act: 

Name a 10-letter word that might describe a
certain former president. 

Remove the first and last letters, add the letter “n”, and rearrange to make a nine-letter word that might describe a person around him. 

What are the two words?

Movie Rebuses Bonus:

7. 🦅Note: In a classic rebus, symbols or visual elements substitute for words. In addition – in the Example, and in puzzles a, b and c below – cryptic clues are used (for example: anagrams, hidden words, or implied indicators). 

The following (a, b, c and d) are the titles of well-known movies, disguised in rebus form. 

What are these movies?

Example: The answer to “Old Toilet” is  “Doctor Doolittle”. 

(“Doctor” is an indicator of an anagram, and “Old Toilet” can be rearranged, or “doctored,” to spell “Doolittle”.)

a. Mean Dad

b. The Poor Serfs

c. Lose Repave

d. BORN

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Hors d’Oeuvre En Français Et En Anglais:

Strength Goeth Before a Fall

According to Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goeth before a fall.”

But according to the three puzzles below, “Strength also goeth before a fall.” Is your knowledge of French and of Falling sufficiently strong for you solve them? 

The French Puzzle:

“Ce ____ est trop fort. Je pourrais tomber!”

Placez un mot français de quatre lettres dans l’espace vide. 

Remplacez ce mot par un mot français de trois lettres qui semble très similaire.

Quels sont ces deux mots français?

Its English Translation:

“This ____ is too strong. I might fall!”

Place a four-letter French word in the blank space. 

Replace that word with a three-letter French word that sounds very similar.

What are these two French words?

The French-Free English Version:

“This ____ is too strong. I might fall!”

Place a four-letter English word in the blank space. Replace the last letter of that word with the letter that follows it in the alphabet to from a new English word. What are these two English words?

Tarnish-Sully Slice:

A sextet of similar synonyms

Each of the six pairs of synonyms below share something else in common besides their similar meanings:

buddy, friend

reckon, figure 

elope, run

sully, tarnish

wrathful, furious

loathing, enmity

What else, besides synonymity, do these six word-pairs share in common?

Riffing Off Shortz And Seaman Slices:

“American Woman... Guess Who?”

Will Shortz’s August 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Judy Seaman of Sandy Springs, Georgia, reads:

Think of a famous American woman with a two-syllable last name. 

The first syllable is spelled like a body part, but isn’t pronounced like one. 

The second syllable is pronounced like a body part, but isn’t spelled like one. Who is this famous woman?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Seaman Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of an American woman puzzle-maker with a two-syllable last name. Insert a letter that is a homophone of a body part somewhere in this name. The first syllable of this result is spelled and pronounced like a
body of water.

The second syllable is a word for the open part of an ocean, especially outside territorial waters. 

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What letter did you insert, of what part of the body is it a homophone, and where did you insert it?

What syllable is spelled and pronounced like a body of water, and what syllable is a word for the open part of an ocean?

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were composed by Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” is featured on Puzzleria!  

ENTREE #2

Think of a famous American female author with a two-syllable first name. 

Each syllable is pronounced like a body part, but neither is spelled like one. 

Who is the author? 

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #3

Think of a famous American actress with a two-syllable first name. 

The first syllable is pronounced like a body part, but is not spelled like one. 

Who is the actress, and what is the body part?

ENTREE #4

Think of a famous woman in American history with a two-syllable first name. 

Add an “S” to the end of the name. 

The result sounds like an affliction of certain
body parts, but is spelled differently. 

Who is this famous woman? 

What is the affliction?

ENTREE #5

Think of a famous American female politician. Her first and last names both have two syllables. 

Change the second letter of her first name from an “A” to a “U,” and the first letter of her last name from a “D” to a “T.” 

The first three syllables of the result are a two-word term for an operation that is sometimes performed on a body part. 

Who is the politician, and what is the operation?

ENTREE #6

Think of a famous American female singer with a two-syllable first name and a one-syllable last name. 

