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Schpuzzle of the Week:
Games people & musicians play
Name a word for things musicians play.
Five interior letters spell how some musicians play.
The remaining letters can be rearranged to spell one of the games people play.
What do musicians play? How do some musicians play? What is one of the games people play?
Hint: Take the first five letters and the last letter of the things musicians play. Add a “g”. Rearrange these seven letters to spell a plural word for parts of what “some musicians play” that are also parts of the equipment used in the “game people play.”
Appetizer Menu
A “Quizzical Quintet” Appetizer:
Kitchen kaboodle, Home & dental plates; “Word-Rebusiness,” Singularity Singularly, A soldier actually
Note: the six puzzles in this week’s Appetizer were submitted by a gifted Puzzleria! Contributor.
Kitchen kaboodle1. π₯£π΄Name a feature, in eight letters, of a common kitchen appliance. Switch the first and fifth letters. The result, reading backwards, sounds like a choice of kitchen utensils.
What is the kitchen appliance feature?
Singularity Singularly
2. π΅
Take a word in nine letters associated with singularity. Remove a number divisible by nine.The result is a word associated with something singularly hard to locate. What are these two words?
A soldier actually3. πͺPuzzleria!ns may recall that Suriname and U.S. Marine are anagrams of one another.
What country name can become an actual soldier?
“Word-Rebusiness”
4. πSpeaking of Marines, consider the following “Word-Rebus”:“Marine Builder Marks The Spot That Is Fifty
Plus”
What music style does this “Word-Rebus” describe?
Home & dental plates
5. π₯⚾π¦·Take the spelling of a letter, which spelling can also be that of a body of water.
Take the adjective which describes a group of title characters in a highly acclaimed motion picture. The eight letters total can be combined and arranged to spell the well-known middle and last name of a minor league baseball player and dentist who became famous in another endeavor.
Who is that person?
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Spy-Spoof Hors d’Oeuvre:
Lowbrow flicks, highbrow lit
Take a five-letter word for the setting of some of the scenes in a series of four rather lowbrow, spoof-of-the-spy-genre 1960s movies that starred a member of a group of entertainers who were “addicted to nonconformity, staying up late, drinking, laughing, and not caring what anyone thought or said about them.”
Also take the first and last names of the character portrayed by that member.
Rearrange the combined letters of those three words to spell the titles of two works of highbrow classic literature.
What are the setting and the name of the character?
What are the two titles?
Scandalous Slice:
“ROTting” a rotten criminal
A predatory man who has been committing a series of violent crimes against women across the southern United States for the past 30-plus years is now in prison for the remainder of his life. He is no common criminal; he is an uncommonly cruel one.
His middle name is a word for a college or high school administrator in charge of counseling and disciplining students.
His surname is a word for the frame or body of a ship or boat exclusive of masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
His first name has six letters. Change the fourth letter to the letter to the left of it in the alphabet.
ROT15 the result (that is, move each letter 15 places later in the circular alphabet... A becomes P, B becomes Q, etc.)
The result is a noun that describes the man – a noun that, in his case, is preceded by an adjective that is an anagram of a nation lately much in the news.
What is this criminal’s name?
What are the adjective and noun that describe him?
Riffing Off Shortz And DeViller Slices:
“On-line service...15 Love”
Will Shortz’s April 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday challenge, created by Bruce DeViller of Brookfield, Illinois, reads:
Think of a popular online service. Change the
first letter to a Y and rearrange the result to get what this service provides. What is it?
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And DeViller Slices read:
ENTREE #1An overweight person goes on a diet and begins doing daily calesthenics, peppily, nimbly and friskily, and thus becomes a ______ _______.
Every pitch a “headhunting beanball” pitcher flings is a _____ ________.
The name of an adult education school in Tucson, Arizona, begins with the adjectival form of a geometry pioneer named ______ and ends with _______, a synonym of celebration and festivity.
Now take the name of a puzzle-maker. Change the first letter to a Y and rearrange that result thrice to spell each of the pairs of words in the three sentences above.
Who is the puzzle-maker and what are the six missing words?
Note: Entrees #2 through #7 are the brainchildren of our friend Nodd, whose
“Nodd ready for prime time” appears regularly on Puzzleria!ENTREE #2
Think of a popular online networking site.
Remove the last two letters and rearrange the result to get the name of another popular online service by a different provider.
What are these two services?
ENTREE #3
Take the name of a popular online service, including its three-letter domain extension but without the “dot.” Change an M to an N, and
remove one C. Rearrange the result to get a word that describes what occurs when you place an order with the provider of the service. What are the online service and the word?
ENTREE #4
Think of a popular online company having to do with the stock market. Rearrange the letters to get a word for what users of this service want to obtain from it, plus a two-letterentertainment company abbreviation. (The entertainment company’s stock is publicly traded on the stock market.)
What are the online company and the entertainment company abbreviation?
ENTREE #5Think of a popular online site focused on news and contemporary culture. Rearrange to get an adjective this site would definitely not want to have applied to the news it reports.
ENTREE #6Think of a popular online site focused on emerging technologies.
Rearrange to get an adjective often used to
describe those who become obsessed with these technologies.
Think of a popular online site focused on science and technology. Rearrange its letters
to get an online communication service, plus a slang term for understanding or approval. What are the site, the service, and the term?
ENTREE #8
Think of a popular online service.
Change the first letter to a B and rearrange the result to get something that is read during a church service and the word for reading desk in early churches from which it is read.
What is this online service?
What is read and what is the word for the reading desk?
ENTREE #9
Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to an S and rearrange the result to get a world religion. If you instead change the
first letter to an C and rearrange the result you can spell a word for “something you can stake.”
What is this online service?
What are the religion and “something you can stake?”
ENTREE #10
Think of a popular online service. Change the first letter to a Q and rearrange the result to get a word familiar to enologists and florists.
A synonym of this word sounds like a two-syllable word that, if you interchange its initial
consonant sounds, sounds like two words for what a horse sometimes does.
What is this online service?
What is the word familiar to enologists and florists, and the synonym of that word?
ENTREE #11
Think of a popular online service.Change the first letter to a P and rearrange the result to get a caption for the image on the left, in seven and eight letters.
If you instead change the first letter to a U and
rearrange you will get the three missing words
in the following caption for the image on the right, in three, six and six letters:
“___ ______ in Blue ______ in Bora Bora, Tahiti”
What is this online service?
What are the two captions?
Note: Entree #12 is the brainchild of our friend Plantsmith whose "Garden of Puzzley Delights" is featured regularly on P!
ENTREE #12
Think of a device associated with online services. Replace its first syllable, which rhymes with “low,” with a syllable that sounds like an antonym of “low” to get a poetic form.
What is this device?
What is the poetic form?
Dessert Menu
Spoonable Dessert:
“Rhyme and Punishment”
Take the first and third words of a kind of punishment.
Spoonerizing them yields two results – a word, and a string of letters that sounds like a word.
The first result is a word for where you won’t go if you are attached to the word that sounds like the second “string-of-letters-result.”
What is this punishment?
Where won’t you go if you are attached to the homophone of the second result?
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