Love U make = Love U take? Fellers... like Paul Bunyan; COpeNHagen & MAdRID; “How much skin do you have in ‘the old ball game’?” “Does it cost 50¢ or does it cost 50¢?”

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Love U make = Love U take?

Something you make may be perceived as weakness. 

Something you take may be perceived as strength. 

Together, these things name a two-word place where you make purchases, then take them elsewhere for consumption. 

What is this place?

Appetizer Menu

“Do you or do you?” Appetizer

“Does it cost 50¢                      or does it cost 50¢?”

1.?There was once a boy who liked to ask redundant questions. 

He would ask questions like “Do you or do you?” 

What was the boy’s name?

2. ???At the fruit store, there is a rule for the price of fruit. 

An apple costs 50¢, a pear costs 40¢, and an orange costs 60¢. 

? It might seem like the rule is 10¢ per letter, but a lemon does not cost 50¢. 

How much does a lemon cost?

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“Why so blue, Babe?” Slice:

Fellers... like Paul Bunyan

Take a word associated with Paul Bunyan and other such fellers. 

If you remove one letter you’ll get the color of some logs. 

But if you instead add a letter someplace to the original word you’ll get a word associated with sawing logs. 

What are these three words?

Riffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices:

COpeNHagen & MAdRID

Will Shortz’s September 4th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Michael Penn of Durham, North Carolina, reads:

Name two countries, with a total of 12 letters, that when spelled one after the other form six
consecutive state postal abbreviations.

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Penn Slices read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker. The third letter in his surname plus the third letter in his first name form the state postal abbreviation of his home state.

The four letters of his surname form a common state abbreviation. The first four letters of his first name form a second common state abbreviation. Both states associated with these abbreviations rank in the U.S. top-ten, population-wise.

Who is this puzzle-maker?

ENTREE #2

Name an American, first and last names, who shares a distinction similar to distinctions shared by George Washington, Kamala Harris, Barrack Obama, Roger Bannister and Charles Lindburgh.

Delete the last letter of the name and
rearrange the last three letters of this truncated name. The result is an “postal-abbreviation odyssey” with an itinerary that wends its way from Grand Island to Elgin to Fort Smith to Tupelo to Murfreesboro to Bend.

Who is this American?

ENTREE #3

Name a U.S. federal holiday, in eleven letters. Replace the ninth letter with a different letter that, when spelled-out, begins with that ninth letter. Switch the positions of this new ninth letter and the tenth letter.

Name the states with postal abbreviations formed by the following letters of the result:

1st & 2nd,

3rd & 4th,

4th & 5th,

5th & 6th,

6th & 7th,

7th & 8th,

8th & 9th, and

10th & 11th.

The final result is a “postal-abbreviation odyssey” with an itinerary that wends its way from Portland to Kansas City to Corvallis to Pawtucket to Waterloo to Jasper to Bayou Cane to Green River.

What is this federal holiday?

ENTREE #4

Take the surname of a U.S. president. The first two letters spell his age in Roman numerals when he was first elected president.

The second and third letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that borders both the state in which he was born and the state he represented in Congress.

The third and fourth letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that has a city with a  population of 11,000 that begins with the president’s surname.

The fourth and fifth letters spell the postal abbreviation of a state that has a city with a population of more than 1,000 that begins with the president’s surname.

Who is this president?

What is the state bordering the state he represented and the state where he was born?

What are the two cities that begin with the president’s surname?

ENTREE #5

String together five consecutive overlapping state postal abbreviations to spell a six-letter word that means “cindery lava or slag.”

Three of the states are coastal; two are landlocked.

What is this six-letter word?

What are these five states?

ENTREE #6

Dividing the postal abbreviation of the president’s residence by the U.S. Postal Service’s two-letter abbreviation for a certain U.S. territory will make the first letter of the postal abbreviation of the president’s residence disappear!

What are these two postal abbreviations? 

ENTREE #7

Name three U.S. states what are not located in the American heartland geographically but that are located, “postal-abbreviationally,” in the heart of “American.” 

What states are these?

ENTREE #8

Use the state postal abbreviations of only three states to spell the brand name of a soft drink.

What is this soft drink?

What are the three states?

ENTREE #9

Place the U.S. Postal Service’s two-letter abbreviations for a pair of U.S. territories side-by-side to spell the surname of a fictional character associated with chocolate.

What are these two territories?

Who is the fictional character?

ENTREE #10

If Colorado, Alabama, Michigan, Indiana and Nebraska consolidated into one state, what might their state bird be?

Dessert Menu

Dermatological Dessert:

“How much skin do you have in ‘the old ball game’?”

Take the first and last names of a baseball Hall-of-Famer. Move the first letter of the first name to the beginning of the last name. 

Divide the altered last name into two words: 

? a skin irritation, and

? what such irritations might do. 

The altered first name sounds like word that often describes such irritations. 

Who is this Hall-of-Famer?

What are these three dermatological 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.

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* This article was originally published here