The second syllable of her first name is pronounced like a body part, but is not spelled like one. Her last name, minus the first two letters, spells two body parts. 

Who is this famous singer? 

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #7

Think of a famous American female author with a three-syllable first name. 

The first syllable is pronounced like a body
part, but is not spelled like one. 

Her last name, minus the first letter, is pronounced like a body part, but is not spelled like one. 

Who is the author? 

What are the body parts?

Note: Entrees #8 and #9 are contributed by Ecoarchitect, whose “Econfusions” is featured regularly on Puzzleria! (including in this edition).

ENTREE #8

Name a famous American woman. 

Adding the letter “e” somewhere in her lastname yields  a bug and what it’s attracted to.

Who is this woman?

What is the bug and what it’s attracted to?

Hint: What the bug is attracted to is produced by a different bug.

ENTREE #9

Take the name a famous American family. 

Their name sounds like what a chair might do in the deep south.

What is this family?

ENTREE #10

Think of a famous American woman with five syllables in her three-word name. 

The letters in the first two names can be rearranged to spell the missing words in the following sentence:

“Aaron ____ is responsible for the _____ of a
Treasurer.”

The first three letters of the third name spell a juniper-flavored distilled spirit. The last four letters of the third name, spelled backward, form a synonym of “chow.”

Who is this American woman?

What are the words in the two blanks?

What are the distilled spirit and synonym of “chow”?

ENTREE #11

Think of a famous living American woman with a two-syllable first name and a two-syllable surname. The first three letters of the surname spell a word associated with a four-letter, two-syllable shoe brand. The last three letters of the first name spell a response to that word associated with the shoe brand. 

Take the two remaining letters in the first name followed by a space and the four remaining
letters in the surname. 

Switch the second and third letters. 

The result, if you place the word “birds” at the beginning, forms a three-word phrase that describes hawks, eagles, vultures, and falcons.

Who is this famous woman?

What are the word associated with a shoe brand and the response to that word?

What is the three-word phrase that describes hawks, eagles, vultures, and falcons?

ENTREE #12

Think of a should-be-more-famous American female social reformer with a four-syllable first name. 

Her surname is a French number with a value
that is 499 less than the Roman numeral that it also is. Switch the third and fourth letters of her first name. The first three letters of the result spell a Scottish word for a dove, symbol of peace. The remaining letters in her first name can be rearranged to spell either a place she made better place, or an “anatomical symbol of compassion” that she possessed.    

Who is this social reformer?

What are the Scottish word for a dove, the place she made better place, and the “anatomical symbol of compassion” that she possessed. 

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Idiomatic Dessert:

Impassioned Poetic “Perichoresis”

Take a four-word idiom that means to relax completely, have fun and ignore any inhibitions or reservations. 

Replace an R with an H. Rearrange the combined letters of the result to spell a poet’s short-form name and a somewhat slangy two-word synonym of a religious concept (in 4 and 4 letters) to which the poet alludes in a poem that includes the word “perichoresis.”

What is this idiom?

What are the poet’s short-form name and the somewhat slangy two-word synonym of the religious concept to which the poet alludes? 

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.

Presenting “The Good Puzzlekeeping Nodd Of Approval” "Horsehide of a Different Color?" The most serpentine season? “Oz, Id... Iz there also a ‘Wizard of Ca?’” One or more continental creatures “Can you describe the man who mugged you, Ma’am?”

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National Pastels Pastime Schpuzzle of the Week:

“A Horsehide of a Different Color?”

“Many major league baseball clubs paid hearty sums of cash, each hoping to lure a free-agent star to perform on its ballpark’s diamond.”

Identify two things of one color and two things of another color within the sentence above when it is spoken aloud.

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Presenting The “Good Puzzlekeeping Nodd Of Approval” Appetizer:

Poetry & politics, Artists singing, Spice girl, Slippery city slickers, Capital In disorder, Anna Graham’s Poetry Corner

Poetry and politics

1. 🕮Think of the two-word name of a poem about the end of the world. 

