Schpuzzle of the Week:
Breaking ground and records (as well as appellative conventions)
Name a groundbreaking athlete. Replace the middle letter of this athlete’s surame with a rhyming letter to spell a young creature.
The first name* this athlete was known by,
when spelled backward, is the (BLANK) version of that creature. (The word in the BLANK is the athlete’s surname.)
Who is this athlete?
* Note: This athlete used his or her middle name as a first name.
Appetizer Menu
Just another Clawedyus Ophilia Grrrtrude in the Shakespeare Machine! Appetizer:
The Wordplay’s The Thing!
Below is a story about a play to take place in a small Hamlet. Grrrtrude is the director, Clawedyus is the villain, and the play will log Ophilia (pronounced Oh fill ya!) as the star.
We trust everyone has logophilia!
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So, last _____ Grrrtrude decided to _____ for the show, which starts at a small _____, which will _____ into the full story. The story would then progress to a larger _____; to some this might _____ odd, but she was sure it was _____ and all would give it a _____ review. The venture had an enormous _____, and to _____ the potential barriers required the creative use of _____ in the music and the depiction of _____ found in the costumes. In addition, the _____ had to _____ with the _____ of critics who might _____ lines in their programs.
_____ any concerns and _____ maintain quality, even with the _____ _____ scene, which some saw as corny. To _____ interest Clawedyus uses a _____ of that corn to _____ the drink of Ophilia, and then kill her with a _____. Grrrtrude considered having Clawedyus poison Ophilia’s _____ before she drank it, but that didn’t fit with his _____, it seemed like a _____ answer, and didn’t _____ any confidence for the _____ theater company.
MENU
What two synonyms of “kind” remain?
Riffing Off Shortz And Gwinn Entrees:
“Help! Aid copter on the helipad!”
Name something many hospitals have, in
seven letters.
Rearrange the letters to name two things you can get inside a hospital (4 and 3 letters each).
Puzzleria!s Riffing off Shortz and Gwinn puzzles read:
Entree #1
Rearrange those 10 letters to spell the name of a puzzle-maker.
What are these three words and name of the puzzle-maker?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were composed by our friend and riffmeister Nodd.
Name things some hospitals have, in 7 letters. Change the second letter to a copy of the sixth letter and rearrange to name something all hospitals have. You might wish to make use of the first thing if you were going to be treated by someone using the second thing.
What are these two things?
Entree #3
Remove the first letter and rearrange the remaining letters to name something some hospitals have.
What are these two things?
Name persons found in hospitals since at least the 19th Century, in 9 letters.
Add a letter to the front of the word to name
persons found in hospitals more recently.
Who are these persons?
Entree #5
Change one vowel to the vowel that precedes it in the alphabet and rearrange to name two things you might get inside a hospital (4 and 7 letters).
What are these three things?
Entree #6
Name someone typically found in a hospital, in seven letters.
Rearrange the letters to name:
(2) something you’d be likely to see in the part of a hospital frequented by the person referred to in the preceding sentence (3 and 4 letters).
Who is the person and what are the things?
Entree #7
Name three things:
Change the third letter to a different consonant and rearrange the letters to name:
(2) something doctors make at hospitals, and
(3) a major hospital in the Western U.S.
What are these three things?
Name something many hospitals have, in seven letters.
If a surgeon at one of these hospitals ____ an ___ in his non-scalpel-gripping hand during your surgery, you probably should have either checked in to a different hospital and/or scheduled an appointment to see a medical malpractice attorney.
What do many hospitals have?
What words belong in the blanks?
Note: the words in the two blanks are 4 and 3 letters long. They are an anagram of the 7-letter “something that many hospitals have.”
Entree# 9
Its even letters, in order, followed by its odd
letters, in order, spell a south-of-Christchurch port city built on rolling hills formed millennia ago from lava flowing from a “Horrible” volcano.
What are this many-storied court in some hospitals?
What is the port city?
Entree #10
Name something many hospitals have, in two words of 8 and 6 letters. Change an “e” to a “g”. Rearrange these 14 letters to name a 3-word procedure that may detect indications of melanoma, carcinoma, etc.
change no letters. Rearrange these 14 letters to name a possible future 3-word procedure that would employ oscilloscopic trigonometric imaging to detect melanoma, carcinoma, etc.
What is something many hospitals have?
What are these current and future 3-word procedures?
Dessert Menu
Remarkably Unlikely Dessert:
A TeeVee character truncation
Who is this character?
Hint: Although this character is now only seen in reruns, the actor/actress who portrayed him/her can still be seen on the tube.
Every Thursday 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!
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