An Oktemberfestive question? Spin-masters vs spine-tinglers; Honeymoon hideaways, boisterous idiots, talking flowers and madcap wit; Spooning stirs up some tea for two; A salad a day keeps the doctor away;

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Schpuzzle Of The Week:
An Oktemberfestive question?

Note: Oktoberfest begins September 22 and lasts until October 7. Please enjoy the following Schpuzzle in moderation:

An English-speaking, pitcher-toting German beer maid may ask an Oktoberfest reveler a four-word question beginning with, “Is your...?” 
Spoonerize the missing words. That is to say, switch the beginning sounds of the third and fourth words. 
When you say these two spoonerized words aloud it will sound like a compound word for a small creature that may flit into the third word in the original question asked by the beer maid. 
What creature is it?

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She Blinded Me With Computer Science Appetizer: 
A salad a day keeps the doctor away 

Note: The following puzzle was created by Mathew Huffman, a fine friend of Puzzleria!
Name two fictional doctors that are title characters in their own movies whose names differ by one word in four letters. 
This four-letter word appears in the last name of a pioneering female computer scientist; the other part of her last name is another word that has a similarity to the World Wide Web. 
She famously worked with another computer scientist; the first letter of his last name can be advanced one place in the alphabet to name an ingredient in some salads.
Who are these two doctors and two scientists?

Tutu-Long Political Terms Appetizer:
Spooning stirs up some tea for two

Name a 2-word term that has been recently in the political news, in 9 letters. 


Spoonerize the term (that is, switch its initial consonant sounds) to form a different two-word term that seems synonymous with the expression “tea for two.”
 What are these two 2-word terms?

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Riffing Off Shortz Slices:
Honeymoon hideaways, boisterous idiots, talking flowers and madcap wit

Will Shortz’s September 16th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle reads:
These five 2-word phrases have something very unusual in common. What is it? When you find it, think of another two-word phrase that has the same property.
Property rights
Land mine
Sales order
Color scheme
India ink
Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz Slices read:
ENTREE #1:
The answer to Will Shortz’s September 16th  NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle (above) is:
All five 2-word phrases consist of a first word that begins with at least three letters that appear at the beginning of a state capital, followed by a second word that begins with the postal abbreviation of that state:
Property rights (Providence, RI); Land mine (Lansing, MI); Sales order (Salem, OR);
Color scheme (Columbia, SC);India ink (Indianapolis, IN)
Other two-word phrases with the same property include: 
Hard palate (Harrisburg, PA); Salad utensils (Salt Lake City, UT); Bathroom lavatory (Baton Rouge, LA); Boss man (Boston, MA); and Dental coverage (Denver, CO).
Using two consecutive 2-word phrases based on state capitals and postal abbreviations, rewrite the following headline that might appear on the heath section of a web site or newspaper:
“Injurious Leeches Transmit Diseases”
Hint: The two U.S. states involved in the answer rank in the top ten by population.

ENTREE #2:
These five 2-word phrases have something reasonably unusual in common. What is it? 
When you find it, think of another two-word phrase that has the same property.
Tiny Lilliputians
Assail Hades!
Sales order
Parcheesi rival
Blurry snapshot

Extra credit points: Why is Sales order especially special?

ENTREE #3:
Hidden like fossils within the uppercase text of the first two sentences below are words that every well-educated American school child ought to know. 
Hidden within the uppercase text of the third sentence is the place that not-so-well-educated American school children think those words can be found.
Find the hidden words and the place where they are not found.  
1. In stratified rocks the archaeologists found FOSSILIFEROUS HALIBUT COUNTERTYPES.
2. UNDERHANDED FATHERS, SPURIOUS JESUITS, OFFERED CHAPLAINS TYPING LESSONS.
3. The deaf journalist taking notes at the presidential debate nearly fell asleep while LIPREADING MUMBLED SNAGGLETOOTHED INCONSISTENT PLATITUDES UNEMOTIONALLY.

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Spin Cycle Dessert:
Spin-masters vs spine-tinglers

Name something, in four syllables, that spins and that can be deadly, figuratively, to a baseball batter.
Change the second syllable, which is a house part, to a second house part that functions in a somewhat similar manner.
Add an L within the first syllable, remove an N from the second house part, and replace an L with a P in the original third syllable. 
The result is something that spins that can be deadly, literally, not only to baseball batters but to everyone else too.
What are these two spinning and deadly things?

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