Remove the space between the words and change an “E” to an “L.” 

Rearrange to spell the last name of a former
UK Prime Minister. 

What is the poem? 

Who is the former Prime Minister?

Artists breaking into song

2. 🎜🎝Think of two popular American performing artists. 

The first one performs under a two-word stage name. 

The second one performs using just their given first name. 

Place the first word in the stage name of the
first artist in front of the stage name of the second artist to get a two-word title of a familiar song by a beloved musical group. 

Who are the two artists, and what is the song? 

Spice Girl

3. 🍷Think of a seasoning.  Divide it into three words to describe what a store might do if a young female parent were purchasing a bottle of wine there. What is the spice, and what might the store do? 

Slippery city slickers

4. 🦅Guess the US cities from the descriptions provided below, some of which may be phonetic.  (Disclaimer: May contain bad puns; reader discretion is advised). As compensation for some of the puns, the geographical area in which each city is located is provided.

a. Refreshment for one-time veep candidate. (Southeast)

b. Falsely inculpating sandwich ingredient. (New England)

c. Fictional web designer. (Southeast)

d. More’n just friends. (Midwest)

e. Advise deceptions. (Midwest)

f. Mr. Gore, plus a kind of fish. (Northeast)

g. Joinin’ together, as in a chain. (Great Plains)  

h. Popular toothpaste, pluralized. (Midwest) 

i. An open, isolated area filled with bed components. (Midwest)

j. Iron a temporary bed to remove wrinkles. (Southwest)

k. Benevolent order member, plus a male deer. (Midwest)

A Capital in disorder

5. 🗺.Take the name of a US state capital. 

Remove the first letter and change a vowel to the vowel preceding it in the alphabet. Rearrange to get a mental disorder that most commonly affects adolescents and young adults. What are the capital and the disorder? 

Poetry Corner, with Anna Graham

6. 📖Complete the poem by supplying words, anagrams of one another, to fill in the blank spaces:

The bishops, in their _______ clad

May urge the ______ of a life

In which no sin is ever had.

But those attuned to daily strife –

Each one of whom ______ his due –

Wish bishops would to ______ hew.

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“Simbovine” Hors d’Oeuvre:

The most serpentine season?

The month of March, they say, comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

But which season is it that is most like a
venomous viper?

Why? (Or, in other words, justify your answer.)

“Stagnation” Slice:

One or more continental creatures

(Note: There is an interesting “backstory” to this puzzle... More about that on Wednesday.)

Name a nation that sounds like the plural form and singular form of two similar creatures that are native to the same continent. 

(Note: The nation that sounds like the two similar “common-continent” creatures is in a continent that is different from the continent that is common to the creatures. 

What are this nation, these two creatures, and the continent associated with the two creatures?

Riffing Off Shortz And Aaronson Slices:

“Oz, Id... Iz there also a ‘Wizard of Ca?’”

Will Shortz’s July 28th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Adam Aaronson of Deerfield, Illinois , reads:

Think of a classic movie title in which the initials of all the words up to the last one, in order, spell the number of letters in that last word. The number of words in the title is for you to discover. What film is it?

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Aaronson Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Think of a puzzle-maker, first and last names. One letter appears four times in the name. Remove half of these quadruplicate letters.

Anagram the remaining letters to spell the name of a popular singer and an abbreviation
associated with this singer’s performances.

Who is the puzzle-maker?

Who is the singer?

What is the abbreviation, and what does it stand for?

Note: Entrees #2 through #8 were created and contributed by our friend Nodd, whose “Nodd ready for prime time” feature also appears, above, in this very edition of Puzzleria!

ENTREE #2

Think of a classic movie title from the 1950s. 

The initial letters of the second, third, and first words, in that order, spell the number of letters in the first word. 

What film is it?

ENTREE #3

Think of a classic movie title from the 1970s. 

The third letter of the title is the total number of letters in the title. 

