Solve this puzzle you will if four blanks you can fill; Morphing Mini-Me into mini-metaphor; Cosmic squawks and smoggy magic; White tie and tails vs face-pie and pratfalls?

PUZZLERIA! SLICES: OVER (2!)(6!) SERVED



Schpuzzle of the Week:
White tie and tails vs face-pie and pratfalls?

Name a actor, first and last names, who appeared in stylish, sophisticated and occasionally comedic films. 
Change the first letters of both names to different consonants and delete the last letter of the actor’s first name to name an actor who appeared in slapstick, unsophisticated and always comedic films. 
Who are these two actors?
Hint: One actor was born a few years before the other, and lived a few years longer. 

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Bedeviled Egotist Appetizer:
Morphing Mini-Me into mini-metaphor

Name an egotistical world leader, in two words. Change the first letter of  the second name, remove a common preposition from the end, and remove the space between words. The result is a synonym of “mini-metaphor,” the kind that may bedevil a learner of a new language.
Who is this past world leader, and what is the synonym of “mini-metaphor?”

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Cosmic squawks and smoggy magic

Will Shortz’s August 12th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle (part 2 of a two-week challenge) reads:
These four words have a very interesting and unusual property in common — something about the letters in them (all the letters). What is it? When you know it, think of a common 7-letter word that shares the unusual properties of both last week’s and this week’s words.
SCARECROW
SCREENSAVER
CAMERAWOMAN
CURVACEOUSNESS
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read: 
ENTREE #1:
These six words have a very interesting and unusual property in common — something about all the letters in them. What is it?
SQUAWK
SMOGGY
MAGIC
QUICK
COSMIC 
MOSQUE

ENTREE #2:
The words that are the answers to the clues below have a kind of interesting and somewhat unusual property in common — something about all the letters in them. (The number of parentheses indicate how many letters are in each word).
1. Toffee and chocolate bar (5)
2. Starr, for one (6)
3. Rhyming phrase meaning to stay cool under a blazing sun (4,3,4)
4. Woodworker’s tool (5)
5. Two pairs of consecutive Greek letters (5,4;3,5)
6. Rhyming (well, kind of) instructions to Shane Stant? (3,4,7)
7. Egg whites in a bowl, or the 1962 Mets, for example (8)
8. Modifier of potato, banana, orange or carrot (8)
9. “Cinderella,” “The Sleeping Beauty, ” “Romeo & Juliet” or “Anna Karenina,” for example (6)
10. Part of a jacket familiar to those who (like SuperZee) submit NPR puzzle entrees (5)
11.  A kind of judge (9)
12. Word associated with “Tom and Ray” (6)
13. Place that oily paints stick to (7) 
14. Place that oily peanut butter sticks to (6)
15. What Gores, Garys and gears have (5)
16. Informal term for a thirty-three-and-a-third r.p.m. platter (5)
17. Tangible, like felt for example (8)
18. Word describing adorable puppies and kitties (8)
19. Achilles’ plea, after Paris “went all Cupid” on him? (4,4)
20. The last word in the title and the first word in a poem by Eliza Cook (4,4)
21. A word for something that contains 28 syllables, and that also contains every letter in the 20 other answers in this ENTREE at least once) (8)

ENTREE #3:
These words in the football-picture caption below (Refs admit Wes’s witty “hel-mitt” wuz a helluv a riot!) have an interesting and somewhat unusual property in common — something about all the letters in them.
Some other words that share this property are:
ARDENT
DESK
HELLO
EXIT 
WEEP
AHEM
FLIP
DWELL
AWE
What is this property?
Note: The Oxford English Dictionary was used as a reference in baking up this ENTREE #3.

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Field of Envision Dessert:

Solve this puzzle you will if four blanks you can fill

Fill in the blanks with four rhyming words to complete the following couplet (in anapestic trimeter):

Is the “grail” you seek _____ sweet and ____?
Try envisioning _____ as they ____.

Hint: All four word in the blanks rhyme with one another.

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