“Double double, boil not bubble” What’s missing from this picture? Sportsweariness; “Countrapital”

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (1110 + 98) SERVED 

Welcome to our February 23rd edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria!
Lotsa puzzles this week. 
Why so? 
Well, every Friday we serve up a fistful of “riff-offs” (or “rip-offs)” of  the featured puzzle that Puzzlemaster Will Shortz presents at the end of his “The Puzzle” segment on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday broadcast. 
This past Sunday, February 18, the puzzlemaster featured a puzzle a bloke named Joseph Young composed and sent Will’s way...
As a result, our MENU this week features TWO fistfuls of – that is, TEN ⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓⇓ – “Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices.” 
Plagiarizing one’s own puzzle is a breeze – like stealing candy from a baby dozing in his crib after an evening of grueling trick-or-treating. Easy pickin’s for me! 
Thus, our post-Valentine’s Day “stickler ’n‘ sweet” puzzle bag is filled to the brim.
Also on our menus are:
ONE ⇓ Energy-Sapped Appetizer
ONE ⇓ Hard-Boiled Non-Bubbly Slice;
ONE ⇓ “Something’s Mysteriously Missing” Dessert.

TGIF: Think Good, It’s Friday. 
TFIG: Thanks For Intelligent Guests...
...Guests who, as Will Shortz says, have a lot of fun on Puzzleria!  

Appetizer Menu

Something Sported, Something Worn Appetizer:
Sportsweariness

Think of an adjective that means sluggish or all worn out, either physically or mentally. Remove three consecutive letters that spell something that is worn.  Add “nothing at all” to the beginning of this result to form an adjective that describes competitive performers who cannot afford to be sluggish.

Hint: The adjective that means sluggish has more familiar anatomical and physiological meanings. The adjective that describes competitive performers who cannot afford to be sluggish is often capitalized.
What are these two adjectives?

MENU

Draining The Cauldron Slice:
“Double double, boil not bubble”

Take the last name of a pretty well-known “hard-boiled” politician who is not at all known for having a “bubbly” personality. 


Double its third and its fourth letters. 
Move the final letter in the name so that it is between the doubled third letters. 
The result is the name of the capital of the state the politician once represented. 
Who is this politician?

Riffing Off Shortz And Young Slices:
“Countrapital”

Will Shortz’s February 18th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Joseph Young, reads:
Take the start of the name of a country and the end of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you’ll get the last name of a character in a very popular movie. It’s a character everyone knows. Who is it?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz and Young Slices read:

ONE:
Take the end of the name of a country and the start of that country’s capital. Leave a space between the parts and you’ll get the title of a very popular movie that was also well received by the critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It’s a movie many people know. What is it?

TWO:
Take the end of the name of a country and the start of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you’ll get the name of a 5-letter verse form with more lines than a haiku but fewer lines than a triolet. It’s a verse form hardly anyone knows. What is it?

THREE:
Take the end of the name of a country and the start of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you’ll get a 6-letter capitalized synonym for a “genius.” What is it?

FOUR:
Take the end of the name of a country and the end of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you’ll get the name of another country. What country is it?

FIVE:
Take the end of the name of a country and the end of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you’ll get the name of an edible chip. What is it?

SIX:
Take the start of the name of a country and the start of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you’ll get the name of a company with a trademark logo that features a future mystery writer. What is this company?

SEVEN:
Take the start of the name of a country and the end of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you'll get the first name of an International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee.
Take the end of the name of a country and the start of that country’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you'll get the first name that a billionaire entepreneur/philanthropist goes by.
The tennis hall-of-famer and billionaire are married to each other. What are their names?

EIGHT:
Take the end of the name of a U.S. state and the start of that state’s capital. Put the parts together, one after the other, and you’ll get a synonym for a person you wouldn’t expect to see in a concert hall. That synonym rhymes with a woodwind that you would expect to see in a concert hall. What synonym is this?  

NINE:
The start of the name of a U.S. state and the start of that state’s capital are the first and middle names of a person who furthered the cause of astronomical research and knowledge in the Nineteenth Century. Who is this person?

TEN:
Take the start of the name of a country and the start of that country’s capital, forming the first names of two movie title characters portrayed, respectively, by actresses named Pam and Renee. 
Who are these characters and actresses?

Dessert Menu

Offal Pity Illusion Dessert:
What’s missing from this picture?

The incomplete image pictured here (blue apostrophe’ and red “lympics”), if completed, might have been (but was not) an official publicity illustration for an event that occurred during the 20th Century. 
But the image could just as well be used also as a illustration for a future event that is likely to occur during the 21st Century.

Explain how you would complete the image. During what year in the 20th Century would the event have taken place? During what year in the 21st Century is the event likely to take place?

Hint: Your completed image should include five colors, not including the white background.


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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