What film is it?

Hint: The third and fourth letters of the title, together, are the total number of letters in the name of the actress who had “second billing” in the film’s credits.

ENTREE #4

Think of a classic movie from the 1940s. 

The initial letters of the words in the title anagram to a word for a kind of cry. 

The last letters of the words, in order, anagram to a word that rhymes with the word for a cry but means a kind of monetary transaction. 

The number of words in the title is the same as the number of letters in the last word of the title. 

The first syllable of the third word of the title sounds like the number of letters in the second word. 

What film is it?

ENTREE #5

Think of a classic movie title from the 1950s. 

The initial letters of the words in the title, in order, spell a number. 

That number is one less than the number of letters in the first word of the title. 

It is also one less than the total number of words in the title. 

And the last word of the title is a number that is two less than the number of letters in the first word. 

What film is it?

ENTREE #6

Think of a classic movie from the 1950s. The first word of the title is also the number of letters in the second word. The first and second words start with the same letter. 

What film is it?

ENTREE #7 

Think of the title of a classic movie that was made and remade numerous times over the years. 

The second word in the movie title is the number of letters in the first word of the title and is also the number of words in the title. 

What film is it?

ENTREE #8 

Think of a classic movie title from the 1960s. The last word in the title is one less than the total number of letters in the title. 

What film is it?

Note: Entree #9 is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith, whose “Garden Of Puzzley Delights” has long been a popular, yet ever-challenging, mainstay on our blog – Puzzleria!

ENTREE #9 

Mix up the initials of a “road movie” to get a synonym of “held his horses.”

What are this movie’s title and the “horse-holding” synonym?

ENTREE #10

Think of a classic two-word movie title in which the two initials, when spoken aloud, sound like a five-letter adjective. 

This movie is widely considered one of the greatest films ever, and was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” 

However, when this movie became eligible to be nominated for an Oscar, it came up _____ !

What is this movie title?

What adjective belongs in the blank?

ENTREE #11

Think of a classic two-word movie title in which the initials, in order, spell an abbreviation for
where in a hospital “Hog-drivers” Wyatt, Billy, and George might have gone earlier so as to avoid being “late.” 

What is this movie title?

Where in a hospital might Wyatt, Billy, and George have gone?

ENTREE #12

Take the initial letters of a classic five-word classic film title. 

Move the fourth and fifth letters into the first and second positions, followed by a space. 

Now, place a series of numerals, one at a time, at the end – an 8, a 19, a 23, and a 24 – followed by an “=”. The four results that follow the “=” are:

8: a sol-fa syllable,

19: a Latin word preceding an anagram of the missing English words in the phrase “Sad, ___ ____,”

23: a Roman numeral whose value is a square, and

24: the initials of a puzzle-blogger.

What film is it?

What are the syllable, Roman numeral, Latin word, and the puzzle-blogger’s initials?

ENTREE #13

Take the initial letters of a classic five-word movie title. Place at the end a two-letter pronoun that precedes “...Left Foot” or “...Dinner With Andre” in two other classic movies. 

The final result is the first word in a 1950s
American courtroom drama film.

What five-word movie is it?

What is the two-letter pronoun?

What is the 1950s American courtroom drama film?

ENTREE #14

Think of a classic film that has been preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” 

The initial letters of the four words in its title, in order, spell “when the morning ends and the afternoon begins.”

What film is it?

When does the morning end and afternoon begin?

ENTREE #15

Think of a classic 1950s novella by an American writer. Replace the last word with a synonym. The initials of all the words in this revised title, in order, spell a natural food. 

What is the title of this novella?

What is the synonym?

What food is it?

Dessert Menu

Adjectival Dessert:

“Can you describe the man who mugged you, Ma’am?”

“Can you describe the man who mugged you, Ma’am?” 

Rearrange the combined letters of two adjectives that are antonyms to spell an adjective that often describes a criminal and an adjective that never describes a criminal. 

What are these four adjectives?

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